Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240713

Mike has a look at the morning commute. It is very light. The volume at least. You can go at speed. A quick look at the north bay coming through the curve, the es ess curve, moving smoothly into the Golden Gate Bridge without a problem were at speeds. Be careful, you do have company as you see. The u. S. Just hit a record of the highest oneday total deaths from the coronavirus as the numbers continue to rise, right now the u. S. Has more than 163,000 confirmed cases. March 1st, there were only 75. At the same time Big Companies are now pitching in to address the shortage of supplies. Today in the bays tracie potts is live from her home near washington this morning with a look at the challenges theyre facing. Good morning, tracie. Marcus, good morning. The president says its everyones patriotic duty to do everything they can to fight this virus and for Corporate America that means focusing less on profits right now and more on production. With the coronavirus expected to peak by easter, Corporate America is ramping up production. Ford and General Electric are working together to make 50,000 ventilators in the next three months. Other companies are converting Assembly Lines to produce masks. By friday i want to be up to 50,000 a day. Reporter hospital gowns. Expect to begin delivering 30,000 to 50,000 gowns a week. Reporter face shields. 10,000 in the next few weeks. Reporter the governors requested more test kits but President Trump says he hasnt heard about testing problems in weeks. Hes setting june 1st as a new deadline for recovery. The economy is number two on my list. I think the economy will come back very fast. We basically shut down our country. Reporter 30 states issued stay at home orders. We need to talk about the, you of everybody wearing a mask. Reporter around the country temporary hospitals set up in new yorks central park and the l. A. Convention center. A florida pastor arrested for Holding Services outdoors. And anguish. My rent is due this week. Im the only income. How am i going to provide for my child . My grandmother died alone. She died alone. We didnt even get to say bye to her. Reporter americans dealing with the very real impact of this deadly virus. So far more than 3,000 people in this country have lost their lives to the coronavirus. More than a million tested and now, marcus, were learning there are hundreds of Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities reporting cases. We know that was a big issue especially in washington state. It seems to be a big, you nationwide. Hard for families who cant see their loved ones in their last moments. 6 03. Infectious disease experts from the cdc are now assessing the coronavirus outbreak at San Franciscos laguna honda hospital. They currently have 11 confirmed cases which includes the staff, cleaning crew and patients. There are growing fears of much wider outbreak and the cdc plans to advise the staff on how to manage the spread. Mayor london breed is requesting more resources including registered nurses and more testing equipment. It is 6 04 right now. If youre planning a trip to your local whole Foods Grocery store you may want to brace yourself. Several workers are planning a oneday sickout. Theyre saying theyre not getting enough protection. I want to check in with bob redell live, reporting from his home in livermore. What are the workers asking for . Reporter laura, theres a group called whole worker, a group organized of whole foods workers and employees who are organizing this. You can look at their twitter page. This day of protest that whole foods workers in new york city, chicago, california, and other locations have tested positive for covid19. It should be noted no bay area employee has tested positive as far as we know. They want paid leave for workers who selfquarantine, Health Care Coverage for parttime employees and guaranteed hazard pay which would equal double time. They also want more social distancing between workers and customers. We spoke with shoppers near the s. A. P. Center where that store is only allowing 55 customers inside at a time. Theyre taking a big risk. We get to work from home. They cant do that and they are interacting with so many people. They should have better coverages and better pay. Reporter a whole foods spokesperson said in a statement the company is prioritizing and extensive measures are being taken to keep people safe, deep cleaning, and limiting the number of customers. Employees have received a 2 per hour ways and if they test positive or are quarantined. Bob redell, today in the bay. I understand their concerns. Thanks so much, bob. Today is your day to possibly be a hero and help out a lot of restaurants along the way. Today theyll have the Great American eat out day, kris. I want to check in with kris sanchez live from her home, and i know ive been cooking tons for my family, it would be nice to take a nice off. I think we should have set up our home offices in the kitchen. Thats where were spending most of our time, a little snacking going on during this stressful time. This is a serious thing, as mmm as 30,000 restaurants say they might not survive the coronavirus pandemic by the time this is over. They could shutter their doors for good. Restaurants offering