Killing leah wilson back in 2018. Well, back in march, jurors were deliberating if cowell was season. The judges ruled he was coherent during the killing. Good morning, and thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im chris chmura. Marcus and laura are off. We are less than an hour away from new guidelines for how schools will reopen. Gavin newsom is set to make a big announcement at noon. We are on the road to recovery. Millions of california parents are eager to know how the school year is going to play out. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live in san ramon. Reporter good morning. Yes, be last night the San Ramon Valley unified school board voted to start the school year with kids learning from home in anticipation of the governors announcement that we expect just under an hour from now. In favor of the motion, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say no. Motion carries unanimously. Reporter what was interesting about last nights vote is that in previous meetings, the San Ramon Valley board ha
Oure further pushing back the date when our city can open. If conditions do not improve, the city may close additional activities and businesses. Im at the live news december desk and monitoring the sentencing for john lee cow el, the man who stabbed to death the man at the bart station and family members saying you took our baby. John lee cowell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The guilty found him guilty of premeditated murder ofth sister. She said shell never forgive him for stabbing her sister and watching her stand there and suffer and scream until she died. Life without parole, thats justice. Im thankful raab two hours in march. Cowel was absent for most of the trial after several outbursts in court. His defense claimed he was insane, the judge decided to issue a directed verdict ruling their client was sane at the time of the attack and would serve his sentence in a state prison. Cowel has the right to appeal this and he questioned the judge tow
Rams livestreaming to students at home. I think that were already beginning to see across social media or through Informal Networks teachers talking about how they go about creating that classroom culture and connections with individual students. Reporter the District School board Vice President says there wont be as much confusion and scrambling as last year when the pandemic forced quick decisions on the run and the governors order is helpful. We have time to plan. We have time to organize. We have time to make sure kids have the devices they need, that we are using fewer platforms so that everybody kind of knows the technologies. Reporter the school board also plans to meet next week to address concerns by teachers who might be reluctant to instruct from school and find a way so they can teach from home yet still be ready for the first day of School August 12th. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you. In Contra Costa County, several schools that were plannin
And we must accelerate in response. We have a small window of time right now to get our cases under control before we could see the large outbreaks that we are seeing around this country. The mayor pointed the finger directly at an increasingly complacent and growing segment of the population tired of cabin fever. People who are having gatherings with others outside of their households. San franciscans need to change their behavior. Gatherings remain inherently dangerous. At the general hospital, the average age of the person hospitalized with covid19 since july first has been 41 years. We dont have months, we barely have weeks. The mayor demands that private Health Insurance providers step up and speed up virus testing. One key to reopening. Were not reopening us how we get this under control. We are all at risk for this disease and all at risk for serious consequences. We have flattened this curve once and we must do it again. A negative test is not a passport to do what you want. On
Now at 11 00, some breaking news. A man known as the conscience of the u. S. Congress has died. Tonight, the legacy of representative john lewis. Major developments tonight in a deadly policed shooting in the east bay thats now caught the attention of the house speaker. I think people now get a sense like we do that the lapd is kind of out of control. Is san jose woman who is deaf said shes been repeatedly kicked out of businesses for not wearing a mask. Her emotional plea to the public. At 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, good evening. Im ken bastida. And i veronica de la cruz internet when elizabeth. We start with breaking news on capitol hill tonight. The world has lost a civil rights icon. Congressman john lewis has died. The georgia representative was the son of sharecroppers in alabama pick lewis took part in some of the seminal moments in the civil rights movement, including the blood he sunday march on selma, alabama, and the 1963 march on washington. He then served in the