Tens of thousands of California residents are under evacuation orders and nearly 300 structures have been destroyed in wildfires near the San Francisco Bay area caused by lightning strikes.

Within an hour of Lyft's announcement Aug. 20 that the rideshare company was suspending services in the state of California because of a law requiring it to hire its drivers as full-time employees, a California appeals court judge granted Uber's and Lyft’s request for an emergency stay of the law.

It’s been seven months since California’s Assembly Bill 5---the law that was intended to force companies to reclassify gig workers as employees---went into effect.

Health officials in California are starting to consider what steps to take once a second attempt is made to reopen the state’s economy as the coronavirus infection rate continues to improve.