Theres now also concern about overwhelming hospitals. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana has details on this weekends new rules. Reporter when Contra Costa County rolled back some of its restrictions last month, it was on the condition that infections seemed to be slowing. Unfortunately thats not the case anymore. Infection rates have doubled over the last couple weeks. We set a cap at 8 , and now that weve reached that, we realize we need to scale back. We need to keep the Community Safe and really encourage people to take these additional safeguards. Reporter the newly revised health order now requires stricter rules for Outdoor Dining, members of social bubbles will have to keep their masks on at all times while theyre together, and Indoor Worship Service will be temporarily prohibited after tomorrow night. A church service, usually youre there for a while. Reporter for outdoor diners, the experience will have to be adjusted. Customers had been allowed to sit at their tables without a mask. Now theyll need to keep it on until they start eating and drinking. I think its going to be tough for them because theyre going to have to open up the bottom and sneak in that food. I dont know if its even going to be a great experience for them. Reporter its been a difficult balancing act for businesses but with the rising rate of infections, safety is the big of the priority. I care about peoples health. I care about losing a Family Member versus making money. Reporter one of the growing concerns for Contra Costa CountyHealth Officials is the shrinking number of intensive care unit beds available. Right now less than half of the 209 beds are in use for covid19 cases or other issues. Thats significantly higher than in weeks past. Sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Lets take a closer look now at the Positivity Rate in Contra Costa County. Supervisor just mentioned these numbers. This graph shows the percentage of people testing positive each day. Over the past two weeks, you can see its going up, almost 4 . Hospitalizations in the county also rising. Covid19 cases here in the bay area look like this. Santa clara county reporting 126 new cases today. A total of almost 6,000. Alameda county now with more than 7,700. Thats the most of any county. In all, the bay area now with almost 33,000 cases, 634 people have died because of the virus. Outdoor dining in Alameda County now no longer allowed. The state tightened restrictions on the county just more than 24 hours ago, but tonight some restaurants decided to ignore those new rules. Ginger Conejero Saab reports from livermore. Reporter its been a little over 24 hours since the new guidelines restricting Outdoor Dining for Alameda County were released. But as you can see, downtown livermore is still operating like a typical saturday night during this pandemic. It was the same story throughout the day. Diners enjoying patio seating and a closed off first street in downtown livermore. You cant sit in your backyard forever, right . I mean this has got to open up to some extent. Reporter if there was anything sftopping people from being outdoors, it was the heat and not the new covid guidelines released friday night, mandating Alameda County to pull back on its Outdoor Dining, forcing restaurants to only offer takeout or delivery. Its a really tough time for these restaurants. Reporter the executive director for livermore downtown inc. Says livermore along with other cities in Alameda County decided to push through with their weekend plans because the city has not received orders from Alameda County enforcing the new guidelines. People were prepped for a weekend and that would have been devastating to find out on friday night all your stuff you just ordered for the weekend sales, throw it away. Reporter this business owner, owner of three restaurants in Alameda County, couldnt agree more. This was the last life line that a lot of people had. If that gets pulled away, there might be a lot more restaurants that will be closing. Reporter the owner of this sushi restaurant, who didnt want to be showed on camera, admits she wants to see more enforcement of face coverings with outdoor diners toaff. Next week the county plans on filing a state variance allowing it to resume Outdoor Dining. In livermore, ginger Conejero Saab, nbc bay area news. A similar situation in hayward where the city went ahead with plans to shut down streets to allow for more dining. Downtown b street was closed to traffic so businesses could set up tables on the sidewalks and in the street. Last night a lot of stress when that new order came down. Leaders discussed options, then scrambled to notify restaurants that if they wanted to, they could still allow Outdoor Dining this weekend. Owners feel like theyve been on a roller coaster. Us Business Owners are in the dark. We dont know what day we can open and what day we can close. Its a circus, and the circus needs to end, you know. So we need to get back to work. Restaurants in Alameda County dont face enforcement from local authorities. They could still be cited by sy up to date with the very latest on the coronavirus by following our live blog and, my gosh, it is changing by the hour sometimes. Were putting together the headlines, new developments all in one place. Its on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Happening