They need get home and get safe take a look at your screen we put a list on your screen of the stores that are stepping up with this initiative for not only elderly people but also those with you compromised immune systems you can see whole foods will leave an hour before open just for these people to get in there safely will have time set aside from 7 until 9 in the mornings tuesday and thursdays target as said im here right now well have the first hour of being open as well as Dollar General this is going to be tremendously helpful so for those who are most susceptible to the virus making sure that they wont get infected. Now that they can get in there avoid lines in crowds. And the store will be most stocked at that time one more local Grocery Store in san joses ins autos market was ahead of the curve they were the one of the first stores in the bay area open early for elderly people and those susceptible take a listen to how theyve been working with this. Pace with us during this process because im charted waters for all of us, but we have a lot of needs are deli items arts we have so many wonderful homemade items that take grabbing goes in stuff like that. So it allowed her to get in and out of the starting gate. In quickly as what they need yesterday when i was live at costco in south San Francisco. I saw many elderly people out there in line hours before it even opened and thats just simply not right. So thankfully. These stores are stepping up they will be having those hours a little bit earlier and that way they can get in get out and those people should even be leaving their homes. Its time to stand home. Keep social distancing and making sure that you are not being exposed to the coronavirus know we put that information on our website that we can refer back to it for now live in San FranciscoSarah Stinson kron 4 news very good. Thank you lot sarah for that. Safeway by the way also announcing its going to be hiring more than 2000 additional workers to keep up with demand from the coronavirus those openings apply across most departments at more than a 165 stores right here in the bay area it also applies to and ron akos vons and pack in safe locations are also hiring fulltime and parttime delivery drivers to help people that cant get to the stores in person to make sure that they have the essential items they need. This is a you talk about essential items they need theyre not there right now the shelves are bare if youve been out looking for certain things theres a lot of stuff you can find that theres less if you i guess everybody wants all the milk ice cream, i know its hard to find bread is another big one and then theres a long lines and thats why so many stores are talking about a senior only hours covers michelle kingston takes a look at a new website that aims to help. Paul let son is scared to leave her Brentwood Home to grocery shop, shes staying inside because of the coronavirus and the shelterinplace order in Contra Costa County my last trip was last week. Im not going anymore. Thanks to a new website started by a brentwood resident on monday. Paul it has neighbor shopping for her volunteering their time to help those in you know really where were trying to be groups on the ground so they dont have to be waiting in the lines of the groceries the pharmacy or for for a pet sitter whatever they are. Their needs are the website launched less than 24 hours ago when hundreds of volunteers have already registered right now theyre focusing on finding seniors and others in east Contra Costa County who need assistance during this time theyre just theyre angels. Jordan to scotto and jacob doll both signed up as volunteers on brentwood, strong dot com and on tuesday, they went Grocery Shopping for paul it feel like its the. Bring the Community Even closer. And it feels really great to be able to help out people in the community who may not be able to go to churches themselves if youre in need of help and ease Contra Costa County or would like to volunteer you can sign up on brentwood strong dot com. In brentwood, michelle kingston kron 4 news. Major retailers are also closing their doors and reducing their hours to help stop the spread of coronavirus macys bloomingdales all be closed through that least the end of the month north firms will also be closed for the next 2 weeks. These closures left Broadway Plaza in walnut creek. Virtually empty. We spotted just a few shoppers who say that there. Well theyve never seen anything like this before. You know when we first out the car. I said oh my god, its like the end of the world. Thats what it felt like wheres everybody are we the last people on earth it is wild to see too. Right around downtown wannacry can see a completely empty. Well jc penney and kohls say that for now they just plan on reducing store hours. During this outbreak. University says now more than 200,000 cases. Of coronavirus around the world in the bay area there are more than 300 confirmed cases. And 6 people have died, lets take a look county by county with Santa Clara County suffering the worst a 155 people have at their 5 people have died. In San Mateo County 64 people with coronavirus and one death, San Francisco county is 43 Contra Costa County 39 Alameda County. 