the attorney general's office needs to approve the sale. >>> alameda county has the most coronavirus cases in the bay area surpassing santa clara county. >> reporter: alameda county and santa clara county are similar in population size and now in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. but the public health director says it is something they saw coming. . >> reporter: for weeks bay area have been keeping tabs on the new cases of covid-19, especially as counties start to ease stay-at-home orders. >> as we loosen we anticipate to potentially see bumps in cases. we want to see the trend over several days and hope it will stay stable. >> the number of new cases have stayed flat but it is now giving alameda county the unwanted title of the most confirmed coronavirus cases of any county in the bay area. since the start of the outbreak, back in january, santa clara was leading with the largest number of cases and then the numbers started to level off. at the same time the cases in alameda county kept growing. >> the number of cases increased but the number of new cases is 30 to 60 for the

we are just learning that alameda county will allow curbside pickup next week. santa clara and contra costa counties are holding resurgence until may 31st. >> day three, employees are back to work. they are also working under conditions where alameda sounding alameda county says it's okay they will be goin to review the safety measures, to make sure that tesla is up and running correctly. meantime, a lot of people are very vocal, they were out there today saying they want other businesses open and it's time. as tesla employees arrived to work today, they were greeted by a crowd of supporters who want to see all businesses back to work. >> we are here to support elon musk and the ability for him to open and have his workers save money >> we want our jobs back! >> they came to an agreement on safety measures for employees. they are allowing ramping up operations with specific guidelines. this group does not agree with that protocol. under what condition could they safely operate? >> been should not let them tell us what to do, they should make commissions on how we

mayor lily may sent the statement this afternoon saying she is very concerned, pleading with alameda county to work with tesla to make sure they can reopened and again scott haggerty saying county health officials are working with tesla to develop a safety game plan so they can reopen may 18. that is still the case at this point. >>> another warm weekend. health officials as per usual urging people to remember social distancing rules especially tomorrow on mother's day. is a gathering at lake merritt, the mayor of oakland wants residents to do this. >> the mother's day gift of 2020 is to take your mom, who is over the age of 65, to get a free covid-19 test. we want to get all of our seniors and anyone with medical conditions, people who smoke, anyone working outside of the home without symptoms, we want you to get tested. >> anybody who lives or works in alameda county can get tested for free at any of the oakland sites. as for the lake, the mayor says too many will gather there lately and it's time to quote give the like a brick. they will be extra patrol officers out over the weekend. >>>

but i think relatively speaking we are all in the same boat. >> reporter: sonoma county, 15 million, napa 20 million, alameda 140, santa clara, 285 million and then there is the city and county of sanford cisco. >> we anticipate a 1.1 to $1.7 billion budget deficit paid >> reporter: that means counties will be lining up for help from the state. >> the current budget proposal reflects a decline of 22.3 in r january budget. >> reporter: that's why some counties like marin are already taking their requests for help to washington. >> it's not typical that the federal government provides funding to the local and state governments, but in this case i think it's pretty much unavoidable. >> reporter: as for how local budgets will get balanced, it still far too soon to tell, because they are still uncertain about how bad the damage will be. >> we will certainly have to wait and see how the economy bounces back and how much revenue we are getting in terms of sales tax and many of the other local taxes we get next year and into the winter. >> reporter: just talking about counties, cities of course facing significant bu

>>production at tesla's plant in fremont continued tuesday after the alameda county health department ordered the car giant to shut down its operations president trump got involved on tuesday tweeting quote california should let tesla and elon musk open the plant now it can be done fast and safely soon after tesla ceo elon musk responded thanking the president i guess it was from doctor fauci i would probably pay attention a little bit more than. >>somebody told us a drink disinfectant alameda county supervisor scott haggerty who helped bring tesla to fremont reacted to the tweet on tuesday he's been in conversations with the county the last few weeks to get tesla reopened will also following the health department's orders i think if you get beyond the rhetoric that we're actually doing the work. >>it's happening. he says the original plan was to get the facility reopens next week tesla hoping for that date was certainly an unfortunate. >>i'm doctor bond has been transparent that. >>may 18th was the date she would like to see major employer open up again since march 23rd, the county d

so far neither police agency the alameda county sheriff's office. nor the fremont police department have taken any action the county health department was expecting to get self a brother, a safety plan from tesla by 5 o'clock today and it's unclear if that plan has been submitted governor newsome at his daily press conference today said that he was unaware of this factory reopening muscle at a tesla rather and moscow have threatened to leave the state of california. >>saying that the local shelter-in-place orders are a fascist overreach he wantto he wants to be allowed to re able on. he wants to be allowed to restart his production here and continue to work. despite the shelter-in-place orders it could prove to be pretty costly if he moves his operations out of the state of california and it could really hurt the local economy here in the bay area will of course continue to follow this story throughout the night stick with kron 4 for the very latest on that that's the latest here live in fremont dan thorn kron 4 news. >>thank you down now there are n

