Part of californias phase 2 those decisions and announcements have led to a little bit of confusion and some frustration by this time next week just about all the bay area counties could move into phase 2 of reopening sonoma napa and solano counties are already in phase 2 on monday, the 18th San Francisco marin and san mateo counties will join in phase 2. And today we learned alameda and contra costa counties are in the process of deciding when phase 2 will start Alameda County says it anticipates moving into earlystage to next week. Contra costa county will decide on monday so while San Francisco marin and san mateo counties are starting face to monday for now contra costa and alameda counties are holding back. Health officers and both of those counties say they will likely reopen early next week but they have not set a date just yet kron fours michelle kingston has more. Its pretty difficult to her side story as early as her theres no sidewalk jim and sandy rowdy on a small yarn shop in livermore they started an online store since the shelterinplace went into effect customers picking up knitting supplies on the front porch of their home, they say even though Alameda County may begin phase 2 of reopening next allowing Curbside Pickup for nonessential retailers will likely continue to operate as is. Its difficult you to see how im going make it work and shop because. Worse small shop to you know as it is but to even try to keep people separate or even from himself or just kind of have their own states its going to be charged Alameda CountyHealth Officers say unless theres a big spike in cases over the weekend will likely move into phase 2 early next week. However, they have not set a date just yet now the same goes for Contra Costa County where Health Officers say theyll likely make a decision on monday if everything. Continues to look good like it is now then well pull put out that order which will probably start the next day or so. Are still so small. Um i dont know that the change thinking vicki little own sippin scoop, california cafe in downtown brentwood where people are currently able to order out the door she too has a small store front but is already thinking about the second part of phase 2 when dining may resume for our story i think that were going to proceed as we are speaking out and maybe allow us to the point that i want to come in and see. Actually is the sea ice in the first shots i spoke to today are looking forward to reopening fully once its safe to do so i think the i 2 we have as a positive attitude. Except the situation and doctor. Thats thats what were trying to in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. Oakland mayor libby shaft joined us earlier today, she said her citys early actions to prevent the spread of covid19 were instrumental in saving lives and she added residents need to continue doing their part putting people first. Early caution has saved thousands of lives so we have to have continued vigilance because we will save more. But we do expect some potential announcements in the coming weeks so stay tuned. Alameda county but know that your sacrifice is definitely making a difference. We got to balance the economic hardships with the Health Hardships that we got to put people over profit. The city of oakland is expanding his plan to encourage physical distancing starting today, no food trucks or sales of any other kind will be allowed in or near city parks. Parking next to lake merritt will not be allowed on weekends as well as the memorial day holiday. These changes are effective through the end of the month. Contra costa county Officials Say they are confident theyll be able to move into phase 2 of the states Recovery Plan on monday today local leaders also announced a plan that will allow large gatherings and services by car that will go into effect on tuesday Officials Say as the countys coronavirus numbers begin to plateau they wanted to provide another chance for people to get together especially for graduation and church services. Something else is an opportunity particularly as we go into graduation season as we have many faith communities that have been able to gather in any way for a long time this provides a new opportunity to get just a little bit closer. There are several rules for these gatherings say can be held in large outdoor spaces cars must be park 6 feet apart, a maximum of 200 cars can be involved if more than 10 cars are president there would need to be security and a plan must be filed with respective cities for every event a week ahead of time while some businesses wait until monday to reopen the city of San Francisco also issued new guidelines today for those essential essential businesses which are open right now. Those businesses are expected to maximize the number of staff working from home have all workers evaluate their health before each shift create a health and safety plan and a social distancing protocol. And require everybody to wear a face covering. There are also specific Health Directives for certain businesses for example at places such as Grocery Stores or farmers markets customers will not be allowed to touch any of the products and in the last 24 hours, San Francisco release guidelines for the next phase of the reopening and while some see this as a positive step. Others say it isnt much help kron fours dan kerman reports. The empty retail corridors weve become familiar with during the pandemic like this one on union street are this one on film or could start seeing some activity come monday when San Francisco opens the door for retail pickup