>>and the health department of the workers there say outdoor gyms are okay fitness centers can reopen that's beginning september 9th 2020. today in alameda county personal care services can resume outdoors and of course a few girls heading into the weekend you can now see hair and nail salons barbershops can care waxing services outside words possible so many polls are back open wine tastings are okay by appointment. medical massages and that libraries you can pick up books at the curb the guidelines do require wearing a mask and keeping your distance. beginning monday contra costa county will allow some indoor businesses to we open with some changes including hair salons and our miles retail stores. they have to work at lower capacity, other businesses like gyms and personal care services again. those will be okay but only outside and the south bay in person classes have resumed at one elementary school. this is after successful appeal to the county health department kron four's charles clifford has the story from sunnyvale. >>well all around the bay area, many parents are hoping to

since january the health department has been planning and preparing for covid 19. we built up the capacity of our health care system. we added testing sites a sites. today supervisor stephanie announced, we're creating a care site that we hope we will not need. it's located in the presidio but will serve all san franciscans. it will serve patients who no longer need acute care but are not ready to go home. they would have medical medical supervision and care from staff. i hope this day won't come. we hope our hospitals will never need to open the relief that this site represents. that depends on you. all of us. please. please wear a mask. it's really not that hard. i want to see san francisco open schools instead of medical sites. we want to see houses of worship open their doors. sit in their favorite barbers chair. hug our grand children again. we can make that happen. we still have time to turn this around. if we want those things we can't take chances and hope this virus is not as infectious as the data and facts tell us it is. everyone needs to behave as though

since january the health department has been planning and preparing for covid 19. we built up the capacity of our health care system. we added testing sites a sites. today supervisor stephanie announced, we're creating a care site that we hope we will not need. it's located in the presidio but will serve all san franciscans. it will serve patients who no longer need acute care but are not ready to go home. they would have medical medical supervision and care from staff. i hope this day won't come. we hope our hospitals will never need to open the relief that this site represents. that depends on you. all of us. please. please wear a mask. it's really not that hard. i want to see san francisco open schools instead of medical sites. we want to see houses of worship open their doors. sit in their favorite barbers chair. hug our grand children again. we can make that happen. we still have time to turn this around. if we want those things we can't take chances and hope this virus is not as infectious as the data and facts tell us it is. everyone needs to behave as though

>> i commend the health department, they have been helpful in those decisions.ld, one adult, several adults come up positive, what does that look like for contact tracing? i'll be honest, that is reliant on a testing system that gives you really quick, reliable results, and it also is reliant upon a lot of people participating in contact tracing. that has probably been our biggest struggle to date for schools is the contact tracing piece. it requires a lot of people and participants to -- who are willing to help us out with that. >> it's a sad echo we've had through the months, testing and contact tracing, and now our kids are going back to school and we still hear from people like yourself that it remains a problem. jennifer mccormick, good luck as you approach this challenge. >> thank you. >>> some rising democratic stars out of wisconsin and michigan join us too assess the battleground stakes and the coronavirus impact on campaign 2020. now, staying home isn't just staying in the place they love. it's staying safe. home instead. to us, it's personal. olay's n

. >> reporter: in los angeles, the county health department is now investigating this party for first responders at a hollywood bar, despite businesses being required to close indoor operations. top health officials say americans following preventative measures like wearing masks could have positive long-term effects on fighting the coronavirus. >> wearing a mask is incredibly important, but we have to have, like 85 or 90% of individuals wearing a mask, and avoiding crowds. that is essentially -- gives you the same outcome as a complete shutdown. >> reporter: this as dr. deborah birx warns the united states has already entered a new phase of the pandemic. >> what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread, it's into the rural, as equal urban areas. no matter you live in america, you need to wear a mask and socially distance. >> reporter: the cdc now predicts 19,000 more americans could die from the coronavirus over the next 20 days if the current trajectory continues. >> some more serious measures need to be taken in order to flatten the cur

