Here are the latest numbers of coronavirus cases in the bay area, as of today there are more than 1700 cases in the region and 38 deaths. Santa clara county still has the most with 591 cases and 25 deaths. Taking a live look at the white house, President Trump sending a u. S. Naval hospital ship to new york city, the epicenter of the nations outbreak. This comes as the u. S. Coronavirus death toll doubled in two days, it has hit 2000 this evening. Reporter President Trump says he wants to show his support for the u. S. And ask him for which expedited repairs and stocked up medical supplies this week, even if it goes against his administrations own guidelines discouraging travel for some americans. Ive never signed anything. Reporter this comes a day after the president signed the cares act, a 2. 2 trillion package to provide financial assistace to cope with the impact of the coronavirus epidemic. This will deliver urgently needed relief to our nations families, workers, and businesses. Reporter the centerpiece of the new law includes direct payments to most americans, checks will be sent to individuals of up to 1200, twice that for couples and an additional 500 for each child. It also boosts Unemployment Benefits and provides hundreds of billions of dollars for small and large businesses. The legislation we passed today is a big down payment but we have more to do. Reporter friday the president also use the defense production act to order General Motors to make ventilators after negotiations didnt get there. We have to get these people on board, we are not looking to get into a big deal on price, were not looking to be ripped off on price. Reporter over 100,000 ventilators will be produced in the next 100 days. He dismissed complaints from some governors about the federal response and suggested the Vice President should not call those who are not appreciative. If they dont treat you right, i dont call. He should be appreciated for the job hes done. Today, governor gavin newsom and san jose mayor took a tour of bloom energy where hundreds of old ventilators are being refurbished as part of the fight against coronavirus. The company has worked with the state to transform its Production Facility and quickly refurbish some lifesaving ventilators that the state had in storage. During a press conference, newsom said the state had hundreds of ventilators that had not been unboxed since 2011. The system is overwhelmed right now, but we can underwhelmed it with our initiative. What you see behind me, the yellow cases are the ones that came from the national stockpile. 10,000 is our goal. Thousands more we are confident will be on their way shortly. Newsom also says theres no time better than now to get more ventilators up and running now that the state has searched its capacity of hospital beds. We brought you that press Conference Live on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. A number of cities in napa county helped with donation drives today for personal protective gear. Volunteers got one big surprise. One person dropped off 45,000 surgical masks. Organizers asked for a number of items including wipes and gowns and Hand Sanitizer but they say by far surgical masks are what is most needed. We received gowns and gloves and our heart beat so fast when we saw the surgical masks. They will surely be used. Whoever you are that came, sorry we didnt have a chance to know your name, thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts. There is no set date for the groups next donation drive but organizers say they plan on having another one soon and you can find out win on their Facebook Page which is operation with love from home. Ucsf will be implementing a universal mask policy meeting all staff in clinical areas will be required to wear surgical masks. The 24 seven mask rule is meant to protect against coronavirus transmission as it is hard to implement social distancing in hospitals. Theyve gotten a lot of donations of protective equipment this last week like masks and gloves and gowns but if a surge of patients does come to the hospitals, they could run out in a hurry. The pandemic is forcing a lot of companies to rethink the way they operate to prevent cross contamination and that includes local food banks. Some believe they will actually be stronger because of reporter this Food Bank Facility is normally just a warehouse, they dont actually distribute food to people from here but just like the rest of us they are having to learn new ways to do a lot of things these days. For the San Francisco marin food bank, the coronavirus has been the mother of invention. We are were used to working shoulder to shoulder so we have fewer volunteers. Reporter theyve created an Assembly Line where volunteers move with their boxes down a Conveyor Belt instead of passing them off to someone else in that way each box is filled by one set of hands rather than many and it turns out things move pretty quickly this way. I think it is super efficient and really needed is seen by how many people are coming through. Reporter normally at food giveaways people stand in line put in groups of strangers in close contact, but today as cars lined up around the building, once again, things were different. Drivers popped their trunks and pulled up without getting out. Volunteers loaded the food into the cars which then pulled away and when at a safe distance, the drivers closed their own trunk lids. We are figuring out ways to give people food where you dont have to get close, where you dont have to touch people, people dont feel like the food has been handled by a lot of people. They are learning something they will keep around even after this has passed. Especially with the drive through, its very efficient. Reporter the fairbanks executive director says considering