For july with august rates coming out tomorrow. To since and 7. 5 million californians, 39 of californias entire work force has filed claims, some laid off multiple times. This runs way above the national level. Reporter is humiliating and debilitating for people. To get claims paid. I had to move back with my parents. Thankfully thats an option i was super grateful i have them, otherwise i would be on the street. Normally im dealing with it well. Through this entire season of covid19. It has messed me emotionally. From a california is home to weekly claim showed californians filoyment claims and 30 of the nations claims independent rkers. One report shows that fully half the nations offices remain close. Office buildings that are being allowed to reopen, many workers are not coming back. Reporter political posturing , it took the nation more than six years to fully recover from the great recession, setting up this ominous likelihood. This is more severe in terms of job losses and business losses than the great recession. Reporter the state of california will release its Unemployment Rate for august tomorrow. Its not expected to be much lower if lower at all from the 13. 4 . A long, difficult road ahead of us. Governor newsom signed two new bills which been work place protections and provides critical support during the ongoing pandemic. The governor approved the legislation during a Virtual Event with government workers. Jerry hill said one of those bills makes it easier for firefighters, healthcare workers and other employees to be covered under the states Workers Compensation program if theyve tested positive. Great sense of gratitude to each and everyone of you for making this moment possible, for all your hard work to prioritize our workforce our workers our frontline essential workforce. We pay a lot of lip service to and we dont back up. The second bill the governor signed required employees to provide written notice to workers who may have been exposed to the virus. Santa care clara countys Largest School district, san jose unified, will not bring students back into the classroom until at least the next calendar year. Reporter until the end of 2020 there will be no in Person Instruction at san jose unified schools. A Distance Learning will continue for the first syllable future. Where we are with the substantial spread in the community, is not the best time to open our schools. Reporter Santa Clara County is in the red here. Cases are no longer widespread but still substantial. Under state guidelines, schools can open for in Person Instruction in the red tear. Just this week Santa Clara County brought students into the classroom since march. San jose School District will not have that happen yet. The ones that have brought in the students in our private schools and more resource enabled to bring back students. Reporter the District Needs more help from Public Health officials. Testing and Contact Tracing. We need support with those things. Our employees need to be able to have regular access to testing. Our students need regular access so we can make sure people are safe. Joining me now is a former chief medical officer of health and human services. To thank you for being here this afternoon. This decision and san jose to continue Online Learning throughout at least the end of the current year, what would it take for schools to reopen for in Person Learning . And do you think other districts will follow . Thank you heather, for having me. This is a really important question that a lot of schools across the bay area and certainly the state are considering. Mostly because as we know today in Sonoma County there was a noted outbreak that begin in a private preschool and at home schooling situation. Whats really important is number one, we are clear about the guidelines the school as in terms of the Public Schools and what they need to foldo they ha are they going to be able to regularly check temperatures . Social distancing and handwashing will be critical. The other thing is the development of the vaccine. And how the flu season overall plays out. All these factors will play a role. It is possible that folks may follow in the footsteps of san jose. But i also think there are schools that will hold out for a hybrid curriculum. So many factors at play. The doctor, today marks six months as we mentioned at the top of the show, when the covid 19 lockdown began. It feels like not a lot has changed since then. How much longer do you believe this might go on . When you look back at the last six months, weve gone through a lockdown. A time where we had to rapidly manufacture the pes, ventilators and we actually had to support them. We began operation warp speed which is public and private partnerships have never been seen before and results in a paradigm shift. We are at phase i and now face three. Weve done a lot, weve been through a lot as a nation. Weve seen the sad toll of people who have died, to come, things for families and friends. Hopefully we will possibly be hearing about a development of a successful vaccine with fda approval and hopefully identification of those groups, the vulnerable and frontline healthcare workers will begin to use this eventually at Large Society and perhaps the reentering of our businesses and schools and folks who have suffered in terms of their economic livelihood my hope is that we continue to advance in our scientific understanding, therapeutics and development that we can get back to normal. Do you think there has been enough progress for us to start see that when things return to normal x i think so much