Ghost town. How bad is it for cal train . Its devastating. Were facing a fiscal cliff in october and the rail lane may simply cease to exist. Reporter rumming between San Francisco and san jose faces shutdown after the San Francisco board of supervisors failed to support a sales tax measure for the november ballot. The supervisor says there are bigger priorities. Our cities is facing a 1. 7 billion deficit right now. Our own Transportation Agency is suffering. Reporter muni facing its own financial crisis. Its director tweeting some sobering facts. Muni eliminating 40 bus lines. Golden gate transit cut half the service to San Francisco. B. A. R. T. Facing a billiondollar loss. Cal train may end service completely. This is public transit, reality in america. I think were now in a fast crisis. Reporter austin brown from the uc davis policy ins Institution Says transit may depends on a Covid Vaccine for riders to come back. Justbly needing to see good data and then get people comfortable with sharing space with each other again. Reporter meantime the agencies like cal train, racing to find other Funding Sources before its too late. Abc 7 news. Starting today, passengers can apply for a 20 to 50 off fares for muni. It is the launch of a means based program called clipper start desinds to reduce the cost of transit for low income riders. This is just in. Ri recommendinheta o bay areas School District announce that had fall classes will not be held in person. Abc7 News Reporter lyanne melendez. Reporter like other School Districts, they determined the spyinging cases would put staff and students in harms way. The plan is to resume classes august 17. The superintendent made it official this morning in a letter. Our team is developing a detailed plan of how we will improve Distance Learning and support families and students this next school year. I asked the School Board President why the district waited until now to develop this plan. As much as a month or two ago, we thought we would go back. But Distance Learning has to be more robust. Reporter in march, when schools shut down, many teachers were left fending for themselves. Anyone can create art. Lets get started. Reporter while teachers have received no formal training, the School District told us there are many resources on their wbsite. Instructional resources and tools to teach jop line. Teachers will receive three to four proefessional development days. Another issue is the Digital Divide in california. One addressed this morning by the summit of instruction. Were just a few weeks away from school. It would seem unlike reply that could literally do this in a few weeks. Reporter last week, the district handed out hundreds of chrome books. They said they will issue Additional Technology to students. With continued Distance Learning, were now imagine for what the access needston will be for our youngest learners in the pk 2 grade levels. Reporter San Francisco is telling parents that a gradual hybrid approach will be provided when, quote, science and data suggests it is safe to do so. Lyanne melendez. Abc7 news. When it comes to protecting our health, napa county is tightening up enforcement with the possibility of fines. Reporter the urban landscape has begun to look like a theater in places like napa whereas of today, going without a mask might land someone a fine ranging from 25 a person to 5,000 for a business. Good for our safety. I see people Wearing Masks but they dont cover their noses. Its just as bad as not wearing a mask. Reporter the county passed the emergency mask ordinance last night. It would not use police or sheriffs deputies. Instead, members of the county Code Enforcement team. The level would be up to individual cities. Its pretty much complain driven. Reporter the ordinance handled on the desk of the manager city manager this morning. We have a contact member. A Contact Email address. We do a followup telephone call to do education. We do a, we might do a second telephone call. Reporter while that is more than Strong Enough for some residents putting people out here to enforce wearing a mask i think would be just a little bit of overkill. Reporter others believe the ordinance should be tougher. I dont think it has enough teeth. Reporter tyler owns a restaurant in downtown napa. He favored ordinance in the planning stages but is disappointed by the hacking of active enforcement. It is a waste of time. We are the enforcers still in fact that may make people feel better but it doesnt do anything. Reporter ut in gwing column of counties not using masks for social distancing. So mask up, like it or not. Abc7 news. Starting monday, walmart and sams club will require masks at all stores and clubs nationwide. Walmart plans to install a Health Ambassador at store entrances to remind customers of the new environment. As of today, starbucks is requiring customers to wear a mask at all the stores in the united states. If a customer refuses in a place where there is not a mask mandate, theyll have to use the drivethrough or do Curbside Pickup or delivery. California is testing a Record Number of people for coronavirus. 