the response to todays giveaway they will probably continue the saturday drivethrough distributions, but he believes once the virus has passed, people will want to return to the walkup method as a way to feed their hunger for friendly human contact. Honestly peop d sekeli thou r volunteers that work there. They are pretty nice social places. The food bank gave away 500 boxes of food in four hours today and theyre asking for public donation so they can buy more food help people who are not working because of the shelter in place. The other story affecting everyone today, the weather. You can see the raindrops on our camera. The rain we got today, think of that as round one. Round two gets here tomorrow morning and im going to show that he won the future cast in a second because its probably a little more impressive than today. Lets talk about how weve done so far, taking a look live outside weve already picked up in places about a 10th of an inch of rain. We have gotten some good measurable rain, you can see the numbers. That was then and this is now, lets get into the live radar. Spotty showers across much of the bay area at this point, i got one about to move into downtown sonoma but you got to look hard to find these. If you get that band of rain you will notice the intensity picks up a little more but everybody look off the coast now, thats whats coming in over the next few hours and that should be fairly light. That gets here right around sunrise tomorrow and we will outline the timing on sundays rain in detail shortly. The east bay able helicopter helped locate a distressed hiker. The victim was suffering a medical emergency and the east bay Regional Park called on the chp to help after they located the hiker an ambulance was also called to the scene, no word yet on the persons condition. One bay area teenager refusing to let the coronavirus cancel her prom experience, how she and friends are salvaging their high school right of passage. And toilet paper is still hard to come by these days and that is forcing some people to get creative. Coming up, the alternative choi this burgers delicious lets make it more delicious menutaur put an extra patty on that bam woah uhuhhh my 4. 99 triple bonus jack combo stack it up for an extra buck. It something a lot of us might be guilty of, panic shopping. One lawmaker is asking residents to stop buying so much. These Grocery Stores like many others have seen long lines and bare shelves but the hoarding has to stop. The supply chain is healthy and people do not need to be in these lines. I want to encourage everyone to return back to normalcy. If the hoarding continues, they will propose legislation that would limit the number of items people can purchase. Berkeley bowl is making marks on the ground indicating where shoppers can stand to promote social distancing, also this plexiglas creates a barrier between cashiers and shoppers. At the bear area call Grocery Stores have also installed plexiglas protectors. The rowes run on toilet paper has a lot of people turning to alternatives, everything from paper towels to coffee filters. Great if youve been eating coffee grounds i guess. That can quickly become a problem for all of us. Jonas clark does about a halfdozen sewer line inspections every day. He says lowflow toilets make it hard enough to keep the lines clear. Cottonelle flushable wipes. Reporter socalled flushable wipes only make it worse. All you got to do is add insult to injury, put some wipes down the pipe and you will have a saturday. Reporter to see what really happens after you flush flushable wipe, you have to go down the drain. The agency that operates 4600 miles of sewer lines in Sacramento County shows us what happens when things other than toilet paper windup at a pumping station. The sewer district is now bracing for toilet paper alternatives to clog or even damage the systems 106 pumps. A lot of people are short on toilet paper so they are looking for other means to use in the restroom and flushable wipe seem to be some of those things that come to mind and what we ask is that only human waste and toilet paper ever be flushed. Reporter take it from a plumber who makes a living clearing clogs. They shouldnt let people sell these. Along those lines, that was George Warren reporting. California is taking steps to try to limit the use of disposable wipes and similar products. Bart is now considering eliminating sunday service now that ridership has fallen more than 90 percent. The Transit Service tweeting today that ridership is now at just eight percent of what it normally is, its only served 31,000 riders yesterday and now bart is taking advantage of low ridership and early closures as crews begin repairs at the el cerrito station last night. One teenager whose prom was canceled because of the coronavirus is finding another way to still experience the classic high school right of passage. That is natalie reeves, she says she and her friends were devastated when they learned that their promise canceled but it didnt take her long to figure out a way to get the prom experience, by spending the day posting videos and messages to friends on social media to create a virtual problem. Prom has been something that ive been fantasizing about since i was just a little girl. My whole thought process throughout was just like lets try to make it still happen, we can still do this virtually, we are given the gift of technology. So thats what theyre doing to solve the problem. Although many teenagers look forward to a time when they can celebrate the prom the Old Fashioned way. The gift of technology indeed. Last time we visited which wasnt that long ago, we had the windshield wiper on our camera and look what is back. This gives you a good idea, its raining over the city right now and weve got