Thousands of families in sonoma are being told covid will keep students out of the classroom until the end of the new year, or until this new year. Summer actually pushing back. We have the frustration being felt by so many. Reporter following Public Health directives, Santa Rosa School board has voted unanimously to stick with distancelearning through december. That brought a boisterous response. No more zoom no more zoom reporter masks couldnt muffle their discontent. Dozens of parents, students and teachers mind santa rosas old Courthouse Square to say no to zoom school. We need to get these kids back in the classroom. What started off as a 2 to 3 week shutdown has turned into six months. These kids are really suffering. Reporter critics note Sonoma County has about a half million residents and 114 covid death. These families say in person instructioshybrid is a great wa start. You have half the kids go in monday, tuesday, sanitize wednesday and the other kids go in thursday, friday
For july with august rates coming out tomorrow. To since and 7. 5 million californians, 39 of californias entire work force has filed claims, some laid off multiple times. This runs way above the national level. Reporter is humiliating and debilitating for people. To get claims paid. I had to move back with my parents. Thankfully thats an option i was super grateful i have them, otherwise i would be on the street. Normally im dealing with it well. Through this entire season of covid19. It has messed me emotionally. From a california is home to weekly claim showed californians filoyment claims and 30 of the nations claims independent rkers. One report shows that fully half the nations offices remain close. Office buildings that are being allowed to reopen, many workers are not coming back. Reporter political posturing , it took the nation more than six years to fully recover from the great recession, setting up this ominous likelihood. This is more severe in terms of job losses and busi
For keeping his factory from opening. Today they filed a lawsuit saying theyre contradicting governor newsoms plan. Tesla could leave california altogether. Reporter elon musk started firing off tweets this morning, just a day after a plan to bring back a fraction of the workers at teslas freemont manufacturing plant didnt work. But some say that there had been some movement in this disagreement. Outside the tesla plant in freemont, it was quiet, but its clear tensions are mounting within the company. E mond elon musk is saying tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. I do believe that elons threat is not idle. Musk said, quote, frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its headquarters and future programs to texas or nevada immediately. If we retain freemont Manufacturing Activity at all, it will depend on how tesla is treated in the future. Everything is not creating cars. Hes losing money. Secondly, he has a huge list of people who are waiting, espec
Want to turn our attention to back to back fires earlier today in the south bay. You can see here in these pictures from sky fox. A home going up in flames. As the blaze roared through an area in the East San Jose foothills. Crews took a defensive position working to try to save homes and stop the spread of that particular fire. 2 buildings were destroyed this afternoon. They were able to contain the fire to prevent any more damage. Tom is they are on the ground and has been speaking with people who live in the area as well as with the fire department. Reporter the very latest at 5 30 pm residents live on that hill who did not the 2 homes that were lost will be allowed back. Most of the homes escaped damage except for smoke damage. The first of the First Responders got here they saw the danger of the situation and called in every resource they possibly could. At about 11 am a fire started at the bottom of the hill san jose foothills and quickly spread to a small neighborhood on the sid
Heres what we know. A hazmat crew is on the scene. One witness tells us it sounded like a car crash. We heard a big explosion and shook the house and we thought that it was a car that crashed into the house or another car or something, and we came outside and somebody came running out of the house yelling, its bad, its bad. Call 91 1. Okay. An explosion, no fire, but this is in union city. Two people were rushed to nearby hospitals. One of them to the local burn unit. No word on what caused this explosion. We are gathering more information. Well update you later in this newscast or on our twitter feed. Our other top story, a cold case murder in hayward has a formerom atttion can breathe new life into the case. A 44yearold man was walking home from the store when he was shot. No witnesses, no leads. His family is still grieving after 14 years. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd joins us in san leandro with the details. Cheryl. Reporter well, the victim is jason steklaczek. I talked with his fath