People are in intensive care units, which is slightly down from yesterday. Governor newsom says the lower number of icu patients is a sign that social distancing is working. Also today the governor announced plans to provide vouchers and stipends for travel and shelter for frontline healthcare workers so they can stay closer to their patients, and isolated from their own families. The workers will be able to stay at nearby hotels which are offering the state deeply discounted rates. We will extend those deep discounts directly to our caregivers, and in other cases, for low income workers we will provide 100 reimbursements so that they are allowed to stay closer to their patients, and provide them the opportunity not to worry about being out of pocket or worry about exposing their ng in their car so they can stay closer to the needs in their communities. Governor newsom says so far 150 hotels have agreed to be a part of a bulk room purchasing program with the state of california. A deadly outbreak of covid19 at a nursing facility in hayward is being closely watched by Health Officials. So far six residents have died and dozens of others tested positive. Henry lee has more now on what is being done with the facility to try to keep the residents there safe. Many residents dont have the luxury of moving to another location so they are being physically separated from the people who are sick. The medical staff also taking precautions to care for the residents infected, or not. Im doing everything i can do. Six residence have died at this center in hayward, 24 Staff Members are also infected. They are okay, as okay as they can be, obviously. To make the nurss been hectic. Like a chicken with my head cut off. Even so she will fulfill her duties to care for the residents. Its a scary time for everybody right now, this is what we signed up for, so, you just got to do your job. Infected residents have been moved to one side of the facility. The uni city councilmember has her 85yearold grandmother here that receives roundthe clock care at gateway. A totally surprised me. I called my dad and he didnt know anything about it, and he is the guardian. Gateway reached out to the family on thursday and he says despite the deaths, his grandmother is staying put, she is healthy, but hardhave my hesitations to leave her there but right now this is probably the only option. Gateway has a history of Violations Including injured when a resident was not given an antibiotic ontime because a registered nurse was not on duty. There are also patients with used and disposable needles in an unlocked utility room. Understaffing and those conditions are related. They said they take these situations very seriously and has established a task force to meet these needs of the facility. I signed up for it but did not think i was going to be part of a pandemic. Unfortunately thats just the cards we were dealt. County Health Officials have been to gateway and are working with staff to make sure they have proper safety gear and the correct training. Alameda county is also investigating an outbreak at a nursing home in castro valley. Nine residents and 17 Staff Members at the east bay postacute center have tested positive. One resident mac is hospitalized. We are told the Staff Members have mild symptoms and are isolated at home. The u. S. Labor Department Says 6. 6 million americans filed for unemployment in the last week, that is a record amount for the Third Straight week bringing the total number of unemployed americans to more than 18 million. Tom vacar joining us live with a closer look at these staggering numbers. Both nationwide, and here in california. Reporter consider this, if you are over the age of 12, you would have been in generations that would have lived through two of the worst economies in american history. Astonishing, more than 6,600,000 new unemployment claims nationwide, almost 1 million of those in california. Weve never seen anything remotely, remotely, comparable to this. Labor lawyer says in just three weeks at the nation has seen more than 16 million new claims, thats about 10 of the entire u. S. Workforce. If this continues to last, looking for a job in this time with the economic applications that covid19 virus is having, will be really tough. California has by far sustained the largest job lead out. Weve had over 929 new claims filed as of april 4 editor to the over 1 million claims, so now we have over 2 million new claims filed within two weeks. The National State unemployment rates are now surely well over what they were during the Great Recession and many more job losses are coming. Any federal aid or paycheck protection plans including the more than 2 trillion announced by the Federal Reserve today is just to keep the economy from collapsing. But he says we should not, and cannot wait for the virus to be totally conquered. We need now, to start looking for a plan here in california, start opening the economy, now. It would open a gradually phased in economy testing, social distancing and some residual he working at home. A period of months, perhaps even longer to get this economy restarted. Most workers ive talked to, want to go back to work. There still is some hiring on a places like amazon and Grocery Stores but the losses are far outweighing anything that is being gained. Tom, it