Incredibly dire. But still there will have to be cuts and that will hurt. It was a huge drop in daily ridership due to covid19 that caused b. A. R. T. s money problems. Our ridership went from 405,000 to 24,000. And since the low point of 24,000, weve now inched up to 45. Reporter fewer riders men less revenue and thats what shaped the budget the board passed today which includes an extra 44 million for cleaning. Its not just cleaning the stations. But its disinfecting the train cars every single night. Reporter also 146 million in cuts made by eliminating unfilled job and reducing operating expenses like putting off a return to ending service but tlayoffs planned. Youre going to notice things like the 9 00 p. M. Closure in the middle of the day. You should expect 30minute frequencies. This b. A. R. T. Rider isnt surprised. The economy is struggling and everything is losing money. Reporter the budget plan assumes at best, 50 of riders return this year. The number could be as low as 15 . B. A. R. T. Customer adrian of walnut creek is betting that ride letters come back and service will be restored. Its a temporary fix. You get the riders back. Theyll change and amend the budget. Reporter so if you can imagine b. A. R. T. Will be pleased if they get half the ridership back that they had before the quarantine and before the pandemic. And as far as revisiting the budget, that will happen. It is all right set to happen in october when they take a new look at revenues and a new look at ridership and they can possibly amend the budget then. But a lot will depends, of course, on how fast money they have at that point. Live at the Pleasant Hill park station. Abc7 news. Anxious times for b. A. R. T. Thank you. Cal train riders. There was a Public Opinion poll about a sales tax measure that may be on the november ballot. 70 voted in favor of it. To pass it would need approval from a combined twothirds majority of voters in the three counties that cal train serves. San francisco, san mateo and santa clara. Nflt today San Francisco received its varance from the state which means it can move forward with reopening. Starting monday, hair salons, barber shops, museums, zoos, tattoo parlors massage establishments and others can reopen. Only two bay area counties have not filed a plan to reopen. Alameda and santa clara. The only other county in the state to take the slower approach on the states southern border. Reopening continues despite records in new coronavirus case counts. Check out this graph of daily diagnosed cases in the bay area numbers. Theyre higher than ever. The yellow line is our rolling average. As you can see, it is climbing far above the previous highs set in march. Its not just a local issue. Across california, statewide case counts, hospitalizations, and the percent of coronavirus cases coming back positive are all going up. The weekly Positivity Rate climbed from 4. 7 to 5. 6 in the past two weeks. Now, the numbers overall are still small but keep in mind, that is a 19 increase. Lets go live to stephanie for a look at the details on this. Stephanie . We learned today, there were more than 5,300 new covid cases on wednesday. A slight dip from tuesday, it is still the states second highest daily total since the pandemic began. Governor gavin newsom began his message. We are still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second wave. Reporter a wave that is clearly growing. 56,000 new covid cases reported in california in just the past two weeks. And a 32 spike in new hospitalizations. Lets break it all down. More than 5,000 cases reported on monday. Jumping to more than 7100 on tuesday. Dipping on 5,300 on wednesday. But what exactly is causing the increase . Yes, the cases have gone way up. But a lot of those are outbreaks and some of it is just more fish case finding. Reporter this is the you were csf lead epidemiologist dr. George rutherford. He explains the latest spikes indicate cases identified within the last five days. These are from recent exposure. Maybe as reason as last weekend. These are not part of the protests. I can tell you that. The Community Transmission is a consequence of reopening. Reporter while the numbers may appear like a staggering increase, he explains it has to do with the state increasing testing capacity. Weve averaged 88,000 tests a day. I dont know many states that can lay claim to that. Reporter as testing ramps up, so does the need for tracking and digesting all the data. The public release of the cal cat data dashboard which enhances how counties can track cases in realtime. One noticeable piece of data highlighted, the r effective trends by county. This number indicates how many other people the infected person could transmit the virus to. A 1 is considered stable. Anything above 1 shows a rapid spread. Marin county has one of the highest rates in the state but thats in part due to the outbreak at san quentin. Is it a cause for concern . Yes. Is it cause for panic . I think we have to look at what the next couple days fold. The states forecast model shows statewide hospitalizations could more than triple over the next month if these trends continue. Abc7 news. Thank you. She mentioned the states new cal cat data dashboard. It lets you imagine the future with different simulators. I think the next to have reopening. What impact could it have on the number of coronavirus deaths . Here are the numbers. Current deaths are represented by the black boxes on the right. On the right is the top model for a fast paced reopening with restrictions every two weeks. The bottom line is if a stayathome policy stays in effect, you can see theres really a big difference. These are based on models from john hopkins university. They are only an exam of what could happen. Just a projection but food for thought. You can check it out in each of californias counties. You will find that on our website. We are seeing an increase in coronavirus cases so we want to know why. There are four possible culprits. More testing, more reopening, memorial day gatherings and protest crowds. Abc7 news special corn dr. Patel is joining us live. Always great to have