Then by tomorrow we see some spotty showers starting to move we see all of the rain happening in early in the morning and then in Southern California. The rain gets heavier as we go throughout the day. Off and on rain so it wont be raining the whole time about you our next storm system will be there will be some unsettled approaching from the north. Weather this weekend. Well talk about how much were that rain moving in and another expected to measure coming up. Storm system that will be set to mike, you have an early backup move in for next week. At the bay bridge. Remember, we have half of these cash lanes that are still not open so that may be one of the reasons. I dont know why theyre not today once again it is quiet, open yet, perhaps a reduced dry, and also very comfortable. Force, perhaps theyre changing schedule or it might be a couple folks running late. That next storm system arrives very early. Well see how it is at the bay bridge. A light volume of traffic throughout Contra Costa County getting through the east bay. Going into the day tomorrow, the one crash passed the san mateo cold temperatures and also looking at off and on showers. Bridge toll plaza. The only other thing on the blotter. Well talk what new weve learned over there. Back to our breaking News Coverage of the coronavirus and then some of that rain pandemic, our team is covering continuing as it gradually the story and the impact from starts to taper off some of our washington to the bay area. First today in the bays jay gray live from capitol hill bay area seeing snow. With more on the emergency here is a look at how much rain declaration President Trump is and a look at two different computer models. Considering. This is the model that shows we jay . Reporter yeah, good morning, could see over 3 inches of rain laura, marcus. The president has said hell in parts of the east bay as well consider an emergency as the Santa Cruz Mountains and declaration to free up not only two and a half inches elsewhere. Billions of dollars to help prop up the economic side of this but this is the model that shows also some infrastructure to help just about that amount of rain areas most affected. So theyre both agreeing that look, lawmakers continue their were going to get a good soaking here between now and work meeting in about an hour to wednesday and then just over the try to finalize details on a weekend parts of the sierra will bill that would do the same, see the potential of a couple provide some relief for those feet of snow. Who are dealing with the virus this is one computer model that right now. Not only workers but businesses shows even more snow will be on the way up to 78 inches of snow as well. They expect to get that done possible at kirkwood which, of today. The senate has said they will work through what was supposed course, we know is some great news. To be an off week next week its also going to be very because of this pandemic. Chilly. Back to winter even as we head another big issue across the country testing and testing closer to spring. Were going to see high kits. The president has tweeted this temperatures in the low to mid50s over the next several morning that hes cleared up the red tape that a lot of these days. Mike, youre starting out with test kits should be out and an alert. Available immediately. Its been an evolving also blaming the obama situation. Westbound with the taillights administration for not im seeing more traffic getting correcting problems within the through the area. We still have word three of your testing phase during the h1n1 lanes are blocked back at the toll plaza. Crisis. Testing is how well get an idea how much this virus is spread and where we need to focus our minor injuries reported but we efforts and its clear that do have slowing maybe some lanes right now, and Health Officials opening up just as we speak have said as much to congress, traveling west from hayward. If you want to avoid it go to we are lagging far behind other countries dealing with this the dumbarton bridge as an virus. It looks like south korea alternate. That and the rest of your bay testing is nearly at 20,000 looks like an easy drive. A crash in oakland never patients and just over 11,000 materialized in major issues. People in the u. S. According to chp gets the information north of the coliseum. The cdc have been testing to over here a drive through the this point. So that according to many here trivalley, the dublin interchange. Our camera facing there doesnt on capitol hill and across the see any problem. Country is unacceptable. There is a crash reported near the president saying this the dublin interchange but the morning hes cleared things up transition ramp appears to be as far as the red tape is concerned. Well have to wait and see if we flowing just fine. Through Contra Costa County, no see that in action. And how quickly as well. Problem, the maze is great, the jay gray, thank you very much. Bay bridge toll plaza, we have 5 03 right now. At midnight tonight a 30day ban fewer and fewer cars waiting. Thats great news because we takes effect on travel from europe. Here is a look at a map of the have more cash lanes that opened. Back to you. Nations impacted. It is 5 21. There are actually 26 in all a path of destruction next on including germany, france, and today in the bay, all new spain. The uk is not part of it. Video