just keeps getting worse and worse, for more insight on these record breaking and implement numbers lets bring in james mcbride, Financial Advisor with the mcbride group. I wish we were talking under other circumstances. But we are just seeing these steep, sudden job losses week after week, is there any precedent for this, and how much worse do you think it gets . There is no precedent, weve lost about 10 of the workforce, its just an unimaginable number. I went back and looked and even during the Great Recession, the amount of job loss was just under 9 million, and all this is happening within a period of weeks so its really extraordinary. And as tom vacars story talked about, we are just getting crushed, and the number one area getting hit is hospitality, things like that. So, where do we see the unemployment figures going in the next couple of weeks, keeping in mind, as you just eluded to, it was only back in february where we had unlimited figures that were right around 3 in this country and things were just humming along. Where do you think we see those unemployment numbers going in the next couple of weeks and months . They will go higher, although you have to wonder how many more restaurant workers can be laid off, people that work on cruise ships or work for the airlines, because nobody is flying, nobody is going on a cruise are going to restaurant so there is probably a limit there where it will peek out, and the blazing as far as the combination of loans, grants that are being initiated by the executive branch, so the government is certainly supporting the economy as best it can in the sense that its adding liquidity to the system literally every day. They announced the 2. 3 trillion that will help Small Businesses, consumers, cities, municipalities. So everybody is trying. You talk about that too trillion dollar relief package that congress passed, but either some folks, some experts are saying some people may not even get those 1200 checks for potentially weeks or maybe a couple of months. We had the treasury secretary say that direct deposits could go out as early as next week, what is your sense, how long do you think it will take until folks out there who need the help will actually have the money in their hands . Actually, ive been very impressed, not only by what congress has done, but by what the feds have done. They announced another 2. 3 trillion effort, including 600 billion to the mainstreet lending program. They are making 900 available to consumers and another 500 million to cities and states through the municipality, liquidity facility. They are also doing things that are just not heard of, like buying the shortterm debt of cities that have a population of more than 1 million in counties that have a population of more than 2 million, they are also supporting the sba in the paycheck protection program. So they understand they have to get this money to the consumer and the Small Business and they are alluding to all of the really ugly headlines that created a bad backlash during the Great Recession. I think they are doing everything right, they are putting literally trillions of dollars into the economy and that will make a difference. They understand we have an a quiddity crisis and if you think of the economies like than engine, a quiddity is the oil of that engine. And they are making that available. We may not notice the difference for some time, but certainly pumping money into the economy has to help in some form or fashion. We will leave it there, i appreciate always having on, and your insight, james mcbride, thanks for your time, take care. President trump opened the daily Coronavirus Task force meeting at the white house by offering help for the u. S. Airlines. The president said the government will likely be offering a package of assistance for the hardheaded industry over the weekend. The Federal Reserve also loaned out new loan programs for businesses and governments today and there is more help coming for College Students as well. The department of education is also announcing the availability of more than 6 billion in emergency Grant Funding to assist College Students impacted the cancellation of classes suspension of of people had a l things suspended, housing is one of them, previously we waived student loan payments for six months. Today the members of the White House Press board were all given rapid tests for the coronavirus before the briefing. That followed a report that one of the white house journalists were showing symptoms of covid 19. The white house says anyone in close contact with the president and Vice President is being tested. Coming up, a trial patient who received the vaccine for coronavirus, details on the experience and up next we will talk with the doctor about these vaccine trials. And in bay area weather, stubborn clouds tracking a change of your weekend forecast, ahead we will have that coming up in a little bit. If you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, now might not be the best time to ask yourself, are my bones strong . life is full of make or break moments. Thats why its so important to help reduce your risk of fracture with prolia®. Only prolia® is proven to help strengthen and protect bones from fracture with 1 shot every 6 months. Do not take prolia® if you have low blood calcium, are pregnant, are allergic to it, or take xgeva. Serious allergic reactions like low blood pressure, trouble breathing, throat tightness, face, lip or tongue swelling, rash, itching or hives have happened. Tell your doctor about dental problems, as severe jaw bone problems may happen. 