Health first focus governor Gavin Newsome says florists clothing toys books and Sporting Goods stores can reopen by the end of the week with new mandatory guidelines like Curbside Pickup the state is set to release the new rules thursday, not included in this round of reopening is seeded dining shopping malls and offices we need active monitoring surveillance. To make sure that the disease is not spreading. It is one of the criteria is a trigger to re modify the announcement comes as Health Officials say california is clearing necessary hurdles to move into its next stage of its 4 feast plan to reopen the economy, the director of the states Public HealthDepartment Says 14 facilities are ready to take patients in case of the surge. 90,000 people have signed up to be a part of californias health corps and 10,000 ventilators are standing by ready to go if needed its really a thrill to be here this time to be talking about all of this positive Movement Forward well, california is ready to slightly loosened up its statewide stay at home order Governor Newsom says cities and counties with stricter rules can keep them in place while others are able to move even further through a certification process the prospects of restaurants with modifications opening hospitality more broadly opening the governor has said phase 2 would also include reopening some public spaces like beaches and parks. He says more details on that are coming thursday in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Well as the governor indicated rules differ by county that will depend on what each local Health Officer believes is vast there is an easing of stay at home restrictions coming to 6 bay area counties, San Francisco alameda. Contra costa. Marin san mateo and santa clara. Kron fours dan kerman hes live in San Francisco with details on how things are changing. Staff. Well this is a slowly getting people back to work thats the idea here among things that are back up and running in this construction, Residential Construction had stopped for a couple of weeks or even longer in some places. Now this place was busy and active during the day stopping 4 oclock but a busy and active and thats just one of the various businesses that are back up and running. Construction workers are back on the job in at least 6 bay area counties that have ease stay at home restrictions, the counties of alameda contra customer in san Mateo Santa Clara and San Francisco say its a gradual way of safely getting back to business. There is a way. To accomplish the Public Health call. Keeping people safe. With also allowing businesses to operate but to operate with certain guidelines. I think that we can definitely Work Together to achieve that goal and get to a better place other businesses now allowed to operate include food trucks as well as florists like San Franciscos flowers of the valley. We are very excited to be open again our customers or emailing us and asking for one were going to be open with mothers day approaching most orders are coming in online or over the phone though some are stopping by. They cant come in, but they can place an order yes we are voters and they and they keep coming in to hear the phone ring in the back. Easing of shelter restrictions doesnt just apply to work but also play as a result skate parks have been able to reopen and for the bigger kids golf courses are up and running there are some key changes to encourage safety. But golfers remain excited, you know, its been fun to watch all the the people out here enjoying it not playing golf. But it was a little jarring haha so its fun it will be fun to to get back out there were going to go out tomorrow. Where this really can work us of people abide by what they have to keep doing wearing their masks and saying 6 feet apart she says that if these businesses and parks as well as golf courses reopen and people are complying with the orders then they will be looking at a nother round of free openings for other businesses that people do not comply then they will have to see what they want to do Going Forward live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news, thanks tamra hoping people are listening, thanks dan. We now have the results of coronavirus testing and San Franciscos Mission District last month nearly 3,000 residents and workers were tested 62 of them tested positive more than half of them reported having had no symptoms. Researchers say 95 of the people who tested positive for hispanic. Most of those people have also been affected financially by the pandemic after Governor Newsome announced that the state is going to begin not more. Reopening san franciscans are wondering what it means for the city by the bay kron fours kate rooney has the latest from mayor london reads a News Conference earlier this afternoon. As some counties in california prepared to resume operations for most retail businesses, San Francisco is taking a measured approach. On monday mayor london breed caution that we likely wont see widespread reopening on friday. In fact breed warned the city may have to take further restrictions to encourage social distancing after another busy weekend at dolores park if we see that that behavior has not changed. We will close the park. And i want to be clear. This is the last thing i want to do