Favorites. Good morning on this friday, we will start you with a live look at a solemn procession about to get underway in vallejo for a member at the Santa Rosa Police department who died of covid19. Detective mary lou armer was a 20 year veteran of the department. She had an unusual start. She started as a civilian field evidence technician. He came a sworn police officer, and was recently a Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault investigator. This morning, she is being honored and remembered as a bright light, and a dedicated public servant. From people within heard police department, and far beyond. No doubt, covid19 touching so many lives. Not just around the world, but right here in the live picture. Just goes to reemphasize what a great job the First Responders are doing. They cannot work from home, they are out in the field doing their normal duty. I heard a fire truck roll by my neighborhood. So, they are out there and tip of the cap to them. Alright, more now to our coronavirus coverage happening today local Health Permits in the bay area say they will top 3000 covid19 cases. Right now in San Francisco, there are confirmed at 450 cases. San mateo county coming in with 153 cases. Santa clara, the first bay 1000 they have also recorded 36 deaths, almost half of the bay area total. Health Officials Say as of this morning, california has a backlog of nearly 60,000 coronavirus tests waiting to be returned. The lag in getting results can be as long as 12 days. 90,000 tests have been administered so far. Federal Officials Say only two states are reporting more than a third of their tests for the virus are positive. States are new york, and new jersey. Californias report is much lower. Taking a look at the market right now, the Unemployment Rate has jumped from 3. 5 to 4. 4 . Looking at the market, the nasdaq and s p 500, down about 1. 5 . Same for the dow jones. New this morning, economist saybie on appointment numbers are really just the tip of the iceberg. Lets check in with ktvus allie rasmus on the jobs that were lost last month. Reporter about 700,000 jobs lost in the u. S. In the month of march. The reason why economists are warning this is not showing the full picture of the problem is because i figure is based on surveys done with employers at the start of the month of march. The first couple of weeks. It doesnt include the period after all the shelter in place, and stayathome orders went into effect. That is 80 more americans at home and shuttering businesses nationwide. Even so, this figure is historic and disturbing. 700,000 jobs lost at the beginning of march. Unemployment at 4. 4 , up almost a full percentage point from last month. Economist nationwide warned that this unblemished figure will definitely go up in the april and may reports. We will get a clearer picture of the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to all this, u. S. Employers have been adding jobs every month for the past nine years. President trumps talk top Economic Advisor had this to say is short time ago about the march jobs report. I will not give numerical estimates here, but, it will get worse in the weeks ahead, no question about it. The effects of the pandemic, and the medication required to end it, they are taking a huge toll. We are in a contractionary point. We have not seen the worst of it. Reporter they have already talked in washington about the next stimulus bill to try to keep the u. S. Economy afloat. In california alone 880,000 people filed for an employment just last week. Not everyone was able to get through to file a claim. Californias Employment Department showed this video of their call centers, they are overwhelmed with applicants. They maintain social distance between the worker so the room looks empty but they have chipped in about 450 staff member statewide to focus solely on processing on appointment claims that continue to come in. The state of california has set up a website to help people who have lost jobs and get them in touch with companies that are hiring right now. It is called and you can get to it by goour website which is ktvu. Com and click on the lead web links section. Reporting live, allie rasmus, ktvu fox2 news. Thank you for that. The director of covered california is asking congress to create a stimulus package specifically for healthcare. Peter lee says insurance premiums could rise by 20 or more as stre industry from hospitals to insurance companies. The increased insurance premiums, along with Small Businesses not being able to afford Health Insurance coverage could lead to many people dropping coverage. New this morning, a crewmember from the grand princess cruise ship has died do to covid19. The crewmember from the philippines died at San Francisco hospital after being transferred off the ship last month. Hundreds of workers still remain on board the ship and they are quarantines which is scheduled to end tomorrow. The ship made headlines last month when he was forced to wait for days off the coast of San Francisco after infected passengers and crew were found on board. Right now the ship is anchored in the bay. The captain of a u. S. Navy Aircraft Carrier struggling with the coronavirus outbreak has been relieved of command. Days after his letter about the crisis became public. Captain brett crozier, who is from santa rosa, asked the navy to remove 90 of the crew of the uss Theodore Roosevelt to stop the spread of covid19 on not removed because of his letter, or rather for allowing the complexity of this