now, roads are being closed in martinez ahead of a large protest set for tomorrow. There will be a heavy Police Presence as members of Law Enforcement from all over Contra Costa County are going to be there to help. Business owners are also getting ready protecting their businesses by boarding up windows in case things get out of hand. The planned demonstration tomorrow comes amid tensions in martinez. This video from the fourth of july showing a couple painting over parts of a cityapproved black lives matter street mural. White supremacy fliers have surfaced downtown. The Martinez Police chief released a letter which says in part, police plan to Disperse Protesters if theres violenceor damage. The demonstration begins at 4 00 in the afternoon. Well have complete coverage right here on nbc bay area tomorrow afternoon starting at 4 30. A busy day for firefighters as they battle a string of grass fires in solano and yolo counties. All the fires started right around 3 00 this afternoon. They stretched from winters to fairfield. Most of them just along highway 505. Crews say they have a handle on all of them now. 505 back open. No damage or injuries reported. No word on the cause for any of those fires. Firefighters in the south bay also trying to contain a grass fire. Crews battled the alum fire in san jose. That fire burned about 30 acres. A lot of smoke as you can see. No structures damaged. No injuries reported. Again, on that fire, no word on a cause. Lets check in with rob mayeda tracking this hot weather weve had. Rob, this is a real reminder, especially that last story, fire season is here. Yeah. Weve been watching these temperatures through the day. Up above 105 degrees in Solano County and over 100 in walnut creek earlier. Check out the temperatures here at 11 00. Were still almost near 80 degrees outside. Similar temperatures to the south, through the trivalley. Numbers still in the mid70s after highs earlier did approach 100 degrees. Notice the cooler bayside temperatures. 50s and 60s across the bay. But inland youre seeing the 70s and whats also very interesting in terms of fire danger, you still see humidity levels in the 30 range inland. Its still daytime dry across those inland portions of Contra Costa County and out near the trivalley. We do have a little bit of a sea breeze but the coolant isnt loaded yet. We dont have the fog pouring back across the bay. For one more day in those inland valleys, 90s to 100 degree temperatures. With a stronger sea breeze during the day tomorrow, well have to watch those inland hills and valleys for some fire danger concerns. Well talk how hot its going to get for your sunday and how much cooling you can expect heading into monday and tuesday in our forecast in about eight minutes. New at 11 00, the San Francisco tech executive caught on video making racist remarks earlier this month is resigning. Michael lofthouse said he stemmed out this week. On july 4th, he was captured on camera holding up his middle finger to a family celebrating a birthday at a restaurant, yelling racist obscenities. The video went viral. Lofthouse has apologized and said he is beginning his journey back to sobriety and has enrolled in an antiracist program. The Vallejo Police department is looking for witnesses after a wild night of sideshows and at least two shootings. Police broke up a large sideshow. About 300 people in the area of lemon street and sonoma boulevard. That was about 12 30 this morning. They say people in the crowd shot at responding officers. Someone threw fireworks at them. No officers were hurt. Then about two hours after that, Police Responded to reports of another sideshow on sitting in car when a suspect drove up next to him and started shooting. That victim was not hurt. Still ahead, outrage in washington after President Trump commuted the prison sentence of roger stone. The president s defending that decision while one lawmaker is breaking with the republican party. Plus while home sales have dropped, home prices are on the rise. Tonight we break down the real estate in the bay area. We made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. Washington is reeling after President Trump announced he was commuting the prison sentence of one of his longtime advisers roger stone. The outrage from democrats and at least one prominent republican has been fast and fierce. The president defending his decision. Kelly odonnell has more. Reporter a major reversal from President Trump. Today wearing a mask for the first time publicly, visiting Service Members at a military hospital. I think its a great thing to wear a mask. Ive never been against masks. But i do believe they have a time and a place. Reporter but that mask is no cover for the controversial lifeline the president gave his friend, political adviser and convicted felon roger stone. In this country, they want justice, and roger stone was not treated properly. So im very happy with what i did. Reporter the president erased a 40month prison sentence that was to begin tuesday. Stone was found guilty by a jury of lying, witness tampering, and obstructing the russia investigation. Prosecutors said he was protecting the president , yet mr roger stone was targeted by an illegalplace. A master of spectacle. Stone out his gratitude. Mr. President , thank you for giving me the offer. Thank you for saving my life. Reporter the president went out on this limb for his friend and adviser largely alone. Some white house officials are outraged though not surprised by the decision. Concerned in part about how it plays politically. Senior officials tell nbc news the Justice Department played no role and that attorney general william barr personally counseled the president against clemency for stone. Today new fallout. Democratic house intelligence chairman adam schiff. If you cover up for the president , if you withhold incriminating evidence for the president , you get a pass from donald trump. Reporter republican senator mitt romney labeled the move unprecedented, historic corruption. Kelly odonnell, nbc news, the white house. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller has written an oped on roger stone published by the washington post. Mueller called stone a rightly convicted felon. He also said the russia investigation was of paramount importance and stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. Mueller added that stone became a central figure in the investigation into election tampering for several reasons, including communication with russian intelligence and advance knowledge of leaks before release of russian stolen emails. A fire ripped through an Historic California Mission and tonight firefighters are trying to pinpoint exactly how that started. The flames erupted inside the nearly 250yearold San Gabriel Mission in san diego this morning. The church contains artifacts dating back to the late 1700s. The cause is under investigation. The mission was undergoing renovations and had been closed for the past several months because of the coronavirus. It is so tragic at so many different levels. This church has become such a healing ground during this pandemic. Then for this to happen. Much of the mission was destroyed. However, the churchs original a altar hand crafted in mexico city brought to the mission in the 1790s survived. One Church Member called it a little miracle. Bay area home sales plunged in may but prices remained high. Thats according to the latest numbers from zillow. Experts say there are fewer buyers but also far fewer houses on the market, so the demand is still there. Interest rates just above 3 also helping with some home sales. In fact, median prices for Single Family homes rose in most bay area counties. Santa clara county, the median price now 1. 25 million. In Contra Costa County, 660,000. Alameda county rose to nearly 900,000. Now, San Francisco fell slightly down to 1. 53 million. Lets get back to rob mayeda right now. We had a scorcher in parts of the bay area today. We saw the fires along 505. Whats in store for us, rob . Well, were watching what we expect to be another hot day tomorrow as this heat mini wave if you will is just peaking in time for the weekend. Outside right now, clear skies in san jose and pretty close to 70 degrees. We had a high of 91 today. Similar temperatures expected tomorrow around the Santa Clara Valley. Weve had a few grass and brush fires of late. Some of that smoke you might have noticed drifting in during the morning hours. So well see moderate air quality levels through the Santa Clara Valley and inland east bay for tomorrow. Then we should see better air quality as the sea breeze picks up and we see cooler temperatures by monday. Very interesting right now. 50s and 60s around the coast and the inner bay. Thats near the cooler water. But inland to get that type of cooling, you need a strong sea breeze. You also usually need some low clouds and fog. So we got the winds somewhat onshore, but the coolant to that ocean a. C. Just isnt there. Notice during the day tomorrow, no sign of any fog on the coast. Then as the breeze starts to pick up during the afternoon, here comes the low clouds right down the coast. By tomorrow evening approaching the coastline there, setting the stage for a much cooler monday. But for tomorrow we wake up to temperatures in the 50s in the hills. We may see 60s to start the day. Low to mid90s around san jose tomorrow. Trivalley temperatures approaching 100 degrees again. Livermore out toward tracy might be a little hotter tomorrow as the winds pick up for the afternoon. Oakland, bayside, not too bad. 70s and 80s there but near 100 degrees out towards concord and antioch. Peninsula, 70s and 80s from redwood city into palo alto. San francisco with that west wind at 20 still near 70 degrees. The north bay, 90s to above 100 degrees once you get up into lake county and Mendocino County for tomorrow. That Desert Southwest high which kind of ploonballooned outward towards california shows signs of weakening. Mondays temperatures now, notice the dropoff. The valleys back into the 80s. So cooling kicks in as much as 10 to 15 degrees of cooling but thats going to be monday. Tomorrow still pretty hot inland. San francisco near 70 tomorrow. Speaking of the wind, i think were going to get more of that for tomorrow afternoon into evening unlike we saw today. You couple that with those 90s inland, low humidity levels, inland hills will have to watch for fire danger. But at least our temperatures start to cool off. Even though theyll rise the middle part of the week doesnt look like were going to get to 100 degrees. That big cooldown arrives just in time for monday. 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