Theyre hoping to finalize an agreement by early next week. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Classes begin on thursday in contra costa thursday. What classes will look like will be the product from teachers and also, parents themselves. Heres laura anthony. Back to school will look a lot different this year. In contrast to the abrupt shift to online in the spring. This falls Distance Learning will be much improved. Were going to be offering a more robust and interactive experience for our students. That was part of the feedback that we got from parents during our surveys last spring. That the kids needed to have more scheduled time that was similar to a Typical School experience. In many, Contra Costa County districts will be in School Virtually from 8 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. At least several days per week. In a given class period, we expect that 50 to 6 0 of the that time would be the teacher talking directly to the kids, instructing them. Working with the kids. The rest of that time, while
Increases we saw in july. Encouraging signs, but not the kind of stability and long term decline that we ultimately need to get to where everybody wants to go. Reporter for no dr. Erica pan is the states acting health officer, and sandra shury has been appointed acting california departments of Public Health director. Live in San Francisco, christien capitola, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you, christien. State officials reported more than 7700 no coronavirus cases statewide yesterday. That brings the total number of cases to over 561,000. There were also 66 more deaths. Over 10,000 deaths have now been reported in california since march. There is positive news, though, hospitalization are down 19 over 14 days, and icu admissions are down 13 over that same period. Here in the bay area, state Officials Say there were 883 new coronavirus cases reported yesterday, for a total of more than 60,000. Two more deaths were also reported yesterday, nearly 900 people have now died in the bay area from t
Hop Health Officer abruptly resigned. I try not to have personnel conversations in public. I dont know that it serves the larger good. At the end of the day, he buck stops with me. Im accountable. Reporter the governor saying testing is one of the governments top priorities, and said there are encouraging signs that the number of coronavirus cases is slowing from the rapid increases we saw in july. Encouraging signs, but not the kind of stability and long term decline that we ultimately need to get to where everybody wants to go. For now, dr. Erica pan, previouslyiously alameda countys top Health Officer is the states top Health Officer. In San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. In washington, President Trumps Coronavirus Briefing was interrupted this afternoon by secret Service Agent who asked the president to leave the room. The briefing had just gotten started when the agent came in and spoke to the president who quickly followed him out of the room. We later learned ther
Time when President Donald Trump suspended h 1 b visas to the end of this year. So canada is putting it out there. Their doors are open in Silicon Valley and ceos are seeing the impact. Sitting in board members, ceos have related theyre trying to hire programmers from russia or other parts of the world. Reporter how worried should Silicon Valley be, with them trying to poach talent from our area . We should always be concerned that we are protecting and preserving our competitive advantage as the hub of the innovation economy. Reporter the pandemic and immigration halt has take an toll. But the pay in canada still does not compare to Silicon Valleys. On average, the tech workers here in the United States in Silicon Valley can make almost double what theyre making in some of the tech hubs in canada. Reporter but the hope is that when the pandemic ends, the talent comes back or holds on. Or theres always canada. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. Making the bay area a better place to
Getting that wet ste e ght show pushing right over san jose and campbell this morning. Is a live look with our roof scam are looking at coit tower shining brightly and are temperatures in the mid to upper 40s to low 50s as we start off our day. As we head to the afternoon the daytime highs not all that high. Mid to upper 50s about 5 to 10 degrees below average for this time of year with scattered showers. I will terminal out for you and future cast coming up. Lets check in with gianna. Lets take a look at the roadways right now. Im actually looking at home right now, things are very quiet out there. Right around los gatos. Unfortunately, this is a deadly accident. The latest information as they have open at least one lane, so delays are starting to thin out just a bit, but with only one lane open and still some tracking traffic on the roadway we are seeing some delays as we had through their. South 17 not last t seeing a the freeways as far as the rest of the south bay goes. Traffic ve