Thank you so much for joining us. The fire happened on Commonwealth Avenue in the citys Laurel Heights neighborhood. Jr stone is there, live, with more on this developing story. Jr. Well, ama, the damage inside this Community Center building is extensive. And you can see it, all around me. Charred black, all around me. And that includes on the ground, where you see this wood that is just burned out and lying there. And its not just this front entryway, but you look in this front room, as well. This is a front room that fire tore through. You would think a lot of people, they dont like the armenians, and somehow, through their hate, this is the way they take their revenge. Now, this is what the damage looks like the building next to the st. Gregory armenian church. This isnt the church but its the Community Center building, that also had Church Offices in it. Pastor says he was told, by crews, that is, fire crews, that someone set this place on fire, in three different locations. Possib
Too many they say to reopen for in person learning, given that Santa Clara County in the red tier is experiencing substantial spread of covid 19. To have a lot of kids in a classroom, that is an indoor gathering, and we dont think thats safe. A high schoolteacher in san jose welcomed the decision. I wasnt totally surprised, but i was relieved. John fensterwald told Us School Districts are grappling with how and when to reopen. The Elementary School districts, its easier to bring back your teachers. If youre a unified school district, thats more difficult. Thats a harder negotiation to make. In San Francisco abc 7 news was told the unions Bargaining Team is preparing right now for three meetings next week with the school district. The Oakland Education Association on the other hand informed us that they have not not negotiated with the school district, and no talks around schools reopening are scheduled. Reginald moseley works from home and is able to supervise his three children as the
Getting ready to give us an update in just a few minut czu burning south of San Francisco, so we are waiting on that. And while we do were going to check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Whats happening right now, lisa . Good morning, liz. Yesterday we had a nice welldefined marine layer. This morning not the case. Its pretty diffuse and looking at a layer of smoke over the bay area. Decreasing visibility at the shore. That 4 to 5 mile visibility from the smoke over from livermore to san jose where the air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups there. Elsewhere, moderate around the bay. And looking at that to change today as that smoke layer continues to shift as we get our windsg nrom t oday. Up ingaleis 7 a hennessy f 73 degrees with very light winds. As we to vacaville temperatures in the upper 60s, winds light and down over in la honda around 70 degrees and light wind. High pressure is Building Back in and with that weve got a high fire weather watch with critical fire danger f
Bay area, including santa cruz county, is about 41,000. Keep in mind when we give you these numbers, many of those people have already recovered. Those are total cases. The governor addressed the states response to the pandemic sharing how certain covid trends seem to be stabilizing, but as a state were really far from where we need to be t. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra joining us live now break down the latest numbers. Hi, stephanie. Reporter hey there, larry. We had learned today 91 of the states pop haitian is on watch list including all bayarea counties with the exception of san mateo. Heres where we stand today. That is my hope and antension is that we bend the curve as we did the first time in this pandemic and we do it again as were dealing with this fatherup. Reporter we hear the governor talk about the states floridaups every day, flareups as in spikes in code of cases, the positivity rates, icu admissions and hospitalizations all of which reported between a 10 to 16 i
Concern, and remember the number 1. 1. For every one person who contracts the virus in the state thundershower 1. Is people on average are now infected. The state wants to drive that down to 1 or below as quickly as possible, so we asked just how bad is it right now . Are we essentially back to square one with all of inform . Nbc 1s news joins us know. Reporter theres good news and bad news. The bad news is cases are on the rise, the good news things being things are really not as bad as they could be or compared to the rest rast state. As coronavirus cases rise and california reverses plans to reopen its clear the bay area is not out of woods yet, but just how bad is it . The counties when you look at the entire bay area are not as bad as some of the worst hit counties in california, not as bad as los angeles, not as bad as imperial. Reporter to break it down, take a look at this graphic showing daily cases rising in the bay area. On july 10th there were 809 new cases, not including a