showing the moment of deadly tornado touched down today in the bays pete suratos joins us live this tearing down buildings in morning. Pete, President Trumps orders nashville. The show must go on for now seem to be causing confusion for at least. We are getting a look at late a lot of americans just trying to get home. Night tv without live audiences reporter thats right, laura. Causing a lot of confusion kept away by that pandemic. Following President Trumps oval 5 22 right now. Youre watching today in the bay. Ok, so maybe were new to home improvement, Office Address but woe do know the travel ban will kick in later tonight. Lets go ahead and give you the details were getting as far as the details were getting from the white house. We know that it is a 30day travel ban and will affect 26 countries in europe italy, but were determined. Spain and greece to name a few we got an insider tip on the ultimate flooring destination. Of those countries. We know that the uk and ireland whoa. Floor and decor is amazing. Are exempt. Look at us. Were shopping alongside reallife designers despite coronavirus cases in the and contractors. I love this tile. Uk. That ban only applies to foreign and this one. And, these prices nationals, not u. S. Citizens, look at this. Durable and waterresistant. Green card holders or families of u. S. Citizens, and it does we should do the kitchen next oh, yeah, we found where the pros go. Not impact european trade or now, were unstoppable. Goods. Now a lot of these guidelines explore floor and decor in person or online were not addressed initially by at flooranddecor. Com the president during the oval Office Address which caused plenty of street for travelers in the areas. We just have to figure out how to get home. If i wasnt in the right wherever we want to go, place in line, i would have been autosave your way there with chase. Stuck in europe for maybe 30 chase. Days. Make more of whats yours. Reporter now americans coming home must go through Health Screenings and could in some cases get quarantined. We know the ban will start at 11 59 p. M. Reporting live, pete suratos for today in the bay. All right, pete, thank you. Now two more School Districts announcing overnight they will soon be closing schools, one on the peninsula and the other in the east bay. Today in the bays bob redell live for us outside of Berkeley High school. This is a campus thats already been closed. Reporter correct, marcus. After yesterdays announcement of cases here berkeley unified around 8 30 last night decided to immediately shut down berkeley technical academy, Technology Academy and Berkeley High which is behind me. No classes at either campus starting today and then all other campuses here in the district will be canceled starting monday and this will be going on for all campuses through monday. High School Teachers will use today, breakfast and lunch will still be available for pickup as students at Berkeley High and the tech academy at those respective campuses. San mateo foster city unified closed down until monday, april 20th, that is through their spring break. Distance learning begins next thursday. Details to follow next week. Today was already a planned day off. A list of all the School Closures scrolling at the bottom of your tv screen. Well add them as they come in to us. On that list, of course, is San Francisco unified, the largest district which will be shut down for the next three weeks. 6 24 for you this morning. Parents we spoke with there were expecting the shutdown, just not and closing time for east coast so suddenly leaving them scrambling. City moving up bars in jersey trying to navigate child city bars are now closing at 10 00 p. M. Care. This is all to stop the spread both our jobs told us to start working remotely. Of the novel coronavirus. You can do that but as soon as new yorks governor is banning you introduce the kids back in it makes it harder. Gatherings of 500 or more people reporter parents should avoid having older relatives to halt the community spread. Provide child care during this break, older adults considered exceptions for schools, hospitals, Nursing Homes and most vulnerable to covid19 mass transit. The rule is forcing the closure complications. Sf unified working on a plan to of broadway which wont reopen help stints wudents who rely onl until april 12. Meals. Tomorrow a number of high were learning late night shows schoolers are supposed to be are not the same without a live taking the s. A. T. Studio audience. A number of Testing Centers this is only the second time canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak. Trump has addressed the country from the oval office, the first was the mcribs shortage. That joke would have normally as if they didnt have nerves gotten a big laugh. Last night the tonight show went on with an empty house. Nearly 80 firefighters remain production is suspended along under quarantine this morning. With production of seth myers city leaders announced four have tested positive for coronavirus. Late night. Ellen will continue with audience free shows. The wife of canadas Prime Minister has tested positive for they will go in with full protective gear at first if the coronavirus. Justin trudeau says his wife patient is not in critical condition. Sophie is showing symptoms but then theyll screen for signs of the virus. Is feeling