People are still trying to adjust to the new night light in s San Francisco. One in three primary doctors are concerned about having to close their practice over covid19. A mild start to the weekend, but tomorrow it is all about rain moving to the bay area. The hour by hour forecast. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abcws od eng. Im eric thomas. It looks almost like business at usual before the pandemic. Things are definitely picking up, maybe a little bit too much and the city has taken notice of the large crowds outside the bars. Lauren martinez has our story. Today was definitely the busiest i have seen on Chestnut Street. There is a lot more people coming out i feel like as the weeks progress. Reporter retails sales are up at California Wine merchant where they converted their window into a sanitizer station. This barrier helps. Im the only one in the shop. Were doing a lot of deliveries as well. People are extremely grateful for that. Reporter close by on union street, there were groups of people, but nothing compared to this line in front of a bar on Chestnut Street on friday night. We have our table. People cant come in. We have our to go menus everywhere. Reporter john owns four bars. The blue light is the only one open. Pina seller. At least they can have a semivacation. Reporter police are keeping a close eye on large groups in front of bars and restaurants, and one of their main messages it is a whole new phenomenon gk that you can stand on the sidewalk and have a drink. Reporter the police will show up if the crowd gets too big, but people are trying to support local businesses. Hang out a little bit. Keep our distance. Wear our masks and do what we can. Reporter in San Francisco, lauren martinez, abc 7 news. Your health, childrens education and the changing workplace, as well as your money all issues were focussing on. Tonight the economy. Across the state, primary care doctors are reporting concerns about the possibility of having to close their practices over the covid19 pandemic according to a survey done by oakland group. Why their future could be on lifesupport. Reporter 350 doctors across the states were surveyed concluding that private Health Care Practices are not immune to the financial setback this pandemic has created. And many dont know if they will survive. All patients required to wear masks and clean their hands. Stay six feet away from each other. Reporter these are some of the precautions the doctor has implemented at both of his practices, and the list goes on. This is the first time i ever use telemedicine, that we talk to the patient on the video via the computer. That is something i havent done before the covid pandemic. He is an allergy and immunology expert with 30 plus years in this industry. This pandemic is not only pushing him and many doctors across the state to pivot but to look deeply into their financials. The patients have been decreased by close to 50 . And that is normal. Reporter a survey by the California HealthCare Foundation found that more than a third of primary care doctors in this state are highly concerned about having to close their practice or clinic. Doctors that were practicing in the smallest practices, five physicians or less in the clinic, seem to be experiencing the most challenge the largest charges. Reporter some of the challenges from covid19 testing on sites and enough ppe. 20 of slightly less than 20 of physicians in practices of all sizes report that workers and patients in their clinics are unable to get covid19 tests right now. Reporter dr. Tam was not part of this survey, but has been testing some of his patients on this patio for covid19. Hes confident he will survive this storm and received federal help. Medicare advance payments that i will have to pay back at the end of the year. Reporter his biggest incentive to remain open are his patients. I think this is my duty. I have to do that. It is not only for my patient. I think all the physicians, we are working as a team. Reporter private doctors are not the only ones facing financial pressure. Sutter health lost 1 billion in the First Quarter of 2020. Thank you very much for that. Earlier this week californias hospitals warned of a massive financial loss because of the coronavirus, and thats been validated by sutter health. For the First Quarter of 2020, it reported a loss of a billion. Hospitals canceled elective surgeries and emergency room visits have gone down sharply. The hospitals could lose as much as 14 billion during the pandemic. The economy was a focal point in the east bay. Cornell bernard reports from livermore. Reporter many Small Businesses tell me they are fighting for survival. They say reopening their drs needs to later. Open up open up reporter dozens of people rallied to support Small Businesses, urging local leaders to allow them to reopen. Livermore was nothing before these businesses came in and to let them sit here and fall to the wayside blindly is not okay with me or my family. Were hurting. We have had zero revenue for two months now. Reporter darren and andrea own any time fitness gym. They believe they can safely reopen their doors now. People are buying groceries. I really dont see the difference, right, because we can very easily move equipment around and keep our members safe. I just want to survive for my family. I have two kids. Reporter this nail salon owner made this emotional plea. Just let me open up. I will work. I will respect. I will clean up, anything, whatever. Please open up for nail salons reporter this rally called save our town was not designed to be political. Few people wore face coverings or observed social distancing. They say shelter in place restrictions set to be eased next