To teach kids from a distance. This is not easy. But our kids are worth it. And it can be done. The California Department of education is providing standards and guidance. In antioch high schools have distributed chrome books to their students and they plan to get those laptops to middle schoolers today. Oakland is still working on its digital home schooling plan that administrators are still ironing out details on the Teachers Union with a deal. They dont have a date on when they will start the Distance Learning program. This is all new to everyone. Everyone still trying to figure out this unchartered territory. Reporting live in walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. The number of confirmed covid19 cases in bay area and Santa Cruz County has now surpassed 4,000. Here the latest cases by county. Santa clara county still the hot spot with nearly 1,300 cases increasing by 61 in the latest report. Marin county reported five more cases as did sonoma county. Lake county is reporting two cases and Mendocino County has four cases. Marin county is preparing for a surge of patients. The county said it doubled its available icu beds. In San Francisco, its opened its first field care clinic next to the Southeast Health center and the aim is to reduce the number of people going to the hospital or urgent care. And the south bay vta is bringing light rathe service back tomorrow. It was stopped after an employee in training tested positive for coronavirus. Jobina . Thank you. At the live desk, im looking at a sobering milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. Yesterday was, excuse me, the last 24 hours have been the deadliest here in the united states. Now, looking at these numbers here. More than 700 deaths in new york alone. Fema Shows New York City icu beds are near capacity, but encouraging signs of hope. Race of hospitalizations are going down. Stockpiles of ventilators are on the way. Another major headline, black americans are being hit disproportionately hard pie the virus dying at much higher rates compared to other americans in major cities. Unfortunately when you look at the predisposing conditions that lead to a bad outcome with coronavirus, the things that get people into icus that require intubation and often lead to death, they are just those very unfortunately disp l dr. Anthy fauci is shining a bright light on the real weakness. Senator Kamala Harris along with a handful of other senators did send a letter to the health and Human Services asking to collect data regarding the race and Health Outcomes of people that are dying and being infected with coronavirus because the issue right now is that there isnt a lot of data to analyze coming from various states around the country. During yesterdays press conference, President Trump said we should expect to see that data in the next two to three days. Kumasi, back to you. In the east bay, Walnut Creek Police have been checking on calls theyre getting from concerned citizens about nonessential business or people being where theyre not supposed to. Abc news followed an officer yesterday and showed people out for walks social distancing and also we found people playing tennis at courts that were, that are shut down. Hey, sorry guys, everything is shut down right now. They were reminded that the courts were closed. The new normal for Police Patrols that are maintaining high visibility. We ask that people can come outside and meet our officers outside their home. So we can avoid the inperson tact or confined spaces. If we do have to go inside a house, were asking our officers to wear personal protective equipment. Officials say officers arent having to respond to as many calls from the public. Volume is down about 25 since the stay at home order started. Its a constant fear for doctors and nurses on the front lines of this pandemic. The chance of infecting their families. Now a nationwide Community Effort to pair Health Care Workers with ntrvs. Amanda del casillo has more. Reporter the st. Martins are taking no chances when it comes to keeping the family healthy. He has been on strict protocol when he gets home. Strip down at the washing machine and straight to the shower. Reporter megan says her husband is staying at a hotel, staying isolated after work. Separating himself from his wife and young sons concerned his exposure could put them at risk. But recently launched Facebook Page with a goal of connecting medical professionals on the front line with a place to quarantine could put dad in the driveway. This Facebook Group that i found with the rvs was amazing and linda and her husband, michael, reached out to us right away. I was telling linda on saturday we need to move the rv and just move it around and an hour later she saw the rv for mds on facebook and we said, what the heck. Reporter rvs for mds connecting owners willing to lend out their rvs at no cost to front line heroes. The pandemic and the stress