Its heading into arizona and the desert. For us, it will give us mostly cloudy skies. Highs below average in the 50s. Sal, i have to be honest with you on highway 24 and 680 yesterday. It was at the limit. The whole time. When i went home it was at the limit going towards the caldecott. I didnt find any traffic either. Yesterday 2 38 and there was no slow traffic in the middle of the day. Lets go out and see what we have now starting off with the commute. Theres a little slowing at the altamonte pass, thats it. No problems here. It is going to be a nice drive through the east bay everywhere you look. Chp is not taking a holiday, theyre out there. You can see traffic at the toll plaza is light. There are signs the coronavirus in ca better. As 1 billion 1 billion to help hospitals handle an on slot of patients. He warns california may need to get up to 20,000 more hospital beds. The governor says he did not want to raise further concerns so he didnt answer questions about a potential hospital shortage supplies including ventilators. Treasure secretary Steve Mnuchin described a worst Case Scenario. The trufrp administration plans to help house holds and businesses as part of a 1 trillion national stimlouse package. 500 billion of the package could go to making direct payments to americans as tax cuts. Laying off furlough employees here in the bay area. Turning Tourist Attractions such as peer pier 30 mine into ghost towns. Napa remains the one local county without a coronavirus. Leaders are not taking chances. New restrictions go into effect today. Gatherings of 50 or more people are now banned. Smaller groups must implement Safety Measures and people who are sipgt 5 or older or anyone with Serious Health conditions are advised to avoid any gatherings. All Supreme Court facilities are closed to the public with timesensitive cases being heard. Today, san jose mayor sam liccardo will announce a partnership with the public and private sector. The citys creating a digital hub where you can volunteer res across silicon valley. San jose is also now, in morgan hill, the restaurant yolked would normally be getting ready for a busy morning. Instead, business is down to a trickle because of the shepd shelterinplace order. The owner says if the restaurant doesnt get help soon from the government, hell have no choice but to lay off his staff and close the doors. Right now were offering 50 off on social media. Were offering free coffee. Free do nuts. Were doing whatever we can to bring customers in. But people, frrt most part, are afraid and staying home. City councils considering a proposal to make a federal Small BusinessAdministration Fund available for low interest loans. County leaders are also encouraging Tech Companies to create a fund that offers grants to Small Businesses. As people hunker down and stock up on essentials, many are also stocking up on cannabis. Ktvus deborah villone is at a dispensary. Thats one thing i dont want to be without. If i get a migraine. Reporter migraines bring this shopper to emergency wellness in catottie. She and others didnt mind waiting to get in. Im actually kind of surprised, but not surprised about this whole line thing. Reporter alerts sound about shelterinplace starting at midnight. Theres a lot of people worrying about not being able to leave their house. Reporter cannabis for essential services or have to close. Some said no at first then relented. As long as customers are practicing social distancing against coronavirus. Sonoma countys largest dispensary. Yes, i have high thc 30 pack from proof. Reporter the avalanche of orders can remain open but must move its sales outside. And were going to have them come through. Were going to end upsetting up a couple of tents that we would normally use for festivals. Reporter it will be slower not using their normative tube that delivers to each cashier. Customers will have to preorder online and a medical card will be required as it was before adult use became legal. But its a way for patients to get their relief. Theres people that cant sleep. Appetite, they cant eat. Anxiety is the biggest thing right now is through the roof. Its just like the toilet paper. Everybody wants to make sure. Reporter another shopper has come two days in a row to stock up. Ive had four back surgeries and i used take opiates and ive also been a nurse for 30 years and this is definitely my medication. Youre locking yourself up in your house for two weeks. Reporter cannabis delivery is through the roof too as people ride out a shelterin place. Most acknowledge is a good precaution. I think its a good idea to help prevent the spread as much as possible. Its just hard on the economy and on the people. Reporter cannabis straddles both recreational and medical use. A hybrid. Dispensaries everywhere say sales right now are as high as 420 an official holiday. Ktvu fox 2 news. And we are checking in on wall street. It looks like another down day. We could also see those limits kick in after a lonely bell. The dow, the nasdaq and the s p 500 gained more than 500 points yesterday. Still a lot of doubt over how long this will last and how much that will help. Still down about 25 from the alltime highs that were set just last month. The incentives also considering the president s plan. The house has passed it by unanimous consent. But, again, markets set to open down probably 4 or more. Theres a look at where the futures were. Drivers are watching as gas prices fall. The National Average for a gallon of regular is 2. 