That had 0. 07 of notice we barely get to 80 inland and 72 around the bay and everybody in the 50s and 60s with those breezy conditions at 7 00. Even cooler tomorrow with more drizzle on the way. Ill have that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. First i want to get over to jobina who has a traffic alert. Jobina. Thank you, mike. Im tracking a sig alert right now in oakland that is causing a major backup on westbound 24. I want to bring you to the maps because it and this started as a multicar crash involving three vehicles and then a second crash in there and you can see the speeds are low down to 4 and 11 Miles Per Hour in the area. Again westbound 24 before College Avenue. Avoid this if you can and ill give you an update when the chp has opened the roadway. Reggie . All right, thank you, jobina. All this week abc7 news committed to building a better bay area by looking at education and how School Districts are handling going back to school. The San Jose Unified School district says that teachers will be required to teach from their hospital classrooms on campus this year. Abc7 News ReporterJulian Glover is live with the details on this. Good morning, julian. Hi, good morning, kumasi. A big blow to the 1,600 teachers who teach for the San Jose Unified School district. They wont have the option, they will be required to teach from theed is of their empty classrooms while their students continue to learn remotely for the Upcoming School year. As far as we know, the San Jose Unified School district is the only district in the entire state with the requirement for teachers. The School District and Teachers Union announced this agreement late monday. At a recent School Board Meeting the district superintendent Steven Mcmahon said Teaching Technology and also readily available support if they need it. Now, the district is being slammed on facebook by current and former educators in the district outraged that teachers will be placing themselves in harms way reporting to a School Building daily with lots of other teachers and teachers they really dont have long to play in it comes to this the San Jose Unified School year starts next tuesday and a week from tomorrow giving teachers very little time to figure out any child care they might need to lineup. Our News Partners at mercury news reporting that teachers will be allowed to bring their schoolaged children in the classroom with them so they can learn while their parents are busy teaching. Again, 1,600 teachers affected by this within san jose unified. Reporting live this morning, Julian Glover, abc7 news. Julian, thank you. Of course, for many bay area families the new school year will be unlike any other. Most districts are opting for Distance Learning because of the rising number of covid19 cases. This new method ofinruction will rely heavily on whos at home with the student. When educators were forced to teach online earlier this year it was different because teachers had already formed relationships with their students and knew how to engage them. With this new school year, that is no longer the case. Your classroom is going to be in your home and im going to be your teacher but your caregiver is going to have to play a very different role than they would normally. On abc7 news at 4 00, youll hear from parents, students and educators on the new reality as students head back to school. Many students, parents and teachers have questions on what the considistrict plans in the. The interactive map that is there that details each start date and learning plan and plan to safely return to campus. You can check it out on our website, abc7news. Com. The top doctor will give us an update on the covid19 situation today. Health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark ghaly will give a noon update today. On monday Governor Newsom signaled positive stats. The oakland Teachers Union will give an update on Facebook Live tonight on contract talks with the district. The district and the union disagreed on the length of the work day and how the instruction day would look. A san mateo board of supervisors will consider an emergency ordinance for fines for individuals and businesses who violate the states Public Health orders. Dr. Anthony fauci is defending his colleague dr. D deborah birx for saying the u. S. Entered a new phase of the pandemic. Daily cases have now dropped below 50,000 for the First Time Since the fourth of july. According to an internal fema memo obtained by abc news deaths are up from a week ago. The white house notified employees that it is now mandatory to participate in random covid19 testing. Senior aides who are around President Trump on a regular basis are still tested every day. Will politics influence covid19 vaccine trials under way . Fda commissioner dr. Steven hahn everyone in the Trump Administration is on the same page with confronting covid19 surges around the country. Once a vaccine candidate is ready for vetting it is science to determine if it is safe and effective. Fda has amazing scientists and experts world class with respect to vaccine and other assessments of medical products. We will make that decision based upon the science and the data from the Clinical Trials that are going. Now, these Clinical Trials have moved forward at record speed. That is really good news. We will use those data to make the determination. Dr. Hahn says the fda can invoke the emergency use authorization that would get a vaccine faster to the people, but that has not yet been decided. You can catch more of his interview with dr. Hahn coming