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
School district announced today that its 54,000 students will be getting their Education Online this fall. The district summit said the decision was made after reviewing evidence from Health Officials as well as getting input from staff, students and families. School administrators will reveal more about how this is going to work in the next few weeks. When im on zoom with my 18 students, there is only so much we can do. At least they can see each other and i can put them in breakout rooms and they can chat and have recess. But there is no substitute for being in school live with your students. The district still needs to get chrome books in the hands of students that dont already have a computer. Plus the sf unified is having internet hot spots around the city so students can connect with their teachers. The fall semester begins august 17th. And conditions have changed significantly in reason weeks with a spike in cases in several counties as we reported. He says safety is paramount h
Outbreak of positive cases, the air a road to had been in icu and on a ventilator for over 3 weeks when he passed away thursday evening. We hear from his wife. The talks about the loss of her husband. He gave us. Many many many years protecting all of us out there. And i feel horrible and. Just you know were going to retire, he was going to retire in january. Its its just so unfair. And now a celebration of life is being planned currently for deputy but because of everything thats going on with coronavirus in may be streaming the service online. For now reporting here in Alameda County. We know harvey kron 4 news. Thank you reyna and let me give you some more information about deputy oscar road she worked at the santa rita jail which is dealing with an outbreak. Of coronavirus are currently a 104 active cases among prisoners and many of the Sheriffs Office staff deputies a non sworn personnel alike have tested positive as well in connection with that facility. In the east bay soaring c
Companies. You cannot do anything about it, just fix it and keep going. Reporter there was a similar spree in the willow glen neighborhood but no word if there is a connection. We want to show you now a picture of the mug shot of the 24yearold who was caught after San Jose Police say he was spotted smashing a car with a baseball bat as henry mentioned, 18 other cars were also vandalized. Now we had to berkeley where police are investigating a breakin and theft at a jewelry store. Thieves hit studio six jewelers on telegraph near channing late last night or early this morning. The owner says the thieves hid behind garbage cans as they cut the middle guard that was protecting the store. He says they made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise and that is not the worst of it. I would like to survive this covid19 shut down. I have canceled my insurance and a lot of stuff during this to save for bills and i do not think that i will be able to open backup without that inven
Area well, just in case things are getting a little bit too boring, Mountain Lion seen roaming the streets of San Francisco was around last night and around this morning and has been captured and an officer spotted the animal oracle park this morning and called for backup and police surrounded it until animal control arrived. Crew safely capture the Mountain Lion near the park and along the waterfront. The Mountain Lion is now in the custody of the California Department of fish and wildlife and when i saw this last night i was thinking, boy, this has been quite a year, add this everything thats happened something serious or something not and it has been quite a year and i never thought i would the amount lion in downtown San Francisco. I was shocked as well and i was kind of to twitter is eyesight popping up i live in east bay and we get an occasional wild turkey with foxes in the backyard but since the pandemic started we have had deer all over the back hill and more wild turkeys and