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From ktvus asthma smith who tells us some teachers are willing to risk their jobs. Reporter the concern is that teachers may not be there for the first day of school, which is a week from tomorrow. One teacher i spoke with says she will return to the classroom only when its safe. There is a lot of anxiety. Everything seems uncertain. Reporter at a time when tonya jacobs should be preparing her lesson plan, the School Year Begins a week from wednesday in the sixth grade teacher at Hoover Middle School in san jose cant focus. The citys Largest School district is putting her in a am i going to have to choose between doing what i love professionally, versus keeping the people that i love safe personally . Reporter she lives with her parents, both high risk. One of 1600 teachers in san jose unified told to teach in an empty classroom to a computer while students learn from home. Patrick bernhardt is with the San Jose Teachers Union and said the School District may be overreacting. They definitely adopted a onesizefitsall situation. I think they are concerned about accountability. I think they have come under a great deal of criticism from some portions of the committee about how Distance Learning went through the spring. Reporter district officials said vantages in the classroom or wifi connectivity, tech support, but shared common areas will be thoroughly cleaned. We are committed to providing the best quality instruction possible on august 12th. Reporter jacob appreciates the safety precautions, but says while they reduce the risk they dont eliminate it. I can always get another job. But if i was a family member, i cant get them back. Reporter next week she plans to teach remotely from home, hearing from colleagues she may not be the only one. My deep fear and concerns is that we will see a lot of educators at the very last minute just end up leaving for one reason or another and there are going to be a lot of students who dont have a teacher the first day of school. Reporter a combinations can be given to teachers and children with medicare medical needs. Shes helping the district will have a change of heart. The Middle Valley Teachers Association staged a protest this evening, calling for right to choose whether or not they returned to classrooms for Distance Learning. The districts proposal has them returning to the classroom to instruct for five hours online. But the teachers say it should be up to them for their safety and for their students. They are currently negotiating with the Middle Valley School District. If you dont wear a mask in San Mateo County you may have to pay up. Today San Mateo County supervisors approved a measure that would find people and businesses that dont comply with Public Health orders. Individuals could be fined for refusing to wear a mask or for hosting large gatherings. Businesses could face fines for operating indoors when they are not supposed to. The county says administrative officers, rather than police or deputies, would carry out enforcement. Fines for people would start at 100 for a first violation and 200 for a second violation. They would go up to 500 for additional violations within a year. Business signs with certain 250 with a maximum of 3000 per violation. Some residents say that fines may be necessary to get people to comply. Just over 4500 new coronavirus cases were reported statewide yesterday. That is the lowest number in six weeks. Health Officials Say the average is down 10 from its peak a week and a half ago. The total case number is now more than 519,000. The test Positivity Rate has declined to 6. 7 , but deaths remain high at 113 just yesterday. The death toll now in california stands at 9500. But state officials is a glitch in the technological reporting system could account for some of the drop in positive cases in california. Health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark gailey announced problems already with the Electronic Laboratory system resulting in counties underreporting positive cases. They are concerned, just like we are. We have been in communication with them about what these discrepancies are, how we might help to improve them. He did not say how many days had been impacted. He said local Health Officials who rely on the system for data have raised the alarm and now the state is working to provide accurate numbers manually. In San Francisco health Officials Say the cities coronavirus numbers are starting to trend in the right direction. Even as we see some of our numbers, just some of our numbers improving slightly, we must stay vigilant. We will continue to pause our reopening. That is one likely reason for the slight slowdown in cases. Dr. Colfax says the city has seen about 90 new cases every day. He says he wants to see the number dropped to below 50 to get the city out of the red zone. At 11 00, Police Uncover a meth lab at a San Francisco hotel room that was meant to shelter people during the covid pandemic. Reporter a hazmat team responded and fortunately no one was injured. But they did arrest two adults for cooking meth at what was supposed to be a safe shelter. San Francisco Police say the call came in about a strong chemical odor coming from a hotel room. Officers responded to the Civic Center Motor Inn at about 2. 30 saturday afternoon. Police and residents had to wait for hazmat team. I was like shocked. Reporter one hotel guest said a Police Officer knocked on her hotel door. He was like yeah, there is a meth lab right above your room. So we need you to evacuate, because theyre going to explode at any time. Reporter police say they found a low level meth lab and an upper floor room. Officers conducted an investigation and discovered chemicals in the room known to make narcotics. Reporter elisa they also found drug and arrested two registered guests. We believe this was isolated only to one guestroom and two adults were taken into custody. Reporter the and is one of the many hotels contracting with infant School Shelter in place program, which pays to provide meals and rooms for people who need to be quarantined, or are at risk for covid19, or have no home. The arrests raise questions about who qualifies for the rooms, as many remain out on the streets, or on waiting list for shelter. I would like for the government to have a bit more a monitoring of the space. Reporter nearby workers so there are concerned about the arrest and safety. I do see that a place like this can be abused to be used for this kinds of activities. If you are housing people that are not there with a Security Deposit or anything that makes them liable, liability is key. Reporter San Franciscos sheriff says deputies have been doing regular checks of all sites since march, but had to end patrols july 1st. He says quote, deputies responded to domestic disputes, overdoses and persons in crisis and checked in on all sites every few hours. Patrols ended in july as we prepared for the lifting of Health Restrictions and the opening of the courts. And the sheriff says with San Francisco scaling back on reopening, he hopes to have those deputies resume patrols at hotels under the safe streets program. Tonight i did reach out to the hotel management, as well as the San Francisco department of Human Services and the mayors office. So far i have not heard back. Restaurants in chinatown in danger. Coming up, the project to make sure businesses that have been open for generations dont have to close for good. Up first, five food trucks sabotaged. The work of thieves that delayed deliveries to hungry people. Feel like youve watched all the things . 