Boarded up due to worries about postelection civil unrest and are ready for holiday shoppers. Its been a challenging time for our retailers to say the least. Many have adapted, though. The stores are all open, and there certainly is curbside pickup, theres instore shopping. Reporter with the Christmas Tree up, the need for an instaworthy photo op is back. Im all for christmas. Reporter and drawing in shoppers. Got this at macys, 40 off. Want to be out with the people. I want to i dont feel as much anxiety as i did before in the grocery store. Reporter now, of course, things became more complicated yesterday when the mayor announced that Indoor Dining would sho shut down here in restaurants in San Francisco. They say thats a problem with the holiday season, people wanting to take a break from shopping to seat and drink. Nevertheless, the Tree Lighting ceremony for the tree behind me in the middle of union square happens a week from today. They hope it will draw people back into the area
In june of next year. Natural gas is dangerous. Reporter rafael, who sponsored the legislation. Maybe most significantly, natural gas is a potent Greenhouse Gas that contributes to climate change. Reporter since 2010, as hundreds of coalfired power plants have closed, natural gas plants in many cases have replaced them. Natural gas produces about 40 of u. S. Energy needs. Former San Francisco mayoral candidate and activist Richie Greenburg doesnt believe california can make the transition from natural gas to all electric. The state of california does not have the ability to meet the energy needs, electricity needs and home heating through electricity at this point in time. Were not going to be relying on fossil fuels anymore in our buildings. Theres huge Greenhouse Gas savings. Theres Huge Public Health savings. And cost of construction goes down because youre not needing to install a gas pipeline. Reporter groups like earth justice cite the wildfires as a reason to move away. The sky
The boards on the windows have come down. The holiday lights and the Christmas Tree are up. And stores are now hoping for the holiday rush they desperately need to survive. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Lets go to kpix 5s andria borba. Andria, despite the shutdowns, despite the pandemic, businesses are still hopeful . Reporter businesses are still open. Of course, on friday here in San Francisco, indoor restaurant dining will come to a halt per the mayors orders, but brick and mortar retailers and the large stores and small stores supported by them say they need this Holiday Season to be good in order to survive. Its kind of make or break. Reporter union square retailers say they need a big Holiday Season to survive after months of nearly empty streets and few shoppers. Some large chains have already filed for bankruptcy protection and the Small Businesses who feed on foot traffic from Bigger Stores say they are fighting to stay alive. We would really need them t
Seeing it move in further to the north. Mike, any issues for drivers heading out to work this morning . Yeah, kari, on the nimitz we have it maybe once a week and on friday the 13th looking at the coliseum camera where northbound is jammed solid from about 66 and hitting the brakes. Maybe the slower drive there as you travel north past the coliseum. At the bay bridge is just fine and no other surprises for folks out on the road. Back to you. Thank you very much. 6 01. Arizona after days of counting the projected winner is expected to be joe biden. In the meantime in georgia a recount is under way. All votes will be counted by hand. Biden leads President Trump there by just over 14,000 votes. We havent heard from the president in eight days . Reporter right. But he has been on twitter making unsubstantiated claims about the election. We have, however, heard from republicans, a few, not many, agreeing joe biden is the winner here but more are now saying President Trump needs to cooperate
There, especially the peninsula coast and up into the east bay hills. I had a bit out at my house, about an hour later i went to take some video of it, it was gone. That gives you an idea of how light and random it is. Some fog is forming around petaluma. Highs today not quite as mild as they were yesterday because of the clouds being thicker. Well call it mostly cloudy to partly sunny up in the north bay. You may see more sunshine. Temperatures in the near 50s to 60 along the coast. 59 to 61 degrees for the rest of us. With he have a slight chance of rain tonight and a storm friday. Thank you. Its not the news any of us wanted heading into the holidays. Covid19 cases are rising across the state. That means well see more closures. The state moved nearly a dozen counties back into the more restrictive red tier that lists includes contra costa and santa cruz counties. A doctor said most of the transition is coming from highrisk transmissions where people are not Wearing Masks the whole t