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Cases there will be more joyful these people were years that actually calling now as you know john the nation words youve got to be warriors week. We cant keep our country close down. And we have to do something. The president went on to say this pandemic is worse than both the attack on pearl harbor and the attack on the World Trade Center in new york. If we tested every single american in this country at this moment, we have to retest them an hour later and then an hour later after that because at any moment you could theoretically contract this virus. So the notion that Everyone Needs to be tested is just im simply nonsensical. The notion of testing has long been an issue during this pandemic doctor Anthony Fauci has said that testing is important an important factor when considering reopening the country to its fullest today. The new White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany clarified who President Trump believes should be tested. More than 57 need to be tested are vulnerable populations thats why doctor birx has repeatedly emphasized the need to surge Nursing Homes with the testing. Meat processing facilities. Thats where the testing is needed we have to be strategic with our testing and we have done that so far. More than 7. 7 million americans have been tested thats according to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker map about one 3rd of all coronavirus cases in the world are right here in the United States tonight more than 73,000 americans have died. And there are more than one 0. 2 million cases in our nation in california. There are more than 60,000 confirmed cases and the virus has claimed the lives of 2400 people as some states take steps to try to reopen some Health Experts are saying that we could experience a socalled second wave of covid19 infections. The answer is unclear though along with when such a second wave could be expected. The cdc works with a number of Different Research institutions to create forecasting models but most projections are for just a few weeks out. But theres no doubt that i knew were going to a second spike good news is we have a lot preparations that undertaken are in place and so were definitely more prepared for. Potential surge and we and we were once a month ago or 2 months ago when this was all very very new. Doctor if he says realistically that could mean continuing some measure of physical distancing until a vaccine is widely implemented. On thursday the governor will issue guidance to retailers regarding the states expectations for reopening the guidance will include Curbside Pickup from not essential businesses, however, the bay areas current shelter in place order is more strict than the states and that is what will apply as much as mayor london breed want Small Businesses to open and people to go back to work she says San Francisco is still thick in the pandemic. More. That people have interactions with other people. The likelihood that other folks will continue to get infected. And so as difficult as i know this has been we need to keep that in mind when making decisions about reopening. This was the scene at the lowers park and this morning mayor breed threatened to close the popular park in for crowding continued, but she said people did a good job. The past few days of only being with members of their own family there and staying 6 feet apart and she wants that to be the norm tonight there are now more than 9,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the bay area and 330 333 people. Have died from the virus Santa Clara County continues to lead the bay area with more than 2200 covid19 cases, san mateo San Francisco and alameda counties all have more than 1300 cases for a county by county breakdown you can head to our website kron 4 dot com and in fact santa clara and contra costa counties both saying they need more time before they reopen Health Officials in both county say there is a lot of work still to do a Santa Clara County widespread testing and Contact Tracing are still lagging. The goal is to test 4,000 people every day currently about 8,800 im sorry 800 to a 1000 tests are being done every day both county say any further loosening of the stay at home order is dependent on 5 indicators whether the number of covid19 cases and hospitalizations is flat or decreasing whether there is an adequate supply of personal protective equipment whether the need for testing is being met and whether there is adequate capacity for Contact Tracing Health Officials say opening too soon would be risky. San francisco restaurants are anxious for the next few phases of reopening some are already planning what their restaurant will look like and how it will adapt to physical distancing. Tonight kron fours terror attack he talked to wine bar and restaurant divvy know thats in Pacific Heights. And she joins us now with more on how thats supposed to work out taylor. Yeah they say its all about making customers feel comfortable and safe will be changing their floor plans and lay out even ending barriers to their car seats. Were treading water right now they will be open just a little bit of food and wine to go service