up on Good Morning America at 7 00 a. M. Paying rent is becoming more and more difficult for many people during this pandemic and this morning some relief for renters. Jobina fortson at the live desk with more on that. Jobina . A San Francisco judge has upheld a ban on evictions from pandemicrelated rent problems. But a statewide emergency order that stopped eviction proceedings for the last four months could expire as soon as next friday. Two major proposals to stop mass eviction. David chu is behind one of those bills that would give renters up to one year to pay back rent and ban any eviction for nonpayment of rent because of the pandemic. If we dont make any changes to the law, were going to see a whole slew of californians who are evicted and those landlords will never get paid. And, so, we want to give folks time to earn that money, to save up that money and pay those landlords back. The other bill would give tax credits to landlords who forgive rent to predict there wont be a solution until the end of august. He is urging the Judicial Council not to lift its Eviction Moratorium until then. Kumasi. Thank you, jobina. Developing news this morning, a new round of evacuations due to the largest wildfire in california. The apple fire in Riverside County has scorched nearly 42 quer miles and is 7 contained. A crew from walnut creek is helping on the front lines. Investigators say a malfunctioning diesel vehicle started that fire last friday. And just proof that every life matters to firefighters, even the four legged kind. A group of Orange County firefighters rescued this lost dog after discovering near the amfire. The crews say they tended to the dog and gave him water and a bite of their sandwich. The video also shows a firefighter carrying the dog down a steep hill away from the fire and out of danger. Now, i want to check in with you, mike, with a look at our forecast. Isnt that fantastic . That is somebodys Family Member and theyre taking care of it so well. Wree appreciate that. A quick look at what is going on in san jose one of the few areas without clouds and drizzle and 59 this morning. Also san jose youre going to be about 11 degrees cooler today. Look at that sharp drop from 16 to 13 degrees cooler and even cooler day tomorrow with mor hi. Whats on your mind . In. Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy. Connect to the xfi gateway. What about wireless data options for the family . You can customize and save. What about internet speeds that can keep up with my gaming . Lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. And now with our stores reopening, were putting Healthy Practices in place. Come visit a store today. Stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover at your local xfinity store today. We saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. I signed up and i was actually selected it leaves the house in tack. You now know that in the next earthquake your house will be standing and we also got a discount on our earthquake insurance. If there is an earthquake. Our house has a better chance of surviving in. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. This is abc7 mornings. Well start with some neighborhood temperatures and San Francisco about 53 to 56 an air. A little frizziness to the morning. Most of us in the mid to upper 50s. We do have union city, pittsburpittsburg and tracy in the mid to lower 60s. 0. 2 of dwrrizzle and a tenth ofn inch just north of Half Moon Bay. Free air conditioning with temperatures up to 13 degrees cooler and damp and gusty at our beaches and breezy especially this afternoon araulong all of bays and also the delta. East bay valleys and lucky if you get into the mid 80s today with quick sunshine for you. South bay well have quick sunshine also and get right near 80 at 2 00 and down to 86 by 8 00. Grab a jacket if youre heading out this evening. Peninsula sunshine and 70 by noon and hang in the low 70s for a couple hours and then drop down to a blustery 61 with increasing clouds around 8 00 this evening. All right, well talk about more drizzle and even cooler weather coming up in the accuweather forecast. First, a few issues on the road and jobina has the details. Hi, jobina. Hi, mike, yes, thank you. We have had a busy morning, especially in the last 30 minutes or so. The good news is that the sig alert that ive been following in oakland has cleared as far as the roadway. But youre still going to experience a pretty extensive backup here. This iswebound 24. Right near the College Avenue off ramp here as we get to the mass you can see the patchy areas of where youre going to run into all the thick traffic. You can see there is a spot where yellow is really where the crash was, but prior to that and after that youre going to run into some slow downs because the chp has been Holding Things there. Also, b. A. R. T. Is having some issues right now. A couple service alerts. First this one that is on your screen. This is for the equipment causing delays and now also a major delay on the richmond line in the berryessa direction due to an earlier equipment problem on the track. So, really slow for people who are going to be riding up and down the east bay on b. A. R. T. This morning. Thats what im following in traffic. All right. Thank you, jobina. An adorable story coming up. A newborn baby unable to get a true glimpse of mom and dad in the hospital because they had their mask on. Parents came up with an idea. Maybe a change of scenery can help. How to switch up the view without leaving. As we head to break a live look outside. Well