worth noting here, alameda county added 65 new cases and san mateo county added 69. alameda county almost equal. you can see it there, the lower right side of your screen. almost equal to santa clara county, which is the hot spot in the bay area. some positive news in the last 24 hours, no new deaths were reported. >>> back in business. hundreds of san francisco shops reopened today, but it wasn't business as usual. shoppers still have to order and pay online before picking up curbside, and there are new safety, sanitation, and social distancing measures that must be followed. customers lined up outside of green annpple books to show the support. >> it's very dehumanizing, but it's okay. it's better than nothing, i guess. >> curbside service doesn't really work for us so we're trying to find workarounds to service people and their urgent eye care needs and still comply with the protocol. >> optical underground is a family business that's been around. he says he can't really measure people for glasses from a distance. >>> from napa county to the whois, famed chef thom

. >> reporter: well, marcus, within the past 15 minutes i heard from the alameda county public health department. they told us yesterday tesla submitted to them a site-specific plan for the reopening of the plant behind me. the county is in the process of reviewing that. you'll really elon musk, the ceo, tweeted out what seemed like a dare to authorities to arrest him for the reopening of his plant in defiance of the alameda county shelter-in-place order. we've seen no indication that there's been any sort of enforcement action by the county or the fremont police department. for a second day in a row, you can see behind me, the employee parking lot is full as the factory resumes limited production of its electric vehicles. alameda county's health department said it did notify tesla yesterday that it could only maintain, quote, minimum basic operations until it submits that plan for a safe reopening, and until that plan is approved. tesla posted on its website a 38-page document of steps musk said the company has taken to return back to work. governor gavin newsom lifted restrictions f

alameda county seeing a spike in cases. tonight we asked the public health officer were and what needs to be done to slow down that spread. >> and we're just sitting here like ducks sitting on our hands. we can't do it anymore. >> also tonight, they took matters into their own hands. the bold move a bay area brewery made, defying the orders. >>> and a cooldown is headed our way, but when's it going to happen? the latest on our triple-digit heat as we continue to be stuck at home. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. as counties reopen cases are climbing. alameda county is now the hardest-hit area. the most impacted cities here, oakland and hayward. here's nbc bay area's cheryl hurd. >> reporter: the alameda county health officer agrees with people who say continue wearing your mask and stay at home if you can. now that restrictions are lifting she says it's no surprise that the numbers are increasing. we talked to one man who knows about that firsthand. >> somewhere

alameda county kept the restrictions in place. we spoke with supervisor scott haggerty. he says he is part of the conversations between tesla and the county's public health department. tesla agreed to do temperature checks on fremont workers before busting them in from all over the bay area. the plan was to open next week not yesterday. >> i wish elon would have waited one more week so we could have just done this in a methodical fashion that put people back to work safely. >> reporter: tesla filed a lawsuit against alameda county making the argument the state order should supersede the county's order. musk also tweeted a threat to shut down his factory in fremont and headquarters in palo alto and move them out of state. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks for the latest there. state leaders say 17 people who died while incarcerated are going to have a prayer vigil for them in san francisco. i want to show you that video from l.a. county inside a jail there. the sheriff there says inmates are purposely trying to infect themselves. showing inmates the

the worst is alameda county with just 28 tests per 200,000. the next problem is ppe, no bay area county has of masks, gloves, gowns and facials on hand for healthcare workers in the final problem is contact tracing, those people who figure out and track folks who infected people, may have been in contact with and isolate and quarantine them. >> we know more people are in contact with the public, there's a higher probability that they could contract the virus. >> there's an online course people can take to become contact tracers. san francisco has more than 100 contact tracers and santa clara county says it will need more than 1000. the bay area's meeting two of those five benchmarks right now in most of the counties and that is decreasing hospitalizations and decreasing positive cases but there are still three more to go. of course before things can be significant, many counties are looking up next monday, may 18 to start rolling into modified phase 2 restrictions. >>> some uber driver's are pushing for betty better rights and rages. wages. the

it is joined by san mateo county and alameda county. both announcing today they will allow retail and manufacturing next week. it comes as tesla's fremont factory is now back in operation with the county's approval. both sides agreeing on safety measures for plant employees. >>> the california air national guard launched from the fresno airbase just after 10:00 this morning. four is 15 eagle fighter jets flew over hospitals. the roaring tent engines heard all the way to santa barbara we are told, making their way back to their base. the original flight plan was changed to a include southern california. the thunderbirds said to fly over san diego as well as the los angeles areas on friday. a great tribute. >> i love seeing those. >>> thank you for watching a 7:00. the news ( ♪ ) we may be stopped, but the people we need, they keep moving. so we can start again. thank you. announcer: it's time to play "family feud"! give it up for steve harvey! [captioning made possible by fremantle media] [cheering and applause] steve: [indistinct]. thank