you. Lets start with testing. Are we seeing more cases just because theres more testing going on at this point . Were definitely seeing more cases. Thats not the sole reason. Obviously, if we have more access to testing, more people can test positive. We can also pick up more asymptomatic or pre symptomatic cases. They increase the rates of the hospitalizations. So the surge is likely not just testing. It is also community spread. The fact the virus is still out there and people are still spreading it. Okay. Lets talk about the community spread. We started a shelter in place ten 1 days ago. The rules have been relaxing. Weve seen more and more people outside. Weve seen more about the businesses reopening. Is reopening leading to more cases . It is definitely a risk and were all thinking about it. It is hard to pin it down. As weve seen different counties across california are reopening at different rates. I think part of it, you mentioned 101 days. I was in the studio yesterday and that was the beginning of the year. People are having quarantine fatigue. Contact tracers have placed a lot of outbreaks to birthday parties and graduation parties, gatherings. Were seeing a combination of both. People being a little more relaxed in the safety guidelines and all businesses reopening which makes me nervous about all the business you mention that had are about to reopen. Yeah. Absolutely. Come monday. People were already feeling the fatigue of sheltering in place a month ago. We saw it would cause the spike in cases with memorial day. Was that one of the lpts so that was associated with the spike in cases. The spike were seeing now is more associated to the past week or so. Again, like i mentioned. Contact tracers, even back then, two weeks ago, were pinning outbreaks to barbecues, gatherings, around the time of graduation parties. People headed to beaches. A lot of californians were tired of it. It was about the National Message slowing down and business reopening. Some have a false sense of home and they may think were out of the woods right now. We can get more relaxed about things but thats nothecase. E y were testing positive which might be the same crowd who is going out to those gatherings, those barbecues and maybe to the nail salons and outdoor barbecues pretty soon. Yeah. And not just all fun. Were seeing a lot of social movements. George noticed was killed on memorial day and it led to massive protests across the country. We saw it here in the bay area. We saw lots of people in the streets. Some with masks, some not. They were all gathered so closely together. A lot of people will say, well, the protests. Thats what caused this huge spike. How did that play into it . As of right now, we dont have evidence that the protest caused a huge spike were seeing. It is still early and there is an incubation period. Also, there was early data and modeling showing during the protest, more people were staying home because of the curfew and mandates. That may have augmented some of what the risk was with a lot of people beingogether a people outdoors. Were not seeing the link that some people were afraid of. We really do stand by the Public Health cause of the protests. So im glad that we got both messages out there. To fight the pandemic and to fight systemic racism. All right. Sounds good. I love having you. Youre like our inhouse, well, sort of inhouse, now your house, fact checker on all these medical questions. We can set the record straight. Thank you, doctor, we appreciate your time. Feel free to text me any time. You know i do. You cant stop me. Abc7 news has a brands new tool to help you figure out the risk of different activities like maybe play dates for your kids. You can guess the risk and then see what medical experts say. I did it myself. I cant say i scored well on many of them. Check it out. You can really learn some things and see it on the abc news app. A great discussion. Property damage and a job loss. Someone deliberately coughing on a childogurt shop. Someone saying maybe youre racist. What would you say . The couple involved in a parking garage could not fro, confrontation. If youre a little tired of this weeks heat, i think youll like what the weekend who is the splash mountain at disneyland and disneyworld will have a whole new look. It first black princess. It is based on the controversial film, song of the south. Disney said the imagineers have been working on it since last year. And the mutual group, the dixie chicks is dropping dixie and will now be called the chicks. Members have post a statement on the webb saying they wanted to meet this moment. The move follows a decision by the Group Lady Antebellum to change to lady a after acknowledging the Word Association to slavery. San jose police are investigating what one mother says was a racially motivated attack when someone intentionally coughed on her child at a yogurt shop. Reporter youve likely seen the video in a dispute over social distancing, watch, as a woman appears to intentionally cough on a toddler inside a san jose yogurt land. The cringe worthy encounter now under investigation by police. The person of interest has since been voluntarily identified by her employer. The Oak Grove School district. Officials there releasing an updated statement this afternoon which reads in part, the incident that occurred at yogurtland is despicable. There is no place in the Oak Grove School district for any employee who would deliberately cause harm to a child. If the district receives confirmation from sjpd that the individual involved in the yogurtland incident is our employee, we will take immediate action. Legal experts say the woman could face charges. Because of the fact that it is an adult who appears to be doing something in retaliation to a child, i think it is likely they would file misdemeanor battery. Reporter she is a former prosecutor for the Santa Clara Co torneys office and has represented in both criminal and civil of therispandemic. Weve seen a lot ofio that are not whate would speck of people in a certain circumstance. R pe ty cont up on tips and no arrests have been made. On social media, a petition