In that direction but the mayor of san jose says no. We are joined now in san jose with the very latest. Damian. Reporter i should mention that a couple of hours ago San Jose Police announced new restrictions on police use of the socalled rubber bullets. Right now the protesters at city hall are marching through downtown and they will be back shortly. The demand is simple, defund and reform. A call for reform at a local department is now answering the call. The San Jose Police Department Just beened the use of rubber projectiles for the sole purpose of dispersing crowds and now can only use them when an officer is being attacked or there is an imminent threat to officers or protesters themselves. I absolutely think we need to do something overall. From the communities around the country and every Police Department in the country should be thinking about reform. There is one demand the mayor said is a nonstarter, the growing call to defund Police Departments. In San Francisco the mayor
Guidelines and current expectations. The governor acknowledged things could change radically based on the availability of testing and the prospect of getting a vaccine sooner than expected. We want to know which bay area businesses think of the guidelines the governor rolled out. Andria borba has the reaction. Reporter these businesses had to make big changes from online to even out here in north beach. You can see the lines on the ground mandating six feet of physical distance as people come to pick up their takeout for dinner. They say they are willing to make changes but they dont know how feasible they all are. On San Francisco typical bustling chestnut street, visible distance lines outside restaurants for takeout. The owner of Margaret Elizabeth says rights and mothers day shoppers should be selling her shop right now. Governor newsoms statement that the full shelterinplace order might loosen is giving her hope. If we were able to maintain some kind of distancing between customer
Workforce to stay at home it will be less business in the restaurants and the other establishments the count on that traffic. Corporations are going to whether the effect. Reporter smaller businesses are far more vulnerable. This is with the lunch crowd looks like at a deli in North San Jose in the age of coronavirus tables that would be full tech workers are now half empty. And business is down 15 to 20 . Especially with the start up that we are trying to build our business is Something Like this to hit us. It is not crippling us by no means. It is significant. Reporter for now they managed not to cut employees. Even as a worsening and widening outbreak takes a big bite out of business. This is of course a dynamic situation that changes virtually by the day. He put in the concert and Convention Industry estimate could easily be 3 to 6 months before business returns to normal. People in the concert and Convention Industry. The kpix news at 6 pm begins right now. Chopper 5 over the gran
Silicon valley. Reporter we have seen the return in a committed capacity of the tech shuttle buses that were so ubiquitous before the pandemic. Even as companies have scuttled plans to require employees to return to the office in person. There return before the omicron variant rewrote the old rules began was an indication that we were nearing the end of the pandemic. While the buses are still rolling, ticket companies that fueled the phenomena in the first place have hit the brakes on largescale plans to return to the office. Before the pandemic, people thought work had to take place in an office. After the pandemic, we were forced to work from home. The future is going to be a combination of both. Reporter google was planning to return to the office and early january. Apple was eyeing a february return. Both companies have since canceled the plans indefinitely. Only facebook is planning to return to person in march. We have been humbled by covid so many times. 4 dr. Peter chin hong sa
Silicon valley. Reporter we have seen the return in a committed capacity of the tech shuttle buses that were so ubiquitous before the pandemic. Even as companies have scuttled plans to require employees to return to the office in person. There return before the omicron variant rewrote the old rules began was an indication that we were nearing the end of the pandemic. While the buses are still rolling, ticket companies that fueled the phenomena in the first place have hit the brakes on largescale plans to return to the office. Before the pandemic, people thought work had to take place in an office. After the pandemic, we were forced to work from home. The future is going to be a combination of both. Reporter google was planning to return to the office and early january. Apple was eyeing a february return. Both companies have since canceled the plans indefinitely. Only facebook is planning to return to person in march. We have been humbled by covid so many times. 4 dr. Peter chin hong sa