Restrictions on low risk activities and thousands of restaurants are on the verge of shutting down for good. Yeah, how the new normal will not be enough to keep some businesses afloat. Reporter any given night before the pandemic, restaurants said they had to fill every seat to make a profit. They have four tables outside, four inside and four at the bar. So reopening cutting that number in half to meet social distance rules, reopening is impossible. With the stay at home order through may. There will be a change in rereopening are back on hold. I cant wait to get back to feeding people. Chef lopez is a partner at pearl, a neighborhood restaurant in the richmond district. She had to lay off the staff. Tonight she is making lasagna, free frk hospitality workers in needs. Having half the table, staff Wearing Masks full time and a heavier reliance on take off. And jacking murphy says at 75 capacity, his restaurant would barely break even. Until they tell us what the new mandates are, its not worth guessing. The city says its working with landlords to delay rent collection, to allow Small Businesses to bounce back. Most restaurants people to get a chance to keep doing what they love. The shake of a cocktail. There isnt peoplecying down. The whole spirit of hospitality is down. Thanks. Later this week, county Health Leaders will give more details on what restrictions will ease up even though the shelter in place order is extended. It will be low risk activities and they have not given specifics. Napa and santa cruz did open up golf courses. People say this is tough. They are ready to do what is needed to help save lives. Governor newsom blasted the thousands who flocked to the beaches this weekend. This virus doesnt take the weekend off. The virus doesnt go home because its a beautiful sunny day. What we need to do to make sure everyone stays safe. Its been im glad theyre doing it. The governor said tomorrow, he plans to stay out new specifics for how different regions and job sectors begin to turn to work. We begin week seven of the shut down, we will see more canceled parties and milestone events. A lot of you are getting quarantine fatigue. Here is scott budman. According to Public Health officers, we expect to be responding to covid19 in the kblunty for a long time. Which means, get used to sheltering at home at least until the end of may. You can expect lines at the this san jose safeway for a while longer as the bay area plans to extend the coronavirus stay at home order for an addition l four weeks. Two weeks, youre going a little crazy. Nor ma says she and her family are feeling quarantine fatigue. Governor newsom says now is not the time to step backwards getting too close to beach. This virus doesnt take the weekends off. This virus doesnt go home because its a beautiful, sunny day. Which means putting things on hold like trips and birthday parties. My grandma just had her 94th birthday and we couldnt do anything. And a guarantee the new normal will last a while longer. The likelihood of having a virus free world is not realistic in the next number of months. Not knowing when things will go back to normal so you can start your life again. I checked with county officials. They will let us know what will besed up late they are week. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. New cases around the bay area. 161 new reported cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, putting us over up 7500. And santa clara is the hot the spolt. Ed aaalameda. And this number, the death numbers from february 26 until schedule. Here is february 26th. You can see it climbing and it peaks right about there, over the weekend, the number of deaths dropped for the first time. The state is following the same trend of the country. Across the united states, the rise and thats the peak up there, the rise, over e 2,000 deaths a day on april 21st. The number of deaths have begun to decline. Raj, recounting his experience with covid19, a Public Information officer from Santa Clara County has recovered and details some of his experience. It started with mild symptoms that gradually became worse. Day five, actually, that is when i was having difficulty breathing and i ended up in the hospital that day. I was there the entire day, doctors were taking precautions. Everybody in the hospital. And i remember i passed out. Twice. While i was there. Doctors ordered him to isolate at home and he luckily recovered. He cautioned to everyones experience with the virus is of course different. As more and more people continue to recover, doctors are unlocking more important answers ash the virus. And jessica is work from home. Patience is key. Yeah, patience is key. They are unlocking more. With each step there are more questions. Like the gentleman you just heard from. Say you have a case of covid 1. Does it mean you have immunity Going Forward . That is one of the Big Questions and that is why so many people want to get the Antibody