is now active, calling for the woman to be fired from her job as an educator. Were seeing more problems of people trying to enforce following the protocol than the one failing to have the protocol because we have people getting in fights in cars and businesses and shouting out to people and things like that. Reporter district Officials Say theyve been getting calls cynic the news broke. Abc7 news. Blocking a latino man from entering his own apartment building. Live with video of. Incident and what the couple had to say about it. Reporter tensions were running high when my photographer confronted they will on the street. He lives here. We both live here. This played out tuesday night in the parking garage when the resident michael, a berkeley grad and Community Educator for. I pressed the remote from down there. The garage opened. Reporter and was blocked by a man and a woman in an suv with florida plates. The Immediate Reaction was to say hey you [ bleep ] criminal. Youre not coming in here. Reporter hes heard asking where his key fob is. It was escalated to the point whereby assistanters can be heard from jumping into help. . Hey, dude, pull into your space and go. He threatened to shoot us. Reporter eventually one of the im protecting my place, too. Reporter silver residence sent me this statement saying they are actively working to address the issue. While they couldnt comment on the incident citing tenant rights and privacy, my photographer noteded the couple who appeared to be loading up a car with belongings and asked for their side of the story. I talked to him and asked him nicely. Well, he lives here. Reporter he pressed him about social media and racial profiling. For those saying maybe youre a racist, what would you say . Is that not true . Completely not true. Why are you attacking me . Im with abc news. Reporter he was satisfied with the buildings response to the incident, he said he was grateful to those who tried to intervene and is proud of how far hes come. Ive always been poor, immigrant parents, i think it struck very hard for me and it felt like i dont belong here. Reporter and hes empowered by the responsibility to speak out for minorities who may not feel like they have a voice. Someone who didnt handle the situation. Someone who was violent in return. What would have happened . The systems where beasley was employed issued a statement saying they couldnt ducted an internal review and made a decision to terminate the employee. The bystander did not want to press charges against the couple. In San Francisco tonight. Abc7 news. Thank you. Just one more day of hot weathe heres what we want everyone to do. Count all the hugs you havent given. All the hands you havent held. All the dinners you didnt share with friends. The trips you havent taken. Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. We heat up and then we cool down. The natural roller coaster of life. Were on it. Spencer christian has the forecast. An e ticket to ride. Yes. Im a philosopher. Shes right about that. That only applies to our weather. Weve had many breezy evenings. No strong gusts at the moment and it is a bit cooler than this time yesterday. Most locations are two to ten degrees cooler is what im trying to say. It is exactly 61 in San Francisco. 65 in oakland. Mid 70s at mountain view. 57 at half moon bay. Heres a view of the golden gate. Mid 80 right now in fairfield, concord and livermore. As we look across the embarcadero, mild at the mild a and cooler and windier weather will move in over the week. We have the heat advisory until 10 00 p. M. Tonight and in lake county and mendocino county. Well see it across the bay. It will be around for the morning commute. It will move quickly back to the coastline giving us a soinl day over the bay and much like today, not too hot tomorrow. Overnight lows will be mild though. Low 60s at the coast to mainly upper 70s. Well see a few low to mid 90s inland tomorrow. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Were Still Holding on to some inland heat. Mid 90s across the area. Then on saturday, the cooling begins. Mid 70s along the bay. Cooler still on sunday as the wind becomes quite strong. And then temperatures begin to rebound a bit on monday. Well be at more seasonal levels on tuesday with low 60s at the coast. Upper 70s across the bay. Up to around 80 by the bay. We dole expect any extreme weather or extreme heat next week. The roller coaster continues but the dips are not so severe. Were not going upside down. A grenell light for San Francisco means you go get a hair cut in the city as early as monday. Hear why the mayor is confident it is the right decision. Is fast track accusing you of something you havent done or does i at walgreens, we know summer may look different this year. Luckily, we are right around the corner with safer ways to shop so you can enjoy the moments you do make. Like making sure you have pool toys the whole family can try out. And never running out of sunscreen and if you do spend the day indoors, always have enough snacks. This summer, walgreens is making shopping safer, with touchless pay and drive thru pick up, so you can keep your summer going. Walgreens this is the shelterinplace in san shelterinplace in San Francisco and i t has gotten its variance for the reopenings on monday. San francisco joins six other bay area counties with permission to relax restrictions. It is clearly a tricky balance between Health Concerns and economic concerns. Both issues will be focused on our effort to build a better cabrera. Melanie woodrow has the story. Reporter in mere days, youll be able to see all these beautiful animals in person after what has seemed like a long hibernation. On monday the San Francisco zoo, museums and other locations will be open for business. Reporter monday and tuesday will be members only days of the zoo. So only members will be able to visit. Theyll need to make an online reservation in advance as will the general public starting on wednesday. Mayor london breed attributes it to the number of reduction of cases and hospitalizations, as well as an increase in testing. I wabe clr. Lilot dif