Theyre installing glass barriers between tables and opting for Paper Products and staggered times. The big question is if restaurants in the bay area can open as quickly under the new guidelines and counties can continue to have tougher restrictions. In the south bay, san jose leaders will discuss a creative way to help businesses bring in more customers while also allowing for social distancing when current restrictions ease. It will go before a committee on wednesday. It will allow restaurants, gyms and retailers to do business outdoors. They would u pte lots, streets, sidewalks and other areas. Mayor sam licardo said that would require Health Orders at the state and county orders. Elon musk has plenty of takers if he plans to move out of his plant in fremont. The company could not resume making cars because of covid19 restrictions. Tesla is suing Alameda County for violating due process and. Musk has also received invitations from officials in georgia, texas along with the mayor of palo alto. Across all 50 states a patchwork of rules of what is and what is not allowed and this comes as a pandemic inches closer to the west wing. Jobina fortson has these details at the live desk. Good morning. Good morning, kumasi. Two white house staffers have tested positive for covid19. First, the president s personal valet and now also learning that Vice President pences press secretary has tested positive for the virus. Mike pence is expected to be at the white house including social distancing during meetings and testing anyone who sees the president. This comes as 45 states ease restrictions, even as the number of cases continue to rise in at least 15 of them. I think that businesses, large and small, are probably going to wind up leading this charge as we attempt to reopen the economy. Economically, the white house estimates that things are only going to get worse before they get better. The treasury secretary says unemployment could reach 25 , the current rate right now is at 15 . Kumasi, back over to you. Despite a coronavirus spike here in california, one widely relied upon projection shows death back on the rise. Evaluations say that california could be more could have more than 4,000 covid19 deaths by the end of august and thats up nearly 1,500 from last weeks projection. Daily death and case data, easing of social distancing measures and steadily rising levels of mobility. Families of kids who qualify could get a onetime extra payment to get food during this pandemic. It will come on a debit card and it will arrive in the mail. Families will get up to 365 per child in addition to cal fresh, medical or foster care benefits. The debit cards are expected to start arriving today, but if you dont get it, you have to apply before june 30th. A shark attack kills a surfer on the central coast. What were learning about a promising future cut short. A beloved cafe is closing its doors after more than four decades in. The pandemic isnt to blame for this. The next American Idol could be from the bay area. How you could help carry Francisco Martin all the way to stardom. I am cheering for him. We need to carry him and make sure he wins. Well get to that in a minute. But, first, checking in with you, mike. How was your weekend . First, we need a party. We need him to bring us some good vibes. That would be fun to have him. Holidays are a little stressful for me sometimes, especially mothers day. Because shes my wife, not my mom and i have to try to pamper her. I did my best. And my gauntlet of birthday after birthday and anniversary, mothers day. Take a breath until the end of the month when its our wedding anniversary. Hopefully you had a great weekend, too, everybody. We had muchneeded rain. You notice how brown everything is getting. This will help slow the fire season. Not going to turn anything back green, just not enough rain in this forecast. A lot of low to mid 50s on the peninsula. Lets take a look at other neighborhood and you can see from 49 in los gatos and a lot of us in the low to mid 50s. A look at dry San Francisco this morning from the exploratorium and notice the commute planner. Ella . Amo stay dry today . Things youre out and about. Other than a slight chance of drizzle this evening, really an afternoon and evening event. From 3 00 on in the east bay and notice the temperatures spike right at 72 and steadily drops as we head deeper into the evening hours. Now, as far as whats going on in the north bay, you can see the rain could come in as quickly as 9 00 and hang around in the upper 50s with a chance of rain in the afternoon. San francisco once we get to 1 00, looks like wet weather is on the way and low to mid 60s. Dry commute this morning with jobina. Good morning, jobina. Good morning, mike. Thank you. Yes, dry commute. We do have some wind out there to talk about. We have high wind advisory on 580 through the altamont pass. Things are looking clear. Well take you to a live look right now showing you walnut creek. Beautiful conditions for our early, Early Morning essential workers headed out there. Also have an update for you here. Contract cc myers will pocket 8 million for finishing work on the highway 101 alemany overpass ahead of schedule. Gave them 18 days to finish the work and phil matier reports they offered 1 million for every day the Company Finished before the deadline. Thats some incentive, id say. The Company Completed the work in just nine days. So, very nice. And its open and ready this virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Youre never more than seven minutes away prom your accuweather forecast. This is abc7 mornings. Its back. Check out the storm impact scale. Its only a one. We dont get strong storms in may but at least were getting something. Drizzle possible this morning. Thats really the exception. And then some rain and light showers developing as we head into the afternoon hours and also continue through tomorrow. Up to a half in ch in the north bay. Heres a look at what is going on with our planner for today and you can see temperatures warm up kind of nicely by noon, if you will. Its comfortable. Cooler during the day as the rain increases from north to south. You can see it right here. Never quite getting south of monterey. 