More restrictions lifted in as t welcome back dinein customers but are the customers ready to come back . The hottest weather so far on its way to the bay area. Ill track how high temperatures will climb coming up in the forecast. Bay area researchers find an alarming rise in discrimination since the start of the pandemic. Tonight well hear from several victims. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, counties relaxing more shelter in place restrictions heading into the Holiday Weekend. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im his beth cook. In solano county, restaurants are allowed to resume sit down service today. But as andrea shows us, the response has been underwhelming so far. Many restaurants in downtown fairfield are open but hardly a diner in sight. A lot of people dont know about the rules and many still prefer to get food to go. To me i feel its too soon. Jackie getting take out from one of the most popular spots in town. Evelyns big italian pizzaria. For the most part, cus
Tables and another one two tables. Its not going to work out. The Health Department says restaurants should follow basic social distancing guidelines. Keeping tables six feet apart and having employees wear masks. If you want to stay open, you have to adhere to these. You dont want to be the source of disease spread. And we dont want to site you. We want you to do it correctly. With the memorial day Holiday Weekend coming up, the concern is many people will be out and about enjoy their new freedoms. But very little has changed about the shelter at home order. Its important to keep practicing the stayathome social distancing requirements to protect ourselves from of co another reason for concern is that Solano County saw a cluster of cases over the mothers day weekend and then the following weekend. In fairfield, andrea, kpix 5. Just in time for the Holiday Weekend, Sonoma County is following in the footsteps of its north bay neighbor the county has been given permission to move deeper
Those restaurants that is still doing Something Special in spite of everything going on today theyre going to be offering a special mothers day brunch take out that starting at 07 00am so you can place in your order and come down here and pick it up. Now many of us are used to taking mom and grandma out from others david since that is not an option for many of us this year we can still do something very nice for them and restaurants throughout the bay area are going to be opening up their doors for takeout so families can still treat mom and grandma. Now its still fairly early but were going to be talking with families as the morning goes on to find out how theyre celebrating in spite of everything on this mothers day. Now reporting in walnut creek Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news. And the rain while the coronavirus pandemic has hit a new milestone with more than 4 million positive cases worldwide. Here in the u. S. Were looking at 1. 3 million cases in growing. Federal officials are looking a
Today to get the city back to business. And cornell, you heard from a lot of Business Owners there. Yeah, dion and eric, we certainly did. Many Business Owners say they are fighting for survival. They say reopening their doors really needs to happen sooner than later. Open up open up reporter dozens of people rallied in downtown livermore to support small businesses, urging local leaders to allow them to reopen. Livermore was nothing before these businesses came in. And to let them sit here and fall to the wayside blindly is not okay with me or my family. Were hurting. Weve had zero revenue for two months now. Reporter darren and Andrea Liggett own anytime fitness gym. They believe they can safely reopen their doors now. People are buying groceries. I really dont see the difference. Right . Because we can very easily move equipment around and keep our members safe. I just want to survive for my family. I have two kids reporter nail salon owner nancy lam made this emotional plea. You kn
Hours ago a strong response from Governor Newsom to three counties who have been defying his stay at home order. Good evening. The warnings go to yuba, sutter and those businesses that allowed gyms, businesses and malls to reopen in defiance of the governors orders. He says they are endangering Public Health. The Governors Office sent a letter to the counties warning they could lose disaster funding if they continue to defy orders. The county leaders say they opened up because the areas had fewer covid19 cases and other parts of the state. Just yesterday, Wilson Walker visited Sutter County were Business Owners told him the shutdown order was the right call but it is also right to start reopening. Napa and sonoma counties have aligned their orders with the state space to guidelines. That mean some retail shops are open for business tonight. That is for the first time in more than a month. One florist in napa was overloaded with orders ahead of the big mothers day weekend. The owner of