President trump said he personally would probably get tested for the virus soon. There are reports that a second person who visited with President Trump last weekend at his maralago present in florida has tested positive for the coronavirus. The National Emergency declaration comes as nancy pelosi says the white house has now reached a deal with the white house on a coronavirus package. That move helps the dow see its biggest oneday point gain ever. The state reported its fifth death related to covid19. School districts across the bay area announce closures. Both San Francisco and santa clara counties tighten their restrictions. The number of cases in Santa Clara County is up to 76. And officials there say they have to do more to stop spread. 43 of those cases were contracted by Community Transmission and not travel. The county is now banning gatherings of more than 100 people. Reporter object at some Santa Clara County restaurants could slow to a trickle following fridays eticket from the health officer. Dr. Sarah cody emotional as she limits the size of gatherings to no more than 100 people. Dict from the health officer. Dr. Sarah cody emotional as she limits the size of gatherings to no more than 100 pe reporter the new order takes effect midnight march 15th and will last for at least three weeks. There are also restrictions on group sizes of 35 to 100 people. Businesses that had already done belttightening when the crowd sizes were previously limited to 250 people say more unpleasant news is on the way for workers. Were cutting labor. Especially since theres no one to serve. Its terrible. We need business. We need to make money out here. It is already a drag on the economy. Im sure its much harder to get a job this week than it was three weeks ago. Reporter for some lowwage and hourly workers Still Holding on through this crisis, another concern. Many dont have sick days and theyre afraid if they do call in sick, theyll lose money they would have made or face repercussions such as being fired. A lack of paid sick leave threatens to worsen this crisis. Reporter three San Jose CityCouncil Members are pushing for a new ordinance that would provide 14 days of sick leave for hourly workers, currently the only safety net for workers in this city is a threeday leave maximum mandated by the state. This is absolutely inadequate for normal times, let alone during this critical test. Reporter its another concern adding angst to the uncertainty that has accidents feeling a financial chill while Health Experts try to halt a potentially deadly virus. We believe these actions are necessary to protect the wellbeing of our communes. Communities. A smattering of School Closures in the bay area became an avalanche today with district after district announcing theyll be shutting down, most for three weeks. The closures include the mt. Diablo school district, oakland Public Schools. Also Public Schools in marin and vallejo. And all Santa Clara CountyPublic Schools. Other districts including San Francisco and berkeley made the decision yesterday. A complete list can be found on our website. Tom vacar reports on the situation for oaklands 35,000 students. Reporter Skyline High School junior, sam ivy, having been told oakland schools will be close the for the next three weeks left midday because classes were already essentially shut down. I have three classes left. My fichth period teacher is sick. Shes not coming today. I talked to my sixth period teacher. He said were not gonna be doing anything because hes trying to create a lesson plan for next three weeks. Reporter for an advanced placement scholar, this is aggravating. Our school has gone through so much. Teacher strikes. We have had to shut down because of pg e power outages. We had to leave because of smoke conditions. Im talking about in the span of the few years ive been at this school. And now were leaving for three weeks based off of covid19. Reporter the district superintendent and its teachers feel the Community Spread is becoming just too dangerous. It is likely our community will be seeing many more cases of covid19 in the coming weeks and months. Sdurg this pandemic. Reporter oaklands mayor says there will also be other shutdowns. We also will be closing our senior centers, our libraries, our recreation centers, and our headstart centers. Beginning on monday. Reporter since more than 70 of oakland students are on either free or reducedcost lunch programs, the district is gonna set up a series of neighborhood grabandgo lunch centers so students can come, pick up what they need, and go back home. San francisco will open park, recreation and library facilities. They will be available on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak. And lowincome families. Families can also pick up student meals at designated schools. Some people who want to be tested for coronavirus arent gonna get one right now. The white house says that wont be the case for long. Reporter people stack up on supplies and preparations for the coronavirus. There are nationwide reports of one item in the medical community where