Evening News Brief

The National Weather service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for western, central and parts of the North Country in NY through 8pm tonight.  The time period when we’ll have the highest risk of thunderstorms will be the mid-to-late afternoon. The high humidity levels will allow any thunderstorms to drop a significant amount of rain in a short period of time.  There may also be hail and gusts of wind.

The famous Nick Tahou’s restaurant in Rochester is closed through Tuesday after an unidentified man broke into the store after midnight Sunday morning.  The suspect bicycled up to the back door and broke in the glass and then rummaged under the front counters before leaving.  Owner Alex Tahou says there was only minor damage, the restaurant has been for sale since February and Tahou says deals are being worked on to sell the landmark restaurant.

The Buffalo Bills announced today that Highmark Stadium will be dropping seating restrictions and returning to full capacity.  They are still asking unvaccinated fans to wear masks.  Erie county has rescinded its requirement for vaccines being needed to attend stadium events.

Starting July 5^th the Canadian border will be open to fully vaccinated people who are permanent residents or citizens of Canada.  US representative Brian Higgins was upset about the delayed reopening, “First the public was told vaccinations were the key to reopening the border,” Higgins said this morning in response to the latest announcement “Yet the vaccinated continue to be shut out. Then it was said, 75 percent partially vaccinated and 20 percent fully vaccinated was the threshold Canada needed to meet to loosen restrictions. That goal has been reached and still the border restrictions were extended for another month.”