Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Childcare and Retail Options are about to expand. Three bay area counties, San Francisco, san mateo and marin are moving into phase two of reopening. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Its a moment retailers are relying on and a step closer to the life we used to know. What exactly does entering phase two mean . It includes childcare for those outside of the essential work force. It allows Manufacturing Companies to resume business as well as limited Services Like dog washing and car washes. Some offices where telework isnt possible can reopen. Phase two allows for curbside retail pickup. We have more on what we can expect. Reporter for many retailers, tomorrow cannot come fast enough. You Better Believe it. A chance to greet customers in pe person for the first time in a long time and generate sales. Not everybody is celebrating. They will not be allowed to reopen. The most important monday probably in
Phase two of reopening starts in several bay area counties come tomorrow. Aisle he explain what that means. Another round of showers heading our way. Ill let you know how long it is expected to last. American idol contestant has an entire neighborhood hyped up. This is only the beginning. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Your health, childrens education and the changing workplace. As well as your money. All issues were focusing on in our effort to build a better bay area. Tonight, the economy. Looser restrictions go into place tomorrow in marin, San Francisco, and san mateo counties for some businesses, and those counties in green, much of the north bay, is already in phase two. While almeda and Contra Costa Countys say they will begin to move on to the next phase very soon. Santa clara county has no date set to begin phase two. We begin our coverage with abc 7 News Reporter jr stone who went to marin county. Were going to do everything we possibly can to make
Among, at least seven different other items that World Health Officials will look at, including the president of the United States before deciding at the end of this month whether to extend sheltering provisions or to start unwinding them n the middle that a bit of a constitutional back and forth whether the president alone can decide this matter. We have different reads of this. Well get into a little bit on this, some say that the president is wrong, states ultimately decide on this. The president granted them power when and how far to shelter, then they have the power to decide when and how to deshelter. Well get into that. It is a fascinating legal argument here, one might be a moot point if any of this progress weve seen reverses or slows, likely pushing back a timeline on getting everything back to normal. A lot of fast moving developments. Connell mcshane on the latest developments. Hey there, connell. Reporter neil, if there is agreement between the Health Experts around the wo
Time. They managed to slow the spread even though they were two of the first states hit by the virus. We begin with Casey Stegall and thats reports live in dallas. The latest numbers from louisiana are hot off the press and the fatality account now climbing to 273 across the state. It is a 15 increase from yesterday, although it is down a little bit considering the last previous recorded. Was a 30 climb in just 24 hours. We expect the governor who is holding a press conference at any minute at the bottom of the hour to give us some updates on those numbers and the continued enforcement thats going on there. There are now more than 6400 total cases across the state of louisiana and that is making it one of those hot spots that National Officials continue talking about. Saturday is when he says the states current ventilator supply will run out. Two days after that, and he says all of our states hospital beds will be full. And each one of those individual departments, and the New Orleans
Health experts warn of major challenges ahead. Good morning everyone. On sandra smith. Ed and a very pleasant good morning to you, im ed henry. The u. S. With thigh has a number of deaths in the world to come up topping 22,000 over the holiday weekend. More than 550,000 americans have contracted the disease and President Trump is spending the holiday week and considering what he says is the biggest position of his presidency. Some of administration put officials pushing for early may while experts saying the data should determine the timing. Is may 1st a good target when you look at it now . It is a target and we are hopeful about that target but were too early to be able to tell that. We see light at that end of the tunnel. The strategy moving forward for opening up them country has to take all those factors into account. Sendra we have Fox Team Coverage for you, but we begin the chief whitehorse correspondent. At today was the day that President Trump had hoped that the country would