supply is still low. Test kits. In some cases, even people exhibiting symptoms like fever and cough are being told they cant get a test. Thats what happened to nicole who went to get tested in palo alto, concern forward her husband and elderly inlaws. I was told they am not i dont fit into the risk category. Im not elder early and i dont have any of the Health Conditions that are required to have them. And they said they cant do that. Even if they do the test, the Health Department would not process my test. Reporter counties are using cdc guidelines for testing with discretion. In contra costa county, in order to be tested, you need to fit into a category. Being elderly, having a preexisting condition, or have come into contact with a known positive case. People who are in congregate facilities, that means we have a high risk of spreading it amongst other people. A shelter, a nursing hem, a jail setting. Reporter the situation is changing. And testing should be more widely available as both academic institutions and private companies are now allowed to do testing. Officials in Santa Clara County said this afternoon testing capability should improve dramatically in coming days and weeks. I think that as we have Testing Capacity with more academic and commercial labs, more and more people will be able to get tested. Reporter until then, many potential carriers of the virus are being told to selfand monitor their symptoms until more widespread testing becomes available. Im trying to do the right thing to take care of my family. Its worrisome because if there are other people who may have symptom, they dont want to go and bother and ask if they dont think theres any chance they get tested. Reporter at this point, pregnancy isnt even enough to get you a test. One of our producers has a symptomatic wife who is 32 weeks pregnant who was denied a test because pregnancy does not fit into one of those highrisk categories. Officials at Travis Air Force are offering voluntary covid19 testing for the hundreds of grand princess Cruise Ship Passengers being quarantined there. The testing is optional. Officials say rums will take several days. The big unknown with this outbreak is how long will it last . Today at the white house, one of the nations foremost experts gave us our best answer turnover. Its really impossible to predict the time element of when its gonna peak and its gonna naturally go down. When you look at the situation where countries really did not get to the point of trying to contain and mitigate very well, you see the peak over several weeks and then down again over several weeks. What were trying to do with the effort that were doing is to blunt that peak. And i mentioned it many times, and i think its important and appropriate to mention it again. When you talk about preventing infections from without in, which are the travel restricts were talking about, how do you handle what you already have in your country . You continue some sort of containment. But you also do mitigation. The success of that and how much you make this turn into this is gonna give you the amount of time. If were successful, itll be less. If were not successful, its gonna be more. These kind of things generally run out in a few months. Hopefully well make it several weeks. Eight, nine, whatever weeks. But i cant give you a number because it depends on how successful we are. Coming up, the latest on the grand princess cruise ship cruise ship. What the 14 passengers still on board are waiting for. Iconic landmarks across the world impacted by coronavirus, including the eiffel tower. A closer look at the International Response to the pandemic. And theres a cooldown out there today. Right now im tracking more clouds and eventually some raindrops falling from those clouds that will impact your weekend plans. 1 a warning to women near walnut creek after a series of groping incidents along the same trail. And iave look at the friday evening commute. You can see that commute direction is very backed up on highway 24. 1 the grand princess cruise ship remains docked at the port of oakland tonight. Heres a live look. Today Princess Cruises confirmed that nearly all passengers have disembarked. Thats about 2,400 people. Right now there are still 14 International Guests on the ship as they await transportation arrangements to their countries. 