Watching kron 4 news at 6. We are just days away from the possible reopening or the easing anyway of some restrictions for Retail Stores in california. But a lot of people in the bay area are waiting to find out if county Health Officers will follow the recommendations from governor newsome thanks for joining us. Everyone, im Catherine Heenan so far no one in the bay area has indicated a retail reopening will happen that quickly but whether its friday or in another week or 2 stores are getting ready for what comes next. Kron fours dan kerman is live in San Francisco tonight with more dan. Its a real question catherine of how will it be done and when it will be done the county Health Officers have been working in tandem in the 6 bay area counties and that likely will happen again, but that they can get it done by friday seems unlikely. For weeks now closed signs of filled retail corridors across the bay area as a result of the shelterinplace order. Now the governors indicated we are very close to having some stores reopen for Curbside Pickup only all get to. Ask them what what they like what they want and on of our books on food in San Franciscos noise alley. Theyve been doing a lot of online orders and shipping but having some contact with customers even in the doorway will be helpful. I can dispense advice from inside the shop and show people different options of books divide if they do open it up for curbside we will change the store around and will bring a lot of tables and fixtures towards the front of the store so people can see products in the window and tell us what they want. And we can grab it off that obviously we cant also are. David island owns just for fun and gift and Stationery Store in knowing valley filled with everything from fine art supplies to greeting cards to toys and puzzles. He says Curbside Pickup will be a good service for his regulars. But its not financially sustainable if we did 600 a day every day was still about grits island says of Retail Stores are to survive the city must mandate. That landlords renegotiate new rent terms. Its go to a percentage rent based on what. Your aunt was percentage wise a year ago. He says thats preferable to allowing customers back in the store too soon and running the risk of the virus getting out of control again and forcing another hard shut down this winter during the busy Holiday Shopping season. Im willing to forfeit the 2nd quarter. I cannot possibly forfeit the 4th quarter and stay in business. San franciscos mayor has indicated shes all for retail opening as long as it can be done safely. She says how and when that will be done under what restrictions will be after county Health Officers meet and answer those questions live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you dan. Governor newsome is a detail in the states plan to move into the next phase of reopening the economy and Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala she was the only reported to join him at a Small Business in sacramento today. Businesses across the state are gearing up for a different kind of grand opening will get through creativity comes out now in these times about how we move and have it shipped stores like this play california in sacramento are prepared to offer what will be state mandated Curbside Pickup for retail governor Gavin Newsome visiting the shop tuesday. The governor said by the end of this week stores that sell clothing toys Sporting Goods and flowers to reopen with new state rules as soon as friday, the governor confirmed malls and Big Box Stores will remain closed for now even if they can offer Curbside Pickup not in this first phase were going to be working with the countys on local variances shop owner or sean davis says he plans to take it slow with his reopening while other counties like yuba and sutter are allowing malls salons and barbershops to reopen this week businesses. The governor says the state is not ready to open said making a big mistake. Theyre putting their public. Risk theyre putting our progress at risk weve been clear about that. Well aware of those examples these are exceptions these are real exceptions, the overwhelming majority of californians are are playing by the rules doing the right thing the governor is set to release the full set of updated guidelines thursday. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Just in to kron 00 04am tonight, a federal judge has restored new yorks president ial primary election after was canceled because of the pandemic the democratic primary set to happen june 23rd. I was postponed remember new york being the epicenter of the pandemic with more than 321,000 cases there. A federal judge ruled today it was unconstitutional to cancel the primary. The lawsuit against the state was filed by former democratic president ial candidate, andrew yang, senator bernie sanders, he has dropped out of the race but his name will be on the ballot in new york. A new u c berkeley poll says that most people are concerned about and eng shelter in place restrictions 69 of people say that they are concerned about the health risks of ending those orders to soon youre looking at video from dolores park in San Francisco today, people seem to be doing a pretty good job of spacing out and a social distancing. On the other hand about 29 of those polled say that opening too late could have a negative impact on the economy. We have the latest numbers on the coronavirus cases and deaths in the bay area more than 8900 cases in the bay area Santa Clara County remains one of the hardest hit areas as for the number of deaths of more than 300 people have died from the virus. March 16th when the shelterinplace orders were first issued there were just 4 deaths and we have a complete breakdown of the cases and deaths by county and city on our website at kron 4 dot com. Close to a 100 people linked to one Skilled Nursing facility and delay how have contracted the virus 2 of them have died. Kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to family members of residents who say they want their relatives moved out of that facility. Im im just im under no way. I need him to be and in a in a hospital setting. Annette Bennett Lewis was shocked to learn to patients infected with covid19 here at the Windsor Care Center have died. Shes anxious to see her nephew moved the 31 year old stroke victim is one of the 75 residents who have tested positive he is. Now an authority can not eating very much not drink very much. They said he doesnt have a fever, but theyre not check because theres so many patients in there theyre not able to really. Come in there and give them much care. Bennett is not the only one concerned about a loved one there its going to the point where theyre just throwing their hands up because its just overwhelming danny