special deals, family meals plans, cocktails doing to keep enough to keep employees on the job. The fda says there is no evidence of someone getting coronavirus from food or foot pajageing. Use Curbside Pickup or request a no contact delivery. When you get your food home throw away all of the packaging and use your own dishes and reheat the food even if its already warm. Using go fund me donations to make free meals for First Responders and essential workers in East Palo Alto and the Ravenswood Education Foundation but also using the funds to pay four work eers. They had food available but not enough staff to serve the kids. A lot of restaurants are trying to be creative, do the right thing for their employees and keep the doors open. If you want a link to that i can put it on my Facebook Page. It may not be a bad way to spend the evening. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. All right, thanks so much, kris. I know my kids are eating tons these days. Marcus . I was eating before this but continuing to eat nevertheless. Lets get a look at the forecast. Maybe some good jogging weather around the neighborhood if you can, social distancing, of course. Yeah, if you can today, but we are also doing those athomeworkouts. Ive been doing some zumba on the tv. On xfinity you can get those free on demand workouts. A little tip there after we eat our restaurant food. Lets get a look at our forecast today. Its going to be beautiful this afternoon in san jose. Were waking up to the clouds starting to part and our temperatures will warm up today. So well see a mix of sun and clouds and also our temperatures reaching into the upper 60s. For the east bay we may see it warm and 70 degrees and then for the peninsula in the upper 50s, San Francisco reaching into the low 60s today and well see some 60s in the north bay. Well talk about rain coming in for the weekend coming up. Mike has a look at the morning commute for people who must drive. Some folks need transit to get there but there will be an adjustment. Weve been talking about a lot of other adjustments. As we take a look at ac transit, theyll modify their Service Today in the wake of declining ridership just like the other agencies. Theyll operate with minor changes from the sunday schedule, you get all the details, they will continue transbay services. Fremont, 880, the light traffic but there is still traffic out there and there is an issue up in oakland and im just hearing about the same freeway, the nimitz. A nurse shares her experiences on the front lines fighting the coronavirus. The new yorkers heartbreaking message to her children. [ no audio ] all right, were having an issue with scott, but, laura, what else are we working on this morning . Well, take a look at this. As we head into break, check out what Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco looks like these days. The popular tourist spot packed with tourists usually but eerie looking here, barely a soul in sight in whats become our new normal. Were keeping tabs on it all. It is 6 11. This is today in the bay. Right now at 6 13 working from home in my green screen. Lets get a look outside at the south bay as we check out our temperature trend for sunnyvale. We will see temperatures starting out in the low 50s. Its going to be a beautiful afternoon with sunshine and highs in the upper 60s. A rainy weekend forecast headed our way coming up in a few minutes. Looking to the traffic flow which is smooth for most of the bay as you would imagine. As we take a look over by the coliseum im tracking the latest which is reports of some debris, maybe a sofa in the roadway 880 right at the bottom of the screen. Ill give you the details if we have more to report and the other issues further south. All right, watch the roads there. Today is march 31st, the final day of the First Quarter. And a terrible quarter it has been, scott mcgrew. Reporter its been a terrible quarter, yes. The worst since the 2008 housing crisis. The worst First Quarter since then. The second quarter, which starts tomorrow looks rough, too. Markets rose monday, the fourth positive day out of five. That wont be enough to save the quarter. A year ago we were having the best First Quarter in ten years. President trump now says he thinks itll be june 1st before the economy gets itself back together. We dont have any way of knowing. Do keep in mind as we talk about ford and gm promising medical products in the first 100 days, 100 days from now is actually midjuly. Washington says it is willing to give money to airlines so they can make payroll but they have to keep the workers, cant lay them off. Nancy pelosi pushing for more stimulus including mortgage relief. And the San Francisco Organization Called the internet archive has decided to offer books for free calling it the Emergency Library but a lot of authors are telling the New York Times theyre not so enthusiastic because the internet archive is not paying the authors the way regular libraries do. I havent looked. I know chris san dhkris sanchez user of the library. I assume electronically. Questiyes, you can. Oh, good. Were readers, we read a lot of news and books. We found the right career. Here is something good to report on. You know how theres that lack of Hand Sanitizer out there, take a look at this. A