Urging caution. Unfortunately it was positive. Im one of the contact tracers from the county. Reporter jill is a covid detective with a deft touch. Did you have any symptoms yourself . Not really. Reporter informing people they have covid, quizzing them on their contacts and finding out what they need to stay isolated. When she started this work in june she was swamped. There was such a backlog. Since then we have sort of gradually caught up with everything. So yeah, it was really bad. August has been a much better month for us. We have seen reduction by half an hour case counts. Reductions in deaths, fewer outbreaks. Reporter july to august, a turnaround in marin, curving covid spread at san quentin prison in outbreaks among nursing homes. Positivity rates are dropping, but this morning against complacency. We are still vulnerable to losing the gains weve achieved if we relax too quickly. We have seen that happen already, that happened in the month of june. Lets take that as a lesson
Signs of ending. Tomorrow will mark the 25th day in a row. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. It was not the dramatic orange glow we saw yesterday. Even though the sky looked better today experts said their quality was much worse. We have Team Coverage tonight with chief meteorologist bill martin looking for signs of improvement. First, word from airquality officials. An and record 24 day of that error alerts with another one issued tomorrow. Experts say the worst air was in San Francisco tonight, very few places i good enough air to be outdoors. Keys are pub in San Francisco football fans not bothered by this movie conditions for the nfl Season Opener against super bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans. The smoke is heavy and we are all trying to break through it. We are all here to watch football. Reporter the bars manager not expecting outdoor patio to fill up ahead of kickoff. Today im surprised you got this far because the weather. Repo
Here is a live picture outside temporary respite from the poor right now. I want to bring in rosemary, air quality. Looking at a map you are trying to find a pocket of the bay it is free today, to make sure area that is getting a break but i cant seem to find it. That people have access to weather relief. It appears that everyone is affected by the smoke on this unhealthy, not only for reporter poor air quality the bay area but northern has also shut down a number of california stretching all the way into areas of lake tahoe, attractions, including alcatraz, mere woods, and four point. Alameda and contra costa among the only area of the state that looks to be semidecent is other counties, warning all residents to stay indoors, as the bay area hits its record farther over areas of southern 25th straight spare the air alert. California and Santa Barbara a spokesperson for the bay area county. Lets get in the closer, to air Quality Management district take a look at what is going on doesn
Later today, daytime highs eventually on the warm side yet again weve gotten used to this lately though upper 70s 80s right alongside the bay and 90s for a few inland spots. Daria. Thanks a lot lets get to our top story right now the fall semester for oakland is here online today, thousands of students. Well Start School Year the district spent the week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There are frustrations though with the Distance Learning plan has some parents reported last week that their students didnt get their laptops yet. Attendance is mandatory for students in all of their classes. The beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is their students. I know this is a really different than what youre used to when you were hoping for and. Were going to get there were going to mak
Visibility below a mile right now and thats what were seeing elsewhere right along the pretty foggy morning right out the coast, you may have noticed some coastal drizzles a lot of do on the streets this morning right along the pacific. So we make our way into the afternoon fog continues to burn off and lots of sunshine makes its return that will make for a really pleasant monday afternoon around the corner right now were still in the 50s 60s pretty mild start to the day but pretty familiar territory similar to where we have been starting our mornings and we are going to be much the same into the afternoon to a lot like we were this weekend with just a few 90s for inland cities, 70s, 80s and 60s elsewhere in the bay area. Daria. Thanks a lot john 71 and lets get to the top story, the fall semester for oakland is here the kids are starting school today virtually online yeah weve got the spending this last week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There ar