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But the numbers tell us the virus is still a big problem its its a big number its not that. Well. And which. Doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care says as businesses reopen and more people get out they need to keep in mind how easily covid19 can spread he contributes some of the numbers going down to shelterinplace orders which changed our behavior, however, the doctor says that does not mean we should rush back to the way things were. I was still spread very rapidly and very easily. If we were to go back like the storm like this we knew it before. Models are projected covid19 deaths have fluctuated over the last few months the latest numbers from the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation show by august more than 140,000 americans will have died from the virus doctor stacy says these numbers are predictions based on an increase in Human Interaction over the next few months even as we start activities free up that it doesnt mean that we. Dont need to start very cautious in terms of how we interact with each other. Doctor stacey added that the conditions have not really changed in terms of how the virus can spread. He says its important to continue following Public Health guidelines, this way where not only keeping ourselves and our families safe, but also our neighbors and the most vulnerable within our communities, reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. Well here in the bay area we have a closer look at the numbers as you can see bay area wide were looking at more than 11,000 coronavirus cases with 390 confirmed deaths statewide more than 81,000 cases confirmed so far with over 3200 deaths and across the United States as you can see were now more than one 0. 5 million cases and more than 90 1000 deaths the worldwide numbers as you can see on your screen much larger if you want a closer look at the city by city breakdown go to our website at kron 4 dot com. California meanwhile is relaxing its rules for a majority of counties in the state that want to go further with reopening the economy our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has a closer look. Most counties in california are now able to move further than the state and its faced reopening of the economy governor Gavin Newsome monday estimated all but 5 of californias 58 counties are likely eligible to begin offering in restaurant dining counties that can meet the new criteria can also begin opening schools with modifications bottom line is people can go at their own pace, the new criteria requires counties to have stable covid19 related hospitalizations with the percent change of less than 5 over a sevenday average or no more than 20 covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks counties must also have less than 25 cases per 100,000 residents within the last 2 weeks or have less than 8 of tests come back positive within the last week. If we see a sudden number of surgeon in the hospital stations or a number of increase in cases throughout the county. We want to make sure that the counties have thought full plans to be able to potentially reinstitute parts of the stay at home orders that we are loosening a relaxing today with less than 2 weeks left in the month of may governor Gavin Newsome painting a brighter outlook for june newsom says california could be a few weeks away from professional sports without fans. Instore shopping open houses of worship and the reopening of hair salons and barbershops were moving into important. A few weeks ahead of us and were going to start seeing a lot more lets just make sure we do it thoughtfully. And very very strategically. But still out of the conversation for now jims tourism and entertainment venues. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Well by the end of this week all perry counties will be in phase 2 of reopening in fact, heres where the reopening process stands as of this morning with contra costa and alameda counties. Now in phase 2 they can begin allowing curbside retail. They join napa Solano Sonoma Marin San Francisco and san mateo counties which have already been in phase 2 as for Santa Clara County. Were told that they will join the rest of the bay area on friday. Now lets turn our focus to the east bay Retail Stores in contra costa and alameda counties can reopen as of this morning, but certain restrictions and guidelines will have to be in effect only Curbside Pickup is available. Customers must socially distance and they have to wear Face Coverings. Theyre really asking folks this one i union street or the cooperative with that the guidelines not to do mass shaming but to lead by example and and uh. You know follow all we use the term Face Coverings because its not always a medical grade mask, but it could be up and down it could be a scarf over your face and we do require at any time youre out in and youre close to other people. Across the county says that they are getting close to testing 600 people for coronavirus each and every day which supports the criteria for entering phase 2. In the north a Solano County is requesting a the state fast track reopening its churches and Fitness Centers and museums. The countys Health Officer believes that those institutions and businesses pose a low risk for covid19 infections. It houses of worship operate with