Her father says the 49 yearold had contracted the virus recovered and talked about the emotional toll of treating coronavirus patients i think she shot a. An overwhelming the sense of wanting to help her colleagues and her friends who are still fighting the good fight is like the firemen who runs into the burning building to save another life. And doesnt regard anything about herself. A study by the journal of the American Medical Association found participating nurses and physicians working in wuhan china. The epicenter of the covid19 outbreak reported symptoms of depression anxiety insomnia and stress doctor spiegel says any Health Care System should be Offering Mental Health support to staff mindfulness apps can be helpful but its important for Health Care Workers to help themselves first. Doctor siegel says stanford offers Mental Health support for its workers they fit into telecommunication health with zoom virtual appointments for patients they are seeing and new people who are suffering. Gayle ong kron 4 news. A focus on Mental Health, the Tech Industry is stepping up to help healthcare workers. The app is called fishbowl and while it offers verify professionals of pretty much every industry. Their newest channel is specifically for healthcare workers. Everything you post on the site is anonymous we spoke with a ceo a fish bowl who explains the different trends and conversations theyre seeing among Health Care Workers. What were seeing is you know conversations like the one you share a very common. This kind of hits home to me because my own wife is a Health Care Worker contract and killed at a very early on in the pandemic and it was for many the reason reading on conversation officials well reasons like the institutions and hospitals early on were really being transparent about the risk that the Health Care Workers were were putting themselves at in not having ppe face shields and 95 mask in treating patients. Theres also a lot of what Mental Health issues starting to emerge amongst Health Care Workers as they come back home and they really cant you know they cant deal you know that it is a couple theyre heading. Fish ball is free for professionals to join in in most cases all youll need is your professional work address to get verified by them. There are some homes across the country will soon get much needed personal protective gear. Fema is preparing to ship surgical masks downs and gloves to thousands of facilities starting tomorrow may 1st this comes as many Nursing Homes deal with staffing shortages because of the lack of ppe the American Health Care Association and the National Center for assisted living represent more than 14,000 facilities across the u. S. They say about 4,000 Nursing Homes or longterm care facilities. They have reported 19 cases among the residents. And bay area communities are already stepping up to help Health Officials with contra costa and solano counties. Theyre sponsoring a free ppe giveaway and that happened yesterday you can see all that gear the giveaway happened at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill for employees who work at longterm care facilities. The packages they included face masks, gloves and Hand Sanitizer yesterday was the second time officials in the east bay have held a giveaway just like this one. Organizers say they would like to give out more equipment in the near future. A possible breakthrough in the search for a coronavirus treatment a drug developed by a foster city company is showing promise in treating the virus that and so far has killed more than 60,000 people across our country karin caifa reports from washington. Operation warp speed the trump administrations mission to accelerate development of a Coronavirus Vaccine is underway at the white house. The goal manufacture hundreds of millions of doses that can be made available to americans by the end of the year. And even though no vaccine has been created yet multiple projects are in the works around the world says nothing while this is going on a possible game changer in the fight against coronavirus what it is proven. Is that a drug can block this virus remdesivir here an experimental antiviral drug that is not yet approved to treat anything touted with some optimism by doctor Anthony Fauci after showing promising results in early trials, data shows that run destiny has a clear cut significant positive effect. In diminishing the time to recovery. The fda plans to issue emergency authorization for the drug according to the new york times, the World Health Organization says its still too early to tell just how effective it is and it can sometimes take a number of publications to determine a an impact old or a drug is. Amid optimism about a possible treatment stock shot up closing sharply higher wednesday. But the fed warning of the dire Economic Outlook next weeks jobs report is expected to show that the Unemployment Rate which was at 50 year lows just 2 months ago has surged into double digits in washington karen caifa kron 4 news. For many people who are struggling to make ends meet the looming date of may first can be pretty stressful. But you do have some options we spoke with apartment guide. They say the one thing you should absolutely not do is just not pay rent that will get you in