challenge with the outbreak on the ship to overwhelm his ability to act professionally. That demonstrated extremely poor judgment in the middle of a crisis. Navy officials called the captain an honorable man, but say too many people were included on the letter and that caused panic on the ship. So far more than 100 sailors have tested positive for the virus. Most of the ships crew of 5000 sailors will be quarantined in guam, where the ship is docked. The California Restaurant Association says it believes one third of the states restaurants will not open at all down the road. Lets check back in with ktvus Frank Mallicoat for more on the story. Reporter we will talk about one particular restaurant in San Francisco, it is called tampanina it is the quintessential italian cafi where everyone knows your name and it all begins and end with their owner. It is located on union street 1 years. It is a Meeting Place for locals and tourists alike. The food, i can tell you it is fabulous, and the ambience will take you back to old italy. Tampanina staff has been without a paycheck for nearly 3 weeks now, and no one is feeling it more than their owner. It is a really hard for me, for my staff, because they always supported me here, theyve always been next to me, and always, now i feel really bad for my staff because, all of a sudden, they dont have a job, and their family, and they have kids. I am devastated for them. Reporter it is not only the customers that have been shut out but also the neighborhood dogs. You see, they take care of every dog that strolls by their doors with some traits. As for the owners staff, they say they will be ready to get back to work the moment the stores reopen. I am okay right now, but, the situation is getting a little difficult. But, i think we can survive, we hope that everything goes well soon. And then we can go back to work. Reporter the owner was so worried about taking care of his staff, he started a gofundme page and has raised over 30,000. That is the kind of boss we all need during these times. By the way, the restaurant was named after the owners favorite restaurant on the island of capri, where he grew up. No matter what it takes, his doors will open again. Hopefully that is very soon. I am Frank Mallicoat, ktvu fox2 news. Thank you. Coming up on mornings on 2 at 9 00, the 2 trillion stimulus package offering relief for Small Businesses. In our next half hour, when businesses to start applying to the program, and why relief checks may not be coming anytime soon. Plus, hey there i will be right back. Having a look at the apps helping us connect when we are socially isolated. Good morning, welcome back to mornings on 2. As we all shift to the new normal of working from home, and doing work from our computers and devices, a lot of us are doing that for the foreseeable future. More people are desperate to connect. National tech life columnist, jennifer jolly, joins us for a story she first broke yesterday on a new video chat app, and a handful of other critical tools helping people who have to work this way for the foreseeable future. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. I am sorry, i had no idea you were coming to me for a tease. That is a part of what is going on now that we are all in this new normal of working from home and relying on these video chat apps to do everything from live television, to our business meetings, to really the only facetoface can medication we are having with our loa lifelin i was the only reporter in the world to go handson with facebooks new messenger for desktop app. I have been using it for over a week and launched yesterday. The reason it launched yesterday . Facebook messenger saw a 100 increase in people making video calls from desktops. It was built to be a mobile app, but it is the way we all need to communicate right now. You can get up to eight people in the same screen, at the same time. It is free, simple, having is that Human Connection we are all craving as we need it most. Messenger for desktop, it isnt a separate app for what you already have when you log into the main social network. That is the browser version. You have to get a new one from the app store, works on ios and windows. You download it and see right away how easy it is to talk to people from all over the world with a few taps. I have to tell you, testing it out this past week, going from little to no contact with the outside world to seeing all of my favorite people in my living room, use it on portal tv, it was so much more emotional and so much more therapeutic than i expected. Using it for my daughters geneva 19th birthday. I host a virtual happy hour. As well as school, just all kinds of Different Things that we have used it for. It is an incredible way, it is a more safe and walled off way to make these connections when we need them most. Jen, can you tell me, now that everyone is doing all these video chats at home, what are some of the big dos and donts of how to appear professional if you are talking to your boss . Or maybe you are talking to your childs schoolteacher . How do you make your calls look, and also sound good . Whi step is to do them on a laptop or desktop, if you can. If you are doing them on a mobile device, put it down somewhere, have that camera, the camera you are using, web camera. I could not think of the word for a second. Web camera you are using, have that at eye level. Try not to have it looking up at you. Drop your laptop up on something. Have a light ine. [ laughter ] reporter try to have