You heard at the top will close for 3 weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic were covering every angle of the outbreak governor Gavin Newsoms executive order to slow the spread of the virus and in the south bay for firefighters have tested positive for covid 19 well have more. On the firefighters now in quarantine 50 of them, well have that in just a few moments, but we want to go to kron fours justine waltman. Who has more on the San Francisco School Closures just well the entire San Francisco Unified School District will shut down on monday and this is what the district can deal th the ever evolving coronavirus. What i want to get to right now is some of the information we got from the School District because ty had this emergency meeting earlier this afternoon and then came out with this decision late this afternoon. The decision the district decided instead of shutting down schools, one by one as cases popped up shutting down the entire district at once it gives them a chance to get a
To try to keep students out for 3 weeks and keep them safe. This affects 10s of thousands of student passports justine waltman joins us live now from district headquarters she has details on what else was announced today justine. Well pam and ken the decision to close down schools throughout the San Francisco Unified School District came after an emergency meeting today, the district saying. What they didnt want to do was have to close schools, one by one as possible. Coronavirus cases popped up and said they decided to shut down the entire district completely so they can get a handle on the situation. Now this closure will last for 3 weeks its for pre k through 12th grade and that starts on monday. 2 weeks of this closure already scheduled for classes. The other was spring break. So thats the total the 3 weeks. So school then start again on april 6 all Things Considered as the situation is ever changing now at this time there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the districts scho
Closed for 3 weeks taylor were talking more than 30,000 students. Thats right grant in and and in addition to closing schools like this one for those 3 weeks all students in the district will be dismissed from School Tomorrow at noon now this is the message that went out to Staff Students and parents today to paraphrase it says there have not been any confirmed cases of the coronavirus and students or staff at any schools, according to the Contra Costa Health services but in an abundance of caution, the west Contra Costa Unified School district is now closing its schools on monday march 16th, the remain closed for 3 weeks until april 6 students up Valley High School say the closure will not only fact theyre learning but also affect their afterschool events. School just got shot down all of all of our events have been canceled all of our spring events. We had a drag show thats postpone now. Prom is canceled current of eyes thing doesnt resolve itself. I by may. I some competitions are a
Coronavirus testing free for anybody who needs it. Speaker pelosi says it is the first of a number of Bills Congress is preparing in order to address the disease. And in just the last 10 minutes we have learned that pg and will hold off on shutting off service because of nonpayment that decision is because some customers may have seen their paychecks affected by this pandemic among the fallout from the crisis in the bay area, the coronavirus pandemic shutting down schools we are getting closure various districts and weve been getting them all day on the latest one we have on our list to get that lets go to kron 4 dot com to find out if your childs district is affected by it. Among them at glen park elementary in San Francisco is close we learned tonight. Glen park families are being asked to self quarantine for 2 weeks because 7 students at that school have some kind of respiratory illness. Right now they are being tested for coronavirus meanwhile all other Public Schools in San Franci
Will see more sunshine, much cooler inland, only the mid 80s today. Mid 70s around the bay and mid 60s at the coast. Thanks. Stay on top of the rising temperatures any time with the abc 7 news app, free to download. Enable push alerts. Developing news, Berkeley Police are investigating a of street and beby near thentse avenue. When officers arrived they found the victim on street and police are looking for the suspect but have not release the details. The victim has not been i identified. A freeway shooting in vallejo, all lanes are back open this morning. Abc 7 news was at the scene near magazine street and heres what we know. Around 8 30 last night. The chp says a person in a car heading east was hit by at least one bullet. That persons condition is not known. The lane closure jammed up traffic all the way across the bridge about four hours later all lanes reopened. The chp has not said what led to the shooting. A tragic story in the north bay. A man has been arrested for murder afte