Back into our community, and making sure that all of the businesses that have supported us over the years are here to support us in the future. Reporter time is of the essence, and the time is now. It is essentially critical, were talking about businesses that for many, work on a month tomonth misses. Reporter economic develop Alliance Just released a survey of 2000 east bay businesses, predominantly sole proprietorship. Overwhelmingly, they say this is the biggest challenge for now. To make the most critical piece of that is reestablishing the connection with customers, hitting orders going, and starting to get back into the flow of things. Reporter overdue rents, bills, hiring people paled by comparison, their Small Matters but any could end the business. Trying to get out of that hole is a daunting proposition for many. Reporter this is really about survival, we will see how it gets in the future, but nobody knows so far. No one knows how may businesses and Contra Costa County and every other one around the country will fall prey to the buyer. Its great to see this businesses reopen, but do they think there will be enough business to keep them open . With so many people right now out of jobs . And the biggest concern is paying rent, paying mortgage, paying medical bills, or buying food, will there be enough business for the Small Businesses that are being allowed to reopen . Theres only one of two factors, how many people that have money are going to be willing to go out and take a chance to spend it just to be a good citizen . Those two things mitigate very heavily against the businesses, and that is why it is so important, and you cant say it enough, that the government went all in in the beginning, they said we will get this thing done right, they better get to it. A lot of these businesses will not survive and it will be a much, much longer recovery unless they put that money in now and do it right away. Tom, thank you. The City Councils hearing recommendations on a plan to get restaurants back into business with customers eating alfresco, the city is considering allowing Restaurant Owners to set up tables on sidewalks, streets, and parking lots for outdoor dining. The proposal would also allow public parks and pluses to be used. Including gyms, yoga studios as well. The city of san mateo in berkeley are also considering similar proposals. Another step, reopening parking lots at state recreation areas, officials said it will be a slow rollout to minimize crowds. Here is what you just expect on this memorial day weekend for those places that are open. Reporter memorial day weekend is one of the busiest for the park service, and the state Parks Department made easing of restrictions but did not make any official announcement. Theyre concerned about a crush of crowds coming in not following the rules to stay local. From the chirping birds to the towering redwoods, its a little easier to access natures seems like this would. The forest in Santa Cruz County is 127 state parks it reopened parking lots over the weekend. The change came seven weeks after the state announced closure of all 280 state parks. Is a welcome move for this couple with a newborn baby. Its nice and theres parking, especially we are bringing a baby. So its nice to not have to walk the full couple miles with the stroller and we can kind of get into the park. I am in favor of limited parking. Reporter most parks that of reopen, there half the amount of normal parking spaces. We checked online and figured it out, because we did not want to come if we couldnt get out and move around. Reporter the Great Outdoors and the covid19 era means facemasks and shields for park rangers. This will not be business as usual. No, no. Reporter visitors should still be local and not cross county lines, i do not expect a normal nature outing because new visitor guidelines are in place. At some beaches, where coolers and beach chairs and allowed. At some parks a lot of trails are oneway. We are also asking people to take and sanitizer with them. Reporter 36 state parks are still temporarily closed, a third of which are in the bay area and include one in Alameda County, one in Contra Costa County, one in San Mateo County and sonoma coast state park. Rangers can and have issued citations, mostly for illegal parking. The goal is education, they ask visitors to maintain physical distance, and of a park. Come back later. Santa cruz is in a nice little bubble, with low infection rate, and i like to see it continue that way. Its a delicate balance, and also mitigating the crowds and especially with the busiest weekend coming up, they do advise if youre going to a state park you first go to their website to check out first. Now to napa county where boaters are able to get back on the water, all boats have to be inspected for Invasive Species before they are allowed into the water, earlier this week five of the lunches including pleasure cove and pisa canyon reopened, and yesterday, tent camping is still not a loud in the Visitor Center is closed. You could check the county by county information on reopening with our ktvu news apps there is also a running list of what is open and where near the top of the page. An outbreak of covid19 in the nursing home in vallejo has now killed 11 people who live there. 