Vicki liviakis Jonathan Mccall in tonight for a grant lotus Mother Nature putting on quite a show this morning. As severe storms brought lightning to the bay area along with a few showers as well. This is just one of many videos sent to us my you are loyal kron 4 viewers today. Yeah beautiful sight, a little concerning when it comes to lightning strikes and fires. A major concern fastmoving storms yeah they could lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start those wildfires in just a few hours ago pg e reported that there will be no rolling blackouts this evening thats the good news, those blackouts of course would have impacted San Francisco, san mateo and contra costa counties for more on the red flag warning and the continued heat wave we want to bring in our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez what a weekend. Yeah and were not over just yet with all this active weather in fact tracking some popup thunderstorms tonight during the overnight hours impacting your monday morning commute
Plus, tonight, medical experts weigh in as some bay area parents push for a return to inperson classes. The illness needing hospitalization does occur in children. And how Santa Clara County plans to home 20,000 Homeless People in five years. Good evening. I am elizabeth cook. I am ken bastida. Tomorrow, extreme heat is fueling wildfires near los angeles and concerns about Power Outages up here. We have Team Coverage, first our chief meteorologist paul heggen. Temperatures into the 90s. Some spots cracking triple digits this afternoon. 12 to 15 degrees above normal for this time of year. It will be build closer and closer to us through the weekend and next week. Every day wont be identical. There will be ups and downs. Tomorrow is the hottest day we will see. We will threaten record high temperatures across the bay area. All these locations within a degree or two of the record highs for august 14. It is still going to be hot into the weekend. I will track the ups and down coming up in
Theyre hoping to finalize an agreement by early next week. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Classes begin on thursday in contra costa thursday. What classes will look like will be the product from teachers and also, parents themselves. Heres laura anthony. Back to school will look a lot different this year. In contrast to the abrupt shift to online in the spring. This falls Distance Learning will be much improved. Were going to be offering a more robust and interactive experience for our students. That was part of the feedback that we got from parents during our surveys last spring. That the kids needed to have more scheduled time that was similar to a Typical School experience. In many, Contra Costa County districts will be in School Virtually from 8 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. At least several days per week. In a given class period, we expect that 50 to 6 0 of the that time would be the teacher talking directly to the kids, instructing them. Working with the kids. The rest of that time, while
More than a quarter million tests in the system. We learned about it after the presentation and i think we have spent time that we wo not have put out those data points if we had known that. uand made aware later that e evening. Backlog is now clear. Meaning todays coronavirus data should be more accurate leading to more decisionmaking for the state and counties. We were able to process these cases over the weekend and to do all of the normal weekend work to ensure we ended the weekend was very few records in the system. The former Public Health officer, Governor Newsom declined to discuss the issues and whether or not he called for it. We are all accountable of what happens underneath us. I dont want to air any more than that, but if it is not obvious i encourage you to consider that we accept the resignation, appreciate her work, we all have a role and responsibility of what happens. Anyone who has dealt with the state knows technical glitches and not the Public Health problem, did h
Does not have the matching funds required to participate. He estimates it would cost california 700 million a week. There is no money sitting in the piggy bank of the previous cares act to be reprioritized or reconstituted for this purpose. Simply does not exist. We need the federal government to front those dollars. The governor didnt say how or when californians who need that money will get it. Education is a major part of building a better bay area, especially right now as students are returning to school. Many School Districts are starting off the year with Distance Learning because of the covid19 pandemic. And today San Franciscos board of education is expected to ratify a deal that the School District made with the teachers union. The teachers signed off on it yesterday and guarantees at least two hours of live online instruction every day. Teachers will get additional training and planning stipen to cost of working from home. Contra costa county classes start thursday. In oaklan