On the radar that were looking at because that is something we certainly do need as well you can see the showers that are pushing in ride along the peninsula and up into Solano County eventually right along the 80 corridor, lets zoom in on where were seeing some of this rainfall right now if you are in areas like san mateo on up through South San Francisco as well as down to half moon bay, some darker green indicating moderate rainfall for you lighter showers in San Francisco right now if youre driving a 80. On to the east bay youre running into showers once you head north of hayward on your way up to oakland there on and off right now, but right around oakland up to emeryville and eventually up to berkeley rainfall intensity will increase here in the next few minutes a few light sprinkles in marine county and then you head up into Solano County on up to napa county to and theres definitely some wet spots as conditions in these areas pretty i offering a pretty widespread rainfall as of that this is point right now assuming out across the region theres still snow up in the Sierra Nevada, its been the most significant snowfall of the season for neighbors up in the high country that is such good news to see obviously doesnt make travel anything thats so great, but its great to be seeing that snow pack being built and we will be looking some off and on snow showers up in Northern California as well. Daytime highs today eventually rise to a similar range us to yesterday were as were starting this morning just a touch more mild pretty much all of us are in the 40s the youre actually starting in the low 50s right now 50 degrees so not a bad start if you are heading out again if you have to head out this morning. You are expecting mild, but few showery conditions out there is just light rainfall makes its way in by the afternoon. Spotty showers daytime highs much like yesterdays and between those spotty showers abundant sunshine to be expected. Im talking more rainfall this forecast the start of spring and what else you need to know still ahead back to you rob and all right checking in on traffic of course its been very light and quiet with so many people. Working from home in a practicing social distancing. It hasnt been that bad for the last week around the bay area. But for those of you who have to get to work this morning, its going to be a great trip across the san mateo bridge, heres a live look at you can see traffic filling and quickly its normally our business busiest bridge starting off the 4 oclock hour. So were doing fine here to the peninsula at 14 minutes over to one on one were checking in on the bay bridge 80 west into San Francisco looks good just keep in mind that roads are soggy. So you may want to reduce your speed and take it easy out there, especially on the rams who could easily spin out were looking at 8 minutes for the drive time into San Francisco, which is right on time. The Richmond Sandra fell checking in on west 5. 80 looking good nice and smooth here to the north bay at the peak of traffic tracker checking some more drive times so far were off to a fantastic start. We have highway 4 in the westbound direction so far its at the limits are Contra Costa County so no problems to worry about their 6. 80 looks good to the southbound trip will be quick from highway 4. They won a creek on over to the danville side i dont see any problems that you need to worry about on the nimitz freeway for your southbound commute and then one o ones looking good too its an easy 27 minutes from san jose to menlo park. The noma county has joined other bay area counties and sheltering and place the health or their took effect at midnight and will stay in place for 3 weeks now in addition to Sonoma County. Their San Francisco santa clara san mateo mer n contra costa and alameda counties as well. The order limits or activity and travel and also business functions to only the most basic and essential needs. Well as of this morning, there are more than 300 confirmed cases of coronavirus now right here in the bay area and a total of 6 deaths. Now heres a breakdown of all the cases Santa Clara County has the most it stands at a 155 cases with 5 deaths. Next a San Mateo County with 64 cases and one death San Francisco county has 43 over in contra costa, 39 alameda county, 27 cases and the north bay marine county 11 cases there are 9 and Solano CountySonoma County has 6 at this time napa still has no cases. I would plan in assume that its unlikely. Many of these schools, a few if will open up before the summer break. Well a warning from governor Gavin Newsome he says the California Public schools may stay close for the rest of the school year. This has a lot of parents worry the governor also addressed how hospitals are dealing with capacity during the coronavirus pandemic Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has more. With 98. 