Not planning to amend its shelter order kron fours rob fladeboe joins us live now to explain the thinking behind that and why some are questioning the strategy dropped. Its right justine Health Officials in Santa Clara County worry that to easing up on restrictions too soon could lead to a surge of new cases business another interest mewhile say they are frustrated and confused in that hope that all of the bay area counties will be working together on this is they have for the most part up until now, heres more. Its really frustrating that were all not on the same page here the Downtown Association scott needs who would welcome some foot traffic back to hard hit downtown san jose says the varying local state and federal orders governing Pandemic Response and recovery are frustrating and confusing what can i do here in Santa Clara County, maybe all dried. You know a few minutes and go do some shopping you know in other neighborhoods where theres a more permissive attitude unlike its neighbors. Santa clara county has no plans to move to stage to just yet. Despite making significant headway in Hospital Capacity testing an infrastructure. Conditions have not changed all that much said county Health Officer doctor sara cody earlier this week are epidemic is is neither increasing or decreasing. Its just staying about today which means that if till back were going to see an increase doctor codys is a key indicator for easing restrictions would be reducing the virus is basic production number. Which represents the number of people who will likely be infected by a single case we look at our indicators that were not there yet the most vulnerable communities in our county. The only way to ensure that we protect them and and and prevent death. To bring down the level of Community Transmission to as low as it can be absent a green light from the Health Department many people might wait for a vaccine before going to a bar restaurant. But others are ready to be customers again says the Downtown Association and other business interests. This is no time to back away from the regional approach that has helped battle the pandemic thus far says got 30s if. There was a youre going to be open by this date folks can start planning scheduling weddings again and making plans right now its so up in the air. Everybody still twisting in the wind too much that is no way to run a business thats no way to bring you come back. Health officials here say they will be closely watching to see what happens when restrictions are eased elsewhere in the bay area whether there is a spike in cases there reporting live rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thank you so much rob now Contra Costa CountyOfficials Say theyre confident that they will be ready to move into phase 2 of the states Recovery Plan on monday. Today local leaders also announced a plan that will allow large gatherings and services by car that will go into effect on tuesday. Officials say as the countys coronavirus numbers began to plateau they want to provide another chance for people to get together, especially for graduation and Church Services if Something Else is an opportunity particularly as we go into graduation season as we have many faith communities that have been able to gather in any way for a long time is provides a new opportunity to get just a little bit closer. There are several rules for these gatherings we can go through them now they can be held in large outdoor spaces. Cars must be parked 6 feet apart. A maximum of 200 cars can attend if there are more than 10 cars president. There needs to be security and a plan must be filed with the respective cities for every event a week ahead of time. Alameda county is Still Holding firm in phase one today oakland mayor libby schaaf said that Health Officials could make an announcement on moving into phase 2 as early as next week in the meantime tale on its plan to encourage physical distancing starting today. No food trucks or sales of any other kind will be allowed in or near the city. Parks and parking next to lake merritt will not be allowed on weekends as well as on the memorial day holiday. These changes are effective through the end of the month city park and passengers will be on hand to remind residents about the changes. And the city of San Francisco is days away from heading into phase 2 of the reopening process allowing many Retail Businesses to open for Curbside Pickup in the last 24 hours. The city has released new guidelines for this reopening and while some view this as a positive step. Others say its just t that much help. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco with more on this part of the story good evening. Dan. Good evening. You know you see plenty of these retail corridors just empty thats expecting to pick up somewhat next week but with these guidelines. The city is released. None of them are much of a surprise still some stores see it is a chance to innovate other stores see it as a way of getting nowhere fast. The empty retail corridors weve become familiar with during the pandemic like this one on union street are. This one on film or could start seeing some activity come monday when San Francisco opens the door for retail pickup and delivery. Its definitely a bandaid its of a small band aid. But the point is we have to slowly start opening the buscan your us with the Fillmore Merchants Association says Curbside Pickup is a good start and its forcing stores and his association to expand their social media presence. Carry on one on one video chats with customers and re imagine window displays during moments of crisis thats when this extreme innovation in the marketplace in tech. Im so im really excited to see whats going to come out of all under San Franciscos reopening guidelines storefront curbside an outside pickup is allowable but customers may not enter stores also no more than 10 personnel may be on site or less and Smaller Stores to allow for required social distancing. Stores must also have access to an adjacent curbside sidewalk street alley or parking lot for customer pick up curbside its not going to work, but the women for and union streets just tools for 36 years and have now postpone their retirement say this is not going to work. Think were ready to open and i understand the safety and were certainly you want to be careful as all our precious customers and everything but we think were ready. Eleanor carpenter and leslie drop can say their store just isnt suited for Curbside Pickup or a massive online presence. So if your fashion if your a store like ours youre changing merchandise. All the time its impossible to show the brexit of the merchandise at least 1009. Theres also the concern from some of