Days right socialdistancing its one of the most important preventive measures. When you talk about limiting the spread of coronavirus but working from home is not always possible and there are still large groups of people in close quarters at some workplaces, one of those is a call center near sacramento employees there say theyre concerned for their health ryan hill reports. It is a lot of us and say over 202 people before today we were pretty much sitting 2 feet apart many people were noticeably say coronavirus concerns of reached a new level for employees at this Mcclellan Park whole center whose clients include covered california and blue cross employees at the center sent cbs 13 photos and video of what it looks like inside its a lot of people in there. Just sneezing and not really washing their hands and being cautious about the virus right now hear people coughing people Walking Around sometimes with masking their yes, pretty scary many maintaining a safe distance between people at the call center is the biggest challenge we only have 2 bathrooms and so it unrealistic for us to have social distancing with only 2 bathrooms a common breakroom really literally right next to tonight. I mean you could touch the persons hand is another issue. Some say they havent seen any disinfecting wipes it makes me i know they are doing precautions going like you know sanitizing the place making sure you know that might be everything down on a constant over the phone to Call Center Manager says the site is practicing social distancing and making sure there is 6 feet between each color station be just separated everyone in a 60 radio. So we separated one desk in between which is actually just happening right now the site manager also says more adjustments will be made is necessary despite those adjustments some employees remain concerned it makes the a little bit easy with that you know they are providing some things to try that again. Ryan hill reporting there the site manager says they are working on and testing a plan to let employees work from home if they like to. He added theyre not currently planning to close that call center. Governor newsome has said that its not likely california schools will reopen before summer break and that has parents scrambling to figure out whats next we talked to a state superintendent Tony Thurmond about how long closures could last and how Distance Learning will play a bigger role. We do not know. How long this may be. But we are always monitoring were always listening to our Public Health officials and what we do know is that the school being closed one of the best way we can flatten the 3rd as it relates to reducing the spread of the coronavirus but we also know is that we have a way to continue educating our kids in california just as lining in the custody in the California Department of education is working very closely with our 1000 to help provide that information ensure its been so good in that but the reality is is that the governors executive order. School districts, the flexibility. Distance learning have the funding that they need and that day we a weapon are south of border. To explain how this is learning has to happen and so were facing challenges have a way doing now you state superintendent thurman also says that officials are working on Mental Health resources for students during this difficult time. Congress is urging the public to stay in your homes, but you know what if you dont have a home lawmakers from states like california that have large Homeless Populations are obviously concerned about how this virus could affect People Living on the streets, joe khaleel reports from washington. Self quarantine and social distancing are nearly impossible for the homeless lawmakers say that makes the spread of the coronavirus more likely to meet lives on the line we dont have time. To move slow. We have to be responsive and congressman Eric Swalwell says a major outbreak in californias Homeless Populations will likely spread into the surrounding city and suburbs in the house. Bill that we passed we increased a medicaid dollars which is essential for california because of the homeless and the uninsured swalwell another representatives from california have been pushing the Trump Administration to Start Building temporary hospitals and shelters to address the unique position of the Homeless Population is in temporary shelters Isolation Unit for those who need to be quarantined treatment areas for those who are sick congressman raul ruiz says the federal government will need to work with individual states to quarantine Homeless Populations. He says not doing so is an existential threat to major california cities and are we says he urged Vice President mike pence to address this weeks ago and the Administration Currently has the authority to mobilize fema resources tent hospitals, 10 shelters, wednesday afternoon President Trump said fema is now playing an enhanced role in mitigating the virus to spread, its still unclear if any of those emergency resources will be directed specifically toward the homeless in washington, im joe khaleel. All schools in the California State University system or postponing twentytwenty graduation ceremonies. This is schools have shifted to virtual mode in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus the csu system operates 23 campuses across the state. Officials say ceremonies will likely be rescheduled for later this year. I want to check in outside a few more scattered showers popping up around the bay area not quite as active. As last couple days were not seeing Lightning Strike certainly theres a chance we could see an isolated thunderstorm out there, but we still got scattered showers around uh parts, the bay area to the south bay, the east bay right now even the north see a little more rain drop the activity out there but things are going to start to settle down a bit overnight tonight. Youll see finally that area of low pressure swings further and further to the south so by tomorrow morning, maybe some partly cloudy skies. A couple patches of fog a little chilly early on tomorrow down in the 30s and 40s around the bay area still a little leftover snow across the mountain tops even in the afternoon tomorrow, but then when it gets a little bit of a break on the first day of spring and into friday to looks like well try to clear out your skies just a little bit but this still remains a very active weather pattern weve got more storms on the