tesla is filing a lawsuit against alameda county immediately. the unelected and ignorant interim health officer of alameda county is acting contrary to the governor, the president, our constitutional freedoms and just plain common sense. he's referring to dr. erica pan who refuses to allow manufacturing facilities to reopen under the shelter in place order even though state and federal government say it's okay to do so. >> really focus on trying to save lives. but i'm also laser focused on trying to get people back to work. >> musk tweeted frankly, this is the last straw. tesla will move it's headquarters to texas, nevada, immediately. even if we remain fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependent on how tesla is treated in the future. >> just needed to give us another week to get this done right, to make sure that his employees came back safely. >> musk clearly under pressure to resume making electric cars and bring 14,000 employees back to work. >> he's got a huge factory and trying to get his production back on. but at the same

is this really has shut down because according to alameda county. they said they can resume until next week but you judge for yourself if this is even resuming or is it just business as usual or is shut down and sell they can resume. it's think it's safe to say that marty's restaurant or whatever can not get a personal meeting just like elon musk did alameda county officials late last night. >>arby's restaurant just doesn't think bring in the tax money that tesla test thanks a lot. we'll. all right let's go and get you caught up on the forecast want to turn now to dave spahr we had a little rain yesterday throughout the day dave and looks like we have some good clearing today. >>id over the scrambled eggs and hardee's restaurant there anytime you want. we go mountains and whatever. yeah good morning marty good morning everybody we're seeing some sunshine going on this morning. it's kind of a nice little treat. but this afternoon we still got to keep in there a couple scattered showers are still in our future that will probably be delayed though to t

small businesses doing business with curbside pickup napa solano and sonoma counties are already in phase 2. in the east bay alameda and contra costa county they are still in large part lockdown but health officials say they're going to make a decision soon as soon as today on when they will get rolling again santa clara county. the hardest hit local area. currently remains in lockdown. so let's go to san ancisco and see how it's going so far out on the streets kron 4 sarah stinson is live. good morning. sara. >>good morning. daryn we have about an hour intel retailers can open for curbside pickup, i've been driving all of the city you know here back on union street then went to fill more right now i'm live on chestnut street i talked to the owner of this clothing store named address he said that they are opening for curbside pickup they've they have a web site and they've been online of course 24 7 haven't seen a whole lot of business. it's been very slow, but they're opening up to get to employees back in the door and working at least responding to emails and doing things like that, but he is not optimistic in te

his frustrations on twitter saturday morning stating quote tesla is filing a lawsuit against alameda county immediately. the unelected and ignorant interim health officer of alameda is acting contrary to the governor the president. our constitutional freedoms and just plain common sense. he went on to say quote frankly this is the final straw tesla will now move its headquarters and future programs to texas and nevada immediately for us, i mean i would be a huge we went to a deadly one for the debt. >>i'm sure there's a way for all of us to work together to help solve this issue fremont city council member at-large raj so long and council member benny bacon expressed concern over musk's comments equation praising the alameda county public health department for how it's managed the covid-19 pandemic. >>but also understanding how important tesla and its 10,000 employees are to the city obviously this would be a huge hit for if they were to leave so i definitely would like. >>alameda county to work closely with tesla and mister musk and try to come up with some solution to get them back to ope

other car companies resume production this week around the u.s., tesla filed a lawsuit against alameda county demanding to do the same. governor newsom is not taking sides. >> and i have great expectations that we can work through at the county level the issue with this particular county and this company in the next number of days. >> reporter: musk doubled down over the weekend, tweeting a threat to move the company to nevada or texas. hidalgo county in texas sent a letter to him saying it's ready to accommodate tesla. musk tweeted back, the note is much appreciated. the county says tesla will be cleared when their reopening plans are approved. they were expecting to get those plans tonight. in fremont, ian cull, nbc bay area news. >> we shall see. thank you, ian. >>> san francisco mayor london breed revealed her plans today to partially reopen the city by monday. among the types of businesses that can reopen, bookstores, florists, record stores, music, art and beauty supply stores as well as produce markets. all storefront pickup and delivery service only. >> i know that people are anxious

