Were seen practicing social distancing at Mission Dolores park while others, not so much. Ive been locked up in the house want to go kick you in my homies out here trying to enjoy life 21 yearold david brown and his friends say theyve been wanting to get outside after being cramped up at home. But governor newsome in a saturday night News Conference as this kind of attitude is unacceptable. Those young people theyre still out there on the beaches. Thinking this is a party at the time to grow up. You know time to wake up tom that to recognize its not just about the old folks its about your impact on their lives dont be selfish brown his friends say they understand its selfish but they needed to get out for their sanity i know it isnt the best decision. And its not what everyone advise is to say, but i love life and its weve been quarantined for almost week now soft. Its kind of like a needle more like one last day to help my friend, how its a lot of the young population is a really taking it seriously people in the bay area and across the state have been told to stay 6 feet away from others, not to gather in groups and to wash their hands exercises been encouraged, but it needs to be done safely. The governor says hes expected social pressure not policing to help and forced the shelterinplace order. Some argue this situation is a catch 22, its really difficult. Its hard to stay back and. Enjoy does enjoy the quality of its so madam have a good time now, but you know also being very mindful of other things are going on. Well in the north bay almer in county parks have been shut down after too many people showed up over the weekend and put others at risk with large crowds. So the shutdown include state parks like mount temple pious and federal lands like point raise in their words. Visitors can continue to use paved walkways like the areas in mill valley sausalito and corte madera as long as they follow guidelines on social distancing member state least 6 feet away from the person next to you. People who smoke the 4 have Substance Abuse problems may be at an increased risk when it comes to the coronavirus doctors say that because covid 19 attacks the lungs and it may pose a more serious threat to those who use tobacco or marijuana as well as those who vape as oron fours gayle ong reports using these products could make young people more vulnerable to coronavirus. People who smoke or vape may be at increased risk when it comes to coronavirus this indication coming from doctor Stanton Glantz a professor of medicine at ucsf vaping like smoking depression is immune function in your and your lunch in addition to moving air in and out of your body can get ice agents, yourselves and to get rid of carbon dioxide. I have a report of a new function because when youre breathing youre breathing in a lot of bacteria and viruses doctor glantz explains e cigarettes and smoking makes it harder for your body to fight off a viral infection. Doctors say copa 19 directly attacks the lungs vaping has skyrocketed particularly in young people. The cdc reports that young adults from ages 20 to 44 make up a big part of coping 19 hospitalizations in the united states. Theres been little to no research by glance questions whether the virus is tied to vaping a couple of colleagues share her actually taking care of patients have noticed a couple of my you know younger people who came in. Notice it they were vaping what we need to start doing as he track of whether these people were smoking or vaping because that might be contributing to whats going on director of the National Institute on drug abuse also flagged the concern in a blog post published last week. Citing drug concerns in addition to vaping and smoking according to the post opioid slowdown, breathing and have already been shown to increase mortality in people with respiratory diseases. I think one common sense thing to do shop and salt to your was 7 years one of my pulmonologist firms tells me one user designed to breathe in air not a terror are fine particles and chemicals that you get from ecigarettes and cigarettes. Gayle ong kron 4 news. Other medical staffers on the front lines of the Coronavirus Crisis are in desperate need for respiratory masks to protect themselves and grass root efforts are now popping up across the bay area to try and help them out prof forcefully to call shows us how Business Owners in brentwood for pitching in. Produced a limited hours and takeout orders only due to the Novel Coronavirus core covid 19 pandemic vicki little figured her business sippin scoop, california in brentwood could do more than just offer coffee and gelato the need is there so when her good friend, Heather Taylor reached out detailing the health risks medical staffers are facing in this crisis that who partnered up to make a difference. Taylor is also based in brentwood and owns tailored physical therapy and wellness i know of to clinicians who contacted me today who say they and they dont even have a single mass and in order to go into patients homes and treat one is an occupational therapist. And one is ran a similar dilemma shared by nurses across the bay area who have rallied outside hospitals in the past few weeks pleading for their employers to make more n 95 respirator masks and other protective gear