Governor newsom updating the state on the covid19 crisis and saying the state is, quote, turning the page on testing. The new approach is as cases continue to climb. There are more than 300,000 cases across the united states. More than 2300 people are in the hospital tonight in california. More than 1,000 in the intensive care unit. Governor newsom says thats an 11 increase since just yesterday. Marianne favro in santa clara on the new push to increase critical testing. Maryan . Reporter Governor Newsom says abbott labs is offering the test at 75 different sites throughout california. But the governor also said that he owns there are testing lapses here in california that made it difficult to track the deadly virus. In all, more than 126,000 people have now been tested. But the governor says he considers that number extremely low. But he says there is some progress. Californias backlog of coronavirus tests has been substantially reduced from nearly 60,000 to 13,000. And we now are in a position where we can announce more point of care tests. These are the tests where we can get results back in as early as five minutes, as long as just 15 minutes. Abbott laboratories is now committed to 75 testing sites in the state of california working with 13 of our hospital systems. Today, newsom announced a task force that he said will work towards a fivefold increase in daily testing by identifying supply shortages adding testing locations. He also announced a state partnership with uc davis and uc san diego. Intended to create more testing sites and increase the states a capacity for testing. The governor says the number of tests needs to multiply exponentially in order to meet of demands here in california. Reporting live in santa clara, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Federal approval expected for a stanford test to see how many people have had the coronavirus. The tests which tipped today in the south bay test for antibodies. That will show if a person has recovered from covid19 and if theyve developed immunity to it. Getting a finger prick. Its a drop of blood. Then what were looking for in the blood are antibodies which is what our body creates in response to the virus. In theory, anyone who developed antibodies might be able to infected or infecting others. An east bay jail dealing with a first case of covid19. An inmate at the santa rita jail in dublin tested positive for the virus. That inmate is in a medical unit there and were told is doing okay. More covid19 cases in the bay area. You can see it on this map. Santa clara county now with more than 1100 cases. Contra costa county at 303. San francisco with more than 500 cases. Statewide, we now have more than 1200 cases. 237 people have died in the state. Protective equipment still in high demand. The state of california is asking for your help. Sales fooforce created this web. If you have equipment available. 79,000 Health Care Professionals have volunteered for the new state health corps. So many people willing to help. No price gouging on critical items, thas the executive order from Governor Newsom. This means sellers cannot increase prices on food, medical or emergency supplies and other items by more than 10 . A grim warning from the white house during the Coronavirus Task force briefing. The president warned the coming weeks will likely see a surge in the number of deaths each day. He asked states not to inflate the need of critical supplies to make sure the supplies get where theyre most needed. Its understandable that officials seek to get the most they can get for their communities. But the fears of the shortages have led to inflated requests. We have some states and areas where theyre just asking for far more look, one state was asking for 40,000 ventilators. 40,000. The president repeated his goal of getting the economy back on track as soon as possible. But did not mention a particular date. An update on that navy ship dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. Tonight, 44 of the uss roosevelt crew has been tested. There have been 155 cases so far. The ship is catching so much attention especially after the captain was dismissed for raising concern that captain a bay area native. A San Mateo County supervisor is calling on congress to put a moratorium on commercial mortgage payments. Supervisor held a News Conference this morning outside of the credit union who is introducing a resolution urging congress to essentially put a hold on mortgage payments immediately. He says the alternative is sending many people into dire financial straits and even homelessness. In this pandemic, we dont need people to be homeless. We need people to stay in their house, shelter in place. We need to put these guarantees in and theyre absolutely critical to making sure people stay in their homes. The measure would defer all mortgage payments in the country until a shelter at home orders are lifted. An east bay restaurant has launched an idea to help feed the homeless while keeping employees working and supported. The covid19 crisis has hit eateries hard. Christie smith has a story of a Community Kitchen. We sell mac and cheese, hamburgers, some cobb salad. Meals are packed up in oakland. Part of a new idea called Lukas Community kitchen. Luka is soliciting donations from individual donors that we have relationships with. Were using the fund to produce lowcost meals that are distributed by our nonprofit partners out to various homeless camps. The meals are made by their workers and donated to partners like east oakland collective, who distributes them. Our work has increased and expanded. So the demand for food for people who are unhoused or People Living on the street or their car has increased. Theres another benefit. It can help the restaurant pay bills and get employees back to work. Theyve had to furlough about 80 of their staff as people shelter at home. By being able to help some people come in and do some work, its giving them an opportunity to keep getting a paycheck and keep their families fed as well. They say the Oakland Chamber of commerce has stepped up and theres an online fundraiser. They plan to add more restaurants to the Community Kitchen idea bringing support