>> there are 38 counties on the watchlist, including all the bay area counties. that impacts businesses closing many indoor businesses like hair and nail salons and restaurants. those companies are allowed to do business outdoors with some restrictions. the requirement county officials say is so tough to meet is the one that says the county can't report more than 100 cases per 100,000 residents over a 14-day period. many believe social gatherings are to blame for case increases and say businesses are paying the price for people's behavior. reporting live in walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. californians in need of a new round of unemployment benefits may not get the money they're hoping for. governor newsom says the state will not be able to contribute. this comes after president trump signed an executive order that would give $400 a week to those that are unemployed. states would have to contribute $100 a week. governor newsom says the state

does not have the matching funds required to participate. he estimates it would cost california $700 million a week. >> there is no money sitting in the piggy bank of the previous cares act to be reprioritized or reconstituted for this purpose. simply does not exist. we need the federal government to front those dollars. >> the governor didn't say how or when californians who need that money will get it. education is a major part of building a better bay area, especially right now as students are returning to school. many school districts are starting off the year with distance learning because of the covid-19 pandemic. and today san francisco's board of education is expected to ratify a deal that the school district made with the teacher's union. the teachers signed off on it yesterday and guarantees at least two hours of live online instruction every day. teachers will get additional training and planning stipen to

cost of working from home. contra costa county classes start thursday. in oakland what distance learning looks like there is the result of extensive input from parents and students themselves. here's abc7 news reporter laura anthony. >> reporter: back to school in districts throughout contra costa county will look a lot different this year. but in contrast to the abrupt shift to online in the spring, administrators believe this fall's distance learning will be much improved. >> we will be offering a more robust and interactive experience for our students. >> reporter: much of what parents and students will see this fall will grow from lessons learned this past spring. >> the feedback we got from our surveys last spring. the kids needed to have more scheduled time that was similar to a typical school experience. >> reporter: in many contra

costa county student a school will be in school virtually 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. >> we expect 50% to 60% of that time is the teacher directly talking to the kids and instructing them and working with the kids. the rest of that time, while kids are in class may be independent learning, group learning, one-to-one time. >> reporter: in lafayette time to be offline. >> but we also are really going to be watching and making sure we have a balance so kids aren't on a computer screen all day long. the igbiggest thing is looking what is appropriate developmentally for a student. >> reporter: school administrators here in contra costa county know their distance learning plans are no substitute for in-person teaching. they also realize it's a work in progress. >> we're all expie normal and it's frustrating. and it's hard to predict at times because sometimes when we think we get a handle on it, then the ground shifts from

under us. >> reporter: in contra costa county, laura anthony, abc7 news. on the peninsula, schools in south san francisco are pushing back the start of the academic year. they'll now start monday instead of tomorrow as originally planned. schools will use distance learning for at least the first three weeks and then bring students back to schools in phases if conditions allow. well, pandemic is not only impacted academics, but also college sports. two major football conferences are expected to postpone their seasons today. jobina fortson is at the live desk with details on that. jobina? >> thank you, kumasi. top officials from the pac12 and big 10 will meet today to disded is the fate of the college football season for the fall. experts with ourespn says it is season will be postponed. whether that is for a few weeks or the spring is up in the air. the mountain west has already

postponed its season. the team at san jose state is hoping to play in the spring. >> i have more plans than you can imagine. we have more possibilities of what the next six months will look like. i'll be optimistic perhaps we could play those games in the spring. we don't plan at this point to drop any of our '22 programs. we think it's all important. it's definitely going to be difficult if we don't play football next spring. >> if the situation doesn't improve by spring, it's likely football season will be canceled altogether but a final decision is still months away. kumasi. >> thank you, jobina. we're five months into the pandemic and people want to know when will we have the first vacce. de>> gmanding san ine francisco work out a plan so they can reopen. why they consider themselves essential businesses. but, first, checking in with mike. i know you miss your gym time, friend. >> i really do.

i really do. mentally, physically, absolutely. now i've got like alarms set on my phone to find pool times because you have to register either seven days in advance or three days in advance and you have to get in right at the time they open or you can't even get a lane in a pool. it's pretty competitive. let's talk about what is going on weather wise. inland some of our earliest computers upper 50s to mid 60s. clear now but some late-arriving clouds will fill in to this area as we head through the morning. little bit of drizzle reported in the east bay hills. we have upper 50s to mid 60s except for pacifica at 55. san jose 61 and notice the cloud cover is covering your neighborhoods more so than yesterday. so, we've got cool to warm conditions today on mass