is worried about his mother maria. An 86 yearold alzheimers patient. Although she tested negative for corona virus, 24 workers tested positive and his niece fear thats left the care center understaffed and the remaining workers overwhelmed, they keep telling us well if you dont like what were doing mover. And now nobodys going to take her from this place this is not this is a pariah whole ive been on the phone with several Nursing Homes in napa and they said. If shes been exposed to cocaine. We got her in a statement, a representative from the Windsor Vallejo care center says their mission is to be hyper vigilant. In taking every recommended safety measure to try and minimize the continued spread of the virus to residents and staff. The Health Officer of Solano County says 2 infected patients have been hospitalized and are in icu a handful of covid positive residents were transferred to another nursing facility, able to handle infected patients to ease the strain. The plan for the rest is to shelter in place. Even those who tested negative. They may appear to be negative today, but that doesnt mean they want to merge disease within their incubation period. So moving them just transports the risk. Of covid to other facilities as well. The county Health Department has staff on site and to nearby hospitals are also lending support to help control infection. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. The coronavirus pandemic and that the lockdown thats put a real damper on public Cinco De Mayo celebrations across the bay area. Most of them anyway, but theres concern of the south bay where a large crowd to find shelter orders and staged a risky Cinco De Mayo rally over the weekend this was in san jose kron fours rob fladeboe has details on that and how others are opting for a virtual celebration. Among bay area eateries offering patrons of virtual cinco de mile experienced todays zona rosa in los gatos the dining room and bar are closed due to covid19 but its popular mexican food and cinco de mile marker readers are Still Available for curbside service. So is owner roses on up via facetime cifra if i i really do see kills our very eyes. This is how not to celebrate cinco de mile hundreds of people staging an impromptu rally inside show sunday at a Shopping Center in east, san jose. The flaunting of physical distancing orders was criticized by the City CouncilsMagdalena Carrasco and you know they were having a great time, but they were really putting themselves at risk they were pretty their families who they were coming home to at ms. And in and in doing so they were preen the rest of the community at risk very few of the people in attendance here at story in king road sunday wore masks says the disappointed resident who took these pictures alum rock businessman carlos diaz got put the clamps down. No way should you be able to do sideshows in a parking lot was a which is first of all dangerous and then second of during this pandemic period where everyone suffering Police Stepped up patrols for the holiday but said it would not be enforcing the health order says chief eddie garcia, youve got individuals that are being released out of jail. And out of custody for major type crimes. To expect Police Officers to go into crowds to give citations and or make an arrest based on the Public Safety order is not very credible its not going to happen. Rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Coming up as temperatures heat up so does the risk of wildfires. What state officials want people to do while stuck at home. Also the report detailing a new strain of the corona viru developing news tonight, an emergency order to release non violent inmates because of the coronavirus it apparently has been used to release a violent assault suspect and the council that brought the order says that was not the intention kron fours Haaziq Madyun has the story. There is controversy surrounding in Alameda County superior court judges decision to reduce the bill paving the way to release 61 yearold gregory b and from santa rita jail in dublin. The end was arrested back in november as a suspect in a pair of violent assaults that occurred back in 1997, one union city the other in the town of livermore where he has been placed on house arrest the booking judge the time. Look at the evidence the security of the crime. The flight risk and the risk to my community. She said the bailiff 2 and onehalf Million Dollars however after being attorney told the judge her client has a medical condition. The judge reduced be its bail to 0 the Judicial Council has recommendations that its if the judge has the authority to reduce bail to 0. For low level find a felonies and misdemeanors in my mind, multiple violent rapes. Do not constitute a low level felony and representative from the california Judicial Council sent kron 4 this statement which reads in part quote the Judicial Councils emergency 0 Bell Schedule applies only to those accused of misdemeanors and low level felonies as a way to safely reduce jail populations during the pandemic it is also not a blanket release order a judge can still deny all raise bill if they find good cause that a defendant is a threat to Public Safety unquote that is why there by shine says he penned a letter to california state leaders, including governor Gavin Newsome. Hoping to find advocates who could help reverse this judges decision my top priority is to near livermore. This is the safety of my community has it led you kron 4 news. A u. S. Senator is proposing a bill that would temporarily allow food stamps to be used at restaurants senator chris murphy, he says it would help both struggling. Restaurants and people looking for their next meal because the proposal, the anti hunger restaurant really for you act, hes one of the lawmakers who also wants to see a snap benefits increase as unemployment numbers continue to go up. We dont want this crisis to be a mass extinction event for the Restaurant Industry allowing more people with food benefits to be able to get their meals from restaurants were providing some critical business. Some lawmakers are saying that they would support the effort is a temporary solution to and hunger during the pandemic. With temperatures hitting up the risk of wildfires is also increasing state officials they want people to prepare for fire season as theyre stuck at home during the pandemic kron fours will tran has the story. Cal fire saying take advantage of this time a lot of people unfortunately are not working, but you cant do work around your house to make it safe because fire season is just around the corner and according to cal fire. They expect this season to be among some of the worst seasons that weve seen over the past 5 years so theyre saying help them help you by doing Defensible Space its