announcer: building a better bay area moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. as of tomorrow, we will movel from a mask requirement to a mask recommendation. santa clara county joining the rest of the bay area and going mask free, but with a warning . as much as we wish it were not true, we are still in the middle of a global pandemic. and we still do have community transmission. in san francisco, the debate rages on about masks in schools. we to take off the mask. dan: a join. -19 case rates in california continued to decline. the test positivity rate is down to 2.8%. the state says people who are not acts needed no longer have