and delivery. Its definitely a bandaid its of a small band aid. But the point is we have to slowly start opening the buscan your us with the Fillmore Merchants Association says Curbside Pickup is a good start and its forcing stores and his association to expand their social media presence. Carry on one on one video chats with customers and re imagine window displays during moments of crisis thats when this extreme innovation in the marketplace in tech. Im so im really excited to see whats going to come out of all under San Franciscos reopening guidelines storefront curbside an outside pickup is allowable but customers may not enter stores also no more than 10 personnel may be on site or less and Smaller Stores to allow for required social distancing. Stores must also have access to an adjacent curbside sidewalk street alley or parking lot for customer pick up curbside its not going to work, but the women for and union streets just tools for 36 years and have now postpone their retirement say this is not going to work. I think were ready to open and i understand the safety and were certainly you want to be careful as all our precious customers and everything but we think were ready. Eleanor carpenter and leslie trapped and say their store just isnt suited for Curbside Pickup or a massive online presence. So if your fashion if your a store like ours youre changing merchandise. All the time its impossible to show the brexit of the merchandise at least 1009 its up to each store to decide whether or not theyre going to take part in this retail reopening. Its set to get underway on monday morning. In San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Santa clara county is breaking ranks with the other bay area counties in loosening of the shelter in place restrictions the decision to not move forward yet is fueling some frustration for the Business Community despite making significant headway in Hospital Capacity testing and infrastructure. County Health Officer doctor sara cody said earlier this week that conditions have not changed very much. But the san jose downtown Association Says its unhappy that. Local orders dont match what other lawmakers around the bay area and the state are putting into place. Its really frustrating that were all not on the same page here there was a youre going to be open by this date folks can start planning scheduling weddings again in making plans right now its so up in the air. Everybody still twisting in the wind too much that is no way to run a business thats no way to bring it come back. As for when the county might begin easing restrictions. Doctor cody says a key indicator would be reducing the virus is basic production number which represents a number of people who will be infected by a single case meanwhile, there are now more than one 0. 4 million confirmed cases of covid19 across the nation and the virus has killed more than 87,000 people across the state there are more than 76,000 cases more than 3100 people have died. Those numbers, according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker tonight, democrats in power to massive trillion Coronavirus Relief bills through the house of representatives. It is the largest relief package in history. The bill has funding for coronavirus testing and a new round of direct payments to americans who are in urgent financial need. However republican senator Mitch Mcconnell has said it will be dead on arrival in the senate calling it quote a liberal wish alicia list rather and President Trump says he will not sign the bill but promising it will quote happened in a much better way. Right now the kron on app is free to download 24 hour local news streaming commercial free service so you can stay informed and updated on this Health Crisis coming up on kron 4 news today, the gracious gift from a social media giant twitter helping the east bay close the Digital Divide plus minority owned Business Owners across the country are not seeing the same support as their now already own businesses across the nation have complained that the federal dollars meant to shore up small operations like theirs. Have not been trickling down to help them survive during this crisis in response the open African American chamber of commerce has set up what it calls a Resiliency Relief Program that program is designed to offer financial help to members of the chamber who have been hurt by the coronavirus pandemic we talked with the president of the chamber kathy adams for details. We have been getting a lot of calls from Small Businesses that were suffering not giving up belongs and some of the ppp programs that the federal government has made available and we are right, we need to do something people call to action by not raising these funds will be able to give actual grant between anywhere between 5,000 or 10,010 1000. The problem is with your mom and pop in the Small Businesses, some of these companies when those like as a grant became available. They got people they got staff and one of our company sent us today, they said look at the. Ive got to wash dishes. I tried to take menu or his ive got to go to the door, im you know a ton and people that food out there in all says the pain is and so when you are Small Business and you dont have the luxury of having staff people to say oh susan can you fill this out you know thats and so and then by the time you get to the point where you get bill, guess what all the money is gone and that money is not making it to the Bank Accounts for African American all this. Kathy adams says more than 35,000 has been raised in just 2 days