Today oakland Public Schools opened for Distance Learning but the oakland unified and teachers our are still working out so ofhesnclude how te to prepare. Union leaders want two full weeks and the district is proposing nine days. Both sides also disagree on the length of time teachers will work every day. Oakland unified will continue their twice weekly grab and go distribution, but they will only distribute meals to students. Private and Charter School students are no longer eligible. Parents can go to 22 sites to pick up several days worth of meals. Abc spent the past beweek covering back to school and you can watch all the stories anytime on our new connected tv apps. Apple tv, android tv, fire tv are or recould yo roku, you can app for free. And the state reported more than 8300 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend, that is well above the seven day average of about 6400. And it may be due to the state working to clear that backlog. There were 104 people who died and that bring
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive salesforce tow camera. As we look out south on this friday morning. And brace yourselves, it is going to be a hot one. Good morning everyone, it is friday, august 14th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning to you, lets go straight to mary lee with the check of the weather and those extreme heat warnings. Mary, good morning. Good morning to you len and hi shell. Thats right. Were going to see those temperatures soar this afternoon. And in fact, today, the hottest day of the week. And in fact well see some of the hottest temperatures that weve seen so far this summer. So get ready for that. Please try to do what you can to stay safe and cool in this heat. All right, heres a live look with our sutro camera and check out our temperatures this morning. It is already a warm start to our day. 50s and 60s and 70s this morning. 73 in concord right now and 70 in oakland and 74 in livermore and 63 in San Francisco. M
1400 nationwide as cases surge in the midwest. Plus, controversial policies in two states and some say put nursing home residents at risk. Ride of a lifetime. Two astronauts who made history, crude mission on a private rocket. Safety issues they say need to be fixed before the next flight. First heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Suddenly, we heard a very loud explosion. The build iings, all the glass just went down. It was raining glass all over the city of beirut. The massive blast in beirut, lebanon. As the death toll keeps rising, Lebanese Health minister says thousands are injured. This coming as an investigation is under way into what cause this had tragedy. Isaias is leaving a path of destruction on the east coast. People confirmed dead. All of a sudden it felt like the end of the world was coming. Turn the attention to the upcoming electric, the president says he supports mailin voting in florida spl theyre so well run. Florida is a very wellrun state, low taxes
Trump later on tuesday im going to get your scope at the sports the World Antidoping Agency finds itself facing criticism from all sides after handing russia a 4 year ban from sports. Thank you very much for joining us we begin this news hour in algeria where a court has sentenced to former Prime Ministers to long prison terms for corruption i made or height we yeah he was sentenced to 15 years and his predecessor abdel to 12 the charges came from sweeping investigations into fraud allegations after the former president up there as hes beautifully stepped down in april lets bring in who is covered algeria extensively for us here on aljazeera a significant ruling that comes just 2 days before the election tell us 1st up. Whos been convicted and why folly it is quite significant of the same time its unprecedented you have 3 people widely considered by the alleged by the algerians as the main pillars of the political elite in algeria during the time of former president of the disease but
well, we served six years together here in the house i know what he believes. i know his principles and i ve seen his record since he went to florida. i d be really excited to have him as president those are a couple of the lawmakers who are already endorsing ron desantis for president in 2024. the florida governor was on capitol hill yesterday trying to win more support for a campaign that he hasn t officially launched, but was desantis outmaneuvered yesterday by his biggest rival? plus, we ll have the latest developments in two high profile shootings. in both cases the victims made the simple mistake of going to the wrong house. and also ahead we ll break down the massive settlement that fox news agreed to pay for airing false claims about election fraud, and we ll explain why the legal issues for the network are far from over. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll