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Cases and one death Solano County has 61 cases and one death napa county has 20 cases and one death. I think its going to be coming out with the new regulations on that and if people want to abide by and frankly i dont think you could i dont think theyll be mandatory because some people dont want to do that. President trump says the white house will soon be releasing nationwide recommendations on wearing face masks, this comes as Health Officials across the bay area are now advising everyone to cover their faces when in public. We want to get more on this now from kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is live in San Francisco. Hi sarah good morning. Good morning. Marty thats right Health Officials across the board really in the bay area are recommending that cover your face not only to protect yourself from those who may be infected, but you could be infected in could be asymptomatic meaning youre not showing much those symptoms and what theyre saying is they dont want you to go out and buy these like to do is fire season for covered our making sure that were safe from that smoke actually have this from fire season fire season. But these are just learning to be saved at all a health mass for Health Care Workers as weve seen in new york theyve had a shortage and thats because they are already had thats search of people coming in, but instead youre supposed to use a piece of cloth like a handkerchief or maybe a ski mask or a lot of people are getting creative can make your actually one of our own reporters make one last night for us to see that coming up a little bit but contra costa Health Officials on social media first posted this along with the Health Officials in alameda San Francisco, San Mateo County all saying that this is going to be a good way to protect yourself when youre leaving your home for essential travel such as doctor appointments Grocery Shopping mall farmers who this is and as if this is actually good to hear because if you have been Grocery Shopping and maybe especially in San Francisco, aisles are very narrow. So this is a good way to protect yourself while in public im in this is its been made very clear that nassar not a substitute for physical distancing just because you have a mask on doesnt mean you can now a few someone to see for somebody thats been made Crystal Clear at this point and of governor gavin, newsome has covering faces also some a replacement this is just something that you can add to your list of precautions when you head out to do your central errands and so we did hear also from a doctor anthony he talked about that is well lets take a listen. Given the fact that we know that asymptomatic people are clearly transmitting infection. It just makes common sense. That is not a bad idea to do that its not going to be a 100 and its more not to protect you from getting infected but to protect a person from getting infected from you. And thats exactly right there. It goes both ways but either way it is caution is a good way to add to your list of ways to keep yourself safe out there was social distancing is still the number one way staying at home is still the number one way to protect yourself now this is just an example of us to put over your face and you cover up your nose and your mouth and this is a good way to protect yourself out there and you are running those errands they do want to make it clear dont think just because youre wearing like this that youre totally get to go hang with your friends or get close to here neighbor at the Grocery Store for now well send it back to us in studio are still waiting to hear from President Trump about what he thinks will recommend in terms of the face masks. Yeah hopefully well get that today, thanks less Sarah Stinson reporting for us live from San Francisco. Now to save the Critical Mass from to 4 doctors and nurses, a lot of people still making their own masks at home. That includes one woman in San Francisco or name is jennifer sastre and shes already made 200 mass over the past 2 weeks for bay area doctors and nurses and now shes decided to teach others using simple items that you probably already have at home. She says all you need is a needle and thread land a tshirt for the ties and then something preferably a 100 cotton like a pillow case and she says this will be used as the mask portion to cover your face. So you take 2 pieces fabric and the 2 of them and theyre cut 8 inches by 9 inches. The 9 inches is going to go horizontally and thats going to be a part that covers your face along with this is a scary you know i can do to help. Yeah and if youd like to help out as well and learn how to make these masks weve included stepbystep instructions for this mask and one with a filter. So you get both of them on our website at kron 4 dot com. A homeless shelter saw its first case of the coronavirus the person was staying at theh Division Circle navigation center. But is now in isolation. This new development has some San Francisco supervisors calling on the mayor to do more there are also insisting that she step up and help the citys vulnerable homeless population, homeless advocates say that social distancing is is nearly impossible and navigation centers. They want people off the streets and out of the shelters and into hotels. Supervisors plan to introduce an emergency ordinance requiring the city use 1000 rooms to relocate people who are currently in shelters. It will also require the city to lease an additional 14,000 rooms by april 28th. When the virus is expected to peak. Santa claras the first bay area county to top 1000 cases of coronavirus and now Santa Clara County trying to prepare for a surge in aospitalizations