Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman the bay area has officially been under a stay at home order for 6 months and as the coronavirus continues to spread a new threat is approaching thats flu season. Now one barrett county is trying to get ahead of the illness and try to make it easier for everyone to get a flu shot rob fladeboe has details about the program in Santa Clara County joins us now live from san jose good afternoon rob. Good afternoon. Justine flu shots will be free here at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds this saturday and every saturday through mid december. A flu shot can help keep you out of the hospital and that in turn will help hospitals take care of the more serious covid19 infection. Lets take a closer look. Santa clara county board of supervisors president cindy chavez is now among the first recipients of a flu shot. Its part of a new effort to urge everyone to get vaccinated against flu season which is just around the corne
Too many they say to reopen for in person learning, given that Santa Clara County in the red tier is experiencing substantial spread of covid 19. To have a lot of kids in a classroom, that is an indoor gathering, and we dont think thats safe. A high schoolteacher in san jose welcomed the decision. I wasnt totally surprised, but i was relieved. John fensterwald told Us School Districts are grappling with how and when to reopen. The Elementary School districts, its easier to bring back your teachers. If youre a unified school district, thats more difficult. Thats a harder negotiation to make. In San Francisco abc 7 news was told the unions Bargaining Team is preparing right now for three meetings next week with the school district. The Oakland Education Association on the other hand informed us that they have not not negotiated with the school district, and no talks around schools reopening are scheduled. Reginald moseley works from home and is able to supervise his three children as the
Down. One thing that hings can cha better, they can also change for the worse. Reporter wednesday all schools can resume in Person Instruction in Santa Clara County without a waiver, but most Public School districts have indicated they plan to continue with district learning for now. If the numbers continue down this trend, you know, lower cases, lower infection rates, then it is possible for amortize move the next level, which is the orange level. Reporter contra costa ask sonoma counties are the only bay area counties still in the most restrictive purple tier. Contra costas Health Director said this afternoon she expects her county to move up to the red tier by next week. Julie . Maureen, as you reported, Alameda County is moving to the less restrictive red tier, but it still cant open like the other counties. Why is that . Julie, it all comes down to your local county health department. The state has their standards, but it really can be whoever is more strict, and what were seeing
Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden will make the speech intentionally of his lifetime. The day started down pete with a rise in jobless claims. Yesterday, we saw a surprise bearish reversal. Today, a surprise bullish reversal, all leading into joe bidens speech. Morning,earlier in the we had stocks down a little bit as the initial jobless claims came back in above a million. But we had a turnaround. Thanasdaq closing up more 1 , so perhaps some folks hoping that those unfortunate job numbers could force congress to approve a stimulus package sooner rather than later. Nasdaq up 1. 4 . , the newa cap index York Stock Exchange faang index, up about 2 . Facebook,habet, amazon climbing higher. The stayathome trade back in the lead. Russell down half a percent. Interesting way for the gains to happen. Perhaps not the healthiest. Financials, industrials. All about tech. You were mentioning the dnc tonight. Joe biden making potentially what will pd speech of his lifetime. Going into
This weekend, but again, these are fast moving pieces. Were looking at uber and lyft that might be exiting california because of some new requirements that they treat their freelance workers like employees. That could be a costly issue for them, so much so even though it accounts for about 60 of their combined business, the state of california alone they would still leave rather than put up with that. In new york city, forget about the virus, forget about eventually opening up gyms next week, the fact of the matter is, new york city is a safety concern right now with residents in once red hot real estate markets saying enough. It has gotten so bad theyre bolting. The visitors upon hearing this, theyre just not coming. So were following that. Right now were also following the drama in washington as at least the house considers coming back to deal with this postal issue. Chad pergram on that. What are we talking about here, chad . Reporter the house of representatives is going to meet on