Malls and swap meets can open with social distancing modifications. Napa county reopened yesterday after becoming the first bay area county to expand into its phase two of reopening. Other parts of california are defying state orders to reopen faster. This growing sense of restlessness. Jobina . Thank you, kumasi. Good morning. Leaders will allow businesses and churches to reopen under governor newsoms plan. Thats not supposed to happen until phase three. Tulare county is one of the hardest hit with more than 1,500 reported infections and 73 deaths. People in other states have been deinrs. Barbers onhe ste capitol lawn to push for quicker reopening. In illinois a state representative there was removed from the chamber after refusing to comply with safety measures. Health officials are worried about setbacks here. In chicago and in michigan, the ford plants temporarily closed because three workers tested positive for coronavirus and they were supposed to be returning to work. Kumasi . Thank you, jobina. Happening today, we expect to get more details about the closing of San Franciscos oldest lgbtq bar because of the covid19 pandemic. The stud is closing after 55 years and they say its because of a lack of revenue because of our shelt ee eshelterathome o. It opened in 1966 as the Gay Rights Movement was growing. The owners plan to give more details today about plans for a drag funeral to honor the studs legacy. According to the bay area reporter, the owners say they eventually hope to reopen at a new location. In a tweet state senator scott wiener said some of my earliest memories of sf nightline where at the stud. The stud survived hiv. It did not survive covid19. San mateo county leaders petition the Jefferson District to hold the site. It will be held weekly on wednesdays and thursdays. So how compliant is california when it comes to basic health and Safety Standards . When it comes to flu vaccinations, california is pretty much at the bottom of the list. But Health Experts at ucsf argue it wont stay that way once we have a Covid Vaccine. Stephanie sierra has these details. Reporter california is struggling when it comes to flu vaccination rates. According to an iteam data analysis, 47 of the states population was vaccinated last year, far below the National Goal of 70 . Leaving california ranking low on the list. 36 in the nation. So, can we expect that same trend when we get a Covid Vaccine . Dr. Supulvada says its not likely. With a Covid Vaccine will be exceedingly high. We all will want to be vaccinated if we have a safe and effective vaccine. Reporter the executive director for the Global Health sciences at ucsf. Despite low rankings with flu vaccinations, he expects just the opposite for covid vaccinations. Covid19 has a case fatality rate ten times higher than influenza. If and when we have a safe and effective vaccine, we will see people lining up. My guess is that even antivax people will people will be lining up to get a vaccine because of the fear. Reporter his team ranks california as above average when it comes to Overall Health and safety. The latest cdc data backs up. For certain vaccinations like the measles, mumps vaccine. California ranks above the National Average with more than 96 receiving the mmr last year. Dr. Supulveda says its necessary for trends like that to continue as soon as a reliable Covid Vaccine is available. This virus will not go away. Scientists may have a new weapon against coronavirus and the technology could be sitting in your living room. Oh, we love to see this. A moment of joy after a twomonth fight against covid19. A hospitals longest coronavirus patient finally getting to go home. You could tell hes so happy. And we are happy for him. Yes. First checking in with our friend mike nicco tracking the forecast from home. Good morning, mike. Good morning, kumasi. What a sign of strength and happiness to see that happen. Lets talk about what is going on temperature wise. If youre stepping out, almost the same as it was yesterday. East bay inland neighborhoods where we have 60 around antioch and a lot of low to mid 50s in the tryvalley under a clear sky. Along the coast and the peninsula and the east bay, especially south of the bay bridge. Temperatures there in the low to mid 50s. 58 in oakland and up along the north bay where its pretty clear. We have upper 40s and you may want to dress warmer there. 