despite the fact that the county has the most current coronavirus cases in the bay area. It says that it still has enough beds to go around. Kron fours rob fladeboe explains whats being done to keep it that way. We want you to know that search beds i the additional beds. That are not normally used in the hospital system. Deputies Santa Clara County executive david campos on thursday said the county currently has about 200 covid19 patients hospitalized county wide. As the number of people testing positive continues to rise hospitals have been planning for a possible surge in demand for socalled surge beds, they do not know if or when that surge might occur, but for now there is no shortage of beds or ventilators says campos as of march 31st. There were 936 available acute hospital beds in the county. There were 92. I see you beds. 1456 search beds and 392 ventilators that work where available in the county the shot of Clara Convention Center has been converted into a temporary surge center with 250 beds available. In addition to adding badge the county is working to secure enough personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves and adding staff says Surge Capacity chief doctor jennifer tong, each hospital is working on plans how they can creatively restructure care teams to of volunteers from the community. Theyre also working on ways to expedite hiring practices to bring in new staff to their care teams. The county says as of april first 8,246 residents have been tested for covid19 with 956 testing positive not quite 12 . Testing in Hospital Capacity information is now being posted and updated regularly online via a new public dashboard doctor tong says the numbers show a Close Association between social distancing and the measurement of capacity across the hospital system. Rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Well happening today, the city of fremont open a free drivethru coronavirus test side. So if you or someone you know wants to head over. Its going to be located at the fremont fire Tactical Training center. Take a look at your screen. The address is right there, 7200 stevenson boulevard. The site will be open from 10 00am to 05 00pm or until it runs out of tests. Everyone who wants to get tested will have to go through a 2 step screening process. You have to have a fever over 100 degrees and all social symptoms such as shortness of breath. 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 and lots of information. I can stay safe. You can find all of this right under the coronavirus tap. Once again thats on our website kron 4 dot com. So check it out and have a chance. Up next this morning on the kron 4 morning news, a bay Area Basketball Team season cut short due to a pandemic well take a look at how the team is dealing with a sudden and what was a special journey. 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Ive been very welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news we continue to practice socialdistancing but we want to get the forecast so lets head to the Winter Weather center and dave from spars house and senate here in the studio hi dave. Hey good morning martin robin good morning, everybody and off to a pretty good start so were expecting to be a little chilly that start things off are seeing quite us some 30s, not as many as yesterday, but its still a little early a look at our shop from u c berkeley as we can see the east shoreline all modest traffic to but not much weight please either so what a note as some winds that were going to have today a little bit on the breezy side for the north bay looks like an peninsula. The winds still a lot of the northwest but they are expected to shift very late on friday as we get into of the weekend the overnight for tonight and into a saturday morning because we do have that system dropping in from the northwest thats going to drive with that. Some rain showers were talking about in mountain snows. Heres how it looks like on the satellite picture and want to know does the cloud and twin crouched up there in the north up in Sonoma County were to say today on balance we have a few mix clouds and their high cloudiness particularly in this is pretty typical what the storm system coming our way. Temperatures as i mentioned earlier were 36 napa rosa. These clouds may actually cost some last minute radiational cooling though our work in the north bay 40s across midday, a a 50 for a work 42 chilly degrees still san jose and 42 off the tri valley livermore looks like in contrast say from where we were this time from yesterday. Its a pretty close and a good portion of the midday is what were looking at here you can see some of the numbers lined up there for you in a little cooler in some spots like fairfield negative 8 from yesterday, okay future cast for we have to wait for it to arrive looks like on saturday morning about 8. 