Money to offset billions in budget cuts the state budget includes more than 11 billion. In cuts and deferrals those cuts were made to colleges court state worker pay and more those cuts could vanish if the federal government the state more money by thursday. The pair bay area cities among those topping list for businesses that had to close during the pandemic that is according to a new study from yelp which also says california is the hardest hit state in the u. S. With more than 19,000 permanent closures. For closures for every 1000 businesses, San Francisco took the second spot with san jose 5th among us metro regions again thats according to yelp some industries have fared better than others yelp says restaurants have been hit the hardest followed closely by shopping and retail. The u. S. Could see 20,000 more covid deaths by the end of october that stark warning today coming from a former cdc director doctor tom frieden says that this projection is based on the number of infections
We need you to get out there and do the test. Protect yourself. Protect your coworkers. Protect your community. And especially your family. Thats the call today from the head of a new covid19 task force. Doctor says anyone who has frequent contact with the public can receive a test for free even if they have no symptoms. Meanwhile hayward announce td its keeping the coronavirus testing site open through the end of the month. People do have to exhibit at least one symptom like a fever or cough. And all of this raises the question of how often should we be tested and will the state be able to accommodate the need. I Team Reporter is digging into the answers and she joins us now. Covid19 testing statewide has stayed consistent. The latest data shows a significant increase in early april. Nationally california ranks 27th. It begs the question as life starts to reopen, will our testing needs to be met . Thats why the testing has to substantially increase. We want you to be able to be tested
Its a slow mover. Cold front, area of low pressure that will bring down the rain as early as this evening and then get into some thunderstorm activity for the second half of qulour weekend. 58 in oakland. 57 in richmond. Right now in novato, 54. Cloud cover, temperatures are fairly uniform or mild today by about 1 00, were in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Even warmer than that later in the afternoon. Notice by 6 00, Sonoma County could see a few showers and were talking about the timing and amounts coming up. Liz . Thanks, lisa. Its our next sizeable step in reopening the bay area. Here is where we stand in joining the states stage two modifications, the early part of stage two. San francisco and san mateo counties will join marin county in entering into phase two on monday. Alameda and contra costa counties will join some time next week. Napa and sonoma counties are already in phase two. Only Santa Clara County has yet to determine a date to keep numbers down as the most pop will you say
System to the north. It will take its time getting here and moving on out. Live look outside from our came in redwood city, 57 in gilroy. Sfo, a little fog there. 50 in santa rosa, 56 by the delta, southwest wind in line for the cooldown with the breeze and the clouds today. Notice the brighter colors stay in sacramento valley. 70s, even near 80 by parts of the delta, we will have the clouds and the rain will be moving into the north bay. Well time it out for you in a few minutes. Liz . Sounds good. Thanks, lisa. This our next sizeable step in reopening the bay area. Here is where we stand in joining the states stage two modifications, the early part of stage two. San francisco and san mateo counties will join marin county in entering into phase two on monday. Alameda and contra costa counties will join some time next week. Napa and sonoma counties are already in phase two. Only Santa Clara County has yet to determine a date to keep numbers down, they say, as the bay areas most populou
Decisionmaking process, a at Public Safety remains the key. In san joses willow glen neighborhood, many businesses remain boarded up due to the Novel Coronavirus crisis. Hairdresser erika martin is still out of work, but stopped by lincoln avenue to help support the local economy. It is important that worry safe, but its also important that we do maintain the revenue thats generating in this ome of normalcy when all can things do go become to normal, according to science. As of friday afternoon, Santa Clara County hasnt said when it plans to move into phase two of governor Gavin Newsoms fourtiered plan to open california. Stanford University Infectious diase expert dr. Ys the sw and s of the unique characteristics that make up the bay area most populous county. You have East San Jose which, again, much more densely packed. You have a lot more Multigenerational Families in housing and much closer quarters. The pandemic has articularly is to bring down Community Transmission across the b