2 will start alameda county officials say they anticipate moving into early-stage to next week contra costa county will decide on monday santa clara county currently remains in phase. one it has not yet provided to date on when it will move into phase 2. >>we head now to sonoma county officials say there are already looking to open the county up even further that would include opening up more businesses, including wineries hotels and outdoor seating at restaurants, but the county has to get permission from the state first kron four's gayle ong live in downtown sonoma a very popular spot for wineries and restaurants and she has more for a scale. >>sonoma county not met all criteria to move past the states, not timeline but county leaders here they believe the science proves otherwise. 18 counties in california got the green light from governor gavin newsome to further ease covid-19 restrictions sonoma county is hoping to make that list the criteria is not the ballot by a u.s. scientist or a doctor in the cdc. >>developed by the state according to the governor to of the criteria to pass

it's pay alameda county in contra costa county remain in phase. one, however health officials say that they will be making a decision. >>on phase 2 as early as today as for santa clara county. the hardest hit. county here in the bay area they currently remain in phase, one. >>let's go now to san francisco and phase 2 and how that's going to go there kron 4 sarah stinson standing by live this morning has there. >>hey there. yes, san francisco and in san mateo they're all entering phase 2 but here in the live on news really get behind the camera you can see a lot of the stores look like this they are still boarded up. and so it's interesting to see that you know they're supposed to be opening up the curbside pickup at 10 o'clock if you'd like to but a lot of stories i'm telling you feel more you need the chestnut a lot look like this all boarded up. take a look at your screen we do have a list of the guidelines that retailers must follow to be eligible for store front pick up. >>customers are not allowed to enter the store still there can be no more

today alameda county health leaders say they are in talks with tesla on a reopening plan but confirm the company right now is defying shelter in place orders. employees and neighboring businesses are expressing their concerns. >> on one side you have tesla ceo elon musk. on the other alameda county leaders battling on whether the state's largest manufacturing employer should be allowed to open up. right in the middle are tesla's thousands of employees. >> the employees are caught in a power struggle. >> speaking anonymously, a tesla production line employee says he was told to return to work on sunday night. he justified of the county's stay-at-home order instead. >> i was told that i would be removed from furlough, placed on unpaid leave and told that my unemployment benefits could be impacted. >> this afternoon musk tweeted that tesla was restarting production today against alameda county rules. i will be on the line with everyone else. if anyone is arrested asked that it only be me. >> i think it is a mistake. >> douglas frisby understands his want to get back to work. he also kno

a live report on tesla taking alameda county to court to fac. one bay area city already taking action to save money. next, key service that is are on the chopping block. and a good morning to you. thank you for starting your morning right here with us. i'm marcus washington along with the rest of the team. you see laura as well as kari and mike. kari with a quick look at the forecast today. >>> marcus, we're starting out our week with a chance of some showers moving in. we've been watching the storm system as it approaches the coast and as it moves in today it will bring in a chance of spotty, light rain into the evening. we do have a dry start as we look in dublin this morning. our temperature trend in the low 50s and a much cooler day after some high heat to start out last week. we'll talk more about this in the forecast coming up. laura? >>> kari, we'll check back with you. a bay area baby is recovering after contracting a disease that's linked to covid-19. it is getting the attention most certainly of parents of young children across the bay

it's the clash between alameda county and tesla that appears to be over the county health department announcing late last night that the tesla factory in fremont will be allowed to go beyond basic operations. and kron four's will tran is live at the tesla facility in fremont this morning but the details will. >>robin there's a big if if they can go on so full operations provided that tesla proves alameda county health officials that they're doing all the measurements that they possibly can to make sure that their employees are safe. they will monitor the situation and if everything goes well and everything stabilized no explosion in coronavirus cases then they could resume full operations as early as next week you might recall that on monday ilan mosque, he tweeted out to the whole world that he planned to defy alameda county's shelter in place by sending employees back to work and we actually we were here yesterday we showed you just how busy this location was obviously that caught the attention of alameda county health officials they met what tesla officials late into the night. th

he's looking for a permanent injunction and a declaratory injunction against alameda county. mr. musk is saying we fall under the essential business definition of the federal government. he also under the state definition of a essential business. but, the county of alameda is telling him, no you don't. and he therefore, is going to the federal court, lawyered up, saying i want this stopped i want to be able to do my business. and i want the court to declare what the county is doing is illegal. >> at the end of the day, from a legal standpoint, doesn't the county have the final say here? the state and governor are issuing guidelines for reopening but do the local authorities have the final say? >> no they don't. the state has the final say and that's exactly what mr. musk is saying. of the county can go a little be beyond the circumstances. but mr. musk is a we are an essential business so you can't shut us down. that's what the litigation will be about. a federal judge will decide quickly whether mr. musk is correct or incorrect. >> do you think that elon musk and tesla will get t

the worst is alameda county with just 28 tests per 200,000. the next problem is ppe. no bay area county has a 30-day supply of masks, gloves, gowns and face shields on hand for health care workers. and the final problem is contact tracing. people who figure out and track folks who infected people may have been in contact with and isolate and quarantine them. >> we know that the more people are in contact with the public, there's a higher probability that they could contract the virus. >> reporter: there's an online course people can take to become contact tracers followed by hiring processes. san francisco has more than a hundred contact tracers, and santa clara county says it will need more than a thousand. >> we will also be keeping a close eye on the data, specifically, we will be looking at hospitalizations of covid-positive patients as our metric of whether to move forward with expanded curbside pickup and take-out. >> reporter: now, many bay area counties are eyeing may 18th, that is next monday, a week from today, as a possible loosening of the shelter-in-place