22 a gallon according to aaa. Analysts say prices have not been this low since the 2008 financial kries. Here in california, the average price is about 3. 30. You can find some prices that are lower. Bay area prices slightly lower than the state average. Luckily the lowest average is in san jose where gas is 3. 25 an hour. As usual, San Franciscos is one of the highest prices in the country at 3. 39 a gallon. The big three auto makers partially shutting down their operations for cleaning and separation before more shift workers. The union wanted them to completely shut down for two weeks but after negotiations, the United Auto Workers agreed to a compromise. Ford, fiat, chrysler have closed their factories in europe. Were still waiting to find out if the tesla factory in fremont will close. Teslas getting criticized for keeping it open. Tesla claims the vehicle manufacturing is a crucial sector. However, on twitter, the Alameda County factory says that factory is not an essential business. Still not clear whether that factory will open today or the county will take more steps about it. Be sure to keep up to date on everything and download the free ktvu fox 2 news app. You get all the latest information on the coronavirus pan demotic and get ation sent straight to your mobile devices. It is 4 39. Back over to sal castaneda. And well check in on traffic this morning. Smooth sailing if you do have to drive. Just to remind people that traffic rules are in effect. You still have to drive safely. Lets go out and take a look at what we have here. No major problems on any of the bay area roads, of course. And you can see there havent been any unusual backups anywhere. And theres just a little bit of a backup at the altamonte pass. 4 40. Lets bring Steve Paulson in with todays weather. We have another cloudy to mostly cloudy pattern here. Although, the parameters for thunderstorm activity, livermore are not as pronounced as they were yesterday. What about rainfall . For some, its been pretty good. Theres no miracle march in the forecast. Are you going to work . I dont think you hold on a minute. There you go. Dont go anywhere. Just sit right there with your coffee, your tea. Im going to reload this and lets see if if we can try this again. All right. There you go. So another mostly cloudy pattern. It will be a cool wednesday. Highs still below average. Well keep some light rain in the forecast. I dont think this is going to work. There it goes. Theres no miracle march folks. Weve got some rain. Theres some signs well get more coming out. But to pick up this much ground is not going to happen some very light rain is going to move through. Already some clearing taking place to the north. And you can see where that line is. It looks like its falling apart. For some, sprinkles and very light rain. 40s on the temps here. A lot more 30s yesterday. More breaks in the clouds. Thats the line. Supposed to be a morning event. The main low is down off Southern California. That will really light them up as well as into arizona. 60s on the temps is where we should be this time of year. Well end up with 50s on the highs. Looks good thursday, friday, saturday, warmer. Rain late sunday into monday. Thank you. Time is 4 42. Facebook doing more to help its employees during the coronavirus disruptions. Coming up, the major announcement affecting all 45,000 facebook employees. Plus, the reason a nurse at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital says planning and training to handle the coronavirus has been too little too late. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Its 4 45. And the United States and canada are now working on a mutual ban. The Trump Administration is considering a plan to turn back anyone who illegally crosses the border from mexico denying them asylum. Fishes say the president has the authority to take such actions during pandemics. Immigrant advocates and groups condemn the possible move. Our time is 4 45. Google is now helping people in the south bay get fest tested for the coronavirus. Googles Sister Company life service Social Security now conducting drivethru testing in santa clara and san mateo counties. You can apply to schedule appointments online at projectbaseline. Com. The way you have access to it is you go to projectbaseline. You fill out a questionnaire and that will let you know whether or not youre a candidate to get tested there. If you show up without an appointment, you wont be let in. Now, the governors hoping the mobile coronavirus test sites will soon expand to other parts of california. San San Francisco mayor london breed issued a declaration to expedite the hiring of more health care workers. The city will fill