fewer people are sick. But certainly sugar, its other distancing just galleries control slow the difference there. The increased risks are u. S. Senate seat this is just huge change. For people to conclude that we need to or incite runins with exact same sectors. Not being able offer such mission makes sense to us will not change change change. Well the doctor is not asking too fast. Track reopen businesses like hair salons or nail shop since they cannot operate without physical distancing. Santa clara county by the way will move to phase 2 this friday as we mentioned, but just last friday, the countys Health Officer said that theyre not ready to loosen restrictions proffers rob fladeboe explains what changed. Downtown san jose, another commerce hubs across the south bay will start to look a little less deserted beginning friday as some businesses will reopen for outdoor Curbside Pickup, as Santa Clara County is set to join much of the rest of the bay area in phase 2 of reopening the economy our collective effort has significantly reduce the spread in our county. And we now have a little bit of headroom to consciously take another step forward doctor cody said the decision to move to phase 2 is based on indicators jointly set by Bay Area Health officials. Including a stable or declining trend in new covid19 cases, stable or declining hospitalizations increased testing improved supplies of pp e and improved capacity for Contact Tracing the new order will also allow certain other activities to resume, including car parades outdoor museums outdoor historical sites and publicly accessible gardens allowing retail Curbside Pickup in clues associated manufacturing warehousing and logistics. Businesses must post a placard with a large check mark to indicate compliance with social distancing protocols, better still mandatory under the new order. Were asking everyone in our community to do these 3 things one. Where a Face Covering when in public. And women any business. Continue to practice social distancing and remember 6 feet is a minimum thats a minimum and more is always better. And 3 get tested, get tested if you have symptoms if you have contact with someone who is known to have covid19 or if you work in a setting where you have frequent exposure to the virus or maybe unknowingly putting others at risk if you may be asymptomatic with the virus in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. On the peninsula, San Mateo County is now in phase 2 which allows more businesses to reopen including florist leicesters flowers in the city of coma. We are thankful to be finally open again for business after being forced to close for an extended period of time. I happy that hes were able to continue to make deliveries for them and then they can call us. We could take their orders and ran into their car keys. The flower shop and other businesses allowed to reopen have to make health and Workplace Safety changes in order to comply with the reopening guidelines. And after 9 weeks of being forced to close some Retail Businesses are now open in San Francisco for Curbside Pickup even San Francisco mayor london breed came out to support a local bookstore. Store owners are happy to see customers face to face again, including david ellen who owns just for fun, which is a shop in oley valley that sells puzzles and art supplies. It is better than when we were just doing Home Delivery because people can come up and ask us for things and we can go in get out. Yeah in and other Small Business owners dont believe curbside is sustainable though in the long run, but they just hope this will be something they can do temporarily to keep the doors open. In the east bay, a new coronavirus testing site is now open in oakland, the city is offering the free testing at the Allen Temple Baptist church is located at 85 oh one international boulevard in east oakland, free testing is available monday through saturday from one in the afternoon until 7 at night. Oakland has 2 other sites for free testing. Theyre at the Roots Community Health Center thats at 9925 international boulevard and at the Henry J Kaiser Convention Center parking lot on 10th street. Our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website at kron 4 dot com throughout the day so just a reminder between a broadcast make sure you check in with kron 4 dot com for the very latest on the outbreak and the impacts here in the bay area. Well tak and were back for 13 take a look at this lake tahoe covered in snow. The midmay snowstorm dumped several inches up in the sierra which was you know welcome news for our reservoirs and lakes will need that water come later on this summer because we havent had all that much of a winter actually if you think about it. But what can you do well take what we can get lets get a check of the forecast right now john tribal joining us live remotely with a look at what we can expect on this tuesday, good morning john. Good morning. James yeah, that snow definitely welcome especially if you have to drive through it looks like traffic was sitting too well up there yesterday and today improving conditions for the sierra it are also drying out the bay area on to the rest of the forecast. So unlike yesterday which certainly brought sunshine but also some showers during the morning today, wanting a bit drier ucberkeley the view pretty clear this morning