is it as bad as we think? what research believe will protect teachers and student snoops you're going to hear from kamala harris' childhood friend about how they spent their days in berkeley. >> and say good-bye to anxiety. the non-electric car that promises 1,000 miles between fills. building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. yes, the drone view 7 as yo school in lafayette with no one in sight, as learning goes virtual, scientists are bringing

a safe way to bring kids back into the classroom. >> i'm ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. ucsf compiled a report that may ab virus spreading in the classroom. abc 7 news reporter leann melendez takes it one step at a time. >> we know children have less severe symptoms than adults. >> inside my nose are receptors and that's how the virus gets into my body and children do not produce receptors as frequently as i do. pl is n d for the ing her zoom disease to get in, and there is no or limited disease in elementary age students and that's why we're seeing that pattern. >> kids have smaller lungs so when they sneeze or cough they

don't spread the particles as far as high school students or adults do. another interesting fact is that size does matter. kids are shorter and that would mean they wouldn't fill the room. perhaps the most important point that ucsf want to make that mak, physical distancing and ventilation are key to curbing the spread of the virus. take for example, this high school in israel as seen in this picture, the students were wearing mask, but were not sitting apart from each other and for two days there was a heat wave and every student was allowed to take their masks off. >> the air-conditioning was on, the windows were closed and it led to over 150 people in the school getting infected. >> researchers say a mask will l protect you because it can control how much virus is into your body.

>> it's not just that the severity of the illness is lower that anybody including teachers will from a bad experience with it. >> leann melendez, abc 7 news. education is the focus on building a better bay area. 30,000 students and steveteache logged on for day one. how did they accomplish it and how many problems they. >> 10,000 chrome books and ipad his to be distributed ahead of time so distance learning can s.t.a.r.t. today. fear of glitches and administrators. >> and i think we're f terellvous d t and boosted the range of wireless internet connections s connection. in some homes two or more students would be online at the same time. >> this has been an incredible

day and the students are glad to be back. >> scott cranin is at the middle school, and he had 80 students in his first class. >> specifically, did we learn how to play the cello today? no, and thanks the spike idea and how do we manage ourselves in an online environment and what are best practices and empowering them to ask questions and keeping students engage side a challenge even when they were in the classroom. san jose unified has spent $3 million to teach online and to provide social and emotional support. close to $5 million has been invested in ipads, chrome books and hot spots. the costs absorbed by the district and from increased state and federal funding. >> i think families generally feel comfortable telling us what their needs are so that's been a wonderful piece of this process is we've been able to see how our school staff and families interact well to figure out what the needs are.

>> david louie, abc 7 abc 7 between the oakland unified school district and what it will look like. details have not been released. one of the details is live instruction time. oakland unified went back to school monday. >> some sisters are fighting back claiming their head quarters is financially exploiting them. the alpha phi chapter is forcing them to live in group housing during the covid-19 outbreak. sorority members say the organization is requiring them pay fees for services they can't access during the pandemic. >> our values seem to have been forgotten during this time of need and i am for the head quarters to uphold our ritual and act in accordance with what our founders had envisioned for us. >> it is a difficult and timely

process. alpha phi, is not responding to a response for comment on this. the backlog is clear, and there were 11,645 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. the governor said more than 6,000 of those cases were from the backlog just leaving over 5400 new cases and he said hospitalizations are down 19% in the last two weeks. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is live with what the governor had to say today. >> the state is organizing the backlog cases as a result of that data glitch. much of his update focused on the economy including more questions today about the enhanced federal unemployment benefits and exactly when c californians will see that money. >> the most urgent economic recovery tool for the business community and the one that we need the most is to stabilize this virus to bend the curve of this pandemic, to do everything in our power to mitigate the

spread of covid-19. >> governor gavin newsom updated californians today. as of august 11th, there were 11, 645 coronavirus cases. 212 of those were backlogged cases from the recent data glitch. 4,433 of them were new cases. i want to see those numbers continue to go down, wear a mask. >> on the economy, governor newsom answered more questions today about unemployment benefits. an additional $600 per week of unemployment benefits expired at the end of july. it was expected to provide an additional $400 a week and that amount has been revised to $300 a week. >> i think it is a historic blunder if we are unable to accommodate these americans with subsequent supplemental unemployment insurance and i believe personally and professionally that $300 is simply inadequate.