and then says call this office and it's the health department. virginia has just rolled out this project recently. it's in the way of using an app. way of using an app. it builds it on top of the existing public health contact tracing infrastructure. it enables us to do our work. so i think that's important. there are more and more people out there using apps. some other apps that other nations are using. not someone who is real familiar with all of them. i know they are out there. i'm an older guy. i'm 67. my kids really understand this. they are much younger and they really understand all these technology tools. technology can use the better. benjamin therges american public health association. apha.org is where you can find them. for taking myyou call and thank you for your time. think that confuses many of the public out here is because it's like anything else, you like to know the origins of things. health hear enough of experts, politicians, anybody talking about exactly if we could have a little more information on where, how and why this t

so how can we work with the health department to make things move along a bit. so rather than going and doing a new mayoral order or an entire new health ruling, are there ways that things could be done at the start level around regulations that are within the pursue of the entertainment commission? so maybe borrowing from what is already allowed for small family gatherings or religious gatherings and even some the shared space gatherings. if we're not able to move things along in a fashion that allows us to test some of these things, it's going to set us back by quite some time. and i think that, again, what other people have said is that the legacy of the entertainment commission kind of means that you are our guys in dealing with other city departments. the whole idea of getting permits so that performing arts can happen, so that entertainment can happen, is -- you're kind of our inside voice. and so if you can really advocate for the community, and as well as being a commissioner role. to the other branches of government and to the other departments -- >> and

>>after checking the covid-19 data dashboard for every county health department in california. we're learning dozens of them are affected some even saying the impact of this is severe. at least 23 counties across california say their covid-19 data could be under reported because of issues with the state's electronic reporting system for diseases, the effects felt in county health departments all across the state san joaquin county's dashboard thursday, but the problem could date back to as early as july 27th saying the data is severely delayed in sonoma county health officials reportedly say its latest accounts could be missing about a 3rd of its actual covid-19 cases this issue may impact our ability to receive all the lab reports in order to investigate cases. >>and contact trace. the extent that we've been doing as quickly as we've been doing frankly state health leaders first acknowledged the problem tuesday after california reported its slowest single-day case count since early july the issue mainly affects case counts not actual test results deaths or hospitalizations and

some instances county health departments are taking a bigger role like we've seen in indianapolis. marion county health department have put pretty strict standards in place and it will vary widely from county to county and school district to school district. >> in greenfield central did give families the option of remote or in-person learning and according to folks there a vast majority opted for in-person. is that what you're hearing kind of across the state? >> yes. almost every school district has offered kind of both options to families this year. they are offering, you know, the full-time virtual or the in-person and some cases the in-person is a hybrid options where students are doing virtual learning one day and then in the classroom the next to limit the number of kids in a i'd about. most school districts are offering both and we've seen anywhere from 10% to 20% has kind of been the average of people choosing the virtual option with the majority of families going back. >> yeah. the so what -- what's happening in indiana and other cases i think in mississippi, let's see wha

many of the people chasing this virus today as a state and local health department levels are about to get laid off because the state is running out of money. i want to see us more rapidly start testing again and we only do that withar more resources ad by the way, informed coordinated national leadership is essential to make that happen. >> host: in terms of the money are we talking 32 and dollars, $2 trillion, $1 trillion? we've heard all of those tossed around in recent weeks as these negotiations have gone on. >> guest: the amount of money that is on the hill is closer t. two, $3 trillion than the 1 trillion they are talking about but the fact of the matter is, we need to get more money out there and get that money out to the people. >> host: were talking to doctor vegan, executive director of the mirkin public health associati association, talking to him a day after u.s. case counts soared past 5 million in the country. if you want to join the conversation this morning phone lines are open for you to do so. (202)748-8000 if you live in the eastern or central time zone, 202748 ###-

these are the latest numbers as reported by the state department of health. the number of new cases is well below average and the test positivity race, the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive is much lower than we've seen for a long time. those numbers may not be accurate due to underreporting. hospitalizations are also below average. the number of deaths is near a record high. more than 200 people lost their lives in the past 24 hours. so with that as a back drop, with deaths on the rise, local health officials are raising serious concerns about the discrepancies in the state's data reporting system. >> reporter: tonight growing concerns after officials discovered a glitch with cal ready, the state's covid-19 reporting system. >> we're back to feeling blind. we don't know how the epidemic is trending. >> reporter: a frank assess many from the county health office here explained why that data from the state is so creghn economies including businesses and schools. >> we are very anxious for this issue to get resolved. we speck that all these n

