What is happening now . Here is robert handa in san jose. Reporter the president s announcement has raised the stakes in the debate. And for religious leaders, it was and couraging sign. Hallelujah, it was an answer to prayer. Reporter the kacathedral ha been vacant since the stay at home order. If they dont it, i will override the governors. Reporter Governor Newsom said no state guidelines are coming as early as monday. We are moving to work it forward. Reporter the pastor for the gospel helped lead a service, said he is going to reopen on pentecost sunday. If this conversation is resolved and we are able to go back, that is what we will do. If not, we will have service in the park ping lot. Reporter dr. Donna white careery of true ministries says since Alameda County okayed carbased celebrations, she is fine with outdoor gatherings. It will be a number of monitors walking through the rows of cars and making sure that social distancing is met and that people remain in the car. Reporter there are still a lot of questions. How many independent places of worship will actually open this weekend, and does the president have the power to override what the governors want to do . Robert handa. Nbc. Just in the newsroom, sonoma got the green light in the state. It can move in move to patio service, and out door seating, and tasing rooms for patio service. Ha is a big move as we head in the Holiday Weekend. The order will also give the green light for drive through graduation ceremonies and driver up religious services. Sonoma is the third bay area county to move in expanded phase two. Joining napa and solano counties. Take a look at the numbers from the bay area. We have are more than 12,000 confirmed cases and 421 deaths. Santa clara added 54 cases. The stores are open but where are the customers. Santa clara county joined the rest of the bay area and most retailers are allowed to open up shop but for curb side pickup. You are looking at a store here in campbell. Damian trujillo is in willow glen with the slow first down back. Reporter some believe the word has not donten out to everyone. They are open but few are coming. Reporter er music is used to welcome customers back to the chocolate store in willow glen. We took the closed sign off the door. That is good news for us. Reporter the only problem, there are no customers. Today, it hasnt been any different since the whole thing started two months ago. Its still the same. The streets are empty. People are scared to come out. Reporter this is the first day of stage two where most retailers can open for curb side pickup or delivery. It means altering the Business Plan to include an online store, hoping the Digital World will dream up more. And p ffor the moms, we have children at home. Its very unpredictable. This is stupid. Im sorry to say. Reporter the todd family runs a mobile atm business and she says the shelter at home is putting them out of business. They are banking on a reopening the county. We want our lives back. Its been taken from us. We are surviving but its hard. We dont know what tomorrows going to bring. Reporter back in willow glen, the hope is the sweets and the sweet sounds of music help lure back the customers. Damian true hero, nbc bay area news. A lot of Business Owners trying to stay afloat. San to ta clara county enters the beginning of stage today, this is downtown fairfield today. You can see people in a Sandwich Shop there, and folks outdoors and we want to see a student to dine in and sit at a bar. This is the kickoff to summer. Lets take you outside. Its beautiful, blue and clear skies. This is a live look at walnut creek, pool weather. Barbecue weather. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist from the ranieri gardens there in each bay. Jeff . Yeah, it is very nice and refreshing outside today. Im enjoying it here at my house. In case you missed it, we are going live broadcasts here at home. And today and tomorrow, really kind of just still in that comfortable stride that e eventually we do get hotter weather. Lets bring you in the microclimb forecast. I want to start at today tease highs, and concord got up to 79. Wo record is 99. So way, way away from record temperatures but eventually, i think we will get close to the records, if not past them. Tomorrow, what do we have setting up . 50s to start. Really impressive beginning for us tomorrow morning. By the afternoon, low and mid 80s for napa, danville, san jose, and foe dmus on sunday, you can e see how things jump in napa. 94 degrees for memorial day, and the beaches, santa cruz, also returning on monday. Two things were focusing in on at this hour. I want to you see details on the record heat. Memorial day and the second thing is rain chances also on the way. We will sum it up and have details in 15 minutes. We will see you shortly. With the School Year Comes to an end, a lot of parents are in this boat. Scrambling to make summer plans for the kids. Today, San Franciscos mayor announced summer camps will be available in the city. June 15th, city, nonprofit and private camps can operate as long as they