so as you know, mtc in its form as the bay area toll authority reduced toll rates on the bay bridge as a result of traffic and traffic will come rip roaring back and our current policy as a region is to balance the demand for mobility by using people's time rather than using their money. and this would be a good time to experiment with actual decongestive pricing on the bay bridge, particularly given health impacts of storing the cue for the bay bridge in west oakland. that cue dumps a lot of particular emissions on the children growing up in west oakland and they have a life expectancy less than kids growing up in other neighborhoods. so, perhaps, it is time to have a real conversation about how to manage the transportation system regionally for the public good. and i know that pricing is unpopular as you all know from the fair conversations that we we've had at this board and it's how we balance supply and demand for all other public goods and that wasting people's time as opposed to asking them to spend their money means we don't have the resources to invest in improved services for

. >> the mtc is says while the vanderbilt study raises significant issues, it does not take into accountome important factors such as higher unemployment rates. the bay area council says it is already looking at the issue. >> it is 4:25. there are a lot of questions about what sports will look like when the games art again. most likely, the games will be played without fans. reportedly, once the games resume, it could relieve a lot of stress related to that pandemic. they are incredibly important. >> i would love nothing more than to see baseball come back to new york city. i don't think that is coming soon. i think we have to be honest about it. >> the nfl is planning to business as usual. looking ahead, here are some of the big moments coming to the 49ers this season. the 49ers will be playing the five prime time games including three of them on sunday night football. the 49ers have several east coast road trips. they could spend a week there with games between the giants and the jets that metlife stadium. >> last year we had great success. we do try to prepare. believe me came out we

. >> the metropolitan transportation commission or the mtc released some numbers comparing week day bridge this year and last year. 2020 numbers, obviously, down from 2019 but starting to creep back up. so, the hope is that this study will help everyone with their recovery strategy. commuters and transportation planners. i think one wildcard, though, in all of this is the work from home factor. will people decide they prefer it and stay home? that could help but the big take away is expect changes when this is all over. reporting live from oakland, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> now an abc7 news live desk update. >>> reopening the u.s. economy is in part dependent on widespread covid-19 testing. here at the live desk this morning i'm looking at rite aid's effort to triple capacity and jim peters spoke and rite aid will deliver 171 tests per day at 71 testing sites. >> at this point up until now largely health care workers and emergency responders. but, you know, we are now deploying this testing model to include all adults both symptomatic and asymptomatic. no testing sites in california y

. >> reporter: the mtc says traffic is slowly increasing. for the week of april 5, weekday traffic for the seven bridges, not including the golden gate came in under 1 million cars. by the end of april, more than 1.1 million vehicles. weekend traffic also inching up. from about 250,000 cars to more than 330,000 cars. transportation tprevent traffi the shelter in place order is lifted. not a lot of details yet, but bart and other transit agencies are telling me, they are working on ideas to try to get people to come back to public transit once the shelter in place order is lifted, for example, bart is looking at using those one-time use hand straps for passengers. >>> a live look at the hills of lafayette right now, inland areas of the bay area today seeing temperatures in the 90s, our chief meteorologist joins us now with how long this heatwave is going to hang around. it's beautiful outside. >> it is nice outside but it's definitely toes with toasty. new record territory for inland areas, santa rosa made it up to 91 degrees just three degre

the mtc says tolls will resume next week. they were suspended in march because of shelter in place orders but at 5:00 a.m. monday, drivers will have to start paying again on 580 at alameda county and 680 and contra costa county and 237 on santa clara county. >>> the bay area is feeling the heat. some spots reaching the 90s and even triple digits today. we found people in napa taking walks and bike rides early to try to beat the high temperatures work it was another warm one and it is still warm outside right now. >> it is hot in a lot of locations. inland, into the 90s. in the city, it was kind of startling coming in from san ramon where it was in the 90s. in the 60s in san francisco. feels like summer time even though that is technically three and half weeks away. big changes on the way. a heat wave will break down. at a storm system will be making its way toward us and it will send a cold on tortoise friday and even a rain chance saturday. we have seen clouds and fog along the coast. you can see the outline here. mainly sun

. >> the mtc released data today comparing all of the bay area's bridge traffic with a week in march for the same time last year. the 2020 numbers are way down compared to 2019 but it's starting to rise. >>> birthdays and graduations have not been the same because of the shelter-in-place rules. now santa clara rule has banned car parades or drive through celebrations. even if everyone stays in their ca unless there's a blatant violation, they'll just issue citations about this. >>> the coronavirus pandemic is new calls to shut down live animal markets. >>> there's no shortage. there's lots of meat. >> reassuring words from california cattle ranchers tonight but they do have a warning. >>> and why air fare prices are expected to take off, how much more you might be paying when the restrictions finally ease. >>> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. a taste of summer is coming up. i'll have the temperatures straight ahead. >>> a look at jt wom"jimmy kimm live." >> thanks dan and ama. watch this. >> wasn't busy doing clearly everything else. >> you should coo right now, you need and endless

i will sit on that task force along with the general managers and the larger transit operators and mtc commissioners and stakeholders throughout the region. we're expecting the sfmta to receive $197 million. this is hugely helpful and allows us to close out this fiscal year without layoffs, which we are deeply indebted to house speaker nancy pelosi for her strong leadership in making that happen along with advocates from all over the country who helped push that funding all the way to final approval in congress. in addition to the cares act, as you probably know, the house is currently debating the second potential traunch of federal funding called the heroes act and the current measure includes another over $15 billion of funding for transit relief. there's an increasing recognition the success of public transit is essential for the over all economic recovery of all of our metropolitan regions. if essential workers can't get to work, the recovery can't happen and if essential workers are all expected to get in their cars and drive to work, the transportation system simply can't handle