30. Theres a general idea of a snapshot heaviest rain up in the north bay spreading across portions of the east bay in the santa cruz mountains. Now the afternoon will be treated to more of a scattered shower event and then sunday we have some of the colder a lot cooking here which you can see down the monterey bay area a little bit more clearly there. But anyway, the colder air aloft will drive potentially some Thunder Showers to make note of them will bring down some of the snow levels for the Higher Elevations as well. So were talking about high cloudiness today, breezy north bay with mild conditions with 60s continuing. Then this weekend we have showers Thunder Showers particularly under sunday. Rain cooler temps as we fall back to the 50s and then next week, rain and Thunder Showers still possibility on monday variable clouds and maybe some rain jumping in and out of here but not as much as were hoping on so the lion share of everything were talking about is basically the weekend and on monday for all this activity forecast today calls for 60 with some high cloudiness 64 going on for oakland and san jose checkin was 65. Coming up in a bit of course well take a look at that long range forecast and this is a course mountain snows so well see that winter storm watch thats been posted up there and the sierra robin back to you. All right, thank you dave. Now, lets check in on some of our bay area bridges and take a peek at the traffic out there of course not a whole lot of traffic because folks are at home theyre practicing social distancing as you should so for those of you who do have to get to work like the essential workers youre going to be fine here through the bay bridge toll plaza in fact not only is it smooth out the pay gates but in the maze on the oakland side through downtown on the skyway among the San Francisco side all is well so no trouble spots story about what about 92, heres a live. Look its been a busy year compared to the bay bridge right we always have a lot more traffic heading west to the peninsula. Its not bad, its just going to be little crowded so you will not be alone heading into foster city and san matteo you can make this trip and under 30 minutes on westbound 92 picketts more bridges coming up a little bit later marty all right robin. A California School is now closed for the remainder of the Academic Year parents are being asked to oversee the education of their children and that can be a challenge. However, there is some good news is experts at a bay area tutoring center an Online School say it may not take as much time as you think because a Typical School day at the at school is is not 6 straight hours of academic work. They recommend the technique that a call stacking its mixing shorter periods of school worth with breaks basically play a think of recess and other activities that includes breaks for parents as well. We tend to recommend one to 2 hours for elementary kids. 2 to 3 hours for middle school kids and 3 to 4 hours a day for High School Calendar and the schedule that gives the parents a break 2 was really important so including things like lego timer puzzle time or independent reading time trying to get used to really be on their own. Gives the parents a break. How lego 10 times sounds pretty good if youre still having some trouble there are plenty of physical and online resources for you. Tudor corn pacific Preparatory School have seen a 15 increase in enrollment. During the shelterinplace and theyre getting creative when it comes to support that register red pet parents and go to the web site at www dot to the core dot com. All School Campuses in the state and bay area as we mentioned are empty and unfortunately some people are taking advantage of that take a look at this video is from fremont were 4 juveniles were arrested after destroying and burglarizing the classroom in American High School what a mess there. Police say construction crews arrived at the school and they found the group vandalized in a classroom. The group ran away before Police Arrived American High School officials have not yet commented on the incident we dont know if the kids involved are students there. Well in the past 2 weeks nearly 10 million americans have filed for unemployment. Democrats and the republicans are feuding over whether more help from the government is needed. Our washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports. A record 6. 6 million americans filed new unemployment claims last week thats on top of the 3. 3 million who filed the week before every game beating the need for action the current by and moving and that community can bring in a phone call thursday speaker of the house nancy pelosi said the Money Congress already approved to provide relief is not enough and that democrats are working on a 4th stimulus clean water happened with Community Health centers and pelosi says the new aid package should put people back to work. I rebuilding americas roads and bridges but House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy thinks democrats need to pump the streak. Mccarthy says the trillions of dollars in aid Congress Already approved to expand Unemployment Benefits and set up grants and forgivable loans for Small Businesses is just starting to be used and needs time to work right now make sure we get it right, but earlier this week, some republicans and President Trump expressed support for a 4th relief package, focused on infrastructure in washington, alexandra le mouth. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news despite the growing cases of coronavirus a one bay area doctor says that hospitals are not overwhelmed. Why he credits the shelterinplace orders coming up. How about a little peek outside before we go if youre not stepping out. Heres a live look for you, its a little chilly. So yeah were waking up to temperatures in the 30s and 40s so were at 48 in San Francisco, 36 and now to 42 in livermore right now little bit warmer in hayward at 50 degrees well see how that frid what we do now will forever change our tomorrow. So lets do the right thing, today. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. Morning welcome back while the state of california is hoping to keep the number of corona case coronavirus cases down its also trying to keep the economy up and running with many businesses closed in california is out of work governor newsoms urging Small Businesses to take action right now the state is offering Small Business loans of up to 50,000 with no penalty interest or sales tax for a year. The governor is also urging owners to apply for 2 new federal loan and Grant Programs which are first come first serve the world has radically changed since a january budget was proposed so everything is on the table thats an honest and sober a reflection of that reality 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 well as of wednesday about 2 million californians applied for unemployment with a daily average of over 100,000 claims a day. The governor says the state has shuffled around a number of employees to help with the surge of applications and to help those out of work at a job in california governor newsome also announced a new website. Its onward see a dot org and there are more than 70,000 grocery jobs available. If youre looking for work. Thats some good news for Property Owners in San Francisco, the county is pushing back the deadline to pay those property taxes so youll now have until may 4th payments were you know normally do on april 10th. And thats still the case for many other counties, so this is only for San Francisco, so you make sure you double check with your specific county for those guidelines where you live. Well to the east bay now theres a plan to convert the crane way pavilion into a medical station for coronavirus patients patients and Contra Costa County. The 250 bed temporary center could be up and running in just a couple of weeks thats about the time that experts predict that the bay area will see a peak and virus cases, beds and medical supplies are being brought in by the National Guard thats happening this week and the federal medical station would be an alternate care side for patients who dont need i see you level care and it would be used for only a local if local hospitals cant handle the surge in cases. If you are going to shop at target big changes ahead all because of coronavirus coming up, ill tell you what they welcome back everyone and thanks for staying with us you see marty an eye on these boxes were actually in the same studio where just about what 10 feet apart were practicing social distancing for during a park, you know practice what we preach in wiping everything down marty right keeping clean got the wipes well were sadd were good to go thats right. Thats the news this morning, the Trump Administration will be releasing nationwide recommendations about wearing face masks, federal Health Officials first said the masks were not necessary if you felt healthy. Were also learning that the corona virus can be spread by more than just sneezing and coughing. Theres new research that shows coronavirus can also be spread by talking singing and possibly even breathing. Well as coronavirus cases rise one ucs of doctor says that the citys hospitals are not overwhelmed. In fact they say that the shelterinplace orders that were issued early on helped out a lot kron fours gayle ong talk with that doctor who says that theres a glimmer of hope. Were told the Ucsf Medical Center has been stable wind 15 to 16 patients in the last week and that other bay area hospitals are also seeing relatively low numbers, thanks to people sheltering in place well before other parts of the country the orders are heated empty streets in San Francisco crossing market street. We found few people appearing to be essential workers and no traffic an example of why Health Experts say the city is showing signs of flattening the curve to slow down the coronavirus we spoke with doctor Robert Wachter chair of ucsf department of medicine people, San Francisco listen i think they they understood the science and they said this is the right thing to do obviously causes hardships. Doctor wachter says even know the number of cases continues to rise, theres been a slow search and City Hospitals 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 its been more than 2 weeks in San Francisco issued shelterinplace orders medical experts say the peak of covid19 cases has yet to come. But its crucial for people to continue to stay home and keep their distance to prevent spreading the virus and overwhelming hospitals this university of washington model shows demand for hospital resources will peak end of april and california the hope is that everyone will continue to follow orders and doctor walkers analogy of the crisis is quote. The wildfires out, but we need to find and douse embers before they flare embers being cover 19 patients who could easily spread the virus down the road. Long kron 4 news. Major Stores Across the country are beginning to use tougher policies to help with social distancing. And beginning tomorrow and tomorrow target stores in the bay area are going to limit the number of people allowed in the store one time kron fours will tran is in front of a tar jay and fremont he has the details i will. Todays the last day marty where you can come in and start shopping without possibly having to wait outside but starting tomorrow as you mentioned not just target stores in the bay area. The target Stores Across america and they have a lot of them 1900 as a matter of fact so they are going to do what many other locations have already done you see what cost co is doing right now they have people waiting outside and home depot implemented it. Just recently were only a certain amount of people get to go inside at any particular time. This is to create social distance and also wants to protect the employees so many employees are showing up to work fearful for their own house so to combat that marty the employees were getting disposable masks and gloves while they are working. So as far as target is concerned they dont have any hard rule on how many customers at a time because stories vary by size from location to location. It will be up to the managers to decide to monitor the