Testing program. Its only been within the last week that we have increase ll qualify someone for testing. Reporter the Services Available to any adult in San Francisco but it is not clear how many people are aware of that. By appointment flashing outside does not mean you need a doctors referral, all you have to do is go to the citys website, list your one symptom and tell them you are coming. There is no charge for the test, the city says it does expect more people to start taking advantage. He you will see the numbers reported of test completed in sentences go residents go up over the coming days and weeks. We tried to test them on why theyre trying to drive more people towards the sites on the market there on the Health Officer said people can also get tested through their normal Health Provider which seems like an odd answer for a city that is trying to maximize its testing potential, but they say the sites are not opened, they are available to more people and they are thinking more people will show up. We will see if the city makes any kind of a greater effort to advertise the availability of these testing resources. We are life here on the embarcadero in San Francisco, kpix5. A possible breakthrough in fighting the coronavirus, an experimental drug made here in the bay area is showing promise. Kpix5s maria medina has more on how the drug remdesivir actually works. Maria . Reporter liz, the experimental drug may become the standard of care for those severely ill with covid19 one Grammy Nominated musician already knows about it benefits. Reporter will carol is the drummer for death angel. He wasnt doing a recent european tour. Once home, he became severely ill, ending up in a coma. On a ventilator, and near death. Doctors at cp mc gave him an experimental drug. A when i came out of the coma, they could not believe it. And, the doctors who worked on me, and other doctors in the hospital all came into the room to see for themselves that i was actually coherent. Reporter the drummer was given remdesivir. Preliminary results from a well designed should study show carol is not the only one to benefit. The drug can block this virus. Reporter doctor fauci announced the good news today at the white house. The drug is made by Gilead Sciences of foster city. This will be the standard of care. Reporter some treated with the iv drug recovered more quickly and fewer died than those treated with the placebo. Despite it shows promise. Reporter Stanford Medical Center involved in the trial. We are so grateful for the opportunity to study this in our patients, to be able to offer some hope. Reporter doctor fauci cautions this drug is not a knockout punch and the results need to be carefully revealed. Carol, not a part of our trial given the drug as Compassionate Care is incredibly grateful. I am thankful for everybody who rallied for me. Very much. We should all be excited about this. Fauci said the next step is to combine remdesivir with another experimental drug that is an antiinflammatory drug to see if they can get even better results. Liz . Thank you for distract other coronavirus headlines right now Bay Area Health authorities are mending shelter in place orders starting monday, some Outdoor Activities like construction and landscaping can resume and some no contact recreational facilities can open. Californias farm to Family Program is expanding and it connects struggling farmers and ranchers with food banks seeing a spike in demand. The states saw a three percent increase in covid19 cases. Hospitalizations and icu rates for each up slightly. With millions of people sheltering in place, the rideshare industry has become Collateral Damage of the coronavirus pandemic. Andria borba says that hundreds have now lost their jobs because of it. Reporter these employees at lyft got a heads up over the weekend when an email went out talking about jettisoning employees. Today, those layoffs became widely known. The stillness of the shelter in place order can result on San Franciscos battery street, market, and even van ness. And every other major thoroughfare in the city. In addition to those not driving to work, there are plenty who are not driving for work anymore, like taylor has all of richmond. Hes worked fulltime as a lyft driver since 2014. When was the last time you had affair . March 15. It reporter that was not a prosperous day for a driver who typically logs between 25 and 30 fares per day. I only did 15 fares, and took over 10 hours to do. Reporter with no Ridesharing Services needed, lyft announced layoffs via sec filings. Despite nearly 1000 employees they are terminating, and they say they are furloughing another nearly 300 employees. That is considered to be temporary, although it really depends on what happens with the companys financial future. Reporter those layoffs were in corporate offices but drivers are feeling the pinch, too. He very not safe, and unfortunately, i dont have insurance. So it is not safe for me to be out there. If i were to get sick, its going to cost even more. And unfortunately, i live paycheck to paycheck reporter taylor, like many, waiting for some sense of safety so he can get back behind the wheel. The board of directors is also taking a 30 percent pay cut in the second quarter, because of these layoffs. I live