Days just to rearrange and prep to open the business. The governor necessaried that different counties will be reopening in different rates and says no most counties, they are just weeks away. Here in the bay area all nine counties have now entered or are getting ready to enter phase two. Phase two allows restore tail stores to have curb side pickup. And here is where we stand independent the bay area. The counties in green, sonoma, napa, solano counties already in phase two. Today, the ones in yellow, marin, San Francisco, san up mateo and alameda county. Contra costa county in purple plans to enter phase two tomorrow, and santa clara will begin phase two on friday. What is next . Like other counties there are big restrictions but Santa Clara County is adding a few key differences. Robert handa is near a store that is willing to make changes to reopen. Robert . Reporter the announcement is good news for a lot of Retail Businesses in santa clara, if owners can prove they can create a safe environment. The antiques shop is a popular place with collectors and sellers but has been closed since mid march. The two owners are happy to open friday for curb side pickup. We will be able to set up things in here. They are shop online. They can call us and give us a credit card and pick up the merchandise. The owners wish they could do it today. We can probably do it for six months maybe. Reporter Santa Clara CountyPublic Health officer said she did not feel pressure to reopen. Her business was based on local indicators since the first fa phase, may 4th. And businesses wont be able to post a county check of approval until less they have face coverings, maintain social social distancing and get tested. This is to ensure that the workplace is safe. Not just that they feel safe but are safe. A lot of shops will struggle with curb Side Business only. Its nothing like having people come in and enjoying the experience. The phase two will leave a lot of businesses closed but the Public Health department will not set any more timetables until there is a spike in covid19 cases. Robert landa, nbc bay area news. Tonight, the number of reported cases in the bay area has crossed 11,000 mark. Here are some of the counties here. San francisco county, more than 2,000. Alameda county, almost 2500 cases. More than Santa Clara County. Here, san mateo counties. And San Francisco, the numbers of hospitalizations in the past five weeks. Mid april to the beginning of may, the numbers are the highest and then the city reaches the peak hospitalizations on april 29th. You notice it starts to go downhill. That is good news. Around that week, the numbers are relatively flat. It shows the city flattened the curve, and sin ccinco de mayo, can see, may 16th, its downhill for there. And going from 90 hospital partials, down to 53 this weekend. Not only has the city flattened the curve but its passed its peak hospitalizations. It could be a few weeks, raj, until france is ready to move deeper in phase two. London breed said they are closely monitoring how the city will progress in easing shelter at home restrictions. Only part two, stores can reopen for Indoor Services as well as schools, offices and child care facilities. You have made it possible to move further in the phases that are outlined for the reopening purposes. We need to continue to do that. The next phase, phase three, is at least a month away for San Francisco. Hundreds of San Francisco shops were allowed to reopen but shoppers industrial to order and pay align before picking up curb side. There are new safety, sanitation and social distancing measures that must be follows. Customers lined up outside of green apple books to show their support. And the shopping experience, well, its not quite what they like. Its very dehumanizing but its okay. Its better than nothing. Curb side service doesnt really work for us. So we are trying to find a way to work around and find urgent eye care needs and comply. Laid owns optical understood ground, a Family Business that has been around since 1911. He says todays reopening doesnt mean much much. He cant measure people from a distance. And come down and oakland and San Francisco announced free testing sites in predominantly africanamerican and latino neighborhoods. The question l people line up and show up . Melissa colorado from east oakland. This map from the alameda countys covid19 websites show us the neighborhoods that are hot spots for the virus. The zip codes in brown have the highest number of cases, like east oakland where the city of oakland opened up its latest free drive through testing site. Were kpilted to be a site in the community. Reporter normally, this parking lot is filled with cars belonging to parishnor. And its where they get tested for covid19. The swab goes up to your nostril. Up to your brain. Reporter he was relieved te it came back negative. Reporter city leader ares are building