the temperature in capitola was 30 degrees cooler than san jose, and people took notice. >> try to get out and beat the heat. come over here to capitola and feel the breeze just like everybody else. >> reporter: the atkins family made a last-minute decision to come here for the weekend. >> going in the water and enjoying ourselves on the beach. >> we looked at the temp it was going to be here, and we said let's go there. >> reporter: they aren't alone. from monterey bay to marin county, thousands of people heading to the ocean. it will be evident this weekend in traffic and in parking lots, something coastal communities will be watching closely during the pandemic. >> before you come to half moon bay, don't worry about politics at all. wear a mask, period. >> reporter: broadly, health officials understand it's important to stay cool in the heat, but they're reminding social distancing rules still apply. >> stay home if possible, and if temperatures within homes become elevated, we do -- we recommend people to go outside, to find a cool place. >> reporter: for many people without a.c.,

come over here to capitola. >> reporter: this family made a last minute decision to come here for the weekend. >> we looked at the temps that would be here and we said let's go there. >> reporter: they are not alone. from monterey bay to marin county thousands of people heading to the ocean, it's inee v ineactivity -- inevitable coastal communities will worry about. >> reporter: health officials say it's important to stay cool in the heat but reminding social distancing rules still apply. >> stay home if possible, and if temperatures within homes become elevated, we recommend people to go outside to find a cool place. >> reporter: for many people without ac it simply is too hot to stay inside and time to enjoy our natural coastal cooloff. >> when it's 9:00 in the morning and you feel the heat, you know what i'm out of here? >> reporter: nbc bay area news. >> you can get up to the minute weather alerts sent to your phone with our nbc bay area app. it's free. set it to get alerts just for your neighborhood. >>> in our other top stories, back to the coronavirus. we have reached a soberin

san jose is one of only 88 agencies nationwide participating, along with daly city, capitola, and just recently vallejo pd. eddie: to see a transparent view of this is what your officers are doing, this is when they had to use force, why they had to use force, and who they're using force on. stephen: by using this data and analysis, chief garcia has actually changed policy. he now asks his officers to use tasers more frequently to subdue unruly subjects than batons or nightsticks. tasers remain controversial. critics say officers tend to deploy them too quickly, sometimes with deadly results. but the data in san jose shows actual injuries are down. bob: so, we were seeing fewer fractures and serious bodily injuries because they were using the taser rather than a baton. stephen: the data also shows san jose pd saw use of force incidents drop 13.4% from 2015 to 2019, the time the tracking has been taking place. and some racial disparities are disappearing. five years ago, when san jose police arrested a hispanic man, there was an 11% greater chance they would use force on him than when t

he used a credit card from that stolen wallet at the shell station and safeway on 41st avenue in capitola. he has shoulder-length hair and had a black and white checkered face mask. >> the fire in the north bay has been the deadliest so far. five people killed, three from the same home in napa county. mary hint mire died last week along with her boyfriend leo mcdermott and her boyfriend's son, tom. mary escaped to a roadblock but then went home to get her boyfriend, who was in a wheelchair. >> her biggest fear was actually burning, and she didn't even want to be cremated. and that's pretty much the way things ended up. >> the remains of the three victims were found in a makeshift fire shelter built into the side of the hill near their home. >>> we are seeing a lot of people who are taking the firefight into their own hands, defending their own property. this can be a life or death decision, and one man escaped death. nbc bay area's jean elle is in vacaville with the details. >> you can see them, and they're pretty big coming across the grass. >> reporter: flames that raced through vacavil

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, fee

that's a stronghold to keep it from moving in places like l capitola . >>> in other news a dramatic momentwith the golden state killer crime spree, the most ruthless in the state of california. joseph deangelo was sentenced to life in prison and our reporter asked if that apology was sincere, asking his attorney. >> in all of your statements, each one of them, and i am truly sorry to everyone i have hurt. >> reporter: it is a shock to the victims of the east area rapist, joseph deangelo apologizing and he spoke to her room of the families that he hurt while thinking of his own. >> he has three dollars and a granddaughter. >> reporter: after the weeklong sentencing phase the notorious killer was forced the pace, to face the people whose lives he heinously ruined. >> my life is changed forever. >> he had difficulty making eye contact with the victims. >> reporter: do you think he feels remorse at all? >> he has expressed that to us many times and i know that will be difficult if not impossible for a lot of the people to believe. that does not mean he does not deserve to spend the rest of his

the suspect who used the fire commanders credit cards at a shell gas station and at a safeway in capitolas shoulderlength hair. he was wearing a san francisco giants and had a black and white checkered facial covering. >>> this morning we are hearing from a separate firefighter whose home burned in the czu lightning fires. aerial sales is a second generation are further. he was going to the czu far as the but was pulled off the rig to make room for a driver and more equipment. it turns out, he and his partner had to evacuate their home and bonnie doon. he received a text from a friend who is battling the fires. >> he texted me and said we tried to get daniel rowe to your house and it is too hot. we couldn't make it. i knew then that the got a feeling i knew that it was gone then. >>> they just bought the home last year and build a deck for his sister's wedding earlier this year because her original wedding venue was canceled due to the pandemic. he said it was not the dream wedding she planned but she was able to tie the knot. >>> fire crews in the north bay are making good progress again