week for much of the county dont go far enough. We feel by working with the city that we can create a pathway to help them thrive and do it cautiously. Reporter the mayor says rally organizers never reached out to the city or the Downtown Business association. He says reopening will take time. I would love to get the businesses open. That is not my call. We need to convince the county that we can open safely and this is something that we are all working very hard to do. Reporter the mayor says the city is working on a plan right now to help businesses like restaurants reopen when the time is right by closing some streets, even parking lots, to allow for social distancing, even outdoor dining. Abc 7 news. Part of building a better bay area focuses on how local businesses are struggling to build their budgets for the coming fiscal year. The san jose mayor hosted an online forum. We project a 72 million budget deficit, expecting tax revenue to fall 9 . The mayor urged citizens to share ideas for minimizing the impact of tough financial times. We know often you have Creative Ideas and good suggestions for us to be further exploring as we look at, sure, we can tighten the belt without cutting the services that are most critical. One change, san joses Police Department will slow down the hiring of new officers to replace those due to retire. At the scene la has zeroed in on tus la, oklahoma and austin, texas as finalists for its next factory in the u. S. Accordinghe associated musk thrd to move the company out of california. Musk objected to the states stay at home order that forced the factory to stop producing cars. The government of california should arrest him because what hes doing is violating the law. And i guess a billionaire has special privileges to violate the law. Alameda county and tesla agreed to terms that would allow the plant to legally reopen this coming week. We reached out to tesla for comment on todays protests. We have not heard back. The first drive through Testing Center to serve east oakland will open monday. It will be located at the Allen Temple Baptist church. The city of oakland, Community Organized relief effort and alphabet are partnering to run the Testing Center. The tests are free. Well, more cities across california are visitors, despite the states stay at home orders. Atwater near fres know just declared themselves a sanctuary city for businesses. The City Council Unanimously agreed yesterday not to enforce the order cheered on by dozens. This means local authorities will not interfere with Nature Church or business that would reopen. They risk losing their state license. A scarey situation in los angeles. And explosion left multiple firefighters injured. The new spin on graduation from uc berkeley. See what happens when a Graduation Ceremony meets the world of mine craft. And im drew tuma. A cloudy night. Rain on the way. Well detail the vo but dont know how to reach out . Gling you can say how are you . Or get a fake tattoo you can ask with an app if it works for you you can write em a text or knit em a sweater if you cant be together you can write em a letter whatever, whatever whatever gets you talking whatever, whatever whatever gets you talking you can chat on a game kick off your flipflops you can ask on your couch while you binge watch however you do it you gotta ask a friend and if they dont share you can ask again whatever, whatever whatever gets you talking whatever, whatever whatever gets you talking vo there are a lot of ways to reach out to a friend about their mental health. Learn how you can help at seizetheawkward. Org uc berkeley held a virtual commencement today in the online video game of mine craft. Congratulations to our students on your awesome accomplishments and thank you. Your presence has made berkeley a better university, and your impa impact as you join alumni. Thats the vice chancellor cr speaking. College seniors were given digitized caps and diplomas. Project thanks looks at whats being done to help thousands of our friends and nans struggling to make ends meet during the covid19 pandemic. Today in oakland 1,0 0 families received food banks and extra spending money. Volunteers loaded donations into cars. The Salvation Army organized todays give away with donations of food and cash from the church of jesus kris. More help will be needed during these tough times. Were going to have to do it more often because there is so many people hurting now, so many people unemployed. This is offering a little hope and encouragement to people in those unsettled times. Organizers planned to give each family 20, but that grew to 40 thanks to a donor from southern california. Share your gratitude for everyone on the front lines. Use the betterbayarea to show us how you are saying thank you. A family threw a fullout parade to honor a family members 100th birthday. She watched from her window has family came to celebrate with her. Police and fire led the parade with sirens while trucks came from behind. She was born in the north beach district after her parents immigrated from italy. She owned aaa photo studio and her brothers worked for the San FranciscoPolice Department. The parade was organized by her niece who says she drove the family from marin just to wave. It gives her a little happiness. When i was pulling out the last time i thought, lets do a parade for her birthday, and thats what it turned into. An old adage runs in the family which runs on homemade italian food and wine and that adage is they live a very long time. Time for a check on the weather forecast. Drew joins us. Yeah. Hi, eric. We will find some showers moving through over the next 24 hours as a cold front moves into california. We have had the cloud cover increasing throughout the evening. A couple sprinkles out there. As we look live doppler 7 over the past three hours, much of the wet weather has been focussed in the north bay where we picked up anywhere from a 100 to a tenth of an inch of rain there. Light showers falling from redwood city to hayward, san ramon and concord. This storm late in the season is not going to pack a punch. You will find some drops in your neighborhood, especially tomorrow during the day. Now right now, thanks to a southree right now. Cloud cover overhead. 