That twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey pretty much just fixed. Within the past few hours, it was cellar this morniearlier thy tweeted that he would give 10 million to give every single child in oakland access to a laptop and internet. This happened hours after the district, the city of oakland, the oakland Public Education fund, and the Tech Exchange announced a Fundraising Campaign to bridge the socalled digit divide, a divide that has become much more noticeable during the pandemic. Schools are closed. Students must now rely on distance herlearning. But thousands of oakland students dont have access to those technologies. 17,000 students lack access to high speed internet. Another 5,000 have no access at all. In a statement 30 minutes ago the School District wrote, its unclear how quickly theyll be able to put that 10 million donation to use given that supply chains are having problems caused by the shelterinplace order. They point out that the 18,000 students who borrowed computers from schoo
Its quiet and i just want to remind people that certain parking restrictions are still being enforced. I dont think you can just go and not pay the meter. Theyre still trying to keep businesses open. This is traffic moving along very well. Transit system still working. A little rain here at the Richmond Bridge as steve has been saying. So that may complicate your drive wherever youre going. New numbers this morning. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Say the number of coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 200,000. China, italy, iran, spain, germany have the most infections. Here in the bay area, there are 367 confirmed cases. Santa clara county has more than double any other county with 155 cases including five deaths z. San mateo is second, followed by San Francisco, contra costa, and alameda counties. Two of the bay area shelterinplace order. Once again the order says stay at home as much as possible. We expect to see empty streets and neighborhoods again and areas that are nor
Middle east most of the east except for the bay shoreline and peninsula. And we have a high wind warning into effect tonight through monday morning with the same gusts. Also we could see gusts from 60 to 80 miles an hour upper emphasises. By 3 00 tomorrow morning we are looking at the gusty winds. And well talk about how long its going to last the rest of your weather, the sevenday outlining if a few months. Two breaking stories were following for you. The kincade fire . Sonoma county now burning nearly how acres firefighters rushing to increase containment before heavy winds move in its making pg e put much of the bay area on notice. In just a few hours well find out if youll lose electricity in another planned power outage. We anticipate that in shutoff could impact 850,000 of our 5 million electric customers. This will be the strongest event of the year. And if models are right, stronger than the october 8th, 2017, fire event. Pg e will make the final decision at 8 00 this morning w
Up showers and thunderstorms for the afternoon. I will detail that coming up. Mike, you were saying the lanes u9 two separate incidents over here, that occurred÷ coming dow toward fremont. Looking at most of the roadways they also look well, getting wetter as kari showed that rain coming in. Westbound 21u i did hear abou tunnel. Reports are its in this area where the arrow is, but chp has to confirm any lanes blocked. No slowing as you see on the sensors heading toward highway 13 or that bay bridge toll plaza. You see slowing here and also that rain the highlighted green stuff over here in the north bay, its coming around so be careful. The bay bridge the live shot does show the backup for the cash lanes, looks like all the cash lanes have opened up so were starting to see that compressing toward the toll plaza. Again, fast track, good deal. Back to you. Back to breaking news on the peninsula. Overnight chase is finally over, but it started in sunnyvale and led to a neighborhood nea
Creek. Matt keller is headedo scene. He is on the phone. Right now he is in Scotts Valley. Tell us about this area that you are heading to. Are there many people who live in this evacuation zone . Well, it is a remote area, and the roads up here are thats the thing. When you hear about evacuations up here, the biggest concern is that there are a lot of, like, onelane roads up here, and a lot of Construction Since the flooding of last year, and there were a lot of mud slides and if you are driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains, you will be dealing with construction, and thats when a lot of construction crews are working. So that could be a big concern. So with evacuations kind of i think all on our minds with everything that happened up there in the north bay, those are such extreme conditions, but up here in the middle of the night, thats a concern because people with sleeping. This fire started at 11 00 last night. People were sleeping when this fire started when getting to homes and kn