Hes glad to have an extra year to prepare for tokyo. Translator i want to push ahead so ill be in good shapes for the olympics next year if they happen. Jude doak coonosho won gold. Hes the ace on the japanese team. But his training is restricted because athletes have to practice social distancing. Translator to be honest, i havent been able to think about the Tokyo Olympics yet. Nonot being able t to t train he me enjoy judo more. The postponement of the tokyo games is expected to cost several b billion dollars. Organizers are considering ways to reduce spending in over 200 areas. Those include cutting the number of spectators. They plan on focusing on savings in around 50 areas. Theyre planning to announce the overall increase in costs in the next few months. Meanwhile nhk learned the organizing committee of the world event is studying measures to prevent infections. Sources Say Committee officials have more than 400 proposals for antivirus steps. Theyre using the basketball venue at
Abc7 news anchor liz kreutz is live now to give us the big picture perspective of what this means. Liz . Hi, kristen. Weve been talking a lot about our local businesses and how theyre doing, but these numbers out today give a really big picture look at the overall toll retail is taking right now because of this pandemic. We spoke to the president of mountain hardwear based in richmond to get his take on what all of this means moving forward. Weve all seen it, the crazy online discounts. 80 off ann taylor, 60 off j crew, macys. While it might sound nice, something detrimental is happening to the retail business. But just how bad it is . What is the state of the Retail Industry right now . Its at a stand still. The president of richmondbased mountain happ hardwear. Despite Curbside Pickup beginning this week in the bay area, even at places like rei which sales their products, he says he is not holding his breath. I dont see that changing anything significantly. I dont think consumers eve
Low to mid 60s at noon. Grab a coat at 7 00. Mid to upper 50s. Hi, jobina. Hi, mike. Good morning, everyone. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights are not on. You can see things are starting to fill in here. Ive been checking out our live camera of the bridge itself. Once you get through this, it will be smooth sailing into San Francisco this morning. South bay, how are you doing . 260, san jose looking good right now. Nice and clear. Its been a clear commute across the board including mass transit here. 11 trains running for b. A. R. T. , no delays there. Ace 1, no delays. Reggie and kumasi . Thanks. In just a few hours, pg e could start shutting off power to cstomers in the north bay. More than 51,000 customers could be impacted in sonoma, napa and solano counties. Lauren martinez joins us live from santa rosa where people can get help this morning. Thats right. The residents in sonoma and napa county that may be impacted could start to lose power at 7 00 this mor
Now. And this is the concern. The wind and heat a dangerous mix. Well show you this wildfire in just a moment. Its happening in the north bay. Its in geyserville, not star from the lake county line. Here it is. Sonoma county sheriffs just issued evacuations for northern haeldsburg and geyserville. Theyre telling people to leave immediately. You can see that glow on the hillside there. Were also getting new video from the santa rosa fire department. Crews clearing fallen trees. These trees along parker hill road in fountain grove. Pg e has already cut power to thousands of people in sonoma and napa counties. Our sky ranger overhead in santa rosa. Down below thousands of homes it is dark. Power could be out on and off for the next four days. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd leads our coverage tonight in the darkness there in santa rosa. Cheryl. Reporter well, raj, its kind of weird because the wind has been picking up but its calm right now. As you can see, there are a lot of small businesses.
Its its had for the past you know 2 decades nearly so what were looking for now is whether there is a precipitating action from the iranians or from the saudis once they finish this investigation the u. S. Seems perfectly content to sit back and remain defensive for now but what we understand is that there is u. S. Involvement in this investigation as to the location of the launch of these attacks furthermore what we do understand phenomena at least is that President Trump clearly in the run up to an election the for 2020 does not want to get the u. S. Involved and another. Military adventure so he put it in the middle east at a time when hes trying to draw down troops from syria and indeed from afghanistan. Absolutely trump campaigned saying he was going to pull troops out of afghanistan pull troops out of iraq youve heard that hes been following through with that talk about afghanistan in the last thing he would seem to want with that 2020 election coming up would be another engageme