Appointment only. You just dont show up. The hope is to test up to 200 people per day. Live in San Francisco, im kris reyes for abc7 news. People in two bay area counties are told they are required to wear masks in public. Fremonts mayor announced an executive order for people to cover their faces in public or fined 100. Joins marin and Sonoma County in issuing the requirement. Fremont will not cite people right away. Starting today, people in Sonoma County have to cover their faces when they leave their house. They can leave a face mask of any type of fabric that covers their noses and mouth. Kids under the age of 2 and people who have difficulty breathing are exempt from this. Sonoma county is also requiring all staff, visitors and First Responders at Nursing Homes and at homeless shelters to check for symptoms before they go in. The number of confirmed covid19 cases in bay area and Santa Cruz County will likely eclipse 6,000 later today. This morning, more than 5,900 cases and 187 people have died. Santa clara county continues to be the hot spot. There are now more than 1,800 cases there and 69 people have died in the south bay. Both Alameda County and San Francisco have surpassed 1,000 cases and San Mateo County reports seven new deaths with nearly 800 confirmed cases. Now, were also keeping track of cases in lake and Mendocino County. Lake county is reporting six and Mendocino County is reporting four cases. In the north bay pg e plans to turn off power to do Maintenance Work to prevent wildfires and the utility continues to notify customers in advance of the system repairs, but not working as smoothly as they hoped, especially since were in the middle of the pandemic. Power did stay on in the north bay after pg e initially planned an outage. Why does the schedule keep changing . We are taking feedback into consideration and were doing everything we can to reduce impacts to customers. But we have to do this work. We have to get this work done in these highfire threat areas before wildfire season. Pg e plans to cut power 18 times before the end of this month in mill valley, san rafael and novato impacting several hundred customers. An East Bay Church pastor has been cited for violating the shelter at home order. The Sheriffs Office says nearly 40 people went to a service at all Nations Church of god in christ in richmond on easter sunday. The sheriff says the citation was issued because the pastor refused to cooperate. Food Service Workers in california will get two weeks of paid sick leave under an executive order signed by Governor Newsom. We dont want you going to work if youre sick. And we want to make sure that you know that if youre sick, its okay to acknowledge it and its okay to let your employer know and still know that youre going to get a supplemental paycheck for minimum of two weeks. The order applies to farmers, pickers, packers Grocery Store workers and Fast Food Restaurant employees. The governor calls food workers the Unsung Heroes of this pandemic. President trump has laid the groundwork for his plan to get the American Economy moving again. He discussed it in a Video Conference call with governors before announcing it at the White House Briefing yesterday. The guidelines would ease restrictions in areas with low transmission while keeping them in place in harder hit regions. Its broken down into three phases. The first calls on employers to have employees return to work in phases and minimize nonessential travel. Phase two lets schools reopen as well as churches, bars and large venues but social distancing has to be maintained. Under the third phase no states would be able to lift stayathome orders and allow visits to hospitals and Nursing Homes. President says governors and not him will have the final say on reopening. Hard to say this, but all the money is gone. That arer what the Small Business administration announced after they processed 14 years worth of loans in less than 14 days. Abc7 News Reporter kate larsen spoke with Small Business owners in the bay area about what is nextert. Reporter in order to get approved for a Small Business rescue loan matt coleman spent weeks filing online phones. 40 minutes in and i just got disconnected. Its really frustrated. Reporter on thursday he and millions of americans were left in the lurch when the federal government announced their 350 billion Paycheck Protection Program ran out of money. Without it, im afraid of what could happen here. I want this to be investigated. Its suspicious because it looks like the blue states got less money than the red states. Reporter san mateo count congresswoman jackie spear is concerned that california got 34,000 ppe loans approved and 1 billion less in loan funding than texas. Which made out better than any other state. In california, of those who appli applied, only about 28 got loans. Reporter spear thinks more federal money is necessary. I think youre looking at closer to 400 billion or 500 billion. Reporter she also said shell work to ensure that Business Owners dont have to reapply, but people should keep their records. She america who told her they are trying to streamline the loan prauz. 