Class Vincent Polanco is mourning the death of his father, gilbert, a san quentin prison guard, first admitted to the hospital in july, after contracting the coronavirus. Then on life support. Sergeant Gilbert Polanco died at Kaiser Santa Teresa at 5 00 sunday morning. Covid19 is a real thing. It takes peoples lives away, and my dad is one of those people, and he did not need to go at the age he was at. Reporter at 55 years old, vincents father gilbert, a san jose native, had wanted to become a prison guard after passing san quentin on a ferry ride in middle school. And he saw one of the guards there as a kid, and he waved at my dad, he literally waved at my dad, and he, like, theres all of these kids, too, but my dad knew that this man waved at him. Reporter after serving in the army and national guard, he worked at san quentin for 30 years. A crisis created after the Corrections Department brought in untested inmates from a prison in chino, where there had been an outbreak. Visible sent believe father may have caught the virus while moving inmates. I dont think it was done correctly, personally. As a son, dont think it was done correctly, because they were kind of rushing it, pushing people. I dont think the inmates shroud ever moved. A statement said that sergeant Gilbert Polanco demonstrated unwavering e officer, work hearing s a front line every day during this devastating pandemic. The statement went on to say that his memory is carried on in the hearts of the men and women who continue to battle the virus at san quentin. His memory also lives on in his children. Its a gift that i kid not realize that it has been a gift for me, and ive been very lucky to have a father like i do. And Corrections Department secretary rob diaz also issued a statement expressing the departments sorrow, and said the sergeants dedication to Public Service will not be forgotten. Julie . Our hearts go out to sergeant polancos family. Another inmate has died as well. Death row inmate pedro arias died today at an outside hospital from what appears to be complications related to covid19. He had been on death row since march of 1990. More than 2200 san quentin inmates have become infected with the virus since the outbreak quentin has 157 active cases. 25 inmates have now died from covid19. California now has nearly 560,000 cases of coronavirus, and more than 10,300 people have died. There is some good news. State hospitalizations dropped today for the 6th straight day. There are currently 5600 people being treated for the coronavirus around california. Here in the bay area, there are nearly 62 though cases, and 912 people have died. U. C. Santa cruz and Santa Cruz County are working together. The diagnostic lab at the University Said they bought new test equipment after getting roughly 800,000 from the county under the federal relief bill. The lab says the additional equipment is expected to boost their Testing Capacity to up to 800 tests per day over the course of several months. The county says the partnership will form the backbone of the countys Coronavirus Response efforts. The city of santa clara is setting up a new free testing site this week at federal park library. This is an appointment only site, and it started taking appointments today. Right now, they have two days scheduled in august and two more days in september. Anyone can be tested, and there are no requirements for testing criteria or immigration status. The city says test results should take three to seven days. The School Year Starts tomorrow in oakland, but there are still a lot of questions tonight from parents, students, and teachers. The district is moving forward with Distance Learning, but still negotiating with teachers about how exactly that will work. Greg is here now with more. Greg . Julian, those negotiations did continue throughout the day today, but still no resolution. One teacher tells us that what they are waiting for is an agreement on what they call a memorandum of understanding, which will lay out their dayto day duties, and responsibilities. This is what classrooms will look like monday, as School Begins if oakland. Empty, devoid of the usual enthusiasm on the first day of school. There is currently no formal plan in place regarding what the die will look like for students and teachers. One teacher said it is like being asked to play the super bowl with new game planning. Parents and students share that anxiety about the unknown. Im definitely nervous, and i dont really know what to expect. It could either go well, or really bad, i think. It has been pretty stressful. I mean, its very hard to know how the year is going to look. Reporter students will be behind screens from home, as the district kicks off what is being called the strong start program. But one middle School Teacher says neil have only 30 minutes of instruction daily the first week, with the future being unknown. The Teachers Union and district are trying to iron out a myriad of issues, including online responsibilities and safety during an eventual return to the classroom. Two sticking points, the unions desire to have substitutes assist teachers by groups. And also we need to have a flexible schedule for our educators, who have who are caretakers, who have families, so that we are able to have to provide the best quality instruction under these circumstances. Reporter oaklands superintendent has released a welcome back letter, say we go continue to work hard with our labor partners to reach an agreement about exactly what Distance Learning will look like, and we look forward to reaching a deal. Andrea dooley is both parent and president of a Parent Teacher Student Group who hosted a zoom call sunday that filled up after 100 anxious parents locked in. They just a lot of questions. They want reassurance that their kids are going to be meeting teachers, learning something. And that, of course, is everyones concern. And part of the learning process is making sure that all of the students have access to the technology that they need. Now, the district did strike a deal with several technology companies, and they do plan on distributing some chrome books, starting on tuesday, but unfortunately that does mean