1,000 crew members are also on board. Their plans are still being finalized. Four major cruise lines have agreed to suspend all outbound cruises from u. S. Ports for 30 days. The department and cdc advised against travelogue ships due to the risks of covid19. On wall street, stocks rallied as President Trump announced new measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak. The dow had its largest percentage gain since 2008. And all three index dexes were up 9 . The s p gained 230. Many economist expect the Federal Reserve will move to a cut Interest Rate by a full percentage point next wednesday. More containment measures have been announced overseas. Today the eiffel tower in paris is shut down indefinitely. Reporter governments are clamping down on containment as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread. And a new political fight is brewing over the origins of the virus. Some members of the Trump Administration blamed china. A chinese official suggested the u. S. Might have brought coronavirus to wuhan. The International Community has different opinions about the origins of the virus. China has always seen this as a matter of science. Reporter the virus is now spreading quickly in europe and governments are introducing new containment protocols, limits on movement. Several countries are doing border checks and restricting entry for citizens of hardhit countries like italy. Eu Officials Say the restrictions wont help stop the outbreak. It is not good when Member States take unilateral action. Because it always causes a domino effect. Reporter anxious american travellers in europe are flooding airports ahead of the travel ban. Reporter the european travel ban does not include irish or british citizens. Its expected to last 30 days. A bit of a cooldown today. Yesterday, a few spots around 80. And birk changes into the weekend. Highs from this afternoon, santa rosa only 58 degrees. San jose 64. And look at whats developing this weekend. More rainfall. Most areas pick up between a half an inch to maybe an inch and a half in the coastal hills. Winds around 30 to 40 miles an hour. And low snow levels here, possibly as low as 2,500 feet. Maybe 2,000 in the nort hills. Here is the general idea with the rainfall here in the bay area. Look at all the snow piling up in portions of lake county, mendocino county, and the sierra possibly upwards of three to four feet with a winter storm warning beginning tomorrow morning. Theres the satellite. Light. Were showing you the circ always up to our north. Low clouds and fog. At the surface here, pushing locally up into the north bay. A big impact on temperatures. Right now, lots of 50s. The warm spot in the 60s. Brentwood 63. Fremont checking in 61. And you probably noticed the winds picking up over the past few hours. Numbers cranking up toward fairfield. Gusts of 40 miles an hour. And more reports for you with sfo sustained at 14 gusting to 23. And san jose, southerly wind gusting at 29. Lots of clouds out there right now. The clouds will continue to move in. And look what happened first thing tomorrow morning. Rainfall developing. Overnight lows in the upper 30s to the 40s. Heres the forecast model. Well run this through tomorrow. This is 8 00 tomorrow morning. Notice the bulk of the activity will be focused in the southern half of the bay area. Tomorrow afternoon, not as much action in poerngzs of the north bay. And the showers could redevelop into saturday evening. Rtions of the north bay. And the showers could redevelop into saturday evening. Police on the look out for a man accused of Sexual Battery. And to inmates at the Santa Clara County jail, quarantined now after testing positive for covid19. Get to the ross spring dress event, where the prices make all the dresses yeses. Yeah save 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices on our best selection of spring dresses. The ross spring dress event, on now what . Oooh. Ahhh. No. Yeah . Yes oh yeah si. Yes. Thats the sound of saving 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. Police warning women not to walk or jog alone on the popular iron horse trail near walnut creek. They say a man has touched women inappropriately three different times this month. All three incidents happened over the bridge over creek boulevard. Reporter while the steady stream of people were walking, jogging, and biking in the popular iron horse trail near downtown walnut creek friday, Law Enforcement was keeping close watch. Police are looking for a man they suspect committed Sexual Battery here on three different female joggers this month. The most recent was thursday around 5 00 in the evening on here. The suspect came up behind the victim, inappropriately grabbed the female. Reporter police say the woman chased man but he got away. She was not physically injured. A man fitting a similar description attacked two other women a few hundred yards from the crossing on march fourpth and again on march 11th. These are three very serious and honestly very scary evens. Reporter witnesses describe the attacker as a thin white man, 25 to 27 years old, between 59 and 510 inches tall. Dark hair, a bearded goatee. He was wearing dark click clothing. Based on what occurred, the time it occurred, the location and also the suspect description, we believe its the same suspect. Reporter women along the iron horse trail friday said they were unaware of what happened. Scary. I hope they catch him. A lot of Mental Illness isnt getting treated. People are act out on things that they need treatment for. And young women seem to be the casualty of it. Reporter a woman was attacked on the same trail two years ago. Authorities made an arrest in that case. Police recommend people avoid taking the trail alone. After work, i would run here sometimes. Now i probably wont. Unless im with another