>> the department of health, and you know, all of the health officers around the state, has asked the department of health for guidance with this question because we're all being asked this question by school boards, and we were -- we have been advised that our role here is to just advise as to what can we do to make the environment in schools as safe as possible with covid-19. it is not to make a decision on whether or not to open up the school. >> joining me now is the volusia county school board member you saw, he's also a licensed respiratory therapist at a florida hospital. i want to get my head around this. what is happening here is the department of health is being told not to tell schools whether it's safe to reopen. has that always been the role that they have taken? was there a change here? >> there's no doubt that we are under unprecedented times, and this is new for them as well. when the governor issued the executive order that florida schools should open five days a week, brick and mortar, and also said by advice and order of the local health department. and so when we t

>>after checking the covid-19 data dashboard for every county health department in california. we're learning dozens of them are affected some even saying the impact of this is severe. at least 23 counties across california say their covid-19 data could be under reported because of issues with the state's electronic reporting system for diseases, the effects felt in county health departments all across the state san joaquin county's dashboard thursday, but the problem could date back to as early as july 27th saying the data is severely delayed in sonoma county health officials reportedly say its latest accounts could be missing about a 3rd of its actual covid-19 cases this issue may impact your ability to receive all our reports in order to investigate cases. >>and contact trace. the extent that we've been doing as quickly as we've been doing frankly state health leaders first acknowledged the problem tuesday after california reported its slowest single-day case count since early july the issue mainly affects case counts not actual test results deaths or hospitalizations and ic

>>hi justine ia after checking every single covid-19 data dashboard for every county health department in california we're learning dozens are impacted. some even saying these impacts are severe. at least 23 counties across california say their covid-19 data could be under reported because of issues with the state's electronic reporting system for diseases, the effects felt in county health departments all across the state san joaquin county's dashboard thursday, but the problem could date back to as early as july 27th saying the data is severely delayed in sonoma county health officials reportedly say its latest accounts could be missing about a 3rd of its actual covid-19 cases this issue may impact your ability to receive all our reports. >>in order to investigate cases. >>and contact trace. the extent that we've been doing as quickly as we've been doing frankly state health leaders first acknowledged the problem tuesday after california reported its slowest single-day case count since early july the issue mainly affects case counts not actual test results deaths or hospitalizations

we need clear guidelines with checklists from the department of public health. pecifically made for outdoor performing arts. san francisco international arts festival would like to help the department of public health to create these guidelines and to support the entertainment commission in reopening the arts industry safely. this can be done through a prototype outdoor festival at fort mason on october 24-25, 2020, just before the rainy season starts. this event can be a way to test operations, guidelines and procedures for outdoor performing arts. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, lisa. going to screen share for one moment. all right, the next person in line to speak is a person named shau shau. hi, sasha, you are unmuted. you can go ahead and speak. you have two minutes. >> caller: can you hear me, can you hear me now? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. >>> caller: i'm sasha higby. i have seen the way that arts can feed our spirits, both individually and communeally. i'm speaking this evening to ask the city to advance the priority of outdoor performing from phase

they go out to try to cooling stations that have been set up by some of the public health departments. those have been set up in a way to promote social distancing. use the right kind of air-conditioning. and heat emergencies in and of themselves are public health emergencies so they have to be responded to but the health department set up in a way it's not going to promote transmission. the other thing, the big outbreak in israel that in the middle school that followed right after school started was probably at its root caused by the massive outbreak. >> dr. rutherford, the mask? >> just don't take your mask off because it's hot. >> got it. i think that's the final word on >>> all right. thank you so much for joining u "getting answers." we'll be here every weekday at 3:00 right here on and on live stream for your questions. "world news tonight" is up next. thank you for joining us. i'll see you next time. >>> tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the democratic national convention set to begin moments from now amid this pandemic. the coronavirus now topping more

he has the powers to do this, he can actually delegate that to local public health departments and buildxactly what happened in germany, which is why they have only had a six of the deaths that we have had. he could do this, and he could also, instead of spending £10 billion on companies, he could be building up the local capacity in nhs laboratories and public health and especially, also, in primary care. that is not happening, so we no longer have an integrated coherent system in england. this is absolutely what happened. it is what the house of lords select committee has been urging him to do as well. doi has been urging him to do as well. do i understand you correctly decide that it do i understand you correctly decide thatitis do i understand you correctly decide that it is almost an ideological decision to go with the commercial decision to go with the commercial decision rather than a public sector solution? well, it is most bizarre not to ask the public health expert and community disease experts what should happen. this has been a major issue all along and they have not called u

