That 335 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in california. Six have died including four here in the bay area. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. There are a lot of coronavirus updates tonight. The cdc is now recommending that all gatherings with more than 50 people should be limited for the next eight weeks. Also the Federal Reserve took Emergency Action today and lowered its benchmark Interest Rate to essentially zero and another person died of the coronavirus in the bay area, this time in San Mateo County bringing the total number of covid19 deaths in the bay area to four. Life will look very different for many families starting tomorrow as dozens of School Districts around the bay area bill be closed. Governor newsom said everyone over age 65 should isolate themselves from those with chronic illnesses. As the number of people who tested positive for coronavirus grows to 335 in california, a 14 increase from the last count, now six people have
Different for many families tomorrow as dozens of School Districts around the bay area will be closed. Ktvus greg liggins joins us live with how families are getting around the bay area. Reporter tomorrow the school behind me as well as mr. Other schools in alameda will be closed as well as schools in oakland, San Francisco, across the bay area, across california, for that matter. So many parents are trying to figure out what to do about child care and also trying to insure their kids continue to learn while theyre out of school. This weekend the nonprofit Bay Area Tutoring Association has been getting a flood of calls for help. The last few days have been unprecedented and the number of phone calls and emails that we received on our website in terms of how can i support my student or how can i make sure that the academic needs of my student are met the next several weeks has been incredible. Reporter chris norwood, founding director of the association, says many parents are trying to
Be called a hero because, phew, its what were supposed to do. You know . Were all human beings, and life is precious, so thank god he gets to see another day. We both made it. Reporter bart hero John O Connor says that the man did thank him when they were hugging, and he says he told him one day just pay it forward. In oakland, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. Its a question a South Bay School community is asking. What was he thinking . A teacher wearing black face in class. Millions of people, not enough to eat, what will we do with ai, microsoft technology, the future is up to you. Students say it happened as part of a teachers Halloween Costume at milpitas high school. Devin fehely is live at the high school. Reporter ill advised, insensitive, ignorant, oblivious are just some of the terms used to describe the teachers decision to don black face as part of his Halloween Costume at milpitas high school, and now his job is in jeopardy, and an entire School Community has been dragged into a
Tweets, trump accusing newsom of doing a terrible job, saying the first time he met the governor, he told him he must clean his floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, demand of him. The professionals currently battling fires like kincade say Governor Newsom has shown a commitment to fighting california fires since he took off. He passed the 45day plan which identified 35 various projects in the state as priorities in field reduction, Forest Management to bring our forest back to resiliency. We started work on them several months ago. Reporter next week, criticism ofl aid, telling newso get his act together because other states dont burn like california. And finally, accusing the state of wasting a valuable firefighting resource. Water. Saying open up t down from the north. Dont pour it out into the pacific ocean. Cal fire says access to water is a nonissue. We can pull out of ponds,cre. Swimming pools if we have to. Again, we do not have any issues with that. Repo
African American Students out of a population of 3300 students. She says while the costume may have intended to be funny, no one is laughing. Hes a white male so he came to school with his face painted and he tried to act as if he was the rapper. Reporter carrington, a junior, posted a video on twitter that School Administrators have verified as legit. In the video, kenney says a Milpitas High School teacher appeared in the classroom dressed up as the rapper common for halloween. His face painted black. He painted his face. I go to a very diverse school. To see he really thought that was okay and it was a joke, it really hurt, especially being one of the handful of black people that we have at our school. Reporter in the video, the teacher imitates rapper common in a commercial for microsoft. Kenney said the teacher wore black face for two periods at the school before an administrator caught on. The teacher were told, an e tech instructor at Milpitas High School, formally a history tea