Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240713

Starting to taper off. Most of the day is dry. Mike, a lot of people. Light volume around the bay getting people where they need. Not really any concerns. Ive seen roadside fires. No lanes blocked and no injuries. These typically happen when its colder. There is still traffic out there. The san mateo bridge, we have a good stream westbound and eastbound over into hayward. Right back to you. Thanks so much, mike. 6 01. Our team is covering the impact from the pandemic and what is now the statewide shutdown. First to today in the bays Sharon Katsuda live in concord this morning with details on Governor Newsoms new order. And really this alarming warning that prompted it, sharon. Reporter take a look, here at highway 4, theres still a pretty steady pretty light traffic but it is steady out here. Heading to essential work. We have been sheltering in place. Now this new order affects 40 Million People statewide. During his evening News Conference Governor Newsom shared a sobering statistic if no action is taken Coronavirus Infections he says will likely skyrocket across the state. The virus will impact about 56 of us. Thats a particularly large number. Reporter Governor Newsom estimates 56 would be about 25. 5 Million People over an eightweek period. If people stay at home it will be more manageable. People can go out for groceries, gas or the bank. Those businesses will remain open and law enforcement, health care and telecommunications will continue work to help combat the coronavirus pandemic. You can still go out but maintain six feet distance. You can see the traffic here and people are still thinking about their spring break plans to get away from the bay area shelter in place. Now that there is a lockdown you may want to rethink the plans. Im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. Youre right, sharon. Thanks so much. That pressure is growing for everyone just to really heed this warning. Kris sanchez is at home social distancing. A lot of people really arent. Reporter its hard for some folks to feel like they do still have to go to work. In terms of Unemployment Benefits and seeing some of our business finally shuttered down and tesla saying they are going to seize operations and restart. Some people feel they dont have a choice. Other people feel they are going stir crazy and need to get outside. Ourd out. We saw people sharing exercise equipment. Mayor breed is warning against play dates and dinner parties no matter how small because the idea is to reduce your exposure. Im just staying in and walking once a day to get some fresh air. Its frustrating because i dont think people are taking it very seriously. Reporter if we do not keep our social distance, more than half of us could be infected in the next two months. The sickest people end up in the hospital. If they end up there at the same time there will not be enough resources for everyone. You might be getting pressure from friends or family to do your social distancing together. Here is what i would advise. Remind people for every one person who is infected, that person goes on to infect three more people. So in my family of four, if i am sick, i go on to infect the other three people in my family. So we are social distancing with another family or with neighbors or friends, that number becomes exponenti exponential. So do stand your ground. Hopefully this can be over as soon as possible. Its hard going to work because then i go straight home. Weve got to. Thanks so much, kris. 6 06. The state of california has thrown a life line to a struggling peninsula hotel. Bob redell outside seton in daly city. The state needs the hospital to stay open during the pandemic. They need the beds. Reporter Governor Newsom announced the state would be spending millions of dollars a month in Emergency Funds in daly city behind me so they can lease the beds during this coronavirus outbreak. They are looking at about 5 million for the first month and then 2. 7 million to rent the beds at both seton. Thats a Skilled Nursing Center Facility in moss beach. This is according to the San Francisco examiner. Those payments will help ensure daly city, whose owners declared bankruptcy, doesnt shut down during this Health Crisis and will provide the bay area with an additional 357 beds that could be used to treat patients. Governor newsom hopes the beds wont be necessary if californians follow his orders to stay home. If we change our behaviors, that inventory will come down. If we need this moment, we can truly bend the curve to reduce the need to surge, to reduce the need to have to go out and cobble all those assets together. Reporter the state and county of san mateo have been fighting to keep seton Medical Center. Its a safety net. They approved 20 million in Emergency Funds to buy the hospital time during its negotiations for a sale. Reporting live here in daly city, bob redell, today in the bay. Thanks for the latest, bob. Workers at a los altos senior facility are taking new precautions after a 75yearold man there tested positive. This is at the los altos subacute and rehabilitation center. So far theres no update on the mans condition. And it comes after five people at the senior facility in burlingame tested positive. A sixth person is awaiting result and were awaiting word on how theyre doing. San Jose Police Department is looking at new exposures. The Department Confirms one reserve officer has already tested positive and is recovering at home. Chief eddie garcia has ordered another 20 or so