which allowed to set some guidelines following tdc and our health department guidelines and the detailedlan to put forward for our coronavirus recovery. but they also gave the flexibility to the local newly elected school boards to make independent decisions on their own counties on the reopening so we're there now actually tomorrow where those final plans are due from the county . the state board of education will then review all of those and without a final report the following week. of our larger schools to sims are going with almost complete virtual learning at the beginning of the semester. some others are smaller ones in rural areas where they have low infection problems and don't have the same crowding issues. are working towards more getting some kid back in the classroom with a little bit of a hybrid situation and they're working towards getting more kids back in the classroom as they can in a matter of weeks down the road. but we gave the possibility to the local school boards who had already read a situation in montgomery county was the , the montgomery county board of educati

health. >> definitely, thank you joy. last but not least, veronica. >> good morning everyone. good morning to my panelists. my name is veronica shepherd. i'm with the san francisco department of public health. my primary work is around food security and racial equity. i support primarily the african american faith-based coalition. it's a coalition of 21 plus churches across the city of san francisco with primarily african american congregants. covid-19 through the population of people were put into a whirlwind. shelter-in-place hit and there were not a lot of city plans on how people would be sustained. the coalition i work with, because of its infrastructure, we developed a partnership and was able to provide meals immediately across the city. as of today's date, they have delivered over 110,000 meals across the city. they're feeding almost 1,000 households each week. it's been quite a challenge. for those of you listening that don't know, the african american community, joy kind of spoke to it. we have been suffering pre-covid and there's been huge disparity issues between racial inequities. so the shelter-in-place and the coronavirus had just added another additional is

they had plansthat met all the state guidelines , the cdc and state health department guidelines this person was wrong in taking action, didn't have the authority to take action so that what difference, we wanted all the schools to be treated the same way under the plan and the person realized they made a mistake and back down and rescinded the order was in error. >> you have a view on what should be happening with sports in the state of maryland in terms of whether it's youth athletics or we got a couple of special teams they are, professional baseball teams. you have a view on what's happening with sports,college sports as well as we move towards the ball ? >> other people are trying to make these decisions and we're, they're all getting the best advice and input from the medicalprofessionals as well but it's a difficult choice . i know that the professional football team in washington a report today that they're going to try to open without fans. that was just, they just announced this afternoon. i think the baltimore ravens maybe try to put together a plan sometime this week. i kn

health. >> definitely, thank you joy. last but not least, veronica. >> good morning everyone. good morning to my panelists. my name is veronica shepherd. i'm with the san francisco department of public health. my primary work is around food security and racial equity. i support primarily the african american faith-based coalition. it's a coalition of 21 plus churches across the city of san francisco with primarily african american congregants. covid-19 through the population of people were put into a whirlwind. shelter-in-place hit and there were not a lot of city plans on how people would be sustained. the coalition i work with, because of its infrastructure, we developed a partnership and was able to provide meals immediately across the city. as of today's date, they have delivered over 110,000 meals across the city. they're feeding almost 1,000 households each week. it's been quite a challenge. for those of you listening that don't know, the african american community, joy kind of spoke to it. we have been suffering pre-covid and there's been huge disparity issues between racial inequities. so the shelter-in-place and the coronavirus had just added another additional is

this pandemic, many child care centers remained open and guidance is written through the department of public health and department of social services, aided by our team at the department of education, much of it does envision child care centers remaining open and make sure they have a lot of personal protective equipment to keep people safe. i'm happy to say through the government office and emergency services, we sent personal protective equipment to more than 10,000 schools in the state. face coverings, face shields, touchless thermometers, sanitizer. take the temperature of your children at home. if you see any symptoms, keep them at home. and then temperatures get checked again at the child care center. our child care centers have done a great job of using the whole campus, including the outdoor space to broaden the footprint of the campus so it's more ways to accommodate physical distancing. and so, again, i want to just tip my hat to our child care centers. we know parents need these to work and that's why you're seeing the push from the governor's office and others to create these kind of wa

