Nonessential businesses. San francisco and San Mateo Countys are now leading the charge, saying monday, may 18th, is the day so many Small Businesses have been waiting for. Retail shops will be allowed to reopen for Curbside Pickup, but many questions remain as several other bay area counties are holding pat. Good evening, thank you for joining us, im dan ashley. Im ama daetz, liz kroits has been closely following our reopening timeline and now different counties are taking different approaches, live with more on what well be seeing next and, when. Liz . Reporter hi, ama and dan, all the different bay area counties seem to be splitting off a bit in terms of gradual steps to reopening. We learned today San Francisco is taking big steps next week, other counties as well. Heres what we know. When it comes to reopening the bay area, its baby steps toward. I am kpiexcited to announce e good news for a change. London breed said the city will formally enter phase two on monday and allow streetside businesses to open for delivery and Curbside Pickup and manufacturing and warehouses to reopen with modifications. Last week we made an announcement it would be a limited number of stores, and locations, and now weve expanded that. Breed says this means 95 of businesses in San Francisco will now be able to reopen, even if it is just partially. Im sure that since your kids are probably at home driving you crazy now the toy stores are available for pickup, heres an Incredible Opportunity to get a distraction for them. Where do all the bay area counties stand on phase two . In addition to San Francisco, San Mateo County announced today theyre moving forward into phase to on monday. Alameda and Contra Costa County entering sometime next week. Napa, sonoma and are already into phase two. Across the state, some regions continue to move much faster, 15 counties in rural parts of northern or Central California have now been approved by is it state to move faster through phase two, including opening dine in restaurants and schools, but all with modifications. This is a dynamic process, we hope in the next days, weeks, not just months, well continue to see more progress, but thats up to each and every one of us. But the picture varies throughout the state. Los angeles counties, Public Health director said this week that l. A. s shelter in place order will likely last for three more months. Mayor Eric Garcetti clarified what that means. No socalled open state or open country that doesnt continue to have health orders, telling us to cover our faces, physically distance, thats all that the county Health Director was saying. As different regions take different approaches, the question also about how to prevent too much cross county travel, Governor Newsom today with this reminder that people not travel for nonessential reasons. And going in and out of the counties would defeat the point of having county variations. Reporter and in San Francisco, next week, malls will not be allowed to reopen. For the Retail Businesses that can reopen, they will need to keep to at least ten employees or less, if the businesses very small for manufacturers and warehouses theyll have to keep to 50 employees or less. Liz, thank you. Tonight mayor breed sat down with abc 7 news to talk about other aspects of San Franciscos reopening. She calls on the citys billionaires to donate to the citys recovery fund. We have to make sure that they understand their social responsibility of being not only a San Francisco an, but somebody who should be contributing to society in this way. A lot of the money thats being made is off the backs of a lot of folks we need to help right now. Mayor breed did recognize some families and organizations that have donated, like the gettys, twitter and sales force. San francisco has the most billionaires per capita of any city in the world. 75 live here. City records show only a few have donated. 26 million has been members of the juried to the fund so far. As we see these signs of progress in reopening the bay area we know well all collectively have to adapt to a much different world when we fully return. Abc 7 news is committed to helping us get through those changes in our workplaces, our economy, your health, and the future of education, for our kids. Today were getting a much better idea of what our schools will look like when they reopen. Most likely students, teachers, librarians, crossing guards will all have to wear face masks moving forward. The superintendent, tony thurman, made the announcement today. As for when classrooms reopen, its letting each School District decide depending on its Health Situation and academic calendar and we may see a mix of virtual and inperson learning. New details about the california state universitys plan to keep Classes Online for the fall semester, the president of San Francisco state says there are advantages to staying virtual. In some ways it gives us more flexibility to offer more because we dont have the temporal or physical boundaries we had on campus. It certainly allows us to create educational experiences that are plr fluid for students needs. The transition to Online Learning during the pandemic went better than expected and now the goal is to become more consistent with it by the fall. There are 23 schools in the csu system, and making the announcement now gives professors time to build Remote Learning experiences and students time to plan their Home Learning setup, not