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They can grant even though Alameda County and tesla had agreed to a re open this plant to manufacture earlier this week, theyre still great concern as you heard about worker safety in regards to cope in 19. Among the protesters outside teslas headquarters saturday afternoon a tesla employee i have to say very disappointed in the leadership. Very disappointing in a mosque. Putting profits over the health of his workers Carlos Gabriel is a Production Associate at the fremont plant hes concerned about a covid19 outbreak in the facility that employs 10,000 people who commute as far as a 100 miles away. I worry for my i dont think this is an area where this was ca cannot be contracted out to be contained within this. This factory members of the Workers Solidarity Action Network gathered outside teslas factory to voice their concerns about employees returning to work. During shelterinplace orders after tensions between ceo elon musk and Alameda County, the 2 sides worked out a deal to reopen
More today and tonight into tomorrow, heres a shot of the radar to see where we stand the heaviest rain bands pretty much go from a line of richmond down the peninsula. And then another patch down there to the south bay as well from a say up to eastern Contra Costa County all the way down to the south bay now the flow pattern will show you whats coming from the southwest moving to the northeast. Losing a little bit of intensity. But it looks like theyll be a regeneration happening later on in the Santa Cruz Mountains particularly in the south there police favoring that area. Now the shot is as youre going to see all this morning for the brit shots and such a lot of fog to deal with that nears alcatraz in the foreground barely detectable and off in the background you can see San Francisco which see San Francisco and also the bay bridge to our temperatures are very mild right now were in the lower to even middle 60s off to any are there upper 50s meanwhile up to the north bay and down so
Residents continue to follow physical distancing orders, the state will face a shortage of 16,000 hospital beds. And california now nearing 10,000 confirmed total deaths. And the bay area has at least 2700 cases with 68 deaths. And Santa Clara County is the hot spot in our area, now nearing at least 1,000 cases. San francisco also jumpeding 10 just the past 24 hours. A lot happening. Good evening. And thanks for joining us. So with that as backdrop, new shelter in place restrictions in effect for the first time today. The bay area extension now reaches may 3, earlier today london breed said there is a possibility that it may extend even further for the city. You are seeing what is offlimits as of today, no more playgrounds, golf courses, tennis or back courts. And no more dog parks. Some experts believe that the social distancing is helping stem the trajectory of the coronavirus. But the citys Health Director says that it is too early to know if that is the case. The extension and the
Well, the rain this week is now moving out. And warmer weather is moving in for the week ahead. We will take a look at the numbers in the accuweather forecast. Today, President Donald Trump extended the social distancing guidelines to april 30th. Now, many businesses in our area are wondering how to stay afloat. Firefighters near daly city and another crew in su city were busy bringing joy to the lives of children. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening, im eric thomas. Right now, there are 1,951 coronavirus cases here in the bay area, 49 people have died, and Santa Clara County still has the most, with 646 cases, and 25 deaths. San francisco has 340 cases, with five deaths. San mateo county reports 277 cases and six deaths. Almeda county has 270 cases with seven deaths. Contra costa county, 175 cases, three people have died. And as you can see, there are fewer cases in the north bay. Santa cruz county has recorded its first coronavirus death out of 44 case, the victim was a man in