new drops that have collected on the lens but that is just one view. Scattered showers showing up everywhere, a few of these more recent ones coming into the north bay and theres a good band just about to move into marin merck working its way over the mountain and heading down to the valley and home to homestead valley. If we come back out for the wide view, lets take it from where it is now and show you what will happen in the next few hours. The next one comes in a real early tomorrow morning, thats 3 am and that once a little more impressive, but the main band of rain is going to come in right around sunrise tomorrow and that looks a lot more impressive getting us into the 7 00 hour tomorrow morning and that moves its way across the entire bay area to the course of the morning and its really not until we get past noon that we start to clear up the bulk of the rain and that we will keep a few scattered showers going into the afternoon, very much like today where we get the best organized rain coming through in the morning and then we fill in with scattered showers through the rest of the day. If you added rollup between now and sunday, thats how much rain we are going to get. Anywhere from half an inch to of rain. The clouds are helping to keep the temperatures in the morning much nicer than you would experience for much of the week, but daytime highs are struggling to make it up to the low 60s for now and once we get done with tomorrows rain, the real headline in this forecast is for the warmup. We are going back into the low 80s for some inland locations. The shows you the inland locations by the middle of the week going into early summer. Sunny and low 80s. I will have more on this coming up in the 6 00 our. Weve got sports up ahead. Nfl news, and the Wonderful World of going to the gym, its not the usual routine anymore. As a mother, i know how hard it is to see our childrens lives impor coronavirus. 19, so, i want you to know that our state is allocating unprecedented resources and services to meet this challenge. I want you to know, that we are here for you. But i also have an ask for you. Please stay home to keep others and yourself healthy. Your actions can help save lives. And together, we will get through this. We find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. Were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. If you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home. Its just our way of doing our part. Nfl up top, the red carpet, the bright lights, the curtain raises and the nfl draft show from las vegas. Eathe plan you can forget about this image, the draft not happening in vegas, but the commissioners that it will go on as scheduled. Teams havea have getting have been bidding to move the draft. As you can see this is 49er stress central for the time being. This is absolutely huge for us so theres no excuses, no explanations, weve got to get our work done, ill be it from home. With appreciate we appreciate your support. On thursday, steph curry interviewed doctor anthony fauci, the leading medical advisor for the krone task force on currys instagram. Doctor fauci know something about passed ball, too. He was the captain of his High School Baseball team in 1958, but thursday the topic was all virus. We are not overreacting. Theres lots of people threatened by the change in the reality but theres no overreaction to this. We need to make that point, this is serious business, we have not overreacted. Ive heard of groceries delivering but this, a drone delivered toilet paper to la kings center jeff carter, the drone delivery was from one of his teammates and im going to guess that one role is not going to be enough. Coming out of the shower after gym workout you just feel better, your body thanks you, but in these days of the new normal, the gym routine its different. Reporter every morning a emand. Rigorous work out as planned. At the same time, at power yoga, susan hauser contorts her body as she runs her yoga class but because the coronavirus the client still connect, but only online. The Quick Response whats lets was lets bring a response. Reporter in five years, hauser has built a massive following. She is still pulling in well over 200 students per class. Studio 30 just opened its doors early february and the shelter in place order cost the business a 10 percent drop off. They bring in roughly 50 per fitness class and the numbers are climbing. Better training is. When you train it like no one really likes to train but the results in the outcome is worth the push. Thats happening at germs all over the country and those classes are free. People are working on their kitchens, bathrooms, their garage. Brian are you working out . Oh yes. I came into work, didnt i . Good job. We will be right back. For dancers and those who have dreamed of taking to the stage, a rare opportunity to take a class taught by a bay area ballet master. The San Francisco Company Class is now happening virtually and you can participate alongside Company Dances for free. The class is taught online by a ballet master and you can watch the live stream on their Facebook Page. Thats it for us at 5 00, we will see you back here at 6 00. Cbs weekend news is next. Captioning sponsored by cbs dunbar breaking news tonight President Trump says hes enforcing an enforceable hot spot quarantine and it surprised the governor. I dont even know what that what that means. Dunbar this as the u. S. Navy sends comfort to help. Also tonight, the medical workers who say they dont have what they need. We already lost our first nurse. Were going to lose more. Dunbar is california next . Disneyland closes indefinitely. Main street u. S. A. Now a ghost town. In italy, nearly 1,000 people die in a single day. 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