transit. nothing hot. in fact, get rid of the 90s for one day. clouds a little drizzle if you're driving and choppy north of the bay bridge through the delta all day today. here's a look at the peninsula. in the 60s through 10:00. at 10:00 we're sunny and hang out in the 70s for several hours this afternoon and clouds will start rolling back in. 67 at 8:00. 66 at 10:00 and fully sunny by noon except for areas around el cerito and clouds will linger longer in richmond. 65 this evening. 59 at 8:00. mid 60s under a partly cloudy sky in san francisco. we'll talk about that real hot highs coming especially inland. triple digits, jobina. be glad you live on the other side of the hills when this hits. how are you this morning? >> yeah. triple digits, my goodness. i'm doing well, mike. thank you so much. glad to see you are, too. hi, everyone. good morning to you. we'll start out with our problem

spot for the second day in a row. the golden gate bridge. we have a high wind advisory and also a fog advisory issued by the chp for the area. we definitely saw that f f a whg take youim expect that low visibility as you head in and out of san francisco this morning. moving over now to an overall look at the bay area. our maps here. the slow spot primarily coming out of tracy and it is reflected in the drive times. as we pull them up here. tracy to dublin about 40 minutes for that drive time and antioch to concord 13 minutes and san rafael to san francisco it will be a 16-minute ride. we'll be right back after the break.

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you're never more than seven minutes away from your accu weather forecast. >> this is abc7 mornings. weather window golden gate bridge. just a little bit faster than yesterday. winds south, southwest at 17 miles per hour. you can see pretty cloudy there. but not really hugging the deck yet. but it will as we head through the morning, some drizzle is possible, too. look at these temperatures, they're average inland to below average around the bay and the coast 60s, 70s and 80s during the afternoon hours. thunderstorms possible in the sierra. look off to the east beautiful cumulus nimbus clouds and 79 tahoe and 86 in yosemite and the 100s for today in fresno and palm springs. i'll show you when they come to us, next. kumasi. >> thank you, mike. a man is in critical

condition this morning after secret service agents were forced to shoot him near the white house. >> excuse me. >> so, the shooting happened as president trump was giving a covid-19 briefing yesterday. he was ushered out of the white house briefing room but mr. trump returned ten minutes later. >> somebody has been taken to the hospital. i don't know the condition of the person. seems like the person was shot by secret service. >> investigators say the man approached an officer and said he had a weapon. he took an object from his clothing and took the shooters stance. the white house says that the president was never in any da danger. withity htoe allowed to reopen. >> we can requias a all times. we can be more than six feet apart. we can reduce capacity.

we can do temperature checks. if you can risk exposure by sending 30 or 60 minutes inside a retail or hardware store, why can't one safely go to the gym to improve their health? >> the san francisco independent fitness coalition is demanding answers. they argue that gyms should be essential and reopen before personal services. on july 27th, the coalition filed a request to see if covid-19 data was keeping them closed. the city missed that deadline and requested two more weeks to get together that information. well, as we roll into the fifth month of this pandemic, people want to know where we are with a vaccine. to we have one ready? are we close? this week we intend to answers these questions and more. major clinical trials are underu dashy a look at the potential players and the vaccines in the pipeline. >> reporter: the race to develop a covid vaccine is not only shifting into high gear, it

turns out trdrug companies are following wildly different maps to find the finish line. >> the most important thing in the vaccine is the idea. >> reporter: dr. jay levy is tracking efforts worldwide including the roughly half dozen domestic vaccine trials now getting under way in the united states. he says one of the most intriguing is by the company moderna which is using a new strategy as messenger rna essentially writing a genetic script and injecting it into the patient coaxing their bodies to create a safe fragment of the covid virus and triggering an immune response. >> just the rna. >> reporter: drug giant pfizer is also working with a technique, but not the only innovation in play. researchers at oxford used a chimpanzee virus and its job to carry covid fragments into the body without being detected leaving the immune system to

detect them. >> then you immunize humans with that. >> reporter: other companies like novavax are using their own proprietary add ones to boost the overall effectiveness of their vaccines. while johnson and john says they're building on a technology they used to fight an ebola outbreak in africa. strategies unveiled in just a matter of months. >> that has just been stunning progress. >> reporter: the first of u.s.-backed vaccines from moderna began and they are lined up in the chute in a u.s. trial schedule starting in the fall. researchers are hoping more than one might be successful offering options against a worldwide enemy that so far has provided very few. dan ashley, abc7 news. the u.s. isn't the only competitor in the vaccine race. more than 100 vaccine efforts really going on worldwide. coming up at 5:00, the major

announcement from russia overnight about a potential coronavirus vaccine. well, all week we are exploring what role the bay area is playing in the race to develop this coronavirus vaccine. we'll be looking at experiments under way and whether people will even want to get the vaccine once it's approved. watch the race for a vaccine all this week on abc7 news on our app and on our website. >> it pains me to watch that one girl. she's just like -- >> ouch. >> right. no pain, no gain in that respect. hi. hi, everybody. welcome to tuesday. let's open the weather window on the peninsula where we're seeing an increase in clouds right now and 359 degrees at sfo. accu weather highlights slower sunshine around the bay and the breezes pick up and bring in slightly cooler conditions. today is our most comfortable day out of the next seven, eight, nine days possible. minor cooling tonight after a

cooler day today as clouds will expand across more neighborhoods and the heat when it reaches triple digits, it becomes dangerous especially inland this weekend. i'll get to that in a second. first, let's look at today. upper 70s to low 80s through the south bay. 77 to 82 from sunnyvale to san jose. usual warm spots los gatos and gilroy and 71 in millbrae to 76 and low 60s along the coast and mid to upper 60s for downtown and south san francisco and sausalito. north bay coast 60s. low 60s. you'll start to see more sunshine especially thursday. in the valleys, look at that, upper 70s all the way up into santa rosa and then upper 80s to mid 90s when you head farther north. breezy conditions keep richmond at 68 and little cloud cover there and same thing in berkeley at 70. 72 in oakland and everybody e t.