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Thank you america for social distancing, for staying at home. Debtor Officials Say social distancing appears to be flattening the curve and several states. In new york the death count is rising but hospitalizations are down for another day. Officials say the fatalities are attributed to those who enter the hospital before this week. But they are warning folks not to become complacent. You cant relax. If we stop acting the way we are acting, you will see the numbers go up. Stayathome policies are in effect for nearly 95 of the population. States including georgia and minnesota are extending those orders to flatten the curve. We cannot rest easy. This thing can explode overnight if you dont take the proper precautions. Several industries are pacte measures. Tsa has a screened viewer than 100,000 people in the recent days, the lowest average in 60 years. Federal officials issued new guidelines to allow essential workers exposed to the virus to return to their jobs. They will have to meet several criteria to do so including passing temperature checks, Wearing Masks and practicing social distancing. We need to reopen the economy so we will start seeing updated recommendations that change everyday. Around 250 flight attendants tested positive for the coronavirus while hundreds more are under quarantine. We are now starting to hear from those who are participating in the Clinical Trial for a vaccine against covid19, one of the volunteers telling the Washington Post if there was ever a time to participate in a Clinical Trial, this is it. Joining is now to talk more about this process is a doctor. So 45 people are taking part in medical history, dave received their first shot, what will Research Teams be looking for . They will talk about the Clinical Trials but initially what we are trying to look for are symptoms and what we will use it all the population. So they will be monitoring whether they get a temperature, how they are feeling, and documenting how they are doing at home . Exactly, exactly. Lets talk about the different phases of a typical Clinical Trial. Theyve mentioned that this is phase 1 and they received their first shot, what happens next . There are three different stages, id like to pull up the graphic if i could and we will walk you through. Before the vaccine even goes into a Clinical Trial, you see the potential in a lab. If we see the potential it is tested in animals, if it is safe and animals we move on to human subjects. So this is stage i, its a very small subset of the population made up of volunteers and we try to figure out, is this vaccine safe, doesnt seem to work, and what are the dependent side effects, if any. If everything seems to check out in phase 1, we moved to phase 2. And then in phase 2 we study the same thing, what are the side effects, and how are the volunteers responding to this vaccine that was given to them. Ultimately we moved to phase 3, thats when we have potentially hundreds, sometimes thousands of volunteers, and we are seeing how they are doing compared to other people. We are still learning, are there any side effects, and whether the benefits are outweighing the risks associated with side effects. The fda only licenses the vaccine if its safe, effective, and if nitely outwei associated how long does each one of these phases last . Of vaccine from start to finish before we can have 58 license can take up to 18 months. Phase 1 will actually last 14 months. I know that in this specific situation they are getting the second injection in may. All right, thank you so much for helping explain the process, obviously a lot of guys and a lot of hopes on this Clinical Trial, dr. , thank you. Shifting gears now lets talk about our weather here in the bay area. A cloudy day for most folks across the bay area, and some folks may be looking at the chance for some sprinkles, did that materialize . Not seeing much in the way of showers, little activity on the radar earlier today, but we are tracking that shower chance, the best chance has been focused in the south bay, but even around the southern portion of the bay. Use the forecast for tomorrow, clouds to start out the day, becoming partly sunny, another mild forecast with 60s to write around 70 degrees. The main culprit once again is this area of low pressure in Southern California. This continues to bring in the cloud cover into the bay area, and also as far as rain showers, mainly focused to the south. We will still hold on to that chance of a light shower or sprinkle in the bay area forecast for tonight but it looks like the main action south of gilroy and monterey bay. But we still have clouds, they are also starting to break up a little bit as well. Its been a stubborn cloud pattern all day long. Current numbers, most areas in the low to mid 60s. Overnight lows, some clouds to start off your friday morning and temperatures in the 40s to write around 50 degrees. So no big chances there, and heres the forecast models, still keeping clouds around for tonight. Then we will cloud things up first thing tomorrow morning. And then into the afternoon hours, this guys becoming partly cloudy. Into the weekend, a little bit of a bump in the numbers. In fact we could be talking about a few 70s across the bay area. We will have more on your full forecast coming up in just a little bit. Discussing the needs for social distancing as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread. Im Benjamin Hall in london and i will have the details coming. We hope you tune in today for backtoback episodes of last man standing followed by mental samurai, all of this begins at 8 oclock, then stick around for the 10 oclock news and the 11 oclock news all right here on ktvu. There are now more than 1. 