modesto winery is stepping up. They are now producing the product and the business recently delivered dozens of cases to the office of emergency services. They were doing their part to help out all of those in need. I know you know a lot about this next story because across the country many Young Children missing out on having their friends over to celebrate birthday parties. Thats right. The triplets turn 11 in about 30 days. I think were going to have to postpone that party until the summer. Take a look at what theyre doing in some parts. Its a really great idea. I dont know if i can get the fire trucks and Police Sirens going but robyn iovino posted this of local police and fire units helping her daughter celebrate with a parade, Even Community members got in on the fun. And the trend is taking off. In maine a Facebook Page has been started to help parents plan special birthday surprises which is kind of cool. I love seeing stuff like that. How about adding a twist to selfisolation. Busch beer is offering a threemonth supply of beer to 500 people who adopt a foster dog from a midwest Animal Rescue in minnesota. A winwin if youre a beer lover. Im on the fence about adopting right now. Its a great time. Its a great time. Its always a good time to adopt. Hes on the fence. I could go either way right now. You can come practice with my dogs. I could walk your dogs for you. There you go. They would love it. Today would be a good day to walk the dogs, kari. It would be a great day because were going to get more sunshine and warmer temperatures. Were starting out with clouds. A live look outside in San Francisco as you get the day started, of course, only essential workers out this morning. As we go through the day were having to social distance. Enjoying the sunshine and the fresh air. About six feet away from everybody at this point. Its nice to see our views around the bay area. Even if you cant actually go there. But i wanted to show you a look at the nationwide temperatures because we know were not the only ones having to shelter in place and our temperatures have really started to warm up. Today in kansas city theyre reaching up to 69 degrees. I wanted to show you what some of your family may be dealing with looking at cooler air. New york city reaching 47. Compare that to miami today reaching 93 degrees. It is going to be so hot here while here in the bay area were enjoying comfortable weather, upper 60s in san jose. We do still have rain to the north of us. It looks like only spots like ukiah, really far to the north, well see that chance of rain, the rest of the bay area seeing mostly dry conditions. There will be the return of rain for the weekend so were going to see that rain coming in on saturday, continuing into sunday and temperatures will drop as well. Were going to see decent amounts of rain for most of us with if i where from a quarter to half inch of rain. In terms of sierra snow this is going to be a decent snow maker and, yes, its april. Were still talking big snowstorms here looking at the possibility of getting several feet in the sierra. Were going to see temperatures in the low 70s into the next couple days. San francisco some low 60s and the weekend we drop back as the rain moves in. Mike, youre tracking the roads. Any drivers having any issues getting to work . The first one is with our live look. Its by the coliseum on your right. Reports of a sofa that dropped off a truck, presumably and in the center divide. Now south from there with those headlights down to hayward and highway 92 its a smooth drive but as we look at the san mateo bridge getting there may be an issue. The slow lane is still blocked. Im told 70 gallons have spilled out and some may have gone in t. Over on the peninsula side, thats a smooth drive. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 22. Helping fill the need. The Southern California Community Using modern technology to protect health care workers. First, andy cohen speaking out nearly two weeks after becoming infected with covid19. What he says it was like to finally reunite with his baby boy. That interview follows today in the bay at 7 00 a. M. 6 24 right now. An estimated 75 of all americans are now under shelter in place in nevada, north dakota, nebraska, iowa and arkansas have no mandatory shelter in place directives at the city or state level. However in those states some nonessential have been told to close. Now the site of a military Field Hospital to help treat noncoronavirus patients. Should have 150 beds for patients soap t the goal is to up space to treat coronavirus patients. As those coronavirus cases surge in new york city a hospital surgeon there is sharing a heartbreaking message. Take a look at this. She tweeted a photo of herself wearing a regular facemask, makeshift protective equipment covering her head, and an open neck medical gown. She shared a note. She says she wants her kids to have if she dies from the disease. It reads in part, quote, i want them to know mommy tried really hard to do her job. She used the getmeppe which many medical professionals are using to demand proper protective gear. Lets look at the video from the pittsburgh, pennsylvania, area. Look at this. These long lines of cars. This is not for covid19 testing but its for a food bank. So many people showing