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For only 100 cotton like this pillow case this will be used for the portion of the mask that covers your face. To get started jen walks us through step by step so you take 2 pieces fabric and the 2 of them and theyre kind of 8 inches by 9 inches. And the 9 inches is going to go horizontally and thats going to be a part that covers your face a long way next to fold a tshirt in half and cut wanted strips along the bottom and got some cut here. You just go to make a chord so its a little bit longer. And so the strips youre going to need for and between 1518 inches each then place in penn one tied to each corner of your mascara got one in each corner, you want them to hang out the bottom. Youre going to want to leave when you start selling a to age gap. So you can pull the fabric through and so then you will just play on your machine or to sign it by hand just so that quarter of an inch from the with streets to and this is where we have the and this is what she looked think roughly we take your hands out curry made your clothes were going to pull your mouse is. Why we left the open meeting and then you should have the right side facing ow next to make 3 even cleats in your mask finally soy streets ditch around the border of the mask 2 times you can see plates here. And you just put it on. And then you take the time is while law then youre finished mike jenna many others are turning to creative alternatives to help with the mask shortage. Weve included jens instructions for this mask and one with a filter on our website in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news i definitely need stepbystep instructions on lots of pictures has coronavirus cases rise ucs of doctor Robert Wachter chair of the ucsf department of medicine says that the citys hospitals are not overwhelmed in fact they say that the shelterinplace orders that were issued early on helped a lot. At ucsf so we have had and her 16 patients with covid. For now about the last week and there many of them are quite sick so its its its not a its not trivial. Its certainly better and fewer patients than we had been gearing ourselves up for the people, San Francisco listen i think they they understood the science and they said this is the right thing to do obviously causes hardships. Well medical experts say that the peak of covid19 cases has yet to come but its crucial for people to continue to stay home and also keep their distance to prevent spreading. The virus and overwhelming the hospitals. Well targeted will be limiting number of shoppers allowed inside their stores, starting tomorrow things are going to be a little different. There will be a designated waiting area just outside with social distancing markers so make sure you Pay Attention follow the rules. Target also says will have signed sped set up in special audio messages to encourage social distancing. And then if you shop at costco costco is already taking measures to stop the spread of coronavirus theyll only be allowing up to 2 people at a time with each membership card starting today so costco warehouses, theyll also change their hours and theyll set aside some certain times for number 60 and older for those with physical impairments as well. And to curb coronavirus cases in the state all while keeping the economy up and running Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains that the help that lawmakers are urging theyre trying to get business as you know to take advantage of these special programs. With many businesses closed in california is out of work. Governor Gavin Newsome thursday urged Small Businesses to take action california is now offering Small Business loans up to 50,000 with no penalty interest or sales tax for a year the governor also urging owners to apply for 2 new federal loans and grants programs which are first come first serve you need to be able. To get the federal dollars. Into the state of california, which means we need to get people to apply for these federal supports that were recently announced. As of wednesday about 1. 9 million californians had applied for unemployment, lately the state is averaging about 111,000 claims a day the economic consequences. Our profound newsome said the state has shuffled around a number of employees to help with the surge of applications. To help those out of work get into a job the governor announced a new website onward ca dot org for those looking for work in california newsome noting there are now more than 70,000 gross are Jobs Available as the state tries to analyze how will spend its money moving forward newsome said his proposed budget from january is no longer operable the world has radically changed since the january budget was proposed so everything is on the table thats an honest and sober a reflection of that reality in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Well some good news for Property Owners in San Francisco, the county is pushing back the deadline to property taxes so this will help a little bit. Youll now have until may 4th payments were due. On april and thats still the case for you know many other counties, so you want to double check the deadline with your specific county this is only for San Francisco. Well the shelterinplace has been tough for all of us, especially the kids right, the candles are separated from their classmates and their teachers. And in Pleasant Hill an Elementary School traded an hour a Virtual Learning for a good ol fashion parade. Kron forcefully to call