Now at 11 00, bay area retailers open their doors but its anything but business as usual. Theres been a lot of conversations with people who want to know how things are working now. Tonight, the challenges businesses face as they wait to see if customers will return. The delicate balance of reopening. How officials are weighing lives versus livelihoods. The governor saying sports could be back as soon as first week of june. Why thats unrealistic and the hurdles that still stand in the way. Now at 11 00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, another bay area county poised to allow more businesses to reopen. Good evening. Elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Tomorrow morning Contra Costa County will become the latest that will relax restrictions. And tonight reporter joe vazquez has the balancing act the counties are facing when it comes to reopening. As more bay area businesses are preparing to reopen, theyre wrestling with questions. If the virus is just as dangerous, how can they afford to r
Cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive camera as we look east this morning. It is tuesday, may 19th. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. We are checking on your forecast. Mary lee is standing by. Good morning, we are looking through our day, catching a bit of sunshine with a chance to see a few more isolated showers. Were looking at quiet conditions but i am tracking a few cells popping up across the east bay. You can see right over hayward and union city, getting the wet start and through our afternoon, check out the daytime highs in the mid 60s in San Francisco, 70 for san jose as well as for concord. I will let you know hour by hour what you can expect on future cast. Pressure billed in for the rest of the week. I will have those details in a few minutes. The epicenter of the virus, wuhan, has acid testing, a form of testing that detects genetic material, rna or dna, rather than antibodies, doing it citywide to rule out potential risks of emerging asymptomatic cases. It is
Good morning, i am tracking a few spotty showers this morning and some cells are popping up across parts of the east bay on high def doppler. We are watching it closely near san leandro and you can see the cell right over union city this morning. It is down through fremont. We had a damp start in spots. We will see partly sunny skies and an isolated shower possible. There is a chance for that as a low pressure slowly moves out of here but 66 in San Francisco, 68 in oakland, 70 for san jose as well for concord. Here is the white house where President Donald Trump is getting some International Pushback this morning from his threats to permanently pull funding to the World Health Organization. He says he wants the World Health Organization to commit to major improvements in the next 30 days and today, the eu and china are calling on him to pull back those threats and they want worldwide solidarity. China basically called it fingerpointing and said that Global Cooperation and solidarity th
Reopening. How officials are weighingoo arn streamingnrealistic andthattile on cbsn bay area, another bay area county poised to allow more businesses to reopen. Good evening. Elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Tomorrow morning Contra Costa County will become the latest that will relax restrictions. And tonight reporter joe vazquez has the balancing act the counties are facing when it comes to reopening. As more bay area businesses wrestling with questions. If the virus is just as dangerous, how can they afford to reope open . And how can they afford not to . Many businesses deemed nonessential are opening their doors. The bay area has gotten International Acclaim for shutting down early, flattening the curve. But he wonders if well become victims of our own success, given so many other parts of the country are opening more quickly. San francisco took the most cautious approach relative to almost anywhere else. Im really proud of the city for doing that. I imagine were one of the last
And in his shall we say week group has but hes more visibly of these 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to President Trumps revelation that hes been taking hydroxychloroquine despite an fda warning about the drugs safety and efficacy of the covid19. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday may 19th im James Fletcher and im darya folsom in our big story is california relaxing the rules in more counties. Allowing some businesses to reopen governor newsome estimates all but 5 of the 58 counties across the state are likely eligible to begin offering in restaurant dining in just the coming weeks. Counties that meet the new criteria can also begin opening schools with modification yeah, the new criteria requires counties to have a stable covid19 related hospitalizations with no more than 20. Covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks counties must also have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 in the last 2 weeks or less than 8 of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days so some pretty