We are on the curve right now and do we know where we are going . Hindsight is 20 20. We never know where we are on the curve until after it has been drawn. Reporter an Infectious Disease expert at Stanford University said making any prediction about how the virus will spread in the u. S. Is difficult. Because we are actually watching several different outbreaks at once. In new rochelle new york we know that is a very specific kind of outbreak. We get may be patterned that one. That has nothing to do with what is happening in seattle or santa clara or any other place. It is really hard to scale up a model that would take into account all the different scenarios across the country. Reporter she said italy makes for a problematic comparison with the united states. While our country has lagged in testing there is encouraging evidence at our hospitals. Even with lack of testing will probably be noticing lots more people that are sick. Reporter we have not seen a dramatic or overwhelming surge of very sick patients. That means social distancing and the other steps we are taking could be putting the brakes on the virus at least enough to keep that curve down. We know from looking at epidemic curves Going Forward 3 to 4 days of intervention can make a dent big difference between a flattened epidemic and a peak one. We will be able to limit the spread i just dont know where it will start. Reporter there are the unknowns from. How many people are sick right now and simply dont know it and how does that revealed itself in 10 days . That is the uncertainty we are all living with. And will for the next several weeks. Testing of covid19 is ramping up at stanford. Experts say rapid identification of infected people could help limit the spread of the virus. We are testing at stanford and we have a reasonable capacity to do testing. We are testing for specific Health Facilities we are working with now. We can scale up are hoping to scale up next week to increase our capacity for testing with collaborators that we have. Stanford began testing on march 2. Doctors and researchers also have strict criteria on who should be tested. They say not everyone who would like to know whether they have coronavirus should be tested. State and local jurisdictions are getting a funding boost to keep the virus at bay. A large chunk of the money is coming to california. The cdc will give california an additional 47 million on top of the previous funding. That is out of the total 560 million nationwide. This is all part of the eight billion dollar that was approved by congress and President Trump last week to help stop the spread of virus. Companies are updated their paid sick leave policies because of the outbreak. Mcdonalds corporate owned restaurants will pay employees if they are quarantined up to 14 days. Walmart and sams club will provide at least two weeks pay for an infected employee with an additional 26 weeks if possible. Uber will compensate its drivers for 14 days. Wilson talked about how this might be working but the practice of social distancing is taking a severe toll on groups that count on help from the public. John ray most on how the virus is causing a volunteer shortage. Reporter organizations that provide some of the most Vital Services in society also rely on public tierrasanta work. They are finding the socalled abundance of caution is causing a shortage of help. Deliveries to the food bank of contra costa solano arrive in bulk form. Someone has to sort and box up the food for distribution and that is where the volunteers come in. Companies organize work parties for their employees to help the food bank. Where at least they did before the coronavirus arrived. The bigger groups that are like it his come down from their Corporate Office not to do any big Group Activities or whatever. They dont take the risk to come here. Reporter this morning to more companies canceled their help for next week. The volunteers do the equivalent work of 50 employees. They are vital to the operation. Otherwise there are relatively few people here. Development director kim doesnt get what the risk is supposed to be. There are no people here. There are no clients here. Nobody is here but that group and the food. Im not real im not understanding. We know they are calling in their canceling. Reporter the same thing at bay area blood banks. The Donation Center in San Francisco is in creating mass gatherings. Still they have seen donations dropped 20 in just the last week. Here too it is the companies doing the canceling. The cancellation of blood drives to make a large impact on the regions blood supply. Those are 40 units or 40 donors come in at a pop. 25 donors at a pop. Reporter the fear doesnt seem to make much sense. We take the entire operation to them so it is within. Reporter they will be the environment they are in every day anyway. Precisely. Reporter it would be funny if it wasnt serious. The normal stockpile of four days worth of blood is now down to less than two. Here at the food bank they say if you thought about donating cash this might be a good time. They may need the money to hire people to make up for the loss volunteers. Lets go over some information on symptoms and risk factors. The cdc recommends seeking medical help if you develop a fever cough and shortness of breath. The most obvious risk factors are coming in contact with someone who has coronavirus. Were visiting an area where there has been an ongoing spread. Desk girlfriend of a legendary boxer found it. The exgirlfriend. The investigation into the mother of Floyd Mayweathers children. Time is up for Harvey Weinstein. A judge hands down a hefty sentence for the disgraced movie mogul. Coming up President Trump said to address the nation in the next half hour. How the administrations game plan contained the coronavirus now involves a special strategy with Santa Clara County. The live news that we are following a developing story overseas where two americans and one British National were killed in a rocket attack on in iraq he military base in iraq. This happened in the stodgy district north of baghdad. U. S. Central command is telling cnn the two servicemembers and one coalition servicemember were killed in that attack. Cnn is reporting there is reason to believe iranian backed fighters or irans revolutionary guard were behind that attack. 