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Time frame for announcing when it might progress in to face too. Small businesses and Retail Stores that are reopening today, well have to follow some restrictions including only offering Curbside Pickup with kron fours gayle ong showing us how one business is welcoming back customers. San francisco, san mateo and marin counties are joining phase. 2 we spoke to one mill valley shop owner whos ready. I will have my door open now have a table out in front with. Of course Hand Sanitizer i have a box of collapse here. Cheryl modica spent sunday afternoon organizing her boutique in mill valley, its been a long 2 months i think everyone is excited in marine county nonessential businesses have to shutter its doors in midmarch due to shelterinplace orders on monday shop like modi go well have to maximize window shopping. If theres something that they like. I can bring it up for them. Take their car to go in and run the card and bring the receipt the table here they can sign off sanitize their hands in San Francisco stores on fillmore street will remove these Window Coverings and display more merchandise at the windows in the citys north beach neighborhood Business Owners want to eliminate parking to expand the street. That will allow more room for customers to shop freely in Burlingame San Mateo county supervisors hope the reopenings will help those businesses who lost 60 to 90 of their sales back in mill valley, cheryl is thankful the knows it will be a while until things get back to normal probably Going Forward were going to have to continue to do shopping in a different light maybe not exactly this way that a modification of this Public Health Officials Say reopening does not mean the virus is gone and that the county is prepared to take the next step knowing the virus is here and the Community Remains at risk the decision to move forward is based on science and the status of copa 19 in moraine county and across the bay area Public Health officials will be monitoring local cases testing. Hospital beds and will re evaluate from there. Gayle ong kron 4 news. To San Francisco police were forced to break up crowds outside of the Marina District business. This is video that was caught that shows several groups of people gathering along side Chestnut Street almost all were not Wearing Masks or practicing physical distancing. Kron fours dan thorn has reaction now for Business Owners and residents. Outside of businesses in the Marina District groups of people were seen crowded together on the sidewalk many were not wearing face masks or following social distancing guidelines a picture and video of the hangout on Chestnut Street has raised concerns on social media i think we were blamed for when we were really not part of that, but we just happen to be open may well tis business has signs posted to remind customers to follow covid19 guidelines and to take their order to go hes thankful. Police busted up friday nights crowds but feels hes been caught in the crossfire of quarantine fatigue and city enforcement i cant tell from your whats going on down there whats going on over here i just can see this narrow storefront so. Some we control the area of our space. Down the block. It was crazy to so on sunday afternoon that there were no crowds in hardly any sun and Police Looking to enforce socialdistancing rules as apd says they spoke with the Business Owners friday night about customers grouping together you know i have to admit it was excessive but there is a part of me that was happy. Finally people being out after so many months jason ask a male was a part of the group in front of howells wine bar friday night he says he understands why people would be alarmed by what they saw theres a lot of things that happened in this city that are dangerous that was obviously that was an extreme version. You know they basically people just be announcing that france is really what it was well shes hes trying his best to keep his customers for violating the citys rules that are going to do their part were obviously not the police but we can do a little bit helped regulate the crowds and whatnot reporting in San Francisco, dan thorn. Kron 4 news. In an effort to address the rise in homeless encampments in San Francisco, the citys now opening sites called safe sleeping villages their clean areas where people can set up their tents through this pandemic kron fours taylors sacking shares more details now. More tense are popping up across San Francisco as homeless shelters either closed or lowered capacity for physical distancing and its news effort to address homelessness during the pandemic the city is setting up temporary supervise sites called safe sleeping villages as we work to try to get folks into a vacant hotel rooms. Which is the best solution and the meantime we also need to plan b to be in effect and thats creating these ceci sleeping sites where folks can move from from unsupervised and frankly unsafe encampments on the streets into a supervised more healthy settings a sea of sleeping sites city supervisor dean preston says. The move comes after the city failed to secure more than 8,000 hotel rooms for the homeless. He says the second sanctions site will be in his district and he in stand in streets, the first is in the civic center, this is not just an issue of of throwing up some not henson and a fence around that im you know the pitch the plan for the safe sleeping sites