construction projects with cases of covid have paused voluntarily, but santa clara county supervisor dave cortez says the county has the power to go further. >> the attorneys, the public health department, you know, could shut down any given site if there's an outbreak or if there is non-come non- compliance of rules. >> reporter: the industry is uniquely positioned to handle expert safety rules and is doing pretty well. >> each site i have been on to they have a great protocol. >> reporter: getting on the a job site now involves temperature and symptom checks along with extra ppe and social distancing requirements. the trades council says the positive tests are an indication that the protocols are working. >> i think that is an indication that the system is working the way it is supposed to. of course, when you are opening any industry, you're going to have some cases appear, and the idea is that we catch them early, shut down the site, so that there is no spread. >> reporter: tomorrow from 10:00 to 3:00 the trade and labor association will host covid testing in their parking lot for constructi

and you're working as an aide to supervisor dave cortez. talk about full circle.l us about your trajectory there. >> growing up in the neighborhood of east south bay, the first on my family tree to ever graduate from a university here in the united states. so i had to rely on mentors and one of those mentors was bob muniz and so many others that have kind of guided me throughout my journey, and being able to -- i feel blessed and if you're blessed heavily you need to give heavily, so i've dedicated my life to teaching pt i learned in terms of classroom management and et cetera, and not through my writings. i've had three published books and barrio side hero, my memoir. it is seen as a novel, kind of a sci-fi novel and solo cholo university is a work book. now i work for the county of santa clara and being able to impact the families on a larger macro level scale. >> what would you tell those fire ago on i'm going to call them cholitos, if you will. what advice can you give them maybe for those who have taken the word into the negative connotation and what would yo

cindy chavez and dave cortez a worked together on it. it includes new efforts to explore the root causes of racism. this includes new programs to train elected officials on workplace bias. this county proposal is getting national attention. >> local governments have led the nation in terms of bringing justice to this country. we are trying to do that once again. >> the proposed declaration is a show of support for the black lives matter movement. it is also a response to the coronavirus pandemic which is especially hitting people of color very hard. >>> the time is 4:14. schools in san francisco might be changing their names. this as more and more institutions are taking a closer look at who buildings and statues are named after and what that person represents. some of the schools the district might consider renaming are francis scott key elementary in the sunset district, mu navarro sara in the heights, washington high school, and john muir elementary. >>> in petaluma, a public art committee will consider a proposal to sanction a protec

. >> reporter: board president cindy chavez joined by dave cortez the to announce two joint resolutions to officially support black lives matter and declare racism a public health crisis. >> this commits the county to work with black communities towards eliminating systemic and institutional racism. >> reporter: black community leaders say they will hold a supervisors to their word. >> we don't just want promises of equity in the future. we want to be compensated for everything that has been taken from us. >> reporter: they demanded immediate action on several fronts. >> we want an african-american oversight council for african- american children well-being established today and not tomorrow. we want to remove all police officers off of all of our school's campus. no longer punishing our current kids as criminals. all santa clara law enforcement agencies must have community oversight. >> reporter: they also demanded defunding sheriff, jails, and district attorney. a dicey political situation for the supervisors but one possibly made easier by the pandemic. but by august i think you will

. >> reporter: board president cindy chavez joined by dave cortez the to announce two joint resolutionsto officially support black lives matter and declare racism a public health crisis. >> this commits the county to work with black communities towards eliminating systemic and institutional racism. >> reporter: black community leaders say they will hold a supervisors to their word. >>

cindy chavez and dave cortez he say that they will bring up the matter at a board meeting later today. there are 11 resolutions in all. they include expanding the understanding of racism, reviewing county ordinances, check for racial equality and training all elected officials and staff on workplace bias. >>> nascar is investigating after a noose was found in the garage of bubba wallace. he is the only african-american driver who races full-time at the elite cup series. just two weeks ago, he successfully pushed nascar to ban confederate flags at all nascar events. nascar says it is outraged and that there is no place for racism in their sport. wallace responded to the event on twitter saying, quote,the act of racism and hatred shou it shows me how much further we have to go as a society and how much more persistent we must be in the fight against racism. >> nascar still plans to race at talladega after rain called off yesterday's race. there was lightning in the area. because of that, the race has been moved to noon today. you can watch it right here on ktvu, the news at noon will ai

supervisor dave cortez he -- 125 -- he says the number of deaths reported weekly has been declining.> the weekly mortality numbers that we are seeing, the death rate that used to be in double digits every week is now down to very low single digits. the last two weeks, we have been able to come here on saturday as much as we mourn the deaths and we are sorry for the families, we still have to say that two deaths per week is a much better indicator than a couple of dozen. >> right now, there are 78 people hospitalized in santa clara county that you have the virus. >>> a record-breaking rise of coronavirus cases continues across the united states this weekend. it was the fifth straight day a single day record was set for new cases in the u.s. there are now more than 2.5 million confirmed cases in the country. more than 125,000 people across the u.s. have died. these disturbing numbers reflect an infection rate that is rising in california and 30 other u.s. states. this weekend, the governor of texas restored the states restrictions on restaurants and shut down bars across the state. >>