Santa clara has no date for starting phase two. Now, you can get more details on phase two of the recovery and what flights, and stores will look like after covid19. This is all on our website. Youll also find a full list of health and financial services. Getting more people tested for coronavirus is critical to reopening. Everyone in three communities in the east bay can be tested and Julian Glover is live at the Alameda County fairgrounds with more on this. Good morning, julian. Hey, good morning, kumasi. Testing has been happening here at the fairgrounds for three weeks now but that is for people who did have coronavirus symptoms. Now, anyone without any symptoms can come get tested here at the fairgrounds if youre a resident of pleasanton, livermore. This is an invitation for anyone 10 and older to get tested. You do not need to have an appointment. This will be running 1,200 tests a week at this site. An average of 250 tests per day. Be conductin a more tests. Ancart suggested that all medical insurance will be accepted and billed and no outofpock outofpocket. So far just short of 2,400 cases. Again, if youre a resentten of pleasanton, dublin or livermore and looking to get tested, come on down and take that gate 12 n entran entrance. Thank you, julian. Starting this morning, oakland will open a new coronavirus testing site. The site will provide drivethru testing and be free regardless of Health Insurance or immigration status. You have to register inn ene ea which you can do on the website. As of this morning, 48 states have relaxed restrictions for coronavirus, but the number of covid19 cases keep going up. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with the details on this. Good morning, jobina. Goodern moing, kumasi. Nearly 1. 5 Million People have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the United States but almost every single state in the country has eased restrictions. Warm weather is making social distancing difficult. Crowds outside bars over the weekend with people carrying their togo drinks in hand. We do not have good restrictions or good guidelines in place for people how to reopen. It is going to become very confusing for people. Well see more and more cases. New york times analysis found several states are seeing the rise in cases. 700 new cases were reported near amarillo, texas, on saturday. Many stemmed from a meat packing plant. Kumasi . Thank you, jobina. Happening today, a new potential round of job cuts coming for uber as they handle the massive dropoff in rides during the pandemic. The San Franciscobased company is expected to lay off thousands of employees according to one source. Details and the terms of the layoffs are unclear, but come less than two weeks after uber initially cut 3,700 jobs or 14 of its workforce. The beaches are back ep open Los Angeles County and people showed up in droves to soak up the sun. Most people did abide by the rules which remain in place. Include no sitting or sun bathing on the sand. It was amazing. We have been pretty cooped up like every get out r. The wate is ptty ni wre not gngl to other people, so, its chill. I do wear a mask where need to. Okay. Well, so you know, all the piers are still closed as are most parking lots. The Los Angeles CountySheriffs Department and police were out there patrolling and they were focused on beachgoers who were not physical distancing. Nchsh happening today, santa rosa moving Homeless People to the site in the northwest part of the city. A homeless encampment. The site is to protect atrisk Homeless People and it will remain in place until the county lifts the shelterathome order. 3,000 Homeless People in Sonoma County and no reported outbreaks of covid19. As San Francisco begins to loosen its stayathome orders, salesforce is giving us a better idea on how it will have employees come back to work. The citys largest employer is planning for temperature scans and mandatory masks and sixfoot separation this is according to the chronicle. Plenty of Hand Sanitizer will be around and cleaners working throughout the day, as well. Of course, city leaders have not given a date to open nonessential Office Spaces and all of this is in the planning phase. Apple is ready to implement its phase two reopening at some locations, but its focus wont b so much on selling you products. Well, our friend Francisco Martin may have come up short in his quest to become the next American Idol but he and his family say the end may just be the beginning and i believe this. Yeah, totally. Its what you do after the show sometimes. You know, some of the biggest names didnt even win. Hes so talented. Friend, im just happy youre here in the studio with me. I have company. You hate it. Now the quiet is gone. All right. Were finding some light rain out there on live doppler 7. Pretty active morning and lets zoom in on the north bay. This strip of lightf teast. Well time it out in the next couple minutes. Napa light rain in your neighborhood. Knoxville around 5 03 a. M. And pushing off to the east in other cities after that. Well zoom down into livermore right now and you can see around 580 and there are light showers at this hour and pleasanton some light rain, as well. In the south bay, were dealing with light to moderate showers east of allenrock and pops and evergreen light rain right now and level one storm system we have on our hands. Area of low pressure. Live doppler 7 along with satellite pretty much on the border of california and oregon and meander there for the next 24 hours and give us the isolated showers over the next day or so. On the storm impact scale today on and off showers. There is the chance mid day of a possible thunderstorm if we do see one, we could be dealing with a little bit of hail out there. Well keep our eye on that. Scattered showers throughout the morning. Theres that thunderstorm chance and then in the afternoon, that chance of a shower