so far the link to the website to make a donation or to apply for a grant is shown at the bottom of your screen. And you can donate today applications for grants will begin opening on may the 20th. Millions of dollars were donated to help close the Digital Divide for students in an east bay school district. It was a huge surprise and a muchneeded contribution to help educate children who dont have the same resources as in the wealthier School Districts and the donation was made by a major player in the world of social media whose headquarters is right here in the bay area kron fours Haaziq Madyun has the story. I dont know if you know this, but i woke up to that tweet of the week that tweet was from twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey and agreed 10 million to give every single child in oakland access to a laptop and internet in their homes, closing the Digital Divide the tweet this morning was a big game changer dorseys generous donation came in the day after mayor libby shaft and the Oakland Unified School district put out a call for help closing the Digital Divide for oakland students who are now engaged in Distance Learning at home but schools being closed due to the covid19 pandemic students like Skyline High School junior Jessica Ramos says this is a really big deal so i didnt have a computer until starts right computers. My internet was unstable because my parents couldnt afford it. She says those circumstances are common among her classmates so most of my friends are from bp stoker him and now many of my friends have wi fi or Home Internet access. And so just for them to be able to connect with internet is a big you know we have a 83 total schools also got about 45 charter schools, weve got a dull school and we got a about 10 preschools well so were weve got a lot of schools, lot of kids here and this is going to the lives of so many of them so much better. And its not just the kids, their families dont have that connectivity to the outside jessica rob lowes help put out the bridge, the divide called during the press conference that ultimately led to the surprise million donation from twitter how does it feel to be that it for me it feels amazing because im helping my community has he let you kron 4 news. Also in the east bay faculty and staff and Hayward High School held a drivethru today where they handed out caps and gowns to graduating seniors. The seniors of course wont be able to have an in person Graduation Ceremony because of the stay at home order. But staff say theyre doing everything they can to make it a memorable experience. There are 310 seniors graduating from Hayward High School this year, a virtual Graduation Ceremony is planned for next months and kron 4 is also saluting the class of 2020 every night were shining the spotlight on a specific senior and tonight it is i g a vega. And gm is graduating from Castro Valley high school she plans to attend the academy of Art University in San Francisco. Congratulations, a g a and you can submit a graduate just go to kron 4 dot com fund salute to grads 2020 its under news submit a photograph of your grad and let us know which high school the graduate attended and whats next for him or her. The wooden panels protecting the historic Flood Building in downtown San Francisco. Theyre getting a make over during this pandemic as a tribute to First Responders and frontline healthcare workers khan forcefully chagall shows us how the flood family turn those panels into art. Parts and shapes the theme were trying to bring people together and it will brighten their day urals painted in honor of First Responders and frontline healthcare workers serving the San Francisco community during the covid19 crisis decorating wooden panels, protecting businesses closed down. Well the city shelters in place well to up lift peoples spirits during this very challenging time with a little bit of beauty and some hope kiran flood is executive director of the Union Square BusinessImprovement District attorney jaime her late father james see flood held when he founded the organization in the late 90s she says when he had the historic Flood Building downtown on Market Street renovated years ago young kids from the tenderloin district use paint to transform who were otherwise dont barricades on the windows into our work. Now the flood family has teamed up with General Hospital and the together to once again turn an eyesore into Something Special we loved our father. We love our community we love San Francisco. And its a tribute to everyone several generations of the flood family involved in your work, including karens 19 yearold daughter ana lisa eklund. Clinton says her grandfather would be proud. This is a great time to come together and celebrate those images that he loved the symbols of the city in the community that has been a part of for his whole life, the flood family says the artwork will stay up as long as the store fronts remain close. But it looks like they may reopen at the end of the month. Once that happens they intend to donate all of the pallets to a public space here in San Francisco. Felecia called kron 4 news. All right, lets take a live look outside look at that beautiful picture it was a wonderful day to day and you can see the golden gate there gosh what a lovely night as well lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on details for what is a hand lives. Yeah big weekend ahead here and we do have some major changes in the weather were treated. 