we know that people need fresh air. They want to be out. But if we continue to see that behavior become problematic at dolores park. It will no longer be available city officials an sfpd will continue to monitor the park issuing warnings and citations if necessary. Breed also announced that the city will likely resume parking citations for street sweeping if people dont begin to move their cars on designated days we have people who are out there cleaning streets but passing blocks at a time because people are not moving their cars. This is a real problem, and its one that we cant continue to tolerate breed expects a further announcement on ticketing in the coming days in the meantime, good news on expanded testing in San Francisco. Covid19 testing will now be available for all essential workers regardless of whether theyre showing symptoms at one of 2 sites in the city Grocery Store clerks. Our our muni drivers and other people who are on the front lines are Firefighters Police officers and nonprofit workers who are working with our Homeless Population in this and the shelters. If you are an essential worker and you exhibit symptoms or you dont exhibit symptoms. You still are able to get tested. The mayor said test results should be available within 24 to 72 hours appointments must be scheduled online or by calling 3, 1, 1, in San Francisco, kate rooney kron 4 news. San franciscos police chief says that officers will now were only neutral face coverings this is an attempt to defuse the controversy sparked when officers were sent to a protest and wore masks with the thin blue line flag. Chief bill scott says that he considers the blue flag and strive for meaningful expression to honor fallen officers, but says that some people say the symbol as divisive and disrespectful the new masks have been ordered and they will be distributed by the Police Officers union but again the chief is saying only neutral masks will be worn at certain public gatherings. New tonight, the Alameda County sheriffs Department Says the. Ghost ship defendant Derick Almena has been released on bail from the santa rita jail because of the pandemic hes been released on electronic monitoring. And max harris, they were charged with 36 counts of voluntary manslaughter after a warehouse fire in oakland. Harris was acquitted. A mistrial was declared for all he served as the warehouses Master Tenant again he is out of jail but his trial date for mindset for july 6th. Committing a crime during the pandemic has been landing some people behind bars others get cited and released. Now investigators at a nice pace, Sheriffs Office say that not being able to keep some repeat offenders behind bars is leading to a spike in crime kron fours Haaziq Madyun reports. Writing criminal citations then id really see the suspect that is what police are doing with both people involved in the lower level crimes during the covid19 pandemic we dont want to have people going in and out of her jail consummate can possibly introducing 19 into the jail so. Thats one of our Major Concerns in the wake of the covid19 pandemic the Judicial Council of california ordered a temporary emergency Bell Schedule reducing bell to 0 for misdemeanor crimes like smashandgrab of a burglary says Alameda County sheriffs Deputy Sergeant ray kelly you just cited release for stolen vehicle. Oh you just cited and released a skirt. Trump doing. You just cited and released vandalism as long as its not violent. On syrias on and its only youll probably get cited and released the 0 bell order also allowed nonviolent criminals to be released from jail he talks about the connection to a recent spike in criminal activity in Alameda County attorney general in that. Lets start was in 37 minutes come into carjacking just means you can go to it and were signed last on cars, you have a line she says he says investigators suspect some of the released inmates are likely behind a recent rise in violent crime. And if caught would lead them back behind bars despite covid19 we have 950 extreme that it will sell our chill. Some of those people dont necessarily like each other. And some of them have revenge on their minds and so thats why we do see she sings things like that the 0 bell order will remain in effect for 90 days after the governor lists the state of emergency or until it is amended or repealed by the california Judicial Council. Haaziq madyun kron 4 news. We have updated numbers on the coronavirus cases and deaths in the bay area as of today there are more than 8600 cases and the bay area. Santa clara county remains one of the hardest hit areas as for the number of deaths 309 people have died in the bay area from the virus. March, 16 from the shelterinplace orders were first issued there were only 4 deaths. In a sign of the bay area continues to stay ahead and flatten the curve elective surgeries and other diagnostic procedures put on hold because of the virus are resuming at Stanford Health care kron fours rob fladeboe explains why thats possible. As priorities shifted to dealing with the coronavirus outbreak Stanford Health care d laid some 3,000 elective surgeries. Today even as it guards against further spread of covid19 stanford says many of those surgeries are back on the schedule according to ceo david entwistles we see these are anywhere from. Her procedures to enter a surgical procedures to orthopedic procedures so theres a broad range of things that before wind that we had a longer period of time that could be delayed. But now in some cases are becoming urgent new safety protocols are in place including the use of masks and personal protection equipment. And the capacity for widespread testing of both patients and employees so we have about 11,014 1000 tested so far its symptomatic so they dont have a symptoms of the disease and in fact weve only seen a 0. 