Now at 5 as we approach the weekend then coronavirus cases continue to climb in the bay area and beyond city leaders are issuing a stern warning follow the stay at home order or you could face consequences. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im justine waltman tonight there are 1600 confirmed cases of covid 19 here in the bay area and 35 people have died. Today Santa Clara County announced its 20th death from covid 19 and there have been 574 cases overall San Mateo County has 239 cases and 6 people have died, San Francisco county reports. 279 cases and 3 deaths. Contra costa county has 147 cases and one death. Alameda county 204 cases and 4 deaths. There have been 65 coronavirus cases in marine county solano has 34 sonoma cnty has 50 cases and one death and napa county has 8 cases and as the number of cases continues to go up San Francisco is now taking steps to slow the spread of the virus with the weekend now arriving. Policchief bill scott says that means you will see officers out in forcing the shelterinplace order kron fours dan kerman joins us now live in San Francisco with what police will be doing and the changes that people can expect to see from this weekend compared to last. Just a more here at the marina green and if you come down the marina green you will find that there is no parking here. Theres no parking it. Crissy field, the speech there is no parking at ocean beach and that is because they have shut down these parking lots because they want people to stay in their own neighborhoods last weekend people were congregating they were not doing the social distancing. And city officials have taken these steps to make sure the ople continue to stay apart from ch other this weekend. Parking lots at San Franciscos ocean beach in the marina greein crissy field east beach are closed Outdoor Fitness sites are also off limits and so are neighborhood playgrounds it San Franciscos latest move to stave off bad behavior this weekend in other words an attempt to keep social distancing going in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. I want to be clear that it will save lives. If we continue to practice socialdistancing every single day as we are. At during this stay at home order. We will get to a better place. And the police chief says his officers will be around patrolling to make sure people are staying apart. Think of your grandfather think of your grandmother think of your sick child think of the othepeople who you may be putting your wrist by not adhering to this. Public health order city officials also announced next week they will open mosconi west as a homeless shelter so existing shelters can be thinned out to allow for social distcing. Theyve also secured 300 hotel rooms and hope to increase that to 3,000 next week for those currently living sorrows and those who are living on the street. In terms of testing the Public Health officer indicates the right now there are about a 150 test today. But they hope to increase that quite a bit to 450 test today thats just for the department of Public Health. Theyre also a increasing to 3 additional drivethru testing sites and theyre going to be prioritizing these tests for those most vulnerable those including seniors, those with underlying conditions and also First Responders and health care workers. Those are also going to the front of the list in terms of those who need tests thats the latest reporting live from the marina green Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. The cute and now blow bully their nearly 600,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and it is killed nearly 27,000 people over a 5th of those cases are in the United States alone the country with the most confirmed infections is here over 100,000 americans have gotten sick from covid 19 and nearly 1600 people have died here in california there are now over 4600 coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. President trump has now signed off on that massive 2 trillion corovirus released package the legislation stands as the largest emergency aid package in us history. The provisions are to help American WorkersSmall Businesses and industries struggling with this economic destruction caused by the pandemic key elements include sending checks directly to individuals and families, a major expansion of Unemployment Benefits and money for hard hit hospitals and health care providers. You can fall find a full breakdown of the package that explains exactly how mu money you can expect to receive its all on our website kron 4 dot com. The White House Task force held another briefing to bring the nation up to date on what it is doing about the coronavirus kron fours theresa has the very latest. Americas bravely battling this pandemic. Through cutting edge science medical innovation and rational deliberate and determined vigilance no effort will be spared in winning this war we can win the war hopefully well win soon and with as few. Lives as possible last President Donald Trump calling the fight against the coronavirus brutal on friday addressing what the federal government is doing now to fight the coronavirus and its increasing spread in the country. Its very important that we. Get to the bottom line and quickly we will do what we have to do and immediately exercise all available local authorities to get the job done. The president also talking about getting companies to help bill necessary supplies by invoking the defense production act. This afternoon i also signed an executive order investing. And very very strongly investing the department of health and Human Services and the department of Homeland Security with the full. Authorities available on to the defense production act. Also mention schools, the secretary of Education Betsy Devos plumbing teachers in this country as a lean into distance learning. Adding federal tests are now on hold in student Loan Interest also being put on hold us to delay these tests for a year fast and painless as of today 47 states have requested the delay or the waiver and 46 have been approved within a 24 hour period. And lastly doctor faa kai talking about where we stand as a country fighting the coronavirus something thats on precedent this