>> governor newsom said that if californians only get that $300 additional dollars of supplemental unemployment insurance the state will be working to come up with solutions to process the payments quickly and efficiently, but he also said newell ijiblity rules could delay those payments. melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. researchers at ucsf feel they have a potent new weapon against covid-19 and it could fit in your pocket like a nasal spray. it's want a traditional vaccine. they believe one spray daily could protect you from the virus. >> here's abc 7 news reporter kate larsen. >> if you've never run across an aeronab you may soon be inhauling one. >> because it is so stable, we can put it in one of these and this is a nebulizer. >> it could be a potent line of defense against covid-19 in humans and it is traced back to a molecule first discovered in

camels. they're smaller than human antibodies and could be manipulated to perform specific tasks such as attaching itself to the coronavirus. >> it is an amazing mousetrap and binds to it, and never lets go. >> it poured through roughly 2 billion synthetic nano bodies before they found the best candidate and they re-engineered it to be the most potent and it uses its spike to attach itself to the abc-2 receptor and they worked to stop the invasion in its tracks and a process illustrated in an animation produced by researchers. >> when aeronabs bind to the spiked protein, it loses the ability to infect cells. >> the main challenge left how to best get it into the body. they're stable enough to turn it into an effective aerosol. a powerful medications they can inhale to protect themselves

from infection. >> the ability of to attack the virus directly that give us us this incredible power. >> the ucsf team is now in talk talks with potential partners. if successful they envision the aeronabs as a super flu formula to keep healthy patients from being infected or treat an oral infection all by inhaling a simple mist. kate larsen, abc 7 news. kaiser permanente is getting involved in large, late-stage trials for covid-19. several sites will test an investigational vaccine create asked sponsored by pfizer and german partner bioentech and it is conducted by the kaiser perm nendy division of research in oakland. the goal for this trial is to enroll up to 30,000 participants and more than 120 sites all

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america simply in one word. possibilities. >> my mother and father, they came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in america. one from india and the other from jamaica. we have a chance to choose a better future. >> the choice is not without controversy. some on the left view harris as too centrist while the trump campaign paints her as too liberal. >> kamala harris grew up in berkeley and lifelong friend, batiste talks about what she was like growing up. >> she's intuitive and we laugh at the little thing, silly things. i mean, we only have to -- i mean, just common, everyday, you know, people, places, things, memories and our mothers and their laughs and some of the things that we did when being

kids and going to ferry land and going to parties. you name it. >> aren't those great photographs? >> the two women met after their mothers became friends. the man suspected of a murder inside the lobby of ucsf in san francisco has been arrested. police say this man is facing charges of first-degree murder and robbery. a fire broke out inside an outpatient medical building. he collapsed on the sidewalk. they performed cpr on the man and was pronounced dead a short time later. no word on what led to the fight. >> as coronavirus rages on it leaves victims behind, sometimes instead of lives it seems a no county is immune, even the richest ones. we sent nbc news reporter wayne freedman, and it was in more ways than one? >> in marin county there is a crooked yellow line something

that separates the haves from the have notes. in another circumstance, i camp here overnight. >> the man known as gordo has been camping here for at least 18 months. >> how did you find this place? >> nobody came around it. >> now they do. binford road between highway 101 and a wild life sanctuary, gordo has all kinds of company. >> we had to go some place. >> i have nowhere to go. i just have nowhere to go. >> locals say the first of these rvs began to appear a couple of years ago, first one, then two, ronavirus, did not help. >> that corona hit and nobody wants anyone inside their homes. >> he's wan electrical contractor. he calls this camping and he has nothing, but affection for the marin county sheriff's department and today they told us there is no restriction keeping people from parking

here. >> legally, you can't camp out here on the side of the road and that's what i've done and they've come by and asked me if there was anything they could bring me. >> not everyone is kind especially the neighbors. >> we have open fires and open flames and they can light up this whole area in a blink. >> it is very depressing for me. even more so, on the other side of this wavy, yellow line and a sign of the times and with coronavirus killing income, he expects he won't be getting longley on binford road for a long, long time. >> exactly. >> in marin countiy, wane freedman, his company may suspend operations for manths as drerruled sunday tt li mt make caught up with the international