the city's health department says that hospitalizations are down slightly. but still, and average of 90 new cases of covid-19 are being reported daily. that is down from the high point of two weeks ago but officials say that is still very concerning. >> this is one of our key health indicators. anything above 50 cases per day continues to put us in the red zone and on high alert. we have been there for the last six weeks. >> the recent surge in cases escaping contract tracers busy.'s goal is to reach 90% of people testing positive and 90% of their contacts. right now they are reaching 70 to 80%. >>> state health officials have outlined a plan to open elementary schools. the new plan applies to students in transitional kindergarten through grade. they could reopen if there in a county does not on the state watchlist. all schools that want to reopen have to consult with parents and labor unions, show their plans for contact tracing and other safety measures. students are set to start class next monday. there is no plan as to how those classes will be held. edu

the state health department says it currently cannot add backlogged testing data to the system. that means state health officials do not know whether new cases are on the rise or on the decline. yesterday the state reported 5300 new cases. which is much lower than the 13,000 in one day two weeks ago. santa clara public health director said that the client may not. to be as pronounced once the backlogged data is included. >> they are having some technical issues. they have gone back maybe as far as mid-july. so this we just don't know. we don't know for cases arising, plateauing, or decreasing. so we are very anxious for this issue get resolved. we expect that all of these numbers are going to go up. to what extent, we don't know. >>> the state has not yet determined when the databank may be fixed. >>> also happening today, the sonoma county board of supervisors will vote on tougher fines for people who do not wear masks during the pandemic. health leaders in sonoma county say the crack down on those who ignore those safety rules needed to stop the spread of the virus, they want t

health. >> definitely, thank you joy. last but not least, veronica. >> good morning everyone. good morning to my panelists. my name is veronica shepherd. i'm with the san francisco department of public health. my primary work is around food security and racial equity. i support primarily the african american faith-based coalition. it's a coalition of 21 plus churches across the city of san francisco with primarily african american congregants. covid-19 through the population of people were put into a whirlwind. shelter-in-place hit and there were not a lot of city plans on how people would be sustained. the coalition i work with, because of its infrastructure, we developed a partnership and was able to provide meals immediately across the city. as of today's date, they have delivered over 110,000 meals across the city. they're feeding almost 1,000 households each week. it's been quite a challenge. for those of you listening that don't know, the african american community, joy kind of spoke to it. we have been suffering pre-covid and there's been huge disparity issues between racial inequities. so the shelter-in-place and the coronavirus had just added another additional is

for so long, california has been sustaining these incredible number of cases, so, all these health departmentsstate, are looking for any good news to report and they are seeing it. a week-to-week decrease of 20% in the weekly number of positive cases. the governor reported that earlier this week, but like everything that has come in this data this week, both at the county level and the state level, there have either been addendums of asterisks or out and out caveats that say, maybe you shouldn't trust this health data, because of the glitch that is happening. the problem is, we don't know how long this glitch has been going on, how many days this has been affecting these numbers. and we don't know necessarily how significant it is. only that it is significant. the top health official in the state says it is unequivocally changing statewide data. so, they're looking at the numbers to make sure that everything is correct. and they're doing that by going back through these local health departments, trying to check with each individual lab to get the numbers updated and appropriate. but this bears

we need clear guidelines with checklists from the department of public health. pecifically made for outdoor performing arts. san francisco international arts festival would like to help the department of public health to create these guidelines and to support the entertainment commission in reopening the arts industry safely. this can be done through a prototype outdoor festival at fort mason on october 24-25, 2020, just before the rainy season starts. this event can be a way to test operations, guidelines and procedures for outdoor performing arts. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, lisa. going to screen share for one moment. all right, the next person in line to speak is a person named shau shau. hi, sasha, you are unmuted. you can go ahead and speak. you have two minutes. >> caller: can you hear me, can you hear me now? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. >>> caller: i'm sasha higby. i have seen the way that arts can feed our spirits, both individually and communeally. i'm speaking this evening to ask the city to advance the priority of outdoor performing from phase