having those students in on Campus Housing though will mean the schools will lose millions and theyll have to trim the budgets for other services, like mental health, counseling and tutoring. Proud to be an american where at least i know im free a show of support for tesla today for people who want businesses to resume operations, Teslas Fremont plant reopened on monday, in violation of county Health Regulations t two sides announced an agreement that will allow the plant to reopen its Manufacturing Processes on the condition that tesla maintain minimum Business Operations and follow additional safety recommendations. New at 5 00 p. M. , uber says it has new technology to ensure Safety Measures are in place as it anticipates more people on the move once again. Uber announced today that drivers and delivery people will have to agree to an online checklist, that theyve taken Safety Measures, including wearing a mask. Starting on monday theyll have to verify their Face Covering by sending uber a selfie. Riders will have to agree to a sift checklist. Lyft is also implementing similar Safety Measures. In the south bay, two months after receiving trailers to house the homeless, san jose is finally putting them to use. 90 trailers have been set up at story road next to happy hollow park. According to to our media partner mercury news, nunding to operate the site, specifically for Homeless People with covid19 or preexisting conditions putting them at high risk for the virus. Wherever you might have watched or heard, cloudy skies would not ruin this, sky 7 was flying right alongside, as they moved in formation across the bay area skyline, a fabulous image. The comic books, heroes can fly, but the real heroes wear scrubs with their feet firmly plabted on the grount. The Air National Guard did the flying for them. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has more from richmond. Do you see them . Reporter they started off as specks on the horizon. Then came the distant roar of powerful jet engines. Finally, the whops and yells of appreciation from the people being honored. Ive never seen a jet that close before, to see them fly that low and that slow is absolutely amazing. Reporter Air National Guard squadron flew over a number of hospitals in the bay area and elsewhere to honor the doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters and policeofficers on the front lines of caring for people with covid19. Its tremendous that they would pause and recognize the work that has gone on in california with health care workers. To make sure that everyone had a chance to see on this cloudy wednesday, the planes flew low and slow, about a thousand feet in altitude, a little more than 300 miles an hour. Lieutenant colonel benjamin even made the trip up to richmond to admire the flyover. My hats off to everyone whos been working the long hours and doing good work. Reporter it was an amazing sight of support for all the staff working tirelessly. Reporter you may wonder how much the symbolic flight cost the taxpayers of california, the air guard says this was considered part of the normal flight hours each pilot has to log to stay qualified so it didnt cost anything more than regular training. In richmond, eric thomas, abc 7 news. A lot more to come. With now know its key in our road to reopening. A major change in how we test for covid 9, what stanford researchers say they are developing, a look at what it could be, next. Plus, the 12yearold boy who came to town for an emergency organ transplant, then a pandemic hit. How he and his family have been coping ever since. Also here, the future of the grocery store. See if you can guess what new trend shoppers i do motivational speakingld. In addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. We saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. I signed up and i was actually selected it leaves the house in tack. You now know that in the next earthquake your house will be standing and we also got a discount on our earthquake insurance. If there is an earthquake. Our house has a better chance of surviving in. Much has been said about covid19 testing kpasfy and how our ability to ramp it up will be a crucial component to reopening parts of the. New at 5 00, chris nguyen has more on the innovative work being done locally to help make that all a reality. Reporter at the moment getting tested for covid19 can be an invasive process in most cases a medical professional sticks a sweshl swab up the nodes flexible enough to get all the way to the back of the throat. Its uncomfortable and can put a Health Worker at risk of getting infected. If we can do Something Like this where a person can spit into a cup and find out if they have covid or not it really could be a game changer. Reporter researchers at stanford may be able to show a saliva test would be as accurate and effective as a swab. Having slay have a testing fives you a window into whats going on in your community. Reporter the physician a nonprofit startup accelerators associated at stanford, keeping tabs on the work thats being done. In the past week Rutgers University received emergency approval from the fda to allow people to collect their own saliva at home, and then send it off to a lab for a results. Similar to a genealogy test. You can test a lot of people with saliva, it doesnt take any special person that has to draw blood, or has to use a swab. Reporter thats not the only item on the innovation