Very popular spot for wineries and restaurants and she has more for a scale. Sonoma county not met all criteria to move past the states, not timeline but county leaders here they believe the science proves otherwise. 18 counties in california got the green light from governor Gavin Newsome to further ease covid19 restrictions Sonoma County is hoping to make that list the criteria is not the ballot by a u. S. Scientist or a doctor in the cdc. Developed by the state according to the governor to of the criteria to pass the states timeline must have no deaths from covid19 in 2 weeks and just one new case per 10,000 people for 2 weeks while the county has not met those criteria. They believe a request to further relax restrictions is reasonable because sonoma counties infection rate remains low youve been so conservative. In terms of our approach and keeping sheltering in place and froing down or businesses and then we very few infections because of that last week phase 2 of the states guidelines allowed Retail Businesses to reopen for Curbside Pickup only supervisors and plans to ask the states permission to reopen manufacturing primarily at wineries as well as tasting rooms, small hotels and outdoor seating at restaurants trickles worked at a tasting room in downtown that is currently closed what hes looking forward to going back to work. But sonoma resident ellie mae is concerned about the countys request to reopen additional busenesses as soon as we open up. The tourists are going to come back and thats going to bring a lot opportunity for our Small Community to be exposed to. The virus supervisor zain says the mandates will stay the same. We have to practice social distancing no large of dance and and to be really really cure all. So we feel that region making do that. So we want to be able to have the freedom to us. The county board of supervisors plan to meet on monday to decide if they will send a letter of support to governor get the sun reporting live in sonoma hill on kron 4 news, thanks gail. San francisco will enter phase 2 on monday allowing many Retail Businesses to reopen for Curbside Pickup today, the city released guidelines for this reopening under the new guidelines store front. Curbside or outside pickup is allowed. Customers may not enter the store and no more than 10 personnel may be on site or fewer in Smaller Stores in order to allow for required social distancing. Stores must have access to an adjacent curbside sidewalk street alley or parking lot for customer pick up. However, 2 women who run just a jewels on union street say Curbside Pickup does not work for their business. We dont have big websites that the customer can shop from and then call us up and us take it to their car. Right now as they can go window shopping and thats a big. Area where we sell merchandise from sony. How do we use curbside camps. Eleanor carpenter left and right can say that they are also concerned a delay in a full reopening will jeopardize their ppp federal loan. The city says it is up to the store to decide if they will take part in this retail reopening San Francisco has also issued new guidelines for essential businesses that are already open such as Grocery Stores pharmacies and restaurants that offer take out. Businesses are expected to maximize the number of staff working from home have all workers evaluate their health before each shift create a health and safety plan and the social distancing protocol and require everyone wear a face covering. There are also specific Health Directives for certain businesses for example at farmers markets customers will not be allowed to touch any products, they must be handed each item from a safe distance while San Francisco marin and san mateo counties are starting face to on monday contra costa and alameda counties are holding back. Health officers in both those counties say that they will likely reopen early next week but they have not yet set a date kron fours michelle kingston has more. Its really difficult to do a purse i stories are really occur theres no sidewalk jim and sandy rowdy own a small yarn shop in livermore they started an online store since the shelterinplace went into effect customers picking up knitting supplies on the front porch of their home, they say even though Alameda County may begin phase 2 of reopening next allowing Curbside Pickup for nonessential retailers will likely continue to operate as is i think the i 2 we have as a positive attitude. Except the situation and doctor. Thats thats what were trying to Alameda CountyHealth Officers say unless theres a big spike in cases over the weekend will likely move into phase 2 early next week. However, they have not set a date just yet now the same goes for Contra Costa County where Health Officers say they will likely make a decision on monday if everything. Continues to look good like it is now then well pull put out that order which will probably start the next day or so are still so small. Um i dont know that the change thinking vicki little own sippin scoop, california cafe in downtown brentwood where people are currently able to order out the door she too has a small storefront but is already thinking about the second part of phase 2 when dining may resume for our story i think that were going to proceed as we are speaking out and maybe a little bit before that i want to come in and see actually because the sea ice in the first shots i spoke to today are looking forward to