person. Cant stop your life because some creepy things have happened. Reporter investigators are asking anyone who may have seen something suspicious along the iron horse trail or have some video to please contact them. In contra costa county, rob roth, ktvu fox2 news. The head groundskeeper at berkeleys tilden golf course has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography. He was arrested wednesday at the golf course. A tip led them to shipleys as the owner of an online account that was described as having child sex abuse images on them. The president promises the full power of the federal government to battle coronavirus. After the break, a closer look at what todays Emergency Declaration means. More fallout from the covid19 pandemic in the sports world. Scott will tell us about the major Golf Tournament thats being postponed. Shoppers in a frenzy at local stores stocking up on supplies. A consumer psychologist explains why. When we see other people doing things, it makes us feel like we should do it. You cant outrun it. The pain is coming. Santa clara county has just confirmed a second person has died of coronavirus in the county. Oraler Health Officials announced a ban on all gatherings of more than 100 people to try to stop the spread. Earlier on Health Officials announced a ban on all gatherings of more than 100 people to try to stop the spread. Youre watching ktvu fox2 news at 6 30. President s Emergency Declaration comes as Congress Moves toward passing a bill to help with the cost of the coronavirus. Lauren blanchard is in washington with details on the emergency aid aimed at helping americans with their health and pocketbooks. To unleash the full power of the federal government today, i am officially declaring a National Emergency. Two very big words. Reporter President Trump announcing a National Emergency as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to rise in the u. S. No resource will be spared. Nothing whatsoever. We dont want people to take a test. If we feel that they shouldnt be doing it. You dont want everyone running out and taking. Only if you have certain symptoms. Reporter freeing up 50 billion in relief. Announcing hes waiving federal student loan interests for the time being and filling up oil reserves. The three most important parts of this bill are testing, testing, testing. Reporter meanwhile, pansy pelosi from the speakers balcony announcing the house will pass what she calls bipartisan legislation. The American People expect and deserve a coordinated sciencebased and whole government response. Reporter here are some of the things the familiesfirst Coronavirus Response act would guarantee. Free covid19 testing, sick leave. Lawmakers are canceling their recess next week to work on whatever the house sends their way. The National Disaster declaration eliminates red tape and helps ease burdens on healthcare officials. If opens up the Disaster Relief fund as well as all federal departments to the state. So if the state needs some sort of resource, they can reach back to the federal government for that. For instance, if hospitals need to expand the capacity for beds, if they need outofstate doctors, the licensing has been waived. If they need to set up temporary facility, move staff, if they need security barricades. All of those things necessary to enhance the capability of the medical community. He says the Emergency Declaration will also assist in expanding testing and opportunity for telehealth. Today it was announced that visits to all 122 federal prisons have been halted for the next 30 days. The action is due to concern over coronavirus spread. According to the bureau of prisons, so far no federal inmates or prison staff have tested positive for covid19. And the plan to temporarily suspend visitation and pause inmate transfers is being taken out of an abundance of caution. In San Francisco the Sheriffs Office announced the jail there is also suspending jail visits in order to prevent coronavirus exposure. So far no cases have been reported. In Jerry Browning jails two inmates are under quarantine after being exposed to covid19. They were exposed to the virus by a visitor. The mercury news is reporting the visitor was a defense attorney from the Public Defenders Office who went to see them and later tested positive for the coronavirus. We learned today that two more san jose firefighters have tested positive. And that brings the total number to six. Officials say they are tracking status of 70 more san jose firefighter firefighters. One additional tsa worker at the san jose airport has tested positive. The person tested positive just yesterday. Stores around the bay area were packed again today as people prepare to hunker down for the long haul during this covid19 pandemic. A look at what people are buying, and some insight into why. Reporter a steady stream of people flowed in and out of costco, leaving with full carts and full arms. Consumers say theyre stocking up on the basics. I just got eggs, nuts, some blueberries. Nothing too crazy. I got a lot of toilet paper already. Reporter steve is