even though i need, my economy is notood do that first. >> reporter: lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >>> all week we'll be talking with experts in education, leaders in child development, families and teachers. don't miss bay area conversations about education topic. tomorrow, elementary schools. wednesday, middle and high schools, thursday colleges, friday focus on teachers. watch the stories on abc7news.com. >>> developing news, new rounds of evacuations due to largest wildfire in california, apple fire near banning in riverside county, 7% contained. crew from walnut creek is helping. malfunctioning diesel vehicle is to blame more sparking the fire. >>> 30% contained tonight, flames over freeway 14 in clarita. the crews are making good progress. evacuation orders have been lifted. weather a key part of any fire fight. >>> what we have in store ama for rest of the week. >> felt breezy here today, sandhya. >> we're going to see the winds kicking up, fortunately notice a drop in temperatures and humidity coming up in the bay area. let's look at what's ahead. live doppler 7, you will notic

but i will do that first. >> reporter: lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >>> all week we'll be talking withxperts in education, leaders in child development, families and teachers. don't miss bay area conversations about education topic. tomorrow, elementary schools. wednesday, middle and high schools, thursday colleges, friday focus on teachers. watch the stories on abc7news.com. >>> developing news, new rounds of evacuations due to largest wildfire in california, apple fire near banning in riverside county, 7% contained. crew from walnut creek is helping. malfunctioning diesel vehicle is to blame more sparking the fire. >>> 30% contained tonight, flames over freeway 14 in santa clarita. the crews are making good progress. evacuation orders have been lifted. weather a key part of any fire fight. >>> what we have in store ama for rest of the week. >> felt breezy here today, sandhya. >> we're going to see the winds kicking up, fortunately notice a drop in temperatures and humidity coming up in the bay area. let's look at what's ahead. live doppler 7, you will notice that what's ahead is a gu

lianna len dee a lyanne melendez has the story. >> reporter: and inside my nose, i have two receptors that is how the virus gets into my boston. but children don't produce the ace 20 receptors as frequently as i do. >> the implication is that if there is no door for the disease to get in, then there is no or limited disease in elementary age students. so that is why we're seeing that pattern. >> reporter: and elementary school kids also 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 their viral particles drop to the floor which means they can't spread upward towards the adults in the room. perhaps the most important point that ucsf wants to make is that ventilation is key to the kifsh of t spread of the virus. >> and it is not that can't get it, it is that the severity of the illness is lower, which means that anybody including teachers would be less likely to have a bad illness with it. >> reporter: lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> and

lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> classes begin on thursday in contra costa thursday. what classes will look like will be the product from teachers and also, parents themselves. here's laura anthony. >> back to school will look a lot different this year. in contrast to the abrupt shift to online in the spring. this fall's distance learning will be much improved. >> we're going to be offering a more robust and interactive experience for our students. >> that was part of the feedback that we got from parents during our surveys last spring. that the kids needed to have more scheduled time that was similar to a typical school experience. >> in many, contra costa county districts will be in school virtually from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at least several days per week. >> in a given class period, we expect that 50 to 6 0% of the that time would be the teacher talking directly to the kids, instructing them. working with the kids. the rest of that time, while kids are in class, may be independent learning, group learning. one to one time. >> in lafayette, there will be time to b

in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> and you probably saw mother nature put on quite a. our cameras around the bay area captured some of these amazing shots of the lightning show. we slowed down the video so that you can see the bolts. many people around the bay area were woken up by the thunder and are staying up and have been staying up to watch the lightning, including you, lisa, i know it was an exciting morning. >> it was, i had to remind myself, i had to get my tail out of the house and get to work, because it was quite a show from early on this morning. and the winds are with us, we're getting pretty good rain, maybe making your grass a little greener out there, such an interesting phenomenon here in the depths of summer. san francisco, look at live doppler 7, you see the lightning strikes. still plenty out there, although this morning we had over 300 in 30 minutes. as we take you out towards the east bay, you'll notice that some of the heavier downpours are here towards discovery bay. marine county, mill valley, rain down to tiburon, the peninsula district from

abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez tells us about it. in san francisco was still handing out chromebooks in hot spots for students. online classes start on monday. while the school district is hoping everyone will be connected, ithe possibility of outages. claudio tirado is a first grade teacher in san francisco. >> i don't anticipate that that will happen, and if it does, i don't think anyone will be stressed out a non-digital learning materials to work with. oakland unified started classes last week. teacher also do the same, instruct students to work offline'power goes out. in brentwood, where temperatures were above the 100-teeing mark, the school district there is giving teachers the option to work at their school site or at home, assuming one or both of those locationra disco parent of three children. >> we're not used to this hot weather, so he was actually complaining. we have to work with what we have. >> reporter: the reality is that not every school district is concerned because live instruction typically happens in the mornin

in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >>> well, the hot temperatures, wearing a face mask can feel miserable, obviously. but there are ways to make it a little more bearable for you and your children. doctors recommend wearing a light colored mask. make sure your mask has a tight seal around the edge, but not too tight there should be room between your mouth and the mask. a cotton mask may be the most comfortable because it can absorb sweat. and pack a couple of spares if you plan on being outside for a very long time. it might be refreshing to change them up a little bit. but no matter what you're going to do, it's going to be a little uncomfortable this weekend. ama? >> i'd say a lot uncomfortable. let's get to meteorologist sandhya patel. she has the latest on this heat. it's crazy. >> yeah, it is intense. i mean, it's the kind of heat that makes you sweat. everything sticks to your body. it's sweltering, no doubt about it, dan and ama. we'll talk about the records again. we had a dozen records. 103 in san jose today. 102, redwood city. 100 in oakland. 95 san francisco. 99

