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In this April 21, 2020, file photo, people sit and gather with belongings on a sidewalk in San Francisco. There are no tourists anymore on San Francisco's famously twisty and steep Lombard Street. The city's landmark hotels and posh shops are boarded up tight. But one staple of San Francisco has become even more pronounced since the coronavirus pandemic chased everyone inside. The city's homeless continue to sleep on the sidewalks and flap-to-flap in tents cluttered downtown and in other popular neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ** FILE **

San Francisco providing free alcohol, drugs to homeless quarantining in hotels

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 4, 2020, file photo, Robin Sotomayor, 5, wears a Supergirl face mask as she gets her hair done by Haylee Cummins at Rockabetty's Hair Parlor, in Yuba City, Calif. Donning a mask will be as common as putting on a cap or sunglasses for Californians as the state begins gradually easing stay-at-home orders, but rules about face coverings vary from county to county and it is unclear what enforcement might look like. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Masks become part of life in California, but rules vary

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2018, file photo Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco. In a world where social distancing has become a part of life and people are staying home in hopes of avoiding the coronavirus, companies that have built their business on the sharing economy are struggling. Ride-hailing companies are laying off thousands of employees as their once-loyal customers stay indoors. Those who venture out fear infection, and try to limit contact with others to minimize risk. And home-sharing apps such as Airbnb are slashing staff as the thought of opening living spaces to strangers begins to feel like an anachronism. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Uber lays off 3,700 as virus upends sharing economy

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo dozens of supporters of a measure to limit when companies can label workers as independent contractors circle the Capitol during a rally in Sacramento, Calif. California is suing ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, alleging they misclassified their drivers as independent contractors under the state's new labor law, AB5, in effect as of Jan. 1. Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the lawsuit Tuesday, May 5, 2020, during a news conference. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California sues Uber, Lyft over alleged labor law violations

By STEFANIE DAZIO - Associated Press

A surfer rides a wave as the sun goes down Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Newport Beach, Calif. The beach is one of the beaches kept open during the coronavirus outbreak. While some communities in Orange County have closed beaches, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach refused to limit access. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Protests mark growing unrest with California stay-home order

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

In this still image from video provided by the NFL, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks from his home in Bronxville, N.Y., during the NFL football draft Thursday, April 23, 2020. (NFL via AP)

The Latest: SEC breaks draft record with 15 1st-round picks

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2019, file photo, South Carolina defensive lineman Javon Kinlaw (3) warms up before the team's NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt in Columbia, S.C. Kinlaw was chosen by the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL draft. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

49ers make 2 trades, end up with DT Kinlaw, WR Aiyuk

By JOSH DUBOW - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Emilie Talermo, she is shown after being reunited with her six-year-old dog Jackson in San Francisco, on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Back in December, a distraught Talermo hired a plane to fly a search banner for her stolen dog. On Monday, the dog was found 370 miles (600 kilometers) away in Southern California. Talermo, 31, said Tuesday she received a call from an animal shelter in Palmdale telling her someone had just dropped off a blue-eyed mini Australian shepherd and that a scan of the dog's microchip had turned up her phone number. (Courtesy of Emilie Talermo via AP)

Dog found 4 months after being stolen from San Francisco

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, Tomas Aragon, health officer for the city and county of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference headed by public health directors spanning six Bay Area counties in San Jose, Calif. On the morning of March 15, as Italy became the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, a half dozen high-ranking California health officials held an emergency conference call to discuss a united effort to contain the spread of the virus in the San Francisco Bay Area. That call and the bold decisions that came in the hours afterward have helped California avoid the kind of devastation from the virus in parts of Europe and New York City. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group, File)

Fast decisions in Bay Area helped slow virus spread

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

A mushroom flag blows in the wind as thousands gather in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

London Breed, San Francisco mayor, warns of arrests if people gather to smoke marijuana on April 20

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 16, 2008, file photo, Del Martin, left, places a ring on her partner Phyllis Lyon, right, during their wedding ceremony officiated by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, center, at City Hall in San Francisco. Pioneering gay rights activist Lyon, who was among the first same-sex couples to marry in California when it became legal to do so, has died at her San Francisco home. Lyon died at age 95 of natural causes Thursday, April 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Civil rights pioneer and face of gay marriage dies at 95

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

Ann Arbor’s famed Violin Monster talks affordable housing

By MARTIN SLAGTER - Associated Press

In this Friday, March 27, 2020, photo, Nightbird Restaurant chef and owner Kim Alter, left, mimicks giving a hug to nurse practitioner Sydney Gressel, center, and patient care technician Matt Phillips after delivering dinner to them at University of California at San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco. A group of tech-savvy, entrepreneurial San Francisco friends wanted to help two groups devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. They came up with a plan that involved soliciting donations, tapping friends in the restaurant world and getting San Francisco hospitals to accept free food cooked up by some of the city's top chefs. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Feeding the front lines, one duck confit at a time

By JOCELYN GECKER - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 30, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom updates the state's response to the coronavirus outbreak, at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Citing the unprecedented challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, city officials across California are asking Newsom to suspend or delay numerous state laws, saying they can't comply with everything from environmental regulations to public records laws that allow the public to see how the government spends public money. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

California city officials: Suspend transparency laws during coronavirus outbreak

By Juliet Williams - Associated Press

Indianapolis tech firms hold their own amid growth elsewhere

By ANTHONY SCHOETTLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 14, 2020, file photo, the Grand Princess cruise ship is docked at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. Two men who were on the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship died from the virus after being returned to California. Federal officials confirmed Thursday, March 26, 2020 that fewer than half the ship's passengers were tested for the virus, despite assurances from Vice President Mike Pence and California's governor that everyone aboard the ship would be tested. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Two deaths tied to California cruise ship, with few tested

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

A man looks toward the skyline from Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says residents must stay inside and venture out only for necessities for three weeks starting Tuesday in a desperate attempt by officials to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Life in San Francisco area screeches to a halt amid shutdown

By Jocelyn Gecker and Janie Har - Associated Press

A worker sprays disinfectant at Al Akbar mosque amid fears of coronavirus outbreak in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)

Disruption frenzy: Nations try to slow virus, aid economies

By DAVID RISING and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

A couple walks past Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, known as the oldest bar in the United States dating back to the 1700s, which is closed due to an order from Louisiana's Governor John Bel Edwards to shut bars and restaurants state-wide to limit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, La., Monday, March 16, 2020.(Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP)

State and local officials take a harder line on the virus

By TIM SULLIVAN and CHRIS RUGABER - Associated Press

People wait in a line to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif., Sunday, March 15, 2020. Coronavirus concerns have led to consumer panic buying of grocery staples, and now gun stores are seeing a similar run on weapons and ammunition as panic intensifies. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

San Francisco Bay Area counties issue shelter-in-place order

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press