What you need to know: Aug. 18

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Here's what you need to know to start your day on Aug.

18.

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Happening today- chico city council will be meeting tonight in person at the chico city hall.... on the agenda... how to divy up funds recieved from the cares act... and the first reading of two ordinances that could provide a path for cannabis businesses in chico..

Members of the public will be allowed address the council... welcome back.

Here's what you need to know to start your day.

This morning the potters fire is still burning north of oroville... its now 800 acres in size... with no containment..

The butte county sheriff's office has evacuation order* in place for the surrounding areas.

We have a full list of those warnings at action news now dot com..

Cal fire is grouping the potters fire into the butte complex fire..

It includes the 2-24 fire..

That one is 330 acres burning in the area of forest ranch and doe mill... with no containment..

Gov.

Gavin newsom is demanding an investigation into two small blackouts on friday and saturday.

On monday though the state avoided a third day of rolling blackouts.

California power grid operators are still keeping a wary eye on the thermometer -- as a heat wave continues to threaten the electrical grid.

### and...shasta and butte county reported new cases of the coronavirus monday.

In butte county 51 new cases were confirmed, for a new total of 1421.

390 of those total confirmed cases are between the ages of 18 and 24.

In shasta county 20 new cases were confirmed along with one death.

We know it was a man in his 80s.

Two more corning high students tested positive for coronavirus... in total to three corning high football players have tested positive.

The superintendent say they wre not able to determine if those students were infected at football practice or somewhere else..

The district superintendent says they plan to continue with in person classes.

### the cornoavirus is now the third leading cause of death in the u-s... ahead of accidents, injuries, lung disease, diabetes, alzheimer's.

Nationwide.... more than 170 thousand americans have now died from the coronavirus..

Based on johns hopkins university figures... the number of known covid-19 cases in the u-s doubles roughly every two months.### the democratic national convention continues today the mostly virtual convention is scheduled to run through thursday night.

The convention is set to formally chose joe biden as its nominee for the 2020 election..

New york senator chuck schumer... former president bill clinton... and the former second lady, dr. jill biden.

Progressive congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortes is also scheduled to speak this evening... a change to university curriculum signed by governor gavin newsom monday.

Starting in the 2024-2025 academic year students at california state university will need to take an ethic studies course on order to graduate.

All csu campuses must*offe* courses on race and ethnicity by the 2021-2022 academic year.

This is the first change to the csu general education curriculum in over 40 years.## you're never more than 10 minutes away