okay. Trudeau says he does not have symptoms but plans to many people are out sick. Selfquarantined and work remotely. Well do what must be done. They prepare for harvey the union says if there is weinsteins next trial. Any sign of the virus at one of he is under observation in the citys stations firefighters prison for chest pains. Plan to evacuate the facility this comes after a judge sentenced him to 23 years for and will receive a deep cleaning. Rape and sexual assault. Los angeles prosecutors are planning to extradite weinstein for a criminal trial there despite his medical condition. Asking private companies to all new video shows the do the same, the new policy moment a powerful tornado rips meant to ensure anyone who becomes infected or must provide through downtown nashville earlier this month. The strong winds were just care get adequate paid time off demolishing traffic lights on a when they have exhausted street where cars were driving just moments before. Existing paid leave they will it happened so quickly the receive an advance on additional tornado killed 25 people in the sick leave. The pandemic like nothing any nashville area. Of us have experienced before 5 27 this morning. Extends to the world of sports amid the coronavirus outbreak which has now ground to a standstill. Lets check out the back page n more bay area School Districts headline of the new york post, are closing. Next a live report with a the day the sports world complete list of the closures and the impact on some s. A. T. Stopped. Testing. Essentially every sports related activity suspended or canceled plus people are feeling and it will cost billions of extremely anxious and tense dollars not just for sports about something they cant leagues but the businesses and control themselves. Workers who depend on these store shelves sitting empty. The panic purchasing happening games. The summer olympics in tokyo is across the bay area and what you still a go. Need to know before you head to yesterday they lit the torch in the store. Greece. This is the start of the traditional torch relay. And President Trump floating that idea, postponing the games until next year. Japans olympic minister yesterday dismissed that idea. And we just learned a parttime employee at the s. A. P. Center has tested positive for coronavirus. The person last worked on march 3 during a sharks game. The employee is under selfquarantine. And disney is following governor newsoms orders and closing down to stop the spread of coronavirus. Both parks in anaheim, disneyland will close this saturday and will stay closed until the end of the month. Universal Studios Hollywood will also close down this saturday and will reopen march 28th. Nbc universal is our parent company. No doubt youve been 10 the stores and see the empty shelves as people prepare to deal with coronavirus. Coming up at 5 30 well check in with today in the bays kris sanchez taking a look at the shopping, the panic shopping, thats been going on there. Some fresh air is in order. Lets check the forecast right now with kari. Today still really nice. We are starting out with some fog. Threequarters of a mile visibility right now. Were seeing that fog around parts of the north bay but as you head down to san rafael its looking pretty clear. A look at our high temperatures today, very comfortable after a school start so we will have this last warm day before that cold front comes in. Youre tracking a crash out of hayward. Westbound from the hayward side on the san mateo bridge. On the bridge itself near the toll plaza reports of a crash. elevator rings great bag. Twins excited intake of breath i think there might have been a my bosss boss, has the same taste in bags. Quick break to remove an axle. I knew we were similar. We have a new crash near the dublin interchange. Just two fashion forward powerful women with great style. Although, ill bet she overpaid for her we do have folks who have been i mean, i got this italian leather beauty waiting at the bay bridge. For way less at t. J. Maxx which is good business. We have more cash lanes open but still have a couple left. I think shed appreciate smart decisions like that. Oooh, i should tell her our coronavirus coverage continues. 5 11 right now. Still ahead on today in the bay, coming up at 5 25 going dark. How long broadway is set to be shut down as new york large events and curfews when it comes to nightlife. Wall street trying to stay out of a recession. Good friday morning. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Developments in the coronavirus pandemic changing by the minute. Hollywood halted. Im here in the Coronavirus Crisis center with the latest for you that morning. Movies pushing back release first the number of cases across dates and production. The country are growing. Now more than 1,500 cases and this morning two deaths are being reported in florida. Those are the first outside of the west coast. In total 40 people have died here in the u. S. On Capitol Hill Congress is expected to make an announcement on the coronavirus aid package. That package will provide funding and resources for workers, families and businesses. Now in the bay area Santa Clara County has by far the highest number of cases and san mateo has the second highest with 20 cases. Which of your devices are protected meantime the remaining by daily security updates . Passengers