big trouble instead you need to have an open dialogue with your landlord and try to work something out. The earliest you can give your landlord or property manager and saw the better off youre going to be because then you can work with them on some sort of payment plan or enter for a plan, you could potentially use some of your Security Deposit to cover your portion or all of the ranges need to be a lot of people who dont good chunk of money for security to prosecution and on for 2 months worth of grants. So that is some worry that you potentially could access right now. Again working with your landlord on a different type of payment plan could solve a lot of your problems for him or her as well as for you. And capers was soon be able to return to work its part of the revised shelter in place restrictions. This is good news for a San Francisco base Landscaping Company from forces seek mattoon spoke to them. Perhaps no one likes to work outdoors as much as landscapers but those who work in that industry had to stay indoors as landscaping was not deemed an essential business during the bay areas shelterinplace order that is until now believe thats but were very excited. The coalition of 6 bay area counties decided to relax some of their shelter in place restrictions allowing landscape is like janet lawyer and Michael Hofmann jenna moyer landscaping to return to work. They were closed down due to covid19 for over a month which they say force them to lay off half of their employees in certain years of business weve never had to lay off some employees because a lack of work. So when we had to lay off thousands voice that was. For ending u. S. Over 10 years and so im like family. They both say theyre looking forward to getting back to transforming backyards in San Francisco where they have close to 250 clients and just go to Garden Center saying the generally involves stairs and retaining walls of course and look beautiful plant some flowers their landscaping Business Model will change to accommodate safe working conditions. Hofman says they will do whatever it takes just as long as they can return to their passion to take away what people ought to do is very difficult. Most. Landscaping companies are in the business because they love what they do. And they love being in the outside and making the outside you all for their clients. The new Health Officer order goes into effect bay area wide on monday may 4th 2020 has it made you cry on for news. The Alameda County Community Food bank is partnering with the Oakland Unified School district opened a second warehouse to provide emergency food bags for people in need. These are some of the pictures from that warehouse, its in its first week of opening, 10 staff and 20 volunteers were able to prepare 10,000 food banks for those people out there who desperately need to get their hands on those supplies. Police they arrested a man who they say purposely cough that store employees to get away from a robbery. The robbery happened last month at a store on admiral callahan lane. Investigators say julie santos turned herself in on tuesday night. Santos is associated with this man could dean reese who is allegedly responsible for 12 robberies in Vallejo Police say riess used a knife and a firearm to rob gas stations and Convenience Stores all last month. Officers arrested him earlier this month. In San Francisco overall crime is down 23 but theres some troubling trends switch police are trying to track. Chief bill scott says for elderly women have been robbed in the past 11 days. Some of the victims were actually attacked at gunpoint the thieves are targeting victims purses commercial burglaries also on the rise police say in 34 of their arrest they have added charges of looting. As for the shelterinplace order. The police chief says voluntary compliance is still priority. But they will enforce it if necessary. Chief scott says so far 19 citations have been issued an 86 warnings have been given out to people. Coming up on the kron 00 04am morning news will there be College Sports come fall will share the various possibilities that universities in the bay area. Were contemplating. Before we get to that story, heres a live look outside you can see the tree on the right side of your screen. Little a bit breezy right now, but no problems in when you need it, jack delivers order on uber eats, postmates and grubhub. My new bitesized, crispy popcorn chicken is so when you need it, jack delivers irresistible youll want them whenever, so dont resist pop em while you game, hang, or do your thing. Pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. And welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news you want to get a check of the weather with days far whos joining us live from his home this morning dave i notice that you have a sweater so we in for sweater weather all day long. No probably not for the inland valleys probably not a warmup still in some selective spots will make it to about 80 or so, but just a little chilly appeared miranda start things off a bit and we have a little bit the way of some fog one as well for a thin layer at that too but the trend is one for calling so yes thats a even the inland valleys were going to drop below 80, it looks like to for the bay bridge at the toll