depth behind you. I am in my kitchen right now, so i have a living room and sitting room behind me. If you dont have a place to get that kind of depth, whatever you do try not to be right in front of a white wall because that looks like a mug shot. I have seen a couple of live shots, video chat live shots, where there has been a mess behind people and that has been distracting. Try to clear the clutter if you can. Dont worry if a dog or child comes in. That is our new normal, it is okay. My own dog has come in about 15 times already. Those are the e. Pretend that your microphone is always hot, just like you do for television. And pretend that camera is always on. There have been some pretty infamous episodes over the past week or two where people get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of Conference Calls to attend, whether you see yourself or not, that that camera is hot i wanted to ask you, we are just about to go here but, do you think that we could have done this 10 years ago . You have been a tech reporter for a long time and even just 10 short years ago, i dont think. Reporter definitely we could not have done this a few years ago. In fact, we of the applications have been using were set up for business and enterprise. The fbi has had to put out warnings about security issues. A lot werent made for Large Businesses with large i. T. Departments. So, even now we are having growing pains and hiccups. That is why Something Like a messenger for desktop is nice. It is preapproved. Zoom mongers cannot come in the middle, and have your meeting, especially when youre having classes, and my daughter goes to davis, uc davis, she had her first lecture the other day on a different video chat app. It was zoom bombed and they had to stop the class. Coming up next right here on mornings on 2 the 9, more testing sites for coronavirus popping up in the bay area. In the next half hour, we will talk to you about the new drive through testing site in the city of San Francisco. Plus, no home opener for the San Francisco giants. We will speak live with the giant ceo about his reaction to cancel games in the bay area and across major league baseball. What we do now will forever change our tomorrow. So lets do the right thing, today. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. A San Francisco giants home opener was slated for today. A perfect friday matinee against the dodgers out of los angeles. Instead, oracle park is empty, players, coaches, and most fans are all at home as no baseball is being played right now. Lets check in with the ceo of the San Francisco giants. Good morning to you larry. Good morning. I wish we were all able to be at the ballpark. Together. I was going to say usually weie wow at the 9 00 hour, right in front of th many lives impacted right now. Hospitals are packed, unfortunately, people are losing their lives. But i wanted to talk about sports and specifically baseball right now. Let me open it up to you. There is a wide range of emotions and my house, my children not being able to play Little League or softball or going to the home opener. What are you feeling on this day . First of all, we are feeling deeply for everyone doing such amazing work and treating such amazing sacrifice on the front lines. The giants family feels that deeply. You know everybody, the First Responders, our fans are hurting. Our community is hurting. We do believe that there is an opportunity for institutions like the giants to create a healing function. So, we are reaching out to our fans. Light and some glimmers of g warmth and smiles to simulate openingday online on our various social media functions, we will actually have an opening day and will have a first pitch and when we play a great giants game we will have all of those messages from giants celebrities. I think one of the things we think about, a lot, it is the ballpark workers. And, they are not able to work, we are creating funds to keep them, to embolden them as much as we can financially. We are reaching out to everyone and staying tightly connected as a family. Is like 700,000 larry . 1. 7 million. We will supplement unemployment and we will also have an Emergency Fund for those who are, who have special hardships. To try to keep everybody as close to whole, as if they were working as much as they possibly can. Everybody on the front lines, the hospitals, San Francisco general, and everyone here, what i really want to encourage from the giants family is please, please shelter at home. Please heed the words of the mayor. We are the San Francisco giants, we are all in this together. Throughout the bay area i think the responses been amazing to those please and i think hopefully we can be ahead of the curb in our community. It is strange to think a few weeks ago you guys were down in scottsdale and spring training was up and running, here we are, with an empty ballpark of what wouldve been the home opener. If i could ask you about baseball, whether or not we will play this year, would you be in favor of a season that started around the allstar break . And went through the month of september, possibly leaking into october . We would be in favor of a Public Health clearance of returning baseball. And allowing the healing functions to, to sooth the american soul right away. If you look at times of going way back, going back to the spanish flu which was in 1918, which was horrible, baseball provided a healing function even way back then over a century ago. More locally, think about after 9 11, and after the