Requirements at a june 2nd meeting. Theyre punting on that latter part there. Reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. Happenng today, officials in Santa Clara County will announce that free covid19 testing is available for all residents. The tests will be administered in East San Jose and the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Screening and testing will be operated by baseline. Santa clara county rescheduled the 11 30 press conference to make the announcement. Led to a dispute between the oakland as and its coliseum landlord. The bay area is reporting that the team is holding back on a 1. 2 million rent payment to the coliseum authority. The as say they need a better understanding of when the coliseum will be available for its use. Governor newsom suggests that prosports could be back next month. Both sides are talking. The u. S. Justice department is warning Governor Newsom, californias restrictions on churches may violate religious freedoms. The Department Says the states current reopening plan is discriminatory because it allows some businesses to reopen, but not places of worship. Inperson religious services are prohibited during phase two. Services are expected to resume during phase three which Governor Newsom said is just weeks away. Scientists are trying to get a better understanding of the covid19 virus so people can get back to work. Whether people can be reinfect would the virus. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with the results. Good morning, jobina. Goodern morning, kumasi. Doctors in south korea believe patients can not be reinfected with the virus. There was concern about reinfection after hundreds of patients tested positive for a second time. But the south korean cdc said they were likely testing failures. These results were very encouraging and should be very encouraging to the public that once you get infected with covid19, unlikely youll get infected, again. Experts warn these are preliminary results and scientists dont know how long immunity will last. Researchers at the university of washington now predict thousands of fewer deaths in the United States because more people are Wearing Masks out and about in public. Kumasi, ill send it back over to you. Thank you, jobina. In the north bay, santa rosa has approved a unique next step. A new model for homeless shelters that encourages social distancing. Wayne friedman has this story. Reporter tents in a parking lot placed by the city of santa rosa. When having a roof over your head used to refer to underpass, this is one solution to the problem. Were doing this because the City Council Sees this as the right thing to do. Keep the Community Safe from this pandemic. Every tent is social distanced. The first 12 people moved in and maybe as many as 85 by next week and they stress. This is not an end, this is a beginning. Its all about safety. Reporter half of Sonoma County 3,000 homeless live within santa rosa. Some People Living here are refugees from a twomilelong encampment that angered neighbors and the People Living inside. I dont feel safe. My wife doesnt feel safe. I have three kids. They cant play out here. Reporter the city and Catholic Charities promise safety and much more. We have restrooms, showers and a laundry service, three meals a day. Reporter some of the homeless who came here for the look do not appreciate the accommodation. James johnson has been on the street two years. No water, no chairs, no place to sit. Youre in the parking lot all day. Reporter and doesnt like its managed with a curfew and security guards. Thats the price of social distancing at santa rosas homeless and the economy and the future. When people are losing jobs, all indicates of homelessness. A new effort is under way to help struggling farmers and ranchers in california hit hard by the pandemic. A lot lost sales when restaurants and School Lunch Programs shut down. Major Marketing Campaign buy california grown 120,000 growers and ranchers and half million more farm workers they employ. It will tell consumers that they are buying local. Over a million meals a day that are normally consumed in restaurants or hotels or School Cafeterias were like complet almost six out of ten farmers surveyed by the California Farm Bureau said they lost sales because of the pandemic. Its a whole new world for shoppers as the bay area slowly opens back up. Coming up next, see what it is going to be like navigating Department Store pickup. Its been probably the toughest stretch that ive ever gone through. A candid confession. Olympi olympian michael felphelps talk about Mental Health during the pandemic. First checking in with accuweather, though, a beautifullooking forecast out there. Weve rid ourselves of any rain chances and right now dealing with cloud cover. A live look from san jose and mostly cloudy skies from this Vantage Point and we will find a nice day on the way. Increasing sunshine and warmer temperatures compared to yesterday. A lot of us going back to the 70s. That will feel nice and right now 58 in oakland and 56 in palo alto and good morning in livermore. Hour by hour for you on future weather and show you what is in store. Increasing sunshine lunchtime its nice temperature wise. Warmest spots closing in on 70 degrees at that hour and we will reach the 70s away from the coast under a lot of sunshine. Pretty much where we should be for this time of the year. Overnight, we had some cloud cover. This afternoon were going to have sunshine, so we transitioning skies 66 the high in San Francisco. About 77 in fairfield. 