Based on the watchlist which includes about 80 of the states population. There is one exception to the rules. Local Health Officials can allow Elementary Schools to reopen in person if local superintendents request a waiver. He laid out strict guidelines for reopening california schools. Chief among them, public and private schools can only physically reopen when its county has been off the monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. Right now, more than 30 of californias 58 counties are on the list including most of the bay area. Schools that dont meet this requirement, they must begin the school year, this fall, through Distance Learning. Reporter the guidelines include the following. Required masks for adults annot students. Students should distance from each other as much as possible. School should provide symptom checks, sanitization and handwashing patients and test forever any employee at least twice a month. Our default is in person, but we have to do it in a safe way and we have to do it in a way that can guarantee the health of not just our kids, but also those that are entrusted with their care. We need to provide more clarity. Theres no question. Reporter tony thurman called for more direction on the more than 1000 districts and 6 million students. Many districts including several the bay area have already announced the year will start with Distance Learning. The guidance also details when to shut down in Person Learning. If theres one case,they closely school with a 5 positive rate, and you close the district when they reach the closing threshold. They blasted the announcement writing, by giving himself political cover, Governor Newsom has a host millions of kids to untold trauma and loss. Im not looking to score cheap political points with people have different points of view. I respect and appreciate this dialogue. Reporter one of the big concerns for parents is about the quality of Distance Learning. The state also set some new guidelines for that as well as setting aside 5. 3 billion to close the digital divide. But many say that is still not enough. Greatly, ktvu fox 2 news. Going to be another challenging start of the school year. Thank you. Parents, administrations and teachers have been reacting all afternoon to the governors announcement. We want to bring in toby boyd. He is the president of the california teachers association. First off, your thoughts on these new state guidelines. Initially, we were really pleased that the governor did set out guidelines for reopening the schools. We havent looked at it completely because we just received them so we are going to go through and do a thorough analysis of what it all entails. Bu guidelines especially in the counties that are on the watchlist. They have to open and Distance Learning right now which is very important for the students and the educators in the communities in which they serve. I know youre going to spend the next couple of days going over these guidelines, but at first glance, how realistic are they since a lot of it depends on test thing and we all know that right now testing is a challenge here in the state . The mac it is a challenge but i really feel that the governor will do whatever he can in his department to make sure that we have the necessary test thing in order to get our people back in the classroom because the teachers really want to be in front of their students because that is the best way they learn. But we cant do it until it is actually safe andgo back, we will maintain that safety after all the other items are in place to in order to ensure the safety. Greg mentions this in his piece that there is a concern about the type of learning that will take place remotely. Talk a little bit about what teachers are doing to enhance the education that kids will get in just a few weeks. In the beginning when we first went to the Distance Learning model, we went from brick and mortar to Distance Learning in two weeks so we didnt have time in order to build our skill set to truly educate our students in the manner and level in which we wanted to. Now the districts would these guidelines have an opportunity to actually prepare the instruction from her educators to a higher height. And the regularly that, the part that the governor mentioned, our teachers always look in whi that to occur, but especially the professional development that will occur now. The school board, the state school board has also had provided professional development for them. Cta has also done this same. With a heightened professional development, her educators are going to be up to the task. Thank you so much for talking with us about todays development and the reopening of schools here in california. Most of them started the new school year with remote learning. I really appreciate your dinky mother. California once again climbs nearnerecord for coronavirus cases. Nearly 10,000 new cases were reported yesterday your that brings the state total to above 300 66,000 130 people died for a death toll that is now close to 7500. More than 6 million test have been given out. The Positivity Rate for those test up to 7. 