of that really depends on both the medical therapeutics that will be there to help decrease the number of people who get hospitalized and develop severe symptoms as well as more importantly the vaccine which will provide atlarge immunity across the nation. A lot of people have developed the natural infection. That will be an important part in understanding how important that vaccine is with moderate or very excellent immunity and whether or not we need booster shots. I think those fact there is will play a role. We will know a lot about that. My understanding in the next 4 to 8 weeks, we know there are statements from the Top Pharma Companies that are involved in these clinical trials, standing with the signs. Also potential with soon to be announced development that will change the course in the next month or two. Im cautiously optimistic and certainly i think all of us want to be there where we can start to administer an effective vaccine. We do indeed. To thank you very much. It sounds like things will continue to be hard and more sacrifices will need to be made. Always a pleasure, thank you. Thank you. In the south bay, officials are offering a free flu shot clinic starting this saturday. The director of the Silicon ValleyBicycle Coalition got a shot today. The kickoff happened at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. In the middle an ever for people to get the flu vaccine. What the flu vaccine will do is prevent you from ending up in the hospital and making sure that we have hospitals available for those that do have covid that are very sick. Everybody who is six months or older should get a flu vaccine. Cindy chavez, Santa Clara County supervisor, showed how easy it is to get a shot. Of the fairgrounds on monterey road at gated will be open every saturday nine in the morning until four in the afternoon all the way through mid december. Distance learning is not just difficult on students its also stressful for parents. Coming up today at 4 30, well show you the Parents Academy to help parents navigate a new world in the digital classroom. A string of 30 consecutive days of spare the air alert snapped in the bay area. People are finally out enjoying blue skies and clear error. A big change in the weather pattern stretching out all that smoke. Will let you know if we have the pattern in the friday forecast. A little warmup as we head into the weekend. Your forecast coming up. My bladder leak pad . I thought it had to be thick to protect. But new always discreet is made differently. With ultrathin layers that turn liquid to gel and lock it inside. For protection i barely feel. New always discreet. Puberty means personal space. So sports clothes sit around growing odors. Thats why we graduated to tide pods sport. Finally something more powerful than the funk. Tide sport removes even weekold sweat odor. Its got to be tide. For the First Time Since the middle of august there is no spare the air alert in effect in the bay area today. Yesterday mark the 30th straight day of spare the air alerts. It today good error quality across the bay area. A live look from our camera. All the while fire smoke is now pushed out of the bay area, much focused on the sierra today. Another live look from our power camera looking over San Francisco in the east bay. For weeks you couldnt see the east bay, you couldnt see a whole lot from this camera because of the smoke. With restrictions already in place the poor air quality over the last month was another hurdle for many of us where we had to stay inside. People are taking advantage of these improving conditions. Much clearer out here. This guy is nice, no smoke, you can see the hills. Reporter Christine Mcallister took a morning walk around the lake, the first time in a month cheese and able to exercise without worrying about her asthma. Finally there is no spare the air day. Is wonderful. The air is so fresh and relaxing. I was Walking Around the lake every day because its just so clear. When the smoke was bad you can smell smoke, it wasnt good. Reporter this is what the sky look like wednesday of last week. The eerie orange sky was caused by ash from wildfires in california and oregon. It was the worst air in the world. Today its a different story. Theres more people working out. I have not worked out for two or three days which is hard for me. Im healthy but i had a problem breathing. Throwback according to the bay Area Management district, most of the bay area is in the green zone which means good quality management. They explain why air is improving. Clean ocean air has moved in which we moved a lot of smoke that weve been dealing with for the last month. Reporter there still residual smoke high in the air which might look make the sky look hazy but its not at the ground level. You think about it, so much as happened within the past 7 to 10 days. First it got real dark, wednesday the middle of the day look like the middle of the night. Smoke was way over head and it dropped to the service and impacted the air quality. Last week at this time and into the weekend. If you take a look at the set up, overall change and that is the increase of the onshore flow. Heres the fire zones and the weather pattern, southwest flow pushing the smoke out of the bay area. Spare the air days started back in august. No spare the air alert today or as we head into friday. A Welcome Change for santa rosa, nampa and fairfield, all reporting good air quality. Same for San Francisco, oakland, livermore. Everybody reporting green. For tomorrow the forecast will be in green or yellow moderate. There is still a little bit of a haze but we have a lease much better forecast for tomorrow. The tropics are starting to have activity. Right now we are watching hurricane teddy. At category four storm. It can approach close to bermuda as we head sunday and monday the next week. Back in the bay area. Looking down to sfo. Of the fog having a big impact on temperatures. Right now 65 in San Francisco. 