Reporter and the social media showdown between twitter and president trump. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. We have several new developments on reopening this evening. The first bay area mall opens its doors. The governor tells gym owners new guidelines for them are coming in seven to ten days. And bart today says the bay area is reopening and it is ready with new Safety Measures. Big steps toward reopening. Good evening, thank you for joining us im ama daetz. I am dan ashley. Health officials are sounding the alarm about the pace of reopening. One of them, sarah code. Krigs nguyen has the story from san jose. Reporter as california moves to reopen parts of the economy on a county by county base, there is growing concern it could be happening a little too fast. Santa clara county Health Officer dr. Sarah cody shared her opinion at a Virtual Meeting with the board of supervise. The state is moving ahead without knowing the consequences of what the last move has been. And with a serious risk of exponent shall growth in cases. Reporter she says 14 days is needed to effectively gauge the impact in each step of the reopening process. The state hasnt been adhering to that time line when it comes to monitoring cases and hospitalizations. We know there is a lot of the virus in the community. And we know that it is going to spread because people are relaxing, shelter in place too fast. Reporter on wednesday county officials stressed the doctors concerns. Having a row pus tracking system in place could help the con reopen sooner. We are looking for more testing, contact tracing, social distancing, wear your mask, wash your hands, dont touch your face. Lets make sure we keep doing that here. Reporter across the country, a consequence in vo kid 19 has been a massive drop in hospital utilization for heart attack and stroke. Visits for primary care have also gone down during the pandemic. We get the idea that things are going to reopen so rapidly people will forget paying attention to the essentials that kept us relatively safe if a big surge. Reporter this doctor says they have implemented universal masking, social distancing, and extra hand washing stations throughout their facilities. Protective measures meant to encourage people to come in for care now to help ease the system if another wave were to hit. We want to create a safe environment four, your family, and for us as the clinicians taking care of you. Reporter the south bay taking a slow yet steady approach to keeping people healthy. We are going to keep at it. We are going to sprus suppress the level of transanything to the lowest levels that we can with every ounce of our energy. We are going to stay at it. We are going to go slow, be safe, and protect the people that most need to be protected. Reporter kris nguyen, abc7 news. Hundreds of people are showing up to get coronavirus testing in mountain view. The pop up site conducted tests on some 300 people by midday on the way to their goal of 00. The tests were conducted on a walkup basis even for those without symptoms. All free of charge. The effort to test as many people as possible comes as california coronavirus cases topped 100,000 and the death toll from covid19 surpassed more than 100,000 in the United States the highest total of anywhere in the world. Abc7 news is committed to our effort to build a better bay area. Today for the First Time Since march the doors are open at a fairfield shopping mall. The show lando county Health Department gave the green light to reopen the town center. This was their first day back. We have a look at what the experience was like. Reporter cleaning and disinfecting from florida to soda machine is the easy part. Now that the mall is reopen it is the social distancing part that can be tricky. Let me get to all of you, okay. Reporter eager shoppers lined up too closely outside the shoe palace store inside the mall. That prompted repeated warnings from the manager that they could not bunk up that way. They will shut us down. Th opene at 11 00 a maximum of 30 people were let in. William pham was first. At first it was okay, when it got closer to the time to go in it got hectic. Reporter these shoppers were 30 and 31, they had to wait until two customers left. And they were not happy about folks in line standing so close. We are not going to make it. Foolish decisions. We are going to stay our six feet. Thats on them. Reporter the Sneaker Store was the only really business inside. Masks are not required inside the mall. The mall it self is open but not every store inside the mall is open. The general manager tells me about 50 are still shut down. Some of the big chains like jcpenney and macys, they will reopen next week. Locally owned businesses like slime world, yes, they do make customer slime for kids parties and the like are opened and preparing to see customers again. I started getting butter flies, oh, my gosh i am going to see my regulars again. What did i used to say to bring them in. Reporter last night the county Health Officials announced barbers and salons wll be allowed to reopen starting today. Bart announced 15 steps and plans to make trains safe for people to commute to work. Cornell barnard has the story. Reporter if you havent ridden bart lately, you are not alone. The system has been carrying essential workers but many trains have been rolling early. Ridership is starting to come back right now. Reporter the general manager says for the first time in a long time ridership is up 30 . We were carrying around 24,000 ritzers a day. Idea we carried 32,000. Reporter bart unveiled a new plan to keep its new and returning riders safe. Heres what they are doing. Crowding spaces are breeding grounds for covid19. So the system will run longer trains more frequently to allow riders to spread out and keep social distancing. On the new seats, they will be configured aagainst the sides to allow more room. They are stepping up cleaning treatments