wearing his mask out of an abundance of caution. I dont want to get sick. I dont want to spread it to anyone else. If im gonna be in a place with so many people, play it safe. Reporter the shopping frenzy leaving nearly empty frozen food sections at trader joes, as well as sparse shelves for meat and toilet paper completely sold out. Their lines were definitely really long. The shelves are pretty bare. Theres no flour. Reporter at target the toilet paper aisle was also empty. Cold and flu medication were hard to find, as well as fever reducers. Many are shopping out of a sense of anxiety, a need to do something to act in face of a threat. Were social animals. When we see other people doing things it makes us feel like we should do it. For a lot of people, they think to themselves id rather be wrong about buying too much than be wrong about not having enough. Reporter consumers are generally seeing a low downside to buying goods compared to a relatively high risk of not buying. Theres been a lot of footage of people carrying out massive quantities of toilet paper. And then people think to themselves, what would life be like if i didnt have toilet paper . Its just not good. Reporter clearly a lot of people buying right now. That worker said one of the reasons we may be seeing so many empty shelves is a lot of the workers are being called to work as cashiers which means theyre trying to take care of customers. If that happens, that means those cashiers arent working to restock the shelves. One of the best tips of advice is try to get there early in the morning after they have had a night to restock. Guns, a machete and 17 arrests. Authorities are telling us about a crackdowna a San Francisco gang. And a man accused of trying to kidnap two women in the east bay agrees to a plea dale. Plea deal. Which of your devices are protected by daily security updates . Daily security updates. Daily . I dont know. The only thing. Im struggling with this. Some providers you have to manually download updates to each device. Comcast business securityedge updates every 10 minutes to help keep your connected devices protected against new ransomware, malware and phishing threats. Every 10 minutes feels pretty good. Get secure, reliable internet and voice for an amazing price. Call today. Comcast business. Beyond fast. One of their students was the victim. Federal charges for a binge of violence in San Franciscos mission district. Henry lee explains the defendants mostly targeted people they believed were rival gang members. Reporter this is video showing two custodians getting attacked by a group of men outside little star pizza at 15th and valencia in San Franciscos mission district. The victims who are brothers were on a smoke break when they were kicked, punched, and hit with everything from a broom handle to a plastic cooler. Now 17 men with ties to the ms13 gang have been indicted by a federal grand jury for that attack and others. These arrests provide a sense of confidence and relief for the residents. Reporter San Francisco police chief bill scott joins u. S. Attorney David Anderson in announcing a successful crackdown on a gang that terrorized victims they believed were rival rivals. Was fired at such a close range, the shotgun wad lodged in the chest of the victim. Reporter four days later, investigators a these men stabbed a victim at a muni bus stop at 24th and patrero. The result of the attack was 15 stab wounds. The victim lost two liters of blood. Reporter another incident happened in 2018. Brutal beating and stabbing. The victim suffered a head injury. Reporter almost exactly a year later, fernando bonilla, one of those indicted in the crackdown was shot in the park. Our parks and playgrounds and other public spaces do not belong to transnational cri organizations. Our public spaces belong to all of us. They operate freely with no consideration for the rotation of the people that they terrorize and exploit. Well diligently investigate crimes that prevent the best possible case to prosecutors in order to protect protect our case. Reporter henley lee, ktvu fox2 news. A newark man has been sentenced to two years in prison for trying to kidnap two women in walnut creek. The victims worked in the same building as carusso. Last year he tried to absubject the first woman as she left work using a tazer. She managed to fight him off. Please realized later that there was another target. A box full of incriminating evidence . Fremont led to his arrest. A bay area cooldown today. Looks like more changes into the weekend. A cold system moves in. Alex savidge now in the newsroom with a look at some of the stories were working on for the 7 00 news. We will of course have the latest on the coronavirus outbreak here in the bay area. Well tell you how San Franciscos mayor is helping people who may be unable to afford their rent because of covid19. Also a major milestone for californias legal pot industry. How much tax money has been brought in thanks to legal cannabis. The entertainment world is feeling the effects of the covid19 pandemic. Today six flags closing down its