Reopening today that means more Retail Stores and more Small Businesses will be open for Curbside Service napa solano and sonoma counties are already doing that yeah in the east bay though Alameda County in Contra Costa County are still in phase. One. However, Health Officials there say that they will be making a decision on phase 2. Perhaps as early as today. Santa clara county, however, which has been the hardest hit. Currently remains in phase. One. So lets go to San Francisco and see how its going to go there so far early this morning, Sarah Stinson is live. Hi sarah. Hi there guys, im live on fillmore street where Curbside Pickup will be starting to be allowed around 10 oclock this morning. Im live in front of clothing shop over here all boarded up a Jewelry Store right here boarded up and a makeup store boarded up so itll be interesting to see how many businesses decide to open for Curbside Pickup again thats starting at 10 this morning. Take a look at your screen. We have a list
Marty robin im live here at Lafayette Park in San Francisco, a popular area people have been using for Outdoor Recreation and some of those activities will be of continued to be allowed but businesses who are allowed to go back to work thats really the biggest impact were seeing of course well have to follow some guidelines in that take a look at your screen road out all of the biggest and most important details in this u of is shelter in place you can see on your screen. The new order allows construction sites to resume with certain safety protocols in place, real estate transactions can also happen now but with some on open houses. And limitations on in person viewings child care programs can resume, but there must not be more than 12 children there in groups of children cannot cross over this is mainly to help essential workers who must go to work help them with their children, certain outdoor businesses can reopen including nurseries landscapers gardeners and other businesses that
Store on newell avenue near broadway and is now in quarantine. Whole foods sent out a statement that read in part, quote, out of an abundance of caution the store performed an additional cleaning and disinfection on top of our current enhanced sanitation measures. Oakland is opening a new drivethrough test site. But this is not for the general public. Only certain people will be able to get tested there. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is live from home. Kris, i know you watched that press conference. What are the details surrounding this new test site . Reporter you may be relieved to hear there are more tests available in oakland. This is not for everybody, there are still a shortage of tests available so oakland is trying to maximize how they use the available tests. Speaking in the last hour or so, mayor libby schaaf, wearing a red bandanna to cover her mouth while out in public, she announced widening of testing. Up to now, oakland was first Testing Health care workers, police and fire
Several workers unions. 42nd street is empty today at all workers furloughed will broadway and oakland. Still have access to health and just a few neighbors cars and education good. People riding bikes and others running in the street. Tom debly says more space was Second Harvest of Silicon Valley needed to keep that sixfoot knew the shelter in place would mean more people in need of social distance out on his help. So with the help of ciscos real walks. I think its working really estate team, it was able to well because when a lot of secure a 40,000 square foot people get out walking, some of us have to move into the street. Warehouse. With eight loading docks and plenty of room for storage. So this makes it a lot safer. Were using it to process more reporter since the stayathome order to slow the bulk food and prebox our spread of covid19, popular groceries so our distribution exercise spots like lake merritt centers are safer. Now we need your help to fill have seen a surge of peopl
Coronavirus. An east bay lab is playing a Critical Role in getting thousands more coronavirus tests to the public. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro live in pleasanton with the new developments. We could all use a little encouraging news, and you have some for us. Reporter absolutely. Boy, can we use some promising news, terry. Youre absolutely right. Im here at roche labs in pleasanton. Not only did this company develop a new coronavirus test, but it can deliver results in just 3 1 2 hours. This is the first commercially available coronavirus test to receive emergency authorization from the fda. Those tests can be run on roches fully automated machines, which are already installed in hospitals and labs across the u. S. And around the world. And those tests are headed to bay area and state labs right now. We already have 400,000 tests available. Weve started already to ship over the weekend and through the next few days to these laboratories, and then over the course of the coming weeks, we