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Population has been a concern since the outbreak first got underway, many people concerned that the city shelters provided the perfect breeding ground for coronavirus. For weeks, san franciscans have been sheltering at home trying to slow the spread of coronavirus, but for those without a permanent home it is difficult or even impossible to isolate. Now the mayor has announced that Multiservice Centers south has seen in outbreak of coronavirus. 68 guests, two Staff Members. The city says it would outbreak was a possibility, and stands ready to place people into hotel rooms. The plan now is to turn that shelter into a hospital to treat those with coronavirus. We are going to reroute our medical Health Experts and people, our nurses, and other Health Support to this facility to help manage, and maintain, and support the people who have tested positive. Reporter for weeks, supervisors from the tenderloin among other areas have been pushing the mayor to move the homeless into the citys largely vacant hotel rooms. They say the outbreak was tragically predictable. Nobody should be living in those environments, and so, what im seeing is, moving people now, and we should have moved them a month ago, and the people that you could move, for whatever reason, should have been sleeping 6 feet apart, should have had temperature checks, shouldve had masks and gloves. They did not do that and so now, we have an outbreak. Reporter that shelter can house up to 340 people at a time, the supervisor says many of the residents who are in that shelter is still waiting for the results of their own coronavirus tests. Live in San Francisco, Christien Kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. The biggest fear realized there in San Francisco. A number of bay area senior care homes have been hit with coronaVirus Outbreaks. Evan patients have now died from covid19. And 65 patients and Staff Members are infected. At the gateway care and Debilitation Center in haworth. It is the largest single outbreak in alameda county. The county Health Department says it is working to provide enough masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment to the nurses, and other workers at the facility. In a marin county, a Health Worker has reportedly died of the coronavirus. The resident is of tricked parents. For residents and two Staff Members have currently tested positive for covid19 19. There sheltering in place in their rooms and apartments and visiting is being restricted. With warmer weather and plenty of sunshine in the forecast, many people across the bay area will likely be looking to get outside during this upcoming Holiday Weekend, but officials are asking residents to know the rules, and in some cases, to stay away. Jesse gary has been checking in with some of the county and city parks all over the bay area today. Your joining us live from san jose, so what are the expectations about how this weekend is going to look in some of those parks . Reporter good afternoon to you, there was cautious optimism that there could be some loosening of restrictions just in time for the Easter Holiday weekend. Instead, officials at many park systems around the bay area are actually clamping down to prevent a. The welcome sign is definitely not out for those hoping to enjoy anyone of the bay areas myriad of parks. This easter, it is special this year. Reporter although a diverse landscape, officials in all sections of the bay area. That sentiment. All 73 parks in the east Bay Regional Park District are closed to drive in visitors. Guests can still walk the trails. There will be no gathering in the parks, our campgrounds, our picnic areas, and all of those areas of gathering are closed. Reporter in santa clara county, trails for walking and biking are open but large groups are highly discouraged. San jose city Officials Say the regional parks and parking lots are closed saturday and sunday. But Neighborhood Parks are open. You probably walk to in your neighborhood, close to home. And those ones remain open for the Holiday Weekend. Just asking everybody to observe the physical distancing of 6 feet and to avoid those gatherings, so. Reporter along the peninsula, officials in San Mateo County say a restriction limiting residents to within a fivemile radius of their homes will be in effect for the weekend. And all county parks are closed. We believe that we are at a critical point in our covid19 response effort, the health and safety and wellbeing of our visitors come of our guests, our residents, are of the utmost importance. Reporter in the north bay, Officials Say the county parks are open, however, you cannot drive to the open spaces here. Over the last 10 days more than 1001 citations have been written in. We still want people to get out and get some fresh air, we know this is a trying and difficult time for everyone, but to do so, you need to make sure it is within your own neighborhood. Reporter additionally, Santa Cruz County Officials Say they have ordered all beaches and state parks there or county parks close until april 15 to prevent the spread of covid19. It is a difficult normal moral for many residents, who moved here specifically so they could get out and enjoy the Great Outdoors only to be stuck inside on the Holiday Weekend. We will put links to all the various park systems on our website, ktvu. Com, so if you have additional questions, you can just and find out. Live in san jose, jesse gary, ktvu fox 2 news. Traffic changes are in store for parts of oakland to ensure shelter in place orders. Starting tomorrow, lake shore avenue near lake merritt, golf links road, and e. 16th st. And fruitvale are just some of the streets that will be open to limited