popup testing sites in neighborhoods where many people are uninsured, undockmented or both. San francisco is ramping up testing in the mission, the tenderloin and the bay view neighborhood. In alameda county, we know that africanamericanis are dig at twice the rate of any other group. Reporter a group that received 1 million donation from twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey to hand out masks and hand sanitize es er to most vulnerable. I think people need to see others getting tested to destigmatize the test. Okay, you work hard four years, get in the college of your dreams and covid19 hits and you learn that your clge experience may take place at your parents kitchen table. Do you go, do you stick it out . Jessica aguirre has answers for us. J jessica . Well, High School Seniors in pleasanton will be graduating virtually in two weeks and now, the possibility they may be going to college virtually. Its super frustrating and a hard pill to swallow for many people. They said they are going to go the majority of the classes online. And other colleges say they may have a hybrid, may not. And seniors, parents and returning College Students have to decide whether its worth spending all that money to learn via computer. So i went to someone to ask, i went to stacy caddish of caddish consulting. College is expensive, no matter how you slice it, how youre attending. I think students have to think, they are getting the same instructions. It actually costs colleges a lot of money to deliver virtual instructions. They will not have the cost of dorm life if they are not living on campus. But they will be getting the same instruction. May my not be getting the same campus life experience. I heard a lot of kids say, i will defer this semester and not go. Is that a possibility . The question of deferral is one of those it depends question. As we move through the stages of the virus, i think that campuses will come back to life, especially once we have a vaccine. So students might really want to think about taking a der feral year. Is it simply to a gap and take more time and not start that freshman year because they dont want to miss the experience . They certainly can request that from their colleges but they have to see what the response is. So thats a tossup. The ucs have not come out and said officially what theyre going to do. But there may be a bit of a Silver Lining in this. There are travel restrictions, there may be no International Students on the uc campuses or at least a limited amount. So that may open up more spots for california students, especially in the highly coveted ucs like cal and ucla. We have to wait the and the see. Some colleges are allows freshman to come on the campus and the dorms. And it will be difficult for families. And seems to be changing every week. Thanks. Up next a secret stash of cash. Where city leaders found and it what it could mean for the budget. And time for a hair cut for your dog. The dog groomer on the peninsula that is back in business. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking an isolated shower chance and more details on warmer weather coming up in eight minutes. Virtually every city in the bay area for the second time in three days, San Jose City leader are adamant there is no need for layoffs for budget cuts. A few Council Members say the invest ultimates are key to the books. Damien . The citys portfolio is worth billions of dollars. The council says that is a great place to start to avoid drastic cuts. San jose is making lucrative investments. The latest shows the citys portfolio is worth more than 2 billion. Its the citys savings account. We have been saving for a rainy day sbin vesting and were here and its raining. Now, this councilwoman in joining colleagues to ask, why not borrow from the billions to avoid layoffs and cut backs. Similar to how you borrow from the 401k. We are able to borrow money from ourselves with interest and pay it back and its specifically for times of emergency. As we have reported, police and fire stand to lose at least funds and a program. We e thought it would straightforward. Why not invest back in the city in a critical time. The city says its evaluating the memo and plans to implement a supplemental memo. Call it a sign of the times. Plastic and plexiglas says requesting are rolling in like this one, asking customers to follow new covid19 rules. They are seeing a surge in floor graphics asking cust noomers to stay six feet apart. They are inundated nor plastic partitions. The company made the partitions and are making more fn other south bay restaurants. We are hearing a lot about curb side delivery. How does it work and is it really confined to the curb. Scott budman has a closer look in San Mateo County. Customers and their pets are glad to be back in the p pet place in menlo park. One customer even brought muffins to mark the occasion. Oh, it was