alameda county has a shelter in place order. we've reached out to the alameda county sheriff's office still waiting to hear comments. the sheriff's office did tell reuters that the state order announced yesterday does not supersede the county order. not clear what, if anything, the sheriff's office or other authorities might do or actions they might take if tesla reopens today. tesla told its employees that it would resume limited operations with only about 30% of the employees who would normally be working on a given shift. cnbc points out it's not clear how they can build vehicles with that reduced head count. tesla writes alameda county's shelter in place faqs on their website state energy manufacturing, which includes electric vehicles, is still permitted. you might recall for a brief time back in march that tesla stayed open in defiance of the stay-at-home order before finally shutting down. last week elon musk called the shelter in place orders throughout the u.s., quote, fascist. in a brief communication yesterday he wrot

monday san francisco marin and san mateo counties will also move into phase 2 in the east bay alameda county officials anticipate moving into early-stage to next week. contra costa county will decide on monday santa clara county. the hardest hit local area. currently remain remains in phase. one it has not yet provided a time frame for announcing when it my progress into phase 2. >>and joining us to see how phase 2 will look in san francisco kron four's reyna harvey she's live in union street with more this morning high rain a good morning. >>good morning and yet starting monday you can stop by some of your favorite retail shops and pick up some items but all of that has to be done curbside so you'll pull up right the air pick up some of your items and the on your way know we're going to show you on your screen right now. what are some of the requirements for some of these local retailers to open back up. they must have clear access to a sidewalk street parking lot or an alley tease for pickup. no more than 10 employees on cited once now the store must not be in an enclosed shopping center u

alameda county has 63 new cases. san mateo county reporting 59 new cases, and santa clara county, 15 new cases. >>> covid-19 cases are surging in alameda county and surpassed santa claire kw santa clara county as the bay area hot spot. oakland and hayward are reporting the most infections, and an oakland pastor still recovering from covid-19 says people need to take the virus more seriously. >> it's horrible. it's horrible. that's why i don't understand why people are not listening to those professionals. >> alameda county's health officer agrees with people saying it's still a good idea to continue sheltering at home if you can. currently there are more than 100,000 infections statewide. >>> as that oakland pastor continues to recover alameda health leaders will host a hall begins at 9:00 this morning and details are posted on nbc b nbcbayarea.com. >>> and then among some of the changes with bart is eliminating 19 new bart police officers, and it calls for 100 new officers over five years, and bart is dealing with a

tesla, while it is ignoring the order, it is in talks with alameda county we know that they presentedof back to work plan, they are in talks with county officials about keeping workers safe area elon musk's argument is if other manufacturers in the u.s. are allowed to reopen in the u.s., why should tesla not be allowed to be? he cited tesla's experience in china, they had shanghai plant closed because of the virus. they were able to reopen successfully. these are the things happening in parallel for getting fremont up and operational. emily: meantime you have got anthony fauci warning the country reopening too soon could backfire. a huge camp of people want people to reopen. there is also the public health crisis. is there any chance the county could or would arrest elon musk? ed: it would be up to fremont police department to make that decision. it is not one for the state, and it is not for the county health officials. there is for the fremont police to judge whether elon musk and contravention of the rules. that has not happened and there are talks ongoing in alameda county -- they

tesla pushing to reopen its plant comes as alameda county sees a large increase in covid cases. the county reporting 60 new cases today, bringing the total number of cases to more than 2,000 there. sonoma county added nine more cases today. >>> businesses continue to reopen in three north bay counties and today a big test. the first weekend. did shoppers come out? nbc bay area's sergio quintana is in vallejo tonight with a look. >> reporter: at b & b floral, the cooler is filled with bouquets in vases, ready for customers. >> every one of these racks were backed up four deep with arrangements. >> we had to put all this together. >> reporter: the shop owner says they've had one of the busiest mother's day weeks ever. >> not thinking we were going to open and that's why i had so much business on monday. >> reporter: those delivery orders are great news after being shut down for weeks, and this weekend, thanks to the newly amended stay-at-home orders in solano county, they reopened with limited capacity for customers. this is the first day they've been able to see customers face to

but said an alameda county official quote illegally overrode the move. plus as the tesla is being singled out the parking lot at the fremont factory was nearly full today, this comes just 2 days after musk sued alameda county and threatened to move tesla's headquarters out of state. alameda county is responding tonight in a statement, the public health department said in part. we have notified tesla but they can only maintain minimum basic operations until we have approved a plan that could be implemented in accordance with the local public health order. we are addressing this matter using the same phased approach we use for other businesses which have violated the order in the past and we hope that tesla will likewise comply without further enforcement measures. state law also allows a fine of up to a $1000 a day or up to 90 days in jail for violating health orders. the story is still developing so coming up tonight at kron 4 news at 6 we'll have a live report from fremont with an update on tesla. now here in the bay area we have more than 9800 coronavi

