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
Reporter Santa Clara County and Alameda County had similar totals but the south bay with 280 new cases and 2 deaths. We are seeing significant challenges. We had an increase of the number of people coming up and testing positive and also had an increase of younger people getting sicker. Reporter Governor Newsom said hes extending the moratorium pass the deadline and chavez said santa clara will follow suit, which is good news for renters, except its being done because the covid situation is getting worse. Robert handia, nbc bay area news. As cases continue to grow, ite who test positive. The average right now over a twoweek period, 7. 4 . The governor said if that gets above 8 , its extremely alarming. If we look at several counties, several are above that. L. A. County, 7. 5 , San Bernardino county, 11. 5 . Compare that with the bay area. Our positive rates are lower. Santa clara at 4 now. San mateo and alameda both hovering around 5 . San francisco with the lowest on this map at 3 .
Nepa process. The draft document with the environmental assessment. We have section 106 for historic preservation. Park land and historic site. Were currently in this middle level where were working with comments, a memorandum of agreement. Were drafting our final 4s evaluation. Our target for final signature from cal trans is august 24th. This is low allows us to allocae our federal funds build fund dollars by the end of august. Our schedule has changed a little bit as a result of covid 19. Primarily advertising the first phase of construction between fifth to eighth street to 2021. Our design is continue to go that time. We implemented quick build back in january. We have a Pilot Project as a sidewalk level bike way. We plan to begin construction in 2021. Were assuming a two year construction duration. Followed by construction of the f loop. Im sure you all remember that Market Street went car free january 29th. We saw significant increase in bicycling. In the eastbound direction mar
Lets check in with our industry forecast. That kind of disturbed me, dont let science get in the way of open something that is what we have to rely on, isnt it . The 12 hour planner, upper 50s to near 60 as we head through 7 00. Clouds will peel back to the coast revealing sunshine and 71 to 79 for our bay and inland the same as the last couple days and gorgeous evening on tap. And well take a look at the warmer weekend coming up. Uc berkeley confirms eight student athletes have now tested positive for covid19. Health one of the areas that abc 7 news is focused on in our effort to build a better bay area. And Julian Glover is live with what we know. Obviously a big concern. Reporter yeah, a big concern for the student athletes out there. It is pretty hard to imagine that sports could go off happen, rather, in the fall when were getting news like this. Eight uc Berkeley Student athletes testing positive for the coronavirus. We dont know which sports they are involved with just yet, but
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