During business hours. Now, your health, your safety, this is this morning big promises straight from Governor Newsom, more he testing for californians and help for medical workers. As of this morning close to 90 people died of coronavirus in the bay area and Santa Cruz County with more than 3,500 confirmed cases. San francisco topping 500 cases. Mend siino coun Mendocino County reported four cases. And weve been plotting the cases on this useful draft to see the trend. This includes the bear aay and surrounding areas with a jump in days starting march 1. Its sunday, april 5th. Im liz kreutz. 24u thank you very much for joining us. We will have much more on the coronavirus in a moment but we want to start a quick look at the Stormy Weather were tracking this weekend. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Hello it, its certainly been a soaker out there. You see the counterclockwise rotation offshore bringing instability and rain to much of california. We go in closer to American Canyon, up to
Sal castanedas here now. It is quiet. And yesterday at 6 00 we did have people who were going to work and here on the bay bridge this morning at 6 00, it is absolutely light. No doubt a lot of people are heeding the warning to stay home. You can always send me a tweet. Were always on social media here. If you were not going to work yesterday and youre going today, let me know what kind of job you do. Im curious. All three bay area airports are still open. Public Transportation Systems are still running. They ask that you practice social distancing and should be no issue because transit systems are not crowded at the moment. 6 01. Lets go back to the desk. Strict shelterinplace order took effect at midnight in six bay area counties. Some of the bars, nightclubs, and restaurants in downtown san jose closed at midnight as part of that order. Ktvus allie rasmus joins us now to talk about the effects this is having on the bay areas biggest cities and the many people who are now out of work.
When she walked into the studio its cold. Our system is on the way but its increasing clouds today. A few upper 20s, 30s on the temps here and rainfall go to max two please. Can we go to max 2. Can we. Maybe not. I dont know. I cant move this one. I can only move two. You know what, im going to go to sal then. Sal, you ready. Im going to you fast. Are you going to be fast. But im talking to the producers who helped me put my show together. This is the oakland crash. One of our other producers is stuck in this back up. This is 80 westbound. Ive got a couple of tweets and texts from people saying what is going on. This crash is blocking lanes right at the macarthur lanes. Look at this. So the only good news is that no one was seriously hurt in the crash. The bad news is its backing up traffic into berkley. If youre driving down to the macmaze give yourself meant of time. So as we pull back you can see traffic is doing well. The bay bridge or traffic is not doing well. Its doing well at t
And i want to tell you that what were seeing right now is not a cycle change. Its a structural change, and i am sure you are aware and seen the retailers and the retailers are shrinking the footprint and it is not the Large Department stores but even tenants that used to be 5,000 feet are shrinking to 1,000 feet and trying to deal with how to market the goods online and cross market both aspects. It has had a very structural change and quite frankly t vacancy rate at union square is the lowest that i have seen in 25 excuse me t highest in 25 years of business in union square. This there is, as we all know, a lot of vacancies that are happening. Barneys is going to close, forever 21 is closing, Williams Sonoma and the multifloor retailers are going out of business and those are the only ones that can occupy the upper floors. They are just not there. We have been marketing 146 geary for four years and talking to tenants initially to take the entire building because that works the best fo
From 220 post. The likelihood that a Retail Business would want a stand alone third Floor Office Space that is accessible from an alley that provides minimal foot traffic, marginal street visibility and has some Security Issues is in our opinion simply less than minuscule. On the overhead, i want to post one more image which is looking at the alley from grant street and if you see the orange box, that is where the third floor business is. Pretty tough to see. Pretty unvisible. So with all that said, nothing prevents the third floor and the upper floors being turned back into retail if at some future point that becomes viable. Project does not include any physical changes that would preclude that, so i am going to let the project sponsor speak about the actual efforts to lease this building, but before i go, in your packet, you have support letters that collectively include 41 signatures in support of the project including a leter from members of the Street Building at 210 post which in