i can tell you that alameda county sheriff's department in fremont police officers they nurturing the situation. they never made arrests in the case said if things get out of hand they say they probably won't make an arrest, but they obviously will work in tandem with alameda county health officials to see what's going on you might recall there is still a shelter-in-place for alameda county despite governor newsom entering phase 2 which allows for manufacturing but he also said he's leaving it up to local governments and jurisdictions to make that decision and in that case was alameda county that had the final call and they said they are not ready to go which angered elon musk to the point where even on saturday night murray. you might recall also that he filed he wasn't sitting around drinking wine he actually filed a lawsuit against alameda county saying the shelter in place was unconstitutional. so it seems like for now both sides can breathe a little bit. you can hear car honking right behind me cars coming and going. no full operations, not yet but it could happen as early as say

curbside service napa solano and sonoma counties are already doing that yeah in the east bay though alameda county in contra costa county are still in phase. one. however, health officials there say that they will be making a decision on phase 2. perhaps as early as today. santa clara county, however, which has been the hardest hit. currently remains in phase. one. so let's go to san francisco and see how it's going to go there so far early this morning, sarah stinson is live. hi sarah. >>hi there guys, i'm live on fillmore street where curbside pickup will be starting to be allowed around 10 o'clock this morning. i'm live in front of clothing shop over here all boarded up a jewelry store right here boarded up and a makeup store boarded up so it'll be interesting to see how many businesses decide to open for curbside pickup again that's starting at 10 this morning. take a look at your screen. we have a list of the guidelines, retailers must follow to be eligible for store front pick up. customers are not allowed to enter the store still there can be no more than 10 employees working on site at a t

despite restrictions being eased, so today tesla went to court filing a lawsuit alleging that alameda county violated its due process and equal protection under the law. now tesla's elon musk is threatening to move this entire operation out of the state. >> the last thing i want to see them do is leave. >> reporter: alameda county supervisor scott hagerty damage control saturday following a firestorm of tweets from tesla's ceo, elon musk, clearly unhappy about not being able to resume manufacturing operations at his plant in fremont. saturday afternoon tesla filed this lawsuit in federal court seeking an injunction against alameda county to allow the company to resume operations. >> we're really focused on trying to save lives, but i'm also laser focused on trying to get people back to work. >> reporter: earlier elon musk tweeted really this is the final straw. tesla will now move its headquarters and future programs to texas and nevada immediately. even if we retain fremont manufacturing activity at all will depending on how tesla is treated in the future. >> he needs to give us another wee

electric car maker has called employees back to its fremont factory in violation of alameda county's health orders. this isn't the first time that tesla has broken the shutdown roles. >> reporter: you are absolutely right. the call to come back to work at the fremont plant went out last night. today we found cars in the parking lot. from the sky you can see the physical manifestation of elon musk's email asking 30% of the company's workforce to come back to tesla's fremont factory in the form of simple parking lot. this is what the governor-based interface to that allows manufacturing to come back. the bay area did not. local orders like the bay areas may 31 date could supersede the states. >> guidelines based upon conditions on the ground and on those key indicators. i want to thank the local health directors in the bay area for doing what they think is right for their communities. >> reporter: that was backed up by alameda county's public health department that issued the statement saying the electric car maker is out of compliance. tesla has been informed they do not meet criteria

in the east bay we have alameda county a contra costa county both still in phase, one however health officials say they will. >>make a decision on face to perhaps as early as today. santa clara county, however, which has been the hardest hit here locally. currently remains in phase one with no indication on when they might interface to seems like people are antsy to get out and that's what we saw already over the weekend in san francisco an hour out there live this morning with sarah stinson hi sarah. >>i've area retailers can open for curbside pickup starting at 10 o'clock this morning. so it's still early but we're seeing what we're seeing behind me the store still boarded up completely doesn't look like the stores are opening up any time soon that's what we're live out here to see if the stores are going to take the boards off and start to let people pick up items at their door front take a look at your screen you can see the guidelines set by the live here on fillmore street that's whai'm seeing but these are the guidelines that you can see there's still not allowed to let any cu

the heaviest rain is falling in napa county, contra costa county and alameda county. some lighter showers along the coast making their way into san mateo county and we will see a few more light showers around the city as well but over all our rain chances will diminish over the next few hours. we've picked up over 4/10 of an inch of rain in santa rosa so the heaviest rain has fallen to the north bay, some spots, either nothing in the main bucket or barely more than a trace but there are more shower chances on the way for tomorrow and even wednesday. we'll talk about what happens as we go to the weekend in a few minutes for >>> still ahead on kpix 5 , photos of crowded flights causing some concern during this pandemic, what airlines are now doing to reduce the risk of transmission. >>> flames and smoke like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( p

