Online creativity. How much screen time is too much, and how to solve itp 3. Cover up or payup. That may be the edict for San Mateo County. The board will meet to consider an emergency ordinance for individuals who violate the states Public Health orders. How would San Mateo County implement the fines . Luz pena has answers. Reporter it hasnt even been 24 hours since mateo county businesses were mandated to close. Well fine you if youre not wearing a mask. This solution around fines, it brings attention, but the second thing it does, it saves lives. The emergency ordinary nens opposed by a supervisor, a written warning first. If a person does not comply, there will be a 100 fine for the first violation, 200 for the second. And 500 for the additional violations. Right now, its a misdemeanor, you could do 90 days in jail and the fines at 1,000. What were trying to do is take it out of superior court, out of criminal court. And bring it into civil court. With 5683 covid 19 cases and 119 d
Recent civil unrest that we saw in the streets of downtown san jose last month. Or the covid19 pandemic. We also heard from the mayor of san jose, who said back here live. The chief says he will stay on in his current role through december, which is when he expects his replacement to be named. Im chris nguyen, abc7 news. Okay, chris, thank you very much. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Education is a very important part of that and one oh of the topics well focus on tonight. Is the start of school is coming up quick. Two weeks for San Francisco. The bay areas Biggest School district. In the capital of silicon valley, thousands of low income students and families will soon have free access to the internet. Its part of an Innovative Partnership being launched between san jose and at t. Chris nguyen filed this story earlier. Reporter in the midst of the Coronavirus Crisis, bridging the Digital Divide is now more important than ever. We have heard too often of our children h
They said this happened despite the moratorium on evictions. This behavior is shocking at any time and particularly shocking during the covid19 crisis. Reporter named in the lawsuit is the landlords and a moving company. The city is asking for a restraining order to block homeowners from further harassment. Reporting live , henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. There are more than 86,000 coronavirus cases here in california. That is an increase of 2100 new cases in the past 24 hours for the number of people who have died is now at 3500. That is a 106 uptick since yesterday. More than 1 Million People have been tested for covid19 in california. The National Unemployment rate is three times greater than it was in the 2008 recession. Here are the very latest unemployment numbers. An additional 2. 4 million job claims were filed last week bringing the total to 38. 6 million over the last nine weeks, 70 of americans. Heres more on the story from tom vacar. To consider this, its as if the United State
To return the money. The deadline for a response is today. I left a message, and they sent the following statement yet the company has a current market value exceeding 150 million. The intent of this was for business that needed the money. Reporter how and why did quantum qualify in the first place if if they really need this ppp loan. Reporter julie, we know quantum has more than the 500 employee limit. How did the company qualify . As long as we didnt have more that be 500 emmoye ployees given location. So there was an eligibility factor that allowed us to look at location by location. Reporter it seems these companies have a lot of room to get around these requirements. In some industries we have upwards of 1500 employees and still be small. Reporter according to s. E. C. Filings, quantum reported more than 402 million in revenue last year. Records show the ceo made more than 337,000 last year. Plus he was awarded a stock option of more than 1. 9 million. Wasnt really happy about th
Restarting production at his fremont plant. It comes days after he filed a lawsuit against the county and threatened to move his factory and headquarters out of california entirely. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is outside the plant. Laura . Reporter a lot has happened in the last few days. All surrounding plant here behind me. The reopening comes after a war 06 words on twitter. And despite talks between the company and county, reassuring words from the governor, elon musk decided to defy local orders. But the proof was in the parking lot before he confirmed it. The parking lot at teslas manufacturing plant was teeming with cars, a sign that a good number of employees were back at work. The ceo confirmed it. Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, i ask that it only be me. Its a bit disappointing that it appears that theyre going forward. I can tell you that the communication between the Hea