in San Francisco tonight, kpix5. A wild scene on i880 in hayward where hundreds of precious surgical masks were tossed into traffic. Chopper five over the scene where the masks police say were strewn across lanes. The cars had to slow to avoid them. We are told some drivers even stopped to pick him up. The chp said a truck driver pulled over on the shoulder near whipple, tossing the masks out the back of his flight had pretty chp had to stop all lanes and bring in a street sweeper to clean up the mess. Authorities are still looking for the driver. Still ahead on kpix5 and cbsn bay area, College Students at home becausofidrey administ not always possible. Scientists worldwide working on a covid19 vaccine, now a major Biotech Company says it can have one ready this year. Research underway to see whether dogs can detect the virus. Filtered sunshine over sentences go bay this evening, that marine layer has been whispering past the camera, some cloud cover every once in a while and this virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. When colleges stopped in person classes, students had to switch to online learning. That cut out much of the campus life that people enjoyed, and had to pay for in advance. John ramus with that story. Reporter students in california are not getting what they bargained for when they dropped thousands of dollars to go to college, but in some areas they are not getting anything for what they paid and some people are beginning to demand their money. Ofstea y s like a postcard. Mainly because nothing is moving. Is a ghost town up here for sure. Reporter Angelina Knights and cc hurtado are some of the few still living on campus but it is not much of a life. The recreation and Health Center is closed and the dining hall mostly offers prepackaged sandwiches. Students paid a lot of money for those things. We need some stuff appear. I got that we are going through a crisis, but you know, theres other things we can work around, unless if they cant work around it then money should be held back, you know . I mean, given back. Reporter thats the aim of federal classaction lawsuits filed monday against the uc and systems. Csu charges students anywhere from 847 to more than a fourth thousand dollars per year, depending on the school. Lawyers filing the lawsuits say schools should not keep the money if they are no longer offering the benefit. There are a lot of parents who have lost their jobs during this time, and having the extra money back would be a great benefit especially in this time of crisis and hardship. Reporter csu says they are offering refunds for things not been provided now such as housing and parking. But, they say the lawsuit misstates the facts. In a statement they said, quote, campuses continue to operate and many personal services are not provided remotely, such as counseling, advising, Faculty Office hours, disability student services, and even telehealth medical care. Students say thats not the College Experience they signed up for. I acknowledge that they are doing everything that they can, but i do believe that we paid for more than what we are getting right now and there should be some type of compensation for that. Reporter john ramus, kpix5. Pharmaceutical corporation pfizer says it could have an emergency Coronavirus Vaccine ready as early as this fall. The wall street journal reports pfizer teamed up with German Company bio intact to create a vaccine. Human testing in germany has already started, and testing in the u. S. Will begin as soon as the Company Gets Approval from the fda. Oxford University Says it is also on track to have a Coronavirus Vaccine available september. Laboratories retrievers could join frontline soldiers in the war against the coronavirus, there trained to see if they can sniff out the disease in asymptomatic carriers. The docs have been successful in detecting things like malaria and some cancers. Researchers have powerful noses my detect an odor associated with the virus. Beach restrictions are coming to discount his officials announced plans closures daily between 11 00 amf 5 00 p. M. Which includes running a dog walking. There is an exception for those crossing the sand for water sports like surfing. New rules are intended to keep sent his beaches from seeing a spike in visitors like some Southern California beaches did over the weekend. Sounds like today was good it cool down a little bit, forced people to stay inside or maybe encourage people to stay inside after they have got their wellies out over the weekend. So to speak. The full sunshine wasnt around but we had filtered sunshine at least. Onshore late last night into this morning but even with that low cloud cover broke up, the area of low pressure squeezing the system, past several hours, high clouds over all of the bay area and low clouds just off shore of that marine layer, now beginning to make their way further and further onshore. We are going to see some low fog cover overnight and start the day on thursday. Right now temperatures all over the place, 60 degrees in San Francisco, 70 degrees in concord and close to 80 degrees in santa rosa, 79 for the warm spot, most locations several degrees cooler than we were yesterday. More noticeable changes for the image for temperatures dropped off by 10 to 15 degrees