earthquake come of people coming together. The difference here is that when baseball does return, we are going to have to be careful, make sure the Public Health measures are observed. In what form it returns . It could be more through television. You know, your network carries the playoffs and the world series and, so, maybe there is some limitations around how we can gather but that is okay. We think that the healing function, whether it occurs at the ballpark or, whether it occurs, you know, through television and through digital communication, it would really be great for the soul of america. It is got to be done in a safe way. As a for the players. Do you think there is a cutoff date . If this goes on and, you havent set a date, say we reached july 1st and we still dont know whether or not we have hit the peak, when do we throw in the towel and say you know what . Lets not worry about it this year . It is hard to throw out dates, but i think that, everybody understandecial circumstances. You can have a season they can get a qualifying team to a postseason, i think that is the goal. What this season constitutes, how many games, it is really hard to say. Your scenario, when you mentioned july, early july or july, i think sure, that could constitute a season. The other thing is you can make up games, you know, after the season. What was the originally scheduled, you can put some regularseason games into october as well. Do you think the fewer games that we pay our amine play, lets say we do play half a season, whoever would win the world series, there would be less integrity into it . I dont know if that is the word but obviously not as special or unique . I understand that you are talking about the soul of sports, the soul of baseball that heals a community, i agree. But, does the championship lose a little luster there . I dont want to hypothesize too much about that but i think the answer is no. If you have a short season, or when we have a short season, i think there is going to be love for your players, love for your community. I see a lot of people, you know, just bonding through happening or having the competition. I dont think that it would be anything, people will remember this year and a lot of different ways. You how the players are able to put themselves together and, competed for their fan bases. I think there will be some special nature to it, that might make it more compelling, and more powerful of a statement that team x was able to win a championship underneath the circumstances. Excellent point right there. As i do this interview with you i have a baseball in my hands. I know i am starving for the sport, for all sports. Hopefully, we will get back on the ball field there. Right about now i just want to remind everyone, lets think about the ballpark workers who cannot get to the ballpark lets think about returning in a way that is healthy, and then, what i was thinking about, what is it 9 30 or 10 00, i would be walking into the ballpark early on a day like today. Smelling the hotdogs grilling, the garlic fries getting ready, seeing all we will return to th be back to that. Doing what you are doing. Stay sheltered at home and lets try to do the very, very best we can to get on the other side of this. I am with you on that. Larry baer stay safe, be strong and thank you for taking the time. We appreciate it. Thank you mike. See you soon coming up next right here on mornings on 2 the 9 , the new recommendations when it comes to wearing masks. There is a big question of whether or not we should be doing it when you go out in the bay area. In our next half hour the new guidelines from doctor anthony those masks for spreading covid 19. Coming up later in the show, ignoring the rules of social distancing. The Northern California Church Members who kept meeting after the Church Building was closed. Bill withers is known for his soulful songs from the 1970s, including of course lean on me as well as aint no sunshine. He died from heart complications. We nami was performed at the president of the inaugurations of both obama and bill clinton, in the past week, people been posting videos of their versions of lean on me during the coronavirus pandemic. [ music ] in a traffic world we have been besieged by requests for bill withers music. As the legend, you just heard, passed away. When we heard that news earlier this mornwith requests this is for amari but there are so many we cannot put on the screen. If you request you can always let me know by using our social media platforms. This book the twitter and instagram. Just use the hashtag ktvu. [ music ] todays weather, good morning steve we will get right to it. Mostly sunny day today. Walk, hike, whatever you did today will be a lot tougher over the weekend why . We have two systems on the way. The first will not do too much. With a few clouds with temperatures. San francisco 48. Livermore 48. San jose at 48. Santa rosa made it to 35. Some of those higher clouds skirting the. Not a big deal. Little bit of a breeze with Half Moon Bay at 24 miles per hour. 40s and 50s, out of the gate here. We do not have as many cold temperatures as yesterday. But there is the first system, the stronger one by far will be here sunday. Rainfall okay, it will start saturday morning. Weaken as it moves south. That will give us a decent rainfall and heavy mountain snow, not just the sierra but shasta. There is your system for saturday, and the stronger system moves in on sunday and into sunday night. Probably monday as well. Really slow to clear the area, which means we will be in the mix for more rain and possible Showers Mountain snow all the way into tuesday night. Should be a lot quieter on wednesday for us but colder, and the amount projected for the sierra is in feet. 1. 