has that story. Normal circumstances, the communication happens in the classroom, but this is a unique time in education. Country and Gregory Gardens Elementary School in Pleasant Hill is no different one of the hardest things about this is that missing that relationship peace and that Community Peace im having to say aha. A staple of the schools teachers and support staff took their lessons on the road. Straight through the neighborhood streets reading the students and parents they miss the parade is just an opportunity for us to be able to see them from a fun and safe katie kuhn says she wants the community to know that all those students will be returning to classrooms until the fall they have not been forgotten, its pretty incredible. The parents have been really on board the kids are excited. Its its really energizing refreshing to see that we all can come together and make this work. Lasting more than an hour family stood curbside smiling and from the deadly taught at because they like so much pressure on the parents and kids. So i think our that really nice of them to do that a night. Like to have them less stressed about that could teach a camp for asked the case. They faxed a kind could jack i here and 72, i know at least fire away one spring break is over students will continue to meet with their teachers virtually at least 3 times a week through the end of the school year. In Pleasant Hill deleted all kron 4 distilling has now switched its production, you know the company that usually produces baca and whisking theyre now making Hand Sanitizer for people in need and now people are lining up outside to fill up those bottles. Then he laughed at me. He says that his phone is one of just ringing off the hook with more than 30 Companies Reaching out asking for Hand Sanitizer which she is making with baca that has not been proved down for drinking yet. Last weekend he opened up his doors for just 6 hours and says that he filled more than 2000 bottles up with his Hand Sanitizer that line was long out the door and wrapped around the building. I couldnt believe the need of it. And that was you know. 100 of the reason why we felt. Lets just get it to the people as quickly as possible now its still just a blast to help out you know, i know that thats the purpose right now is to get Hand Sanitizer to everybody. So hes going to do it again next friday april 10th from 6 to 8. And sunday april 12 from noon to 2 dani will be offering more Hand Sanitizer to anyone whos interested. All you have to do is bring a bottle. Emergency responders and other essential staff to continue to go to work during this pandemic but what about their kids who have to stay at home washington correspondent faisal john reports as lawmakers demand the administration make child options available. Some of us can stay Home Health Care workers First Responders Grocery Store workers and delivery drivers to name a few the American Family and they have children lawmakers like pennsylvania, senator bob casey want the Trump Administration to expand options for child care for these essential workers theres no way youll be able to do that. Job well. Your children being cared for 22 senators have signed a letter asking the office of child care to take immediate steps to expand Childcare Options for essential workers this pandemic which makes everybody more nervous and anxious. And not only about their kids when you come out that it raises virginia senator tim kaine says the recent Coronavirus Relief package included billion for Child Care Development block grant the very workers who we rely on the most probably the group of people who have the most to be concerned about right now if we can reduce tech concern a little bit by providing resources. For child care and then we should do that senators asked the department what options would be possible to using close head start facilities to offer temporary child care. Thats a decision hes remade soon. We also have to think very creatively not just for big are too. But dollars appropriated. But also the policy the office of child care had no immediate response. The senators want details from the office by april 6th, reporting in washington, im his old job. Well of course our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website kron 4 dot com that is your source for so much information. The latest on the outbreaks in the bay area and interactive map lots of information on. You can stay safe and keep your family safe so check it out and you have a chance to go to our website, look for that coronavirus tab. Thats listed right there kron 4 dot com. Well the kron 4 morning news, a bay area basketball teams season is cut short due to the pandemic. How this team is dealing how this team is dealing with the sudden end of [narrator] if you watch tv using an antenna, listen up. Kron four is moving frequencies on april 29th, and you will need to rescan your tv to keep watching this channel. Rescanning is simple, and requires no new equipment or services. If you watch kron four through a cable or satellite service, your Service Provider will do it for you. Go to kron4. Com, or call 4155618632 for more information. Keep watching kron four, and well keep you posted. To the kron 4 morning news and that thanks for staying with us happy friday by the way of course were practicing social distancing salon here in the kron 4 studio dave spahr is at home checking your forecast sun. Looks like we have some changes in store house friday shaping up almost a james why am i