spraying with hospitalgrade disinfecting. Every morning when we start Revenue Service the riders can be assured that that train has been fogged. We will do that every night, every single car in the fleet. Reporter for riders who dont want to touch anything bart will sell personal hand straps. Wrap it around the bar, pull down, and hold on. Reporter we showed the straps to some riders. Thats a good idea. You dont want to touch things other people are touching. Reporter they will eliminate the sale of paper tickets and go clipper card only in some stations. All passengers asked the wear face masks at all times. Does it make you feel more comfortable riding . It does. I dont like people breathing on me, people coughing. Reporter will the new Safety Measures be enough to bring riders back . We will see n. Oakland, cornell barnard, abc7 news. Before we move on, the Transit Agency said it is raising parking fees. Will now cost 3. 55 to park at the cole see up, truth vale, lake merit, mcarthur and rock ridge stations. The new fee at west oakland will be 12. 40. Governor newsom says within a week or so, the state will release guidelines on what needs to happen for gyms to reopen. He host as round table with several californians who work in the Fitness Industry as part of his economic recovery and reinvention listening tour. One of those on the call was a sacramento gym owner. The county told him he could reopen last week but the state overrode the approval and the gym closed after three days . We are desperate. We want to get back into the. J. We are doing everything we can to keep our members engaged. We are at a point where i have to lay people off, i may have to close permanently if we cant reopen soon. Some gym owners created the California Fitness alliance and sent a letter to the dpompor with proposed statewide guidelines for gym openings. Week day tolls will resume next monday on bay area express lanes as Traffic Volume begins to increase on local freeways as shelter in place orders ease. Beginning m i the 680. Andouth 680 over the sown ole grade in alameda and santa clara counties. As before, tolls will be based on congestion in the corridor. New consequences from coronavirus. New insight this each on how many of us are either skipping the doctors appointment or tap sbg your requirement just to make end meet. The president versus twitter. A uc berkeley weighs in. Day three of our heat wave. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Jack dorsey and twitter in a very public way as abc7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow explains a war of words has broken out. Reporter it may be president Donald Trumps favorite social media platform but 2 president is now feuding with twitter. Fran based twitter attaching yet the facts about mail in ballots. According to a spokesperson, the tweets contain potentially misleading information. This professor wonders. Are they equipped to provide that kind of oversight in a way thats going to be even handed and is going to be perceived as being fair and necessary. Reporter the president tweeted twitter has now shown everything we have been saying about them and their come patriots is correct. Big action to follow. Completely intemp rat, inappropriate, and unconstitutional response. Reporter the feud began earlier this week when twitter said it would not remove the president s tweets about msnbc host Joe Scarborough a former republican congressman from florida and his former staffer loughery. The woman died in 2001, the medical examiner concluded her death was an accident. She fainted from a heart condition and hit her head on a desk. In his tweet, trump said the case should be reopened and the case looked at. The womans widower asked twitter to remove the president s tweets. The New York Times published the remember which reads i am asking you to intervene, the president 69 United States has taken something that does not belong to him, the memory of my dead wife and perverted it for perceived political gain. Twitter says the president did not violate their terms of service. They apologized for the pain the tweet caused the family and says it is working to more effectively address things like this. Changes twitter says it hopes to have in place shortly. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. The California Academy of sciences in fran is facing a huge financial shortfall because of the pandemic. The museum says 675 of its staff will be impacted as it prepares to fight through a 12 million loss in the upcoming year. The academy is racing funds to help keep up operations during the shutdown. It includes feeding and caring for the nearly 40,000 animals at the academy. It is hoping to reopen in july. Reporter financial worries are at the top of todays consumer news w. Good reason. Michael finney is here with more on that. Michael . We have a bunch of new statistics in. What we are finding is americans are raiding their retirement accounts to get through this pandemic. Probably not a surprise. But still disappointing nonetheless. A bank rate. Com survey shows more than a quarter of those who are still working or have recently been unemployed have taken money from their 401ks or i. R. A. One in five are contributing less to their retirement accounts, nearly 50 are contributing the same amount as before the pandemic. Only 8 of americans are contributing more. A poll from the Kaiser FamilyFoundation Shows nearly half of American Adults have skipped or postponed medical treatments during the pandemic. The reason . Well, kaiser says, nonemergency facilities have often been closed and many patients have postponed nonemergency appointments. Of those who delayed, nearly a third plan to get treatment within the next three months. A federal judge approved a preliminary settlement between students and the department of education over a Loan Forgiveness Program created during the obama administration. Students sued that betsy devos reworked the program that