Anxiety around the delivery of our food and those workers have about their own health we dont want you going to work. If youre sick. Governor newsome extending paid leave benefits to food workers across the state during this pandemic. Nothing there nothing i was looking for bell peppers strategy, less i couldnt find anything pretty limited selection of what you can get. Plus concerns from shoppers about a shortage of produce at Safeway Stores across the bay area just one of the many angles were following for years on this friday morning april 17 thank you for joining us, im James Fletcher so our top story involves a course of the coronavirus in the fact that there are more than 4,500 american deaths in the last 24 hours alone. But despite the surge in deaths President Trump has laid out a threephase approach to restarting the economy as soon as possible and hes putting governors in charge of that reopening. Coming up are now has the story. The decision to reopen the country will not come from the president is going to be up to the governors will work with them were going to help them. Its going to be up to the governors the white house issuing guidelines to help but the states will not be forced to follow that our approach outlines 3 phases and restoring our economic life. We are not opening or once. But one careful step at a time that on light switch on and off is the exact opposite. What you see here which is a gradual shun in americas pandemic at the Center New YorkGovernor Andrew Cuomo saying theyre not ready to reopen ready to open tomorrow because were afraid the infection rate will go a long hospitalization are down but the state is seeing about 2000 new cases a day and are setting their sights on another major concern weve been watching the Nursing Homes as Nursing Homes in many ways are ground 0 for this situation across the country. Los angeles county facing their highest number of deaths reported in a single day so far after reporting high totals a bside yesterday and the day before. And it really reflects a devastating power of covid19 derby flip President Trump says governors in states with less cases. Well be able to order people back to work soon. Some states will be able to open up sooner than others some states. Not in the kind of trouble that others are in. Im Camila Bernal reporting. Well this morning there are 33,000 coronavirus related deaths across the u. S. With more than 671,000 confirmed cases here in california 973 deaths with more than 28,000 cases and of course on the global scale. Were looking at more than a 145,000 reported deaths around the world with 2. 1 more than 2. 1. Million cases, worldwide. Here in the bay area there are now 185 deaths with more than 5800 confirmed cases of covid19 and on your screen you see the breakdown by county of where the numbers fall you can see Santa Clara County still leading the list for both total cases and deaths with 69 confirmed deaths and more than 1800 cases so far you can find a complete breakdown of cases by city on our website at kron 4 dot com. For your money this morning with more than 22 million americans now have it filed for unemployment across the country in the last few weeks. People are out of work, many of them still waiting for their money to come others cant get that all kron fours taylor sackey explains. Its hard to feel like and then have to be starting all over again. And its not a good position to be an especially and the s and p to fall have very expensive city nani strides works in the San FranciscoRestaurant Industry and lost her job in march because of the coronavirus. She found an Unemployment Insurance claim on march 17th but still hasnt received a single penny didnt get any notification a certified from and benefits and some 20s. Which ended far in the last 2 weeks of march and the education some cent pending. So i have never seen any money i havent seen any emails and letters in the mail email to certify for the first week april. That was weird because i havent received any money at what he tried to get in touch with a representative at the Employment Development department for help she couldnt get through called. But its toll almost every day since since then and there is not a mean a message its time for the siren street. I just directed people go online. And theyre just not others wasting their same concerns and frustrations on social media. The edd and governor Gavin Newsome say theyre experiencing historic demand for Unemployment Insurance making it hard to process all the requests in the last 4 weeks 2. 7 million californians have formally filed for unemployment we are in the process right now of dealing with an unprecedented number of people making phone calls into our Employment Development department in response to high call volumes. The edd says theyre opening up a secondary coal mine on monday april 20th. The line will be open from 08 00am to 08 00pm 7 days a week. The edd says theyre also increasing staff to help at the call center and assist with Unemployment Insurance claims however stride says more needs to be done before we sent out any income. And is really hard and there is not more action on Taylor Bisacky reported kron 4 news. All the National Front negotiations are now under way to revive the Small Business loan program. The billion Paycheck Protection Program maxed out yesterday morning and stopped accepting any new claims that program was a central piece of the massive 2 trillion stimulus package but it became quickly overwhelmed by demand and lawmakers now have to reach a new deal to replenish those funds through the weekend possibly the rest of the month. Well see what they come up with. Crawford says he could you spoke with a Financial Consultant who says the vast majority of Small Businesses missed out on the loans because the system was stacked against them. You can have. 30 million businesses and only to find it for million 2. Thats. Thats unacceptable. However that is what happened to the billion of the Small Business administrations Paycheck Protection Program. If you are one of those businesses that applied, but did not receive buddy steven mayor of the Accounting ConsultingWealth Management firm sd mayor and associates explains some of the common reasons why. I think there are a lot of the businesses that ever got the funding for the first ones in the door they were the big or Small Businesses. And they have taken up the bulk of the money another hurdle, some banks requiring that you join up before being able to apply for a Paycheck Protection Fund so thats another thing you have to go through we actually have to open an account. To be able the transaction then there is a mountain of paperwork that must be filled out correctly you have to do it one at a time, a smaller bank you know might be dealing with 20 loan applications in a matter of one day. 700 people, contacting them they can only still do one at a time. And the big banks got a a 100,000 applications having said all that he says he remains hopeful or else his farm would not be assisting close to 200 Small Businesses get ready for the next round of federal funding to be released. I believe that congress at the end of the day is going to do the right thing for appropriate. Steven mayer advises that you make sure when that happens you have your business documents in order or risk a missing out on Paycheck Protection Funds again. Has it made you kron 4 news. As i mentioned at the top the hour california will be extending paid leave benefits to food workers across the state thousands of California Workers affected by the coronavirus will be getting now an extra 2 weeks of paid sick leave. Governor newsome is latest executive order applies to workers exposed to the virus. Those who are sick with the virus or those who have been ordered to isolate the law get the benefit. Hope this will significantly addressed some of the anxiety are farm workers have anxiety are fast food workers have anxiety around the delivery of our food and those workers have about their own health we dont want you going to work. If youre sick. The governors executive order also ramps up the States Health and Safety Standards requiring Food Service Workers to wash their hands every 30 minutes or as needed during the pandemic. And very safely shoppers are seeing a shortage now of fruits and vegetables in the produce aisle. This is happening just as the Company Announced a coronavirus related death of one of its Major Distribution Centers in tracy kron fours dan thorn has more. Fruits and vegetables have been a hard fined for shoppers at Safeway Stores across the bay area shelves that should be filled with avocados peppers and romaine lettuce say limit one, but there were none it was. Nothing man never and i was looking for bell peppers strategy, less they couldnt find anything. Annabel plummet a was surprised to find even the prepackaged veggies were gun at the store in Pleasant Hill pretty limited selection of what you can get say please local produce shortage may be connected to a coronavirus outbreak at the grocery chains tracy Distribution Center. The Company Announced one of the warehouses employees died from covid19 related complications on monday, a spokesperson for safeway confirmed the warehouse has been short on staff but only said it was for quote a variety of reasons, however, the company also confirmed 51 of its 1700 associates at the Distribution Center have tested positive for covid19 in the meantime shoppers like tame may have to head elsewhere to get their greens. Theres also desire safeway will meet the need while keeping their employees safe. I really hope and pray that they something does happen sen has a lot of people you know to me their fruits and vegetables sold. Thats what i did. Reporting in Pleasant Hill dan thorn kron 4 news. To the north bay now are happening today People Living in Sonoma County will be required to wear masks while theyre out in public. Meantime the city of santa rosa has issued a new Public Health order now nursing home staff visitors and all First RespondersMust Wear Masks and be screened for signs of illness. The new health order also requires First Responders to wear medical grade masks any time they interact with the public or with patients. In the east bay, the city of fremont is now requiring everyone wear face coverings and masks that certain essential businesses for central workers, the face coverings must be provided by their employers. They do not have to be medical grade though are those n 95 mask, those are reserved for Frontline Health workers all customers and visitors are also required to wear face coverings. Well our coverage of the coronavirus dont forget as always there for you on our website at kron 4 dot com any time of day will always have the latest news, the latest Health Guidelines like these face mask requirements now safe, start to pop up in your neighborhood website at kron 4 dot com that i missed 4 off for 12 will ta and were back at 4. 