This week. The exact date has not been announced. Phase ii means Retail Stores can open for pickup and delivery. Limited manufacturing to open and the counties are finalizing their dinein plans. The hand sanitizers are out, masks are ready and window displays have gotten a bit of a facelift. For some small Retail Business owners like sarah, a tomorrows phase ii beginning is a welcome start. Her familyrun business has taken a sharp hit since the pandemic. Online sales account for only 10 of business because maternity retail, she explains, usually involves a more tactile experience. Tomorrows start to Curbside Pickup its exciting. At least a step. For us as a business, we can continue to move and be there in a slightly different way for customers. So we can try to consult through a window. Reporter but Curbside Pickup may be a temporary fix to the Retail Industry that not everyone srd for. Ron, the owner of assembly hall, in san francisco, says last weeks announcement just wasnt enough time to get things toward neat countys guidelines. A can you please things were sensitive about was the rush to get everybody prepared. We had heard about the opening maybe last wednesday or thursday. We were given guidance but the guidance we were given i feel like was not put together with a lot of folks from different sectors of the Retail Industry. Reporter just likele businesses, he has had to make big cuts during the pandemic. Closing the doors to his flagship location also a Clothing Store in san francisco. Curbside pickup is what he cause a band aid. What he needs more of from city officials cities asking to us cut our service, cut our satisfies space. Like i said, more than 90 and only use 10 of our area. Now were asking, how can we partner with you to work our landlords to reflect this in our daily, our monthly rent . Reporter he hopes business will pick up as he expects to be fully operational curbside by the end of the week. The city leaders say theyre closely watching the spread of covid19 and more restrictions will loosen once Certain Health bench marks are met. In san francisco, nbc bay area nows. As much of the bay area prepares to reopen, cases continue to climb. More than 100 new cases reported today. Alameda county reported 41 new infections bringing the total to nearly 2,400. More economic fallout. Another popular bay area restaurant chain is calling it quits. More from san francisco. Reporter it is very popular in the financial district but for nearly two months, it has not had the foot traffic at lunch type nor the office caterings are a big part of the business. The chain has been around for 33 years. It got started in the bay area and is head quarter in the the bay area. The cafes serve breakfast and lunch and maybe best known for their specialties and cookies. On its website the Company Posted a message saying in part, current Market Conditions adistribute youd to covid19 and shelter in place policies have decimated revenues. The last day of operation will be tuesday may 19th of the sadly, this may not be the last time we hear this kind of economic news. The California Restaurant Association is predicting 30 of restaurants around the state could shut down as a result of this economic crisis. In san francisco, nbc bay area news. This week is shaping up to be a critical one for businesses in san jose. The city council is set to vote on a propose pal would allow businesses to operate outdoors. The this plan would provide businesses, specifically restaurants, access to public space and nearby private property for operations of the a vote on that is scheduled for tuesday. Some rain at times, sunshine, too. Not quite done with all the crazy weather. A live look outside. You can see some rain on the lens there, i believe. More on the way. Im looking at the other cameras. Weve got rain in san francisco. Rob mayeda has decided to tate indoors. The rain and the wind, it was a little crazy in your backyard. It was good helpful tip to write in some of the lawn furniture. I learned that first hand at 5 00. Wind is the story. But were seeing a line of the heavier showers approaching downtown. You can see it very clearly. You can see the cell right on top of the golden gate bridge. What is really interesting is what is taking place off the north bay coast. If you look closely, youre seeing some lightning strikes offshore. That is the outer fringe of this cold pocket of air and intense weather that will sweep through overnight. It will bring us the rare chance of some overnight thunderstorms and hail. On the rainfall totals may not be that impressive but it could come down in about 15 minutes time. So active weather headed our way. Well take a closer look at how long the rain chances could stick around and some surprisingly big snow totals headed toward the sierra coming up in about ten minutes from now. Thank you. Starting or the, californias undocumented immigrants can apply for economic aid. They set up 125 in relief funding with the help of 12 immigrant focused nonprofits. The onetime payments are 500 per adult. A cap of 1,000 per household. Applicants must be 18 years old and undocumented. They must be ineligible for any other benefits and they must be experiencing hardship. The policeman run through june 30th or until funds run out. Students have been out of the classroom for at least two months. While there is distance learning, for some students being in a which is a room is the best way to learn. Now one marin dont School District is preparing to launch a new program. Tomorrow theyll open for special education students. Classes will 12 people in a class at a time. All told. No