some students are not going to have the tools that they need as School Begins. As for those negotiations, no word just yet on whether they are going to resume tomorrow. Julie . Thank you, greg, for that update tonight. With Distance Learning starting in coming weeks, parents are scrambling as greg mentioned to make sure that their children are stocked up with the right supplies. Teachers say back to school doesnt have to be complicated to properly prepare your kids for remote learning, but there are a few important things to have on hand. The supply list has shrunk. A chrome book, or some kind of technology is critical. Ear buds, essential. But other items . Really not so much. Many students need hightech tools, but Teachers Want to remind parents to remember the old school essentials, as well. Teaches say kids need a spiral notebook, pens and pencils, a highlighter, and a good calculator. President trump is getting a lot of criticism after bypassing congress and signing four executive orders, aimed at coronavirus relief. Democrats, even some republicans, say yesterdays move by the president was unconstitutional. The executive orders defer payroll taxes and student loans, extend Unemployment Benefits, and place a moratorium on evictions. It was unconstitutional slop. While it has the illusion of saying were going to have a moratorium on evictions, it says im going to ask the forecasts in charge to study if that is feasible. If the democrats want to challenge us in court and hold up Unemployment Benefits to those hard working americans that are out of a job because of covid, theyre going to have a lot of explaining to do. If democrats take the matter to court, the money could be tied up for months opinion the timing is also unclear when or if americans will see the extra money from the president s executive orders. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide surpassed 5 million today, and nearly half of those cases are in five states, with california topping the list. We have more now from new york. Reporter coronavirus continues to snowball across the United States as the nation reaches another grim milestone. The total number of cases in the u. S. Surpassing 5 million on sunday, along with more than 160,000 deaths. The virus moving like a freight train, even though the president wants to has ignored and delayed and destroyed it, what that is. Reporter 40 of the cases are . Just five dates. California with the most, followed by texas, florida, new york, and georgia. Cases continue to rise in about 20 states, and 30,000 more americans are expected to die by the end of this month. The number is expected to reach 300,000 by december 1st across the country. Researchers are learning more about how it affects children. New statistics released this week show more than 300,000 kids in the u. S. Have contracted the virus. About 97,000 of those kids contracted the virus in just the last two weeks of july. Scientists are also getting a better idea about whether people will be willing to take a new covid19 vaccine. According to a gallup poll, 65 of americans say they would take an fdaapproved covid19 vaccine, while 35 say they would not take the new vaccine. And more nonwhite americans say they would not be willing to get the vaccine. Thats concerning, because coronavirus has disproportionately impacted the black and hispanic communities. Making sure people wear their masks, even on the beach. The help that one Southern California city has called in to enforce their mask mandate. Plus. Protests in portland turned violent. Several officers were hurt and more arrests were made. I have the details coming up. And a bay area weather, temperatures soared across a few neighborhoods for today. Coming up, well let you know if we have a cooldown in our monday forecast. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att a tribute was held today for a man shot and killed last year by walnut creek police. In june of last year, the family of miles hall called police saying she 23yearold man was having a mental crisis and threatened them with a poll. Police say they arrived on the scene and fired bean bags to try to defuse the situation, put they said that hall ran towards the officers with the metal pole, so officers opened fire. Protesters say they are calling for more Mental Health help for those in crisis. If Things County change, more people will die. Police say between 2015 and 2019, they responded to 8 calls involving hall. On some of those calls, they say he was armed wait knife. Police say all of the previous calls were handled at Mental Health issues. Were told four of the five responding officers completed crisis negotiating training. In portland, protests show no signs of 0 slowing down. Police declare a riot last night after protesters broke into a Police Union Building and set it on fire. More tonight from Christina Coleman of fox news. Reporter violent unrest during protests appears to an endless cycle in portland, oregon, going strong for more than 70 consecutive nights. Plebes say saturday night, protesters r errs set a Police Union Building on fire. Portland police tweeting officers are having rocks and chunks concrete thrown at them. Individuals in the crowd are shining lasers, trying to blind officers. Minutes later, authorities declared a riot. The demonstrations started off more than two months ago following the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. Millions of people across the country took too the streets, demanding an end to racial inequality and police brutality. However, some of the protesters have turned to violence. The head of customs and Border Protection said the feds arent leaving the protests until the violence stops. What youve seen is the violence has started before we got. There the violence conditioned when we were there, and the violence has continued even though weve shifted our resources, and now they just directed their violence towards the local police there. Reporter nearly 500 arrests have been made in portland during the protests since late may for crimes including assault and arson. Hermosa beach has hired a private Consulting Fund to enforce the statements mask mandate. Officers began issues tickets of the weekend. Violators are fined 100 for the first offense, 200 for the second, and 500 for each offense after that, within a oneyear period. I think its definitely a deterrent. I mean, i think everyone should have their own right to follow it or not, you know, but it is a city were on city property. The contract employees do not have the authority to make arrests. Only to enforce certain rules and administrative regulations. Well, today across a few spots, especially inland. Rib last week kind of a cooler weather setup, but temperatures today going up quite a bit, especially out toward concord and fairfield. 