Bay area, tesla flexing its muscle tonight defying Alameda County orders at its fremont factory. Im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. Chopper 5 checked out the factory on friday, compare that to the employee parking lot today. Business as usual. But Juliette Goodrich spoke to one tesla worker whos ready to return. Reporter tesla was open today despite the skountys talks with elon musk about possibly reopening next week. Elon musk says theyre on realitying and arrest him i need be. Some employees say thats putting them in the middle of a power struggle. It appears the tesla factory is back to work. From chopper 5 we could see employees delivering supplies compared to last friday when the lot was fairly empty. Looks like theyre in business today. Tesla has not been given the green light to operate. Reporter one tesla employee who works on the main production line building model 3s and wanted to remain anonymous made the decision not to return to work over the weekend. He says he was fo
Airlines ucsf cardiologist was returning home after treating covid19 patients in new york in one tweet he writes i guess united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days every seat full on the 7. 37 is it simply a another you know like i for united douglas kidd is the executive director of the National Association of Airline Passengers even before the coronavirus pandemic his organization petitioned for more space and safer flight he says because fewer people are flying new standards should be implemented right now. The health and safety of the passenger has to come first as a part of its social distancing policy united says theyve been limiting seat selections in all cabins so customers wont be able to select seats next to each other or middle seats where available. But as documented by doctor weiss his flight had lots of passengers the airlines are really taking a lot of measures i actually just take me to make sure answer high range aviation expert, an Airline Captain la
End of this, but rain intothis evenings on tap. Theres a southwind, and thats going to make it pretty mild in sano hate san jose. 43 100s is forecast until wednesday morning. 50s on the thames, i doubt these change at all. A lot of the cloud cover coming in. Look for temperatures today to begin the 60s to the north and 70s to the south. Thats a front direction and there it is as it moves in. Highs for some way below average. For others, right where they should be. Head over to sal now to see if theres anything new out there. So far, quiet . So far, quiet, steve. Right now we do have traffic that is doing very well around the bay area with no major issues. We can take a look at some of these pictures that we are showing you. You see the traffic looks okay coming around the corner to the bay bridge. We dont have any major problems here. The commute, Early Morning looks pretty good. It is 4 31. Lets go back to the headlines. Thank you, sal. New this morning firefighters are looking into w
There you go. That doesnt work. Heres a look at the exploratorium camera where it looks pretty quiet and what is going on with my day planner i put together for you. Notice we warm up around noon and then the rain cold air and breezes come in and cooler weather this afternoon. Have your umbrella handy. Okay, mike, thank you. Were seeing something that our airports we havent seen in a while and that is some pretty full flights. And that is making some passengers uncomfortable and making them wonder whats going on here. Why are airlines not promoting social distancing. Lets go to abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield live for us at sfo this morning. Hi, amy. Reggie, people were surprised to see so many people on their flights and some took pictures. They put them up on twitter to show them what it looked like on this flight. Pictures from a united flight and a American Airlines flight. And many people were upset to see people in the middle seats. They were hoping those would be open for soci
Until the rain sets in. Best chance after the noon hour in the north bay and slowly spread south as we head into the afternoon and evening hours. It will take likely to get deep into the east bay valleys and into the south bay. Notice the temperatures warm up until noon and once that rain cold air gets in and we drop out of getting into the 70s and 50s and 60s for the afternoon. One on the storm impact scale and ill expand upon that coming up. First, heres reggie. Mike, well see you in a few. Were seeing something more often now at our airports. Crowded planes. Images on social media of people who seem packed in there and they are uncomfortable wondering what happened to social distancing from the airlines. Lets go to Amy Hollyfield live for us at sfo. Amy . Some passengers over the weekend were so appalled they took pictures and they put them on twitter. We have some shots to show you of pictures from a United Airlines flight and an american Airlines Flight that look very full. We als