A landslide election victories New Zealanders reward the covering for. Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests they have been rejecting corruption in the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic so a quick look at how we got to this point in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service led to the resignation of the Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people and became another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later a 2nd wave of coronavirus posed a threat for the 10s of thousands of people who lost their homes
Were talking about you know we get so accustomed to talking about how hot its going to be some going to be necessary so hot. But very dry and windy to breezy with all this as well and you heard party talking earlier about the red flag warning theres the Coverage Area the whole day. Waters edge to the inland valleys higher elevations, lower elevations and valleys am through 11 00am on monday gives us a good 24 hours plus on that warning period live shot coming in from half moon bay, russia deal with some cloud cover in even some localized fog in some areas to take the elevator fog a little bit. Bay area not too off the upper 50s going on the east bay shoreline 40s up to the north bay 54 San Francisco, 53 going on for can also for san jose giving you comparison sake, were a little cooler along the peninsula and up to the north bay. A little warmer in the east bays you can see by a couple degrees here. All right a wakeup forecast keeps some of those clouds and a little bit in the way that
The city has always been cautious. This is another instance. Absolutely you know theyre saying that San Francisco still is doing better related to covid that most major American Cities but indicators show that things are lessening up a little bit loosening up a little bit and things are going a little bit in the wrong direction before things get way out of control city leaders want to put in a pause. We will have to do as a result is on some of our reopening efforts that we had planned for next week at an online briefing friday, San Francisco mayor london breed announced the San Francisco is in a good place with the covid Positivity Rate below one hospitalizations have jumped from 23 to 37 in just a week. And the case rate is up 25 and as a result, the city is putting a pause on expanded reopening plans set for next week what will remain closed indoor pools bowling alleys locker rooms and showers at Fitness Centers also a planned expansion of indoor activity from 25 capacity to 50 capa
Can still vote between now and election day we have 17 early voting sites that opened today and those will be open today saturday and monday. Yeah they will take this voting booth thats on wheels that will be used to alleviate waiting in those long lines, whatever helps these mobile polling stations will also be used as a backup resource on election day. Kron 4 says he could you explain tes. They are rolling out a pair of election mobile trailers in Contra Costa County as preparation for election day 2020 continues with low voter will but its a trend that were going to have outfitted to support our our polling places. The clerk recorder registrar of Contra Costa County Debbie Cooper says these red white and blue vulnerable bills will be used as backup resources just in case something happens that impacts voting that is stationary polling location in case of an emergency can one of the reasons we got them is because of the issues we can have you with p s p s power shutoffs and so were a
City, the city and county of San Francisco are slowing down plans to get back to business the last 2 weeks are key street has gone. From 3 about 3 per 100,000. Population to 4. Thats a 25 increase. The citys Public Health director doctor grant colfax says hospitalizations have also jumped from 23 to 37 in just a week which is why San Francisco is putting a pause on next weeks planned reopening of indoor pools indoor locker rooms and showers at gyms and indoor Family Entertainment activities like bowling alleys indoor restaurants indoor food courts movie theaters museums zoos and aquariums and houses of worship will also not be able to increased from 25 capacity to 50 capacity we were suprice we really thought that this time we can make it to. Get a least a 50 cut by this evening Francesco Colucci owns california fish market in north beach. Could she says running a restaurant in the city was challenging at 100 capacity this positive reopening is going to cost him 50 of his income. We al