is no more for us and all that. Tim heyman owner of school board of you know in San Franciscos Pacific Heights neighborhood says the pandemic in shelter in place order are killing businesses right now his wine bar is currently doing 20 of its usual business something he says is unsustainable as he anxiously awaits for guidance from the city. Hes already planning for the day when customers can dine in once again normally our capacity as 49. And we would have liked tables all throughout the middle here, but for right now we really spend it out to sort of allow thats exceed separation caymans rearranging inside seating moving most of the chairs outside where he says customers may feel more safe. It will also install barriers between seats at the bar on our bar area. Partitions that will go here and kind of come out like that. It you can imagine like a plastic partitions im very similar to like what you see at the retail stores. And that will allow you know probably as many as 6 of the bar, they also have sanitizing stations for employees and guests plus contactless transactions and pp for employees i can that its going to be mass and welts. That will be needed to where we have a good pos system allows for Contactless Payments weve had that before since the outset um utley heyman says its all about being as clean as possible. Alone for customers to feel comfortable in public again. He says restaurants will look much different when they reopen that is if theyre still financially able to herd numbers of 30 to 50 or the restaurants are going to close them. I dont think thats off. I think thats accurate were going to see a lot of beauty more than city are really. Bush to help Small Businesses and make it easier. Him and says it will probably be a long time before things return back to normal and people adjust both physically and emotionally well over as restaurant theyre trying to make things field a little more normal or get back to somewhat of a normal feeling as of today, theyre back open 7 days a week reporting live in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news and i think you as restaurants and food places reopen in the bay area weve created a page on our website to keep track of what is open. Restaurants can fill out a form on kron 4 dot com to let the Community Know theyre open for business. The page also shows of a restaurant has delivery or curbside options. You can find a link on our home page its called yes were open bay area florists are among the next list of businesses to reopen just in time for mothers day flower bowl. Floresiensis in walnut creek was closed for nearly 2 months under the stay at home order is started taking in online and phone orders on monday, but because of the overwhelming volume of orders, the owners had to stop taking orders this afternoon for the rest of the week thats because the business is currently under staffed the coowner says that they are not taking large events like weddings graduations ceremonies and birthday parties until the foreseeable future. Its 8 leaders say they are working on the shipping 10s of millions of masks across the state the governor says hes now ready to reveal the secret contracts for those mass said he has with a chinese company. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has the story. Governor Gavin Newsome says california is now in possession of nearly 20 million surgical masks which he says is allowing the state to move into its next phase sooner news who said wednesday, the state is in the process of distributing the masks, theyre part of a billion deal newsoms Administration Made to secure personal protective equipment for california, but weve never been in this we were the beneficiary of these larger contracts and some security in our supply chain the governor first announced the contract last month saying it would bring in about 200,000 units of personal protective equipment monthly into the state we just make sure we deliver ultimately on the needs of so many whose lives literally at risk. The governor says california now faces an obstacle and delay with n 95 masks requiring federal certification to bring them into the state newsoms administration has kept contract details with chinese manufacturer b y d for the n 95 and surgical masks under wraps citing numerous reasons including security lawmakers and critics have scrutinized the secrecy newsome wednesday promising to make them public sued wanting to deliver and get this done in to save lives at the same time to be as transparent as a human the candy to you because you deserve it. And so youll get that and i hope i hope it doesnt impact the contract, i pray it doesnt in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. A local company has made an anonymous donation of 1 million face masks to bay area hospitals that donation is part of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group covid19 challenge so far that challenge has raised more than 7 million in donations and equipment 4 area hospitals. Hospital leaders say the donations are greatly needed now and in the future. This is going to be with us for a while and when you just look at the volume of patients that we see here at stanford as