through invitation only hiring events focusing on emergency and icu nurses. The new nurses could be hired on the spot skipping the usual 6month long process. The shortage of nurses isnt the only problem medical staff are facing during this pandemic. She tells ktvus rob roth how the emergency room is not ready to handle a potential flood of patients. Reporter if San Francisco sees a major spike, many will end up here at the emergency room at zuckerberg General Hospital. But some nurses are saying they are short staffed and havent been trained well enough to handle a surge. We still have not been trained in Disaster Preparedness that is kind of out the window at this moment. Reporter Christa Duran has been an e. R. Nurse for the past four years. We first met her two weeks ago when she and other nurses held a rally. Theres still not enough protective gear. The fear is for any medical staff to become infected. Theyre at high risk of having it. Were still testing them. Were in a private room. Were supposed to be using n95 masks and the whole gown and eye protection. And, as of today, were very low on that. Reporter she says other nurse spent two hours looking for the proper protection recently. If we have a surge of covid 19 patients depending on how sick they are, i dont know what were going to do. Reporter duran says with schools closed many worry about who will watch their children while theyre away on long shifts and shes worried about which patients will get care and which wont. Theyre saying two weeks behind where italys at and if we do end up in that place that italy is at, then, yeah, were going to have to make the same hard decision as theyre having to make. Reporter duran says the hospital is doing a good job of keeping visitors out and theres been more communication between the administration and staff recently. And she says, forcing people to stay home could be a game changer in keeping infections down. Hopefully that will be enough to keep us couple weeks. Reporter late london breed issued declaration to speed up the hiring of nurses and health care workers. Expressing concerns about the readiness there. In San Francisco, rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. Rob, thank you. Time is 4 49. I dont know if you noticed this but i did. A bug in facebooks antispam system temporarily was blocking links to real and authentic news stories about the coronavirus. Facebook says they fixed the problem after users were complaining that links to news stories about schools being closed and other information were blocked by facebooks auto mated system. Facebooks human moderators who watch out for news stories were reportedly sent home because of the pandemic. A facebook Spokes Person said the problem was not related to any changes in the companys work force. Facebook is doing its part to help its employees as well. Facebook says it will give 1,000 to each of its 45,000 employees around the world. Like child care and home office supplies. Other major Tech Companies like twitter and google have made working from home mandatory in several continents. Starting today all target stores will close at 9 p. M. Or even earlier. The company is reducing hours to give staff more time to restock the shelves. Also starting today, target is reserving the first hour of business every wednesday for the elderly and those with Underlying Health concerns. Safeway says it will reserve two hours on tuesdays and thursdays for older adults and atrisk shoppers. The hours vary based on location of the safeway. The whole foods, dollar tree, walmart, and other major stores are also enacting similar measures. Amazon has a new priority on which products it will ship first because of a surge in demand. Politico reports. Amazon also told Third Party Vendors it will stop warehouse intake for all non essential goods until april 5th. Its a move that could devastate some businesses. It depends on amazons platform to sell products. We want to know your questions. What you want to know about the coronavirus. We have a team who will work to give you an answer. Call the number you see on your tv screen right now. Send us an email to newstips foxtv. Com. You can see the questions were already answering on ktvu. Com. Look for the fact or fiction section right there. I have a question for sal. We were just talking about it. We were wondering, sal, because of the shelterinplace order can the chp or Police Officer pull someone over who is out and about and see if they are an essential services person who can be out and can they be cited . Bill scott, the San Francisco police chief said that is not happening. Theyre not using the resources of the police that way. In fact, theyre still busy doing regular police stuff. That doesnt mean you shouldnt stay home. Im just curious. They could. Thats what the San Francisco police chief said thats not what theyre doing. So, you know, theyre taking your word on it that you have to be out doing what youre doing. Most people are staying home. As you can see, you can tell that in just the traffic. No ones out there. You can see traffic is moving along relatively well. No problems on 24. No problems really anywhere. Theres been some road work. Were keeping it light for you out there. Again, if youre an essential workers, you dont have to worry about being on the road. Im pretty sure youre not going to be disturbed here getting out to your community. This is a look at the bay bridge. 