4 . Due to a surge and coronavirus hospitalization, San Francisco is now on the watchlist. Earlier today, maryland and breed order the closure of indoor malls and nonessential offices and deck tiffanys in the city affect you have increased by 115 since yesterday. There are now almost 5000 cases across the city and 52 people have died from the virus. Mayor reed says it is spreading at gatherings and that people must change their behaviors. Gatherings. They are inherently dangerous and you need to give a lot of thought to if they are worth it and how you can do it safely. Can you wear a mask the whole time . Can you be socially distant . Can you wash your hands often . If you cant, you are not only risking your health and the health of others, but you are also further pushing back the date when our city can open. The city has also issued a new health order to heat up testing. It requires private providers to test their patients with symptoms and asymptomatic workers at high risk of exposure on the same day as it is requested. If you want more information on californias School Guidelines or a county by county break down for what is open and what is closed right now, you can download the ktvu mobile app and you can find it in the store. The arraignment of the man accused of killing two bay area Law Enforcement officers was postponed for a second time. 32yearold stephen korea was set to be formally charged in santa cruz today for the deadly shooting of santa cruz sheriff back on june 6th. He also faces charges in the killing of federal protective officer david underwear in oakland a week earlier. We learned that he was provided an attorney but because he couldnt afford to pay his devious one, his next court date is august 27th. The man convicted of murdering nia wilson will spend the rest of his life behind bars. She was killed in an unprovoked stabbing back in 2018. Henry lee joining us live on mark of todays sentencing. Reporter this sentence was not a surprise thats dell nia wilsons family says they are glad that trent spend the rest of his life and bars. Reporter Alicia Grayson believes that john cowell who murdered her daughter will never hurt someone else like jen. Nina is name its purpose, is forever gone. I will never be okay. It is still a part of me that is not the same. So we got justice but it aint enough justice for me. Reporter at a Virtual Court hearing, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He stabbed nina for apparently no reason. It is still fresh. Even though it has been two years, it is still fresh to me. It still seems like yesterday. Reporter cowell was also convicted of stabbing her sister. The pain you inflict on people or anybody, it will never go away. Reporter they addressed him over video. The family had high praise from prosecutor butch ford. Thank you so much. Thank you, we love you and we appreciate you so much. Reporter the Prosecutor Says he hopes to connect with the family further outside of court. Hopefully i never have to see them in the opacity again. I told him i would love to see them when they have a celebration of life for nia. Reporter his attorney the made a last effort say she Still Believes her client is mentally incompetent. The judge denied the claim so the nest stop is san quentin prison. Thank you. Coming up next,holding out hope. Were going to talk with an exa Coronavirus Vaccine to beat back against the virus and the dangers that come with moving too quickly. In one state the governor is suing over mass. And another, authorities are cracking down on block parties. How states across amern the coronavirus as numbers continues to another enjoyable day around the bay area. We will check on your Current Conditions and talk about the warmup expected for your bay area saturday coming up. Devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Off deep woods provides long lasting mosquito protection so you can focus on what means the most. Off sc johnson thats why they trust raid ant and roach to quickly protect their family. Raid. Americas most trusted insect control brand. Sc johnson well cases are surging in many states, some runners are grappling with whether to require people to wear a mask to try to stop the spread of the virus. Steve harrigan reports from atlanta which is being sued by georgias governor the u. S. H record, more than 77,000 new cover cases recorded on thursday alone. In florida, where nearly 14 thousand new cases were recorded, people were pouring into the streets. The average age of new College Patients in that county, just 38 years old. These parties seem to be happening more and more often, even now since the state has reopened and things are trying to get back to normal, they even care less about it. Reporter in texas, at least one hospital in san antonio turning to help from an Army Medical Unit as icu beds run short. The governor issuing a statewide mask order, but Many Police Chiefs say the language of the order makes it difficult to enforce. Georgias governor actually banning cities and counties from requiring face coverings and then suing the city of atlanta for putting their own mask requirements in place. Are not afraid of the city being sued and i will put our policies up against anyones any day of the week. Like other governors are calling it a necessary step to get things back to normal. Like anybody who cares about liberty and freedom im resistant to institute. Ys there are no plans for a nationwide mask order. In atlanta, fox news. There dozens of pharmaceutical companies all around the world right now racing to develop a Coronavirus Vaccine for more on how this competition might play out, we are joined by michael doherty, former president of lab m. D. Good to have you on today. So we know there are so Many Companies right now racing to create a safe, effective covid 19 vaccine. But you say there areto this ki competition. What are the biggest ones . The biggest ones is that a disease and the virus really doesnt care about profit margins, health, or timelines. And so it just isnt going to cooperate because theres an emergency and we are going to have to remember that a medical communities first oath is to do no harm. And so vaccines arent skewers and we are moving so quickly. We have to remember that a vaccine is a little bit of the bad to prompt your body to build defensive up. But we have to test that because if we give you a little bit of the bad, we could have one bad, very significant negative event. In 100,000 people would mean 300,000 negative events, significant ones if we vaccinated 300 million people. And thats what we plan on doing. So we have to understand that as much as we want to get this going, and it is great we are putting resources to it, nothing replaces analysis and care in making sure we are not also setting things up to hurt people. Im sure youve heard that some of these new concerns that coronavirus