Another ten days before some businesses in San Francisco with offer storefront pickup. Retailers are making plans with social distancing in mind and some customers are trying to navigate the r50ules that can change between counties. Pete is the owner of green apple books. They have been limited to online sales. If he were in another par of the stay, he could be open were curb side pickup. Customers have questions. A lot of customers are wondering why we are not doing curb side. Reporter he is following the San Francisco restrictions. The counties taking it slow, it now sounds like may 18th could be the target day. Jay is with San Franciscos chamber of commerce. It makes sense. A lot of the smalls, there is infrastructure to set up. How do they make payments. Reporter owner of tantrum says toy sales have shifted to online sales. They want to be cautious. If people want to buy a birthday present, they can pick it up, they e know they will get it in time, i think if we can do it safely, w
Delay. San Jose Police Department has a new command center for the response to covid19. It tracks which officers tested positive, which are symptomatic and when they will get back to work. Today, we got the an exclusive look inside. Nbc bay area Damian Trujillo is live with more. Damian . Reporter well, police shared their video with us. The covid detail here in the police department. Its tracking all the local cases and making sure officers are mentally and physically prepared to protect themselves. Its a virtual war room in police headquarters. I am currently assigned to the command center for the response to the covid 1. Reporter now, he e spends his days here, logging, tracking and assisting officers who are right now, 6 30, now either showing symptoms or who guidance from the white house have tested positive for has Top Health Officials offer a covid19. We talk about what occurred over the night. Over the weekend. We brief everybody so we are all prediction on the toll the pandem
Thats where were at. The Senate Overwhelmingly passed a 2 trillion stimulus package hoping to ease the burden on families during this pandemic. Im proud to announce not a single senator voted against this 2 trillion rescue bill. A worst jobless numbers of all time. The u. S. Unemployment claims soared to 3. 3 million. A Health Pandemic has become a financial pandemic. There are now more than 60,000 cases in the united states. New york accounts for more than half of those cases. You wouldnt even think about putting the damper on whats going on in new york. That would be outlandish as its going up. No doubt. The family of former fbi agent Robert Levenson believes he died while in iranian custody. Even the easter bunny needs protection. Bakers are adding protective face masks to the easter treats. All that oh, my god. Oh, my god. A reporter bails after a Close Encounter with some bison. I aint messing with you. Oh, no. Oh, no. And all that matters. The nba with mike breen doing a psa abou
Its total case count is now at 135. [ closing bell ] the possibility of a deal on a stimulus package prompted a massive rally on wall street today with the dow jones recording its largest ever point gain. A look at the numbers. Te dow squlujumped more than 21 partial Government Shutdown clintons at 20,704. The s p 500 soared more than 200 points today and the nasdaq gained 557 points. Thousands of people in the bay area are out of work as a result of the covid19 pandemic, and not surprisingly, the California Employment Development Department Says its seen a spike in unemployment claims this month. As the department attempts to keep up, some requirements have been waived to help those who need it most. There is also the possibility of benefits for independent contractors who normally wouldnt qualify. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow has the story new at 6 00. Reporter san jose mom tamara cor corbeli is spending more time with her daughter since the covid19. She is a catering director
there will be continued pressure on many republican members to ask for witnesses and documents. reporter: with with the real battle now under way, democrats looking beyond the senators sitting in judgment hoping to make their case directly to the american public. alice barr, nbc news, washington. thank you. and here is another live look at the senate floor there. again california congressman adam schiff is there addressing the senate. this is expected to go on for several more hours. nightly news will pick up our coverage and update the hearings coming up at 5:30. and how do we make sense of all of this. larry ger sten will join us at 6:00 and every week thiet we re airing a special 7:00 newscast focusing on this impeachment trial. tonight we ll be joined by bay area congressman ro khanna, that is live at 7:00 p.m. in local news, a surprise for one south bay couple when they came back from vacation one day early. they say it appeared their pet sitter kept the two