And temperature checks at the front door for all staff and children. We have provided all staff with ppe they can replace every day if they wish. Face masks as well as shields, as well as gloves. The Santa Clara County Public Health department is strongly encouraging Elementary Schools to apply for the waiver telling nbc bay area many are interested. I know that the county office of education from what we hear has been contacted by at least 80 schools and perhaps larger than that, but at least 80. Reporter Jewish Day School is another Peninsula School that says they, too, started the waiver process in hopes for reopening for in person classes this fall. Today a Santa Clara County Health Office confirmed four clusters of covid19 at costco. A cluster is three or more cases at the same site within 14 days. This comes after our story highlighted an outbreak in sunnyvale. Dr. Marty revealed there are now 13 cases at that sunnyvale store along with eight at the San Jose Center road location
Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do r
Exposed to coronavirus. In a tweet last night, she said she found out that she was recently at an event with someone who knew that they were ifected. And so now she is waiting for her test results. The mayor says she is taking all the recommended precautions. Health Officials Say that she was not within 6 feet of the positive person for ten minutes which is considered to be close contact. She can keep working at city hall which has been closed to the public for months. Abc 7 is working to help build a better bay area by focusing on the big picture issues that affect allel of us including education. School districts around the bay area are struggling to devise the best way to resume classes this fall. Xwo Governor Newsom says the decision to reopen will be made based on safety and not pressure from president trump. Yesterday the governor emphasized that he will not be swayed by the president s statements during this week urging schools to bring students back quickly. Newsom says the sta
Are being forced to evacuate because of a spreading fire there. Cal fire says the quail fire, as its called, is burning off quail canyon and Pleasant Valley road just outside of winters. That fire started within the last 90 minutes or so and has burned at least 150 acres. And with that, good evening, im dion lim. Im eric thomas. A black lives matter rally on the Golden Gate Bridge became much more than organizers intended and left some drivers stopped in their tracks. Abc 7 News Reporter chris reyes has the story. Reporter this is sky 7 over the scene around noon on the Golden Gate Bridge. A peaceful march and powerful turnout, one that the 17yearold coorganizer behind the protest did not expect at all. Literally this came together in less than 24 hours. My friend made fliers and we just pushed them out. We posted them all over social media. And it just blewilledthe roa honestly all these protesters inspired i feel like the whole youth as a whole. This whole generation we are really sp
Now. A combination of 80s and 90s inland. Notice San Francisco and oakland, not too bad for the moment with 60s and 70s. That will change tomorrow as bay side locations make jump into the 80s and low 90s while inland vas, especially toward Solano County will have a chance of near 100 degrees. And keep in mind with covid19 and shelter at hope, if you dont have air conditioning, some of those outlets like going to the mall and theaters are not an option. This thing carry through probably about thursday with a spare the air day tomorrow and increasing fire danger. Well take a closer look at when and how hot those temperatures will get and when we will see some cooling as we approach next weekend. Sounds good. Firefighters are mopping up a brush fire in san jose. This is what it looked like about 30 minutes ago. The fire started in a vacant lot between two apartment complexes at the interchange. The flames burned right up to the fence of one of the apartments. The firefighters got there an