well as our sister organizations throughout the bay area. And this is going to be an ongoing need well into the future. Several Medical Center has already received about 100,000 masks king says that donation will also allow them to resume trading other medical cases and performing surgeries that had to be put on hold. Well today is National Nurses day and the start of National Nurses week and what a time to honor them kron fours michelle kingston checked in with some bay area hospitals to see what theyre doing to say thank you to the nurses and how some of you continue to say thanks. Close to 2000 or cuts to live or to nurses at saint marys and st. Francis hospitals on National Nurses day to show their valued and appreciated this idea of her. To my life as were watching all these people in hospitals working so hard making the sacrifices that theyre making the taken the risk that theyre taking to say how can we show our appreciation and gratitude nurses at Kaiser Permanente in john your health also recognized as heroes. The tears come from as far away as washington in addition to the work you do each day. You have gone above and beyond the call of duty in responding to our nations invisible enemy. Covid19 and from hollywood where mark walberg delivered hundreds of meals to say thanks ive always had a huge appreciation for mom did and what people do in public service. And back home and cheer squad says things to ucsf benioff Childrens Hospital it. And National Nurses united holds a virtual art show to highlight the need for personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic while hundreds of volunteers in pleasanton make thousands of masks and other needed accessories in just a few weeks for nurses are so grateful for the work that youre doing. For being the winds too face this situation, michelle kingston kron 4 news another. A Beautiful Day around the bay areas it turns into night. Were told you can see city hall there in the lower left and the heart with the sf and the lights thats lime green in honor of Mental Health workers month. So thats why those colors are out there paying yeah and its a beautiful picture to us a clear night lauras to see all those lights. Certainly years. A day to day in these next few days going to probably the hottest days of the season, mister parts of bexar these temperatures will likely soar into the 90 starting tomorrow also it is going to heat up in a hurry as High Pressure sits overhead looking out toward the golden gate bridge. We are currently fog 3 out there right now likely to stay that way all night long look at the temperatures today, almost 90 today in santa rosa they checked in at 88 degrees 86 in a bottle 83 the napa valley 86 in concord 85 in livermore 79 in san jose de won in redwood city and 71 in San Francisco temperatures out the door this evening still looking very comfortable many spots till 70s in redwood city 70 is eman in concord in the 68 play on 60 in santa rosa, 59 degrees get a little bit of wind there in petaluma High Pressure building in over head on that is going to mean were going to see beautiful weather ahead as we will see more of an offshore component to some of those winds and were seeing a little and now you can see more northerly component in sonoma mill valley since the beach then a or a westerly wind right along the coastline into San Francisco, sfo pacific and now, but overall the trend is going to be more of a northerly component that is going to the next in some nice dry air into the bay area that you keep us fog free, not allow the temperatures to heat up in a hurry for tomorrow as well so get ready and then its going to be hot spots tomorrow and yet we want to be prepared for that mostly clear cool tonight in spots inland a little breezy over the mountain tops and those winds over a 1000 feet probably gusting to 30 maybe 40 Miles Per Hour in some spots, plenty of sunshine them are cranking up the heat by tomorrow afternoon here comes that big dome of High Pressure just laying across california bringing those offshore winds that is going to crank up the heat may be a good 10 degrees tomorrow, and maybe even warmer than that as we get into friday that will likely be the peak of the heat that we start to talk about the weekend and mothers day were going to talk about that forecast coming up in a few minutes guys back to you all right. As Many Organizations shift to virtual some are now dealing with unwanted guests. They are called zoom bombers that is where people join Public Meetings and say or do inappropriate things. It happened at a Berkeley High school last month and now at an east Bay Community college and there are more kron fours gayle ong joins us live. She has details on this scale. And the contra costa Community College was conducting a Virtual Meeting for its students and Community Members weny it was bombed by photography part on graffiti. The meeting was interrupted by a tsunami or somebody essentially hacking into the meeting and taking control of that meeting. On monday about 50 students and Community Members gathered for a virtual town hall to hear about the latest campus updates. Campus Officials Say the hacker was able to get back in the meeting and thats