these employers that the federal program a Paycheck Protection Program that that fund might run out before theyre allowed to employ people in the u. S. It will be of no help to them. Nevertheless San Francisco will be moving forward with phase 2 reopening on monday morning. Live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you so much stan and while some businesses wait until monday to reopen the city of San Francisco also issued new guidelines today for essential businesses that are already open like Grocery StoresPharmacies Hardware Stores and restaurants that are offering takeout businesses are now expected to maximize the number of staff working from home have all workers evaluate their health before each shift. Create a health and safety plan and social distancing protocols and require everyone to wear a face covering. There are also specific Health Directives for certain businesses for example at places like Grocery Stores. Our farmers markets. Customers will not be allowed to touch any products. Thats another county is already in phase 2 of reopening, but officials are now looking to go further into phase 2. And that would include opening up additional businesses including allowing outdoor seating at restaurants, the county has to get permission from the state first county supervisor surely zain is leading the suffered and she says the board of supervisors will meet on monday to decide if they will send a letter of support to governor Gavin Newsome says while the county has not met all the criteria for moving past the states timeline she believes that the request is reasonable because Sonoma County the infection rate remains low. Theyre here in the bay area we have now more than 10,000 coronavirus cases and a total of 386 deaths statewide there are now more than 76,000 cases and over 3,000 deaths across the country more than 87,000 people have died from covid19 and one 0. 4 Million People have gotten sick. You can find more information on the global and local cases on our website kron 4 dot com. And the pandemic has claimed another retailer jc penney has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This happened today. The company is expected to announce which stores will close if any in the coming weeks. Jc penney now joins Neiman Marcus and j crew which also filed for bankruptcy in recent weeks. And comes as Consumer Spending dropped a record 16. 4 in april clothing and Accessories Store saw the biggest hit falling 89. 3 . As california leaders prepare to make billions of dollars in budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal year Governor Newsom is setting aside millions for a new controversial state law. The governor plans to put that money towards enforcement of 85 thats the law that requires a number of independent contractors to be redefined employees our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has the story. Nearly 9 months since its passage, the drama is nowhere near over with californias ab 5 the law redefining many independent contractors as employees is at the center of numerous repeal efforts regardless governor Gavin Newsome proposing to put more than 20 million toward its enforcement with 17. 5 million going to the state department of industrial relations, 3. 4 million to the Economic Development department and 750,000 to the department of justice its said to be perfectly honest with you several republican lawmakers outraged by the appropriation Assemblyman Kevin Kiley is leading a legislative effort to repeal ab 5 the governor tells us that this budget is stripped down to our most essential priorities and apparently that includes 20 million to target independent contractors to harass law businesses with on its fines and penalties and lawsuits at a time when so many are are struggling remain in business and all but new son in many other democrats continue to defend the law which aims to protect workers from misclassification ab 5 faces a November Ballot initiative to exempt a number of Good Companies like uber and lyft californias attorney general sued the Companies Last week the governor recently weighed in letter of the law. Has to be applied we want to be cooperative and collaborative ah but we as a state have a responsibility to do what we said were going to do with exactly a month left to work out the budget facing a billion deficit newsome spent friday meeting with legislative leaders, some lawmakers prepared to push back on ab 5 fund a young wife almost close at this point the Small Businesses have been really actually use of those funds letter that came in the form of a tax break for assistance in getting back to the east theres somebody better uses of funding could actually californias budget is due june 15th in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Coming up tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 a new look at the damage done in nevada after a powerful earthquake. Rattles the state and also. Parts of california as well. Plus a 5. 30 the white house is promising a Coronavirus Vaccine by the end of the year. Although the Trump Administration may not want to wait then to reopen the country. Millions of dollars were donated to help close the Digital Divide for students in an east Bay School District that donation was made by a major player in the world of social media and that company is headquartered in San Francisco. Kron fours Haaziq Madyun has the story i dont know if you know this, but i woke up to that tweet of the week that tweet was from twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey and agreed 10 million to give every single child in oakland access to a laptop and internet their homes closing the Digital Divide. The tweet this morning was a big game changer dorseys generous donation came in the day after mayor libby shaft and the oakland unified scool district put out a call for help closing the Digital Divide for oakland students who are now engaged in Distance Learning at home but schools being closed due to the covid19 pandemic students like Skyline High School junior Jessica Ramos says this is a really big deal so i didnt have a computer until starts right computers. My internet was unstable because my parents couldnt afford it. She says those circumstances are common among her classmates so most of my friends are from bp stoker him and now many of my friends have wi fi or have internet access. And so just for them to be able to connect with internet is a big you know we have a 83 total schools also got about 45 charter schools, weve got a dull school and we got a about 10 preschools well so were weve got a lot of schools, lot of kids here and this is going to the lives of so many of them so much better. And its not just the kids, their