going to hit. It will be about a new tech high as it was a year i go weve got a decent friday in store good morning robin good morning, everybody. Pretty good friday in store for you by the way teams will be here this weekend when its raining and john garcia, were looking at rain for saturday sunday, but the instability day is our sunday check it out here on the satellite its all that stuff up in the gulf of alaska were expected to drop that this is early april and the good news is we dont tend to see this as often. As our winter months we start to lose some of that influence so we like that door opened up because we definitely need to work in the bank account here. Heres a live shot coming in from Alcatraz Island in the foreground behind it you can see the city lights. They bridge behind in the lefthand side temperatures across the region 40 story for the most part 38 going on for santa rosa 47 for concord 44 for Livermore Tri valley 45 don a santa clara valley, 45 san jose and 40 meanwhile for a redwood city. Lets get to it in terms of future cast for looks like the timing of all of this will be in the morning hours. The heaviest up in the north bay starting out spreading out over the wider baby east bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains getting a nice toes and of course up in the mountains, those snows. Thats saturday as we get into sunday, we expect the colder unstable air moving in a lock and thats going to drive those potentially Thunder Showers and also maybe even some snows in our local mountains such as Mount Hamilton and mount diablo this is cut off or early on it you can see sunday morning with some more heavy rains up in the north bay we expected to spread out a little bit on sunday afternoon to get another dose to 1, 2, punch. Quantitatively lets see were getting all of this it looks to be when its all said and done for saturday now this will be by saturday evening were talking about a good quarter of an inch for a good chunk of the day little bit more modest to the south. The santa clara valley, not as much there in a natural range shadow anyway, and up to santa rosa little heavier because thats where the rain originates from coming to close to half an inch dont forget to be a second dose on sunday. Meanwhile, the mountains, theres a winter storm watch for a looks like us here in nevada about 6 to 12 inches of snow and then localized 2 feet possible. Travel difficult to have to be up there for any reason what the heaviest on sunday looks to be too with this and thats when were getting the instability here on the home front for the colder air a lot. Lets go the long range forecast models with all of this. So we get the big dose on saturday that again will be the probably heavier amounts of rain but the more quote interesting might be on sunday. It looks like the heavier rain bands are going down to the Central Coast and of so cal a bit more than up in the bay area air and then the rest of the week maybe some spotty showers to start things off variable clouds on balance will call the week and that hopefully another wave coming into next weekend and the following week will call on shuttle whether we need that middle 60s across a good portion of the day upper 60s for the delta like cut 67 with concord 68 santa rosa. In your sevenday forecast thought about friday. And then we get into the weekend here youd lets do it looks showers by dawn for the north bay at least and then the instability for your sunday, lets call it some showers left over on monday. And temperatures rebound to middle 60s territory. Cant rule passing shower but variable clouds again it looks like maybe perhaps more rain coming the following weekend and more importantly into the following week robin back to you thank you today for dave far the one and only all right, lets check in on traffic now taking a peek at the richmond sandra fell bridge, one lonely truck. Rolling through the toll plaza thats and we dont have to worry about a crowd so far into the north bay so were looking good here no hot spots, no problems to stress out about you can make it a long 5 in the west and into the north bay in just under 15 minutes, so that has to really get right time. How about we peak at the bay bridge 80 west remember were going cashless so there are no toll takers on any of our bay area bridges they are practicing social distancing as well so you dont have to pay cash just roll through you will get your bill in the mail you dont have to stress out about folks stop sort of hesitate e look around they want to pay their cash but now you dont need to do that well check back in on traffic and take a peek, its more bridges coming up a little bit later. San franciscos Mens Basketball Team that was in the midst of one of the biggest seasons ever and then like most teams around the country. The season was just a you know over in a staff of a finger kron fours jason dumas has that story. It was like showtime in the city. Highflying dont. A defense. A perfect record city college of San Franciscos Mens Basketball Team had championship dreams this was a special group undefeated really unselfish. Scored over a 100 points a game through 30 games of the year you know we have 10 guys and fulton played in. They they just rule Skilled Group probably best to her head here but the end of their season seemed like a bad movie will probably end up doing a 30 for 30 on espn about it because it is light. We came in here we had the term it to go play these elite teams. Fans you know were in the film