You heard at the top will close for 3 weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic were covering every angle of the outbreak governor Gavin Newsoms executive order to slow the spread of the virus and in the south bay for firefighters have tested positive for covid 19 well have more. On the firefighters now in quarantine 50 of them, well have that in just a few moments, but we want to go to kron fours justine waltman. Who has more on the San Francisco School Closures just well the entire San Francisco Unified School District will shut down on monday and this is what the district can deal th the ever evolving coronavirus. What i want to get to right now is some of the information we got from the School District because ty had this emergency meeting earlier this afternoon and then came out with this decision late this afternoon. The decision the district decided instead of shutting down schools, one by one as cases popped up shutting down the entire district at once it gives them a chance to get a
To try to keep students out for 3 weeks and keep them safe. This affects 10s of thousands of student passports justine waltman joins us live now from district headquarters she has details on what else was announced today justine. Well pam and ken the decision to close down schools throughout the San Francisco Unified School District came after an emergency meeting today, the district saying. What they didnt want to do was have to close schools, one by one as possible. Coronavirus cases popped up and said they decided to shut down the entire district completely so they can get a handle on the situation. Now this closure will last for 3 weeks its for pre k through 12th grade and that starts on monday. 2 weeks of this closure already scheduled for classes. The other was spring break. So thats the total the 3 weeks. So school then start again on april 6 all Things Considered as the situation is ever changing now at this time there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the districts scho
Closed for 3 weeks taylor were talking more than 30,000 students. Thats right grant in and and in addition to closing schools like this one for those 3 weeks all students in the district will be dismissed from School Tomorrow at noon now this is the message that went out to Staff Students and parents today to paraphrase it says there have not been any confirmed cases of the coronavirus and students or staff at any schools, according to the Contra Costa Health services but in an abundance of caution, the west Contra Costa Unified School district is now closing its schools on monday march 16th, the remain closed for 3 weeks until april 6 students up Valley High School say the closure will not only fact theyre learning but also affect their afterschool events. School just got shot down all of all of our events have been canceled all of our spring events. We had a drag show thats postpone now. Prom is canceled current of eyes thing doesnt resolve itself. I by may. I some competitions are a
Minute you see an official walk up to that shot and well come bk to it live in the meantime let me show you where all these Power Outages now are impacting various communities around the bay and trying to al tour here before that press conference gets started beginning in the north bay weve got santa rosa as we zoom in weve been talking about how again it depends on where you are with that some sections of santa rosa in the dark and other sections that are seeing businesses normal literally business as normal, lets lighten just a little bit more to the right side is i want to bring the other direction i want to bring a downtown santa rosa into view here which is there we are so here it is the eastern half of santa rosa again in the dark this morning all these pink polygon is represent the areas where portions of the great have been intentionally turned off by pg however on the eastern side of the western side of santa rosa youre looking at operations that are going on just as normal. S
The south bay. Officials are going to give us an update in a few minutes from pg e. And when they start, we will go there. First,e wil show you what sky 7 is showing thus morning. This is the police making the traffic stops in the area, and in montclair, because people are going through the intersections and the lights are not working and so it has been tough for the people, i ges in the dark to see, but now that it is sunlight, the officers are making sure that people are respecting the fourway stops and making sure that people are safe. Because of this, oakland has deployed additional officers. We saw this yesterday morning in the north bay when people either were not prepared to stop, not paying attention or they just i dont know what they were doing. They just werent being safe. So we all need to be careful this morning since many more of our communities dont have power and a lot of you are just about to get out of the door. So, make sure that you are slowing down and the light up