the meteor shower is going to peak over the next two days. the best time to see is actually right before dawn. so, you'll have to go to higher elevation and get above that marine layer. baby steps tomorrow. two to four degrees and then we hit the upper 90s by thursday and the 100s friday and saturday and possibly again in the middle parts of next week. going to be an extended period of hot weather inland, kumasi. >> thank you, mike. the red cross is making an . they're in particular need of plasma from peoplecomplete ly recovered from covid-19. >> our inventory in the 6,000 units or so level has now plummeted to be in the hundreds of units. so we do need a whole new group of donors to come out and donate. we're pretty dire straits right now for covid plasma. >> the plasma is used to help treat current patients. even if you donated once, you

are eligible to donate again. in the south bay, small and medium-sized medical practices have new protective equipment all thanks to san jose city college. handed out n-95, surgical masks and face shields and hand sanitizer at a drive-through yesterday. the goal is to provide each practice with a two-month supply to help them t seasons. >> these are the ones that are not part of large medical groups and not part of hospital institutions and they really struggle to get access to ppe. >> more than $2.5 million worth of ppe will be delivered to 550 small medical practices. offering safety for people most at risk. an empty lot in san jose ames t covid-19. believe it or not, we are four months away from christmas. in today's tech bytes... a legal challenge for uber and lyft. a california judge is ordering the companies to

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welcome back. 4:53 on this tuesday. let's look at our hottest neighborhoods moving forward. down to the south bay where you see low to mid 90s 0s to near 90s. we're entrenched in the upper 90s for friday, saturday and the hottest temperatures in our east bay valleys 100 degrees at least friday, saturday. pretty close sunday and monday. 99 and 98 and there is the possibility next tuesday could be 100 also and then there's san francisco where it gets as warm as 78, kumasi, is that good for you. >> i think that works, mike.

thank you. well, san jose has broken ground on a major homeless housing project. the developments on evans lane right off the express way near the willow glen neighborhood. it is a partnership with habitat for humanity. the site is one of three areas under construction that will offer shelter to the city's homeless population. fair housing advocates are using a mural to bring attention to housing and homelessness issues in san francisco. this is on golden gate avenue in the tenderloin and it reads housing black in bright bode, yellow letters. which span almost the entire block between st. anthonnd rkstreetnirsays blniakes upus5% of the city's but represents 40% of the city's homeless people. well, the outlook for holiday spending is growing more

uncertain as it appears the next round of stimulus checks will be smaller. consumers have changed their buying habits. a shift online shopping is accelerating and foot traffic at retail stores could fall off. this is the time of the year when holiday merchandise is arriving at the port of oakland. the port says inport volume has been going up in the last few months. >> they're simply restocking so they're not caught short, but we don't see this as an early indicator of a strong to return to consumer spending. >> we're going with the flow. we're not going to tie up thousands of dollars in inventory in case we're told we can't open and we're stuck with thercnd list of stores thatt we closed on thanksgiving day is growing and that is yet another clue of weak spending. next at 5:00, a bay area company's major donation to help kids succeed during the new school year. and an international race to

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building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. now at 5:00, a potential break through in the international race to find a coronavirus vaccine. russia said it found the formula and one of vladimir putin's daughter is the first to be injected. everything we know about it this morning. good morning, everybody. tuesday, august 11th. good morning, reggie. >> good morning, kumasi. good morning to mike nicco. how does it look this morning, mike? >> reng reggie, kumasi, thank you very much. you can see the cloud cover more

widespread than yesterday and late arriving into the south bay but it is making it there. it won't last very long. here's a look from the exploratorium camera at pier 15 looking back to the west and you can see the clouds out there. little drizzle so far and 300 in the east bay hills and if you're driving through there, don't be surprised if you need the windshield wipers. temperatures mid 50s to near 60 and pretty much the same we've been for the last several weeks. temperatures at noon 60s and 70s and the 90s are gone for today. 90s and 100s coming up in the accuweather seven-day forecast. >> thanks, mike, in the south bay the santa clara county board of supervisors may consider expanding the eviction moratorium through september. if they don't, thousands of families could be at risk of homelessness. the economies just one of the areas we're focusing on right now as we try to build a better bay area. laura martinez joins us live