comply with the rules. More than 200 camps will be available to San Francisco kids and teenagers. We are going to prioritize. Kids of parents who are working in essential businesses, who are part of the citys response, who are in allowing businesses and frankly the kids who need us the most right now. The Public Health rules will limit them to pods of kids of 12 and camps have to run for a minimum of three weeks to keep kids in consistent groups. Memorial day weekend is here, and a blunt reminder, keep your distance. You may result troubling photos last weekend, showing a huge crowd outside a marina area bar. The city, the police and even a bar owner are asking you to enjoy the Holiday Weekend safely. Reporter businesses already have signs up for social distancing, and this week, the city added more of them in popular neighborhood like this. They are gearing up for memorial day weekend with all the rules in mind. Outside halls wine bar on chestnut straight, they have a sign on the ground to keep a social distance. Curb side food and drinks are to go. There are a lot of people out and about. Not all those people were our customers. There were people with drinks from our restaurants. They said they watched for crowds but it was hard to see. Last weekend, it showed people in front overbusinesses nearby, not many in masks. Police broke it up. The coowcoowner says he sees sides. The summer develops, we will have more people going out and getting the quarantine fatigue, and realize that Small Businesses want to do their best and they have to follow the rules. And signs about social distancing and guides on retail pickup are almost everywhere you look. Posts in the mission distract, and 38 corridors and the mayor urged to follow guidance at city parks or expect them to be shut down. People want to use the park. We will be out in force in memorial day weekend. In chestnut street, they pivoted a wick pickup window for retail orders and they run a wine club. They have hand sanitizer, mask and a plan. It will be interesting to see. We make sure that people socially distance. In San Francisco, christie smith, nbc news. Twitter is doing it. So is facebook. Working from home permanently. A lot of people say they will work from home in a cheaper state. It will push down housing prices . Not likely to get more affordable as many are trying to make it in the bay. Reporter the surveys show some of us are ready to explore not only the idea of working from home long term but also possibly change writing the home is. Suddenly, geography is irrelevant because they work remotely. Reporter and Companies Announce plans to let employees stay home, house tracker zil lo some will leave the bay area. But probably not enough to lower prices here. As long as you want to have more people that want to be your place, you are building homes to match that growth, you will want to see home value appreciation. Reporter so the benefit to people in other states but who have always wanted to be be in tech. If you are not living in the Silicon Valley or San Francisco, or you still want to work for one of the students, the student for that now is much greater. Reporter its worth mentioning that Mark Zuckerberg told facebook employees if they leave the bay area they might make less money but that is not likely the caseor because of competition, tech workers in demand will always get a premium no matter where they live. In a stillempty parking lot in san jose, scott budman. We are back in 60 seconds. We have a guide on what you can and cant do this memorial day weekend. We will break it down for us. Lake tahoe officials warning visit tors, dont show up. And what about tourist towns that rely heavily on tourism. More on a city that is ready for a rush of tourism. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. A gorgeous evening right now. Im tracking hotter 1000s. I have the details on that. We have some break news right now. A very compelling video just into the newsroom. Nbc bay area sky ranger was there as firefighters plucked a stranded hiker out of quiksilver park. This happened 15 minutes ago. The hiker was a man in his 20s. He went missing. He is suffering of dehydration. He is headed for the hospital. Incredible rescue. The rules continue to change. We get it. The list of things you cant do is longer than the list of things you can do. They are ruling out no swimming, boegt, picnicking, barbecuing or group activities. Extra staff l patrol the park. We need folks to be good visitors. They have been doing a good job. We just need good visitors on this weekend. Oakland is also sticking to its ban on food vendors and parking along lake merritt. The city is closing additional stree streets to cars to give people space to spread out. Even though its the Holiday Weekend, santa cruz and lake tahoe reminding people, please stay away. What about the Sierra Nevada food high schools. A popular area for people. Jessica aguirre from the old gold rush town of murphys. Are they ready for a rush this weekend . I penguins e expect it to. And the nonessential travel ban. And this is my house