Well, two important aspects of the ongoing pandemic, preventing the spread of the virus and limiting the economic damage continue nobody conflict this afternoon across much of the country, including right here in the bay area. Tom vacar joins us live this afternoon, and this new wave of restrictions threatens the very survivability of the restaurant industry. Well, the whole fact is this cannot go on forever. Some accommodations will have to be made. Covid carnage to patients mirror s the carnage to small businesses, restaurants and their employees. It is a tail of two realities. According to the National Restaurant association, this is their sobering reality. 100,000 restaurants, 1 in 6, closed forever or long term. 40 of the remaining restaurant ours saying theyll be gone in three months without any help. 240 billion in lost sales this year. One Business Owner we spoke with has been able to survive so far. There has to be assistance for businesses and also for individuals. Reporter b
To try to avoid sliding backward. And marin restaurants being asked to reduce and what Indoor Dining to 25 occupancy. At 10 00, live with how that message is being received. Reporter they have seen about nine new cases a day jumped the past week, even doubled. Restaurants are being urged to scale back. Families celebrating his 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its the first and dining since march. The bug i might feel perfectly safe with the distancing. Even though we are inside. An steppes of utter heat lamps, other customers dining on a 50 degree evening. And they expect to ship more dining out here now that marin top officer once and for occupancy cut by half. If he thinks thats a good idea, we are happy to do that and go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter arendt has been a 50 capacity in only a few weeks. The need to keep guests of part dictates how many can be served. There have been super spreader events described from restauran
On thursday. We get reinforcement on the coast. It is 51 in santa rosa. They had a southeast breeze. It is sunny for all. We have patchy fog. Unless you are far inland, it might be hot. There is hardly any breeze, even in the hills. They are due north of 40. That is a big change. It is pretty quiet. The fog is raring to go. It makes an appearance on thursday. Highs today are not far. They are close to where they should be this time of year. Again, that has been a rarity. All right, lets go to sal at 5 1. Is there anything going on . Things are okay. I can see traffic is doing well on the richmond braves. I think i might not have put my mic on. There we go. That will help. We have two or three cars coming through. Yesterday, we had roadwork as you come through the area. Give yourself a little time a little later on if this is going to be your commute. So far, the bay bridge is light. We have not had problems in the east bay. That is so far. We are off to a good start. It is 5 02. Lets g
61, sunny for all today, it looks pretty good here. Any fog, there could be fog ramping up. It looks good, nice, warm, mild and that low is going to reposition itself along the west coast starting tomorrow. Today is all about sunshine and temperatures pretty close to where they should be this time of year. Lets head over to sal now. Is there a place you would like to begin besides the bay bridge toll plaza . We are going to start at the Richmond Bridge and we do have a little bit of slow traffic there as you come up on the Richmond Bridge. Traffic is going to be a little slow. It is improving a little bit but it was slower about 10 minutes ago. You can see it and this might improve right away but we will keep an eye on it for you. We are also looking at the actual toll plaza of the bay bridge westbound, and that is backed up you and the 880 over causing but 880 itself looks okay. Did a 7 01, lets go to the headlines. Breaking news coming in right now from europe about Global Travel dur
Called 911. She was out walking her dog at the time. I thought he wouldnt want to come way up here. Reporter in retrospect, shes glad she wasnt there. I was told they robbed houses where nobody is home. But how do they know . They were only in my house for a few minutes. Like four minute, i was told. Reporter long enough to grab her purse off the table and make a beeline for the bedroom. What they didnt expect on exiting was the neighbor holding a gun, ordering them to stop. Oh, yeah. I was standing from me to the camera. Distance from the guy. Pointing the gun at him. And he still drove away. Reporter a young man at the wheel, older one alongside. Averages full of stolen stuff. The resolver loaded, no intention to actually fire. I thought that would have been enough to get him out of the car and have him stay and wait for the police. But he didnt. Reporter what he didnt know, police were around the corner. And they heard the shout. They had been tailing the pair d him right over h a b