Reopening, the university of North Carolina is back pedaling. Switching to Remote Learning after 130 students contracted the virus. Elementary schools in the state are also seeing an uptick in cases. This school temporarily shutting down after a cluster was linked to a faculty member. Also new trouble at one of the nations largest fire department. Chicago fire academy had to close down after an outbreak. Officials saying theyve had nearly 300 cases and two chicago firefighters have died from the virus. Megan tevrizian. Coming up next, the seven things to know this morning. Also a special Education Teacher in the south bay logged into class without wearing a shirt and its not just that action that has parents really upset this morning. Also ahead, michelles message. What the former first lady was wearing during her its game day live, here at bia fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xf
Little bit deeper this week exactly one week into phase 2 a little bit deeper meaning Childcare Centers like the one right behind me at mount taylor. Now because they have shown that they have been handling coronavirus to the satisfaction of governor newsome that there will be able to accept. Children of non essential workers this location has been open throughout this whole shelter in place to deal with children of essential workers but because now were deeper into phase. 2. They can do that we also can have car washes pet groomers you can go there cleaning services will now be available to people in Sonoma County and those who cannot work from home. Now theyre be theyre able to go into the office says they still have to practice social distance, but now they can go into the offices and get back to work so the good news is whats the bottom line daria that they can have a little bit of wiggle room they can still do us social distance, but also get back to what they felt was normal incl
Timeline that the state is anticipating a surge of coronavirus patients now next month. The direct payments can wanted more. So we think that theres a a path to getting more for the shrek payments. Yeah that was House Speaker nancy pelosi say more money is coming to help americans through this crisis will see how quickly congress can act good morning. Thank you for joining us here on the kron 4 morning news, it is wednesday april 8th, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom governor newsome says they were doing a good job hang in there its been 3 and a half weeks now. But the state is anticipating a surge of coronavirus patients next month. Yeah, he went on to say that because the curve is stretching our state is. Properly doing the social distancing and thats allowing the state a little more time to not only buy some of the equipment they need but also to help out other states that are in need as well yeah theyve sent off for a california has sent about 500 ventilators in total. To othe
Today. Its for the latter half of the day. Showers move in by the early evening hours. As a result your plans tonight could get wet out there. But notice highs today mainly in the 50s with some limited sun and well talk about the rest of the weekend. The week ahead in a few minutes, liz. Thank you. Chains are required for travel in much of the sierra this morning. Including highway 50 and most of the roads around the lake and up to resorts. Chain controls are also required on interstate 80 from playser county to the donner lake interchange. You can always check the conditions where you live with live doppler 7 on the abc 7 news app. Investigators are calling the disappearance of this sun bruno woman suspicious. Family and friends hope for the best but fearing the worst. Today they are searching in nearby parks. Lorin martinez talked to the womans son. Laurie episodeo has been missing two weeks. Its unlike to not contact me. The last day family and friends heard from her is november 29t
Means you just want to slow down out there burke lee is one of the spots where youre really not seeing it too terribly much but hey look at out there in the distance and you do see how patchy it is there is definitely some fog hanging around right around 80 next to the bay itself. So there are spots where its pretty clear such as in the Berkeley Hills and then theres other spots where it is iefinitely not so clear this morning that includes portions of the north bay portions of the peninsula down through the east bay, even as far south as areas around san jose so visibility going to be an issue at times and hayward oaklands novato a San Francisco all these areas at times will see visibility dropping pretty low, but we do have nice clearing skies into the afternoon today and overall really after the fog burns off this morning. We are going to see some nice and Clear Conditions thats because that rain that we saw over the weekend, especially on saturday know its going to forget about tha