Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
Its not enough to pay the bills. This entire business sector is about to collapse co owner of next 3 fitness in San Franciscos castro neighborhood describes the grim future of small Fitness Centers in the city gave character is also a member of the San Francisco independent Fitness Studio coalition, a group of 60 small neighborhood Fitness Studios representing almost 700 employees just in the last 2 weeks character says the closures already started for 6 of the groups chance we anticipate many more on the horizon i was talking to a gym. Just the other day one of the bigger gyms and they have right now a quarter of a Million Dollars worth of debt. We have 20,000 worth of debt right now character says the gyms down 80 of its typical revenue prepandemic and that includes the sales from their recently opened a supervised sidewalk work out. Were 2 people can work out at a time for 55 minutes with deep cleans and in between its a bandaid to let us work out outside. But for so many businesses
can see all the gray skies. but hey look at the sunshine already reflecting on the buildings and it s going to get a better and better and open up to us some mild temperatures into the afternoon even more mild than what we saw yesterday so really good for this time of year right now we re looking some 40 s but a lot more 50 s on the board temperatures are starting to move. 55 degrees in downtown oakland, 52 in san francisco right now 49 degrees in downtown san jose but 60 s are on the way look at this lots of sunshine and san francisco expected at 61 degrees 61 also in oakland and then downtown san jose mostly sunny and a nice mild 66 degrees and we re looking at rainfall though into the weekend i ll have more details ahead on that for now let s head over to the traffic center get an update on the roads with robin. thank you rebecca, not much crossing the bay the trip across the san mateo bridge looks really good. we had a long stretch. of heavy traffic that spilled from th