Test. I talked to chief medical correspondent john flores who tells me while the Antibody Test is key on a Global Community level, i it may not the be the panecea individually. A little caution with the Antibody Test. And number two, if do you have an an antibodies, we dont think you can get it in the next year or so. But we are not sure. Its a new virus and we dont understand it. What it will do is give us another tool, how its spreading to try and go ahead and get a better understanding how its going to spread in the future and keep it under control. And lastly, quickly, clinical trials. We are seeing arthritis medicine, pepcid that you get over the counter that you use. Is it we try to mitigate the disease until we can get the vaccine . A couple things are going on. We are trying just about anything we can get the get it under trolg. We dont have the sack vien at th vaccine and a few experts are jumping the gun. The experts are not we are getting a lot of disappointment with the medication. But hopefully we will find out how, what dosing, who needs it to make sure we are doing more good than harm in the case. Jessica . Bottom line, dr. Torres says embrace social distancing. We have to live with it for at least a year and in terms of a vaccine, a year or 18 months from now, we are not out of woods. Life is going to be the way it is right now, maybe a little better but when we get to the winter months, maybe back to being just the way we are now. That puts us close to 2022, that is a long time from now. Thanks. Up next here at 6 00, a plans Commission Meeting in the bay area Getting National attention. That right there. New details on the local official who tossed cat in the middle of a zoom meeting. Schools can see a teaching shortage when class resumes. There are times when our need to connect really matters. 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A city Planning Commissioner was caught on camera tossing a cat and cursing in a city meeting. Today, the commissioner, submitted his resignation. Jody hernandez has details. Next item of business is the pledge allegiance. Its a zoom meeting with aun eventful start but things took a strange turn when the Planning Commissioner chris plaster tossed his cat. Okay, first to introduce my cat 15 minutes later, he can be seen holding and drinking from a glass bottle. And when the meeting ends, he mutters offensive words when the screen and up and running. Im going to call [ bleep ] this is not the image of what the city of vallejo is. We want to make sure that its taken care of. The member and a Council Member called for his removal. The citys Spokes Person says the city has a lot of complaints over his treatment of his cat. She says the Sheriffs Department is following up on the kittys welfare. No one likes to see an animal, human being like that. This afternoon, he resigned. Says i did not conduct myself in a zoom meeting in a manning defitting of a Planning Commission interapologize for any harm i may have con flicked. The city Spokes Person says she hopes he is well. Its hard to tell what is going on with people emotionally, when with you trapped in your house so long. He has served adds commissioner since 2016 without any issues. Now that he has officially resigned, the mayor says they will start to search for his replacement whi replacement right away. A very troubling question is now looming for School Districts all over california. When skochools reopen, will the have teachers. They are preventing Student Teachers candidates from getting. They are considering a possible executive order to resolve that problem. Aiden hill left to pursue a dream, to teach. He would have graduated in may but then pandemic arrived. Like his classmates, he cant complete the videotaped classroom session for Teacher Assessment because there are no classrooms in session. If your a biology teacher, how do you conduct labs online. An online commission, did not waive the requirement but extended the deadline until fall if a candidate can get a provisional job teaching, they can fulfill the requirement on the job. We have to see if we can come back in the fall and if we dont get a job, some of us may be forced to adan d forc forced to abandon or teaching careers. They are trying to get an executive order. We are going to have smaller classrooms. We dont want to have californians held in limbo to which they met their end of the bargain and we know there is a significant need. Reporter they say the tough part is making sure any modifications dont come from the the qualifications but now is not time to lose good candidates. Robert handa, nbc. Another issue for schools now. What about grades . Many schools, the new normal means no as, bs and cs, the letter grades. Today, families got a e email saying the kids will either pass or fail this semester. And in high school, they will offer pass fail and students can choose credit or no credit, or grade. I just decided im going to go with