situation. But i can tell you they will have a waiting area on the outside and if youve been to cost so you know exactly what im talking about even outside while you wait they will enforce social distance, so you dont infect each other with coronavirus before you come in, but this is the youre allowed to go inside and lets face it already they have limited hours because they need to restock the shelves. So this is just one of many examples of corporations and you and i talked about this yesterday marty it seems like the corporations things are slowing down a little bit theyre finally getting their heads wrapped around the situation and now really enforcing social distance. Back to yeah it really is part of a trend will that will tran reporting live from fremont about some big changes a target costco will was mentioning that has already taking measures to stop the spread of coronavirus. Theyll be allowing up to 2 people inside each a store with one membership card that begins today. Costco warehouses will also be changing their hours and said certain at times aside from members who are 60 years old and older and also those with physical impairments. Well the shelterinplace has been tough for us all right, especially the young chance are separated from their classmates and their teachers. But theyre trying to make the most of it Gregory Martin Elementary School thats a pleasant hill. They traded in our a Virtual Learning for a good ol fashion parade, teachers draw by neighborhood so you know they waved from their cars to the students and their families. They just wanted to you know, let the chance know that they are dearly missed. Could teach a camp for us to they faxed a kind make good here. And some teacher, i know at least fire away this like a lot because it means that theyre showing right this cost wis going around every neighborhood and trying to tear up people because well youre stuck inside and you cant really do much for the teachers are going out and doing this to check, i feel like chair of people. Yes so many small ways to let them know you care right theyre all looking forward to reuniting in the fall. Well bay area distilling the company that usually produces vodka and whiskey and its now making Hand Sanitizer for people in need kron fours michelle kingston has that story. 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 people are lining up outside bay area distilling in brentwood to fill their bottles with Hand Sanitizer one of many items thats nearly impossible to find in our Grocery Store shelves right now i couldnt believe the need of it. And that was you know. 100 of the reason why we felt. Lets just give it to the people as quickly as possible don isla flom produces brentwood sweetcorn vodka and whiskey and his distillery but says his phone has been ringing off the hook with more than 30 Companies Reaching out asking for Hand Sanitizer which hes making with vodka that hasnt been proved down yet for drinking last weekend he opened his doors for just 6 hours in says he killed more than 2000 bottles up with his Hand Sanitizer the line wrapped around the building started an hour before. Every day. Before we opened up. People are standing in the rain one point i think those over a 180 people in in our line wrapped all the way around a parking lot next friday april 10th from 6 to 8 and sunday april 12th from 12 to 2. Johnny will be offering more Hand Sanitizer to anybody who is interested all you have to do is bring a bottle we need to see how communities come together in times of need like this bay area distilling is already supplying Hand Sanitizer to fedex and plans to donate some to local police and Fire Departments next in brentwood, michelle kingston kron 4 news so good to see them filling a need well our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website at kron 4 dot com youll find the latest on outbreaks in the bay area also an interactive map. And plenty of information on ways that you can stay safe. You can find this all and more under the coronavirus tab on our website at kron 4 dot com. And still ahead this morning on the morning news can the coronavirus contaminate your food and your foods packaging. A lot of people worried about that we have the answers for you when we come back. But first well take a live look outside beautiful view of the embarcadero all lit up this early friday morning will be right back. More family at home puts more strain on your appliances. Lowes has essentials like washers and dryers. And up to 40 off select appliances, like a whirlpool load and go washer and dryer with sanitize cycle 699 each. Do it right for less. Start with lowes. Everybody welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news, a friday edition will continue to practice of social distancing, but its time for the forecast, lets go ahead and check in with dave spahr whos working from home today heidi good morning. Morning hows it good morning to you guys and theyre good morning, everybody and off to a pretty decent start a little bit on the cool side sure but when he for some traffic dropping in from the gulf of alaska, the kind of traffic were let me bring send some rain and some Thunder Showers with some colder air lock. This is the satellite picture in all of that will be dropping in from alaska live shot coming in from u c berkeley theres the east bay all pretty nicely with the bay behind all of that dont have much the way of fog going on this morning. Temperature check thus far were in the upper 30s up there in the north bay. 4648 going on San Francisco. We have 2 factors though playing into things with a little bit of a breeze thats keeping the air circulating so temperatures more trouble falling. Plus also we have some high