65 right now in oakland. Not too chilly out there. 62 in the city. 66 in san jose. 65 in concord and napa coming in at 62 degrees. This is a level one light system we have over the next 24 hours. Mainly light rain, a couple scattered downpours here or there but nothing widespread. It is breezy at times, especially those winds out of the south. And rain fall, less than a quarter of an inch. It is a quick moving system on our hands. Future weather will get you into 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. A lot of cloud cover. Some light scattered showers around the city, the peninsula and the east bay. As we advance the clock into midday, those showers farther south in the south bay as well. Still some showers in the east bay. It really just remains pretty cloudy tomorrow with those scattered light showers moving through even for sunday evening as well. Total rain fall again it is very light in nature as we head into sunday. Most spots less than a quarter of an inch. You do notice future weather picking up on close to a quarter of an inch. Scott e scattered downpours set up tomorrow. A level one system we have coming in for the second half of the weekend. Overnight temperatures stay pretty mild out there. A lot of cloud cover. It is slightly muggy as well. Mid if not upper 50s first thing in the morning tomorrow. Sunday a pretty cloudy day. Very limited sunshine. We will track those light showers moving through throughout the day. Isolated downpours as well. A cooler weekend tomorrow. 65 the high in the city tomorrow. 68 in oakland. 70 in freemont. 71 in san jose. Santa rosa at 66 degrees. The forecast, tomorrow light rain showers. It is breezy, and it does stay unsettled for monday and into early tuesday as well. A little residual energy in the atmosphere. Midweek it dries up and brightens up. Not too hot, though. Friday and saturday, well call it mild out there temperatures in 70s and 80s. All right, sir. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. It is the weekend. For the bay area, life goes on at least six feet apart, of thanks for sharing your savage moves, and especially your awkward ones. Thanks for sharing your cute kids. And your adorable pets. Now its our turn to share. With the geico giveback. A 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies for both current and new customers. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. So thanks again. One good share deserves another. It is saturday for those keeping track and the weekend started with some sunshine. A day in the life told by pictures and video from abc 7 viewers. Time now for a look at sports with Chris Alvarez sglrchl. Major league baseballs plan to return to play. The changes you will see on the field. Plus, hockey with no fans . Cap t sports with Chris Alvarez. Hi, everybody. Welcome to sports. Now sports are slowly making a comeback. Ufc has returned. Nascar is returning. Golf is going to tee off next month, the pga tour events. What about baseball . According to an espn report, major league will process upward of 10,000 covid19 tests a week. Theyre going to sit in the stands. High five, fist bumps and chewing Sunflower Seeds would all be prohibited. Still waiting for an official return to play. Hockey, like basketball, one of the sports currently on halt. We spoke with sharks captain logan and we talked about what it would be like to return this season without fans. We realize whats going on in the world and if we do come back, were playing to give people at home something to look forward to. You know, hopefully they do, you know, great broadcasts on tv. It is obviously going to be different. It will take some time to get used to. But we want to keep people happy at home and for them to enjoy it. I dont know what you call it. Yeah its in there steph curry does not miss, whether its golf or basketball. The warriors superstar always on top of his game. He was on jimmy kimmel promoting season two of his moly. With regard to the nba returning, hes optimistic. The conversation around from the Players Association and the nba and the league offices, everybody is trying to get the game back as soon as possible. But you obviously have to be safe. You have to protect the players, the fans, our families, coaching staffs, the entire organization. So a lot of things at play. Were learning about as things change and develop. But i assume basketball will be back in some shape or form this summer. We all hope so. Hey, did you see this . The German League returned to play on saturday as they defeated 40. Teams and referees entered the pitch at different times. Social distancing being practiced on the benches as well. However, kind of hard to do that during a match. When it was all over, the winners celebrated as if the stadium was packed with fans. Sports slowly making a comeback. Thats it for sports. Former president barack obama delivers a stirring commencement speech today. His message that took direct aim at the coronavirus pandemic. And dogs have been used to alert were herewow. You and were open. Im an original. One of a kind. You feel me . Love ya. Oop you look cute better than you . 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