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world, more than 90,000 people have died. In some 339,000 have now recovered from the virus. The u. S. Has reported the most confirmed deaths with more than 16,500 people dying from covid 19. In the uk, the british Prime Minister is responding well to treatment for the coronavirus as governments all around the world are working to contain new hotspots. Reporter Benjamin Hall is in london and tells us more countries are extending their nationwide lockdowns. More governments are announcing stayathome orders as the fight against coronavirus grinds on with over 1,000,000 1 2 people around the world infected so far. Here in london, the Prime Minister is still hospitalized, but he has been removed from intensive care where he spent the last three nights after symptoms got worse. Theres been a recent uptake in cases in the uk with some 62,000 confirmed cases but Officials Say they think the apex is near. There is a fairly steady increase in numbers. It is possible we are getting to see the beginning of change in terms of the curve flattening. Throughout most of europe new infections are declining but the outbreak is spreading quickly in the developing world, especially africa and central asia. The eu now pivoting to support government in those regions hoping to avoid a humanitarian disaster. Its important to focus on the preparedness and response, with countries with the weakest healthcare system. World leaders also stcautioning against any big gatherings as the easter weekend approaches saying social distancing must be maintained or infection rates could start climbing again. Easter will be a fork in the road if we remain consistent over the weekend, a gradual return to normality will become more likely. The World Health Organization says there are fewer than 5000 icu beds available in africa at this time. Warnings to School Districts after security concerns with zoom conference calls. Coming up, you can learn the way you can protect yourself and your kids during online meetings and classes. Agreed more money is needed for Small Businesses but so far they disagree on how to get it done. Im Lauren Blanchard in washington with the latest on the dueling proposals, coming up. Everyone is working a little differently now. So we can still answer your calls. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. And change the world. 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The worry is the fund will dry up quickly, already thousands of businesses have applied for the program to help them stay stable. It is forgiven if you use it for the purpose they give you, mostly payroll. Democrats shot the proposal down because they say it doesnt do enough. They want assurances that the program is helping minority owned a Small Businesses and they say this bill was not put together in a bipartisan way, rather was designed to fail. A complete political stunt, here on the floor of the United States senate. Something that does not have bipartisan support. Speaker pelosi is working on a proposal that will add an additional 500 million to the act but she says mcconnell and republicans will have to work with her party if they want to pass anything. Our democratic colleagues, please, please, do not block emergency aid you do not even oppose. Just because you want something more. The treasury secretary told democrats in a call that the first 1200 checks on the care act will start to hit direct deposit next week. In washington, Lauren Blanchard, fox news. More and more bay area schools have shifted to using zoom videoconferencing to help with Distance Learning during this time but there have been some recent Security Breaches and some serious questions being raised about student privacy and whether it is being protected. Joining us now to talk more about these issues, is a security engineer at check point software. So you looked into your issue and you found there are in fact more cyber criminals targeting zoom right now, how are they hacking into the site and doing what they do . A lot of times, its actually a very easy hack for them because people are posting their zoom links on public facebook groups for example, or twitter. If you are not putting a password on they are or putting extra levels of protection, all the hacker needs to do is click that meeting at the and they can join the meeting. Sue has a lot of features built in that people should be taking advantage of to try to avoid the zoom bombing hacks. What are those features . Well, one that i ally for schools and other kinds to be private, is using