Friday. We have more sunshine and temperatures are little warmer today but changes are ahead. I will talk about this in a moment. You can see the low clouds on the camera and temperatures are running in the 40s and 50s. San jose is in the upper 40s. We are dealing with some dense fog for you and santa rosa. Through the afternoon we will catch some clearing and sunshine, temperatures where we should be. 66 in San Francisco, 73 in san jose and 74 for concord. We are tracking a strong storm system for the second part of our weekend. I will have details on that coming up. We are tracking some breaking news after a pretty powerful earthquake hit in nevada but it was pretty close to the california border. We have reports in the bay area of people feeling the shaking. Look at the map from the usgs. It shows that a 6. 4 magnitude hit near tonopah, nevada and they have downgraded it to a 6. 2 and now back up to 6. 4 after getting all those preliminary reports. It came after for a llama followed by a 4. 9 in a couple 5. 4 earthquakes in that same area. The most recent one was at 4 30 am. This is halfway between las vegas and reno and like i mentioned, people are reporting hearing it and feeling it in the bay area. Some son said that this is bananas, which is absolutely true. You are feeling the shaking and it is something that speaks to the death of this earthquake. The napa earthquake was about the same size as this. It did cause damage. The nearest actual city is about 100 miles away so we are not expecting major reports of damage but will keep an eye on that back to you. Sonoma county has amended their shelterinplace order. This means cleaning services, carwashes and pet groomers can start reopening. Child care facilities will be open to all families and strip malls can do curbside pickup. Offices can open for employees who cannot work remotely. Cafes, bars, indoor galleries pleasant hair and nail salons must remain closed. They have some folks in the county divided. They listen to concerns from local businesses but now they are getting feedback from the community. Our emails just lit up today for people that are very concerned about the interest in opening up too soon. We always put Public Health at the top but i do believe that we can open up a bit more broadly and still be safe. They will soon be able to open up some of the driving forces of the economy like tourism and hospitality. Right now, they are looking at 22 million deficits due to the pandemic. It has been a challenge. We have survived wildfires and floods but there is no playbook for a global pandemic. Supervisors tell us they are looking to provide some relief to these businesses by closing streets to make way for outdoor dining. Sonoma and napa county are asking the state to accelerate their reopenings and napa approved a proposal yesterday that would include opening wineries and tasting groves but those fall under phase 3 of the governors guidelines and the state Health Department will have to approve it. Churches across california are vowing to reopen on may 31st with or without the governors blessing. They laid out their plans at acts full gospel and they claim going to church is no different than going to the Grocery Store and to the congregation, it is just as essential. G rtual masses say it been is not the same. I miss the hugging and the physical touching and the connecting and the smiles. If the hospitals are essential for the body of the people, the church is essential for the spirit of the people. They plan to hand out masks and gloves to everyone and fully sanitize between services. They want to bring dinein customers back to restaurant by having them dine out. They will close some streets. They will move tables out of the sidewalks and empty streets. We have had a lot of interest in streets for people to be able to ride their bikes and walk and get some exercise. I see this as an extension of that and not just some closing streets and repurposing streets for physical distancing but also for economic development. As long as there is adequate social distancing i think that is a good idea. They are looking at a similar agenda. They are urging the city to consider it as well. Lemonade is using facial recognition to stop the spread of covid19. They must check their temperatures by using a tablet outfitted with the camera and thermometer. I feel like i am ready to work. At the end of the day, i do it again. I think this is one of those steps that we take. It is just another tool. It is not the tool but it is one of them that we have to have in place to ensure everybodys safety. Experts warrant this technology violates privacy because it can expose other Health Conditions and could cause a false sense of security among asymptomatic people who are carrying the virus. The usn as a Mercy Hospital shift will depart la. They say they have done its job and helped decompress the Healthcare System in the area. Some personnel will remain in la to help nurse facilities and other care sites and the home port is in san diego. Today, it is the last San Francisco city hall will be temporarily open. The Treasurers Office is opening ahead of todays property tax deadlines. People who need to pay in person by cash or check will encounter a pretty elaborate maze. The blue tape guides visitors through a socially distant queue and face masks are required. They say that they are processed about five dozen in person payments since the office reopened earlier this week. I am glad that we are seeing small numbers of people in person because our number one concern is protecting the health of our taxpayers and our city staff. About 97 of San Francisco owners are paid up and thot pay may apply for a waiver. If approved, they will avoid penalties. In the south bay there was a new requirement for face masks in court. The Santa Clara County superior court says all visitors and staff must now wear face coverings in public areas including courtrooms. Judges have discretion to allow removal of the masks for short periods. San jose based zoom is on a hiring spree. The Videoconferencing Company plans to hire 500 new Software Engineers as Business Service to more than 300 million daily users. New details have been reported yesterday. Zoom is facing a lawsuit over an incident involving a hacker who zoombombed a bible study class. When the company has responded and they say quote we are deeply upset to hear about this incident and our hearts go out to those impacted by this horrific event. Words cannot express how strongly we condemn such behavior. Zoom says they have upgraded it security features and reminds people not to share ids and passengers online. A former oakland as manager art is fighting covid 19. He first experienced symptoms on may third. He has now been admitted to the icu in houston and he is said to be slowly improving. The plan for a new soccer stadium in the east bay is now off the table. One group notified the city of concord and they are no longer moving forward with the project. The 18,000 seat arena was set to develop in the downtown area but they proposed building a nearby hotel, convention center, and offices on the property. The ceo cited uncertainty during the pandemic and is a key reason for pulling the plug. Events asked but the show will go on. How one town plans to continue their biggest summer tradition thanks to the internet. That is up next streaming on cbsn bay area. Check out visibility because we are dealing with dense fog for parts of the north bay. We will catch the clearing through our afternoon and changes are ahead for the weekend. We have a strong storm with details coming up. Speaking about fog, they have issued a right now, you need dependable internet and endless entertainment. Xfinity has you covered, with reliably fast speeds, the most inhome wifi coverage, and advanced security included. Plus, access all your streaming apps in one place, including peacock. And now you can get up running quickly with contactless ui now thats simple, easy, awesome. Get started with xfinity for thirty four ninety nine a month for 12 months and get xfinity flex a personalized streaming dashboard for all your favorite apps. Click or call today. The numbers show travel is wrapping up. They report on april 14th, less than 88,000 travelers passed through its checkpoints nationwide in one day. A record phone number. On monday, that jumped to more than 215,000. Meanwhile, Oakland National is taking measures to protect travelers and workers from covid19. We spotted only a few passengers at the airport thursday. Current policy requires the use of face coverings. They are also social distancing with markers and safe lightning assistance for checkpoints. Travelers will also notice plexi glass guards at six it counters and adjusted gate seeding. Casinos and hotels in las vegas are hoping to reopen in the next few weeks but the scene on gaming floors is likely to be different compared to what it was before the pandemic. Theylly have masks and gloves and there will be plexiglas in between certain places in between dealers and players. It will be between players. Trying to attract customers with low room rates, gambling incentives, free parking, and suspended resort fees but before reopening, each resort must get the goahead from nevadas governor as well as the state gaming control board. Winchester mystery house is opening back up in san jose. The touchless garden tour will start back. They will be thursday through sunday coming as job cuts hit the landmark. About 75 jobs have been erased. Summer will be different with more events being canceled every day. Large gatherings will be one of the last things to return to the bay area. The show will go wine with dan bills popular fourth of july parade turning virtual. Normally thousands lined the street to watch the big parade but organizers have come up with a creative plan as contributors like school bands make videos and they can still be included. They will have live feeds and pictures and streaming and more. If we can go together in other ways, that is better than not coming together at all. For other festivals that are not an option, the monterey jazz festival announced they are canceling an event in september. One was scheduled for the end of july. Cherry picking is in full swing in contra costa county. They opened their brentwood location with some social distancing and safety modifications. Visitors must bring their own masks and gloves and a bucket and must a six feet apart from one another. There is going to be a pick and go system so people do not have to gather in lines. His get a check on our roads with gianna. I see a lot of those popping up around here along the coast. Right now, we are moving okay as far as traffic goes but there is some foggy spots. They have issued an advisory north of here. We have some limited visibility and some spots. There is ongoing construction clearing lanes within the next 45 minutes and we are seeing some slightly slower speeds. There is some roadwork be careful as you travel through. North of in the north bay, its pretty quiet. No delays through petaluma but a bit foggy as well. Ongoing construction project will last for the next 10 days and we have overnight closures at the 101 280 split for the alemany projects. They are putting on the final touches. They will be closed for the next 10 days but only overnight. Lanes will reopen by 6 00 and this will continue throughout the week. If you are an essential worker and you travel early, you will want to stick with 280 instead we are starting to see some extra volume and slower speeds on southbound 880 and its freeway. This is an area where will see some extra volume for the morning drive. Things are little busy as you go through there. Lets talk about the fog. For the north bay, we are dealing with some foggy conditions down to a halfmile in santa rosa. Here is our camera with mainly clear skies and some patchy fog. Temperatures are in the 40s and 50s as we start our day. You can see concord is 56, 55 in livermore and 58 in san jose, 49 with foggy conditions in santa rosa. There are some low clouds and spots and then we will keep the clearing and sunshine and warmer weather ahead. We should be where we should be. It is still dry on most of saturday but we will see more clouds moving in and of our next storm system and that will mean the return of rain on sunday. Were talking next chances for beneficial rainfall on monday. And the system is going to tap into some tropical moisture. We have anywhere from a quarter to a half inch to as much as an inch of rain by sunday into monday. Rain chances, we can see increasing rain chances sunday and monday because of the storm system. Here is what you can expect. We have a bit of a break today because of this ridge of High Pressure and as we go through sunday into monday, the rain will return so saturday into sunday and monday with this low pressure system, this is actuallyrom sy. Muchneed ra. A and then tomorrow, mainly dry but we will start to see more clouds and then saturday night, the rain returns for the north bay and then across the rest of the bay area by sunday morning and am looking at scattered showers in the afternoon and again showers could see isolated thunderstorms for monday. We are looking at 73 in san jose, 75 in morgan hill across the south bay and for the east bay, 74 in concord and low 70s for the trivalley and mid sixties in San Francisco and for oakland and berkeley. Low to mid 70s for the north bay. Heres the extended forecast as we are looking at the rain returning on sunday into monday and we are drier for the middle part of next ek. Celebrating graduates across the country, coming up next and streaming on cbsn bay area, how facebook is honoring the class of 2020 with some big time celebrities. A restaurant in virginia has a plan to enforce social distancing, filling empty tables with midcentury manikins. This will definitely keep people apart because the manikins occupy the seas between the patrons and the patrons occupies this at a different restaurant that is not filled with creepy old dolls. The chef explained the idea saying that he has been working with a local theater to get the garbage. If this only needed to borrow the costumes, that means he already had a collection of naked mannequins. Get out cbs is taking you to a similar time. We are traveling back to 1996. Remember that year . It is a garrick the macarena took the world by storm and the first dvd player was released. It was also the year and iconic film series had its start. Mission impossible launched tom cruises career into overdrive. They became the third highest film of 1996 and sponsored a film series that continues today. The seventh and eighth Mission Impossible movies are now in production and you can watch the iconic spy movie this sunday at 8 00 right here on kpix 5. Two classics are coming your way, titanic is next week. And then it is followed by Indiana Jones and the last crusade on may 31st. Facebook and instagram plan to honor americas class of 2020 with a live stream event. Oprah winfrey is scheduled to do the commencement speech along with miley cyrus and lil nas x. They will give shout outs to individual high schools in the u. S. And all month long we are getting shout outs to some of our bay area graduates. Congratulations to karen johnson. She is going to Pacific Union college as a prenursing student. We are also recognizing diego. He graduated from Washington High School and he was on the wrestling team and he is going to college next year. Keep sharing your photos with us. You can email 2020 grads at cbs. Com or use the hashtag kpix include their name and where they are going. No professional photos though, please. We are live in sonoma as a live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, streaming on cbsn , Sonoma County getting back to business. But not everyone is on board. They got it fair and square but it is not right. One of San Franciscos largest land words given millions in relief money. Why some Officials Say they do not deserve it. 3 trillion relief bill now up for a vote. Why some say it is not needed. A strong earthquake in nevada fell in the bay area and has more on that in just a moment. It is friday, may 15th. Good morning, we are talking about the forecast on this friday morning. Good morning, happy friday, finally friday and we are looking at a little more sunshine with temperatures watb moment. Here is a look at the Treasure Island camera. We are in the mid50s for concord and livermore and for san jose. We are in the upper 40s in santa rosa and dealing with foggy conditions for part of the north bay down to a half mile in santa rosa. Through our afternoon, 66 in San Francisco, 73 in san jose and 74 for concord. Seasonal temperatures for this time of year. We are tracking a strong storm system that will tap into some tropical moisture. I will show you the future cast taking you hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. We are at the live news desk following breaking news of a powerful earthquake that just hit near nevada. It was a 6. 4 magnitude earthquake. Luckily, there was not a lot of people or buildings around. We have not had any reports of damage yet but people are reporting feeling the earthquake hundreds of miles away, even here in the bay area. It hit after 4 am and was followed by several powerful aftershocks including 25. 4 earthquakes in the same area. The most recent was at 4 30 am. This happened between las vegas and reno as you can see on the map. The nearest actual city is about 100 miles away. It was 4. 7 miles deep and people could feel it all around the area. To give you some perspective, the napa earthquake we had in 2014 was a 6. 0 so that was smaller compared to what we just saw in nevada and dozens of people and hundred millions of dollars have had damage. Those were in more populated areas. We will follow this for you all morning long. We are live here in Sonoma County as they enter the next step of phase 2, the slowburn opening of their economy. They are a couple ways from starting the business day. We are at the bass cafc downtown sonoma and these urban counties are locked down but out here, the outlying counties are starting to open up. Here in Sonoma County. Today, they can resume cleaning services, carwashes and pet groomers. Offices can open up for employees who cannot work remotely. This part of the phase 2 reopening has some folks in the county divided. Supervisors wanted to ease it but there has been some pushback. Our emails lit up today. Eyle about the interest in opening up too soon. We always put Public Health at the top but i do believe that we can open up a bit more broadly and still be safe. The big question is what about the wineries and the tasting rooms . Yesterday, napa approved a proposal that would allow them to reopen but that falls under the phase 3 of their plan which requires state approval. In downtown sonoma, kpix Warren County is set to issue a new shelterinplace update. It will allow curbside retail and manufacturing to open as soon as monday. Those businesses will be required to adhere to a so called covid19 site protection plan. That includes a combination for social distancing, disinfectant protocols, and employee training. San francisco Retail Businesses are step closer to reopening curbside pickup. They released a list of guidelines and restrictions that they all need to follow. Monday, floors, bookstores, cosmetic stores and retailers with direct access to the streets will be allowed to reopen. However they will have to follow specific safety requirements including implementing the social distancing protocol. For a full list of new guidelines visit our website, kpix. Com. Today, students at city college of San Francisco will set up here against protest cuts and layoffs are they are concerned about reductions in course offerings and layoffs of faculty who teach nonnative english speakers. They will travel from the Mission Campus to fort masson. Mandatory student fees keep climbing. And state audits, those fees have more than doubled in the past decade. A Spokesman Says the fees are necessary to cover budget shortfalls. Governor newsom laid out a dire picture of californias budget situation after another nearly 3 million americans filed for unemployment benefits. For the pandemic, the state was projecting a 6 billion surplus with 21 billion in the so called rainy day fund. Now california is facing a 54 billion deficit. At the state capitol, the governor unveiled a new Budget Proposal that calls for a 10 pay cut for all state employees, including himself, and spending reductions across the board. We could see even deeper cuts if the federal government fails to provide billions of dollars in pandemic assistance. Today, a 3 trillion stimulus bill will be up for a vote in the house. It would provide nearly 1 trillion for state and local governments along with another round of direct payments to american households. Senate Republican Leaders say there is no urgency for more aid at this time and that some items in the ll do not pertain to coronavirus relief. President donald trump has called the plan dead on arrival. They have also faced criticism from democrats. Progressive say it does not go far enough while some moderates say they are worried about the cost. Calls for one of San Francisco largest landlords to hand back millions of dollars received from the paycheck protection program. The Company Admits it received 3. 6 million in a Small Business loan but refuses to give it back. The federal ppes for companies with fewer than 500 workers. Veritas investments shedded qualified because it has under 200 employees but one city supervisor thinks the company does not deserve the money. They did it fair and square but it is not right. Everybody is in this together but Veritas Investments has done a number of things that are not acceptable to the society. Kpix 5 has profile dozens of tenants who are suing Veritas Investments, accusing them of harassing rentcontrolled senates with constant t increases as they passed along its mortgage debt. Most are paying rent and making those hard choices and they are giving stimulus checks to their landlords, so this notion that they are losing revenue and they are a Small Business, it is insulting to the actual Small Businesses. Theyve received a statement , with no evidence deeply impacted and a lack of access to capital, we furloughed significant portions of our staff and implemented salary cuts across the board. Abus to save the jobs of frontline employees and is critical to are business operations. Carnival cruises says it is slashing thousands of jobs impacting employees and Regional Headquarters in california, florida and washington state. The 3000 employees in florida is permanently laid off. More than 500 people are furloughed with the possibility of returning ones cruising resumes. No word yet when that will happen. The Trading Floor the New York Stock Exchange is about to start a phased reopening and projection says jeff bezos may become the first trillion air. Diane king hall has stories and more from jersey city. Good morning. Good morning, lets start with stock. Wall street halted its skid on thursday. The dow climbed 377 points and the nasdaq road 80 and are 32 d th wl sta r memorial day. Trading has been down electronically since march when a handful of people tested positive for the coronavirus. Stacy Cunningham Said that traders will wear masks and socially distance while also being required to avoid public transit. As Many Companies grab for reopening, mcdonalds has released a guide for its restaurants outlining some of the conditions necessary to reopen. Some of the new standards include frequently cleaning high touch areas, requiring employees to wear masks and blocking out some tables to allow social distancing. Of course, the new decade is off to a rough start for most but apparently not for jeff bezos. Yeah, you might become the worlds first trillion air by 2026 according to projections from business platform comparison which seth the dollar by taking the average growth over the past five years and applying it to future years. He is worth an estimated one 43 billion today but it has grown an average of 34 over the past five years. That is a lot of zeros. Yeah. They will get discount on prime with that. I am looking forward to that. Thank you, have a great weekend. Today, cbs will give us a glimpse at what spending a week looks like and what of the hardest hit hospitals in new york. It is a primetime special called bravery and hope. I have never seen this. It is heart wrenching. Get me an incubation tray. I always have faith and hope. We have a full hospital. Every second is critical. You can watch bravery and hope, seven days on the front line tonight at 9 00 right here on kpix 5. We are calling our employees back and saying are you ready to come back to work . We are opening. Becoming one of the first in the state to reopen. By the owners mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to undan ur wis reallfor. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. A worldfamous los angeles nightclub trying to stay alive through the pandemic. For decades, the troubadour has hosted countless soldout osorin 1970 was depicted in a movie called rocket man. They were forced to shut down in march by state and city guidelines and it is possible that they will not be allowed to open until next year. We have always weathered the storm but i do not think anyone has seen a storm like this. A gofundme account has raised more than 73,000 to help pay bills and staff. The National IndependentVenue Association is now lobbying congress for federal support to help keep music venues in business nationwide during the pandemic. They are preparing to pop the core, becoming one of the first in the state to rewinerie with eir wine. We are calling our employees back and saying are you ready to come back to work . We are opening. They were so excited. There will be lots of restrictions. No sitting at the bar and no wine testing and there is only half the seating. We will take the slow. We want to make sure that we are doing everything right. We will take more time in order to do all the right regulations and cleaning every chair and cleaning every surface. They will happen every night with workers at required wear masks and gloves. And guests cannot sit down unless there pool party is there. They are encouraging customers to make reservations. Lake tahoe is still mostly not open to tourists but they are seeing of Love Interest from people who want to move there. The tahoe daily tribune report it is mostly coming from younger buyers who are now working from home and they would rather do that in a scenic lake setting compared to a cramped expensive apartment. Lets take a look outside now at the golden gate bridge. Essential workers are starting their morning commute and for those of you still relying on public transit, get ready for some changes. We have your breakdown. Good morning, sunny tomorrow, muni is increasing service. We have besh pictures and videos of buses that have been packed. They must wear face mask if they are on the bus and saw some of the rows that were run more frequently include the n and the t plus the eight to two and a 49. And they will start running again but only during the week. That will provide more service to zuckerberg. For the rest of the bay area, we have some freeways especially north of here along 101. There is limited visibility. Be careful. We have a lot of brake lights coming out on 580. Look at that, coming out of tracy, you have a slow wing for mount house towards grant line. It is about 40 minutes. You will not have any brake lights towards a 680 but it is a slow go down to 21 miles an hour. Also seeing a few slower conditions and sluggish traffic southbound out of san lorenzo. That will impact your drive towards the san mateo bridge. Overnight, there is a project that will be in effect for the next 10 days in a vector drive on 101 southbound and it will be closed nightly from 8 pm until 6 am through saturday, may 23rd. It is between vermont and you will want to use 280 as an alternate in this is part of the ongoing project for now mainly. They are putting them in those lanes. You can utilize 101 or use 280. Especially for the north bay, we are dealing with dense fog. Here is a beautiful live look. You can see the low clouds as we look at the east bay. Temperatures are in the 40s and 50s, so mid50s for concord, kl francisco. Upper 50s in san jose and 40s in santa rosa. We are down to a halfmile of his ability in napa for the current visibility. When we catch a clearing and sunshine for the afternoon, we have warmer temperatures to around where we should be for this time of year as high prayer for bills and. For saturday, we will see increasing clouds ahead of our next stronger storm system that will bring widespread rain on sunday. There is an isolated thunderstorm possible on monday. It is going to tap into some tropical moisture. E rain today with that ridge, then watching the storm system, the rain returns for the bay first saturday night and then into the rest of the bay area sunday into monday. Tapping into that sub tropical moisture as we look to sunday and monday. It is bringing beneficial rainfall from a quarter to happened to you as much as an inch of rain with the system. That will be some very good news for us. As we go through our day, you can see the sunshine and tomorrow, we are mainly dry but will see clouds increase and the rain will return for the north bay saturday night into sunday morning. For the rest of the bay area, with widespread rainfall, and scattered showers on sunday afternoon. Scattered showers are possible on monday. It is 70 50 morgan hill and then looking at 74 for concord and for Pleasant Hill and low 70s for the trivalley and 66 in San Francisco, 67 in oakland, low to mid 70s for the north bay. Hear us the extended forecast as we are looking at mainly dry conditions tomorrow and then rain returns sunday into monday with cooler temperatures and then drying out by the middle part of next week. Love knows no boundaries even during a pandemic. The hug time machine coming up streaming on cbsn bay area. Here is the san rafael bridge. We will be right back. Remember, we are bringing to the good news in the bay area. Go to kpix. Com together to find stories of how we are better togeth they say necessity is the mother of invention or in this case, the greatgrandmother. This 85yearold rose of rockford, illinois is hugging her Great Grandkids for the first time in months thanks to a little bit of ingenuity and a big sheet of plastic. Her granddaughter built this hug time machine. She hopes other families copy it so they can spread the love without spreading the germs. We are kicking off the weekend with more shoutouts to our bay area graduates. He is graduating where he played varsity basketball. He is going to boise state and his dream to get snowboarding. Another congrats to serena. She is graduating from mit with a degree in mechanical engineering. She will be joining us for six to him after graduation. You can use the hashtag kpix and include their name, where they are going and we ask for the professional photos. You might see them on tv. In the next half hour, Winchester Mystery House is now open for tours again but that is not stopping a round of layoffs. Why despite the reopening, more jobs have been erased. Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, streaming on cbsn bay area, a strong earthquake in nevada causing some shaking and california. We have the full report in just a minute. New this morning, another bay area county is back in business. The shops now allowed to open and the ones waiting to follow suit. Closings traits but not for physical distancing. Another bay area city explores plans to ramp up the economy by shutting down roads around restaurants. Travel ticking back up. Good morning, it is friday, may 15. Lets get you caught up on your forecast with mary lee. It is a big change. Happy friday to you. We are looking at changes through our weekend with a strong storm systems that i am tracking. Is