plaza area there you can see a not too much the way that fog clouding things up a bit as we swing around the shot from sfo off to the distance, yeah, there might be some of the way of fog but no delays being reported at least on at this hour that we have satellite picture reveals upstream we do have a system its fairly dry. But it will be a enough of a control element to bring us some cooling weather as we get into the weekend. Again its kind of day by day to really get their heres how it looks like though. A series of these fronts passing by the last one along the journey may potentially bring a couple of sprinkles late on sunday, but we have breezy conditions today and that will also mean being on sure that will be cooler temperatures expected with all of that as well lets get to your 4 zone forecast to check things out for your thursday 65 San Francisco today. Daly city were at 63 pacifica at about 61 Half Moon Bay at 63, northern end of the peninsula warming into the middle 60s heading down to the south. Yeah, sure well get some 70s working here middle 70s that that with mountain dew at 74 about redwood city in palau to about 73 and to the south bay most reading stay in the 70s as well, the morgan hill at 79 76 cupertino in san jose santa clara. Also at 76 east bay shoreline to the south lower 70s out the tri valley, lets try 76 Livermore Pleasanton son all at 73. The Contra Costa County here you go for concord about 8078 for walnut creek 71 san Leandro Oakland at 71 and berkeley at 60 time, jumping up to the north readings here in some locations out to vacaville and fairfield that will be in the upper 70s near 80 or so in cops 81. Delay who at 65 definitely a Climate Control of the on shore winds here 75 for napa and sonoma at 76. Heading over to set a santa rose at 77 and heading down south we have the mid 70s to be found to the coast a little chilly, upper 50s lower 60s now this trend is in place for dropping temperatures through friday and into saturday sunday, even we have a slight little chance of maybe seeing a shower or so some scattered clouds or work and we soon back up again by the middle of the week were talking already lower 80s to be returning again kind of the spring singsong pattern here as far as closest to the averages will get to around those averages looks like by about saturday. Its actually been above for the inland highs above the statistical averages so we felt that sailing about that. So well lose that until the middle of next week we warm back up again get a get well back to you. We are not warming up when it comes to traffic dave its been cool ever since the shelter in place and look at that i have proof the bay bridge toll plaza. Any other time obviously we would see cars already stacked up and plenty of space if you need to go in from the spay from walnut creek an area that particular area into San Francisco, no problems. Lets go from the bay bridge to the richmond sandra fell bridge even lighter just a few headlights heading towards the toll plaza, your biggest problem is try not to go too fast chp officers are out there trying to remind people stay with the speed limit near the Golden Gate Bridge even later then the richmond sandra fell bridge. No problems if youre coming in from marion county. And one more check of you can know. Thats about it ok well check on the san mateo bridge. The next time. We do traffic check more states all. Out reopening plans, but we still dont know whats ahead for colleges and College Sports. Kron fours kate rooney checked in with bay area universities, the sea, how they are handling athletics. When the nc double a canceled collegiate spring sports in march, it was hard to think ahead to what that might mean for fall sports. But now universities are left wondering whether those will be in jeopardy as well we dont know whats going to happen. So you know were planning for every scenario. You know were plan a plan b plan c were still working on see that and hopefully we dont get their planning for a variety of outcomes as the action other bay area schools are taking as well, cal stanford and santa clara all told kron 4 theyre working closely with the nc double a their conferences and administration among others, the same is true for usf were having weekly calls with our us like tractors in our conference, you know okay, what do we do whats the first plan was conference arent conferences priorities. What does that look like if we start late if we had a very shortened season. The reality is none of the universities will know what it looks like until the nc double a makes a decision. The governing body has formed a panel specifically to address how fall sports will be handled beginning with football. Once those guidelines are established the likely be applied to other fall sports for us no matter what our student athletes and their health and safety of course. And wonderful we can bring him in on time in august and train and have her regular season that would be fantastic thats the outcome universities and their fans alike are hoping for in San Francisco, Kate Rooney Kron 4 sports. The San Francisco Unified School District is changing the way teachers grade students while they distance learn is still currently in effect for students in grades, 6 through 12 teachers will assign