Again. So many questions and so few answers. Im julian glover. Happening right now eight Million People in eight bay area counties are in a shelter in place order because of the coronavirus pandemic. This morning, Sonoma County joined the shelter in place and six other bay area counties. That includes alameda, contra costa, santa clara. Theyre telling people to stay home for three weeks. Now, california is preparing for a worsecase scenario. Jobina fortson is live with those details. Governor gavin newsom says the coronavirus could overwhelm hospitals and putting the National Guard on alert for Food Distribution and signed emergency legislation allocating up to 1 billion in funding to help fight the coronavirus. We have asked the National Guard to work with us on logistics and the chp to begin to regionalize and address what we do often in emergencies. Newsom says the state is negotiating with about 900 hotels to acquire tens of thousands of rooms that could be used for hospital patients and the homeless. Thank you, jobina. Santa clara county reported a fifth death from the coronavirus. A man in his 50s who had been hospitalized since march 9th. 155 confirmed cases. The most in california. San mateo county saw its cases nearly double. Now, it has 64. Napa county still the only county in the bay area to not have a resident infected. Get more nurses in case the coronavirus overwhelms hospitals. An emergency order to speed up the hiring process. It usually can take about six months, but now some nurses can be hired in just a week. A hiring fair is set for this weekend. Today i waived the provisions around hiring rules so that we can hire qualified, registered nurses on the spot. The governor also signed an emergency order unlocking funding to increase Hospital Capacity statewide. He said hes confident in the next week or two the state will be able to increase the number of covid19 tests it administers. A new drivethrough testing site is now open. Sky 7 showing us the site at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Theyre a subsidiary of alphabet which is googles parent company. You have to apply online to get tested and a second drivethrough site in san mateo county. Some emergency hand washing stations in San Francisco are being vandalized. These around the statposed f President Trump is now urging congress to deploy a trillion dollars right away. He wants checks to be sent to American Families who are struggling because of coronavirus. Alex has those details. Reporter President Trump is urging congress to inject 1 trillion into the economy to fight novel coronavirus. Were going big. Reporter one big piece of this plan under negotiation direct Cash Payments to americans. Senator mitt romney proposed 1,000 per person. Americans need cash now and i mean now in the next two weeks. Reporter the plan would also include 500 billion in a payroll tax cut, 50 billion for the Airline Industry and 250 billion for Small Business loans. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin telling senator republicans the u. S. Could see 20 unemployment without intervention. Shutting bars and restaurants. Were asking the young people to help us with this Mitigation Strategy by staying out of the bars and restaurants and really trying to distance yourself. Reporter millions in the industry left reeling. In total how many employees . 200. Have they confided in you about worried about rent and paying bills . You can see fear in the eyes. You can see it. Reporter cities and states navigating how to cut off the viruss spread. Governor andrew cuomo said it wont go the way of San Franciscos bay area. I dont think shelter in place really works for one localit locality. Reporter bracing for a surge in patience and medical supplies. The navy is readying two hospital ships for possible deployment to assist with patients who dont have the virus and freeing up valuable hospital beds. The pentagon is also stepping in offering 5 million respirator masks and 2,000 ventilators for health and Human Services to help with this outbreak. Investors are watching how the volatile stock market will do today. Wall street opens in about two and a half hours. The dow finished yesterday up 5. 2 . The nasdaq and the s p 500 both rose more than 6 . Stocks rebounded from mondays collapse. Analysts contribute most of that to a trillion dollar economic response package proposed by the trump administration. U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are suspending all inperson services. This is effective until at least april 1st. Employees will continue to work on services that do not require facetoface contact with the public. The agencys responsible for administering green cards and naturalization ceremonies such as citizenship and refugee processing. We know you have questions about coronavirus and you can find answers and other resources on our website abc7news. Com coronavirus. A major change in sin city to fight the coronavirus. What is happening in las vegas for the first time in more than 50 years. Plus, a cllittle clarificatn on whether they consider cannabis dispensaries essential. Were taking a live look outside. Clear start to our day. It is 4 37 and mike is standing by to let us know what we expect today. Mike . Pretty quiet by this picture. But some drops falling from that sky right now. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 and you can see a shield of sprinkles to light rain from about Discovery Bay through dublin down across fremont, Portola Valley and this line is sinking south. If youre dry right now, congratulati congratulations, down in the south bay. Youre about to get wet. Heres a look at walnut creek. 