Online creativity. How much screen time is too much, and how to solve itp 3. Cover up or payup. That may be the edict for San Mateo County. The board will meet to consider an emergency ordinance for individuals who violate the states Public Health orders. How would San Mateo County implement the fines . Luz pena has answers. Reporter it hasnt even been 24 hours since mateo county businesses were mandated to close. Well fine you if youre not wearing a mask. This solution around fines, it brings attention, but the second thing it does, it saves lives. The emergency ordinary nens opposed by a supervisor, a written warning first. If a person does not comply, there will be a 100 fine for the first violation, 200 for the second. And 500 for the additional violations. Right now, its a misdemeanor, you could do 90 days in jail and the fines at 1,000. What were trying to do is take it out of superior court, out of criminal court. And bring it into civil court. With 5683 covid 19 cases and 119 deaths. This bay area county was the last to join the watch list, theyre hoping these changes will help them reopen soon. Last year at this time is was 1 unemployment, right now its 10 . We approach among solid law enforcement, especially in these tmes, you want to work with your Community Members to gain compliance. Officials will approach a peson or business whos not implementing mask wearing. Multiple county departments will be allowed to cite. Were not going to be looking for people not Wearing Masks, people are going to report people not Wearing Masks in an unsafe manner, we will respond or park rangers will respond. Or Code Enforcement officers will respond. Reporter if approved, it will be implemented right away. Freemont already imposes a 100 fine. Napa county has fines up to 500 for individuals and 10,000 for businesses. Contra costa county also has fines. Sonoma county votes on fines later this month. A Shopping Mall in the peninsula, the enclosed portion of the mall is now offlimits to shoppers. California ordered San Mateo County to shut down in store sales yesterday after the county landed on the watch list. Hillsdale is an indoor outdoor mall and the intire north end is open for outdoor dining. Both of those have exterior entrances. Neimanmarcus, sephora are open, which is different from last time, which is great. Abc 7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow is in the newsroom with the story tonight. The governor is praising today what hes calling the imperial approach or the imperial model. The Additional Resources were sent to the county. The governor saying the approach will be used elsewhere as needed. Governor newsom beginning with good news today across california, the total number of people testing positive for covid19 are going down. As are hospitalizations and icu patients. Health officials want to see a marked decline in return to normalcy. As it relates to being able to open up our businesses with some expectation that they can remain open, so they dont have to go through this back and forth, back and forth. The whip saw is being felt in counties like san mateo. Which had reopened certain indoor businesses like nail salons, before finding itself on the watch list. 38 counties on the list, including every bay area county. More respective in these counties and certainly more restrictive as it relates to reopening our schools. Seasonal, and ascrease in key clebratistly different in the coming months. This virus is not going away. Its not going to take halloween off or the holidays off. The governor reminding californians to wear a mask, wash their hands and minimize mixing even with family members. Until we have quality therapeutics, a vaccine we are going to be living with this virus. There was a question today about those School Waivers for those schools that want to have in Person Instruction even though theyre on the monitoring list those instructions would finally be provided this afternoon for schools that want to apply. Thank you. In the east bay, dna from trash and records from genealogy website have led to an arrest. The Sheriffs Department said today that lisa lopez is in jail in connection with the death of her baby about she lived in Castro Valley at the time of her babys death. She was 20 years old. Two years ago, a lifeless baby boy was found inside a bag in Castro Valley. The arrest comes from the help of a private dna lab and fbi. Marathon martinez is idoling its huge facility in the east bay. The Ripple Effect that will be far reaching for other Small Businesses and the county budget as well. Leslie brinkley dug in for details on whats next. Reporter its not just the prospect of losing salaried and union jobs at this complex. Its a lot of work for hundreds of contractors. This coffee shop across the street from the refinery entrance is reeling from the news. Disbelief, how do you close a refinery. 9 of the countys total budget is the refineries that operate within the county. Every week i receive notices of jobs that are evaporating, disappearing permanently from contra costa county. This is like ive been in a series of waves, heres a huge wave coming forward. Not sure how many large employers will have a shutdown of this magnitude. The plant will be turned into a storage terminal. Marathon martinez refused to do an interview. They will phase out employees and will be completably the end of the year. Were seeing a reduction in the demand for fossil fuel. The idling of this facility is really a forecast of the future. At the same time theyre shutting down, marathon told him they will be seeking a permit to modify the property into the largest Renewable Diesel facility in the u. S. Possibly opening by 2022. Pain in the short term, perhaps a gain in the long term. In the east bay, lesley brinkley, abc 7 news. This refinery opened in 1913 and originally called the avon refinery after its location of unincorporated contra costa county. Since then they have included fill opens, conoco, marathon bought the refinery in 2018. Now, the pandemic has kids in front of computers, tvs and smart phones more than ever. How parents can find a new balance in oder to avoid old risks. Economic diversity during the Coronavirus Crisis. There is an easy way you can woman chattering [narrator] ordering dinner for the family . family gasps rewarded with a side of quiet. baby murmuring grubhub rewards you, scooter horn honking get a free delivery perk when you order. doorbell rings [group] grubhub. Small businesses have always been important to the economy and building a better bay area. Many have been facing failure as the pandemic has forced them to close. A nonprofit Financial Firm in oakland is providing grants to prevent this, and seeking nominations. David louie shows us the difference its making. They had just opened a boutique in oakland. Then the Coronavirus Crisis hit. This will be the end of our business. We dont know how long well be closed. We dont know whats going to happen. Many Small Businesses, especially those minority and women owned were in peril. Until a micro lender based in oakland recognized it could seek social justice. We wanted to address the needs of two businesses. The Small Businesses that didnt receive ppp grants and