A number of our cases are hospitalized and some requiring incidents of care. Reporter doctor sarah kodi chief Health Officer for Santa Clara County. The epicenter in the bay area. Without the shelter in place order the situation was on the verge of spiraling out of control. With an influx of new cases overwhelming hospitals doctors and nurses across the bay area. 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 shelter in place order goes into effect midnight on monday and last for three weeks. Restricting nonessential travel and shuttering all but the most important businesses. Hospitals pharmacies Grocery Stores gas stations and banks. It will be up to the police to enforce the lockdown at exactly how is still being worked out. Are Police Department is not going to be out there enforcing at midnight. Tonight. It is going to take some time. Reporter san jose mayor said local governments are considering measures to ease shortages of food. Hygiene products and cleaning supplies. There has been a lot of fear that his driven Consumer Behavior that is not helpful. You want to assure everyone that all the food Delivery Systems that we relied on every day and have relied on for decades will continue to be in place. Reporter cities and counties are correlating with local charities to make sure seniors and other struggling individuals and families have access to food. In the face of an ever tightening lockdown. For now this is a legally binding order. It leans on the compliance of individuals. For now there wont be checkpoints with Police Officers asking you if that trip to the Grocery Store or the gas station really is essential. The basic idea is fewer people you come into contact with the fewer people that can get you sick. If you are sick that you can infect. Andrea joins us now from San Francisco. The mayor said today are behaviors need to change to stop the coronavirus spread. Reporter she specifically wants people like every other leader in Public Health official in the bay area to stay inside. She said now is the time we are at a critical moment right now. She wants people to distance themselves from everyone else. And for people to take heed of this message. Until april 7 Public Health officials around the bay area one people to stay home and try to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Part of what we are also seeing is definitely a change in behavior. A change in what people do in our everyday lives. Many are calling this the new normal. It is the new normal temporarily in an effort to protect Public Health. One of the chief goals is preventing cases of covid 19 in Senior Citizens who are particularly susceptible to the disease. I want our seniors in particular and people most vulnerable to take this seriously. We can give orders. If you dont follow it it is useless. You all must do your part. We all must do our part. Reporter sidewall crowds in San Francisco were much dinner after the order. Also store shelves as people rushed to feel fridges the mayor said that is not necessary. Grocery stores will remain open. The gas nsatioremast ll openwi the pharmacies will remain open. There is no need to rush out to do things at these particular locations because they will be available to you. Reporter there are ways to relieve cabin fever is long as this social distancing practices are maintained. These folks at fort mason. You will still be able to walk your dog. Or go hike alone. Or with someone you live with. Or even with another person. As long as you keep 6 feet between you. Reporter the shelter in place order last until april 7. It could be rolled back earlier. If it is proven to be effective in stopping that curve of coronavirus cases in the bay area. It could be extended longer if it is not proven to be quite effective enough. Healthcare workers need a break. Coming up new tonight news at 7 pm we will take a closer look about what this means for bart and muni and sfpd. What you can expect to see in the streets as this takes effect at midnight. We know schools are closed throughout the bay area but School Kitchens were open today. Free meals were handed out today to thousands of kids. All 11 schools in the east Side Union HighSchool District in san jose provided bag lunches for students. Not just students from schools provided free meals to needy members in the community. West Oakland Middle School provided food bags to Senior Citizens. San jose school say they might have to reduce the number of locations because of the shelter in place order. Health Officials Say seniors are a High Risk Group for the virus. That is another reason for social distancing. Some are warning that too much isolation could be harmful as well. John ramose has the story. Reporter we are trying to get used to this social distancing. What if youre older and you dont have a lot of friends around . The only people you do know are being told not to come around you. Fruitvale village is eerily quiet as people hide in their homes from the unseen menace of coronavirus. The Senior Center here is closed food placed on the table for those in need. For some the human contact is as important as the food itself. Where they are lonely that is where we really worry about increased risk of depression and