onboard the grand daily security updates. Princess have landed in san diego. This is to begin their daily . I dont know. The only thing. Im struggling with this. Quarantine. The grand princess cruise ship some providers you have to manually download updates is staying docked in the port of to each device. Comcast business securityedge updates every 10 minutes oakland until sunday. Our leave coverage continues in just a bit. To help keep your connected devices protected a live look outside in san against new ransomware, malware and phishing threats. Francisco and look at the radar there. Rain is set to move into the bay every 10 minutes feels pretty good. Area this weekend. Get secure, reliable internet and voice for an amazing price. Its certainly much needed. Kari hall is timing it all out call today. For us. Comcast business. And were going to see that beyond fast. Rain moving in by tomorrow. So today we have one more day of sunny and warm weather to get out and enjoy before all of this heads our way. We have quite a bit of rain that will be off and on and much cooler temperatures reaching into the low 50s over the next few days. More on this coming up. Light volume, light backup for the cash lanes. A late open. Your calling was always to make positively impact the future. That is indicating a light flow gcus online masters of Education Degree Program of traffic around the bay. Gives you the skills you need to we focus on the san mateo bridge grow and develop your career. That crashed and the alert. Private. Christian. Affordable. Visit gcu. Edu online light traffic keeps you slow to the toll plaza. Stay over to your right lanes. The left lanes are blocked by debris right now. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 5 32. Team coverage on everything you need to know about the coronavirus outside break. Bob redell is live in berkeley. New School Closures. Two major districts in the east bay. Berkeley unified. Doesnt mean you got to spend a lot because dennys brought back the super slam™. Thats starting immediately with eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes. Today. No classes and monday all of the all for just 6. 99. Other campuses will be shut the 6. 99 super slam™ is back down. See you at dennys high School Teachers will use today to come up with plans for students to continue learning at home and breakfast and lunch right now at 5 19 here is they will still be available for pick y the forecast for squaw valley. Getting to the sierra no pickup for students. Problem. And well start to see some rain moving in tonight. The other district, san as temperatures drop it changes mateofoster city unified school over to snow tomorrow and travel districts are closing all their campuses. Will be basically impossible throughout the weekend. Well talk about how much snow and bay area rain. And, by the way, today was already a planned day off for students. We have a list of all school what im looking for is a closures. Scrolling at the bottom of your crash at the dublin interchange. Tv screen. We will be adding them as they come in to us. Well talk about that as well. Good morning. Happy friday the 13th. So youve seen the numbers and the Largest School district in the bay area which will be shut ill get to them in a second. Down for the next three weeks. Facebook and twitter have found a new plot by russian activists to create fake accounts to create dissension within the both of our jobs told us to start working remotely. Africanamerican community. It makes it a little harder. Amazon accuses the president of interfering with the decision. Reporter if you do not have those numbers, youve heard it, child care for a child, you may biggest point loss ever, biggest want to avoid having older percentages since 1987. Relatives provide that care from this time off. Can i say one positive thing about this . 1987 was twice as bad as this. By the way, sf unified is we do believe the house will working on a plan to help pass a massive rescue package studen students. Today. The senate will take it up early next week. If youre supposed to be taking weve talked in the past how you the s. A. T. You should have been cant fight a disease with money notified if your Testing Center but it could help small will be open or not. Businesses which are already facing uncertainty, survive a while longer. Bob redell, today in the bay. The u. S. Federal reserve is doing what it can to keep so many changes coming so americas Banking System healthy. Fast. Less than 24 hours from now a the fed injecting a 1. 5 trillion package into whats 30day ban on some travel from called the repo market. Europe, the move made by ive seen people online griping President Trump to slow down the spread of coronavirus here in about the fed giving wall street the u. S. In the process causing mass that money, even people that confusion for americans trying to come home. Should know better. The fed pushes cash into the Banking System in a very complex today in the bays pete suratos joining us with those details this morning. Way, but it doesnt give anyone money. Pete . Reporter there was plenty of probably not at the top of anyones mind right now but what confusion following President Trumps oval Office Address. Will this do to house prices . The answer is nobody knows that has since been cleared up. Because weve never ever ever been in this situation before a. We know that it will be a 30day survey by the National Association of realtors shows travel ban affecting 26 about half their Real Estate Agents think there will be no countries in europe that allow Movement Across borders. Effect. 