he is suing alameda county and threatening to leave town. late last night the company posted a new plan to get its assembly line rolling again. here is "today in the bay's" roz plater. >> reporter: tesla posted on its website a return to work playbook. 38 pages of steps the automaker says it has taken to get back to work including covid-19 safety guidelines, worker health checks and ways to create social distancing. the automaker was hoping to get back to work on friday but alameda county hasn't eased pandemic restrictions yet even though the state has. on saturday the automaker upped the ante by filing a lawsuit against alameda county. >> it seems like the next move in their effort to reopen. >> reporter: bernadette mooiler is a stanford law professor. >> i wouldn't be surprised if this were settled rather than pursued to a final judgment. >> reporter: tesla ceo elon musk began the morning with a series of tweets threatening to pull his headquarters and the fremont manufacturing site out of california, some industry analysts say it may not

>>alameda county we're looking at probably the concentration of the rain here. i suspect there on the 5.80 that's a probably some false returns off to the east we tend to get the santa clara valley and also to note still some rain happening down there as well but this is starting to break up in successive imagery. we see there's alcatraz we finally can see it as the fog lifts off here and even san francisco into the bay bridge off to the left. meanwhile bay area temperatures just starting to get into the 60's oakland at 6064 for upper 50's meanwhile off to conquered. tri valley a 53 for livermore 57 going on for san jose. so your breakdown for today will do about 63 at 11 by 2 66, going to have quite a bit of cloud cover here all be optimistic and say variable clouds per ticket in the east bay for the afternoon. some daytime heating may pop up a little shower beyond that but more meaty showers potentially by tomorrow afternoon. we'll have a look at your longer-range forecast coming up in just a bit marty sounds good. dave, thanks le seen a few minutes. >>let's g

and after tesla filed a lawsuit against alameda county over shelter orders that are stricter than the statewide directive. >> i have great expectation that we can work through at the county level the issue with this particular county. and this company. >> the prospect of a big company more than 10,000 jobs leaving is frightening to bay area business leaders. >> let's get to a solution. and soon. let's not need lawsuits. let's have people working safely. >> one industry analyst cautions against taking his threats too seriously. >> i would take it seriously that he is looking to continue to negotiate for a better deal from the state. >> now late today the alameda county public health department put out a statement quote we have notified tesla that they can only maintain a minimum basic operation until we have an approved plan that can be implemented with the local public health order that statement went onto say from the county that they hope tesla will comply. without further enforcement action. the story is far from over: fr >> certainly. meanwhile musk tweeted today he appreciates an

the clash between alameda county and tesla appears to be over as the county health department announced late last night that the tesla factory in fremont will be allowed to go beyond basic operations kron four's will tran is live at the tesla facility in fremont this morning with the details well. >>robin i spoke to a fremont resident about 10 minutes ago and he says absolutely it's not fair that tesla gets a personal meeting with alameda county health officials and stabbed the smaller guys but he says let's face it they employ about 14,000 people there are major player. so he has no problems with the compromise that alameda county health officials are doing with tesla you can clearly see it is not shut down and they have minimal work there are people still heading into tesla at this time and according to alameda county health officials in their late night bargaining session that they reached the deal if everything is meant that safety measures are in place that there's no spike in health indicators like coronavirus cases then they can resume full operations as early as next week. this

. >>> on abc 7 news at 6:00, tesla head by ceo elon musk is suing alameda county. county's stay-at-home order. >>> one of three cruise ships has arrived at the port of oakland. they'll be docked there the next two or three months. how this is helping to solve an international issue. >>> plus, the fda has granted emergency authorization for a different kind of coronavirus test. we explain how it works, next on abc 7 news at 6:00. >>> it was a fierce barrage of twee ts today bis teaas become reality. tesla is suing alameda county over its shelter-in-place order that does not allow tesla to resume manufacturing operations and he may not stop there. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm dion lim. abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard joins us live in fremont now with what we know about the suit's claims. cornell? >> reporter: yeah, dion, alameda county has made it very clear tesla cannot operate during the shelter-in-place order despite restrictions being eased, so today tesla went to court filing a lawsuit alleging that alameda county violat

alameda county health department gave them. green light for them to go back to work this morning and sure enough that's exactly what they're doing. but over the weekend. a lot of tesla employees. they saw the writing on the wall you would think they would be happy to head back to work but many of them were not because they were fearful that they could come down with coronavirus caught in the middle of all this governor gavin newsome because it's his job to obviously keep the economy going but he did refer to local officials to make the final call in this case. alameda county health officials did not want tesla to move forward until the first week of june. the governor says in the end. both sides just came to an agreement. >>it's a spirit of those that continue to pursue things that put people in harm's risk you have to have stepped up efforts of enforcement of sanctions but that was not the case and respect that tesla they did work with alameda county partners and alameda county health officials are satisfied that they are like