switch up more airline job cuts are coming to the bay area. Alaska airlines plans to lay off 652 employees here at sfo and its offices in burlingame. That is about a third of its staff here. Customer Service Agents and aircraft technicians. Several dozen employees will be cut in san jose, too. American Airlines Says it plans to temporarily lay off hundreds of its employees at sfo. The San FranciscoBusiness Times reports that the airline sending notices to 378 people in the bay area. That is just a fraction of the planned being sent nationwide. Mary was recently laid off from her job as a custodian at sfo and now worried about her finances now that the unemployment benefit is expired. I need the help right now until i get back to work. Its not that i dont want to work. I have tried to find jobs. Congress is still working to negotiate the next Coronavirus Relief package. Bei coope u. N. F the ways that the pandemic has changed our lives. Window swap. Lets you enjoy the view from other peoples windows. Kind of like virtually travelng to other places around the world. The site lets you randomly gaze through dozens of windows while youre working from home and you can also submit your own view. Now were going to talk about windows to the soul. A baby in the nicu got to see her parents faces for the first time thanks to some innovative masks. Its been an amazing process watching amara over the last month get to learn our faces, our smiles, our silly expressions. Baby amara weighed just one pound, eight ounces when she was born. Because of the pandemic, mom an hospital and they had to wear masks. The medical team had an idea. They gave mom used to help deaf patients used to read lips. Thought it might be good for newborns, too. After four months in the hospital baby amara got the all clear to go home. Now she just has to understand that her parents dont have blue noses. But after that, she should be fine. That is really cute. So smart. Although, ive kind of gotten used to the mask like blocking my face so i dont have to fix my face as much. Sometimes when im looking at people im like. Its okay. Now you have to tell everything with your eyes, right . Yes. The eyes are like you cant smile at people. You have to smile with your eyes and give them side eye and do everything with your eyes now. Now you be nice with the eyes but then your face is like my mouth is like. No. Yeah. No. Practicing. That was great, though. That was neat that they could do that, especially for such a special case there. Glad shes doing well. Lets take a look at whats going on. Gorgeous sunrise from the east bay hills. This is from right around tilden park where we had 0. 01 of an inch and 0. 7 of drizzle. Driving through the east bay hills some slick spots this morning and again tomorrow morning and along the coast, also. Blustery below average afternoons that follow and summer returns this weekend. Lets take a look at the fog forecast. Hanging around the bay and never completely clearing as we head into the afternoon hours and look how quickly its already moving into the east bay valleys by 7 00 this evening. 74 in sunnyvale andjo82 in morg head up the peninsula a lot of low to mid around 60 to 61 around the blustery peninsula coast today and mid 60s downtown San Francisco and sausalito 70 and low to mid 80s through the north bay valleys and richmond and berkeley upper 60s and low to mid 70s along the rest of our neighborhoods. And 80 to 88. Watch out around the Altamont Pass and the san bruno gap. Winds can gust anywhere from 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour this afternoon. Almost as fast as yesterday. Look at all that green. That is a lot for us. More drizzle tonight mid 50s to around 60. Get up to another 0. 5 to a tenth tonight. Tomorrow temperatures cooler than today with highs in the 60s and 70s. Thursday a lot like today and the summer spread returns for the weekend. 60s along the coast and 70s, 80s and 90s for our bay and inland neighborhoods. Back to you guys. Mike, thank you. Well turn now to ginger zee. I wonder if shes seeing the effects from the Tropical Storm. Any rain or wind yet there, ginger . We had thunderstorms early this morning. I mean 3 00, 4 00 a. M. Well ahead of the outer bands but those outer bands are already whipping maryland, virginia and thisern moi morning 12 reported tornadoes. Were in a tornado watch here and go through philadelphia and tats just the thunderstorms within those outer bands. The storm itself is racing. 33 Miles Per Hour and we have teams all over and show you the impacts of the 70 mile per hour plus. Good news isaias is a quick mover and its out of here by tonight and done with it tomorrow. The latest on the coronavirus crisis. Children across the nation are starting to go back to school but some schools have been forced to shut their doors because of the pandemic. This morning fda commissioner steven hahn will join us to discuss. How your childs anxiety about covid can be revealed in their drawings. What to look for and how to help them. A lot of us are spending time at home and well meet a woman who has used this time to transform her body and mind. She lost a t movated. Alcoming up right here gma. All right. Well, we have kumasi who is transforming her hair. She cut her own hair yesterday, ginger. I think thats a win. I made it. No way. Congratulations. I just tried it. Havent seen it. Its okay. I am keeping my job, i believe. It looks good. I didnt do too much. You just have to take is slow. It looks good. Thank you, friends. Imic looing on soci ilookin. Kumasi, i believe in you.