is something. That we have never seen before at least in our generation. They sing something maybe like this back a 100 years ago. And we really being challenged. Theresa kron 4 news. Today the usns mercy arrived in the port of los angeles to help ease the burden of hospitals were treating coronavirus patients. The Navy Hospital ship contains a dozen a fully equipped operating rooms and a 1000 hospital beds. It will be used forelocating patients who are undergoing treatment unrelated to covid 19. And Governor Newsom says california is bracing for a surge in cases in los angeles models are showing the city could be where new york is in just one week. Kron fours kate oney explains how the Military Hospital ship will help ease the strain on hospitals when the search hits. With 257 new confirmed cases in los angeles today and 5 new deaths la is readying for an even greater expected surge in the coming days, yesterdays increase though of over 50 would of course have a doubling rate of less than 2 days. By that measure we would be where w york city is the number of cases per capita in Los Angeles County 6 days from now la is actively seeking more medical staff and garre said he said the city may even recruit medical students to assist. Meanwhile the us Navy Hospital ship mercy arrived at the port of los angelestoday. It will immediately increase available beds by a 3rd and by 2 thirds wants a full capacity every bad not taken in los angeles. By the great work of the men and women here will mean one more bad for the surge that the governor spoke about. Governor Gavin Newsome lauded adjustments made throughout the Hospital System to meet the high demand for beds and protective equipment were not only surging our overall capacity in the state to meet the need going forward, but weve been able to reduce. The current census within the Hospital System also in preparation to meet this moment another la announcement today was an der to close countybeaches and hiking trails with county and city park still remaining open the order is good through april 19th. From San Francisco, cape bruny kron 4 news. So now we are about 2 weeks into this stay at home order here in the bay area. And its been really tough on a lot of people, especially filies who have. Kids were not in school. Theyre also trying to work at home at the same time i get it parents want to pull their hair out kron fours our plateau is working from home like so many others he joins us with more. On how parents are doing rob. Its tough. Yeah, it is tough justin we have a cell phones and tools like a skype and zoom and other online tools to help them make that stay at home or go a little bit more smoothly that said though parents now are finding ways to combine screen time with face time and also finding time to help kids hit the booksare reached out to a san jose family to find out how theyre coping with all this. So far so good here at attics household in san jose 2 weeks into the shelter at home order Jennifer Maddox says her family is holding its own. We spoke via face time you know its really off its definitely starting to get a great tell theyre saying. As social interactions, went to school i honestly they only a little excited when they heard schools, closing it was like yes, yes, cool and they realized that actually also be still play a fence. The osest thing jennifer has been tutoring her 8. 10 yearold san jose unfied School District is rolling out online lessons and theres a lot of time to connect with family and friends. So we try to do things the some of their Friends Meeting so all to keep that a little bit the kids are baking cookies and getting outside for some air and exercise explaining why they need to stay home has been a challenge says maddox you know we talk a lot about what is. You know why the apps to all and why is it important and what this and what does that really eat that it can teach us and thats happening. You know for adults something that young kids can out tryi to scare despite those challenges medics feels fortunate her family has access to the internet and all the online tools, many others are without. The hardest part. She says is the uncertainty of it all. Is there an upside are 10. All it will play kickball or well to like yeah, think. Course we can at least do some early. You know out and get friends and they go to the park and play my tennis and watch and this is definitely forced action is involved which it you know to be honest she now a parttime not contractor who does a lot of volunteer work. Jennifer says that in her spare time what little there is of it, shes also been working on a project called every kid connected california to help get devices and internet into the hands of kids who dont have them right now a will help them get through these tough times reporting live rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thank you so much rob. And make sure that you download our 24 7 local news streaming service right now you can stay iormed and up to date on this Health Crisis because our coverage continues. On our app kron on. And coming up italys Health Care System has been crushed by the coronavirus at 5. 30 why experts predict its a sign things to come here in the u s plus as covid 19 bros deadlier by the day. What countries around thworld are doing to try and take control of this virus. And with a new surge in ronavirus case is still possibility here in the bay area. Our hospitals prepared. Th says there is. Those thermometers gloves and gowns. Hospitals and first respoers make up the top tier of those tting first dibs on the supplies. Tear to include Skilled Nursing homes and clics as of friday. The county says they are better shape of late in terms of space in their local hospitals with 421 currently empty and available hospital beds, 86 isolation beds and 39 beds in i c u they also have a 141 ventilators ready to go for incoming patients up 44 from thursday, the m s supervisor believes is the effort to keep the streets clear by residents sheltering in place which is helping create the current extra room in local hospitals in alameda county, the ambulance transport rate is down 30 from normal since theyre responding to wer things such as car crashes and industrial accidents with more people staying at home and out of harms way. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. And as of today in california the dmv has shut down all of its offices to try and prevent the spread of coronavirus the offices will be closed until april 2nd but Online Services are still available. California has also extended the deadline for people to get a real id until 2021. Well it is friday in case you forgot its been hard to kind of keep track of all the days of the week, but people are looking forward to the weekend and were joined now working from home buyer chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to look at the forecast for this weekend, hey lawrence we made it. Sages d yes and youre right the kind of losing track of time with everything were all kind of stuck insi looking out there right now certainly a nice evening around the bay area looking toward the Golden Gate Bridge cant wait to walk down and it looks nice out there is little cooler spots but not bad guys and partly cloudy skies out there as we head around the bay. Yeah were going to see more of those clouds kind of taken up throughout the night tonight, a looking back toward the city of San Francisco over there as well but weve got big changes coming for the weekend and with that in mind and were talking about the potential for some rain in fact you see the clouds begin to gather in far Northern California thats all part of disorganized system thats going to begin to move in overnight tonight. And its tomorrow but sticking around for the whole weekend right now youve got some clouds out there days, mostly dry as we speak, but that will think late tonight into early tomorrow morning increasing clouds chance of showers developing really after midnight tonight and then mostly cloudy tomorrow youll see couple a sunny breaks if you do you might get a couple rainbow to that kind of cool but some cold showers on and off throughout the we get into maybe some thunderstorms as we head in towards sunday. Temperatures running in the 50s all around 154 degrees and San Francisco cool 53 53 degrees and cloudy in pacifica and 57 degrees in flail but here we go you can see on the big picture here you got trump is sitting off the coast. Now not organized not a real cold front thats going to slide in the jet stream dipping just for an of south were going to the showers for tomorrow and i think a stronger band of rain moving in on sunday and that was the one i think could bring some thunderstorms you see overnight tonight, well see those scattered showers begin to pop up by tomorrow morning and then as we head toward the middle of the day even more widespread into the afternoon but not a real rain out for tomorrow just scattered showers nothing change as we head into sunday morning, wow theres that band coming on shore and i think that cold air on the backside of the storm system certainly could pop off a couple thunderstorms so yeah it could be a nice little rain coming our way in the showers continuing into sunday afternoon to rainfall totals not bad with the system as we take you to the next few hours here were going to see things kind of picking up as we head through the weekend not so much on saturday but on sunday i think thats where the bulk of the rain is going to come through maybe some places getting over half an inch of rain for lucky, maybe 3 course plus in some spots and certainly im probably a nice ttle lyle went weekend not a bad weekend. If youve got a 100 or like the most of us are. Well you can enjoy the nice cool. Stormy weather outside. Temperatures for tomorrow going to be mainly in the 50s as we look out over the next couple of days showers through the weekend then warm spring sunshine as we head into april next week that lays forecast back to you just see thank you so much lawrence. Still ahead here on kron 4 news at 5 despite there being less traffic on the road. Officers say that theyre giving out more citations. Still ahead as well as we head into the weekend parking lots for beaches in state parks are closed up next how officials in 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 ights lack of social distancing has led to what we see right here parking lots for beaches and parks across the bay area are closed. Last week and people do not really listen to those shelter in place guidelines. And now there is some concern as to whether or not this weekend will be any different the east Bay Regional Park District has now closed dozens of parks and parking lots as kron force weve reports those closures will last through april. For the most part all trails in the east Bay Regional Park District are available to walkers hikers runners bikers horseback riders and fishers at the lakes. Its just that you will likely only be able to access the areas by foot all picnic areas restrooms war fountains swim facilities playgrounds campgrounds campsites sports fields and kiosks are closed through the end of april the Park District announcing the closure starting friday a decision made in response to overcrowding over the weekend when the Park District says it saw more people in parts than it would on a busy holiday. Among the most recent closures to parks parking lots and entrance points Black Diamond mines castle rock recreation area. Dell vow so no regional wilderness and tilden botanic garden, although the Park District says state and local Health Agencies have encouraged them to keep parks open and accessible for Outdoor Activity closures are necessary to ensure the public is honoring social distancing, that means maintaining at let 6 feet in distance from other people know groups or gaerings and no picnicking not all parks are closeagain just most visit the Park Districts website or kron 4 dot com for the latest closures, the Park District says more may be announced if the Novel Coronavirus continues to spread felipe should all kron 4 news. Next here on kron 4 news at 5 italy now has the second most coronavirus cases in the world, its Health Care System pushed to the limit with no end in sight and the us is leading the world in covid 19 cases but some states are suffering more than others. 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