Suns up here shortly before 6 00 a. M. And find a warmer and brighter afternoon compared to yesterday. Low 60s along the coast and around the bay and inland, feel much warmer in the 70s. Even warmer weather is coming in for the upcoming holiday weekend. Well detail that. Big news out of the north bay. Napa county just got the green light to move further into phase two. That means sit down restaurants, shopping malls and other businesses can now reopen. Our effort to build a better bay area focuses on four key things the reopening of the counties is a key part of the bay area recovery. Lets go to Amy Hollyfield with what we can expect today. Amy . Hi, reggie. They just got this approval at 6 00 last night. Restaurants can now reopen here in napa county. You can just imagine the food orders Restaurant Owners are placing right now. The county meets all of the states requirements to open early. This is before the rest of the state. Wineries and their tasting rooms cannot reopen. County officials have been advocating for them, but they have not gotten permission yet for the wineries. But restaurants can reopen and the county says it is ready to take this step. Is napa ready for a potential influx of cases with this reopening . Yes, that was one of the requirements of the adapitation variance, you had to demonstrate you are prepared if there is a surge. And we exceeded all the basic requirements. Retail can also reopen. There are rules. Face masks are required, social number peoplre l in place and a allowed inside. Sonoma county will likely be next. They are still working on a few details, but they are close to getting state approval to take this next step. Napa kicks us off. First one is ready to go here in the bay area. Live in napa, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. The napa town and county fair, however, will not go on as planned in august. Directors of the expo just voted to cancel the longrunning event during this pandemic. A mobile testing site in the tenderloin neighborhood. It will operate outside the tenderloin recreation center. Officials say online appointments are strongly recommended. The mobile site will conduct hundreds of tests every day and open from 10 00 in the morning to 4 00 in the afternoon through sunday. It will then reopen next thursday and then be open through memorial day. President trump is defending his decision to take a controversial drug, which he thinks can prevent coronavirus. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with this. Jobina . Thank you. Good morning. President trump is not backing down and defending his choice to take the drug hydroxychlorquine to prevent covid19. The drug is commonly used to treat malaria. The fda does not recommend using it outside of a hospital or Clinical Trial setting because it could lead to heart problems. The president is not experiencing any side effects and also criticized a study that said the drug is not effective for preventing coronavirus saying it is antitrump. Vice president mike pence said he is not taking the drug because his doctor did not recommend it. Reggie, ill send it over to you. All right. Thanks, jobina. Hundreds of mcdonalds workers are planning to strike over covid19 protections or the lack there of. One day before the companys annual shareholder meeting. They want to pressure the fast food chain to improve what they are inadequate protection for employees during the pandemic. The strike is being organized by the fight for 15 minimum wage labor campaign. Mcdonalds is calling the strike a publicity stunt by labor organizers. For there first time in weeks, all 50 states have partially reopened as we learned encouraging news bout the likelihood of reinfection, some people believe it is too soon to go back to work. Heres careana mitchell. While the race for a vaccine continues, it is being met with mixed reaction. Across the country, all 50 states finally entering some phase of reopening. In minnesota long lines forming at this dmv. Residents anxious to renew their licenses. In hardhit new york, ultraviolet light now being used to clean subway and buses to speed up the ability to commute to work. Authorities spending 1 million on the devices hoping the light will stop the coronavirus in its tracks. Even as restrictions are lifted, new protests are erupting. In connecticut, the final state to begin reopening, salon owners furious after learning they will not be included in todays phase one plan. The rug got pulled out from underneath us. Reporter in this new jersey, this gym goer arrested and the gym owner arrested for defying lockdown rules. 21 states eased restrictions two weeks ago or earlier and found no major changes in the hospitalization rate or covid19 deaths. But a new cdc study highlights the risk of reopening tracing a cluster of infections in arkansas to a single church. More than a third of the 92 people who attended got sick. Three people died. And in a sign of just how far weve come, the governor of texas saying child care facilities can reopen immediately, setting the stage for the return of summer camp. Karina mitchell, abc news, new york. Wash your hands wash your hands all right. A colorful rally in the south bay. Eyoo t palo e raging grannies. Alto to encourage people to stay home during the memorial day wekend. They say if you do need to go out, as you just heard one of the raging grannies adlib, wear a mask. I dont know. I dont feel like rag rag rag rg right term. Right now, good morning, everybody. 47 in santa rosa and light onshore breeze about 10 Miles Per Hour in most spots. Were starting off with some pretty calm conditions and go hour by hour and show you what is in store on your wednesday. Lunchtime back into the 60s and our warmest spots will go into the 70s today. Today is warmer compared to yesterday by about five degrees and a lot of cities and we will see a lot of sunshine later on this afternoon and a closer look at highs where you live today. 