Ready to move into stage ii of the reopening process. One is just hours away from taking another step. Tonight, at midnight in sonoma county, and it mended and amended Children Place order kicks in meaning carwashes, pet groomers, dog walking services, some cleaning services and some Outdoor Attractions can start reopening with social distancing restrictions. Offices can also open were teleworking is not possible. Marin county plans to issue a new shelter in place update tomorrow to allow curbside retail and manufacturing peas m bunessmust ea d post a socalled covid19 Site Specific alameda and contra costa counties say they could allow Curbside Pickup along with some warehouse and manufacturing work to return at some point next week, and that means nearly all of the bay area will be moving into phase 2 of reopening next week, except for santa clara county. The Health Department there says conditions have not changed enough for the county to align with the states guidelines. The mayor of berkeley is pushing a new plan to bring dining customers back to restaurants. We go live to bring you more. Reporter it would include moving diners out onto sidewalks, streets, and even parks. The city council will vote on the proposal on june 2. When restaurants can fully reopen, will they be able to survive with capacity slash and have to streets. This is essential to be able to reopen our economy and ensure that we can have maximum physical distancing for people to enjoy our amazing restaurants. Reporter the plan would close streets like north shattuck and center and allow diners to eat on empty streets but weve had a lot of interest in berkeley to close streets for people to be able to ride their bikes and to be able to walk and get some exercise. I see this as an extension of that, not just closing streets for physical distancing, and also for economic development. Reporter diners seem ready to start making their own meals and give a new way of eating, literally out, a try. I think its a great idea. As long as there is adequate social distancing i think its a good idea. Reporter berkeley is not alone in this other a beria bay area cities are considering this. The city of San Francisco has released its guidelines for Retail Businesses to open for Curbside Pickup starting monday. We posted them on the front page of our website, kpix. Com. Napa county has submitted a plan to the state thats required to allow more businesses to open as part of stage ii. The plan includes a request to open wineries, but its not clear if that will be allowed since the state has not included wineries as part of its stage ii plan. Oakland city leaders Just Announced new rules for lake merritt and all city parks, they are worried about big crowds gathering as restrictions begin to ease. No food trucks will be allowed in or around the locations, parking lots will remain closed and that includes parking adjacent to lake merritt on weekends and memorial day holiday. Oakland Police Released the identity of the man wanted for hit and run that killed the mother of seven, theyre looking for 26yearold henry melendez. Police say he was behind the wheel of a car that hit and killed Aisha Singleton back in january, she was walking in a crosswalk along 98th avenue when she was hit by a nissan. The driver of the car sped off and its unclear if drugs or alcohol were involved. Lets get over to the weather, light and steady rain earlier today and still pretty cloudy out. Paul heggen joins us now. A few showers out there but literally just a couple, not much in terms of real rain, a couple blips on the radar. In napa county, thats it, but it doesnt mean its dry. Theres still plenty of drizzle and the low cloud cover, heres the fullscreen version of our view from Treasure Island looking for downtown and you can see those clouds are awfully close to the tops of the buildings. Rainfall over the past 24 hours, not a lot but almost a 10th of an inch in the city but we flip the camera around, this is the view from our rooftop looking east and we are talking about blue skies out there. We will take a look at more camera perspectives and check the next chance of rain headed our way in a few minutes. Governor newsom says he is willing to take a personal hit to try to balance the budget, he is proposing a 10 percent pay cut for all state workers, including himself, to help bridge a 54. 3 billion gap. Unions would need to sign off on that, newsom is also calling for 6 billion in program cuts to save money for schools, public health, and public safety. And he will get more help from the states 16 billion rainy day fund. Contact tracing going to play a Critical Role in fighting coronavirus, its been practiced for decades but never on this scale. How is it all taking shape . Maria medina is here with tonights original report. Contact tracing apps are already being used in other countries and some states, but here in california, it still being done the traditional way, on the phone, person to person. You really need to think about on a deeper level, what im capable to do, its going to call us to adapt. Reporter when covid19 made Robin Fletcher sales job grind to a halt she jumped at an opportunity to use her people skills for something more meaningful. A friend mentioned