From ktvus asthma smith who tells us some teachers are willing to risk their jobs. Reporter the concern is that teachers may not be there for the first day of school, which is a week from tomorrow. One teacher i spoke with says she will return to the classroom only when its safe. There is a lot of anxiety. Everything seems uncertain. Reporter at a time when tonya jacobs should be preparing her lesson plan, the School Year Begins a week from wednesday in the sixth grade teacher at Hoover Middle School in san jose cant focus. The citys Largest School district is putting her in a am i going to have to choose between doing what i love professionally, versus keeping the people that i love safe personally . Reporter she lives with her parents, both high risk. One of 1600 teachers in san jose unified told to teach in an empty classroom to a computer while students learn from home. Patrick bernhardt is with the San Jose Teachers Union and said the School District may be overreacting. They defi
In the bay area, 57,000 cases and 860 deaths. State Officials Say a Technical Glitch could account for data that showed a drop in positive cases. Health and Human Services secretary acknowledges problems with the states Electronic Laboratory reporting system. He said that resulted in counties underreporting some of their positive cases. Apple and tmobile are teaming up with School Districts across the state to digitally connect students in need for Distance Learning this fall. The state superintendent announce a collaboration with apple and tmobile to help as many as 1 million california students. The companies will fulfill orders with discounted ipads already equipped with high Speed Internet connectivity. He is still in School Officials how to get the equipment they need to start the school year. Because of the help of our governor and legislature, there is money to make the purchases they need around Distance Learning including devices. We are trying to put School Districts together
Reporter San Francisco needs more testing so three sites will open next week, however the city says an ongoing shortage of testing resources means priorities must be given to First Responders and healthcare workers. We know that so many of them are very concerned, that they are doing this work in the community, they are trying their best to help save lives and serve the public. They are living in fear as to whether or not they have the virus. We have issued instruction to all labs and clinicians, that they must prioritize their tests. Next week we will bring the deployment of largescale sheltering in the first part means moving people out of traditional shelters. Starting next week, muskogee west will open up and supplies are being delivered this weekend, people are being coordinated, we are going to use muscone west as the place for shelters. Reporter today, as we have been showing you, the sidewalks are packed with people, many of them living off the street, and the mayor acknowledge
Had scattered showers through the rest of the day. Sunday is going to do pretty much that same thing. We have rain to look doppler. We will take a look at where it is raining right now. I want to show you what is happening for the next two hours. First of all, there is a cluster of showers in the north bay right now. If you happen to be getting out on the road because you have to be somewhere dark and early, there is one lane going up through the marin cinema county line. If you look at the last hour, you can watch them marching their way from west to east up through marin up into sonoma county. But if we look ahead, we have to look a bit further off of the coast, you can see there is more rain up there in the future cast brings that forward. Watch the timestamp as m. Onthis ther amuch hethat eep ac the we will all get in on the act with this. It is about two hours after sunset. Right now, we look at the rain fall totals and we have picked up about a 10th of an inch from the so far. In
Here are the latest numbers of coronavirus cases in the bay area, as of today there are more than 1700 cases in the region and 38 deaths. Santa clara county still has the most with 591 cases and 25 deaths. Taking a live look at the white house, President Trump sending a u. S. Naval hospital ship to new york city, the epicenter of the nations outbreak. This comes as the u. S. Coronavirus death toll doubled in two days, it has hit 2000 this evening. Reporter President Trump says he wants to show his support for the u. S. And ask him for which expedited repairs and stocked up medical supplies this week, even if it goes against his administrations own guidelines discouraging travel for some americans. Ive never signed anything. Reporter this comes a day after the president signed the cares act, a 2. 2 trillion package to provide financial assistace to cope with the impact of the coronavirus epidemic. This will deliver urgently needed relief to our nations families, workers, and businesses.