27 people with coronavirus moraine county has 15 confirmed cases in Solano County 9 people have tested positive. A Sonoma County is 6 cases so far at this point napa county is still reporting none. As we all know the governor raised a lot of eyebrows for parents to brace themselves that our kids may not go back to school for the rest of the school year. Kansas has already taken that step is the first state in the nation to close schools for the rest of the academic year. And it may happen here next governor newsome sent the warning out yesterday kron fours will tran has the latest good morning. Well. Daria good morning. He has not ruled that out just yet that he could sign an executive order just like the governor of kansas to shut down school for the rest of the school year but hes leaving a slight opening just in case because its such a fluid situation. The rate now duryea 99 of the states 6 Million Students are already out of school because the schools voluntarily shut down for at least 3 weeks up to a month. Now the governor says it could last a lot longer than that the plan according to the governor is if he chooses to close the school for the rest of the school year that buys the remaining of the school year gets him into the summer and creates social distance and the bottom line is weve talked about this for weeks now is to create social distance to slow down the spread of coronavirus the reason why the governor has not closed the door entirely because he knows a lot of low income families they rely on the schools for meals and thats why thats Still Available for now thus ends the governors other reasoning to keep it open. Let me be candid. This is a very sober thing to say and i can say this with certainty but i can say this quite learned late. Dont anticipate schools are going open up in a week please dont anticipate in a few weeks and i say that because one needs to be honest and i need to be accountable to you i want to mislead you to 6 plus million kids in our system and their families they need to make some plans at a time when a lot of plans are already being curtailed the planning with kids some of the most challenging a planning i would plan in assume its unlikely. That many of these schools, a few if any will open up before the summer break. Can also tell you that the governor has decided to waive the standardized testing a lot of the kids obviously use the testing to make sure that they qualify for college hes going to weigh the standardized testing. And if the schools are in fact close for the rest of the year the governor plans to try to turn the empty buildings and to Daycare Centers and bring in personnel to make sure that the families and lets face it a lot of families rely on the schools to take care of the kids while they try to make ends meet. He says hell try to bring in personnel to take care of the kids obviously creates social distance, but everything is on the table at this particular point but the governor says that he had to break the news first and foremost to his kids including to his daughter and his daughter says she misses school but thats just the way it is back to you. When he said the exam saying well, thanks for clarifying his i was wondering what does that mean for my kids a senior so you know these kids have to keep their grades up to get into the colleges that accepted them, but theyre not going to be tested anymore so they stick with the great they had its very confusing. Whats going to happen is more than likely what we saw last year in union city whatever grade that you have remember that during covered that extensively with the Union City Teacher strike, whatever agree that you had going into the strike is what they kept waves a standardized testing obviously you cant revisit your grades so colleges will have to take that into account and then from that particular point theyll have to work with the college, lets face it everything is on the table such a fluid situation his the governors obviously relying on the colleges to be very fluid as well oh boy everybodys got to be ready for anything all right, thanks a lot. Well. And then theres the matter of the kids who need to eat at School Schools are closed how they got to get that free lunch and breakfast to San Francisco is providing still 3 meals a day during the school closure. Pickup sites are open monday through friday from 9 to 10 00am and you dont need id or proof of School Enrollment but a child must be present for you to get that food for all of the locations where you can get the lunches go to our website at kron 4 dot com. Clark is asking the federal government for financial help to keep its trains running r dership has been dropping drastically as people are keeping away from each other and the Transit Agency says that it could lose up to million. A month. There was over 570 less people on the trains on monday alone thats a 70 drop from a typical monday in march. Unique was noticeably less crowded as well clipper and fair tag data shows that weekday ridership was down 16 . The first week of the month, so i had to look see the buses like double long ones and how did a long ones. 3 people 3 people in all 8 buses. So was one in 1, 2, and another that was it i mean theyre off like 30 compared to a typical month so muni getting hit hard part getting hit hard now they need some financial help from the government can force still would say were at full speed but were keeping a Skeleton Crew were trying to do our best to social distance while giving you all the information that you need you can go to our website at kron 4 dot com. Another great resource is the kron on app weve lifted the my money should work as hard as i do. Thats why i use my freedom unlimited card to buy heavier weights online. Got them its go time. groaning with freedom unlimited, youre always earning. I shouldve purchased lighter weights with favorites like our golden country fried steak, our scratchmade buttermilk pancakes, and our signature chicken n dumplins. So come on home to what you love, come on home to cracker barrel. All right 6 15 is the time and we were just talking to the commercial break about social distancing and how to interact with friends that. Want to say hi but you know you get a b pretty forceful in enforcing you know the space around governor was saying use your common sense say hes not going to dictate everything families can get togethers tough people youre used to being around right but john you know we see each other work this faraway dont come to my saying love you cant wait to reconnect wants this whole