53 with a few clouds hanging around san jose. Lets talk about your commute today. Other than minor morning clouds, ought to be cool but seasonal if youre taking mass transit. Breezy, Small Craft Advisory for the commute on the water. Some neighborhoods, the east bay were still seeing some clouds and 57 at 8 00 and total sunshine is 71 around 2 00 and dropping down to 60. Look at those upper 70s for several hours this afternoon. And then here in San Francisco, 57 with mostly, partly cloudy conditions and become breezy around 2 00 as we top out around 65 and temperatures dropping to of 0 in the afternoon hours. Well look at the weekend heat and, first, hi, jobina. How are you and hows traffic . Mssed you, too. Traffic is good, mike. Thank you. We love your hair cut. I saw that barbara gave that to you. Well have to hear more about. Well start off with a live look in emeryville showing youal 0. So far so good for our commuters that need to leave early. Look at that decent amount of headlig headlights. More and more people returning to work. In San Francisco, i have anyo the city is closing more streets to traffic as part of the slow streets program. The idea is to create space for people to get out and exercise and keep their social distance. A new location between sanchez and 22 and 30th street and Caesar Chavez and 14th street. You see all of them highlighted on this map and the city wants to add 13 more locations. We will be right back after the break. Hey, there. Hows it going . If you said fine, great. If you said something else. Thats why im here. I want to let you know it is okay to not be okay. Theres so much going on right now. You might be feeling anxious, overwhelmed, depressed. Youre not alone. If you are in crisis, there are places that can help. Go to fortunately, this one stcan handle it all. Shop lowes for free delivery and save on a new whirlpool refrigerator. Discover whats possible at lowes. Com. Z3w6kz z1s6z y3w6ky y1s6y youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Lets return to the roof camera and show you what is going on especially as you look at the ferry building. The flags this afternoon as a brisk breeze will hold our warming trend to seasonal levels. Right now about 53 right there on the embarcadero. Right now low to mid 50s through 7 00. Stay in the low 50s at the coast and 70 to 73 with quicker sunshine today bay and inland. 72 to 78 at 4 00 and 50s and 60s at 7 00. Around the state pretty quiet everywhere and 97 in palm springs the warm spot. But look what happens this holiday weekend. Lower to upper 90s up and down and even around burbank well get to near 88 degrees by memorial day monday. More on that heat wave here at home. Coming up. Now an abc7 news live desk update. At the live desk im following pg e settlement. The California Public utilitys commission is expected to approve a 13. 5 billion settlement some time later today. If approved pg e will compensate wildfire victims in august. About 70,000 victims have filed for claims pg e was found libel for starting several wildfires including the 2018 camp fire that killed 85 people. The unility company is trying to wrap up its bankruptcy next month to qualify for a 20 billion Wildfire Fund and that money will help cover the cost of future wildfires. Kumasi. Thank you, jobina. Ucsf longest staying coronavirus patient is back at home after spending 60 days in the hospital and 34 of those days on a ventilator. Yesterday a small army of doctors, nurses and staff were there for the big sendoff. Leeann helped capture the emotional moment. Reporter in the scheme of things, these uplifting sendoffs of Covid Patients never get old. Its a miracle im alive. So, thank you so much. Reporter ron temco was hospitalized at ucsf on march 20th after complaining of flulike symptoms. Thiz condition got worse ending up in the icu where he spent 44 days. 34 of those on a ventilator. Heres a photo of ron before his ordeal. The couple had been to europe and south africa. Their last day was in england before returning to San Francisco. Even though they traveled together, rons wife, linda, never had any symptoms. She eventually tested negative for covid19. Its like a tornado. It comes through and picks up a house here and goes around and picks one a couple blocks away. You just dont know. Reporter ron says it was his nurse, Jason Bloomer who reassured him that there was life after covid. Once i had that in my head that there will be an end to this no matter how long it took, everything turned around. Reporter much to look forward to. Enjoy watching my grandkids. See my grandkids. And then just enjoy my second life because this is life number two. Reporter in San Francisco, leann millenn des, abc7 news. We love to see that. Bluray players are now part of a study to see if their laser can help kill coronavirus. Physicists say the blu ray laser it self doesnt kill the virus but if you add a small crystal it creates a type of uv light that can kill the virus and it is not posing that much of a risk to us. If this whole package is this big, you