up there. The traffic patterns had to be changed, the lines of cars stretching for miles as you can see here. The volunteers out there handed out nearly 2,000 boxes of food weighing 50 pounds. Something good to talk about, now in Southern California a help to overcome the shortage of protective equipment for health care workers. Yeah, take a look at what theyre doing here. Neighbors in san diegos Scripps Ranch area are using 3d printers to make hundreds of face shields. The printers work around the clock to create the headbands for the shields as well. Then volunteers attach the plastic cover. So far the group has given over 300 face shields to hospitals across the country. I love to see how everybody is trying to do their part. 6 27 for you this morning. Coming up next the top stories, including the mounting toll from the coronavirus with the expected shelter in place extension for the bay area. But first bay area congressman Eric Swalwell will be with us live to talk about the stimulus money heading to californias bank accounts. Is that cash enough to help them get through the crisis . Well ask that question up next. New tide power pods one up the cleaning power of liquid. Can it one up spaghetti night . It sure can. Really . Can it one up breakfast in bed . Yeah, for sure. Thanks, boys. What about that . Uhh, yep it can . Yeah, even that i would very much like to see that. Me too. Introducing new tide power pods. One up the toughest stains with 50 more cleaning power than liquid detergent. Any further questions . Uh uh nope one up the power of liquid with new tide power pods. 6 30 for you this morning. Youre watching today in the bay. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia broadcasting from my home. Were all working together to bring you the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Lets get to some of those numbers updated from overnight. Take a look. Across the country there are now 164,000 confirmed cases, more than 3,000 people have now died. Yesterday was the deadliest day yet in the United States and experts warn the worst is yet to come. About 1 million americans have now been tested for coronavirus. Meantime, the number of bay area cases now tops 2,200. Santa clara county has the most with 848. 55 people have died here in the bay area. Live Team Coverage ahead for you that morning. First heres a look at the forecast for you. Right now a look at the big boards. You can see the dow is down 177 points. As scott was saying the dow heads for its worst First Quarter ever. Well certainly keep tabs on those numbers with the market opening just a minute ago. Lets check with the forecast with meteorologist kari hall. She has numbers of a different sort for us. And it looks pretty good. Great news in the weather department. Nice, calm weather as well as comfortable temperatures headed our way. As we watch the sun rise this morning, a few clouds as we get a live look outside over the south bay but we are going to see a mix of sun and clouds. It will keep the temperatures in the north bay in the low 60s, a slight chance in you kay yeah. We check out antioch reaching 70 degrees today and well see some upper 60s in the south bay. Ill have more on this and weekend rain coming up in the forecast. Mike has a look at the commute for everyone heading out to work this morning. Essential work so we want to make sure everybody gets there safely. The bay bridge toll plaza no surprise is clear, now it looks completely abandoned but its not. There are a couple cars here and a steady flow. Another shot. We showed you the volume in the south bay. 280 and the nimitz. We may have issues on either side. Thanks so much, mike. New drone video of San Francisco really says it all. People are heeding the warning to stay home and get ready to shelter in place for another month. That is the announcement expected from Bay Area Health leaders. Today in the bays Sharon Katsuda joins us live from San Francisco this morning. Desolate streets out there. Mayor london breed is expected to give that warning to her city today. Reporter its not just quiet in the mornings now, its quiet all day out here on the streets. Mayor london breed thinks the past weeks of shelter in place have helped flatten the curve but theres much more work to be done. Thats why she says the bay area will see an extension of shelter in place or stayathome orders until may 1 toss give them time to see if the social distancing and shelter in place are working in the bay area and throughout the country. Many Business Owners and residents say they are doing their best to hang on. My household depends on two incomes. If my income isnt coming in, it is harder on us. The United States is leading the world in cases of this coronavirus. Hopefully it has to curve down sooner or later, right . Reporter many businesses have shortened hours and some restaurants are still doing takeout. With spring break here or just around the corner, city and county Health Experts want to remind everyone to please stay at home. In the last live shot i have been out and about trying to support local businesses and restaurants. One suggestion i would have is telling them to please have the cashiers do only the money and then have separate employees handling the food and handing out the food separately from the cashier. Another