Thousands of families in sonoma are being told covid will keep students out of the classroom until the end of the new year, or until this new year. Summer actually pushing back. We have the frustration being felt by so many. Reporter following Public Health directives, Santa Rosa School board has voted unanimously to stick with distancelearning through december. That brought a boisterous response. No more zoom no more zoom reporter masks couldnt muffle their discontent. Dozens of parents, students and teachers mind santa rosas old Courthouse Square to say no to zoom school. We need to get these kids back in the classroom. What started off as a 2 to 3 week shutdown has turned into six months. These kids are really suffering. Reporter critics note Sonoma County has about a half million residents and 114 covid death. These families say in person instructioshybrid is a great wa start. You have half the kids go in monday, tuesday, sanitize wednesday and the other kids go in thursday, friday
We were kind of at our max. Reporter while the median price of a home in california is 706,000, in the bay area its 1,068,000. This time last year it was 900,000, and 18 increase. There has been a pentup demand for homes in the last several years. We have had a low supply of homes for sale. Reporter while some are leaving the bay area, able to work remotely during the pandemic, realtors say many people still want to live here. This is an area thats surrounded by hightech employers that are willing to pay a lot of money for you to work for them. Even if you want to live here. The weather here is wonderful. Reporter this Real Estate Broker sold the 759 square foot one bed, one bath house in san jose for over asking price, 1,055,000 with six offers. The new owner plans to tier it down and rebuilt. The broker says the biggest factor pushing up home sales is the historic low interest rates. And the two percentile, 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Whenever the cost of money is this low you find people being
The trick theyre using. We have Jana Katsuyama with how people are evading the tolls. Reporter really this all started when i got a call from a man who said that someone had stolen his license plates. And ended up finding something very startling about a bigger bay area problem that could be costing taxpayers. Looks like they just ripped this completely out of here. Reporter avery turner says thieves stole the front and back license plates from his new mercedes. Not the real plates but the temporary plates. I found out people may be doing robberies, some people are saying theyre going over the bridge for free. Reporter bridge tolls range from 2. 50 to 3 a vehicle. We decided to check with the Transportation Commission to find out just how many blank dealingships were going through plazas. The results were surprising. Ktvu obtained data showing the number of violations. It shows an average of 100,000 vehicles a month crossing bay area bridges with no license plate. And a spokesperson sa
A cent. The trick theyre using. We have Jana Katsuyama with how people are evading the tolls. Reporter really this all started when i got a call from a man who said that someone had stolen his license plates. And ended up finding something very startling about a bigger bay area problem that could be costing taxpayers. Looks like they just ripped this completely out of here. Reporter avery turner says thieves stole the front and back license plates from his new mercedes. Not the real plates but the temporary plates. I found out people may be doing robberies, some people are saying theyre going over the bridge for free. Reporter bridge tolls range from 2. 50 to 3 a vehicle. We decided to check with the Transportation Commission to find out just how many blank dealingships were going through plazas. The results were surprising. Ktvu obtained data showing the number of violations. It shows an average of 100,000 vehicles a month crossing bay area bridges with no license plate. And a spokesp