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To the coronavirus. We have a small cluster still investigating that may grow as we learn more, associated with the cruise ship which this passenger was on. Reporter Health Officials in er took a shuttle to a Sonoma County airport and days later went to the hospital and tested as presumptive positive. That person is hospitalized and in stable condition. Were tracking where that individual may have been during those ten days in the county and working on contacts that person had and potential exposures. Reporter they are also trying to go back and track the 2500 passengers from the original cruise to mexico, check in and see how theyre doing. Christie smith, nbc bay area news. Now we looked deeper into exactly where the grand princess sailed. According to the company, the ship usually leaves from the port of San Francisco and makes stops on four different Hawaiian Islands and makes stops in mexico before heading back. On this case, the ship will skip mexico and head back to the bay area. A private school on the peninsula canceled classes because of the coronavirus as well. The headmaster of the menlo school at atherton sent out a letter. Its shutting down the campus because a staff member came in contact with a relative who had the coronavirus. A cleaning crew will do a deep clean of the campus and it will remain shut down until its completed. United airlines is continuing to cut flights because of the virus and putting a freeze on hiring. Its canceling 20 of International Flights for the next month and will suspend its extension of flights between San Francisco and popular chinese cities. United says it will not hire new employees until at least june 30th. Airlines around the world are cutting back on hiring since fewer peep a fewer people are traveling. Weve created a Coronavirus Crisis center to make sure you have the information you send m about the virus and we got you answers. One asks, has the virus mutated . Researchers believe there are two strains, one is more aggressive and has infected 70 of those tested. The other 30 have a lessaggressive strain and most of the case out of the virus epicenter in wuhan, china have seen the more aggressive type. But the frequency of that type of virus has decreased since january. And many of you are asking how do you protect yourself, since most of us dont have the option of staying home all the time. Try to minimize contact with other people. Stay at least six feet away from sick people. It is transmitted through droplets in coughing and avoid during handles and counters. Use your clothing or towels to open includes the extreme measure one gym is taking before they let you work out. That story in about five minutes. A sunnyvale ups worker is accused of making workplace threats and stockpiling an arsenal of weapons. Were seeing what happened in the moments before police took him into custody. I will give up peacefully. And i will do it live. Thats the ups worker. Nbc bay area has obtain the video of a live stream that Thomas Andrews put out as officers were chasing him down. Nbc bay areas robert handa is live with more on this bizarre case, robert . Looking for him and spotted him reporter yes, in fact it was dr sunnyvale, thomas his Text Messages and videos andrews went live on social filled with threats, including media. And so this is how it ends. We knew it would. We knew i would get sunday nigh sunnyvale Public Safety officers tried to pull him over. He was wanted after a fellow ups employee showed Text Messages he sent indicating he planned a mass shooting at his workplace. He made strange references. Ups is a Great Company but some people are tainted of the. Reporter what really set the process in motion and led to todays 25 felony charges is the Arsenal Police say they found at his home. What we know from what was recovered, it had the appearance of a situation that could beied. We had a lot of assault rifles, handguns, a shotgun. But the amount of ammunition that the person had on hip, om,r 20,000 rounds is incredible. Something id never seen before. Understand, this is a show for everyone to see. Reporter in fact, some of his friends we talked to, who asked no the to be on camera, believe he may have been showing off. But they did acknowledge they had no idea he had firearms and so much and anything. Andrews is scheduled to be officially charged in court tomorrow. Robert handa, nbc bay area news the Golden State Killer wants to make a deal. Hes offering to plead guilty if he can avoid crimes by dna samples. His attorneyve life in prison in exchange pleas. A new day and a new front runner. Joe biden is back after huge wins on super tuesday. In california, though, which has the most delegates up for grabs, Bernie Sanders has a solid lead, with 90 of the precincts reporting, hes leading, 34 , biden at 25 . Nbcs alice barr is live. Reporter it certainly was all about 1y50joe biden. Mi Mike Bloomberg dropping out of the race and endorsing joe biden. The question will be whether he can build a broad and Sustainable Coalition in order to counter the rock solid base of Bernie Sanders. Joe biden super charged today after a night that was expected to te reporter super tuesday instead roberti instead rocketing biden to the top in what is becoming a head to head matchup with Bernie Sanders. Joe is running a campaign which is obviously heavily supported by the corporate establishment. The establishment are all those working class people, africanamericans. Reporter the biden boost continuing today with a new endorsement from Mike Bloomberg who pledged his considerable resources after his unsuccessful run. I entered the race for president to defeat donald trump. And today i and leaving the race for the same reason. Reporter sanders leads in the biggest prize, california. Nbc news projects heid carry colorado, utah and vermont. Biden picking up ten projected wins from new england to the midwest, surging to a surprise sent a signal, they really want to come after trump, and they think biden is the guy to do it. Reporter the last wildcard, elizabeth warren, assessing her path forward after a dismal super tuesday, finishing third in massachusetts. Two candidates now squaring off to slug out the nominations, state by state in the weeks ahead. And sanders did say today that he had spoken to warren by phone, but that he was not your honoring hurging her to drop ou of the race, he said that is a decision she will have to make in her own type. Time. Bernie sanders did get lots of help from the bay area as he surged to the top in california. Sanders was the top choice in seven of the bay yaareas nine counties. And all but one county gave third place to Mike Bloomberg or senat senator elizabeth warren. A measure was considered too close to call, but heres the latest numbers. You can see them there. Right now, measure d is passing with 68 of the vote. 100 of the precincts showing. Approval for passage. If it does, it would charge owners of empty store fronts 250 a linear foot the first year a store sits empty. In the east bay, measure j appears headed pofor failure. It was supposed to be a traffictaming measure. And thats just a few of the rat races that were tracking. Results are being