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Fitness centers cant open tuesday after all. Restaurants, indoor places of worship, museums, zoos and movie theaters must stay at 25 capacity, not 50 as planned. We have a look how this will impact businesses, anser. Reporter many San Francisco restaurants have been open for Outdoor Dining for the past few weeks. Many were gearing up for 50 indoor capacity next tuesday. Thats not going to happen. Many business hearleaders say t are not disappointed by the announcement but not surprised. This chef is heading into the weekend with a change of plans. Its pretty brutal having this come up again especially now. Reporter the chef and owner at the San Francisco Ferry Building says theyve been lucky during the pandemic. Theyve increased online catering and have Outdoor Dining but some businesses havent been able to open due to structural or Financial Issues such as no space for Outdoor Dining. Those businesses that are getting ready to open next week will have to stay closed. My heart goes out
Make for a bit of a grey start right now were in the 50s for most areas with a few 40s on the map in both livermore 49 degrees. Although napa you were there just a minute ago that youre actually right up to 50 degrees so temperatures wobbling around just a little bit for some of our spots, San Francisco oakland and san jose in the 60s to 70s for high temperatures later today really nice afternoon conditions to be looking forward to and i know it will be a beautiful friday and saturday to get out there and hopefully enjoy the 70s but will it be all right on the roads is question robert is here to tell us more about that i guess it kind of depends on where theyre heading this morning job because some fox look great other spots not so much, but ill start off with a look at the bridges around the bay area this morning a live look. At the bay bridge toll plaza this is one of the good commute 80 west in San Francisco doing fine as you can see its wide open here at the toll plaza so no worrie
Later this weekend so we are out of red flag warning territory for most of the bay area remaining spots to include Solano County as youre seeing in red right around fairfield in valais help as well as up into lake and portions of mendocino county. Now the gold on this map something entirely different. These are high wind watches that will take effect sunday lasting into monday as well be seeing some very strong winds to close out the weekend that is going to be concerning for us into sunday night but in tel then mostly just some breezy conditions and some noticeably cooler weather right now napa youre at 49 along with livermore also at 49 this morning maybe stepping outside and noticing that brisk feel to it definitely a cooler start for a few areas hayward Oakland Redwood city and fremont down into the 50s right now along with San Francisco at 56 degrees currently stay with us more in your forecast is still to come right now, lets get a look at traffic with rob and i know its still a
The finish of the weekend, so red flag warnings expiring for most of the bay area now hang on and read in Solano County then up into lake mendocino counties out into the central valley. What youre seeing in that goal this you on the map what these are are high wind watches that actually dont take effect until sunday into monday that is expected to be the windiest time of this weekend so keep your eye out for sunday night into monday morning well be talking a lot about that early next week as for right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with livermore in napa each in the low upper 40s right now 51 while Oakland Hayward and San Francisco. Each in the 50s so your forecast definitely not bad to be starting this morning and im thinking that traffic actually is holding up pretty good to at least the bay bridge not looking bad robin yes, it is indeed still friday light, so thats great a lot of folks are taking the day off must be checking in on the commute into San Francisco and there it