reserve officers to be selfquarantined through next tuesday because all of them may have been exposed at a recent luncheon. The chief is calling for the county to put First Responders on a priority list for testing no questions asked. A reminder you can stay up to date with the latest on the Health Crisis. Youll get top headlines right into your in box. Its 6 09 right now. Were continuing to give you all the days news including weather and traffic as well. Kari from her home this morning has a look at our forecast. A little cooler out there. It is going to be cooler to start but, laura, we were talking about the social distancing and people getting outside when they can go for a walk or maybe even going to the park to get some fresh air but take a look at some other places across the country that are also having to do the same with the shelter in place order and look at the difference in temperatures that were seeing now. Look at bismarck, the High Temperature today reaching 26 degrees. Compare that to the bay area, well be in the 60s and then look at miami. Were looking at some mid80s there. For new york its going to be close to 80 degrees today but a strong cold front sweeping through over the weekend will bring it down to the low 50s, even some upper 40s there. So we take the weather into consideration with all of this going on. Well talk about todays temperature trend and some rain that may chase some of us back inside. Mike, how is it looking out there for the commute . Obviously very light as far as the backups go. We have a lot of cars out there and we have a lot fewer than normal. Not the big log jams we see and fewer riders on mass transit as well so lets talk about b. A. R. T. , guys. B. A. R. T. Ridership continues to take a nose dive in the wake of this corona pandemic. Starting monday trains will stop running at 9 00 p. M. Instead of midnight. Thats this coming monday. Weekend trains will stop at that Time Beginning next saturday. That means not tomorrow but a week from tomorrow, saturday and sunday service will stop at 9 00 p. M. B. A. R. T. Has lost 90 of its riders. Folks sheltering in place at home. B. A. R. T. Says it will keep an eye on ridership data to determine how they will act from here on out and will continue to adjust. Well have that information for you. The maps are showing no delays for the drivers. Riders report no delays as well. Here we go with green sensors. Throughout the east bay, vasco road, no delays. Exactly as we would expect. Thanks so much, mike. 6 11. Coming up next, the nba season is on hold. More players are testing positive for the coronavirus and the possible link to those infections. Reporter banks continue to close branches. Futures this morning calling for a mild open, maybe about 240 points on the open coming up. Ill run you through the numbers straight ahead. Sounds good, scott. Something positive before we head to break. Newspapers across the United Kingdom all running the same headlines as we take a look we are there with you. Theyre all displaying that sign of solidarity. This is today in the bay. Right now 6 14, we are going to see a few clouds moving by but mostly sunny sky and were going to have a slight chance of rain as we go into this afternoon but most of the rest of the bay area will not see any rain. Well talk about the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. And were looking at a beautiful shot as kari showed you san jose. No major problems there as we look at other spots throughout the bay. The san mateo bridge moving smoothly. A clear view in the background. You might hear the garbage truck. Ill explain why thats happening coming up. 6 15 right now. Wells fargo is the latest bank to announce they will close branches to keep its employees and customers safe. Scott mcgrew, we talked about chase bank yesterday. Reporter i did, yeah. Ill give the same warning this morning to our viewers. Your money is safe even if branches close down for safety reasons, you can obviously still use atms and electronic banking. Wells fargo will not be the only bank that is going to do this. On the east Coast Capital one has closed branches with drivethrus without, rather. On the west coast we dont really do drivethru banking so thats not an option out here. Tesla is doing what pretty much every company has done and that is shutting down operations as of monday. Elon musk argued it was a crucial industry, building cars was a crucial industry. The city of alameda does not agree. Ford and gm offering to build ventilators. The machines breathe for the patient and the fear is we will have more people who cant breathe on their own than we do machines to do it for them. Thats certainly what has happened in italy. Todays the last day of the floor trading on the new york stock exchange. Electronic trading will continue, of course. It was going to go that direction anyway. I used to work on the floor of the chicago board of trades many, many years ago, and my job was replaced by a computer. Youve heard of this netflix show, this love is blind on netflix, where singles go into these pods. They cant see each other. They date by voice only. A lot of people are Binge Watching that as they stay home. Its inspired a couple guys to create a new show online called love is quarantine. I shouldnt call it a show. More like a dating service where you sign up with your phone number, you date other people youve never met before over the phone. Heres what theyre looking for. Your name, your age, where youre from, your phone number and a little blurb about yourself. Were looking