Right to do what they did. Reporter warriors president had this to say in a News Conference this morning. We did not feel based on the best advice that we could get that anyone was being put at risk. Reporter games will be played without fans for the foreseeable future. The gm said he is worried about the 1500 employees who need the paycheck from gamedays to survive. If you have empathy have it for them and not for us. We play basketball. It is a big business. But we are just playing basketball. There are more important things going on. Reporter mayor breeds that the gathering shutdown is necessary. We know this is necessary before because right now it is about mitigating the impacts. It is about making sure that we reduce and eliminate the spread. And we have followed in every single instance in every decision that weve made has come based on the direction of our Public Health experts. Reporter that decision to shut down large gatherings in the city and county of San Francisco would have to come from the chief health officer. Anything beyond the 14 days that have already been prescribed will need to be approved by the board of supervisors. Several other big events at chase center have been postponed or moved. Post malone and bill bibb devoe and nds frthe osnc this weekend Santa Cruz Warriors game against the austin spurs will be moved to santa cruz. The team show scheduled for friday was sold out. No word yet on when it is going to take place. Tie ldckn owhoe erwhen its cais u request a refund. While San Francisco decision to ban large gatherings at the same time it was defending his decision to keep Public Schools open. We know that childcare could end up being a challenge for parents. We also know sometimes this is the only place many of our kids have access to meals and facilities and other places where they can wash their hands. We have to think about the impacts on young people. This week in the San FranciscoUnified School District announced it has canceled all nonessential school events. These include the sporting practices assemblies fundraisers and other events. In the past hour the oakland Unified School District announced there are no known cases of the virus at any school or district department. The district said to students one and oakland high any of the other at oakland tech are self quarantining after possibly being exposed to the virus. Ousd plans to keep all schools open for now. Closing is school isnt as simple as closing a school and everyone goes about their business. We have families that depend on us to ensure their kids are safe during the day while they are at work. So they can work. We also have families that depend on us for food for their kids. And a variety of services. Many colleges and universities across the bay area are suspending inperson classes. Or than a dozen schools in the area have told students to stay home. More than a dozen. Reporter just how fluid the situation is on monday palo alto Unified School District cancel prom. In a short time after backtracked and now they say they are postponing their decision on prom. When it comes to responding to coronavirus for schools it is not onesizefitsall. A crew of about 50 workers scrubbed in wiped all night long here is santa teresa high school. It turns out a student came in contact with someone who tested positive. Students were allowed back on campus today. Admission college in santa clara it looked like a ghost town. The latest campus to suspend in person classes. Starting today even though there is no confirmed case. We have people working on this. This is not an easy decision. Reporter the campus remains open with lots of Hand Sanitizer for students who dont have easy access to a computer. The few students we saw were not Wearing Masks. Ruth is an employee came to work like this supports the canceling of facetoface classes. I think it is a smart move because it is keeping us safe. Reporter it has become Evident Health officials are taking it on a casebycase basis. At Oak Grove High School they are back open after the school under 18 deep cleaning when a student came into contact with a confirmed case but did not get sick. All high school in San Francisco was shut down for five days when a parent tested positive. Santa clara county Health Director has been resistant to widespread shutdowns of schools. We know from experience with influenza that if you close a school it can interrupt transmission and damp it down. We dont have those data for covid19. We agreed that. Reporter College Students in the bay area will be learning like this and getting a crash course in willpower and time management. A lot of those students wait for the weekend. Something fun comes along and they pushed out further. I put my phone away. If i hear a notification im on it. We are live over the grand princess cruise ship. Docked at the port of oakland. More than half of the passengers have been taken off the ship. State officials announced they will take some of the american passengers to a hotel and then karlos the coming days. And all that hotel can house up to 120 people. These passengers have been screened and have mild symptoms but are not known to have been infected with coronavirus. The group will be tested and monitored by medical professionals. Heres where things stand now. More than 1400 people have been evacuated from the ship. What an 800 have been taken to Travis Air Force base. Others taken to military bases in san diego georgia and texas. That leaves more than 2000 people on board the ship. We are