when its needed the most. A program like Community Kitchen can really help sort of close that gap. In oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. B. A. R. T. s ridership continues to drop sharply. The agency tweeted today that ridership for friday was just under 29,000. That represents a 93 drop in passengers from a normal friday. This weekend, b. A. R. T. Is using the opportunity for the fewer passengers to do extra track work. Our commitment to looking at the good things during this pandemic does not stop here. Tonight, join us for an nbc bay area news special. Were going to bring you the bs of the best and tell you how you can help raise money for neighbors in need. Watch coronavirus, our Community Response tonight at 7 00. Live look now at San Francisco and its not looking that bad right now. Boy, it was raining earlier. Gorgeous shot right there. Oh, we had a little raindrop. Windshield wipers now on that camera . Rob is at home. In answer to that, whats going on here . Its nice technology. We need it today on the city cameras around the bay areas. Yes, they come with windshield wipers. Theres sun, dark clouds, maybe showers off to the east of downtown. If you saw live once again, San Francisco, got your wipers on. If you, again, are out and about, you are running into rain in a few spots. But maybe the good news about the weather forecast, its kind of encouraging staying indoors. As you see right now, you got the rain from San Francisco over to the east bay leaving downtown San Francisco right now. Moving off to the east. Scattered showers around san jose. A few more moving through solano koir county and eastern napa county. Its going to pack a much bigger punch. Were talking wind, rain and thunderstorms possible tomorrow with small hail and youll notice here, our rain totals, especially in the Santa Cruz Mountains and areas south of san jose, looking pretty significant. A closer look at when the heavier rain will arrive and more on 2 to 3 feet of snow coming up in our forecast in 12 minutes. Rob, thanks very much. Coming up, still on board. How hundreds of crew members on the grand princess cruise ship will be spending their days sitting in the middle of the bay. A business is forced to close in the middle of a pandemic. But how do you shut down an aquarium . We talk to the president of the aquarium in the bay next. What we do now will forever change our tomorrow. So lets do the right thing, today. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. Eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. Now. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. Hundreds of crew members quarantined aboard the grand princess ocean liner in the bay are now free, at least free to move around the ship. Until now, they were holed up in state rooms after 21 people aboard tested positive. 646 crew members will be practicing social distancing, doing marine operations. Early next week its expected to dock at the port of San Francisco. To get provisions its not clear where the ship goes after that. So many businesses forced to close because of the pandemic, like San Franciscos aquarium of the bay at pier 39. It is closed to the public but still has 24,000 mouths to feed. Thats the number of marine animals in the aquarium. Joining us now is george jacob, president and ceo of the bay ecotear yum that oversees the aquarium. You have reduced staff but you still have work to do. Tell us about the situation the care yum is in right now. Once the city was sheltering in place, we had to furlough 87 of our staff. We managed to keep the Team Together to take care of the animals. We have 24,000 animals. So its an operation run 24 7. We are taking care of our mission here. So what do you need to be flat out about it is money. You have a go fund me page set up. How much do you need . How much have you raised . Well, the go fund me is a small it has a 500,000 target, which is clearly showing signs of increase. Primarily, we need funds to bring back our provost teams, staff, the education, animal care and some of the teams. Thats the ultimate goal, to bring back most of our staff. Taking it to the absolute worst case scenario, what if you dont raise enough money . What might happen to the sharks, the octopus, the bat rays, what happens to them . Well, we are fairly wellprepared with some contingency wee prepared for th haul. I think we dont have to fear much about that situation ever happening. But still, resources are tight. All help from the community is welcome. Its got to be heartening for you, so many people hearing about the situation volunteering to help out, even if thats not what you really need right now. Youve got to feel good, you know the community is behind you and your efforts to keep these keep things going. Indeed. I mean, weve always relied on volunteers divers in our tanks. That number and that interest has actually gone up since this. More people call to ask if they can dive in our tanks. For now, were keeping the area pretty much hermetically sealed. Thanks to volunteers who have offered to help. After the shelter in place lifts, well use the help. For now, we have our team in place to take care of tanks. George jacob, thank you very much for joining us. Indeed. Thank you. Well, just like you, this outbreak has created a new normal for us at kntv. Garvin thomas sent us this of his kids latest project. As a side note, garvin, i need one. Earlier this week, he posted a video of him and his children participating in the pretty girl challenge on tik tok. Thats pretty good. Thats real good. Heres a video from damon, our media guru from his walmart run yesterday morning. No line to get in at the san jose store. But inside it was pretty busy in there. He noted that most people were social distancing. This is a wellbehaved crowd. Social distancing for sure and the shelves, pretty wellstocked. A couple pieces of good news from damon. Thanks so much. Special birthday for Golden Gate Park today. How do you have a birthday without a party . Well, were going to show you the unique celebration. A lot of folks celebrating birthdays virtually. Not one marked 150 years. Golden gate park marked that today. There have been a lot of really good