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Coronavirus pandemic, personal protective equipment, and it's led to one man's arrest. new at 6:00, the abc7 nws i-team digs into broken promises he made to customers here in the bay area. we're not going back to the way things were. >> it could be weeks until some businesses reopen, and months for others. tonight a update on the lifting of restrictions in california. i'm luz pena in san francisco's mission district, where the fourth and final day of testing is under way. they're expecting at least one thousand people to get tested today. abc7 news at 6:00 starts right now. now, your healt...

Appeared to not understand himself whether his state rule actually does supersede local rules that are stricter or not. i mean that is something that he just signed, but he appeared to not understand that that was the meaning of what he signed. that's your leadership in florida on this with, again, heading toward 10,000 cases already. and, you know, federal leadership would help here. as governor cuomo just said live on our air, this is nothing that any state can face alone. but in the case of these governors who are blowing it and who have done these things that have let the virus spread unch...

Why would you do that in florida? you might have seen this story from a few days ago about the coronavirus denialist mega church pastor in tampa bay who was busing in hundreds of people to huge, packed, mass church services. he was actually stopped by the county from doing that because of the county's social distancing rule. well, the florida governor's new statewide rule has an exemption for religious services which says that his order doesn't apply to religious services, and he has a second order saying that this state rule now supersedes anything in place at the local level. so what the flo...

Hairy reed calling it an era of obstruction and inaction. when you look at the 2020 candidates, the only that have called it out are senator warren and jay inslee. >> in fact, joe biden called it a very dangerous move so there's a division in the party on this. >> there is, because if you're democrats and you look at again what we're talking about, the two senator per state rule, it is not at all guaranteed that democrats are routinely going to be the majority party in the senate and the short-term benefit of ending the filibuster in 2021 could easily come back on the other side in a few years...

>> what's different is just a sheer weight of the -- the ra pidty with which these events have been occurring. you have a republican party, particularly in the senate that is rooted in smaller, rural states where gun culture is very strong. if you go back to the 2013 vote on the background checks and you assign half of each state's population to each senator, the senators who voted for the background checks represented about 195 million people. the senators who voted against hit represented about 120 million people. you can't get more decisive than that in a democracy, and yet the 120 people b...