SF News Day Around the Bay: Six Bay Area Counties Will Not Be Doing Any Curbside Retail Sales Uber announced $2.9 billion in Q1 losses today, Virgin Hotels is suing the owner of the building it has been occupying on Fourth Street in SF, and health officers in six Bay Area counties want to make sure everyone knows our rules are different than what Newsom is saying.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Spotify Is Down! You probably already have noticed but a Facebook SDK took down the Spotify and TikTok iOS apps this afternoon, an SF man was arrested for a Tuesday stabbing in Santa Clara, and a local hotel is marketing itself as an escape from your home office.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Opens Two Free COVID Test Sites An inmate at SF County Jail tested positive for COVID-19 as he was booked with no symptoms, State Senator Scott Wiener introduced legislation to track data on LGBTQ people with COVID-19, and President Trump just said the coronavirus task force will be "wound down" later this month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Trader Joe's Workers In SF Test Positive UC Hastings and a merchant association have filed suit against the city over conditions in the Tenderloin, Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena has been released on bond, and Mayor London Breed is threatening to close Dolores Park if people don't stop crowding there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Most of SF's Billionaires Aren't Ponying Up for COVID Relief The California EDD is still having trouble processing applications for pandemic assistance, PG&E is purging three-quarters of its board, and rumors are swirling that Uber will move its headquarters to Dallas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Dumps Masks All Over I-880 A court dismissed Oakland's lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL, Twitter's stock slumped today after a lackluster 1st quarter earnings report, and an SF sheriff's deputy shot someone's dog on mid-Market.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce Cancels Dreamforce The SFPD was reportedly enforcing a curfew at a Civic Center tent encampment, the name of the guy who barricaded himself in Glide last week has been released, and the city is reimbursing workers who have money tied up in medical savings accounts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uber Headed For Major Layoff Nancy Pelosi is using a silk scarf for a face mask, Novato police are investigating a shooting between two cars, and a man in the Tenderloin was reportedly attacked with a machete last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Breed Apologizes For FEMA Comments SF may lease the Art Institute's Fort Mason campus for COVID housing, the death of a San Jose woman in early February was caused by a coronavirus infection in her heart, and the California state bar exam is being delayed until September.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Shelter-in-Place Order Likely to Be Extended A pair of San Francisco women were charged for allegedly coughing in a Civic Center Walgreens in order to rob it, the city revealed that there are 113 confirmed COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities, and Mayor London Breed foreshadowed sheltering orders extending to June.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Second Infection Shuts Down Navigation Center Gilead's much talked about antiviral drug remdesivir had a setback in a Chinese study and the company's stock tumbled, four elderly residents at an SF nursing home have now died of COVID-19, and a BART board member says they need to start talking about cutting hours and possibly jobs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Extends Free COVID Testing To Uninsured Residents An eviction protection ordinance just passed in Contra Costa County, BART confirms $250M in stimulus funding, and Gilead's drug remdesivir continues to show promise as a COVID-19 treatment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Orders Non-Residents Off Its Beaches Netflix has picked up 16 million new global subscribers, the LA antibody prevalence study suggests even more people have had COVID-19, and San Mateo County authorities questioned hundreds of people on beaches if they had traveled more than 5 miles to get there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mission District and SoMa Have High COVID-19 Rates Muni will restore the 5-Fulton and several other bus routes next week, protesters of stay-at-home order descended on Sacramento today sans masks, and the Mission, Dogpatch, Bayview, and SoMa appear to be San Francisco's hotspots for COVID-19 so far.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Require Face Masks as of Midnight SF will require facial coverings in public starting Saturday but not enforce the rule until next week, Kamala Harris said she'd "be honored" to be Biden's running mate, and UC Berkeley researchers are conducting a broad study of East Bay residents to track the asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outbreak At Safeway Distribution Center Kills One Nancy Pelosi will be put to the test in negotiating more stimulus funds, a team at UCSF is now using CRISPR technology to make a next-generation coronavirus test, and an outbreak of COVID-19 and one worker death at a Safeway facility in Tracy could lead to supply-chain issues.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda DA to Investigate Hayward Nursing Home Gov. Newsom announced a new fund to provide pandemic relief payments to undocumented people, Ayesha Curry is being sued, and the Alameda County DA's office is investigating the Hayward nursing home where now 13 elderly residents have died of COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Independent Contractors Can Receive Unemployment A Vallejo shoplifting suspect coughed on employees to flee with stolen goods, SFO is getting $255 million from the stimulus package, and a new CDC report says that over 9,000 U.S. healthcare workers have tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Makes Wearing Face Masks the Law Gov. Newsom says that a plan for an incremental lifting of sheltering orders is being coordinated between all West Coast states, BART is closing some station entrances, and Sonoma just made it illegal to leave the house without a facial covering.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Lights Bookstore Raises $300K To Keep Staff Paid, Stay Afloat An initial study of Gilead's drug remdesivir in 53 severe COVID-19 cases found 68 percent clinical improvement, Gov. Newsom hinted at a path to "some semblance of normalcy" in "a few weeks," and a pipe bomb report at an Oakland grocery store turned out to be nothing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Still Won't Let House Members Vote Remotely The city of Berkeley has recorded its first COVID-19 death, Eventbrite just laid off 450 people, and the US Postal Service is seeking an $89 billion bailout.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wuhan Lifts Its Lockdown Orders Furloughs and pay cuts hit the Tesla plant in Fremont, SF inks deal for nearly 2,000 hotel rooms for the homeless at $197 a pop, and lockdown is over in the Wuhan Province.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grand Princess Cruise Ship Docks at Pier 35 to Refuel and Restock on Supplies The Grand Princess cruise ship returned to the SF Bay today and docked at Pier 35 to refuel and gather more supplies, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey pledged $1B of his wealth to coronavirus relief efforts, and three inmates at the Santa Rita Jail have tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Transamerica Pyramid Beacon To Light Up For Healthcare Workers The Moscone Center homeless shelter will pivot to become smaller, BART is decreasing weekday service further to every 30 minutes, and a North Bay congressman has come to the defense of the Santa Rosa-born Navy captain who's been dismissed for publicizing the COVID situation on his aircraft carrier.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Organizers Post Update A nursing home in Orinda has 27 positive COVID-19 cases, Governor Newsom says he's secured 7,000 hotel rooms for the homeless, and San Diego County is now issuing $1,000 fines to people violating stay-at-home orders.