3 of one percent so 99. 7 of our toys. Dont have the virus safety protocols also include daily screening of employees. And patients will be checked for symptoms when they arrived at the hospital or clinics in addition, there are extra precautions in place for treating those who have contracted covid19 we do still have. A few patients in house that actually do have covid that retreating both in the icu and on the regular floors. But those patients actually suppress turnout to ensure the safety of the rest of the patients that are coming in Stanford Medicine says wrapping up for covid19 surge that has not happened finds Hospital Capacity around 50 . Priorities can just as easily be reversed should the need arise but for now that extra capacity will be pressed into service as the focus is shifting back to include meeting the demand for elective surgeries. So appropriate use of personal protective equipment. Appropriate use of testing as artist to make sure that weve got a safe environment to open back up and to bring those patients that were delayed. Back in for those needed surgeries. Rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Coming up theres a lot of growing concern about how much learning has been lost because of the impact on of the pandemic on school camps and advice and in nearly 100 years serving the military community, weve seen you go through tough times and every time, youve shown us, youre much tougher your heart, courage and commitment has always inspired us and now its no different so, were here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on and the online tools you need because you have always set the highest standard and reaching that standard is what were made for develop a vaccine. And she shared her story today with kron 4 sanaz tahernia. I would say the worst of it for me personally was around 5 days. I remember the sunday night that i started hallucinating. And it really was. Are you have a choice in going to stay are you going to go. You know my dead relatives my grandma city by my dad telling me its all going to be ok and being able to greet at all. And then sleeping for around 4 days just getting up and then were back to that good enough and went back to bed and not being able to breathe i would have dreams of being held under water suffocating. And trying to so i would actually literally wake up. Trying to catch my breath and because my lungs are so filled with the virus. I couldnt catch my breath and that was the hardest part knowing that im here with my daughter. And how do i catch my breath does she know how to dial i have a dear friend we decide that shes Emergency Contact if something happened. You know we had a a rout plan made just in case that i did fall deeper into the virus. Teresa also thanked San Francisco mayor london breed for shutting down San Franciscos. Quickly as she did she says it saved her from infecting at least 30 family members. You can watch the entire interview with teresa on our website at kron 4 dot com. Experts say that healthcare workers are at high risk for post Traumatic Stress because of the pandemic lawmakers very concerned about the ongoing strain on medical professionals, they say resources to help should be easily available. Advocates say Congress Needs to make sure that theres plenty of funding to offer Mental Health support. You can see that much suffering without it. Having a dramatic effect on you access to Mental Health services should be considered across the board as one would consider. You know a regular checkup. Just last week an emergency room doctor dealing with coronavirus victims committed suicide at her picture. She had become infected herself, new york accounts for more than 300,000 virus cases there have been 24,000 deaths. Today hundreds of San Francisco firefighters emts and dispatchers they got some welldeserved recognition and the form of free meals kron fours Maureen Kelly was theres mayor london breed helped hand out lunches at a fire station. I just i cant thank you all about the way too. Were going to get through this. Were going to be a stronger city because of it. And we have you to thank for that mayor london breed handed out back lunches prepared by a local sudanese cafe to the men and women working at a fire station 6. It was a way to Honor International firefighters day in a way to say thank you for the risk they take every day especially during this pandemic over 500 meals were delivered to firefighters emts and dispatchers in San Francisco monday and thousands more were handed out in other major cities like la and new york its an effort organized by nonprofit called frontline foods they raise donations to hire local restaurants to feed those First Responders putting their lives on the line every says the city