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A bay Area Business owner is selling her house thats been in the family for over 100 years just to stay afloat. Then ordered to shut down businesses in san mateo count county. It starts at midnight. We talk to the disappointed Business Owners. It was a bright and breezy start to the weekend. And soon those winds will bring cooler weather. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Good evening and thanks ojoining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. A couple of grim milestones today for california. The state set record 19 deaths. That broke the record set just a few days ago. There are more than half a million confirmed covid19 cases in the state, by far the most in the u. S. And the sevenday positivity rate, which is an indicator of testing and transmission, is now a 6 1 2 . On the peninsula in about an hour indoor businesses like hair salons and gyms will be shut down in San Mateo County. It was the last bay area county to be added to the states watch list, and after staying on it for three days this is the result. The only way affected businesses can stay open is to move their operations outdoors. Heres abc 7 News Reporter chris reyes. The customers are calling us, are you going to be open saturday . It says you have to close at midnight. And were like, we dont know. We havent been told yet. Reporter that was at 5 00 p. M. At kathy loves salon in san carlos. We met her as she finished with a client, not knowing that would be her last for now. She called me and said we may not be here, we may, we dont know yet. Reporter an hour later San Mateo Public Health issued this statement. Earlier today we still were told by the state that businesses could stay open. We just learned they must close tomorrow. The order effective 12 01 a. M. Sunday. So we went back to tell kathy the news. If we had known thursday, we could have gotten our clients from next week in. So they could have got their hair cut or their perm or their color. And thats the frustrating part. We also had to break the news daly city barber derek peckson. Im pretty shocked. I didnt know it was happening right now. I thought i had some time to talk to my guys as well. Reporter also shutting down, gyms and fitness centers. Places of worship. Wedding and funeral venues. Some offices. Some personal care services. And indoor shopping malls. The real disappointment for some is that after spending weeks on high alert San Mateo County wasnt able to avoid being on the states watch list. Just new restrictions every couple weeks. Its hard to keep up. Reporter this steep incline is what got San Mateo County on the states watch list. Its biggest spike in july saw 136 new cases. Inside kathys salon she has been diligent and responsible. She even keeps customer records in case she has to do contact tracing. She feels unfairly punished. Next week alone shes canceling 15 customers. Were not the problem. But we become the problem because they shut us down. Reporter in san mateo kris reyes for abc 7 news. You can check out where your county stands on the states watchlist with our interactive feature at abc7news. Com. You can see the map shows you how long each region has been on the list and why the state is keeping an eye on the spreads of coronavirus there. In the east bay theres growing frustration among hairstylists and salon owners who say theyre ready to defy a county order and open all at once. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard says they are just trying to survive. I cant feed my family we need to open now reporter hairstylists and salon owners in the trivalley say theyve held on long enough. Our county will not allow us to do anything. Not even outdoors. Reporter salons in Alameda County have not been allowed to reopen since the shelter in place order began in march. I could go get a boob job right now for crying out loud but i cant cut hair. Reporter this solidarity rally brought a growing number of stylists together to say theyre ready to open safely indoors. We can follow the rules. We can do what they ask us. So let us open up indoors. We are safer inside. Reporter flaunt hair salon owner Christine Palmer says most stylists have been certified in covid19 safety protocols and should be classified as essential workers. Because we are essential. To our Clients Health and wellbeing. Reporter if county officials dont grant permission, these stylists say theyre prepared to risk fines by reopening collectively august 17th. We have no choice. Weve been told every step of the way. Safe salon. Reporter salon owners rallied at San Franciscos city hall friday. They want the city to let them open safely or provide them with unemployment pay and a recovery plan. Everyone thinks im crazy. Im the only person here in our desert doing it. Reporter Rebecca Alcorn is doing the unimaginable. Shes taking her palm springs area salon outdoors, where extreme temperatures are pushing 120. Shes got a popup tent and a giant fan offering cuts most days between 8 00 and 10 00 a. M. Ive never had the government take away my ability to make money. This is just a really nice way as a Business Owner to keep my head up, keep positive, keep looking for the future. Reporter back here in pleasanton stylists say theyre drafting a levert intent to county officials asking permission