when they ended it immediately and at that point we decided that it was in the best interest of everybody to just. Shut down its not the first time its happened in April Berkeley Unified School District temporarily suspended online Distance Learning via zoom and google me. After a man reportedly appeared naked in a virtual lesson at Berkeley High school it also happened at a church in salem Cyber Security experts say to prevent the socalled zoom bombers one should screensharing for everyone except for the host. And cohost also mute audio and disable video for meeting attendees generate a random meeting id and always use a meeting password back in march, the fbi warned about teleconferencing an online classroom hijacking during the covid19 pandemic and recommends exercising Due Diligence and caution in Cyber Security efforts. A Police Report was filed that contra costa Community College. We are working continuing to work with them. To a believe that we can to identify and find these perpetrators. So that others dont have to go through what we got going through. The fbi mostly received complaints in the state of massachusetts, but if anyone were a stick to the socalled zoombombing or cybersecurity they should report to the at the ice. Internet complaint center. Reporting live gayle ong kron 4 news sales and. Oakland police chief Anne Kirkpatrick filed an unlawful retaliatory termination claim against the city of oakland today over mayor libby shaft decision to fire her back on february 20th after 3 years on the job. Her attorney said in a statement the claim found on kirkpatrick behalf by San Francisco attorney jamie slaughter allege that during her 3 years as police chief she raised a series of alarms about misconduct by the Oakland Police commission that she says violated state and local law. But her reports went largely unheeded until she was fired for blowing the whistle. The city has 45 days to review the claim if the city rejects the claim the lawsuits will be filed against the city in her claim chief kirkpatrick seeks lost wages and future earnings. Calling it an insult President Trump veto, the iran war powers resolution today that legislation would have required his administration to seek clearance from congress in order to use military force against iran, he said the resolution was quote based on misunderstandings of facts and law and he called it quote unnecessary and dangerous that bill was introduced after the president s decision to order a strike that killed iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani that was back in january. Congress is not expected to have enough votes to override the president s veto. The u. S. Supreme Court Received his final briefs today for yet another challenge to the Affordable Care act. Millions of americans get their Health Insurance because of the Affordable Care act. Californias attorney general Javier Becerra says job loss increases more people will lose their employer back. Insurance he says a ca could be a lifeline. It just is not a moment too bad and americans who need to know they have the health coverage, they need obamacare is a disaster. What we want to do is terminated. And give great healthcare. Despite suggestions from members of his own administration to try to strike down only parts of the law President Trump says he fully supports the lawsuit aims to eliminate the law republicans in congress have yet to write an alternative health care bill. And most of the attention and healthcare has been focused on hospitals dealing with the coronavirus but Community Clinics are putting their weight in this crisis too. Coming up at 9. 30 we go behind the scenes of one local clinic working to keep some of those most vulnerable healthy in the midst of the crisis sending a little kindness never really heard anybody coming up at 9. 45 were going to be the Bay Area High School whose ditching Text Messages for good Old Fashioned letters and a new report says more than 20 million jobs have been lost during this pandemic the weathers perfect. Family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. How could it get any better than this . Dad, i just caught a goldfish theres no goldfish in this lake. Whoa its pure gold. Were gonna be rich. Were gonna be rich it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. Were lost across the private sector in april that is according to the Payroll Company adp. The Services Sector was hit the hardest to 16 million service jobs were lost last month. The losses were broad based across small medium and large sized businesses as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country and force companies to shut down. Meanwhile today uber announced that it has laid off roughly 2700 employees. These people worked in recruiting and Customer Support and they made up 14 of the Company Last Week lyft announced that it would lay off nearly a 1000 employees and furlough nearly 300 others, an air bnb says that it will be letting 1900 employees go which is about a quarter of its workforce around from optimism over the economy reopening ended up fizzling out today, the dow and the s and p 500 snapped a 2 day winning streak. With the dow down 0. 9 the s and p 500 down 0. 