Franciscos mayor london breed. Were not reopening until we get this under control. The mayor announcing the city has had 4975 cases of covid19 ad 52 deaths. Also, that after being exposed to someone with covid19, she has now tested negative twice. This does not mean that im immune or i can let my guard down moving forward. Reporter city officials are reminding san franciscans that a negative covid19 test does not mean they are immune either. Gatherings remain inherently dangerous and you need to give a lot of thought to if theyre worth it and how you can do it safely. Reporter mayor breed said california is now on the watch list. A list of counties being monitored for worsening trends. Meaning malls and nonessential offices must close monday. The doctor said a health order will be announced monday requiring private providers to test patients with symptoms. Those who have come in contact with someone infected with covid19 or who are asymptoatic essential workers. This testing must be done on the day requested. Dr. Colfax said the health order is in response to the backlog of testing. He said it is not just impacting elder residents. At San Francisco general hospital, the average age of the person hospitalized with covid19 since july 1st has been 41 years. Reporter mayor breed said if the state adds more watch list restrictions, the city will follow them. We have a small window of time right now to get our cases you understand control. Reporter in San Francisco, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. The only bay area county that is not on the states watch list is san mateo county. That might not last much longer though. Cases and hospitalization numbers are approaching the watch list threshold there. We spoke with the county supervisor. People arent wearing their masks and thats why the virus is spreading and people are becoming complacent. The supervisor said the numbers dont tell the full story. They want to talk to state officials first. They said testing is most focused on sick people so the Positivity Rate will go up and some san quentin patients are coming to a daly City Hospital and thats i know creasing the overall numbers. So you want to keep track of whats open and close in the each county . It is really confusing and everybody has their own rules. We make it simple. Go to abc7news. Com. We are continually updating this map so in one click, you can finds the answers. Lets turn to education. Today Governor Newsom announced most schools will start the fall semester remotely. Schools can physically open for inperson operation when the county has been off the monitoring les for 14 consecutive days. Reporter with the exception of san mateo, every county in the bay area is on the list. San francisco is added today although they had already decided to keep the Distance Learning model earlier in the week. This applies to both public and private schools in the state. The one thing we have the power to do, to get our kids back into school, wear a mask. Reporter when schools reopen, children grades 3 and up must wear a mask or face shield. Children in second grade and below are encouraged to do so. Teachers and students must maintain physical distancing. School staff will be tested on a rotating basis. The governors announcement was expected. The prospect of Distance Learning is still eliciting strong reaction from parents and teachers. Leslie brinkley has that story. Reporter the governors guidelines mandating Distance Learning in many counties spooked many parents. I cant do this for the entire semester or for a couple months on my own. There isnt consideration for what working parents are going to do. Working parents cant teach and Elementary School kids cant be on zoom for six hours a day by themselves. Reporter it is a dilemma hitting close to home. Some working parents who can afford to are already hiring a caregiver to supervise kids in multifamily pods. Others have orchestrated family coops like this single mom with a kindergartner. Each of us takes a day to support the action demmic and then provide an enriching activity in the afternoon. Reporter some parents are wondering can Virtual Education be reimagined . Can some teach online while others work with pods of student or could Community Centers be opened . It is all under charted territory. Guess what, it costs. So now were looking at who will pay for that. Reporter the president of the California Teachers Association says online connectivity is key. He says teachers are happy to finally have guidelines to ramp up virtual classrooms in a less panicked way than in march. We have more time now so we can truly plan and get our, get whats needed to make sure our students are learning. We feel extremely relieved that our students and teachers and staff are the consideration. If we know its not safe in the area that we live in and the infection rates are as high and going up as they are currently, then i dont think its worth to it risk a single life. Abc7 news. Today we asked the chronicle insider to weigh in on the school situation. Possibly this will buy everybody some time to try to get the schools together for when they do open the doors. Im not sure that were ready to in the next couple weeks. You can read his column in the San Francisco chronicle every wednesday and sunday. Even before the governor made his announcement, one Bay Area School district that planned to have some inperson learning has changed course. They said it is just too complicated and too risky at this point. Reporter this morning the summit of the Liberty Union high School District in brentwood sent this letter to parents. It told them a hybrid plant of some inperson classes is that some Online Learning was being dropped. We said given the events of this week, we will start on august 10th in full Distance Learning mode. Reporter the change was announced just over a week after the school board settled on the hybrid plan. The reasons . They said it was taking up to two weeks to get covid19 test results back and Contact Tracing wasnt going as well as hoped, making planning nearly impossible. I know the state is doing everything they can to ramp up those efforts, but as it increases, they just cant keep up. Reporter three student athletes came down with coronavirus, forcing them to cancel all further drills. The kids are safe and as of right now, the strict social distancing and protocols we have in place are proving that no other students to my knowledge have gotten sick. Reporter the Liberty Union high School District has 7500 students at three schools and about 500 more in alternative programs. Administrators have spent tens of thousands on ppe, Hand Sanitizer and hands washing stations. Now, theyll have to spend even more to install wifi and create hot spots, so that both faculty and students will have adequate access to Distance Learning. Thats before they figure out the logistics of actually teaching. Gaining online materials, how do you lecture versus how do you have a group discussion. It is really a challenge. Reporter getting that all figured out by august 10th may be the biggest challenge of all. In brentwood, abc7 news. So how risky is Something Like summer camp compared to getting a hair cut or taking a bus . You can find that all on our website. As the number of coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise, they seem to have less and less of an mack on people. It is like were getting numb to the whole thing. Today we asked dr. Melissa apple with ucsf to explain it. At