14 beaches and parks have reopened in Santa Cruz County the temporary closure. Was aimed at discouraging people from coming to town over the Easter Holiday weekend. But as kron fours rob fladeboe reports there are still some restrictions in place that you need to be aware of. The shelterinplace order that last week closed beaches and parks lapsed at midnight and a handful of servers were back in the water here along west cliff drive this morning. Most parks are open again to although parking may be limited says county spokesman jason happen so for example you know, which is a very popular surf spot here in Santa Cruz County. That parking lot we noticed prior to the parts of beach closure was very popular so in the day or 2 people or that our beach closer in their back. We actually put out a large air years. The kind of blocked off every other spot. That is so that when people get out of their cars. Theyre not rubbing up against each other we dont want that to happen the popular seacliff skate park will stay closed along with dog parks and park restrooms are still closed for the most part. The restrictions were eased in part because Santa Cruz County has a relatively low level of infection compared with other counties statewide and because surfing visiting parks and other forms of recreation is considered essential at least our locals what is not a as far as were concerned is traveling several counties over for recreation. So were really trying to discourage people from coming out of the county to Santa Cruz County. There is not as far as we can tell an essential need to depending on cooperation Officials Say restrictions on outdoor construction gulf landscaping and other gatherings of 10 or fewer people may also be relaxed soon. But to those thinking of heading to santa cruz to hang out are reminded that several visitors from fremont last weekend were fined a 1000 each were doing just that we are still are enforcing the shelterinplace order and physical distancing. We have given out i believe its over a 100 tickets at this point. People who are not doing and so that means stay 6, you are one another its not a vacation. I realize a lot of people are out of work in a small, but its not the time to come to the beach just to hang out if you want your dog gets treat offering your neighbors. But we will be forced shelter in place order. Rob fladeboe kron 4 news. At know, lets get a check of the forecast john tribal geza night of the weekend and well see what its going to be like for folks that are hoping to maybe spend a little time john the weather, i know has been getting cooler and cooler right. Yes, so weve got a cooler weekend ahead james, maybe not the best for that same occurs weekend regardless so hopefully the crowds will be too bad out there because weve got to be mindful of fiscal distancing course you look outside from berkeley this morning certainly nothing super inviting looking obviously its dark out, but its still pretty great to to start this morning a lot like we saw yesterday now fog isnt going to be as much of an issue for most areas as it was low fog at times for the north bay but thats about the only spot that were going to be seeing any sort of disability act where you will notice that cloud cover its going to hang out with us for a lot of the day and even when skies clear into the afternoon youre still going to have some persistent passing clouds eat lots of sunshine does come back out so little cooler little cloudier thats the gradual change weve been experiencing the latter part of this week 40s and 50s for your current temperatures if you must walk the dog a stepping outside here in the next few minutes of course she got it so that extra layer on we do have some showers that have been pretty persistent for the Central Coast over the course of the past couple of weeks theyve been seeing a lot of rain fall and again getting some lighter showers this morning as for the bay area bill were on the dry side you do see some activity there on the radar right in the middle of the screen. This is just some misty conditions associated with that low lying cloud cover so couple spots where roadways may be wet that really active rain falling as much as that is just some coastal drizzle and best futurecast shows you what we have to expect today some inland areas like morgan hill as well as livermore could see some isolated Late Afternoon early evening, brief showers the rest of the bay area looking to be dry and future cast today tomorrow into sunday sunday night into monday just the slightest chance of a few isolated and brief showers pushing their way on its the bay area monday, even though our best chance of rain not really going to be a rainy day. This is a drier forecast that not well into the middle of next week. Todays daytime highs will be mostly in the 60s antioch youre alone standout still in the low 70s conquered in san jose close to that market 69 each well livermore and fremont 67 oakland, San Francisco little cooler down into the low to mid 60s today tomorrow will be similar to today with actually a bit more sunshine tomorrow than today will offer youll still have the foggy and very morning sunday cloud cover increases again and with the ash a few evening showers sunday night into early monday monday will be your coolest day of the forecast before temperatures option that point begin to climb again by wednesday and thursday of next week, its back to the 70s we go back to you james all right john thank you very much. Back to our coverage of the coronavirus the pandemic and