to reopen. If the answer is no, theyre prepared to reopen anyway in two weeks. No response from the county Health Department but the Sheriffs Department says salons are at risk of having their licenses revoked. As far as enforcing it goes, the Sheriffs Department says it has other priorities these days. In pleasanton Cornell Barnard, abc 7 news. A workers rights rally delayed shipments this morning from an Amazon Warehouse in the east bay. Labor groups organized a caravan that delivered a petition to amazon demanding the company shut down the san leandr warehouse for two weeks for cleaning. Demonstrators want the company to implement Safety Measures and suspend delivery of nonessential items during the pandemic. In response amazon says it has invested more than 800 million on 150 safeties and changes. A Business Owner savings are deplet depleted. She runs a Gymnastics Center in san ramon. Now shes decided to sell a deer valley asset just to try to stay financially afloat. Abc 7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez has this story. Reporter diablo gymnastics in san ramon has a 54year history in the bay area. Theyve had to shut their doors since march 13th. If we dont get the Gymnastics School open im going to end up 300,000 this debt on top of losing the 280,000 ive already spent. I had a career as a gymnast at diablo. Then i started coaching team. Then i bought the business from my coach. Reporter she spoke with us over zoom from spillville, iowa where shes selling her great grandfathers house he built in 1910. You know, its time to liquidate assets if we can. Were doing the hail mary passes now. Just what can we do possibly to stay afloat . Reporter the gym had 1500 students and 43 coaches. Now they have 42 students and 3 coaches. My ppp funded on april 24th. Were still not open. Its august. Reporter she fears the loan will not be forgiven. Were not going to be able to hire our whole staff back. Reporter she said the loan was a bandaid. Earlier this week she put a call out on social media to help their gofundme account. What can we do . We can beg every person thats ever come to our doors, through our doors, to help us. Reporter she says gymnasts learn perseverance. And just like them shes going to keep trying no matter if it takes three times or 300. I can only see till october right now. But i just in may i couldnt see june. And in june i couldnt see august at all. So every month its perseverance. We just keep trying. Reporter clemmish said shell sell other assets if she has to. In San Francisco Lauren Martinez, abc 7 news. It is heartbreaking. Members of the public can now visit a floating landmark in alameda again. A band welcomed visitors to the uss hornet for the First Time Since march. The hornet is now open friday through sunday from 10 00 to 5 00. Only 50 people an hour can visit the retired aircraft carrier. The hornet is also limited to 300 visitors a day. And only certain areas of the ship are open. They include the flight deck and hangar bay. Hundreds of children have new supplies to start the school year thanks to the generosity of others on the peninsula. Families lined up inside their cars for a backpack giveaway at the san mateo events center. Samaritan house organized the event and the charity ceo explained how the pandemic has made buying basic supplies harder for lowincome families in this video provided by samaritan house. This year there are noincome families. So this is critically important for these children because not only would they not get the supplies from the schools, but this is also their desk, their way of organizing their homework. Samaritan house also tells us its food pantry is serving more families than usual and you can blame that on the economic hardships spurred by covid19. San franciscos Public Library will launch a program this month to let people borrow and return books and other materials on a pick up and dropoff basis. The Library Calls this program the sfpl to go. It will debut on august 10th at the main library in civic center. Library card holders can request materials to borrow online and theyll get an email telling them when they can pick up items. And all materials borrowed before the pandemic can be returned at select locations. Starting today, three Major Companies are requiring customers to wear masks. At target Stores Customers will be provided with free disposable masks if they dont bring their own. Employees are also required to wear masks. At Mcdonalds Restaurants customers without a mask will also be offered one. Employees have been trained how to best deal with people who refuse. And a mask requirement also begins today for shoppers at gap brand stores, which includes old navy and banana republic. Beautiful, scenic and deadly. The warning going out to Yosemite National park visitors following a rise in deaths in a certain animal. And up until now there have only been reported sightings of the murder hornet. Tonight there is new proof the invasion is real. And im meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking the fog rolling in tonight and a breezy end to the weekend tomorrow. Well have the de but as californians well get through this together. If your income has been reduced or youve lost your job or your Health Insurance, covered california is here. 