becomes very low. So, well call it peeks ofy 00 afternoon with temperatures onl. Below average for this time of the year. All right, drew, thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Thinking with the theme of rain right now. I am seeing roadway flooding in the north bay and not on the major highways but definitely on local streets. If youre an essential worker leaving your neighborhood, be aware of that. Slow down and do not drive through standing water. In the south bay seeing a number of spinouts as we look at the wet conditions. Live look right now in San Francisco at 101 near alemany boulevard. This familiar stretch of road. This project we are continuing to follow. The 101 alemany. Cal trans is doing work on the barriers there. This is a live look and this means starting tonight because of the work on the barriers reduced to one lane in both directions monday through friday. Southbound lanes will be completely closed tuesday through saturday from 9 00 p. M. To 6 00 p. M. Fortunately, this one stcan handle it all. Shop lowes for free delivery and save on a new whirlpool refrigerator. Discover whats possible at lowes. Com. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Good morning, meteorologist drew tuma here at 4 41 a. M. Showers in the south bay and number one storm system we have overhead and a chance of a thunderstorm midday. Hour by hour later on this morning by scsnds reallyhe theme as well. So, keep the umbrella handy. Youll need it for much of the day. A judge has denied a request for martin to be released from prison. The former executive who jacked up the price for a lifesaving drug. He argued for release to help research of coronavirus treatment. He claimed that his Industry Insight could potentially bring a cure to market. But the judge rejected that on saturday. Serving a sevenyear prison sentence for a 2017 fraud case unrelated to the price hiking scandal. Happening today, the dmv director will visit the field office in san jose. This is one of 25 dmvophil offi that have recently reopened across the state. You can now get vehicle title transfers, complex registrations and renewals and duplicate titles or licenses all done online. Well, we are proud of his journey to the American Idol finale. Daly city Francisco Martin represented the bay area so well but came up just short in the big reveal. More on his top five finish and spoke with his family and friends who were just some of those cheering him on. Reporter this is the first time america heard daly city native Francisco Martin. You are top ten. Reporter francisco did not just make it to the top ten, but top five of American Idol. I didnt expect to be this far into the competition, but im happy that i have this report on both the sides, americans and philippines. Reporter the once shy nervous contestant began to win over americas heart after each performance where his voice and songwriting separated him from the competition. Youre so smooth when you delivered that. Sounded like it was professionally recorded in a studio somewhere. Thats how good it was, francisco. Congratulations. Thank you. Reporter telling stories about the young drummers they have known for years. Youre basically family, not just neighbors. Pretty much family. We all moved here a year before he was born. Reporter a fullon neighborhood army that organized this parade. Here is the neighborhood graphic designer. Hes the one behind all these cars having the American Idol logo. They asked me to do it. In this neighborhood, Everybody Knows everyone. Reporter his older brother telling us this is only the beginning for francisco. I told him i was very proud of him. He really made it so far. He is really like living his dream and thats what he wants to do. 2020 is congratulations, sam, you did it. That was the moment when we found out who was the winner of American Idol season 18. America chose just sam. Singing on subways before getting her audition and and and used to mistake her as a boy because of her category. I wasnt a girl or boy and im just sam. This morning, just and idol runner up are going to be on gma talking about their experience at 7 00 right after abc7 mornings. It was different because covid said, you will all perform at home. I am shocked how well it came together. They had lighting and backup singers. It was working great. American idol did great. Cant wait to hear more from those people who won. We have some showers, may. Almost memorial day weekend cming up and were talking about rain coming up. Light showers down into the east bay. Find some light rain around orinda and danville and light showers around dublin and pleasanton and sunn north of santa clara and palo alto a light sprinkle and steadier showers and you can see pops of yellow and orange indicating a downpour here. And take you to san jose right now a live look. Roads are wet in the south bay. Dodging some drops in the morning and get drier as we head into the afternoon hours. But future weather, as we go hour by hour for you, isolated showers still and unsettled throughout the morning. Into the afternoon, likely peaks of sunshine and that creates some instability in our atmosphere. There is the threat of innnn bay area. If a thunderstorm pops up a clap of thunder and lightning. Well keep our eye on that. Todays high below average and pretty much stuck in the 60s with the rain in the morning, some limited sunshine in the afternoon and the accuweather sevenday forecast. Scattered showers today and a chance early tomorrow morning, but some sunshine in the afternoon and then a warming trend takes hold and for the Holiday Weekend look at that. Saturday and sunday looking bright, looking beautiful. 70s, 80s to welcome the unofficial start of the summer season. What is happening . Its whiplash around here. These seasons. Okay, thank you, drew. Apple will start opening some stores in the u. S. This week and video game spending is reaching a record high during the pandemic. Heres tech bytes. In todays tech bytes more apple stores getting back to business. 