108,000 people across the state every day. But getting a test is proving pretty difficult for some. Chris reyes spoke with two doctors who. Without a National Testing strategy, fixing these problems is not going to be easy. About an hour after opening this is the line at one of san joses popup testing sites. For those who got here earlier, a shorter wait. We came at 9 45. We thought it would be long. People said it was like a twohour wait. It was only an hour. Reporter they consider themselves lucky. This location requires no appointment or doctors note or even symptoms. And results should be available in two to four days. In many other parts of california, its a different story. Certain people have. Testing happened fairly promptly and others have said, its that kind of horror story. Where it took many, many days to get tested. Some of the backlog is not in the sites where people get tested. Theyre in these commercial labs that are being used by the state. Reporter the state has issued guidelines on who should get tested first, essential workers because of the back work in labs. A lot of our response has been patch work. I think it comes from the top. So without something that is really put together nicely, for the entire country, we are destined to do this by state and county. Were all competing for the same materials and the same reagents. What would have been nice three or four months ago is to say this is a national problem. For those at the site where 500 tests are available a day, theyre just happy they could get one even if it means standing in line. We just want to be safe for work when we go back. We dont want to contaminate anyone. Nearly every bay area county is now officially on the states watch list because of increasing cases. The list includes alameda, contra costa, marin, santa clara, solano and sonoma. They have to close gyms rgss hair salons, nail salons, indoor malls, indoor churches. San francisco is not on the states watch list at the moment. But today announce that had further reopening plans are hold. That means no estimate for locations to reopen. They were originally told they would be open two weeks ago. It has been very frustrating for them. Officials based it not only on the surge in cases but a jump in the reproductive rate. How many people a sick person can actually infect. San mateo county will allow for inperson visits to Long Term Care centers starting tomorrow. Each must apply for permission to the county, verify they have enough ppe on hands and adequate access to coronavirus testing. You understand the guidelines, friends and family can do socially distanced and masked outdoor visits. The county will allow for some indoor visits for spiritual, legal and ends of life cases. The virus has ravaged care facilities especially hard. Many have been closed to visitors since march. A day after Alameda County spirs voted to file in at a station for a variance, it has been approved by the state. Outdoor dining gets the green light to reopen officially along with the oakland zoo. Were absolutely so thrilled that we got so much support from Alameda County in the state. Turned it around within 24 hours. The zoo is facing the possible of permanent closure because of a lack of income. Only the outdoor areas of the zoo will be open and there are additional safety precautions in place. The zoo will be outdoors. And you briefly pass people. If you add on to that masks and vinmt. Distancing, it will be a the zoo will open to the general public on wednesday, july 29. We spoke with the mayor libby schaaf this morning. She urged people to remain cautious. Dont let up. I know everyone is tired but the virus is not tired. These are our tools. We have to take it seriously. To keep track of what is allowed to reopen and where, check out this inactive maam. You can go county by company and see which businesses are open. Indoor malls have to shut down as we talked about. See why that doesnt mean all businesses are closed in the south bay. If you think youre paying more at the meat counter, its not your imagination. Well explain. A warmup for the weekend. A warmup for the weekend. Weve always put safety first. And we always will. For people. For the future. And there has never been a summer when its mattered more. Wherever you go, summer safely. 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Avoid grapefruit during treatment. ask your doctor about living longer with kisqali. Breaking news about twitter trying to contain a major security breach. In the past few hours, weve seen high profile accounts belonging to people like elon musk, bill gates, joe biden, barack obama, among others, all hacked if an apparent bitcoin scam. Tweets here like the one on Barack Obamas feed asking people to sends 1,000 and in return they receive 2,000 back. Many were taken down immediately but there are reports that more than 100,000 had been sent. All of these accounts have two factor authentication, other security measures. The fact so many were compromised at the same time, in such a short period of time, leads people to think now that there is some administrative issue on the twitter side itself which is very different from how most twitter accounts get hacked. Twitter posted a tweet saying they are aware of the security incident and are taking steps to fix it. Jc penaltiy is cutting jobs and stores. Nearly a third of the stores will close over the next two years. About 200 total and 1,000 jobs will be lost including corporate, Field Management and international positions. Jcpenney has eight stores in the bay area. Losing