1,000 of their employees to respond to all the consumers. Grilled cheese guy but now its a family of people i care about. Reporter a berkeley and San FranciscoGrilled Cheese business. He needs the loan to rehire his employees. If we could get money with the ppe program, we could evolve and change and adapt to this new normal. Reporter kate larsen, abc7 news. Oakland police are getting the word out about the citys slow Streets Program. Their message to drivers, respect the rules so everybody can stay safe. And facebook is ramping up its effort to stop false information about coronavirus. The special alert that they are giving users. Before we get to all those stories, checking in with mike nicco with a check of the forecast. Good morning, mike. Good morning, kumasi. Hi, everybody. Thank you for joining us this friday morning. Low to mid 50s dominate under a cloudy sky and thats pretty much the temperature just about everywhere. Lets talk about our essential workers and their commute this morning where we look at emeryville and where its cloudy isolated mist in the air and falling and drizzle and dry conditions around. Pretty good for your commute no matter how youre getting to work. All right, so, lets take a look at some day planners for some neighborhoods. Heres the north bay. Were stuck in the 50s throug at least 11 00. Only low to mid 60s this afternoon as a southerly breeze will keep the clouds blocking a lot of the sunshine ask keeping cool air coming off the San Pablo Bay and also off the ocean. For the east bay, in the 50s through at least say 11 00 and then some mid 60s for several hours this afternoon. I think well get a touch more sunshine than yesterday. Lets talk about San Francisco where we start in the low 50s and end up in the upper 50s under a partly sunny and little breezy near the coast this afternoon. All right, well take a look at the weekend forecast and our chance of some wet weather monday coming up in a few minutes. Lets get over to jobina and talk about the commute for the essential workers. Hows it going, jobina some. Thank you, mike. Well, mike, unfortunately, im typing on my computer and trying to keep up with the chp. Investigating two deadly crashes in the bay area. Im working on these details for you. The first one that i am going to talk about is in rodeo. It does appear debris in both areas but shortly after 1 30 this morning on state route 4, also known as john mayor parkway, there was a deadly crash there between a semi and one other car it looks like. Excuse me, this one is involving multiple cars. Theres two and about 45 minutes apart second one in pleasanton a car and a semi on southbound 680 just before burrnell avenue. Both situations not good this morning and theyre still working on the investigation into both of these. Were going to take a live look outside right now showing you the bay bridge toll plaza. Aside from these two major incidents this morning, we do not have anything else going o loweto supportitted frontline workers, and our more than 300,000 dedicated associates. Thank you for everything youre doing. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. This is abc7 mornings. 4 42 on a friday. Well start by looking at san jose 87 north of the shark tank and you can see it is pretty gray outside. Temperatures running low to mid 50s at the coast and try to break out some sunshine in the east bay and south bay by noon. And more sunshine in the afternoon and still below average and temperatures in the 50s this evening. A chance of sneaker waves and log run ups on our beaches from 11 00 this morning until 11 00 this evening and around the state today, it looks pretty quiet. Scattered valley showers and some scattered valley snows. Kumasi . Thanks, mike. In the east bay, a wild chase is under investigation this morning after a suspect was shot and killed by police during a confrontation in richmond. Investigators say officers opened fire after the suspect rammed his car into a marked Oakland Police vehicle injuring the two officers. Police say the suspect then pointed a firearm in their direction and thats when police shot him. They say officers initially tried to stop the suspect last night after they had a call about a female abandoned on the side of the road. That woman is in Critical Condition this morning. The two officers were taken to the hospital. They are expected to be okay. In the north bay, coronavirus could cost the Wine Industry 6 billion in losses. Despite a surge in sales at Grocery Stores, the California Wine institute says the lac at tasting rooms is really going to hurt. According to the report, smaller wineries producing less than 5,000 