25 apple locations in the u. S. Are reopening this weekend. In washington state, oregon, hawaii along with oklahoma and colorado. Some locations will only offer curbside pickup. Video game sales are in nearly every category. Consoles, desktops and more. Call of duty and users can create cartoons of themselves to use in story and messenger to go along with the like and other emojis on the platform. Those are your techbytes. Have a great day. When it comes to Government Economic aid, but help is finally coming. A sidelined local Softball Team is winning over new fans. This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. Good morning. Time now 4 51 a. M. Live doppler 7 showing a storm system overhead and bringing us scattered showers first thing on our monday. Well put this into the loop the past two hours and see theyre moving from west to east fashion. Not everyone seeing the rain right now and thats the theme for the day. Scattered showers on the menu. So, the storm impact scale level one with on and off showers and kumasi a chance of a possible thunderstorm between 10 00 and 2 2 00. California will offer support to undocumented immigrants starting today. The fund will provide 125 million to immigrants affected by coronavirus through a partnership between the state and nonprofit groups. The onetime payments are 500 per adult with the maximum of 1,000 per household. Four undocumented immigrants who havent received federal relief funding. People can begin to start applying today and goes through june 30th. For information on how you can apply, it is on the States Social services site. A martinez girls Softball Team cant play so theyre giving back to the community instead. The girls raised more than 2,000 in just a few days. They purchased 700 pounds of food and dropped it off at the about 5,400 meals. Were all dealing with this pandemic and the world is upside down and for these girls, their world is upside down. What we want them to realize, even though you cant play softball, your ability to make an impact and help people in need is great. The team picked the food bank because they wanted to make a local impact. We invite you to join better bay area project thanks and share your gratitude for everybody on the front lines of this covid19 battle. Just use the betterbayarea to show us how youre saying thank you and well share it with the community. Thats fantastic. I love hearing about that. Time is 4 53 a. M. Scattered showers are on the docket this morning. So, well zoom in to the east bay and finding light rain pushing off to the east. Well find the showers around concord around the 5 00 a. M. Hour and about 5 30 near antioch and showers steadier in nature nd san jose and points to the south around morgan hill as you see the live sweep on our radar. Temperature wise, not too chilly out there. Mainly in the 50s if not like 60 like san jose right now. Level one storm system is with us through the morning and advance the clock midday, a chance of a thundershower popping up. If youre out and about later on today, take the umbrella with you. A High School Junior from the south bay is on a mission to bring comfort and companionship to the ca saw firsthand the effects of isolation on his grandparents. A student at Mountain View high and raised more than 2,000 to buy activity kits, portable dvd players and headphones to deliver to local Nursing Homes. People from my schools and neighboring schools who reached out and theyre willing to send handwritten letters or eaven music performances to the elders. I love this and i love the word elders. I dont know why. He bought 200 activity kits so far and plans to deliver them to Nursing Homes and care centers next week. People possibly exposed to coronavirus at a mothers Day Church Service right here in california. Three more beay area countis enter phase two of reopening today. What the ease Restrictions Mean for you. The coronavirus and this storm is going to really like hit us. Oh, goodness. Bracing for a Tropical Storm in the midst of a pandemic. Some tourists visiting this area say theyre not concerned. Hi, im reggie aqui. Our new abc7 streaming app. Its just in time because i bet your dog is tired of you, too. Download it on fire tv, android tv, roku or apple tv. Navigate to your app store or search bar. On fire tv, its a search. Type in abc7 bay area. Once it pops up, select it and just hit download. And thats it. Now you can check out whats being featured in our app this week. Get the top news of the day, check out a live broadcast, our new original series and, of course, get the latest weather. And also check out any of our previous shows down here in the show section. Now, what are building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is a bc7 news. Now at 5 00, three more bay area counties enter phase two of reopening today but you may want to call ahead. The struggle for some businesses as they adjust to a new way of doing retail. Also the rain returns. A le right now and you see scattered showers in the bay area. You can just trust us. Meteorologist drew tuma has your full forecast. First of all, yes, shirt, to you, friend. I like this on you. I like it. Thank you. Second of all, i finally have company in the studio. After months. I hear that a certain mr. Drew tuma is there this morning. Indeed, he is. Hi, drew tuma. Reggie, where did you get your shirt from . Where did i get this from . Ill get back to you. Good to see you, friend. I stumped him at 5 00 a. M. I dont know what im wearing, what day it is, what hour it is, what month it. Today were tracking rain. Zoom on in to where were finding the wet weather. Its not everywhere but in the south bay, san jose, mt. Hamilton and light showers from hayward to livermore and fremont and widely isolated showers in the north bay from cloverda