vallejo park. Universal studios in los angeles is also closing down. Movie theaters are staying open for now. But filming for movies like fast and curious 9 and a quiet place 2 are delayed. Production is halting on many upcoming film projects, which may hurt the industry later on. Netflix has shut down its tv and Film Production for two weeks. The Los Gatos Company says its complying with government restrictions in the u. S. And canada. Streaming platforms could benefit in the shortterm, especially with those big catalogs. And perhaps adding new subscribers who are staying home. Rain is not a bad thing. Only when it happens on the weekend, i guess. More on the rain that were looking forward to in our future here, and the snow too. Thats right. Thats a good point. Getting to the sierra could be challenging if not impossible for the weekend. Oh, no. We got a lot happening. A lot will be changing over the next 12 hours. A cold system drops into Northern California and into the bay area. Thats the headline. Rain returns for tomorrow. As we say rain, its not going to be persistent rainfall all day long. Plenty of breaks in the action. Still unable enough that were talking about off and on showers and the possibility of some thunderstorms. A broad brush here with the rainfall and snowfall. Snow falling in lake county, possibly mendocino county, and toward the sierra. As far as our local rainfall expectations, most areas on average picking up between about a half know afrn to an inch onto the monday. Even into monday, well still keep some shower chances in the forecast. Fairly high shower chances into monday. Heres the circulation. We have low clouds and fog filling in. A bit of a cooldown across a good portion of the bay area. And temperatures right now, 50s and 60s. Concord 60 degrees. San jose 57. Half moon bay a chilly 54. And those wind speeds, winds picking up throughout the afternoon hours. Right now we have a gust of 40 miles an hour out toward fairfield. Right around half moon bay, 12 miles an hour. And sfo gusting to 23 miles an hour. Here is our live camera looking out toward sfo this friday evening. Clouding things up for tonight. And well have some raindrops in the forecast first thing tomorrow morning. The first initial front moves in from the north. Overnight lows will be in the 30s and the 40s. Heres a welldefined front up here, and a lot of cold air behind. It youll definitely notice that cold air all weekend long and into next week. So saturday off and on showers. Plenty of breaks in the action. And pretty much the same deal into sunday. But the cold, unstable air moves in monday. Sunday. And thatll trigger some thunderstorms in the bay area. Even a chance tomorrow as well. Heres the plan later on tonight, 11 00. Youll notice what happens into tomorrow morning. Heres that front moving quickly across the north bay. It kinda gets stalled out here over the southern half of the bay area. More persistent rainfall for the south bay into tomorrow afternoon. And then this is 5 00, more showers ramping up. Saturday night. Thats when i think we could have some thunderstorm chances here in the bay area. Sunday morning and then sunday afternoon. If youll notice some showers, some breaks in the clouds, some breaks in the showers as well throughout this period. In the sierra, as we mentioned, this will be a major snowproducer. We could have big travel challenges for you. Highway 50 and interstate 80. A winter storm warning begins saturday morning, 5 00 am, all weekend long and into monday. Up above 7,000 feet, could be topping 30, 40 inches. Significant snowfall in the mountains, and low snow level. We could have a dusting of snow at the bay area hills, possibly as low as 2,500 feet. And your fiveday forecast, all those sunny days we had in february, not a drop of rainfall. Things changing rapidly here. Some off and on rain. Cold showers into your sunday. And if youre getting tired of the raindrops, you might like wednesday. Mrould skies. This is one of those weekends just stay inside, watch a good movie. Check out a good book. Itll be cold, itll be unsettled out there all weekend long. Were ready for the cold. Thank you so much. Golfers react to the news that the masters has been postponed. And nba stars are coming to the aid of their home arena workers. Who have is helping out financially, next in sports. Get to the ross spring dress event, where the prices make all the dresses yeses. Yeah save 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices on our best selection of spring dresses. The ross spring dress event, on now which of your devices are protected by daily security updates . Daily security updates. Daily . I dont know. The only thing. Im struggling with this. Some providers you have to manually download updates to each device. Comcast business securityedge updates every 10 minutes to help keep your connected devices protected against new ransomware, malware and phishing threats. Every 10 minutes feels pretty good. Get secure, reliable internet and voice for an amazing price. Call today. Comcast business. Beyond fast. What . Oooh. Ahhh. No. Yeah . Yes oh yeah si. Yes. Thats the sound of saving 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices. At ross. Yes for less. Its been a tough week for the sports world. A tough week for everybody but certainly the sports world emblematic of whats going on across the country. The noob 2ing its part. The warriors ownership players and coaches will donate 1 million to a Disaster Relief fund to help out their arena employees. Thats certainly a nice gesture. Wow. A lot of people affected by this. Giannis among the stars giving back. He took to twitter today to announce his philanthropy. Declaring this is, quote, bigger than basketball. Likewise for zion williamson. Hes doing his part. He will cover the salaries of the Smoothy King Center employees where the pelicans play for the next 30 days, calling them the most special people he has encountered in the world. Its not just Contact Sports or team sports, the coronavirus casualties. Golf is now limiting events. This weekends players championship was canceled after they did play the first round yesterday. Of more interest to fans, the masters. Golfs first major championship of the year has been postponed. They hope to play it later in the year. April 9th through the 12th. This is the fifth pga event that will not be played during its scheduled weekend. The masters dates back to 1934 and has never been played outside of march or april. Heres the official statement from chairman fred ridley, quote, respecting the health and well being of everyone associated with these events and the citizen of the augusta community, the 2020 masters tournament, the Augusta National womens amateur, and the drive chip and Putt National finals have all been postponed. It was the right call. Health in front of everything else. Theres so many uncertain things in the air that we cant put a number on. Whats the value of one life . Thats what were dealing with. In the grand scheme of things, getting some Golf Tournaments cancel, suspended is not a really big deal at all. Lifes a lot bigger than sports and golf. To have some tournaments canceled or postponed, it is what it is. Theres a lot bigger things than us and golf. And then theres this. Nascar and ind dee car in full reverse today, canceling Upcoming Events due to coronavirus. Both circuits have decided to shut it down completely. Nascar was scheduled to race sunday at atlanta motor speedway. That and next weekends race in miami have been called off. Likewise for indy car. No golfing, no driving, and no running. Boston marathon organizers announced theyre postponing the initially scheduled for april 20th until september 14th after officials in the boston area expressed concern for the 31,000 registered runners and the one million or so spectators. Another complication here, President Trumps order restricting most europeans travel to the u closer to home what we thought was going to be the only game in town will not be. The Indoor Football League oakland panthers were set to play their franchise debut tomorrow against the iowa barnstormers. Major League Baseball took their proetd cola step further after announcing the season will be pushed back two week. They are suspending camp. Strongly encouraging players to leave their spring Training Facilities and return home. This is not a mandatory across the board evacuation. Giants have given players three choices. Go home, go to San Francisco or remain in sctsdale. Clearly baseball is gonna be shut down for longer than the initial two weeks. So much news coming out of sports. Thank you so much. See you next. What are you doing . Oh, uh, priyas calling in a few minutes on skype, and we are gonna have a dinner date. Its 8 00 in the morning in mumbai. How can she have dinner . Fine, whatever. Priya will be having breakfast. All right, so technically, its not a dinner date. I suppose you could call it a, uh, dinfast date. But if you did, youd open yourself to peerbased mocking, such as, hey, leonard, how was your dinfast with priya last night . That doesnt sound like mocking. You didnt let me finish. Dinfast. Are those soybased candles . I dont know. Why . Paraffin candles may contain carcinogens. Unless lung cancer is the ambiance you were going for at your dinfast. Dinfast. Listen, i dont want to be rude, but priyas gonna be calling any minute, so. Oh, yes, priya. Leonard, you know i make a point of never interfering in your personal affairs. Yes, ive always admired that about you. As well you should. But im going to make an exception here. Oh, good. Priya has moved back to india to pursue her law career. Instead of desperately trying to keep this intercontinental relationship alive, you could use that time to take up a hobby. A hobby . Yes. I read recently about a fellow in kansas with an enormous ball of twine. I bet you could give him a run for his money. You know, some people might say that its great that were trying to make things work long distance. Theyd say things like, love is stronger than the miles between you. When i rise to power, those people will be sterilized. You videochat with amy all the time