next at 5:00, san francisco's new plan to reopen. the time line for schools, restaurants, and barbershops. and marin county, a new push for testing. there is a spike in cases, especially among essential workers interacting with the public. in contra costa county, parents are rallying against racists. why they say one school district is putting its staff ahead of its students. will silicon valley have to? president trump cited social media companies for how they police content. and pomp and circumstance, a line of cars. welcome to high school graduation in the age of coronavirus. >> announcer: building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc7 news. mark your calendar. san francisco has unveiled its

reopening time line. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley sfim' kristen sze. we have dates for when restaurants, hair salons and churches can resume services. monday child care centers can open. so can botanical gardens and outdoor historical sites. >> two weeks later on june 15th is when the real changes start taking place. indoor retail, outdoor dining, religious services, professional sporting events, without spectators, and non-emergency medical appointments like going to the dentist can resume. >> a month later on july 13th is when modified in-door dining can begin and barbershops and hair salons can reopen. >> schools bars and gyms will reopen sometime in august. but the time line is predicated on one major factor, face coverings. anyone who is outdoors and within 30 feet of another person will have to wear one. abc7 news reporter stephanie

alrra tonight with reaction to changes that are coming. >> reporter: dan, this announcement is what we have all been waiting for. but mayor breed made it clear while the number of covid deaths and hospitalizations are down we are not out of the boots just yet. they phases are implemented for a reason. it's what we all wanted to hear. >> we actually have good news. and we actually have a guide for what san francisco will look like as we begin to envision a new normal. >> reporter: mayor breed sharing the city's vision for reopening san francisco. a plan that's divided into four specific phases. allowing businesses to begin reopening from mid june to mid august. the first group is opening on june 15th. where restaurants, including bars that serve food, will be allowed to offer outdoor dining. >> i think the june 15th date for outside dining is a good target date. we just announced, you know,

that the city going to go ahead and we are going to try to move towards the shared spaces program. and we need a little bit of time to work out some of those details. >> reporter: also included in that category, indoor retail. business owners like donna o'leary are thrilled. >> really great since i heard the fantastic news. >> reporter: she lost half a million dolores being closed for three months. now she's hopeful she will survive. >> i just am overjoyed. we can get open. we can get our employees back. we can return to a new normal, but some semblance of our old life. >> reporter: but life will still be far from what's considered normal. some rules are sticking around. for example, masks are still required. >> when you are outside and say for example, you are enjoying the park we are asking you, if you are within 30 feet of someone else, to wear a face covering. and we want you to just think about it in a way that it's not necessarily just about

protecting yourself. it's about protecting other people. >> reporter: plus, the health soared extended indefinitely. >> we are still asking people to stay at home if at all possible. >> reporter: encouraging a progressive reopen, which is why each phase is staggered. after june 15th, other businesses will begin to reopen in mid-july and then mid-august. mayor breed also pointed out as more essential workers will need to work in businesses office spaces, those who can telecommute for work should continue doing so. but the bottom line here is this time line is targeted. it is not set in stone. it is and all dependent upon the number of covid deaths and hospitalizations remaining low. as san francisco steps forward sonoma county is pausing its reopening plans. the county health director says there will be no further easing of the current shelter in place for two weeks because of a spike in coronavirus cases and

4079izations. >> we had a -- hospitalizations. >> we had a total of 203 cases over the past 14 days prior to the relaxing of the state order and our case rate is 41 persons per 100,000. that's double what it was two weeks ago. >> now, under those orders, sonoma county will not abide by governor newsom's most recent modification which is allow shopping malls, hair salons, and in-person church services to begin in the areas where the county says it is okay. the local chamber of customers is not happy about the decision saying it is causing frustration in the business community. lassen county is also slowing its reopening plans due to an increase in coronavirus cases. earlier this month the county applied to move further into stage two allowing stores and restaurants to have customers inside and reopen hair salons.

