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
[inaudible conversations] this hearing of the subcommittee on conservation and forestry titled the 2020 wildfires here, response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. F welcome and thank you for joining todays hearing with mr. John phipps, deputy chief for state and private forest that just yet. After brief opening remarks the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority alternating between majorityminority members. When you are recognized you will be asked to unmute your microphone and you have five minutes to ask a question or make a comet. In order to get as many questions as possible, the tir will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here in washington and online today for this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. Weve all seen the footage from california, oregon and washington. It is surreal, and it is terrifying. I want to talk today about whati we can do to meet the needs andt f
Weve had great coordination, great relationship. I know we come from different sides of the plan it. Reporter the Governors Team thanked the president for federal support, and acknowledged the need for better Vegetation Management and made their case for Climate Changes role. The science is in, and the evidence is several everyone dent that Climate Change is real and that is exacerbating this. If we think its awful about Vegetation Management, were not going to seed together protecting company california. Okay. It will start getting cooler. You just watch. I wish science agreed with you. Well, i dont think science knows, actually. Reporter democrats criticized the president s downplaying of Climate Change, and today joe biden spoke on the issue. Donald trumps climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term, these heldish events will continue to become more common. Reporter the president honored 7 members the National
Afternoon until 9 at night theyre asking all of us to conserve energy the genie keeping a close eye on the weather conditions tonight according to its website. There is a Public Safety power shutoff watch for tuesday. And wednesday, according to cal iso some good news tonight. The power grid right now staying at stage 2 emergency. No outages being reported as of yet. According to pg and e the forecast indicates some windy and gusty conditions combined with a heightened fire risk that could be necessary to turn the power off. Once again we do want to show you map right now of pg and es Power Outages right now the shows those reported outages in the bay you can seen some being reported mainly. In the south bay, most of all a lot outages being reported there in the south bay area but once again according to cal iso any outages being reported not impacted as a result of those rolling blackouts from stage 2 emergency now being issued so here is how you can conserve some energy set your ther
Theres a reasonable chance of executing a psps to reduce Public Safety risk. Well, more on the fire in fresno county. But first, we begin with the oppressive heat thats now come across the bay area during this Labor Day Holiday weekend. Good evening. Im andre senior. Triple digit temperatures expected in some areas and we have Team Coverage of this heat wave. This new heat wave. Ktvus greg lig gens will tell us more but we begin tonight with meteorologist mark demayo. Reporter yeah, thats right. Now typically at this time of year its not abnormal to talk about maybe 98, 100 degrees or unusual. But this weekend, were going way up above the average. Today 104 and 105 degrees. Tomorrow another level. So its a start well show you a couple of records here. Gilroy 106 degrees and napa, 102 degrees. And you can see some more highs from this afternoon. Look at all the triple digits out towards santa rosa and concord and livermore and antioch and san jose. Maxed out 98 and San Francisco, 89 deg