cloudiness building so that kind of cuts down on some of the radiational cooling. Lets get to your future cast for those see what happens tomorrow morning there you go some of the deeper moisture dropping in here by 1 oclock filling up the whole day at that point including the mountain snows up in the sierra. This is saturday. So this will be spots of a heavy rain with moderate showers and scattered about into the Late Afternoon evening hours. Then by sunday, the next thing to happen is some colder air aloft and thats going to drive some thunder shower activity. And what were some of the snow levels even the local bay area. Thats a little bit more up in the air but we know certain the snow levels will be continuing at the snow rather up in the mountains through the weekend program, future cast rain lets see what were going to get north bay got to get the biggest amounts thats typical in like a winter like fashion. We get more than a quarter of an inch of San Francisco east bay shoreline about a quarter of an inch over the east bay hills and drops off as it does also in the Santa Clara Valley that stops by the way on saturday at 5 we expect to pick up a little bit more on sunday to dont forget to have a winter storm watch kicks in the by tomorrow afternoon it will be with us until monday morning. 6 to 12 inches of snow expected. And then some localized 2 feet accounts may be possible with this and the heaviest will be on sunday. Thats when the colder air starts working in here with a little bit of dough some moisture a surge of moisture coming our way so long range forecast models. We get through today. Rather im sorry saturday and though the sunday, those juicy days a lingering amount to looks like on monday that will be some of colder air aloft still with us. Beyond that however it could be more sparse in terms of scrounging up some moisture and new success of systems might bring something for us by next weekend but were hoping instability into her unsettled us into next week that will bring even more opportunities for some rain temperatures in the upper 60s up to santa rosa go on today again high cloudiness expected in the afternoon not quite as sunny but on balance will say kind of a mostly sunny start at least your day 67 and the aac in concord 64 livermore 65 me well to Santa Clara Valley, so im looking at your 70 forecast year hear the Thunder Showers getting here sunday, lets throw couple in our minds on monday still a little chilly 57 and then warming up back to the mid looks like into next week with temperatures Holding Steady and again maybe some showers working here by next weekend. And again the following week as we start to get later into a Police Things are getting harder and harder to come by celeste to soak it all up. Robin back to you. All right, thank you daybell its pretty quiet incident wise as an. We dont have crashes are major stalls or incidents to worry about pay just keep in mind that chp is out there ive noticed that theyve been on our bridges on our freeways are looking for speeders because folks have been just going way too fast. You know, theres not a lot of traffic out there and folks have been speeding a lot around the bay area so this behave all right over to the golden gate were doing fine traffic looks good here in both directions, no problems into or out of San Francisco will take a peek at more part is coming up a little bit later marty. Well this morning almost all americans are now under a stay at home order because of the coronavirus that adds up to about. 100 Million People were being told to stay home and the virus is of course affecting every aspect of our life right here in the United States and its not just hospitals and the stock market. Erica hill takes a look at how people across the country are coping with coronavirus. More than 90 of the country ordered to stay home but any exemption in some states for religious services is raising concern among experts and some faith leaders we love our city we love the people here the last thing we would want to do. Is to put people in danger in texas, one state lawmaker is sounding off more than 40 students there have now tested positive. After going on spring break whether you think this is an issue or not it is and there is new information about transmission. Experts telling the white house currently Available Research supports the possibility that coronavirus could be spread directly by patients exhalation in other words, its not just sneezing or coughing. But simply talking or breathing. This as the nations second largest city tells people to wear masks when you have to go out. We are recommending that we use nonmedical grade masks or facial coverings. And not take the ones that are reserved for first responders. Laredo texas threatening residents with a 1000 fine if they dont wear one in public. In new york mayor de blasio says his city may run out of medical masks and other critical supplies by sunday nurses, there warning of dire consequences if they are not protected we are dying. We are getting sick. It doesnt matter how many ventilators we get if we are dead and cannot run the ventilators. In detroit at least one hospital is already at capacity. As the citys Convention Center is transformed into a temporary facility with a 1000 beds in boston, one of the new England Patriots planes arriving with critical supplies from china, the wall street journal reporting a dramatic scene china giving them just 3 hours to land load and leave and they took almost every minute. Thanks to the germs and hard work generosity and hard work of the kraft family and many other partners. Massachusetts will receive nearly 1 million and 95 masks and new warnings from those closest to the disease. Everybody