at that point the county had no coronavirus cases. now they have five cases. now the businesses won't be allowed to reopen and they are doing contact tracing on the patients. a spokesperson for marin county says tomorrow they will announce three more thing that can reopen. already they have announced on june 1st speaker and sports camps, child care for all children, pet grooming, golf, and tennis facilities, and outdoor fitness related rentals can all reopen. all of those businesses are being required to make safety modifications however, in order to do that. health is one of the main areas that we are focused on as the bay area begins to envision what the future holds post pandemic. what will our world really look like day to day. in marin county a recent spike in coronavirus cases among people working in public has the health department concerned and taking new proactive testing measures. wayne freedman has more now.

>> reporter: you night never have noticed but working in a grocery store has always been an up close business nowdd covid-19 and it becomes risky. >> it is most definitely scary. >> reporter: anna of united markets in marin county this. day a county health coronavirus testing station set up outside. in marin county is news is not good. there was a spike last week. 100 new case. most of them among people working in essential jobs. and grocery workers topped the list. just want to make sure everyone else around us is safe. >> reporter: hannah took the test along with most of the 145 employees in this company's two stores. when the county offered, ceo kelly smith had no second thoughts. >> i kept saying i just want to sell apples. this used to be such an easy business. >> reporter: as county health describes it this amounts to staying ahead of a pandemic that infected six grocery workers last week alone. united markets agreed to test along with molly stones. other stores declined that

disappointed this public health officer who recovered after being marin county's 39 of 41 cases and counting? we are hoping that every employer recognizes this is a matter of community health and well-being to test for covid-19 because it is prevalent in our community. >> reporter: what was the test like? >> it was like someone spurting water up your nose in a way. >> >> reporter: then she returned to work hoping for reassuring results. >> we will know in two days. >> reporter: then they want to do it again in a month. >> do they? i don't know. i don't know that one yet. >> reporter: she just did. wayne feed fraph abc7 news. 12 workers at car dean as markets in oak dale tested positive for coronavirus. all positive employ geez and others they have been in contact with have been asked to quarantine for two weeks.

the store remained open. a spokesperson says a company has been hired to do deep cleaning. cvs drive through pharmacies will start conducting coronavirus testing here and across the state. they will open 1 new testing sites with a goal of protesting 1.5 million test as week nationwide at no cost to patients. the testing sites here include fremont, hayward, san leandro, oakland, san francisco, pan ole, and vallejo. parents in one school district protested after their school board vote odd give its superintendent and other administrators a raise. the parents think the timing here is especially bad given the coronavirus pandemic. abc7 news reporter laura anthony is in the san ramon valley. >> this is the straw that broke the camel's back. >> reporter: frustrated parents say they have been pushed to protest after their school board vote odd give top administrators a raise amid a pandemic and a

looming budget deficit that could reach tens of millions of dollars next year. >> these raises came at one a totally inappropriate time when everybody knows there will be less funding for every school district because the state has less funding. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> reporter: on tuesday night the school board approved a retroactive $2.5 million raise for rick schmidt among others. it is the same level of pay increase teachers and other groups received earlier this year. >> what the people that are complaining don't realize is that we have a philosophy of paying all of our employees a competitive wage to ensure that we can attract the best and the brightest. you don't do that by being at the bottom of the schedule. >> reporter: these parents opponent out schmidt already makes $350,000 a year and he is retiring in july. >> these people are upwards of $250,000, beyond $350,000. what are the teachers getting?