shelter in place is over but theres a lot of waving at hope its going to i wasnt too bad held that was a as long as you have a jacket on yesterday you are actually really robin was tell me though she saw some thunderstorms out in the east bay, which is what we were talking about your forecast and today dont be fooled. You may be seeing some sunshine from time to time but if you are planning on stepping outside for your a nice socially distanced walk. Well, you should be doing so with a jacket at least ready to go because we do have. Another chance of showers into the afternoon unlike yesterday theyre going to be spotty been sometimes a little unpredictable rolling overhead right after some sunshine. Right now we are seeing just a few light showers across the bay this activity its definitely showing up in a lot of green, but what you are seeing despite how much green is on the map. Its just some very light rainfall so no downpours this morning up in the north bay right around marine county, San Pablo Bay, some moderate areas of rain and thats about the heaviest youve got it areas like sausalito timber on if youre crossing the richmond sandra fell bridge and even up towards the north end of San Pablo Bay where you are seeing some light to moderate showers just a few sprinkles now remaining on 80 if youre crossing 80 right over the car keen as yeah youre running into some a brief periods of light to moderate showers. Now that youve been holding on the light showers through most of the morning. So after some dry periods that later on this morning we start to see a couple of those showers popping up on into the late morning early afternoon here you can see how they just pop up in little bubbles here and there but nothing super wide spread the best chance of any sort of thunderstorm activity this afternoon is for the south bay as opposed to the inland east bay yesterday. Now tomorrow your first day of spring and friday your second day of spring, our driest days of this forecast still could see a stray sprinkle in there but on these days, your safest bet to get outside on that walk taking the dog outside and enjoying more sunshine than not 50s for your daytime highs today this is familiar territory really just a degree or 2 different from yesterday, not really any changes into tomorrow either so this comfortably cool pattern that weve seen the past few days. Its just been something that youve got use to i know we got spoiled those weather so far this winter season. But we need to start seeing this cooler and rainier weather so its good that were getting a dose of showers and some cooler temperatures too out towards the coast hanging on the 50s much like you will be further inland tomorrow, not a big temperature change just yet to start spring. We will see 60s for a few days after that though friday saturday sunday and monday being those days saturday being your warmest day and also likely a dry day with just a chance of evening showers sunday monday and tuesday will bring our next round of widespread and at times looking like could be some heavy rainfall into the start of next week. Robert checking in on 92, it started off as our busiest bridge this morning and its still the chase westbound 92. Pretty stacked up leaving hayward over to the peninsula, nothing like what we normally see, but yeah theres a slowdown from the toll plaza to the high rise so for now were putting you at 14 minutes for the drive which is still good more raindrops keep popping up on the richmond sandra fell bridge camera so some of you are dealing with some moisture you need the headlights and the wife are so take it easy out there keep in mind that the roads are slick. So you should be driving at a reduced speed. We dont want you to spend out, heading to San Francisco for getting to work on 80 this morning. Its clear on the upper deck. Smooth on the skyway and an accident northbound 6 80 at marine avesta still wrapping up a tent backing up traffic for people approaching the benicia bridge but traffic is thinning out now and its looking much much better check out 80 and highway 4 to 42 all like lion at the limit back to you. Its 6. 19 and we know the us doesnt have nearly enough coronavirus test kits to keep up with demand. But some drivethru testing areas are starting to pop up around california. Marissa perlman takes a look. The elizabeth iis says shes not taking any chances she heard the Employer Health mobile Medical Center was open and immediately wanted to test for covid 19th i want to make sure and i cant be dragging her around his store trying to find food for enes takes care of her cousin branding the kerry who is on dialysis she was in the hospital for months after having open heart surgery. She says that was easy compared to the fear she has now with this pandemic. Eads was turned away after her screening and was told she didnt qualify for a test based on cdc standards everyone will be screened. But not everyone will be tested. Staff with apple Health Tell Us coronavirus tests are limited to people with confirmed symptoms and appointments. Thats because the number of tests are limits this is just the beginning the long at this point that testing facility only has about 50 tests. But they say that theyre going to be ramping testing up both here and stay wind around the country as well so well wait for those numbers to rise. Well americans are getting an extra 3 months to pay any additional taxes they may owe the irs taxpayers who owe money to the irs usually have to send it in by april 15 the deadline. But now individual taxpayers and Small Businesses can defer those payments for up to a Million Dollars for corporations thats up to million. However you should still file your taxes by april 15th and requesting a 6 month extension is always still an option. The new deadline applies only though to federal taxes, although some states including here in california are setting