thing weve seen people using pens when signing for their credit card purchases and perhaps definitely providing antibacterial hand gel before they use the pens or bring your own pens while youre out and about supporting these businesses. Im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. Sharon, those are excellent points. We cant be too careful. Reporter thats right. Share those ideas with everyone. I love it. Keep safe yourself. Reporter thanks. As america faces many hard times we turn to each other for help and to our elected officials for ways to get out of the struggles were facing. This morning were joining by Eric Swalwell. Thank you for joining us this morning. Of course, good morning. Lets get right to it. Congress had a big task passing 2 trillion to help a lot of businesses and americans putting cash into a lot of americans hands. What were hearing from a lot of people here in the bay area, you know its expensive to live here, 1,200, is that enough especially for families who are still without work, possibly a month or even longer . No, thats certainly not enough. Theres going to have to be more rounds of aid coming and, frankly, california pays the price not just on a relief package like this but in taxes, in the federal workforce when it comes to firsttime home buyers and loans they qualify for. It doesnt take into account the high cost of living. There are packages in place including Disaster Relief for small businesses. Wage subsidies to play employees any wages lost. The average worker should get 100 through the unemployment insurance. Thats still not enough but its a start to get us through these trying times. Are there plans to ensure those businesses pay the workers . Yes. Fraud or misuse of disaster funds is also a felony. Its own category of crime, but there will be an Inspector General for the 500 billion the administration will be responsible for disseminating and a Congressional Panel to approve those funds to make sure theyre not misused. I encourage all anyone who wants to learn more go to my facebook or twitter feed and we have posted there how you may be eligible and in the coming days the government will put forward the guidance for how businesses can apply. Ive been seeing of talks of another phase of a stimulus package for americans. Do you know anything about that and if so what would that entail . Yes, pensions. So many tlaers and sisters in the Labor Movement are affected by pensions, not funded fully or the hit the stock market has taken to their pension. Anyone with a pension were trying to provide pension relief and infrastructure dollars that we see opportunities to connect americans through broad band and many of our rail needs in the bay area. Into stockton its a top priority. Well seek dollars for that as well. Putting people to work. Absolutely. And before you go i want to talk about the masks. Youve talked about how people can help with masks and how to get the masks into the hands of people who need them, those on the frontline. Especially our contractors who were toiling away at construction sites and seeing their sites closed down, if you have n95 masks please bring them to my office. We are distributing them to the local hospitals. Any job site that has an n95 mask, you will get back to work sooner, see your employees working much faster the sooner we can get our hospital workers these masks to get us all well. Thank you for joining us. My pleasure. Thanks. So were three weeks into the shelter in place order and we have several more weeks towing. Health officials are telling us again and again that social distancing is the best way to try to combat this disease. And also ease the pressure local hospitals are seeing. I want to check in with today in the bays kris sanchez practicing that social distancing reporting from home this morning. Kris, talk a little bit about how well we think people are following the guidelines so far. Reporter its hard to tell when were looking at the same four walls of our home but it turns out people are starting to get the message and the importance of it. Weve seen a lot of posts over the last few weeks of that kind of evolution. Images of people crowding local farmers markets, hiking trails and local beaches even when theyre supposed to be closed and have seen a lot of images like ours, work from home, getting out for fresh air and cooking at home. So if youre wondering how our communities are doing overall, theres a map for that. Using cell phone data to create an interactive map with grades by county. Eight of our nine get an a for staying put. Weve reduced travel by 60 or more in those counties. More than 60 decrease in distranstravelled. Solano the worst in distance traveled but thats a grade of b. Overall in california urban counties are faring better at staying put. Rural are seeing a little bit more movement which makes sense because they have to drive farther to get their essentials to stock up on groceries and what not. The issue with the Rural Counties is they have smaller hospitals that might be less able to handle a big influx. If youre thinking of sheltering in place somewhere else, stay put. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. And right now at 6 41 lets get a look at our forecast as we start out with some clouds moving by. Also watching that pollen count. I know people are opening up the windows looking for those opportunities to get outside. If you suffer from allergies like me its a high amount of tree pollen affecting you right now. Ill be talking about the warmer weather coming up. Mike has a look at the morning commute. Kari, a light traffic flow overall but an issue for hayward as we look at the map before the 92 interchange. You will find slowing from winton. A big rig spilled 70 gallons of diesel fuel and some went into storm drains. Wove to wait for fish and give to make sure everything is safe for the cleanup. That may be another half hour before they arrive. A good volume. Well talk about the peninsula coming up. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 42 this morning. Working on the front lines to help save lives. 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Right out to our Golden Gate Bridge live camera and look for something in the southbound side coming toward us. The bottom tower, the closest tower toward us, report of a crash involving four or five vehicles. I do see maybe some flashing lights. Traffic doesnt look too bad. A crash from marin across the Golden Gate Bridge just reported. Well track this and the peninsula coming up. 6 46. More Northern California Fire Departments are changing their response protocols in light of the pandemic. Firefighters will now wear full protective gear for any calls that may be coronavirus related. Also, all vehicles and equipment will be disinfected after every call. And more states including those surrounding washington, d. C. , have gone into lockdown. Scott mcgrew joins us now. Theres that call to have all 50 states be involved. Reporter right, because we all remember that video of the spring breakers in florida who then went back out across the United States potentially bringing coronavirus into their communities, to their parents, to their grandparents. That section of florida is now closed and theres push to make it a nationwide effort. An editorial in the Washington Post praises President Trump for his new approach extending out the dates for federal guidelines. Hes now saying he thinks america wont be back to normal before june. Weve talked about this, the companies promising all of those medical devices are promising a 100daytime line. That would be midjuly. Virginia and maryland added to the map of states that have full restrictions similar to california. They went to shelter at home orders yesterday. Yellow states are only partial, for instance utah only one county there is under orders. Salt lake county. That only started yesterday. President trump at his press conference yesterday said he thought a nationwide shelter at home order was unlikely but stricker guidelines could be coming. We may add a few more but the guidelines will be very much as they are, maybe toughened up a little bit, but theyre having a big impact, a tremendous impact, and were starting to see it. Thats the key. Were starting to see the impact theyre having. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi pushing for a fourth coronavirus bill. Marcus, you were talking to Eric Swalwell about this. Shes getting some support from across the aisle this may include support for mortgages. Pelosi, though, down playing the need for members of congress to vote in new ways. For instance, by phone. She said, quote, lets not spend time talking about that. Indeed, there would be a lot of rules that would have to be changed. Quorum says that the members of congress have to be present on the floor in congress and that couldnt be done by phone. Video of Speaker Pelosi signing the original stimulus deal. Over her right shoulder, on the left of your screen, is representative Nydia Velazquez of new york. She has been diagnosed with a probable case of covid19. Well be monitoring that and, of course, everything that happens in washington. You can follow me on twitter. New for you this morning, a shelter in place order is having a major impact on restaurants and wineries across the bay area. Within the last hour i spoke with marketing director in santa rosa. She says that with the closure of its wine tasting room it plans to host a virtual wine tour with its wine master. Pairing our kendalljackson wine with smores. Randy will talk about what its like to pair with a chocolate smore or talk about our new rose, another will be about cabernets that he wants to cover. Its doing our best, best to experience wine and the winery. I think if we come out of this and look at everything glass half full. Those virtual wine tours at 4 00 p. M. Sunday afternoon. There are other local wineries giving those virtual tours. Remember to always drink responsibly. Glass half full. Notice she said that, too. Speaking of tours, kari hall, giving us a little bit of a tour of some of the great equipment youve been able to actually set up in your home, your inhome studio. The big green screen that displays all the maps behind you. Yeah, isnt technology really amazing . I put up a big green screen and our crew at the station is able to make it where you see the graphics behind me. Its really cool. If youre following me on social media, youll be able to see also some more pictures that ive posted. Ive posted about what ive been doing with my kids as well. Lets check out our forecast. Were looking at temperatures that will reach into the upper 60s in the south bay even up to 70 degrees in parts of the east bay and 68 degrees in santa rosa. We are going to be tracking some rain just to the north of the bay area. We may see some rain moving through and most of the bay area will stay dry. So our sevenday forecast shows that we will be in the low 70s i almost dropped my ipad. We are going to see it cooling off as we go into the rest of the week, just a couple degrees and once the rain moves in well have some upper 50s and low 60s. And then for San Francisco expect some low 60s up to 55 degrees only on sunday. Mike, youve been tracking the commute. Whats happening out there . First, worried about that ipad. That is tethered to the station. 