in murphys. Its a big tourist best nation. Originally a gold rush town in the 1850s, i was known for his ranches. And the 70s, the Wine Industry took off. Recently, its a hot spot for wine tasting and weddings and its outdoors and covid19 hit and like most small tourist towns, main street went dark. Its coming back to life but for the locals, its a catch22. They have a very low infection rate but they need visitors and the bay area visitors. Tourism is the engy of on the economy here. I talked to mark huckerby, a six decade resident who says the town is using its Pioneering Spirit to survive. To its always been a tourist destination. My great, great grandmother came in 1857 and roadside saddle on a horse all through this area. Its always been a magical place to come visit and we really look forward to having all of our visitors back again. Were a Great Community of people who really enjoy the interaction with visitors and its a tough time to be isolated. Lake ha ta joss they dont want anything to come. And they want the tourists and not now. What is the position here . I think the position here in murphys is we cant stop people there coming. There are businesses that will be will be open and he will be practicing safe social distancing in order to stay open. But there are quite a businesses that will be open. I believe memorial day will be busy for us. And other destinations, they hope when summer comes around, they have a lot of visitors. People taking road trips and they be able to rev up the economy again. Excited to go to murphys for a road trip. It looks beautiful up there. Lets check in with with jeff ranieri. Jeff . Oh, it is going to be so gorgeous saturday and sunday. Before the major heat gets here starting on memorial day. Right now, that sun is starting to set, and everybody across the bay area has lots of sunshine. I want to bring you outside with a highdefinition sky camera. If you have not been able to get out for fresh air today, work from home, doing home schooling. 76 right now in lafayette, and mt. Diablo. And we will bring tout north way. 62, tiburon. We move through tomorrow. Temperatures warming up 3 to 5 degrees. We are staying out of the 90s tomorrow but plenty to low to mid80s inland. Concord, 6 86 and santa rosa, also 81. And the major hit gets here monday, tuesday, wednesday. I have bumped the temperatures in the low 100s. One thins i did want to get you on, the drought. 20. 84 of california is in severe drought. This means fire danger for us and crop damage. Coming up in 25 minutes, i will take a look at drought tolerant plants and show you something i am growing in my yard that is fire resistant. I will show you in 25 minutes. The sun looking beautiful. Good lighting, jeff, natural lighting. From mats like wrestling mats to masks. The wreg thes school that is shifting its focus with a twist. Youre going to like this. Quean the pandemic hit, a lot of people stopped what they where are doing and started making protective masks. Including a wrestling instructor. The masks may want you climb in the ring too. The world of professional wrest wrestling, there are b many unexpected twists. A lot of hard knocks often delivered by people in masks. At the Pro Wrestling school, you can learn to take a beating and pop right back up. But the covid19 shutdown was the punch ramirez never saw coming. As of march, all the dates we have lost. Reporter now school is empty and the bill withes land like a pile driver. All the landlords said they were not responsible for the pandemic. We still have to pay. Reporter he learned when youre on the ropes, you pivot. He learned to the libre mask. I said, why dont we just do a mask and take the head off. The idea struck him. They denined and made an luc he l libre an as a face covering. Remade a run and sold out in two days. Reporter and then he sold 1,000 more. When you look at some of the more indepth ones, they are actually they actually look like real masks. They are saying thousands on the website. And while he says the sales are helping seize some of of the pain, there are no guarantees the school will make it out of the rain. I dont mow ifly come out victorious. But i will not set at home. Nbc bay area news. Up next at 6 30, one of the nations top doctors possibly loosening restrictions when it comes to shelter at home. The message from dr. Birx. Plus, there is always a need for organ donors. But the lead is now greater. Is. Right know at 6 30, with excitement also so anxiety. Much of america is cautiously beginning to e emerge from its covid cocoon to mark the memorial day Holiday Weekend. But Health Experts have stern advice. Keep up with your safety measures. While the overall number of virus related deaths is declining in the u. S. , the Trump Administration admits some states still have a high rate of positive tests. It will be with interesting and possibly dangerous on the memorial day weekend. Where beaches and towns around the country have conflicting rules for the wearing of masks and social distancinging. The cdc is down playing the risk of the virus to be transited from surfaces