Than 4 months ago on february 6th and since then an average of almost 900 americans. Have lost their battle with the virus every single day. The new number may not be complete because some victims may have died without ever being tested and therefore were not counted. The death toll from coronavirus is higher than our military losses in the vietnam. And korean wars combined. We passed another unfortunate milestone on the global scale as well today the number of reported deaths from covid19 has surpassed 350,000 worldwide and theyre now. 5. 6 million cases overall in the u. S. There are nearly 1. 7 million cases and in california there are now more than 100,000 cases and over 3800 people have died. After keeping the state largely lockdown since march 19th the governor newsome has quickly allowed as many as 47 counties to move further into the reopening faces and one local Health Official says that he could be moving too fast. Santa clara county Public Health director doctor sara cody told the county board of supervisors on tuesday that state modifications are being made without a full understanding of the consequences of the previous round of modifications she says a full incubation period of 14 days is needed to effectively gauge the impact of each step of the reopening process. Doctor cody was the first Public Health officer in the country to issue a shelterinplace order and insists on reopening only when it is deemed safe to do so. Now in the bay area Alameda County has surpassed Santa Clara County in the total number of reported covid19 cases with more than 3,000 overall, but the virus has still been deadlier in Santa Clara County where 140 people have died from the virus. A complete breakdown of cases by city and county is on our website kron 4 dot com. 2 key indicators in the opening of the economy are testing and Contact Tracing. But in Santa Clara County contact. Tracing is lagging with not enough people to track down the contacts of those who are positive. Now kron fours rob fladeboe reports there is a call for volunteers, so they can ramp up Contact Tracing. Contact tracing really can be done from your home on the internet on the phone Santa Clara County executive doctor jeff smith on wednesday, joining whats being termed a call to action in calling on people. To volunteer to help trace or track down people who may be spreading the coronavirus and essentially what it is is collecting information from individuals who are covid positive. Finding out what medical problems they have finding out who theyve contacted whos at risk through hiring reassigning existing employees and volunteers the county hopes to dramatically scale up from the 50 or so people performing Contact Tracing now. To a 1000 people by mid july calling on fellow rotarians to heed the call was Deputy District Attorney that breaker that in considering the. The to wide range of membership in the rotary club, which includes retired people business leaders, a nonprofit people professionals, its that this message is going to get out not just to our former members but to thousands of people this animation illustrates how just one person who tested positive can spread the virus. More people conducting Contact Tracing helps with the deployment of resources in decisions about testing and other strategies for staying ahead of the virus. Supervisors city chavez iris and that really by moving those 2. As fast and furious as we can i think it creates more opportunities for us to protect the community because were going to know more and be able to respond very specifically to people have the virus or who may have been exposed to it instead of having such a big one in a big field to plan were going to be able to be very focused in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Parents statewide have eagerly been awaiting an update on when california schools could reopen the state is hoping it will be right on time in august or september but with some modifications kron fours kate rooney explains. On wednesday state superintendent Tony Thurmond gave a teaser of what reopening schools in california might look like thurman said the department of education plans to release reopening guidelines in early june. I often refer to it as a guide book. It is our attempt to do a kind of how to amend to help. School districts answer questions that they have about how to reopen. One of those questions is when School Districts can reopen. Thurman said hes hoping for late august Early September that there wont be a common opening it will be up to individual districts. Weve got 10,000 schools. There is no one size fits all for schools so local School Districts and School Boards make decisions about when schools open what we do with the department of education as we try to guide our schools. That guidance will include Safety Measures like face coverings physical distancing in classrooms and on school buses and temperature checks for students and staff thurman said it also likely involves a socalled blended instruction model, a mix of in class sessions and diance learning we want to make sure our educators have access to standards and guidelines. How to make distance it happened in the most appropriate way that we get some training as some resources to our educators and of course we have to continue to address the Digital Divide according to thurmond, some 600,000 students in underserved communities still dont have access to Home Learning tools Like Computers or the internet. The superintendent called on California Companies individuals and the federal government to provide Financial Support to equip those students for virtual learning. Draw a line in sand. Were saying weve got to close at Digital Divide. Were saying we need help and everyone to make that happen. Thurmond estimates the state needs at least 500 million to accomplish