Moment of people reaching deep, going the distance to really help support the cause of the state. Newsoms message of reassurance comes on the same day National Guard troops were deployed to help distribute food. Millions across the state committed to civic duty whether on the front lines in the fight against covid19 or simply behind doors, sheltering at home. The condition of a San Jose Police reserve officer who has tested positive for the virus has taken an unexpected turn. The officer was recovering at home, but tonight the Department Says he is in the icu. Nearly two dozen other reserve officers are selfquarantining through next tuesday because of potential exposure. A senior home in the east bay says one of its seniors tested positive for the virus. The Sunrise Living Center in pleasanton confirmed it today. Its the first case there, but the senior home says it has been monitoring the situation and taking precautionary steps. Adapt and innovate. First responders probably know that better than anyone during a crisis. With new strategies, including special units and equipment. Nbc bay areas lili tan talked to menlo park firefighters today about their new normal. Lili . Reporter garvin, right behind me is the dedicated fire apparatus for covid19 calls. Anytime theres a potential case, this and two First Responders will head out on the call. Right now the doors are closed to avoid potential contamination, but inside there are medical supplies and other equipment used to protect the public and firefighters. Now, less than an hour ago, menlo park firefighters on the special unit showed us their new protective gear. Theyll now wear tie vex executes, medical gloves as well as a mask and safety flglasses. Theyll ask people to come outside in order to limit exposure. The fire chief says he has 100 personnel and seven firefighters are currently being tested for covid19. The way this is going, were not going to be able to sustain waiting for people to be tested, waiting for results to come back. And then even if theyre not symptomatic, having firefighters off for as much as 14 days off duty. Reporter now, the chief hopes this is a good strategy to keep as many First Responders healthy and available to assist the public. He also says five firefighters have also volunteered to be part of this special unit and to be on the front lines of this crisis. Live in menlo park. Lili tan, nbc bay area news. Now, it is of course the first weekend in the bay area where people are sheltering and working at home might be getting out for some fresh air. While plenty of people headed outside, others spent the day helping Health Care Workers. Christie smith joins us live from Golden Gate Park with what shes been saying. Christie . Reporter well, people are out today jogging and riding bikes, but in parks in fact, right across the street there is a sign explaining that critical need to keep a minimum sixfoot distance from people that youre not living with. And we saw a few exceptions, but it does seem like people are giving space. The embarcadero was a popular spot for exercise. At the farmers market, there were clear changes with social distancing in mind. Susan thompson liked this stand with yellow tape that kept shoppers on one side with just the vendor handling vegetables. Its the best way possible to try and assist with the social distancing. I mean what else can they really do . Reporter theyve added hand washing stations too amid the coronavirus pandemic. At dolores park, signs reminded people about social distancing. She wants to go to the playground, but weve been telling her its closed. Reporter getting a little fresh air and exercise with two kids and working from home lately is whats in order. We had to sort of split our time 5050. We each do two hours on and off with the kids. Reporter meanwhile, efforts are ramping up to help Health Care Workers. Some say theyre running low on protective equipment. At 18th and dolores, ucsf med students collected masks with plenty of donations pouring in. Were starting to see the tip of the iceberg nationwide with Health Care Workers that are running out of ppe or personal protective equipment. Reporter and help from the tech industry. The mayor announced San Francisco bays flex port made a large donation of surgical masks, gloves, gowns and thermometers. Now, we had time to stop by three parks in San Francisco today, and we saw those social distancing signs in all of them. Reporting live in San Francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you, christie. Santa clara county is taking reports of businesses violating the shelter at home order through a new reporting system tonight. Voicemails can be left in english, spanish, or vietnamese at 4087922300. The email address to the report is pubhealthreferral dao. Its on your screen right now, but were going to post that on our website as well. Heres a look at the latest cases around the bay area. Tonight were learning one person in Sonoma County has died from the virus. Santa clara county is still the hardest hit with more than 200 cases. Now to an encouraging update regarding testing. A new test that can yield results in less than an hour. Thats what a south bay company says its new covid19 test can do. The company just got the goahead from the federal government. But who gets the test and when . Nbc bay areaary rs roz plater sunnyvale with some answers. Reporter the company is just behind me here. They