but emphasising the person to person. I know you can do it. I know the American People can do it. Please, as go out this weekend, you can go out, you can be outside. You can play golf, you can play tennis with marked balls. You can go to the beaches if you stay six feet apart. There appears to be if you check your social media feeds, an increase of confrontations between those who follow the guidelines and those who dont. New Research Suggests that hydroxychloroquine causes heart problems and deaths. Based on 96,0004068 patients. Those who took the drug talked about irregular heart beat or dying. And President Trump reveals he is taking the drug though pro vent it. California connected. You will hear that term a lot as the state tracks the spread of the coronavirus. Today, Governor Newsom talked about how Public Health workers will contact those who need to get tested or treated. The governor wants to make sure that people dont hang up on the health workers. When you get a call from a stranger on the phone and they are not pleased. This is all about mitigating spread and allow us to move to reopen our economy faster than we would. Governor newsom encouraged californians to social distance and stay safe. The pandemic isnt keeping people from getting elective surgerieses. In some places, it brought Organ Transplants to a halt. Jez ka aguirre with why the need for organ donors is more important now than ever. We are hearing new fall out from the covid19 pandemics. Today, medical professions that work with organ donations. They are sounding the alarm and raising the red flag that some transplants are happening and they actually need organ donations. Its a big deal. Since march, there have been a decrease in living organ donations like kidneys and tissue, and some cases, do to untimely deaths. Since a lot of donors were testing positive for covid19. Some centers, they were not accepting organs for transplants and one point, living donations came to a complete halt. But now they are pressing f forward. Janice reilly says to consider being donors. Dont rule yourself out. There are 115,000 people in the country who are waiting on a Second Chance at life, and leaving a legacy by helping save one of those lives, it is brings a lot of hope to people who desperately need it. And so, take a few moments to register. We dont even know whats going to happen. You know, people that are recovering from covid, theyre not necessarily ruled out. We dont know what that time line looks like. When testing will take please. But there is hope just like this oh diseases, sars and h1n1rks we found ways to make it safe again once they recovered. Now, she says we have to remember that Organ Transplants are not elective surgery. People need them to survive. She e and her team still going in the hospitals, carefully. They say the way to raise awareness, is actually the way the rest of us are doing everything, via zoom. So even this has been impacted. Okay, thanks very much. Oakland is expanding its slow Streets Program that gives streets and bicyclists extra room on the highway. They are giving them room in oakland. The city named it as an essential. And spread across in a busy supermarket. Everybody just feed in, and we have so much complaints. I get a lot of customers complaining about walking across the street. This is just one more thing the city is doing, the stress. To add traffic cones and other busy corridors at medical facilities, food give a ways and testing sites. You want to go shopping. Napas premium outlets reopened chenged. Hand sanitizes stations throughout the property, and employees will have health screenings. Were back in a moment. Damage control from joe biden. The president ial candidate said he is shnt have been such a wise guy. He shouldnt have been so cavalier when insisting blacks who support President Trump aint black. Its part of a discussion with charlemagne the god. Woman who accused president biden. Said they paid tera reed eight times to testify as an Expert Witness on domestic violence. Here is stephen stock. Reporter south bay krim cal Defense Attorneys are reviewing their cases to see if alexandra mccabe, aka tera reed, ever served as a witness, saying any conviction can be overturned. A spokesman for the strict Attorneys Office said they have not found that she ever served in san clara county. They are still reviewing those records. She is in monterey county. She basically was hired by the District Attorney to come in and bolster the point they want to put across. Roland says he questioned alexandra mccabes question when she testified against his client in 2018 in a murder trial with violence accusation. She was running an animal food pantry, she had a variety of backgrounds. We questioned her qualifications off the bat. However, she testified what troubled them today is this testimony under oath that she earned a agree from seattle and was a visiting professor so. She did work there, and they have no record of her earning a degree. Is this serious in your mind . Its incredibly serious. Win they dont testify truthfully, they are committing