could imagine making a mask that has a uvc batterypowered lamp in it that is cleaning the air that you breathe. So, the bluray sterilizes pretty cheap compared to medica. Researchers hope to know this by the small when whether the small piece of technology can help us. More social distancing circles are going up in San Francisco places like dolores park as you can see here from drone view7. The painted circles are intended to help park goers stay six feet apart. Some people call them city parking lots. Youll remember mayor london breed threatened to close parks that attract too many people who ignore the rules. I think this is a good idea, mike. I feel like when ive been out in the parks, most people have been in their little areas, but its always helpful to have a little guidance. Right. Takes the guessing game out of it, and maybe someone is too close, should i sit here or not sit here . Thats a good idea. Definitely something a sign of the time, isnt it . Absolutely. People are going to want to get out to dolores park this weekend and into earlyext week as temperatures will try to reach 80 in parts of San Francisco during our longest and strongest heat wave of the year. Now, thats coming this weekend. Until then, sunny and breezy and comfy today and tomorrow. The good news, it will return to the 50s and 60s at night. So, no matter how hot it gets during the day, at least well get relief overnight. Fog forecast. How quickly it goes away by noon and even along the coast for better part of the day, well see a lot of sunshine as the breezes pick up during the afternoon hours and spill into the bay and into the south bay. Even with quicker sunshine, that will hold our temperatures in check today. Mid to upper 70s in the south bay. 80 in gilroy and san jose. And head up the peninsula, a lot of low to mid 70s today. 69 the cool spot in millbrae and mid 60s along the coast. And upper 60s for downtown, south San Francisco and sausalito with mid 70s to near 80 through the north bay valleys. The shore will keep us around 71 to 74 degrees and even in our east bay inland neighborhoods, the breezes will reach the trivalley and upper 70s there. Low 80s from concord out to brentwood at 85. Tonight 40s up in the north bay and low to mid50s a lot like this morning. Heres a look at my accuweather sevenday forecast. Tomorrow a lot like today. Temperatures away from the coast and then starts to get warm. 80s and 90s and hottest days monday and tuesday. Good news at the coast, it will stay near 70. So, the air conditioners, they will be running hard for several days. I mean, upper 90s for a couple days inland. It will be the real deal, kumasi. Thanks, mike. Apple is making it a lot easier to unlock your phone while you have a face mask on and facebook will start reopening offices worldwide starting next month. Heres techbytes. Unlocking your phone while wearing a mask. A feature on apples new operating system makes that process go more quickly. If youre wearing a mask swipe up once from the bottom of the screen and youll see the option to enter your passcode. Bloomberg says the company will allow facebook workers to return july 6th. Offices limited to 25 capacity and staff will reportedly undergo regular temperature checks and be required to wear face masks. Finally, one of the biggest podcasting deals ever. Joe rogan is taking his pod cast, the joe rogan experience to spotify in a deal likely worth more than 100 million. Rogans full library will be moving exclusively to spotify. His video podcasts will no longer be available on youtube. Those are your techbytes. Have a great day. A bald eagle tries to take the fast lane, but not in the air. A group effort to rescue it from freeway traffic. Pretty much whatever you want, there is an app for that. Silicon valley is working on apps to help you get safely back to work. And we know a lot of people are struggle to cope with the feeling of isolation and other challenges brought on by the shelterinplace. Thats why abc7 news is hosting a town hall on Mental Health and coronavirus. You can watch it this afternoon at 4 00 p. M. Right here on abc7. Reggie aqui will be hosting that and you can also watch it on our streaming platform all right. Welcome back. Its about 4 52 on this thursday. You see tree pollen, wheat pollen, grass pollen. All kind of mold spores and 15, 20minute burn time. I want to show you the drought monitor. It is going to be updated today. What im expecting to happen is maybe shrink just a little bit here and a little bit across the northern part of the state. Otherwise, i think were holding steady. The kn ngood news about this drought, its shortterm drought. Most of our reservoirs are pretty healthy. Kumasi . Thanks, mike. Another focus