unfortunately suicide is also a concern. Older adults have high suicide rates. Reporter elderly people especially those in their 80s can be mentally harmed if deprived of basic social interaction. She is worried that isolating them to protect their lives they make them stop caring about living at all. I think we are just at the precipice of trying to figure out how to avoid those great consequences that come with isolation. The challenge is nobody knows how long this is going to last. Reporter in orinda the library is closed it is more than just a library to bruce bell. That is what i did on my bike. I road to these libraries. That sort of outlet is gone. I dont know what im going to do. Reporter in orinda is seniors around town is used to offer rise to seniors for everyday tasks. With mandates coming down from bay area counties to shelter in place the volunteers may still be able to deliver essentials but without the interaction their clients so desperately crave. The laughing and crying that we do. We are friends with him. They trust us. They know they can depend on us not just to get a ride but be there for them. Going forward if this continues we need to have some way that we can interact with those seniors. Reporter it may not be business as usual for these volunteer groups the policymakers are reaching out to them for their expertise in dealing with this vulnerable population. The Mental Health association of San Francisco has a hotline set up for people feeling anxious or depressed about the coronavirus. It is called the warm line. It is available 24 7. Hotline number is 1855845 7415. You can go to their website. Mental health sf. Ort to chat online. Still ahead a longawaited murder trial in oakland cut short due to the coronavirus. Why a judge dismissed the jury in the case of a deadly stabbing on a bart platform. Yes some shelves might be empty but calmed 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. Parts of the bay area salsa shine. Finally peeking through the clouds. Heavier downpours over Santa Clara County some heavy rain in san jose. We tracked the evenings rain and talk about the rain chances later in the week coming up. Wild thing, you make my heart sing. You make everything. Groovy. Done yet . Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry. You sure . Hmm. Mmm. 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Repothe stores hia wholhost all of the day l 11 sp to stock ndan methmy ch of getting what i need. The take away is the early bird gets the toilet paper. First and foremost toilet paper and paper towels. An employee at the target on hillsdale avenue in West San Jose told me they get shipments every night. If youre in line at 7 am an hour before they open at 8 am there is a good chance you will get it. There is a strict limit of one item type per customer and employees will enforce it. Sabrina odonnell said paper items were gone in 20 minutes. There were 50 people in line at 7 45 am. When they everybody that you couldnt run. To the aisles. If you did they would not sell anything to you. Reporter the strategy goals for cosco get there early since they replenish overnight. This one has a sign telling customers what they are out of. This is what it looked like at 2 pm today. Early and you can beat the lines as well. For most stores Fresh Produce typically arrives every day overnight and will be restocked eyeopening. The same for eggs. Shop early if you can or else you will be out of luck. This is the produce section at 11 am at whole foods. He is at 5 pm. Smaller Grocery Stores tucked inside willow glen. They still had a decent selection and quantity by midafternoon. We have Public Health challenges at this point. I dont think we are in a starvation scenario. Reporter this professor is an expert ink supply chain management. There is still plenty of beef out there and yes there is still spaghetti sauce. Is that the coronavirus has disrupted our on demand lifestyle. You wont get exactly the thing you want at the time you want. Maybe not at the price he wanted. There is no indication that we are going to run out of food. Reporter you can cheat the system and go drop the thing off backing your cart and go back inside the store and buy it again. The professor said to look at the big picture. Youre going to be exposing yourself if you go back inside the store. Think broadly and think of your neighbor. Think about staying with kpix 5 and cbsn bay area during this familiar fluid situation. We will keep you uptodate on the evolving details around the clock on kpix. Com or the news app. Now to our chief meteorologist with a look at weather. A little bit of hail fail out of the heaviest downpours today. A picture brian sent in from cupertino. It is small hail just peasized hail. The upper atmosphere is cold enough for some of that to reach the ground. The same thing over the weekend. Some hail around sonoma especially saturday. For the most part we are talking about showers. We salsa shine in much of the area. There are some of those local heavy downpours over Santa Clara County. Showers have been trying to make its way into san jose itself is stalled out. It is raining at a good clip in cupertino. That activity will move to the east and fall apart through the rest of this evening. Especially after the sun goes down. There are some heavier downpours in northern sonoma county. Cloud to ground lightning north of windsor. That activity will fall apart through the evening and overnight. Showers offshore it not likely to survive as they tried to make their way on shore. Scattered showers today becoming fewer and further between the next couple days. They dont fade away entirely. We see the rain trying to come to an end by 11 pm. Showers could be out there for the morning commute especially the south bay. Selfpay locations will have the best chance of rain over the next couple days. Plenty of dry hours. 