40 say there will be a negative effect. This includes italy, one of the my guess is no one is going to hardest hit areas by covid19. Try to sell their house. Were not going to get data. You want to have an open house, a couple dozen people coming through your house not at all. The uk and ireland are exempt. Now is the time to move . No, it is not. The data is just going to fall european leaders were not happy saying there was no consultation away and were not going to with them on their end. Know. The biggest investment people as far as the ban goes, it only applies to foreign nationals. Make as well. Thank you very much. An update this morning as well from the man who has become it does not apply to families of the first celebrity face of the u. S. Citizens coming back to the country. Coronavirus, Actor Tom Hanks the white house clarified that posted this photo of himself and it also wont impact trade or rita wilson. Goods. Theyre in isolation after testing positive. Hanks wrote in a tweet we are even though americans arent as taking it one day at a time. Impacted, it wasnt made clear at least initially during the remember, despite all the Current Events theres no crying in baseball. Thats a line from president s comments which caused a lot of stress for travelers in those areas. League ofoue looking forward to if i wasnt in the right place in line i would have been stuck in europe for 30 days. Reporter american travelers will have to go through Health Screenings at airports and possibly quarantined if needed. The ban will begin later tonight at 11 59 p. M. Reporting live, pete suratos, today in the bay. The city says the workers screened people in terminal b between noon and midnight on february 21st and march 2nd. Sjc remains open and American Airlines pilot tests positive for coronavirus. The airline has not said what route that pilot flies. Some folks are in panic. You may have seen empty shelves in the aisles where cleaning supplies and Hand Sanitizer used to be. Kris sanchez joins us with how stores are trying to make sure they can serve all customers. Looks like supply and demand is really tough. Reporter this is something they are calling panic buying, the hoarding of materials as people try to get prepared, something weve been seeing all around the bay area as stores are now trying to limit the quantity of certain items people can buy. I saw signs like these limiting the number of disinfectants and Hand Sanitizer products to four yer transaction over a few days husband and i both came up empty as we tried to restock toilet paper and cleaning supplies, even dry beans and rice. People have been seeing scenes like these at bay area Costco Stores and other stores. A manager tells us it was the busiest day in his stores history. A pandemic certainly sets off an alarm bell because were human about wanting to survive. Reporter look at this tweet from a Southern California sheriffs department. Please dont call 911 because people are cutting in front of you in line at the store. It ties up valuable resources. The therapist recommends knowing what you do need from a trusted source. The department of Homeland Security recommends ahead of a pandemic you get a two week supply of food and water, prescription and overthecounter medication and copies of your health records. I want to know what youre experiencing where you live. Join the conversation on facebook. Making it in the bay even harder with the coronavirus outbreak. City leaders will consider a proposal to protect people from eviction. In the meantime San Francisco assemblyman is proposing his own plan. It would temporarily ban evictions and foreclosures who just cant pay the bills. Anyone who relies on b. A. R. T. For their commute can rest assured trains will continue to run. There is a remote possibility Train Service could be reduced or even shut down. B. A. R. T. Tells the chronicle it would be the last resort. The agency realizes it is an essential service and there are no plans. A live look at the bridges this morning. The bay bridge toll plaza, the san mateo bridge to name just a few. The connectors and in 30 minutes talking at the end of this report because it does show some change in the volume. Even a change from the last few minutes, lighter traffic flow. No backup in the cash lanes or any of the lanes. No metering lights yet. The rest of the bay youre all in green calling your attention to the middle of the screen. Westbound 92 at the san mateo bridge just past the toll plaza. Debris blocking two lanes, two are open. You could use the dumbarton bridge as your alternate. Sister bridges operate and help each other out when there is a problem. I talked earlier about how volumes have changed over ten years or so. The second thursday in march, the dumbarton bridge is down from the previous year. Thats a big drop for people telecommuting. Carpooling is even bigger change. 