one else will be allowed in that classroom. We took some furniture out of the classroom to make space for the desks. I teach movie School Association thats sixth, seventh and eighth grade. They their own desk. We moved the desks so they are at least six feet apart. The students that will be coming school are the same students shes all 84 long. Following up on a story we reported wednesday night, on thursday the governor granted special permission to open. Word in restaurants and towns were back open. Business has been steady all weekend. The owner of the grilling and chilling ale house. It spread very quickly and it has been very busy. The customers have come in and been really supportive and were still trying to hold on and ride the ride and see where it goes. The ale house has been able to hire back the 30 workers it was forced to furlough. It is also following strict guidelines. Trabls eight feet apart. Employees Must Wear Masks and gloves. Customers have to wear masks until they sit down to eat. Up next, a north bay weanory getting ready to do business again. And enjoying a book while going for a walk. One way to get kids to read. And were tracking wind, increasing showers and even thunderstorms overnight tonight. What you can expect hour by hour when we come right back. The weathers perfect. Family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. How could it get any better than this . Dad, i just caught a goldfish theres no goldfish in this lake. Whoa its pure gold. Were gonna be rich. Were gonna be rich it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. A healdsburg winery plans to start doing business next week due to creative thinking. Jordan winery may be the first to have found a loophole like the one. Theyll be offering educational nature hikes on the estate that happens to end at the weanory terrace where there happens to be a picnic and wine waiting. So far, only two people at a time can book a hike and picnic. Sonoma county opened parks and trails on may 13th. The only loophole is that the wine has to be taken home instead of opened up to be taken down with that picnic. Pet shelters, a lot of pet owners are struggling and not able to properly feed their dogs and cats. The berkeley Humane Center is trying to help out on fries and sundays. They give out free pet food to known in the area. Organizers expect to ge out more than 25,000 pounds of dog and cat food. We know that when people to have choose between feeding themselves and feeding their pet, theyll often make sure their pet is fed west dont believe anybody should have to make choice. One more time, it is given away every friday and sunday. You can make an appointment or drop into the center. A south bay woman is bringing childrens books to her front yard. Autumn young is engaging her neighbors in the baimd creating what she calls story walks shelf uses lawn signs to tell the story of popular childrens books. Each sign is posted throughout the neighborhood allowing children walking with their parents to read along. She loves to teach kids creatively. Nice job lets check in with rob mayeda. You have some nice dark skies behind you. Dark skies and some very dynamic things. A look to the east. Not too rainy just yet. A muggy high of 74 a b earlier. Look at this view. You can see the farther north we get, the more. Current temperatures in the 60s. We can manage to reach the low 70s. Speaking of the went, the areas in red seeing busts 20 miles an hour. Plan on it staying gusty even into tomorrow morning. Wind speeds 15 to 25 miles an hour. As you wake up tomorrow morning, it might not be the alarm clock. It might be some hail or even some brief thumbed. Thats actually in the forecast. Well see lows in the low to mid 50s. With the general cool trend, mostly mid 60s with some sun at times and the ongoing chance of seeing some showers. Right now, you can see the one cell we have. A shot very clearly moving up toward tiburon out of north and east. You can see the line of showers near half moon bay. More of this. These bands of showers. Not seeing much right the increasing lift as it approaches, bringing the rare bay area chance of seeing some thunder at night. You can see it to the north and east. 11 00 tonight, not seeing a lot of it. Right there, crossing the coast of the north bay. That includes some thunder or some hail. Then i think the more active weather could shift. That i 6 00 a. M. And then mid to late morning, a few more passing showers. And then most of the attention will probably move toward sacramento and fresno where it is not out of question. We might see a severe thunderstorm or two. The snow totals in the sierra, pretty impressive. How about that . You can see a foot of snow by kirkwood through tuesday afternoon. So as the showers move out on tuesday, High Pressure builds back in. Eventually warmer will temperatures. An interesting day tomorrow. Things calm down by midweek with highs starting the week in the mid 60s with thunder ending next weekend. A little bit of everything over the next few days. Interesting weather around the bay area. So after midnight, they can let it all hang out, as the song goes. Thanks very much. Still ahead, paying more at the bump. San franciscos largest corporate Property Management company is defending itself after getting a nearly 4 million loan from the feds. They said they will repay the loan but not immediately. In a statement the company says in part, the 3. 