Reporter it is a big news in its exciting news. Doesnt mean that Everybody Needs to rush out and grab dinner at a restaurant. There will still be a slow opening. San francisco is the only bay area county in the yellow. San francisco has a lower death rate. The department of Public Health said that 25 people in the entire city or in the hospital. American ducting 5000 tats a day. Next week nonessential offices will move to 25 capacity. The following week restaurants moved from 25 to 50 including places of worship, museums and movie theaters. And then by november they aim to reopen bars even if they do not serve food. This is an intentional and slow step by step process. We continue to slow the spread of the virus. The because of that we are moving to a yellow tear for the state. And we can continue the gradual reopening. Reporter the gradual reopening is the key here. It will only continue as we continue to keep our rates down. Its important for folks to continue to be cautious and wear
Current temperatures and later on today as i mentioned warmest were only going to be in the low to mid 80s. No 90s left in this forecast and even cooler in the days to come. Robin. Thank you john lets check in on the traffic now which is picking up around the bay area over to the bay bridge toll plaza more folks heading into San Francisco, not encountering any so its still a great trip a minor weight off and on right down the middle read 11 minutes off to fremont street, heres a trouble spot. This is the east shore freeway this is traffic coming into emeryville we have a crash working 80 west at powell street so as crews try and get that out of your left lane, its backing up into berkeley so 80 west slows from berkeley down to emeryville because of that crash. Were also checking construction on the nimitz this is saw between the hayward in union city southbound id say right around 10 a son and whipple between those 2 exits the 2 right lanes are blocked for late construction. So thats b
Afternoon which ill get to still to come robin all right, thank you john now were checking in on your morning commute which is off to a fantastic start i have not found any hot spots that you need to stress out about in San Francisco. So were checking in on the bay bridge you can get a live look at your approach to the toll plaza if youre about to roll in right now. You are looking good. No problems here from the oakland maze right on through downtown 7 minutes is a good drive time 92 is busy but not bad a little crowded west of the tolls but only 12 minutes to the peninsula. And heres one more the Richmond Sandra fell hot spot free a great time to get out there news at 6 minutes into the north bay more traffic updates coming up a little bit later back to you. Thanks robin. So to our top story this morning, President Donald Trump abruptly ended Coronavirus Relief talks that would have put money in the hands of americans and Small Businesses but House Speaker nancy pelosi is pledging a
Of green in there such as youre seeing down in portions of Santa Cruz County at time across the rest of the bay. Now temperatures right now are mostly in the 50s pretty similar start all in all to where we were at yesterday, your cooler numbers are up in the north bay with Napa Santa Rosa cloverdale san anselmo and saint all in the 40s to kick things off. Later today, it will be from the 50s and 60s to start to just the low 80s at our warmest most of us 60s 70s to look for too. Ob. All right. Thank you john were heading over to the san mateo bridge because chp got 2 calls about a deer on the san mateo bridge shunned and looks like both drivers may have hit the deer, we have one car at the decline, another car at the high rise off to the Center Divide in this is highly unusual ive seen deer on the golden gate bridge. Many many years ago, but never on the san mateo bridge. So this is currently under investigation and definitely jamming up traffic so once again 2 separate incidents of dri
Francisco. We want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a Training Exercise. Lets bring in henry lee with more on what we know. As you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. Reporter a somer gathering at San Francisco General Hospital. Firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. We can confirm this was at training incident. Reporter it happened at 10 00 in the morning in the initialen district. He was treated there and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately shortly before 11 00 this morning, jason succumbed to his injuries. Reporter the Fire Department would not discuss what led to his death. The circumstances under investigation. Immediately after the incident, firefighters converged on the hospital. There they stood at attention and saluted during a somber procession. Cortez was 42 and leaves behind his wife and two young children. She the son of a