Work and how communities respond will look different this year. Already california has seen more fires this year compared to last year. We have the challenges ahead, and there are a lot of them. Reporter cal fire responded to more than 600 fires just last week. Getting on them fast, keeping the acreage down is the goal. Because the pandemic complicates everything. I would not know where to go right now, if that happened again. Reporter frederick lost his home when the tubs fire roared into santa rosa. He evacuated with his grandchildren that night to a packed evacuation center. We sat down and it got crowded and more crowded as we sat. There were a lot of people there. We only stayed about four or five hours. Reporter a scenario that wont work now. It may be that we dont put you in a congregant shelter situation. We may be putting you into hotels. Reporter hotels, dorms, scattered locations, the priority will be social distance. Box mills instead of buffets at a Temperature Check upon
The trend is going in the wrong direction and mayor breed Just Announced a new reopening plan. Well get into that. But first lets say zoo goers may be excited but not if youre eager for a hair cut. Lets begin with welcoming mayor breed and listen to her personal brush with coronavirus exposure and the lessons she learned from it. Good afternoon, mayor. Hello. Hello. Really, really glad you tested negative on behalf of my colleagues here at abc7 news. How are you feeling today. I feel fine. Im glad i tested negative, too. But we also have to do a test later for those who were out in the area when this occurred because it does take some time for the symptoms or to be realized. And so that is the first, were over the first hurdle and next week ill be tested again and hopefully that will come back negative, too. Okay. Just frustrating to experience this. Sure. For now you could smell your Morning Coffee okay, just want to make sure. Yes. I could smell and i could feel and im excited and im
Microclimate forecast. Boy, we are seeing sunshine across the bay area, rob, but definitely not in San Francisco. Lots of fog. A Little Something for everybody. You know, this morning we have low clouds and fog in San Francisco, and likely some drizzle or mist with some of those low clouds. You are seeing that around San Francisco this morning. A different story in walnut creek and also in san jose. You notice the hazy skies we have out there this morning. Not a lot of wind to start the day, and the smoke from the mineral fire thats been burning off to the south kind of settles into some of the interior portions of the east bay and south bay. On that topic for air quality we have a smoke advisory today across the inland east bay and areas around the Santa Clara Valley, especially south of san jose for the afternoon with moderate levels of smoke pollution for today. In terms of the temperatures hourbyhour, 50s and 60s right now. By lunchtime we should see 80s inland. Eventually today, t
Contra costa county. I hope the students can get back to school because thats where the best learning is done for everyone. Reporter she says shes been hoping to send her daughter back to school in a few weeks. Concords two catholic high schools had been looking at a partial reopening. They must begin this school year this fall through Distance Learning. Reporter but the governors new mandate means those plans are likely to change. Parents we talk to say theyre not happy. This is formative time. They need to be in school, in class with their peers, with their teachers facetoface learning. I dont think anything should be shutdown. They dont shut anything down for the flu. Reporter the Liberty School district in east Contra Costa County also planned to reopen its high schools using the hybrid model. Now the district has just three weeks to gear up to go all virtual. I think the best way to describe how im feeling is sad. Sad as an educator, sad as a superintendent, sad as a parent. Repor
School year should not bring a return to the classroom. The experience i had with my daughter, she did not do good with distancelearning provides funded okay, but my daughter needs to be in the classroom with the teachers. But if its not safe. So many questions for parents, teachers and students. How should these decisions be made . Piece by piece, district by district, we are going to fail. We are providing the flexibility based upon local conditions. The governor is sticking with his mantra of local control and that means the local district is trying to figure this all out right now. I think it is pretty obvious thheir ol winot lo the same when itts backinto session. Marcus walton is with west contra costa unified, he says one central element of their planning is being ready to ditch plan a. The Health Experts are telling us there will be a second wave and we have to expect that if the second wave, when and if the second wave hits that everyone will be again doing remote learning. Th