the beginning of the pandemic, we all felt this kind of, the novelty, the uncertainty. That drives a huge stress response. Were beyond that. Now were in a different phase where we need to really maintain and seen the our ability to stay safe, distanced, to support each other and were tired. People are exhausted. The doctor pointed out that f others. The more you see others wearing masks, social distancing and staying home, the more likely you are to do that yourself. Reporter covid19 testing continues in bay area counties even as the backlog for testing results grows. Why Officials Say theyre not ready to turn people away. And next, fighting for racial and social justice. Im spencer christian. A little mid summer warmup is coming our way this weekend. Ill show you the ive been involved in. Communications in the media for 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. House Speaker Pelosi wants the fbi to investigate the killing. The d. A. Has recused her office and requested the attorney general Javier Becerra investigate the killing of monterrosa. Bester says adams is the obligated authority to complete the reviews. Monterrosa was killed in june. Police say he was kneeling and his raised hands revealed what the detective thought was a gun. It turned out to be a hammer. They said the police destroyed the evidence in the case. Pelosi issued a statement saying we must insist on justice and accountability to only had seans life and the lives of all killed by Police Brutality in america. The man who stabbed and killed a woman at the macarthur b. A. R. T. Statio has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. John lee cowell was senate intelligenced for the murder of nia wilson. Her family was in court after the sentencing. They addressed the media including one of her sisters who was with her during the attack. Theres peace that he wont be able to walk free anymore. It will never be okay. Theres a part of me thats not the same. We got justice but it aint enough justice for me. Another one of wilsons sisters who was with her was stablds in the neck by cowell but survived. The lawyers argued that he was insane at the time of the attack but the court ruled that was not the case. The civil rights attorney john burriss announced he will file a lawsuit against the stiff alameda and the office heres hand cuffed a black man for danning in the street if it is left unresolved. No criminal charges will be filed against the five Police Officers seen here, handcuffing and pinning the man to the ground after he was dancing in the street. But the civil rights attorney said this case is far from over. He had done absolutely nothing. He filed the claim with the city of alameda in early july, demanding exhibition for watkins. It is now up to the city to accept or reject it. Unless we can resolve, there well file a civil rights lawsuit and the officers, alleging they violated his federal civil rights. Reporter they were unable to comment but said in june i want this department to move forward in a way that a year from now, it becomes a model in the u. S. According to the daflt, further fice if you ask burriss, training isnt going to cut it. They get fined in some way. Do they lose money in some way . Thats the message you send to the rest of the department. The other officers will understand that kind of conduct would be unacceptable. The outside investigation that will determine if any. These officers will face any further penalty is still pendsing. Abc7 news. In the south bay, recent graduates of the San Jose Police academy prepare to go out on patrol for the first time, theyre doing it in a in a in aa time for Police Officers in america. Chris nguyen has the story youll see only on abc7 news. Reporter on this college campus, a different type of lesson is being delivered to the cadets. Theyve teamed one colleges and Community Groups to help make new Police Officers more aware as to how they might be perceive in the community. The new officer Dexter Jefferson came to san jose from savannah, georgia. I understand people have pre conceived notions about Law Enforcement. I want people, when they see me, i want them on see them. Reporter it is the culmination of months of training as these 42 new officers prepare to enter the field this weekend. They need to get an understanding as to why our Community Feels the way it does. And only then are we going to be able to do better. Reporter these officers were trained on how police have been historically used as instruments of government discrimination dating back to the enforcement of policies such as the japanese internment and laws related to jim crow. The District Attorney spoke today about one of the more controversial officerinvolved shootings in sjpd history which involved a vietnamese mother. If were not willing to talk to each other, to be open to listening and learning about the history. Also on hand, the leaders of the Baptist Church who came to share perspectives on the black community. They are new to this world. Getting this training out of the gate is a showing of transformation thats happening. Reporter the officer who was originally from the bronx interrogatories current Law Enforcement land scape and hopes to be part of the solution. I want to learn and i hope that i can show the community that im there to be there for them. Reporter Uncomfortable Conversations that will hopefully lead to greater understanding in the south bay. Abc7 news. As weve seen on abc7, protests can sometimes be very long. The demonstrations can last for hours. The south Bay Community journalist shows us how the san jose nonprofit hero tent ames to help people while they call for change. Reporter on a daily basis, there are protests, demonstrations with people asking for help. A lot of the black and brown people in san jose and the bay area, they feel they didnt have someone to help them. They always felt neglected by the system. Now more than ever, these people need our support. Reporter after attending the first protest on may 29, 22yearold kiana found a way to help. She set up a small ten to hand out water. Then it grew. People dropped off more water and snacks. We even got hot food donations and sandwiches and people just dontating pizza. At that point i realizing what i was doing was helping and it was working and thats how hero tent was born. Reporter now they hand out food, water, masks, gloves, and serves demonstrators across the bay area. Weve fed and given water to thousands of people at this point. We have over 70 volunteers out here helping us. Were doing all this stuff just in seven weeks. So im really excited to see what we continue to do in the future. Reporter the supplies are symbols of the message that hero tent wants to convey to the community and beyond. They want to support those bringing help to the world. We want to build systemic change. Were out here to create an alternative because the system has failed us. Were here to tell people we are here for you. We got you. What we have is very special and i would like to see it transform to different movements. What we offer can translate to any movement. If you would like to get involved, go to abc7 news. Com. As dustin was saying, when it comes to issues of Racial Justice and social equality, were here to help you find your ally or mabel you want to become one. Go to abc7news. Com take action to find a list of local resources. Coming up next, the weekend forecast from spencer christian. 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