for building a better bay area is the changing workplace and that includes our commute. There is a potential for gridlock as people head back to arless ly toubcoc distancing continues. Already more traffic on the San Francisco skyway leading to the bay bridge. Transportation leaders are calling on the city to get ahead of the curve. We believe we have a very narrow window of time in order to set the Transportation System up so that the citys economy is not strangled in traffic congestion. The city is encouraging people walking or bicycling if they can. Were focusing on our health. An app could protect Public Health while getting back to work. Four apps to allow people to selfreport symptoms like a High Temperature and track inventories of face masks and other protective equipment, as well as track infection trends for companies with offices in multiple locations. The app also manages workplace safety. As a manager, you can start to assign how many people are going to be in some places at certain times. And you can make sure that people socially distance and that the environment is stau sterilized and schedule cleaning crews to go in. Apple and google have been working together to allow their ios and android mobile phones to run independently developed apps to enable contact tracing, which alerts you if youre exposed to someone who is tested positive for covid19. A bald eagle, oh, man, sorry, friend. I was ready to see this eagle. Me, too. I was looking ahead going, bald eagle, this has to be a good story. Let me jump in and show you what it will be like this weekend. Hi, again, everybody. Start with saturdays temperatures and you can already see above average from that 67 in San Francisco to that upper, mid and upper 07s around the bay to 80s inland and 90s start showing up in antioch and fairfield. Look how they spread to the north bay, south bay and even redwood city 88. 73 in San Francisco and maybe a little underdone. And 84 in oakland. We know monday and tuesday are going to be our two hottest days moving forward. All right, lets get back kumasi and learn about the bald eagle. The bald eagle tried to take the fast lane and is now on the road to recovery. All right. Heres the video, you guys. Look at this eagle. Just spotted on i5 in reading during yesterdays morning commute and chp officers were able to get it off the road thankfully. Wildlife officers came up with a plan to get the bird to safety. They used blanks at as you can see to cover the eagle and cornered it against the fence and, finally, this bird does not look happy. Dont look at me like that, i didnt do it. Once you can take their vision away, it works pretty good. We were able to get him without incident and worked pretty well. So, officers arent really sure why the bird lost flight, but it was taken to a rehab center to be evaluated. Hpy ite next at 5 00, the battle between church and state. Pastors planning to defy the governors order and hold services very soon. The new normal at California Public schools. The changes you will see when they are able to reopen. And a candid interview with the son of late actor and comedian robin williams. He is that could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Pushing ahead with fall plans. What the uc president is envisioning on campuses in just a few months. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, may 21st. Hi, kumasi, how are you doing . Im well, friend. How are you doing . Im alive and enthusiastic. This is good. This is early for this. This is good. I know it is. Well see how this goes. Mike nicco. Youre back. Good to see you, again. You, too, reggie. Thank you very much. I like that shirt. Lets take a look at what is going on. Hi, everybody. I want to put the winds on there. Theyre not an issue now. Less than ten Miles Per Hour now. I put the clouds on there to show you clouds developing along the peninsula coast but the winds an issue later on today. Look at that, already starting to see some stars and lack at our exploratorium camera. The same as yesterday, but look at all that sunshine. Now, it will be tempered by breezy conditions this afternoon. Ill keep us near 60 at the coast and 72 around the bay to 78 inland and 50s and 60s if youre going out for an evening walk, you might want to take a light jacket because the breezes will make it feel cooler than that. One more day of comfortable breezes and then the heat is on for the holiday weekend. Ill have that coming up next. Heres reggie. Thanks, mike. Uc schools moving ahead with systems for the fall and campuses will reopen, at least partial partially. Because of the pandemic, our efforts are focused on these four key areas and that includes education. Ucs approach is different than