a tenant like jcpenney can be a big blow to shopping malls. The governors latest order means indoor malls in most of the bay area have to close. Some are still able to do business. Reporter as cases of covid19 continue to spread across the state, businesses are left to improvise. We were a little nervous on monday as the order was being delivered. Reporter at westfield valley fair, bloombergs president said covid19 has accelerated inovation. Customers can shop in the comfort of their home, select products, and within an hour, have they will in the back. Their car, pickup curbside. Reporter while the stores are closed because of the governors order, bloomingdales is among those that can stay th sam for the jewellers that has been in th stat is allowin customers in stores on an appointment basis. It is a privilege to create that for us and the clientele, to invite them if to see the product and even in this challenging time, people have been showing a lot of interest. When there are challenges, good people rise up together to create impact. Reporter she has that i have had to an online model to deliver virtual leveshows. We start early in the morning in the afternoon in all modalities. Reporter some retailers nationwide will begin to look at their locations and decides whether or not being in a mall still makes sense. In the past it was a good deal to be in the mall because of that he had strand traffic. Lots of other stores to bring people in and bring them by your store front. Ut aanyre focused o now abc7 news. Of course, more of us are paying at home and now were paying more for home cooking. Americans pay nearly 5 more for food this year over last. Led by big spikes in meat and dairy. Reporter shoppers can agree theyre paying more for food although they may differ about which items are seeing the biggest spikes. They skyrocketed. Pork, spare ribs have skyrocketed. Butter, eggs, dairy. Reporter it turns out theyre both right. Weve seen Price Fluctuations in meats, anywhere in 10 to10 in price. And sometimes nonavailability entirely for a sustained period of time. Reporter the coo says california wholesalers who were able to source from smaller, familyowned companies saw less price volatility and so did consumers. But wholesalers are really suffering. Our business is down about 60 which is a huge hit compared to what we were four months ago. Not just meat prices. Eggs and dairy have seen big spikes as well. Egg pricing for april through may in particular went up substantially. 50, 60 . Reporter this shopper gauges prices by what she pays for a bag of groceries. We noticed the number of bags started getting smaller and smaller. Reporter grocers say the prices have come down from the highs in may and june but can change week to week. Their advice is to keep an eye out online and on weekly fliers for sales. Envelop food banks throughout the bay area are slammed with thousands of families really needing help. We were at the campus in pittsburgh today. We are seeing an increase in new faces. We have people who have mentioned, this is the first time theyve ever utilized Food Services so were happy to provide that support to new faces as well. They were prepared to distribute foods to 1,000 families and said the drive would be open as long as they had supplies. Our one hour special give where you live food drive will be this saturday at 7 00 p. M. We go behind the scenes to look at how theyre meeting the growing demands. Learn to make a difference this saturday at 7 00 p. M. From 60s at the coast to 90s inland. Oh, look. A little bug on our lens there right at the top of the screen. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. The geico giveback. This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. We know these are challenging times. Rest assured, you are not alone. Weve all had to adapt. And with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. Rose parade is the latest victim of the pandemic. The parade will be canceled. Simpson its inception in 1891, it has only been canceled three times. Right now it is preparing for the Rose Bowl College football game. So many changes. Lets switch gears and take a look at our weather. Spencer . You may have noticed the skies look a little bit hazy today and they were. Some smoke has been drifting out over the bay area from fire to our southeast down the middle from Fresno County and you can see from this nasaa satellite image, the smoke has been moving northward. Well probably have hazy skies a couple more days. The air quality has gone from good to moderate as a result of that smoky haze. Well keep you updated on that air quality. Meanwhile, you can see it is pretty breezy with wind gusts ranging from 20 to 25 miles an hour. Looking at downtown oakland from emeryville. These are our current temerature readings. 61 in San Francisco. Oakland, 67. Mid 70s in mountain view, 57 at pacifica. Heres the view from east bay hills camera. Some other temperature readings, 68, santa rosa, 77 in novato. As we look across the embarcadero, these are our forecast features. Smoke and fog will be with us. It will be heating up over the weekend but a little cooler pattern will develop. The forecast animation shows fog and low clouds will expands during the overnight and Early Morning hours. Combine that with the smoke and you get foggy conditions starthing tomorrow