680 where it is 44 degrees. Lets talk more about the commute. Those that have to be out there, that are essential, if you will. Driving some slick spots this morning from left over showers last night and the rain that is going to fall this morning. Damp at times for mass transit and expect some showers if youre commuting on the bay. For the north bay, you can see the best chance of showers returning again by 9 00 hanging around through at least 11 00. Well stay in the 40s and low to mid50s with a mostly cloudy afternoon. For the east bay, were looking at a chance of rain through at least 7 00 and then mostly cloudy afternoon. Well leave the 40s at 11 00 and mid50s during the afternoon hours. Temperatures still well below average and in San Francisco, id keep the umbrella handy just in case, but it looks like were going to be mainly cloudy and in the 40s through at least 9 00 and mid50s around 3 00. Weve got that chance of wet weather redeveloping this afternoon in the form of some showers. But they wont be as intense as yesterday. Im not expecting thunderstorms in the likelihood of hail and graupel is down quite a bit. If you have to get out on the roads, lets talk to jobina. Good morning, mike. How are you doing this morning . You know what is else lovely is for anyone who needs to go into work, everything is clear. So, if youre wondering what the evening commute looked like last night, check this out. This is a first day of the shelter in place. This is it. Look at this. The bay bridge, Richmond San Rafael bridge and Golden Gate Bridge and san mateo bridge. Basically leclear. We cant remember seeing a time when the roads were this open during the evening rush. I have been astounded by all of this but good news that people are abiding by what our officials have put in place which is the shelter in place. Want to just let you know, again, as a reminder, we do have mass transit running. Some agencies are on a modified service. That is for the ferries, as well as cal train, b. A. R. T. Ridership is down about 70 . Thats what wereking like and no major issues on belvita breakfast biscuits to get you through your nine, ten and your elevena. M. Team mixer. Made with a delicious blend of grains. Get 4 hours of Lasting Energy to outlast your morning. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Check out the snow totals from the sierra from that storm. Very impressive. 114 inches at homewood. Lets look at where our best chance of snow is today and tomorrow. Its in the mountains just to the west of l. A. And san diego. Winter weather advisory up to eight inches possibly a foot at the highest elevations. Well get some more snow showers up in the sierra. Another one to six inches possible through tomorrow. Temperature 34 in tahoe and mid50s in chico, sacramento and in monterey and 62 in fresno. Fe pretty good travel saturday before heavy snow hits monday and tuesday. Joe biden is moving closer to the democratic nomination. He beat senator Bernie Sanders in three states primaries. The Biggest Surprise was florida. Also took illinois and arizona. Ohio was supposed to vote yesterday, but the governor postponed the primary until june because of coronavirus. President trump locked up the republican nomination. Theres some clarification about the shelter in place order and how it impacts parking restrictions in different bay area cities. In the south bay, san jose is saying that it will suspend issuing parking citations. San francisco will not issue tickets for street sweeping, but youre still expected to pay for metered parking. Oakland will no longer enforce meters or time limitedndt turns dispensaries in San Francisco will remain open during the shelter in place. Long lines formed monday when the order was announced. Initial word was that they would close because they were considered nonessential businesses. The San Francisco department of Public Health released this clarification in a tweet. It says cannabis is an essential medicine for many San Francisco residents. Dispensaries can continue to operate as essential businesses during this time while practicing social distancing and other Public Health recommendations. The shelter in place has turned a lot of cities into ghost towns at night, especially eerie considering yesterday was st. Patricks day and no parades, no crowds, no bars for celebrations. Talking with Business Owners and patrons. In San Francisco, but look closely. Closed stores and boarded up windows at locations like greens sports bar. I didnt even realize it was st. Patricks day today. It is crazy. Usually the city is going nuts tonight. Reporter yes, traditiaditio st. Paddys day is one of the biggest parties in the city. Definitely different than it has been in the past. Reporter johnny owns the blue light bar on union street. So different than a normal st. Patricks day weekend and day it is surreal. Like scifi movie out there right now. Reporter not to say that people arent leaving their homes. Lots of san franciscans were out walking for exercise. Riding bicycles to get toilet paper and walking home with as much toilet paper and paper towels as one could carry. There are a lot of people exercising but everyone is taking the six feet distance pretty seriously. Reporter but San Francisco police have been out patrolling and the chief says so far so good. Johnny love is optimistic. Hopefully its like the end of prohibition and this ends and everybody is out celebrating and having fun. Reporter here in San Francisco, you do see a couple of cars there, but it has been a very quiet night. I talked with one uber lyft driver who said he waited five hours to give one person a ride. Certainly everyone dealing with these tough times. In San Francisco, j. R. Stone, abc 7 news. It definitely was a different st. Patricks day. Hopefully when all this is over we can make up for it. Didnt even feel it. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Which is a shame because i do have a little irish in me. Not a lot. But i look forward to that. Well wait. But things like that would have been a nice distraction if we could have done it. Lets look at whats going on weather wise. Green on the radar. Thats the best we can hope for. You can see its a one on the storm impact scale. We will have sprinkals and light rain this morning and thunderstorms less likely than yesterday which means less likely hail and graupel and the snow level starts at 3,000 feet and climb to about 3,500 this afternoon as the temperatures will hit the mid to upper 50s this afternoon. 