their own new deadline so stay tuned for more information on that. Sfo is open for business but nobodys traveling him in the bay areas under a complete shelterinplace order or so. Definitely not business as usual at the airport. Not only for the flights but all the vendors inside restaurants, there are only available for to go. And theres a huge amount of passengers that you see inside and out coronavirus related threat flight restrictions have cut the International Flights at sfo by 30 . President trump says the government will be providing financial help. But will it be enough. The crisis is not be on the ground only in the us for 4 days and then they went back into rebuilding their schedules. We were afraid to fly after but live we dont know people get comfortable when we come out of this being in an airport surrounded by hundreds or more strangers being in an airplane or mean your hotel. 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No instead Alameda CountyDeputy Sergeant ray kelly says deputies will be out there in the community looking to make sure people arent far and im sure were going run into those cases where where people are out and with no good cause and no good reason. We deal with that anyway a lot of times when we have our criminal elements that are out and about in doing those things so. Are going to use their discretion and were getting is going to be a teachable moment where we explain to people the importance of. The Health Guidelines from the looks of the empty parking lot here in dublin with the theater shops and restaurants close to the usually very busy shopping district folks appear to be a hearing to the east and all the less youre doing something essential message looks absolutely like people are following the guidelines. That theyre doing their social distancing see that theyre taking this seriously so thats really nice to see. 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As trading has officially begun. We will continue to monitor this and let you know where the numbers go as we follow the markets today on what has been a very tumultuous very rocky. Very volatile day or week of trading. So far. At 6. 30 right now were talking about the latest with the coronavirus is pretty amazing. We got the social distancing order right shelter in place which weve been doing and youve been doing. Then we find out that. Our kids may be home for longer than you think. The governor hinted that we could not go back to school and till next school year we might be done. Until the summer the kids are just go right into the summer kansas became the first state in the nation to do that theyre keeping kids out of school for the rest of the Academic School year. Governor newsome sent out the warning that possibility yesterday in kron fours will tran is live now with the latest well. He had to break the news first and for most to his daughter daria so his daughter says she misses her friends but he said. Sorry, i mean its such a fluid situation right now schools like law school a couple days ago. Coming into the weekend they decided not to go to school for at least 3 weeks to a month. This was voluntarily now the governor says that there is a chance he could sign an executive order saying that the schools will not return until the fall right now 99 of the night school anyway, but he could make that official and slammed the door shut. The reason being social distance he wants to make sure that the kids are not out there and the teachers are not exposed to coronavirus to try to slow it down and flatten the curve 6 Million Students in california right now most of them are not in school and parents you meadery and im sure many others are jobs drop when we found out that the kids will not probably return until the fall the governor says because of that he wants to weigh standardized testing so if youre looking to go to college, whatever. Whatever grays that you had more than likely. Those are the grades you going to carry into the college year your freshman year. As well as daycare right, lets talk about day care a lot of people have to scramble for that the governor knows that so if they dont return to school. Theres a good chance it will turn a lot of the empty schools and today cares bring in personnel make sure the kids are far apart from each other. And one of the big reasons james and darya why he doesnt want to slam the door completely on the School Year Just yet because he realizes that a lot of low income families they rely on the schools for their food so everything is on the table at this point, but he says more than likely hes leaning into it and school will not resume until fall and just want to get your opinion on this everything is so fluid. What is really if paul was delayed as well. Back to this point now i mean it will. Every day i wake up there is a new saying i i cant even believe you know, im used to news but not like this every day something huge and today, the biggest thing is you know money providing relief you might get a 1000 check and then all your kid might be out of school and yeah youre now looking at fall i i it could keep going the domino effect. Now you you wake up duryea james am i wrong to say this you we follow news news is are like yeah, you wake up almost and you go give me the damage report everythings changed in the overnight hours right its things dont usually changed this much this fast and youre talking will about a lot of kids that rely on the School Systems to e. Well in San Francisco, they are still providing 3 meals a day 3 meals a day during the School Closures they have pickup site and theyre open monday through friday from 9 to 10 00am. You dont have to show proof of School Enrollment or an id or anything you do have to have a child present though to get that food. Thats can help a lot of people go to our website at kron 4 dot com. If you want to see his pickup locations. There are