that goal, reporting in the bay area kate rooney kron 4 news. Lets talk about our forecast now as we take a live look outside here in San Francisco, its been a warm place to be the past couple days. But beautiful out there at this evening. A cool down is on the way and joining us now working from home as our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with a look at the forecast for the rest of this weekend. It says is its still going to be really hot. Yeah, im still going to be another hot day weve got one more to go and then were going to see some drastic cooling maybe 20 maybe 25 degrees as we head into the weekend by another record breaking day around the bay areas High Pressure continued overhead set the temperature soaring again in 96 degrees that was a record in santa rosa triple digits in concord but all around the bay area get the idea some very hot weather except right along the coastline, 60s at the beach in Half Moon Bay got a 100 in livermore 94 degrees for a high in san jose 94 mount you 87 in hayward 72 degrees today in San Francisco 10 degrees warmer at 82 in oakland and 93 degrees in vallejo and the bottle so certainly some hot temperatures away from the coastline but look at this thats right. The fog is coming back thats a sign of the heat wave starting to break the risk is much cooler temperatures all the way specially co side tomorrow and just inside the bay number still in the toasty side though right now youve got to 86 degrees in san jose still 94 in dublin in livermore cool mid 50s out toward the coastline still plenty of 70s in the berkeley and also in oakland, its 70 degrees in alameda 77 in tehran still 90 degrees in valais also cool that were out of course along the coastline you see Cool Temperatures takes a little bit longer that cool air driesell valleys just be back to you. The cool downs on the way, but there was a prolonged power outage that became a potential health and safety issue for a family in the east bay today, a work crew was on the scene fixing the problem, but the homeowner tells kron fours Haaziq Madyun it was just too hot to stick around and wait for them to finish. The heat wave took its toll on this underground pg and e transformer causing it to fail when it stays hot and the temperatures dont drop got when we start seeing equipment failures. This pgd crew is removing the old transformer and replacing it with this new one here outside the Melissa Bryant home and warbler drive in antioch they estimate the work to be complete around 06 00pm wednesday evening, however bryant says she could no longer wait because its just too hot inside of her home for her family i have a 6 yearold boy my parents are elderly my dad is in his 80s my moms in her 70s and weve lost the majority of her food. And now i am taking my son going to a motel. She says her family has lived in this home for 35 years. This is the first time that the transformer went down the old transformer could no longer hold up at this. He says pg spokesperson to mars to casey and the number one reason that we see Power Outages during heat events is because equipment such as transformers will not have sufficient time to cool its equipment needs to cool and generally will drop in temperature overnight and allows our quit. Officials at p g any say in addition to installing a new transformer they are also upgrading another key piece of equipment. The homeowner says she appreciates the effort that she has got to go im not doing this is too hot, you know theyre out here in the middle of this heat. Trying to get this fixed, i got to give credit theyve been working their butts off. In antioch Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. As the bay area moves further into reopening our transportation agencies are working to re imagine the service that it provides. Earlier today kronon spoke with barts general manager to find out its new 15 step plan to welcome back writers. You know the underpinnings of the plan are the safety is the safety of our riders and our frontline employees so you know cleanings at the front of that a 15 point plan there so what were going to be able to is every train that we have in the system will be disinfected every single night and so our riders can be assured that when they get on the system. In the mornings that that train had been fog as the nontechnical term which is that hospital grade and will be sterilized coming out for Revenue Service and that the train will be claimed and wipe routinely throughout the day. And make sure you tune in tonight for our congressional town hall special the road to reopening for the past week youve been submitting your questions to our website kron 4 dot com and politicians from all over california will be answering them live on air. This inside california politics special will air live tonight just after our news here at 6 oclock from 7 until 08 00pm on air here on kron 4 and also on our app which is kron on and that is free to download right now. But we have much more coming up tonight here on kron 4 news at 6 im really for renters in the bay area. How much longer the moratorium on evictions has been extended for. Plus there will be a second wave of covid19 in the fall or not at 06 30pm tonight why doctor Anthony Fauci says hes optimistic it can be avoided. And San Franciscos plan to protect the homeless during this crisis is under fire tonight up next was which businesses are behind a new lawsuit in San Francisco, safe sleeping sites slated to open on friday in the Haight Ashbury district are now getting some push back. It is creating controversy for those in the neighborhood kron fours when kelly reports a group of merchants are now suing the city. Lines for the city sanctions tent city for homeless to shelter in place during the pandemic are already drawn its supposed to only be a temporary