2 very special day today as High Pressure moves overhead and brought us plenty of sunshine and some warm temperatures around the bay area out there a beautiful look toward the Golden Gate Bridge gamehigh clouds there in the distance otherwise could not bad out there, but look at that off the coast storm clouds are gathering and certainly looks like a big change coming our way as early as tomorrow night as a storm system moves in so right now no rain just yet but that will soon change, heres our future cast model sees me taking its tomorrow morning low clouds and fog gathered along the bay and on the coastline but well see the mid to high level clouds begin to move in the rain holding off by 9 oclock in the morning tomorrow into the afternoon starting a little touching goal in parts of the north bay but mostly dry across the bay area and then overnight as we head in toward a sunday or it looks like an extended period of wet as we head throughout the day on sunday, even the possibility of some isolated thunderstorms partly cloudy tomorrow morning youre starting out with temperatures in the 50s in the 60s by the middle of the day weve got 50s and upper 60s getting close to 70 degrees never going to pop some 70s in the afternoon. So certainly some very nice weather. But the clouds going to be on the increase becoming mostly cloudy in the afternoon temperatures so pretty nice out there though clinton about 77 degrees one of the warmer spots in san jose 76 in concord and about 63 degrees in San Francisco. But change is coming over the weekend looks like a rain makes richard big time and 6 around into early next week guys back to you. Thank you lauren ceh scientists around the world face a race to face a fine of new covid19 vaccine. One lab is doing something different. Still ahead at 8 oclock well have details on this new technique plus cows to the coronavirus rescue how genetic engineering is being used to 2 companies are among those putting animals to the test to develop a covid19 antibody treatment, the company s a b biotherapeutics in south dakota is giving cows human chromosomes hoping that the animals blood could help make a drug to fight covid19 using genetic engineering the scientists create a cow embryo which contains parts of human chromosomes then that embryo grows into a cow, a non infectious part of the coronavirus gets injected and then because of the genetic engineering the cow produces human antibodies to the virus. They are collected and purified and then become a drug which might work to combat the virus in humans. The advantage of using cows over humans is cows can donate much more blood and plasma. Its one of the reasons that we chose capital because obviously there are large animal be literally. Genetically humanized mice we put in the genes for the human immune system into my so that these mice have. Pretty much exactly a human immune system. And another company we jenner and is trying a similar approach with mice which are engineered to have portions of a human immune system. The Company Calls the magic mice, researchers extract and clone the best antibodies, both Companies Plan to start human Clinical Trials early this summer in the south bay, a popular haunted activity is back open the Winchester Mystery House reopen to visitors today. The historic garden tour guides you through states beautiful victorian gardens with some breathtaking sight cent a lot of interesting history about Sarah Winchester story. Its selfguided and a touch less experience and social distancing is enforced. I fema says the country is getting healthier every day when it comes to pp coming up at 8 what the Trump Administration and congress are doing to get personal protective equipment that those who still need it most millions of californians facing historic levels of california is facing unprecedented levels of unemployment during this pandemic and so far the States Employment development department. Has handed out more than million in benefits and today the edd revealed it now has 23 million to help workers and local economies that money comes from 2 federal grants edd says the money will give temporary jobs to 600 unemployed workers. And employment and Job Training Services to more than 2500 workers affected by the pandemic coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 9 oclock we take a closer look at where some of that money is going and how it can be used. As california leaders prepare to make billions of dollars in budget cuts Governor Newsom is setting aside millions for a new controversial state law. Newsom plans to put that money toward enforcement of ab 5 thats a law that requires a number of independent contractors to be redefined as employees. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has the story. Nearly 9 months since its passage, the drama is nowhere near over with californias ab 5 the law redefining many independent contractors as employees is at the center of numerous repeal efforts regardless governor Gavin Newsome proposing to put more than 20 million toward its enforcement with 17. 5 million going to the state department of industrial relations, 3. 