and the anxiety and a lot of people are feeling it does bring solace to bring us to be able to bring a little bit of peace to this family. Soon, linda and michael will leave their 24foot long, 2017 in the san martins driveway and it will stay there until the pandemic passes. A relief for the family of five. Our kids will be able to see him from afar and we can have dinner outside six feet away from each other. Reporter we connected with leaders of the Facebook Page and they launched in late march and they now helped people from across canada and right here in the u. S. Im in the south bay, amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. I love to hear that. A new decontamination station happening in the south bay. Who it is geared to protect from the coronavirus. The High School Classes of to 20 are looking at virtual proms and graduations. How students are trying to stay connected in this new hage of social distancing. First, getting over to mike nicco. Were still trying to stay connected in this new age of social distancing. You having issues . I just miss you guys. Its not the same. I agree totally. I miss you, too. And i miss our talks and just seeing you. I dont get to see you as much as i did either. You can see me i think more than i can see you. I hope this tuesday, no, wednesday. I hope this wednesday finds you in good spirits. Hello. 48 in Castro Valley and everyone else in the low to mid50s and mostly cloudy along the east bay shore and increasing clouds as you head south. The coolest temperatures low to mid40s in the north bay where the clouds arant quite as prevalent. Lookt a these temperatures 10 to 11 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. That will help spring board us to warmer temperatures this afternoon. Right now in san jose as you look at 87. Its pretty dry but a shower just to the south of there right now. Some sprinkles and that is going to be the most likely place for utbay toy. Eather will be in the you can see not a great chance, but still there. Temperatures hit the mid to low 60s this afternoon. Under partly cloudy sky and east bay valleys even warmer. Look at the temperatures in the upp upp upper 60s this afternoon. Hard to stay inside. Social distancing. Cant say it enough, jobina. I had a jogger run right by me and he was breathing heavily through his mouth and i was like, dude, where is your mask . But did you have on your mask, mike . I had my mask, i did. There we go. Thank you. I love the masks barbara made. Very nice. Im glad shes doing that for you guys. Good morning, everien with. Checking in on traffic. Here is the big ones today. Those changes to b. A. R. T. We were warning you about yesterday start now. Listen up, everybody. Week days moving forward b. A. R. T. Trains will be arriving every 30 minutes. That is week days. The weekend schedule is not changing at all but just want to let you know about that because if you miss your train, youll have to wait another 30 minutes and just be for essential workers that are taking it right now anyways. Live look outside so you can see the Clear Conditions i have been talking about. The last thing that came from the chp was prior to midnight. Things are looking good if getting outside more now than ever before. Its spring. The season we plant, we garden, we grow things. We bring new color to our outdoor space. Were here to help you make your home the best it can be. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. This is abc 7 mornings. Were back and were taking a look from the exploratorium cmera. Salesforce tower pretty cloudy and mild and 51 degrees in San Francisco. 43 to 51 at 7 00. Mixture of clouds and sunshine and milder temperatures. Well stay at the 50s at the coast and 60 at noon and mid to upper 60s by 4 00 and still around 60 at 7 00. The sierra snow pack continues to enlarge. Its up to 63 . So, its gotten a little bit greater and it will continue to do so in the southern sierra. The winter storm warning there and most of our activity in the south bay and some of that will rotate up towards us later this afternoon. The stray shower possible in the south bay. Kumasi. Thanks, mike. Mill valley officers will investigate for a possible missing child. The Department Posted these photos on instagram organizing to look for the boy. Yesterday at about 5 00 p. M. , Police Received a report of a 4 or 5yearold boy with blonde hair and a blue plaid shirt unattended on winwood place. But search efforts did not find any missing children and none had been reported missing. In the south bay, the Santa Clara CountySheriffs Office has opened a coronavirus decontamination site for First Responders and other essential workers. Located at a Training Center on west heading street near san pedro in san jose. The Sheriffs Office said it is staffed with people who have been trained to properly decontaminate anyone who has been exposed. The fire chief expressed his gratitude and had this