101 degrees this afternoon. San jose 88. Santa rosa right around 90, and San Francisco in the mid60s. The headline for tomorrow, we cool things off a little bit, but still low to maybe mid90s while inland, just not as hot as today. And looks like well head towards one of the keels days of the upcoming week, and that will be on tuesday. Satellite showing clouds and thunderstorms out towards portions of the sierra, and youll notice the last few frames, some of those clouds drifting closer to the bay area, so youll notice a nice sunset because those clouds have been moving in from the east over the past three to six hours. I have fog regrouping now around portions of the bay. Here is a look out towards oakland tonight, where we seller some fog patches. Oakland currently 62, and livermore 71 degrees. The area of High Pressure offshore and to the south, and cooling begins tomorrow by just a few degrees, but still talking about 90s inland. One of the cooler days the week will be on tuesday, and then wednesday we begin to warm up those numbers by just a little bit, but looks like the real warming kicks in later in the week, and as we head toward the weekend. Overnight, some fog coastside giant around the bay, and the clouds will gradually clear back to near the shoreline. So temperatures for tomorrow, rather shivering at the coast, already trying to maybe find a way to cool off inland. Once again, some lowtomid 90s. Take a look at the hes for tomorrow afternoon. Monday afternoon, you can still see concord 91, santa rosa 87. Oakland 767, and portions of the south bay in the midto upper 80s. Your fiveday a little cooler, into tuesday, and then wednesday we warm things up slightly, and looks like an extended period of warm to portland hot temperatures inland by friday and into the weekend. So a little cooler tomorrow, but still, it will be hot. All right, mark, thank you. Police in oakland say they are investigating three separate unrelated killings, all takes place over the weekend. The first happened last night at about 6 00. A man was shot and killed at a bus stop on lake shore avenue and mandana boulevard, and then just after 10 00, a man was shot on 72nd avenue near international boulevard. Another person was wounded and taken to the hospital. And this morning, at about 12 20, a man was fatally shot inside a crashed car on holly avenue if east oakland. The car then caught fire. A neighbor was inside his home watching tv when he says he heard the commotion. I heard a loud boom, some gunshots first, and then a loud screech and some hits, like cars hitting, colliding. Police acknowledged the uptick in violence and say they are working with violence prevention teams and trying to over gang members. Police say there have been 52 homicides in oakland so far this year. There were 49 killing it is oakland at this time last year. In san leandro, the police union said it is concerned about a spike in Violent Crime there. The union said new numbers for the month of july show an almost 50 increase compared to the same time last year with Disturbing Trends in robbery, assault, burglaries, and shoplifting then president of the San Leandro Police Officers Association said with the City Council Considering budget cuts soon, the Department Needs support from the community now more than ever. Coming up next in sports, a former cal bear wins the pga championship at harding park. Its his first ever major championship. We got a little overexcited while holding his trophy. Joe is up next with sports. Reinventing. Its what Small Businesses do. 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He pulled out his driver on the par 4 hole and went right for the green, setting himself up for an eagle putt. He jumped in front by two strokes and was able to cruise the rest of the way. He parred his final two holes to finish with a 6 under par 64. At least 23 years of age, the guy who was on the cal campus as recently as spring of 2019 had the championship. His only item of the day was when it was time to accept the wanamaker trophy. The oakland as posting positive tweets from fans in the hallway. There are s a lot for them to be positive about today. The astros were in town, trying not to be swept by the as. 10, and a good sign for the as. Theyre 111 this year when they hit a home run. Matt olson joined the party in the third. He goes down and gets his 5th homer of the year. Thats a threerun shot, and its 40 oakland. But the as werent finished. The games next pitch was to matt chapman who had his 4th homer of the season. The as would go on to win 72. Things we havent bad in the 7th, though, lorenzo gets hit for the second time in the game and third time in the series. The astros coach is who loruano singles out in the dugout, and then loriano and the as catch were were thrown out of the game. No astros players were ejected, but you can expect fines and are suspensions coming. The dodger and giants in action today. A single up the middle school be sandoval and slater. Its 20. The giants took that lead to the 7th. In the 7th, after kevin gossman gave way to rogers, pollack found the cardboard people in left with a tworun homer. Just like that, the dodgers in front. They got to the giants bullpen for another 3run homer in the 8th, and a 62 final. For the giants now, its on to houston. I still cant believe were looking at cardboard cutouts in the grand stands. Its just insane. And the same people there game after game. Yeah i know. Sign of the times. Good night. Thanks for joining us tonight. Good night
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