cases are expected to see a 48 loss of revenue. And thats a majority of napa valley wineries. If you live in oakland, you should just get ready, youre going to see more street closures. The city has identified 11 additional miles for the Pilot Program and the soft closures could start today. Only on abc7 news police have a message for residents. The program only works if everyone follows the rules. Heres abc7 News Reporter laura anthony. Epter non s ea oakland slow Streets Program to provide safe areas for residents to exercise while social distancing. Potentially the slow streets could become an attraction. Reporter the Oakland Police department slow streets could become unsafe. If they get caught up in illegal side show activity, like this one from last weekend. These particular streets are smaller blocks, narrower streets. Its not really conducive for illegal side show, however, we know that illegal side show will use side streets or smaller streets to navigate their way through the city. Reporter but on the slow street that is arthur street, the more immediate danger from those who speed through the area it seems on a regular basis. Like this, just a block away from where we were standing. A speeding driver failed to make a turn and flipped his mercedes nearly into someones house. O. I just knew it was going to hit my grandsons car. They always drive fast up and down 73rd. And the side streets. Like my street. We need to make sure that you acth, ce and kland police had to warn this fast on a slow street. Even with some concerns about side shows or speeding cars, at least one resident we talked with said she is still supportive of slow streets. Im hoping it will work out. I really do. Are you worried about drivers like this guy . Yeah. In oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. We want everybody to stay as safe as possible out here with everything going on. That would be nice. I saw her last night and she was shooting her tease and a car flew right behind her and she was shooting the tease. Did you see that . No, i missed that. Thats horrible. Were talking about this and this and right on cue this car just went flying by behind her and you see the, excuse me, closed to through traffic and nobody is paying attention. Thats horrible. Thats scary. That could be very dangerous. Lets talk about whats going on with our fog and you can see, it is, excuse me, low clouds everywhere this morning. But look at this, just a touch faster well have some sunshine today. Places around the bay, but maybe not as much up in the north bay where the clouds will linger a little bit longer. Lets look at our high temperatures and well go inland to find some 70s and places like antioch and fairfield and up towards ukiah and otherwise middle to upper 60s inland and middle to upper 50s along the coast into San Francisco at 59. Tonight a few 40s up in the north bay and cloud cover coming back low to main 50s. An omega block high pressure. Its making the greek letter omega and you can see these areas of low pressure go all the way up into canada and alaska and slide down towards the coast towards us. They dont pick up much moisture, but cooler weather and enough moisture to bring us clouds in the morning and limited sunshine in the afternoon. By this afternoon, a stray shower possible in the diablo range and lake and mendocino counties. Tomorrow afternoon, a little more sunshine than today, but temperatures will be about the same. And sunday waking up to clouds in the morning. Once the low clouds go away, the high clouds will come in and that will ekekeep temperatures above average. Well take a look at how much to expect coming up in the next weather hit. Let me get through the accuweather sevenday forecast. Temperatures colder by monday and rebound with above average temperatu temperatures. Away from the coast low to upper 70s. Kumasi . Thanks, mike. Facebook is starting to alert people who have interacted with misinformation about the coronavirus and tiktok lets parents set restrictions on their kids accounts. Facebook will alert users who liked or commented on dangerous misinformation about covid19. They since removed those fake postings and Facebook Says the alurts are set to appear in the newsfeed. Tiktok rolled out new parental controls. Allows moms and dads to link their accounts to their children and make changes remotely. Shut off direct messages and restrict content and set screentime limits. The girl scouts are turning to technology to sell cookies. Cookie sales are down because they suspended doortodoor sales. Girl scouts are reminding everyone that you can buy your favorites on their website so there will not be a disruption in cookie time. Those are your techbytes. Have a great day and even better weekend. High School Students applying for college during the pandemic, what Governor Newsom is ordering cal state schools to do. It hi, welcome back. Its 