way less than that? what are the principals getting? way less than that. it is fishy. >> reporter: the school board president told us the pay increases for all employees may only be temporary given the expectation that his district and others in california will likely face steep budget cuts next year. laura anthony, abc7 news. well, president trump loves social media, but now he's going after it. his new executive order, and why it could fail before the ink is dry. and -- [ honking ] >> that is the sound of a 2020 high school graduation. the ritual may look a little different these days at this moment in time. but students are still thrilled. and families are full of pride and

what the president is doing is -- it's almost saying people who have been in cahoots with each other, you know, is there

no honor among thieves? that's really what it call comes down. to they have all exploited the truth. and some have made money off of it and some have made political capital off of their 34is representations. >> house speaker nancy pelosi not mincing words when asked about president trump's expected executive order on social media. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen has reaction from silicon valley experts tonight about the legality of the executive order and what it could mean for the future of speech on the internet. >> reporter: this afternoon, president donald trump signed an executive order targeting social media sites like facebook and twitter claiming he was taking action to defend free speech. >> they have had unchecked power to sensor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences. >> reporter: this comes after twitter labelled two of the president's tweets about mail-in voting as potentially misleading. >> there is no press department

in american history for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction. >> reporter: the order opens the door for the fcc to revisit section 230 of the communications decency act, which could make it easier for companies to be held liable for the content posted on their platforms. legal experts say it will likely be challenged in court. >> that foundational principle of the law has been the basis on which we have gotten most of the services that we use an an hour by hour or minute by minute basis. any changes to section 230 has the potential to ripple across every aspect of our lives. >> reporter: the president and his supporters long accused social media of silencing conservative voices. political analysts say the move could help the president get reelected. >> going after social media companies is one of those things where there is relatively little political risk but a lot of potential political reward because of the ability to get his base animated and voted to

get out, cast ballots and vote and support him in november. >> reporter: jack dorsey supported his team's effort to fact check the president as part of their civic integrity policy. that launched a debate between hill and facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg who appeared on fox news this morning. >> we think it wouldn't be right for us to do fact checks for politicians in that people should be able to hear what politicians say. >> reporter: facebook released a statement this afternoon saying repealing or limiting section 230 would penalize companies that choose to allow controversial speech and encourage platforms to sensor anything that might offend anyone. >> social media has reached a point of maturity where concerns about data ethics, algorithmic bias and consumer privacy must be addressed. >> reporter: in silicon valley, chris nguyen, abc7 news. protesters are holding a demonstration in oakland in response to the killing of a black man, george floyd, by a

white police officer in minneapolis. this is outside of police headquarters where the protest is getting under way right now. people appear to be social distancing even as they are making the estimate. about 30 minutes oakland police escorted protesters off the 980 freeway. we understand they are now headed to this demonstration. it is small, it is peaceful. it is socially distanced. the oakland mayor released a statement calling the killing a nauseating act of government violence against a black man this. comes as protests and violence erupted across the u.s. video shows an officer kneeling on floyd's neck at least eight minutes while he was handcuffed and laying on the ground. yesterday hundreds of people marched through downtown los angeles forcing the closure of the 101 freeway. a cooldown and wet weather -- hard to believe we could see that when we look at this live picture. >> thaerlt.

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>> announcer: now your accuweather forecast, with sandhya patel. >> good evening, everyone. it is definitely a change that we are experiencing now. temperatures going down. most noticeable around the coast and bay, town ten degrees in san jose as you look at 224-hour change. napa down ten, still dealing with heat in the inland valleys. 69 in fairfield. 95 in brentwood. 91 in concord, which is why the excessive heat warnings remains up for solana county until 7:00 p.m. for lake and mendocino counties a heat advisory until 6:00 p.m. the rest of the bay area sut to of the heat advisory today. as we look at live doppler 7, it is obvious why. the fog is back and sitting there near the coastline. the win helped to bring about the change in our weather. 26-mile-an-hour winds right now

out of the west-northwest in san francisco. it is socked in greige. cooling the next two days and showers arrive on saturday. first thing in the morning, fog spills into the bay overnight. tomorrow morning it is going to be foggy around the bay and the coast, temperatures anywhere from the low 50s to the low '60. as we check out the afternoon high as lot better in terms of the heat. if you don't like the 90s we have got 80s for you. 83 in antioch, 82 in livermore. 80 in fairfield. near the coast, 65 in san francisco. comfortable in oakland. 72. 71 san rafael. 76 in santa rosa and 81 in san jose. lvel one system comes in on saturday. scattered showers, gusty winds. even the potential for thunderstorms here in the bay area. as we look at the hour by hour forecast, a few showers develop tomorrow night at 11:00 p.m. as we head into the morning

