Right behind me Dicks Sporting Goods finally reopening this morning but business will not be the same because they will have to do curbside pickup. 3 counties as you mentioned will be reopening their stories this morning, although technically it went into effect one minute after midnight after being shut down for more than 7 weeks because of the shelter in place which has devastated the economy and devastated individual families. But those 3 counties, including Sonoma County and by the way im in petaluma Solano County and napa county. All 3 counties have shown governor Gavin Newsome and the state that they have a good handle on coronavirus a couple of criteria, including no one has died from coronavirus in those 3 counties over the past 2 weeks that they have adequate hospital beds should another explosion of coronavirus breaks out throughout their community that they did meet certain requirements which is why other counties like alameda and San Francisco county because simply they hav
6 hours into the news, a new phase stories like Dicks Sporting Goods will be open to the public when they open the doors at around 10 oclock in the morning, however, you are not allowed to go inside to get about browsing like we did before the pandemic it will be Curbside Pickup, so you will have to know your item either call ahead or go online and then they will step out to give you your item take a look at your screen lets break down the 3 counties that did show Governor Newsom they are ready. Sonoma county. In petaluma Solano County as well as napa county. They had to meet certain criteria including nobody has died from coronavirus over the past 2 weeks. Their hospital beds. All ready to go just in case. That they have an explosion of coronavirus cases that they have 35 more capacity in case another explosion of coronavirus cases hit there, certain counties and that is one of the reasons why those particular locations are allowed to reopen in fact we just saw 2 employees walk into D
The stores and browse it will be social distance inside as far as the employees and outside for the customers look at the cones the markers right there 1, 2, 3, whats going to happen is it strictly online like for Sporting Goods like dix which will reopen today. Bookstores music stores, Clothing Stores. They also will be part of a face too as well, but heres how its going to work a lot of people have reached out to me and say how do you shop when you cant walk in. Well youre going to have to do shopping online at talked to a couple of employees you have to shop online or call and let them know exactly what you want give them your credit card information they will tally up the total. You come here. They will have like Something Like a tablet you get on your phone theyll walk out drop the items in your trunk and then you can drive off very minimal contact face to or not thats just the way its going to be but those places are happy to be open again let me show you the 3 counties so take a
Counties along with the city of berkeley. Sonoma county will be following the states model and open Retail Stores for Curbside Pickup and delivery solano and napa counties also say that theyre going to do the same thing. And one of those cities that will not begin reopening businesses today is oakland and joining us now to talk about that and other steps that shes doing to help try and keep the city safe is oakland mayor libby schaff american morning. Good morning. Well, the governor is loosening some of the restrictions that tell us about the thought process behind the city and county choosing not to take that step just yet. Well the governor also was clear that if counties didnt want to be more cautious he supported that and the bay area has been wellserved that we were the very first region in the country to impose shelter in place and thats why our rate of infection and death is lower than the california average and certainly that other states like new york and new jersey and so i