is to have a 24 7 supervision have services we were very clear that in the one in our district we want to make sure that the nonprofit Homeless Service providers who are already working with the population on the street are involved in the management and operation of that site so theyll be there to the bathroom a healthy food, the site will hold 40 tents in used to be a mcdonalds and is now owned by the city with plans to become affordable housing. Presence as the sleeping areas are a temporary bandaid and not a solution to the citys failure to move more Homeless People in hotel rooms but theres almost 40,000 vacant hotel rooms and city and county of San Francisco and you have a Homeless Population under and most of whom can self in a hotel room so theres really no excuse ive been of the slow speed of the administration in moving a Homeless People into hotels in the meantime the Haight Ashbury say will launch within the next 2 weeks in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. The los angeles is also dealing with a surge in its Homeless Population amid this pandemic a federal judge in fact has ordered officials to move thousands of Homeless People who are living your freeways. The judge ruled their health is at risk from pollution and the coronavirus more than 200 Homeless People have tested positive for coronavirus in la county. In National Headlines there are now nearly 90,000 coronavirus deaths and more than 1. 4 million cases in the u. S. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar suggested that Underlying Health conditions of americans contributed significantly to the National Death toll. Unfortunately the american population. Is a very diverse and it is a is a population with significant unhealthy comorbidities that do make many individuals in our communities in particular African American minority communities. Im particularly at risk here of because of significant underlying Disease Health disparities and disease comorbidities and that is an unfortunate legacy of in our Health Care System that we certainly do need to address. Here in the bay area were now looking at more than 10,000 coronavirus cases with. Roughly 390 deaths so far statewide we have more than 80,000 cases confirmed with more than 3,000 deaths if you want more information on the global numbers, the city by city break down just go to our website at kron 4 dot com. Meanwhile, a trade advisor to President Trump is openly attacking the cdc blaming the agency for coronavirus testing failures early in the pandemic Peter Navarro says the cdc let the country down. Early on in this crisis. The cdc which which really had the most trusted brand around the world. In this space. Really what let the country with with the testing because not only did they keep the testing with the end if crusie they had a bad test next it set us back. Contamination in the cdc covert test did cause weeks of delays that slow the u. S. Response to pandemic multiple Health Officials told cnn this last month, the spokesperson for the cdc did not have any immediate comment but will you know if they do react. Meanwhile, an International News italy is seeing its lowest increase in deaths in over 10 weeks this is the country continues easing its lockdown measures theres been an increase of about a 145 deaths over the last 24 hours which is actually the lowest daily increase since march 4th. The latest data shows more than 68,000 active. Covid19 cases across italy. The country has seen more than 31,000 deaths. Now the more coronavirus coverage kroger will spend a million to thank its employees for working during the pandemic the company which owns foods co markets i should food coast markets in the bay area announced that the onetime payment to its workers is to acknowledge their dedication during this unprecedented time as part of the thank you pay fulltime employees will receive an extra 400 while parttime associates will get half of that. This comes after the company handed out bonuses during the months of april and may. Therefore it is reopening some of its us factories today and the automaker says it will provide coronavirus testing for workers who show symptoms of covid19. Ford says that it will provide the tests so workers in michigan, kentucky, missouri and illinois. And if someone tests positive for plans to ask those who interacted with that person to self quarantine for 14 days. The carmaker also says itll check temperatures and make sure its employees wear masks. Our coverage of the coronavirus continues on kron 4 dot com dont forget that we always find the very latest any time of day as we continuously update that website the latest information coming into our newsroom again kron 4 dot com. The very latest well take a quick break time now is 4. 11, and were back time now for 14 want to get a check of the forecast on this monday morning from meteorologist josh are able as we look here at the Golden Gate Bridge, good morning john. Good morning. James yeah weve had some rain the past few days but the rain that we have had has actually been pretty conveniently timed all in all a saturday night you may have a look at some rain on your roof and you may have done so again last night on through this morning. Were showers are actually currently being seen across some spots of the bay area Golden Gate Bridge as james noted that we can say about it was a little wet out there at times the showers to continue to push overhead so watch out for a few the spots we do have this area of heavier rainfall pushing just south of the tri valley light showers right along 84. And 6. 