just waiting anxiously. They said they would fly us to the salt lake airport. They would have a shuttle may be a personal car if they didnt have a shuttle available. And then we would drive home. Officials say 1100 crew members 19 of whom tested positive for covid19 will be quarantined and treated on board the ship which would dock elsewhere after all other passengers are unloaded. A live look as san jose minetta airport with three tsa screeners tested positive for the coronavirus. Live with word that many more screeners are now being quarantined. Reporter bottom line for the moment though is that the tsa lines are up and running smoothly by all appearances. There are not long lines at the airport today because it appears a lot fewer people are traveling. Some of the screeners appear to be nonuniform personnel possibly management personnel filling in. The tsa screeners union told us in addition to the three screeners who tested positive for coronavirus 43 of their coworkers had to be quarantined because they had contact with the three who tested positive. A tsa spokesperson disputed that number. But did not give any other details as to what the tsa contends the actual number of workers affected. Meantime there is a lot of mixed reaction from travelers. It is very scary. It is very scary. Reporter are you going to do anything differently . Not touch anything. Just wash my hands. Sanitized my seat. It is sporadic and a lot of gray area. I feel like everyone in the position they are in when it comes to safety is doing what they can to keep us safe. No sense in me stressing about it or getting worried over something i can control. There might be things that wherever i am touching make sure i keep my hands to myself. I have Hand Sanitizer. Reporter the three screeners who tested positive worked at the terminal b facility which houses Southwest Airlines and alaska airlines. It is unknown what kind of contact they would have had with the public. The south bay congressional delegation and local elected leaders called on the tsa to release the more in Vital Information about the screeners including where they worked and what days they work and what times. The tsa said it has it will continue to clean all the affected areas according to the guidelines set forth by the centers for disease control. The Santa Clara County department of Public Health weighed in this afternoon. Saying it does not recommend closing the airport. Because of the damage that could cause. They continue to issue statements and have one here. We continue to recommend that persons at higher risk of severe illness from trent to avoid all air travel and that businesses cancel nonessential travel. Things still very fluid for the moment at minetta san jose. I noticed a lot of travelers who are boarding the airplanes are taking extra precautions. A lot of people Wearing Masks and gloves. I saw someone traveling with some of those sanitary wipes so they could wipe down some of the surfaces that they would be coming into contact with once they board the aircraft. You can never be too careful. Bart is trying to reassure riders during the outbreak starting tonight the agency said it will add Hand Sanitizer dispensers to all of its 48 stations. They are increasing cleaning and disinfecting on trains as well as it stations the agency has seen a decline in ridership in the past week. It plans to ask for emergency funding to make up for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The news about coronavirus changing by the minute had to kpix. Com and cbsn bay area for a roundup of the major developments all in one place. Still ahead a Bay Area Hospital taking the fast food approach to coronavirus. How they are making plans for drivethrough testing. One county taking extreme measures to protect the most vulnerable. That news for College Basketball fans. Major change in store for march madness. With the coronavirus outbreak squeezing the economy would take you inside one company where business is booming. And the Weather Department you should make the most of these next two days. Thursday and friday will be sunny 70 degrees and lamb. By the weekend everything changes. We have our first good widespread rainmaker in a while. And much cooler temperatures. I will have that coming up. The live news desk Health Officials in San Mateo County have issued a legal order this afternoon that bands any visitors from entering any nursing home facilities. According to the order the virus that causes coronavirus plays places residence at Long Term Care facilities at high risk especially given that visitors to such facilities may have the virus may not have symptoms or may have mild symptoms such visitors can easily pass the virus on to those vulnerable residents. Essential personnel including medical care providers and First Responders will of course continue to have access. To those facilities. The latest from the live news desk. Unease of the coronavirus pandemic sent stocks plummeting today. The dow jones closed 20 below is most recent high today. Pushing wall street into a bear market. Taking a look at the big board the dow jones plunged nearly 1500 points. The s p got close the bear territory before closing just above the mark. Nearly 5 tempo. The nasdaq dropped 4. 