You are watching kpix 5 news at 5 30 pm. Right now on kpix 5, more local news at 5 30 pm. Retreating to the redwoods, muir woods gets ready to reopen with new limitations to control crowds. What visitors need to know. Body camera just released. Police trying to stop suspected looters in the east bay. Reevaluating reopening. The two bay area counties now on the governors watch list after a bike in cases. Good evening. Contra costa county and Santa Clara County both on that list after a spike in hospitalization rates. Wilson walker is in Contra Costa County where those reopening dates are now up in the air. Reporter here in martinez where they are taking advantage of the street space on this nice friday evening here. Next week was going to be a big week in the county for more reopenings. Indoor dining, gyms, hotels, a lot of personal care services. Now Health Officials are having second thoughts. Yeah i was hoping for it but i have been expecting delays based on what i have seen going on
Are dealing with illegal fireworks. Good evening everyone. The concern comes as the National Weather service issued a red flag warning in parts of the north bay. It just went into effect a moment ago. We have Live Team Coverage tonight, Azenith Smith with the concerns about fireworks. First we begin with chief meteorologist bill martin who is tracking the current conditions. Definitely the wind is coming up, the wind direction will shift around. This low Pressure Center that came in this morning brought the wind and brought the cool to mild weather that set us up with the Pressure Gradient that will give us some pretty significant trend in the wind. Most will not notice the fire concern wind, but in the Higher Elevations you will. Gusts can be up to 50 miles per hour. This red flag warning for the hills stays in effect through tomorrow night. The wind forecast, this is about 5 am tomorrow morning commander, you can see the real wind in the contours, right around clearlake, napa, thats
Of visitors came into marin beach towns, overwhelming a lot of locals. Check it out. Tonight bolinas residents are out here on horseshoe road practically begging visitors and surfers dont come into town. Make a uturn. Turn back and go home to protect people who are living here. Go home reporter bolinas residents took matters into their own hands sunday, posting themselves at the towns entrance, pleading with visitors to turn around. They clapped and cheered when drivers obeyed. Thank you we want everyone to be aware this isnt a spring break. Its not vacation. Its a pandemic. Were all supposed to stay at home. Reporter they also posted signs to send a message. On saturday, bolinas and Stinson Beach were overrun with cars and visitors looking for a break. Beaches were packed. And we just wonder why they thought it was okay to just swarm Stinson Beach. Diana morel has lived in Stinson Beach for 50 years. We want to be safe. Im an old gray hair, and i want to be safe. And i dont feel like
Countys response. As napa county faces its first covid 19 cases the county says and theyve been prepared. Our priority right now is making sure that were ramping up our staffing in a Facebook Live sunday afternoon deputy county executive Molly Rattigan gave this update to napa county about the quickly escalating Coronavirus Spread you should start to see increases in some of the testing them or us as youve been saying in the last few days here in napa county county officials report as of sunday almost a 100 tests have been completed and at least 30 cases are under investigation. The countys first case was reported in the Morning Hours later a second case confirmed Health Officials say both patients have been isolated one a napa city resident, the other isolated in saint helene a there is no known connection officials wont say their age gender or where the virus was contracted, but are working to trace people who have been in direct contact testing for the virus began last week we are r
But there are a lot of crews out there. Well check back with you later. From washington to the bay area, today in the bays tracie potts live in washington with more on the action lawmakers are taking. Tracie . Reporter and what the president is doing as well. Trying to get money into the hands of workers who are not working right now. President trump sending Navy Hospital ships to california and new york to try to relieve hospitals that are overburdened right now dealing with the virus and sending supplies. He says to all three hardest hit states, california, washington state, and new york. Working with private companies to try to get more and the president says that he will have more on the way. Here on capitol hill lawmakers trying to figure out how they get this money into the hands of workers. Small business loans, direct payment, theyre at a log job here and a vote failed over the weekend. Theyre going to try again later today. Large Corporate Bailout with no protections for worke