been extremely dry. They believe that there are many homes out there that theres leaves around theres debris that can be picked ob theres the storm drain all the things that are available. During a fire that can catch your home on fire. So theyre saying take advantage of this time get out get some sunshine do some yard work and be the first line of defense for them. While you are sheltered in place. Theres no better time to clear your even though were responding to the coronavirus 24 7 we have the capacity and we have the capability with our local government partners and the fire and rescue mutual aid system that we use regularly. To have the ability to move assets and resources in a timely fashion. Coronavirus has been a game changer for everybody including cal fire and other Fire Departments across the country as far as cal fires concerned they say that they inadvertently practice social distance because firefighters. Already walk far apart from each other because of the equipment that they carry that on any injuries each other also they wear face masks and gloves already when fighting a fire. But when theyre up in the hills and we know fire season is not if but when they will practice social distance by spreading out the camp site so they can sleep. Much further apart and the classrooms, a lot of the Fire Fighting takes place in the classroom, they will make the class size is a lot smaller to spread out the firefighters so they can practice social distance. Back to you. Time for a check on the forecast and theyre talking about he from a bridge to rodriguez says it could get record breaking a hot temperatures correct. Yeah, thats right catherine starting thursday and even continuing through saturday we could see record breaking or near record breaking need making its way into the bay area but temperatures out there right now on the cooler side, especially along the San Francisco coastline. Thanks to the return of that marine layer getting pushed in by that stronger sea breeze out there today cooling down temperatures in the 60 so widespread 60s around the bay areas shoreline even into the east and parts of the south and north bay as well with widespread 70s as you major way inland, but overall a cooler air mass biggest cool down for most of our interior valleys in the east bay nearly double digit cooling right now and wind speeds on the breezy side so were noticing. Those westerly winds that cool onshore flow pushing in that marine layer that help cool us down specifically along the bay area coastline today, warming up tomorrow by more than 10 degrees to today downtown San Francisco only warming to 61 degrees a few degrees below average but tomorrow morning up into the low 70s, some more than 10 degrees of warming and thats all because of that change in wind direction senate coming out of the west which is that cool sea breeze were going to see winds out of the northwest so getting a little bit of an offshore wind pattern and wakeup planner forecast is when the show widespread 70s along the coast and along the bay with 80s as you make your way inland and its only going to get warmer from here, especially friday. Thats when our men easy rain is expected to peak. Temperatures nearly 10 to 20 degrees above average more coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes catherine back to you all right bruce thanks very much talk to them. Still ahead not all graduation ceremonies in the bay area will be virtual weve got the latest on some of the dates being planned and why people are outraged after face coverings of course are encouraged in many public settings but a man in california want too far he was seen at a Grocery Store wearing. What appeared to be a klan hood. This happened at a vons Grocery Store in santee and San Diego County store employees told that man to remove for hood or leave. The photos and the video have sparked outrage online and from community leaders. I am so because is always sad when somebody regardless of what the ratio. Resorts any time a symbol of just that its some kind of a trick people are struggling with side with the virus and with whats happening in their divisiveness of the world and i think seeing such a symbol of hate. Really i peoples own supermarket, a place you and go you know any it sends a message. The San Diego CountySheriffs Department is investigating that incident. California is suing ridehailing Companies Uber and left accusing them of misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors under the states new labor law that law took effect january 1st makes it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors, instead of employees who are entitled to minimum wage and uh benefits uber says it will contest the lawsuit but will also push to raise the standard of independent work for drivers in california left meantime says it will work with the attorney general to improve worker benefits, the lawsuit alleges that uber and lyft have not paid enough payroll taxes because of the misclassification. Coming up the report that details a new strain of the coronavirus one thats even more contagious. And the pandemic is taking a particularly heavy toll on front line workers a local psychiatrist said we should brace for an epidemic of Mental Health problems. And were learning more about graduation ceremonies for local high Nevada High School it one of the first bay area high schools to announce. In person Graduation Plans for 2020. Kron fours jason dumas has the details. Many assumed that High School Graduations across campuses in the bay area were all but canceled but Novato High School announced that they plan to make theres happen by any means necessary we feel its very important to celebrate and recognize our students and theyve done an incredible job during Remote Learning at home with google classroom and. Zoom so it it would be really nice to be able to sell a braid their accomplishments the graduation will take place at about Oh High School at the football slash lacrosse stadium on friday august 7th, the ceremony will be from 5 to 6. Theyre also be a senior breakfast on thursday august 6 from 9 to 11 were assembling at graduation committee. Throughout our district made up of middle School Elementary and High School Administrators teachers and students need to create a plan that. Encourages social distancing while being able to recognize and celebrate our graduates fister says the feedback and the community has been positive since the announcement we have a really wonderful support of our community and the model highs of the parents of have done a great job and of course Everyone Wants to see their cant walk down the aisle and grab the diploma and get the photos with mom and dad and grandma and grandpa so were just going one day at a time to try to create a celebration for seniors rt