Counties that are on the watch list for increased coronavirus activity. Abc 7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez has local reaction. Reporter School Districts in the buy area had every intention of welcoming back students in the fall. Until covid19 numbers recently forced the state to roll back business reopenings in several counties. Marin county, for example, is one of the districts on the states watch list because of its rising numbers. Yet this morning some parents came out to support inperson learning. Already children who have not schooled since march 16th and 17 whoth need to get back in front of the eyes of our teachers. We believe it can safely be done. Reporter the white house has threatened to cut funding if schools dont fully reopen. When he says open he means open in full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. Reporter therefore continuing with the Distance Learning model has not been an easy decision for many School Districts. Heres the state superinten
Disappointment. We believe that inperson instruction even in a limited capacity is the best way to serve our students. It went on to say we are grieved by the emotional toll on our students from being unable to see their classmates and teachers facetoface. San jose decided on an all Distance Learning method until october 2. The Governors Press conference is set for noon today. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Dublin Unified School District also voted last night to start the school year entirely virtual. The board approved a tentative deal with the teachers union. And oakland, berkeley, san san leandro and new haven have all said they plan to start with Distance Learning in the fall. We could learn more today about the next stem of reopening San Francisco. Jobina fortson has that at the live desk. Good morning. Yes, mayor breed and other city leaders have expressed their concerns about the rising number of cases in the city, in fact earlier this week they did announce more reopenings would b
The Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for several underground divisions including Inspector General and deputy undersecretary for intelligence and security. Some of the topics covered the Committee Hearing included whistleblower protections, election interference and servicemember misconduct. The meeting will come to order, we consider the nominations of mr. Jason, Inspector General of the department of defense. Mr. Lucas to be assistant secretary of defense that Nuclear Chemical biological and defense rooms and mr. Lewis to be assistant secretary of defense special operations. I think everyone for being here today, let me briefly say these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the mission they are accommodated for. Senior advisor, u. S. Customs and border protection, you have extensive experience leading litigation as part of the Inspector Generals offices for the federal Housing Agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban Dev
And a good monday morning to you. Thanks so much for starting here with today in the bay. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. I thought you were going to be an announcer for baseball there for a second. Just practicing just in case. Hey, team. I hope everybody had a great weekend. Well get to the Early Morning commute in a bit. Kari is back this morning. Welcome back. Good morning. Thank you. All right, were in for a nice week ahead, slightly cooler temperatures as we start out this morning. A live look outside in walnut creek. We are seeing a few high clouds moving by, but well see that clearing out around 7 00 to 8 00. Once again a nice day ahead as our temperatures have been coming down a bit. Weve seen drifts of smoke coming in, so well talk more about where well see that smoke as we go throughout the day and that smoke advisory that will continue. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commuters . Traffic wise its looking great for Early Morning commuters. Wipe the e
Across the board. We dont see that too often including the vermont, san jose, santa rosa, you can winter to, sima hayes will not clear. Theres just too much. Still westwind 31, gus to 46, it is going to keep the school this week. Temperatures below average especially inland. It is 7 00, anything new . We have a big backup at the bay bridge which is typical. Im looking at it and if you want to wait around, we have seen this pattern emerge. By the time in 00 rolls around, it will be much better and by the time 9 00 rolls around, it will be gone. So if you want to wait, that is cool. Lets talk about the other commute here and that will be the east bay. In general we dont see a lot of traffic right now. Any of these commutes, they look pretty good to start off with including the san matteo bridge. Lets go back to the headlines. Right now, california is coming very close to hitting 400,000 covid19 cases. More than 386,000 positive coronavirus cases have now been reported. More than a 7700 p