a fraud. Reed described her position at the university as a faculty online as needed to help students with life learning and b. A. Completion. He set screen shots of unofficial transcripts that say show she earned a degree. Nbc news forwarded the messages, and declined further comment. We reached out to the d. A. And public defender in monterey county. Both say they are reviewing the cases she testified in, the d. A. Did not answer how much they paid her to testify as an expert. Im stephen stock, nbc bay area news. An as expected, actress lori lauflin and her Fashion Designer husband got their two becausers in usc. They appeared on zoom before a judge in mass mazz. Massachusetts. She faces two months in prison and 100 hours of community service. Her husband is facing nearly double that. Its likely they will serve prison at home. The Holiday Weekend is here and you are encouraged to stay in your hood. It will be a nice one. Enjoy the outdoors. Lets check in with jeff r ranieri. The first part of the weekend, details on the heat ahead. Plus, i will show you a drought tolerant plant that is fire resistant. I will talk about that in seven minutes. Student tripped canceled but the money was not refended. Im chris chmura. Next. Z3w6mz z1s6z y3w6my y1s6y that could mean an increase byin 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. Nbc bay air ya responds to several parents who had trouble with a tour company that specializes in student trips. Chris chmura has a Important Development for us. Good evening, they all ask our team for help with ef tours. They told us ef tours canceled their kids trips do you to the pandemic and couldnt give them a fuel respond. This womans daughter was set to go to washington, d. C. With classmates. They offered vouchers for a future travel or a partial refund. They just want their money back. My husband lost his job to the pandemic. That is like almost 1600 you can use. Our Response Teams around the country are fields complaints about ef tours. The attorney general has been looking in the tour cancellations. They Just Announced an agreement. They will offer credit or cash refunds. They told us we are pleased that our collaboration with the attorney general helped identify a path forward that supports our current customers and future travels. They will see international and domestic tours. We added links to both sites on your website. Nbc bay area. Com. If youre an ef tours customer, check them out and look carefully. In some cases, you will not get your all money back. They will defect as much as 565 because it already paid some vendors. Back to you. Okay, thanks, chris. Join chris and the nbc bay Area Response team. They will take your consumer questions about the coronavirus. Chris chmura, tomorrow night at 6 30. With graduation ceremonies now virtual, san jose state has a way to honor seniors. Each students name is read allowed over a photo. One grad thanked coffee for getting him through. The website includes video, congratulations from south bay leaders and the congresswoman, our own ka damian trujillo. The university plans to have an inperson ceremony late they are summer. That is great. Recognize this man . That is tom hanks. He tweeted his senior year photo from skyline high school. He tweeted it out today. That is in oakland. He congratulated the class of skyline, the class of 2020 and also gave them words of wisdom. Follow those stiinstincts an always understand that you have been chosen by fate to lead the way in whatever our post pandemic world is going to be. Make did it a great one with, would new. That is cool. Tom hanks graduated from skyline in 1974. He used to work at the coliseum. He doesnt know what he is going to do with the raiders leaving town. He will have to switch to a 49ers fan. Jeff ranieri is wearing as colors. You match your plants. I know, i debated it today. I thought, why not. Lets go garden green. And that sun is setting right now. We have lots of clear skies. And i think were going to see some more incredible weather for tomorrow. Before it might get just a little too hot for you. Lets go ahead and fast forward things right in tomorrow morning. And i do have mostly sunny skies to start, and the best thin about some of the heat, we e he will have cool mornings to start off. 49 in the trivalley. If you get up early to walk the dog, take the kids out, you will need a light jacket and sunglasses. San francisco, 50, and the north bay at 52. Temperatures by the afternoon with this warmer air, starting to build in Southern California will resfopond to that. I do see a three to seven degree warmup. We have 81 in san jose. Mid to upper 80s for the interior valleys. Head over to the east bay hills and look at the difference the bay breeze makes, 78 in oakland and 77 in hayward. Peninsula, the warmest location in palo alto where the ocean and the bay breeze isnt as strong. 