normal grades. Because seem im a junior, i think its beneficial to me. I know colleges care about the junior year grades with. They made it clear in the admissions process they will not penalize students who dont have letter grades this semester. If you have seen gas prices have grab dropped and with the demand to sink, an east bay ree finery shut down. The marathon plant the can turn 100,000 barrels of oil into fuel daily. But people are not driving and getting gas. They will maintain leg levels in the shutdown and will resume normal operations once the demand ramps up again. I havent been to a gas station in seven weeks. That makes sense. Make sure you start your cars though. The battery. Yeah, the batteries will die. I know. Yeah, very good. Its warm today. It will get hotter tomorrow. Yeah, i think tomorrow, might gist be a little bit too hot for a few of you. We will get close to 90 degree temperatures. I want to start with the san jose sky camera. There is the blue sky we enjoyed. Might have soninlme of you th after rainfall. You can see when we look at the climate, april still has decent chances but as we head through may, it really begins to drop off. Now, i do think we could have a couple spotty shower chances by the midpart of may. But really, no major storm systems for may the way i see things. We are trending drier. Its par for the course to be getting warmer temperatures. Starting to spike up here even though they are about ten degrees above average. Today, we got to 83 degrees. Right now, 79 in concord. If you dont have air conditioning, your house will remain the heat longer, 70s through 9 00 tonight. And once we hit 9 00, e we have cooler 60s. The forecast will be wearm fa h farther away from the coast in the bay. Concord, 87. Antioch, 89 and cool of 60s in San Francisco. And sunshine outside, we know april is starting to kind of head by the wayside here. May, corn, squash, zucchini, cucumber and chiles, the things to plant in the garden. Raj and janelle, i know that tomato plants are flying off the shelves in nurseries. They are one to two weeks out for curb side and delivery. They getting the green thumb going on now. When you said that, i was about to order tomatoes tomorrow or the next day. Might be sold out. You may have to wait a bit. Good luck, raj. Thank you. Still to come, they have a plan set up. What good is the plan if you know longer have a business. That is what the pandemic is having on Small Businesses. Stil have hr stuck between employees and their data. Entering data. Changing data. More and more sensitive, personal data. And it doesnt just drag hr down. It drags the entire business down with inefficiency, errors and waste. Its ridiculous. So ridiculous. With paycom, employees enter and manage their own data in a single, easy to use software. Visit paycom. Com, and schedule your demo today. That could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Im jessica aguirre. You heard it today. Another month of shelter at home. Most of us, its a hassle and inconvenience. But if you have a business that requires incontact with people, it could be a problem. It could be devastating. Lindsay owns a a salon in liver. More. Its called elevation. Now with the new order, she is worried about her and her 18 Staff Members but she says she has a solid plan to reopen and she can make it safe. What are some of the Safety Measures to put in place to ensure the safety of your clients and your stylists. We will maintain the 6 feet apart they are asking. Everyone will wear a mask, gloves, change your gloves between each client. One client at a time. Sanitize stations. We wont have a waiting room anymore. We he will have take clients when the stylist is ready to take them on. There are people who stay its safer to bring people to a salon where you are taking Safety Measures and they say the reality is a lot of stylists, because they are up against mortgages are under doing under at home styling themselves. Yeah, the under ground is what concerns me the most. I asked all of my staff to please stap doing that. I cant control it. I know people are desperate to make money now. They are putting themselves more an at risk. Now, california is in a better position to open its doors first because unlike georgia it had a stricter protocol here and we have been sheltering a the home longer, if she opens her door, will they come . She says she is confident that if they open w all the safety precautions she is willing to put in place, she is positive her clients will want to come back, again. She says she is ready. Not only for herself but the 18 stylists who need to make a living. Raj and janelle. Almost like a catch 22 for the businesses. Hard to navigate. Its a difficult time. Thanks. President trump releases a new plan to get people back to work. Also trump versus biden. Election right around the corner. How about vote by mail for all states. Is that going to happen . This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. Right