80s in walnut creek. San jose in the upper 70s. Showers in the southern sierras. High clouds in the bay area. Typical fog and then high clouds moving in from the south. Heres the deal tomorrow morning, we will wake up to gray maybe drizzle. A little change for tomorrow morning. In the afternoon hours, sky becoming partly cloudy and patchy fog. We can, a bit of oh warmup. And nothing major. We will talk about the full forecast coming up. Firefighters are working around the clock to get dozens of wildfires under control. I will have the details coming up. The creek fire burning in fresno and Madera County has scorched more than 244,000 acres and is just 18 contained. The Merced Fire Department shared this dramatic video from the first day of the National Forest fire. It has destroyed or damaged 800 homes. The north complex fire which has taken lives in butte and Plymouth County is 36 contained. Is burned more than 280,000 re. 1200 homes and other buildings have been destroyed and damaged by flames. All across the western u. S. , wildfires are burning in a dozen states. Smoke has drifted a cost the country and also reached europe. We report from los angele county work crews are struggling to get the upper and at the bobcat fire. Reporter millions of acres burned in thousands of structures destroyed. A fire crews contain a series of wildfires burning in at least 11 states. Washington and oregon have been the hardest hit states and in california we see lighter winds. The firefighters a getting a hard time getting a handle on the bob cat fire only 3 contained. Is driven by the terrain and the dry fields in the forest. Is been difficult because we have to get crews into this remote area. Reporter anxious residents have been allowed to return to homes and businesses. Others remain in temporary shelters. The waiting gets harder every day. Very stressful. Of the first night i thought we would lose a lot. I did. I was terrified. Reporter the recovery operation is underway in california, fires have been or assess the damage. Entire neighbors neighborhoods have been destroyed. They are pleading with the public to stay away for now. If you couldnt identify up property on the map and not inspected yet, be patient. We will get the inspection crews in there as soon as we can. Reporter some of this smoke has been seen on the east coast and some has reached europe, 5000 miles away. A Ballot Initiative that would bring Additional Resources to take firefighting efforts picked up more support. State treasurer and California Democratic party womens caucus chair are the latest to throw their support behind by the Real Estate Industry and will limit tax increases for victims of wildfires and natural disasters and seniors. Theres many stages to aging. If we want people to age in place with dignity and independence, this initiative would allow them to do that by downsizing and still allowing them to stay here in california and afford to live here. The measure cracks down on attacks break for those who transfer a home from a parent to an adult child. Some of the revenue goes to more fire fire fighter services. Parents werent meant to be teachers and work a fulltime job at the same time. Up next we will show you the Parent Academy where parents can get a handle on the new digital classroom setting. A covid outbreak tied to a north bay preschool and childcare center, doctors will join us live to talk about this latest news. You try to stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. Now theres powerwash dish spray its the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. Spray, wipe, rinse. Unstopables inwash scent booster. New york city has decided to stagger the return for in Person Learning for Public Schools. All students were supposed to return to the classroom on monday, september 21st. But the mayor announced those returns will be in stages. Union leaders said the teachers need more time to prepare and make sure buildings are safe and schools are properly staffed. Remote learning has begun already. Orientations have begun and Remote Learning will continue for all students as the phases come into play. The mayor said city plans to hire additional teachers to help schools in the classrooms. In san jose a new program to help parents with their kids during online school. Is called the Parent Academy and run through the Evergreen Community college district. We are live this afternoon talking to people with this information. The more comfortable parents are with things like zoom and google drive, the better they will be able to sport students at home. Reporter Distance Learning is not just a challenge for students. Parents are expected to rise to the technical challenge. For many especially with the immigrant communities, its hard. We dont know what google classroom is an hour children need to do that. Enter the Parent Academy. Is a series of classes offered through the Evergreen Community college district. They are designed to help parents with their students at home. The not because appearance dont want to but because they dont have the skills. Reporter the academy hopes to change that with classes offered in spanish and vietnamese. 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