for serious people, funny people, serious and funny people. So then theyll just, what, give your phone number to someone they think reporter how i met your mother, right . Over the phone, i suppose. Reporter what better do you have to do, right . Im pretty busy these days, my friend. All right. Thanks so much. 6 18. Here is something good trending this morning. One man on the Island Country of cyprus getting resourceful while under quarantine. You see here hes using a drone to walk his dogs through the islands empty streets. He reminds people while staying home is important our Furry Friends need quality time. You look around and even in my neighborhood when i do go for a walk, youre social distancing. Everybody is waving at the neighbor from across the street. Kari and mike, they are at home right now. Im surprised that im surprised that dog is not frightened by the buzzing sound that drones make. Kind of frightening, you would think. My dog would be going nuts. Looking for those opportunities to get out there and enjoy some sunshine. Dont let the drone walk your dog. Can you do it yourself. Lets take a live look outside in San Francisco. Weve seen a few clouds rolling by. Lets talk about whats coming our way for the weekend because we will see another storm system comingalthough there may be lin showers today. We are going to see a pointed it out on the screen so you can see it as it is now coming down from just about 700 miles west of seattle. And then as we go into the next few days well see the storm arriving on sunday and bringing waves of rain going into next week and will also cause the temperatures to drop by the middle of next. And then as we look at the sevenday forecast we see highs in the mid60s today, a mostly sunny sky. There will be a slight chance of some of the rain moving into the south bay, possibly the east bay, going into today and then for tomorrow. Were mostly sunny and 70 degrees and the next storm comes in early on sunday and continues as we go into the rest of the forecast and our temperatures dropping off into the upper 50s for San Francisco we have highs in the low 60s and mostly sunny skies today. And once again a cooler forecast so our opportunityo dog for a nice, long walk, will be today and tomorrow before well all need our umbrella once again. So the commute is dry. Im guessing a lot less traffic there is, kari. I talked about what you might hear in the background, the garbage trucks. Those folks are doing their job in their neighborhood. You and i are both working at home as we were advised to do to make sure as many of us can stay in as good health as we can. Well look out to the roadways and see what notes there are. We look out to the general maps, green everywhere. Any early road work has pretty much been cleared up without any issue. We are looking to contra costa county. Walnut creek interchange very clear and so is the bay bridge toll plaza. The flow of traffic is very nice. I want to note the changes we talked about for b. A. R. T. Will not take place until next monday and the following weekend. Do keep that in mind. As a smooth drive across the bay, weve seen a few fires north bay and south bay and even in San Francisco. Theyve all been ons the golden with the smooth, easy light drive. Back to you. A very light drive out there. Thanks, mike. Coming up its images like these that are hard for Many Americans to watch, young people on florida beaches, look at them, not social distancing at all. Florida cities that are cracking down on this. Plus, new guidelines from that states governor. In california all of our kids are home from school and that includes my triplets. When im not out here anchoring im at home hoping to home school a little bit with the help of some fabulous teachers and resources. They have a pretty strict schedule. Check it out on my facebook feed. Follow me on instagram and twitter. When we face adversity, we find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. Were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. If you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home. Its just our way of doing our part. 6 25 right now. Floridas governor says, quote, spring break is done. He hasnt ordered the beaches there closed, but he says the state will enforce the cdc guidelines limiting gatherings to less than ten people. Still, the today show talked to some spring breakers who just arrived in florida ready to party. Obviously people our age, oh, it doesnt affect us. Theres two flights. Lets do this. Cities along the florida coastline taking action. Last night all public beaches in miamidade closed and beaches in clearwater where we saw so many young people gathering are supposed to close on monday. Unfortunately, about the only thing sports fans have to talk about is who is among the latest to test positive for coronavirus. L. A. Lakers announced two players are infected. The team conducting tests after learning Brooklyn Nets player got the virus. The lakers just played the nets the night before the nba suspended its season. Heres something good from the world of basketball involving the man at the heart of w nation. Steph curry tweeting out his foundation eat, learn, play, is working with feeding america to prevent hunger for those sheltering at home. A few hours later his partners at under armour pledged 2 million for those impacted by the coronavirus. Steph and his wife eyayesha donated more meals. 