80 as well as further south into the bay along 8. 81 oh one these areas all looking at some wet spots on roadways, mostly light showers but a couple areas and there are a couple of your spots to on the peninsula. Youre also looking at a few showers along 2. 80 right around one side and redwood city seeing rainfall picking up here in a few minutes little bit of a dry spot, San Francisco oakland, san leandro currently although you head up into the north bay and some light sprinkles around mill valley and seen or felt heavier rainfall around santa rosa in the form of some moderate shower activity right now and some of our heaviest of rain has actually been up at lake county mixing with some snowfall in the highest of elevations of the peaks right above clearly so nice to be seeing some more rainfall obviously that does throw a wrench into your morning travel plans. You are an essential worker and are still getting to work watch out for those slick spots on roadways now futurecast shows you the heaviest of rainfall pretty obvious where that sitting out into the Central Valley on into the later part of the morning thats where you can hear the best chances of any sort of Thunderstorm Development our rainfall activity in the bay area its often on you will start to see spots of showers popping up here and there throughout the course of the morning so by no means is this going to be a Crystal Clear and dry morning commute you will see times where the sunshine peeks back out and then the dark clouds roll over yet again and brief showers to begin pushover at into early afternoon, some of our inland east and north bay areas could hear a case in a roll of thunder most thunderstorm activity though im anticipating will develop out towards the Central Valley and just narrowly dodged most of the bay area tomorrow afternoon, another chance of some inland east bay thunderstorms popping up into the afternoon on tuesday aside from that though after your tuesday afternoon potential of an isolated thunderstorm. This forecast really dries back out and sunshine overall can be expected throughout the rest of it. Todays daytime highs eventually rise into the mid to upper 60s really not a far cry from where were at right now san jose and oakland are in the low 60s as we speak with San Francisco and berkeley at 6 to 55 degrees, san mateo and wha 56 later on today whether youre at the coast or further inland were all sharing that same range of numbers, not a big variety of temperatures today and for inland areas, definitely cooler than average for this time of year. Temperatures will remain cooler than average into tomorrow before we start to see daytime highs climbing come wednesday by the upcoming weekend expect to the 80s we go for a few inland spots with temperatures remaining comfortably in the 60s and 70s along the coast and along the bay. Thats a look at your forecast james also to back to you in studio ok, thank you john quick check of the roads this morning, it is obviously a little wet out there as we had some showers overnight. We have a few reports of some spinouts here and there a few minor crashes nothing major though thats slowing things down but one thing you will have to be concerned about is roadway flooding and weve got a few instances being reported this morning in the 6100 block of land with avenue thats up in santa rosa the san clemente drive thats in moran. Weve got reports the roadway flooding there and also some flooding on the 3600 block of telegraph avenue. In oakland, so just keep that in mind, especially when its dark like this you can hit a puddle before you realize it and start hydroplaning really easily so just keep its low Pay Attention to the cars around you and obviously use those wipers this morning youre going to need it. For 18 is the time lets get back to the news now we have story here for you this morning, San Jose Police are investigating the citys 12th homicide of the year. It happened last night on north capitol avenue where 2 men were apparently found stabbed one of them died at the hospital the other man has non life threatening injuries. The attacker has not yet been arrested. A new development in out our breed deaths case in georgia that text message glenn county. Police officer told the owner of a home under construction that he could Contact Gregory mcmichael for help with potential trespassers. Months later Gregory Mcmichael and his son travis would be arrested for the february 23rd Fatal Shooting arbery who was jogging through the neighborhood. Martin savidge has the very latest now on the case. Several 100 protesters made the roughly 300 mile trek from atlanta to brunswick georgia demanding for the resignations of the first 2 district attorneys that handled arbery case remember arbery died on february 23rd and on the very same day authorities had in their hands. The graphic video, the pick of the way in which he does it for 2 months the case was virtually stagnant. There were no arrests it wasnt until the video leaked out was made public. The public was horrified by what they saw that things began to change thats when you saw the Georgia Bureau of investigation take over the case and in less than 2 days you saw 2 arrests, travis and Gregory Mcmichael. Many believe that the reason there was no action on the ca

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