traffic. City leaders call it the oakland slow streets initiative, the goal is to have limited drivers to share 74 miles of oakland roadways, with cyclists and pedestrians. We are taking this opportunity to try some new things. Oakland acres are very anxious right now, and really trying hard to adjust to a radically different reality. The city of berkeley may be next, cycling and production advocates are circulating a petition there to get leaders to order road sharing rules. The number of people infected with the coronavirus here in california has now passed another grim milestone. According to Johns Hopkins university, there are now over 20,000 confirmed cases across our state, and unfortunately, 556 people have now died from the virus. At least 49 lives were lost just since yesterday. And gov. Newsom says 1145 people are in intensive care unit. That is 13 more patients than yesterday. That is daily coronavirus briefing, gov. Newsom urged californians to stay the course, hes a social distance thing is helping to slow the spread of the virus and counties across the state. He also talked about the recent spike in cases and deaths at Senior Nursing homes. The state is now monitoring nearly 300 nursing facilities were people have tested positive for covid19. What we have done in addition to broadening those supports over the last number of weeks is we have put out specific, new guidelines and strategies, that have been backed up by what i would refer to as s. W. A. T. Teams. Individuals, infectious control professionals, that are working with the cdc and others to saturate those areas of concern, and focus. He also says the state has trained 600 nurses to give Technical Support to Skilled Nursing facilities all across california. To get more on the outbreak and what is being done, we want to bring in former fema coordinator, mark devoe. It is always good to see you. Lets first start with the issue of what is happening at our Nursing Homes across california. It appears to be a very dire situation, outbreaks of hundreds of Nursing Homes we just heard from the governor today saying that more skilled nurses are going to be sent in to assist the folks there at those facilities. What other steps need to be taken at the they state level in a federal level to try to diminish these outbreaks . Yeah, alex, another good afternoon to you. Well, i think they anticipated this, congregate living is always the challenge, we are seeing that in the Homeless Population, and to the senior homes, but they focus on that over the last few days, and they have hundreds of people making phone calls to all the different senior care facilities across the state, to touch base with them, find out what the needs are, what are you looking at terms of population spread and things of that nature. They have a number of tools available to them to help with that, including moving those patients out, if need be. Speaking of communities that are very vulnerable during an outbreak like this, you just touched on in here, we heard from the city officials in San Francisco, they have a severe outbreak at the largest homeless shelter in the city. What are the steps that you think need to be taken, you know, does this mean that we need to start shifting more homeless residents into hotels and other places where they might be safer . Well, this will certainly be a challenge, not just for the vulnerable population, but it also can make or break the success of the stayathome, so that is why they want to focus so much on that population. San francisco has about 1800 motel rooms available that they can move folks to based upon their need. That may be asymptomatic or symptomatic. We know 800 of those rooms will be provided, or are now being provided, for healthcare workers, so they are closer to the facilities. Obviously, we have heard the governor, you know, sort of express, i guess you can call a cautious optimism about the way we are seeing the numbers sort of roll out here, compared to what the projections were. But is the progress we are making in terms of flattening the curve, how much is the progress we are making in terms of flattening the curve contingent on everybody continuing to practice social distancing . Well, it is going to be key because you can see, like in new york city, although the curve is flattening for california, what you are also seeing our deaths increasing, unfortunately. They knew that was going to happen hand in hand, so what we also know for instance in santa clara county, which is the hotspot in the bay area for coronaVirus Outbreaks, they have about a 30 capacity in icu beds. They have plenty of ventilators, they have plenty of ppe, so while we are seeing the flattening of the curve, and we are seeing an increase in deaths, that is kind of normal come unfortunately, as to what the expected outcome is but there are things in place such as facility people and supplies to be able to deal with it. All right, we will leave the conversation there, former fema coordinator mark devoe, always appreciate your insight. Have a good weekend. Troubling news out of china, the new study that is raising questions about the accuracy of covid19 testing. We will talk with a bay area Infectious Disease expert, next. The death toll from coronavirus has nearly tripled in just one week. Still to come, an update on the fight against the virus all across the country. It is looking like a lot of sunshine for easter, albeit a very different easter for most of us. Rosemary will join us after the break with a look at your Holiday Weekend forecast. Were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Id make sure there were more textbooks in schools. Im a teacher. Ive seen the need, but my girlfriend here likes to say. Dont just talk about it, be