horrid. Fortunately, they are open. We are able to get back to good food. Reporter and now that business is coming back we have rent to pay. Reporter the pet place like other businesses has to make up for lost time and money. We have really wonderful local customers that have been customers for a long time. They are very loyal. Reporter also masked and are ready for action, the staff at pick p theed clothing of wedwood city. Once again open for business with a few pandemic inspired adjustments. This will definitely hopeful will be appointments maybe, one at a time. Reporter what many businesses are doing is putting the product close to the backdoor. They can just bring it out, you drive up, no contact made. They drop it in your car and you take i home. In menlo park, scott budman, nbc news. Thank you. And work from home as long as you want. First it was twitter and now its square. Employees will have a choice after the pandemic ends. Square and twitter ceo jock dorsey says workers will be given the choice to work remotely after the stay at home order ends. A bay area barista will get attention on Kelly Clarkson show. He serves free coffee out of his San Francisco apartment window. I have coffee for them and it takes a few minutes. So i have time to just sit here and chat the with people and collect in with them and see how their day is going. See if they need anything. We have a lot of elderly people on the street. Even if they dont get coffee, they can stop by. You can hear more on Kelly Clarkson tomorrow at 3 00 p. M. On nbc bay area. I like that. Lets bring in had jeff ranieri. Week ten of working from home. You have been doing it longer than all of us. How you holding up . Im doing good. I have had a few moments. Im hanging in there and we are getting the Weather Forecast done for you. Working and building the sevenday forecast, that is the thing that is keeping me on track right now. As we get you outside to a look here across the sierra, there is fresh snow to talk about. I want to talk about the unusual may weather and the pattern were in first. And the forecast tomorrow, you can see, indianapolis lake, four inches, ek poe peak at 7800 on feet. The highest levels, squaw valley, alpine meadows, and another 1 to 3 inches as we head through tonight and early tomorrow morning. Rainfall, looking good. Santa rosa with one of the highest,. 73 inch. And sf,. 41. And san jose,. 14 inch. We do have a spotty shower and heavier rainfall over mt. Hamilton, headed south had. We may see some of the eastern portions of gilroy get grazed. We will keep an eye out for that. We as move through tomorrow, i only anticipate an ice laid chance of a popup shower. We will e see the sun beginning to run and temperatures will warm up with with low e 70s over santa rosa, 74. Sa antioch, 70. The forecast tomorrow, once again, isolated shower chance for the morning. And right into about 11 00 a. M. Now, look at this, hotter weather moving in by sunday. 88, and next monday, we are looking at 90 degrees. Those of you who havent cut your hair yet or your dogs hair, it will get warm as we head through sunday and morning. We have to get creative or get the buzzer out. I dont know. I have been tempted. Your hair looks great. Thanks. Up next, new hope for a vaccine. The positive results from a small clinical trial. 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. Im jiss ka aguirre working from home. Is it the break through we have been waiting for . Promising is the word used to described covid19 vaccine. The company that makes it says it has seen positive results in the phase one trial. E it was a very small trial. Tested on just 45 people with varying doses. The one group really did hit the sweet sbot eight of those vaccinated developed the antibodies that were in patients. The second phase will test 600 people. The third will be larger. Right now, the last phase is scheduled for july. The company says they could not be happier with the result stlas had so more. But the analyst says the results are only hopeful. We have a chance to significantly impact the reduction of infection and disease and go back to normal life. Its absolutely reliant on the medical data to give us a sustained path forward. Right now, the medical day a ta is hope frful. That is good news. But its only hopeful. Hopeful but again, not foolproof. The company has two larger trials to go. And the company says it will be january if they goes well, before they have a vaccine but . Before they have the millions and millions of vaccines, to vaccinate. And there are other companies trying to develop a vaccine. Moderna is doing well. That is a year away. Thank you. Still to come at 6 30, taking a drup preemptively. Back to school, the select bay area students who returned to a classroom today on, and what it would mean for other schools. Motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Right now at 6 30, the high profile bay area