4 million to the Economic Development department and 750,000 to the department of justice its 6 to be perfectly honest with you several republican lawmakers outraged by the appropriation Assemblyman Kevin Kiley is leading a legislative effort to repeal ab 5 the governor tells us that this budget is stripped down to. Our most essential priorities and apparently that includes 20 million to target independent contractors to harass law businesses with on its fines and penalties and lawsuits at a time when so many are are struggling to remain in business and all but new son in many other democrats continue to defend the law which aims to protect workers from misclassification ab 5 faces a November Ballot initiative to exempt a number of good Companies Like uber and lyft californias attorney general sued the Companies Last week the governor recently weighed in letter of the law. Has to be applied we want to be cooperative and collaborative ah but we as a state have a responsibility to do what we said were going to do with exactly a month left to work out the budget facing a billion deficit newsome spent friday meeting with legislative leaders, some lawmakers prepared to push back on ab 5 funding young what almost claims at this point the Small Businesses have been really actually use of those funds letter that came in the form of a tax break for assistance in getting back to the east theres somebody better uses of funding could actually californias budget is due june 15th. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news as the bay area works to reopen communities of ridership is expected to rise for transit agencies ridership on bart. Its been down 93 during the shelterinplace order in the next phase, 6 feet of distance seeing is expected to remain in effect. And bart says it could service 80 of riders while maintaining that distance barr plans on releasing exact plans for keeping writers say for the next week and starting june first part will no longer be selling paper tickets at the San Francisco airport station. The agency rolled out a Pilot Program last year that phase out the sale of paper tickets at 4 different locations since that time clipper card usage has risen up to 91 of writers. And shortages of personal protective equipment continue unbelievably around the country. The federal Emergency Management agency and the white house have a new plan to get ppe to those who need it most our washington correspondent kelli meyer has more on what the administration and congress are trying to do to help now. We get healthy every day when it comes to pp e fema administrator pete gaynor isnt shying away from the challenges, the country has faced with getting personal protective equipment during the coronavirus crisis, the majority of ppe is not manufacture in the u. S. With a Global Pandemic gainer says that makes it harder to get and its something President Trump wants to change the look of you people spread out 6 feet at a medical distributor in allentown pennsylvania thursday, the president vowed to replenish the Strategic National stockpile with americanmade products to be a more independent. And more selfsufficient and more resilient. Fema administrator gainer tells me the president s move helps them towards their goal of getting more ppe to those who need it. Lawmakers on capitol hill say theyre trying to do their part to where theres a question that our supplies stressed georgia congressman buddy carter says congress has done its best to help by adding funding specifically for ppe and relief bills actually i think weve done a pretty good job with that. Obviously we need more him were not going to stop until we get everything that we need the house votes friday on another 3 trillion in funding some of that for increased production and delivery of ppe the carter and other House Republicans say the bill is full of unnecessary partisan spending the relief package isnt expected to pass in the republican controlled senate. Leaving more funding for more protective gear stalled. Reporting in washington. Im kelly meyer. Its a big earthquake. Big earthquake of 4 oclock. Top of the Pacific Southwest building. Or you could feel it shaking like crazy. 6. 5 quake striking a several states early this morning. This is video from Downtown Fresno you see that chandelier swinging back and forth. The quake could be felt for hundreds of miles all the way to parts of sacramento, the san joaquin valley. It struck in central nevada centered near total paul which is between las vegas and reno major highway 3. 95 was closed for hours because the road tracks its the strongest quake reported in nevada and more than 65 years. The good news. No reports of injuries with more on that earthquake. We want to welcome in our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow an unusual to have a quake in that part of the country isnt. Yeah can they you know they get these quakes here but boy this was a large one large theyve seen in quite some time but that. If youve driven down that way you know thats kind of an active area thats all karl called part of walker lane about a 60 mile stretch from the front range there this year that a back out of the desert that is an active fault zone. And thats exactly what they saw that today and certainly not only did they see that earthquake. They had numerous apps shaw aftershocks, the strongest one of the 5. 