Square today empty space that would usually be packed with visitors. San franciscos lack of tourists could mean cuts to programs that residents rely on. A brks krrbc 7 News Reporter me woodro has the story. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open and visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager at hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. Rizzo estimates theyve lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine that a lot of places are in the same boat as we are. Your cash flow runs out when you have no Revenue Source coming in. Reporter according to the quarterly status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 million below the expected 126. 2 million. One of the things that visitors really do is help to pay the cost of living in San Francisco and without them, its going to be noticeable for all
Seen this before. A northerly breeze is in place. Not that bad but its there and will pick up by tonight into tomorrow. 50s on the temperatures. 60s or 40s on the peninsula. 60 degrees for some. Millbrae, 66. Pacifica, 64. There is a hint for some easterly breezes. 4 31 am. You took care of highway 25. Now what . Solano county. Westbound 80 traffic moving along pretty well if youre driving from vallejo to hercules. Not a bad commute. 680 traffic also looking pretty good and if youre driving out to the hercules area, we are off to a nice start. The super commute looks good in sodus highway 4 and interstate 680 to walnut creek. And at the bay bridge pulte toll plaza looks good. Traffic is backed up and a little bit of the cash lanes. And the north bay and a small part of San Mateo County people are bracing this morning for the possibily another round of pg e power shutoffs today. Pg e is expected to tell us sometime this morning how many customers will lose power and where those power sh
It is. Its not as cold as it was yesterday but feels wintry which is i guess the point considering it is in fact winter looking at the temperatures in San Francisco, 49 degrees, santa rosa youre dipping down cooler than that. 35 degrees in the north bay. Concord you are at 39. 34 degrees in livermore right now. Your headlines for the day, it is going to be a cool start for the day. There are some areas of patchy fog and then afternoon sunshine so everybody with mild nice beautiful temperatures out there. And well remain dry for the rest of 2017 for now into 2018. 60s today in the area. Cooler at the coast in the 50s. San jose will hit 64. Traffic isnt bad in some spots. Westbound 80 eastshore freeway at powell street here a live look at conditions. Traffic is moving along nicely. No delays to report through here. Thats the case if you are heading towards the bay bridge where you are freeflowing all the way into San Francisco across the upper deck. 10 minutes from the maze into San Fran
Youre free throwing on the rest of 680. It is clear for the most part. We have a few high clouds. 30s in the area. We are several degrees warmer than yesterday because of the cloud cover. Livermore 36 san jose 41 degrees. Your headlines for the day well have that cool start. It will be dry from 2017 to 2018. No rain predicted. Our High Temperatures today mostly in the 60s. 61 degrees in fairfield. 62 in concord. The south bay you guys will be the warmest, 64 degrees in san jose. Along the coast a little cooler. 59 degrees in pacifica, San Francisco 60. Santa rosa will be 63. Thanks, emily. The man accused of plotting a Christmas Day attack at San Franciscos pier 39 has another Court Appearance today. Everitt jameson was arrested last week. He is a former marine and the fbi says he had been plotting a Suicide Attack at pier 39 for Christmas Day for some months. The l. A. Times reports jameson had been depressed over losing custody of his children. He is charged with one count of providi
Rainfall. We didnt have any washout rainy days. A couple spotty showers throughout the month but not much. The highs will go from the lower 50s to the lower 60s. A few high clouds adding texture to the sky for your thursday morning. We will look at the current numbers. Freezing in fairfield at 32. San francisco in the upper 40s. You can see oakland in the upper 30s, close to 40 degrees. That confirms daves report walking outside. Im going to show you visibility reports. Near 0 visibility up towards novato. Santa rosa, three quarters of a mile. The numbers have changed quite a bit. We showed you patchy fog around the central portion of the bay as well. Lets look at the camera looking out towards the San Francisco and the bay bridge lights. Nice to start off the day like this. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s. In the afternoon hours, a nice recovery. Upper 50s all the way to the lower and mid60s under mostly sunny skies. Lets check in with allie rasmus. Any problems out there . No major p