Were looking at these four tiers, color code, purple, red, orange and yellow. Reporter if your county is in the purple tier, it means most nonessential businesses can operate outdoors but some like hair salons and malls can open indoors at limited capacity. Red means more indoor businesses like museums and movie theaters can reopen with restrictions. Orange means places like indoor wineries and bowling alleys can open. And at the yellow level, all indoor businesses can reopen with modifications. Ans physal distancing is still required. So are masks and health screenings. Right now, every county in the bay area is purple, except San Francisco and napa, which are red. This new framework is up to the discretion of each county meaning they can be more rigid but not less. Heres where the governor says the stringent part comes in to play at the state level. We have a criteria, not just 21 days moves between tiers but two weeks, some stability and steadiness before you move into those tiers. Reporter with that the state seems to acknowledge that covid and its effects on the population will be around for some time. With regard to reopening schools, thats a conversation that counties in the red or lower can begin having sooner than later. With 14 days or two weeks of waiting in that red tier, that they can pursue opening schools at the discretion of the local Health Officers and the counties, and all of the local School Districts in that planning. Reporter of course, all of this is dependent upon how well we all behave. Governor newsom said he will be ready to apply that brake if the state sees an increase in the number of hospitalizations. Abc7 news. Lots to sort through but we appreciate you making sense of it all. The governors new guidelines were announced after San Francisco mayor london breed loosened the reopening rules. Small Business Owners cried foul that San Francisco is being too restrictive and threatening their survival. Heres david louie. There is so much uncertainty. And i know there is so much frustration. Reporter the level of frustration and uncertainty is only growing after Governor Newsom laid out a new reopening plan but city and county rules prevail. Mayor breed has a more measured level. We hear from the state one thing, from the city another. It is a ping pong back and forth. Reporter you understand the state plan, businesses can reopen with limited capacity. Gyms at 10 . Two other highlights, retailers and shopping malls can reopen at 50 capacity. By contrast, mayor breed said starting tuesday, hair salons and gyms can open tuesday. Our industry is literally collapsing and it is all based on the fact San Francisco department of health is not making a rational decision about what is open and what is not open right now. Reporter late today, the Mayors Office issued this statement. San francisco is currently reviewing the new tiered system for reopening. Nothing is changing today here in San Francisco. The owner said wind and smoke make it difficult to do hair outdoors but shes grateful for the revised rules. I dont know that ill be able to operate in a way thats beneficial to the business. But at this point, were so behind on paying our bills that anything is better than nothing franciscos small Business Owners explain about the conflict, they did make it clear why there are tighter restrictions. What we dont want to do is open these places and then all of a sudden, see a spike and then have to go backwards. Reporter in San Francisco, david louie, abc7 news. Now, abc7 news report he kate larson is live with more on how businesses and customers are reacting to this change, trying to figure it out. Reporter thats exactly whats happening. People are trying to figure it out. Were here on the embarcadero which has been open for Outdoor Dining for about five weeks now. Like many restaurants, they would like the open for indoor dining. Theres a lot of frustration about that especially because governor nummelin is in the new red category whichtsnd the director of the golden gate restaurant association. They said based on the mayors announcements today, not the governor, she doesnt think people will be eating inside any time soon. She points out that weve only got another two months or so of decent weather left for Outdoor Dining in San Francisco so thats really increasing the anxiety levels of everyone in the Restaurant Business in San Francisco. They want to know when they can set up for indoor salons. I spoke with the owner of a San Francisco salon. She said it feels like ground hog day. Every month she gets some sort of new guidance from the constituent city or the state. She still cant serve her clients indoors. According to the mayors announcements she will allow salons to do Outdoor Services starting next week. Schools. More confusion. The new state guidelines with San Francisco in the red category in theory would allow San Francisco to hold in person classes in two weeks. But. To an sfusd teacher who would like to be back in the classroom with her students and shemds no way. There are no guidelines set up. They couldnt be ready for at least another month. Maybe not even until january. So daniel, really, the overall sense from the folks ive spent on with, confusion and frustration. Well have more of this. More of the reaction and break it down for you at 11 00 right here on abc7. For now live on the embarcadero. Abc7 news. And there will be more of those feelings. Kate will look forward to it at 11 00. We were in the east bay when businesses found out about the new order. Today, alameda