6 million ppp loan enable us us to employ 123 front line workers, many of whom would have lost the jobs without the loan. It is being used for its intended purpose torsion save the jobs of our front line workers. We will not keep it. The company was criticized for employing for and that loan when many smaller businesses didnt get one at all. The House Speaker nancy pelosi called on veritas to return that loan. People are paying more at the pump. This is nationwide. Dont laugh too hard when you hear, it is 1. 97. Thats nationwide. Obviously not here. Experts say prices will likely keep climbing as stayathome orders ease. Now here in the bay area, Prices Higher as always but still far below what the prices with this time last year. In san francisco, a gallon of regular cost you 2. 98. In oakland, it is 2. 88. In san jose, a gallon of regular, 2. 89. Well, memorial day weekend will be a lot different next week than in years past. Widespread traveling is usually the norm but not this year. For the first anaheim 20 years aaa is not issuing a Memorial Day Travel forecast because shelter at home orders are still in effect in a lot of places. States are opening up and businesses are opening up of we expect people to travel but not to the extent in years past. Last year 43 Million People will hit the road. Got planes, trains, buses of the we wont see that this year. We expect to see a record low set for travel volume. Sense aaa started recording stats, 2009 is the memorial day weekend that was least traveled. Coming out of a massive recession, just 31 Million People went somewhere. Anthony florida assees has in sports. How are you . Eye doing great. Guess what. We have a return to racing. Nascars first race in more than two months. Stick around. Welcome back. We have live sports to talk about. Nascar returning to the track for the first time in 71 days. Yeah. A big day for nascar. The first of seven races coming up. This one, the real heroes 400. Nascar doing its best to follow covid19 safety guidance. Kevin harvick from bakersfield dominated from the green flag. He led 159 laps and goes on to win the race. His 50th career cup series victory. I want to thank everyone. I didnt think it would be much different. We miss the fans. Next up, an exfinity race on tuesday. Then another cup series race on wednesday. Both will be in darlington. Plenty of excitement on the links. A live round of golf being televised for the first time in 66 days. Four of the games brightest stars playing in the Relief Charity skins match. World number one rory mcilroy was paired with dusten johnson. All moan going to charter. It came down to a one hole closest on 17. Mcilroy comes through in the clutch. They go on to win the match with 11 skins. More importantly, the entire match raised more than 5 million for charter. Really happy. It was an awesome day. All of us here for a great cause. Yeah. Its been awesome. Nice to get back on the golf course. Very nice to be a part of something so cool. Just to get out and play golf. A little bit competitive. It was a lot of fun. The nba players are ready to return to the court. Thats according to chris paul who is the president of the players association. He told espn, players want to resume the season as long as it is safe. The league is working on safety guidelines. It will take about 25 days for them to get into basketball shape. A decision whether or not to resume the season could come in the next few weeks. More news after this. We end our newscast with a few thoughts about the end of school this year. Particularly those in their final years. Garvin thomas shares some encouragement. Reporter weve heard a lot this week that graduations, about how commencement in a time of covid looks so much different. From drivethrough diplomas it is up to you. Reporter to socially distanced beaches to the mine craft uc berkeley ceremony. None of it even remotely what seniors had been dreaming up for 12, 16, or even more years. It is a little sad. Reporter to those who are mourning the loss of such traditions, we are truly sorry. But sometimes in life the most worthwhile lessons are the hardest ones to learn. And what the class of 2020 is learning is very worthwhile. They are learning early that life is never predictable and not always fair. The world into which they are graduating has rarely been so uncertain but success has never been a reward for those with the fewest challenges. It is for those determined to overcome them. The class of 2020 is learning that kindness can make a difference. They just have to look out their windows to see neighbors pitching in to help each other through this difficult time. And hopefully, above all else, the class of 2020 will one day understand that the walk, the pictures, the parties, while all great, are not what truly matter. It is the hard work they have put in and the bonds they have made that will sustain them going forward. And none of that has been canceled this graduation season. Guard convenient thomas, nbc bay area news. Thanks very much for joining us tonight. We leave with you a few looks around the bay area. Keep in mind, it will be a bit overcast. At midnight tonight, it will break loose. We have some thunder and some rain of the well be back at 11 00 with more on that and all the days news. Doug mcconnell and weve got out here along the open road. Doug well follow children from oakland discovering the natural wonders of the bay shoreline, rolling up their sleeves to clean it and enrich it, and enrich their own lives at the same time. Well explore an open space preserve in marin county, graced by ancient oaks and soaring birds of prey as they and we enjoy eyepopping views all around. Well celebrate long public support from marins inspiring legacy of parks for all, and recent public generosity saving landscapes john muir knew well