This strip mall in the past couple of months, but the strip mall is vacant, theres no active businesses here right now as you can see over on the far right corner of the strip mall. We saw fire crews trying to maintain some hot spots but the main fire is out right now that has them getting out some hot spots in theyll be here for the next couple hours is just a precaution and they do that most fires. But this cold cold this whole 1400 block of bascom was closed for an hour or so, and they opened it up. In both directions after about 45 minutes. You know everyone is safe and as we know again no one was hurt. And just in the surrounding areas, we have a 7. 11 to leslies pull supply is not very populated right here on this bascom but the fire crew was able to get out very quickly and that is all we have right now im sure once we do get a call we will relate to you once we hear from the fire station but for now thats all i have out here in san jose im jason dumas back to you. Thank you jason, thanks very our other top story tonight, a suspected child molester a person who could i get out of jail soon. He is asking for bail reduction because of concerns over the coronavirus the Alameda CountySheriffs Department says if that man is released we should all be concerned kron fours Haaziq Madyun reports. Sixtyyearold walid homs he is accused of multiple child molestation crimes, including continuous abuse and lewd acts upon a child this person is a prolific serial child molester. Oh i dont know how much more dangerous an individual you could have released into the community. However, hobbs he will be in court later this week seeking a bail reduction is currently being held without bail here at santa rita jail in dublin after being arrested and charged with child abuse back in 2090 Alameda County sheriffs Deputy Sergeant ray kelly says if hobbs these attorneys plan to use possible exposure to covid19 as the reason to reduce his belt to 0 the court should take into consideration. The low number of inmates with covid19 currently inside the jail right now there are currently there are 4 active cases, those cases are mild to moderate those. Patients are expected to recover we have yet to have any serious case for anybodys didnt you call why theres been no loss of life i hope the courts take that into account. Theyre making these decisions. So let very dangerous individuals our jails while the times is a dublin resident, if you are to be released. This is where he would likely be placed on home confinement, according to police the close proximity to several Neighborhood Parks and schools as a major concern for dublin mayor david how we are up in arms were really not only 0 bail and Early Release when they start letting people out with crimes of this nature, its very concerning Public Safety and residents Park Community then there are the actual child survivors Sergeant Kelly says any decision to release an alleged child molester cannot be made without considering what it would mean to their it takes tremendous amount of courage. Ortiz child victims to come forward and tell their stories. The release of this individual for victimizes them. Says bill reduction motion is scheduled to be argued in court on friday. Haaziq madyun kron 4 news. What will california schools, look like in the fall as millions of children head back to class in this age of social distancing. Answers to that question could come as early as tomorrow kron fours Jonathan Mccall is live in the newsroom and he has details jonathan, you know so many folks been waiting for this catherine tomorrow morning leaders from all of californias 1000 School Districts. So to take part in a Virtual Meeting with state education leaders and members of the School Reopening task force who are expected share what theyve learned so far their findings could actually set the blueprint for whats to come the fall. Its now been 10 weeks since california classrooms were forced to close because of covid19 concerns. As the Current School year comes to an end leaders are now focused on what happens in the fall and the new lessons on social distancing that will greet students parents and educators lots of personal protective equipment. There have to be masked and hand sanitizers and the ability for hand washing and other resources. For our schools, wednesday state superintendent Tony Thurmond said that access to ppe will be required for schools to reopen. He also emphasized that districts will make their own decisions on when and how to reopen the things that weve heard include. That many schools are likely have smaller class sizes in order to accommodate in need for 6 feet of space between our students in their classes. Hallways and in common spaces. That could also include hybrid learning with some students in class while others learned from home. Answers and guidance could come thursday during a Virtual Meeting with state education officials and leaders from california is 1000 School Districts members from the School Reopening task force or expected to share their early findings john sasaki with oakland unified schools will be watching we imagine this is going to fall, you know pp for everybodys can imagine a physical distancing for everybody is going involve extra cleaning disinfecting during the course of any school day. So you know we really want to know what thats going to look like since the state perspective. Psaki says the district is working on a plan of its own but is looking for leaders to step up to provide more guidance. So lucky says with 35 million cut from the budget because of covid19 on top of a 20 million cut in the spring. He questions just how effective schools can be practicing safety on a shoestring budget but the federal government needs to step up that they want this economy to return to normal in any way shape or form they need our schools to do the same and nerds do that we need a lot more money. Superintendent thurman also calling on more funding from the federal government, he stresses right now that at the current levels schools here in the golden state. Cannot safely implement those new social distancing measures while also trying to educate students that meeting is set to get underway tomorrow morning at 10 00am live tonight in the newsroom Jonathan Mccall kron 4 news. Thank you jonathan. Sonoma county wants to be able to reopen its restaurants and breweries and wineries its Health Officer is a making that plea to the state kron fours Maureen Kelly got reaction from downtown petaluma. So this means its possible that restaurants wineries and breweries could open up their patios to customers as soon as this weekend and thats a big deal for thoseoperating here in downtown petaluma where its been a ghost town. Even though Retail Stores are now open to Curbside Pickup. The city says theyre now reaching out to local restaurants to see how they can make things easier for restaurants that dont already have outdoor