7 . The recent to a recent atp reports might also play a factor in that drop today. News why the citys Health Department is delivering alcohol cannabis. And tobacco to Homeless People isolating in San Francisco hotel room and we go behind the scenes of one local Health Clinic working to keep some of those there are thousands of people all over the bay area who need a doctors care for conditions that have nothing to do with coronavirus and. Most will still see their regular doctor as true, however people in low income communities and those with no Health Insurance are at an increased risk of covid19 of their Health Issues are not rated and there are more of those people because the loss of jobs has led to the loss of Health Insurance. And that is where Community Clinics are providing a valuable safety net one in particular is the San Francisco free clinic. Torontos who hate a is speaking up much needed medications. He has diabetes a heart condition and high Blood Pressure each serious enough by itself all the more serious because of covid19 or medium governments concerned because out. I know your net and condition used to be the most affected. It only matters enough to us so hayden knows he is vulnerable, although he is employed, he does not have insurance and those are the patients the San Francisco free clinic serves these are the very people that are having disastrous outcomes if they get infected by the virus. These are the people that are dying actually for the most part. So its critical that they continue their care they stay on their medications. They stay in touch with their caregivers the free clinic has been providing Free Health Care for people with no insurance for more than 25 years, ducked co founded by doctor tricia gibbs and her husband doctor richard gives way to go to the clinic is normally bustling with warm and supportive staff and volunteers helping patients with all kinds of health innings in the entire full range of chronic and acute conditions as 9 pulmonary conditions like most general medicine clinics and we see injuries and wounds the clinic has classes for stress reduction heart health and nutrition eye exams and more that is during normal times they day it is masks and scrubs and staff taking temperatures lots of greeting patients at the door with their medications and loss of telemedicine all examples of the value of Community Clinics. Keeping low communities of color healthy during this pandemic especially since recent data has come from dramatic Racial Disparities in covid19 infections. The other thing that unity clinics that they really take care of the minority and underserved populations in places where they exist in. You know the Health Care Disparities were existing before call it buyers hume along but this is because of ice is just really exacerbating that in and highlighted the tremendous inequity said it simply gives are optimistic that the Health Care System will adjust and do better when this crisis has passed for 2 riders who had a is grateful right just really isnt giving him for me. You can say can by e some huge issue it seeks to see and also that she got the dollar it was. You know he got up the price. Soon as i knew the 10 point that there is a key. The San Francisco free clinic does a number of covid19 tests as well every day and they have seen some positives the clinic is starting a Delivery Service for patient medication and has even providing food for some in need. Both doctors say that after this crisis has really calm down the Health System well need to seriously focus on the myriad of health Mental Health issues to come from this crisis, including an increase in anxiety and depression and fear which they are already seen show up in patients. Californians can now find a nearby testing side with a few taps on your smartphone today governor gavin newsom announced. This new web site that does just that all you need to do is search your Current Location or you can search your address your city or zip code and you can even click on the map to see which sites are close by can find a link on our website kron 4 dot com. Test results came back from a coronavirus partnership between ucsf and Mission Community organizers this week. Of the nearly 3,000 people tested last month 62 came back positive. What was really alarming was the number of latinos who are affected 95 of the positive tests were reported in the land next community we talked to john to cobo chair of the Latino Task Force to get his reaction to those results. You know i mean for me personally i think many involved with the study to get out task force i think we were most blown away by the fact that it was 95 of those tested that tested positive or at the you know, and that the remaining has actually 95. 1 the remaining. 4. 