101 through palo alto. 92 approaching 101 heading to the san mateo bridge, the eastbound direction. There is a crash. Over across the bay a map showing you the crash. Trying to clear up a diesel spill on the ground and fish and game has to help guide them with the storm drain and that will be a while until the crew gets there. A view of the camera. Further south into the city and just about the toll plaza, south of there, theres a crash slowing you down before you get to city streets. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Happening now pg e will not use money from a new campfire victims fund to pay for recently imposed criminal fine. They pleaded guilty to 84 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and one count of unlawfully starting a fire that ripped through butte county. A different fund designed to pay for insurance companies. 6 53, a quick look at the top stories including the mounting toll the coronavirus is taking on communities and the expected shelter in place for the bay area. Plus, on the front lines and frustrated. The changes whole foods employees are calling for and what theyre doing today that may get your attention. Coming up on the today show as well Health Workers from across america answering the call to help in new york. My mindset is that they need my help. I am able to help. I have the skills and i need to be there. 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Santa clara has 848. 55 people in the bay area have now died. A national sickout by whole foods workers may impact Bay Area Stores today. Workers say their employer, amazon, is not doing enough to protect them. Theyre asking for things including paid sick leave it selfquarantined and quality hazard pay. We spoke with shoppers who sympathize. We get to work from home. They cant do that and they are interacting with so many people. They should have better coverage and better pay. As far as we know, no whole food workers have tested positive for coronavirus here in the bay area, but whole foods says it is prioritizing workers wellbeing with measuring including deep cleaning and store limits on customers. Amazon says workers can take up to two weeks of paid time off if they test positive or are quarantined. 6 57 right now. Oaklands first Homeless Hotels have started checking in guests. This comfort inn is now the site of operation comfort. The hotel is staffed with nurses, security and others to provide around the clock care for the homeless, some of whom may be infected. The radison inn will open for people over 65 or who have Chronic Health conditions but are not infected. They certainly dont want the virus to spread within homeless encampments. A live look for you this morning as we take a look at willow glen in san jose. A beautiful shot to start out the day. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the forecast for us. Kari, a nice day to get out there but not too far from home. I know people have been looking for those opportunities to get out there, get some fresh air and opening up the windows. Its nice to not have to run the heater or air conditioner. Go out in the backyard, looking pretty good as our temperatures reach the low 70s for the inland areas. We have low 70s tomorrow and just as nice through the end of the week. This weekend were also going to be looking forward to rain coming in as our temperatures drop a few more degrees. Ill be watching out for those scattered showers as well as sierra snow that will be coming our way. Heading over to mike now, whats going on for the morning commute . Very clear for most of the ride. South 880 approaching 92, the slow lanes blocked. That will be there for a while. Just note its slow from winton. North 680 at montague expressway a crash here causing slowing in san jose. Overall an easy drive. That does it for us here on today in the bay. Thats right. Well have complete coverage continuing. Always join us 4 30 to 7 00 in the morning. A live look outside this morning. Good morning breaking overnight battleground. We have a National Crisis we are at war. The new york City Hospitals under siege by the coronavirus the shortage of beds and equipment growing even more dire as the number of cases skyrockets a u. S. Navy ship arriving to help this morning new york citys mayor is with us live. 3,000 and climbing the coronavirus outbreak now more deadly than the attacks of 9 11 as the president hits tougher new restrictions may be necessary to stop the spread. The choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of