20 to 30 rain chance tomorrow. Keep the umbrella handy. Odds are you wont need to open it or fiddle with the windshield wipers. If youre heading out in about of course the top stories most people are encouraged to not do that. The showers will continue fading out. They dont go away entirely. Passing showers possibly at any point for wednesday thursday and friday. They will be fewer and farther between. Look at the sunshine we have seen over the past several hours. Seamless clouds on the horizon as we look to the golden gate. Temperatures in the upper 40s livermore. Low to middle 50s elsewhere. A chilly day overall with temperatures 10 degrees below average. We will improve on that through the next couple days. Slowly. Very slow return to what is normal for this time of year by friday and saturday. Another round of rain is heading our way saturday night. That will stick around sunday and monday. We need the rain. We have been running at 50 where we should be at this point in the season we will get another chance to put a dent in that. By the end of the weekend and early next week. No games played today. Some nfl action is free agency get started. The 49ers made some bold moves to their defensive line. They sign a key player and let one go. We will have the details next. Nfl free agency is beginning as scheduled this week. The 49ers defensive lineman eric armistead. Back in november. I think they said he has had 10 sacks on a contract year. The brinks truck is going to back up. I cant wait. The 49ers back up the truck all right agreeing to a fiveyear deal with armistead. Reportedly worth 102 million with 46 million of it guaranteed. First round pick in 2015 he had a breakout year last season. He led San Francisco with 10 sacks. The new contract means he wont be coming for genesis job anytime soon. I work with channel 5. Can you practice standup or something . How long have you been working for channel 5 . 20 years. What is your biggest take away . You are a natural. So your job isnt that hard. He does make it look easy. Armistead. Unable to agree to a new deal San Francisco dealt buckner to the cold spray first round pick in the upcoming draft. A bit of a surprise since he was voted the teams mvp last season. He is set to sign buckner to a fiveyear deal worth 105 million. The raiders agreed to a threeyear deal with linebacker. Former bear started eight games last season. He finished with a careerhigh 76 tackles and three sacks opening day already delayed two weeks has now been pushed back to at least the middle of may. The leak is following the announcement from the cdc to restrict all gatherings of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks. Reds pitcher trevor bore our organize a wiffleball game as part of an effort to raise money for cincinnatis game day workers who will be impacted by not having any games for at least the next two months. The gofundmepage has raised 23,000 so far. Trying to have some fun during this time. The one good thing to all of this is that people will spend more time with their families now. I saw so many people walking today. But outside. We will be right back. Here is the latest on the coronavirus. At midnight a shelter in place will be in effect for six bay area counties. That includes a ban on nonessential travel and gatherings. People will be allowed to go out for food and medicine. Essential businesses will stay open like supermarkets pharmacies gas stations and banks. Public transportation will be running. Muni will rearrange lines in service and bart will keep the regular scheduled service. Run longer trains to allow more space between riders. We will be here reporting the news. The news continue streaming on cbsn bay area. The cbs evening news is coming up next. We will be back here on the news at 7 pm. Captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell breaking news tonight, america shuts down. The president issues new guidelines to slow the spread. No more than ten people at social gatherings. Its bad, but were going to be hopefully a best case, not a onrst case. Odonnell empty offices, streets deserted, bars and restaurants closed. San francisco orders everyone to shelter in place. 36 million Children Home from school. How long could this last . Stock shock. Trading halted again. The markets plummet as fears of massive job losses rise. Who will be hurt most, and will it widen the gap between rich and poor . Urgent plea. Medical professionals on the front lines beg for protective equipment. At least two emergency room doctors are in Critical Condition after being infected. Race for a vaccine