Spoke with Janet Webster jones who is the owner of sourcebooks sellers in detroit about how the shutdown how has affected her business Janet Webster jones give us an update five months into the covid pandemic. Well, we have quite a lot to say this time peter and thank you so much again for having us on cspan. You are also dear to our hearts. I look at sheila at home a lot. You have helped us really improve our business by the things you do. We have really had to have an experience of backandforth, open close, up and down that is been happening with everybody across the country. Because we take little step forward and then we have to back up a little bit. And i think that is the mode of the day as they would say. And so when we shut down we pivoted right away to online sales. But it took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and began to sell through the online website. In addition to that we also have added, people have added phone calls, emai
Reporter the superintendent says with the new cases they will reevaluate whether to start school on august 10th, and if they cancel inperson classes. Some students and parents say instead of the current format of online ngday,sh all that stufi reing ol are will online why would we put our kids back in school . Reporter the school board will meet soon to talk about how they will move forward, and allen they have to make a decision quick because august 10th is coming up. It is coming up quickly and da lin you said the other students in the pod havent shown symptoms but have they been tested . Reporter the superintendent says theyre not sure if they notified all the students and parents. They are asking the families to get advice from their doubt theres. They are not demanding the students get a test because they know there is a shortage of the tests. Yeah but they are watching him closely, da lin thanks so much. The west coast Conference Announcing today it will delay the start of all fa
Has burned at least 150 acres so far. Chopper 5 flew over the area. The attack from the ground and air. No evacuations have been ordered but we have been told one structure has been threatened. Chopper 5 was overhead and try to keep the flames from creeping near one of the few homes in the area and we are monitoring the situation and we have an update on kpix 5 news at 11 00. Right now tension tonight within the San Francisco police department. The union is pushing back against new black lives matter posters. Good evening i am veronica de la cruz. In San Francisco with the story tonight. Reporter new posters would have to be 32 inches by 24. Each Police Station including the one by me would have to display the posters in an area where people coming into the building would be able to see it. That is not sitting well with the rankandfiles union. Large murals featuring black lives matter painted on city streets. In front of houses. We are not doing anything illegal. Electrified confrontat
That feels distant. This fivebedroom, five bathroom luxury home in sonoma is on the market for just under 7 million. The 5000 squarefoot home sits on 13 acres complete with an at home jim, pool, and a new necessity, two home offices. My phone is ringing off the hook. Reporter christine cronus with Compass Real Estate said one country has gone from a second home market to a primary home market overnight. There is a joke right now among agents, like we keep teasing each other saying we think there will be no houses left to sell. Reporter the Real Estate Market in the bay area is already rebounding. And luxury home sales are leading the way. Realistically there will be an exodus from the big cities. Reporter paul valley is the ceo of workathome startup that is fully remote. He said it has changed the way his Company Looks for talent. If everyone is working from home anyway, i believe a really attractive way to get amazing talent is to permit them to work from wherever they want, become di
Least one structure is threatened. Chopper 5 on the way to the scene, we will get you more as we get it. Our meteorologists paul heggen is standing by. What can you tell us about conditions in altamont, a little breezy this afternoon . Yeah the wind picked up in the last hour or slow slightly. It was at 15 Miles Per Hour the last time we checked on the wind map and now is 18 Miles Per Hour around livermore. You go east of livermore and they had wildfire there just over a week ago and now is the same area that has a slightly heightened fire danger because the wind has to accelerate a little bit. The wind in that spot likely in the 2020 mileperhour range. It is enough to fan the flames. Also if you notice some smoke or haze overhead it is because of some larger fires down to our south. The worst of it just outside of our counties, but you can see where that smoke and that hayes is much more prevalent. Of course this is just the beginning of the fire season. Our overall fire danger is not