All the bay area counties stand right now. As you can see, San Mateo County is the only one not on the states watch list. As part of our effort to build a better bay area, were focusing on the economy especially during the pandemic. Be on hair salons and gyms. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover to show us how some owners are already pivoting. Julian. Yeah, hi, yes, good morning, reggie. Here in santa cruz yet another blow for Business Owners either forced to use outdoor space if down completely. As you mentioned, it has already been a tough summer for many of these businesses that really rely on tourism thanks to a rising number of coronavirus cases in Santa Cruz County and nail salons, barbershops and shopping malls and places of worship and nonessential offices and gyms will have to shut down before those numbers go back down. We were preparing, some of them were preparing for the inevitable. Santa cruz power fitness. Theyre taking their work outdoors now. We were preparing for this. W
How Beauty Industries in the capital and the bay area are pushing back against governors orders. Good morning. We are looking at a cloudy San Francisco bay. It is cloudy. This weather has been with us. Some areas have son in the afternoon. Some remain cold. Its hard to believe it is july. Because of the quarantine the music awards is adding two categories to reflect the impact of coronavirus. Artist performances during quarantine. Best music video from him and best quarantine performance. Nominees include john legend and lady gaga. The miss nominations is at 9. It will be august 30 from new york city. I welcome any acknowledgment we are in different times. You cant just have an award show without acknowledging something is different. Reporter everything is different. Im watching streaming performances live and taped. What i love, we are getting an opportunity to see artists in their homes. You hear somebody saying what you say i love her couch. It is different but intimate of what we a
Fire in Southern California continues to burn out of control. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. And thanks for waking up with us on a monday were all in this together at very fulsome and im James Fletcher lots to talk about from the pandemic to politics to fires burning across California Well get to all that here in just a bit just getting out of bed though is the first he is right well its going to be a lot easier getting out about this morning daria. Were not seeing the fog completely socked in like we have over the last a couple of weeks in fact look at this nice shot seizure tower camera showing a you can see a little bit of it just real patchy though this is actually the Golden Gate Bridge towers there you can in the middle of your screen. So at least we can see them right and thats a good morning, a good way to start off as the visibility a little bit to spotty in some areas but not too bad like what weve seen over the last couple of weeks temperature wise look at this ver
Since the blockade of qatar by its neighbors well look at how the dispute is being played out online. All creatures great and small we look at the world biodiversity plays in our planet on the unprecedented threat its now facing. Im going to go with the sports. And so on. And i will do better and i will be part of the solution. And quarterback drew brees another apology after being criticized by fellow accolades for his comments on u. S. Protests. And we begin this news hour with developments in libya where fighters linked to the government of National Accord are celebrating after retaking the city. Thats the last stronghold of wallowed Khalifa Haftar in western libya about 65 kilometers from the capital tripoli on thursday the u. N. Recognize government announced it had regained full control of tripoli as forces still hold a lot of swathes of the territory in the east and the south of libya head as the latest from talk. As you can see here. The Government Forces are out and now it wil
Joining us from new york this morning, antoine hope, hes a Senior Research scholar at columbia universitys center on Global Energy policy. Here to talk about oil prices. While were experiencing these tensions with iran. So, mr. Hope, lets begin with the history of the United States getting its oil from the middle east. Tell us about that. Right. Well, the volumes that are imported from the middle east have decreased dramatically in the last few years with the increase in election. But, in fact, the middle east has never accounted for very dramatic share of u. S. Imports. There was a time when there were significant imports from saudi arabia, from kuwait. The reason why the u. S. Has been playing the key role in keeping the shipping lanes safe in the gulf is not all about imports into its own country, its about the stability of the market as a whole. What is how is the market handling u. S. And iran tensions . Its been quite remarkable. There hasnt been much of a reaction. There was a k