This. This is prime time for deals on flights and hotels. Because fewer people are traveling according to the points guide. He said you might want to buy travel insurance. You can buy it cancel for any reason travel insurance policy. They are very expensive. They are not going to reimburse 100 of your costs. Only up to 75 . If you have a nonrefundable flight ticket you dont have insurance the airline says tough luck. Keep your ticket because they might change that. If theres an outbreak all of a sudden tomorrow to that destination they will likely offer refunds. There is no point to cancel today and incurred the loss. The other positive look for airlines are awarding more upgrades. If you decide to fly you could get first class. Despite the Health Department saying it does not recommend any School Closures the district decided to shut down campuses anyway through at least monday. The mac we are taking we are taking our families their concerns into account. We know this was a conservative decision. But we did this out of the abundance of caution to the safety and welfare of students. We are talking about San Francisco unified. Wilson walker at the school now. Is this quickly becoming the new normal . Reporter you heard abundance of caution. That is really the theme. The students that were living Lowell High School did not know much more. They had been asked to go home. There was a student with a Family Member who was sick and to stay away from the campus until further notice. We started the day going around San Francisco and asking people if the coronavirus had caused them to change their daytoday life it all. In any way small or large. We are standing at Lowell High School where students heard a voice come across the intercom this afternoon. I heard current virus evacuate now. School is canceled tomorrow. We had a rally but that is not happening. Reporter the closure at lowell for nearly 3000 students and their families. The coronavirus has just barely touch San Francisco and you dont have to go far to find people affected by it. I live and work in south korea. My family my kids three and eight years old and my wife. I sent them home to thailand. That was a couple weeks ago. I came out to california. I got out as well. Im working remotely right now. It is a lot more quiet than usual. Reporter some workers downtown say the sidewalk scene quiet. A number of employers are asking workers to stay home. The coworking space was extremely quiet. People are working from home. Reporter you will see people stocking up. But mostly today we heard this from people. I wash my hands a little more. I move in bart away from people who are coughing. Stepping up handwashing and wiping down shared services an extra Hand Sanitizer. Im 70. It is different. I have to change my way of doing things. Reporter he knows he is in a Vulnerable Group so he is avoiding crowds and trying to do everything suggested by health officials. Because that is all he can do. I hope it works. Reporter thank you for talking to us. Reporter shaking hands quickly going out of style. No word yet on when the school will reopen. It was a conservative decision to close the school down. One more thing i stumbled across today. I went to a couple trader joes they sent me pictures of cleaned out frozen vegetables shelves. They are restocking supermarkets. But they are selling a lot of food. I am told by someone at one of the stores the volume is up 30 as some locations. That is not insignificant. It is certainly a sign there are people out there that are taking this seriously. And changing the way they do things right down to how they go shopping. We are live at Lowell High School. The Childrens Discovery Museum of san jose is also close for the rest of the week after an employee was exposed to a coronavirus patient. Amazon is the latest Big Tech Companies are pulled out of sxsw over coronavirus concerns. Facebook twitter and netflix have also canceled. Roughly 2 weeks before the start of the big culture and tech event in austin texas. Stay with kpix 5 for the coronavirus test results from the cruise ship. You can get Information Online kpix. Com and the cbs news app. Happening now want to bring life pictures. Showing us a glimpse of this National Guard helicopter. It is going to be touching down at that landing facility at the Fire DepartmentTraining Center on cutting boulevard. This is where the National Guard helicopter will be dropping off those test kits. As soon as that chopper lions they will have someone drive those test kits to the lab. We will be waiting for the results. They are saying that the results should take a few hours. Though im guessing we probably wont know anything until tomorrow morning. The are expecting it to take until tomorrow morning which is incredible. Before the test were taking days and days. To get the results back. We just heard health and Human Services directors say that they hope to have 75,000 kids delivered nationwide by the end of the week. This interNational Guard unit is pretty incredible. This is the 129th rescue wing which is out of moffett field. They have taken part in all kinds of rescue missions. We see the white box being carried by crewmembers. We are told that only were there guards people on that helicopter down on the cruise ship. A member from the cdc medical personnel also. They are placing it into an actual ambulance. It will be driving this to the state testing lab. This is the viral disease lab in richmond. They will perform that unique test for the Novel Coronavirus within hours. Certainly within 24 hours we should have results. Just a few hours ago a National Guard helicopter lowered the test kits onto the 951 foot vessel by rope. We are talking about the grand princess. Were there there are 3300 people still on board the ship. About 2300 passengers and more than 1100 crewmembers. They have only identified less than 100 people who were to be tested for the coronavirus. Earlier today they were saying only 35 of pad crew tota