83 degrees and closer to the northern end of the peninsula, the ocean breeze, in the marina, mid 60s and mission, middllder 72. And nap avrks, the ocean breeze will have you probably the best weather in 77 degrees. Two major headlines im following. The hot High Pressure that builds memorial day tuesday to wednesday that will brang okay 1500s. And take your attention out here, and the second thing is a cooler system with some rain that is going to sit and linger and by the first week of june, it will bring us to 65 chance of rain. That will also drop our temperatures on the sevenday forecast. The system in the pacific. You will see it here, 70s in San Francisco sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday. And the storm will bring it back down to 69. For the inland valleys, we go to 85 for the average tomorrow. And doable, monday, 86. 100 on tuesday. The hottest weather. 101 winednesday and the storm o shore, 78 by next friday. We did mention the drought and how that is expanding across northern california. Drought tolerant plants, ice plant, is a good cover and fire resistant, and myoporum is fire resistant. I have the myoporum with cool White Flowers this time of year. Its grate for ground cover. If you dont have grass and want to cover it, its fie resistant. When you break it, the reason its fire resistant, it has a high water retention. So a lot of the feelers get sent out, high water content. Not that im trying to get to you plant this this weekend. I think everybody should relax. I like it better than the ice plant. The ice plant is more big and juicy. I dont like the way they feel. Yeah. And it can look rubbery. This is a little more flexible. Better for folks. Very good gardening tips and fire sayty. It looks good behind the ear too. It looks like a toga party. Up next, you ready for some football in the football season . What if there is no reason for cal and sanford . That could happen. Iably fast sp, the most inhome wifi coverage, and advanced security included. Plus, access all your streaming apps in one place, including peacock. And now you can get up running quickly with contactless equipment drop off. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Get started with xfinity for thirty four ninety nine a month for 12 months and get xfinity flex a personalized streaming dashboard for all your favorite apps. Click or call today. This is kind of out there, janelle. A lot of people are talking about the 49ers and raiders, there will be a nfl season . But what b about college football. What will happen with cal and stanford. Robert flores has answers. Reporter coaches across the country are working on a game plan to return to the field. Everybody wants too play. Everybody is intent on playing as many games pass we can, a full schedule if were with able. Reporter the main concern for cals head coach is safe playing conditions for student athletes. Fully intent of playing this season. How we get to that point, you know there is a daily change. When do we come back, when do we start working out together . But every intention is to do that. The ncaa days Football Players can begin voluntary work outs on june 1st. Bay area teams will not be able to take part because of state health restraiction. David shaw says there are still a lot of unanswered questions. To make sure youre not rushing back and ready to handle what is going to happen because someone is going to be positive. Someone is going to test positive. What do do you about that to protect your team and staff and coaches. There are health and safety discussions daily. There is talk of playing games without fans. And what about travel . Pac 12 teams span from washington to arizona. I think all of us cant wait to get started and get playing. We would love to play and were going to do everything in our power to safely play as many games as possible. Now, its a waiting game, anthony flores, nbc bay air yanchts. And janelle, interesting about college football, unlike the nfl, they not professional players. They cant be sequestered or quarantined. They go back to campus and infect of impact thousands of students who dont play sports. A lot to consider. Before we go, we want to pay tribute to graduates. We want to end with something good. No grad parties and ceremonies but this is might be the most notable graduating class in years. From all us here in the bay area congratulations to the class of 2020. The weathers perfect. Family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. How could it get any better than this . Dad, i just caught a goldfish theres no goldfish in this lake. Whoa its pure gold. Were gonna be rich. Were gonna be rich it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. Welcome to access hollywood. Im mario lopez coming to you from casa lopez, and i have my mom here with me because this show is all about mamas. How you doing, mom . Im doing great, mijo. Alright. I always say everything i am and ever will be is because of my awesome mama. And the quarantine has created a lot of family time for everyone. And no one has upped their game more than all the moms out there. So were kicking off our moms special with these quarantine allstars. Hi, everybody. Say hi, will. Mom to willow and jameson, p nk has been our quarantine mommy inspiration. Shes enjoyed movie time wi