Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Two dozen inmates at san quentin prison have died from covid19. Today we learned a guard who spent his entire career there is the first staff member to die from the disease. Hello, thank you for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. A south bay family now mourning the loss of a beloved husband, father, veteran, and longtime corrections officer. 55yearold Gilbert Polanco died this morning after a long battle with covid19. Polanco is the first guard at san quentin prison to die from the virus. Abc7 news spoke with the family today. Cornell barnard is live in san jose. Just so heartbreaking. It is a heartbreaking story, dion. His family says he wascovirus f corrections officer will live on. He is a good man. Were all devastated. Family and friends mourning the loss of 55yearold sergeant Gilbert Polanco who died at this San Jose Hospital sunday morning. He was a longtime corrections officer at san quentin pr
She was worried for her dads safety. I was scared he would get sick and this would happen. The family says he tested positive for covid19 in late june. He was admitted to the hospital on july 2. They contracted the virus but recovered. The acting warden said he demonstrated unwaivering commitment and bravery every day during the devastating pandemic. His memory is carried on in the hearts of all the men and women. Who battle the deadly virus. I know its being more reactive than proactive. And i hope that they continue to get their stuff together and properly handle this. Friends and coworkers have been standing vigil in the parking lot. Visitors not allowed inside. To be here in the parking lot and just feeling. Letting them know were here. The family wants the public to know covid19 is real. And people need to protect themselves. This is effecting people. Its killing people. People are dying. It needs to be taken seriously. Her dad knew the risk of the job. But was dedicated to his du
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
Low clouds along the coast. You can see here with this live shot of the Golden Gate Bridge things will clear quickly. Temperatures near 60, warm sunshine by the afternoon for almost everyone except at a few beaches and warmer afternoon with inland temperatures topping off mid90s. Around the bay really comfortable, near 80 degrees and at the coast thats going to be warming up. Sunset there at 8 10 and temperatures will warm up through the weekend, and well have a slight cool down next week, and ill tell you about that with the accuweather seven day forecast. More than 8,400 new cases were reported in just 24 hours but the states numbers had been inaccurate for a week thats because of a Testing Backlog in the hundreds of thousands. Abc 7 reporter amanda del cutillo has more on that glitch. Reporter californias Health Leaders have breaking the states massive backlog on two issues, a july 25th server outage and the states failure to renew a certificate at one of its largest commercial labs
And we do still see some fog as well. In fact, its causing some limited visibility at some of the coastline like Half Moon Bay 3 mile visibility right now. Petaluma a bit lower as well at 5 miles and youll find some of that fog across the golden grate bridge with this live shot. Low clouds, limited morning fog, temperatures in the 50s and 60s. By lunchtime warmer sunshine for everyone except only partial le clearing at some of the beaches. And at the coast mid60s. Sun sets at 8 10. We have gorgeous weekend ahead before a cooling trend next week. Thank you, frances. California is now the third state where covid19 deaths have exceeded 10,000. More than 8,4man new cases were reported in just 24 hours, but the states numbers have been inaccurate for a week, and thats because of a Testing Backlog thats in the hundreds of thousands. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo has more on that technical glitch. Reporter California Health leaders are blaming the states massive backlog of test resu