8 of children out of school and the numbers of coronavirus cases on the rise governor Gavin Newsome tuesday said this is just the beginning of the obstacles facing california dont anticipate schools are going to open up in a week. Please dont anticipate in a few weeks newsome says day care and Child Care Center should stay open to ease some of the pressure of Child Care Needs facing californians out of work because of the coronavirus tuesdays tell a press conference was coordinated to follow recommended socialdistancing guidelines to stop the spread of the virus. The governor says the state is preparing for hospital capacities to surge. Newsom says the state has about 90,000 beds available but says it may need up to 20,000 more to handle an influx of coronavirus cases are hospitals have been running their own pandemic planning their own procurement strategies, not just for physical resources, but the deep need for Human Resources and supplies just before us tell the press conference newsome said he spoke on the phone with President Trump to talk about the need for more components required to complete coronavirus tests newsome expressing confidence in the president s push for telehealth as the to continue to collaborate against the coronavirus which could significantly increase capacity and access and i want to thank the president for his leadership in that space and announcing that the medicare side and i have all the confidence the world based on our conversations theyll be quick to support these waivers for supported the state level a very very quickly. The governor noting even more changes could be coming or gin californians to be ready to adapt in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Governor newsome also announced that the California National guard will be ready to help communities fight the spread of the coronavirus theyre on standby right now to perform any humanitarian missions across the state, including Food Distribution and also supporting Public Safety. Well in San Francisco mayor london breed is making more changes to help hospitals and businesses during the coronavirus pandemic and the shelter in place so first mayor breed announced a new policy to expedite the hiring process for qualified licensed nurses now as well as other frontline healthcare workers. She wants to hire 100 new nurses on the spot she wants to do away with the hiring process that you know typically takes about 6 months. And of course this is to help hospitals prepare for an influx of sick patients with coronavirus mayor breed also announced moratorium on evictions for businesses that lost money due to the coronavirus pandemic now it applies to any small or medium sized businesses that make less than 25 million a year. We wanted to make sure. That businesses as well as residents are not who will be impacted most likely sadly due to a loss of income the last thing they need is any vick shun in the midst of this crisis. Well the city put residential evictions due to nonpayment on hold last week. Well the moratorium says will help calm the fears for places like bars and gyms and also movie theaters which are being told that they have to shut down during the pandemic kron fours taylor sackey has reaction from Business Owners. Theres no precedent for this this is we be uncharted territory here looks like last for months, a lot of us scared really nervous lyman owns several bars across San Francisco teeth tonic and sort of have been skis off 3 of them now closed due to a city water to slow the spread of the coronavirus even before the closures. Fineman says many bars to be hit as parties canceled and people werent going out as often we started go where are still early are about 70 down to the last week and we close the drop in business enclosures arent just affecting him and his family, but also 50 of his employees are so hes are now out of work and so were trying to help figure out how they can apply for an apartment. Out their next steps, cutting of their last checks right now including theyre paid sick time malls in to keep the bars running for one theyre able to open again. Lyman says businesses need more help from the government like low interest loans and bailouts theres been a lot of talk about wine store. Sta laws are still havent come out about on the want federal government is doing that or she all skill trees all of her first see if you dont. Right now so designate our area emergency out of the need to offer those those loans just immediately for these locked doors and boardedup windows are something that will probably see for a few weeks maybe. Even a few months, but Business Owners say that it is in the best interest of Public Safety they just hope that the government at all levels will come up with something soon before these businesses go under in San Francisco tiller sackey kron 4 news. And also in San Francisco marijuana dispensaries will remain open during the shelter in place, the city deemed that they provide essential medicine. However people are being urged to get their marijuana products delivered to their homes if they cant you know customers can just go to the dispensaries and pick their items up to now kind of like a takeout well in the spirit of it. Wide shelter in place of thats an order from some restaurants. You know theyre offering discounts to seniors who may be most vulnerable to the coronavirus kron fours rob fladeboe shows us a few places going the extra mile. San joses or not those market is offering dedicated shopping for seniors during the coronavirus shelter at home order. The popular local chain is pioneering a kind of senior our concept which will find the store open only to people 60 or older from 8 to 09 00am each day says the stores cajas or well weve got the best way that we can help our community, especially our seniors and we are going to help our you know suppressed as well so its open up the first hour of our are not allowed to operate our 7. 