Business owners in Alameda County feeling a bit of whiplash tonight. They are being told to pack up their restaurants yet again and shut down Outdoor Dining. As abc7 focuses on how to build a better bay area during this pandemic, two of the areas we focus on, your health and the economy. The state says new guidelines based on health require this policy change. But it is a blow to the economy, and not everyone is willing to comply. Cornell barnard is live in alameda with the story. Reporter so many frustrated Restaurant Owners here tonight. Take a, loo. Still a lot of people enjoying an early dinner here in alameda despite a new order saying suspended. There is defiance. There is inker. And not all cities are willing to move backwards. Going daybyday trying to survive. Reporter octaveio guzman owns this restaurant in hess r afloat hasnt been easy especially in a county where Outdoor Dining is now off the table suspended less than a month after it was allowed the reopen. Very confusing.
If you like todays weather i think you will like it. You will see traffic, you cannot see the traffic on the golden gate bridge. Traffic has died down. Lets talk fireworks. Macys in the midst of a weeklong fire display being launched in different boroughs throughout new york city ending on the fourth of july. Mayor bill de blasio says the exact locations are being kept a secret so people dont rush the areas and they dont want people to be crowding because of social distancing. Still, city leaders argue the fireworks will enter problems with illegal fireworks displays, and thats been a problem in new york and around here. Welcome to mornings on 2. I am mike maibach with gasia mikaelian. People have taken it upon themselves to do the fireworks shows. I got an email from someone who lived near lake merritt, one of the prettiest places and leftparenthesis his like its like the fourth of july every night for the past few weeks. He is hoping between the Mayors Office and the Police Departmen
Briefings this was held at the department of health and Human Services not at the white house the briefing was held after the number of new coronavirus cases in the United States, hit an alltime high of 40,000 today. I think what we are missing on this is something that it is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part innocently or inadvertently, propagating the dynamic process of a pandemic. Because the chances are, that if you get infected, that you will in fact someone else. You may feel well. 40,000 new cases today making the total case count in the United States more than 2. 4 million and as cases surgeon some states there are nearly 2 and half million coronavirus cases again here in the United States more than more than 124,000 people have died from covid19. In minutes we will bring you the governor speaking live as he updates the states response to covid19. We do know the number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in california,
Rising cases. We cant just focus on those areas having the surge. He was the entire country at risk. We are having 40 thousand new cases and they and i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. There was some encouraging news on the search for a vaccine. The United States will start at 30,000 person trial next month. Health and School Officials have released a set of guidelines for the safe reopening of schools in the fall. This includes procedures for social distancing, hygiene measures that include handwashing and schools will maximize School Events that can be held virtually or outdoors on School Lunches will be eaten in classrooms or outside. The guidelines are meant to prioritize the safety of students. They are intended to help administrators and others but necessary structures and procedures in place to be ready to reopen. However, whether schools can move forward with reopening for in Person Instruction will depend on the containment of c
Barisma. Officials to crack down on curfews as city struggles with unrest. Weve got the very latest, mornings with maria begins right now. Joining the conversation dagen mcdowell, columnist for the hill and liz peek and real clear politics, great to see everybody here this morning. [laughter] dagen go. Maria pretty good firmer tone this morning for future after 2 days of having losses, dow, s p 500, nasdaq seeing steepest 2day decline since august and the day before, trading growth concerns weigh on investors, i just want to point out that i know manufacturing is a major issue here in terms of the weakening, lets not underestimate the power of boeing and tollback and production of the jet, the max yet because of its issues in terms of its influence on the manufacturing slowdown, so i just dont want i mean, i look at these numbers, i see the manufacturing is slowing, i get that, but boeing was a big part of that. Im sorry . And gm strike. Thats also had an impact on this. Maria i spoke