Now at 11 00, bay area retailers open their doors but its anything but business as usual. Theres been a lot of conversations with people who want to know how things are working now. Tonight, the challenges businesses face as they wait to see if customers will return. The delicate balance of reopening. How officials are weighing lives versus livelihoods. The governor saying sports could be back as soon as first week of june. Why thats unrealistic and the hurdles that still stand in the way. Now at 11 00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, another bay area county poised to allow more businesses to reopen. Good evening. Elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Tomorrow morning Contra Costa County will become the latest that will relax restrictions. And tonight reporter joe vazquez has the balancing act the counties are facing when it comes to reopening. As more bay area businesses are preparing to reopen, theyre wrestling with questions. If the virus is just as dangerous, how can they afford to r
Moderate rain. Here is a look at the Sales Force Tower camera as we look east and tracking some showers pushing across parts of the east bay. I will show you high def doppler coming up. We have a lot of brake it is because of this lights out of the alatoona instability that is slowing pass. Delays are from tracy towards pushing out of here. We will see a few more isolated other areas. Remember, we want to bring showers and it is a possibility but also some clearing and a little bit of sunshine. I will show you the future cast take you hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. Lets take a live look in you the good news happening in capitol hill. You see where treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and Jerome Powell are going to face a scented grilling . They will give their first report about the Economic Stimulus Program implemented by the 2. 2 trillion cares act and the hearing is coming on the heels of report from a new Congressional Oversight Commission that it found the Treasury Departmen
Griego. Weve just learned bart is one of the agents getting federal financial help. President trump tweeted hours ago saying im proud to announce the San Francisco bay area will receive over 700 million in federal funds to support continued operations and support workers at sfo and for transit on muni and bart. This money will aid in economic recovery. And just this morning bay area transit officials announced a start date for the long awaited bart extension into Santa Clara County. We have the update. June 13, just 26 days from now. Wow, isnt this a great day. Its wonderful to be able to celebrate, isnt it . Every single taxpayer in Santa Clara County its because of you that i can stand here today and say were almost there. But this is what happens when we flip me on our head in Silicon Valley and make it we. Bart received 251 million of the federal money President Trump tweeted about to buy time and keep trains running through the end of the fiscal year on june 30 and into the summer
New home for tesla , elon musk threatened to move the company out of the state when production was blocked. And today Governor Newsom was asked if they would do something if tesla took off . I am not worried about him leaving anytime soon, we are committed to the success in innovation of the economy that he has promoting for decades. And i think it is in all of our interest to find areas of common ground. Reporter the fremont plant fully reopened after the company signed off, tesla is looking at austin, texas as their next factory to produce the crossover and the cyber track. Following a breaking story out of los angeles. Chp is involved in a highspeed chase that reached speeds of 120 Miles Per Hour. They are following a white suv. This started on the i5 freeway near the burbank airport. This vehicle just exited the freeway going around surface streets. It looks like hes getting back on the freeway. A lot of people know this is where movie studios are and quiet neighborhoods. It looks
This is thursday, april 23, 2020. I will again enter the following comments into the record that on february 25th, 2020, the mayor declared a state of emergency ey related to the covid19. Since that declaration, the county Health Officer issued a stateathome order followed by the governor of the state of california doing the same. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws applicable to boards and missions making it possible to hold this Commission Hearing remotely. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene through the end of the shelterinplace order. Recogniseing that the commissions consideration of certain projects is an essential government operation, and that the authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and small business. I will also remind everyone that the platform that we are operating on is not per