60s to mid and upper 70s is pretty close to where we should be for this time of the year. About 66 in the city. 77 in concord. The same in i thahas into the upcoming holiday weekend. Starting out on saturday, its warm. 70s to 80s. This is above average for this time of the year. As you fast forward to saturday, 90s make a comeback and well continue to increase. Low 80s in oakland and near 90 in san jose and our hottest spots in the mid if not upper 90s. Jobina . Thank you, drew. Goodern moing to you and everyone else watching. Hello. We are going to start off with a look in the south bay at san jose 101er there. As drew mentioned in weather earlier that things are quiet and also quiet on our roads right now. A number of construction projects, though. Please slow down when you see the orange cones. Everything else looking good. And while were in the south baoing to stay here for our next story. Mark your calendars, everybody. B. A. R. T. San jose extension will open in three and a half weeks on june 13th. This is major. The announcement just came from b. A. R. T. And the bta. Construction on the ten mile, 2. 3 billion project has taken eight long years. The two station extension will bring b. A. R. T. Trains to san jose for the first time in the agencys 55year history. Reggie and kumasi. Oh, all right. Coming up next, the seven things to know this morning. Also preparing for patients. Some dental offices in the bay area are reopening with a hurdles. Two of the big challenges theyre facing. Plus, public pools in the age of coronavirus. Will they be safe home. Its not its where we make a life. This memorial day, and every day, we honor those who gave everything to keep our home safe. Lowes. 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If youre just joining us, seven nuer e, napa county to ging. Srmtate mourer into phase two. It allows dinein restaurants, Retail Stores and shopping malls to reopen, but not wineries. It will be some adadad san jose is one step closer to returning to Outdoor Dining. The City Council Unanimously approved plans once sheltinplace orders are lifted, retailers and restaurants can set up outside. Number three. Santa clara county officials will announce that free covid19 testing is available for all residents. In East San Jose and the santa clara fairgrounds in san jose. Crews have cleaned up and left the scene of a fire at the san jose junk yard. It burned several vehicles. More than a dozen port a potties and some power lines. Number five in accuweather. A warmer afternoon and a lot of sunshine on the way before we see temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Warmer compared to where we were yesterday and where we should be for this time of year. Number six. Take your time if youre making your way across the bay bridge this morning. As we take a live look here. High wind advisory issued by the chp and a high wind advisory through the altamont pass. Resume nonstop flights to San Francisco next month. All Nippon Airways will resume flights and swiss air and lufthansa tends to bring back its frights from munich. Dentists are starting to reopen across the state but two major hurdles they have to overcome. First of all, covid19 tests and adequate protective gear. Heres j. R. Stone. Everybody say hi. Reporter Dentist Office across the state and here in the bay area are gearing up and preparing for patients. You can see all the protective gear in boxes ready to be unpacked. I think i have every face shield known to man. Reporter dr. Marco says the biggest challenge for her office in san mateo is keeping the current twoweek recommendation of protective gear in stock. The n95 are still a big challenge. A lot of them are coming out to be fake. Reporter San Francisco dentists are dealing with some call an even larger issue with a strict city policy. If youre coming in for a routine procedure, you will need to be tested for covid three to four days in advance. We need to know youre negative before entering into the office. Reporter now excludes emergency procedures, it requires a covid19 anything inuvl volving aerosol. I hope they ease the restrictions on the testing. Reporter a dentist in union square. Shes concerned some may opt to go to other offices in other cities without the covid testing policy, shes optimistic her patients will stay. I love my patients and im hopeful that they love me in return and theyre happy to be back and returning into the office. The office may be safer than going to the Grocery Store because of all the protocols we now have in place. All that extra protective gear could cost you, as well, when it comes to the price. It is possible a covid charge at some of these offices. But all these rules and all these details certainly changing by the day. J. R. Stone, abc7 news. Health experts are looking into solutions to keep Public Restrooms clean as more places start to open back up. Restrooms can be a tr dh like coronavus things we thought were sanitary are transmitte transmitters. The hand drying blower is a wonderful machine to spread germs and aerosols and droplets throughout the room. Experts say possible Solutions Include making bathrooms touchless. Marking off sinks and toilets and removing doors from bathroom entrances and adding covers to toilets. All right. Theres some new guidelines for anyone who is thinking about going to a public pool. The cdc says you should wear a Face Covering when possible, but not in the water because it could be hard for you to breathe and we want you to thrive and stay alive. The agency also recommends limiting the number of people ii distancing and life guards should only be focused on the pool and not focused on whether or not people have masks on. A lot of people have been getting dogs since our shelterinplace. Heres