message. If theres one thing that i can say, remember this. One team, one fight. You are all part of the team whether youre a first responder, a citizen at home or the grocery clerk at the store. We appreciate the efforts of every single one of you. One team, one the site is open. The major blood shortage caused by the pandemic is bringing new, hosted a blood drive in San Francisco yesterday and he encouraged eligible donors to donate on behalf of gay friends. London breed gave blood and the fda loosened its rules to allow gay and bisexual men to donate and refused to lift restrictions outright. It leaves millions of Healthy People out who want to donate. Seniors may have been counting the days to graduation, but not getting the ceremony they expected. Just one of many changes for the class of 2020. Wane friedman has that story. Reporter if emptiness could make a noise it would be screaming at Redwood High School or any other campus in california while theyre locked down. Places that should be hosting scenes of a quick rush to summer it is especially difficult for the graduating class of 2020. Our senior year was in the middle of a global pandemic. Reporter louis and Drake Goodman from rwothey are separa connected. We are trying to get as close as possible given our resources. Reporter they created an instagram page, a forum for all of californias 1 million graduating seniors to share something of this unusual experience. While we are disappointed, our understanding. Rather than just sulk around and resent the world essentially, i wanted to take advantage of this opportunity and make it so we have the memories of a senior year even though we cant be together. Reporter this is an unusual situation, especially for the class of 2020. Most of them wont walk across the stage at graduation this year. Thats a first. And yet if any group is more suited to deal with a virtual social life, its probably them. Life is extremely unexpected. You know. Nothing is predictable. Reporter and that is a 2020 vision. Wayne freedman. That is definitely tough for them. Wow. In partnership with feeding america, staging a day of hope. Join Good Morning America tomorrow morning for a spectacular kickoff and resources to help feed the bay area during this pandemic. Find food and connect you with opportunities for neighbors in need and monetary donations, we will figure that out, too. Tomorrow is the day and we are really looking forward to that. Im just so inspired, mike, by how people are coming together and another way if you have been looking to get involved, you can. Thats fantastic. I have a lot of people who are setting great examples and thats what you want to see this time. And hopefully i can pick up on some of those great examples and help out, also. All right, kumasi. Hi, everybody. Welcome to wednesday. Warmer today if you had that cabin fever. Maybe today you can get outside a little bit more and enjoy some of that sunshine and some of the vitamin d which does aurmm stel help out a little bit. Roof camera where it is cloudy now and we look south dwn the embarcadero towards the bay bridge. A stray shower possible across the south bay and mild lows and the clouds return tonight. A lot like this morning, tomorrow morning. And then drying out and warming up this weekend. You can see a few light showers across the south bay. Still trying to see if some of that is making it down to the ground or not. Watch out for some sprinkles there. Our low still sitting and spinning down to the south and more of the moisture to socal and southern sierra and mainly because were on the north side of the low with its counterclockwise flow the south bay that has the most likely chance. You can see a few showers there in the Higher Elevations on either side of santa clara valley. Overnight look at that energy break off from the sierra and head our way. Another chance tonight of a stray shower and as we head towards tomorrow, it is going to be a little bit cooler with a wind shift and notice the tcandhat isilay there with a briefly cool down before friday develops into the weekend. Look at the rainfall totals. If you get caught under a stray shower, 0. 001 but most of us will remain dry. After a dip tomorrow, were back to these type of temperatures friday and then far exceed expectations saturday through tuesday. Its going to be a pretty warm one, kumasi. Thanks, mike. Twitters jack dorsy is donating 1 billion to fund covid19 charities and its driving down robo calls heres techbytes. Jack dorsys really big donation to help fight coronavirus. The twitter ceo is pledging 1 billion. Just under a third of his wealth to release programs. Setting up a company to make grants and recorded in a publicly available google document. All microsoft events will be digital only through july of next year. The company saying in a statement that is due to the challenges prepted by the ill pns rus pandem. Microsoft had for the next Consumer Electronics show. If you notice robo calls have vuirtually stopped during this pandemic, youre right. 