6 26 right now. Kari has a look at the forecast. We have a little bit of a break for the most part from the rain but there will be another storm system coming in by the end of the weekend. Ill show you that and the micro climate forecast coming up in a few minutes. California shut down. Governor newsom now ordering everyone to stay home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Next, a live report on newsoms dire warning if drastic action is not taken. Plus, how people are reacting. And a possible game changer when it comes to testing in the central valley. The big step uc davis is making to shorten the wait for results. Ok, so maybe were new to home improvement, but were determined. We got an insider tip on the ultimate flooring destination. Whoa. Floor and decor is amazing. Look at us. Were shopping alongside reallife designers and contractors. I love this tile. And this one. And, these prices look at this. Durable and waterresistant. We should do the kitchen next oh, yeah, we found where the pros go. Now, were unstoppable. Explore floor and decor in person or online at flooranddecor. Com 6 30 right now. The opening bell about to happen on the markets this morning. The markets are actually poised to bounce back this morning. Futures were higher overnight with the nasdaq at its upper limits. This follows yesterdays gains with the dow up at 1 . Stocks down nearly 30 from the record high a month ago. Taking a live look at the big board right now already up about 154 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Thanks for joining us for this edition of today in the bay. Were all talking about the statewide shutdown now. Im laura garcia. Marcus washington has the day off. Well have a check of your forecast and commute coming up in moments. First, governor gavin newsom making headlines across the country after the historic statewide mandate. Theres a recognition of our interdependence that requires of this moment we direct a statewide order for people to stay at home. Just stay home. The governor warning 56 of the state could get coronavirus. A breakdown on california numbers right now, 448 cases people ages 18 to 65. 13 cases are children. And more than 200 cases are people 65 and older. The bay area now has 468 confirmed cases. As the cases grow local hospitals are rushing to meet the demands of testing. Our Live Team Coverage is ahead. Meantime, mike and kari, were practicing social distancing. Im in the studio but youre broadcasting from home. You have all the equipment in order to give people the traffic and weather they need. Absolutely. So lets get a look at our forecast. We do have a lot of changes ahead. We do have a slight chance of rain in the south bay, High Temperatures reaching into the mid60s. 70 degrees and sunny tomorrow. That will make a lot of people want to open up the windows after cleaning and also get time outside. But then the rain comes back in the forecast by sunday and cooler temperatures will follow as that rain continues off and on. Well talk more about that and whats ahead, a closer look at the weekend forecast coming up in a few minimum, laura. Mike now tracking the roads, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, you and i have a great, easy commute because our company is allowing us to broadcast from home with, as laura said, all the information you need. Out to the roadways and tell you theres not anything you need to watch out for. On the roadways, a call did come in from the trivalley as we look at the map over here south 680. There may be a roll of carpet in the roadway. Chp will run a traffic break over the next few minutes so that will cause some slowing out of walnut creek toward san ramon and dublin. No problems. Well track it. The easy bay, no backups at the bay bridge. Back to you. Maybe folks are heeding the governors warning to stay home. Our team is covering the pandemic and that statewide shutdown. Lets check in with today in the bays Sharon Katsuda live in concord with Governor Newsoms new order and this alarming warning that prompted it, sharon. Reporter thats right, laura. Its alarming for so many people statewide now. Take a look. Here is highway 4. Weve seen some steady traffic throughout the morning. Pretty light. Most people are heeding that warning and they are only going to essential work. Shelter in place for the past several days. 40 Million People statewide during his evening News Conference Governor Newsom shared a sobering statistic. If no action is taken, he says, Coronavirus Infections will likely skyrocket across the state. The virus will impact about 56 of us. You do the math in the state of california, thats a particularly large number. Reporter Governor Newsom estimated 56 infection rate is about 25. 5 Million People over an eightweek period. Health experts say if people stay at home infections will be prevented. The crisis can be more manageable. The stay at home order means people can still go out for essential services such as groceries, gas and the bank. Employees in essential enforcement, health care and telecommunications will continue to work to help combat the pandemic. You can go out to open spaces for fresh air and exercise with your family but maintain six feet distance from others. And back here live you can see highway 4 here. We see a tow truck pulled over. Hes probably surprised were out here. Again, people doing essential work. Thats a good example. Theyre still allowed to do this throughout the state, but if you are planning on looking at your spring break plans you may rethink them if youre planning to head to Southern California because the whole state is in lockdown. So the best advice from Health Experts is to stay put here in the bay