families dont have that connectivity to the outside jessica rob lowes help put out the bridge, the divide called during the press conference that ultimately led to the surprise million donation from twitter how does it feel to be that it for me it feels amazing because im helping my community has it led you kron 4 news. Now facebook is giving people another way to communicate while physical distancing during this pandemic the company is now introducing a new feature called messenger rooms allowing users to build a virtual room where free video calls can be made for up to 50 people. The calls are joining ball and have no time limit invitations can be sent to people even if they dont have a facebook account but lets talk about our Weather Forecast now as we take a live look outside towards. The north bay and the Golden Gate Bridge in a much warmer and sunnier today than we had yesterday, lets check in now with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow working from home with a look ahead at the weekend and the next storm thats rolling our way lawrence. Yeah i say weve got to enjoy this day and it is really a fantastic friday weather wise as High Pressure just sneaking overhead enough today to crank up the temperatures are bringing a little more sunshine out there right now from mark danner on cam you can see couple high clouds up above a really nice weather all around just a couple of patches of fog moving along the coastline. But there you go theres that storm system that will impact our weekend to bring you some rain in the bay area probably the last significant storm of the season that is going to be rolling on through more that in just a moment right now though were staying nice and dry the way its going to be even tomorrow. I think most of the day is going to be dry now by tomorrow night things change that storm gets a little bit closer winds have been picking up just a bit again this afternoon 22 mile an hour winds out of the west in oakland. So thats a pretty good breeze. There 25 an sfo 14 at Stinson Beach temperature wise how about these numbers 73 degrees in san jose right now 72 in livermore 62 go are exempt just go 68 very nice evening in oakland 74 degrees in the napa valley. Tonight well see some partly cloudy skies low clouds and fog and some high clouds up above increasing clouds tomorrow, still some warm temperatures before the storm moves in then i tomorrow night and sunday. Were expecting some rain that storm system rolling in and the core that low is going to spin right along the coastline, so we talking about rain on sunday. I think this storm system going to linger through monday and maybe some rain continue at least into tuesday morning. A slight chance of thunderstorms so enjoy the rest of friday evening, nice and dry better part of saturday looking dry but saturday night justine yet ready weve got some story weather coming our way thats the forecast. Thank you lawrence and i will go to nevada where there was a 6. 5 magnitude earthquake just after 4 oclock this morning. It happened east of Sierra Nevada range near the californianevada border, this is the damage that was done to highway 95 a big twoinch crack there thats the main route though between las vegas and reno and tonight that road is still closed while crews work to fix the damage. Researchers are calling it largest quake in 65 years and that quake could be felt throughout the Central Valley here in california man in fresno shared this video of his light fixture moving during the quake. He said he could feel it quote shaking like crazy. And thankfully there were no reports of any injuries. Still ahead tonight as kids continue to stay home during this pandemic some doctors say theyre seeing more children in the hospital with some serious injuries. And as more businesses around the bay area continue to reopen how far does preparing most counties in the bay area are moving into phase 2 and getting ready to open up more businesses and this will likely impact transit agencies like bart and muni as more people head back to work. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson reports from daly city and how officials are now preparing for a possible surge in ridership. As the bay area works to reopen our communities that means more people will be riding barts of the board of directors are working on new measures to keep everyone safe. Already bar requires facial coverings but some riders say its not being enforced i just want to make sure that all writers have mass on which the last few days, ive seen is not necessarily true ridership on bart has been down 93 during the shelterinplace order but its expected to pick back up as we head into phase, 2 of reopening many bay area communities. In space to 6 feet of distance is expected by the state. And are that barr says it could service 80 of its writers to keep that distance in phase 3 of could be required to keep at least 3 feet of distance and under that the board expects to be able to serve 95 of riders, bart Board Members said in a meeting on thursday that theres no real answer on what is best to protect riders on Public Transportation but theyre looking at what other transit agencies across the world are doing. Theres still concern from my perspective. Theres a lot of people that probably dont have the access to. Protection or still on the on the train. In time the board wants nothing more than for riders to feel safe hopping on bart some of the measures discussed are piecing the mass policy and social distancing and stations. Continuing to disinfect trains providing Hand Sanitizer and protection for riders employees, the board expects to spend an additional 40 to 75 million annually on these safety measures, but Officials Say in the next week they will release more concrete plans for riders that they know exactly what theyre going to be doing to keep them safe. In daly city Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. Next at 5 the house is casting its vote on a historic relief package worth trillions of dollars. But its future is already in doubt. Plus artists in San Francisco, making the best of a bad situation, turning signs of the economic turmoil during this pandemic into a symbol of gratitude. And the white house is revealing more of its efforts to produce a Coronavirus Vaccine as President Trump says were here for you and were open. Wow. Im an original. One of a kind. You feel me . Love ya. Oop you look cute better than you . Pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. 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He also plotted how counties and states are opening up kron fours theresa has more. These vaccines will manufacture that were going to be. Focused on and manufacturing