seating the way. Allow for expand expanded Outdoor Dining whether in the public right away like sidewalks or. Some open cars, the areas that we havent had a little laugh or potentially even an and some Parking Spaces there are. There are that you can actually serve install a small back. And allow for outdoor seating and a parking space. The city says theyre planning to waive fees and looking at how they can speed up permitting so businesses could revamp in days versus weeks and theyre offering no interest loans owners can afford to make changes. The owner of cafe zazzle says business is down dramatically since they cut their hours and went to take out only because of the pandemic even still they say. They are not going to rush into putting tables out here on the sidewalk. Right away, you know, neither of us want to get sick, we dont get our staff sack. We dont want our staffs families to get sick and the fact of people taking our masks off and eating and drinking. Im not crazy about that yet in allen so we are going to baby steps we may not go as fast as some of the other businesses but at this point there is no indication that a new Sonoma County health order would open up travel so if these establishments are able to serve out doors in time for the upcoming memorial day weekend. The city of petaluma says as much as theyd like to see tourists come back here for now this would be for locals only Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Napa county has become the first bay area county that will move into the expanded stage 2 of the state reopening plan. Businesses like Retail Stores dinein restaurants, they will be able to reopen with modifications we have a full report on what it means for schools and wineries coming up later this hour. Tesla has dropped its federal lawsuit against Alameda County. That lawsuit came after tesla cues the county Health Department of overstepping federal and state restrictions when it stopped tesla from restarting production at its fremont factory Alameda County eventually did give elan musk permission to resume thats after he threatened to move operations out of the state Teslas Fremont factory employs about 10,000 workers it can make roughly 40,000 cars a year. And the south bay. The coronavirus is not the only Public Health crisis. Health officials and Law Enforcement theyre sounding the alarm about a dramatic spike in fatal overdoses of fentanyl kron fours rob fladeboe has that story. And what you dont know here can kill you and the other clara county deputy da Brian Bucklew raising the alarm about a surge in fatal fentanyl overdoses in the last week or 2 there been approximately 7 fatal fentanyl low t is a yearoveryear is off the charts widely available fake opioid pills and other street drugs laced with fentanyl have been linked to 19 deaths so far this year compared with just 7 a year ago, 10 of those people were between 1625 a number of these young people are getting the bills through snapchat and other social Media Outlets from the overdoses represent the other current Public Health crisis and may be related to the coronavirus pandemic. Says county house near a par with that i leave the shelter in have played it well. Last 2 to 3 months. You know i have. Tend to use more subsidio so so we have seen a number of steps in use calls overdose as we have a great concern that young people now being out of school have free time their board and im there im looking for new experiences bucklew says some users know theyre taking fentanyl while others do not a recent fatal overdose led to the countys first fentanyl related murder charge. We have a drug dealer knowingly selling fentanyl aware of Interest Properties to someone who doesnt i know that theyre purchasing settled a thing for purchasing oxycodone and so they take it accordingly and they overdose and die. Among the more common forms of fentanyl or fake percocet pills like these staffed with am on one side and the number 30 on the other and so its those concerns with a shelterinplace staff. Its setting the stage for young people to experiment with drugs. And what were trying to say here it can kill you in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Coming up why some argue the governors proposed new budget cuts would hurt californias most vulnerable population and what the city of hayward is changing to help businesses that will be reopening and after the break the major were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. And Santa Clara County. They are increasing testing for the coronavirus in fact theyre now offering free testing to all residents kron fours Charles Clifford has details. Where in Santa Clara County on wednesday. The city of san jose and Health Officials from the county announced that they are going to provide free coronavirus testing for all residents of the county now the testing is going to happen here at the p a l stadium in East San Jose theyve chosen this location because Health Officials say about 40 of the current coronavirus cases in Santa Clara County have been found in East San Jose but only about 20 of the testing has happened here so they want to ramp up testing in order to get a better picture of how this virus is spreading here, san jose mayor sam liccardo. This where so many of our residents are working every day in essential industries. Im providing the food that is sustaining our community and kitchens either Front Line Health Care workers. Theyre doing all that they possibly can to put food on the table for their families and sustain our community and as a result they are at greater risk and so we need to ensure theres more testing here nice ever say to ensure that we are doing right by our entire community and we certainly have more work to do. The Health Officials are also trying to make the testing easier theyve changed how the test is administered you can now perform the test yourself here is the testing officer for Santa Clara County explaining how it works were going to use a nasal swab it will be selfadministered so you will be given the swab for you to swipe your own nose and im going to do it. Youre going to do it i need side and youre going to leave it for 10 seconds i want to do that all time and the other side 10 seconds and i wont do it for the whole time you put it into a little container with a viral medium for transport and thats it now again testing is free, but you have to sign up online you cant walk down here get a test if to sign up online and then drive down here you can go to kron 4 dot com. We have a link with more information but for now in the south bay Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Help is on the way for Small Businesses and the city of antioch the city council is considering a stimulus package to support local stores hammered by the pandemic from first felipe de gaulle reports the package could include really fun things like business license fees, grants and loans. Mayor