Families are getting online. The student Meal Distribution program was up and running. 22 school sites are handing out meals monday through thursday. The meal Program Began when consumes closed back in mid march. Since then, the district has distributed close to 4 million student meals. And it really was a first day of school unlike any other. Rob roth spoke with parents, teachers, and students, about how the day went in oakland, and now rob joins us with their stories. Cristina, some say the first day of school went better than expected some say it went worse, but they all agree it was a challenge. Freshman jonnys first ever class at Oakland High School on monday was biology. He said so far so good. I set up and wasnt struggling. Reporter for this mother of an Oakland Tech High School student, the day of remote Distance Learning was easier than this past weekend leading up to it. There was a lot of rush of information over the weekend, even up to last night, at the last minute, to get
Luckily we have an rv. Im concerned about the house right now, but we have everything that we could. Reporter so many people across santa cruz and san mateo counties are concerned about their property, their homes, their belongings, their pets that they might have at their homes as well. The concern of the firefighters though is due to the other fires burning all across Northern California right now, they have limited resources, also limited visibility. The smoke is hampering the air fight operations. Some 8500 buildings are threatened this morning. And again, 0 contained, we expect to get an update at 6 00 a. M. And well carry that live here. Julian glover, abc 7 news. A tmages showeallyas neighbo Rancho Solano neighborhood within forced to evacuate after the complex fires jumped across enter 125interstate 880. People were trying to get out and found themselves stuck in evacuation traffic. Amy hollyfield is live in Solano County with the evacuations and unfortunately the homes lost to
Be a chance they could be in the restaurants. Dark. Final call comes from cal iso, invited lawmakers and media to see demonstration of safe practices. I hope we get regrouped, that the agency that watches the governor or Health Officials can see we can do this safely, that power grid. Threat of lightning continues. Many people were woken up by the we are equipped with the guidelines they gave us to do extremely rare conditions. This safely. And open our salons, stimulate this Lightning Strike in hayward from early this morning. The kmreconomy, get us off the thats unbelievable. Likely caused dozens of fires unemployment list. Bay area salons are currently allowed to operate but only across the bay area. Two of the biggest, milpitas and outdoors which many stylists say doesnt allow them to offer all services. Stay with us for complete brentwood. Meteorologist rob to explain the ton thats going on right now. Coverage on the pandemic and how it affects you, were putting to the the highlig
All the bay area counties stand right now. As you can see, San Mateo County is the only one not on the states watch list. As part of our effort to build a better bay area, were focusing on the economy especially during the pandemic. Be on hair salons and gyms. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover to show us how some owners are already pivoting. Julian. Yeah, hi, yes, good morning, reggie. Here in santa cruz yet another blow for Business Owners either forced to use outdoor space if down completely. As you mentioned, it has already been a tough summer for many of these businesses that really rely on tourism thanks to a rising number of coronavirus cases in Santa Cruz County and nail salons, barbershops and shopping malls and places of worship and nonessential offices and gyms will have to shut down before those numbers go back down. We were preparing, some of them were preparing for the inevitable. Santa cruz power fitness. Theyre taking their work outdoors now. We were preparing for this. W
Ill go through those very il in a moment but just to remind you, our approach to addressing this issue going back many, many months. Weve made this point on multiple occasions, and that is commonly referred to a dimmer switch. Adata trend lines, as he point the experience of reopening in different parts of the state and people beginning to mix in different parts of the state begin to manifest, different conditions would present themselves as a consequence, we wanted to be prepared for those conditions based on the trend lines, based on the data, based on the science to modify our stay at home order subsequently meaning not on open economy or off shut down, but a dimmer switch looking at conditions throughout the nations populous state as they present themselves and as those trend lines become points of concern before headlines. Consequence of increase and Positivity Rate in hospitalization ands icus based upon the predicate this foundation we laid, we are announcing sy california. Rath