99 other residents and 37 workers at the Windsor Vallejo care center have also tested positive. That is more than 80 of residents and staff about nursing home. Most asymptomatic, Solano County and Public Health officials are working with the nursing home staff on managing that outbreak. Oakland Police Confirmed the fourth case of coronavirus in the department. That employee has not been to work since may 14th. And is currently offsite, self courting, and reportedly recovering. The Police Spokeswoman would not say whether the employee is an officer or another staff member. Dozens of people were given food and other necessities west Oakland Church today. Volunteers distributed boxes of food at the greater st. John missionary baptist church, theyre serving at least 100 families per week. The boxes contain a weeks worth of food for a family of five, there is also a bag full of muchneeded emergency essentials. Had sanitizers, gloves, masks, dishwashing liquid, to be wipes, all of the things that it is hard to find in the Grocery Stores these days. Organizer said they would give up food boxes every week for the next 12 weeks. The Alameda County food bank of the Berkeley Food Network are getting help in their mission to help the hungry, the two groups received 600,000 in grants from the drugmaker bear which has offices berkeley track half of the money will be used to buy and distribute food, the Berkeley Food Network we simply have to create a Food Research vision center. Nonprofits say theyve seen an extraordinary spike in hunger during the coronavirus pandemic. Operations are slowly getting back to normal San FranciscoInternational Airport , the report says some nonstop service to europe will resume next month. There were no flights to europe since april 1st. Airport also announced it expects Additional Services to japan next month. Public health official. Cautiously optimistic tone, they say that the bay area is flattening the curve. What they say is crucial to continue in that progress. Are you doing or not doing during quarantine, new survey reveals interesting trends. Where money will go, coming up. It warmed up significant today and will continue a and. Lets get started. music fades in hey hi until i found out what itst it actually was. Ed me. Dust mite droppings eeeeeww dead skin cells gross so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavyduty dusters. Duster extends to three feet to get all that gross stuff gotcha and for that nasty dust on my floors, my sweepers on it. The textured cloths grab and hold dirt and hair no matter where dust bunnies hide. No more heebie jeebies. Phew. Glad i stopped cleaning and started swiffering. Santa cruz county Sheriffs Department said that they were arrested several people in michigan, investigators at all of them are connected to the kidnapping and murder of a high tech executive last october. He was taken from his home early in the morning on october 1st, police later found his body on a road in the santa cruz mountains. He died from a gunshot wound. Authorities of not identified the suspects were in custody, Police Believe the motive for the killing was robbery and said they will release more information in the coming days. To make an Investigation Underway in oakland after a body was found on train tracks, real workers call for police and fire response at 5 15 this morning in oakland. Police are trying to determine how and when that person was hit. After months of delays, we no when bart service will be available in Santa Clara County, today bart and the bt announced final safety inspections been completed for two stations. Bart trains will be running to the stations beginning on june 13th, right now service goes as far as the warm springs station in south fremont. Bart and the bt signed a safety and security certification for the 2. 3 billion dollar extensive. This is an exciting day not just for bart and vta and the city of san jose, but for the people of the bay area. What is so exciting but actually having transit, that connects five counties, is that people, real people are going to be able to be connected. The only thing left before passengers are allowed to north centers is a California Public utilities commission. Has 14 days to approve the safety verification. To make the president said that bart and other transportation agencies in the bay area will give millions of dollars in federal funding, the money is designed to offset low ridership due to the pandemic. Undressing her with why the president came weeks after the funding had already been announced. Andre . That money is for local transit agencies, but the process to get that cash can be very, very slow. Reporter and its weed on tuesday, the president s of the San Francisco bay area will receive over 700 million in federal loans to support continued operations in support workers at sfo, and bart. In march nancy pelosi secured 1. 