72 in fremont and 73 in san jose. Even warmer weather is set to move in here for the upcoming Holiday Weekend and we can get ready for it to feel like summer. Well have those numbers in just a few minutes. Kumasi. Goodern morning, everyone. Checking in on traffic here. High wind advisory for the bay bridge and also through the Altamont Pass and a live look at walnut creek and what the conditions are like out there. Following one crash in fairfield, but it does look like traffic is moving through pretty well and i will not hold you up on that. Definitely see the people are already out there on the roads in walnut creek making their way a little further south right now. I also do have another update for you for this morning. Caltran handing out free facive coveri coverings. The masks are prepackaged and cal train will be following social distancing guidelines as it distributes them. The coverings are reusable and can be 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. Tso is this. And so are these. They all represent something more. The feeling of home. Thats why were here. To help make your home be everything you want it to be. Because home is what unites us. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. This is abc7 mornings. Time now 4 41 a. M. Were in store for warmer weather over the next couple days. In fact, fast forward into the upcoming Holiday Weekend. Starting on sunday, numbers above average. Low 80s in the south bay and our warmest spots inland going into the mid 80s. Even warmer weather just continues to move in on sunday and turns hot around here for the holiday. Memorial day on monday. Were well into the 70s in the cities. Low 80s in the east bays. Our hottest spots going into the 90s. Now abc7 news live update. At the live desk. Im fiollowing a fire in san jose. Looks like this blaze was happening at a wrecking yard and being destroyed as well as more than a dozen porta potties. The fire broke out near a drivethru theaters and brought down a pole and power lines, as well. This is video from earlier. You can see near the movie screen where the smoke is and flames just a short distance away. Oh, wow, definitely seeing that or. Going up there in the smoke. One person said the street outside of the drivein theater was blocked. No injuries reported and firefighters working to figure out what exactly caused this. They do believe the power lines are the reason that this started. But, still, that investigation is ongoing. Kumasi. Ill send it back over to you. Thank you, jobina. The San Mateo County board of supervisors have approved a plan to help residents evacuate near a disaster. The plan includes technology to let them to order evacuations. They will be able to monitor evacuation traffic in real time and get the information right away. Our majoal h is to cut down the amount of tim takes from for an evacuation to the moment people receive it and that, in turn, saving lives. An online tool is set to launch this summer. The pandemic has put a strain on Mental Health, something that michael phelps. Phelps said being in isolation during the pandemic has made things rough, but hes learned how to lean on his wife to get through it. For the people who are struggling. Make sure youre opening up and talking about it. You know, i think for a few weeks or, yeah, id say a handful of weeks i just tried to fight it myself and it got me to a pretty scary situation. Phelps spent 45 days in rehab after contemplating suicide after the 2012 olympics. A lot of people are struggling to cope with the feelings of isolation and other challenges brought in by our shelterinplace and thats why abc7 news is hosting a town hall on your Mental Health and coronavirus. You can watch it right here and all our streaming platforms. Our friend reggie aqui will be hosting and anchoring that conversation. Im looking forward to that. Building a better bay area are focused on health, education, changing workplaces and the economy. As more Retail Stores start to open up, including shopping malls. We want to experience what it feels like in this new normal. We sent kris reyes and there is a list of bright sides to this shopping experience. Im in my car in San Francisco and ill try to hit four stores doing curbside. I picked banana republic, barnes noble and party city. My orders at banana republicly and blue mercury were ready within the hour. I mess my ftohe s w getting thi parking spot. The whole street is full. We didnt want to show the employee. She was wearing gloves, a mask, very friendly and dropped off my package. Im heading now to my second pickup in burlingame. That order was ready immediately after we made the phone call. When we got there, the associate was super friendly and wearing a face shield and gloves and dropped the bag right into my back seat. Next up was hills dale mall in san mateo. Designated shopping for curbside pickup. The growing list of Big Box Stores offering pickup. For my book order, all i had to do was call them to let them know im here. Im waiting for a text message to let me know my package was ready. My biggest take away is this is yet another way for businesses to just survive. Far from a perfect system. Like anything else in