more than so far lets continue on look at the numbers, 300 cases of coronavirus in the bay area with 6 deaths, lets take a look at the numbers county by county Santa Clara County suffering the worst a 155 people have test tested positive and 5 people have died in San Mateo County 64 people have the virus and one death is reported at this point San Francisco county has 43. Contra costa county 39 Alameda County, 27 cases in marion county. Theyre reporting 11 positives Solano County 9 Sonoma County 6. And at this time napa county is not reporting any positive tests but again testing is not widespread you are supposed to act as if you have the virus thats the only way were going to stop the spread so do what you would do if you had the flu you would stay away from people you would keep people away from you you you know that is how were supposed to stop the spread in San Francisco. The mayor is making even more changes now to help hospitals and businesses in as this shelter in place order. She announced a new policy to expedite the hiring process for qualified licensed nurses. And other Frontline Health care workers. The mayor wants to hire 100 new nurses on the spot and do away with the long involved process usually its 6 months to a higher nurses. This is going help the hospitals prepare for an influx of patients. Mayor reed also announcing a moratorium on evictions for businesses that cant pay the rent because just like a people who cant pay the rent businesses, small and medium size theyre less than 25th 5 million a year. Those are the ones that are going to be to get this help. 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. The city put residential evictions thats residential evictions on hold. Duda bought nonpayment and thats you know going to be something thats probably accent and week by week or month by month resource to theyre going to be setting aside special times for the most vulnerable among us. To do their shopping were talking about stores like whole foods and target safeway also on that list the stores will be designating a time for the elderly. The most vulnerable to get the things that they need kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco with more on the story sarah. Im live in a target here in San Francisco where the loading dock is full of trucks coming in and employees are getting ready in stocking the shelves for all those those customers that will be here. Surely plus now an hour earlier than opening it will be all for the elderly and for those who have vulnerable immune systems. This is crucial for these people because we have seen them, you know in the hustle and bustle and the lines trying to get what they need and that is not what they need they need stay home and be safe because they are the most vulnerable we have a list of the stores that its whole foods will leave an hour before open and safely will have time set aside from 7 until 00 09am in the morning tuesdays and thursdays target where im at right now will have the first hour of being open just set aside for those Vulnerable People as well as Dollar General tremendous help for these people so they dont have to get infected. They can stay safe. And now they can avoid the lines in the crowd since panic, shoppers have left many shelves bare yesterday when i was live at costco i saw a lot of people over the age of 6570 years old in line before the store even open in the cold and then once they got inside the hustling and bustling trying to get the rice get the bread get the eggs and that is not what they should be doing so this is a huge help this is something weve been waiting all week just to make sure that these people can stay safe. For now live in San FranciscoSarah Stinson kron 4 news okay. Thank you very much sara also in San Francisco marijuana dispensaries are going to remain open during the shelter in place the city has deemed that they do provide essential medication to people however people are being urged to get their marijuana products either delivered to their homes or if they cant. Then yes go to the dispensary but just pick it up and get out of their kind of like a pick up take up the order on the peninsula. Pancake house which has been serving customers since 1961 is still open for business but to comply with the order. They have to have a drive through it said makeshift drivethru. Were only closed on christmas day. Weve never experienced anything like this so we are a doing the best we can to. To stay open to survive and this is the this is the way were doing it were open for business every day 6. 30 to 03 00pm. How about that foster a different type of driver they have at a Foster City Elementary School for parents to pick up their kids homer packets so everybody is doing these kind of drives teams were talking about that was set on his so what about victims have to drive serve a mom and pop restaurants, dont they dont have a lane built under a hike that right away and parking lot and then the same thing with the school so everybody can you just run out do it that way find your way around it down the coronavirus can stay infectious on plastics in Steel Products seasurface for up to 3 days as we kind of trying to keep you more educated on how long the virus can linger it can serve 5 different times depending on the surface is that it contaminates for instance they can be detected on copper for only about 4 hours. On cardboard for about 24 hours. The corona virus can linger in the air suspended in tiny water particles for up to 3 hours which is why your encouraged that if you are sick and experiencing symptoms. Your the one that should be wearing the mask to keep these particles out of the air. The most important way to keep yourself safe though is by washing your hands frequently and again 20 seconds soap and water and thats a 22nd minimum not maximum. Okay now dip your finger back in the virus. See and i saw you see how important