about it. And were about the 2020 census. Because when everyone gets counted on the census, it helps inform public funding in our neighborhood for the next ten years dont just talk about it be about it complete the census online, by phone or by mail. Shape your future. Start here at 2020census. Gov. New research from china shows the most common coronavirus test gave false negative results about 30 of the time. Meaning a person was told they did not have it, when they actually did. Researchers say one issue is swab testing which can be administered incorrectly. There is also a question of the time period. For when an infected person would test positive. Lets talk more about this. Dr. Greg tolliver is an Infectious Disease specialist at marin health. I want to first ask you, what does this study, what does this suggest about the accuracy of the covid19 testing . Well, it is been a problem that we have been trying to address at hospitals and clinics because we, we have concerns about that, certainly, because there are a lot of ramifications. We want to really know when someone has it and if they are infectious or not. So for example, at marin health, we recently have been trying to rule out education for providers who are going to be taking the sample, it is not easy to do, it is not very pleasant for those were getting the sampling done, so we have been doing some swabbing with two swaps, one in the back of the mouth and one in the nose. And trying to follow the most efficient protocol for sampling, and we think that that is going to really improve the sensitivity of the test. Explain a little bit more about why a false negative result might actually occur. Yeah, well, you can imagine being on the front line personnel, they are actually doing really good right now of sampling, but you have to stick a piece of plastic all the way back to someones nose, and you are worried that they have a really serious Infectious Disease, so they are kind of maybe a little hesitant to get close to them to do the job. We have to put all the way back into the nose, it is in control for the patient, and you have to twirl around for at least 10 seconds, to obtain an optimal sample. If that is not obtained, and to submit the test, then there is a chance for a false negative test. I want to talk about positive results. What does the study suggest about positive results that are coming back for folks, is there any question about the accuracy of those results. You have certainly had it, the clinical disease, if you are positive, and had a fairly recently. So the question is whether or not those positive test reflect the particular sensitivity of the test, where are we picking up just little bits of the virus . And is actually dead . Or are we picking up a live virus . And that means, if it was a live virus, that the person still is probably infectious, so that is pretty important to be determined. Before i let you go, it sounds as though you there have made some adjustments to how you are testing folks. It is every day, there are things that need to be adjusted, we can optimize patient care, and, and provider safety, and efficiency, and every Healthcare Institution that is dealing with this right now, so we have been looking for guidance from the state, and from the cdc and our partners at ucsf and marin public health. Have all been excellent at helping us. I guess everyone sort of is adjusting as needed. Thank you so much, really appreciate your insight today. The u. S. Is climbing toward 490,000 cases of coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins university today, and sadly, the death toll has now reached 18,000 across the country. That is up from exceed hundred just a week ago, new york remains the hardest hit state with more than 172,000 cases. That is followed by new jersey with nearly 55,000 cases, and michigan, with more than 22,000. There is also positive news to tell you about in new york, icu admissions have dropped for the First Time Since march. And deaths leveled off for the first time in a few days. The white house President Trump said he is launching a new task force next week, focused on reopening the country, but members of the Coronavirus Task force urge people not to drop their guards despite encouraging signs. As encouraging as they are, we have not reached the peak. And so, every day, we need to continue to do what we did yesterday, and the week before, and the week for that, because that is what in the end will take us up across the peak, and down the other side. The experts warned moving too soon to lift stayathome orders could cause a new spike in infections and they say more widespread testing is still needed. It is friday, heading into the weekend, lets get an update with our meteorologist. I hope you are enjoying the sunshine out of there, warmer temperatures as well, so going into the weekend, it is is the new pattern that is setting up, and temperatures will continue to warm as we get into your bay area sunday, and the days ahead. Here is a look at some of the temperatures outside right now, santa rosa, 69 degrees. San francisco right now, 61, oakland reporting 63, mid xts in livermore and san jose at 66, so just how much warmer are we . Five in livermore and fairfield, eight in yonkers, seven degrees warmer than you were yesterday. Around the bay, a few degrees or so, temptress continuing to climb into the weekend, the entrepreneur is, a 20 mileper hour, Half Moon Bay reporting a 10 mile northwest brees, san jose coming in at 12. A lot more sunshine today, warmer temperatures, as the ridge of High Pressure will strengthen into the bay area and the coming days. Here is a look at the cloud cover, we started out with partly cloudy to partly sunny skies this morning but by