9 . Our folks from the a p i community that we did not have anybody from from our White Community actually test positive for this cobo says shelterinplace does help stop the spread of the virus but many in the lead next community, our frontline workers who have to go to work in order to pay rent in order for them to be able to shelter in place, San Francisco leaders revealed a new plan for addressing homelessness in the tenderloin Officials Say the district is seeing a significant increase in unsheltered homeless during this pandemic the tenderloin plan has several main goal say include addressing encampments by offering safe sleeping alternatives as well as ensuring tenderloin residents can get safely to their homes and businesses. Officials say the city is already implementing the plan focusing first on 13 blocks with the highest needs alcohol cannabis and tobacco are being delivered to some Homeless People who are isolating or quarantining in San Francisco hotel rooms. The citys Health Department defends the program as a way to keep covid positive attics indoors. Force marine kelly talked to a formerly homeless addict turned advocate who is concerned the city is blurring the line between Harm Reduction and enabling. Said that theyre bringing them a call and we thomas will says hes heard about the citys practice of delivering booze cannabis and cigarettes to those in quarantine or isolation from a man he knew back when he was living on the street. He says that friend told him that he got the delivery wall in one of the hotels being used to house the homeless or marginally housed people either infected with covid19 or exposed and waiting for test results. As a recovering alcoholic and addict will says this practice concerns him as that individual been examined by a medical professional or were they just asked a series of questions because i if it was me and i was addicted i wouldve said answered, yes to everything, yes i want everything yes, a maryland attic. Yes, call yes. I need the trains i d. And boom there you go so to me that thats blurring the line between Harm Reduction and unable. The department of Public Health says everyone who comes into the Hotel Housing program for isolation or quarantine is screened multiple times by Health Professionals and social workers to try and find out the substances they would be uncomfortable with out and offered counseling if they want to quit. They say the goal in all of this is to just make sure infected people stay inside and away from others. Some cases this will include helping them manage. Alcohol use and then it continues so that they can stay safe place as much as possible to help their community and help themselves. They have arranged for delivery a prescribed opioid replacement drugs like methadone and a handful of cases so far helped facilitate patients, buying medical not Recreational Cannabis private donations, not taxpayer dollars are underwriting the purchase of Tobacco Products and booze for some but dee ph says the alcohol is for those who get the shakes without it and theyre given the minimum medically appropriate amount with meals. Maureen kelly kron 4 and we are separating fact from it we break americans are being forced to stay home myths about the coronavirus continue to spread the spacious back he breaks down another myth this one says the chinese have a cure for covid19. Fear about the virus props normally rational people to say hey yeah that sounds good to me i think ill give it a try when it comes to something that made look like a cure. Heres the myth the chinese have a cure for covid19. This plays on a lot of the rumors innuendo and claims that covid19 was manmade mud. The director of the u. S. Intelligence service has said under quickly. The Intelligence Community concurs with the wide Scientific Consensus that the covid19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified. Yet there are people who believe the chinese have a cure and theyre willing to sell it for a price. The Cybersecurity Company fraud watch international. Found these supposed covid19 antidote swabs from china available on the dark web for the bargainbasement price of 15,000 per swab the ad says thats a giveaway price and suggest you resell it at your own price. Eea efta busting you out for a 15,000 swab the seller is also going to charge you 30 more dollars to ship it to you. Its not the only alleged covid19 cure out there on the dark web weve reported on several dark towel found this ad offering to sell 5 doses of covid19 vaccine for a 115 apiece the israelis developed a vaccine that you can have right now but the swabs are certainly the most pricey. So it goes without saying those so called cures and nothing but frauds and. What you need to tell those criminals who is selling the cure on the swabs they have to take those swabs and stick it in their ears working for you, im consumer investigator, steve depression. Attending a little kindness never hurt anybody i know all below and coming up, we are meeting the bay area instagram but a kindness graham a group of Bay Area High School students are going the extra mile to try to spread some positivity the project they call kindness grant it was started by a Los Altos High School junior and his friends together they male handmade cards to somebody in their Campus Community kron fours noelle bellow talked with him today and she has the story noel. You mention instagram because thats one of the things that jimmy and i talked about basically the fact that. We have so many ways to connect online. However, hes temp decided to kind of take the quarantine and go back to good Old Fashioned