Virus. Some of the changes include avoid gatherings of more than 10 people. Avoid eating in restaurants and going to bars. Use delivery and pick up options instead. History date for the wrong reasons. The dow jones seeing the biggest point drop in history losing nearly 3000 points or 13 . The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continues to mount. Is go to heaven live in san jose with the breakdown on what the shelter in place order means. Reporter Health Officials from six counties in the city of berkeley announced the toughest restriction so far in the face of this outbreak. The secondary measures even though they want people to isolate themselves physically for their own safety. They know they will have to find a way for neighbors to help neighbors and communities to help communities to come through this collectively. We decided collectively that we needed to take swift action as soon as possible to prevent the further spread and to protect our Critical Healthcare infrastructure. Reporter they announce the shelter in place order. Restricting all nonessential travel for the next three weeks and shutting down all but the most important businesses. Gas stations bangs and Grocery Stores. Health services will remain open. Grocery stores will remain open. Pharmacies will remain open. Reporter slowing the spread of the virus will require sacrifice. They offer this prescription. Be kind to others. Look for opportunities to help the homeless. The hungry and the hurting during the outbreak. They are afraid. They dont know what to do. They are not sure what information to trust. We want to make sure people are still connected with each other. We do that by doing wellness calls. We are doing a lot more of our work by the phone. Reporter cafeterias helping to organize food pickup and drop off Surgical Services during the order. Homeless advocates are working to ensure homeless men and women have food and access to basic sanitation and Hygiene Services during the outbreak. Im afraid if the coronavirus jumps off in homeless camp it will spread. They dont practice hygiene good hygiene anyway. There is a lot of epidemics along the homeless. Reporter it is perhaps the paradoxical prescription of our time. Separate yourself for your individual safety and yet find some way to come together is a community for collective survival. Just quickly to make it clear it is and locked inside your houses. They want people to get out and take walks to stay away from each other. Reporter that is exactly right. They are not going to there wont be a checkpoint or a Police Officer that is asking you is that trip to the Grocery Store really essential. What they say if they want you to stay in small groups and stay away from folks. If you have to go outside to walk your dog go ahead and do that to stay away from others. If you need to exercise due it away from others. It is those communal gatherings is where the virus spreads from one person to the next. It seems to be the new normal Grocery Stores empty shelves and long lines. We stopped in El Cerrito Natural Grocery and it was packed. Everyone was in a relaxed friendly mood. A lot of the essentials like milk bread pasta and toilet paper were sold out. Safeway is trying to keep up with all of the shopping. It is looking to hire thousands of employees in northern california. They are looking for both in store workers and delivery drivers. There are openings available immediately at safeway vons and pack and save. If youre interested you can apply in the store or on safeways website. Amazon is hiring 100,000 workers to combat the overwhelming search and online orders. To keep up with demand amid coronavirus fears amazon is looking to add to its warehouse and Delivery Teams across the country. It is offering a two dollar wage increase in certain locations. While the Company Works to grow its staff amazon sits expect orders to take longer to ship. It is working with sellers to make sure products remain available. And stop price gouging. Another side effect students will have more time to study for the sat and act. Spring dates for the College Placement tests are being rescheduled or postponed. That is because of the coronavirus. The april 4 act test has been rescheduled for june 13. The may 2 sat is now canceled. High School Seniors may also be allowed to take advanced placement exams to earn College Credit from home. Despite countless closures due to the coronavirus the California State Legislature is still open. Lawmakers have canceled their Committee Hearings to avoid large gatherings. Legislative sessions continue today. This goes against the governments request to lawmakers who are older than 65 are still working from the capital. The virus stricken cruise ship the grand princess left the port of oakland this morning. It moved south past the waterfront. Shortly after 8 am. The ship will anchor somewhere in the bay for the next two weeks. 75 medical workers will be on board to care for more than 300 crewmembers. The ship arrived in oakland last monday carrying 21 people who tested positive for coronavirus. Passengers were removed and transferred to locations around the country for quarantine. Bay area jail to Police Departments are taking steps to manage social distancing as the number of cases have been going up. People were exposed and were immediately isolated so far there are no confirmed coronavirus cases in the jail. Sonoma county is suspending jail visits to protect staff inmates and family members from potential exposure. It applies to the main adult detention facility in the north county detention facility. All in person and noncontact visitations are being suspended as of now. Dealing with quarantine is hard enough. How about doing it in the dark . For one man that is reality. We hear from him coming up. How to beat the shopping frenzy. We get insider tips on the best time and place to get your essentials before the shelves empty out. The Survival Guide during this coronavirus pandemic. Mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. We want to provide perspective and insights as to how top Health Officials are dealing with this outbreak. We are joined by medical producer molly mccray. You are doing with so many are doing working from home via skype and talking with us. So good to see you. I wish it was in person. What are the experts