Chinese Parent Company bytedance. The order says the platform poses risks that constitute a national emergency. Simply put, tiktok could enable the Chinese Government to spy on american citizens. Essentially this is the path forward to banning tiktok in this country unless its sold to a u. S. Company. Microsoft has been in talks to buy the app. It now has 45 days to make a deal. Thats when President Trumps order takes effect. Also late tonight, the oakland as are on damage control after a lot of backlash on social media. One of the as coaches caught on camera with an apparent nazi salute. It happened after the as won their game this afternoon at the coliseum. What youre seeing here is as bench coach Ryan Christianson congratulating the players. Instead of the covidfriendly elbow bump, he used the statearm salute. The as releasing a statement saying they do not support or condone the racist sentiment, and its extremely offensive especially during these times. Christianson also releasing
Students who tested positive for covid19 had been participating in summer conditioning, gearing up for the High School Sports season. While he doesnt believe they contracted the virus while in their workout group, parents are worried. I would be very concerned at this point to send my child back to school. I know these kids want to be out living their normal lives, but its not worth the risk. Reporter thats how parents in brentwood are feeling on learning as many as three High School Students in the district have cases of covid19. The superintendent issued a letter yesterday notifying families. He says a student athlete at Heritage High School and another at liberty high have tested positive, while a third student is experiencing symptoms and likely has it. We do not believe they got it from anything that happened on campus. We believe that this was a Community Transmission that happened off campus. Reporter we talked about parents and students as they picked up yearbooks at Heritage H
Help. Through a translator, a mother makes a plea from San Francisco while her 10yearold daughter is stuck overseas. The little girl is in egypt and her family is in originally from yemen, they had to leave the girl behind on their journey to the bay area because of a visa problem they havent been able to fix. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more on the difficult decision to separate and the painful months of waiting. Translator pain. Im in pain every day. Every day crying. Reporter with only three of her four children by her side, through ahi woman talks about the pain of leaving her 10yearold daughter, rahad. Translator it was the hardest moment of my life. I left her, and she was crying and was saying, please wait a little bit, wait a little bit. Reporter this is video of the tearful 10yearold who is waiting for a visa in egypt. As the San Francisco chronicle first reported, after years ofp family left wartorn yemen to join the childrens father in San Francisco earlier this year. Their
Plus the bay area county making an impassioned plea for people to wear masks. Also i feel 100 comfortable sending my kids back to school with safety precautions. I desperately miss my students, and i missed them all spring, but we also want to be safe. So whats the right answer . The question so many families and teachers are struggling with. Tonight more difficult decisions were made. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. Parents and teachers are getting a lot of mixed messages. Is it safe to return to campus . Tonight San Ramon Valley unified joining several other School Systems by keeping students and teachers at home. Is it the right decision . Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is at district headquarters in danville. Reporter this is a decision that comes after lots of deliberation. There are plenty of parents, students, and teachers that are breathing a sigh of relief. But there are some people who had been pushing for students to return to class five days a week.
The new teach frer a screen. This as the district and the Teachers Union are butting heads over how Distance Learning is going to work for everyone this semester. Melissa colorado joins us live from oakland with more on what the district superintendent is saying about the start of the new school year. Melissa, parents cant be happy with this. Reporter you know, the superintendent called it unprecedented and weird. She used that term to describe the first day of school or the first day of zoom here at ousd. Right in front of the Oakland Tech High School which is obviously closed. But earlier today we saw a line of students and parents coming here to receive textbooks as well as chromebooks. Now, we got some new attendance numbers. The district says attendance numbers are still coming in but so far more than 21,000 students showed up or, i should say, logged on to their first day of school. The district anticipates that number to grow as more students receive chromebooks and hot spots th