Good evening. The San Francisco Unified School District will close it schools for three weeks. Starting monday. We need the time to plan prepare and train staff on how to operate schools during this epidemic. If there was somebody who was affected by the virus it would spread quickly in a school. Lets take a couple weeks where we dont have school and lets figure out what we need to do next. Students who qualified for free lunches will continue to get those meals. Details on that have not been released yet. The district serves more than 55,000 students. St governor is advising school close only as a last resort. Emergency room doctor nurse Nurse Practitioner and you have kids you have no capacity to have those kids at home without your own presence being there. About an hour ago we learned the west contra costa Unified School District will also be closing down on monday for three weeks. They are moving up spring break into the closure period. To try to minimize the disruption on the Ove
Surprised us. Nothing. Plus a brutal bay area purse snatching. What was inside her bag and what she just told us about her injuries. I couldnt even stand up because it was so painful. Its got to be changed immediately. New calls for change tonight to the Oakland Police commission. The meeting underway right now after they fired the police chief. The commission is out of touch with oakland. Right now on the kpix news at 7 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a state of emergency tonight in Solano County because of that mysterious case of coronavirus. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im veronica de la cruz in tonight for ken. Health officials are rushing to figure out who the woman may have come in contact with. So far 28 cases have been confirmed in the state. At least 8 are here in Northern California. 8400 more people being monitored for symptoms, and just a little while ago, we learned the Fairfield Unified School District was told by the cdc to prepare for a possible outbreak. Lit
I didnt see anyone caught off guard. The fired police chief for the plan to use the feds to fight back. A 80 million contract, why is medicine at a rodeo . The story blanket was munson. Its a pretty impressive guy. A 12yearold girl was killed in a hit and run crash in castro valley. Chp tells us she was walking with a friend on the crosswalk when she was had. She was taken to the hospital where she later died. It happened before 3 30 on mantra road and police are looking for a suspect in a black f1 50 pickup truck last seen heading toward 580. Authorities have not released the name of the victim. The feds say that the largest reservoir must be trained over earthquake risk, the Anderson Reservoir east of highway 101 between morgan hill and san jose has been ordered drained starting in october. Regulators say that the 240 foot dam is at risk of collapsing if a major earthquake text, valley water says the project could have an impact on the 2 million customers and could require everyone t
I feel terrible. Right now and streaming on cbsn bay area the past few hours more testing has been ordered on that cruise ship contaminated with coronavirus. Good evening. How it was announced angered people on board. The test results revealed of the 46 people tested there were 21 positive 19 crewmembers and two passengers. Now everyone on the ship will be tested. Someone board get word of the results from tv. This is a live look at the ships current position. The grand princess is the dark blue icon on the lefthand side of your screen. This evening it has moved to the south off the San Mateo County coast. What happens next to the grand princess and passengers . Andreas live is San Franciscos cruise ship terminal. Reporter the grand princess originally before all of this went down was supposed to dock here at pier 27 tomorrow. The passengers were supposed to get off and go home. Now it is likely not going to dock here but somewhere else in the bay area. The results are in and now a pla
Chair m chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, march 5 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. Im supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by supervisor matt haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervi sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions