The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority a federal agency involved in developing a Coronavirus Vaccine rates as early this year he sounded the alarm about a shortage of testing swabs as well as critical medical supplies like n 95 masks and ventilators but he says his warnings were dismissed lives are endangered and i believe lives were lost in and not only that we were forced to. Procure these supplies from other countries without the right quality standards last month bright was abruptly removed from his position we have the worlds greatest scientist let us lead. Let us speak without fear of retribution for as id and trump dismissing breaks testimony, i dont know. I get still bright has a dire prediction. The covid19 pandemic will get worse of the United States does not develop a National Testing strategy and put in place a plan to distribute a vaccine time is running out because the virus is still spreading everywhere. Im Camila Bernal reporting. Senator richard burr is stepping down as the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee as the fbi investigates stock trades that he made after coronavirus briefings. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell made the announcement on thursday saying he and burn agreed that this was in the best interest of the committee committee. Burr has been scrutinized for selling up to one million in stocks in february after he got closed door briefings about the virus. He says he didnt do anything wrong and made the trades based solely on public information. But wednesday, the fbi server with a search warrant and took his cell phone. Burr will step down at the end of the day on friday. Dining in at restaurants is still not allowed at any of the 9 bay area counties but on tuesday, the governor issued a 12 page book of new rules that restaurants will need to follow before allowing customers inside kron fours Maureen Kelly want one of the oldest establishment in San Francisco, where she got reaction from staff and customers. Here the old ship saloon, the general manager tells me they are still digesting the 12 pages of rules that came down from the Governors Office about what restaurants need to do before letting customers back inside again during the shelterinplace theyve revamped to keep the old ship afloat cocktails to go takeout and delivery weve opened up significantly earlier than weve ever opened and now the 12 page guidelines released tuesday by the state for dinein restaurants. Theyre looking at ways to navigate a new reality one San Francisco decides its safe for the city to move further into stage 2 but with requirements such as closing the bar to customers. Only serving alcohol with meals and other social distancing rules. They anticipate it will not be easy. Many bars exists because of their direct contact with their neighborhood and the locals, its very difficult to. Provide that type of Genuine Service through plexiglass but the true test will be of customers are comfortable to come back inside those are all things that were only going o a. When they place an order one man picking up a to go order says he anticipates going out to you again as soon as its allowed and i think the biggest challenge that were going to have. Is having people not getting to a place of complacency and respecting the guidelines wearing a mask if necessary making sure to wash their hands as well as you know keeping the 60 distance. And i think if we have that the novel in like im ready for things to open back up. But i think the most important part is that people need to and here to the guidelines, the old ships looms establishing 1851 which makes it one of San Franciscos oldest. Continuously running businesses. They say they will do whatever they can in order to keep this business open and their legacy alive. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Lets talk about our forecast now as we check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow working from home with a preview of the weekend. How you do when you wanted some rain you got something going around. The rain we have thats the thing. Yeah we havent had as much rain as we need certainly. We could use some more were going to get some more but were going to get a little bit of a break today, we had a few scattered showers around the bay area pretty gloomy and spots even right now as weve seen the cloud deck of developing that fog or that looks like a summer day at the Golden Gate Bridge you see all that thick fog settling in right now and some drizzle along the coastline were done with a major rain from the system that him to say that was a major all just of the showers. Really kind of winding down a look at off the coastline is that next whirl that is bearing down on the bay area that will factor in your weather as we get in toward lot of part of the weekend. Overnight tonight we will see some patchy fog out there again and early tomorrow morning then given way to some sunshine and late today, the clouds begin roland mostly just some high clouds and then those storm clouds get a little bit closer as we get into saturday afternoon saturday night into sunday here comes that rain. Tomorrow morning we start out some patchy fog giving way to some sunshine by the middle of the day in the afternoon temperatures up in the 60s and the 70s in many spots just and sunshine. As my clouds should be a beautiful sunset all around the bay area that being said temperatures going to be the 50s coast side sees warmer weather how about 77 in santa rosa and napa valley look good 75 degrees there about 73 degrees in san jose certainly some very nice weather around the bay area thats very latest forecast back to you justine. Thank you so much lawrence and as part of the heroes act House Democrats are pushing trillion to state and local governments to stay afloat during the pandemic but the idea and that dollar amount or getting some serious push back. Joe khaleel reports. Before the coronavirus pandemic california had a Budget Surplus of 21 billion out of 54. Billion dollar deficit that were predict projecting for next year congressman mike levin says california is not unique nationwide. The pandemic is dried up local tax bases, he says state and local governments need the unprecedented trillion democrats have proposed in the heroes act to avoid going under we need to make sure that we take care of. These massive holes that the pandemic is left in state and local market in a budget yet everyone is because of the deficits but when you have such a low Interest Rates there is the opportunity to spend it on a massive unemployment work on a acknowledges the dollar amount is huge but he says the moment calls for massive investment in the trillion dollars card takes place august and still some Senate Republicans say state and local governments have unspent money left over from the cares act. They say a trillion dollars more right now is unsustainable weve already spent trillion. The Federal Reserve to spend another trillion, Louisiana Republican senator john kennedy says the dollar figures alone make the heroes act unrealistic. The speaker knows its got no chances. Its not a serious arm a cure effort to legislate kennedy does support a plan to ease restrictions on the Money Congress has already approved for cities and states but he says the heroes act will not pass the senate in washington, im joe khaleel. Coming up learn how one family got creative when it came to hugging their loved once. And up next while the travel industry has been hit hard by this pandemic for many traveling for this upcoming Holiday Weekend memorial day. Well they still want to do it so we have were just 2 weeks away from memorial day weekend and triple a says more people are starting to make travel plans through its website. This is some counties are already using their stay at home restrictions. Earlier today on kron on we spoke to a triple a represenative to get some travel tips for this Holiday Weekend. If youre traveling its important to contact your travel provider and your airline to find out exactly what their procedures are going to be just like you said things are changing the way we board airplanes might be changing as well. So to be important to know what those are before. You head to the airport. So its good idea if you are going to fly to to get in touch with the airline and try to find out what their procedures are im you know i can tell you the cdc says that. That we that air circulates on airplanes that the risk of being infected is relatively low. But of course you still want to do everything that you can if that means for you obviously a personal decision to wear a mask. You know obviously trying to stay away from people as best you can although youre in a pretty tight space and then again, you know wash your hands frequently and try not to touch your face. Up next there are new developments in arbery investigation find no matter how you look at this case. A young man has died. That is always a tragedy. That is at the forefront of our minds as we proceed down this road. But that does not mean. That a crime has been committed. That was the attorney for one of the suspects in arbery shooting investigation weve learned less than 2 weeks earlier. Travis mcmichael apparently had a separate confrontation with an unidentified black man who entered the same neighbors house under construction. Martin savidge has the story. The new video and new 911 call depict an altercation from the same neighborhood less than 2 weeks before im on every step. Now on one life to address of your emergency that had a string of burglaries. I was in the neighborhood. And i just caught run into helping to build the video obtained by cnn. Is captured by one of 8 security cameras set up in and around the house thats under construction. In a community outside brunswick, georgia. It is the same home where arbery was seen looking around on the day he died. Unlike that day the new video is at night between 07 08pm, according to the homeowners attorney and depicts an unidentified individual walking in from the left side of the cameras view the persons slowly seems to circle the brum and then goes out of the cameras view but the microphone continues to hear the sound of footsteps. According to the homeowners attorney nothing was taken or disturbed in the house which is so open headlights could be seen from traffic on the street, the same night as this video was taken larry english, the homeowner who lives an hour and a half away receives a text message from a neighbor 2 doors down from the house under construction. Describing a confrontation involving someone named travis. And the young man on or near the property. The attorney shared a transcript of the message english receive describing the altercation with the unidentified person quote the Police Showed up and we all search for a good while i think he got spooked and ran after travis confronted him. Travis is the guy ran into the house the neighbor reports. It was Travis Mcmichaels call that night that Summons Police to the scene mcmichael tells authorities he spotted the individual going into the home mcmichael is gasping for breath so much so that worries the 911 operator he okay. Yeah, you know and i to stormy when i turned around and saw when and back to the recent sewage pocket in ran into the house over hes armed or not. But he looked like he was acting like he was Police Arrive on scene a short time later but find no one. Nothing more is said about the incident in the homeowner says he has no idea who was in the house that night. But the encounter is not forgotten. 2 weeks later on arbery lay down on the ground killed by 3 shotgun blast from Travis Mcmichaels gun. Gregory mcmichael tells authorities he thought arbery was that suspect from 12 days before well switch things up now and talk about our weather forecasts as we take a live look outside at a very gloomy Golden Gate Bridge. Though very light traffic at this hour, lets find out what the weekend has in store because for anyone keeping tabs at home. Its thursday. Yes its another weekend coming our way and this a pandemic and certainly that has changed all of our lives like greatly, we are going to see some big changes coming our way if you like some rain weve got a nice little storm this may be it this may be the last significant storm of the season outside right now we do have some leftover moisture from the weak system that has been moving through today and see the clouds down theres alcatraz down below me and that weve got San Francisco is certainly a lot of great stuff moving in right now is that system kind of slowly works its way through. Well now were talking about rain over the weekend you see that big swirl of clouds off the coastline that your next storm system. Now once the front moves through the core lows going to be spinning through california and that may be just enough to destabilize the atmosphere in bringing a couple of thunderstorms by late on sunday and into monday to so certainly going to be very interesting weather today. We had some light showers a rolling through the bay area and then kind of moving on out things settling down now the winds are starting to pick up behind that weak system just a bit 12 Miles Per Hour as 15 in oakland, 60 Miles Per Hour and conquer right now, and 14 in san jose. Overnight tonight certainly a slight chance you could see a leftover sprinkles especially in the north bay and then as we head toward tomorrow morning just a few clouds early on in the day and then as we head through the middle of the day skies start to clear out and then that front gets a little bit closer i think were looking at some high clouds make for a beautiful sunset on our friday evening temperatures for tomorrow will be cool on the coastline of 50s 60s and San Francisco about 56. And some partly cloudy skies and upset because some sunshine in the afternoon 64 degrees of buster city 73 few high clouds as you make when about new 73 in san jose beautiful and 70 degrees and live more tomorrow, 76 and dublin, 76 are comfortable temperatures for this time of year in walnut creek 75 benicia. Warm weather start to dissipate somewhat as we get in this weekend as were going to see an increase in some clouds saturday by saturday night and into sunday a chance of rain returning to the bay area that slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm by sunday afternoon and evening another chance on monday, we could even see a lingering shower by tuesday, but this may be adjusted is getting very late in the season see the storms come in the bay area thats lets forecast back to you i mean its nice to get a little rain this time of year. What the up a little bit give the grass one more soak. Were dry. Yeah before we have to all star turned on sprinklers and do all that kind of stuff so certainly be nice to get a little more rain before we settle into those hot dry. Summer months here in the bay area of course along the coastline. It means a lot of one more storm to go. Thanks lawrence. Coming up and learn how one family got a well its been said that love knows no bounds and one illinois family proves that can be true with a little bit of. Creative thoughts and some plastic and an 85 yearold grandma. Lets get the story right now from shannon kelley. I wanted to cry because i couldnt believe it. That this was happening rose gag man has an hugged her great grandchildren and more than 2 months i see them every day normally. So this was kind of like a challenge not to be able to see him not to be up until now what did it feel like to be able to hold him my heart felt like it was going to burst. Yeah, yeah, its its filled my heart yes. Roses granddaughter carly maren arrow time device allowing her kids to safely wrap up in their great grandmothers embrace. I was getting sort of 2. The point of oh my gosh you just cant handle is i just need a hug or the kids need a hug or so. It was just. Its so worth it. I love you. The frame is just pvc pipe. The plastic is 8 when the insulator kit for sliding glass door so double sided tape. All you have to do is put your arms through these holes you can spread the love. How its spreading the germs. Were not meant to be a part like this or be isolated and its its sad for those people that can. The around their family members. Im just glad we could share this kind of happiness with people even though there may be a piece of plastic between these hugs this family proves nothing can come between a great grandmothers love for her babies. That was Shannon Kelly reporting carly says time devices generated international attention. And she hopes other families can use the idea to hug their loved ones. On for saluting the class of 2020 and every day were shining a spotlight on the graduates and today, its christine all of era. Shes graduating from Oklahoma High School and martinez and she plans on studying pre med in the fall congrats to her and all the other 2020 graduates. And you can submit your graduate on our website kron 4 dot com just find the salute to grads 2020 under news. Submit a picture of your grad let us know which high school they went but are their future plans. I just posed to my High School Graduation picture social media to try an a inspire you to submit some more so you can see just you know dreams do come true. 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