Along the bay, some 90s popping up in land and ill talk more about what to expect later on this monday still to come daria thanks a lot john at 5 oclock our top story, the fall semester for oakland starts today online thousands of students will have class virtually yeah, but the Teachers Union and the district are still hashing out plans for Distance Learning even though online instruction begins. This morning. We have kron fours gayle ong to explain. On monday, thousands of students with the Oakland Unified School district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners the beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is sort of the Teachers Union and district have been
Close to this map here in the excessive heat watch we expect to become warning officially going into Effect Tomorrow because were going to negotiate through some clouds late today tonight and tomorrow morning. There you see the coverage over the east bay hills santa clara, bally included in this and Solano County and that is well those temperatures easily mid 90s onward to the first decade of 100 it looks like one 05 very possible with that lets break it down for you here with the sunrise over the east bay hills 90 to a 12 by 3 99. Calling a partly cloudy theres some of that tropical stuff i was mentioning thats going to be thrown into our skies warm corporate that in the forecast coming up in a bit robin. Thank you dave announced another big story that were following for you this morning. Governor newsom says california may be turning a corner in its fight against the coronavirus but he says that that progress could disappear if people do not remain vigilant. Lets check in with kron f
That will hold us up a little bit. Temperatures are near average to above. We are only at 90 today. All right, over to allie, she has been busy. There are things to talk about. There is something new to talk about, steve. This is a crash in the oakland area. Lets show you on the map. This is near grant avenue. A couple crashed vehicles are involved. According to the chps notes, they are doing a traffic bake break so they can respond to this. We will keep an eye on it. The ll plaza is very busy. You will see it slowing, a 10 to 15 minute delay, this usually clears up in the next hour or so. Here is the drive from the san mateo bridge, no major problems. 6 01, lets go to the days headlines. Happening today, it is the first day of school for students in oakland set to begin in just a few hours. There is still no deal between the Oakland Unified School district and the Teachers Union as a distancelearning plan for the fall is still unfolding. Our reporter is joining us live with that story
But is important for children and families. He ended with a threat. May cut off funding if not open. And just yesterday, he said, quote, my view is the schools should open. He this thing is going away. It will go away like things go away and my view is that schools should be open. The president views the decision about how to reopen schools as a political dispute about his own reelection. And to paraphrase his press secretary, he is refusing to let science stand in the way. I fundamentally disagree with that approach. Schools must reopen based on science and the safety of our children and teachers, notf politics and wishful thinking. I do agree with the president that schools are critically important for children and families. My first job after i graduated from college was as a High School History teacher. My wife was a school librarian. At this time of year, i remember the anticipation as the start of school would come into focus. Two of my grandchildren are schoolage, and i know the
Change weve had already lower 70s, lining up the east bay shoreline 75 for antioch 60s up to the north bay 69 for san jose were talking about 60s all over the board here with 50s just last hour so were starting to move now, lets compare now 24 hours ago. Yeah, everybody is in the yellow everybody is ahead of where we were this time yesterday and if you just work all even just last hour, the bay area immediately and points to the west were trailing so we really caught up quickly. Drier sometimes does that too and we have lots of solar heating of the suns getting a higher in the sky. Now right now as we hold this conversation at that excessive heat watch it will probably be upgraded to a warning later on today this kicks into effect in any case by tomorrow afternoon with us all this weekend now were talking about coverage in the east bay thats over the east bay hills Santa Clara County you can see getting involved in this in the south bay, sometimes they dont always get. Included in this