have a long history of developing diagnostic testing. Theyve just gotten the goahead from the fda for emergency use authorization to distribute these tests to hospitals and to medical facilities, not directly to consumers. What sets this test apart is that it doesnt need to be sent out to a lab. It can be run onsite. Heres some video the Company Released this afternoon demonstrating how the testing would work. First a technician would collect a nasal swab. The sample would then be transferred to a cartridge. That cartridge inserted into a testing platform that could detect the virus. Now, in this video statement they provided, the company says the results are available in less than an hour. You take a sample, put it into this new cartridge that weve developed, and about 45 minutes later, youll have the result. That test can be run at the hospital where patients are being admitted. Reporter the company says it already has more than 5,000 of those testing platforms in use around the country. Theyve used them to test for tuberculosis and hiv. Now theyll use them to test for covid19. They would not tell us where or if they are in use here in the bay area. They did say theyll start rolling out those tests next week. Were live in sunnyvale. Im roz plater, nbc bay area news. In order to make it in the bay, Real Estate Agents are getting creative in how they give tours during this shelter at home emergency. In dublin, one agent has been showing houses through the lens of her phones camera. And with the help of zoom. The Virtual Tours are giving people hunting for a home a sense of the Properties Available when they cant come in person. Potential buyers say it means so much to see a property through video in real time rather than relying on glossy photos. Its an especially difficult time to be buying or selling a house. Not only are open houses canceled, but banks are limiting hours and functions. One bright spot, very low interest rates. Stay up to date with the very latest on the coronavirus with our daily newsletter. Youll get the top headlines right in your inbox. To get it, just go to nbcbayarea. Com to sign up. Were following developing news. A bay area congressman is in Critical Condition tonight. East bay representative Mark Desaulnier is suffering complications from pneumonia. His Office Tweeted a statement explaining that desaulnier developed the complications after a rib fracture when he fell during a run. He tested negative for covid19 and is reportedly being treated in the d. C. Area. Its an item thats hard to find these days, Hand Sanitizer. Now the makers of purell are facing some lawsuits. The reason why next. Plus is this our new normal . We talk to the man who surveyed people all over the world about this pandemic. When people think this crisis will end. And rob mayeda here from danville as we bring you the Weather Forecast from home. Talking about showers and a chance of some isolated thunder in your sunday forecast. A closer look when we come right back. 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. Earn 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. Chase. Make more of whats yours. We find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. 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. Purell its something weve been hearing about quite a bit in the last few days, social distancing. Well, heres a great example of it in action. Youre looking at video of shoppers doing just that at a costco in south San Francisco. You can see people really trying to keep six feet apart while they stand in line to get into the store. So when do people think this will end, and what are americans most worried about . These are some of the questions that were asked in a new global survey. The virus has spread rapidly all over the world, and the survey talked to people in 14 different countries. They were asked how they felt about covid19. The survey was done in some of the hardest hit countries as well like china, italy, spain, and the united states. Joining us live from dallas, texas, is the ceo of dynata, a Global Online Market Research firm that did the survey. Gary, one of the most questions you asked folks is just when do they think this will all end. Well see the other side of this emergency. What did they say . You bet. Thanks for having me. 55 of americans say that the pandemic will end within about three months. 75 of the americans say it will end in about six months. That compares to italy, where 67 say it will end in three months. And in china, the chinese believe that 63 in three months. But but 90 of them believe it will end in six months. What are people saying are some of their biggest concerns in all of this, in getting control of the Virus Outbreak . Well, sure. We canvassed the group on worries and anxieties, and interestingly enough, we found that almost every case, the younger populations in america were more concerned than the older populations. And i found that to be rather ironic because the images and the scenes that we see in the media are of youth on the beach celebrating spring break or maybe in general having more of a laissezfaire attitude towards coronavirus. But it couldnt be more distant from the case. It turns out the younger populations are more worried about it than the older populations, particularly as it relates to their access to health care should they get sick. My next question was going to be what do you attribute that