afternoon, it was breaking way to more sunshine than anything else. Here is a look at the storm that has been with us since last weekend. Bringing us rain, and the last couple of days, bringing us a lot of cloud cover. This will continue to move out of the area, bringing grain to san diego and some in california, and moving out to arizona for tomorrow. As for us tomorrow, we start out with morning clouds followed by partly cloudy skies and temperatures are expected to be a little bit warmer in some areas, low 60s to low 70s, tomorrow morning going to be a chilly start in the north bay, santa rosa at 45, 49 in San Francisco and 48 in concord. I will have a look at what you can expect to there for Easter Sunday as well as the extended forecast, coming up and a bit. The shelter in place order can be fraught with panic and stress, for many people. But it is especially true for those were battling addiction. Up next, we talk live with an expert to learn about some of the ways to cope, and how to get help. Be sure to tune in tonight, for debbie we smacked down at 8 00. Followed by the tenant 11 00 news right here on ktvu. 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. Mental Health Professionals say more and more people right now are turning to vices in the midst of this pandemic. And for those were battling addiction, this can mean life or death. Joining us now to talk more about this very important issue is dr. Christine iglesia. So good to have you on here, so lets start with talking about just how tough this time is right now, the shelter in place orders, people isolated in their homes, how difficult and challenging time is this for those who are recovering them addiction whether it is drugs or alcohol . This time is, unfortunately, extremely difficult for some of our most vulnerable populations. Including those who struggle with addiction. What we are seeing, since the shelter in place, and the stay athome orders have been in effect, are increases in substance use, increase in alcohol sales, and increase in relapses. All of these are absolutely a great concern, as we see people turning back on their recovery, and in turn, selfmedicating through substances such as drugs and alcohol. How significant is the loss of persontoperson contact, you know, when youre talking about someone potentially relapsing, back into addiction. It seems to me that recovering from addiction is so important to have your friends and your family, and everyone nearby. And when were forced to stay home, you dont have that. How significant is that in terms of being a factor in all of this . We know that the two most important factors of substance abuse, the treatment, is having a support system, and getting lumped in with a treatment or recovery support. If either of those waiver or are suddenly unavailable, then we are seeing people more prone to use, and abuse, and that is something that we have to figure out how to mitigate any time where isolation is necessary. Obviously people are still, who are recovering from addiction, are still seeking out treatment but are they, do you think, in the midst of this pandemic, are they receiving the same level of treatment, with a provider, will the Virtual Meeting provide the same level of support . Absolutely. As long as you are feeling like you are accessing the treatment that is essential for you, you will benefit from it, so whether it is a virtual aa or na group, whether it is meeting with your therapist through telemedicine, whether it is staying connected to your own support system, as long as somebody has access to these ways of communication, they can have the benefit of support and treatment at hand. It is so important to stay connected for all of us, but especially those who are battling addiction at a time like this. Such an important conversation. We appreciate you coming on as always. Have a nice weekend. You, too, thank you. Concerns about the risk of cove it 19 for undocumented immigrants at i. C. E. Detention centers. He will talk with the aclu about a judges recent ruling. Billions of people spending good friday at home, with the coronavirus altering Holiday Plans around the world. 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Prolia® can cause serious side effects, like low blood calcium, serious infections, which could need hospitalization, skin problems, and severe bone, joint, or muscle pain. Are you ready . Ask your doctor how prolia® can help strengthen your bones. More tragic milestones in a Global Pandemic today, more than 1. 6 million coronavirus cases have now been confirmed and the death toll worldwide has risen above 100,000. Numbers from Johns Hopkins University Show that nearly 375,000 people have now recovered from the virus. Millions of people are marking this good friday much differently today as churches are closed to protect public health, in the meantime, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson now is recovering after his covid19 symptoms sent him to the icu earlier this week. There are now more than 1. 