Our top stories at 5 30, two cities taking action to erase is legacy of controversial explorer sir Francis Drake. Today cameras caught worker rest moving the sign from sir Francis Drake high school. The name removed because drake was a slave trader. Hours earlier the city of larkspur removed a 30foot tall statue of drake from larkspur landing. Lawmakers grimed four tech ceos on kill in an antitrust hearing held virtually they allege amazon, facebook, apple and google are stifling competition and that they hold too much power. The ceos testified digitally in front of the House Judiciary Committee today. San mateo county joined the governors watch li all county [k ins] the bay area are now on the list. If san mateo stays on it for three consecutive days, gyms, salons, churches, malls, and all other nonessential businesses will have to shut down again. Today the governor announced a somber milestone, 197 new coronavirus deaths. The highest reported in a single day in our state. Thats up m
Based on the watchlist which includes about 80 of the states population. There is one exception to the rules. Local Health Officials can allow Elementary Schools to reopen in person if local superintendents request a waiver. He laid out strict guidelines for reopening california schools. Chief among them, public and private schools can only physically reopen when its county has been off the monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. Right now, more than 30 of californias 58 counties are on the list including most of the bay area. Schools that dont meet this requirement, they must begin the school year, this fall, through Distance Learning. Reporter the guidelines include the following. Required masks for adults annot students. Students should distance from each other as much as possible. School should provide symptom checks, sanitization and handwashing patients and test forever any employee at least twice a month. Our default is in person, but we have to do it in a safe way and we have
Plans. Tonight nearly the entire bay area is on the states watch list because of the surge in cases. The one county not on the list, san mateo. Boming a big draw forservices they cant. Some people even driving for miles just for a haircut. But as nbc bay areas Marianne Favro explains, san mateo might not stay off the watch list for much longer. Reporter San Mateo County is seeing an increase in new covid19 cases, which is why Public Health leaders fear that the state will put the county on the monitoring list in just a few days. And that means gyms and hair salons will have to close down again. In san mateo tonight, it was so busy downtown, we spotted several lines for food, something you can get anywhere in the bay area. But a lot of people were barber hair salons are open. So tony llamas drove 22 miles from San Francisco to get his first professional cut in four months. I thought, you know, let me try to get a haircut actually, mainly because san mateo is the only place where you can
On saturday alone. Now measures are being taken to slow the spread, with miami beach enacting a new curfew overnight. We will have the latest in a live report from south florida just ahead. Then in our sunday focus, a conversation about the life of john lewis, with historian john meacham who speak with the congressman in recent weeks while finishing a new book on the civil rights icon. Plus, in our sundays spotlight, with some promising news this week about a potential Coronavirus Vaccine, how soon could it be approved, and how long will it take to produce and distribute across the country . And later, a brand new virtual sunday sitdown with captain america himself, chris evans, on his hit series defending jacob. His new step into politics, and his oneman dance parties during this long lockdown. Im a big proponent of just you know, its sunny outside, i start jammin and looking like a lunatic really. A sunday sitdown with chris evans, plus another life well lived, all a bit later in the
Inland. Its a good sign of a strong case of ocean air conditioning. You see San Francisco or you cant see it. Mist and drizzle. We do have low clouds and a little bit of smoke in the air which well talk about in about 15 minutes. That smoke advisory for the inland valleys. The low clouds never leave the coast. Temperatures trending down from yesterday. 50s and 60s to start the day. By noon well see the 70s and 80s inland. Instead todays highs for most of our valleys in the mid80s. Warmest spot today san martin and morgan hills. Cooler temperatures ahead, a look at air quality and sierra thunderstorm ihen. The rise of coronavirus cases here in the bay area now has state and local leaders scaling back reopening plans. Nearly the entire bay area is on the states watch list because of the covid surge. Yesterday morning the only exclusion is San Mateo County. Because of that businesses there are becoming a big draw for people looking for services they cant get in their counties. Some people