there are some low lying cloud cover in the distance but fog is at a minimum and tell you that the norths but temperatures right now are a little cooler than yesterday swift 40s 50s for your current temperatures, north bay, not just our area more prone to fog this morning, but also our coldest spot as you are stepping outside the door that low pressure area that brought yesterdays unstable weather is gradually sliding out of the region now we will still see a chance of some late day thunderstorms that are farthest inland areas right next to the Central Valley out around morgan besides that though its going to be a mild forecast as High Pressure begins to build back in youre going to notice noticeably drier skies today. You saw that snowfall second ago still seeing some of the Sierra Nevada holding on this morning, although it really is conditions tapering off today couple showers down around the manner of monterey bay area this morning but if you zoom in on the bay itself. Were pretty quiet up there a couple sprinkles right offshore im not anticipating. Minister really moved inland. This morning. So nice quiet start to your Tuesday Morning talking about that potential of an isolated shower or south bay areas, mostly hanging out right up there in the blows adjust up in elevation from the south bay youll also see some late day showers here just a second or my blue arrow as i those will be making their way right along that frontal a that front of that. So central the cut at the coast oranges and in the Central Valley there im nothing to super wide spread across the bay area but for for this to inland reaches just to keep an eye out for a a potential of an isolated thunderstorm later on. Tomorrow will be a dry one after are unsteady weather the past couple of days and certainly a nice one to get outside and enjoy of what still will be some cooler weather. Todays daytime highs cooler than average for this time of year oakland and hayward at 67 degrees for your eyes conquered in antioch it 72. Each saying it was a nice day for us 70 degrees. Tomorrow temperatures a bit warmer but as i mentioned still sitting comfortable after that we do start to see the heat building in by saturday the weekend were back to the 80s with near 90 degree highs by monday next week for inland spots, lots of sunshine in the forecast to come been really no chance of rainfall after todays isolated showers so time to get used to that sunshine yet again hopefully enjoy the rain weve got back to you. James said look so its going to be pretty warm. In the long term, thank you john quick check of the roads this morning as we start off with the bay bridge toll plaza camera traffic on westbound 8. 80 moving without any inch issue at all from oakland in the San Franciscos here making good time at least on that stretch also looking pretty good conditions on the san mateo bridge. Our camera here along 92. Moveon know looks like traffic moving just fine again i just checked the chp logs and there really is nothing out there say for a few areas of construction with the chp is helping out caltrans but theyll be wrapping that up before the commute really gets going this morning which. Given current times is it really all that heavy after all. For 18 times get back to the headlines now more tense are popping up across San Francisco as shelters cut capacity to make room for physical distancing. One of the newest encampment sites is now behind the marina safeway where neighbors say its a Major Health Concern for them kron fours taylor sakic has more. More and more Homeless People have accumulated here. And you know theyre very aggressive. In fact now if i go to a safe way. It just that short distance side right because im terrified to war and theyre all sprawl over the sidewalk there not 6 feet apart. Their home meeting with each other all the time since the march shelterinplace order San Francisco neighbors on northpoint street se. More people have set up tents behind the marina safeway raising health and safety concerns for neighbors and those living on the street. Its a health issue and especially now with this covid19 can give back. Its even more of a health issue. Im just wondering whats going on at at city hall that they are doing something about this because we keep hearing about spending. You know large sums of money on hotel rooms for these people. Back in april San Francisco failed to secure more than 8,000 hotel rooms for the homeless to self isolate during the pandemic for the nearly 3,000 rooms they did get still many remain vacant city has put in hotels about 1100 people. They have been offered 13,000 hotel rooms. There a lot more folks out there on the streets that have not and offered anything jennifer freedom bach is the executive director of the coalition on homelessness. Without the hotel rooms for the mocs as we see more people out on the street because shelters cut capacity for physical distancing and community hembers are handing out tense as a last resort for an house people of course shelteringinplace is really challenging. You have a situation you know shelter beds are no longer available for new folks and so our shelters were sheltering about 2500 people and now its down to a 100,000 as the city works to move more people into hotel rooms theyve since it up safe sleeping areas that are supervised have Services Available including