room and it just. We know the ivy cut their tournament and then the pac 12 tournament got canceled and then it was just kind of this domino effect through a good beer. As you the virus and then ours gets canceled luckily, this wont be the end of the road for these players, 5 of them have already earned scholarships to d one universities. Others plan to follow suit it was so real because we went into the film room. And you know told the guys say this is it and the nice thing is that jaycee guys so they get to go put on another uniform, somewhere else. What it was tough because i was less than we ended right then and there has for next years the players who dont earn a d one scholarship will likely return to city college and look to pick up where they left off recover weve been recruiting guys all year long. A lot of guys coming in and you know going to fill the shoes so in Court Next Year in San Francisco, im jason dumas scrum for newt. The fda and the usda say that there is no evidence of the coronavirus spreading through food or Food Packaging a lot of folks were concerned about that. Officials say that even if a person working in a food facility tested positive. The fda does not anticipate that there would be a need for a massive recall. Theres also no widespread food shortage in the u. S. Due to the coronavirus plan pandemic theres plenty to go around. The Agency Leaders say that there is an Unprecedented Demand for some specific items and manufacturers and retailers, theyre working to replenish those empty store shelves are doing an assassins they can. All right a little peek outside before we go were checking in on the airport sfo. No reports of any major delays. Its a little chilly outside on this friday morning. But it looks like the afternoon is shaping up nicely but we do have rain and the forecast so dave spahr well have a look at what we can expect for th welcome back will during this time of uncertainty here at kron 4. We want to make sure that we honor some of our bay area heroes and give you some positive news, so this morning were shining the spotlight on justin le vine of san carlos, the 21 yearold College Junior is back home. Hes taking remote classes. And hes making fullface shiels and his familys garage take a look at he was inspired by his mother who is actually a medical assistant at stanford. Justin is using a 3 d printer to make the face mask for Bay Area Health care workers. His mom decided to nominate him to be a part of the kron 4 heroes saying that shes so proud of him she is beyond proud and that her son has a huge heart so thank you justin and that is a great idea or product you well keep in mind that you can nominate a person in your community doing great things to help others during this crisis. All you have to do is go to kron 4 dot com slash features slash kron 4 heroes and just sobbed put your submission, theyre looking forward to it. All right so well come back and want to take a look at the forecast because its friday you may want to go outside take a walk or maybe you have some plans. We wanted to check in with dave spahr who has a look at whats in store good morning, dave. Well good morning robin good morning, everybody were looking not much the way of fog all this morning, pretty clear shot coming in from u c berkeley. Lit up all along the east bay shoreline there which is pretty nice as we start our friday off with mostly sunny skies things change in a big way this weekend though oh yes rain is coming our way but heres a live shot again coming in from u c berkeley. Do want to mention briefly we have some whens happening right now and this is actually on shores, how most of them are going to be for much of today that means will be coming in from the northwest throughout the day favoring along the north Korean Peninsula that will shift a little bit as the storm gets a little closer tomorrow morning, 38 santa rosa chilly degrees that a lot of 40s on the board this morning we might lose a few more degrees in the next couple of hours, however, heres the breakdown for the morning getting up to 54 by 11 00am high cloudiness today, but again showers tomorrow, robin. All right, thank you day coming up in the next hour on the kron 4 morning news the Trump Administration will be releasing nationwide recommendations on wearing mask in public, what bay area leaders are saying and just how you can keep yourself safe. Plus target will be limiting the number of shoppers allowed inside starting tomorrow, well break it all down for you and talk about lately, ive discovered that while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. While keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. And thank you for waking up with us on this friday morning on Robin Winston good morning, everybody thanks for joining us. Im Marty Gonzales Health Officials in San Francisco. A tale contra costa and alameda counties are recommending wearing something to cover your face whenever you leave the house for essential travel. This comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases right here in the bay area hit 2800, heres a breakdown of those numbers county by county take a look at your screen starting off with santa clara county. It has over 1000 cases with 36 staffs along the peninsula, san mateo counties up to 453 cases and 10 deaths San Francisco county reporting 450 cases with 7 deaths. Alameda county is at 396 cases with 9 deaths. Contra costa reporting 276 cases and 3 deaths in the north bay marine county reporting 118 cases and 6 staff