4 52. Lets bring steve in. Theres a little rain right now. But not too much. Temperatures are in the 40s. We dont have the breaks in the clouds that we did yesterday which fired up the thunderstorms over livermore. The numerous hail reports. Also down towards the santa clara valley. That might be the focus. There are two lows. Theres also another one up in nevada. You see the flow on that coming around that is whats setting in a little center. A little spin in the atmosphere. Thats giving us our light rain. Theres not a lot but theres enough. What about the sierra . A little quieter but as long as that lows there it could send in little waves and theres a possibility of a couple inches of snow Going Forward into friday maybe picking up again over the weekend. 2 to 4 looks about right between now and friday. That low to the north just kind of wobbles. So the combination of these two will keep a lot of cloud cover in the forecast. Some light rain is moving through. Its moving from north to south. It looks like things are calming down. But not along the san mateo coast. Thats where the line is extending heading towards santa cruz and over towards the peninsula. 40s on most of the temps. Yesterday we had a lot more 30s. The low in Southern California is starting to fire up there as well as that will head into arizona. For us, temperatures are going to stay cool. 50s on the temps. We should be 52 to 66. Wont see that until probably saturday when it does look mostly sunny. Friday into saturday. Well cloud it up. Next system arrives. Time is 4 54. Social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic is not stopping people from voting during the primary elections. Tackling this pandemic is a national emergency. Still ahead, the results from last nights elections and what the candidates are telling their supporters in the middle of a National Health emergency. Plus, st. Pattys looked a whole lot different this year because of the pandemic. How the International Community and the bay area is dealing with the changes. But first, still no timeline for when the nba will come back. As more players are being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Why the warriors say they will not be taking a coronavirus test any time soon. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Its 4 57. Were still not sure when pro sport its leagues will play again including the nba. Team owners debated many ideas yesterday including playing just a few regular season games. When or if the season resumes. Then the early playoff rounds could be reduced to five game series. Nba executives are bracing for the possibility of mid to late june as a best Case Scenario for the nbas return. Meantime, kevin durant is among four Brooklyn Nets players who tested positive for the coronavirus. In an interview with the athletic, the former warriors star says he hasnt had any symptoms and he feels fine. He urged everybody to be careful, take care of yourself, and quarantine. None of the players who were infected have been identified by the team. Because of those positive tests, the warriors are concerned some of their players might have contracted coronavirus. The Brooklyn Nets were in town to play the warriors when the season was suddenly called off. That possibly included time when players from both teams interacted with each other. Yesterday, during a conference call, the warriors said its players will not be tested unless theyre showing symptoms because of the shortage of test kits. Time is 4 59. This afternoon, we expect tom brady to officially announce he is joining the tampa bay buccaneers. Nfl sources say the contracts already been signed and finalized. The native of san mateo will get according to reports up to 30 million a year. Tom brady won six super bowls with the new england patriots. And, in a tweet, brady thanked the fans and the patriots team, but said, its time to open a new stage of his career. This is really about saving lives and this is why we have to take such drastic measures. A new way of life here in the bay area. Shops and streets deserted as millions are asked to stay home during an unprecedented shelter in place. Americans need cash now and the president wants to give cash now and i mean now in the next two weeks. Money to your house from the federal government could be on the way soon. The latest suggestion from the white house as workers and businesses around the country struggle as the shutdowns continue. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Good morning. Thank you, for joining us here on mornings on 2. Wednesday, march 18th. Im pam cook. If you are just joining us youll notice our social distancing here. We do have to be here. We want to be here for you, but practicing this. Keeping our distance. Yes. M good morning