The fall. If we see people doing the responsible thing over the next few month, it will give us some ease as we get into flu season. Getting local economies back on track after three months of sheltering in place is pivotal to rebuilding a better bay area. And beginning tomorrow, its back to business from many in santa cruz county. The regions revised health order is expected to bring a rush of tourists. Abc7 News Reporter amanda del castillo shows us what to expect if youre heading over the hill to santa cruz. Whether in the mountains, on the boardwalk, or through downtown, people across the city of santa cruz say theyre ready for any level of reopening. Ready to welcome the usual summer rush during the most unusual time. This place would be packed right now. It would be standing room only on the sidewalks there would be a line to get into the movie theater. And that reality may return soon, as the countys revise hey lifts some major restrictions effective friday. Lodging restrictions
Along every street that leads all the way down to Broadway Plaza. All outside of the caution tape, not seeing anything affected no broken glass, no businesses broken into. So thats good news for now but rain on on North Carolina cant california boulevard where this is what were seeing take a look at the video though you can see ray ban macys people going in looting in taking out items. We even some people fighting over items that they had stole those stores were ransacked we know lululemon was also one of the stores affected. Along the creek bart station even close during this time it was quite a lot of chaos as people were heading into Broadway Plaza, Looting Stores breaking into the windows a Police Obviously showed up quickly and when they got here they saw people running already a little too late because people were on the move with the items they had still police were marching down main street heading towards Broadway Plaza and lou lemon as i said had been looted quite terribly th
Like macys what sells pretzels kiosk has 2 broken windows in someone stole the entire cash register. Whether no money was inside we dont know, but the whole door was stolen and gone. We also know that old navy was hit several glass windows can be seen their shattered and one of them has been boarded up now the tory secret is also a store that was looted the front doors broken into inside clothing racks empty mannequins toppled over the entire mall is covered in shattered glass. Its going to be a big cleanup. And that is what a along the creek Police Officer told me is that here on out moving forward theyre going to be cleaning up. This mall is going to remain closed. Down the street, i drove to the target on north main street where i also saw a broken door, and it looks like they were looted as well so looks like walnut creek hit pretty hard in the police here are monitoring situation construction. Crews are actually going to be here soon ford up any other stores that may needed and th
And the mutual aid that weve gotten from departments from santa cruz just sonoma has been invaluable as well as the state of california we have called in for reinforcements and they have come in the form of the chp a couple 100 officers that have been deployed here in the bay area that have been integral to our plans. Certainly we are constantly assessing the conditions and our intelligence to determine whether a curfew is the appropriate Law Enforcement tool. Lets be clear last night we chose to focus our Law Enforcement resources on the actual vandals. Looters people that are engaged in even in violent acts last night and it was a very different situation then say friday friday we had a very large scale demonstrations, almost 8,000 people where vandals and looters hid inside of that people otherwise peaceful demonstration. Last night we saw much more indiscriminate different shops all over the city getting targeted and i and im really pleased that our Police Department arrested 60 in
Joining me is a very special guest im excited and honored and kind of nervous to have on. Executive producer of united shades of america cammal. Thank you for coming on the show. Im a little nervous. Nothing to be nervous about with me. Im a college dropout. It was an ivy league school, the university of pennsylvania, that you dropped out of it. I dropped out of the best. You usually make us laugh and showing up for it. All right, cool, were going back air. While making us think about what and we are black with it means to be black in america. Executive producer and host of cnns united shades of america, serious issues. Really, today, there is not much and oakland resident e w kamau bell. Here is a question, what are you doing to take care of your to talk about. Yeah, if you go on twitter, you go to find black people who Mental Health during this time. Are posting and finding ways to you make jokes. Laugh. It releases tension. And avoiding the idea. Im turtling up. Nows the time where