way temperatures going to be cool in the San Francisco plans of 50s there are some partly cloudy skies 53 degrees of pacific about 55 in Half Moon Bay 56 in burlingame little cool 59. In redwood city will temperatures in the 50s in the 60s maybe couple popup showers over the mountain tops by tomorrow afternoon, the most urban areas i think well just to enjoy the cooler weather, some partly cloudy skies 60 want to live more 60 in hayward tomorrow about 59 in danville 62 in concord theyll be one of the warmer spots, 59 degrees in pittsburgh 61 in the napa valley about 61 also in petaluma and 61 degrees in santa rosa. Next couple days we start to dry things out for the first part of spring but back to some wintry weather starting late on sunday. Its coming up were deebo king miss which rumors about the spread of coronavirus are bogus and now in need more than ever why the red cross says a 3rd desperate for blood donations and wire nba players getting tested many of them for the virus. Well. Regular people cant get the test will tell you how the decision gets made. And were awaiting a live update from governor newsome tonight on californias response to covid 19 its expe widespread shortage of tests for coronavirus some people are asking why pro athletes are getting tested. Sometimes with no symptoms yesterday former warriors star kevin duran said he had tested positive for the virus and 3 of his Brooklyn Nets teammates are also infected. 3 of the 4 players are not experiencing symptoms. Last week you may remember the nba tested the entire Utah Jazz Team after rudy go bare tested positive. His teammate Donovan Mitchell also has the virus and another player in the league does to that makes 7 players total, new york mayor bill de blasio is among those speaking out yesterday he tweeted we wish them a speedy recovery but with all due respect in entire nba team should not get tested for covid 19 critically ill patients waiting to be tested. Test should not be for the wealthy but for the sick and tweet however an mta spokesperson says Public Health authorities are concerned about players spreading the virus because interaction with the public is frequent and they travel quite a bit. Today the Vice President reiterated that people without symptoms should not be tested instead tests should be for people who need it most people who are showing symptoms or those who are at high risk to president was also asked about athletes getting tested, he said quote you have to ask them that question and quote the president said he doesnt think that should happen but perhaps that is the story of life, according to President Trump. Still ahead. For governor Gavin Newsome to speak, but were also trying to separate fact from fiction. Well get you to new some live when he starts but also give you the lowdown on some virus continues to spread. Theres also some information misinformation going around steve spray shut, turns the tables on some coronavirus mitts. Its gotten to the point where some of these myths are now feeding off each other the myth that there was a shortage of toilet paper ended up creating another myth that is that costco is recalling its toilet paper because its contaminated with the coronavirus in the midst of the scramble for toilet paper camera rumor that all tp that people panicked purchased was being recalled to covid 19 contamination. Now the word was spread by this official looking social media post and. But it was as fake as keels lies the post was fraught with misspellings it said the tissue was contaminated with coronavirus outbreak due to the item being manufactured in china. Well if the misspellings didnt give it away is a myth a quick look at costco recall page showed there was no such toilet paper recall. So lets just fletch that myth right out of our lives now he is another myth its grown out of the shortage of coronavirus test kits the myth is that you can get tested for covid 19 by giving blood this has the ring of authenticity because donated blood is tested for some infectious diseases, including hepatitis b and c and of course hiv but banks will also does. All right we have some breaking news tonight. The governor is getting a live update now on californias response to covid 19 much listen. Hes. And over the course of the next few weeks. There were a series of technical actions. The state of california took today to codify announcement i made last night specifically to the issue of School Testing as a father of 4 young children. As a member of a system of Public Education in the state of california counts over 6 million a student but deeply anxious parents caregivers of those that to are no longer in we put out directives yesterday and Distance Learning on a curriculum to help support home schooling in the state of california. We expect that will continue to educate our kids but obviously with the School Closures and the expectation as i honestly assess last night that the school year itself likely will through the summer into the next School Session that we want to give people sure its that we have the kind of comprehensive a set of that we have now made Available Online throughout the districts and those that have closed the few that remain open, but also available to the public more broadly. But we also wanted to put to rest the issue testing if your school. Potentially does come back youre not going to be tested these kids dont deserve to be tested with all the anxiety, the social emotional stress, associated with these schools shutting down the last thing we should consider so that was codified today more formally through an executive order. Wilson in another series of executive orders, may be more than others on the issues tougher technical issues for businesses something called the warn act which means you just have to provide notification for mass layoffs week reduced and the restrictions related to that interstate commerce to allow logistics to move between states. We also a clarified some of those rules and will making him basically aligned them with the federal we did the same on issues that are a little bit more personal to people on that issue the social safety net. State of california issues related to access to cower csun food stamps welfare to work. And making sure that people dont have to come with the kind of anxiety that this moment meets were basically elaine, those concerns at least for the next 90 days likely to extend beyond that to make access and availability of those benefits more