Counties across shut down immediately because of the rapid spread of coronavirus. Marian Marianne Favro is live. Reporter none of the seven counties are here in the bay area, but the governor did ask eight other counties, including contra costa and santa clara to take action. Due to the rising spread of covid19, ordering bars to close into fresno, imperial, kern, kings, los angeles, san joaquin and tulare county. San mateo has reopened bars, is not on the list of closures. San francisco is not either and its set to reopen tomorrow. There are several reasons why Health Leaders say bars pose additional risk. Tend to draw extra crowds. People tend to take off mask to drink and they often have loud music so people have to yell and spread more airborne particles. Also harder to do Contact Tracing when people move from one bar to another. In santa clara county, bars are not allowed to reopen and governor wants it to stay that way for now. Nbc bay area news. Just in the newsroom, Belmont Poli
Favro. Reporter mayor liccardo says the officers involved should be fired, and tonight hes calling for a thorough investigation to see if there are even more Police Officers involved than the four placed on administrative leave. Four active and several retired san jose Police Officers are accused of posting racist, antimuslim comments, including mocking black lives matter, on a closed facebook page. Tonight the executive director of the Bay Area Council on islamic relations says she is disgusted by the posts but not surprised. We are calling for these officers to be terminated. On top of that, we want to be clear to warn any Police Departments across Northern California to not at all consider rehiring these Police Officers. Reporter san jose mayor sam liccardo is calling for an investigation to see if even more officers are involved. Any officers directly involved in this kind of racist or islamaphobic behavior should be fired. Now, obviously were going to learn a lot more through this
Businesses such as Gardening Stores and carwashes to reopen provided they can maintain safe distancing. It means gardeners for example but not a restaurant can open the outdoor patio. It also applies to flea markets which will be allowed to reopen if they can follow safety guidelines. These can happen with relatively small amount of contact and both the seller and buyer can wear masks. For a restaurant, even if they were able to do spacing for patrons it is difficult to maintain spacing for the server. The mayor says its critical that the city move on projects to help resolve the homeless crisis . It not only means opportunity for the people working in the industry to go back to work. Again, there are guidelines that have been put in place to keep workers safe. It provides the opportunity to continue what we know is important construction work around housing. As for how long the order will remain in place, the Public Health director says it depends on the data. We are going to need to
Made. The businesses preparing to reopen on monday, and the Outdoor Activities just now given the green light. Plus what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. A breakthrough treatment for covid19. The promising new drug and the Bay Area Company ramping up production of it. Tomorrow comes the announcement. Tonight some bitter feelings. All beaches and parks statewide will close beginning friday. This is according to a letter sent to Police Chiefs around california. The letter says Governor Newsom will make this bold announcement tomorrow. This is in response to what we saw last weekend when thousands of people flocked to the Southern California coast. Nbc bay areas ian cull leads off our coverage. Reporter after swarms of people headed for the sand and ocean this weekend, blanketing Orange County beaches, now it appears the governor is preparing to put a stop to it and will announce thursday all beaches in state parks will close effective may 1st. Nbc news obtained this let
Pg e heading back to the drawing board and why governor adam newsom said they plan to have thousands of wild fire victims taken care of. Getting to San Francisco from the north bay just got easier and the new option for commuters in marin and Sonoma County. 6 00 a. M. Im emily turner to start out with your weather. Its been wet and we catch a little bit of a break. However we have more warm showers before that happens. Not a whole lot to see out there doing zooming into the east bay and we have one cell of showers out there. To the east moving their way out of our area at the south bay is where we are only seeing some showers lingering making their way onshore here toward the san jose area and just to the east of san jose as well. That will dry out into the afternoon hours and your current temperatures now chillier than yesterday. 53 degrees in concord in oakland and 45 in santa rosa in those areas where it is clear we see cooler temperatures dipping down into the 40s and it will be co