Bay area. 140 people have died and Santa Clara County still the clear epicenter in the bay area with more than 1,600 cases. San francisco and alameda counties are both approaching 900. San mateo is reporting 652 cases and Contra Costa County said there are 539 cases. Lake and Mendocino County has four cases. In other local developments in alameda county, the santa rita jail is reporting no new covid19 cases. One inmate has recovered. Happening tomorrow, Concord City Council members will consider cutting their own pay by 10 and also look at cutting pay for top city executives by 5 . Elcerrito canceled the annual fourth of july festival. It was a cost cutting move. San francisco schools will go virtual to keep students engaged throughout the academic year. The district is still hashing out an official plan with the teachers union. But some schedules reportedly range from a relaced pace to rigid class time. Rushed to get laptops and wifi to the roughly 15 of students who dont have that access. Students prek can pick up their kits throughout this week. Lessons will resume on zoom and google meet for Berkeley School students. The district made the announcement over twitter that teachers can start scheduling on the platforms. They stopped instruction on wednesday after a zoom bombing incident when an uninvited guest disrupts a meeting. A man exposed himself to students and used racial slurs thank you, kumasi. The nation may be getting closer to rounding the corner on the coronavirus pandemic. Im tracking it all here at the live desk this morning. New york is beginning to see its death curve flatten. But its still very high. I want to be clear on that here. In the 700s for the past several days. Dr. Anthony fauci told cnn depending on test results, it may be possible to reopen parts of the country next month. We are hoping that at the end of the month, we could look around and say, okay, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on . If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down. Inevitable that once states relax their restrictions, second and third waves will happen. Its just stunning to see those numbers and hot spots are still growing in the united states. Pennsylvania and massachusetts are both expecting a surge this week. Kumasi, ill send it back to you in the studio. The irs said people should start seeing stimulus payments appear in their bank accounts. The first round went out over the weekend and taxpayers who filed 2018 2019 returns and had direct deposit will be the first to get their money. Paper checks the week of may 4th and individuals can get up to 1,200 and couples with kids will get more and people making over 99,000. How much can you expect to get . We have a calculator on our website. All you have to do is answer a few simple questions and get your answer. A union of golden gate transit bus drivers claim that theyre suddenly being told to pick up extra passengers within San Francisco to off different set munis cuts. The union says that transits gm made the decision without warning arguing there is not enough empty space on buses to allow for passengers traveling within city limits. Typically discouraged since it primarily caters to people traveling through multiple counties. It was Easter Sunday in the era of social distancing and had everybody worshipping not less, but just a little bit differently. Churches may have been empty, Cornell Bernard shows us the unique way the bay area kept their faith. Reporter Easter Services went on, but with no parishioners and dozens of empty pews. Valerie watched a live stream of the service while sheltering in her home and she wasnt alone. Just see people from literally all over the world being grateful to be able to connect in this way. Its wonderful. Doot b afraid. Reporter in oakland, online easter mass at the cathedral of christ the light. Glide memorial Easter Service part of our finding faith broadcast. So wish everyone that youre thinking about, wish them a really good easter and a day of resurrection. Of new life. Reporter we found Jose Cardenas watching it online in San Francisco. We had to stay safe, you know. Every part, everywhere. Separate. This is deputy chief johnson, the easter bunny. Reporter the Police Department recruited the easter bunny to collect donations for a local food drive. Check out this virtual egg hunt Via Video Conference by members of the Baxter Family from San Francisco. Easter reimagined across the bay area. Family and faith still in tact. We will get through this. We will be togetr again. Reporter in San Francisco, Cornell Bernard, abc7 news. Coming up, more companies are rushing in to test for immunity against coronavirus. Federal officials have aern waiw warning, though, about getting tested. A deadly path across the south. Thousands forced to ignore social distancing. Well get to those stories in a moment, mike nicco looking at our forecast. Unfortunately, easter is become synonymous with tornado outbreaks in the south. Several over the last several decades and yesterday no exception. Back here much quieter to weather and that will continue as we head deeper into the forecast. Then well see cooler weather on the way. Neighborhood temperatures under mostly cloudy sky. If youre joining us from the east bay, especially along the shore mid50s and 49 as you head into the hills in orrenda and 45 right now in san carlos and everybody else in the low to mid 50s. Heres a look at our essential commuters as they come into the bay bridge toll plaza where it is about 53 degrees right now. Little bit of fog across the north bay and well keep touching upon that as we head deeper into the morning commute and as it stays up there as winds are light and variable. 