Recent civil unrest that we saw in the streets of downtown san jose last month. Or the covid19 pandemic. We also heard from the mayor of san jose, who said back here live. The chief says he will stay on in his current role through december, which is when he expects his replacement to be named. Im chris nguyen, abc7 news. Okay, chris, thank you very much. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Education is a very important part of that and one oh of the topics well focus on tonight. Is the start of school is coming up quick. Two weeks for San Francisco. The bay areas Biggest School district. In the capital of silicon valley, thousands of low income students and families will soon have free access to the internet. Its part of an Innovative Partnership being launched between san jose and at t. Chris nguyen filed this story earlier. Reporter in the midst of the Coronavirus Crisis, bridging the Digital Divide is now more important than ever. We have heard too often of our children h
Might do. We were consult . Ed they would try to frame us as race its. Reporter he said they are black head organization, they are targeting the superintendent not because of race but because of policy. The time is long overdue. She is in charge of our School District, and she has failed to prepare us for this school year. Reporter some of the demands include full ppe and testing in place at schools, accessible online learning, and federal dollars to help get through the crisis. Meanwhile, the Oakland Education Association and the Oakland Union mid School District are still at issue over hours of live instruction and access to technology. Our families, students, and community, you know, deserve just to have some direction and to know how the school year will begin for their students. Reporter i asked the Union President , keith brown, if they dont reach a deal, if there is any plan to strike. We dont have an agreement by august 10th, monday, we are prepared to move forward and teach wi
New claims actually rose. And 17 Million People are still drawing Unemployment Benefits. I believe thats a negative for the overall market. Get to that in a second. Look at this. Amazon, apple, google, facebook, the day after the top executives took a pounding from the politicians, these stocks went up during those hearings. They are down in preMarket Action this morning. Hold on. All four of these giants will report their earnings later this afternoon. This is big techs big day. My opinion, these Companies Need blowout numbers to sustain their very lofty stock prices. Watch it unfold at 4 00 this afternoon on this network. Overall, i got a lot of red ink to show you. The dow is looking for a loss of over 300 points, down maybe 40 for the s p and off 131 on the nasdaq. Heres one of the negatives thats hurting the market. Emergency virus relief. It runs out in 24 hours. Congress is divided over how to replace it or extend it. Investors want more stimulus but theyre not sure they are goi
To boost your news i q. Starting today the trumpet ministration is pulling federal agents out of Portland Oregon after striking a deal with state officials on a plan to address violent protests the government there calling the move to deploy federal agents political theater by the trumpet ministration this as violent clashes between demonstrators and Police Continue nationwide and 1st a warning some of the video youre about to see may be disturbing heres arties Trinity Chavez with the story. Today nationwide protest against Police Brutality and racial injustice. Just hours after oregons dozen are announced a phased withdrawal of federal officers from portland this is a. Gradual withdrawal from portland dozens of officers filled city streets in the largest visible response by the federal government to downtown demonstrators. Chaotic confrontations caught on Camera Department of Homeland Security and c. B. P. Officers seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters gathered near th
Biontech delivering millions of doses of a potential vaccine for covid19. Well kick it off with Edward Lawrence in washington. Reporter melissa, very big news for pfizer and the vaccine. We could have three vaccines in circulation by end of the year. First one by astrazeneca, they hope by october. Moderna and pfizer follow by the end of the year. The governor of connecticut toured a pfizer plant in his state. Senior Vice President for drug safety and development for that facility says pfizer focused on doing the next studies and getting that data to the fda for a safe and effective vaccine. Governor ned lamont says it will be widely distributed. Listen. We continue to hit the metrics we need. We continue to get the fda approvals. We continue to do this safely. We have a real opportunity by end of this year to be able to go to cvs or the local pharmacy to get a Covid Vaccine just like you get a flu vaccine. Reporter a clue how governors think the vaccine could be widely distributed, wit