1 and you can see the areas in red those are lot of little aftershocks that have occurred within the last hour. So certainly very active very active earthquakes there right now will continue to swarm in that area we on the other hand a quiet evening out there around the bay area and look at that gorgeous sunset is got some high clouds above a big change is expected for the weekend there comes a storm system rolling on in i think it will hold off for the better part of the day guys but by tomorrow night here comes the rain and the rain is going to be off and on all sunday law back to you. Thank you. Laura. Still ahead of a new types of covid19 cases popping up in china as the country prepares to launch of massive testing effort from dropping lyrics to delivering help how popular bay area rapper is giving back during the pandemic loves power of the platform how a social four plus one is. 16. laughter how many pints of iced tea are left in the pitcher . Times. Ten. So, wait. errhhhhh do you want to show us the continents on the. No. It is not going good. My mom is getting stressed out. speaks hebrew mommas tired. I, im, like. Woooo. screams sighs heavily so, starting just quickly by breathing in. I never thought id say this, but i kind of miss school the teachers, i mean, yall are gifted people i thank you so much for what youre doing. Their investment into our children is beyond what we can even imagine. Appreciate all that you do. Proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis. With humira. Proof of less joint pain. 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In life under lockdown social media has been a key way we connect with one another blow off some steam off looking at this video here yes, thank the hottest act right now as you probably know is tick tock its a short form video app where users stance and lip sync their way too internet startup its popularity has been exploding over the last few months hands been practicing her hundreds of millions of people are downloading the app i should say bsa who knows a supreme xinhua the power of the platform lies in the fact that anybody can go viral iif they hit the right guy australian Dante Mueller files started dancing and lip sinking hes in his bedroom. His mother getting in on the act in this video which has been viewed nearly 5 billion times. Beforehand i think everyone was kind of just doing it for fun and now its kind of like a light to sky but now asking, everyones doing it everywhere in there. Grandma just because that one city time setting they might as well do something for 19. Its an awfully light hearted platform. Thats partly. What drew me to it in the first place is things that just getting a little less that just bring you in moments, joy a little bit to offer a moment. British psychologist doctor julie smith has gained hundreds of thousands of followers by making educational videos as for the biggest tick tock star that honor belongs to american teenager charley deem elio she has an astonishing 55 million followers and getting more than 4 billion likes on her videos that are most Popular Video i dont get it. All right today. The u. S. Says Space Force Flag was presented at the white house. It is the first new service flag and more than 70 years senior military leaders unveiled it to the president in the oval office, the flags colors, dark blue and white. There of course meant to represent outer space. Space force is scheduled to perform its first mission. Tomorrow this plane will be launched into space carrying a satellite with 5 experimental payloads its part of an effort to demonstrate technologies in space space force as its mission is quote critical to perform during this pandemic next said a very back saying scientists in the uk working to let the body fight the virus in a different way. The nfls looking to add more diversity to its coaching ranks, but its solution to the issue is raising nearly a dozen new asymptomatic cases were discovered in the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Health officials in wuhan china reported 11 new cases today china is launching a massive Testing Campaign to try to prevent a resurgence of the virus the goal is to test 11 Million People in wuhan over 10 days, scientists have long theorized about a new type of vaccine instead of injecting a disabled virus and spring a response just give the body. The genetic code to do the work itself, its called an r and a vaccine. And its never been done before. Reporter Nick Paton Walsh takes us into one lab thats leading that effort. Everywhere theres a race for a covid vaccine. But here in london paddington. Theres a race for a new type of vaccine altogether. Professor robin sciatic is leading a team at Imperial College using a new technique to get the human body to recognize the most dangerous parts of the virus. The hook all spike on its outside. So the body can be ready if it ever sees the real thing. You dont even giving the body parts are still getting the party plans for the most they begin human trials in mid june and hope a 6,000 human tests by october. Maybe early next year, this revolutionary technique will be ready for you o i. Heres how it works a spike from the surface of the virus. A lot of allows it to. Attack can get into the cells in your body. That technique in checks, the genetic code of that spike into the body. Lets show muscle cells make lots of the spikes. And your immune system recognizes that im starts to make antipolice. The find and recognize that spike so that when you see the whole farce having being immunized the all new system and we should be makes antibodies that will not come to the spike and means that the farce command on got in fact so us. Its a new technique entirely because most vaccines give a week and entire fires for the 40 to learn to fight. The cells of watching like affection them making the vaccine cells doing the heavy lifting for all us having to make huge amounts of bars and this technique has 2 advantages the amounts needed at tiny so 16,000 liters could in theory they say be enough to vaccinate the entire world and to the technique is successful can be used for all the viruses to in the future. The huge steps coronavirus is forcing us to take leading us ioto a new world of great unexpected advances. Bay area rapper e 40 is giving back to the community during this