amber lee is live in oakland where she talked with a number of people about their new year s plans. reporter: people are telling me they are not in the mood to celebrate. we visit a restaurant here that is offering food and drink specials for and stay-at-home new year s eve. a mitchell brought up by the backyard in oakland may be a popular drink for the new year holiday cities said to be a hangover fix available to go since this large outdoor restaurant cannot host the hundreds it did last year for new year s day. it has put a damper on morale for sure. we are just hoping to continue pushing forward. pushing forward means offering take-home meal kits that include fazoli a sip that is a new year s day special. food and drinks served to go with optimism on being able to reopen for sit down service sometime in january. if we can get back to doing what we love doing which is inviting guests into the backyard to enjoy great food, great drinks, and great times as socially
smoke so thick the sunlight could barely shine through. across the bay area people woke up confused as they looked like night. ktvu was flooded with photos from our viewers who pulled out the cameras to capture the eerie orange glow that lasted for much of the day. ktvu s jana katsuyama joins us with more on how it all unfolded. reporter: this really was a first for many people here. this darkness during the day and the orange glow, for many businesses this was yet another setback. almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. it felt like we were living on mars. weed couldn t figure out what time it was, even if the afternoon was so dark and orange and red. it was apocalyptic. by 10:00 it was darker than it was at 7:00 a.m. reporter: the darkness and orange tent stretched from the bank and east contra costa county, like a nuclear fallout. ash flying from the sky covered cards and straits. in san francisco my friend said she had a hose down her car twi
the organizer who got the permit for this 165 foot mural, reclaiming black lives matter slogan front of the courthouse in martinez. with the paint barely dry, a man and woman arrived to deface the message with their own pain. arguing with bystanders that racism is a lie. it was truly heartbreaking to see the hatred come out in such a bold and brazen way. now we are just hoping the justice system works how it s supposed to. reporter: their identities emerged on social media. police questioned them and now they face charges. 42-year-old nicole anderson and 53-year-old david nelson. this is not just a regular moment in time, this is a movement. reporter: contra costa s district attorney has a high- level team that reviews such incidents. anderson and nelson are charged with vandalism and possession of vandalism tools. but also, a civil rights violation, or hate crime. it could be sexual orientation, nationality, race. that s what puts it in the category of a possible h
but the few we do have, they need for their families. governor gavin newsom announced rightly that the state is open to the restaurants a lifeline by cooking for seniors. for restaurants to start rehiring people, or keep people currently employed and start preparing meals, three meals a day, seven days a week. and have those meals delivered to our seniors. state in fema emergency funds will pay about $66 a day for three meals. restaurant owners like the idea but say they need to read the fine print. when you deliver food there s additional cost than just the food. you have the delivery, the gas. business is hungry for details on how to apply will have to wait to read the states as local jurisdictions will handle the rollout with a focus on independent restaurants. but the governor s announcement that some counties off guard without the infrastructure in place and awaiting details in which restaurants qualify and how they will be selected. it can definitely help ou
threatening people. that s when the officer open fired killing the suspect. we ll have more on this developing story tonight on the 10:00 news. and now to the latest on the coronavirus. california has now secured more than 11,000 hotel rooms to help the homeless safely isolate during the pandemic. and much more will soon be available. we had a goal a few weeks back of identifying 15,000 hotel rooms that would be made valleyable as a subset of our larger strategy, homeless strategy to get people off the street. i m pleased today to announce a milestone that 10,974 hotel rooms have been procured. speaking at a present conference today in campbell, governor newsom said project room key has secured thousand of hotel rooms many of them through an agreement with motel six. they are always making rooms available 19 counties in the state. so far project room key has provided more than 45 00 homeless people with a place to stay. there are more than 726 thousand ,000 cases across