now at 6 30, were almost there. The white house begins to reopen the country. Two hours ago, the white house announced a new plan to get people back to work. To its a three pronged approach based on testing. Make sure that all states are testing at full capacity. And the swabs the number of test sites can increase. States need be able to track and respond to outbreaks. The Trump Administration wants people to eye deidentify people are aaasymptomatic. Testing is not going to be a problem at all. In fact, its going to be one of the great the assets we have. The president says schools can reopen before the end of this school year. Yeah, today, several states from colorado to georgia loosened their coronavirus restrictions, it was financial strain that some decided to owe open their doors. There are protests on both sides of the decision, creating a national tug of war. I was baffled at the governors announcement, i to be honest. Because there are still people dieing and the numbers are still going up. So i had mixed emotions. Officials in oklahoma and alaska are easing restrictions and opening some retail shots. Tennessee and ohio will do the same next week. Governors in illinois, michigan extending stay at home orders and keeping businesses closed. The november election. We could have eight states voting exclusively by mail. Larry what do with do here in california . What is the plan for november . Interesting, raj, we are going through a transition. It started two years ago in five counties, san mateo, actually voted by mail. They voted by mail because they were sent ballots. Every voter was sent a ballot. We an added ten more counties, l. A. And orange county. Now we have a good deal of the stay doing that, and perhaps by 2022, the entire state will be that way. Bear in mind, anybody in california can vote up to election day, you can register and vote as late an as a that day. Because we have really opened the system up. Big reason why we bring in so often, questions like this. Lets read between the lines here. President trump, not the in favor of vote by mail. Tell us why. Hes not in the favor of vote by mail because the turn out is higher with vote by mail. We see it in the data. All the studies show that turn out goes up because its easier for people to vote. Its the easiest ting to do and the easiest way to on do it. Heighter the vote, it means that people that dont vote participate. Minorities, poor people and students and now, makes it easy, they vote and they tend to be more democratic than republican. Thats the political side of the important issue. On the flip side of it, if older viewers skew to republican votes, wouldnt it be easier for older votes to send it in by mail. They already vote. They vote more than any other group. They vote 2 1 2 times as much as people under 30. So their vote isnt going to go up that much. But the votes of the other people would. That is what makes it so the how should i put it, questionable for those people would who like to see a suppressed, if you will. When do we start to see joe biden make a push here . When he does make a blitz or an ad blitz . Right now, he is under the political e equivalent of house arrest. He really cant go any where or do anything other nan try to get involved in some of the talk shows, cable shows, give a couple talks to supporters in local areas. But this is really tough for him. Yeah, you can go ahead and advertise, he has beefed up his advertising online, in social media. Though trump controls the social media air waves these days. He has to close the gap there. But bidens chance wont have an opportunity to develop full front until the stay at home laws and rules if you will are lifted. The good news is, the likelihood by the fall, people should have an opportunity to get up and be heard. Most people that is when they are beginning to get engaged. A break for biden in a very quiet, down period isnt in september or october. He has that to look forward to. Very good information. Thank you. Thanks. Well, defying the stay at home order. That is what nonessential employees at the a tech company says their bosses are ordering them to do. They are ordered to perform in staggered shifts. A story you will see only on nbc bay area. Broadcom has not answered my request for comments but cam a ras were rolling this morning as employees showed up for work. And not many are hope about happy about it. An employee checked ids before workers clocked in this morning. There. Reporter red buckets on hand with disinfecting tools. One employee claims many of the people coming in on nonessential workers. Engineers to program codes, finance people, people who are processing orders, hr profregsales. The employee says all the work verse been effectively doing their job from home. But now, broadcom is ordering thome defy the stay at home order and show up to work in staggered shifts. 