The highest tier. With fewer coronavirus cases , more businesses can move indoors. But different counties are moving at a different pace, even though they are in the same tier. Today san mateo, solano and alameda counties regimented from the purple to red. They joined marin, napa, San Francisco, and santa cruz counties in the red tier. Only sonoma and contra costa counties remain in the most restrictive purple tier. While this is progress, there is also some confusion with each county moving at a different pace. Reporter different counties in the bay area opening some sectors while keeping others closed, confusing because at the beginning of the pandemic, the strategy was a regional approach. Some Business Owners find it frustrating. Im really disappointed and frustrated because i believe that nail salon are safe. I think we have the right to open. Reporter Michelle Saunders james owns this now salon in oakland, shuttered for six months and she cant operate outdoors. There is no space
Hours after voting down an agreement that would have opened the door to classroom learning during the pandemic. Teachers were asked to be both online teachers and in prison teachers. And in many cases, at the same time. Reporter this mom of second graders has her own doubts about hybrid learning. Three different schedules because they will be remote one day and be expected to learn completely independently with no teacher supervision two days a week. Reporter various schools are planning and some moving ahead with a mixed model. Staggering arrivals and rotating sessions creating cohorts that swap campus and home to limit risk. But nevadas 400 teachers they cant get find the hybrid model. They just dont believe its the best path forward. Reporter the teachers unions is any return to classroom should bes slow and small with hundreds, not thousands of students to start. And preferably after the first of the year. We would have to be zooming with a mask on to the students at home. We canno
Its its really really didnt expect to see that at walking down. The street wouldnt expect to see something that someone can. Our top story tonight, a man caught on camera defacing street posters supporting the black lives Matter Movement. Several video shared on social media show this man riding around on a skateboard spray painting over the murals the upsetting those artists who are behind the posters are conference dan thorn live for us in palo alto tonight. He joins us with more on what happened and. Were making grant the man is seen in those videos saying patriot lives matter and justifies his actions by saying that they are antitrump and they are anti police but the youth that are behind this artwork. Thats on University Avenue says that they were trying to start a thoughtful conversation here in palo alto but instead were met with racism. The holy spirit. A police palo alto man is caught on camera spray painting over youth art posters saying black lives matter and calling for soc
The holy spirit. A police palo alto man is caught on camera spray painting over youth art posters saying black lives matter and calling for social justice patriot facing taking place on University Avenue saturday morning is unfortunate to see that happening here so close to home. And such a place where its like you expect them to just be more progressive jeremy saw the unidentified man doing this as he shouted about chinese concentration camps and how the artwork is divisive reservar shooting where is your right to it every matchup where shes trying to i guess conca promote anti racist police by being thats what thats what were seeing among the things tagged on to the posters include maggot referring to black people do more crime or show you tonight to destruction of the artwork was disappointing, but not surprising for palo alto resident my a despondent at the center of white gentrification and all of these of that light is on the youth group behind the arc protests as the defacing sh
The better off well all be out there. Ikea. Make the dream yours. Announcer from abc7 live, breaking news. Director of the California Department of public health, dr. Sonia angel reportedly announced she resigned her post effective immediately. In email to staff didnt give a reason for resignation. But departure comes a week after glitch was discovered in the data system that caused underreporting of the cases in the state. Governor thanked her for her service. Im eric thomas. Im dion lim. On the heels of that resignation, lets look where coronavirus stands in california right now. State reported more than 8,300 new cases of the coronavirus today, well above the sevenday average, may be due to clearing a backlog. Positivity rate is back up to 5. 7 . As the pandemic goes on, were focused on how to build a better bay area for all of us during this time. Health is part of that, another part is education. Were less than 24 hours away from the start of the school year for thousands of kids