site existing anywhere from 3 to 6 months here on the location of the old mcdonalds and hate and standing in for 40 plus tense campsites will be going to homeless already camping out in the hate you can see here not maintaining social distance sunshine powers who operates the tie dye shop love on haight says many of those sleeping on her corner or young ranging in age from 16 to 32. She supports the idea of the safe sleeping site some of us arent even going to be open by the time its gone. The reality is were probably not going to have a lot of business by the time its gone. And i think this safer. And more humane. Having these kids right out on the street but not everyone in the haight thinks this is a groovy idea. A Group Calling themselves concerned citizens of the hate follow lawsuit against the city tuesday. The lead counsel as a Republican Party official who champions conservative causes. The owner of a media music adjacent to the site is part of the lawsuit. He says they are not against the homeless, but they think this is the wrong location be released a statement that says in part the merchants on haight street of long been on the front lines dealing with the collateral issues of the homeless who unfortunately at times have drug alcohol and or psychological issues establishing this camp next to us exacerbates these problems exponentially another resident, not part of the group suing says hes not entirely opposed the idea of using this location, but he would like to see more plans in place to deal with potential overflow has this so its going to get killed very quickly. And if there is no backup site then lots of people are going to spread out to the surrounding streets and it could be come very dangerous for residents and for that the spokesperson for the City Attorneys Office says they plan to review the lawsuit and expect to defend what they call the citys sensible decision. To move forward with the safe sleeping site that site is still slated to open on friday. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Switching it up a little bit now california has let some counties reopen hair salons. And that cannot come soon enough for 1, 9, yearold kron for viewer who thinks that my husbands hair is out of control. So here is the hand written letter that i got in the mail here at work, im going to read it to you dear justine hello, how are you your husbands hair is long and very very ugly. If you buy a hair cut kit at target you can cut it for him. It is easy to cut. Im 9 and i cut my dads hair here is some of my tooth fairy money to help you buy it please cut it soon love bridget and that letter included this cash right here, 3 one dollar bills from the tooth fairy. So here is grant lotus who is my husband, he was incurring kron 4 news in prime time this week, so you can see how quote very very ugly. His hair is he has not had a haircut since midmarch when the stay at home orders kicked in. And like so many others he has lent his locks go along. So i share the letter here on facebook and instagram because i think that the note is hilarious and so does grant we have found the humor in the situation. But now i need to find bridget so she can show me what to do so i need bridges help so she can tell me exactly what is quote. So very very ugly about grants hair and also want to see her dads hair cut. So i can decide whether or not i need to get involved in corn team trim situation. So lawrence is working from home right now. Lawrence when i got this letter i had never laugh so hard in my life i have think its whole area some people are you know a little skeptical about it. But all we all need a smile accuse letter ever. I mean that is really really cute that that that that young girl was so engaged that she said you got to do something about that im sending you my tooth fairy money thats a big deal to give up your tooth fairy money heir to a free money as 3 others cash sitting on my desk and i got to start googling target haircuts. They dont forget tax on that. You got to clear that stuff haha is it i dont know if you might be next week careful bridget watching you know what shes probably right in saying that these girls are beginning to show up in the back of my head here havent had those for quite some time says about high school but i think were all kind of going through that i i mean thats just kind of the way it is nobody really can get out there. Lets you going to cut your why dont you want me to cut it, i dont think he wants me to do it all i want you to cut justin all i pay for that that was good i need very money. All said all that on the way it was on the way. A dusty today, a certainly a hot topic around the bay areas High Pressure still overhead but the temperatures they begin to cool off just a bit least along the coastline still hot. Injured dogs we had 90s and some triple digits out there right now you can begin to see some that fog moving in along the coastline and more of that on the ways and looks like i pressure finally going to heat advisories up one more day away from the coastline away just inside the bay, but all of alleys it did youre back in the 90s the many spots maybe even some upper night, so certainly hot enough and a day after day of this heat and not really much time recovered nighttime overnight lows, lot of spots of union out in the 60s and even some 70s in the hills temperatures right now youve got some mid 90s in the concord and live were 80 degrees and said rose 86 in the san jose 60s and the San Francisco as we look out on the satellite image there you go you see the big change comes to that great mass along the coastline thats the fog and low clouds that are moving in toward the coast. That is going to cool you off and certainly that combined with the sea breeze that will bring the temperatures down those winds, 25 mile an