symptomatic. That would actually be good news given the numbers you just said of the total number of people. These are folks who have had certainly their vacation disrupted. Now they are looking at how much of the rest of their life might be depending on the coronavirus and whether they do test positive. We have been watching live here. As the interNational Guard is transporting those test kits from the cruise ship off the coast of california waiting to come into dock San Francisco. The tests are going to the state lab. There are 36 confirmed cases in the bay area. And 2 depths. Our original series project home. You can expect to see more Affordable Housing built on the caltrain core door in the future. A promise from the board of directors. How this decision might put pressure on other public agencies to make a similar commitment. Reporter even when it is barreling down the track heading right for you. Change can be challenging. To accept. It is human to be resistant to change. Reporter affordab crisis the region has been slow to put solutions in motion. Caltrain is now on board. With something big. Transit Oriented Development is a good way to guarantee a population of people that are going to use the train on a regular basis. It is a logical place for a Transit Agency to go. They committed for all future construction 30 of all units will be allocated for Affordable Housing. I dont think anyone can live out here and not see there is a need. There is this myth that we dont have any more land left on the peninsula. That is simply not true. Reporter the San Mateo CountyHousing Leadership council has been pushing for caltrain to allocate is public land for Affordable Housing since 2016. Is this decision by caltrain a victory . Yes. With a caveat i would say. Reporter the Housing Leadership council as the board to make a guarantee that available land wont go toward hotels or commercial space. A guarantee that caltrain did not make. The peninsula needs more offices and hotels like a diabetic toddler needs chocolate. About regardless she said she sees the decision is positive momentum. Two plots of land most likely to be made available are in Mountain View and redwood city. Totaling 4. 8 acres. Along with the promise of allocating 30 of all units constructed to go to Affordable Housing. Caltrain committed to higher density. At least 50 units per acre. In each building will be at least four stories high. It opens the door to look at other Government Agencies and apply pressure. Sam trance has a lot of land. We have been talking to the Board Members there and saying caltrain did this and what can you do . Reporter she is looking at every school bart station and paid parking lot that might present an opportunity. There is no law saying you cannot have a dmv on the bottom and housing on top. Reporter it is a big change. One that will slow to start. Like anything substantial now that it is moving it might be difficult to slow it down. It is not whether or not san mateo the city and the county is going to change. It is how do we want to change. Reporter the amount of land caltrain has available for development right now is not a significant amount. Advocates say it is more the concept that speaks volumes and they think it could change the way public agencies partner on Affordable Housing development in the future. Keep sending your stories ideas the project home. Cbs. Com and see all of susies reporting on our website. They are on the fight against coronavirus. Some healthcare workers raise the red flag over fears they are not properly armed for battle. How they say hospitals are coming up short. The next mars rover now has a name. Todays seventh grader from virginia won a contest with his oneword suggestion. Perseverance he will get to see the rover blast off from Cape Canaveral in july. They hope the 2 billion mission will answer key questions about the red planets past. Previous missions have confirmed eons ago the red planet could have supported life. Scientists at the jet Propulsion Lab in pasadena are eager to learn more. Rewind 3 1 2 million years ago mars we believe is much more earthlike. There was much more water. We can tell that from the geology on mars. There were rivers and lakes. The g estion is how earthlike was it . They hope to find important evidence in ancient river delta. Next year perseverance will drill into rock together samples in the search for signs of microbial life once existed. Here is another spot on mars that has scientists rather intrigued. An image posted by nasa shows a hole in a volcano. That opening about 115 feet across. Roughly 660 feet deep. The cape is most likely protected from the harsh surface so it could hold signs of life. Speaking of life water appears to be essential for it on our. We might actually get some by the time we get to the weekend. Rain in the forecast as we look live the bay area. It is coming up when we come back. Because dennys brought back the super slam™. With eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes. All for just 6. 99. The 6. 99 super slam™ is back see you at dennys watching history come to life. Every great eighthgrader is getting the shot to see the broadway smash hit hamilton in San Francisco. It puts more detail into everything we learned in the classroom. We are talking 6000 students and 3000 chaperones. Tonight one nonprofits big effort to introduce students to the founding fathers. Watch the constitution project tonight at 7 pm. Right here on kpix 5. That is our old stomping grounds in monterey county. Yes indeed. Look at us now. As we get clouds around the bay area. The chance of rain coming into the bay area by tomorrow night. First time in 38 days if it happens. It does look like this one will hold together enough to drop some rain in the bay area. As we get a look at this you can see clouds over the golden gate bridge. The hayward fault is being obscured by the clouds. This is the other headline. This weekend we spring ahead. Sunday morning sunrise is at 7 30 