5 inch, santa cruz that, santa rosa. Also for the Santa Cruz Mountains but if kirkwood will pick up 38 inches of snow we will declare a victory, i would not be surprised if that doesnt happen. This is a better set up for them than us but we will still get some rain. Mostly sunny, breezy at times and then everything increases tonight. Taking us into rain saturday windy as well sunday into monday. It is 9 35. It will take time for the 2 trillion stimulus package that was passed a week ago to filter down to Small Businesses. Today is when you start applying for federal loans that will be forgiven if they retain their employees and use the money for approved reason however, bank of america is the only big bank that announced its application process is up and ready. Other big banks say the program has been lacking specific guidelines. More details were reportedly given to them late last night. At least all americans are currently under a statewide shelter at home order. Most governors say the stayat home orders are having an impact on trying to contain the virus. We have the story from atlanta. Reporter some 220,000 americans are infected with the coronavirus come at the outbreak is spreading. We are still waiting for updated guidance from officials at about wearing face masks in public, but officials and a number of cities, including new york and los angeles, are advising their residents to cover their faces when they leave the house. I started wearing the mask today, i was coming out to cosco and i decided to take as much protection as i can. We are downwind of the hospital, that is the epicenter of the national crisis. So, yeah i am terrified to go outside. Reporter nine out of every 10 americans are now under a stay at home order. Governors say it is making a difference. But, it is also having a severe impact on the economy. Air travel is down 93 from this time last year. Retail shopping done 97 . And ridership on Public Transportation is down 75 . As unemployment spikes, some states are having a tough time keeping up with new claims. We are seeing some higher than usual call wait times, because we have seen a 2400 increase. Reporter meanwhile, in florida two cruise ships carrying suspected coronavirus cases have finally docked at the port everglades, passengers and crew are disembarking in a process expected to last into the overnight hours. Our top consideration is the health of our community, as well as those on board. Reporter there is still a desperate need for medical equipment, especially ventilators. Officials in new york expect to run out by sunday. At cdc headquarters in atlanta, ktvu fox2 news i dont know about you at home, t one and get my family some masks as well. There is a new recommendation y mask on. Lets get over to elissa harrington, who has more on reporter good morning. That is right if you dont have a hospital grade mask at home that is fine. In fact they say they want to reserve those for First Responders anyway. You just need a piece of cloth. A bandanna, a scarf, there are tutorials going around. People cutting up all the t shirts, anything that can cover your face when you are out in public. Doctor Anthony Fauci with the White House Coronavirus task force talked about why they are making these new recommendations. The virus can actually be spread, even when people just speak, as opposed to coughing and sneezing. The better part of that when you are out and you cannot maintain a six for distance to wear some sort of facial covering. Reporter when it comes to masks, Officials Say it is not just that someone can be infected and not know it, they are also learning the virus lingers in the air longer and travels further than he previously thought. Face coverings, when combined with social distancing, and handwashing, will better protect yourself and others from transmission of covid19. You can make cloth masks at home, use a towel, tshirt, sweatshirt, or a bandanna. The hospital grade masks , like n95s, should be saved for medical workers and First Responders, during Stay Home Order usually be offer essential needs , like going to a doctor or getting groceries, but health Officials Say cover your face when you run those errands. Doctor fatty says social distancing, stayathome orders difference. It will get worse, much worse before it gets better and that is just an unfortunate fact that we have to deal with. But, it will turn around. Reporter after using a cloth covering, you are advised to wash it in hot water, with soap, before using it again. Reporting live im elissa harrington. Ktvu fox2 news. Thank you for that. Sacramento county department of health is criticizing a church that it says is violating shelter at home orders. The Health Permit director says that parishioners at Bethany Slavic Missionary Church in Rancho Cordova are still meeting at homes and holding gatherings. The church stopped Holding Services back on march 18th. The county says about a third of the areas cases of covid19 are linked to that house can be very, a way of rapidly spreading the disease. In a Statement Released this morning, the church says the county claims it is responsible for a third of all cases is accurate. It also says that it does not condone any inperson gatherings outside of the church. Coming up on mornings on 2 at 9 