updated as co. Still to come, no more hand shakes and checking your temperature before they let you in. We are taking a look at changes big and small happening in Public Places because of the coronavirus. Plus, busted for going 100 miles per hour. The uptick in speeders on bay area freeways. Im jeff ranieri. More unusual heat with recordsetting temps in santa rosa, 79. Well talk about the dramatic change and our rain chances in about eight minutes. All the worry over the coronavirus is changing the way most people are living their lives. There are new protocols put in place to help prevent the spread of the virus. Marianne favro is live with some of the changes and a lot of things are happening in Public Places like gyms or churches with people crammed together. Reporter absolute lay. Ty. Two important changes were ordered in regard to holy water. Instead of holy water, there are rocks in the font. At st. Joseph in san jose, the font is covered. The bishop hasthat may be co somebody who might be carry ago germ on their hands and touches that water that they dont risk spreading that to other people. Reporter the diocese of san jose is also asking churches to stop offering communion by mouth. This parishioner appreciates the cautions. I think theyre great. We all have to be very careful in the community. Theres really no reason not to do things like this. Reporter to protect against the spread of viruses, the communal chalice of wine had been stopped and asked people not to shake hands or hug as a sign of peace. At bar three exercise studio in willow glen, this week employees started taking clients temperatures with devices similar to this one. Client megan chavez says shes okay with that. When all these Group Exercise classes there are so many germs, its hot in the room. Its an easy way for germs to spread. Reporter small, proactive changes meant to prevent the virus fro having a big impact. The diocese of san jose has formed a Coronavirus Committee to take a look at some of these preventive measures at its churches. And the archdiocese of San Francisco has also implemented similar changes. Reporting live in campbell, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Okay, thank you, marianne. If you have questions about the coronavirus, you can head to nbcbayarea. Com. We have dedicated a section to the latest news about it. You click the tab. It its right on our home page. Slow down. The chp is urging people to lay off the gas pedal. Tickets like these are becoming all too common. Last year the chp wrote more than 1700 tickets for drivers that hit triple digits on the steadometer. One of the worst cases, 133 miles in the hayward area. The number of speeders has risen each year in. You may have gotten away, but we will catch up with you, that is the message from deputies. Deputies were responding to a burglary at a home in san leandro. When the suspects took off, they hit a patrol car and a few other cars while trying to get away. Deputies found the car in oakland, lots of evidence inside will identify the suspects. Luckily no one was hurt. Another tool is available to help those dealing with Substance Abuse. The Pilot Program began at the Mission Street Sobering Center in san jose. The center helps those with alcoholism already. Arrest and citations dont appear to be effective in fighting the meth problem. The idea of this is Substance Abuse and Mental Health issues are a medical issue, and we want to treat that as such. Its not a punitive program. Its to really look to what we can do to assist them in recovering. Reporter the program will cost roughly a Million Dollars a year to operate. Brian r honored, it francisco. He is credited with turning comcast into a billion dollar company. The award goes to leaders who are devoted to their workers. Whats so great about great place to work is you cant buy it. Your recognition is from your employees. So, for me, it means all of comcast is working and pulling in the same direction. My dad started the company. And its about the culture, and ive as y ive always said i have one job, which is to maintain a special culture at our company. We should point out comcast is the Parent Company for Nbc Universal and nbc bay area, so basically, us. Exactly. They didnt do a fist pup p. Th they did an elbow. Im fine with that. Its so warm today. I woke up this morning and it was lalready getting warm outside. We had a few 80s today. Are you all over it. No the dream weather weve had with the 70s, 80s and sunshine will be fading. So as we take a look right now, its all about this warm area of High Pressure that has been pup ping in that heat from the south and diverted the rain track to the north. When High Pressure moves in it displaces the storm track. This has been our problem. Thats why we had record heat at 79 in concord. The old record was 73 in 2012. The good news. If you want changes and happen to be sick of the 70s and 80s, were going to see high p the e. Thats going to take some of the heat with it and bring back a little morning fog. I dont think it will be super thick tomorrow, but be aware near the peninsula we will have fog reforming and 49 degrees. Over to the south bay, 48. San francisco starting off with areas of fog. Temperatures in the 40s to low 50s. As we move through tomorrow i think temperatures will drop off three to five degrees, but it will remain mild and above average. But a gradual change here. 74 in san jose,73 right on down to gilroy. Over to the east bay, dropping out of the 80s with 68 in vallejo, 66 in oakland. Youll notice near the peninsula, redwood city 69, San Francisco, 50s to 60s tomorrow, and right here across the north bay dropping down to 73 in napa and 67 in mill valley. Tomorrow we keep that sunshine through the day. Then by tomorrow evening well begin to see larger changes moving close. We are following a storm system. A lot of brain this, brain with. As we move into friday, well see cloud cover increase, drizzle at the kloscoastline. By saturday morning, a slight chance of spotty showers as the cold front moves over, and that would stay in the forecast through about 10 30 in the morning. So you see in the sevenday forecast, trace amounts to a tenth of an inch on saturday. Then sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday we have anywhere from 35 to a 50 chance of showers. For the inland valleys, 74 tomorrow down to 61. Theres your cold on friday. And we stay with 60s through next week. Id love to see these rain chances bump up. But i cant do it based on the storm is developing right now. Looks like the storm next week will stall out, so its making it hard it to determine the exact totals and the track is like a car in a fork in a road. It hasnt decided which way its going yet. When we get more information on this, we will certainly bring that to you. But at least the storm track is trying to change the pattern for us and hopefully have better news to share with you in the next couple days. Looking forward to that, thanks, jeff. Coming up, 45 m served. Celebrating the milestone with rom local celebrities. If youre 55 and up, tmobile has a plan designed just for you. And, for a limited time only, were making it an even better deal. 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