25 of the work force a week. A level of concern to me. Because you now have to leave home and we dont know exactly what the risks are. And theres no upside. Broadcom is a chip make interdeemed an essential business. But the argument is they are putting nonessential employees at risk forcing them to show up to work. And similar move in colorado offices. Can we ask you about coming to work today . No employees in san jose would go on to. And man in security took our picture. He would have someone contact us. The Public HealthDepartment Says they can email them if they feel they are not e essential. Now is not time. Were not ready yet as a community or a stay. Reporter nbc bay area news. Still to km, a magical birthday party. A mom surprised her daughterer with a celebration unlike any other. People living in the east bay have a drive through testing site available to them. When it opened there was a line of cars almost a mile long. Stanford health care is providing the test. You have to be exhibits symptoms or fit a strict criteria, pregnant or over the age of 65 to be tested. 100 tests are vailible until they run out. Special deliverfully San Francisco, 30 tons of chicken. That is the cargo that pulled up in a refrigerator truck. Foster farms is a generous partner in the holidays but this is an equally welcome time to get this delivery. We are serving about 70 more participants in the community than before this crisis started. So demand is huge. The 70 more they are serving. The chicken will become 120,000 meals. The Food Bank Needs volunteers to get them to the people who need them. Particularly home bound seniors. Among the things that have to be reworked are childrens birthday celebrations, and apparent ha parent has to get creative. How about a visit from the quarantine unicorns . They are trending on instagram. They welcomed and gathered for a new baby and they wore the friendly costumes grocery shopping. Now, you never know. I send them a message and they preply, sure, why n, how mh do you charge . P and they said, you we dont charge anything. The quarantine uniforms include a hippo e in a tutu. Is there age requirement . I know your birthday is coming up . I would love that, i would be stoked. That would be exciting. My birthday is a ways away. Jeff ranieri is here to talk b about the weather and the stuff in the air making us niese. We have a lot to talk about, raj, janelle, everyone at home, raj was alluding to, we have a surge in pollen. I will e show what you is voting around the atmosphere. Nearly 90 degree heat tomorrow. That is eight minutes away. Still waiting on the stimulus check. We want to you try again. We have update from the irs next. For over 80 years, nissan has been with you through thick and thin, and now is no different. Were offering Payment Options for current owners. Our Service Departments are here to help. And now were offering more help. No payments for three months. Plus, well cover your payments for up to two additional months. This is help when you need it. The big t received the federal stimulus payments. Lets bring in chris chmura. This is a big ask. Yeah, we get this all the time. Why am i getting a error message . Their is the message so many people are seeing. Payment status not available. Yeah, petra said i am so frustrated with this. I called calling the irs Miles Per Hour they refer me to the website and the website is worthless. I will say its been a work in progress. Over the week, the irs says it upgrade the its website, first, it says it enhanced this. The get my payment locating. Its called, the irs. Gov getmypayment. If you have gotten unavailable, do it again. It might give you an a different result. And after that weekend update, petra says she was able to get her payment status and now expecting to be paid. Now it will work for you too. There are so many different scenarios we have seen with people and payment questions. The irz seems to address the new common ones and this page has questions and answers, and 32 different scenarios that might be able to figure out what you need do, and where your money is. When louisa asked, it will ask whether she will get her money. We posted a link to this one and the get my payment page at nbc bay area. Com. Quick respond from the main menu. Thanks. If you watch nbc bay area with an over the air antenna, we have information for you. We are moving to a new transmitter this wednesday. You have to rescan your tv on or an after april 29th at 1 00 p. M. Or you will lose your signal. Press menu and go to the channel, and select auto tune or rescan. That is all you have to do. If you watch us on cable, satellite, or the app, you dont have to worry about it. We have more on nbc bay area. Com. Lets bring in jeff ranieri from home. What do you have for us . Sunshine and heat coming our way and thanks to you at home, you guys are helping to get me through this. I cant see you, just showing were going to be here putting the sevenday forecast together is giving me extra strin stir c. If you thought