82 in fresno and 97 in palm springs. Kumasi . A 26yearold surfer killed saturday in a really rare shark attack off the Santa Cruz County coast is being remembered as an entrepreneur who turned his love for big waves into a promising career. Thats about five miles west of watsonville. A Small Business owner who handcrafted surf boards out of his home and he had a lifelong love for the sport and the ocean. This guy had so much knowledge of the ocean and he understood the area. Hes been traveling all over the world, so, hes one of those guys that you know he understood the risk and you just hope that it doesnt happen. Wasnt anything where he was making a mistake. State park officials have closed the waters in the area where kelly was attacked through thursday. Kelly leaves behind a wife. The station house cafe in Point Reyes Station is shutting its doors after 46 years. In a Facebook Post management said they were feeling confident they could make it through the pandemic after getting an emergency federal loan but their lease was due to renew on june 1 and they cannot afford the proposed increase. The owners do say they are open to find agning e to find agning a to find agning new location. Alameda courts are returning to some kind of normalcy. They are allowing all court orders to be filed, again. Only emergency hearings have been conducted remotely. The county court will continue working remotely as much as possible and ease back into inperson hearings while following social distancing guidelines. Well, happening today, be careful where you park in santa cruz. Those Downtown Parking meters will be enforced, once again, because of a relaxed shelterinplace order, the city expects more people will visit downtown businesses for Curbside Pickup and a park mobile payment app that you can use if you dont watch to touch the parking meeting itself. The next American Idol could be from San Francisco. The next person into your top seven is Francisco Martin. Francisco. Congratulations. Oh, yeah. Really, you are in the American Idol top seven. Thank you so much. He is singing youll be in my heart from tarzan. I just want to hear him sing. Well, fans of the show. Yes, youll be in my heart yes, francisco. Okay. So, fans of the show voted for their top seven favorites and martin is the 19yearold son and he has thrilled the fans from the beginning. Grace leer did not make the cut. If you want to vote for francisco, go to idolvote abc. Com and the American Idol finale right here on abc7. Yes, francisco. Im going to go vote for him during the break. Thats awesome. You know what it was . He sang my song. That is your song. Its the one i wanted to hear. Its a winner, winner. Well, good for him. Congratulations. All right. And grace, im sure she was very graceful in accepting what happened and she did a great job through that. Were very proud of her. A look at walnut creek. Not sure how emeryville got on there and driving on dry streets right now and that is not the case as we head into the afternoon and evening hours as rain and showers develop not only today, but tomorrow. A couple chances to remember how to drive in wet weather and relatively cool the next seven days also and the chance of showers returns sunday and monday. We have one area of low pressure. Really easy to see. The one just off the s there in San Francisco, but behind that another chunk of energy will swing through there and that is why we have a onetwo punch today and tomorrow. Heres a look at future radar and other than the possibility of some drizzle this morning in our higher elevations, the air is relatively dry. Then it starts to get a little bit more moist as we head into the lunch hour and you can see its mainly the north bay that will have some rain and as we head towards 5 00, you can see it weakening. No more yellows, just some greens. And splotchy showersere a chance, but still out there. Lets take a look at the potential for some wet weather and the amounts you could see vary widely because this is not an allday event and not a steady event and its kind of a hit and miss thing and we could have anywhere from a couple hundredth of an inch to nearly half an inch. Here is the steady part. Its going to remain cooler through at least thursday. Back to average friday and cooler saturday and another one on the storm impact scale for sunday. Kumasi. All right, thanks, mike. Robot dogs are patrolling parks in singapore telling people to back up. Actually, theyre saying socially distance. And microsoft is enabling a feature to reply all emails. Heres tech bytes. Tesla threatens to leave california. Elon musk wants to reopen the Northern California plant, but the county says he cant. Not until at least the end of the month. Musk says that violates teslas Constitutional Rights and tesla is suing the county. New way to enforce social distancing on the street. A mechanical mutt is doing the job in singapore. Reminding visitors not to get too close. It barks out a recorded message asking visitors to stay apart. Microsoft is coming to the aid of workers everywhere who suffer from chronic email overload. The companys new office 365 Program Allows you to detect and stop those replay all email chains. The new feature can detect ten reply all emails within an hour. Thank you. Those are your tech bytes. Right. Theres still a need for blood donations. Coming up next, well tell you how you can help out today. One group is deciding to honor our hero moms. The special story behind this delivery for a local nurse working on mothers day. Hi, im reggie aqui. Our new abc7 streaming app just in time because i bet your dog is tired of you, too. Download it on apple tv, roku, fire tv and android tv. How do you do it . Its pretty easy. Navigate to your search war or app bar. On fire tv, it is a search. Type in abc7 bay area. Once it pops up, select it and just hit download. And thats it. Now you can check out what is being featured in our app this week. Get the top news of the day. Check out a live broadcast. Our new original series and, of course, get the latest weather. And also check out any of our previous shows down here in the show section. we may be stopped, thank you. People at higher risk, must take extra precautions. We may be stopped, you are at higher risk if you are over 65, or if you have any serious underlying medical conditions, like heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, or if your immune system is compromised for any reason. If