available. On saturday, heather and vicki began a collection drive for clean and unused massed outside sippin scoop on oak street that will continue through the weekend eventually the equipment will be passed along to the medical community in need those of us in california. We just went through all the wildfires. We have masks in our garages, we forgot about just friday Construction Company bcci builders donated 50 n 95 masks to coastal kids home care in the south bay and another 250 to kaiser permanente. Pacific gas and electric also donated nearly 1 million n 95 and surgical masks to the Governors Office of Emergency Services for distribution to think that we have a lot of people that are sitting on some asked that we can definitely. Get out those. Hospitals are in dire need taylor says reach out if you cant make it down to sit and speak to make a donation shes willing to pick your items up meanwhile, the collection drive will continue at the cafe sunday from 4 oclock in the evening through 8 oclock at night in brentwood felipe should all kron 4 news. The people around the world are getting a lot of guidance on how to avoid contracting and spreading the coronavirus but theres still a lot of questions about what to expect if you do get sick. Brian todd has a closer look now at the experiences of those who have been infected. Kevin harris with a painful cough and asked the cost he is laid up in a hospital in warren ohio, a victim of coronavirus experts say cost is one of the first symptoms you feel when you have the virus, but its a certain kind of cough or a cold enough low can sometimes cause are really running nose. And certify mars and serve mucus. Feeling in inside a and in your cough and in and in your nose where is this virus seems to be im much more of a dry cough fatigue fever and body aches can set in in the first couple of days you have it experts say. Lisa merck isolated at her home in colorado describes how that felt my muscles ached in my joints ached really about it felt like somebody was like stabbing me with an ice pick doctors say even with those symptoms, its sometimes hard to know if you have coronavirus. Getting tested is critical and as hawaii fiveo star Daniel Dae Kim says unpleasant the test itself was really awkward another painful position or shoots lob into your nose. A few days in theres a telltale sign of coronavirus as the infection can progress the symptoms will change from just a dry cough to actually im difficulty breathing. Kevin harris says his breathing got so difficult his intense nausea actually brought relief. After i threw up i could breathe once you get to the side of it you can breathe a little bit better. I mean is the weirdest thing you think youre going to die during one of those episodes you got me, you know youre going to die. But then you dont then theres the feeling of isolation for those self quarantined and even hospitalized patients, cnn checked in a few times with clay who said his lock hospital room in georgia felt like a jail cell even when caregivers came out like im in a room next to where these the ballots, those. In sale in. In other glove that me so they come here and do what they have to do and they laid so. Is a terrible thing to me very light the dish that offer no world. Kevin harris took a Facebook Live video of a visitor to his room who had to be heavily protected su. Last weekend after 8 days in the hospital bed lee told cnn what it felt like to finally turn a corner levels. Were starting to rise and im starting to feel. Verma longs again and im a very freely, new but doctors say for patients like bentley and harris who had to be hospitalized with respiratory problems those issues may not go away soon there is a chance that that there could be some lasting. Facts on pulmonary function on lung function and some visibility. To breathe in the future. Well amid the coronavirus pandemic a Grassroots Group in San Franciscos trying to help out seniors and other people with Chronic Health conditions. Theyre volunteering by running errands for them during the shelterinplace order take a listen. And our goal is to empower neighbors to support each other for help during this kogan 19 crisis. Were all affected by this in some way whether its caring for loved ones or have a family affected by this and other countries and so the hardest part about this work is connecting people who want to help with people who are in need. So this is the gap that were trying to sell and were Building Systems for people to submit requests for help and for volunteers to take arms requests for their neighbors with a focus on helping older phones and people particularly vulnerable to infection and some of the services that are volunteers can provide are in addressing immediate needs including air and ryans for groceries picking up prescriptions other critical areas and dog walking other kept walking. Well the whole interview with San FranciscoCommunity Support first aired on kron on thats our 24 7 commercial free news app you can download it today in your favorite app store. Time now for it coming up in the next a second here the kron 4 morning news has restaurant struggled during the coronavirus pandemic with one restaurant worker that finding ways to keep working and helping the community will explain. Theres a quick live look outside weve got our market era camera showing you well, San Francisco in the bay bridge in the background it is pretty quiet out there. For 42 in the morning. Well be right back. When it comes to your business internet, which is more important . Okay, i wish i didnt have to choose. Like the more i think about it, the more i want to jump to each room. What if i said you can have it all . Comcast business gives you connectivity that goes beyond. Thats what we want thats speed, reliability, and security, all from one provider. Touchdown comcast business goes beyond with the extraordinary speed, reliability and security your business needs. Call today. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Welcome back 4. 45 on this monday morning. If you are heading out this morning do expect some chilly conditions but rather calm conditions as well not a whole lot of fog to be talking out across the bay area as most cloud cover sits right above us as for temperatures were in the 40s 50s right now so certainly a chilly start san mateo oakland and fremont each at 51 degrees hayward redwood city and then much of the north bay down into the 40s for your morning lows as for conditions into the afternoon the skies will be mostly sunny with just a few passing clouds here and there and a couple of sprinkles from time to time the real cold air still stocked up to our north and its going to plunge into the state come tuesday and wednesday so today showers are going to be light brief and nothing more than just an isolated sprinkle a time or 2 between those mostly sunny skies tomorrow morning to expect widespread showers to start again remaining light nothing about these next few days is drought busting. But a few isolated areas of heavy rainfall can be expected into tomorrow afternoon. Well it yesterday when we saw some east bay thunderstorms popping up from time to time then we work our way into wednesday skies still remaining pretty calm compared to where we were at least a start last week just a few isolated showers remaining for the sierra nevada, though some much needed snowfall continues to pile up on the slopes. That certainly is good news for snowpack in the mountains. Temperatures today in the 50s and 60s thats cooler than we were yesterday but not as cool as tomorrow wednesday and thursday are about to be our coolest a severe forecast with highs only maxing out in the 50s tomorrow and wednesday, your best chance of showers after that we drive back out in this forecast as daytime highs climb eventually back up near 70 degrees by at the upcoming sunday. James all right john thank you very much quick check of the roads out there this morning so far so good. No major problems to report not to see the traffic is light as you can see here in. Our camera shot of the san mateo bridge. This is the scene were seeing across all. Bay area bridges and while were talking about bridges just a quick reminder. The cash lanes for state on bridges like the bay bridge for instance. Theyre not doing any cash transactions they dont want to contribute to the spread of coronavirus so theyre advising you if youre going to be in a cash lane. Today just to drive on through it, theyll record or license plate. Theyll send you a bill in the mail so dont slow down expecting to Exchange Cash with the toll taker today. Coverage of coronavirus the pandemic is hitting everybody hard but its especially tough for restaurants which are been shutting down across the state leaving many without jobs for the foreseeable future and on this mornings dine and dish kron fours Vicki Liviakis spoke with someone who once was at the helm of a celebrated restaurant thats now struggling to survive. Passing by a Neighborhood Market in San Franciscos know weve alley there boxing wine frederico used to be the general manager of one of the most celebrated and were like so many restaurants is showing he is without a job, a statement. It is really frederico says hes grateful to find work helping out his friend. Many of his coworkers not so i. But he shop here in alley and i essentially busy right now too. Celebrity chef Chris Constantino who are also closed down his San Francisco restaurant. Cox comb is worried that fewer than one in 4 restaurants will be able to come back after the crisis you are at this point the more. This is it doesnt matter if your the best of the down the street everybody is in fact getting into their weight. In the meantime frederico is holding out hope and helping box and sell bottles of wine to those who appreciate his knowledge in his effort. And they are taking some i see some some takers but get through in San Francisco, Vicki Liviakis kron 4 news. Another casualty of the coronavirus the gilroy garlic festival its not going to be happening this year organizers announced the cancellation saying that given the unprecedented National Emergency that we face you know they had to put the health and wellbeing of the community for so no festival of this year they were looking forward to putting it on in the wake of last years mass shooting which left 3 people dead and 17 others injured they were hoping to use it as a way to show that the community was bouncing back but again theyre going to have to postpone it because of a cancel it out right because