54 our cool spot to about 358 in antioch and fairfield our warm spot. Lets take a look at what will happen tonight. Little bit cooler. The chance of rain almost completely gone. And that biting cold is going to be back. The main area of low pressure down to our south and a weaker low moving through and the storms not quite as intense and also reinforce the cooler air tonight. Heres a look at future radar. You can see the scattered sher will develop and linger through the evening hours and fall apart overnight. Thursday i took the storm impact scale out and there is just a shower or two in the high elevation and not one on friday even though you see one or two blips right there meaning a very highly isolated chance of a shower. So, temperatures will warm back to average into the mid60s away from the coast. Even upper 60s before the sun comes back and cools us back down and the coolest weather tuesday. More travel restrictions could be on the way. The u. S. And canada are planning to ban nonessential counttravel between the two countries. If youre thinking about escaping the bay area for hawaii, you might want to think again. I am strongly encouraging our guests to postpone their vacations for at least the next 30 days and reschedule it for a later date. Thats governor david. He says slowing down tourism will help the state deal with the virus. He says he hopes to welcome visitors back to hawaii soon. Nevadas governor has ordered all the casinos in the state to be closed for 30 days. Before yesterday the state hasnt ordered any orders uld ha lited p its p closuresbeteedthe last c closed was 50 years ago for john f. Kennedys funeral. Take advantage of the emergency. Foreign actors are spreading disinformation about the coronavirus. Foreign hackers are trying to eploit the virus and even tried to slow down computers at the health and Human Services. And there are no more shared rides on the ride sharing services. Uber and lyft have temporarily suspended car pooling in the u. S. And canada. Uber executive says the goal is to flatten the curve in the fight against coronavirus. R. E. M. Its the end of the world is making an inspired come gpback. Down loads have sky rocketed 184 in the last week and i will survive is surging in popularity. Those are your techbytes. This is her washing her hands to her song. You need to watch it. More nba players are testing positive for coronavirus and thats including kevin durant. The hobby one warrior is picking up during our shelter in place. The major donation to help stadium employees who are out of work right now. Also as we head to break, the bay area is on day two of shelter in place order. Snapshots sent into abc 7 of what it looks like out there. Welcome back, everyone. Quarterback tom brady is expected to sign with the tampa bay buccaneers. This is according to our Sister Network espn. Theres no signing date or announcement thats officially been set up, but yesterday brady did bid farewell to the patriots on instagram. Kevin durant tested positive for coronavirus. K. D. Is one of four Brooklyn Nets to test positie but told the athletic he has no symptoms and feels fine. Take care of yourself and quarantine. The nets were in San Francisco last week for a game with the warriors that got postponed. General manager bob mier said the warriors havent been tested. Right now were not interacting with each other. I was told we shouldnt be testing asymptommatic at this point in california. Head coach steve kerr said he hopes none of the warriors players hung out with the nets players last week before their scheduled game. He didnt know if that was the case or not. Damian lee is learning something new during our shelter in place. Okay. Skills. The warriors shared this video showing lees new hobby which is the keyboard. Hitting threes and playing keys. We like to see that. And this is a pretty cool story, guys. Major League Baseball is stepping up to help employees no games to work. Each team is chipping in 1 million apiece to help staff members. The as president personally reached out to an as fan who is sick with covid19 and invited him to throw out the opening pitch whenever that might be. At least there is something to look forward to. Recovery and baseball. Thats what we have to look forward to. So things oold that we cant wait until they start again and thats what we have to look forward to. Until then, get on youtube and learn a new hobby. You see his fingers were nice and curled. Wrists up. I remember my piano teacher yelling at me because i had flat hands. Mine would get out the ruler and slap my hands. She did not play. She did not. Ill have to hear you play some time. Heres a look at our march rebound. Ts take a looking that. Herars. Today you can see just a couple hundredths of an inch and we dont add much to that and on friday even less of a chance. As we head through the weekend, trending much drier as you can see here saturday and into sunday and monday and tuesday a better chance of some rain. Coming up new at 5 00, the major chain offering shopping hours starting for seniors today. Coronavirus is making it difficult for millions of americans to make ends meet right now. What ride share drivers just asked a San Francisco judge to help ease the burden. Taking a live look outside right now. It is 4 57. A little overcast because we have some rain drops out there, but mike is track stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. And take. It. On with rinvoq. Rinvoq a oncedaily pill can dramatically improve symptoms. Rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. And for some. Rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. Thats rinvoq relief. With ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. Rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. Rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious infections and blood clots, sometimes fatal, have occurred as have certain cancers, including lymphoma, and tears in the stomach or intestines, and changes in lab results. Your doctor should monitor your bloodwork. Tell your doctor about any infections and if you are or may become pregnant while taking rinvoq. Ready to take on ra . Talk to your rheumatologist about rinvoq relief. Rinvoq. Make it your mission. Now your health, your safety. This is abc 7 news. The coronavirus and the major impact its having on american jobs. Millions of people are struggling to make ends meet. The new requests from ride share drivers, plus all the latest information weve been gathering overnight. Good morning, everyone. Wednesday march 18th. Youre never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. Lets start with mike nicco. Good morning, mike. You can see right there a chance of wet weather today, but not nearly as intense as it was yesterday. In fact, lets start with live doppler 7 and put it into motion to show you a shield of sprinkles to light rain moving across our neighborhood from north to south during the morning commute and then scattered showers this afternoon. And they will be less intense than yesterday and the snow level around 3,000 feet will climb to about 3,500. From brentwood down to dublin and from stanford all the way to pasdeara. Thats where we have the rain. Right now, there you go. Temperatures today in the mid50s this afternoon. Thanks, mike. Now to the very latest on coronavirus. In the last few minutes, john hopkins university
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