pen and paper. You can get totally send somebody a text message and say oh my god i miss you so much, but then years eve handmade graham with coloring and a really nice message. You know it just means so much more jimmy to suu kyi is a junior at Los Altos High School like most teens texting and posting on social media is the norm. But when his school shifted to at Home Learning he realized his fellow students might need a little right now as we know that times are tough people are scared. People are sad, you know they need a little bit of encouraging so i thought you know what why dont we take this idea and we can expand it every february students send a valentines grams to fellow classmates. So to suu kyi and his fellow associated student body members use that framework and set up an online form to create quarantine kindness grams. Sending a homey lead or are handmade let a sound like a great idea, but a lot of people you know they dont really put the effort into doing it so we wanted to take the hard part away. And all you have to do is fill out a form and my fellow classmates and i we will fill out the letter we will make the letter for you and we will send it. Key says in a week they got more than 80 requests for kindness grams the best part hes even got his family involved i would write the messages on inside and then. The person who actually did the drawings was my as shes 80 years old and she you know she needs them something to fill the during this point he away for fellow students and friends to remember were all in this together a if you need a grand you can contact me i will have to make some more. Its a really great idea right now kindness grams are just for los altos High School Students but to suu kyi says he may consider expanding that project back to you all right, im any good. An International Research team of archaeologists eke out a collage of. Say i can get trapped ecologists hello colleges archaeologists and climate Scientists Say of the year 2070 the climate will be unsuitable for human life to flourish they say if Global Warming continues unchecked the heat that is coming in some parts of the world will bring quote nearly unlivable conditions for up to 3 billion people cutting down on Greenhouse Gas emissions could cut that number in half, but they say that it would have to be done quickly. If not business as usual could change the World Climate over the coming 50 years more than it has changed in the past 6,000 years. The researchers also say this year is expected to the the earths warmest year on record, everyone survived. Sound bites you weird how that happens our 4 zone forecast a live picture of the bay bridge and people out there enjoying this nice weather and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow says is going to get even nicer lawrence the apt. You have to be maybe a little. Some are coming our way as temperatures go to crack 98 think in some of the valleys by tomorrow afternoon out there tonight you a full evening around the bay area, nice and clear everywhere you go looking toward them. Well the gate bridge gorgeous out there tonight mostly clear skies were seeing a little bit of offshore flow and that is keeping the stay nice and clear mainly of clouds you can see theyre all the way around looking good at this hour. And then were going to notice some changes by tomorrow how about this up in the 70s and the San Francisco oakland your top and in about 80 degrees or so san jose about 88. So certainly some nice weather coming our way but watch this were going to see counsel a ship between extremes here weve got High Pressure building in now that ridge settling in bringing lots of sunshine we see anything maybe a few high clouds tomorrow, then i think we may see a few low clouds begin to develop along the coastline in the afternoon on friday but most of the day really going to be warm in fact it will likely be the peak of the heat, especially for the valleys, but you notice that green off the coastline watch what happens as we head to the weekend that low continues to spin around finally or going off organizing off the coastline as we get into late sunday into monday. Well there you go mothers day looks dry. The following day though monday theres a good chance we could see some rain returned the bay area with a late season storm so keep your fingers crossed for that the meantime enjoy the warmth such they were going the Mission District at 71 degrees 64 in the sunset about 65 degrees in daly city, 65 in half moon bay, 77 degrees and sunny in burlingame 71 and Sandra Devaney in south San Francisco, a beautiful and getting on the warm side as you get down the peninsula 83 degrees in palo alto 86 in mount view 82 in 1723 of foster say the south bay, sunny and warm really almost all day long upper 80s in this was a 87 in campbell 87 in morgan hill 88 in cupertino about 85 degrees in santa clara that we start to see some 90s begin to pop up just over the east bay 91 in livermore 90 in pleasanton dublin 81 in hayward should be about 79 degrees in san leandro 91 degrees in danville about 91 also and cochran 84 hercules you get the idea these temperatures going to be the hottest the year so far maybe even 93 in