Class Vincent Polanco is mourning the death of his father, gilbert, a san quentin prison guard, first admitted to the hospital in july, after contracting the coronavirus. Then on life support. Sergeant Gilbert Polanco died at Kaiser Santa Teresa at 5 00 sunday morning. Covid19 is a real thing. It takes peoples lives away, and my dad is one of those people, and he did not need to go at the age he was at. Reporter at 55 years old, vincents father gilbert, a san jose native, had wanted to become a prison guard after passing san quentin on a ferry ride in middle school. And he saw one of the guards there as a kid, and he waved at my dad, he literally waved at my dad, and he, like, theres all of these kids, too, but my dad knew that this man waved at him. Reporter after serving in the army and national guard, he worked at san quentin for 30 years. A crisis created after the Corrections Department brought in untested inmates from a prison in chino, where there had been an outbreak. Visible s
The better off well all be out there. Ikea. Make the dream yours. Announcer from abc7 live, breaking news. Director of the California Department of public health, dr. Sonia angel reportedly announced she resigned her post effective immediately. In email to staff didnt give a reason for resignation. But departure comes a week after glitch was discovered in the data system that caused underreporting of the cases in the state. Governor thanked her for her service. Im eric thomas. Im dion lim. On the heels of that resignation, lets look where coronavirus stands in california right now. State reported more than 8,300 new cases of the coronavirus today, well above the sevenday average, may be due to clearing a backlog. Positivity rate is back up to 5. 7 . As the pandemic goes on, were focused on how to build a better bay area for all of us during this time. Health is part of that, another part is education. Were less than 24 hours away from the start of the school year for thousands of kids
At temperatures a little bit cooler for today. If it was too hot yesterday, especially inland, we will cool down by several degrees. Here is a look with our san jose camera. In san jose we have clear skies at 63 degrees and mid 50s in San Francisco with those clouds and 58 for oakland. It 62 for concord. That sunshine inland is 92 in concord, and yesterday was 99, and then 80 in san jose. There is some clearing around the bay. We are looking at 65 for pacifica. We will talk about temperatures that will be cooling down tomorrow. Details on that or coming up. Happening today, it is the first day of school for the Oakland Unified School district but five minutes after the pandemic, the district and the union are still negotiating the details about Distance Learning. We are live in oakland this morning with what this means for students. Reporter good morning, we are now in week four of negotiations, one of the main Sticking Point is the number of hours requirand thachersunwamit wants seven
In concord and livermore, clearing around the bay, 74 in oakland and 66 for San Francisco. It gets cooler tomorrow and i will have details on that coming up in just a few minutes. Good morning, lets look at the roadways. Metering lights are on. If youre going out the door and plan on taking the dried out of the east bay into the city, you have to be careful about the brake lights. There are no accidents on the upper deck. It is just busy. We have a crash reported just a couple minutes ago. Two cars were here blocking the middle lanes. This is westbound 580 before grand avenue. Traffic is filling where the accident scene is. Also busy, this portion into the Allatoona Pass is 36 minutes westbound from 205 over towards the 680 from tracy. Brake lights are there near mount house and the Golden Gate Bridge is foggy. That is the traffic. Developing this morning, one of californias top Health Officers has abruptly stepped down. That is according to the San Francisco chronicle. Sonja angel was
About that, although i see some lines there so i think they may have been able to stop that as well. Taking quick action to try to save as many lives as possible after this huge explosion that happened in baltimore this morning. Well have more top stories in a minute from here in the bay area but first want to take a look at the weather with john trouble. And good morning. Daria what we are seeing this morning a blanket of fog that is surrounding a lot of the bay area this is your view of it from see short hour right here right over San Francisco. Fogs not going to last for too much longer. Its already in the process of burning off by the time we work our way through 10 to 11 00am were going to see most of our clearing. Not at the coast though it will be rain pretty foggy right along the coastline, even into the afternoon. Right now temperatures are mostly in the 50s to 60s, although livermore youre at 70 along with fairfield sharing that same number with you oakland a little warmer th