Time when President Donald Trump suspended h 1 b visas to the end of this year. So canada is putting it out there. Their doors are open in Silicon Valley and ceos are seeing the impact. Sitting in board members, ceos have related theyre trying to hire programmers from russia or other parts of the world. Reporter how worried should Silicon Valley be, with them trying to poach talent from our area . We should always be concerned that we are protecting and preserving our competitive advantage as the hub of the innovation economy. Reporter the pandemic and immigration halt has take an toll. But the pay in canada still does not compare to Silicon Valleys. On average, the tech workers here in the United States in Silicon Valley can make almost double what theyre making in some of the tech hubs in canada. Reporter but the hope is that when the pandemic ends, the talent comes back or holds on. Or theres always canada. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. Making the bay area a better place to
90s inland, upper 70s low 80s right along the bay. James. All right john thank you to 8 oclock lets get to that breaking news this morning. 3 deputies were shot and a gunman killed is a shootout in Contra Costa County near brentwood. It happened around well after an 11 hour standoff with a gunman. This was in the Quiet Community of nights and heres a map showing you where it occurred it was on green acres lane right off highway 4 and lone tree way. Lets go to conference reyna harvey shes at the Sheriffs Office all morning giving us the very latest arena. Yeah, were still waiting for an update on the condition of those deputies what we know 3 of the deputies were shot, 2 of them had to be rushed to a hospital this is all during a call out for Domestic Violence dispute, were going to show you that scene from yesterday in a standoff that lasted nearly all day. You can see this is on the 1700 block of green acres lane and nights 10 when a man barricaded himself inside a home with a woman n
Daria through the weekend so definitely going to be a scorcher of the next few days. Today going to be even hotter than yesterday was just to put it in perspective for you weve already been pretty hot this week. You can see nice sunshine. The skies over berkeley little bit of fog towards the coastline. Temperatures are climbing right now san jose close to the 70s. Well livermore double in concord pittsburgh. Fairfield are spots already in the 70s and were only at 09 00am berkeley and oakland at 61 degrees now later on today, san jose pretty similar to yesterdays high of 88 degrees. Oakland at 77 San Francisco, one of your more comfortable areas. Its our inland valleys that are really heating up and ill tell you more about what to expect there still to come daria. Thanks a lot john lets get to the breaking news overnight 3 deputies were shot and a gunman killed in a shootout in Contra Costa County near brentwood. It happened it well in the evening, it was an 11 hour standoff with a gunm
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
Video. He was in a crouching Half Kneeling position. His hands were toward his waist band when he turns toward the officers. It was the butt of a gun and they shot. Thats accurate. Thats factual. Reporter the chief said he did that have a gun. He had a hammer in his belt and he was shot in the back of his head. Now family members spoke this afternoon. Actually spoke at the same time as officers this afternoon here in vallejo. You will hear from those family members who still want justice today. Live, stone. Abc7 news. Thank you. Lets move. On the economy is a big part of our building a better bay area focus. Tonight, because of the coronavirus, the oakland zoo may be on its last leg, sadly. Laura anthony with whats being done. Reporter the gates at the zoo shut tight. This facility has been closed now for the better part of four months. 90 of the revenues come from visitors. So as you can imagine, the zoo is now in dire straits. You got his attention now. Reporter at the oakland zoo, i