6 million confirmed cases worldwide and the outbreak is still spreading. Reporter he is running well to treatment, that is been removed from intensive care last night, and lawmakers from both sides say they are looking forward to seeing him back on the job soon. It is a relief for them, and i really hope this is the beginning of a speedy recovery, and i think everywhere across the country people are wishing him well. Reporter officials from 19 European Countries have agreed on a massive stimulus package with more than 550 billion which will help fight the virus while protecting europes economy. This is totally unprecedented. We never have reacted so quickly to a crisis as this one. Reporter billions are spending this good friday under stayathome orders, many Churches Holding online services, and the traditional way of the cross virtual of jerusalem was performed without onlookers, by monks in masks. Officials in major cities set for the most part, people are obeying orders to worship privately at home. And avoid large gatherings. We will spend easter alone, we will see our children and our grandchildren in videoconference. It is very sad but the situation is what it is. Reporter police both in rome and jerusalem say they will deploy extra personnel on Easter Sunday to enforce social distancing roles. An update now on the push to have immigrant detainees released in light of the pandemic. A federal judge here in San Francisco recently ruled on the matter and joining us this afternoon to talk more about it is bill friedman, senior counsel at the aclu of northern california, thank you for being here this afternoon. This ruling applies to four immigrants. Explain why there been released. Sure, it is good to see you again. The four were released because the judge found that they were at high risk of illness or potentially death from the coronavirus. These are people who are older, were medically compromised by underlying conditions that are recognized by the citys diaz placing them at greater risk. I would also say that to other clients of ours were already released, one was released today we filed a lawsuit, in response to the lawsuit, and another was released a few days later so we are up to six. So are you anticipating more individuals being released . We have another two clients, whose cases are in front of a judge right now, we believe that they are very strong reasons why those two, were also medically compromised, should be released. And jan that, of course, there are many other people in i. C. E. Detention who should benefit from this ruling in the sense that there is a great deal of momentum behind the idea that medically Vulnerable People should be released from i. C. E. Detention, and if not in our case, other cases pending in other courts around the country in effect there have been many of those cases already. Explain a little bit more about why you believe that the individuals that you described, those with underlying medical conditions, should not be in i. C. E. Detention. Well, the i. C. E. Detention is civil attention. They are not the detention because of crimes that committed, they are not serving sentence is, so some of them have previously served sentences for crimes but those sentences were over. The only reason people are in i. C. E. Detention is so that they can, so that i. C. E. Can be sure that they will show up immigration hearings. But that interest of the government pales in comparison to the interest of our clients in being free for serious risk of illness or even death, and what the court found and why this is so significant is the court weight interest of the government and we the interest of the individuals and set the governments interest in having people show up for immigration hearings pales in comparison to the cost additional rights of people to be free from unreasonably dangerous conditions. We talked about this before, they say they are taking steps to ensure people are safe and to slow the spread. What more would you like to the i. C. E. Do . Well, that is an interesting point, because they did say in our lawsuit that they are issuing guidance from washington, dc, and San Francisco to these two facilities in the central valley, but we produce evidence from people who are actually in the facilities that showed that nothing has changed in the last several weeks. And the judge was apparently convinced by that evidence, so the basic point is that the conditions in these facilities have not improved, people are still bunked in arms reach of each other, they are still being forced to clean toilets with shared, dirty rags, they are still eating in close quarters, unfortunately, the way these facilities are designed makes it impossible for people to practice the kind of social distancing back to you and i are trying to practice in our everyday lives. So number one, i. C. E. Needs to do a much better job doing what it claims to be doing, and number two, it needs to significantly depopulate these centers. State, county, and local officials and federal officials around the country have recognized the need to gradually thin out the population of detention centers, you simply cant have the kind of crowding in the centers that we currently have, it is just the situation that is right for the rapid spread of disease, and so, ultimately, i. C. E. Is really one of the only agencies in the country that has stubbornly resisted the idea of the populating detention centers. We will have to end it there. Thank you so much for your time. Always a pleasure. A fremont man arrested for burglarizing several schools but now he is back on the streets, and it is all because of the cove it 19 outbreak. We will break down that case and tell you about new pretrial rules that are in place during this pandemic. Up next. Mostly sunny skies and a warming trend already underway, what you can expect for your bay area weekend and the extended forecast, coming up. Investigators say 34year old Christopher Silvester of fremont was part of a series of school breakins last week and committed auto burglaries in several cities, detectives followed him to a Fremont Hotel where he was taken into custody. They found a loaded gun along with some stolen property and the defendant in this particular case, according to fremont police, was released earlier this week by a judge on his own recognizance based on pretrial guidelines for new guidelines that have been put in place because of the coronaVirus Outbreak. Joining us now to