the spike in demand for help from food banks. We talked about this yesterday during a live reports, we know that from san jose all the way up to santa rosa people are working around the clock to feed those in need with kron fours gayle ong taking a closer look now at the challenges, those food banks are facing. Second harvest of Silicon Valley is not short on food, but they are short on volunteers and they do need Financial Support to better serve those in need during this difficult time. Theyre not the typical helpers at the food banks that they are much needed after Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and san jose saw a dramatic drop in volunteers after shelterinplace orders last month 40 of our workforce consisted of volunteers. And that almost went away completely whereas before that we have about 200 volunteers a day in this location we were seeing maybe 17 people come we could not meet the need with that many volunteers so called in the National Guard and they responded yes, the food bank has they trained us and we basically folded into their fulltime staffer here everyday money for it. Helping out. The food bank serves santa clara and san mateo counties, the challenges theyre facing is not a shortage of food ceo of Second Harvest leslie says the facility has received an abundance of produce thanks to restaurants. That are closed just like the Grocery Store items like pasta and rice are hard to find and the food bank has to pay more for those items but the food bank is not accepting personal donations at this time were looking for financial donations because really we can stretch your dollar so much farther repaying the trucking for all of this donated produce we are also over purchasing products provided by the truckload and trying to negotiate the best deal possible so the best thing folks can do right now is to provide Financial Support. Part of the money donated will be used to buy supplies are volunteers like Hand Sanitizer and mast reporting in san jose gayle ong kron 4 news. Well new this morning, there was a Fatal Police Shooting in the east bay just started in oakland where Police Chased a driver who failed to pull over for a traffic stop the chase ended in the area south 37th street and staged avenue thats enrichment. The driver injured 2 officers after ramming into a Police Cruiser the officers fatally shot the driver after the driver, pointed a gun at them. There the victim in the drivers car who was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The Police Officers are being treated right now at a hospital. Were told they are in stable condition. Heres a quick live look outside you got a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge here. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news will have more coverage of course for you this morning as we check weather traffic and of course weather traffic and of course the latest coron wow im original. One of a kind. You feel me . Love ya. Oop you look cute. Better than you wherever drama pops off pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. Pop my 100 allwhitemeat whaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. 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If theres a Silver Lining to staying at home indefinitely its the bay area animals are being well taken care of most major shelters are closed to the public. But adoptions by appointment and animal fostering are ongoing. Were finding that a lot of people are coming to us because they may be always wanted to adopt an animal or maybe now theyre realizing that something is missing in their life and an animal companion my health still that way that the are actually experiencing right now. Peninsula Humane Society and spca has seen an increase in adoptions while other local shelters have found foster homes for nearly all of their animals. Berkeley alameda and Contra Costa County place most of their animals in foster homes in the first few days of shelter in place. Oakland Animal Services has seen the numbers of animals being fostered double and San Francisco spca says more than 5,000 people have expressed interest in fostering we know that animals are great companions especially for people who are sheltering in place right now they ease loneliness the east rest state needs and society many bay area shelters are also offering support to those whose ability to take care of their pets has been compromised due to covid19 were actually operating a pet food bank. For people who need pet food at this time either through financial difficulties. Or that they actually cannot safely leave their homes right now shelters, encourage pet owners to have a plan in place in the event that they become sick are financially unable to care for their pets. Reporting in San Francisco, Kate Rooney Kron 4 news. Is a quick live look outside weve got a picture of the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic moving along fairly well be careful out there the chp course still out patrolling making sure not speeding. Were going to quickly through construction zones, well be right back. For 30 is the time President Trump is putting governors in charge of reopening the country after he laid out a 3 phase approach to restarting the economy as soon as possible but some worry that coming back too soon of course could set the country back washington correspondent Trevor Shirley explains. Some Health Experts and lawmakers say reopening the country too quickly could lead to a massive spike in sickness and