and contra costa were ready to reopen. I had to buy a new set of furniture just to leave here. Reporter the stylist at insignia salon have been working outside in the parking lot. The news today is that we get to open up indoors at 25 capacity on monday. Reporter theyre you understand the impression they can reopen indoors from Governor Newsoms new tier system. It is very confusing. Is this what you truly mean . Reporter in alameda county, hair and nail salons can reopen. We wanted to wait until monday. Reporter rob is setting up three salon chairs on their back terrace. He said it is confusing to see which businesses can reopen and which ones cant. Its been pretty difficult and discouraging, the logic behind certain things that theyll allow indoors or outdoors. And certain things that they wont. It doesnt make that much sense. Reporter his next door neighbor polished nail slonl is deciding not to reopen outside. If it is just me by myself and my clients are outdoors and i go in to do something, who knows what is happening out there . I have no protection for them or my products. Reporter and a few doors down, theyre deciding not to reopen because to her it is unsanitary. At this point, if this doesnt happen any sooner, well permanently shut down. Reporter on monday, hair salons and barber shops can open indoors with modifications. Shopping malls can reopen indoors at 25 capacity. Abc7 news. The governors new teerd reopening man takes into account a case rate and positivity rate. What does this mean as you move about your day every day . Joining me, an Infectious Disease and epidemiologist disease expert. What was your Immediate Reaction when you heared the new man . I think it is a step forward. It will take a while to understand all 92 wantses but it is not a binary system. There are gradations. San francisco is in the second tier and can move to opening schools if everybody agrees. Within a couple of weeks if we stay there. So i think it gives more flexibility. I think it is probably better from a Disease Control standpoint. It will go fairly slowly. What is the bottom line here . The bottom line is that were trying to protect health. Were trying to control a deadly virus, and were trying to prevent a third wave of infection from happening. I think this is a good way to do it. That is a great perspective. The governor says it is more strink end than the watch list. As you point out, it adds more flexibility. Can things be safe as they reopen in this way . So the trick is, so you have two things. One is, what is the probability of someone walking into a business who is acutely infected and is infectious . They can cause disease. That is a probability function and that ties to the number of cases, and to the positivity rates. The second thing is, if they were to walk in, with it laid out, could you prevent it . Thats about masks and social distancing and density in these places. I think thats the way to think about it. You have two things. Probability of somebody walking in who is infected and infectious. If that were to happen, how do we keep the transmission rates low . As this drags on, we have this new color coded system. What advice would you give people watching who are trying to, as they begin to get back to some sense of normalcy, what advice would you give them on assess their risk as they begin to go out and experience businesses that are reopening . Reporter i would say, if youre in a risk group, if youre older, if you have chronic diseases, i would be very careful about going out and inacting with a lot of people you dont know. In general, the advice remains the same. Wear a mask, keep social distance, wash your hands frequently, dont go out if youre sick. Those are basic rules. What this does is try to codify them beyond the level have personal responsibility and create some infrastructure around us so we can keep risks to a minimum. A lot of Decision Making up to businesses given the new system. What should their considerations be . How could they make the decision . Theyre dying to reopen, of course. Reporter if you get on to the state webb, there are reams of pages about this stuff. And i think they can, i think it is relatively clear, relatively. I think their trade associations can decide how to set up and things. As we hear, you know, people who might have to do this outside. If it creates other issues. People are going to have to figure it out. I think their trade organizations may be able to help them. Thank you for your time. Thanks, george. Coming up, cal fire officials are wrapping up an update on the wildfire burning in santa cruz and santa clara counties. Well have the tribute. Reporter im meteorologist sandhya patel. Smoggy conditions coming up. In the middle of the raging wildfires, a dash to save valuable data. I am robert strickler. Ive been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. More evacuation orders lifted tonight as firefighters worked to contain the czu lightning complex. Cal fire Just Announced 83,133 acres have burnltd. The fire is 27 contained but more than 10,000 structures are still threatened. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and today, abc7 News Reporter chris reyes met a man who wrote a letter to his daughter after they lost their home of 19 years after she left for college. We built your home around you when you were still inside your mother. Ive thought a lot about every piece of wood and stone. People who visited always asked about the soulfulness of our home. I always said that i built the house around myher and her sist. Your house in the redwoods by the creek and ocean lasted nearly 19 years. I hoped that it would be yours someday and i was working hard to keep it. It burned to the grounds in a wildfire caused by lightning in the most beautiful storm ive ever seen. I believe it served its original purpose, fully and completely. He ended the letter by writing, please carry the sweet memories with you wherever you go. So poignant. So touching. The lnu lightning complex fire has burned more than 371,000 acres. An evacuation warning was lifted in napa county along silverado trail and a stretch along monticello road. Evacuations were lifted in parts of Santa Clara County affected by the scu lightning complex. That fire is 35 contained. It has burned more than 372,000 acres. Dont forget, you can follow fires statewide with our exclusive wildfire tracker. It is updated with the latest information from cal fire. That way you can see where the fires are spreading and get containment information in realtime. We have all the evacuation information you need to know and a new feature even air quality data. The abc fire tracker is available now at abc7news. Com and on our abc7 news app. Scientists raised Bird Research that spans decades. The study being done at point reyes. It was right in the path of the fire. Very close. The wind was blowing in this direction. There was a substantial amount of ash and smoke. Tense moments for ecologist diana who knew the woodward fire was only miles from where she works. The palla marin field station. A home base for bird studies spanning more than 50 years. The First Priority was evacuating the student interns who live there. Our second priority was to extract our data. Irreplaceable date. A hundred of journals documenting bird activity in th including her own car. It is a profound responsibility topping we have these 54 years of date that we are responsible for and dont want to lose. Reporter the journals date back to 1966 when one of the largest bird studies began, operated by point blue science. We have purple finches. Reporter and a bird banding for species like the beautiful wilsons warbler. Information on hundred of birds along the west other while life, too. A Mountain Lion along the trail head. Reporter luckily the woodward fire did that reach the bird watching field central. It is about two miles from where we are. Until fire is put out, this road is closed. Aurl thesefor no a view fhe preeheta we lost fascinating records about individual birds or a point in time or northeast, were losing our ability to tell the story. Reporter abc7 news. Isnt that remarkable to see it visualized, all the stacks, that history all in the back of a car. Amazing. Thank goodness they were able to save it. Sandhya . I wish i had better news for you but i dont. Smoke is still choking our skies right now as you will notice from our san jose camera looking at the shark tank. Very unhealthy air quality. This is going to continue for the weekend. Thats why the spare the air alert. Moderate monday and tuesday. At least were hopeful that perhaps things will change. Heres a look at the air quality. Unhealthy in the red. Green and yellow. Good to moderate for parts of the north bay, the east bay. We are seeing poor air quality around redwood city. Look at san jose, back in the red. Your temperatures right now, anywhere from the 50s to the 80. Our warmest spots got into the low 90s. Smoke mablgts will continue. Summer heat builds sunday. So do get ready for hotter conditions. Not hot today. Were looking at upper 70s to low 80s. The good news is the humidity is coming up and the wind are light. The firefighters can make more progress overnight. Winds remain light. Winds under ten miles an hour. It is cool and the humidity is up there. 66 degrees. Heres a look at the smoke forecast. Were going to have the smoke concentrated in the north bay, 7 00. Going into tomorrow morning. We still see the violet pinks there. That will be the worst of the smoky conditions. 6 00 p. M. Perhaps a little glimmer of hope that the winds might kick it out briefly. Then right back into sunday which is why the spare the air alert is going. Temperatures in the morning, low 50s to low 60s. Good sleeping weather. Hazy conditions with fog around the bay and the haze remains with us. Low 60s to the low 90s for your saturday. As we head into sunday, the temperatures will bounce back and the accuweather forecast showing you the smoke continuing through sunday. Warmer with hazy skies. September sizzle. Near triple digit heat inland. Upper 60s coast side. It is that time of year when we do experience some warm weather. It could get even warmer through the weekend. The best thing you can do, keep your doors and windows closed. Stay indoors if you stay or see smoke outside. Great advice. Thank you. 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Offers of support continue to pour in a week after a thief stole nearly 3,000 from a firefighter battling the czu fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties. Unfortunately, michael, scammers are trying to capitalize on that generosity. Youre right. This is what thieves and scammers do. They look for opportunity. During wildfires that are happening during a pandemic, there are opportunities. Fred rode through much of the fire zone returning from southern california. The mend scene over man is now home from a dangerous situation. Still, when he heard a thief victimized a firefighter, he grew angry. Theyre working their hearts out. Risking their lives. Some idiot does Something Like that.