Spaces and respond to emergencies in cramped trucks. Police officers continue to respond to 911. These calls interact with the public in close quarters. While most of us are of waiting covid at all costs, state and county emt crews are transporting t the infected and others to hospitals for emergency care. Will i am inspired by the bravery of the First Responders, not at all surprised by the actions they take to protect the people they serve. First responders always answer the call to action. Selflessly placing others before themselves. In recognition of the sacrifices they made, congress established the peace Officers Program a long time ago in 1876. This provides First Responders with a one time payment if they die or are totally disabled. Let me be very clear. Nothing can ever put back together a family who has lost a loved one. But the Public Safety officers benefit program provide some Economic Relief to grieving families to give peace of mind to the First Responders themselves to
The delta though it looks like down to 12 degrees behind for fairfield 9 behind for concord we still have our weather alert. Thats in place here until 7 this evening Solano County has the heat warning. We have inland highs in the 90 so the coast in the lower 70s and heat exhaustion still possible to keep the water flowing looking for 77 by 10 00am by 1 oclock reaching about 90 and we can say goodbye to those as we get into friday to with the surprise for us into the weekend might get some rain showers as well more on that coming up in a bit back to you. All right, dave, thanks love the start with a developing story this hour were following out of the south bay where at least 5 men were injured in a shooting overnight in san jose and the shooter is still on the loose this morning. It happened just before 10 oclock last night on williams court. Police say a man walked up and started shooting at a group of people who are standing in the driveway at an apartment complex the shooter then ra
Reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. The governor also says the new school year could start as early as july. He says the best way to make up for the learning loss because of forced school closures. Schools are still adapting to them. The San Francisco Unified School District announced marked credit or no credit instead of getting a letter grade. School leaders understand that some students had difficulty transitioning to Distance Learning. Graduating seniors have until the end of july. Happening today, officials in oakland are launching a Fundraising Campaign to try to close the Digital Divide on Distance Learning for students. A survey finds it needs more than 1,400 chromebooks and 4,300 hot spots to help students learn during the pandemic. The School District distributed 1,600 chrome books and their longterm goal is to have one for every student every year. We have passed more than a million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Jobina fortson is live at the live desk wi
Tomorrow. A lot of businesses here in the east bay are still closed but tomorrow morning the new rules say some of them can reopen. For some of them, its just in the nick of time. They just picked up their first load of Fresh Flowers in weeks. Theyre excited that the stayathome orders will allow their floral arts store in lafayette to be open for business in time for mothers day. For us, mothers day is actually the busiest week of the year. Its busier than valentines because everybody has a mom. Reporter its good timing for other activities as well. Skate parks can reopen and tennis can once again be played. Although the order forbids multiple people touching the ball so it will be interesting to see how that works. And with the good weather, even rusty golfers will be thrilled to get back on the greens and play the maddening game they love so much. It will take time to get back in to it and to really be able to hit the ball and that sort of thing. Reporter speaking of greens, if your
Facility is now on paid administrative leave. And as the number of deaths rises Health Officials say the virus. Could surge later this year i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. It will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test identify isolate. And contact race will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago, im John Lawrence reporting. Will spain has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there reporting 849 people died yesterday because of the virus and there were more than 9,000 new cases reported in just a 24 hour span. Spain has become the 3rd country in the world overtake chinas death toll or chinas total infection number. Theyre behind italy and the united states. More testing is done more cases in california are being reported. Take a look at the latest numbers more than 7,000 cases, according to john