you might want to contact your local health department about that and see where they are. they have covid-19 restrictions as well. masks and social distancing. obviously they can't take as many people as they have in the past. eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> the beach is also a popular spot today. the crowd started to build early in santa cruz and surfers hit the waters. we spotted plenty of people at crown beach and they were doing a good job of maintaining social distancing. governor newsom is warning every californian to do their part to conserve energy during the heat wave. >> if you want to remind your kids to turn the lights off, this is the time to do it. >> california is under a state wide alert to limit power use as much as possible during the hours, 3 to 8:00 p.m. governor newsom said the next 7-10 days are critical for the state with many people seeing triple digit temperatures. the heat is not an excuse to not wear a mask. >> so true. it was too hot to play outdoors today and for some too miserable to focus on learning. school districts may be aware there could be

. >>> the health department has ordered a restaurant to take down the igloo domes.encouraging customers but the health department says the domes and don't allow for adequate airflow. the owner reported receiving hate mail from people seeing the domes as anti-homeless. >>> city hall reopened its drive-through service window. the first time they have used it , the goal is to provide a contactless approach during the pandemic. residents can pay utility bills without leaving their vehicle. facemasks required for the employees and residents. the drive-through is open during the week from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00. >>> your smart phone could detect type ii diabetes using a smart phone's built-in camera and flashlight as a tool to detect blood volume changes in people's fingertips. overall researchers were able to correctly identify the presence of diabetes and 81% of patients. through signals captured by an app. >>> coming up, a difficult time made harder by the pandemic. help people mourning the loss of their pet or finding support from a new breed of counselors. >>> and we w

disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis of our lifetime, that the health department'srable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could've been. so in the middle of a global pandemic, your health commissioner's essentially saying that you side lined the experts. a very serious charge. how do you respond to that? >> well, first of all, wolf disagree respectfully with the initial assessment there. it's a resignation. there is a statement there of her own assessment. but that's not the same thing as a resignation and protest by any stretch. this is something we talked about for months here in new york city. using all of our agencies, our public health agency, health and hospitals which runs 11 hospitals and 70 clinics, has tremendous projection capacity out into our communities. it's the operational agency health department has tremendous expertise. we combine that to create our test and trace core, which is now the largest in the nation and is helping us to keep our infection level down to 1%. that's what i reported to new yorkers this morning. 1% infect

>>officials with the health department say outdoor gyms and fitness centers they can reopen beginning september 9th. the latest numbers on the virus there are 4400 new cases in the state. today 140 new deaths the bay area saw 870 new cases with alameda and santa clara county 8 reporting. more than 200 cases. there were 6 new local deaths from covid-19 and we do have details on our website kron 4 dot com. more than 180,000 people have died from the virus and the and health experts are forecasting that thousands more will die within just a few weeks. the cdc says by september 19 3 weeks from tomorrow, as many as 200,000 people we'll have died from covid-19 thousands more deaths than projected just last week. the cdc facing a lot of criticism over its decision to ease testing guidelines. washington correspondent joe khaleel sat down with doctor deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task force to learn more about the changes. >>lawmakers are slamming the centers for disease control for changing its guidelines on testing the cdc for the oval office to determining. what the criteria a

the team must get a waiver from the local health department. the seawolves were already doing some of these things. >> they are very similar. you have to stay in cohorts. you have to take temperatures. we are more stringent in that we assign lanes. everybody has to have the same lane and we don't change lanes. >> even with all the restrictions the team believes the workouts are good for the mental and physical well being of the nearly #90 kids who take part. they range in age from kindergarten through high school. there is only one drawback. >> absolutely no meets. just practice. >> reporter: that probably means no meets before 2021 and even then probably no spectators allowed in to view the meets in person. in brentwood, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> in the east bay there is another legal twist in the battle to build a new water front ballpark for the oakland as. the team announced today it is filing suit against the state's department of toxic substances control. the as are accusing the agency of failing to regulate environmental law against a