7 . Bay area tech stocks hit especially hard apple down about 3 1 2 . Facebook saw it for a half percent drop in google is down about 5 . Kaiser permanente hospital in San Francisco patients will be able to drive up and get tested for the coronavirus. But you cannot just drive in. You need to meet cdc criteria have a doctors order and set up an appointment. Medical staff will test patients for covid19 the flu and respiratory virus while they remain in their car. The ncaa enacting a new policy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The organizations president announcing only players essential staff and limited family members will be allowed to attend the mens and Womens Basketball tournaments. Our sports director Dennis Odonnell how is that going to play out . Plans are such a fans are such an integral part. The emotional fans. The mascot. None of that will be a part of the madness when the tournament tips off next week. Ncaa president saying the ncaa made the decision in the best interest of Public Health. Adding to cancellation of the was a consideration. The final four is scheduled to be played at the mercedesbenz stadium in atlanta. But the ncaa is considering moving that to a smaller venue. Sacramento golden 1 center is one of eight sites hosting the first and second round. The kings are still having fans at their game tonight. Stanford is that the host. The womens tournament final four scheduled for atlanta. In new orleans. The virus is impacting the nba nhl major league baseball. The giants announced today they will not play there march 24 exhibition game against the oakland as at oracle park. So fluid. Tv coverage still going to happen for march madness. The ratings might be the best thing theyve ever had. People are hunkering down and staying at home. No fans at the game. The only will option is to watch on tv. That is a great point. There was talk of possibly postponing. Nba games and picking up at a later date. A check of the forecast. Darren peck. Lets switch gears. A whole new forecast. By the weekend we are getting a storm. It will be a storm that is more impressive than anything we have seen since january. Widespread rain and much cooler. Maybe even some snow in the local hills above santa clara. Lets get into the forecast. Your live look outside from the top of the Sales Force Tower looking to the west. We havent gotten to the storm yet. Before i get too far you still get two more days thursday and friday in nothing happens. They will be a lot like this. This is still mostly sunny and low 70s inland. If you like that you will love the last two days. Of this work week. We still have a minor issue to keep an eye on. Doppler is still reading isolated showers. Some of them are heavy. Down to the south mainly in the hills. If youre looking east from san jose gilroy or morgan hill you see thunderstorms coming off the diablo range. They are falling apart before they get over 101. South from here you get down to monterey county. It is pouring on 101. That is just to the south for the majority of us. A closeup view the showers while they are close should not have a major impact on anybody throughout the course of the afternoon. We will keep a close eye over the next few hours. Everything falls apart. Look at thursday. Those are sunny skies. Nothing happening there. Thursday morning temperatures only go down to the middle and upper 40s. These temperatures tomorrow morning lows are only about five or 6 degrees below with the daytime highs are going to be. By the time we get to saturday and sunday. You will see that in one second. Here are thursdays daytime highs. Low to middle 70s. Tomorrow will be warmer than today. We will knock some numbers up for thursday and friday. Here comes the next storm. Saturday second half of the day. We are not going to get too specific on any of this yet. It is still far out. Models are in disagreement. The general idea remains. Second half of saturday through sunday we will have a widespread rain snow maker come to california. There is already a winter storm watch is sierra the focuses from saturday going through sunday. If we look at the rainfall totals. A good way to come away with the generalized idea of what is coming. Ive just put onto the screen the total amount of rain we are likely going to get for saturday. Second half of the day saturday we pick up a quarter of an inch of rain. The best of the storm will come in saturday night through the first half of sunday. Im going to advance this into sunday. Watch the numbers. They will get a bit impressive for rainfall totals. This pushes us to closely half an inch of rain. They areawide. Sunday is the day on here where the rain is a lot more obvious. Whether we are talking about inland bay or kohls. Saturday the showers begin. Second half of the day perhaps. Sunday will be the better focus. By monday we have a lingering opportunity for rain. This storm could linger a bit into early next week. But for right now we are just putting the focus on sunday for the best rain. I didnt talk to you about this era. Stick around we would do that in the next half hour. If you like snow in the mountains you will like this forecast. Why a new lawsuit could leave you with a lot more flexibility in choosing your personalized license plate. 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Our top story we are going inside the fight to slow coronavirus. Wilson walker on whether it will be enough. Reporter when you are past the point of containment your best hope is to slow the fire is down. You might have heard the phrase flattening the curve. This animation explains it nicely. You dont want the virus to spread so quickly that it overwhelms our Healthcare Systems ability to treat you very sick. That is what social distancing is designed to do. Two questions do