reopening fully once its safe to do so. This myers is still here its still in our communities hasnt gotten any less deadly are in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news new signs are in place around a lake merritt in oakland, those signs say starting today parking is banned around lake merritt on weekends and the memorial day holiday. Violators will have to pay a 73 fine the city announced new parking limitations in order to keep people from crowding in that area as well as other city parks, then dean and food drugs are also banned in city parks and parking lots. The parking limitations will remain in effect until the end of this month. Contra costa county Officials Say theyre confident theyll be ready to move into phase 2 of the states Recovery Plan on monday today, local leaders also announced a plan that will allow large gatherings and services by car that will go into effect on tuesday, heres how it works events can be held in large outdoor spaces, but the cars must be park 6 feet apart, a maximum of 200 cars can attend an event if more than 10 cars are present there will need to be security and the plan must be filed with respective cities for every event at least a week ahead of time more than 160 new coronavirus cases were reported in the bay area today and that means that there are now more than 10,000 confirmed cases and 389 deaths. Here are the latest numbers broken down by county, san mateo and San Francisco alameda and solano counties are reporting new deaths and here they are for a complete list of local covid 1919 cases you can head over to our website for more at kron 4 dot com. Now there is some developing news out of out of Alameda County where a murder suspect was shot and killed. The Alameda CountySheriffs Department says the shooting happened on foothill boulevard in unincorporated san leandro we can now confirm an Alameda County sheriffs deputy shot the suspect. Officials say the suspect was wanted by Oakland Police and was shot after he pulled out a weapon. We are awaiting further details from the Sheriffs Office democrats howard a massive trillion Coronavirus Relief bill through the house this evening, it was a 208 to 199 vote was strong Republican Opposition the bill called the heroes act would deliver almost 1 trillion for state and local governments another round of 1200 stimulus payments to individuals and provide help for the unemployed for renters and more. However republicans say that bill will be dead on arrival in the gop led Senate California continues to grapple with millions of job losses as the coronavirus pandemic and shelterinplace orders. Take a heavy toll, many people are still seeking answers about getting Unemployment Benefits offers and to warn talked with the States EmploymentDevelopment Department to learn more about whats being done to help people who are. Waiting and waiting and waiting danin you have an update for us. Well thats right and this has been a really difficult time for people all across the bay area and the state of california. The edd says that they are working economic recovery efforts, but they are asking people to help them help you. The covid19 pandemic and shelterinplace orders are forcing california into unprecedented unemployment numbers in february the state was at a record low of just under 4 . Now 2 and a half months later its a much different story know want to plan for the paddy avalanche that we got it will probably going to be looking at a record high Unemployment Rate henri levy with the Employment Development department or e d d says theyve been dealing with millions of unemployment claims and at times has been difficult to meet now the edd has secured 23 million in federal grants to help workers and local economies the 2 grants provide temporary jobs to 600 unemployed workers and unemployment and Job Training Services to more than 2500 workers affected by the pandemic heres where some of the funds will go 400,000 to Alameda Countys workforce, Development Board more than half a Million Dollars to the workforce Development Board of Contra Costa County and 800,000 to San Franciscos office of economic and Workforce Development of these funds are going out to those local areas. To help people they friend is there some demand for a humanitarian aid that needs to go out and we can people to work using these funds to assist with that for example as for people who are seeking benefits one of the top complaints is the trouble of getting in touch with someone at the edd over the phone ddd says the state has been redirecting hundreds of workers to help because of an increase in federal funding, the department is also now involved in a massive hiring effort trying to hire about 1500 people over the next several weeks to get onto are aligned and to help processing benefits throughout the rest of the program is well the edd says impatiens even when it comes to requesting debit cards can be helped by selfserving on their website. So the basic message is help us help you by selfserving wherever possible and that helps is open up our phone lines for those with complex means. Well the edd did share some good news that for those who are out there that have used the maximum benefits for a 12 month period, a 13 week extension of the federal care act, well roll out on may 27, reporting live in San Francisco. Dan thorn kron 4 news. Thank you day and the Bay Area Council recently survey 123 local ceos who said when california enters