3 billion for bay area transit, and in april allocated the first batch of cash, 700 million. That proffered questions. This is not new funding, these resources came over the last few weeks and i believe care package three. Reporter that is latif assignments response. The mtc has allocated 250 million for her agency. We are extremely excited to have received a portion of the character funding. Reporter a spokesperson says the mpc allocated it 197 million, with San FranciscoInternational Airport getting help. This is something that we had already received confirmation of, we know that our cut of that will be about 254 million. Reporter the tweet was part of a series of posts touting federal help for transportation agencies in other states as well. All money must be approved the federal government, that is happening right now. According to a spokesperson, the president s announcement coincides with that process. For us this would help address the revenue shortfall. Right now, bart, sfo, one step closer to getting their hands on the federal money. In the meantime, the remainder of the money will allocate it at 529 left, will be allocated sometime over the summer. Drivers headed in both directions through the caldecott tunnel may run into delays during the overnight hours. Caltrans will close the right area of the tunnel on eastbound 24 9 30 tonight until 12 15 tomorrow morning. Starting wednesday, at 12 30 in the morning, the westbound heading into oakland will close until 4 30 in the morning. The closures are so the cruise can do Maintenance Work on the tunnels. Snow up in the mountains last couple of days, i got to tell you. It has been significant may rainfall and snowfall, today was sunny. Windy, and the temperatures came up. Numbers right now generally in the 60s and 70s, live camera shot looking at San Francisco, wow, great air quality, great visibility, beautiful beautiful day, around the bay area. One more live shot, maybe we dont. What do you think . We dont. Lets look at the graphic, may snow in the mountains the got almost a foot of snow in some places. 8 inches at kirkwood, got reports of up to 8 inches at echo summit as well, 3 inches, higher around theyre talking about 8 inches. As you look at the live camera here you see the camera moving around, it is breezy as the system clears out. For may, that a significant rainfall. That a significant snowfall, it has been a real sort of dream come true, it delays the fire season and cleans up the atmosphere even more. Even more than it was and puts the tree pollen, windy in oakland. 23 mile an hour sustained winds, San Francisco 32 mile an hour gusting winds, breezy, out toward the outer ridge. There is that system still trying with thunderstorms, right up in here you will see this lighting pops, lighting pops throughout the area near trucking as well, activity down toward bear valley, and it winds up and is out of here, we are heading for a dry warming pattern, look at the temperatures today. Right now it is 74 in fairfield, that is 6 degrees warmer than last night at this time, 7 degrees warmer in napa. What is the plan . More of this, more sunshine. Temperatures were cold this morning, they will be cool again tomorrow morning but not quite as cold, mid 40s tomorrow morning not quite as cold. A really nice Weather Forecast coming your way toward memorial day weekend. Yellows or 70s, oranges theres 80s, lots of 60s and 70s. We dont see any rain down the road but we do see a warming trend, i will be back in a little bit with the fiveday forecast. We will see you then bill, thank you. San francisco boy who is obsessed with trucks and cars got a big surprise today for his birthday. He was greeted with a special parade involving police cars, fire engines and more. He smiled and watched as police and firefighters blared sirens and flashing lights. His parents are both nurses and wanted to do Something Special for his fourth birthday. s mom says her son was born three months early, every year the like to make his birthday extra special. Because of the pandemic to get creative, so they reached out to the community for help. There is a lot of emotion around his birthday for everyone in the family, so to make it something really just full of love like this, with so many people saying yes we want to put a smile on your childs face, is extremely heartwarming. Trucks from aaa and pg e took part in the birthday parade. Lawmakers on capitol hill are getting more economic aid, coming up, why the nation might need another stimulus package to keep the economy afloat. 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As Lauren Blanchard tells us, this comes as the resident predicts the u. S. Economy will star to bounce back by the end of the year. Reporter the president meeting with Senate Republicans on capitol hill. A lot of positive things are happening, both in terms of the country and in terms of election that is coming up. Met the senate is deciding between heres relief bill, crafting their own bill, or waiting to see how the economy responds as more states reopen. At the transition to greatness, the Third Quarter into the Fourth Quarter, the Fourth Quarter will be really good. Reporter Steven Mnuchin along with the chair of the Federal Reserve giving a first report on how many from the 2 trillion cares relief bill was being handled. This is the biggest response by congress ever, but is that enough . Reporter states been pushed to get back to work. Some jobs will not be there to go back to. Theres a risk of permanent damage. Reporter democrats and republicans are not doing enough to protect essential workers. How many workers should give their lives to increase the gdp or the dow joins . None should give their lives and i think your charac