it was warm today, it will hotter tomorrow. High pressure that is not only moving close to california. Its actually going to sit right on top of the state. Ha is going to bring us warm, dry, compressional heating and a little wind kicking around too. The other problem besides that its too hot for you is the pollen. We have surges in cedar, pine, oak tree in high, and grass is moderate. If you want to compare the symptoms list, i did tweet it at jeff ranieri, and you can take a closer look and see what category youre in. Hopefully youre in the an allergy category this this point. And tomorrow morning, mix a sun and clouds. A nice time to get out tomorrow with the heat on the way. You can get a little bit of exercise in, or whatever you got planned. 55 in the east bay, San Francisco, 53 and north bay at 52. Not a bad start. As we push through tomorrow, im zoning in on the best time from the morning right through about 3 00 p. M. You avoid the hottest part of the day. In the south bay, it means pushing it up to 85 in east san jose, and 86 in gilroy. You think that is warm . We are going up to 90. That is our warmest temperature here in pittsburg. Close to records for inland locations, and you head closer to the bay, down to 77 in oakland, and the coast, at 63. Theres a big gradient stepdown here as you move to the water and the ocean. The breeze will help keep the temperatures down. And right here through the north bay, 87 in napa, 85. We have a lot of stuff on the seven day forecast. We have wind and middle temperatures in San Francisco tomorrow. Janelle mentioned, rescan your tv if youre using an antenna. We have on and off winds thursday, friday, sunday, and sunday, spotty drizzle we could have move back in the bay area. The inland valleys, we go from are 88, hottest day of the week to a 10 degree drop wednesday. Its not going on stay that warm. By this weekend, low and mid 70s. What about the temperatures ahead . Next two weeks, we are in the above average category. Notice the east coast will be in the below average category. There is a flip going here on the map. Beginning to be that time, you have to remember, drink the water, the spf, the hoats. Were all at home. Continue to do to the do list. I did light pluming last week. I will explain later. That should be the top story. I had pluming work done. I needed you. Thanks, jeff. Handy man. Up next, we honor the graduating class of 2020. And a Bay Area Company changes its Business Plan to make masks, and a local sports team jumping in to join cause. Stay with us. 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. We like this story. A lot of companies are doing thimp thinks differently. Watch, merch from your favorite teams may be soon coming to a face knew year. And local manufacturing adapting resources to fill a need. In a time of crisis, the main mission sometimes gets sacked. Which is why in San Franciscos mission direct, a Company Famous for its messenger bags is about the ability to adapt. We were able to shift course and pivot and start making masks. Need for protective covers grew, the company new it had everything on hand to make the masks. We have these materials here and the tlid. We dont have the jersey material. So the company teamed up with nbc sports bay area that brought together the bay area Pro Sports Team that had plenty of fabric to donate. Were getting shirts from the sacramento kings, the warriors, the jgiants, the as, sharks an 49ers. The company is producing 50,000 masks from the shirts to donate to local community organizations. Shut be noted this crew of sewers r. J. Runs the factory. And he is a we signer. It fuels me. Just to be able to help and feel like im contributing to something good. The something good a new mission, in unprecedented times. Nbc bay area news. That is great. Another story that something good. We want to celebrate the class of 2020 because they are going to miss out on graduation ceremonies this year. That is a bummer. Their hard work, its not going unnoticed. Is our new way of marking a milestone. The pictures say 1,000 words. Congrats to the class of 2020. Very nice, big shout out. And so nice to see the pictures. Congratulations. I know, they are so bummed not have that graduation ceremony. We wish them the best of luck. We leave you tonight with a live look at bait bridge. Not much traffic out there. Good night. Good night. Were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Welcome to access hollywood. Im mario lopez from casa lopez. Lets get started with 3 and 30. Brad pitt was a huge hit as dr. Fauci on snl. Well show how the good doctor reacted, and a wild revelation from Michael Jordan in the last dance. He once dragged Dennis Rodman out of bed, awol from a game, as Carmen Electra was under the covers. Good news, bad news. Good, theres a baby on the way. Catherine schwarzenegger and chris pratt are expecting their first together. Congratulations. His second, by the way. The pair took a spin around