And Economic Activity continuing. The issue for us right now around wanting to ensure that you have clarify is the commitment of our office of economic work force brings and do visit our website and continue to learn more about updates that we are providing in partnership with the city and Public Health to have realtime information around best practices, guidance, and reaching out to us so we can answer any questions you may have about reopening. That is our commitment to you in addition to continue to make you aware of the relief programs whether grants or loans were providing here in the city and continue of San Francisco for all of you. All of us are deeply excited about getting back to work. All of us are deeply excited about seeing when and how their business can reopen. Please stay in contact with us. We look forward to working with you to making that happen. They continue they continue to come in day in and day out to provide for ourselves and our families and thank you for the work that you do. We look forward to continually working with you. Please visit our website at oewd. Org for up to date information again on guidance. When we can provide you details on reopening and answer any questions you may have whether youre a worker, a nonprofit, or a business here in San Francisco. Thank you. Director torres, the first question will be for you. The first question is from chris reyes, abc7. What can you tell the Restaurant Business about criteria for reopening and working with a restaurant for a new goal date for reopening . The answer is yes. Were working closely with the Restaurant Community and office and staff are talking daily if not every other hour with Industry Leaders both in the association perspective of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and others and individual businesses. Thats true across industries across sectors to make sure were up to date on information and needs that people have. As you heard dr. Colfax mention, were not ready to provide a time line on the next steps and this is what the data tells us and connoting gent on wat all of us here in San Francisco. Well know more and we look forward to communicating more by the end of this week. For restaurants and Golden Gate Restaurant Association and others, well continue to work with you and provide you with up to date information. Thank you, director torres. The next set of questions for dr. Grant colfax, department of Public Health. Your first question from marcos silos gonzalez. Has there been an increase in the number of people from san quentin taken to San Francisco hospitals . So the latest data is a total of 13 patients from san quentin hospital sorry from san quentin in our hospitals across the city and numbers remain volatile over the last seven days. Related question from cathy no vac, ksvs. How concerned are you about the outbreak in san quentin and the effect of the outbreak in the bay area including San Francisco . Im concerned about the outbreak at san quentin. We are working with our state and local partners to coordinate efforts to ensure that people both the inmates and the staff of san quentin are getting the best care and access to care possible. That is now being coordinated by the state as i said in my overall comments, our Hospital Capacity overall in San Francisco is good so as coordinated by the state, we will continue to support care for inmates and staff if necessary here in the city and also supporting the regional and statewide effort to ensure that all patient all inmates and staff get the care they need. Follow up from cathy do you think the crisis specifically is contributing to the delay in reopening . I think theres multiple factors contributing to the delay. I certainly cant draw a cause from the san quentin outbreak to our decision here in San Francisco to delay. I think we are increasingly looking across the region and if one county is in trouble, were all in trouble. Were looking at both local people here in San Francisco and indicators from the neighboring counties to make the decision that we did make to pause in our indicators will continue to drive those decisions along with the context of what other counties are experiencing. The next question is from heather knight, San Francisco chronicle. San francisco families with little kids are frustrated that playgrounds, the zoo, and aquariums, swimming pools, libraries, and likely schools arent reopening. Is there thoughts on when kid centered activities can restart . I appreciate the question and i know how frustrated people are and i feel for the kids and the families and, you know, its really this incredibly unprecedented challenging time where were trying to balance the need to protect children, their families, their grandparents with the very issues that youre raising here. We have done a number of things that we hope will mitigate some of the concerns you raise. Camps are open with certain restrictions. We have child care guidelines out and child care can open. How close is the city and county from having to revert back to full scale shelter in place ordered in march . That eventually resolved in the curve of infections being flattened. So were so were not at that point today. We are not rolling back what we have opened at this point. We will continue to follow the indicators and see again i am hopeful and optimistic that if we all do our part, follow the guidelines that we wont have to get to that point and certainly its possible, but im hopeful that weve done the right thing in San Francisco by following the data, science, and facts moving congruent with the data and moving indicators and died on next steps by the end of this week. Thank you, dr. Colfax. This concludes our press conference for today. Good afternoon, everyone. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. As of today, there are 4, 020 coronavirus cases, 68 hospitalizations and so far 50 patients have died. The mayor announced the city would not allow indoor restaurant dining next week as it had previously planned for july 13. Bars are also have to wait to reopen for outdoor service. San francisco right now has no date for when indoor restaurat dining will be allowed. The state officially approved Santa Clara Countys request to reopen more businesses. The move will allow all businesses except those explicitly listed as high risk in the countys new health order to reopen starting monday with social distancing and mask requirements. Doctor stressed the importance of face coverings just moments ago. You limit the number of interactions you have with other people and keep a distance, you wear a face covering. Super important. Every single one of us needs to think about this every single day with every single interaction. The mayor issued a statement saying this variance will allow more families to support themselves while business comply with strict safety guidelines saving livelihoods and lives. Weve posted more details about the Santa Clara County variance on the website at kpix. Com. Today oaklands mayor libby half made an appearance at a free covid19 testing site in oakland and heres what she had to say about the site. Like the American Health clinic and these are trusted partners you do not need medical insurance to get a free and these community