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>> now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. >> hi there, everyone. i hope you're enjoying this lovely weather, at least the warming is not too intense yet as you take a look at my camera you can see sunshine over the transamerica and it's in the 07s from mount view to oakland and 82 in san jose and half moon bay at 51 degrees because of the fog that you're looking at from the mount tam cam. it is 80 in napa and 97 degrees in fairfield. so definitely hot and livermore at 94 degrees. here is a look at the heat that is going to be dangerous in the coming days and that's why an excessive heat watch has been posted. we're looking at alameda county until 9:00 p.m. sunday and there is an increased risk of illness and they'll soar to mid-90s to 108 degrees and that's definitely excessive.

excessive heat watch until 7:00 p.m. sunday for lake and mendocino counties and take it easy in t easy this hot weather and it is not going go very far and it's a shallow layer and that's a sign of what's to come and that marine layer will be compressed by a building area of high pressure. dangerous heat friday through sunday and we're looking at increasing humidity the next two days and a slight chance of thunderstorms. patchy fog, really going into tomorrow morning, 5:00 to 8:00 a.m. mainly near the coast and parts of the bay and notice what's coming in from the south and higher clouds we'll be looking at tropical moisture moving in our direction and that will add to the stickiness factor. temperatures in the morning, 50s and 60s and fog around for the afternoon and the heat will build. 98 degrees in morgan hill and the south bay and los gatos, 94 degrees and you're looking at 86 in palo alto and notice the high

clouds filtering the sun and 69 in half moon bay and 72 degrees and warmer than today and in the north bay, 89 and san rafael and calistoga and you're looking at 79 in oakland and union city might feel uncomfortable because of the fact that we'll see the higher humidity and that humidity will add to the discomfort for the bay area and we normally have the dry heed a heat and 99 in livermore. look at the intensity of the heat. saturday mid-100s and sunday the heat backs off a bit, but still triple digits. tropical storm a lidda is weakening. that's what will send us this tropical moisture and increase the humidity. accuweather forecast, triple digits next seven days, intense heat and 60s and 70s around the coast. be safe, everyone. >> 106 on friday, goodness. thanks, sandhya! >> up next, a peek into the

sold-out professional women's conference. for the first time it was all virtual and because of today's live network coverage of joe biden and kamala harris' event, tonight's general hospital will be at 2:00 a.m. so stay up if you feel like it.

abc 7 has launched new streaming apps. wherever you are you can get our live newscast, breaking news, weather and more with our new abc 7 bay area app on apple tv,a understand roid android tv and just search abc 7. >> experts take aim at san quentin officials claiming the deadly coronavirus outbreak was preventable and the warning signs they say were simply ignored. the chief scientist with the fda addresses the race for a coronavirus vaccine and what it's going to take to protect us all. >> and here they come, the unconventional conventions. at 6:00, we examine the pros and

cons of the events going viral. all coming up in half an hour on abc 7 news at 6:00. all right. before we go, words of encouragement and empowerment were shared before the annual professional women of california conference. >> this was the second day held virtually this year of course, because of the pandemic. speakers include academy award-winning actress cate blanchett and lisa ling and london breed. >> abc >> we will change our vision from aspiration to actuality. >> it features some 60 speakers and more than 18 seminars all with a goal to help build skills and inspire women to be the very best they can be. it's a great conference this year just a little bit different. "world news tonight" with david

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tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. late today, joe biden and kamala harris for the first time appearing together as running mates, making their case. president trump already responding tonight. the former vice president and his running mate, senator kamala harris, appearing together in delaware, walking out in masks. socially distanced. joe biden saying he has no doubt he made the right pick, that her story is america's story. biden referencing trump's attacks already, calling harris nasty. saying is anyone surprised that donald trump has a problem with a strong woman? senator harris then saying she's ready to get to work. that whenever she's had doubts about these times, she thinks about the doctors and nurses on the front lines, the farmers, the factory workers. on racism and systemic injustice, she said there is a

new coalition of conscience.