Can see the gates are closed, closed, closed. Everything my kids are so desperate, trying to go back to tlgay area sud it you to listen to something. It is so quiet out here. You can actually hear the birds. Reporter work went remote. Traffic disappeared. Small businesses suffered. Whether its today, whether its tomorrow, whether its friday, im eventually not going to have it. Im going to be unemployed. One day we had over 1 million in cancelations. Its basically our entire business and all my lifes savings. And all my employees jobs. Californias edd processed more unemployment claims in a month than all of last year. By may, protesters wanted an end to the shelter in place rules. People need to go back to work. Reporter a week later, california entered stage 2, allowing businesses to offer curbside pickup. Soon, counties were getting state approval to open up dinein restaurants and shopping malls. The state moved into stage 3 just after memorial day, allowing us to get haircuts again.
Anchor Spencer Christian to find out how much longer these dangerous air conditions are going to last, spencer. Youre right, the conditions are dangerous. Let me give you a look at air quality a rnld the bay area. You can see these red dots indicating unhealthy air. A few yellows near the north coast there, to the central part of the bay area, San Francisco, free month, concord, livermore, san jose to the south bay all have poor air quality, including locations in the santa cruz mountains. Now, we have surface wind right now thats blowing on shore. That will slowly push some of the smoke and the pollutants eastward. Its not going to happen overnight. As we look at the smoke forecast, you can see over the next two days tomorrow and into wednesday, well see the reds and purples pushing to the east and some cleaner air coming in. There will be some improvement. The problem is, working offshore, theres another plume of smokefilled air coming our way. Two more xiconsecutive spare th air day
Im ama daetz. A chopper is over city hall. There is a small gathering there. A rally was supposed to start at 5 00 p. M. There are some tents set up. It is a quiet gathering so far of a small group of people concerned about the decision today. We will keep an eye on this protest for you and let you know as things continue tonight. We spoke live about protests plans in her town. We are prepared to hold and honor peoples grief, their cries for change, and we again are very clear about facilita facilitating and supporting peaceful protests. That is always going to be honored. It is part of oaklands dna and history but we will be ensuring that there is not vandalism or other lawlessness. A protest at the lake mary amphitheatre is expected to start at 7 00. A protest is planned in San Francisco also at 7 00. It is set for outside the Mission Police station. Just a short time ago, people in the bay area whose lives have been directly impacted by fatal shootings, by police, gathered virtually
California has performed more than 13 million coronavirus tests. The sevenday and 14day average test Positivity Rate are both 3. 6 . Thats the lowest in a very long time. Optimism is warranted in the bay area. This graph shows the number of cases every day. The yellow line is on the declin good evening. Thank you for joining us. Coronavirus impacts every bay area county but in different ways. In the south bay, private Health Care Providers are being threatened with fines if they dont make coronavirus testing more accessible. Chris has that story now from san jose. With Santa Clara County in the red tier as part of the color code framework for reopening the economy, experts say any improvement theres largely depend on the expansion of covid19 testing throughout the region. It is really foundational to Community Wide safety and foundational to being able to reopen more and get people back to work and back to school. This afternoon, county leaders called on local Health Care Systems to do
And we have elevated fire danger a red flag warning for high fire danger goes into effect at 10 00 tonight. That will be in effect until 8 00 wednesday morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. Wind gusts will bring drier air, warmer air to the bay area, flowing offshore. And as a result of that, that raises the fire danger. And a wind advisory will be in effect from 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow to 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow. That will be mainly for the Higher Elevations of the north bay with wind gusts ranging from 45 to 65 Miles Per Hour. You can see how the wind gusts will pick up overnight tonight and continue through much of the day tomorrow before they start to i taer off a little bit. With all that, we still have really poor air quality. The next two days will be spare the air days, giving us a string of 23 consecutive spare the air days. And we cant even be serve yet that air quality will improve by thursday. Poor air will be with us tomorrow and wednesday. Thank you, spencer.