break down exactly what is going on is our legal analyst. It is good to see you here for a virtual version of the verdict on this friday afternoon. Break down exactly what happened in this case. What are the guidelines that the judge based the decision on here . It came down from the Supreme Court, and the Judicial Council that said because of the virus, theyre going to go for no bail, sexual crimes, domestic Violent Crimes, or dui crimes, and all other crimes, there is to be no bail set because of covid19, because they are afraid of the spread in county jails. So even someone like this, who has a lengthy record was on probation, and gets arrested for some very serious charges, evading police, burglary, the sorts of things, someone like this now, and in the future, is going to be released on their own recognizance as long as we have this outbreak. The bottom line is, it is up to the individual judges but the guidelines from the Supreme Court are to do zero bail, except in violent or serious felonies. It would strike me that this might be one of those violent or serious felonies, especially the evading the police. You will have to look to the judge in this case and say why did you do it . Although i can understand why they did it because of todays situation, and then you have the ghost ship, the defendant left in the ghost ship, was released today on his own recognizance, to. One might say, 36 people are dead, isnt that a Violent Crime . Yes, it is, but the court has to look to whether the person is actually going to be harmful to society or a threat to society in that particular case, even though 36 people died it was under an unusual circumstance, so in that case, i think the judge did the right thing and releasing him because of these new Supreme Court rulings. I think he will be monitored and placed under house arrest. You talk about, obviously at this point, authorities are doing what they can to try to reduce the inmate population, we talked about the santa rita jail where there are a lot of confirmed case is of the coronavirus, the public defender in alameda county, he wants inmates who have less than x months left on their sentence to be let out of jail, but District Attorney nancy omalley, she is going to have to sign off on any of those ratified sentences here, so can you talk a little bit about the back and forth and the process that is playing out behind the scenes right now . How does the District Attorney balance the health of the inmates, inside a jail like santa rita, with the safety of the public . I think the bottom line is going to be to look to each individual case, to see the reason they are in jail is because they are in for a violent felony, they are in for a violent felony that would have her object, even though there is less than six months to go on their sentence. For other crimes, nonViolent Crimes, i dont see where she should object to those because of the covid19 in the jail and because of the people who work in the jail. Remember, youre not only putting the inmates at risk but you are putting the people that work in the jail at risk, so she is going to have to come up with some pretty good rationale in order to keep a nonviolent people in jail, and i believe they should let those nonviolent people out of that six months, or less, keep in mind that our legislators about a year ago putting a law into effect that said no more bail, bail should be zero but for violent and serious felonies but because of bail bondsman, they came out with a referendum to put it on the ballot and that will be coming up in the next election, but the legislator said we want zero bail in cases, and it makes perfect sense to me because people that dont have the money to bail out, they are put in a much more difficult position. We have to wrap up here, and before we go i do want to clarify one thing, a judge today to decide that the defendant is going to remain behind bars for the time being but the judge is going to reconsider bail for him coming up later next week. Always a pleasure. Thank you very much for coming on. Back now to the weekend weather, and lets talk with rosemary. So a nice warm up coming our way, once we get into your bay area weekend and more sunshine, a lot more today as we broke away from partly cloudy skies toward the afternoon, and temperatures, warmer in most areas because of that. Outside our doors right now we have a mix of mostly sunny conditions, and partly cloudy over some areas of the higher elevations. Lets take a look at the storm that continues to bring ray into areas over southern california, including southern parts of la, and into san diego and you can see even into baja, california. This will continue to shift east. It will work its way away from the bay area, taking the clouds with it and taking any possibility of rain, some areas south woke up with a few scattered showers this morning, there is a look at the High Pressure, and that will be strengthening into the bay area in the next few days and that will also keep the storm track to the north of us, so we are going to be dry at least for the next few days. Models are hinting at the possibility of maybe a few scattered showers come next weekend but not for this weekend. Mostly clear conditions, temperatures right about average. Lets take a look at what we do expect as far as the cloud cover moving into your saturday morning come a we start out with mostly cloudy guys but then as we get into the afternoon, mostly sunny away from the coastline, it looks like the coastline could have a mix of sun and clouds for the afternoon. Here is a look at your sunday morning for folks that may be heading into the backyard for brunch, or maybe an easter egg hunt, we have some partly cloudy conditions to start the day, and then we will go mostly sunny for the afternoon, notice the moisture that continues to bring some activity to the sierra, so a little bit of rain possibility there. Snow levels will be fairly high. Lets talk about 70 for a moment. Partly cloudy skies, widespread close to mid to upper 60s expected, around the bay, upper 60s to low 70s, for sunday afternoon, and for those inland, celebrating easter, low to mid 70s expected for the second part of your day. Here at home, this afternoon, temperatures under partly cloudy, mostly clear skies, 66 in walnut creek, even a few low 70s out there today. 