12 others were also wounded in that attack. That is the latest from the live news desk. In Southern California and investigation is underway into the mysterious death of a woman who is also the mother of Floyd Mayweathers three children. 40yearold josie harris was found unresponsive at her home in the lynch up. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death is under investigation. In 20 twin mayweather was convicted of attacking her in served two months for the Domestic Violence incident. A sanity trial began in Alameda County after John Lee Cowell was convicted of firstdegree murder in the 2018 killing at a bart station. He is now facing life in prison. He could serve his sentence at a Mental Health institution. He was found guilty yesterday a stabbing wilson to death at the Macarthur Bart station in oakland. Wilson sister survived the stabbing. Prison sentence for hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. He finally learned his fate in the right case to launch the me to move in. Harvey weinsteins former victim smiled as they walked out of court after he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Two gave emotional victim impact statements during the hearing. At least to begin to understand what he has done. Whether he will ever be truly sorry i dont know. Reporter his Defense Attorneys ask for the lightest sentence of five years. After he was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on an assistant haley in 2006. And aspiring actress jessica mann in 2013. They cited the soon to be 68 yearold age and frail health. Weinstein used a walker during the trial and had a stent inserted for a blocked artery. Death sentence that was handed down by the court was obscene. That number was obnoxious. There are murderers who will get out of court faster than Harvey Weinstein will. Reporter at his trial last month he was found guilty of two counts of criminal sex acts. He was acquitted of three other charges. Weinstein had maintained all Sexual Activity was consensual. He said in court he feels remorse and he is trying to be a better person. Weinstein faces additional charges in california. Unsealed documents show he asked for help from amazon founder and former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg as those accusations started mounting back in 2017. There is no evidence either of them responded. The largest resort operators in las vegas making a major move to protect people against coronavirus. Mgm resorts is closing the pathways at all Casino Resorts on the strip. The closure starts on sunday. The faith. They will really be evaluate every week. The policy affects seven properties. Bellagio mgm grand mandalay bay the mirage luxor and the excalibur. More of us are staying home we want to know what the weather will be coming up. Very different for the weekend. Sunny and 70 weve gotten used to. Im about to show you the possibility for light snow coming to the hills around the south bay by the end of the weekend. Big change. It will happen fast. Since we are not there yet lets talk about today and tomorrow first. And friday for that matter. Friday will be just as nice as today and tomorrow. Today we made it up to 73 for the daytime high in santa rosa. 71 redwood city. 73 san jose. Im going to take the numbers to show you with the next two days we look like for the representative spots. Spread across the bay area. Still a lot of middle 70s tomorrow. Low 70s friday. San jose 74 thursday. 71 friday. What we are going to do is add in the saturday difference and look how we drop. We will go from 71 friday. Santa rosa. 55 on saturday. Look at san jose. We go from 71 friday to 61. Oakland will go down to the upper 50s. San francisco it is going to be noticeably colder for everybody. Here are your morning lows tomorrow. We go back down to the upper 40s. Another really nice start to the day. Relatively warm overnight. For the daytime highs tomorrow we are going back to the low to middle 70s. A couple ways i want to show the change. The best way to do this is just to show you how the rainfall will add up across the bay area into the weekend. This is saturday morning. It hasnt started raining by that point. By the time we get to the second half of saturday and the timing will adjust a little bit. The start of this does look to be saturday second half of the day. Late morning early afternoon perhaps. We start to see the showers begin. We pick up a modest array amount of rainfall through saturday. The better part of the rent gets you. From saturday night through sunday. The totals go noticeably higher. We are looking at close to 6 10 of an inch of rain or maybe more. While there is a chance of rain on both days saturday and sunday. The best rain is coming through on sunday. More widespread and heavier. Old days have a chance of rain. We talked about that. Im going to switch the view and we will look at where snow will accumulate. Weve gotten to sunday night watch the time from sunday night going into overnight hours to monday morning. We pulled in enough cold air. There is enough showers falling you get a light dusting of snow on mt. Hamilton. That will be Something Interesting to watch. The real significant snow coming to the sierra. The good news there is a winter storm watch in place for the mountains. It starts saturday morning and goes until monday morning. The entire weekend. Lets come in for details on this. Snow levels get low here. We will see snow falling as low as 2500 feet. Travelers need to pay attention. You get up above 3000 feet saturday and sunday and youre driving on 80 or 50 you will be dealing with snow. We could see perhaps as much as 3 to 4 feet for some of the higher elevations. The timing on the snow and the sierra will be similar to the rain in the bay area. It will snow starting saturday. It is really saturday night into sunday morning the coldest air surges in. The snow totals get the highest. It might not be the best we can to travel in the mountains. It might not be the most fun skiing. If you didnt go early next week. Monday and tuesday look great for that. The seven day forecast sunday is the spotlight for the rain. Saturday has some as well. Early next week there is a chance we