30 view start on day we change try for a dozen ottos want seniors to know they are cleaning and wiping down all Services Every night and that the storm will be stocked as much as possible by 8 oclock each morning. Ask our customers are pace with us during this process because im started waters for all of us, but we have a lot of needs are deli items arts we have so many wonderful homemade items that people can take grabbing goes in stuff like that. So it allowed her to get in and out of the start but great mills were in san jose, the bar is closed, but the britannia arms all again today is offering curbside take out service for authentic Saint Patricks day corned beef and cabbage while supplies last. Senior citizens may ask for a discount says the restaurants Michael North by orders. In los gatos signs are posted at the purple onion and other restaurants that are also open for takeout food when even as a sidewalk Hand Sanitizer dispenser for customers and passers by and in san jose seniors, 70 and over who live within 2 miles of the tony elbows can get a free pizza. In san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Looks good coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news. Amid the coronavirus pandemic amazon makes changes that will impact when items are delivered to your home. 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Welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news checking in on your forecast, i got some sprinkles heading to work this morning and yesterday i took a little nap and i woke up to some thunderstorm activity so lets check in with john travel and see whats in store today. John yeah, its funny because when i took my nap yesterday robin i woke up to sunshine and that was exactly what were talking about yesterday those thunderstorms and. Isolated showers popping up for the inland east bay which is what happened early afternoon yesterday while coastal areas, saturn or sunshine. Well into the evening as for this morning you can see some cloud cover overhead from berkeley right here and there are some showers in the vicinity this line of light showers having pushed in over the peninsula north bay portions of the east bay on into Solano County if youre traveling this morning do watch out for some of those lighter areas of rainfall, some light showers on the peninsula around san mateo on up through san carlos even up to portions of the city and marin county out to the east bay oakland down to hayward some lighter showers for you the lay how on him to vacaville and over to napa also looking at some light showers as of this time this morning now into the afternoon today youll continue to see some spotty showers just here and there im expecting it to widespread event than what we saw yesterday which was those thunderstorms and isolated showers popping up in the east bay seeing a little less of that today for the east bay, but also just a chance of an isolated thunderstorm down in the south bay right around san jose. Tomorrow, our driest day of the forecast also your first day of spring, one of the better ones to be stepping outside not worrying so much about those showers popping up at times by the time we work into friday, a dry start to what wont be such a dry finish to the day as showers push back in on friday night. Todays daytime highs right where they have been the past couple of days, its back to the mid to upper 50s for warmest of temperatures it will be a another comfortably cool but brisk afternoon even as sunshine is seen between passing showers are actually going to a lot of sunshine between those showers thats not going to rise to keep temperatures rising into the 60s though keeping these things nice and cool today much like we have in the past couple of days, so id recommend if you are stepping outside for a bit keep the jacket on hand and do keep the umbrella on hand if youre talking about an afternoon spent outdoors in the south bay today now tomorrow first day of spring as i mentioned our driest one of the forecast friday, partly cloudy conditions saturday showers pushing back in. And thats the way well stay into the start of next week with more showers into monday and tuesday. Rob all right. Thank you john lets check in on traffic just keep in mind that roads are pretty slick and. Soggy around the bay area this morning. So you want to be driving at a reduced speed also if you encounter some showers of course have your headlights in your wipers on we tell folks that because a lot of folks forget and if the wipers are on the headlights must be on to that is the law so just keep that in mind rolling into San Francisco. You are fine were at 7 minutes here from the bottom of the maze over to the fremont street exit were doing fine on 92, its crowded already on the flat section but not bad at all and easy trip right now to the peninsula to the Richmond Sandra fell traffic looks good so far so heading into the north bay will not be a problem youre at an easy 7 minutes off 2, 1, oh one and the traffic tracker shows you more freeways more drive times and theyre all green and all good sure freeway at 14 minutes, heading west from crockett down to oakland, 24 looks good too so if youre traveling on wanted creek lafayette. Orinda the caldecott all is well 5. 