bathrooms freddie mac says that the safe sleeping areas are helpful but they still pose the same health risks and concerns thats because they still have those shared areas which are the bathrooms. Now she says the city needs to move faster on getting people into hotel rooms in San Francisco taylor sackey kron 4 news. The river has announced it is laying off 3,000 more employees because of the pandemic thats in addition to the 3700 people that uber said it was letting go earlier this month. The Rideshare Company says these cuts are necessary because of an 80 drop in business. Uber is also closing 40 offices worldwide including one right here in San Francisco where the Rideshare Company researches selfdriving technology that office will be folded into the nearby Mission Bay Campus which has been under construction for some time. Well just days after filing for bankruptcy jc penney is planning to close nearly 200 stores this year. The company says the pandemic is whats caused sales to plummet the retailer hasnt said which stores will close in how many people will lose their jobs. Jc penney is the 4th National Retailer now filed for bankruptcy just this month. Is reopening more of its stores with new requirements, apple will require temperature checks at the door and Face Coverings for all of its customers and employees it will also limit the number of people inside some locations will only allow curbside dropoff and pickup options as well. Im Trevor Shirley in washington with the fcc is doling out hundreds of millions of dollars to expand telemedicine ive got that story coming up. And heres a quick live look outside a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge this morning with a few water droplets on the lands but as john said after today, its going to get dried and pretty hot in the long term well have more on that forec and were back time now is for 24. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the health care industry. We have hospitals and medical centers now embracing tele medicine more which is expanding access to care for millions of americans Trevor Shirley has more. So far the fcc is given out nearly 33 million to almost a 100 Health Care Systems in 30 states weve been very aggressive in getting that money out the door by evaluating applications and its been several 100 of them so far fcc chairman a g peices the grant money from the cares act helps Healthcare Systems establish or expand their telehealth programs i think that tell of health is having its moment and some say that might actually be an upside of the pandemic. Telehealth not only allows patients to stay out of doctors offices where they could infect others it also expands Health Care Access into rural areas where options for care might be limited. Thats going to be critical. We want everybody whether and world area to be able to get health care. Its especially disconnected your solution regardless of what the tech situation, your community space. While the fcc decides which programs get the money pie says they leave it up to each recipient to figure out how to use it we want to give them the best lose its ability to design that soho program to serve patients in the way they see fit pie also wants to roll back some regulations which he says have limited the expansion of Telehealth Services for example, providing health care across state lines that traditionally has been one the restrictions on tell health it is held back because of soho the grants are issued on a rolling basis with more expected to be approved in the coming weeks, reporting in washington, im Trevor Shirley. Its a quick live look outside the bay bridge toll plaza camera will be back with more coverag well surprise announcement by president trump. He says hes been taking hydroxychloroquine the controversial drug that the president claims is effective against. The coronavirus though testing results arent in yet on that and this comes as the country sees more than 90,000 covidrelated deaths karin caifa reports now from washington. Whats happening with copresident trump said monday hes negative for covid19 but asked the white house doctor for permission to take hydroxychloroquine couple weeks ago started take it in. Because i think its kind of heard a lot of good stories. A recent study the largest of its kind show that the drug effective against malaria is not effective against covid19 and could cause heart problems the truth is that the science says. This is not a good thing to have leave it for people who need it for the conditions where it has been shown to be safe and effective. Dont dont dont get it for this the president making the statement during a meeting with leaders from the hard hit Restaurant Industry as more states allow them to reopen dining rooms we want to take care of our employees. And make sure theyre safe same same activation having open the restaurants will open the restaurant safely make sure employees are safe first started guess can be safe every state in the country will have losing coronavirus restrictions by the end of this week with the last 2 connecticut, massachusetts announcing steps monday. The public Health Metrics a guide this process mean its possible to reopening manufacturing facilities and construction sites effective. Today the u. S. Coronavirus death toll past 90,000 on monday parade Johns Hopkins count. In washington, im