Urging caution. Unfortunately it was positive. Im one of the contact tracers from the county. Reporter jill is a covid detective with a deft touch. Did you have any symptoms yourself . Not really. Reporter informing people they have covid, quizzing them on their contacts and finding out what they need to stay isolated. When she started this work in june she was swamped. There was such a backlog. Since then we have sort of gradually caught up with everything. So yeah, it was really bad. August has been a much better month for us. We have seen reduction by half an hour case counts. Reductions in deaths, fewer outbreaks. Reporter july to august, a turnaround in marin, curving covid spread at san quentin prison in outbreaks among nursing homes. Positivity rates are dropping, but this morning against complacency. We are still vulnerable to losing the gains weve achieved if we relax too quickly. We have seen that happen already, that happened in the month of june. Lets take that as a lesson
Coming up. Right now about all of us are good or moderate from the north bay down to the monterey bay. So lets talk about the temperatures. A little bit of drizzle in the east bay hills. And temperatures are a little milder, mid50s to low 60s. Well be in the 60s and 70s at noon. Well stay in the 60s at coast, but 75 to 83. And that is really comfortable thanks to the haze out there, it is blocking out the strong sunshine and keeping us from reaching our potential warmth during the day. But it is also bringing that unhealthy air. So well talk about how that will change over the weekend and switch for unhealthy temperatures. And it is a question on so many parents mind, when can kids go back to school. And San Franciscos mayor breed is laying out a new time line for reopening schools for inperson learning. Education of course one of the five key issues were focusing on in our effort to build a better bay area. There is no firm date for high school reopening, but 1some younger students co
It will be sunny but not very warm today. Temperatures will be below average. 32 Miles Per Hour and higher for winds towards cordelia. Low clouds and fog will be stubborn. Temperatures today will be below average. As much as 10 degrees and santa rosa. Even into livermore. Lets head over to sal and see if theres anything that is new that is popping up on the screens. Good morning, sal. It is still pretty quiet. Traffic is moving well. The fog i was there yesterday is not there today. I suspect it is because of the wind that you spoke of on the golden gate bridge, it looks good and clear. Traffic is moving along okay. There are no problems on the richmond bridge. Getting over to marin is easy. At the bay bridge toll plaza it is light. Lets go back to the headlines. The spare the air alert is still in effect in the bay area, and it has been extended until tomorrow. We are joined now with more of the record breaking days of poor air quality. Good morning, sara. Reporter good morning, pam,
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