in san francisco, lyanne melendez. >>> hi, everyone. let's take a look at a live picture from our san jose 87 picture. the shark tank is barely visible because of heavy smoke. the smoke has been fluctuating throughout the day. if you were with us last night the smoke got blown away. air quality began to improve. now it is back downhill again. a spare the air alert has been extended through friday now. poor to unhealthy air quality during that time period. saturday looks mod rare air quality, perhaps a slight shift in wind. fog along the shore line. that helped along with the sea breeze to keep temperatures down. winds come from the west in san francisco at 21 miles per hour. that may help improve thing for parts of the bay area. i want to show you the lnu lightning complex fire conditions. it is cooler today, which has helped the firefighters. winds are coming up a little bit. this is our typical sea breeze for this time of year. around the woodward fire it is cool, humid is up to 90% and the wind is out of the south which is good becau

even though i need, you know, my economy not that good, but i will do lyanne melendez reporting. this afternoon at 4 orks she will have more on how they can be a model for reopening schools. >>> a wildfire in southern california threatening homes and evacuate. coming up next, the bay area firefighters hitting the frontlines. >>> and two nasa astronauts end a 64 day trip in 135space. we'll share their dramatic return to earth. oh, my goodness. always something. happy they made it back. >> yeah, they pull them up and put them on a stretcher, and i'm like wow, that is pretty intense. let's take a look at the weather. hi, everybody. welcome to monday. we'll take a look at our temperatures. away from the coast, we are warmer thanks to arier air mass, northerly wind and even with clear conditions out there with temperatures running -- look at this, 57 in fremont, that is the cool spot. 63 in hayward. we have temperatures running from the mid-40s to the low 60s in most neighborhoods. east bay valleys, a little warmer. concord 65, look at the 70s around brentwood. here is a look at your

as lyanne melendez explains salesforce is now doing something about that. >> reporter: he's financially supporting the way san francisco public schools can reimagine education through the pandemic. >> and we're committed to help our schools reimagine the future of learning that is equitable and safe from anywhere. >> reporter: they'll also invest in programs for san francisco unified that can improve student outcomes. students learn by doing rather than just sitting in the classroom learning the material. >> they can go deeper into >> reporter: the needs and wants of schools throughout the years have changed. in 2013 he gave san francisco unified $2.7 million to buy 750 tablets distributed throughout their 13 middle schools. each principal also received $100,000 to spend in those areas most in need. today the donation is $9 million, and those middle school principals will each receive $200,000. oakland unified will also receive financial support from salesforce. oakland unified will also get $9 million to support the challenges they'll face during the pandemic. >> realizing everything w

. >> this afternoon at 4:00, lyanne melendez will have more are on how daycares that are already openea schools. >>> a covid-19 outbreak at a ymca summer camp in georgia has many parents and educators asking questions about what can be done when children return to their physical school buildings. the high harbor camp put a lot of safe guards in place. the camp even produced a video showing all the steps that they were making in hopes of making parents and students feel better about all of the precautions. and then the camp had to close after 260 of 344 people tested positive for covid-19. >> i was surprised because they had done such a great job with temp checks, with pre-screening, the counselors making sure that they were tested. >> later on gma, you will see the mistakes health officials identified for why covid-19 was able to spread so fast. that is at 7:00 right here on abc 7. >>> joe biden is expected to announce his pick for vice president in the coming days. a democratic congresswoman from california says being vetted for the job is a really interesting process. cnn is reporti

. >> and education report he lyanne melendez and i melendez e building a better bay area back to school week. >>> kids will be starting with brand new backpacks. today district and office deepo handed out more than 800 backpacks. each one is filled with notebooks, pens and other supplies. plus, a >>> and spectators peeking through the holes in the fence. that's a great shot right there. hoping to catch a glimpse of tiger woods. he's 2 under par. >> and there for the first time, scheduled for may. postponed due to the pandemic. pretty tough to watch a golf tournament like that. at least the weather is nicer today. the sun came out under like the arctic conditions you provided yesterday. >> arctic? >> it was, a particular. was not it? today it is more august, if you will. it is 17 degrees warmer than livermore yesterday. let's look at the wind gusts. it is not gusty everywhere. but it is breezy all across the bay area. so bear that in mind. a warm breeze is blowing today. from emeryville, it is 65 degrees right now. low 80s at mountain view. 61 at half moon bay. and check this out from mt

abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez shows you what it's like on the ground. >> reporter: one year agoc berkeley was bustling with students as the fall semester began. today the plaza was noticeably empty as the virus sent everyone learning from a distance. >> all my classes are online. i just had spanish over zoom this morning at 8:00 a.m. >> reporter: the student union was closed and so was the main library. students on campus are limited to one per one. anyone gathering a gathering on or off campus will face disciplinary action. everyone has to be tested and students are meant to self-isolate. >> you are supposed to be by yourself for seven days. but then after that you are allowed to have a small group of people you can go out and do stuff with. >> reporter: more than 50 years ago the steps served as the place students gathered to demand that uc berkeley lift its ban on political activism. today their voices have been temporarily silenced by the virus. still, there was one group protesting today. a cal alumna remembers her days of activism. >> i gathered in support of anita hill. t