Slowing just before everything clears up. Getting to the bay bridge, send it right back to you, laura. All right, thank you very much, mike. Breaking news were following for you that morning firefighters at the scene of a San Francisco highrise fire, the crews now say injured five people. This started a little bit before 2 00 a. M. On davis court just off the embarcadero near the plaza. This is video that was posted online on citizen app. We know that flames burned several units on the 11th floor and the building was evacuated. Some residents, we understand, have been allowed back inside. The fire has been knocked down. We know at least two people hurt will be okay. Our Cierra Johnson is gathering more information. She will join us with a live report at the bottom of the hour. To our top story in less than 24 hours a new nighttime curfew starts for all counties in californias purple tier which includes all bay area counties except San Francisco, san mateo and marin. This also covers ab
Movie theaters will have to close again. Covid19 cases are on the rise across california but are particularly surging in 11 counties including contra costa and santa cruz. Today the States Health and Human Services secretary said people need to think twice about the risk theyre taking. One thing we know that activities where its difficult to mask the whole time, so for example eating and drinking create the higher risk covid transmission. Similarly, activities where you see people who you havent seen recently, so people outside of your household, also create a higher risk situation. Some people in danville today took the roll back in stride. If thats what the numbers dictate and thats what we need to do, im happy to comply with whatevers necessary. Reporter Contra Costa County may be the first but much of california may soon be following their lead. We anticipate if things stay the way they are, that between this week and next week over half of california counties will have moved into
Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
blitzer in this situation room room, thanks very much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now outfront. next breaking news, president biden should leave the race. that s the headline from the new york times editorial board tonight, this is biden appears like a different man today than the 1 million saw on the debate stage last night. plus, what happens if biden is not the nominee? how do democrats? placed him and who would it be a special report tonight? and trump already trying to seize on the supreme court ruling on january 6, rioters. but could it backfire on him. let s go out front good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news the new york times editorial board, which endorsed biden over trump in 2020, just moments ago, calling for president biden to drop out. they, here s the headline to serve his country president biden should leave the race. they go on to say, voters cannot be expected to ignore what
saying no matter what you give to the red cal left, it will never be enough indicating that even if they do allow new witnesses, he might use executive privilege to shut them down. alex barr. we mentioned bay area congresswoman took the floor again today during opening arguments. she outlined rudy giuliani s role in reaching out for ukraine. but it wasn t just the frequency of rudy giuliani s contact. here is what mattered. president trump directed u.s. officials to work with his personal agent who was pursuing investigations not at all related to foreign policy. expected to take part in day three of opening arguments tomorrow. take a live look at the impeachment trial right now. it should be wrapping up in 90 minutes. they re running eight and a half hours including the break. nightly news will have an update. and then our political analyst joins us with his insight. we also have a special edition of bay area news at 7:00. bay area congressman eric swalwell will join