one thing you might not know. Apparently dogs also go through a teenage angst period. Our canine companions get pretty stando standoffish during their teen years. Dogs were less responsive to their owners at around the age o 8 months old, that includes ignoring you. Researchers say at eight months the dogs in the study took longer to respond to a sit request from their caregiver but obviously still knew that sit command because when a stranger asked the dog to do it, well, thats when they quickly responded. Im curious about a dog who is 14 years old and inches behind me. Because sometimes i feel like woodstock still ignores you. It depends on what mood hes in. It does. I am telling you, kumasi. We went through the whole training with him. I was there when he graduated from school and he knew how to do a lot of things. Now, he has forgotten all of it. Unless hes properly motivated. Does he get treats . It comes back. If theres a treat, hell write an essay for you, clean the house, run a marathon. What about dapper . Yeah, hell do anything for a treat, but i think, yeah. He is so unbothered by me. I will say anything and he just stares at me and i am like we are not doing that today. An essay. Live doppler 7, good morning, everybody. Were quiet out there. Really nice afternoon. Take you to sutro tower right now where you can see overcast skies over the city right now. Well start out with a fair amount of cloud cover and may ay fst tng and aecent amou o lat on okrour day plne way, ounise abt5 55 this m. Not too far away. Light onshore breeze and 56 in san mateo and santa rosa 56 degrees. Live doppler 7 along with satellite and this area of low pressure responsible for those showers on monday and tuesday that is allowing us to dry up and push out. Later for you at lunchtime into the 60s. Pretty nice out there. Then into the 70s away from the coast. Today is warmer than we were yesterday. Highs today. Closer look and 66 in the city and 70 in oakland and that will feel nice in the east bay. 77 in santa rosa. Overnight tonight, youll find temperatures in the 40s to lower 50s. The bigger story mainly clear skies. Not nearly as cloudy tonight as we are right now. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Show you what is going on. Brighter skies today and that warming trend gets under way. Look at the weekend, oh, my word. Especially for the holiday on monday and tuesday. Were going back to the 80s and 90s above average summerlike warmth for this time of the year. Im here for it. Matt lauer is blasting journalist accusing of misleading reporting detailed accusations of misconduct against the former nbc anchor. Reporter in this mornings good, gma first look the journalist bet selling book catch and kill which details allegation against lauer. He was fired in 2017 for inappropriate sexual behavior now writing a lengthy oped claiming published allegations against him without proper Fact Checking and verifications. Using excerpts from catch and kill. Publicly stated that lauer sexually assaulted her at the 2014 sochi olympicses. Nbc felt they checked out. Reporter well talk live to jen ashton about a new coronavirus study. Some casinos in Southern California are getting ready to reopen friday with some changes. Casino morongo is one of many casinos closed for two months. When it reopens, required to temperature check. Monitoring parking lots ensuring 50 capacity or less and some slot machines will have partitions. Some of the devices disabled and seats removed, for example, seats removed from our restaurants. Its fitness center, spa and pool will remain closed for now. Speaking of gambling, more than 30 las vegas resorts are accepting reservations for this upcoming memorial day weekend with some really cheap deals. However, its not clear what visitors would do on the strip with all the casinoslosed. The os Caesars Palace has rooms for 90 bucks a night. New york, new york 35 bucks a night and shows like o will not return until july 1st at the earliest. Can you eat . Can you get in the pool . Can you have pool parties . What is the point . I know. Thats what is kind of unclear to me. I have to look and see if the pools are actually open. No concerts. No. Well, maybe ayou just need t get away. You cant take a picture with a fake teenage mutant ninja turtle on the corner. Why go . A Home Furnishing company is planning to close its doors including right here in the bay area. Hometown hero gary this is abc7 mornings. Well take you to michigan right now where there is a Flash Flood Warning in effect after a dam burst. Look at these pictures from above. Heavy rain in the midwest caused the Edenville Dam to breach. You can see in this video taken yesterday as the flood of water took down trees as it moved down stream. 10,000 people right now in nearby communities have been told to evacuate. Over the past 48 hours, parts f michigan saw eight inches of rainfall. That is a lot of rain in a short amount of time and you can see the repercussions of that dam just broke and the flood water moving into nearby towns. Everybody stay safe in that area. Memorial day weekend back here at home, oh, boy. Get ready. We have sunshine. Summerlike heat. Well start that warming trend today and that continues into the upcoming weekend. Saturday and sunday, 80s even 90s make a come back and then on the holiday itself on monday. That is summerlike heat. Look at the overall pattern next week. Some of the hottest temperatures centered right over california. So, get ready for this warm weather to stick around. Kumasi . All right, thanks, drew. The San Francisco giants say theyll keep all 350 fulltime employees as a team to see if the baseball season will start back up. Right now is the end of september. But, those who make 75,000 or more will have to take a pay cut and about 60 parttime workers are going to be furloughed. Nba star gary pa