Contact Tracing, i never heard of it even though its been around for a bit. Reporter Contact Tracing starts with basic detective work, the average person who has the coronavirus transmitted to two or three other people, could then potentially transmitted to moore. One contact leads to another and everyone along the way has to be notified, isolated, and treated if necessary. Today im going to talk to you about the basics of Contact Tracing. Reporter robins first step, a free five hour online course offered through Johns Hopkins university where she learned the types of questions to ask, skills for effective medication, and how to balance public good with privacy. There seems to be a very huge and very clear reinforcement of the idea that this is done with a purpose and its done for the right reasons and with huge respect. Reporter the cdc estimates at least 100,000 contact raisers will be needed to combat the coronavirus, but they are just one piece of complex process. Our team is multidisciplinary. Reporter this doctor is lead expert physician for Contact Tracing at the San Francisco department of public health. We have case investigators who are the first line of calling people after they get a new diagnosis with covid, we then have our case investigators working very closely with clinical leads and we also then are working very closely with a team of social workers who help us to identify resources for people who need to isolate and quarantine. Reporter San Francisco is working with ucsf on the process using a customized data gathering program. Thats a way of making sure that once we have interviewed someone, that all the different touch points can be notified at the same time so our goal is really to ensure that people get tested on that day that we are notifying them or the next day. Reporter she says for now in San Francisco, only Health Department staff , but outsourcing will soon become necessary and Third Party Companies are already poised to provide. Most Health Authorities are already doing some form of Contact Tracing, they are using their existing staff to pull lab results, infected patients, but theyve all reached capacity. Reporter what they are looking for is not only those contact tracer roles but coordinator investigator and navigator roles so they can manage those tracer teams. Reporter Robin Fletcher has already applied, she hopes her sales experience will help her get a job she really wants and needs. You are to have some courage to put it politely to pick up the phone and call someone and establish immediate rapport and do it well, there is an aspect of educating, theres an aspect of social work, theres an aspect of just being a good listener. A lot of skills that people i think can really bring to this. Reporter one positive note to Contact Tracing, according to the doctor, facemasks are really helping to narrow the field of potentially exposed people who need to be tracked down. So what are you hearing from people after they are called by a contact tracer, whats the reaction . In San Francisco, at least according to the Health Department people are actually happy to know that there is someone there to help. You think hes rich now, wait until you hear why the ceo of amazon is trending tonight. Tua tagovailoa also ahead, and they are off, the bay area racetrack now taking your bets. Its definitely different than what weve had before, so its a little strange, its been hard to get used to. Governor newsom, open up our churches. The rallying cry from bay area religious leaders willing to be arrested to hold church services. If the hospitals are essential for the body of the people, the church is essential for the spirit of the people. More bay area graduates to honor tonight, we have Johnny Morris who just finished up at Ukiah High School and hes going to start a career in fine woodworking, way to go johnny. This is isabel ramos, she is graduating from Rodriguez High School in fairfield, shes an amazing athlete who will study Sports Medicine starting at solano college. Good luck isabel. Keep sharing your graduate photos with us, email 2020grads cbs. Com or use the hashtag kpix on social media, including name golden gate field is back in business resuming live horseracing today, the track remains close to the general public but the fans can watch races, and place bets through a mobile app. Races will happen thursdays through sundays until midjune. The horse trainers and the others at the track are Wearing Masks and they are social distancing. Anytime you have this kind of delay in with the fact that i think that everybody didnt know really when this was going to end and when we would start up again, it was a big relief. Its definitely different than what we had before so its a little strange and its been hard to get used to. Looking live from our Treasure Island camera, many of us got caught in showers today. Paul heggen is here to tell us more. Weve got fog and low cloud cover and of course you going to the hills for the west of downtown and you are really socked in the sun is shining in the east bay so its all or nothing. Were going to get a dry break on friday across the board, maybe fog to start the day but then we dry out. Is not going to last forever, will actually see an