acts out there. The Series Features some of the best past performances by legendary artists like boz skaggs. Metallica. Good thing about this virtual celebration, its all free. You can watch by going to Golden Gate Park 150. Com. Party on i. Rob mayeda is home. Hes gt riley the dog the twin aid owes. The park behind him. Were counting down the moments before they come running in here. Here at the weather center, as you can see, were at home. Theres the outer limits of my chrome a key. Lets take a closer look at the weather. Boy, weve got rain in the bay area. Hit and miss at times. Little rain in San Francisco as you see right there with the raindrops on the camera lens. Yeah. We probably need to run that wiper over San Francisco. Around san jose, dark skies. Still a few sunny breaks and temperatures close to 60 degrees. So far this evening, we still have bands of showers going through and look at that view towards squaw valley. Heres the good news. Temperatures continue to drop. Down to 36 degrees and we do think the sierra snow totals by april standards are going to be tremendous. Were talking almost three feet of snow up by kirkwood by 11 00 tomorrow. So winter storm warning obviously in effect for the sierra. A look at the radar view, its not really us filled in green. Youll notice a few isolated areas near the summit of highway 17. Off to the south and east of saratoga, youre seeing heavier showers there. More showers in the peninsula out towards and approaching san ramon and orinda right now. Youre seeing pretty good showers. As we take you into the north bay, not enough in the north bay but more is on the way. Look at the storm system coming together offshore. Thats going to be powered up by colder air aloft that will be dropping snow levels and giving us hail with thunderstorms for tomorrow. Overnight temperatures will be in the 40s. Highs tomorrow running cooler than we saw today. Mostly mid to upper 50s. As we go hour by hour now, watch the forecast starting off around the south bay. The Santa Cruz Mountains, you begin to see the heavier rain picking up before sunrise. By morning, the north bay, were beginning to see the wind and the rain pick up. Scattered showers. This is going to be the window, around 12 00. We could have isolated thunder. By 5 00, most of the action starts to move off to the south and east. Though i do think well see more showers at times, probably even monday and tuesday. Notice how that low tracks into southern california. Then it starts to move out. If youve been looking forward to a little more sunshine, or more spring weather, look at next weekend. We begin to see a strong high building in. The opposite of this weekend. We think well see temperatures starting to climb on up. Look at the sevenday forecast shows a little bit of everything. As youll notice around San Francisco, weve got wind, chance of thunder showers, hail possible. Showers into early tuesday morning. And then the second half of the week we begin to see temperatures rebound. Well go from the 50s right now, very likely climbing into the 70s next weekend. If you want your spring weather, weve got a little bit of everything in the sevenday forecast trending warmer after an interesting windy finish to this weekend trending drier next saturday and sunday. Terry, back to you. Thank you very much, rob. Well be right back. The best way to predict the future is to create it 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. Talk about eerie timing. At the beginning of this year, a Netflix Documentary premiered. Its called pandemic. It was shot in 2018 and 2019. By chance, released as the coronavirus start today spread. It warned, among other things of novel respiratory viruses that could pose a threat to the world. Wow. Docuseries profiles people fighting at the frontline to prevent the next global outbreak. The executive producers sat down with us to talk about the uncanny timing of this project. It has been the strangest nightmare that i could have imagined. When i started this project, i thought i didnt know anything about pandemics or viral pandemics, i expect most people didnt. For me, it was a year of getting to learn about the real threat this can be. Then i woke up and there we were in a pandemic. We have that full interview for you tonight at 6 00. We are back in a moment. Everyone is working a little differently now. So we can still answer your calls. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. Pope francis used the video message to urge catholics to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. To make the best of the time, reach out to others through phone calls or social media. He added he was especially touched in his heart by those with family members who are sick with covid19 or those who had passed. Francis was without the public starting with palm sunday mass tomorrow in st. Peters basilica. Certainly missed her. Brand new episodes of ellen returning monday. It will be taped from her home. Shell interview chrissy teigen, david spade, jennifer lopez. The host is practicing social distancing. Producer andy, dancer twitch will be making appearance on that show. One last note, our commitment to looking at the good things during this pandemic goes on. Join us for an nbc bay area news special. Well bring you the best of the best, tell you how you can do something good for our neighbors in need. Watch coronavirus, our community responds. Thats tonight at 7 00 right here on nbc bay area. Thanks very much for watching. Nightly news coming up next. Were back at 6 00. Hope you can join us then. Breaking news tonight, the record death toll inside the united states. More than 1,000 dead in the last 24 hours the dire warning from the president. This will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week. And there will be a lot of death. New york with its worst day yet now predicting the peak to come within days as this Convention Center takes its first covid19 patient. On the front lines. 1,000 ventilators arriving today in new york, but across the country governors and doctors pleading for more desperately needed supplies as pressure goes on the States Holding out from imposing a lock down protecting yourself, the federal