Also stay the same, as well. 41 counties in california are now in the most restrictive purple tier. The vast majority of our students are still in Distance Learning right now. Reporter under the purple tier, any class that resumed in person as of tuesday can continue, but for the majority of California School districts still doing Distance Learning be reopening plans are now on hold, until conditions improve or the school gets a waiver. Primarily this has the largest impact on districts that were putting their plans in place for a return in 2021. Reporter margaret represents 77 teachers from a School District in Contra Costa County, which is doing Distance Learning, but was consider league opening january 22nd. Thats not gonna happen. Reporter the Teachers Union president said the next opportunity to make a decision is in march, and she plans to push for not reopening at all this school year. Thats moving to the purple mix, even a stronger argument that we should not consider going bac
Alex savidge. Lets look at the numbers here. Throughout the day, joe biden has been widening the lead in the undecided states that could get him to 270 electoral votes. In georgia, he is up by 4400 votes. In nevada, the margin is more than 22,000. In pennsylvania, the lead is up to 29,000 votes. As more votes are trickling in, the map has not budged. Joe biden leads the president ial race with 264 electoral votes. President trump has 214. High turnout, and a huge number of mailin ballots, and slim margins have contributed to the delay in naming a winner in this race. We get more from our political reporter, greg lee. You are tracking where each state dance tonight. Reporter good evening. The nation is continuing to wait to see who will win the election. The campaigns are anxiously awaiting a final call. Joe biden and Kamala Harris were hoping for a call tonight. They land the campaign thought would be a victory speech. With remaining states too close to call, they adjusted the message.
Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our Treasure Island camera out at the city of San Francisco. Good morning, it is tuesday, september 15th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Glad to have you with us. Lets get to the forecast. Another smoky day with mary but we will see a little relief . That is right, just a little bit and this is the start of that improving air quality. It has been a slow start but for sure it isgoing to be e d o woek, especially compared to what we have been dealing with. We are starting off our day with smoky skies and unhealthy air quality and we have another spare the air alert for the bay area going a record 29 days in a row with that alert for the bay area and with that unhealthy air. I think it will get a little better in spots. Yesterday, some reporting some blue skies. We are going to continue with some improving air quality conditions as we go through the week. Still looking at below average temperatures for ma
Outside today. It is so nice to bring you better news with our air quality. It is slowly Getting Better and this morning, check it out. Even parts of the north bay are starting off with moderate air quality. Yellow dot in santa rosa, and also for rio vista and looking at unhealthy air for sensitive groups. It is a little better for san rafael and San Francisco and napa and fairfield and concord. You are in the very unhealthy category. There are some improvements coming our way. We are still looking at that spare the air alert going a record 29 days in a row without a smoky skies however we will see a little bit of blue in spots this afternoon as there are parts of the bay area. To the next couple of days, or the next few days, we will start to see even better air quality for everyone. I will talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Lets check in uple that will this is around where they are wrapping up some overnight roadwork and some construction. It was supposed be cleared about ha
Coronavirus infections once again on the rise and Contact Tracing is even more critical to control the spread of the virus. Good evening. A growing number of new apps are designed to help with Contact Tracing. Some are privately developed and other developed by governments in the u. S. And only four states using them as part of their pandemic strategy but in other countries they are getting popular. That is it that is all there is to it. Reporter brent just started using a Contact Tracing apps for covid19 called corona worn developed by the german government. I downloaded it pretty quickly and on the day it was released. Reporter has been living in berlin for the past decade and he said downloading the app was voluntary. More people who have it the more effective it is and i thought it was something i should do to help get back to a sense of normalcy quicker. Reporter here is the way the app he is using and most like it work. On your way through the day from home to work or exercise or