it is to wash your hands. Asa thats pretty cool right this experiment on the importance of washing your hands and you can do the experiment at home as well all you need is a plate some water. Some dish soap and some pepper, the pepper in the experiment represents the virus and when you get your hand in the water without soap, the pepper sticks to you but when you have a layer of soap on your fingers like you like you do and you just wash your hands, the pepper basically and runs away and its because so breaks the surface tension and creates its created in the water and allows viruses too basically for fleet, your hands and dont forget. This was a soap and water washing is theres no replacement like this are all these alcohols things that were doing with the jails in the. Its not the same they they really say washing hands is number one again its important to teach your kids and yourself as well dont touch base with your hands because in between washes if you do happen to get some buyers on your hands. And then you touch your face that sits thats its entry into your body right all right and dont forget to our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website at kron 4 dot com weve got lots more tips there on how to keep you your kids, your loved ones safe weve got the latest information as well on the outbreak itself the impacts on the bay area and the latest guidance from the cdc and local Health Officials so again check with kron 4 dot com throughout the day to stay updated on the story. Another morning with some spotty showers if you do plan on heading out this morning to watch out for a couple of slick spots on roadways. Im talking what to expect for the rest of the week and even into the weekend. Still ahead. Welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news, 6. 45 and is going its going to be. For knows how long were all in our own little separate areas here. The teams all here robins really continue to come into work but we hardly see each other and just like you stay home for most the time and now thats just what were doing this morning at robin did i mean bringing out here because traffic is theres nothing going on there is nothing going on traffic is light and quiet. We have a couple of accidents working but for the people who are driving roads are a little slick so take it easy out there just no ones there doesnt mean you should get out there and speak, yes would you say whether has become more important i i notice when i came out this morning, not only was a cold because it was the carson was in 40s completely covered in water droplets everywhere, its so we got a little rain we definitely do yeah were still looking at some rainfall out there which is great its good to have around that curve out of the very prolonged period of dry weather. We had you remember it tied has for the driest winter period that weve had and now as we worked our way back into a more calm way of life these next few weeks weve also worked our way back into a rainier way of life which is. Actually pretty good timing for that mother good excuse just to stay indoors as much as possible. Berkeley looking pretty clear at the moment we are seeing showers spotty across the bay though specially for the north bay right now were in for zooming in you can see some moderate shower activity on the richmond sandra fell bridge. Richmond on up to San Pablo Bay on the north end of the shore right there some of our most widespread of rainfall feel a little bit further north of these are just light sprinkles youre seeing on the radar widespread light sprinkles but as james noted enough to get that car windshield wet. If you are an essential worker and heading into work this morning. If youre just going outside for that opportunity to stretch your legs and get a job or a walk in with the dog. Spotty showers can be expected into the afternoon for the south bay, your best chance of seeing any thunderstorm formation also note the Sierra Nevada for the 5th day in a row looking at solid snowfall exactly what this year needed to know you wish you could be skiing on it. But lets focus on the good here and we needed that snowfall up there and it got even more of it coming around the corner. Now thursday and friday are going to are stays of this forecast saturday likely to be a dry one to these are your first 3 days of spring as today is the last day of winter spring officially kicking off tomorrow. Temperatures back to familiar territory. Here were talking 50s yet again today and really identical to yesterday actually very little temperature change. Neither today nor into tomorrow as we usher in spring so get used to these 50s for a little while there will be some 60s around the corner towards the end of the week and into the weekend but as for now were keeping that cool chill feel to the air much as hes enjoyed yesterday as you stepped outside even under some sunshine, it was still cool. Tomorrow as i mentioned weve got temperatures still in the 50s. But friday saturday sunday and monday will bring some 60s we remain dry thursday friday and saturday for the most part. Sunday monday and tuesday we get some more rain fall and its looking likely that this will just be widespread rain. Theres likely to be some heavy showers in there too. Im going to talk more about what that means for us still to come. Robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge commute into San Francisco as a fed earlier headlights and wipers may be needed for some of you. But were looking good traffic, nice and smooth through the tolls across the upper deck continuing through downtown San Francisco. So no big trouble spots right now just keep in mind that if you are parking Pay Attention to the signs but a San Francisco, daly city and hayward those cities have suspended their street sweeping regulations so thats a little bit of good nets compared to yesterday. They will not be issuing tickets for those street sweeping zones that you may be parking in at least not until the end of the month and if you got a ticket yesterday theyre saying that that fee will be waived so there you go, but dont disco parking you know in those places youre not supposed to be there. 