health officials. >>well the department of public health says that the problem is not affecting actual test results hospitalizationr icu admission numbers. officials have said that that data is collected through a different system. >>still ahead, san jose police chief eddie garcia is calling it a career and we're going one on one with the chief about his nearly 3 decad of service to the south bay. and we'll take a live look outside of conditions that the approach the richmond sandra fell bridge still cloudy there but very light traffic this >>welcome back everyone to the south bay, san jose's longtime police chief is preparing to pass on the baton to a new leader chief eddie garcia announced this week that he will indeed retire at the end of the year. he served as chief since 2016, but he spent nearly 3 decades in the department during his tenure, the department instituted body-worn cameras a public use of force dashboard and other progressive measures. garcia presided over a rebound from low morale a chronic under staffing amid budget cuts and pension reform. mayor sam liccardo and others praise chief garcia has

but the contra costa health department says that is too risky. it is refusing to support any of these waivers even schools in counties on the governor's watch list. they can apply for a waiver. but then they've got to take additional steps to be approved in any case health officials in contra costa county say no way until the rates of new cases and hospitalizations are stable for at least 2 weeks i think it's appropriate i think this intelligent until we get this under control why should we ask for more problems. >>the evidence is coming out pretty clearly that. indoor spaces are really increase the danger. why take that chance. >>the california federation of teachers is warning that reopening campuses would be reckless the waivers to reopen schools ultimately will be permitted on a county by county basis. across the country the start of the new school year is already proving it will not be easy to avoid covid-19 in the classroom camila bernal has the latest. >>questions it's very difficult confusion, there's a lot of contradictory information an

. >> reporter: in alameda county parents are frustrated and confused as to why the health department allow waivers for in person instruction. contra costa county is accepting applications, santa clara county even had some approved. despite state guidelines allowing these waivers for elementary schools, alameda county us is no. >> wire other counties doing this in not alameda county?ve t but i'm not hearing the rationale. it's hard when we see other counties whose numbers aren't as good as ours to starting this process. >> reporter: meanwhile there allowing other activities to resume, everything from wine tastings to outdoor salon services the pools. >> those are all great things. i would've loved the pools to open in the summer when we had kids all day with nothing to do. but right now i don't need a pool for my kids, and your classroom. >> reporter: there is a glimmer of hope. today the county health department issued a statement saying they are quote, planning to gauge interest from alameda county schools in applying for waivers. >> obviously there are schools asking public health

reporter: then there's politica pressure when the colorado county where emily brown ran the health department wanted to reopen she found herself at odds with the commissioners. >> i thought it was too soon i was concerned this would be much too soon for the health of our community. >> reporter: she was fired shortly after. >> we are all left safe when we lose these seasoned health officers who have led their counties and their states for many years. it's really important we support the ones who are in office. and that we support science. >> reporter: speaking out for a profession under fire during a pandemic kate snow, nbc news, new york. >>> we're back in a moment with the newest high tech health, robots making life safer and easier for frontline workers. >>> we're back with our series search for solutions and the robots now helping humans in the battle against covid-19 jake ward has the story. >> reporter: at this dallas hospital a robot called moxi is the newest medical assistant. moxi works full-time delivering ppe, covid-19 tests, and even helps keep inventory. >> she's become a member o

this is after a successful appeal to the county health department kron four's charles clifford has the story from sunnyvale. >>well all around the bay area, many parents are hoping to get their kids back into the classrooms as soon as possible here in sunnyvale in sunnyvale a christian school right behind me they have received a waiver from the santa clara county public health department allowing them to resume in person classes the school says so far it's only been 2 days but so far things have gone well. in order to be granted a waiver by the county the school had to make changes to prevent the spread of coronavirus students, teachers and staff are now required to wear masks remain 6 feet apart, wash their hands frequently visitors are also not allowed on campus and the school has made changes to allow the kids to learn outside as much as possible. vice principal margot dixon says so far the students are adjusting to the changes pretty well they've adapted really quickly and it's mainly just keeping them. the 60 department inside the gate >>we have little dots on the ground that we'v

