Reporter after months of shelter in place order San Francisco is now the first bay area county to achieve the lowest risk under the states blueprint for a safer e kick economy. A new county is benefiting, San Francisco county is moving from orange to yellow today. They are trending in the right direction. Cases are dropping. A few months ago the case rate was hundred 30 new cases per day. Now we are down to about 30 on average so that is very good news. Reporter those low numbers come even as the countys testing as many as 5000 people per day. Hospitalization rates are also low with just 25 people currently hospitalize with covid19. The county is also making major inroads in reducing coronavirus rates in the latino population. The yellow tear means the county can now proceed with its reopening plans. Starting next week nonessential Office Spaces will be allowed to open a 25 capacity. Health gyms will be allowed to open a 25 capacity if things continue to move in the right direction. Re
Capacity does not mean much when there are no customers around so 25 Office Capacity is welcomed news here. I was surprised to hear that people were mentioning going back to work and filling Office Spaces i feel like downtown has been kind of forgotten neighborhood of the city. The number of Small Businesses this is going to help is hard to even say. Reporter yellow also means good news for jim owners that go beyond private sessions owners, the real struggle will be demanding confidence. For those that are feeling comfortable and confident about it this is great for Small Businesses and local neighborhood businesses that took it in the teeth starting march. Reporter next moves are tied to the hospitalization numbers the city has today and as we have seen in other parts of the entry those numbers can change. Shift cases start to go up in a way that is alarming we will not hesitate to put a pause or reverse some of the reopening is. We do need to make subs to move forward and with City H
Drizzle out there. Its something that jobina and i will be tracking throughout the morning commute. The marine layer is thicker this morning. Its touching all neighborhoods and infused with more moisture. No areas of organized rain you can see on live doppler 7. Theres some drizzle. Its been measurable. In the east bay hills, up to 0. 06 inches so far. Heres a look at the exploratorium. We have another spare the air day, right now everybody is good, which is green or yellow, that is moderate. So well go from drizzle this morning to just a random light shower possible under a mostly cloudy sky this afternoon. If you liked yesterdays temperatures you should like todays. It will be a up more humid. 60s around the coast and bay with 70s inland. Kumasi . Thank you. So this is the top story on abc7news. Com right now. This man caught on camera robbing a woman as she pushed a baby stroller in the middle of the day in sunnyvale. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover is live with what neighbors are
Spare the air day once again. Lets look at our temperatures. Mid 60s through half moon bay, San Francisco and fremont. Upper 60s to near 70 for the rest of the bay. Low to mid 70s inland today. Now, a better chance of measurable drizzle tonight. Well show you that coming up. Lets get back to kumasi for the news. Thank you. This is one of the top stories right now on abc7news. Com. This man caught on camera robbing a woman as she was pushing a baby stroller in the middle of the day in sunnyvale. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover is live with what neighbors think about all this. Reporter good morning. It does not get much worse than this. Were hearing women in the sunnyvale neighborhood are telling each other to not wear expensive and pricey and nice jewelry when theyre out in public after seeing this awful incident caught on camera. It happened in the birdland neighborhood midday wednesday. Two women here walking. One in this pink jacket has a stroller. A man pretends to trip, the women
Story. Reporter it has been one week since the last Public Safety power shut off, we could see another tonight and it could affect nearly every bay county. If you live in one of these counties there is a chance you could lose power. 7500 customers in the bay area are under a power safety watch the majority are in the north bay. It is an annoyance but the fire danger is so extreme and scary, you know, i am rightfully they are doing something. If pg e decides to move forward, power could be cut on a rolling basis from late tonight until friday morning. 54,000 customer accounts across 19 Northern California counties and two tribal communities could be affected. When we get the weather cleared we could start patrolling our lines, our goal would be to turn our customers back on within 12 to 18 hours. The goal is to lower the chances of equipment sparking another wildfire during this weather. Dry conditions are forecasted. This will go into effect tonight, which means fires can spark or spre