announcer: building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7news. an elementary school has become a battleground for parents determined to keep it open. thank you for joining us. we begin with an impassioned fight to keep it open. parents are fighting, escalated escalating efforts to save the school. our reporter explains they want to run it. education is unequal and unjust. reporter: the school first opened in the 1920 s but had their final graduation last week and some parents never went home. a group of mothers and community members and children decided to stay and occupy the school. reporter: one parent says the sit in protest involves pitching tents outside the school and others are occupying classrooms inside months after officials decided to close the school and others because of declining enrollment as an effort to reduce the budget deficit. activists say it is not what this underserved community needs. they want to take away from k
covid concerns on memorial day in the usa. why case counts are at least f five times higher? should we expect a summer surge? we ll take a look. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for joining us. for the second time, u.s. president biden and the first lady mourned alongside grieving and devastated families who lost their loved ones in a mass shooting in a texas town of uvalde. the bidens laid flowers outside robb elementary school where 19 students and two teachers were killed last week. mr. biden and the first lady also attended mass where jill biden could be seen reaching out and touching the hands of several people as they walk out the isle. outside the church, some gathered, urged the president to do something to which he responded, we will, take a listen . cnn is following development and has more now from uvalde. president biden spent about seven hours on the ground here in uvalde, texas, on sunday trying to offer some s
Looks like. Cspan powered by cable. A Senate Subcommittee on a single use a plastic on the environment featuring several environments are policy experts. During the remarks witnesses and lawmakers also spoke about the effect on wildlife, the proliferation of micro plastics and food an alternative to singleuse plastics. Cooks welcome. The subcommittee on chemicals safety Risk Management Environmental Justice and oversight hearing on evaluating alternative materials for Single Use Plastics will come to order. There is a saying that waste is a design flaw. Single use plastics and utensils, two bottles in a large amount of Plastic Packaging. Single use plastics and Plastic Packaging are often not recyclable or biodegradable. They often end up as the phrase scope burned, buried, or borne out to sea. All of that waste represents a pretty large design flaw. Ideally would like all of our products to be sold in reusable containers Biodegradable Packaging damage to my plastic is in fired Many Co
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Once that rain starts to subside by about 2 00, 3 00, were talking about potential for some strong thunderstorms, especially over the santa cruz mountains. Then as we head through tomorrow, another system comes through, by wednesday, well get a little bit of a break, still tracking on and off showers likely. Then thursday, drying you out for one day only. Big weekend for holiday travel. We have a very potent system on the way. Weve got a lot to go over in the full forecast. The three systems coming your way this week. Plus, let you know how much rainfall we are expecting. Ill also have the averages for this season. You might be blown away with where we stand thanks to the rain from last week. Thats all coming up. Right now, back to you, scott. Toppled trees and power lines, nbc bay areas bob redell is live in san jose. Was anyone hurt . Reporter good morning there, laura. Yes, the wind was so strong in south san jose, it snapped two power poles in half. Youre looking at timber that was