still a nice dog walking evening if you want to avoid going stir crazy with your furry friend, this is leon black, alumnus of the humane society, thanks for sharing that picture. Dropping into the mid50s as we head toward the late evening with filtered lunch im gradually being obscured by low cloud cover making its way onshore. The temperatures by early tomorrow morning dropping into the mid and low 50s still above average for april but still slightly cooler than where we started off this morning by a degree or so. High temperatures tomorrow going to rise up to similar territory to what we saw today low 60s along the coast, mid and upper 60s to around 70 degrees around the bay and further into the 70s further inland. Muslim mid and upper 70s for inland locations with the warmest sponsor inland east bay rising up to or above 80 degrees. In terms of cloud cover we will see more over the weekend but clouds will drop into showers and its not very likely 10 to 20 percent chance of an osprey is what we are talking about late saturday night into early sunday morning otherwise we have a lot of dry weather and the sevenday forecast is temperatures cooling down a bit as we head towards the weekend but only to what is normal this time of year. Further inland saturday and sunday midsixties around the bay and then another study warm up is on the way as we had through next week. Studley warming up by 3 degrees each day, up to about 80 degrees by wednesday of next week inland back up to about 70 degrees by the middle of next week. Another update coming up at 7 00. Dennis . Paul i sure you are a three handicap . Is that true . Ive got good news for you and all bay area golfers, and how much would you pay to were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Is not good news for bay area golfers. Six counties will be allowed to reopen on monday. How do you like it . Now, how quickly can they ramp up remains to be seen following a sixweek layoff. We are waiting for more info on social distancing and critical. Channel 5 golf analyst john described what a possible round could look like going forward. One course i heard about today showing up 30 minutes before your teatime, there clubhouse facilities will not be available, you know, cups turned upside down so you dont touch the stick. Maybe they will lift rules where you couldnt bring your own little mini cooler with spears maybe that will be allowed now im just thinking out loud here. I think it is going to be busy as usual. As you might expect, john is among those jacked out of their minds to swing the club again. Because of a couple of like problems i havent played since september anyway. But, ive been out swinging the club in the backyard a bit, getting my mind ready to Start Playing again. The governor of North Carolina announced the Charlotte Motor Speedway can host the cocacola 600 is scheduled on memorial day. Without fans in attendance, nascar is still working on a revised schedule for the rest of the season. Major League Baseball has canceled its hall of fame induction, scheduled for cooperstown later this summer, so the 2020 class will be moved to 2021. Im back. Not again. 12 time allstar manny ramirez, another comeback, 47 years old ramirez told the taiwan newspaper he wants to come back to the Chinese Pro League where he played briefly in 2013. A post game dinner with tom brady sold for 800,000 as part of an all in talons to raise money for covid19 relief. In addition to dinner the winner will also be his guest and first home game with a buck and receive a game worn jersey. Joe montana said dinner with the lonnie currently 55,000. Dinner with ken bastida . Priceless. Five way through the roof. [ coming up on cbs evening news, americas gdp shrinks by five percent, hertz prepares for bankruptcy, and stimulus checks are being stolen out of mailboxes. And, how israel is utilizing technology typically used for antiterrorism to stop the virus spread. Thats all tonight here on the cbs evening news. Kpix5 wants to honor the class of 2020 during this pandemic. Today we are featuring sierra joyce jenkinson graduating from tracy high school, congratulations. Sierra tells us she is said to miss all the senior year special events but she is looking forward to celebrating with family and friends when things finally get back to normal. We love that positive attitude. Congratulations. You can send us a photo of your graduate any age with the hashtag kpix. Include the name and something about them. No professional photos please. You may see them on tv. Captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell tonight, could it be a medical breakthrough . Americas top Infectious Disease doctor praises a possible treatment for coronavirus as a new hope. Because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. This is very optimistic. Odonnell will the f. D. A. Fast track its use for hospitalized patients . The news sent the stock market soaring. But there are still big economic worries. The u. S. Economy shrinks as Consumer Spending plummets, and it may only get worse. Across america, food lines stretch, stimulus checks stolen from mailboxes, and why some ske more money by staying on unemployment than going back to work. Massive crowds the mayor of new york city threatens mourners with arrests as thy