Reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. The governor also says the new school year could start as early as july. He says the best way to make up for the learning loss because of forced school closures. Schools are still adapting to them. The San Francisco Unified School District announced marked credit or no credit instead of getting a letter grade. School leaders understand that some students had difficulty transitioning to Distance Learning. Graduating seniors have until the end of july. Happening today, officials in oakland are launching a Fundraising Campaign to try to close the Digital Divide on Distance Learning for students. A survey finds it needs more than 1,400 chromebooks and 4,300 hot spots to help students learn during the pandemic. The School District distributed 1,600 chrome books and their longterm goal is to have one for every student every year. We have passed more than a million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Jobina fortson is live at the live desk wi
We are looking at mostly cloudy skies as we head to our day tracking a week weather system that is going to usher in those clouds and also a few spotty sprinkles or showers as we go through our monday. The grsanta rosa, petaluma from a whole, as well as for oakland, near concord, a few spotty sprinkles this morning. As we take you through our day as we had through our morning, you can see low to mid 40s, daytime has a little bit below average for this time of year, 59 in San Francisco, 66 in san jose and 62 for oakland. We will talk about a warmup as we head to the week, details coming up. Lets check in for a look at traffic. We do have a couple things going on out there the f northbound 880 right around 42nd. This is due to overnight roadwork and lane closures happening, as you can see on our maps we are seeing a little bit a red. Give yourself a few extra minutes. Other than that, there is some roadwork also along 680, both directions as you work urthroug highway 24, weve got a few c
Here are in the bay area, five counties saw up takes in confirmed cases, there are now close to 8000 confirmed cases. A number of states are beginning to reopen despite failing to meet the standard of a twoweek steady downward trajectory in cases as fox news reports that led to a patchwork approach. The nations governors are taking different approaches to reopening states sending millions of americans back to work and keeping millions about it others at home. We have to make decisions based on the science, data, facts, they also just as you rightfully point out, you are not out of this yet. Guidelines expired on thursday leaving the path forward in the hands of the states decisionmakers. However, none have met the two weeks downward trajectory leading to a patchwork approach to reopening. The they are pretty firm policy on what we think, roughly 30 states, have lifted restrictions while other are being more cautious. Mississippis governor backed off his plan to move into the next phase
Announce this week about easing up on some of our restrictions. And a pandemic dilemma. The temporary cutback Stanford Health care says its being forced to make. Tonight more time at home and more frustration. June 1st is now the target date to reopen. Among many questions here, can Small Businesses survive that much longer . The majority of the bay area now following theis extended order o shelter at home. Today six of the bay areas nine counties announcing plans to extend our shutdown until june 1. You can see the counties here in red. Solano county, by the way, in yellow, is shut down until may 17th. Not everyones on board here. One woman says shes reopening her hair salon tomorrow. Lets bring in nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney from vacaville. We spread out our clients as well. Reporter leah rivera opened her salon in vacaville when she was pregnant with her third child and theres no way shes letting it slip away now. The hurdles that came with that for the first two years essentially
Rain does return this weekend. Tested positive for coronavirus. This might be the last in the we have an update on his music series here at least in this current pattern. Sun, then, afternoon clouds. We do have that frost advisory to the north, but not nearly the critical minimums we saw for most yesterday. Kenwoods 28. Petalumas 34. Healdsburgs 31. A lot more 30s into marin county. There is a little bit of a Breeze Holding up a few temps. Also the san mateo coast. So we go from 20s to upper 40s. Well get the sunshine here in the morning and then that cloud cover will start to work its way in tomorrow. Highs today, creeping up a little bit. Slightly below average still, you guys. Thank you, steve. Well, today, the house is scheduled to vote on that 2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, she expects it will pass. The legislation passed unanimously in the senate. It would provide 350 billion 350 billion in Small Business loans and 500 billion for