readily. Secure and so people that are existing recipients of those dont have to worry about coming back for reauthorization we really want to focus on new beneficiaries people that are applied in real time that will be our focus so that was a significant executive order that we have bounce and thats today as well, a technical one, but important to many people as it relates to Public Meetings we clarified some ambiguities on bagley cut keen, you can ask me about that later a more complicated a subject, but it goes to the issue of open. Public discourse coast, the issues of transparency which is important to all of us, so we clarified that is well on the substantive side in terms of the thrust of a real focus. For the states issue of homelessness. Draw down those dollars by opening up the opportunity to focus on the covid 19 crisis that they can cite facilities and they can convert facility so were waiving some of our environmental processes sequel for citing a were making it easier. To bring up these facilities were also im making sure that the eligible uses for the existing dollars are spread out a more comprehensive way to meet this moment, but in addition to that we are deploying an additional 100 a Million Dollars to the citys and counties in real time to meet this crisis headon and to address the needs of our most vulnerable on the streets and the sidewalks 50 million on top of that for hotel motel conversions and heres the thinking. Were running models and ill just give you one of those models for the purpose of full transparency over the next 8 week period. We have modeled then of the 108,000 unsheltered californians that are out on the streets. If you had an attack rate. Of about 56 . Youre looking at 60 plus 1000 individuals that may. Have covid 19 that creates a deep point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our Health Care Delivery system our capacity to move people in and out of the shelter safely without contacting other people in putting them at risk as well, and so as a consequence of this modeling as a consequence. Putting i a punctuation point on the urgency of now to address this issue. We have put these dollars out but were also putting out. Over 1300 trailers now we just procure those trailers today were distributing those trailers throughout the state of california, 1309 to be exact will be distributing hauling those trailers installing those trailers throughout the state of california over the next number of days and then will be turning the operations over to the regents a what we call the see a season. These. Localized a Resource Centers so that they can provide that quality bottom up service and that is needed at the moment, but again were not just providing the trailers we now have these Additional Resources and in the protocols of isolating people that may be called it positive and maybe showing symptoms the whole idea of the hotel motel. Contributions i 50 million is about bringing people inside a with a door a key in a lock. With this much support of service as we can provide under the circumstances so thats a an additional executive order that lays out more prescriptive lee. Our approach to address this homeless crisis more aggressively. And i should note that we have 900 and 50 yesterday was 901. Now were in the process of having identified and serve a 950 properties and that were working with local municipalities and our state agencies to prepare and real time in addition to the trailers in addition to the existing infrastructure. Within the cities and counties that were going to enhance and support with these additional emergency dollars so i hope you get a the seriousness were taking. The issue of homelessness and the un housed in those that are struggling the most. Many selfmedicating many with co mobilitys mobile app many issues that need to be addressed are most vulnerable. Under these deep circumstances. We also are laying out the additional strategies and plans on surge more generally defined theres been a lot of focus. In the last few days on our capacity to meet not only this moment, but the moments to come. Its fair to say that if were looking at a 56 rate of the virus attacking those out in the streets and sidewalks if you, a model a similar rates in the general population, if you assume for every individual thats contacted or contracted the virus that they him packed lets just say 2 individuals. And we have hospitalization rates as high as in some instances we model 20 that would require broader Surge Capacity of our Health Care Delivery system. North of 19,500 additional beds. So i and others are a lot of numbers. But let me now trying to unpack that were running scenario plans again for the purpose of full transparency and thats just one scenario plan theres others that are more modest to some the me some cases be more extreme. But when youre looking at getting an additional 19 to 20,000 beds in your system. You have to look at your existing Surge Capacity within the Health Care Delivery system and you have to look at procuring additional assets not just for the homeless. But for the general populations i want to just briefly give you a sense of what that looks like. This friday. We will announce the 2 large that we have perk aired that will be bringing into our portfolio to address that 19 to gap. We have one in Southern California one in Northern California where are negotiating with many other hospitals to bring them on line local governments are doing the same. Recognize okay. Were in a hallway, a briefly governor newsome addressing a myriad of issues facing california right now. In light of the covid 19 from schools and testing hospital a hospital beds, the homeless. You name it. Yeah we have kron 4 news at 6 coming up next pam moore and dum dum dee dum dum dum [slurping sound] while youre working hard, do you know what your money is doing . Probably not much. Is your bank letting your money be lazy . Make your money work harder than ever with allys new smart savings tools. For all things money you deserve an ally. Its 6 the governor just speaking on the status of the call 19 fight in california will have more on that in a moment and within the last half hour President Trump signing into law the familys first Coronavirus Response act. Meantime, the coronavirus continues to spread both globally and here in the bay area forcing 2 more local counties napa and solano to issue orders for their residents to shelter in place. Thank you for joining us tonight