only allowed finding features to join, this is a feature they have that makes it so that if someone tries to join your event and they are not logged into zoom with the email you sent the invite to, they will not be allowed to join the meeting. This makes it so that even if the hackers get a hold of the meeting id, they wont be permitted to enter. Anheature at zoom has is called waiting rooms. What this does, it lets you as the host manually except who gets into the meeting before the meeting starts. And so this way you have a little bit of control over who is allowed and who isnt. So if you are the teacher lets say, and you see a name of someone popping up that is trying into the meeting and you dont recognize them as a student in your class, you just dont let them in to that meeting, that makes perfect sense. Is there something inherent in the way zoom was designed that makes this application more susceptible to being hacked, or is it just because he the sheer numbers right now are off the charts with people using the app that we are seeing more of these Security Breaches . I think its more of the second. You have to understand, zoom was built for everything from private meetings to very public events, rate, companies that host webinars, and so at things becarid of a huge base of customers. So what is very important is that the users of the zoom, and you are right it is getting much more targeted now because of the uptick in users. Users need to understand what they can do to protect themselves and really take advantage of those features. Dont ever use your personal meeting id, always generate a new meeting for everything you want to do because it generates a new id every time you schedule the meeting. If you are using your own personal meeting id, it is the same one and makes it a lot more susceptible. Keep your zoom software upto date. Each update has vulnerability patches rolled into it, so that is really important as well. That is good information because ill been using the exact same id, im not sure if i should admit this on tv, but im sure a lot of people are doing the same thing, so that is very good advice, to switch up the id number. We have to leave the conversation there, some very helpful tips to try to keep us all safe and protect our privacy while using zoom during these very uncertain and challenging times. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. One positive from the stay athome orders around the world, less air pollution. Coming up next, we will talk with the reporter from the Washington Post to learn just how drastic the reduction really is. And in bay area weather, stubborn cloud cover for today, not too much of a change for your right a forecast. For have your forecast coming up in a little bit. Mples for my family. That could mean education for our little man and a closer bus stop for her. Shape your future. Start here. Complete the census at 2020census. Gov. The coronavirus is having an enormous impact on the environment, with most people staying at home, pollution levels have plummeted and air quthe deputy weather editor at the Washington Post, thank you so much for being here. You look at nitrogen dioxide emissions, tell us just how dramatic the dropoff has been. The dropoff has been really dramatic. Especially in areas of the west and in the urban corridor of the northeast. So looking at the washington and boston corridor, its been about 30 less then the average levels between 2015 and 2019. So you are really seeing kind of this, what these numbers explain to me is an unintended largescale airquality experiment going on. Where we see what happens when we shut down all the cars and shut down certain factories and our demand for electricity goes lower, people are breathing easier. I mean, you step outside in San Francisco and it just appears as though the skies are much clearer. With rushhour congestion virtually vanished in major big cities, you mentioned the areas where you are seeing these big dropoffs and pollution, are there other areas, just here in the United States, i imagine we are seeing this and other countries as well. We are seeing it in other countries, first we started looking at it in china, which is the most logical place. There were pretty strict restrictions they put in place which was a sort of the source region for the virus, and we saw a pretty significant differences they are. Then we saw a pretty significant see it across the United States. If we were to look in other places in the world that suffer from smoggy conditions, we would probably find them as well considering how widespread the stayathome orders are, globally. And we are seeing airquality indexes and other countries that are significantly improved from what they were before. And what is especially interesting is at the intersection we are learning between the airquality and the outcome and likelihood, if you do contract covid19, there was recently a study out of harvard that said basically if youve had decades of exposure to poor air quality, you are more likely to have the raised connection to better air quality and how well someone may in fact deal with having those covid19 symptoms. And they think its primarily because covid19 attacks the lungs. And longterm exposure to air pollution also impairs the lungs. And we are finding out more and more