to know that this is serious people think that its just going to affect people with. Underlying health issues. People. But does it. Nicole buchanans has been conrad was just 39 when he died from coronavirus complications. Well with most americans ordered to stay home entire sectors of the u. S. Economy of now shut down some 10 Million People applied for firsttime unemployment claims in just the past 2 weeks. Well the fda and usda say that there is no evidence of the coronavirus spreading through food or Food Packaging you may have been thinking about that are wondering. Officials say that even if a person working facility tested positive. The fda does not anticipate that there will be a need for a massive recall there is also no widespread food shortage in the u. S. Due to the kron on fridays, a pandemic but Agency Leaders say that there is an Unprecedented Demand for some specific items and manufacturers and retailers. Theyre working hard to replenish those empty store shelves. The sports world was turned upside down following the coronavirus pandemic but it wasnt just professional sports that were impacted. City college of San Franciscos mens Basketball Team was in the midst of one of its best seasons ever after having a perfect record in championship dreams the season was over in a snap. It 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 and. Well luckily, this wont be the end of the road for these players, 5 of them how of have already earned scholarships to major universities as for next season, the players who dont earn a division one scholarship. This season will likely return to city college next season and hope to pick up where they left off. Well take short break before we do lets go ahead and take you outside for a look at the sfo this morning. In the darkness welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news and thanks for staying with us during this time of uncertainty we here at kron 4. We want to make sure that we honor some of our bay area here. Yeah we sure do and this morning, were honoring these painters who is asking for help with a little inspiration from the Golden State Warriors her name is shelby dilanian shes a nurse at the eye in the icy you at summit Medical Center in oak lawn you can see she wears her steph curry. Jersey under her scrubs and shes using the warriors strength in numbers motto to help get supplies health care and worker the Health Care Workers mean. Great job shelby keep in mind that you can also nominate a person within your community. You know somebody whos doing a great job to make a difference during the crisis. All you have to do is go to kron 4 dot com slash feature slash kron 4 heroes. You can nominate that person there. Well we want to thank you for staying with us some once again happy friday were still practicing social distancing here in the studio marty and i are about 10 feet apart daves far is reporting from home and he has a look at the friday forecast and whats in store for the weekend. Good morning dave. Well good morning, robin marty good morning, everybody and were looking at a pretty decent friday today, maybe some high cloudiness thrown in there for good measure. Lets start things off of the beauty shot from Lick Observatory up their Mount Hamilton about that nice blue skies in the background working the magic. As we see the sun join us on this friday. All right, heres a look at twins we actually have little bit of a breeze cooking out of the northwest that to onshore wind is going to shift technically coming in from the south very early tomorrow morning and the arrival of our next storm system out of the gulf of alaska. They Area Temperatures in the upper 30s up there in the north bay we have some high cloudiness and some breezy conditions keeping temperatures for moving much more further south you will and look at that also across the rest the day weve got plenty of 40s across midday. So the breakdown for you today well call it mostly clear to start but some of those high clouds building into the mid morning and then by the noon hour about 58 or so sunny with high temperatures expected across most of the bay to be in the 60s and into the weekend unsettled well be talking about that coming up robin. All right, thank you dave. 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 how you can keep yourself safe. Plus target will be limiting the number of shoppers allowed inside starting tomorrow, well talk about those changes will break it all down how this is going to impact you if youre shopping there and how this can stop the spread of the coronavirus and if you live in fremont theres a free coronavirus testing site its opening up today. What you need yes. Its the first word of any new discovery. But when allergies attack, the excitement fades. Allegra helps you say yes with the fastest nondrowsy allergy relief and turning a half hearted yes, into an all in yes. Allegra. Live your life, not your allergies. Everyone and happy friday, im Robin Winston hi everybody im Marty Gonzales thanks for joining us this morning. We have Health Officials in San Francisco, san mateo contra costa and alameda counties. Theyre recommending that wearing something you know to cover your face whenever possible whenever you leave the house. Its now essential mist comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases right here in the bay area hit 2800, heres a breakdown of it county by county take a look at your screen well start off with Santa Clara County it has over 1000 cases with 36 steps, san mateo counties up to 453 cases and 10 deaths so far, San Francisco county reporting 450 cases with 7 deaths. Alameda county 396 cases with 9 deaths over in Contra Costa County theyre reporting 276 cases and