front, ucsf is working on a new crisper based covid19 test kit that can diagnose infection in less than an hour by using gene targeting technology. For the crisper tests it can use reagents already in most laboratories. So its a lot easier, and probably a lot less expensive. Reporter the stanford and ucsf tests are currently going through trial runs but if aprufd by the fda both could play a role in getting america back to work. Chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Getting through tough times for families. New at 5 00 Lyanne Melendez takes us inside a San FranciscoHealth Center to see how social distancing has impacted their lives. Reporter the next two weeks cant come fast enough for 12yearold samuel may nard and his family. Im kind of waiting so i can get home. Reporter home is in idaho. Samuel came to San Francisco in october for a kidney transplant that didnt happen. Meanwhile, his kidneys kept deteriorating so doctors put him on dialysis. We felt the best thing for him would be to stay here in San Francisco, receive the dialysis therapy here at ucsf while we found him a donor. The wait lasted five months. He got his kidney on march 17th, which was the first day of the lockdown in San Francisco. Samuel and his family stayed at family house, which provides free temporary housing to families whose children need treatment at ucsf childrens hospital. It continues to help families during the stay at home order, but with restrictions on socialization. It is the exact opposite of the way that weve run. We want families to come together, and share their life stories when theyre going through the worst time of their lives. Reporter common rooms are closed. Face masks and social distancing create barriers that werent there before. You cant really see someones face. Its a health, you know, concern. Youre not able to readily reach out like you would before. Reporter this is the second time Morgan Delgado has stayed at family house. Her 1yearold son just had a second open heart surgery. This is not normal, to raise a child in the hospital. But to find someone else who understands that is incredibly important. Reporter after seven months samuel is ready to go home again. Were excited to get him home. Reporter Lyanne Melendez, abc 7 news. Also new at 5 00, we all learn to improvise during this time, a dad in england proves theres a clever way to overcome obstacles. He created this contraption to help his athlete daughter chain from wheelchair basketball. It allows her to train without leaving the house. Yesterday marked 14 years since she had her leg amputated due to a condition at birth. She says she knows her life would be different if she had chosen not to amputate, but she says it certainly wouldnt be better. Wow, good for her. Great attitude. Tonight encouraging news for families in california when it comes to federal stimulus checks. Bring in 7 on your sides micha Michael Finney with the latest. Reporter plenty of issues with the stimulus checks and their distribution. Weve been reporting on that extensively. Lets take a moment tonight and talk about whats going right, and how its going to help you in the upcoming months, or at least could. California has received more stimulus checks than any other state, 13. 6 million of them, the total dollar amount more than 22 billion, with talk of another set of checks being sent out, just talk in washington now, but its good to know that the system for getting checks from washington to the west coast is, indeed, smoothing out. The new report by adobe says online sales jumped nearly 50 in april, mostly because of a srge in Online Grocery shopping which saw a 110 increase between march and april, wine, beer and other drinking accessores saw the highest increase, purchases of electronic gear online also jumped substantially. Not only are we shopping online, the way we shop online is changing too, stuck at home and needing supplies has caused americans to try out new subscription services. A report has recently found, 55 of shoppers ordering food and beverage subscriptions, first timers, why is this going on . Most likely because consumers had a hard time with out of stock items at their brick and mortar store. Other popular prescriptions subscriptions are health and beauty and paper and cleaning products. We are learning how to adapt here. Thats what its all about now. Back to you guys. Yeah, absolutely. All right, thank you so much, michael. As we continue, cloudy, cover overhead in the bay area today and backyards with a chance of showers tomorrow. Sandhya patel is california phones offers free specialized phones. Like cordless phones. phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Visit right now or call during business hours. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. One of the true life bloods of los angeles, beaches are now back open in the county. Officially reopened today for exercise and surfing. Seeing the surfers who jumped in right boy. Sun stans and barbecues are still banned. Orange county beaches were allowed to reopen last week. Not really having any beach weather here, unless you dont mind it being a little bit blustery, grainy. Blustery, cooler. Sandhya patel is here with our forecast. Yeah, it has been cloudy, and cool, a little breezy as well. Not a beach day today. But perhaps you might want to consider it once the shelter in place is lifted and you can go to the beach. Dan and ama. Let me show you live dopp