situation where we would assume its the older people, but if its the younger people feeling more concerned about it at this moment . No, i think that it might be very much that theyre concerned that maybe in general the youth dont have access to health care or dont have the needs or the means as much as perhaps some of the older population, which might have it or its covered by the government. So its a big worry and a big concern in that sector. Gary, you spend any time on social media, as always, people yelling back and forth about the governments response to this. Obviously you cut through that when you do this research. What does your Research Find about how people feel about the governments response . Yes. We canvassed that very question about faith in the government. And in america, about 56 of americans believe that the government is taking the right steps and actions to protect them. That compares relatively well to the global population at about 59 . India and singapore, however, have the highest levels of trust in the government in terms of protection for them in this regard at 81 and 76 respectively. Japan and the uk, however, at the lower end of that spectrum, 32 in japan believe that the government is taking the right steps and actions to protect them. And 45 in the uk. In the few seconds we have left, have you looked at all the data, what surprises you the most about what you found . Well, interestingly, we looked at a number of things and one of the things that surprises me the most is its inversely correlated in terms of where people get their information and the level of trust they have in that particular source. Most people get their information from areas like the media and tv rather and social media, but they trust social media, for example, the least. Oh, very interesting. Gary laben, thank you for giving us insight into this situation. Thank you for having me. Lets switch gears now. Lets talk about the local weather. Of course rob mayeda is very local as far as hes concerned, meaning hes in his house. But hes got access to all the radar, all the computers, all the models, so he can give us an update on whats going on this weekend. Rob . Yeah, garvin. Were watching things here from danville as we continue our socially distant Weather Forecasting here. Our unofficial Weather Center in danville, california, were able to run everything off the laptops here at home. And powering through, the live shot youre seeing now with an iphone. So theres technology for you. As we take you outside and show you what weve got around San Francisco, partly cloudy skies. Look at the high, 62 degrees. It was a little mild and muggy outside today. Youll notice walnut creek got up to 66 degrees. Right now 63. In san jose, not quite as warm. We started the day with light rain at times. 61, and youll notice were still seeing a few showers off to the east around the foothill areas. We had some earlier off to the east in morgan hill and gilroy. Off to the west youll see a weather system that will increase those shower chances again as we head through right around this time tomorrow, early afternoon into the evening. We expect to see the next round of showers start to peak. For the morning temperatures in the 40s. Well see a chance of isolated thunder mainly south of santa cruz very early in the day. Then i think as we pass 2 00, 3 00, 4 00 in the afternoon, santa cruz areas south of san martin, one of the areas with the best bet of seeing those isolated thundershowers. Hour by hour, if you want to get outside briefly and maintain that social distancing and get a little exercise, youll notice that the morning is better for that because as we head through the afternoon, as we do see the chances of thundershowers highest around the south bay, that will likely be peaking right around the afternoon into the early evening. Now, rain totals we think will be higher around the south bay kind of like we saw last weekend. Areas north of San Francisco not likely to see a whole lot out of this storm. There might be a better chance of more rain across the bay area as we approach tuesday. Interesting to point out not only will this bring another foot or two of snow across the sierra, but it could be snow levels down to below 4,000 feet again. So we might see hill top higher Mountain Peak snow. Then after that, the rest of the week trends breezy and cooler. Maybe a chance of a few showers heading towards next weekend. The forecast tomorrow, the morning looks like the drier half of the day. Well see showers on the increase. And look out for that slight chance of thunder, especially around the Santa Cruz Mountains and areas south of san jose. A little more rain as we get into your monday morning. Then a break and some clearing as we head towards thursday and friday. So thats how things look from here in danville. Lets send it on back to you. Thank you very much. Now, while we shelter at home, including rob, rob is making learning about weather and science easy. Hes put together an online version of our weather teams visit to schools. Check out the weather classroom on nbcbayarea. Com. Now you can find it at the top of our home page. Still ahead, something good amid the coronavirus pandemic. How paris is thanking Health Care Workers all over the world. The maker of purell Hand Sanitizer is facing class action lawsuits. Thats because of the claim the gel kills 99. 