credit or no credit for each course for students in transitional kindergarten through 5th grade classroom, teachers will provide feedback on progress on the comments only report form and for students with individualized education plans grades will be provided in accordance with those plans. The San Francisco board of education president says this new approach takes into account. The opportunity for gap opportunity gap i should say for marginalized students. A brand new temporary program called pantry at home is helping feed low income seniors. Its taking place at the San Francisco marine food bank selfdriving cars pull up to the food bank collecting food to pass out you can see the workers. They dont get too close to you drop in the goodies there about 12,000 low income seniors who rely on the food bank for groceries every week. Volunteers and business partners, including amazon ubereats and doordash they will deliver directly to nearly all pantry participants, 65 years or older. So the most vulnerable participants can get groceries without ever, leaving their house. A group of High School Students in the south bay are finding ways to reach out to their community right from their home. They created a web site that links volunteers with people who cannot get groceries on their own. Theyve created and the helps dot org. A web site linking a lowrisk volunteer to someone who is high risk and in desperate need of help anywhere in the south bay. Specifically theyre looking for people 60 years old or older. Those with Health Problems and Health Care Workers who are having a tough time getting their hands on grocery and dont want to go to the grocery store. We have a couple of friends from High School Kind of really help was in a situation where i just kind of sitting at home in essentially work. Very and the crisis and i think it was just it was difficult for us that you know everybody out there who is going through a lot of difficult things and so we wont see how we can help and as of right now its going really great when someone volunteers of court which is really amazing, especially from young people. The volunteers grocery shop following cdc guidelines and the white down all products before they deliver it without any cost to those people. Tips are tips or donations are sent to one of the 3 local charities. All listed right on their web site. Also saluting the class of 2020. This morning. We want to congratulate Juan Pablo Roa one will be graduating high school in san mateo will be attending u c berkeley for their Data Science Program this fall you can let us know about a graduate in your life just go to kron 4 dot com find salute to grads 2020 under the news tab. Then cement a picture of your graduate let us know which high school they will graduate from and whats next ahead for them this year in the years ahead. Heres a live look outside at sfo you can clearly see no fog in the forecast very few planes taking off and landing these days if youre it taking off yeah still might want to give yourself 2 hours of head start but probably not as much as before. Will invisalign aligners really work for my smile. Is there a better alternative to braces . Only invisalign aligners use smarttrack technology. It moves teeth more comfortably and predictably. And in many cases, it works faster than braces. upbeat music and in many cases, it works faster than braces. Spotlight on heroes in our community this morning we are giving a shout out to a group of volunteers helping tao see the need and the north bay. The sandra fell elks kitchen, cares project is providing free meals to the local community, 3 to 4 volunteers are cooking and prepping the meals to be served monday through thursday at the same de pauls society, a marine county. The project is currently funded to provide 2500 lunches with the help of an Elks National Foundation Grant an Elks Lodge Trustee funds if you would like to make a donation you can go to our website at kron 4 dot com well connected to them of course any amount is greatly needed. You can spotlight, someone making a difference in your community we have a section on our website called kron 4 heroes. All you have to do is fill out a quick form to let us know about your hero. You can find the page kron 4 dot com. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news at the next hour Governor Newsom is ordering all beaches in state parks to close starting tomorrow why hes making this order coming up in a live report. Plus 6 bay area counties are loosening their stay at home orders for the first time well break down the changes what this means for you. And a possible breakthrough in the treatment for coronavirus the promising signs that medical experts say they are seeing in a drug developed right here in the bay area. Mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. Thank you for joining us on the kron 00 04am morning news, its thursday april 30th and will tran in for Robin Winston good morning, everybody, im Marty Gonzales lets get right to our top story this morning, happening today Governor Newsome will be ordering the closure of all beaches and state parks in the state. Kron fours ray harvey on the story live in pacifica with the details rana good morning
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