led to a slow down in applications, making it harder, much harder, for students to qualify. The program was meant to provide relief to students defrauded by predatory schools. The department of education now has 18 months to process the applications and contact students in the Class Action Lawsuit before the settlement is final. Dan and ama, many of those students were right here in the bay area. You may remember we reported on several schools that had just out of nowhere shut down. Those are the kinds of students we are talking about getting relief. Okay. Good. All right, thank you, michael. Heres a question for you. Could rain really be in the forecast . Me theand we want to thank times, the Extraordinary People in the healthcare community, working to care for all of us. At novartis, we promise to do our part. As always, were doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. If you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online. Were here to help support you when you need us. Take care, and be well. To learn more, call one eight four four cosentyx or visit cosentyx. Com welcome, can you feel it . As we look live outside, it is a little cooler today. Not much, but a little bit at least. Lets bring in meteorologist sandhya patel. Just incrementally cooler, it seems, sandhya . We are heading in the right direction. Thats down. He want to show you the record so far on this third day of the heat wave. Concord surpassed its old record of 90, hitting 100 degrees today, set back in 2003. Santa rosa 6, surpassing the previous record of 94 degrees. The heat wave is over today. But the danger is still there. I want to tell you about it. Heat advisory remains up for much of the bay area until 7 00 p. M. Tomorrow. An excessive heat warning for solano county. Even though the heat wave is over tomorrow it is still going to be hot inland. So you definitely have to be careful. Fog is creeping up near the coast. As it is heading back the wind is also coming. In. Its 23 miles an hour in fran. Thats turning things around. Touch down 19 degrees in the city compared to this time yesterday. San francisco only hit the low 70s this afternoon. Down 11 in oakland. You can see the fog from our sutro tower camera. 66 in the city. 88 in san jose. Another live picture from our emeryville camera watching the fog coming in through the goldan gate. 100 still in fairfield. Fairfield, by the way, managed to hit 102 degrees. From our emeryville camera, that fog expands during the overnight hours. Heat eases up land tomorrow and much cooler weather saturday with yes, showers and thunder coming your way. Fog pushing inland locally tomorrow morning. If you are commuting at 5 00 a. M. , central worker, watch out for the fog. In the evening hours, the fog peels away from the bay, sits near the coast and rushing back in for the evening on thursday. Fog around for the morning, hot in the south bay in the afternoon. 84 in palo alto. 6 in pacifica. Downtown San Francisco 69 degrees. Nice breeze. Some fog. North barrack 82, san rafael, 82 santa rosa. 77 in oakland. Inland areas, 95, concord, 94 in livermore. Now fast forward to the weekend. Area of low pressure bringing a change in the winds. Thats what is going to usher even cooler air. Showers saturday morning, afternoon, even the potential for some thunder. Heres your accuweather sevenday forecast, heat eases tomorrow, breezy with temperatures tumbling friday, saturday. Level one system bringing the showers and thunder. Then we will see the temperatures moderating next week. Thank you sandhya. Pain and gain. A bay area expert on superior accuracy in the palm of your hand. The new accuweather app from abc7 news. Minute by minute forecast plus real time radar and alerts keeping you safe. Search accuweather in your app store, and download now. Abc7 has launched new streaming apps so wherever you are you can get your live newscast weather, and more with our new abc7 bay area app. Justice search abc7 bay area and download it for free. Coming up on abc7 news at 6 00 breaking down the battle against covid19. At 6 00 we will dig into the data the see where the cases are and who is testing positive. Also, the iteam gets a look inside an east bay gym thats open for business despite shelter in place orders. So what do police plan to do about it. Reporter a stuff spot for local drivers. This he need to return the cars they are leasing but dealers arent letting them. 7 on your sides Michael Finney investigates the practice prosecutors are calling predatory and harmful. All of that in half an hour on abc7 news at 6 00. Here in the bay area is receiving a major award tonight. It has to do with how he uses spicy plants and our sense of touch and pain to come up with pain killers. This tarantula may not we had a little bit of an issue there. Hopefully we can get it back up and running. Here we go. This tarantula may not be able to cure your headache yet but it is contributing to a now Award Winning line of research. This biochemist has spent his career unraveling the mysteries of pain by using the plants and animals that cause it. Its beautiful example of evolution. Reporter an example he dscribes as chemical warfare. Insects that dont want to be crushed, plants that dont want to be eaten fighting back with the kinds of chemicals that cause things like peppers and spices to burn our tongues and inflame our stomach linings. Onions there is something called a lysine that comes out. It is volatile. It gets in your eyes and stings and burns. Reporter and pain causing agents like animal insect venom. First the doctor and his team ice lite the elements and then follows its pathway. Where would you interview with its ability to activate the pain pathway. Reporter the doctor has been awarded an award. Ultimately he hopes to translate all the pains thats delivered by plants and animals into painkillers that are less addictive and more effective. The prize carries tonight, as we come on the air, america mark