hour that the sfo right now 13 in San Francisco in 17 into fairfield High Pressure will continue to slide further to the east as it does that area of low pressure gets a little bit closer up out of the south that will usher in more of a wind that sea breeze will be kicking in some more fog all the way to help cool down the temperatures now its going to get really interesting this weekend justine as that low gets a little bit closer maybe moving almost right overhead in the bay area youre going get some cold air on top of that very warm air down below and that usually leads to some explosive weather. So theres a chance we could see some thunderstorms in the bay area and a chance. Some isolated showers to desolate forecast back to you. Thank you lauren some good news for renters who have been impacted by the coronavirus for bay area counties have now extended. Theyre moratoriums on evictions because of covid19 kron 4 Sarah Stinson has details. Many people in San Mateo County are relieved to hear the board of supervisors voted to extend the moratorium on evictions by one month yeah, its scary a lot of people cant pay their living on that paycheck to paycheck which they havent been getting staying home so its. Really needed those that coming up on hard times its not their fault. Shouldnt penalize because they cant pay rent or pay their bills San Mateo County supervisors voted yesterday to extend the temporary moratorium on evictions for residential tenants. And Small Business commercial tenants through the end of june other bay area leaders voted to do the same including Contra Costa County extending the Eviction Moratorium until july 15th and leaders in the worst hit county by the coronavirus Santa Clara County motive to extend its moratorium through the end of august. Murray county also extended it until the end of june. Officials say given the current shelter in place order. It is unlikely that the circumstances of tenants who have lost income due to the pandemic will change before may 31st so moratorium is needed to be scented this will allow people more time to apply for and receive funding and benefits from various relief programs next challenge will be back rent that is stacking up for many people, some will need time to figure out how they will pay for that to many counties right now are working on extending the Repayment Period for back rent. Some counties are extending it to 3 months some are extending it to 6 months it just depends county by county. In san mateo Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. Well going out to some breaking news thats happening right now in los angeles where protesters have shut down the one o one freeway and well go now to the live pictures you can see dozens of people who are out on the freeway right now several firefighters have been tending to a person who was on the ground where and sure exactly why that person was hurt as the camera zooms out here can see the hundreds of people who are on the one o one freeway. This is a black lives matters protest. They took to the streets of Downtown Los Angeles today and in in demonstration in the name of george floyd who is a black man who died after being pinned beneath a Minneapolis Police officers me this protest started about a half an hour ago you can see they have all now gotten out onto the street as the camera shows us cars at a standstill during what would be rush hour. In los angeles, the 1 one freeway has come to a complete stop the group has also planned as we understand to demonstrate in front of the los angeles. A County DistrictAttorneys Office to protest all the name of people who have died in Los Angeles Police custody. As we look at the protesters there theyre now starting to walk towards an onramp and trying to get off the street was still an ambulance and a firetruck on scene we will continue to monitor the situation this demonstration that has taken over the one o one freeway in los angeles and bring you upda as more California Industries look to get back to work after the coronavirus pandemic a bay area economics professor says do not expect a pre covid economy so quickly. He talked with kron fours Jonathan Mccall on what needs to happen before a full rebound can take place. Its back to business for stores, restaurants and other retailers, looking to rebound from covid19 getting back to the economic levels before the pandemic well take some time saint marys economic professor Jack Rasmussen but it will be a very slow recovery. Will open because theyre desperate to do so he says people should be prepared for several ebbs and flows. Not a vshape return, but instead a w with millions of Americans Still out of work some Industries Like retail and travel could feel that impact for wanting to know are going to jump on airplanes to any great extent and fly around and go on go long vacations and stay in hotels and a go to parks russell says that getting the economy back on track depends on one thing and the only thing that can really push the economy is the consumer. 70 of the economy. He says congress has to do more to generate Consumer Confidence with an extra 600 in Unemployment Benefits set to run out for out of work americans at the end of july. Ross was worries that it could be a recipe for a longterm covid hangover business and can schoolers are going to wait and see what happens medium term here theyre very uncertain about the future and when business and certainly just dont invest and consumers are uncertain as they dont go out and buy cars and they dont buy homes and they dont do a lot of big spending in San FranciscoJonathan Mccall kron 4 news. And stay tuned tonight for our congressional town hall special the road to reopening here from california politicians is they answer your questions live on air. The special will air tonight right after our news heren