chef, a devastating account to the damage to their industry and want help tweaking a loan program for small businesses. Thomas keller of French Laundry was in the spotlight. And president trumps revelation he is taking a controversial medicine for the disease. Yeah, the president says its for preventative measures. He is taking hydroy chloroquine, he is taking the drug and the fda warning of potential risks including health risks. He asked his doctor to prescribe it. If its not good, im not going to get hurt by it. Its been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, other things. What is the evidence that it has a prevent tive effects . Here is my evidence. The president asked b about l l. A. Leaders who plan to extend the order. For weeks, we have seen the battle between politics, and health. And pete per navarro is blasting the cdc. We know is pro business. The cdc is all about hell. Why do we need to Pay Attention . Is thatnt an interesting question. You wouldnt expect navarro to be the one who criticizes the cdc for its work. Why navarro. The thinking is trump watches to see what people in his inner circle do and then if what they say flieses, trump gets on the band wagon. If it doesnt fly, he stays away. A smart effort but this is more than navarro. This is trumps thinking. Well, navarro is from california. How much merit does he have in his claim . Whether you are pro business or pro health . Its that he is conveying the message. As a messenger, that he is putting the cdc on notice. We dont like what you are doing. The next time, you will hear from the president. And over the head. Nonetheless, it was a president message. Whoo is the president trying to position here. Is he trying to see what the reaction is and plan his next step . If there is well trump supporters, that will be the latest victim. Think about an it. Think of all the people or agencies that the president has given blame to because of the fact that he has been so tardy in delivering the goods. That is to say ventilators, tests, dates for the vaccine. The whole deal here. Think about it. We had the democrats, we had the media, we had World Health Organization. We had china and now of course its obama. Now maybe we e can tack on somebody else. He is looking for the soft spot. And picking the cdc, the Infectious Disease headed by anthony fauci, he is taking a risk. But fauci is gold according to public opinion, and scored twice as high as the president. The president s going to poke around for the soft spots so he can off load any blame. Any historical precedent here who should have a bigger voices . Should it be the Health Leaders or the Business Community . How many times we talked about the president breaking precedent . You add to this the list. The ccc is normally the gold standard. Around the world the cdc is viewed that way. The president is taking on the cdc is doing to where no one has gone before. If he succeeds, it will be one more institution that the president knocked down. The fbi, the cia, obvious congress and perhaps the cdc. He has done wonders from the president ial point of view from knocking down all the institutions that are viewed as significant and important in the american government. Real quick. Six months until the election. What is the president s next step in the next 30 to 60 days. What can he do tangly . He is picking his targets. Bide season one, obama is one. It will go after every one of those. And the news, the medium, tweet. He has done it magnificently, hundreds in a day or a weekend, and begin to soften up anybody who might think of jumping ship. You have seen the business that is taken. He will do that more. And until we get loose, that is to say until all of us can go about our business, he will still have the pulpit, and the president ial pulpit rings loud and true, longer than Anyone Around him, including joe bidden. Nice to see you, thank you. Thanks very much, raj. Than thanks, larry. The pandemicas line on the World Health Organization in switerland. Its a showdown with the u. S. And china. President trump is pushing for a full discussion on the origins of the virus, and an investigation into whether china withheld information about the disease early on. Today, in an early move, they pledged 2 billion to help combat covid19 throughout the world and the economic impact. The u. S. Is blaming the world earlier. Other nations are left trying not to swing too far to any one side in this super power showdown. Stores in San Mateo County can Service Customers curb side from the start of the shelter at home order. The owner of pickled clothing is reaching out to venders to buy masks and offer shopping via face time. Still, sales are about 10 to 15 of what they usually are. She lost about 85 of he is business and inventory is high. This sl health. Hopefully appointments maybe. Restaurants are take off on the. But they can bring more employees to back to