Reporter for younger travelers like josie although sales of deeply discounted fares attempting. What you say to people who say traveling right now even at your age is is responsible . Irresponsible. I couldnt disagree. You dont know what is going on. It could hurt someone who is older if you spread it. I think it is probably safer to stay home. Reporter the ancient employees we talked to today said it has been the same sort of slowness for the past couple weeks. They expected to drop off the cliff tomorrow the european travel ban goes into effect. No brackets no buzzer beaters cinderella stories gone. Ncaa has canceled march madness. A week before the mens and Womens College tournaments were set to begin. Stanford has suspended all athletics until further notice. Adding to a rapidly growing list of sideline sporting events. Andrea live at chase center in San Francisco with no gain. Reporter no game there should have been a game against the Brooklyn Nets tonight. Kevin durant was supposed to be on the sideline. His return back to the bay area after leaving the warriors. None of that is happening. Im outside the chase center and it is empty. Like this and many other locations throughout San Francisco. Outside the bill graham Civic Auditorium the marquee read to stay safe and healthy. Be back soon. The latest director from California Governor Gavin Newsom to reduce the size of public gatherings. That is Broad Strokes with the executive order lies the directive on social gatherings. In excess are not essential events 250 more. Reporter that contains the mean sporting events will be on hiatus. Especially after yesterdays dramatic suspension of the nba season. Bob dorfman creative director at baker street advertising and a Sports Marketing analyst said the nbas decision likely gave other leagues like the mlb cover to do the same. I think they had to make that move. It was probably a wise move. At that point youve got to get the other commissioners to get involved and do something similar. Reporter the production of harry potter and the curse child is shut down to the end of the month. After producers try to reduce the viewings of the musical to 1000 people. Events at the regency ballroom shutdown. Outside 500 person venue the independent on the tour bus from glass animal sits. The show wont go on tonight. Or until april 1. I do see how it is a real big concern. Im concerned about it too. I think it is a good thing. Who knows when it is going to stop. It depends when it ends. If it is just two weeks what does that really cover . Reporter one thing that is still on jury duty. Deemed an essential Service People still have to report potential jurors are being asked about their health. Before entering Holding Rooms and Service Dates are rescheduled if they are sick. In San Francisco the largest jury holding room seats about 185 which puts it below the order by governor gavin newsom of course. If the court system get shut off during all of this canceled as well. Jury duty obviously would be canceled as well. Santa clara county announced 18 new cases of coronavirus this afternoon. Bringing its total to 66. There are now 20 cases in san mateo county. 18 in San Francisco. 17 contra costa. Seven in alameda county. Live in San Francisco where the School District has made really the big decision in the last couple hours here. They are shutting the system down. Our schools are going to close for three weeks. We are going to reset schools for all students prek through 12. Effective monday, march 16. This is not business as usual. Reporter a twoweek closure plus for spring break and is a threeweek shutdown for San Francisco schools. That might be the start of it. The district said it is drawing up plans for a longer coronavirus disruption. We need the time to plan prepare and train staff on how to operate schools during this epidemic. Reporter wishing for the closure teacher and staff unions along with elected officials at city hall. If there was somebody who was affected the virus it was spread quickly in a school. Lets take a top a couple of weeks where we dont have school. Lets figure out what we need to do next. We do deem that schools are essential. Not nonessential. Reporter districtwide closures is something the governor has a rise against noting that many students depend on school for food while many parents depend on school for childcare. Emergency room doctor nurse Nurse Practitioner and you have kids you have no capacity to have those kids at home without your own presence being there. We will be setting up ways to continue to provide meals for our students who rely on them. We are considering what if any Childcare Options we can extend to families during this unplanned closure. Reporter officials admit they do not have all of those answers for parents this evening. They say is school by School Closure strategy will be impossible if new cases keep popping up. Instead of doing reactive school by School Closures we are going to focus the next three weeks on how we can provide essential supports are for our community in this new reality. Reporter in the last 15 minutes we have had another announcement. The west contra costa unified School District will shut down for the exact same period of time. Starting monday running for three weeks. We were there earlier hearing from teachers who are wondering why they had not shut down yet. They were concerned about the hardship it will cause for that