9 of illnesscausing germs. Back in january, the fda warned the company to remove the claims. Now there are two lawsuits complaining the maker misled customers and broke the public trust. The company has yet to respond. Anthony flores joins us now for a look ahead at whats in sports. Anthony . Thats right, garvin. We have converted my kids play room into my sports corner. We even have a few 49ers memorabilia. And speaking of the 49ers, they are on the lookout for a new target for jimmy g. Why Emmanuel Sanders wont be returning to the bay area next season. Stick around. Sports is next. 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. And change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. Abbvie. 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. Earn 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Welcome back. Im Anthony Flores live inside my childs play room. The 49ers are in need of a wide receiver after Emmanuel Sanders decided to join the new Orleans Saints. Now, it happened late last night. He agreed to a twoyear deal that could be worth up to 19 million. Now, he was the number one wideout with the 49ers but hell be the second option with the new Orleans Saints behind michael thomas. He played ten regular season games with 36 receptions for more than 500 yards and three touchdowns after being acquired in a midseason trade with the denver broncos. Well, just like everything else, the sports world has come to a grinding halt, including golf. But one bay area caddy is trying to remain positive while trying to explore his more creative side. The bay area is a golfing hot spot from the exclusive olympic club to tpc harding park. And just a short drive south, the legendary pebble beach. But with californias order to shelter at home, the last putts have dropped. The thing that hurts the most is actually having the golf course closed right now. Reporter ben peters makes his living on the course carrying bags. Its unusual that golf courses are closed down. Im out of work like a lot of other people. Reporter hes been caddying for almost a decade and playing golf for a quarter century. But now hes trying to make the most of this rough situation. Its also great because i get a chance to be home and be with my family right now. As a caddy, you tend to always feel like you need to be at work. And since theres no work on the course, its time to focus on another hobby. I love photography. From the Golden Gate Bridge to sunsets on the beach, hes snapped some breath takeing photos, but he always comes back to his favorite subject, golf. I actually was able to shoot at the u. S. Open, at pebble this last year. I was fortunate enough to be able to go down there and be the photographer for the week, which is awesome. Got some really cool shots of some of the big boys necessaril landscape photos right now, and penow. So its hard in that aspect. But peters is hopeful the Golfing Community will come together in this time of need. I see them, you know, coming together and figuring out a plan to be able to help the people, you know, maintain their jobs. I definitely see that happening. How great is this . Former patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski made his wwe debut last night. He really got into it. Heres the best part. Theres no crowd because of the coronavirus. That doesnt stop gronk from going all out. Look at him. Hes dancing his way into the ring. He is scheduled to host wrestlemania next month. Gronk not letting anything spoil his fun, something we can all l trying time. Garvin, back to you. Anthony, thank you very much. Those pictures are amazing. Awesome internet. Its more than just fast. It keeps all your devices running smoothly. With builtin security that protects your kids. No matter what theyre up to. It protects your info. And gives you 24 7 peace of mind. That if its connected, its protected. Even that that petcamera thingy. [ whines ] can your internet do that . Xfinity xfi can because its. Simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ] 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. We finish tonight with something good paris edition. The eiffel tower lit up in sparkling lights to tribute to medical workers. Special understanding coronavirus story up next. Well see you back here at 11 00. Chris chmura good evening, and thank you for joining us. Im chris chmura. As the covid19 pandemic continues, we want to offer some perspective and help keep you and your family informed. Tonight were focusing on the facts you need to know as the crisis continues. Well share what were learning from leading experts. Our goal is to help you stay healthy and save some money, too. We begin tonight with scams, cyber crooks target us at every opportunity. Well, you can add coronavirus to that long insidious list. When the virus began to spread in asia, tech firms noticed an uptick in scams targeting people there. Well, weve already seen some scammers turning their attention to the San Francisco bay area. Male a Global Pandemic chris the volume of information about coronavirus male airlines are canceling even more flights. Chris can be overwhelming. If youre looking to narrow your searches online, be wary of traps. Mark ostrowski the folks looking to do bad things or take advantage of situation chris Mark Ostrowski works with the Tech Security firm Check Point Software in san carlos. He says 4,000 new coronavirusrelated websites
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.