shop in warehouses. Factories who cannot work there home can go back to work too. Its a glimpse in the future. Today in marin county, students returned to campus. A couple schools and specific classes. Here is joe risotto jr. Reporter the sound of a school bell hasnt carried much meaning in the school for two months. But today, it was at least a beacon of things beginning to stir. The Marin County School District opened two schools for amended classes. Its a Pilot Project aimed at easing back on face to face learning. We have a group of 56 opportunities, opening in cohorts of 12 opportunities. Community School Principal erin ashley says they are geared to students with special needs who need more inperson instruction. Some students are thriving with distance learning. Now, just a dozen opportunities in each classroom, temperatures are checked at the door. Students are required to fill out a medical questionnaire. Cindy e evans shot this video of her classroom, retoold for the new normal. We put borders around their desk so they know where they personal space is. She began with three opportunities. I know the opportunities are very happy to be back. You can just see it in their eyes. And in their whole energy. The district says the Pilot Project is a dress rehearsal for summer schools, a return of schools in the fall. As we start with just a handful of students today, we are going to learn what protocols we need to establish. The lesson already learned today. Students and teachers are happy to be back. Joe risotto jr. , nbc by area news. Up next, helping restaurants to the road to recovery. The new plan to keep them in business and helping the most vulnerable stay safe. [music] [music] especially in times like these, strong Public Schools make a better california for all of us. A Church Service exposed nearly 200 people to the coronavirus. And the churches in the town of butte county. One person tested positive a few days after attending a mothers day service. Overs have been notified of the exposure and asked to also selfcounsself selfquarantine. The person who tested positive had no symptoms before or after service. Others have been tested and received negative results. Uber says its cutting jobs after the company laid off workers. The announcement comes after they are requiring the drivers to the wear mask and gloves. They are seeing a decline in ridership. And the company is closing or combining 45 offices around the world and reexamining plans for selfdriving cars. After a public move and threats to elon musk, tesla has the green light in fremont. Today, back to work after officials said they can resume making cars. Fremont police will be responsible for making the plant follow the rules. They have to remain stable or improve for the plant to remain open. About 1,000 people work a the factory, working at the 10 capacity since late the march. There is a new way for healthy seniors to get meals in the south bay. Great plates delivered. Its a program created by november gor newsom. It provides a way to keep local Food Service Businesses in business. Okay, as soon as we saw the rain, i thought of janelle and jeff. Because our gardens got the water. The vegetables and fruit. Oh, yeah, so nice. Everything is starting to stand up a little straighter now. Sou counting down the day until we har visit something. I will talk about a spotty shower chance tomorrow and heat on the way in eight minutes. If you youre volcano troub having trouble making your mortgage payment, you may be able to press pause next. Were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Its a grim reality, many families cannot pay their bills right now. You may be able to delay your mortgage payment for up to a year. The question, who qualifies . Lets bring in chris chmura. Good evening. The ford here is forbearance. And now, thanks to the cares act, you are able to request no payments for 180 days that is six months. Then, if p youre facing a ha hardship, you can request another 180 day extension. This applies to fannie mae, freddie mac, fha and usd a lones. A lot of you send your company to a private company and it might the be federally backed. Just call who you send your mortgage entertainments to to find out if uncle sam owns your loan. If they say yes, the door is open to forbearance. Pausing your payment now will not erase your debt. You have to pay back the Company Later and you have to work how it will happen. Say you pause your payments for 12 months. Will you owe the entire 12 months at once as a lump sum . Or are the payments tacked on to the end of the loan, making a 30 year mortgage and 31year. Or will they will spread out in the remainder of tmortgage. Its critical to iron this out in writing. You have to call in to request help. And private loans might offer similar flexibility. If you pick up the phone and explain your situation, they might work with you. We posted a link on our