area. Reporting live, im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. It seems there are a lot of people out there right now judging by the sounds of the cars. The kids are staying home. Its now learn as we go. Several School Districts around the bay area are handling the crisis in different ways, some are sending home packets or instructions. Others have frustrated parents looking for help elsewhere. Today in the bays kris sanchez live from her home this morning war shes social distancing. Lets talk about the Different Things youre seeing out there. Reporter i mean, at this point it is looking like we will have some learning here at home for the next eight weeks if not perhaps longer as the governor suggested on tuesday. When youre talking about learning at home, Distance Learning or independent studies, it raises the question of equity and access. Not all families have access to the internet. So the state is trying to put together some resources. There is low cost affordable internet available for your family through the California Fund and you might qualify if your children participate in the school lunch program, if you are enrolled in cal fresh or s. N. A. P. Programs, receive Social Security or ssi. If you qualify for medical, if your Household Income is 40,000 a year or less you may get affordable internet access. Call 844841info for more information from the department of education. There are a lot of online resources if you cant access them offering up free Educational Resources like a daily schedule and other learning plans. I will put that in. The Evergreen School district really jumped on this scrambling to send kids home with a Continuous Learning plan even before schools closed on friday. Some of the resources are specific for their students in san jose but some are available to parents in other districts. I will post a link in my twitter feed if you want to see this. Things like this, yoga for kids, good for getting exercise, getting the wiggles out as theyre all cooped up now. In addition to finding exercise videos online you can take them outside to go and play so long as they maintain the social distance. My kids are going to be hikers by the end of all of this. Some suggestions from teachers and home schooling parents for you as you come up with your family plan over the weekend maybe. Set a schedule. Get the kids involved so they are stakeholders and dont fight you every step. Change out your pajamas, make sure you get dressed for the day. A lot of home schooling parents say you really dont have to if you dont want to. Its one of the luxury of learning at home but set up a quiet space. I know youve done this with the triplets. And keep a regular bedtime. Its hard to learn when you are cranky and grumpy because you havent had enough sleep. I did ask some of our teachers what do you really hope your kids do as they are away from the classroom during this break. A lot of them said just keep reading. If you do nothing else, read, read, read, and maybe do some math exercises by baking something together. Remember, youre not expected to keep them seated for a classroom type instruction for six or eight hours at a time. You are the parent. Address their emotional needs first and foremost. Laura . Especially getting them to bed on time. If they dont go to bed, i dont go to bed. Thanks so much, kris. 6 39 right now. Uc Davis Medical Center is rolling out a rapid inhouse testing program. The hospital is calling it a game changer for the sacramento area. Like the test being done now at ucsf, samples are run through a machine and the results are generated at the hospital instead of going to a commercial lab. Uc davis will soon be able to conduct 1,000 per day instead of whats now less than 50. Patients could receive results the same day they get the test. Fresh air is a good thing. Taking a peek overlooking San Francisco, city lights from the distance. Lets check in with meteorologist kari hall, who has been keeping tabs on what were going through weatherwise. We have a nice weekend ahead. We will have a nice weekend and the main thing weve been talking about recently is all the rain that weve had. Its been off and on for the bay area. Even with the rain moving through we are under abnormally dry to a moderate Drought Conditions for not only the bay area but at least 50 under a moderate drought including parts of the peninsula. We do still have some storm systems in the forecast. The next one moves in on sunday. Ill talk more about that with the time line of what to expect as you try to get some fresh air. Well talk about that coming up. Mike gives us a look at the commute. Weve seen quite a few people out. A lot of folks out there. You heard in the background of sharons shot as laura said. Lets show you where it will be slow for a short period of time in the trivalley, southbound 680. As you head out of the area through san ramon and danville down to the dublin interchange we are looking at a traffic break as you head to the dublin interchange for a roll of carpet in the roadway. No major problems and thats a smooth flow. I think im supposed to talk about vta changes. Lets do that. There are big changes Effective Immediately but its in an effort to better protect drivers and operators for starters will not be collected on light rail buses. Only collected on the back. Youll enter in the rear doors and not the front. Let me explain. I threw a bunch of stuff at you. All areas are taped off. That includes the fare boxes and clipper readers. Were looking about fewer cars driving fewer cars riding. Those who are driving those buses we have to look out for their safety as well. For everyone. Thank you very much, mike. Its 6 42 right now. Coming up next on today in the bay, san jose mayor sam liccardo will join us live. Well ask him some of the questions youve been asking us next. Youre watching today in the bay. My money should work as hard as i do. So i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. Today, im earning on a charger. So, just the charger then . Ummm. Yeah sarcastically fantastic. 