4 52 on this friday morning. Heres the storm impact scale for monday. Its one light and barely at that. Some light rain and the possibility of showers in the afternoon. Easily under a third of an inch of rain and little breezy from time to time but that wont cause any issues. Heres a look at the potential rain over the weekend and you can see in some of our Higher Elevations, a potential for a stray shower today and then as we head into monday, just not a lot of moisture with this system any more. Its going to head farther to the south and thats going to take away our best chances of wet weather. So, unfortunately, we need the rain and this thing looks like its less and less likely to deliver on that rain. Kumasi . Wow, all right, thanks, mike. Sky7, look at this, was above the port of oakland as it welcomed its biggest ship ever. This is the msc anna and feet long and carry 19,000 Cargo Containers and the port says the ships arrival is a positive sign that it continues even during the pandemic. Easier for high School Students to get into college. Adjusting admissions for the california system. It waives certain requirements if those students are affected by the coronavirus crisis. They shouldnt be punished because of School Closures and testing cancellations. Well, we are learning more about stanfords Massive Research with major league baseball. A stanford professor. Players, managers and office staff have been tested for an antibodsies and the testing will give researchers insight into how widespread it is for people who had minor or no symptoms. This is a study that is critically important to help us understand how the epidemic is moving and where we are in the epidemic. Having two teams in a town, that will actually help ust not juss a whole, its like parts of the country will have different problems and well be able to make much better data driven decisions on when it is okay to open up with studies like this. The test results should be made public in two weeks. Salesforce and ucsf have partnered for 2 Million Units of personal protective equipment across the u. S. The ppe includes masks, face shields, gowns and clowns for health workers. And facebook users now have a new way to show friends and Family Support during the covid19 pandemic. Oh, look at that. This is a care reaction. Its a smily face hugging a heart. It rolls out today on both facebook and facebook messenger. Lets talk about the drought monitor. Its unfortunately the drought deepen. You got worse across lake and Mendocino County. The rest of us stayed status quo last week. Look what happened across the state, especially in socal. Remember they had days and days of rain. Well, all that aggregation took them out of the drought. In fact, the abnormally dry area, the yellow dropped down to 58 . Unfortunately, our area and points northward you could see the severe drought did spread a little bit. Well talk more about rain coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Lets get back to kumasi for some news. Thank you, mike. Coming up next at 5 00, safeway shoppers suddenly unable to find produce in the stores and now were figuring out why. This is about to become a much more common sight around the bay area. Dont get taken. A warning about scammers trying to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis. Re gng to take aivoo now your yr fety, ths now at 5 00, face coverings go from a recommendation to an order. Some cities and counties are now forcing everybody to wear one and more are about to follow. The coronavirus pandemic is bringing out the worst in some people. Scammers are using social media yarbook challenge to rip off valuable, personal information. Now you know how i feel about the yearbook challenge, my friend. We shouldnt be doing it. Just another reason. There you go. You know what, that is one thing to check off your list on this friday. Exactly. Happy friday, everyone. Check that off your list and figure out what youre going to do this weekend because i guess, mike, might be more of an indoor weekend. I think there will be times when you can get outside thats for sure but maybe not as sunny and warm as you would like it. Definitely some reasons to stay inside if its cloudy and cool and thats not your vibe. Lets look at what is going on with live doppler 7, a lot of gray out there. Not much in the way of moisture. Mist in our Higher Elevations during the morning commute, otherwise pretty gray as you look from the exploratorium camera and temperatures in the low to mid 50s. Slightly mild this morning, but those same clouds will keep the sunshine from warming us up too much. Well stay in the 50s at the coast. 62, 61 at noon for our bay and inland neighborhoods. 66 at say 4 00 and everybody dropping into the 50s right after 7 00. If you are heading out this evening, maybe getting some take out and helping our restaurants, dress for temperatures in the mid t