71 still in fairfield, 69 in brentwood, along the peninsula we have 63 in san carlos, 64 in belmont. Tomorrow morning temperatures in the mid 40s to low 50s, going to be a cool start to the day but we will rebound and for your afternoon, into the 60s, a few low 70s once again, 71 for santa rosa, 66 in san rafael. Inner east bay, to the west, low 60s expected for San Francisco, and into our south bay, upper 60s to about 70 degrees here as well. San jose at 70, upper 60s, here is a look at the extended forecast, into the days ahead, temperatures continuing to climb. We will be in the low 70s monday, tuesday, even a little bit warmer expected on wednesday and is to be the average between our bayside community, some of our inland cities could actually reach into the upper 70s for some of the warmest temperatures we have seen in some time. Easter events have been canceled all across the bay area, but coming up on the four, we tell you about some organizations that are still trying to make sure that children get the chance to celebrate. Nd again. 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Reporter each of these boxes hold enough food to make 16 meals, only the Redwood Empire Food Bank puts together about 1200 of them a month. The National Guard packed 7300 of these in one day. And they do the same thing yesterday and they will do the same thing tomorrow. Right now it is a skeleton staff, working alongside the guard. Volunteers who are the backbone of any warehouse him especially during holiday food drives, are instead sheltering at home. And when the all clear comes for helpers to return, the need will have multiplied. We are on the front line, i believe, when we punch through this coronavirus, i think we will now be considered First Responders in our country. From here on out. Reporter for the pandemic, food banks and pantries they supply were already feeding those whose income does not cover the cost of living. But redwood empire expects recipients to double from 80,000 to 160,000 household annually, when people emerge from the immediate crisis. The Companies Might not exist, so they will be financially insecure which becomes food insecure, which becomes hungry. Reporter while lines grow after wildfires and power outages, those emergence are dwarfed by what is ahead. When we had a fire here and 5000 homes burned, we help people for 14 months, so now, with an entire community at risk, we are expecting this will go on for many years to come. They will be deployed here, part packing boxes for the next month. They are productive it always helps when you have a little top brass working shoulder to shoulder with them to make sure that they keep the pace. Reporter will food banks talk about the war on hunger we are staring at a beach with a bunch of sand that goes out to miles. Reporter the looming need seems more like a tsunami disaster. There is this wall of water that you can barely he that is coming our way which is the ocean. That is the stage where after the synonymy right now. We are partnering with food banks across the bay area to help them raise money during this very difficult time. Your donation helps ensure food is available to those who need it the most. If you want more information you can head to our website, ktvu. Com food bank. In the face of this pandemic, the city of pacifica is trying to keep one fun easter tradition alive for all the kids there. There holding what it calls a reverse spring egg hunt. They are asked to paint extra draw pictures of eggs and leave them in their were in the front of their homes or windows. Today the Fire Department escorted the easter bunny to the city looking for all of those colorful creations. The city will post pictures of all the eggs that they find on their Facebook Page and theyre asking neighbors to share their photos of seeing them with the hashtag pacifica strong. Everyone trying to be a big crate of these days. Thank you so much for joining us. Ktvu fox 2 news at five is coming up next. A homeless shelter in San Francisco hit hard tonight, the tales of the Virus Outbreak with dozens of infections now reported. They made the announcement earlier this afternoon confirming at least 70 new cases of covid19 at a homeless shelter in the city. Good evening to you. The outbreak is being reported at the homeless shelter on sixth street and we get live coverage now from Christien Kafton with more on the efforts underway to stop this bread. Reporter the citys Homeless Population has been a Major Concerns is this outbreak first began here in San Francisco. Many worry that the conditions inside though shelters with close quarters was a perfect breeding ground for coronavirus. For weeks, san franciscans have been sheltering at home, trying to slow the spread of coronavirus. But for those without a permit home, it is difficult or even impossible to isolate. The mayor has announced that multiservice ctr. , south has seen an outbreak of coronavirus. 68 guest, two Staff Members. The city says it would outbreak was a possibility and stands ready to place people into hotel rooms. The plan now is to turn that shelter into a hospital to treat those with coronavirus. We ar