12hour planners. The east bay where we jump from 50 thisern morning until mid 6t noon. Youll be able to epoi open the windows and air out the house. For the south bay, little faster sunshine by about 11 00. Well hit 60 and right around 70 in the afternoon and the last stop the peninsula where were in the 50s through 11 00 and try to make a run at the upper 60s here, also. Quite a bit warmer than yesterday. Well see how long it lasts in the accuweather forecast. Get jobina in here and talk about those essential commuters. Good morning to you and good morning to everyone watching at home hopefully. I just want to want make a note quickly on the chp in the southern part of the count ay cited three people driving over 100 miles per hour. Because of our light conditions on our roads, we have been seeing a lot of issues with people speeding. They have here 102, 104 and 114 miles per hour. All of those people were traveling. Please slow down out there. We want to maintain our safety during the shelterinplace order. We are showing you the san mateo bridge here. Completely Clear Conditions on our roads this morning. The only other incident i have seen come in from the chp is in marin it looks lik on 101. They are looking for a rrn the and theyre still out there trying to get that. Let me clarify, that is in novato. Marin county but in novato. Ill let you i do motivational speakingld. In addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Whaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Were back and lets open the Weather Window on the exploratorium camera here at pier 15 looking back towards the financial district. Lets see how the day breaks down with your 12hour planner and grab the sunglasses and i dont think youll need the jacket this afternoon. Some 50s near the coast and the rest of us jump from the low to mid 60s at noon. Back into the mid 60s at 7 00. Look how much quieter the state is this week compared to next week when we had days and days of rain and just some lingering upper 60s along the coast and mid 70s through the Central Valley ask low to upper 50s in the sierra where rain is, snow is not in the forecast but rain is for thursday, friday and sunday. Thanks, mike. Well, look at this. This fire caused 150,000 in damage at a Firestone Tire shop in santa rosa. This is a video that the Fire Department posted on twitter. Luckily nobody was in the tire shop when the fire started. It was around 8 30 last night. Right now this cause is under investigation. A man is dead after a violent string of events that included an offduty Police Officer being stabbed. This started early yesterday morning when this man stabbed carjacking at a chevron station in south San Francisco. An offduty officer tried to stop the carjacking and that man attacked the officer stabbing him and the victim. The man left the scene in a stolen patrol car. Police chased him to a Kaiser Permanente facil tity and the officer and the driver who were stabbed are expected to recover. In the south bay, entire neighborhoods are cleaning up this morning after strong storms pounded the area over the weekend. Multiple tornadoes were seen and hundreds of buildings were destroyed in the south of the country. Abc news Kenneth Moton has a look at the recovery that is happening now. Reporter overnight severe storms wreaking havoc across the south. Multiple tornadoes touched down. A funnel crowd right here in front of me. Reporter leaving half a Million People without power and forcing several states to declare emergencies. Everything just ripped off and everything was gone. It was gone. Reporter in mississippi, several people were killed, including a sheriffs deputy and his wife. It was a tragedy. Reporter the trucks were toppled by the wind. Residents were forced to ignore protocols and police shutting down an entire town late sunday. Going doorto tore a trail of heavy damage across neighborhood. Wow. Reporter earlier in the day, victims were wheeled out on stretchers when a tornado caused this building to buckle. In louisiana oh, my god. Look at our house reporter the path of destruction clear after a twister tore through the city of monroe. This is a terrible, terri jt feet away, houses completely gutted and roofs torn off leaving nothing but scaffolding and rubble. Kenneth moton, new york. This is one of the clear signs of hope that is starting to emerge in the coronavirus battle. A possible Antibody Test to determine who developed immunity to the virus and allow people to safely go back to school and work. Since so much is still unknown about covid19. More than 70 companies have already signed up to sell their version as soon as possible. Some of them without hard fda testing. What we dont want are widely inaccurate tests because, as i said before, that is fog to be much worse than having no tests. Officials call it a wild west of unregulated tests that would backfire our path to recovery. Choosingo afda. Sethe ts annu easter event for kids. It is closed to the public because were all under the stay at home order and park staff searched for mr. Hare who leaves a trail of eggs f discover. Lemur, giraffe, warthog all apparently just enjoying their easter treats. Safari west posted this video online for all of us to enjoy and i am enjoying it. Mike, i know you have a bit of a delay but ill wait until you see it because it is really cute. Is it really . I see the lemur right now. Theyre just enjoying their little easter and having their little eggs. Ill tell you what i enjoyed about my easter. Brunch outside in the sunshine. Mike did a good one here. Couldnt go to services, but service was s theregoing on sun . Resurrecting the sunshine yesterday. Came out a little bit quicker. We were worried in theern morn with those clouds and well have even warmer temperatures. Hi, everybody. Welcome to monday. Lets look at what is going on and that is the Golden Gate Bridge where it is 53 degrees. Lets use that as the backdrop for more sunshine and warmer temperatures