saying about this need for this unprecedented shelter in place for the bay area . We are seeing so many and every single county we are seeing immunity spread. This is before we have done any mass attempt at screening people for covid 19. That means since it is out there in the community we have to shelter in place because we dont want to be Like Northern italy at this point. We want to keep this infection at lower rates. Flapping the curve. That is what we want to do. We dont want to overwhelm our hospitals and our healthcare workers. I think you and i were chatting earlier. It is the responsibility of people who are healthy to stay in. Despair those who may contract the virus. It is our duty to do that. There are a lot of leung people Walking Around the bay area right now or they may be at home watching this broadcast thinking they are healthy and they have nothing to worry about. The point being that you can be asymptomatic and still be carrying the infection. That is why you have to heed and take care of your neighbors and people around you. For everyones sanity what are the guidelines . You can go outside and get fresh air. You just keep that distance. 6 feet is the new normal. Just make sure youve got social distancing around you. If you go out and walk your dog and you want to take lets say your son or daughter with you. Everyone should maintain the 6 feet. Except for the dog of course. Obviously the big question where do we stand on testing . What have you been reading on that so far . We are lucky because we have a lab. We have a company in our backyard who will be producing 1 1 2 million test hopefully within a month. The concern here is there may be issues with supply chain materials. A lot of these tests depend upon equipment and chemicals in order to run them not just everybody is going to be able to demand a test. There will be a triage in terms of who should get precedence. In one big Way Healthcare workers really need to know what they are dealing with when someone comes into their hospital. And needs care. I have a feeling it will be from what i am hearing from the experts those who really have symptoms and they really need to know if this person is covid 19 positive or not. You have been our medical expert and producer so we will be checking with you during these times for sure. Thank you so much. I cant wait to see you in person. Your tahoe one senior is not only dealing with self isolation because of the coronavirus he is doing it in the dark. Been without power since the middle of the night. What pg e is doing to get the lights back on. Reporter im isolating by myself. Reporter daniel and his dog will be seeing much more of each other during the next few weeks. Governor newsom is having seniors which i am one self isolated. Reporter they are also dealing with a power outage. This is my refrigerator. Cant really see what is in there. Because we have no power. Reporter i spoke to him over face time. Not to compromise his health while he self isolates. He is worried for what the outage will mean for other seniors in the foothills. We have been without power for 10 hours. Everyone in this area and on this mountain we all dont have generators. Reporter he has no heat. He said it is a frigid 43 degrees inside his home. When you dont have power and only does your food spoil was seniors can get sick. Reporter pg e is bringing in more crews to work in the area. Weather is making an unprecedented situation even more difficult. We are working to bring extra crews and materials into the area especially while we have the storm situation going on. Reporter he can see the bind utility is and with the weather. I dont really get them a pass on this one because it is just basic emergency planning. Reporter idris elba going to list of celebrities who contracted the virus. The actor tweeting today he has no symptoms so far and has been isolated since friday. When he found out about his possible exposure. The actor urged people to stay home. If you need distraction from the coronavirus frenzy grammy Award Winning artist Donald Glover dropped a surprise album. Features 12 songs including a few previously unreleased tracks like feels like summer an algorithm. Other artists featured include 21 savage and arianna grandy. It is only available on Donald Glover presents. Com. Outage on the latest artist to postpone his tour over coronavirus concerns. The music legends farewell yellow brick road tour was set to begin march 20 619 concert dates through may 2. It will be rescheduled. He said the decision was made considering the safety of fans. The tour will pick up again in Columbia South carolina on may 22. Question we have been asking can my pets get sick with the virus . You need to know to keep your pets safe during the outbreak. The best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. During this pandemic there are a lot of questions about how the virus can affect pets. Multiple Health Organizations have stated domestic pets and animals are not at risk for contracting covid 19. They can carry it on there for. However the American Veterinary Medical Association said it is unlikely a person would contract the virus pipetting or playing with pets. Still they say it is important to practice good hygiene and use common sense. You might want to figure out our attendance its like walking your dog on a different route that is in populated with so many people. Alternatives. Reporter they advise people who have contracted the Novel Coronavirus to limit interactions with the pets out of an abundance of caution. Cincinnati zoo is closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The good news you can still see your favorite hippo fiona online. The twoyearold celebrity hippo is kicking off a series of live streams from the ohio soup. The home safari facebook live. This is that the lifestream will include fun and educational activities for kids. So much of the other news is just getting worse and worse. The rainfall deficit. We are still not caught up at this point in the year. Running at about 50 around the bay itself. Further inland significant below 50 in the season. Over an inch of rain fell over the weekend in livermore and san jose. Wringing the numbers up. More rain in the forecast heading into next weekend. More rain falling in parts of the area right now. Some of the heaviest rain falling