connections between certain ways that air ctors thi predisposes people to have a more severe case and an increased turnout of a poor outcome. For now, really most people in Southern California are looking at the mountains and more crystalclear views. People in Northern California the same, and people on the east coast are also noticing that this guy is clearer than usual and relatively empty of airplanes. People are not traveling so much, so there is a whole list of changes that we are kind of observing from space and ground observation stations that will continue to come out and analyze and tell stories with. Andrew friedman, really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, thank you. Lets bring in mark tamayo, mr, im sure, you probably noticed the same thing, that we do see a lot more clear skies, it is really noticeable with fewer cars on the road. Yeah, and thats kind of showing us what we are trying to aim for in the future. In fact we can kind of see it in front of our eyes what great airquality looks like, we hopefully can keep that in the mind for the future to improve our behaviors. So, something to remember as we look toward the future. Forecast wise, stubborn cloud cover you can see behind me mostly cloudy skies over San Francisco. We will hold onto some clouds for tonight and then once again into your friday morning. Then into the weekend we will gradually warm up, but it wont be completely sunny. We will add a few clouds to the weekend mix, but tonight, mostly cloudy, it is a breezy, tomorrow, some clouds in the morning and then more in the way of sunshine and no shower threat this weekend at all. Heres this area of low pressure down in Southern California thats been the source of the cloud cover for us. Look at all the rain showing up for los angeles dozer toward the Central Coast as well. For us in the bay area, a few spring goes throughout the day in portions of San Francisco, not much in the way of shower coverage here on the radar, but we will check in with some of the current numbers. Right now upper 50s to lower 60s. Eventually we will be talking about some more lower 70s as we head toward the weekend. Heres our live camera looking out toward the estuary, lots of clouds but finally a few breaks from the clouds this afternoon. Overnight lows, we are expecting 40s and some 50s to start out tomorrow morning. The forecast model showing you there are lots of clouds tonight and into your friday starting off the day with cloud cover. Partly cloudy by the afternoon hours. Saturday morning we have more low clouds and fog, locally tends to start out the week and then the clouds will gradually clear back to the shoreline. This weekend will be dry, just class to deal with for the Morning Hours saturday into sunday. Highs tomorrow, 62 70 degrees, and for your five day, partly these guys saturday, and then it looks like we will warm things back up into next week, or 70s out there, especially by tuesday we are thinking mid 70s. So if you were clouds for tonight and into tomorrow, but gradually warming up in the five day forecast. Mark, thank you. All across the bay area we are honoring the heroes who are stepping up during this pandemic. There are so many people doing just that during a very challenging time. In the spotlight today is paul boston, he along with other volunteers and generous donors like conscious kitchen, the marin city school district, bridge the Gap College Prep world central kitchen are tirelessly providing hot meals to the marin City Residents during this pandemic. They are serving up to 400 meals every day, seven days a week. If you want to find out where you can get a meal or to donate, to help them in their efforts you can had to flavor it. Org. And if you know someone who is making a difference right now, or providing hope in your community, ktvu wants you to nominate your local hero. You can email your story along with pictures or video of that person in action to my hero at fox tv. Com. We will be highlighting some of the stories. Looking forwof t stories. Local rescues an animal shelters are seeing a sudden uptick in adoptions. Coming up we will take a look at that and take you to to local shelters who are handling the surge as more and more pets find their forever home during this shelter in place. Also coming up at 5, we will tell you about 11 coronavirus cases at the santa rita jail in dublin. The changes advocates are calling for to keep the inmates safe. Plus an unlikely sense of calm rotary between Governor Newsom and president trump. How the two are praising each other during this outbreak. Light rail trains are back up and running in the south bay today. Vta has suspended Light Rail Service two weeks ago after an operator trainee tested positive for the coronavirus. Light rail Service Started this morning at 6 am and it will run until 6 pm every weekday. Officials are reminding writers to stay safe while taking those essential trips on public transit. Animal rescue groups across the country are reporting a spike in the number of pet adoptions. With so many people staying home many feel its the perfect time for a new companion. Amber lee shows us to local Dog Rescue Groups experiencing a surge of interest. Sherry franklin, founder of the senior Dog Rescue Group in san fransc show ziggy, an eightyearold twohour, to a person