of the coronavirus San Franciscos annual bay to breakers is also postpone now due to the coronavirus concerns city officials making that announcement on friday. The famous yearly ron was scheduled to take place in may. It will now be held on september 20th all existing 2020 bay to breakers registrations will be honored on that new date and one of americas Favorite National Parks is now closed to visitors yosemite shut down friday at the request of the local Health Department and while other National Parks have closed us in some areas, this is the First National park to close entirely. Hotels and restaurants and a semi were shut down last tuesday as a precaution. Guests were told that closure would last until at least the end of the month. In national headlines. We have seamstress and sowers across nebraska stepping up now to lend a hand in helping to protect hospital workers from the coronavirus Ashley Richards shows us how. Everybody wants to help ive never seen people want to help what they do here in nebraska through mean Jenny Gallagher shes a Nurse Practitioner from classmate she loves to sew in her spare time so now shes combining for 2 passions to help make face mask for Health Care Workers battling the coronavirus somebody was asking about needing masks. Just little. Everybodys out. And i thought im not on the front lines. Im not working in a hospital, im not in an emergency room. But im a nurse and so my goal was to try to help and press it a mass are reusable and washable gallagher says theyre Pretty Simple to make it takes less than 10 minutes her mast. Its just simple you attach some plea to them and then run elastic through the signs i found a Youtube Video following the directions not only is she making them asks quote, shes also working to bring people together during this time of uncertainty. She created a Facebook Group nebraskas hands and feet so people in need of anything can reach out to people who can help them i thought surely there something i can do to make the system better and more streamlined so i did. I started a Facebook Group started inviting people trying to put people with means together with people that are helpers. And thats how we got here. Gallaghers spreading a message of kindness during this challenging time now shes hoping this movement will take off. She says just one person can really make a difference. Im working on masks for stephanie in north platte and as the group grows were going to help people all over the state. Well is Ashley Richards reporting if you want to make your own face mask at home you can find dozens of how to videos on youtube on how to do that template is that you can download as well. 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And in many cases, it works faster than braces. upbeat music welcome back for 55 on this monday morning back to work today for some of us maybe some of us more so staying at home and if youre one of those people says your view outside this morning. Definitely some misty conditions overhead we do have some low cloud cover pushing on over the bay area and in some spots of the north bay has resulted in a bit of fog now skies are dry across the bay area. But if you take one zoom out across the region need to see showers across both the Central ValleyCentral Coast and into southern california. This first system did results and thunderstorms last night for some of our inland areas. But not a whole lot of widespread activity for the bay area showers will be seen as just a couple of sprinkles side today, but tomorrow youre better chance of rainfall, especially during the morning across the bay area. James all right. Thank you very much response to the coronavirus pandemic jk rowling is encouraging teachers to post videos of themselves reading. The harry potter books rowling and her publishing agent says that there. Expanding the regular copyright permissions and the granting an open license for teachers kids around the world are at home right now all schools remain closed to help stop the spread of coronavirus and to help. Educators can now upload videos of them reading the text from the 7 harry potter books on to the schools. Secure networks until the end of the school year. Up in the next hour, a new coronavirus testing site opens up in the east bay today, anyone who thinks that theyre infected. Well theyre welcome to stop by and get tested will tran have more coming up in a live report. Plus a massive drop in ridership has part changing their service and offering fewer rights to commuters lot details on those changes which go into effect today and National Guard troops now helping california and the federal government is footing the bill were going to have the latest on the state and federal response to the good morning and thanks for hanging in james and i are still far apart and or reducing hiv youd be at home by now but were working that out for you to do it. The weather from home we are reducing reducing reducing our staff here like everybody as were beginning week 2 now second full week. Of sheltering in place practicing social distancing, lets hope it all makes a difference if we all work together. To do it every day yeah and then and with the testing is just starting to ramp up this morning, the city and hayward is opening a testing facility