community. Now it is upon them. We will learn more about that. Back to San Francisco a lot of this driven by the cases that came out of lakeshore elementary. A couple students and family members reporting and respiratory illness. Those appear to be coronavirus cases although they are not confirmed yet. That push them in the direction of we cant just chase the school to school as the districtwide decision. A lot of parents scrambling to make plans now. We are live in San Francisco. Beginning tomorrow all city meetings programs classes in lafayette have been canceled to the end of the month. Over coronavirus concerns. Events and cityowned facilities are off the table. Programsill be operating through next wednesday. Santa clara county is making it easier to make Traffic Court payments over the phone. Instead of having to do it in person. The superior court expended their phone processing hours beginning today. Bart is taking a hit thanks to the coronavirus. Ridership was down 35 as of yesterday. One director said the Transit Agency is on track to lose 3. 5 million per week. Bart is calling on local state and federal sources for emergency aid. Princess cruises is suspending all operations for the next nthscontinues to offlo coronavirus stricken ship that is still docked at the port of oakland. As of this afternoon 2042 people have disembarked the grand princess. The few hundred that are still on board include foreigners awaiting travel arrangements. The ship is expected to leave sunday with its quarantined crew on board. It is unclear where it will go next. A drivethrough test for the coronavirus. You cant just randomly show up. I will explain the process. Delivery services adding another feature to help keep customers and workers safe during the coronavirus outbreak. Here is our new chief meteorologist. Pretty nice weather across most of the area today after the morning fog dissipated. Around the coast mac still a lot of clouds in the fog is trying to roll back in. We will talk about how thick it will be tomorrow morning and take a look at a rainy weekend coming up. 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[car[clicking of ignition]rt] uh wha woof eeh woof wuh [silence] [engine roars to life] [dog howls] dramatic opera music swells from radio [howling continues] Health Experts believe the number of confirmed covid19 cases will rise as testing becomes more prevalent. One San Francisco hospital set up a drivethrough testing site. Reporter im on the sidewalk about 40 feet away from that test that is where people have been driving to get tested. People can just randomly drive up it is set up in the parking lot. Health officials want to keep the sick patients away from the building and the people inside. Kaiser Officials Say the patients have gone through three layers of screening before coming here. First the nurse. Then the primary doctor. Finally a specialist. That is how they get an appointment for this drive through test. It is a quick process where a nurse takes a nasal swab while the patient stays in the car. The results should come back in a week. Especially if youre older than 65. Especially if you have underlying medical issues already. Reporter she is not affiliated with collies are. Here are the symptoms to watch out for. It is hard to distinguish from the flu. But shortness of breath is not seen that often and the flu. Or allergies of the common cold. If you are having fever cough and shortness of breath you need to contact your provider. Reporter assault five patients getting the test within a two hour span. Neighbors walking by for the most part are supportive. It sounds like a good idea. A couple levels of screening and have them outside so it doesnt get into the hospital. That is scary. People are going through there. At the same time it is scary. Reporter doctors turned away people who randomly drove up for a test. This is a free service for kaiser members and only after they have gone through screening. Food delivery platforms are rolling outweighs fees to get your order without having contact with the driver. Post mates introduced dropoff options including leave it at the door or meet the customer outside. Door dash grub hub in uber eats allow users to send a picture of where to leave the food at the door. Will be releases being pushed back has theaters in some countries are shutting down due to the coronavirus. Fast and furious nine is being delayed to april 2021. A quiet place part two delayed indefinitely. Peter rabbit 2 pushed back to august. The new james bond movie no time to die is delayed until at least november. We have a whole section dedicated to developing details on the coronavirus. You can find it on kpix. Com. We would like to welcome our new chief meteorologist to kpix 5. Paul haggin. I picked a different week to start working in the newsroom. Watching everyone run around behind the scenes. My head down. Welcome to california. Dont touch anything but welcome. We will maintain our social distance. Have your Hand Sanitizer on you at all time. Nice weather for one more day. Then things will take a turn for the rainy into the weekend. Not ideal for weekend plans but we need the rain. Quite a bit of fog rolling in as we look westward toward sutro tower. That will thicken through the rest of tonight. Current temperatures right now 73 degrees in concorde. 66 oakland. 55 degrees in the city right now. The influence of the onshore flow evident in the current temperatures. 