00, many parents are working from home while trying to teach the children and run their household. Trust me, it can be tough and that is where we have an olympic figure skater from the bay area stepping in. Kristy yamaguchi coming to help put a smile on children and parents faces. If youre running ideas on what to cook while staying at home, we are checking in with east bay curator alyssa beard, on a frittata coming up next. Welcome back to mornings on 2, a lot of us are using our extra time at home to get creative and be productive. You know me, im a big home cook. I cleaned all the other end of the dry fruit i had in my get cabinets and made some granola. I know a lot of you are struggling because we cannot go to the Grocery Store as often as we used to and that is for getting creative comes in. We are help happy to welcome back to the 9 olivia. Thank you for joining me, your life in your kitchen. First of all, cooking well under quarantine should be about being flexible and resourceful. Definitely. Use what you have in a pantry, fruits, everything you have. Today we are making a pantry frittata with what we have. We are using basic ingredients and theres always room to swap out. By no means do you do exactly what im showing you how to do today. So is what you are doing ive always wanted to be in your kitchen, i guess i am there right now but talk us through the basics. This is my lovely home. We are going to take some eggs, scrambled them up. In the meantime, while we are working that, you can have this for breakfast, lunch or dinner, i recommend serving it with a salad. This feed a family of four, you are just going to take any approach that you want you have bacon this morning and they just fried up in your nonstick skillet. My big tip is make sure your skillet is nonstick and, that it is ovenproof because youre going to knock this 15 minutes just to set your eggs. We are going to go ahead, we have salt and pepper, rockleigh, seeds, and some berries. You can use old milk, almond milk. It is about two eggs per serving. Then we add in our cream and our cheese to our mixture here. I know everybody is kind of struggling to find groceries and, you know, getting out is also something to be wary of. Add salt and honey to your man market pantry grocery boxes. We out. We are delivering all of your pantry staples, milk and eggs, Fresh Produce and protein. It is a lovely option to support local Small Business and keep us going. Also make sure you are getting everything your family needs. If you go online you can sign up. We have our bacon frying here. We will add in our bell peppers. Our broccoli and, get these going. You just want to make sure to salt and pepper your eggs. Just a little bit, that way they have all that goodness. Once everything is nice and fried up, you will go ahead and add that into your frying pan here. I like to spread out all the ingredients in my frying pan because once you put your eggs into the pan, you will not move them around, you want to let them set. Just let your eggs develop everything. And then you knock that into your oven for it to cook. Then, we have one already done here for everyone. You can check it out, very delicious. Here you go. A little bit of fresh herbs to garnish. Like i said you can have her breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Just a quick mention but we are all here, we are trying to feed frontline workers. If you have the means, please donate, it does help restaurants and Small Businesses to help keep our doors open during this difficult time and put our people back to work. Olivia i support everything you said. I know salt and honey is a labor of love, you build it from the ground up. Im glad to see you are staying strong and helping to feed others in need. I know we will see you back on the 9 soon, enjoy the frittata. Thank you, tweet us. Mention, add us on instagram. We want to see your frittata. Thank you and stay safe you got it, thank you again. Thank you for that. Coming up next right here on mornings on 2 the 9, expected mothers. There should be a surge of people giving birth coming up here at birthing centers and now they are considering at home birds instead of going to the hospital. music a nursing home in the south bay is now dealing with a cluster of coronavirus cases. Nearly 200 people are housed at Canyon Springs in east san jose. Two residents and four staffers tested positive for covid19. One resident was discharged before results came back, the other is in the hospital. 26 people are now being tested. The situation within a nursing home or any close confinement situation like a prison, for example, can be extremely dangerous. Canyon springs caters to people who need care after hospitalizations. As well as those with dementia. Officials say stricter protocols are now in place, including screening staff and essential visitors. And monitoring resident conditions more frequently. In a statement to ktvu, Officials Say our top priority remains the health and well being of everyone in our facility. Tomorrow is the 150th birthday of Golden Gate Park in pandemic most of the plans operations have been postponed. Instead they will be a virtual celebration with video, podcast, little digital books, all the big milestones. We posted all the information about the virtual celebration on ktvu. Com. About 1 million women are expecting to have a baby in the next few months. Many are questioning the traditional hospital delivery. They are worried their hospital will be understaffed and full of coronavirus