30 difference across the dumbarton bridge. Decreased . People are not carpooling. And thats not even thats year to year. Not even accounting what were going through right now. There you go. Fresh air is in the forecast. Especially today. Tomorrow as well as sunday well be running outside during those breaks in the rain, and the rain will be off and on and much cooler. Temperatures heading our way. Were going back to winter as our temperatures only reached the low 50s for the coast and up to about 54 degrees for the inland areas. By sunday were reaching 53 for a high and i think the rain will be a lot more widespread. The breaks may not come that often. Were going to see rain and snow mixed in. And for the trivalley also some sunshine for today reaching into the upper 60s. We reach up to 54 and for kirkwood if youre not there today just forget about it. Conditions are going to be treacherous. Chain controls and some gusty winds with highs only reaching 28 degrees on sunday. Well get a look at todays temperature trend for the south bay. Thats coming up in three minutes. Its 5 42. As weve been mentioning the pandemic is closing schools across the country. Next on today in the bay its scary and a lot of people its fear. The emergency meeting set for today for the Largest School district in california. And, of course, we will tak theyre working on some sort of Financial Rescue bill. Also, President Trump attacking the cdc this morning. Amid the outbreak signs of resilience, a look at the message in the skies and the now trending social distancing solution. Tv just keeps getting better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. 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Debris blocking a couple lanes and a crash just past 92 on the southbound nimitz which will keep from you getting to the dumbarton bridge in a speedy fashion. The president said its time to set aside politics to fight the virus but is attacking joe biden, criticizing bidens approach to the swine flu which hit back when he was vice president. The president this morning tweeting Sleepy Joe Biden was in charge of the h1n1 swine flu epidemic which killed thousands. The response was one of the worst on record. Now to be fair biden has been criticizing the president s response to coronavirus. The president giving us a very different message this morning than what we heard from his National Address wednesday evening. Apparently we dont have that sound bite, but basically we need to take politics out of this. The president criticizing the centers for Disease Control claiming the cdc slow walked tests because it hoped there would be no pandemic. Everyone hopes there wont be pandemics, but the cdc works on the assumption there will be. It is a center that controls diseases. Journalists trying to figure out if a promise has been kept. An interview on fox over the number of respirators, the anchor asking the head of Medicare Medicaid are there enough . This is the fourth time she asks. I want to ask you one more time, are there going to be people in this country who dont get a ventilator if they need one . Are you concerned the actual physical equipment needed to serve the people who will get sick is out there . Can you reassure there is not a shortage of ventilators or icu units . And thats why the president has taken such a bold and decisive action, right. Were not waiting for this to get worse. Were not waiting for this to be a crisis in our health care system. Seema verma never did answer the question. Shes the person who told the San Francisco police she lost 47,000 worth of jewelry after thieves broke into her government suv while it was parked outside San Franciscos commonwealth club. You see my twitter there. The house is set to pass an economic rescue package. Well talk more about that as we talk about is in 30 minutes. Thanks, scott. Happening today l. A. Unified schools are holding an emergency meeting to consider closing its campuses. Yesterday the superintendent said for now its better that the schools stay open. A few hours later the Teachers Union held a live stream reject that go decision. The superintendent says there are many factors to consider before closing all schools. 5 49. For more indepth information about the coronavirus and how it is impacting the bay area wine industry, check out our special report understanding coronavirus. You can scream it online right now. You can pull out your phone, use your camera to scan the qr code in the corner. It will take you to the video or maybe just watch it later. You can head to nbcbayarea. Com. So amid the ongoing outbreak some silver lines here or even a friendly reminder. A message reading in the skies wash your hands. This appeared in sydney yesterday. Take a look at it. Well, okay, look at it again as we there we go. You can see it there, wash hands. Eventually a lot of people on the ground taking their phones up to the skies capturing that saying in the sky. Just a friendly reminder for you. 5 50 for you that morning. Even in italy where the virus is really taking hold, some people are still trying to lighten the mood. Look at this makeshift social distancer. If you cant make it out, he has a giant disk literally strapped to his body during a trip to the market in rome. It keeps everybody away. At least the guy filming it is laughing there. He may not be able to make it through some of those spots. Yeah, how does he get in and out of there . Obviously were not practice that go right now. You can put samples all around him, too. Do you want to pick them up . Have some lysol around him. Lets start out this morning as we