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and weout specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling rea

say used the fire commanders credit cards at a shell gas station, as well as a safeway store in capitola thousands of students in sonoma county have put virtual learning on hold as the lnu complex fire there forces schools to suspend class. several schools have canceled on-line classes, as sacks orders have been issued across much of sonoma county. this is the second year in a row they have canceled classes because of wildfires. healdsburg closed last week, but resumed on-line learning today. >>> the usc reports what it calls quote an alarming spike in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in off-campus housing facilities. usc health officials say there were 43 new cases confirmed. 14 were identified through testing of the overall student population. the rest were confirmed through contact tracing and testing of people showing symptoms. no students have been hospitalized. >>> american airlines announced it will furlough or lay off 19,000 employees in october, as it struggles with a sharp down turn in travel because of the coronavirus pandemic. flight attendants are going to bear the

live in san francisco, christien capitola, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> thank you, christien. >> state officials reported more than 7700 no coronavirus cases statewide yesterday. that brings the total number of cases to over 561,000. there were also 66 more deaths. over 10,000 deaths have now been reported in california since march. there is positive news, though, hospitalization are down 19% over 14 days, and icu admissions are down 13% over that same period. here in the bay area, state officials say there were 883 new coronavirus cases reported yesterday, for a total of more than 60,000. two more deaths were also reported yesterday, nearly 900 people have now died in the bay area from the coronavirus. >>> coronavirus cases are starting to stabilize in some of the hard hit states, but some public health officials are worried that with the start of school, that could lead to a second wave of the virus. jonathan has more now from atlanta. >> reporter: the u.s. is reporting an average of 54,000 new coronavirus cases a day, down 20,000 from its peak last month. new infections in florida have risen

he's accused of using a stolen credit card at the shell gas station and safeway on 41st avenue in capitola. the firefighter's wallet was stolen over the weekend from the bonny doon fire station. the thief drained the firefighters' bank account. >>> the fires could create serious produce problems. so, we're talking about tomatoes, melons, corn, peppers, pumpkins. all at bay area farms that are covered in ash. that means you'll have to give them an extra rinse before you cook them. produce prices haven't gone up yet, but because of supply and demand issues created by covid and the fires, that could soon change. one farmer explains why. >> pg&e cut the fire last week. we haven't been able to irrigate at all and then on top of that even, they closed the area off. so, we haven't been able to get anybody in here to pick anything either. some of our crops have overripened and those will be just considered a loss. >> local food banks may also be affected because they get their produce from farms across the bay area. >>> and if you are looking for ways that you can help out, we have a list of resou

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, fee

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, fee

capitola is 62. boulder creek at 70 degrees. upper 60s in the santa cruz mountains. a lot of northeast or northwest directions driving the fire to the southeast. a very dry condition up there with 60s on the temptress. another tough day in that rugged territory. 59 in santa rosa. 73 in travis. some 70s but some upper 40s and 50s with cooler lows hazy, humid and hot but not as hot coast and bay. they are cooling down and we will get a little bit of a seabreeze here today. a ridge of high pressure over utah but close to the nevada utah border. it's a big but it will get moved out of the way from a system coming in. some cooling coming but it's just slow cooling with temperatures above average. some trading down especially in san francisco and san jose. cooler coast and bay and even oakland. one more hot day of high mpwe will finally get relief coming urfriday. >>> the switch from in person learning to online learning during the pandemic has been financially hard on a lot of families. coming up, how many parents have said they are gone into debt. plus, a cluster of wild

city managers and monarch, carmel and capitola and santa cruz said they will close local beaches duringoliday weekend from september 5-seven. now to the list numbers 4400 covid-19 cases were reported in california that's the lowest number we have seen since the end of june. 105 people died on monday. the rate of positive virus cases averaged 6.3% over the past two weeks and 5.7% during the past week. both are trending below the state goal of 8%. took the cdc now says that many people who have been exposed to coronavirus with close contact with someone who later tested positive do not necessarily need a test if they are not expressing symptoms them selves. some express concerns about revised guidelines from city state know that people that those that are asymptomatic can pass the virus to others and are a large share of covid-19 transmissions. >>> it was nice to go outside and get the paper and feel a chill in the air. it felt like we were in the 50s. >>> a good observation. in fact, a little bit of a change. the air quality this morning not nearly as bad as yesterday at this time. we ar

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and weific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxi

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and weafety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious ab

night clearing over the northbay coastline as well as areas near santa cruz and capitola.des of red as you move closer to the sacramento valley indicating we have another enjoyable day. there it is. upper 80s for the interface but of livermore and 92 in concord. it is in napa. low 90s and santa rosa. upper 60s and upper 70s for the note bait. san jose expected to go to 83. when i come back, i will look at what you can expect in the extended forecast. it will cool down. inland cities as a topping to 80 degrees, coming up. truck researchers around the world are working nonstop to develop coronavirus vaccines. the lead still in the works to get potential vaccines to the american public. plus, we are monitoring a tropical storm with its eyes set on the florida coast. the latest developments from the east coast and how residents in the panhandle are preparing during the pandemic. >>> in san francisco, the moscone center is no longer a meeting place for visitors from around the world. instead, the convention site is part of the city's response to the pandemic. we learn about the

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, fee

we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, fee