patients. We explain how some couples are now left scrambling. When you are expecting a child, you know, your nerves are already a little shocked. Reporter pregnancy is a challenge at the best of times. But even more so for this couple expecting their first child. Eric works at a rehab hospital, so he sanitizes everything but he comes home, head straight to the shower, work clothes left in the garage. They sleep separately, and use different bathrooms to save his wife and daughter do in six weeks. It felt shocking to cancel a baby shower. Reporter now the coronavirus has shaken their birthing plan. Hospitals ban visitors, even partners, some are separating moms from babies after birth. Concern about him not being there but were also concerned about kind of the skin to skin contact, which is so important for baby bonding. Not being able to be there during this time, it would be, you know, very hard to deal with. Reporter people are feeling a lot of stress and fear. A midwife of 30 years cofounded a birthing center in berkeley where calls have tripled in two weeks. Women with due dates and there are frantic to switch the delivery from the hospital. If people are low risk, and our seeming like a good fit and then yes we are doing that to try to help out with this pandemic. Reporter but the birth center cannot fit everyone in thomas it is a waiting list for the next few months. Disappointing many collars. It is super heartbreaking, this has been so heartbreaking, they do not know where they will end up birthing. Reporter some will opt for home birth, if they can find an available midwife or dula but home has its own infection risk, so precautions are needed there. We are wearing ppe, screening people carefully. We are being very, very cautious about contamination. We are just too far from the hospital and i am too high risk. Reporter breanna has ruled out homebirth but is waitlisted for the birthing center. We are new to the east bay, otherwise i think we would have looked into it sooner. Reporter she expects they will end up as kaiser as planned. Fingers crossed that the environment does not worsen in the weeks ahead. I was planning on having my parents, my brother, all of them get involved. Reporter feels odd to be isolated for such a milestone. Baby showers canceled, families meeting newborns ever video. What matters is bringing a healthy baby into the world. It visioned, but a new one. Itll still be exciting, itll still be, you know, a great time in our lives, itll just be that much more memorable, i guess that is happening during this period reporter debra of yellow, ktvu fox2 news. Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is offering parents a break from homeschooling. The fremont native says she is hosting weekly book meetings for kids on her facebook page. Figure skater Scott Hamilton joined her for the online storytime. Yamaguchi is the founder of the always dream foundation, which promotes childhood reading. It is just a way to continue to engage kids out there. Especially with schools being out, and finding a way to, you know, keep them engaged with reading and with books. Yamaguchi will be hosting online storytime every wednesday and friday mornings at 10 00 a. M. On her professional facebook page. Even with all the social distancing going on, a community in tampa, florida held a welcome home parade for a father who arrived back from military deployment. I was expecting just a little bit of family when i got here. Thank you. We have so many good people here. Practicing social distancing. Thank you. Thank you. Neighbors lined the streets, cheering as they welcomed captain edwin smith, who is a part of the u. S. Navy and was deployed for 14 months. His wife planned the entire thing and they are thanking their neighbors for not just uplifting their family, but the entire community. We are super blessed with amazing people in this community and in our lives. With all the social distancing and everyone being so far apart, i thought this would be a great way for people to be together and join in the community to do something to thank someone in our community. Smith, who is a father of seven, was not expecting this kind of homecoming and there is no word if he will be deployed again. Always good to be a part of a solid neighborhood. Absolutely, and these days, we are salivating other familys victories and successes as our own. The feeling of togetherness has never been stronger, at least not in my little neighborhood in the east spain. East bay. Family time, that is for sure. Alright, lets leave you with one more story that i know will make you smile. Life goes on, milestones continue. A birthday is always a big one, especially when you were young. In sunnyvale, a fiveyearold boys Birthday Party turned into something completely different because of the coronavirus pandemic, but it was still beautiful. Police supplies surprised eliza madrid at his home after his mother call the department and asked if the officers could stop by to say happy birthday to little elijah. The family expected a quick drive by but three officers got out of their car, knocked on the front door, they presented young allies and with a birthday card signed by many of their colleagues. They also spent time with elijah and his family, while social distancing. Elijah says someday he wants to be a police officer. Happy birthday to you. Thank you so much for joining us here on the 9. Stay with us, Wendy Williams is up next. Wendy williams show. 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