70 in san jose. Inland locations reached a 70s today. Around the city stuck in the low 60s. For the next couple days partly cloudy skies tonight. Some coastal bay fog we see that already. Another nice day tomorrow. Clouds and sunshine that is warm but pretty close to if not above average. The rain returns into the weekend. Low temperatures tonight not going to be bad. Not as warm but still fine for the middle of march. Middle to upper 40s in most locations. We will warm up into the 60s at least. Some spots touching 70 degrees. What the onshore flow right around 60 right along the coast. Low 60s around the bay. You warm up closer to 70 as you had further inland. The next storm system way up to the north. It has some time before it drops towards us. , whether for tonight and tomorrow. The storm system off to the south will continue kicking to the east. The next one drop in the north will give us a chance of rain showers into the weekend. Often on activity through saturday. It is not going to rain everywhere all the time. Her widespread rain will be heading our way heading into saturday night. That will be with us throughout the day sunday. Even then sunday it is not going to rain everywhere all the time. Very flexible if any outdoor plans for the weekend. We will see the rain continues to move in. Adding up to the weekend to a half an inch to inch of total rainfall. The weather pattern will continue monday and tuesday. Wednesday talking about an inch and a half to two inches of total rainfall across the area. Which is going to help to eat away at the deficit. Temperatures will take a big dip down into the 50s for highs heading to the weekend. It will be cold enough for snow and lots of it in the sierra. Something we will talk about more coming up at 7 pm. Nice job welcome to the big five. This is my bracket. It is busted before i ever fielded out. There wont be any moments for any sports in the near future. We will tip it off next. The ncaa tournament is College Basketballs biggest stage and biggest moneymaker. Just about all the other major sports it has been sidelined. The ncaa canceled both mens and womens tournaments which were scheduled to begin next week. They will not reschedule it for a later date. That announcement came just a few hours after 15 different conferences canceled their respective tournaments this weekend. Majorleague baseball suspending true spring training games will push back the start of the regular season at least two weeks which would be read april. The giants and as will remain in arizona to work out. The nhl and Major League Soccer are both suspending play. Stanford is canceling all their spring sports. The High School Basketball state title games scheduled for this weekend have been canceled. The nba announced last night they are suspending their season indefinitely. Utah Jazz Center Rudy tested positive for the virus on wednesday. That meant all of his teammates had to be tested. And quarantine last night in the locker room. Today was announced allstar guard Donovan Mitchell also has the coronavirus. He posted to instagram this afternoon i would like to publicly apologize to the people i may have endangered. I had no idea i was even infected. I was careless and make no excuse. I hope my story serves as a warning and causes everybody to take this seriously. Cavaliers big man kevin love is donating 100,000 of his own money to help arena Staff Members in cleveland that are out of work as a result of this suspension. The commissioner said tonight that the hiatus will last at least 30 days. Openinground players championship played as scheduled but they will play without the fans beginning tomorrow. Some actual highlights permit a 63 to tie a course record is sawgrass he has a twostroke lead. I got excited to talk about a highlight. What sport is not impacted by the virus. Fishing. Our catch of the day goes to gillian who pulled in the six pound trout a contra loma reservoir. Her 95yearold grandfather is feeling a bit under the weather. Feel better. And we hope this picture of jillian brings a little smile to your face. That is a beautiful fish. If you think you can do better send your fishing pictures to the catch of the day a kpix. Com. Little secret. I know this for a fact. Tomorrow will be the best bass fishing day of the year. It is a full moon tomorrow night. There is a storm coming in. As paul continue tell you on saturday. A lot of science for a sports guy. Tonight on the evening news new travel restrictions cause confusion if it seems like life in america is grinding to a halt you are not the only one. When things will return to normal. We talked to one of the countrys top doctors tonight on the evening news. The news continue streaming right now. Cbs evening news is next. Captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell breaking news tonight, america shuts down. A new reality sets in with the coronavirus crisis. The National Guard moving in, handing out food and cleaning public spaces as more schools and businesses close. Americas top Infectious Disease doctor calling the slow testing a failing system. Financial freefall. On wall street, the dow plunges more than 2,300 points, a 10 drop, the worst since the crash of 87. Tonight the questions are we heading into a recession . Game over. College basketballs march madness canceled as professional and College Sports teams delay or end their seasons. Plus disneyland closing on