Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Another bay area county is having to close down part of its economy. Beauty salons, barbershops and gyms all forced to hang up those closed signs once again. This morning theres one way they may still be able to operate. Good morning, average, its sunday, august 2, im liz kreutz. Thanks for joining us. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, liz, happy surrender everyone. Were looking at a lot of cloud cover especially in the city and across the bay. Our visible picture up in santa rosa, down the peninsula it is sunny in our inland east bay. Our east bay hills camera, you can see that layer is at about a thousand feet. Its 62 in gilroy. From mt. Tam, the sutro tower camera, upper elevation winds are blowing and shaking the camera around. 66 in concord. Changes today come in in a stronger onshore flow. We still have a little sun and a little breeze, climbing to t
For a larger historical. Arrative so for those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk for a moment about this the , civil war in 50 objects . How did it come about, and how effective do you think it is in conveying the narrative sweep of the civil war in only 50 objects . When i wascame about asked to undertake a project from the historical society. It was a lucky day for me. Someemember, we got to see of the objects only from the conference tables at the historical society. It was a matter of picking representative objects which, as you say, stand in for the big history of the civil war. Story bytem, personal personal story. Valerie it was wonderful to work with you on that project. So our topic this evening is fighting slavery, the bumpy road to block freedom. We will be looking at three objects but speak to the topic. Objectre all paperbased. The 1862 petition to him lincoln , and a veryside small sketch of the arrival of Jefferson Davis to the chickasaw bayou. They are our
County. The board of supervisors decided that people will be fined 100 for not following health orders. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. We explain how this new ordnance will work. Not wearing a mask in public will make you an out law. Previously violating the health order was a misdemeanor. A criminal prosecution. Now its like a parking ticket. Pay the fine or appeal it to a hearing officer. For individuals a first offense of not keeping a social distance or wearing a mask could mean a 100 citation. Cost goes up. A third citation 500. For businesses the range is 250 to 1,000 pr violation. It takes of course immediately. Its urgency. And applying to every community in the county. Bonus reasons about why theyre not wearing a mask. Its joining two other counties when it comes to enforcement. Its education level and income level. Its not an opportunity to pick on poor and uneducated people who cant afford the fine. Some like the idea some dont. Its trickier to gauge whats okay in a
Nation, testing directly happening at a transportation hub in San Francisco. They are hoping to make it as easy as possible to test members of the Latinx Community in the mission district. Again, the new testing place is at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza, they will be doing testings wednesdays and fridays from 7 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Again, that starts today and will last for the next three weeks. So the goal here is to catch the virus before it continues to spread throughout the Latinx Community in the mission. These are people who are often essential workers and dont have the opportunity to take off work to wait all day to get a test. You can go to where the problem is and help test and help mitigate, then you can reduce the transmission within that same community. And thats what were trying to do. Reporter the popup testing site at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza is made possible bay ucsf, b. A. R. T. And the city. The groups organizing the testing also realize
Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d