pandemic shop and or has a number of business projects, including wine and tequila brands. So when he heard of the coronavirus outbreak at california prisons, he decided to help out the 52 yearold used his production facilities to turn alcohol into Hand Sanitizer you can see the production lines and the business here with large bottles of sanitizer in total 1000 gallons were sent to lompoc at san quentin state prisons. Time for sports. There hasnt been a game since february but somehow some way the nfl continues to dominate sports headlines and let me tell you they are always positive headlines. News broke today that the nfl owners will vote next week on a resolution that would improve the teams draft position if it hires a person of color as a head coach or general manager diversity amongst the coaching and managing their management ranks has been a long time problem in the nfl. But this solution was met with mostly negative feedback across social media platforms as of now the nfl has only 4 head coaches of color and only 2 black t ms which is the lowest total in the last 17 years. Now staying with some not so positive news out of the nfl Florida Police have officially issued arrest warrants for 2 nfl players. Quinton dunbar a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks and the andre baker a cornerback for the new york giants are wanted for their roles in an alleged Armed Robbery. The incident happened at a house party on wednesday night. Police say several victims alleged baker and dunbar stole thousands of dollars in cash from them while armed with weapons, however, the attorneys for dunbar baker said they have 5 sworn affidavits from witnesses that say their clients were not involved in an Armed Robbery that took place in southern florida. Neither baker or dunbar are in custody as of now the nfl the seahawks and the giants all say they are aware of the situation and have no further comment at this time. Thats your look at sports back to you guys thank you jason, the emergency medical staff at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital released a video to take the bay area for doing its part by social distancing and providing ppe donations. Lets take a listen. Thank you for sheltering in place he held interest but others like my mom his and theres not a half of our patients and families we thank you for staying home and helping us a lot and they are. The city issue. Thank you. Thank you oh good. We need that you senior that may be in demand is not over and we still have to continue to do our part. All in this together and we need to continue to stay safe and make the so be smart to be kind and stay at home finally tonight a day where honoring a bay area 13 yearold benjamin lee of cupertino who just so happens to be kron fours 100s benjamin is hosting a free online coding event open to anyone to help raise awareness about social distancing amid the covid19 pandemic the mine craft emoting socialdistancing event will take place may 30th from 10 00am to noon. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to Program Using the mine craft game. 2 years ago lee develop the mine craft platform as a way to introduce other young people his age to coating. And he has since been teaching other children how to program at whiz kids Computer Center in san jose congratulations there you go. The spotlight, someone making a difference in your community we have a new section on our website. Its called kron 4 heroes oi after news. A lot of quick form to let us know about your hero and you can find that page at kron 4 dot com. And that wraps up kron 4 news tonight at 8, heres what were working on for kron 4 news at 9 sonoma counties already in phase 2. Now they want to take it a step further what could open up if they get approval to advance to late stage 2. And where the rest of the bay area stands in the road to reopening. California secures millions of dollars to help with the struggling workforce. We take a closer look at where that money will go and talk with the state Employment Development department about how it will be used stay with us kron 4 news at 9 is next. When prime time. The news station youre watching kron 4 news at frustrating that were all not on the same page here. Now at 9 not all bay area counties are progressing through this pandemic at the same pace and that is leaving some communities, frustrated and feeling as if they are being left behind good evening. Im pam moore and can weigh in the bay area counties have largely been working together in their response to the pandemic. But when it comes to further opening reopening as part of californias phase 2. The decisions and announcements have been a bit confusing at times by this time next week nearly all of the bay area counties could move into phase 2 of reopening sonoma and napa and solano counties are already in phase 2. On monday may 18 San Francisco marin and san mateo counties will join in phase 2. And today we learned that alameda and contra costa counties are in the process of deciding when phase 2 will start Alameda CountyOfficials Say they anticipate moving into earlystage to next week Contra Costa County will decide on monday Santa Clara County currently remains in phase. One it has not yet provided to date on when it will move into phase 2. We head now to Sonoma CountyOfficials Say there are already looking to open the county up even further that would include opening up more businesses, including Wineries Hotels and outdoor seating at restaurants, but the county has to get permission from the state first kron fours gayle ong live in dow