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.
During business hours. A number of student athletes have tested positive for covid19 here at uc berkeley. Two of the Largest Bay Area School Districts have announced plans on how students and staff will return in the fall. Promoting parties drawing the pandemic. How social media posts by one south bay club are leading to concern, anger and pushback. Heat and hazy skies in the forecast. Ill have a closer look coming up. News 11 00 starts right urthi. Tonight, two of the largest School Districts in the bay area agree. It will be Distance Learning this fall. San jose unified and San Ramon Valley unified announced their decisions ahead of official state guidance tomorrow. The pandemic has forced School Leaders to make some very difficult decision, and their plans for the school year are a big focus of our efforts to build a better bay area. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez is in the newsroom with the details tonight. Lauren . Dan, san ramon and san jose made decisions late tonight to not
Reversing plans when it comes to staff and students returning in the fall. I believe the San Ramon Valley Unified School District should we open on august 11th as scheduled with full remote Distance Learning. Reporter and late tonight, san jose, one of the area, made the call to go virtual until october 2nd. p. The district says, quote, this outcome comes with major 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. The goal here is to have one common platform that all students can interact with. These announcements come the night before Governor Newsom is expected to make a call on whether Distance Learning will be recommended or required. Ill let the governor describe that tomorrow. I have some insight and some understanding what that will look like. But its going to be nearly im
Breezy again this afternoon. Not much of a change in our pattern. So hopefully youve enjoyed the last couple days. Upper 50s to near 60 at 7 00. At the coast the clouds will be most stubborn. Very comfortable 73 to 79 at noon. 79 around the bay to 88 inland, so maybe a degree or two warmer today. And then back into the 70s, enjoy a wonderful evening. Well give you an update on the weekend forecast coming up. Bay area College Sports quickly becoming the latest victims of the coronavirus pandemic. First we had stanford which canceled some fall sports. Now you suc berkeley confirmingt of its studentathletes have come downulul reporter yeah, tough to imagine that sports could happen in the fall with news like this. Eight uc berkeley studentathletes now testing positive for coronavirus, though we dont know which sports they participate in. So we do know that so far 125 studentathletes have returned to campus in preparation for voluntary outdoor conditioning workouts, berkeley officials, the
Neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn past a quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the south and to the east as steve hill with Contra Costa County fire explains the wind fueled this fire but also push it away from homes nearby. Neighbors off california street say they could see the smoke and flames from their backyards. I saw the live this hour that some houses are probably getting like a 100 yards out a fire. So there are some neighborhoods neighbors back as were worried about it thankfully. No one