700 million fewer robo calls in the u. S. In march compared to february. Experts say thats because the workers making the calls overseas are home, too. Silver linings, folks. Those are techbytes. Major League Baseball has a proposal to start games next months. Wildlife is just roaming free. How you can get a glimpse of the deer, coyotes and other animals at home. For people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. It was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. Heart failure can change the structure of your heart, so it may not work as well. Entresto helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. And with a healthier heart, theres no telling where life may take you. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto for Heart Failure. Enusyo heart to entresto. All right. Welcome back. Lets take a look at some high temperatures today. Santa cruz one of the cool spots because of a wind blowing off the ocean right off of it. 62 today in Half Moon Bay and the south bay will see more cloud cover and pretty mild. Mid to upper 60s. 70s breaking out around concord and fairfield and even lake port about 76 while the most of the rest of us in the mid to upper 60s. Tonight a lot like this morning. A stray shower possible across the south and temperatures pretty mild in the upper 40s to low 50s. A touch more fog tomorrow than this morning. Kumasi. Thanks, mike. Yosemite National Park might be closed, but you can still enjoy the wildlife there like these guys. That coyote there. Okay. The park is posting video on facebook of animals just roamingroaming yosemi yosemite. Wildlife has yosemite to itself. Folks say it is reassuring to see nature carri carri carri cai espn is reporting that 30 teams would play games in arizona with no fans. Players would sit in the stands instead of in the dugouts to maintain physical distancingthe players, managers and clubhouse wrkers would quarantine in hotels. The biggest hang up, though, is the idea of the players not be able to see their family for up to five months. Kaycee sogard tweeted that it means my kids will not get to see their dad for months, no. Absolutely 100 no. Coming up next at 5 00, well, are we talking about this first, mike . Mike, it is also like if they dont work, do they not get paid . You have to weigh it out that way, too . Maybe they have enough theyll be goodhat im thinking. Most of them make so much money they could go without a paycheck or two where the rest of us. Sometimes we have worked. I know i have worked, i missed i think 13 months overall of my kids growing up because of moving or working where they had to stay behind in the city where we moved from until the school year was out. Been there. Lets talk about what is going on with live doppler 7 across the south bay. A few radar returns and a few sprinkles possible and good news our beach hazard statement is about to expire at 5 00. So, if you do live near the beaches, you can walk out there without having to worry about sneaker waves and dangerous rip currents. The largest moon of the super moon of the year is going to set here in about an hour and a half, but it will be back tonight. It will be even brighter. 99. 7 illumination. If you didnt see it last night or this morning, check it out tonight. That might be worth staying up for. Coming up next at 5 00, a new time lapse video showing the moon that mike was just talking about lighting up the bay area. Also, relief could be coming for workers at Big Companies in the bay area. The emergency measures to secure paid sick leave. Inspiring sto survival. Hear from people who have recove while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. Othweve never seen it look quite like this, but theres no mistaking it. And its our job to protect it. Because the best people to fight for our communities are those within them. So, if youve just bought a volkswagen or were thinking of buying sometime soon, were here to help with the Community Driven promise. While keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. Now your health, your safety. This is abc 7 news. Now at 5 00, relief could be coming for workers in the bay area. The emergencies to secure paid sick leave. Mike is tracking our chance of showers today where we could see a little bit of rain and the Better Weather that is coming this weekend. Happy to hear that. Good morning, everyone. Wednesday, april 8th. Good morning, friend. Hi, kumasi. The gang is all here including mike nicco with a look at your day ahead. Thanks for joining us this morning. Start with live doppler 7 and show you the rotation of some showers across the south bay right now. Theyre very, very light. And you can see they kind of stretch just south of 237 from east to west across the south bay. And that may be the only game in town for a few hours. Unless you want to take a look