fairfield 89 degrees in santa rosa 73 degrees. You know you get an offshore wind near seen 70s a sense of beach all right all that being said of course weve got a very special weekend coming our way little mini heatwave over the next couple days mothers day looking good but do plan on some more low clouds and fog moving in on mothers day that will help to cool down the temperatures by monday. Theres a very good chance of some rain around the bay area, maybe a lingering shower in the tuesday by next wednesday return some dry weather and mostly sunny skies but these next couple days keep something cold with you it is going to be very hot around a good part of the bay area guys back to you all white house joe biden search for a Vice President ial running mate is heating up and he is facing growing pressure to select a black woman political pundits say the move could further energize the democratic partys loyal base of African American voters biden has already committed to selecting a woman as his second in command, but the choice will not be easy one possible candidate is Stacey Abrams the former georgia gubernatorial candidate explains why shes open to the possibility. Ive been getting this question for 14 months, im honored that people would put me into the category and think that was a question asked as a woman as a person of color as a woman of color it is my responsibility to answer honestly and forthrightly and if the question is about whether im competent and qualified for the job, my answer must be unequivocal because im not simply speaking for myself, im also speaking to that young woman of color whos thinking about what is in her future and if i deny her and then i myself and im doing a disservice to women to communities of color and to any Disadvantage Community does not see themselves as the face of leadership. In addition to abrams biden has also reference a number of other women in general including senators Kamala Harris of course here from california Elizabeth Warren Amy Klobuchar and governor gretchen whitmer. It is National Nurses week can after the break were going to tell you what freebies are available to th National Nurses day and it kicks off National Nurses week to celebrate and thank the health care workers. Were risking their lives every day to care for and treat patients and nurses are especially crucial during this pandemic as we know in many places are offering freebies for the nurses, starbucks is offering a free tall brewed coffee hot or cold. Through the end of may triple a is giving free burritos to all healthcare workers starting today. Applebees is offering nurses, a 50 discount on any food item through the month of may even find a link on our website kron 4 dot com for more freebies and details for nurses during this month. In other news tonight, astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to earth about a 1000 light years away that translates into about 5. 9 trillion miles away this is an illustration provided by the european southern observatory showing the gravitational pull of a black hole. This announcement backs up the theory that there are lots of these small black holes in our galaxy but we just cant see them. Researchers were able to discover this one because it is working a close my eyes stars orbit. Space force. Which mark will was. Netflix has a new out of this world workplace comedies star steve carell as a military general and decorated pilot who has a team of scientists and astronauts. Theyve been given free rein to create a program that gives the u. S. Complete control of outer space. The trailer has a running joke were members of the special forces laugh at the orders to get from the president. President trumps name is never mentioned, but the show bears the same name as his new Military Branch that debuted last years a ground floor is saluting the class of 2020 every day were shining the spotlight on a specific senior and tonight it is harney to dylans i need to is graduating from Pioneer High School in san jose. He plans on staying right here in the bay area he will be attending San Francisco State University in the fall. Our congratulations tonight to high neat. You can submit a graduate go to kron 4 dot com find salute to grads 2020 under the news tab submit a picture of your grad and. Us know which high school they attend and whats next for him or her that wraps up kron 4 news at night. Heres what were tracking for tonight at 10 california could be days away from relaxing, certain restrictions. But several bay area county say even if the state border is these 2 they are not ready, but its going to take to get to phase 2 flood could eating out to look like in a postpandemic may area local Restaurant Owner walks us through the changes patrons can expect whats being done to protect customers plus answers about virtual chat to being hacked the steps to take to youre watching kron 4 news at 10. Its restaurants are anxious to get customers back in their doors looking forward to the next few phases of reopening, thanks for joining us at 10, im ken wayne, im pam moore tomorrow Governor Newsom is expected to announce guidelines for stage 2 that would allow more businesses to reopen as early as