Jewish students in marin targeted with antisemitic posts online. What the school and police are doing about it. Even a pandemic cant stop folks from celebrating mexican independence day. Bay area ill you know long the wealth wi wealth will continue coming up. This is abc 7 news. This particular incident was particularly terrifying. Offensive antisemitic messages posed online targeting High School Students in marin county. Tonight police are investigating it as a hate crime. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larsen explains how the community is now coming together to denounce these attacks. Reporter two weeks ago someone opened this Instagram Account with an offensive caricature that said redwood students organized in antisemitism, currently compiling a google doc of jews in the district. Hit us up if you want to help. Wehatejews. Com. This is what happened in nazi germany, they collected jewish names and targeted them for slaughter. Stacey freedman is the senior rabbi in san rafael. Children ha
On this saturday. Lets bring in rosemary for a look at how our weekend is shaping up. Good morning, its a cooler day out there. Partly cloudy to start the day. The breeze is going to continue into the afternoon. Today is going to feel a lot like yesterday. Giving you a look at what you can expect, cloudy skies, breezy conditions, lower 60s at the coast, mid 60s inland. We are on another warming trend. That is coming up in just a bit. This is the day many bart riders have been waiting for. Two new stations open today wrapping up a project that was decades in the making. We are live with more on that. Reporter thats right, decades in the making. The bart stations to san jose and milpitas start today. They are part of the berryessa line, the first train leaves the station less than an hour from now. Bart operators have been training for weeks on the new line, Officials Say this will impact people in the south bay who have grueling commutes. The ride is expected to takes over an hour into
San francisco added 39 cases, now at 622. While cases in Alameda County grew to more than 600. Here are the latest cases in lake and mendocino counties for our viewers there. Lake county reported two cases since sunday. Mendocino county reports four cases. And we are charting the total number of local cases on to this graph so we can take a look at the trend. This includes data for 14 counties, the bay are and beyond. And we showed a graph like that because were concerned about the peak. Can our medical systems handle the surge of cases . Do we have enough time to prepare . And what half . We have Team Coverage tonight. David louie looks at what life could be life post pandemic. But first, lets hear from abc7 news anchor liz kreutz about the latest projections showing we could reach the peak just one week from today. Liz . Dan, thats right. The state officials have been saying our peak will come in may, but a separate new updated projection shows we might hit that peak next week. We ta
To teach kids from a distance. This is not easy. But our kids are worth it. And it can be done. The California Department of education is providing standards and guidance. In antioch high schools have distributed chrome books to their students and they plan to get those laptops to middle schoolers today. Oakland is still working on its digital home schooling plan that administrators are still ironing out details on the Teachers Union with a deal. They dont have a date on when they will start the Distance Learning program. This is all new to everyone. Everyone still trying to figure out this unchartered territory. Reporting live in walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. The number of confirmed covid19 cases in bay area and Santa Cruz County has now surpassed 4,000. Here the latest cases by county. Santa clara county still the hot spot with nearly 1,300 cases increasing by 61 in the latest report. Marin county reported five more cases as did sonoma county. Lake county is reporting two
Right now, youll notice a lot of cloud cover around that will make its way to the shoreline and stay there. Well have a cloudy coast today. Its cloudy now all around the bay area. 53 in campbell as well as newark with 51 in lafayette. Bodega bay, 49 there. The clouds will burn back to the shoreline throughout the day and it will be a little less muggy out there. Noontime 60 inland, 50s at the coast with fewer clouds and more sun, mid 60s to near 70 in spots today and well talk about a sunnier and warmer Easter Sunday coming up. Thanks, lisa. This morning, alarming questions being raised about one particular coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco. 70 new positive cases at the citys largest homeless shelter. The outbreak means nearly 9 of the covid19 cases come from just one place. Ka kate larson spoke with city advocates about the story. The beds are close together, less than two feet. Reporter he has stayed at the south shelter at 5th and bryant many times. The fact that the coronavirus