A San Francisco company is helping hundreds of thousands of families across california, including the bay area with a tool to protect themselves on the Coronavirus Fight kron fours Jonathan Mccall has details. It was back to school tuesday for students in pittsburgh. For the first time in months they return to campus but only to pick up the items left behind in their classrooms. But they do drive away with more than just pens and paper 2000 families also took home digital thermometers. District Officials Say the small devices will provide a big boost for families in the Coronavirus Fight these are really amazing thermometers they provide helpful tips. For our families and theres an app can next to the phone. To provide tons of information back to the families of these 2000 thermometers are just a fraction of the 400,000 being donated to School Districts across the golden state. For free. All courtesy of San Francisco based can to help the thermometer is especially in these very challen
Towards reopening, but the bay area still a long ways away from getting back to normal thanks for being with us tonight at 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis said today state leaders made changes to the stay at home order by expanding phase 2 so that more businesses can begin reopening. And while 6 bay area counties remain in phase. One there are some parts of the state that are allowed to move forward kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains. State leaders announced indoor and outdoor malls can reopen for Curbside Pickup and office work can resume under new guidelines released tuesday washes and pet grooming facilities can also reopen the governor says a Healthy Workforce is key is california gradually restart its economy. I think theres a deep desire for people to come back to work not everybody is going to come back right away, but some counties are prepared to come back at a faster pace than the state Health Officials announced tuesday view and
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Not a hard shutdown in Alameda County officials said that if they meet the requirements for safety. And things stabilize meaning theres an explosion of coronavirus cases that they can resume operations as early as next week. But you can clearly see how many cars are in the parking lot at this time at tesla people are coming and going looks to be just as busy as it was yesterday so even though they reached agreement to make sure to buy the next several days to see if measurements are put in to make sure that everybody is safe it looks like busi ess as usual for tesla we tried to reach out to tesla late last night and so far no comments at this particular time the Alameda County Sheriffs Department and Fremont Police department they say they dont anticipate going in there and making arrests should they not fully comply with the order. Minimal operations according to Alameda Countys guidelines requires them to do basic things like payroll and just run of the mill opera operations, but you
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