Phase two of reopening starts in several bay area counties come tomorrow. Aisle he explain what that means. Another round of showers heading our way. Ill let you know how long it is expected to last. American idol contestant has an entire neighborhood hyped up. This is only the beginning. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Your health, childrens education and the changing workplace. As well as your money. All issues were focusing on in our effort to build a better bay area. Tonight, the economy. Looser restrictions go into place tomorrow in marin, San Francisco, and san mateo counties for some businesses, and those counties in green, much of the north bay, is already in phase two. While almeda and Contra Costa Countys say they will begin to move on to the next phase very soon. Santa clara county has no date set to begin phase two. We begin our coverage with abc 7 News Reporter jr stone who went to marin county. Were going to do everything we possibly can to make
Santa clara has no date for starting phase two. Now, you can get more details on phase two of the recovery and what flights, and stores will look like after covid19. This is all on our website. Youll also find a full list of health and financial services. Getting more people tested for coronavirus is critical to reopening. Everyone in three communities in the east bay can be tested and Julian Glover is live at the Alameda County fairgrounds with more on this. Good morning, julian. Hey, good morning, kumasi. Testing has been happening here at the fairgrounds for three weeks now but that is for people who did have coronavirus symptoms. Now, anyone without any symptoms can come get tested here at the fairgrounds if youre a resident of pleasanton, livermore. This is an invitation for anyone 10 and older to get tested. You do not need to have an appointment. This will be running 1,200 tests a week at this site. An average of 250 tests per day. Be conductin a more tests. Ancart suggested tha
This is a level one storm system we have on our hands overhead. Live look from the exploratorium camera showing mostly cloudy skies. Today you can see the first half of the day is where we find much of the wet weather. A chance of a thunderstorm possible midday. Well keep our eye on that. Otherwise some peeks of sunshine in the afternoon and cool afternoon temperature and only stuck in the 60s. Have the rain gear handy if youre out and about later, guys. Carrie lane is where i got this shirt, drew. When i put it on, this is very drew tuma. I inspired you. Now on to the actual news. Governor newsom in napa with the states response to covid19 and that visit comes as more bay area counties are entering phase two of our reopening. So today that means some businesses in marin and San Francisco and san mateo are allowed to reopen. Napa and solano counties in this part of phase two and move on to that next phase soon. Santa clara has not set a date for that part of the reopening. The economy
Lets get to some of todays news from our washington and new york teams. I want to return to trade tensions between the u. S. And trump president responding to questions on implementing the phase one trade deal amid the coronavirus pandemic. We signed the deal. I heard that too, they wanted to reopen the talks to get a better deal. China has been taking advantage of the United States for many decades because we have people in this position, sitting in the oval office that allowed that to happen. I am not interested. Alix Kevin Cirilli joins me now. Walk me through. Kevin good morning. This comes as the president has increasingly attacked china politically speaking, and raised questions about chinas response to covid19, including Senior Administration officials. From an economic standpoint, the president saying not so fast as it relates to u. S. China trade tensions. Democrats with the newest round of economic stimulus, i spoke to the undersecretary of Economic Affairs who said the Unite
Economic indicators are looking very poor right now and the figures relate to the 1st quarter of the year and of course the pandemic only really took hold in march so what about it begs the question what about whats happening right now what about whats going to happen in may and in june and if the rest of the year the u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson is leading his 1st weekly Cabinet Meeting since falling ill with coronavirus the government is under pressure after new figures pushed the number of deaths to more than 26000 or theres some positive signs in spain which has recorded its lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the Health Ministry has also recorded 268 new deaths. And for the 1st time in 2 months theres been no new domestic cases recorded in south korea restrictions have eased down the british communities being allowed to hold events marking borders birthday Robert Wright is in seoul with more. Weve been seeing numbers of aro