in Santa Clara County. Heavier downpours moving from west to east will make traffic a little bit more complicated. Traffic volume has been severely reduced by the fact so many are working from home. Heavier downpour about to move into san jose. Otherwise around the bay not a lot happening right now. The other showers are further north. Northern sonoma county. This activity will be falling apart through the evening. Trying to make their way on shore. Largely those are going to fall apart after the sun goes down this evening. It is still snowing in the sierra. Close to another foot of snow in the high sierra for the rest of tonight. Our additional rain chances we cannot rule out the possibility of showers tomorrow. They will be hit or miss. 20 to 30 category. Keep the umbrella handy but you wont need it everywhere all the time. There will be some sunshine breaking to the clouds the potential for some showers on wednesday. Wednesday is the point at which we drop rain chances down to 10 to 20 . That is where they will stay thursday and friday. A dryer forecast wednesday thursday and friday. As rain chances go down temperatures will go up at least close to what is normal for this time of year. By the time friday and saturday rolled around thursday is looking drive. We will keep you look at the latest trends i cannot rule out the possibility of a passing shower may be a couple sprinkles. The storm system causing this is gradually going to weaken as a spends array off the coast great look from clubhouse. The camera seems to be frozen. Temperatures only made it up to the low to low 50s across the board today. 10 degrees below average. We will improve on this tomorrow. It will be a slow process to warm things up. We will be chilly overnight. A lot of locations further inland would drop to the middle to upper 30s. Multiple 40s around the bay and near the coast. Temperatures climb a little more compared to today. Running 5 to 10 degrees below average for this time of year. Average high temperatures low to middle 60s. It wont approach that level until friday or saturday. Talking about temperatures mostly in the middle to upper 50s for highs. Upper 50s east bay. 50s around the bay itself. Cooler further to the north. High temperatures only in the upper 40s once again around lake county. The snowmachine incident the sierra should shut down the next 24 hours. Temperatures go up as we head to the next several days. What is typical for this time of year by friday and saturday. The next round of rain moved in. By saturday night it will stick around sunday and monday. Officials asked the public to stay away from seniors but how social isolation could be just as deadly. Yes some shelves might be empty but calm down. There is plenty of food for everybody. We have Public Health challenges at this point. I dont think we are in a starvation scenario. Life as we know it about to change drastically. How you can prepare for at least the next three weeks sheltered in place. And berkeley were one local iconic restaurant has had a dramatic reduction in business. They may have found a way to keep their heads above water. That story coming up. Small businesses are feeling the impact from the coronavirus. Some more are having to get creative to keep their doors open. Don ford reports from berkeley. Reporter restaurant and jewish delicatessen is an iconic small business. They have seen a dramatic drop in customers. However they may have found a way to keep the doors open. Sals restaurant in delhi is one of the most popular restaurants in berkeley. It is normally busy often with a waiting line to get in. This week is different. The dining room is closed. Staff is reduced to a skeleton crew. However take out and curb service is still open. We essentially had to lay off 70 of the crew now. Reporter the coowner said he is just breaking even no profit. Trying to keep expenses down during this time. He is not sure how long the restaurant can go on like this. Trying to match whatever sales we can garner and that the Community Needs from us. Menstrual sales with our labor cost to try to remain at least viable for a few weeks. Reporter many berkeley businesses are struggling. Some will not survive. Loyal customers are doing what they can to help. We drove by and saw the giant signs open for takeout only. We swung by and decided to take lunch home. This is like living in a war zone. We are standing in line and we cannot go places we want to go. We have to follow government instructions. As americans we are not used to this. Reporter some orders are coming in by phone but most are coming in via online. People who live in military have felt curfews before reporter this is a whole different order. Reporter that is it for the news at 5 pm. The news at 6 pm begins right now. Historic order in the bay area nearly 7 Million People asked to stay home. Starting tonight at midnight. How life as we know it will dramatically change overnight. Making sure kids get fed at school shut down. The first task for programs around the bay area. In the east bay. Health officials are saying we should keep our distance from elderly people. Prior some the loneliness may be deadly as the disease itself. Streaming on cbsn bay area the dramatic shelter in place order for six counties in the bay area. Good evening. Life as we know it will change drastically once midnight strikes. Here is what will stay open and what will shut down. Grocery Stores Pharmacies banks gas Stations Police and fire stations Public Transit and sanitation will all remain open. Bars and gems will close at midnight. Restaurants will move to take out and delivery only. Some coffee shops will switch to grab your order in goal. The order impacts more than 6. 7 Million People. It goes into effect at midnight tonight. We have seen coverage on this historic mandate. Lets start with evan live in san jose. Reporter Santa Clara County recently announced they have had two more deaths from coronavirus and sadly we have become accustomed to county Health Officials announcing a new case or death or new restrictions. At this meeting they had at the Sheriffs Office earlier today was different. Public Health Officials in six different counties and the city of berkeley all in the same room acknowledging this virus doesnt recognize imaginary a m it is a regional problem. As such requires a regional y