It looks like into the weekend. This is the biggest fog bank in recent memory. A big surge on the low cloud deck. That tells you we are in a stratis cool pattern. 60s and 70s and 80s inland. Onshore breeze for just about everybody from the Golden Gate Bridge all the way out to the delta. Thats a big fog bank. Temperatures near average. It is 7 01 a. M. Are we okay out there . We had an earlier accident at ashby avenue. There was a crash in berkeley at ashby. We can see traffic will be slow here. A 30 minute delay about 10 minutes more than usual. The accident has been cleared. You can definitely tell it is causing a delay. People did not show up at the same rate. They were stuck behind the backup. As a result it is lighter. This might actually get a little bit busier as the morning wears on. We will see what happens in the next hour. Lets get back to the headlines. Lets get you updated on breaking news out of San Francisco. A power outage is affecting about 4000 customers in the lower
Right here in the bay area, there was 37,000 cases and nearly 670 deaths. New a new, the state superintendent of schools is urging districts to use an abundance of caution when it comes to reopening classrooms this coming fall. Superintendent Tony Thurmond held a virtual News Conference this morning on the efforts to support School Reopening decisions we talked about what the state is doing to help districts hold classes on campus. Thurmond is hoping School Districts do not rush to any Big Decisions on how to reopen. We know conditions have changed significantly. Those conditions warrant School Districts taking steps, i would say require an abundance of caution, to think through how reopening might take place, and to repair some contingency plans, if conditions persist. Just last month, the state department of education released 62 pages of guidance for districts on how to implement physical distancing and properly disinfect campuses. The sand for this Unified School District has annou
Absolutely spread into the community at large. Reporter out of the 8000 prisoners statewide, only a couple hundred are expected to be released here from san quentin. There is support for this, obviously as we just saw but what more can you tell us that the timing of the releases . Reporter we are hearing that 3500 prisoners are expected to be released by the end of this month and it will continue until august and possibly go into september. Thank you. California experienced its deadliest week of the pandemic yet averaging more than 80 deaths per day and that is the average. Nearly 7800 new confirmed cases yesterday and yesterday 140 new debts. The test Positivity Rate is up to 7. 4. Los angeles county remains a hotspot for the most new cases. Right now Oakland Unified School district officials are holding a Virtual Meeting to discuss plans for the start of the school year next month and the meeting is just getting underway and the first day of instruction is set for august 10 and distr
Okay. All of this as the New York Times is reporting today that President Trumps fire and fury threat to north korea was improvised, catching white house chief of staff general john kelly off guard. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders released a statement a short time ago that read general kelly and others on the nsc team were well aware of the tone of the statement of the president prior to delivery. The words were his own. The tone and strength of the message were discussed beforehand. They meaning general kelly and the nsc team, were clear the president was going to respond to north koreas threats following the sanctions with a strong message in no Uncertain Terms. End quote. Back now to the report that north korea is, quote, seriously reviewing in its words, a plan to strike guam. Guam is an important asset for the u. S. Military located about it 2,200 miles southeast of north korea. About 4,000 miles west of hawaii. The tiny territory is home to about 160,000 u. S.
Confirmed by the senate, his appointment is actually unconstitutional. We have seen this argument raised in recent days by legal scholars, including Kellyanne Conways husband george conway, but the Senate Democrats are the first lawmakers to take a crack at it. I want to read to you part of the Statement Issued from senator blumenthal, one of insenators who is part of this. He put out this statement saying in part, installing Matthew Whitaker so flagrantly defies constitutional law that any viewer of schoolhouse rock would recognize it. Americans prize a system of checks and balances which President Trumps dictatorial appointment betrays. Now, of course, the Justice Department would strongly disagree with this. Last week, they put out a very robust explanation of why his appointment is valid, is constitutional, and they point to an entirely different statute. The federal vacancies act, which allows someone who is above a senior level here at doj, who has been here over 90 days to take