Help. Through a translator, a mother makes a plea from San Francisco while her 10yearold daughter is stuck overseas. The little girl is in egypt and her family is in originally from yemen, they had to leave the girl behind on their journey to the bay area because of a visa problem they havent been able to fix. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more on the difficult decision to separate and the painful months of waiting. Translator pain. Im in pain every day. Every day crying. Reporter with only three of her four children by her side, through ahi woman talks about the pain of leaving her 10yearold daughter, rahad. Translator it was the hardest moment of my life. I left her, and she was crying and was saying, please wait a little bit, wait a little bit. Reporter this is video of the tearful 10yearold who is waiting for a visa in egypt. As the San Francisco chronicle first reported, after years ofp family left wartorn yemen to join the childrens father in San Francisco earlier this year. Their
Plus the bay area county making an impassioned plea for people to wear masks. Also i feel 100 comfortable sending my kids back to school with safety precautions. I desperately miss my students, and i missed them all spring, but we also want to be safe. So whats the right answer . The question so many families and teachers are struggling with. Tonight more difficult decisions were made. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. Parents and teachers are getting a lot of mixed messages. Is it safe to return to campus . Tonight San Ramon Valley unified joining several other School Systems by keeping students and teachers at home. Is it the right decision . Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is at district headquarters in danville. Reporter this is a decision that comes after lots of deliberation. There are plenty of parents, students, and teachers that are breathing a sigh of relief. But there are some people who had been pushing for students to return to class five days a week.
What some officers are accused of doing and how the police chief is responding tonight. But first, help is on the way. The new covid testing method that could speed things up. Tonight there is an urgency to clear the backlog of covid19 tests as people are sometimes waiting more than week for results. So the fda is now giving the green light to major Testing Companies to use a new technique to speed up the process. Nbc bay areas ian cull explains. Reporter in the beginning, covid testing was scarce. Then it ramped up. But now the time to get results is backed up so much, some people are waiting more than a week to find out if they have it. Got tested 11 days ago. Reporter christine hoffmans son just went back to preschool. Her husband is an essential worker in san jose. So just to be safe, she got tested for covid19 july 18th. This is my first test and i have g and his first test a few weeks ago, it took ten days for him to get results. Her story is becoming common. But today the fbi cl
Every county is on the states watch list. For Business Owners on the peninsula, confusion about when the restrictions were going to take effect. Get a load of my southwest cheddar cheeseburger. Let menutaur make it a doubleeee, yeah Sergio Quintana in redwood city its beautiful with more. Reporter on the marquee of say what . I said its bea. The fox theater, lets get off try my 5. 99 southwest cheddar cheeseburger combo were living in uncertain times, the list, please wear your and make it a double for a buck more. But as californians well get through this together. Order now with no contact delivery. Mask. Unfortunately, San Mateo County is not off of the safeco if your income has been reduced or youve lost your job or your Health Insurance, individual 19 watch list, so tomorrow some businesses will covered california is here. Not be reopening. Many businesses had started to we can help you find the Health Insurance get ready to close doors today. You need to protect you and your love
Courthouse. This is downtown oakland right near lake merritt, all happening within the past hour. Video of the entrance filled with flames and smoke posted on social media. You can see fireworks going off in the area, but the extent of the damage to the courthouse not yet clear. Earlier tonight several protesters broke off a peaceful demonstration downtown and vandalized a police station. You see a photo of it right there. Oakland p. D. Tweeted, asking organizers to keep the protests peaceful after the station was spraypainted and those windows were broken. Fireworks were also set off there, and officers in helicopters were targeted with lasers. Well continue to update you on this breaking situation in oakland. Now we want to go to our coronavirus coverage. More testing and less waiting. If you tried to get a covid19 test in the last few weeks, you may have waited for hours to get it. But in san jose today, wait times were dramatically reduced all thanks to a new system. Nbc bay areas