today. The remember waill linger throuh wednesday and were watching the weekend. It could feature a few showers. Right now no storm impact scale and nothing too heavy. So, just, keep an eye on it for you. Heres a look at the fog forecast and watch the clouds just melt away except at the coast where they linger through the lunch hour and then into the afternoon hours. Not quite as much sunshine for you and thats why your temperatures are just a touch cooler than the rest of us like Half Moon Bay at 61 and get down to santa cruz 67 degrees with more sunshine. Weve got 65 to 69 around the bay and a lot to low to mid 70s. Look at the winds tonight, they start to veer off shore. Dont expect to wake up to cloud cover tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Off shore breeze will bring us milder temperatures tomorrow and then into wednesday and then well drop about five to ten degrees on thursday with that dry cold front and even cooler weather for sure this weekend just whether the rain materializes or not. Well keep an eye on it. Apple is sharing more details about how it plans to turn your phone into a coronavirus tracker. And there will be no new emojis for a little bit. In todays techbytes. Tracking contact with coronavirus on your phone. Whether you have been exposed to the disease. It would use the bluetooth signal on your phone but the tech giants say it wont roll out for several months. There wont be any new emojis next year. 2021 wont see any new ones because of the fallout from the virus crisis. But dont worry, a new set of 117 new animated emo jjis readyo be released in the fall. Joining forces in the fight against the coronavirus. The exs reunited for diddys danceagram to raise money for medical supplies. J. Los fiance joined in for tth his amazish voi voice t lift spirits around the world. Loweto supportitted frontline workers, and our more than 300,000 dedicated associates. Thank you for everything youre doing. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Its going to be hard to not stay inside. I mean, its really going to be nice and tempt you to head outside. Cloudy where i promise youson shun and low to mid. The pollen is high with cedar, juniper, remember, wear some sunscreen if youre going to be out and about. Into noon and afternoon hours Higher Elevations and way up to our north and the sierra, wet weather possible. Saturday, again, up in the sierra our best chance and for sunday that is when we get a chance of scattered showers. So, well keep an eye on that for you. Kumasi . One of the most famed voices in the world used Easter Sunday to deliver a message of healing. Opera singer Andrea Bocelli live streamed a concert from milan. Italy has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world ubehind. Nd spain. The foundation is helping hospitals purchase personal protective equipment for staff. He wanted it to represent a message of love and hope, not only to italy, but the entire world. A 12yearold on the peninsula is using her sewing skills to help the community during this pandemic. Ashline is a clothing designer and her work has been featured at new york fashion lengelengele for making fashion masks. Its been pretty cool seeing how others have wanted to pitch in. Some people have been donating fabric to us. And also been helping by donating money to buy supplies. Makes me really happy and im like really glad that i could help. So sweet. So, ashlynn has made 200 masks so far and her goal is to get to 500. Wow. I know. I like that. Just talented and said let me just use my gift to help other people. I love it. Not all about books and studying this time off, but learning things and help other people and thats fantastic. Some real World Learning right there. Lets talk about what is going on as far as your forecast. Show you the wednesday and pick up tonight especially up in the north bay and starting to blow off shore and get aggressive tomorrow morning, especially those 20 to 30mileperhour gusts and napa county area and up towards lake county and then they quickly dissipate as we head into the afternoon hours. Look what they do to our temperatures. Theyll ramp up and 80s in the north bay no doubt tomorrow with the offshore breezes while the 60s head to the coast. Wednesday is just as warm and then we have that dry cold front for thursday. All right, thanks, mike. A heartwarming gesture at the hospital. Coming up next at 5 00, Staff Members are sending recovered coronavirus patients home in a sweet way. Enforcing social distancing rules as scenes like this play out in parks in our area. Bay area thweve 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. sigh crunch babybel that snack just sounded boring. Babybel coming through. No photos, please. Babybel bye bye, bland. Babybel helloooo, delicious. Vo rich, creamy, 100 real cheese. Vo with mini babybel, snack time is saved. Babybel saved it i do motivational speakingld. In addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Now your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. Now at 5 00, cracking down on crowds. One city leader says more social distancing enforcement could be coming after groups gathered over the holiday weekend. Good morning, everyone. Monday, april 13th. Hi, friend. Hi kumasi. And happy belated easter to you. I hope you were not one of the people outside. I know you werent. You know i was not hanging by in the parks. I was running by and a lot of people were gathering and they got too close for comfort but first well check in with mike nicco. The warm weather definitely has people wanting to get out, mike . It will tempt them even more today, tomorrow. Fog around novato where its thickest. 37 and 101 come together and expect that to hang around for a couple hours and even after the sun comes up it will hang out but not nearly as long as yesterday and that