8 minutes here to the north bay, the traffic looks good from the tulsa one on one 90 to our busiest bridge. Yeah, we have some slow traffic out there on the flat section approaching the high rise, but youre overall drive time looks good at 14 minutes and one more to 37 west bank are just getting word of a new crash and is backing up right at the scene but the rest of the south bay looks great 6. 80 the nimitz one oh one 17 to 37. Want to get to the sunnyvale side doing just fine back to you. But rob and the Trump Administration is pushing a measure that has early bipartisan support that would send americans cash to help them out during this coronavirus outbreak our washington correspondent alexandra le mon has more now on who would and would not qualify. Were looking at sending checks to americans immediately Many Americans around the country are already out of work because of the coronavirus outbreak. Now the administration is considering sending money to help workers through the crisis so i think we have ways of getting money out pretty quickly and very accurately we have to go through the legislative process. We have to get a and then ultimately the irs will be cutting the checks. Utah senator mitt romney was the first to suggest giving American Adults 1000 to help with the Economic Impact of the pandemic so probably be phased out for people who are earning over. Thats a 75,000 as an individual las vegas democratic congresswoman dina titus says the money would help casino and Hotel Employees who are out of keep it on the table or paying one rent or any covered supported. Well, im not going to rule out any possibility to me it seems like it doesnt fix the underlying problem, but some lawmakers like republican north dakota senator kevin cramer are skeptical id rather see the foundations of our economy secured President Trump met with leaders of the airline and Tourism Industry to discuss how to help their businesses you cant have them are now it increase or democrats say any industry bailout would need to benefit workers in washington, alexandra le mount. 6. 51 and this just in President Trump announcing the United States and canada. Are shutting down the border for non essential travel. The president says trade between the 2 countries will not be affected. He just tweeted about the closure moments ago and has not yet said when that will happen. But the us and canada now thats the final border to that we know to be close james. Interesting now weve got the markets as we keep watching the numbers and you can see we by almost 5 and a quarter Percentage Points down over a 1000 points right now 20,001 57 thats the dow are seeing negative trading across the s and p 500 the nasdaq as well and were trading at points today below the 20,000 mark. And whats interesting is that when President Trump took the oath of office during his inauguration back in january 20th of 19 i should say of 2017. The markets were trading at 19,007 9, 9, so in effect if the markets today continued their slide in close below that level of 19,007 9, 9, and affects this coronavirus will have wiped out all the games for President Trumps entire term in office so far coming up on 4 years. Pretty a pretty impressive slide. Lets wherever we want to go, we just have to start. Autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Voters still turn out to vote on election day 3 states delivered big wins to joe biden the former Vice President had a sweeping victory on super tuesday and now projected to take florida arizona and illinois. You can see all the people that braved ago coronavirus to get out you could see giving his acceptance speech there in isolation instead of a trial by a big crowd of supporters because of the coronavirus. Well dealing with coronavirus may be scary for you on irving for many of us and there is a hotline that can help you out help talk you through it its the National Disaster distress helpline that number on your screen as you can see is 1 809 8, 5. 59. 90 you can also text and talk with them and if youre hearing impaired they tty numbers well to bottom your screen weve actually put this graphic on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to refer to it later in the day. Its there for you and i and i do want to mention too that if you if you have a psychologist or psychiatrist or a therapy person or a counselor. Theyre doing their stuff with skype and with zoom and you know they have the same kind of thing on phone so reach out to professional if you need to talk to somebody in the stress and anxiety in the panic of the fair is getting too. There are people to talk to you dont have to go in person and talk to anybody. All right coming up here on the kron 4 morning news lot more to cover box stores that are changing their hours to try to allow seniors to shop before the crush of everybody else arrives. Well have details on that coming up in a live report and schools could very well be shut down for the rest of the school year that was something the governor Gavin Newsome hinted at during yesterdays press conference. Yesterdays press conference. Well have more on tha mrs. Walker. Yesterdays press conference. 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They are also the most vulnerable to the virus were talking about people over the age of 60 people with compromised immune systems. Theyre having a tough time getting what they need and so weve got more stores now doing what they can to help those customers out this includes whole foods target Safeway Stores like that theyre going to be designating special times for these vulnerable shoppers to come do their shopping