Month for health care and frontline workers were dealing at a time where we need to go bold late and we need to meet this moment without playing small ball any longer in Los Angeles County authorities are lifting the restrictions on coronavirus testing. And beginning friday. The city will require residents to wear a mask or covering in supermarkets and other essential businesses and if youre not covering your face. By friday morning in the Central Business can refuse you service it follows a series of aggressive moves throughout the state beginning in midmarch that Health Experts say appear to show. The california is bending the curve these measures will be disruptive to day to day life. But there is no need to panic on march 16th, San Francisco became the first city in the country to issue a stay at home order. Bustling neighborhoods quickly became ghost towns 3 days later on march 19th newsome issued a stay at home order for the entire state, california got it right medical experts s
This once a year, i have a really old alarm clock probably 15 years old, that still recognizes the old daylight savings change time. So i thought i was waking up at 5 30 am. It was 4 30 am. Get an iphone. A little and a nap later on today for sure. Were looking at rain falling over the bay area as the next wave moves through. Moderate to heavy rain is expected at times. That is what we are seeing outside right now. Lets shift into areas worth highway 101 between morganville and gilroy. Some moderate rain is falling. Shifting through we can sees emphasis go in san mateo are dry at the moment but there are a few sprinkles possibly coming through. Shifting into the northbay we have it trending across the coastline moving into areas like santa rosa and nevada. The east bay is seeing some light rain as well. There were showers today in periods of heavy rain. Along with the possibility of thunderstorms. The center of the circulation is a bit closer to the bay area and that will provide us wi
The National Hockey league is going to be up day both of these are developing stories all of this is developing as we saw how fast this all happened last night. Governor newsome is calling for large gatherings with 250 people to be rescheduled or canceled. And it is not an order only a recommendation at this point. Heres the message. She said quote not holding that concert a Community Event can have cascading effects saving dozens of lives and preserving Critical Health care resources that your family made need a month from now state Health Officials also advise smaller events can only happen. If the organizers can implement social distancing and that means keeping people says at least 6 feet away. And here in the bay area, several schools and events have been canceled over growing concerns in this includes Lake Shore Elementary School in San Francisco, the school will be closed for 2 weeks after 4 students and some Family Members reported having a respiratory illness. There arent any
You can see the peninsula is where we get a wet start to the day. Down through South San Francisco and from san mateo over redwood city. Moderate rainfall. That goes into palo alto as well. Mid30s. A chilly start. 47 in San Francisco and 40 in concord. As we head through the afternoon, date time high will be on the cool side. 57 in oakland and fremont and 59 for a high and san jose. We will time out the rest of the showers for today and tomorrow. Details on that are coming up. Lets go to gianna for your commute. Look at the roadways. It is quiet. A heads up if you are on the roadways early, there is roadwork with lane closures on the southbound side of 101. Northbound is not seeing trouble. They may be changing the clone cones and opening the bridge early. We have some slick surfaces out there. A very easy commute into the city. The bridges are very quiet. No delays on the san mateo bridge. This is an overview. You can see red and yellow on the 101 22 roadwork on the Golden Gate Bridge
Closure of more businesses, many which are seeing a steep drop in business already. We are directing all bars, night clubs, wineries, brew pubs and the like be closed in the state of california. We believe that this is a nonessential function in our state. Now restaurants will be allowed to stay open but at half capacity. Customers must also be socially distanced in dining rooms. And the state is in the process of buying hotels and motels to house the homeless, another group vulnerable to the virus. Now bars and brew pubs and wineries are being told they should close. Restaurants, as you just heard, are asked to cut their occupancy in half. We have more on this story, and its tough for owners out there. Reporter it really is. In San Francisco alone there are 340 bars and 68 wine bars. This irish pub you are seeing behind us just closed an hour behind and we are seeing firsthand how Business Owners are responding to the outbreak. Governor newsom said all wines, bars and pubs should be c