am. The sunset sunday night at 7 10 pm. Right now concorde has 52 degrees. Oakland mostly cloudy and 61. Santa rosa a lot of clouds and 57. No rain yet. Drizzle overnight. The temperatures drop down 19 degrees colder in santa rosa. Last night at this time to last night at this ti jose 13 degrees cooler. The numbers came down. No rain has yet. When the low pressure gets closer to Central California it will storm south and it will bring about 1 10 of an inch of rain into the central bay area. That will establish a colder and wetter pattern is finally the low pressure for the first time in ages is so far off the screen i have to bend down to reach it. That high has been around for more than a month but it is gone now. We might get the green forming as we get toward sunrise tomorrow. Tomorrow night. It could be drizzle around tomorrow morning. The future cast this is at 1 55 am. On saturday morning. Central bay area by sunrise saturday morning. A little bit before sunrise the brunt of the front will be moving to the bay area. There is your timing saturday morning. It might come down pretty good very briefly. It goes out. By the time we get to afternoon we are into variable clouds and a fuse scattered showers. Rain chances look good for saturday in San Francisco. Snow accumulations in the mountains by the time we get to saturday afternoon and saturday evening a half a foot of snow in the sierra. Cloudy cool and breezy overnight. Increasing clouds. Breezy and chilly tomorrow. May be drizzle tomorrow morning. Light shower chances will sweep south on early saturday. Amounts less than a 10th of an inch. Overnight lows tonight and the upper 40s. In the extended forecast we can expect some light showers moving into the bay area by the time we get to late tomorrow night. Early saturday morning. Clearing out saturday. At least the rain will mostly be out by saturday afternoon. Next chances coming in sometime tuesday. Wednesday and thursday we go sunny and warmer. At least we will water the lawn. That is about it. We are standing by for a News Conference in sunnyvale concerning another death involving a passenger that was aboard the grand princess cruise ship. Changes coming for starbucks customers. With a coffee giant is doing to combat coronavirus inside its doors. It is time for robert to be fired. Why two former chiefs are trying to get rid of the federal monitor was overseen the police force. Still ahead some companies apparently trying to make some big money off the coronavirus crisis. What californias top cop is going to do about it. Californias attorney general is making it clear price gouging will not be tolerated during the coronavirus emergency. Amy johnson understates efforts to protect consumers who are buying food gas and other essentials. Reporter it is not open season. Reporter a stern warning from the attorney general after a shortage of Hand Sanitizers and other supplies caused a spike in prices. Price gouging restrictions have gone into effect. Statewide. In california. Reporter store shelves are bare no Hand Sanitizer disinfectant wipes or masks. The same items can be found especially online. But with sky heights price tex mex mac businesses cannot exploit the state of emergency to unlawfully raise prices and that some to profit off of this emergency. These price gouging restrictions that make it illegal for businesses to raise the prices of most goods and services by more than 10 . Reporter that everyone is willing to pay the prices. I think if you get soap and wash your hands for like 20 seconds i think it would be fine. Reporter francesca is visiting from italy and said people are making Hand Sanitizer there. The most important thing. If you dont hands. If hands. Reporter he encourages anyone who sees price gouging to Contact Police or his office. If you violate our price gouging laws to better prepared to pay the price for your lawbreaking. Reporter the price if youre found guilty can be a year in jail and or 10,000 per violation. That would do it for the news at 5 pm. The news is 6 pm begins right now. Within the last few minutes coronavirus test kits arrived in richmond on a cruise ship off the california coast. The National Guard rushed them to passengers on the grand princess where some passengers are showing possible signs of coronavirus. Keeping calm is the cases of coronavirus grow. How one expert suggested we keep our perspective. There have been 10 chiefs 4 mayors to monitoring teams. Something is wrong. Oaklands firing back. Who she is pointing the finger at tonight. Our top story. And streaming on cbsn bay area. Breaking developments on coronavirus. We will begin with another cruise ship passenger death. Any minute we will it just started. We are getting details. Sunnyvale police department. Lets listen to the briefing. s statement will be from the talking issues of our response today and our officers. We wont be providing information about any specific treatment or medical procedures. We dont have that information. Thank you everyone for being here. Earlier today our officers were dispatched to a medical call for an unconscious man who was not breathing. Despite the efforts of officers to save the patient by performing cpr, he didnt survive. We have seen reports that the officers performed mouthto mouth. That did not happen. The officers follow ems procedures they perform cpr. While obtaining the patients medical history a Family Member advises that the patient had recently been on a cruise where two other passengers were suspected of having covid19. Although it has not yet been determined by Santa Clara County public health, whether or not the patient had covid19 car we are taking every step possible to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the officers who were on the call. The members of the department and the sunnyvale community. We have been in constant indication with Santa Clara County public health. And the cdc to ensure we are following proper procedures to ensure the safety of our staff an