is doing what it can to support their First Responders every day in this crisis, we have hotel rooms for our First Responders we asked how can you know we want to make sure that they get the Mental Health support they need if thats what they need so. Theyre taking care of our whole city so its important that we take care of them and so its its the feeling is news 4 mayor about bank today as well for her strong leadership since shutting down the city early. Yeah, thanks coming from one of the founders of frontline foods is also a pediatric yarn us i think that we can thank her for saving 10s of thousands of lives in this city. We can thank her for helping to not overwhelm the medical system in the city. We can thank her for protecting our children. The fire chief also credits the early shutdown of the city as one of the contributing factors as to why at this point. No San Francisco firefighter has tested positive for covid19 Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Time to check on the forecast for this first week of may and meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez joining us live from. How does that look my presa. Yeah, its looking warm and its only going to get warmer from here. Catherine lets take a live look in southeast, san jose and you could see were noticing plenty of sunshine out there right now and warm temperatures even at this 5 oclock hour heading into 6 oclock in temperatures out there right now widespread 6070s and even 80s unique microclimate forecast out there right now more than a 20 degree difference between antioch in Half Moon Bay getting that cool sea breeze influence along the San Francisco peninsula coastline but starting to cool down in the 60s for parts of the bay areas shoreline including hayward 69 degrees out there right now the 24 hour temperature change is showing overall warm air mass 5 to 11 degrees warmer than where we were just 24 hours ago. Getting those northerly winds out there in the interior valleys and the east and current wind speeds out there right now still pretty breezy throughout downtown San Francisco, sustained winds at 23 Miles Per Hour with gusts reported today around 30 Miles Per Hour less than everyone else. In the teens out there right now and wakeup planner forecast is going to show for your tuesday, we are going to wake up to plenty of sunshine but noticing some increasing cloud cover by the afternoon but temperatures overall theyre e similar tomorrow to today so we are going to change very little temperature wise upper 60s along the coast along the bay in the mid 70s, our interior valleys, warming up into the upper 70s and even low 80s but big warmup will return on thursday and thats going to continue through the 1st half of this upcoming weekend or daytime highs to be 10 to 20 degrees above average. Fortunately no high fire dangers in effect or the bay area said no red flag warnings have been issued, but we could see some heat advisories though because temperatures are going to warm up into the 70s 80s along the coast with 80s and 90s as you major way inland so possible record breaking heat returning to the bay area later this week more coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes catherine back to you thank broussard talk to them. Still ahead more states are beginning the process of reopening this despite the fact Health Officials say it could be very risky. The Supreme Court continues hearing cases but not from where you think im kelly meyer reporting from washington. How the highest court in the land is adj history was made at the Supreme Court today the pandemic led to the justices hearing oral arguments over the phone washington correspondent kelli meyer has that story. Its rare to hear these words in real time oh yea. Oh yea. Oh yea but monday for the first time in history, the Supreme Court broadcast its proceedings live. Well hear argument this morning in case 1946 instead of meeting in person during the coronavirus pandemic. The justices are hearing arguments by phone and allowing anyone to listen along this is really a historic and and George WashingtonUniversity Law professor paul shift berman says the Supreme Court has almost always met in person. But with the number of coronavirus cases in the washington dc area still on the rise, the court is taking precautions i think the justices are aware of the health risk from the pandemic this is just the first of 10 cases that will be heard over the phone during the next 2 weeks. Well, the Supreme Court building itself remains closed this spring court has taken a giant step forward North Carolina congressman g k butterfield served as a judge in his home state and says he salutes the court for allowing the public to hear their live deliberations as nothing more than what it meant for the public have confidence in Court Proceedings while members of congress return to washington this week, the justices will be starting their new tradition and like many of us working safely at home. Reporting in washington, im kelly meyer. Coming up next millions of people across the country of course, including california. Out of work because of the pandemic we talked to an expert to find out how claims are being paid and why overseas travel probably will not be happening until next year and whether health experts