still have scattered showers left over as we get into early next week. The changes coming. Coming up the south bay woman may be 100 years old. But it doesnt stop her from working tirelessly to keep her communitys history alive. We hear from our latest jefferson awwier. Breaking news from Oklahoma City were an nba game between the utah jazz and thunder have been postponed. Fans were just taking their seats in the arena. The reason given for the last minute decision but we will keep you posted. I 100 years young a woman continues to make volunteerism a big part of her life. This weeks jefferson award winner. Reporter mary hidalgo has seen many changes in sunnyvales landscape. She volunteered as a docent for 39 years. It is better than sitting at home worrying about your pains and aches. And you meet a lot of Beautiful People here. Reporter she leads tour at the Historical Society heritage part museum. In one photo she is a teenager picking and canning fruits in the depression years before marrying at age 18. Using volunteer director Laura Babcock calls mary living history. She has lifted from childhood on. She doesnt just tell you about orchard days. She tells you about her experiences. Reporter at the Museum Friends or relatives recently celebrated her 100th birthday and her giving spirit. She also logged more than 20,000 hours over 16 years volunteering at the va hospital. But she stopped when she quit voluntrs at thamerican legion auxiliary. She serves on the citys Senior Citizens and Advisory Board and donates time at the computer lab. An inspiration to museum volunteer johan. Most people my age dont have the time nor the to do it anymore. I think it is just jeans. I dont know what else could do it. Reporter a curiosity for hearts and humor keep her young. Her curiosity thankful heart and humor. So for her decades of volunteer service in sunnyvale this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to mary hidalgo. Mary and her late husband were married for 42 years. They have five kids and 12 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. She calls and she text them to keep in touch. She is quite the woman. If you want to nominate a local hero for the jefferson award you can always head to kpix. Com hero. We are just minutes away from President Trump addressing the nation. A live look at the white house. The president expected to lay out a federal plan on how to slow the spread of the coronavirus especially in cities most impacted. A new coronavirus social etiquette. How behavior has changed when interacting with other people. Products you may have heard the name before have quadrupled their output of Hand Sanitizer. Their story coming up. Since the coronavirus outbreak and ramped up the Hand Sanitizer has been hard to find. Don ford found a Bay Area Company straining to keep up with demand. Reporter the demand for Hand Sanitizer is so great right now el products in san rafael has had to quadrupled their output. More than half 1 million bottles of Hand Sanitizer are being produced here every day. That is four times the normal output. The president said he believes sales will remain strong for quite a while. From february to march we have seen that quadrupled. We are up 1300 since late february to march. Have you seen the growth . That steep before . Is a super spike. Reporter they come in several fragrances combined with essential oil blends and of course two thirds ethanol alcohol jail. Another product in big demand is there hand soap. Soap the company said is almost as popular as their sanitizer. Maya said they expect production to double again and the next few weeks. We ramped up production four times. In the next several weeks we expect to increase output another four times. Reporter eo stands for essential oils founded 25 years ago selling soaps and body wash. It is a privately held company and the president said the company is keenly aware of his position during the coronavirus outbreak. We are donating through Community Programs we are making it available to at a discount. We are also increasing our production. Reporter if all goes well in a few weeks the eo Company Might have an output of nearly 2 million bottles a day. 2 million bottles per day. Moisturizer will be next. We are driving our hands out. That will do it for the news at 5 pm. Right now and streaming on cbsn bay area the president s plan to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Good evening. A live look ghthe houswhe t president is about to address the nation on the coronavirus. He tweeted he is fully prepared to use the full power of the federal government to deal with the outbreak. We are expecting him to lay out specifics of the plan. San Francisco Mayor london breed announce all gatherings over 1000 people are banned for at least two weeks. The city of oakland also put out the same order a short time ago. In the south bay Union Representative said another 42 tsa agents at san jose monetta International Airport are on paid leave after three of their coworkers tested positive for the coronavirus. The all worked in terminal b on the evening shift. The spread in Santa Clara County has become so concerning the white houses involvement the federal task force recommended a 30 day Mitigation Strategy within the county to slow the virus this includes canceling large events with crowds of 250 people or more. Canceling nonessential work travel. And have regular Health Checks for staff and visitors. Chopper 5 over the grand princess cruise ship that is still docked in oakland. At last count more than 1000 passengers have disembarked the ship. Officials announced today that some americans will be relocated to a hotel in karlos to be quarantined for two weeks. These are people who are displaying mild symptoms but do not require hospitalization. Other passengers are being quarantined at Travis Air Force base. And other impact today march madness the ncaa announced the upcoming mens and Womens Basketball tournaments will be played with only essential staff and limited family attendance. That means no public fans will be allowed to attend. The decision came hours after the golden state warriors. Lets send it over to cbs news. We are waiting for the president to address
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