two, businesses that had sustained some damage as a result of civil unrest. In only two weeks, her team has provided 239,000 in grants to 60 Small Businesses in oakland, San Francisco and los angeles. Such as a market, fitness center, restaurant, jewelry designer, Dance Company and floral shop. We put in 500,000 and then went looking for some matching money. And Signature Bank came up with 250,000 to contribute to the grant program. Its been a game changer for taylor j. Weve had limited ability for pieces, so were able to increase the inventory as well as increase our inventory wholesale. Anyone can nominate a Small Business for a grant. The Program Hopes to fund 00 more entrepreneurs selected by a lottery in the next two weeks. Were so proud to be an oakland brand in the bay area. Were here to stay. San Francisco Mayor london breed announced a new loan fund to help black owned businesses impacted by covid19. They must document annual revenue of less than 2 1 2 million. An applicants must be for profit. Part of our commitment to building a better bay area includes focusing on education. Between Distance Learning and parents trying to preserve their sanity. Kids are getting a lot of screen time these days. How concerned should parents be about that. Ama dates had a chat with one doctor to help you. Were in a pandemic, working from home. Were stressed to the max. Are we giving our kids a little extra screen time just to get through the day . Youre not ruining your kids. Nobody wrote the guidelines with the asterisk saying heres what you can do during a pandemic. Abc 7 news special correspondent dr. Patel says all is not lost. You can create tech free zones in your house and say, hey, no screen time in the bedroom. Or no screen time at the dinner table. We can encourage back and fourth dialogue as much as we can. You dont want to encourage your children to play. Play is it huge, especially for little kids. Schedule it into the day. Build in time to not be on screens. Whether thats hanging out on your porch, going for a walk if you can. Even board game time inside. Planning stuff where screens arent a part of it, so its the easiest thing to switch into, this is not a screen time for us. When the kids are watching tv. Watch with them. Something the doc asked me if i do . And let me tell you, mamas always down for a little sesame street. We can talk about things, she looks back, shes really excited. Is it w, is it a w . I dont know if its a w, it might be a b. At least were still interacting. Thats awesome, theres some productivity that could be done from that. Speaking of productivity. What about educational apps. Theyre going to play educational, they will get you to pay for them. A lot of them arent, people should be checking those things. People should look to see if theyre educational or just a marketing ploy. We want to make sure theres open communication about them going on to social media, et cetera. Those are all unfortunately, they dont stop by a pandemic. We want to make sure were taking care of their posture and eye health. Theyre getting away from the screen every 15 minutes or so. There are Little Things weve never seen this amount of screen time. When i nobody wants to see six months from now, we all of a sudden have eye strain and headaches and back pain from teens sitting in front of a screen 8 to 12 hours a day. Its a lot to digest. But its about having boundaries and guidelines and dont forget to give yourself a break. We are in a pandemic after all. Ama daetz, nbc news. All week long well be talking to experts in education, leadership and child development. Dont miss our conversation about different educational related topics. Tomorrow well cover elementary school. Wednesday middle and high schools. Thursday colleges and friday teachers. Dont miss it all weak. Whatever your childs age, we got you covered. A little cooling well as to how a have reverse mortgage works. People think that the bank takes your home, but that is not true. Thats absolutely 100 wrong. The home is ours. We can sell it if we want to at any time. I like the flexibility of not having a payment, but i can make the payment if i want to. 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Winds have changed, look at the stiff sea breeze right now out of the west. Gusting to 41 miles an hour. That is going to help drive those temperatures down from our roof camera, you can see the winds blowing the flag and the trees around. Were talking about night and morning drizzle through wednesday. As you look at live doppler 7 right now, fog is cozying up to the coast once again. It will spread into our bayside communities. Were looking back toward the fog there in San Francisco. 63 degrees, 72 in oakland. Comfortable around san jose. Heres the view from our mt. Tammcam. 90 degrees in santa rosa, youre looking at 81 in petaluma. 9 in concord, the hour by hour forecast will show you the drizzle developing along with the marine layer expanding as we head toward tomorrow morning. There will be slippery roadways for the Early Morning commute. The fog will pull back to the coast and hang around there as it typically does around this time of year. Now, when you take a look at the estimated precipitation it will be in the form of drizzle or a light shower. This is taking you through wednesday morning, anywhere from a couple hundreds of an inch to about 4 100 in the westest spots. Temperatures will be in the 50s, 60s. Tomorrow will be noticeably cooler. Inland areas will be warm, in the mid to upper 80s in places like concord and antioch. 78 in san rafael, 74 santa rosa. 74 degrees in palo alto and 77 in san jose. Latest news from the National Hurricane center, Tropical Storm isaias has regained strength to a category 1 hurricane. Its expected to make l carolina coast later tonight. And its expected to weaken. There is going to be heavy rain associated with it, potential flooding. Strong winds and theres a possibility of tornadoeses. Its expected to continue along the Midatlantic States as we head toward the next few days. The problems will remain along the eastern seaboard. Morning drizzle followed by cooler conditions. 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They provided a gift card for shoes and gift card for the family. Weve gathered a list of resources you can check out on our website. Abc 7 news. Com. A lot of people doing a lot of good things. We appreciate your time. Thanks for joining us tonight. For spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. [group] grubhub. Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air in the west. That Tropical Storm has just become a hurricane, about to slam into the east. Millions from the carolinas to boston and new york city. Wind gusts 60 to 70 miles an hour. And the coronavirus tonight. The hospitals in the path of this, already filled with patients. And were also tracking the exploding fires in the west tonight. But this storm, expected to make landfall in the carolinas. Several major cities along the i95 corridor, all the way to new england. Watches and warnings in effect right now. The doctors and nurses bracing. Icus already filled with covid patients. And the shelters bracing for the storm tonight, how theyll screen for