Abc7 news iteam reporter stephanie sierra is live with the story tonight. Stephanie . Dan, tens of thousands of retail employees across the bay area are facing the same question. Are we going to make it . And as we found out, two counties in particular are most likely to be impacted. Mark taylor is the general manager of mikes bikes in sausalito. Been hectic. His bike shop is deemed essential. People have been told to stay at home or go for a walk or ride a bike. So its no surprise sales are skyrocketing. Bu county. According to an abc7 iteam analysis, marin countys Retail Sector is expected to be the second hardest hit across the bay area. Roughly 15 of all private employees countywide work in retail jobs. Whereas San Francisco has the lowest with roughly 7 . Yeah, of course im concerned. Yeah. Its going to be hard on a loft businesses. Retail will be particularly hard. So what area is bracing for the worst . Its solano county. Abc7s Data Analysis found nearly one in five employees ac
Set them back years as anything like it was in 2008 and its going to be horrible. I mean we lost 33 thousands of teachers for students, California Teachers Association president ito be boyd says the cuts will result in layoffs furloughs an increased class sizes ultimately the students will suffer any loss to our classrooms who are for students to benefit. Well be devastation. The governors proposed cuts include a 10 reduction in the States School funding formula and a 10 cut to both the usi and California State University systems. The School Funding is less than what the governor and vision earlier this year, but it may be enough to maintain current Academic Year services, the proposal, however is still a significant setback for schools everyone is going to feel the pain and its unfortunate that. Our students our children that we actually educate have to feel that pain again hasnt been that long ago that occurred before. Governor newsome says hes trying to soften the blow and avoid wha
20 aftershocks. The strongest one was about 5. 1. Which on any normal day would be a pretty sizable earthquake in its own right, but this was the aftershock and that happened about 20 minutes or so after the main quake struck at 4, 3, this morning, but had about 20 aftershocks, a ground still shaking just good news is that while were all quarantine or a home this year already with your family theres no like scattered plan or altogether color out is you know where they are thats good point there in your house. So lets talk about coronavirus now as the bay area continues to ease its restrictions in phase 2 now of the states reopening. The guidelines overnight and there are new details this morning about what this entails Sonoma County is now going to join napa and solano counties in phase 2 and starting monday marin county will join San Francisco and san mateo counties in easing restrictions. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties, those still remain however in phase one which clo
The Sonoma County is a little bit deeper into phase 2 they actually started last week with Sporting Goods stores and bookstores allowing them for Curbside Pickup that made people happy but i think this morning this will make them even happier because car washes are now available that opened up at 12 oh one in the morning and this is the first car. Thats coming out of this car wash in santa rosa, which was shut down during shelterinplace. Car wash is not the only locations pet grooming pet. Groomers they also are open Janitorial Services for commercial or residential areas you can also visit those locations or have they come to your home. So long as they practice social distance. Open museums, an open air galleries you can come there as well. Many people are happy john she hand can you get here a little bit closer not too close because so so this this is still the norm of the day. Your thoughts on this your cars coming through you look at it like a proud papa. Your thoughts are car wash
Today to get the city back to business. And cornell, you heard from a lot of Business Owners there. Yeah, dion and eric, we certainly did. Many Business Owners say they are fighting for survival. They say reopening their doors really needs to happen sooner than later. Open up open up reporter dozens of people rallied in downtown livermore to support small businesses, urging local leaders to allow them to reopen. Livermore was nothing before these businesses came in. And to let them sit here and fall to the wayside blindly is not okay with me or my family. Were hurting. Weve had zero revenue for two months now. Reporter darren and Andrea Liggett own anytime fitness gym. They believe they can safely reopen their doors now. People are buying groceries. I really dont see the difference. Right . Because we can very easily move equipment around and keep our members safe. I just want to survive for my family. I have two kids reporter nail salon owner nancy lam made this emotional plea. You kn