this new reality, we have to be patient because its a work in progress. Kris reyes for abc7 news. I want to go shopping with kris. A 67yearold greatgrandmother is graduating from uc berkeley and she has big plans for her future. Jules, shes known as ms. Jules and getting her degree in sociology. She is graduating with all as, one b. We dont care about that. Amazing. Grew up in San Francisco and lives in brentwood and she earned five Associates Degrees after surviving two strokes. She plans to get her masters in social welfare and work as a counselor. It is never too we got all the inspiration. Congratulations. Congrats. That is amazing. All as. That is so cool. Even later in life just learning. Bettering yourself. I want to bring that energy to wednesday. That is great stuff. Congrats. Brighter, warmer weather headed our way. Get ready for this weekend, though. Feel like summer around here. Live doppler 7 showing you a quiet morning out there and no showers and we rid ourselves of that storm out there that was with us yesterday and monday and that means were on our way to a nicelooking afternoon. Take you to the roof camera here at kgo studios along the embarcadero in San Francisco. The bright lights oftla 53 right now in the city and down to 46 in in hayward and gilroy at 61 degrees. Start you ought at lunchtime. Were in the 50s and 60 degrees. Today is a warmer afternoon for us compared to yesterday. Looking at highs across the region. 66 in the city, 70 in oakland. 73 for san jose and 74 in napa and hitting 78 in antioch with a little sunshine and breezy along the coastline. Plan the next seven days for you. We are bright and we are warm and that warming just continues over the next several days. Well focus on the Holiday Weekend and we have that summer spread first thing on saturday but summerlike heat for the holiday on monday itself and well keep the hot temperatures, kumasi, even for tuesday. Thanks. Companies are using your face mask selfies to improve recognition. Heres techbytes. In todays techbytes your facemask selfies being used without your consent. They are collecting selfies with people Wearing Masks from social media profiles. A database with thousands of mask selfies which are being used to improve facial recognition software. A stronger ecommerce push. A new tool to create a shop that appears across all apps that face book owns including instagram. Allow shoppers to shop without facebook page. Making its debut on apple tv plus. The highest profile release to go straight to a streaming service during this pandemic. No release date has been set. Imur it will be a good one. Those are your techbytes. Have a great day. Johnson johnson will stop selling a controversial baby powder. Coming up next, what will it offer instead. Bay area z3w6kz z1s6z y3w6ky y1s6y and good morning. Time now 4 52 a. M. A live look from our exploratorium camera showing cloudy skies over San Francisco. A lot of sunshine this afternoon and it is warmer compared to yesterday by about 5 degrees in most cities. Were headed into the 70s away from the coast and inland closing in on 80 degrees. Kumasi . Thanks, drew. Ble to buy Johnson Johnson baby powder in the u. S. Or mexico any more. The subject of several lawsuits over the last few years. Tens of thousands of women claimed it led to ovarian canc. It will replace the talc with cornstarch and it could focus on highdemand items during the coronavirus pandemic. Three airlines based overseas plan to resume nonstop flights to San Francisco next month. Swiss air will fly here from zurich and laftansa tends to bring back its flights. All plan to operate a few flights per week and sfo has not seen nonstop flights from europe since april. 14 churches teamed up with the christian love and action donation event yesterday. Pallets of masks were loaded on to trucks to distribution to different organizations. The sand hill Property Foundation and prince of Peace Enterprises helped source the masks. We know that we have to give back. We are pressed by god. More mask will be arriving through the end of the month. The distribution is one of the largest of its kind arranged by private organizations in the bay area. Very cool. Love to see that. In accuweather were tracking a brighter day today and also a warmer afternoon. Temperatures pretty much where we should be when we talk about middle of may. Enjoy this afternoon. Temperatures right now 40s to mid 50s. 54 in fremont and down to 48 in napa. Cool spots in the north bay. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Live doppler 7 along with satellite. See the pressure of low area moving into utah and that brought us showers monday and yesterday. Finally thats now pushing off to the east and that will allow us to bring back the sunny skies and drier weather and begin a warm up. Later on today were head under to the 60s and 70s. 66 in the city and 69 for santa cruz and 73 in san jose and 77 the high in santa rosa and 70 in oakland and antioch up to 78 degrees. Kumasi . All right. Coming up next at 5 00, some california casinos getting ready to reopen in two days but major changes for gamblers. Busy new york city is counting on a new system that costs a million bucks. Plus on strike. 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Overcast skies right now from this Vantage Point and that sky will be changing later on today. Lets break it down for you. Th