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The food bank says some of their trucks used to deliver food were sabotaged. The vandalism happened at the Food Bank Facility in san rafael. Police say they are investigating a strong lead. Reporter five delivery trucks used by the San Francisco Marin Food Bank are now out of commission after someone porton acid like detergent into their gas tanks. According to the spokeswoman for the nonprofit the vandalism was discovered monday morning. A deacon with st. Andrew Presbyterian Church in marin city tells me the sabotaged caused a minor delay in delivery to its food pantry during its weekly monday food giveaway. 25 to 30 more hungry people are coming to us now that the pandemic has had than before. Its even more important we get this would our clients. Reporter the food bank says it was quickly able to rent delivery vehicles so food programs would not be interrupted. Had said quote, we are shocked and heartbroken about the situation. We would also like to reassure our participants in marin that all of our food pantries are still operating as usual. Everybody lines up six feet apart. Reporter he says the pantry provides food for 75 clients. Many are low income families and the homeless. This is extremely malicious. Reporter police say there is Surveillance Video of the vandalism taking place between 5 00 and 6 00 in the morning. They described the suspect as a man with a light complexion, wearing a black shirt and black shorts, vandalizing the trucks. Out almost consider this Something Like sacred grounds. Its an organization that benefits everybody. There is no excuse or reason for it. Reporter he suspects the vandal may be someone upset with the food bank and retaliating, or trying to send a message. Shame on you. If you dont feel hungry people should be fed, you are not human. Reporter food bank Officials Say they dont know the repairs it will take, or the cost. The people responsible will face felony charges of tampering with the vehicle and vandalism. Snowmen estate university is warning employees about possible layoffs. Officials told 51 employees, most of whom are cafeteria and food workers, that their last day could be november 6th. To laugh letters were among the first to be handed out from the California State University system, which is facing a 299 million drop in state funding. As officials are preparing for a 20 million deficit from the coronavirus. California state leaders and civil rights activists held a Virtual Campaign kickoff for proposition 16 today. California voters will be deciding in november if State Government and public universities can consider race when it comes to hiring and admissions. California banned affirmative action policies in 1996. But in june the state senate voted to repeal the amendment. Voters would have to approve the appeal in november before it can become law. Today supporters launched in organizing push to connect with voters across the state. So many of our young people have been denying of our opportunities, education. So many women have been denied public contracts for the work that they do. So we are glad that we are back and ready to go in there and fight. Organizers say everyone should have an opportunity to thrive with fair rages, the jobs and quality schools. The pga championship is getting underway in San Francisco this week. Practice rounds were underway at harding park on the west side. It was originally scheduled for may, but was postponed. Now the championship is being played without any fans, but 156 golfers will compete. The first tee off thursday morning. Still to come, dozens of restaurants in chinatown on the brink of collapse. Whats being done to help some of San Franciscos oldest restaurants stay open. And of next, over announces an extension of their work from home policy. 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The move could have a big impact on the city of San Francisco. Uber is one of the citys largest employers. About a third of the companies 20,000 employees are in the bay area. With a lack of foot traffic to your offices, stores and restaurants, they have watched sales plummet. Uber has been hit hard by the pandemic. In april is on 80 drop in its ridesharing business, compared to two in 19. Chinatown in San Francisco has been hit hard by the pandemic as well. Restaurants that have been staples in the community for years are now on the brink of collapse. There is a bold new project thats now taking shape in the streets, hoping to change their future. Reporter restaurant at the heartbeat of chinatown. Chinatown has more than 200 places to eat with some open for business for more than a century. But more than a third of them may close forever within the next six months. Adding xenophobia to the manic worst decline in business. Reporter San Franciscos Chinese Chamber of commerce and the Chinatown Community Development Center officially launched the chinatown Outdoor Dining support project. We reported a revenue loss of 70 and the possibility of closing permanently. Reporter utilizing the already operating shared spaces program, the chinatown Outdoor Dining project is inviting restaurateurs to apply for financial grants and technical assistance. Everything from barricades and equipment to important amenities, all of it to institute Outdoor Dining in so called park lets. We hope that before we get a vaccine, we will be able to at least mitigate some of the impacts this pandemic has brought. Reporter it is an awful experience in 100 years the far east have has been in operation. We are open seven days a week. A lot of people, they come to our restaurant. Three or four generations. Reporter stephen lee is a partner in the century old worldfamous financially sound restaurant. You want to help the mom and pops get out and use the program to also do well. Most of them dont know how long they can survive. There going month by month and hoping they can survive past this whole pandemic. Reporter and its just one eighth of a square mile. Chinatown is second in population density, only to new york citys manhattan. That kind of density just lends itself to virus spread, unless customers want to mask up, distance and save a world famous tourist destination. Lots of fog out there, as you know. Temperatures today were significantly cooler than yesterday. Temperatures tomorrow and wednesday will be cooler significantly than it was today. So back into the 70s and low 80s and some of the hot spots. Most of us tomorrow or in the low 60s. If theres something going on with the trough, it kind of sets up like this right now. With the secondary trough wants to dig down too and that will add to the further cooling. Thats how it looks for tomorrow. After that we start to warm up. I will build in and we will see temperatures begin to warm. The sea breeze is robust, to say the least. Look at that, just flying. Look at how deep its going into the delta and beyond. When you see that, this time of night, you know you will wake up