Test positive for coronavirus. An effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, 40 million californians have been told to shelter in place. That means dont go out unless you need to get some exercise or really need get Something Like going to the Grocery Store or a restaurant for food. To see how life has changed, we get a check with abc7s lauren martinez. She joins us live from what would be a normally bustling walnut creek. We dont hear or see anything behind you. Reporter no, its pretty empty. The three businesses behind me, tacos walnut creek, 54 men, and residual sugar wine bar are all dealing with this shutdown in very different ways. At 54 mint, they serve food and cafe. The owner says theyve been here for more than five years. His sons are now helping out. Theyre doing to go order only to go orders only, and theyre offering a roll of toilet paper with your order. Its one of the most in need item these days. We thought theyre giving support, we give toilet paper. Reporter now
Christien kafton has been talking about officials and joins us live from San Francisco. Reporter more than 300 inmates are housed in jail here inside 850 bryant. The question is if the building is shut down becse it has been deemed seismically unsafe, where do those inmates go . No one argues the point that 850 bryant, San Franciscos hall of justice since the 1960s has got to go. The building declared seismically unsafe in the mid 1990s still houses the criminal court and the jail on the seventh floor. San francisco is debating what to do with the 300 inmates that the jail holds now that the mayor has called for the inmates to be rehoused july 2021. We have to close the jail. It is far past time for the city to have a clear plan and timeline to do so. Reporter San Francisco supervisor call for a hearing to begin planning on what to do with the inmates the jail houses. At this point no one has a plan for where to put them. The retiring sheriff said since board of supervisors in 2015 rej
Territories. The state elevated fire 50 of our nation apply to 15 territory has that designation. Reporter it spoke very little about decades of neglect, deferred maintenance and profiteering at the expense of rate payers. Im not pointing a finger at anybody other than us. Reporter the California Public utility commissioners themselves appeared timid and somewhat embarrassed at having gone along with p jennys shut off system. And taking no real aggressive, probing or confrontational stance except for this. You said we need to get there. You need to get there now. Reporter the problems are so large and so many that it is unlikely serious improvements can be made until next year. The best thing for ratepayers to do is pray for rain and no more red flag whether. With that, we may just get through this. Reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you for that live report. 4 ktvu obtained a letter from pete yanity ceo and president that he sent to governor newsom. William johnson reit
Looks like a nice day. Itll be similar to yesterday. Temperature running a little cool for this time of year but no complaints. Nice weather coming our way. Cool to mild around the bay area. A little the fog and cloud cover. Are going to catch the tail end of that. We may even squeeze out a sprinkle or two. I will say that in a mome lets take a look at the numbers this morning. Santa rosa 44, San Francisco 54, livermore and san jose right about 50. Most of us a little cooler. Half moon bay down by 13 so a lot cooler for you. Down by seven in novato. Meanwhile the east bay, livermore, concorde, and fairfield always temperatures up from yesterday. Low, mid and highlevel clouds which come from that system right there. Bring you some rain to washington, oregon, and Northern California. As we roll through today will get some of that cloud cover. Here is a look at what you can expect by lunchtime. A few showers over lake county, edging into Sonoma County. Chance for a few sprinkles. Then thi
Holmes made hims. Its difficult to replace that. You know, they were kind of like one they were unique items. Reporter the group just had a google sponsored clean up with hundreds of volunteers. Over the years, they have removed hundreds of tons of garbage from the creeks and may be responsible for the come back of wildlife. Even today, large carp could be seen swimming in the murky waters. Im just surprised to see fish this big in the creeks in san jose. Reporter a couple guys were saddened to hear of the break in. Its terrible. Its sad. People are breaking into buildings that the people are here to protect the creeks. Reporter helped track down some of the stolen items, including t shirts that people on the streets were already wearing. The Coalition Says it has no choice but to go back to its donors to help replace most of the lost equipment. Were not going to go away. Were going to stay here and continue to grow this and restore these water ways. Reporter so the group says its miss