80 is at the limit and so its the meme its 9 minutes thats easy from to 38 to downtown oakland. Is asking the federal government for financial help to keep its trains running. Of you may know that ridership has been dropping and drastically as people are keeping away from each other so the Transit Agency says that it could lose up to 55 million a month. Kron fours cape bruny takes a closer look. As bay area residents adjust to life under yesterday shelterinplace order one aspect that remains relatively unchanged is public transit. In essential service bart and muni are still operational theyre taking a ride might seem a little bit different on a typical weekday afternoon bark platforms, and trains alike are buzzing with commuters. And while most cars did have at least a couple passengers on tuesday. Ridership has already dipped significantly her barred yesterdays ridership was 118,572 people, 70 fewer than a typical monday in march. Then theres its amazing ive been here 20 years. Muni was noticeably less crowded as well the sfmta doesnt have real time access to ridership numbers clipper unfair tag data telling trending tale average weekday ridership was down 16 the first week of the month and dropped by 30 last week compared with typical totals in the month of march part is running on its regular schedule with longer trains to allow for recommended socialdistancing muni metro rail is also running on its regular schedule reporting in San Francisco, kate rooney kron 4 news. Americans are getting an extra 3 months to pay any additional taxes that they may owe to the irs. Taxpayers who owe money to the usually have to send it by april 15th right. But now individual taxpayers and Small Businesses they can defer payments of up to million for corporations thats up to 10 million. However you should still fall your taxes by april 15th. And theyre requesting a 6 month extension is still an option for you. The new deadline applies only to federal taxes but some states including california they are setting their own new guidelines. Well still morning news empty store shelves pose a problem for seniors who need to get their food and supplies. Well now theres a new program thats going to help them out well have the details coming welcome back to the kron 4 morning news and thanks for staying with us lets check in on those entertainment headlines. More of movie release isnt music tours or postpone area either canceling as people are staying home because of the coronavirus heres david daniel with an update in this mornings hollywood minute. Coronavirus movie delays have reached into may. Disney says the scheduled may first debut of the marvel movie black widow has been postponed the mouse house also announced the personal history of David Copperfield due out may 8 and the woman in the window set for may 15th would be delayed as well no new release date announced for any of the felt. From no filter to know tour. The Rolling Stones have postponed their no filter north american tour which was set to kick off may 8th in san diego in a press release the group said were sorry to all the fans who were looking forward to it as much as we were but the health and safety of everyone has to take thousands of people have taken murray hillarys silent hikes which the composer and meditation expert describes as a musical trip into mindfulness the meditation in motion is the kind of Group Activity that doesnt mix with social distancing. So company mind travel has introduced a downloadable version of his silent hikes, providing the Natural Beauty and inner calm of the experience without risking exposure to the virus info at mind travel dot com. In hollywood, im david daniel. Thats interesting a little peek outside before we go some of you may be waking up to some scattered showers and you may have a soggy commute depending on where you are this morning a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic moves well attorney in San Francisco will have a complete weather and traffic check coming up for make your yard the envy of the block this spring at lowe. With saving on craftsman, scotts and honda. So, you stay ahead of the pack. But in my mind im still 25. Thats why i take osteo biflex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. It nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. Osteo biflex now in triple strength plus magnesium. Welcome back the time now for 29, lets check in on the forecast and see whats in store yesterday. We got a little bit of everything so whats going on today, john yeah, we sure didnt we got a lot of sunshine at times but then as you noted, rob and we also saw some isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon. As i was talking about for what you could have seen for your tuesday today is going to bring actually some pretty similar potential not a whole lot of changes in this forecast ahead of us much like yesterday a few spotty showers drifting in for the peninsula this morning though theyre pushing further out to the east bay as well as up into the north bay and even portions of Marion County do watch some wet spots in these areas overall rainfall intensity though has remained pretty light this morning. Anything from light to moderate showers at this time, zooming out across the region still more snowfall being seen up in the Sierra Nevada had some pretty low elevations too really good to be seeing this precipitation. And of course most of us not really heading out into it this morning. So thats also good news is roadways are a bit more empty, its not going to pose as much of a risk had you had it been a very busy travel morning. Temperatures in the 40s for most of us currently valais how and oakland some of our warmer spots at 49 degrees