Tax plan say its a common sense way to give them the help they need. Tax relief could soon be coming to thousands of businesses around San Francisco. On monday, two Business Leaders submitted a proposed measure that would overhaul the citys tax system. Lori thomas, the executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, was one of those people we know that any relief we can give, even if its a couple thousand dollars a year to our Small Businesses, is a nod in the right direction. If passed by voters in november, the proposal would simplify the citys notoriously complex tax system. It would also allow Small Businesses with revenue under 5 million to be exempt from business taxes, up from the current level of 2 million. Its a move that proponents say would allow for more Business Expansion and hiring. Almost 90 of our restaurants, 60 of our Retail Businesses would be completely exempt from our gross receipts tax at the palette tea house in ghirardelli square, owner dennis long
Those hazy skies this week. Is it looking better today . Yeah we were talking about the worst day being tuesday and each day after that, certainly hazy, but not as bad. And were in that realm again today as we have another spare the air alert. The cold front is on the way, though, for monday. That will really help us out. But between now and then, were going to see some improvements slowly, certainly as we get into your sunday live doppler seven, partly cloudy skies. This was a look at our sutro tower camera. You can see the haze there. Poor air quality north bay coast and central bay with moderate air quality elsewhere. Everyone improves tomorrow and it is 56. Downtown, 57 in Mountain View, half moon bay. And well be looking at some haze with partly cloudy conditions today to mostly sunny 55 in concord. But temperatures remain below average, mainly in the upper 60s from San Francisco, mid 70s and oakland and inland. Well see some upper 70s, but tomorrow well see some big improvements
Are expecting some big changes. We still have a spare the air alert that is lingered day after day due to the hazy conditions. The north winds still not totally shut off. So were looking at some of that smoke from the north still being brought into the bay area. But look at that. Weve got a cold front that is going to clean everything out, bring fire ending rain to extreme Northern California. So some really good news there. Heres a look at live doppler seven moderate air quality right now. That means were in the yellow and well look for these hazy conditions. This is a 24 hour loop that shows the blue indicating, yeah, were going to have some of that high elevation smoke. But by the time we get to the second half of our weekend skies will be much clearer. So poor air quality, mainly north bay, the coast and central bay. Then everyone gets into the good air quality. Tomorrow it is 59 in oakland, 57 in fremont. And as we look at our northerly winds, theyre light, but they still will be
On track after temperatures caused a rail to buckle. Wednesday is another first alert weather day as the extreme extreme heat rolls on. Im tracking when this heat wave might finally come to an end. And, later, napa valley grape Grape Growers are fighting Climate Change with a new blendy mixing grapes could be the future of wine making. Good evening, im andrea nakano. In the past hour, cal iso called another flex alert after todays todays super scorcher pushed the power grid to the limit. Moe than half a million pg e customers braced for blackouts as they called the highest level level power emergency. In the end, we avoided them. Conservatn efforts prevented emergency shutoffs. Thousands still lost power though, but thousands still lost their power as the extreme heat damaged pg e equipment. At last check, more than 50,000 customers in the dark. The vast majority in the south bay. This as new video in from Valley Medical Center in san jose where the emergency room is closed to patients
Unintended consequences. Nuisance veto came as a shock to supporters of sb 57 state senator scott wiener of San Francisco was the author of the bill. Two people a day or dying of drug overdoses to a day in San Francisco earlier this year glide st anthonys and other organizations opened a mock injection site to show the community how a facility would be used and supervised. Supporters say other pilot programs in oakland and los angeles were also in the works based on programs already in use. Mayor adams in new york city whos a law and order, mayor, mayor adams wants them to go 24 hours because theyve been so successful in San Franciscos tenderloin neighborhood. There is support for injection sites to many people out here that are homeless and being out. Then ill see people on the ground and then ill see paramedics. Have to check on them to see you know if theyre still breathing or not. The San Francisco Police Officers association, issuing a statement that read, in part, quote these loc