Well, two important aspects of the ongoing pandemic, preventing the spread of the virus and limiting the economic damage continue nobody conflict this afternoon across much of the country, including right here in the bay area. Tom vacar joins us live this afternoon, and this new wave of restrictions threatens the very survivability of the restaurant industry. Well, the whole fact is this cannot go on forever. Some accommodations will have to be made. Covid carnage to patients mirror s the carnage to small businesses, restaurants and their employees. It is a tail of two realities. According to the National Restaurant association, this is their sobering reality. 100,000 restaurants, 1 in 6, closed forever or long term. 40 of the remaining restaurant ours saying theyll be gone in three months without any help. 240 billion in lost sales this year. One Business Owner we spoke with has been able to survive so far. There has to be assistance for businesses and also for individuals. Reporter b
Restaurants are being asked to scale back. Families celebrating a 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its their first Indoor Dining since march. I feel perfectly safe with the distancing, even though we are inside. Reporter steps away under heat lamps, other customers dined alfresco on a 50 degree evening. And buckeyes owner expects to shift more dining out here now that the Health Officer wants occupancy cut in half. If he thinks thats a good idea we are happy to go to that, go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter marin has been back at 50 capacity over a few weeks. Though the need to keep guests six feet apart dictates how many people can actually be served. There have been several super spreader events described from restaurants. Reporter reporting to county supervisors doctor willis is 25 occupancy lines up with most of the bay area and restaurants are risky because people move masks to eat and drink and tend to linger. Research point
The two candidates have to say on the final day of campaigning. At the marathon is now a sprint. The president and joe biden. You could say they are pecking two days into one with a number of rallies. The president is on day two of a seven state tents top tour of battleground states. Five today and another five events today. The president kicked it off in fayetteville, North Carolina this morning in front of a packed house. In 2016 by 20 hillary clinton. A 2020, trails biden six Percentage Points in that state. Next stop is wisconsin, and back to michigan. Trump talked about a number of topics from bolstering military to the Russian Investigation at brought it all home with the economy. A vote for me and the Republican Party is a vote for the american dream. And in conclusion, over the next four years, we will make america into the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we will end our reliance on china, which has already started. Lacto biden started this morning in ohio for an out
Force and warned tonight of another surge of covid19. It evening. Dr. Fauci stressed the importance of wearing a mask and following guidelines for social distancing. We are here in out more with what the doctor said about the pandemic and how students reacted to the virtual event. Reporter frank, doctor fauci spoke for 45 minutes tonight and a very frank conversation with Berkeley Students. It is my distinguished honor to welcome dr. Fauci to the berkeley form. Reporter in a virtual fireside chat sponsored by the form the Student Group in the school of Public Policy , dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases talked about the pandemic. I have never seen a disease with a wide range of clinical manifestations from 40 to 50 of the people who get no symptoms at all. Reporter he said the vaccine probably would not be widely available until spring or fall of next year. Our baseline of infection is around 40,000 per day, which is unacceptably high, so we
Amendment. A warning from white House Speaker nancy pelosi today, the democrats could once again be talking about removing President Trump from office. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman Speaker Pelosi made that comment today during a news briefing make it clear she is planning to talk about the 25th amendment tomorrow that outlines president ial transfer of power procedures. Catherine heenan the host of inside bay area politics is here with this warning from the speaker. Good afternoon catherine yeah, i new on all of this and were one less than a month away from the election. Nancy pelosi have been talking to reporters about covid19 as she was beginning to wrap Weekly News Conference she suddenly said this. What are we talking about here. Tomorrow by the way. Tomorrow. Come here tomorrow, well be talking about the 25th amendment but not to take attention away from the subject we have now. You think its time to invoke the 25th amendment. Ill ta