phase 2. Only 23 of their workforce will return to the office. This as millions of americans have filed for unemployment. We talked with the chief operating officer of the Bay Area Council about unemployment in the bay area. Well they havent actually calculated the bay area numbers right on a statewide level. Our student that they focus just on a statewide level but more or less for between 2025 unemployment, which is just massive. And now its a lot of workers will be rehired when when a the economy reopens in the bay area and then the rest of california. But its not going to be a comedian and its not going to be everybody getting hired back up. As a matter of fact for the Bay Area Companies 61 of them are expecting is going to take at least a year before they recover the revenue that they were at im just what was that 3 months ago. The Bay Area Council also found 62 of executives want to see the shelterinplace orders lifted sometime in the next month while 25 prefer the orders remain in place for another 2 months as california leaders prepare to make billions of dollars in budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal year governor, newsome is setting aside millions of dollars for a new controversial state law that would require a number of independent contractors be redefined as employees. The governor is proposing to put more than 20 million toward a be fives in force meant with million going to the state department of industrial relations, 3. 4 million to the economic Development Department and 750,000 to the department of justice. Several republican lawmakers are outraged by that appropriation. 6 the perfectly honest with you governor tells us that this budget is stripped down to. Our most essential priorities and apparently that includes 20 million to target independent contractors to harass law businesses with on its fines and penalties and lawsuits at a time when so many are are struggling remain in business at all. Governor newsome and Many Democrats continue to defend the law ab 5 faces a November Ballot initiative to try to exempt a number of Big Companies such as uber and lyft but exactly a month left to work out the budget facing a 54 billion deficit. The governor spent today meeting with legislative leaders, some lawmakers prepared to push back on ab 5, 8, well it was a lovely friday all around the bay area, this is a live picture looking at a beautiful Golden Gate Bridge tonight, but hang on to that image just sorts karnal is here to tell us its not going to last. Yeah weve got a fairly significant storm system coming our way especially for this time of year so here we go have a great day today a beautiful evening out there tonight some high clouds drifting overhead making for a gorgeous sunset this evening, but yeah things are going to change quite drastically. Temperatures today, very nice though 78 parker and santa rosa, 65 degrees in San Francisco, 71 beautiful in oakland, a 74 degrees in san jose and 74. And live mark there we go that pretty much tells the story to see those storm clouds swirling off the coastline on the increase tonight and tomorrow, but itll take some time before it gets here and that rain is really going start to come down, partly cloudy skies overnight tonight was low clouds of our reform in along the coastline is mid to high level clouds up above increasing clouds throughout the day tomorrow still some warm temperatures maybe wilson lee holds the wind warms up before the storm clouds really bring us any rain that will be tomorrow night. A rainy day on sunday off of all of the chance isolated thunderstorms that ridge of High Pressure that brought us the sunshine that is going to kick the easton that could allow the system to move in looks like the better part of the day tomorrow is ok were going to keep things mostly dry and you see that as we take the night tonight, the clouds gather along the coastline high clouds up above. Then as we head toward tomorrow night we begin to see some raindrops moving in the north and then the whole system slides across old bay area on sunday and look at that thats pretty impressive. Some heavy downpours about 10 oclock on sunday morning that scattered showers continue in the afternoon maybe an isolated thunderstorm. So lets enjoy the nice start to the weekend the temperatures up to 70s inland, 60s 70s inside the bay and 50s 60s up toward the coast. Then here we go back to some wintry weather on sunday and monday even the chance of thunderstorms during that period that may be a chance. Scattered lingering shower at least on Tuesday Morning guys thats a look at weather back to you thank you lawrence as the death toll from coronavirus nears 88,000 in the u. S. President trump is unveiling more details about what he calls operation warp speed. Leaders of that group are dedicated to developing a vaccine. They say they think that they will have it and be able to deliver hundreds of millions of doses by the end of the year. But as Kaitlan Collins reports the president is not necessarily counting on the vaccine before reopening the country. Unveiling his vaccine effort in the rose garden today, President Trump said the country would return to normal with or without one i just want to make something clear. Its very important. Vaccine and no vaccine were back. And were starting the process asked what he meant by that the president offered this explanation we think were going to have a vaccine in the. The pretty near fu