shawn wright is hope for most Small Businesses in his city will make it through the covid19 pandemic but there will inevitably be some that do charter businesses that are not going to reopen that is definitely going to happen and as the citys more than 300 local establishments work through phase, 2 of contra costa counties reopening plan. Wright says revenues will likely stay down for mom and pop stores already struggling you still can go into not the central businesses. You can call in your Curbside Pickup the so cal inside were really not going to see businesses get back to business and some people can go inside safely. Right says the city will partner with businesses to get back on their feet by exploring its own stimulus package. He says the city has up to 400,000 in reserves already included in the budget that was earmarked for any ox re branding campaign. Wright says that money could be used to reduce or eliminate business license fees grants micro loans and help with marketing are all proposals under consideration problem with federal stimulus packages some of our you your mom pasta were unable to get in many people applied are trying to imply in the money ran out your frustration as far as what made you have and so some people missed out on that pp Program People like krystal phil brook who cones rivertown sweets bakery with her sister in downtown antioch. She applied for federal stimulus dollars the first week they were offered and has not received to die. She says she welcomes the citys health i think were ok right now, but if there is a second wave. In the end of the year. And we miss. Thanksgiving christmas. I dont know i dont think you mayor right hopes the city council will have a plan to vote on within 3 weeks in antioch phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. Governor newsoms plan to cover the states budget deficit includes cutting spending. That keeps more than 45,000 people out of Nursing Homes and some argue its a bad idea since the pandemic has taken a very heavy toll on Nursing Homes, the governor are proposing a move that would make fewer seniors eligible for medicaid and hes suggesting cuts to a Nutrition Program that offers meals to older adults in Group Settings time for a look at the forecast and it sounds like it could be a hot memorial day weekend. Lets check in with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez hi mabrisa died catherine yeah were going to notice a gradual warming trend starting tomorrow. Lasting through the weekend so i know memorial day the unofficial start of summer but its certainly going to feel like summer starting to sneak in in the bay area but until then enjoy the average daytime highs lets take a live look outside from the south and san jose tracking clear skies when scenes noticeably calmer as well and that marine nonexistence own a great not out there right now in the bay area coastline and 24 temperature change showing the biggest warmup for most of our interior valleys and along the coast and along the bay. Temperatures in the low to mid and upper 60s and still in the 70s as you make your way inland current wind speeds out there right now really light and breezy starting to notice that thats stronger sea breeze about downtown San Francisco right now sustained at 23 Miles Per Hour with gusts around 25 Miles Per Hour or less and today warmed up to 65 degrees in downtown San Francisco near average highs but tomorrow were going to be about 4 degrees above normal warming up into the upper 60s and its all on the town of that change in wind direction so winds out of the northwest. Getting a little bit of that warm dry offshore flow even going to warm up our inland valleys into the upper 70s and low 80 so were all going to be above our from the coast to inland areas, but the next 3 days as you can see little change friday but then saturday morning up in a big way and that warming trend is only going to get warmer even past memorial day monday more coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes cap and back to you. Thank you bruce off. Still ahead why a traffic patterns are suddenly changing and the city of hayward also how san jose is using outdoor spaces the San Jose CityCouncil Voted overnight to allow businesses to use Parking Spaces and streets to operate kron on Sarah Stinson has the latest. Im downtown san jose at san pedro square an area filled with awesome restaurants. And this is an area thats definitely going to benefit from the new plan, the city approved unanimously. Called al fresco san jose will know help businesses serve more customers safely by using outdoor space. A huge benefit to restaurants by allowing them to see customers outside they could use sidewalks alleys or other outdoor areas to see people otherwise restaurants would be extremely limited with how many people they could safely seat inside but not everyone is ready for that next step for dining at a restaurant, i and my husband is so bubbly i would do the face and what a feeling that saved by get a word the plan will also help other businesses use outdoor spacing the serve customers like hair salons gyms yoga studios and Retail Stores, this will assist businesses to make sure that theyre complying with social distancing and other guidelines set by the state and city by doing so this will restrict traffic in some areas and sacrifice some street parking. Business owners will have to apply to get approved in certain permit fees will be waived for Small Businesses already facing financial struggles theres no set date for when this plan will be put in motion for now businesses should apply and city leaders will help them work on how will space out their customers, including working on may putting 3 d barriers between people or even just potted plants will have to see how it all shakes out, but this is the right step in the direction of restarting our economy in san jose Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. The city of a word is modifying parking regulations some traffic patterns there doing that and some neighborhoods an effort to help reopening businesses, theyre putting up signs like 10 minute parking for Curbside Pickup only they will be available along the street. We talked to a Business Owner who is welcoming the smoke. Then these parking advisories at the city put up a couple of days. The go help because it it keeps the flow of traffic and it devises customers how long they could stay in the car and so forth, lets hope this curbside advisory does last too long you dont maybe week or 2, and then we can get back to a little bit more of a normal flow, maybe by the 4th of july. The city is also removing single lane traffic between foothill in mission boulevard again to help keep traffic flowing. Coming up next napa county moving deeper into phase 2 of reopening will have details on the businesses that will be affected. And governor newsome meeting with tv and Film Industry leaders, the im