who is interested in adopting a dog. All meet and greets are done via face time or zoom since most offices are closed to comply with the shelter in place order. Franklin says applications for people who want to foster or adopt a dog have flooded the nonprofit. The number of applications jumped to 120 in the first week of the stayathome order. I have been involved with Animal Rescue or 25 years, and ive never seen anything like this. In the bayview, family dog rescue is also plenty busy, walkins are no longer allowed, people wanting to a. Active fill out an application and make an appointment. The first available slot is next month. The cohen family came for their appointment, they already have one dog, jack. Everyone is home, working or attending school remotely. Dogs bring such comfort so we thought this was a great time to bring another one into our home. Family does rescue executive director says the number of adoptions has nearly doubled in march compared to february. Before the pandemic there would be plenty of people stopping by just to look. Now its like, i saw a dog, i like the dog and id like to meet the it was like no, i am actually going to adopt. Do you know if he has separation anxiety or anything like that. Despite the surgeon adoptions, there are still plenty of dogs that need loving homes. I wish it was like this every single day. Not just during a pandemic when people really realize that a dog can bring so much joy and love to a family. Rescue groups are thrilled that so many people want to adopt dogs now that they are advising people to have a plan in place of or how to care for their new pet once the shelter in place order is lifted. In San Francisco, amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news. One of the places taken the hardest economic hit during the coronavirus outbreak is las vegas. Next we will have a look at the empty street and conceals of sin city. Again, and again. You up advil pm silences pain, and you sleep the whole night. Advil pm anna could only imagine a comfortable nights sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. Now, that dream. Is her reality. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . Eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. Now. For allday, allnight protection. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. The coronavirus is of course a bright much of the country to a standstill but nevada and in particular the Las Vegas Strip is likely to suffer some of the worst economic losses nationwide. Like much of the country nevada has all but shut down with the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip going dark in an effort to stop the spread of covid19. This is unbelievable. I mean we do the haunted vegas tour, i did not think that the next ghost town would be las vegas. No other state in the nation relies more heavily on that of tourism to drive its economy. Nevada is more dependent on tourism and hospitality than alaska is on oil or mon it is a bigger part of our economy than any other state has. The Hospitality Industry represents roughly 18 of nevadas gross domestic products and about one third of the jobs. We are losing more than 42 million visitors this year, so is obviously for the current. Of time. Businesses forced us shut down, people order to stay home and International Travel restricted for the foreseeable future all spell disaster for an economy so dependent on tourism. Its my opinion that if this last for months or even up to a year, we are dead. The coowner of biggest specialty taurus is just trying to stay afloat. I might have to jump in and start doing chores again. I have no clue what it will happen but we will keep things together. While las vegas might look a little different now, when Health Officials give the green light, you can be sure of one thing. We will throw the Biggest Party the world has n w visitors back. To make the nevada governor has ordered businesses to shut down and people stay at home through april 30, but with stricter social distancing measures if nevada continues to ignore protocols. Ktvu fox 2 news at 5 starts now. A recordsetting 6. 6 Million People have applied for jobless claims in the past week and nearly 1 million of mb only expected to climb as the Coronavirus Crisis continues. Good evening everyone, im julie haener working from home. 6. 6 Million People filed for unemployment last week in the United States, and since the coronavirus began, nearly 17 Million People have filed for unemployment. To put all of that in perspective, roughly one in 10 workers have lost their jobs over the past three weeks. Tom vacar here now with a closer look at the numbers. Just imagine this, in 12 years weve stitched together the following things, the very best economy in the nations history, separated by two of the worst economies, especially the one we are in right now. Astonishing, more than 6,600,000 new unemployment claims nationwide, almost 1 million of those in california. Weve never seen anything remotely, remotely, comparable to this. Labor lawyer says in just three weeks the nation has seen more than 16 million new claims, thats about 10 of the entire u. S. Work horse. And smith is a laidoff restaurant worker. If this continues, it will be unsustainable for my finances, but looking for a job during this time with the ecom