>>after checking the covid-19 data dashboard for every county health department in california. we're learning dozens of them are affected some even saying the impact of this is severe. at least 23 counties across california say their covid-19 data could be under reported because of issues with the state's electronic reporting system for diseases, the effects felt in county health departments all across the state san joaquin county's dashboard thursday, but the problem could date back to as early as july 27th saying the data is severely delayed in sonoma county health officials reportedly say its latest accounts could be missing about a 3rd of its actual covid-19 cases this issue may impact your ability to receive all our reports in order to investigate cases. >>and contact trace. the extent that we've been doing as quickly as we've been doing differently state health leaders first acknowledged the problem tuesday after california reported its slowest single-day case count since early july the issue mainly affects case counts not actual test results deaths or hospitalizations an

i learned last week because of my exposure to data in the health department. i currently live in the census track, in the bay view. i'm a native here, born and raised here, that has the highest cases of covid. oh god, i'm scared to leave my house even for a basic need. there are people that are walking around and they're not thinking about public health recovery. they're not thinking about economic recovery. a lot of these people don't even wear masks and they're not just the black people. it has a different layer added to it in our community. that recovery requires the voices from our community to be leading those conversations. what recovery looks like is not the same as in the bay view. thank you. >> i -- very quickly. >> go ahead. >> and i think that was a perfect segue into one of my points about the community aspect. i was thinking since young people are now one of the fast ers populations to be contracting covid, i have this crazy idea, why not hire them to be our contact tracers? they know who are around and who is going to be somewhere and all this ot

industries who are mainly latino are especially vulnerable to getting sick and e fresno county health department says latinos make up roughly half of the county's population but acunt for nearly 70 percent of covid-19 deaths. with me now by skype is esno city council president and enining bykype from fresno is steve randel. thank you both so much for joining us. >> thanksfor having us paid would like you to tell me úabou it so hard to contain the virus among farmworkers. >> these conditions are very specific to farmworkers in inclliving in high density substandard housing with intergenerational living e uninsured and have limited access to healthcare, a lot of them have pre-existing medical conditions like diabetlo and high pressure and they live in an area with the highest pollution rate in the country and they do not have access tofpaid time on a problewith lauage access for language in tracing and they have all been declared essential workers and been given no direct support at the federal level to remain home when they do become infected. >> what would you say needs to be done inorder to lim

i learned last week because of my exposure to data in the health department. i currently live in the census track, in the bay view. i'm a native here, born and raised here, that has the highest cases of covid. oh god, i'm scared to leave my house even for a basic need. there are people that are walking around and they're not thinking about public health recovery. they're not thinking about economic recovery. a lot of these people don't even wear masks and they're not just the black people. it has a different layer added to it in our community. that recovery requires the voices from our community to be leading those conversations. what recovery looks like is not the same as in the bay view. thank you. >> i -- very quickly. >> go ahead. >> and i think that was a perfect segue into one of my points about the community aspect. i was thinking since young people are now one of the fast ers populations to be contracting covid, i have this crazy idea, why not hire them to be our contact tracers? they know who are around and who is going to be somewhere and all this ot

>>after checking the covid-19 data dashboard for every county health department in california. we're learning dozens of them are affected some even saying the impact of this is severe. at least 23 counties across california say their covid-19 data could be under reported because of issues with the state's electronic reporting system for diseases, the effects felt in county health departments all across the state san joaquin county's dashboard thursday, but the problem could date back to as early as july 27th saying the data is severely delayed in sonoma county health officials reportedly say its latest accounts could be missing about a 3rd of its actual covid-19 cases this issue may impact your ability to receive all our reports in order to investigate cases. >>and contact trace. the extent that we've been doing as quickly as we've been doing differently state health leaders first acknowledged the problem tuesday after california reported its slowest single-day case count since early july the issue mainly affects case counts not actual test results deaths or hospitalizations an

solano county's health department is issuing guidelines that would allow employees and the county to test positive for covid-19 to return to work, after isolating for 10 days, even with lingering symptoms. the solano county health officer had said that anyone who tested positive and who has isolated for 10 days is no longer infectious. the guidance is not in line with the cdc, that says people with more serious severe to critical symptoms have been found to be contagious for 20 days, after the onset of the symptoms. >>> and sacramento, lawmakers are debating a bill that labor leaders essay will help save lives and safely reopen california's economy. lawmakers and labor leaders had talked about the proposed bill, saying employers would have to notify workers about covid-19 infections and workplaces, within 24 hours. the virus cases would have to be reported to cal osha and local health departments. >>> workplaces are ground zero for covid-19 out breaks. essential workers are risking their lives, and the lives of their loved ones whenever they go to work. whether it is in the field, the