hours saturday pockets of moderate rain at 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m., a little more. in the afternoon, the showers break. rainfall total also generally be under half an inch. there could be a couple of spots that peck up a little bit more due to thunderstorms if they do develop. the accuweather seven-day forecast, cooler tomorrow, rain late tomorrow night, windy tomorrow night going into saturday. that's when we are going to see showers and the potential for thunder. much cooler weather. you will notice only sixty and 70s on saturday. sunday, lingering clouds. going into monday and tuesday, we will see a minor uptick in those numbers. there is a chance between tuesday night and wednesday that we may be talking about showers again. who said you could put away the umbrellas? not yet, dan and kristen. >> after the heat wave, we will take it. thank you so much. coronavirus is not stopping san jose from handing out

coming up tonight on abc7 news at 6:00 we have been working from home for a bhooil while now. at 6:00 we examine what works,

what doesn't and what the future might look like. think about not just yourself but the people around you that you could impact. people that you law, your opty, your grandmothers. >> a direct powerful message to a hard hit bay area community as a concerted testing effort there is poised to begin. we will look at that. and the show must go on. local actors find new ways to keep us entertained evening during a pandemic. all coming up in half an hour on abc7 news at 6:00. finally tonight many schools are struggling to find a way to honor their graduating seniors. >> as ama daetz explains one san jose high school found a unique way to celebrate its 2020 grads. >> reporter: the balloons were there, so were the homemade signs. but there was something very different at this graduation ceremony. a parade of cars full of graduating seniors. >> they are driving in with one car full of as many family members they want to put in

there and driving through and receiving their honors and their diplomas. >> reporter: this school improvised this event to give students a bit of normalcy a chance to walk across the stage and receive their diploma. >> i feel emotional but i am really happy that i got the chance to cross the same. eye proud of myself. >> i am starting a chapter in life and it's not starting how everyone else's is starting so it is a little bit skiry. >> i am excited to actually get something even though coronavirus is happening. at least we get something, even though it is just a drivethrough. [ honking ] >> reporter: cheers accompanied honking horns. some families drove up in limos. it created an energy everyone was craving. >> better make what we can out of the situation. you know? got to make it at least somewhat special, right? seems like we got cheated. >> reporter: arbella was one of

five valedictorians. her parents were able to step out of the car to place a special medal on her. >> it is very important because they are my support system and i am glad they were able to put this medal on me. this is for them. >> reporter: many students are the first in their families to earn a high school diploma. teachers and staff were there to make it extra special for them. >> circumstances changed everything but that didn't mean we can't make it special for our students. all of us are here and excited to cheer and see the kids drive by. >> it seems right to celebrate our future and celebrate the young people who we are hope willing make a difference and make our world a better place. >> reporter: ama daetz abc7 news. >> celebrating the future at this moment in time is just strange in the present. but the graduates were celebrating the bright future they have ahead. zbroogs to them. >> i was noting even though their mouths were covered you could tell there were some big smiles underneath the masks. >> smiles in the eyes.

world news tonight with david muir is necks. we appreciate your time. >> for

tonight, there is breaking news as we come on the air in the death of george floyd. an unarmed african-american who died in police custody in minneapolis. what authorities have just revealed. and it comes after violent protests erupted in the city. demonstrators clashing with officers over the death of george floyd. parts of the city in flames overnight. firefighters responding to about 30 fires. one person shot and killed and tonight, the breaking headline. the governor activating the national guard now. the mayor of minneapolis has called for the arrest of the fired police officer seen with his knee on floyd's neck, even after he appeared unresponsive. tonight, george floyd is being remembered as a gentle giant by friends. and this evening, city officials and floyd's own fiance pleading for peace in the streets. alex perez is in minneapolis, jon karl at the white house,