Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. A familiar face, a superhero helping out the Homeless Population here in downtown san jose. The Oakland Unified School board has voted to eliminate the Districts Police department, but not everyone is happy about it. Governor newsom announced a huge spike in california covid cases. What epidemiologists say is contributing to the surge. The heat peaks tomorrow. The areas of highest heat illness coming up. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Major new developments tonight after a decadeslong battle by Community Activists and parents. The Oakland Unified School board has voted to eliminate the School Police force. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is in the newsroom with more. Well, alma and dan, some of those weve seen rallying in the streets are calling this an historic win tonight, but others i talk with say they now fear for their childs safety. Cheer among many in oakland as th
Long to eliminate school police. The vote was unanimous and will do away with Law Enforcement and any Armed Security in Oakland Schools. We dont need police. We dont need any Law Enforcement entity. The move will eliminate the Districts Police department at the end of the year, and will shift all calls to the oakland Police Department. In recent weeks there have been rallies and marches in favor of this. Even warriors coach steve kerr took to the streets. Some parents we talked with are not happy. I think its a bad idea. Carolyn bim has two sons in the Oakland School district and she worries for their safety and others. My son was bullied this year, sixth grade year and seventh graders threatened to bring a gun and shoot my son, right . Im like whoa, right. Former District Security guard tony helgel agrees. I think its a dangerous mistake. Thats telling people that the school zone is a free for all for criminal activity. Now, though, there is a hope from many that School Employees will
County will join the rest of the bay area on friday as the bay area begins the next step there are still more than 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 390 deaths here are the latest numbers broken down by county, sam, a tail San Francisco, marin sonoma and napa counties have all reported new cases today, but no new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. For a complete list of local covid19 cases head over to our website kron 4 dot com at least for now most bay area jurisdictions will follow the same guidelines in terms of slowly winding down the stay at home orders and reopening the economy the last area holdout on opening the door to face to Santa Clara County. But word on that changed today kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom right now with more just a. While panels of the countys move forward Santa Clara County Health Officials said that there were no plans to ease restrictions but that changed today. And it will now allow Small Retail Stores to offer Curbsid
Further into phase 2. So lets take a look at the changes here are the businesses that can reopen retail stores, including shopping malls and swap meets dinein restaurants and schools can reopen thats affected though starting on june 1st governor gavin, newsome was in napa county on monday and he listed off the new criteria that he said should allow 53 of the states 58 counties to move ahead and napa county applied for the second time to move forward saying that it meets the new criteria for opening sooner and the state has now approved it. The new types of businesses that can reopen must comply with the states requirements for disinfecting surfaces rules for face coverings and physical distancing and must be able to show customers and employees that the establishment has reduced the risk of the spread of coronavirus plus also pose some sort of sign about the new protocols at the entrance. The county that was still waiting for guidance from the state about whether summer camps can start
Morning drive for everyone heading out, our essential workers especially. And theres Nothing Holding them up over there getting across the bay. Instead of fog we have an issue of visibility. Youll notice its dark between Treasure Island and the oakland toll plaza. It is dark there. The Street Lighting or the roadway lighting has been out since at least midnight. I saw that noted on twitter. Headlights and taillights no problem. Be extra cautious. Back to you. A look at the latest u. S. Confirmed cases tops 460,000 including more than 16,000 deaths, the second most of any nation behind only italy. Nonessential businesses remain on hold. Today in the bays tracie potts live for us in washington and, tracie, congress was talking about adding more cash to help Small Businesses but thats hit a snag. Reporter exactly. They didnt get it done because republicans want to put more money in the pot where the money hasnt been dispersed yet and democrats are concerned about that because they say the