partners. Here in california, covid19 hospitalizations are up almost 89 since memorial day. About a third are in Los Angeles County and of those about a quarter are among people ages 18 to 40. Health officials blame the rise on increased socialization. The u. S. Has recorded more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases so far in july and there is growing concern among leading scientists that the virus may travel further than previous thought in airborne particles that can linger in the air for hours. One person can infect people over much more than six feet. Junior high school theyre usualing the World Health Organization so reconsider on how the virus spreads and better ventilation systems may be needed in schools, businesses, and other indoor spaces. A coronavirus outbreak shut down the state capital forcing the assembly to return to work. A lawmaker and four staffers tested positive. Assembly member autumn burg had mask to mask exposure last month and lawmakers were debating the state budget and shut down last month. A top medical officer for californias Correction System has been replaced amid the growing coronavirus outbreaks in several state prisons. The most notable is at San Quentin State Prison and more than 1300 inmates affected with more than 70 of those cases popping up in the last two weeks. Six prisoners there have died in the virus. Monitoring event featuring President Trump talking about what is next for american schools and the new lawsuit over the situation from california. Lets go live to the white house where President Trump is just about to begin a conversation or is beginning right now. The question that School Districts have been struggling with, how to safely reopen in the fall . The cdc posted preliminary guidance and theyre stressing the decision to reopen is going to be a state and local one. On the table things like modifying the schedules, separation of desks, wears masks under certain circumstances and protecting the most vulnerable students by allowing online classes. Within the past hour, California Attorney general and superintendent of schools announced theyre suing the Trump Administration and secretary of Education Betsy Devos over their plan to allocate the cares act relief fund that announced 13 billion in aid nationwide, 1. 5 billion for california. The dispute is over how much should go to private schools at the expense of public schools. This rule creates a false choice where School Districts must include private schools on the basis of total population or be forced to jump through unnecessary complicated hoops to do what congress intended to make sure the funds get the schools that are hurting the most. This is day three of fighting the crews fire near gill voix if youre wondering whats tabooing so long in fighting this fire, from have Vantage Point on jameson road on the northern flank of the fire, were not seeing one or two or three but eight separate hot spots. Whats taking so long is we have a lot of fire line. Theres miles and miles of fire line. Some of it is very difficult to access, the terrain is challenging so a lot of that has to be reached by helicopters, aircraft, and then we have to work to get our hand crews and our dozers and other heavy equipment in there. Crews kept the flames low to the ground and out of the tree where is it can spread quickly. They took advantage of the favorable conditions to improve the fire lines and making them deeper and wider. Theyve also been hunting Current Conditions near the crews fire and looks like southerly winds at 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour in that area and we are looking at the winds going to be picking up as we head through our afternoon. Current wind speeds looking at 15 Miles Per Hour winds at sfo so the strongest winds along the coast and around the bay, 9 Miles Per Hour winds at Half Moon Bay and 10 in palo alto out of the north and 8 Miles Per Hour winds in petaluma, concord as well as hayward. We go through the rest of our day, were going to see about 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour winds and again, the strongest winds will be along the coast right around the bay about 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour winds. Well talk about what you can expect as we head through the rest of the week. We are going to warm things up and the winds will be easing details on that coming up. Back to you. It has stood in the state capital for over a century but now christopher clean up bus statue in the center of the rotunda has been removed. Early this morning, the crew built a ramp and lined the floor to safely remove the stat clue and it was loaded onto a crane and hauled away to an undisclosed location. Assembly leaders announced the removal last month saying columbus was a deeply polarizing figure and the statue was out of place and needed to go. It comes days after demonstrators tore the father statue down in the capital garden. Crews in richmond, virginia, removed. Jeb historic monument this morning. The bronze equestrian statue went up in 1927 and more than a dozen ordered by the richmond mayor to be removed from city property. Still ahead, a billion dollar boost for one drug maker in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. And kpix is working to bring you the positive stories during this difficult time. Check them out at kpix. 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Record rain fall triggered flash flooding on the Southern Japanese island. 3million residents were ordered to evacuate across the island. Rescue operations have been hampered by the flood water and continuing harsh weather. Soldiers using boats to rescue residents and the government says it would double rescue and relief personnel and japan is warning of more heavy rain on the island. One drug maker getting a big boost in the race for the coronavirus vaccine. Noavax received a 150 billion infusion to speed up 100 million doses of a vaccine by 2021. Its the biggest made by operation warm warp speed by the white house. Time now for a check of our weather. Heres meteorologist mary lee. Good afternoon once again. Good afternoon to you, friends. We are looking at that Pacific Ocean breeze once again for today. Well see westerly winds about 10 to 20 heading through the rest of the afternoon. A live look through the Sales Force Tower camera and the bay bridge with mostly sunny skies and temperatures at this noon hour. 79 in concord and mid 60s in oakland and San Francisco and mid 70s for livermore, san jose and santa rosa and on shore breeze because of the low pressure system ushering in that marine influence for us near normal and daytime highs and changes as early as tomorrow with this ridge of High Pressure building in and well continue to warm things upstarting tomorrow through the rest of the week with those temperatures on the rise into the weekend. In the meantime, taking you hourbyhour on future cast and we are looking at clear skies as we head through tonight and through the overnight hours into tomorrow morning, some low clouds, areas of fog along the coast and right around the bay and then catching that clearing for the rest of your wednesday afternoon. Now lets show you our daytime highs. 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