Atmospheric River sending rain for the west coast, we will be on the southern fringe of that so we wont see that typical wintertime affect, but we are going to get some rain as we head into sunday and monday and lingering into tuesday. This is from the transamerica tower looking i believe to the east. There is that low cloud covers covering the camera but a live look from sfo and the sun is shining. Thats the difference between the 50 a degree downtown temperature in the 63 degree temperature at the airport. More sunshine for san jose with the temperature at 68 degrees. Dense fog still a factor early tomorrow morning, these red shaded areas are more likely to see fog lingering until about nine or 10 00, and some of that could easily spill into inland valleys and we should this be plenty of sunshine, temperatures starting in the upper 40s but mostly low 50s early on friday, our high temperatures will be right around whats normal for the middle of may so that means mid to upper 60s around the bay, low to mid 70s farther inland, low 70s for the south bay in the santa clara valley. Further inland low to mid 70s up and down the trivalley, mid to upper 60s around the bay itself, low 70s for the north bay and farther to the north, even warmer, northern sonoma and napa counties may be the warmer spots with high temperatures in the upper 70s by friday afternoon. The dry weather continues on saturday but as we head into saturday evening we are going to tracking a couple of showers trying to make their way into the north bay as the sun goes down but our rain chances really wait until saturday night to go up, thats knocking on the doorstep of the golden gate by the wee hours of sunday morning with rain likely across the bay area. Its not going to last all day, we will see some breaks in the action but more ways of rain are going to continue headed our way monday and tuesday before we dry out and warmup wednesday and thursday. I will have another update on next weeks rain coming up at 11 00. Heres a look at tonights top headlines, a whistleblower warns the u. S. Could face, quote, the darkest winter in modern history if the coronavirus rebounds. Doctor rick wright says he was transferred from directing a vaccine team at the department of health and Human Services after he pushed back on the wide use of antimalaria drugs. The white house says his complaint is onesided and full of misinformation. When i spoke outside of our government and shared my concerns for the american public, that i believe was the straw that broke the camels back. Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in a crash that killed four people on highway 85 in san jose. An suv with six people inside rolled over several times near connell road last night. Three men and woman were killed , 26yearold driver suffered minor injuries and could face manslaughter charges. Amazons jeff bezos is trending tonight, hes on track to become the worlds first trillionaire, its predicted to happen by the year 2030, he is already the wealthiest man on the planet with a net worth of about 140 billion. Up next, do you have your social party yet . The new pandemic trend that could help keep your Mental Health intact this summer. It could be a good way to get some time for you to get work done. We weep for People Living with grief for people. How can we not be essential . The Bay Area Church that sending a message to the state tonight, they are sett you could call it your social pod, some people say forming a group could be key to helping your Mental Health through the pandemic. The idea is a close unit of people who all agreed to be in contact with each other and only each other. The concept is popular with families. Two of them can group together for things like dropping the kids off at each others homes to go run errands. Medical experts say there are risks, but the trend is gaining ground as restriction start to relax. If the families have both been sheltering in place and for the most part quarantining themselves as much as possible, it could be a good way to free up some time for you to get work done. If you introduce new people or you start introducing new people into that close unit then you dont know where those people have been or where they are going to after. Churches across california say they will reopen at the end of the month, with or without the governors blessing. Governor newsom, unlock the stores. Open up our churches. A Group Representing pastors from across the state made the announcement of the Gospel Church in oakland today, the claim going to church is no riskier than going to the Grocery Store and to their congregations they are just as essential. Of the hospitals are essential for the body of the people, the church is essential for the spirit of the people. We weep with people, we grieve with people, how can we not be essential . The pastors wrote the governor a letter detailing their plans, they say that when they reopen on may 31, they will offer more services to allow for more distancing and they also handout masks and gloves to everyone and fully sanitized between services. Up next, it still off like cordless phones. phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. 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