youre at higher risk, wash your hands frequently with soap and water for twenty seconds. Avoid touching your face. Disinfect frequently touched objects. And wash up after being in public spaces. And when it comes to social situations. Less is better. Stay six feet or two arm lengths away from other people. Better still, stay home if you can. If youre sick, please stay home and away from others. And if you think youve been exposed to the virus, call your Health Care Provider before going to their office. In challenging times, the choices you make are critical. Please visit coronavirus. Gov for more information. All right. Lets take a look at what is going to go on with our temperatures. Well start by taking a look at tuesday and you can see that we are still relatively cool. Look at that. Some 50s out there and 60s and 70s and then as you head deeper into the forecast wednesday were still not seeing temperatures close to average. Mid to upper 60s around the bay and upper 60s to possibly a 70 in antioch. I want to try to change this and see whats going to happen thursday. Give me one second here. Im going to fix the camera, not the camera. Excuse me, the time frame. Lets see what thursday has. Thursday a little bit warmer. Well see if that lasts into the weekend coming up. Kumasi. All right, thanks, mike. Happening today in the north vingou to do st blood drive some pand donating is extremely safe and controlled by Staff Members and todays drive is being hosted by mark lavine from 9 00 in the morning to 2 00 p. M. You do have to be at least 17 and make surering an i. D. , eat a healthy meal before you go and drink lots of opened for pickup for brunch and los gatos restaurant had been closed because of shelterinplace orders. Spent mothers day feeding local health care workers. Teamed up to deliver thousands of meals to hospital workers on the job yesterday. The local chapter sent 300 pecla friends an this is agr to do something for our community. Organizers called the event food of love day. Its part of the groups kickoff to mark Asian Pacific heritage month. In San Francisco richmonds district raised thousands to deliver meals to the city. They teamed up to cook up hundreds of delicious mothers day meals. They went to the nurses at st. Marys medical center. This is my wonderful crew. They have been vaccing up very early in the morning and working real hard. They put their soul into the food. Hope everyone can have this food can have the love. I think they felt the love. So good to see. The group has raised enough money to cater meals for the staff at the v. A. And st. Francis and california Pacific Medical centers. We invite you to join better bay area project thanks and share your gratitude for everybody on the front lines of this covid19 battle. Use the betterbayarea to show y you how youre saying thank you. Mike, this is a good way to start off a monday. All this love. Im liking it. Really nice, isnt it . It is. It is. You know, im going to put a little gray in our sky unfortunately today and tomorrow but rain in may, i think a lot of us are like, why not . If it holds off the fire season a little bit longer, which it will try to do. Especially the areas that get half inch of rain. Joining us 4 55 on a monday and a big story a one on our storm impact scale. Lets talk about temperatures low 60s in the coast in San Francisco and near 70 around the bay and south bay and east bay the last areas to receive the wet weather, low to mid 70s for you. Now for tonight, pretty mild cloud cover out there and the heaviest of the rain up in lake and mendocino counties. Temperatures when we wake up the low to upper 50s and a storm system a one through say about 7 00 tuesday evening and thats when this chance of wet weather will go away. Kumasi. Thanks, mike. Helping a shop get through the pandemic. So this is two scoops and they perform every friday at 5 00 p. M. On facebook live. Their goal to help a local ice cream shop survive. We really love a local Ice Cream Store and we have Family Friends that work there and theyve been incredible during the pandemic. Theyve been packaging ice cream ahead of time so you can text people. But we love it. We try a different flavor every week. Love that. So, she says they perform cabaret, jazz and even disney music. It goes to screaming mimis. People had trouble finding disinfectant wipes in store. The head of clorox talks about what theyre doing. Planes pretty crowded, right . This morning airlines are responding to their complaints about the lack of social distancing. And it is a busy time for animal control. The wild animals recently spotted out of their natural habitat. Abc7. Hundreds have submitted their stories online. We have gathered together an insightful group. We have conversations with you. We can build resilience. Disparity. Were trying to create change. And building a better bay area. I feel the underlying concerns of our community. Please, be part of this conversation with us. Race coronavirus, a bay area conversation. Tso is this. And so are these. They all represent something more. The feeling of home. Thats why were here. To help make your home be everything you want it to be. Because home is what unites us. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Now your health, your safety. This is abc7 news. Now at 5 00, bay area travelers are concerned about social distancing after images like this. They were packed on to crowded flights. What the airlines are saying about seating and tight quarters. A new tech could make it easy for us to test for covid19 with the help of our smartphones. The research under way to make it a reality. Good morning, everybody. It is monday, may 11th. I feel pretty good for a monday. How about you, reggie . Im getting into it. Give me like five more minutes. You know what im saying. Ill be here. Mike nicco youll be here. Ill be here, too. What does it look like today, mike nicco. We have already been on the air a half hour. Well wait for you to catch up, reggie. Hi, everybody. Welcome to monday. Let me show you the big story. This area of low pressure. That cold front. Rain is coming today and tomorrow. Chances and again sunday and monday as we head into next week. That is getting well ahead of ourselves. Lets focus on today and already kind of breezy out
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