however, alameda county didn't lift those restrictions which meant that tesla was in violation of the county's shelter in place order. tesla sued in federal court arguing that the state order should supersede the county order not the other way around. tesla's ceo elon musk even dared authorities to arrest him when he reopened on monday. now it's not clear if his company will face any consequences for reopening in spite of the county order. musk has become a cause celeb for other business owners. some describe unreasonable government orders. the knnovel coronavirus has kild many. reporting live here outside the tesla factory in frefremont, bo redell, "today in the bay." >>> six county bay area orders still stand. take a look at this map here as you see all the counties in yellow. they are sticking to their own plan. many people are asking the santa clara health department why. health officials admit most of the numbers are looking better. cases are leveling off and there are almost half as many hospitalizations as on april 1st. >> we have exactly the same conditions that we had in marc

this is what the health department said in alameda county. they have said we have notified tesla that they can only maintain minimum basic operations and so we have an approved plan that can be implemented. >>in accordance with the local public health order. now if you're wondering what governor gavin newsome said right before his news conference in all of yesterday at around noon. >>they told the governor what was going on at possibly elan musk was set to defy orders. he said that he was hoping that elan musk would get back to work not today. but next week which is even earlier than alameda county was prepared to do. he didn't know what was going on and then even he said that i'm concerned about all businesses in california. not just tesla the llamas said if you must make an arrest don't around arrest as employees. but a rest. >>will is there any way of knowing what minimum basic operations is when it comes to tesla. >>what we understand they were already working on some ventilators at this facility so we did see employees come in go over th

alameda county says. thank you governor, but we are not ready to live shelter in place. and so the end of may and that is frustrating you are a must not only it's costing him millions of dollars you just heard is street. e says it's unconstitutional that he believes his company is part of the critical infrastructure that needs to get back to full operation and he says if alameda county does not do that or if the governor does not step in and allow his employees to get back. well he says it's an easy choice for him that he'll take his plan to either texas which currently has no business in texas at this time but is already getting the welcome mat rolled out by texas senator ted cruz saying we would love to have tesla in texas or he could go to nevada which he currently does business. a lot of the batteries for the tesla automobiles. they are manufactured in tesla and the 2 things the one thing that those 2 places have in common james they're not strict. what shelter in place in the isla must being elan musk and let's face it, he's quite a century. even if shelter in place

coming up i'll tell you why he is suing alameda county because of shelter in place. and the coronavirus in the white house, some of the people closest to the president are falling ill. >>to the virus. and now officials are racing to contain the outbreak. good morning. thank you for joining us on this monday may 11th, i'm james fletcher and i'm darya folsom we'll get those headlines in a minute first want to start with the rain which is forecast for the bay area today, let's see how it's going. >>from john travels couch should morning. john yeah, i'm going to stay here on the couch to the rain just another excuse no one is pretty clear right now we do have rain on its way later and this is the first rank we see a bowl to pull weeks across the bay, so something to break up the normal which has obviously been still a lot of sunshine and comfortable weather for a lot of us can see the golden gate bridge still nice and clear this morning by the time we work our way into the afternoon not going to be here sunday in fact a little wet out there for our evening commuters who

>>today, we know tesla has dropped a federal lawsuit against alameda county. the lawsuit came after tesla accused the county's health department of overstepping federal in strict state restrictions when it stopped tesla from restarting production at its fremont factory. alameda county eventually gave elan musk permission to resume after he threatened to move operations out of the state tesla's fremont factory employs about 10,000 workers and can make roughly 40,000 cars a year. >>today, the city of san jose and santa clara county officials announced free covid-19 testing for all residents, you can now get tested at the police athletic league stadium that's in east san jose officials say they chose this location because about 40% of the current covid-19 cases in santa clara county have been found in east san jose but only about 20% of testing has been done there. officials say they want to ramp up testing in this location to get a better picture of how the virus is spreading get tested, you must be 18 years old or older and sign a help authorization form for det

plus contra costa and alameda counties officially entered phase 2 of reopening today. how some businesses are adapting to the new rules. and one county is letting residents attend religious services from the safety of their car. but not all churches are taking advantage of the new rules. vehicle based gatherings and services are now permitted in contra costa county, the new health order goes into effect today and over the weekend a few schools were granted exceptions. so they could hold drive to graduation ceremony is a little bit early but now the option is available county wide kron 4 subject all reports the same goes for religious services drive-thru worship is now permitted. >>new hope church in concord will continue to stream its sunday services online rather than who's drive-thru warship. outdoors pastor, joe skiles says it's just safer this way i think churches all have to kind of decide what's best for them and it's predicated on what's really on your campus, what size of your congregation for us we can't do vehicle base canyons for those reasons you know our ou