website, nbc bay area. Com respond. Back to you. Thanks, chris. They are using innovation to continue semrving the community in the pandemic. And project innovation, a program that recognizes nonprofits, they were awarded 2 225,000. They address education in education and therapy programs and they plan to take it to include teachers. We recognize there is a bit of a gap in the training that teachers receive in understanding autism in the classroom. We hope with porch light university, we will be a resource to them had. The other project grant recipients are asian health services, second har visit of silicon valley, oakland promise and hunger at home. And spafk kmunty ventures, southern alamedd raza Mental Health and center for volunteer and nonprofit leadership. Well deserved. Let either bring in chief meteorologist everranieri. How are we looking . P. We are looking good of an it will of rain here the past 36ti there and holding on to a chance of an isolated shower as we move through tomorrow. I want to start tonight, show you up the unusual rain, above average for parts of the north bay. Check this out, santa rosa with over an inch so far this math. Napa, close to three quarters of an inch and you can see the column on the right hand side of the screen is average may rain. We are now officially above average for may rain in santa rosa, napa, and the santa cruz mountains, 2. 41 inches. The avenue ranch is 1. 05. Good news on that front to at least immediately help out the fire danger. A look at storm ranger, the mobile Doppler Radar to get a fix on the isolated pockets that have been coming up today. I amtraki tracking it off shore. Just very isolated, moderate rain pockets across the bay area this evening. In the south pay, have been tracking showers here, and morgan hill we may see it hold up through about 7 30 tonight. Most of it is in the Higher Elevations. We will keep an eye on that. The thing is bringing us unusual weather is the upper high pressure. It will linger tomorrow and an isolated spotty chance. You will see its not very great. 7 30 morm torng, and showers in gilroy, and 1 30, eye lated spotty chance near the coastline and peninsula, and 2 30, in the afternoon, you might get sun and back near in concord, the south bay Higher Elevations as well. Tomorrow, generally sunshine after we get through 5. 51 in the east bay and north bay, 48. With that increased sunshine. We will warm up temperatures. Down here in the south bay, 69 in san jose, and 67, and the fraps, low 70s from danville back to antioch. 67 in oakland. 69 in palo alto and San Francisco, upper 50s and low 60s and the north bay, 711 in napa and 70 in santa rosa. You might be pleased with this. Dry weather with, wednesday, thursday, friday, sunday, monday in San Francisco, low 70s next monday and look the at the inland valley forecast. 71 tomorrow to 80 on friday. And 88 on sunday, and hows this . 90 by next monday i know its not what most people want right now, but i think 90 is kind of your know, puttin it right down the middle. We could have 100s so its not in the triple digit. Thats night. We had thunder, rain, sunshine. Mixed bag. I last track. Next monday is memorial day. Right. Its holiday weekend. All right. Thank you. Barbecue weather. It is. 90 degrees. It looks like we are getting closer to having pro sports return. As and giants possibly today. Governor newsom on how the leagues are responding. And. Lets get started. music fades in hey hi z3vx9z z1s6z y3vx9y y1s6y we are still a ways away from teams taking the field. Ranl, e we are getting closer. Do you eat a ho the dog or a i just want to watch sports. Today, encouraging news from governor newsom. A lot has to happen. In his daily news conference, he said he will allow sports to be played here in california as early asho fans and a number of guidelines would have to be followed before it becomes a reality. Deep modifications, and stipulations in terms of protecting not only the players, but more broadly, their support staff. Again, we are not talking about fans in this respect. We are talking about the opportunity to begin to work with county Health Directors and work with the state to begin the process of organizing what that may or may not look like. And governors in new york and texas making similar statements. Major League Baseball hoping to return by july. The nbc bay area graduation ceremony. We want to congratulate the class of 2020. It was the last dance. We knew chicago with the lead. He wasnt missing my childhood on purpose. Her dads historic series is over. Michael jordans daughter jasmine shares her own powerful secrets. We had real trouble with this one. J. Los world at style evolution. Janelle monae with eyeopening looks of her own. You know where im going. My goodness. Welcome to access hollywood. Im mario lopez here at casa lopez. Lets get to with whats trending. Adele is reporting giving harry and meghan tips on how to