From ktvus asthma smith who tells us some teachers are willing to risk their jobs. Reporter the concern is that teachers may not be there for the first day of school, which is a week from tomorrow. One teacher i spoke with says she will return to the classroom only when its safe. There is a lot of anxiety. Everything seems uncertain. Reporter at a time when tonya jacobs should be preparing her lesson plan, the School Year Begins a week from wednesday in the sixth grade teacher at Hoover Middle School in san jose cant focus. The citys Largest School district is putting her in a am i going to have to choose between doing what i love professionally, versus keeping the people that i love safe personally . Reporter she lives with her parents, both high risk. One of 1600 teachers in san jose unified told to teach in an empty classroom to a computer while students learn from home. Patrick bernhardt is with the San Jose Teachers Union and said the School District may be overreacting. They defi
Data. When the African American community. And were doing everything in our power to address this challenge, its tremendous uh challenge its terrible. President trump acknowledging that minorities are being affected more by coronavirus and pledging to support the community. Give you a sense of optimism in terms of the curve in california a bending a it is bending, but its also stretching. What does it mean bending but stretching that means that the state anticipates a surge of coronavirus patients next month. The direct payments can wanted more. So we think that theres a a path to getting more for the shrek payments. People as he says more money is coming to americans in this crisis, good morning, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher it is wednesday april 8 thank you for joining us this morning back to governor Gavin Newsome he says californians are flattening the curve but the state as daryn mentioned is still bracing for a surge of patients come next month. California has sent off.
Governor newsom gave several updates on californias fight against covid19. Among them the number of desperately needed shipments for testing kits and medical masks. I want folks to know that we have already distributed 24. 2 million n95 masks in the state of california. That is significant number. Its still insignificant to meet our needs. Here are some other headlines from the governor. The state has secured 100 million new n95 masks to be sent out asap. 100 million. As well as other gowns and face shields. 150,000 new test kits are being sent out from state labs. California has tested nearly 67,000 people. Of the more than 2500 positive cases, 51 of those are between the ages of 18 and 49. And more warnings from San Francisco officials for people to continue to stay home to stop the spread of coronavirus or slow the spread. Mayor breed sent letters to Governor Newsom and Vice President pence asking for more personal protective equipment, ventilators and hospital beds. We estimate tha
Solano county began its shelter in place order yesterday. Napa county will start its shelter in place tomorrow. Some people are wondering whether the u. S. Should implement tougher restrictions to stop the spread of the virus. Jobina is live with the gu governments response at the federal level. Were getting more from dr. Jerome adams. Speaking to gma he said most of the power to implement Health Restrictions belongs to individual states. Federal offi issued guidelines like banning nonessential travel and limiting groups to ten people or less and if everyone follows those rules, we should be on track. I want everyone to act as if you have the virus. Whenever youre interacting with someone else, imagine you have the virus and act as if you want to protect them or you have to protect yourself from getting it. Calling on social Media Influencers to get younger adults on board with social distancing. Messages from people like kevin durant and kylie jenner h l or people at home. I find it i
On the peninsula. Las alto 62 de higher clouds streaming up. Its going to thin out throughout the day. Main weather makeler be the low dropping down. See coming in, thats going to play in the weather after today. Still on the muggy side for some today. Fog, suns higher clouds. Wednesday in to friday, much cooler pattern. We will see pretty big drop on temperatures. One more day holding on to upper 80s and low 90s inland. President trump plans to visit el paso, texas, tomorrow, where 22 people are now dead after saturdays shooting. Officials say the shooter is answering questions but they are still trying to find other people who can tell them what may have led up to it. They have read a web post, they believe he wrote, saying the attack was quote a response to the hispanic invasion of texas. Either of those crimes could result in the death penalty. Asked what policymakers can to stop more shootings from happening. The governor is scheduled to give details on a plan he says can answer t