. >> the mtc released data today comparing all of the bay area's bridge traffic with a week in march for the same time last year. the 2020 numbers are way down compared to 2019 but it's starting to rise. >>> birthdays and graduations have not been the same because of the shelter-in-place rules. now santa clara rule has banned car parades or drive through celebrations. even if everyone stays in their cars. san jose's police chief says unless there's a blatant violation, they'll just issue citations about this. >>> the coronavirus pandemic is new calls to shut down live animal markets. >>> there's no shortage. there's lots of meat. >> reassuring words from california cattle ranchers tonight but they do have a warning. >>> and why air fare prices are expected to take off, how much more you might be paying when the restrictions finally ease. >>> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. a taste of summer is coming up. i'll have the temperatures straight ahead. >>> a look at jt womjt womjt wom live." >> thanks dan and ama. watch this. >> wasn't busy doing clearly everything else. >> you should coo

i will sit on that task force along with the general managers and the larger transit operators and mtc commissioners and stakeholders throughout the region. we're expecting the sfmta to receive $197 million. this is hugely helpful and allows us to close out this fiscal year without layoffs, which we are deeply indebted to house speaker nancy pelosi for her strong leadership in making that happen along with advocates from all over the country who helped push that funding all the way to final approval in congress. in addition to the cares act, as you probably know, the house is currently debating the second potential traunch of federal funding called the heroes act and the current measure includes another over $15 billion of funding for transit relief. there's an increasing recognition the success of public transit is essential for the over all economic recovery of all of our metropolitan regions. if essential workers can't get to work, the recovery can't happen and if essential workers are all expected to get in their cars and drive to work, the transportation system simply can't handle

. >> great, and the other question i had, you mentioned this mtc past force for recovery and you talked about for the next town e money and focusing on the core it needs and not on some new programme related to working together. i just wasn't clear on that. >> so all the operators have been really clear. look, we just need our money. there is an existing sta formula that works well at divvying it up. and it should be tied to financial losses. as you go into the details, there are questions about the margins of should you get this much money or this much money and so there is -- there's some discussion about how traunch 2 gets divvied up but it will be directly tied to our actual losses. the task force, however, will continue well beyond when the last of the cares act funding is distributed. i'm really focused how we establish priorities for transit for the whole region and how do we help make the system more seem less from a user perspective. you know, and opening up many questions in that regard and i think there's so much we can do that is relatively low-hanging fruit. if we had a goo

i will sit on that task force along with the general managers and the larger transit operators and mtc commissioners and stakeholders throughout the region. we're expecting the sfmta to receive $197 million. this is hugely helpful and allows us to close out this fiscal year without layoffs, which we are deeply indebted to house speaker nancy pelosi for her strong leadership in making that happen along with advocates from all over the country who helped push that funding all the way to final approval in congress. in addition to the cares act, as you probably know, the house is currently debating the second potential traunch of federal funding called the heroes act and the current measure includes another over $15 billion of funding for transit relief. there's an increasing recognition the success of public transit is essential for the over all economic recovery of all of our metropolitan regions. if essential workers can't get to work, the recovery can't happen and if essential workers are all expected to get in their cars and drive to work, the transportation system simply can't handle

the mtc has allocated $250 million for her agency. >> we are extremely excited to have received a portioncharacter funding. >> reporter: a spokesperson says the mpc allocated it $197 million, with san francisco international airport getting help. >> this is something that we had already received confirmation of, we know that our cut of that will be about $254 million. >> reporter: the tweet was part of a series of posts touting federal help for transportation agencies in other states as well. all money must be approved the federal government, that is happening right now. according to a spokesperson, the president's announcement coincides with that process. >> for us this would help address the revenue shortfall. >> right now, bart, sfo, one step closer to getting their hands on the federal money. in the meantime, the remainder of the money will allocate it at $529 left, will be allocated sometime over the summer. >>> drivers headed in both directions through the caldecott tunnel may run into delays during the overnight hours. caltrans will close the right area of the tunnel on eastbound 2

. >> the metropolitan transportation commission or mtc released some numbers for bridge traffic compared this year and last year. 2020 numbers are down from 2019, but they are starting to creep back up. the hope is this study will help everyone with their recovery strategy, commuters and transportation planners. take a look at the traffic at the toll plaza and heavier than what we saw at the beginning of this lockdown. people are a out and about as restrictions are starting to ease. reporting live in oakland, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> a live desk update. >>> reopening the u.s. is in part dependent on widespread covid-19 testing and here at the live desk i'm looking into rite-aids efforts to triple the testing capacity. ceo jim peters spoke on "gma" this morning. starting on monday rite-aid will deliver 71 tests per day. >> at this point up until now it has been largely health care workers and emergency responders, but we are now deploying this testing model to include all adults both symptomatic and asymptomatic. >> there are no testing sites in california yet, but peters says he be

even in this time of crisis, the stories of selflessness and creative acts by mtc members serve to me as a constant reminder when the going gets tough, the tough get innovating. thanks to their commitment, entrepreneurial spirit and their support of this committee as well as agencies like the fcc and rus, community-based providers were well prepared to keep americans connected during a crisis. ntca members have led the charge in building future-proof broadband networks for years with over 60% of the customers having access to connectivity in speeds in excess of 100 megabits. more than half of the signers of the fcc's chairman pledge to keep americans connected are ntca members. and so many have gone above and beyond that pledge in terms of keeping their families, friends and their neighbors connected. smart rural community carriers from big bend in texas, expanding their network, school administrators to connect over 100 students in three days and bump up all their consumers to the next tier service for free, amtc in north carolina, who immediately offered broadband at no cost to hous