antibodies potentially diminish over time, sometimes disappearing within a matter of a few weeks. Does that kind of shortlived immunity make it more challenging to create an effective vaccine . Is a different animal. That just tells you how long you actually, how long your body could be tolerating this without a vaccine because those people have already dealt up the defenses because they have had exposure and the vaccination is really an exposure on a massive gail and we are trying to find us safe, exposure. While that information can tell us how long it lasts, unfortunately when you see one human bodyhuman body. And this is why, on average, vaccines take 10 years to develop. So we are really putting a stress and demand on the system. Not that we cant do it, but we have to understand what a big goal this is and how careful we have to be. Obviously a lot of the pressure comes from the federal government because we have, they want to try to get a vaccine out to the public here to diminish the outbreaks we are seeing right now. With that being said, the expectation is they are going to select several vaccine project that are going on which will receive federal funding even before there is definitive proof that the vaccine is safe and effect. Is that the right approach . I think not putting your eggs in one basket and trying a multipronged effect is a very good thing, i think involving private industry and academia and it is a great thing, but understand that the human body doesnt care and we have to be really careful about what we do and actually saying this is the one. And the problem with vaccines is, it needs a lot of time to make sure. Some vaccines can actually backfire on you and make it worse for you if you get sick. So i think we have to really understand that vaccines arent skewers and we have to be careful because we are going to intend to vaccinate so many people in the world that we are going to have a Large Population of adverse effects if we have one out of every 1000. It depends. Im just saying, we have to observe and be careful. Sure. Do you believe that some of these vaccine doses so could be available to the public by early 2021 . That is sort of the hope that is out there right now. I find it pretty unlikely. I think we really have to set expectations to understand how wonderful that would be and how great that would be, but that would be such a fantastic achievement, but the odds are not there. And i think we need to be objective about that because we have to be safe and we are in such a world of immediacy. We are born with a smart phone in our hands. This is mother nature, she is a terrible mistress with this. Its really tough. Our expectations and patient is really thin in our culture today and these viruses dont care about that. We have to leave this conversation right there, we appreciate you coming on and appreciate your time. Michael doherty, former president of lab m. D. Day around the bay area this afternoon. Temperatures a tad warmer in some spots. A little cooler than others with a bit of an onshore breeze. Alive look at what is going on with the blue skies. We have a little bit of cloud cover you can see on the backside, some fog on the coastlinto move back in as we get into the next few hours da cloudy skies and partly cloudy around the bay for our inland cities. Lets take a look at some of those numbers right now. Temperatures ranging from the 60s at the coast to 80s, even a few low 90s for some of our former locations. We will continue to see temperatures climb as we get into the start of your weekend and then temperatures are to to dip getting into your bay area sunday. Right now 75 degrees over santa rosa, low 60s and send go, 86 in livermore and a very warm, nice 80 degrees over san jose. Down by seven in concord, down by four in napa, a lot of that has to do with the onshore breeze that is out there today. I think by sunset it begins to move back roba as far as the winds, fairfield reporting of 231 miles per hour. Concord, from the west, coming in from 18. He is a look at the evening hours and by tomorrow morning that fog across the bay into the east bay, north bay, has little bit of patchy fog across the south bay. Theres a look at your afternoon. We will see some clearing, late date clearing for our beaches well. The overnight lows 50 degrees santa rosa, mid50s francis, low 60s for antioch and a peg a rosa 87, right about the norm for w 90s the active for livermore, but it is in this one. We start to cool down on monday. Coming up, critics of the Governors School rules outlined today, excuse me, already planning out legal fight. Why one attorney is looking to take newsom and the state to court. It is friday night so that means wwe smack down. It all gets started at 8 00 tonight. Dont miss it. That will be followed by the 10 00 news and the 11 00 news all right here on ktvu. Weve always put safety first. And we always will. For people. And there has never been a summer when its mattered more. Wherever you go, summer safely. Get zero percent apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. This week, then spoke to lawmakers, as well as psychology it includes the thoughts of a prominent San Francisco attorney and she says that these new guidelines outlined today go too far and she is already planning a legal fight. Im sure she is well known by many viewers. She is a constant critic of Governor Newsom since this pandemic has begun. She has sued the state of california 12 different times about various things like trying to push for hair salons and nail salons to open and other businesses as well. Now she says she is inundated with calls this afternoon from parents who are upset about the governors new ruling when it comes to schools. Heres what she had to say. Lets talk about the legal basis. The california constitution has a guarantee for bait sick education for all children. Now assuming nobody gets sick or even assuming that they decide to just do this online thing as a starting point, i have spoken to a lot of