Sunshine and showers today. Bug changes are ahead. Ill tell yu all about them. There may not be professional baseball. Wait this will you hear what the governor had to say. Putting Better Health and habits and home grown produce on the table. The wait is over. Retail stores are gearing up to open for curb side pickup. Starting tomorrow. Its official. All nine bay area counties have confirmed they are starting to reopen or will be by the end of the week. Roughly 53 of the 58 counties would be eligible to move into the phase. Governor newsom changing the stay at home order for phase 2. Making it easier to reopen. Looking at the next step. Once thought to be months away could happen in weeks. A number of sectors of the economy will open up that includes for example a haircut. The governor isnt done. We could see all bay area major sports taeps this action soon. Prosports in that first week or so of june. Without spectators. Mayor of San Francisco is optimistic as the city moves into phase
First offer indoor dining. Many others need time to ramp up. There are now seven tables where once there were 17. Napkins and saltandpepper are disposable. Dayquil is not part of everyones workstation anymore. Easing of some restrictions seem to have a still cautious community. A little worried about getting infected but i think we just have to be smart. Im concerned about it. I dont wanted to limit my getting out and around too much. Bringing back a little bit of normalcy in a place that is very uncertain and still scary. No one here expects it or can handle the number of tourists pass the memorial day weekend. Some daytrippers have been coming to downtown joes. 50 of my customers are coming in from concord, walnut creek, San Francisco, oakland. Laces where they cant go out to dine. Before the pandemic, nampa county had a 2. 2 billion tourist industry. It remain closed to the public. Now it has only a dozen First Responders and essential workers. Tours with reservations are told to st
Into phase 2. Maybe not as fast. I dont think necessarily well be there june 1. Its looking better than it has in some time. Encouraging news. A map showing where each county stands when it comes to phase 2. Seven counties are green. Santa clara will transition friday. And gold is hours away from entering phase 2. That means out door at pickup at retail. The move is welcome by most businesses, not all are on board. Some worry its not going to be enough. This is the sound of they are missing right now. Trm they will reopen after two months. They know it wont be the same. We want our presence to be felt. We are here. I dont know how sis a locals. Selling peerings and gift cards is their only option for now. Normally we help them through healing process. And any complications. They have nowhere to go. Now they can come through the door and get a consultation. Even though covid19 cases have gone down. The health and Safety Officer says they still need to take it step by step. We will have
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by the way says President Trump should not be taking that malaria drug citing several factors. Hes our president and i would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his shall we say week group had but hes morbidly obese. They say. So i i think that was its not a good idea. Well the white house physician unveiled last year that the president s body mass index or bmi was 30 point for placing him in the obese category its not clear whether his bmi has changed since then and as us States Reopen more parts of their economies. Doctors and Health Officials are worried that itll lead to a spike in Coronavirus Infections and the jury still out as to whether people will still follow social distancing rules. Brian todd reports. On new yorks upper west side, a cluster of people gathers outside a newly reopened a bar in la county thousands flocked back to reopen beaches. Many not adhering to the ru
And in his shall we say week group has but hes more visibly of these 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to President Trumps revelation that hes been taking hydroxychloroquine despite an fda warning about the drugs safety and efficacy of the covid19. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday may 19th im James Fletcher and im darya folsom in our big story is california relaxing the rules in more counties. Allowing some businesses to reopen governor newsome estimates all but 5 of the 58 counties across the state are likely eligible to begin offering in restaurant dining in just the coming weeks. Counties that meet the new criteria can also begin opening schools with modification yeah, the new criteria requires counties to have a stable covid19 related hospitalizations with no more than 20. Covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks counties must also have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 in the last 2 weeks or less than 8 of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days so some pretty