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At Thursdays Press Conference the head of the fda had to contradict the president over whether the fda had approved a drug to fight coronavirus. The president also misspoke when he said the drug that is normally used to fight malaria would slow the infection. It will not. It is used once a patient has covid19. About the same time the president was talking nurses at Kaiser Permanente were demonstrating angry they didnt have enough surgical masks. The president says there are more coming. I cannot explain a gap. Very good things on the ground, and were dealing with they had a rampup, an obsolete system, and a system simultaneously not meant for this. It wasnt meant for this. Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion. Reporter of course a couple days ago the president himself said he knew there was a pandemic coming. He knew it before lots of other people he claimed. Now we will continue to fact check the people in washington, thats part of a functional democracy, of course. But it is good news that they are talking to us. Take a look at countries like china where theyre just not sending out any information whatsoever. Were sending out lots of information on twitter. Follow me there scottmcgrew. All right, thank you very much. It is 6 46. A live look at the s. A. P. Center. No sharks games, no concerts. It remains closed. More than a Million People in san jose along with the rest of the state are in that shelter at home order. With the state of california now in the Stay Home Order we are in an unprecedented time in the bay area and one of the hardest hit is santa clara county. Joining me now this morning is san jose mayor sam liccardo. Thank you for taking the time to join us. It is such a busy time right now. This latest order handed down by Governor Newsom, you say you support being aggressive on t s this. Good morning, laura. Ive had a lot of conversations with mayors across the state, and we feel its time to take decisive action. History wont forgive us for being too late on this. We all see whats happening with the trajectory of infection and we need time to enable our medical institutions to build that capacity. Do you think people are heeding the warning . I think overwhelmingly were seeing pretty broad compliance, people get it. The public health, the importance of this public safety. On the other hand we know there are always exceptions and Police Departments are out there trying to make sure everybody is well informed. And if theyre doing anything thats clearly deliberate then they get cited. Weve seen really strong compliance. We need people to do that because we need to stop the spread of this virus. Lets talk about hospitals right now, how theyre doing, the Emergency Rooms are said to be very busy right now. People are concerned about supplies and what not. Can you expand on that . Yeah. We dont run the hospitals, the counties do. Whether its icu beds or hospital beds, period, we need more capacity and obviously the most important aspect of the capacity is the human capacity. We know there are nurses and doctors who themselves are vulnerable. Ive had conversations with several doctors concerned about their colleagues. We have to keep everybody healthy so they can serve the rest of the community. This will be a rough time. Everybody is working very hard to expand the capacity as best they can. I think later today well be pushing an effort with other mayors statewide to see how we can eliminate whatever barriers are made to getting capacity built not just for patients but to get homeless out of encampments and out of shelters. We know thats how the virus can spread quickly. There are so many angles to consider as well. We want to listen quickly. This is what the president said. Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work and they are. The federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and shipping. Were not a shipping clerk. We know our hospitals are trying to do the difference there. Theres been talk of marshal law. Can you expand on that . Well, theres not martial law in san jose. Hes taking a common sense approach to enforcement. Were not going out and arresting people on sidewalks. We just want to ensure everybody understands the order because we know even when the county implemented it a couple days ago we had hundreds if not thousands of questions from businesses asking are we essential, are we not essential . Which employees are essential . Those are difficult questions and we want to make sure people understand first well enforce when theres a flagrant violation. Weve had good complaints. Thats important for people to know as well. So can you expand i want to get to the Leadership Program you have going on as well. We were concerned about our firefighters in the city of san jose and now coming out with reports of a reserve officer from the Police Department also contracting the virus. How are we looking when it comes to those who protect City Residents . Youre right. First responders are critical