are getting out the door heading to work, a lot of us still doing that and we have a threequarter mile visibility in santa rosa. Weve seen drifts of fog moving around in the north bay and right along the coastline and then as we go into the rest of the day well see some sunshine as were in between the weather systems. The first one now to the south of us bringing some rain to l. A. Our system is to the north. Well also see the next storm system coming in by the middle of next week. As we time it out today not a whole lot going on here until we take it about 2 00 tomorrow morning with some light rain starting to move in and then well see the waves of rain throughout the day tomorrow and continuing through sunday. Looks like we could measure a pretty decent amounts of rain. As we look at the seven day forecast. Off and on showers. And then this wraps up with snow early on monday morning. We do still have some rain in the forecast but will only reach into the upper 50s with San Francisco going from 60 today to 50 on sunday. Mike, youre seeing some big slowing through hayward. I want to show the san mateo and dumbarton bridges. You can use the dumbarton bridge south of hayward. We have a big problem in hayward, the west 92 getting across the san mateo bridge. We do have debris left from the earlier crash ive been talking, two lanes past the toll plaza. Half your lanes are blocked. Then getting down 880 your alternate as a crash should be clearing from lanes but a motorcycle is involved. We know thats always more of a distraction. No major injuries reported. The rest of the bay shows a light, easy drive. Those numbers, laura, that i share with you and marcus, indicate here is the short hand, the numbers from this week are about what we saw in 2010. Thats how light traffic was then. Just light because of this and nobody going through the toll plaza. Big change for a lot of us. Happening now for you that years Boston Marathon could be postponed due to coronavirus. Organizers and city leaders are considering now holding it in september. Its currently scheduled for april 20th. If the change is made it would be the first time in 124 years that the marathon would be rescheduled. Canceling the event could mean the city losing 200 million. Much more ahead on today in the bay including the new action one taking despite having zero confirmed cases. And in other news dramatic new video were seeing for the first time on the deadly and destructive tornado that swept through nashville area. More of this video coming up. Youre watching today in the bay. Mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. 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The coronavirus is suddenly creating an unforeseen obstacle for the allimportant census count. Counters will be trained to contact residents there are concerns people wont answer their doors. They want you to know you can respond online for the first time or by phone or mail anytime before may. Thats when they will count households that have not responded. 5 57 right now. Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein say he hasnt given up the fight as they prepare for his next trial in los angeles. He is under observation in prison for chest pains this comes after the judge sentenced him to 23 years for rape and sexual assault. Los angeles prosecutors are still planning to extradite weinstein for a criminal trial despite his medical condition. A judge is recommending a former ucla cardiologist have his license revoked. According to the l. A. Times three women accuse him of sexual assault. The judge in the case says he found one of the accusers credible. He says one of the incidents never happened and the other two he says were consensual. The state medical board will now have the final say. The moment a powerful tornado rips through downtown nashville. Look at the strong winds, demolishing traffic lights. That tornado sadly killed 25 people in the nashville area. The very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Congress may be getting close to a deal to help provide financial help to workers and businesses affected by the outbreak. We expect to hear from leaders on capitol hill today. Life is turning upsidedown for thousands of families. Schools from San Francisco to west Contra Costa County are closing down. The latest numbers now, confirmed cases are up. Santa clara county by far has the most with 66. San mateo now has the second most with 20 cases. And across the country over 1,500 cases with 40 deaths. The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Quickly approaching 6 00. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Lets get a check of the forecast for you. Kari, the rain is coming our way but today looks like well be able to miss that and have some good time outside. All that have sunshine weve been seeing throughout the week will continue today. Our next storm system coming in early tomorrow morning bringing us some rain. One more day of the warm and sunny weather even early tomorrow morning. And then it becomes more widespread with heavy rain moving through as we go throughout the day on saturday. It wont be raining the whole day but it will come through in waves off and on and more widespread for sunday with parts of any area south of San Francisco most likely being the target for heavier rain. Well talk more coming up. Two crashes in