Reopening, the university of North Carolina is back pedaling. Switching to Remote Learning after 130 students contracted the virus. Elementary schools in the state are also seeing an uptick in cases. This school temporarily shutting down after a cluster was linked to a faculty member. Also new trouble at one of the nations largest fire department. Chicago fire academy had to close down after an outbreak. Officials saying theyve had nearly 300 cases and two chicago firefighters have died from the virus. Megan tevrizian. Coming up next, the seven things to know this morning. Also a special Education Teacher in the south bay logged into class without wearing a shirt and its not just that action that has parents really upset this morning. Also ahead, michelles message. What the former first lady was wearing during her its game day live, here at bia fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xf
Spread of covid19. In one case alone, a los gatos man with Cystic Fibrosis has been waiting nearly two weeks for his results to come back. Nearly two weeks ago, ricky came down with a if he ever and quickly scheduled a covid19 diagnostic test. Since then his condition hasnt gotten that much better and hes been id lating at home. Ive been sleeping with that 16 hours a day. Ive had achy joints. He has yet to get the results back adding to the uncertainty, he is a Cystic Fibrosis patient making him especially vulnerable during this pandemic. His mother, herself a contact tracer for santa clara county, is puzzled by this disparity. It is unnerving. You dont know who is out there. Who could be infecting you. Locally youre more likely to get a fasterturearound from an academic lab such as stanford or ucsf but public labs can take longer. His medical provider went through Quest Diagnostics which is among the large corporations nationwide now competing. A turnaround time of a week or more does
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Annual News Conference in moscow. This portion of the 4 1 2hour event included questions about russias relationship with ukraine. His opinion of british Prime Minister boris johnson. And the Impeachment Vote against president trump. Hello. My question will be about sports and mainly about the situation, complicated situation that the National Sport has found itself in. Recently on the night in december, the executive comedy has taken unprecedented decision to ban all russians rom all the major sport events that include Olympic Games, paraOlympic Games and winter both winter and summer. And the reason for such a ecision was failure to correspondent to the demands to the road map for the moscow dumping agency and of the information they handed over to he world Antidoping Agency. So they were deprived of their rights so they were basically isqualified too. And the country that suffered from the sanction, the people who suffer the most are our innocent athletes. What must needs to be done
Sectionalize. And i hope we get there much quicker than that. The governor spelled out in vivid detail what the blackouts and pg e long term neglect of safety investments cost the people of the state. Stake holders work swiftly as if they lost a loved one in the campfire. If a swift resolution is not reached in advance of the next fire season the governor threatened he would have the state intervene. It could be a long shot. Naerly two dozen mayors have been banded together to push for pg e to become a customer owned utility. A concept that could be costly. No taxpayer money will be involved. Live for us in a pg e substation in san jose with details of that plan. Mayor says the time has come for ideas to surface that would help make the pg e system safer. More reliable. And to do mainteance that is required. Oakland mayor and others agree with him the proposal is needed now. They havent been able to put a price tag on it. One estimate says it dould cost 50 billion. If were paying for i