in this effort and at one point we had as many as 80 firefighters that were being sequestered because they had been exposed or were having symptoms of their own. Weve moved most back on the line, so thats good news. Obviously our thoughts continue to be with the ten who tested positive, a firefighter as well as a reserve police officer, had a chance to talk to one of our firefighters in the hospital, is doing much better now. And so were going to continue to pull for them. We need to protect them. Theyve had instructions to be wearing protective gear for some time now. Theyre complying with that. Were making sure theyre first in line to get tested. We know theyll go right back out and serve our community and we need to know they are both healthy and safe. And we want to make sure they dont infect one another. This is a big focus for us and well keep pushing to ensure our First Responders are able to serve us. And we know so much that we are supporting all of those First Responders. You are supporting the community and hoping that others support it as well rolling out siliconvalleystro siliconvalleystro siliconvalleystrong. Org. Tell us about it. Okay, i hope we didnt lose mayor sam right there as i really want to talk about Silicon Valley strong. We lost your mic for just a second. I am here. I can hear you again, my buddy, sam. I think im still here. Are you still there . Okay, good. Tell us about Silicon Valley strong. Yeah, its just been really har heartened by the communitys response. Siliconvalleystrong. Org. Its an easy way, first, to find out information about whats going on, with the city and the county and the cities surrounding us as well as to be able to raise dollars to encourage volunteers to help out. We know a lot of folks are sitting at home how can i be a part of the solution . By getting online you can sign up. Well connect you with a nonprofit thats out there, serving seniors who are shut in. We want to make sure that were able to leverage the incredible heart of the community to show how we can get through this together. Its a great idea and thats it. Were going to get through it together. Be well as well. I know your schedule has been very hectic. Thank you for taking the time to join us this morning. Always a pleasure, laura. Well see you soon. 6 54 right now. Happening now some of the grand princess have been sent to a local hotel. When the grand princess first docked in oakland some passengers went to travis. Others to miramar air base. A ramada inn is now housing nine passengers who tested positive. All showing little or no symptoms. More may be on the way. Well expand more on the Stay Home Order. The governor imposed it across the state and what it means to you. We made usaa insurance for members like martin. An air force veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. Usaa insurance is made just the way martins family needs it with hasslefree claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. Because doing right by our members, thats whats right. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa back to today in the bay. Im laura garcia. Under a shelter at home order due to the coronavirus pandemic. 40 Million People are now being told to stay home if at all possible. If no action is taken infections are likely to skyrocket across the state. The virus will impact about 56 of us. If you do the math in the state of california thats a particularly large number. That equates to more than 25 Million People. Health experts say if people stay at home infections will be prevented and the crisis can be more manageable. The new order follows one and still allows you to go out for groceries, gas, the doctor and the bank. On the peninsula seton Medical Center was facing closure. Now its getting much needed. They will provide millions of dollars a month in Emergency Fund to go seton medical where its leasing 300 hospital beds and a seton nursing facility in moss beach. San mateo county has been fighting to keep it open after owners declared bankruptcy back in 2018. Time for a look at our forecast. A cooler start but hopefully a nice weekend ahead. We will have a nice weekend at least for part of it as we will have a couple spotty showers for the south bay. High temperatures reaching into the mid70s. Sunny tomorrow. More rain in the forecast going into sunday and that will continue as temperatures cool off for the middle of next week. Youll notice the traffic flow very smooth. Westbound away from us. We do have an issue getting past the toll plaza. Thank you very much, kari and mike. That will do it for us on today in the bay. If i may speak for kari, mike and our entire team here at today in the bay, were living this strange, tough time with all of you watching at home and we know and we understand that you and your family are living through these really trying times. We know the unknown can be frightening for many but well continue to bring you the facts so you can protect yourself, your loved ones and neighbors. We are truly in this together. Thank you for choosing and trusting me and nbc bay area. Have a good day. Good morning breaking overnight lockdown. This is a moment we need to make tough decisions. Californias governor makes a drastic and unprecedented move, ordering all 40 Million People to shelterinplace. The desperate call from doctors and nurses from coasttocoast over a shortage of crucial lifesaving supplies. If this doesnt slow down and we dont get relief, were going to have some problems. The president suggests new ways to treat the virus could be coming soon