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Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. Developing news now in the south bay, a man died after Campbell Police say he shot himself and wounded a woman inside a home in campbell. Detectives are not saying how the woman is doing after being rushed to a hospital from a home along timber cove drive. Theyre also not revealing what the relationship was between the man and the woman. Two children were unharmed after being inside the home when gunfire erupted. One neighbor tells us this happened along whats usually a very quiet and peaceful street right on camden avenue. No peace no justice no peace no justice in the south bay a protest against Police Brutality happened outside the Santa Clara County courthouse. Abc 7 was in san jose where groups of protesters gathered, many on bicycles or on skates. Protesters we spoke with said theyve seen people of all kinds gather in an effort to fight racism and make change. And at least 100 people today gathered for a black lives matter protest in los gatos. The event began with speeches at town plaza park. Protesters then marched through los gatos. They blocked the streets near the park for a bit, but all indications are that the protest was peaceful. A blm protest in july in los gatos attracted in soun counterprotesters. Park rangers are urging yosemite visitors tonight to drive carefully after at least four bears were hilt by cars in the past three weeks and two of those bears died. Many roads in yosemite have a 25mileanhour speed limit. Rangers say the two bears that survived were hit by drivers who exceeded the speed limit. The National Park service does place signs reminding drivers to slow down at locations where bears have been hit by cars or where bears are frequently seen. Concern tonight about the spread of the murder hornet after one was trapped in Washington State. So far there had only been sightings in the wild, but this marks the first time the species was actually captured in the state. Officials are encouraged since the trap appears to work, but the clock is ticking. Murder hornets tend to breed in september. They are a significant threat to the already fragile honeybee population. Ew. Can only look at that image for so long, eric. Yeah, i dont think we need any more bad news like that. This has been a tough year already. But we have good weather news for you. Heres drew. Yeah, we really do. Were going to keep that trend of just some really comfortable august weather. We have morning fog to afternoon sunshine. And in fact, as the days wear on in the week ahead well find cooler weather moving in and the chance of some drizzle. Live doppler 7 along with satellite shows you we have the marine layer along the coastline and in fact it is dropping visibility in some spots. Switch over to visibility mode on live doppler 7 and you can see Half Moon Bay is down to six miles. So the fog is thickening as we speak and you can see it from our Golden Gate Bridge camera right now, a live look showing you that visibility is reduced as that fog makes its push back into the bay shoreline over the past couple of hours. Winds were breezy earlier today. Right now theyre anywhere from 5 to 15 miles per hour. The only exception is through fairfield you can see its gusting at 30 miles per hour. It does remain breezy in spots even at this late night hour. Current temperatures right now were mainly in the 50s and the 60s. 67 in concord but were down to 57 in the city with that fog. 61 in fremont. 58 in santa rosa. But you can see cloverdale much warmer than that currently at 70 degrees. Heres live doppler 7 along with satellite. Were kind of sandwiched in between two features here in california. We have High Pressure in the Desert Southwest which is giving us that sunshine in the afternoon. But an area of low pressure to our north and west is keeping that marine layer on shore. Were kind of in the battle zone between and well see that typical summer spread of afternoon temperatures tomorrow, get no intense heat as forecast. Thanks to that fog staying with us tonight. Overnight tonight well see that cloud cover move back in around the bay shoreline. Numbers in the low and mid 50s with those breezy conditions and that future weather will show you. Tomorrow morning 9 00 a. M. Some patchy fog but our marine layer gets pretty compressed pretty quickly tomorrow thanks to that High Pressure. That means well see a lot of sunshine tomorrow, even some sthien along the coast. Highs on sunday, 66 in the city. 74 in oakland. About 83 in san jose. 91, though, in santa rosa. It is warm in the north bay. And 92 in concord. Just a quick check of the tropics in the atlantic right now. We do have Tropical Storm isaias that is a Tropical Storm with winds of 70 miles per hour. Overnight into the Early Morning hours tomorrow it will brush the florida coastline with anywhere from two to four inches of rain. Back here at home heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Bright and breezy tomorrow. We see that cooler weather start to move in here. By midweek look at that. Wednesday it is cloudier with morning drizzle barely getting out of the 60s around the bay shoreline. Only in the 70s, near 80 inland. And a gradual warming trend does move back in. But again, no intense heat for the first week of august. An

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