For nonessential manufacturing such as furniture, clothing, and toys and a wide array of other factory. As well as warehouses and Logistics Centers so long as social distancing and disinfection methods are practiced. What does a move in this state struggle . It does not mean a return to normal. We know the covid19 is still spreading. Reporter offices, inside dining, malls, and outdoor museums will not be opened unless otherwise wanted. It is a dynamic process, this is not etched in stone, we want to continue to work across sectors and address unintended not just intended consequences. Reporter it will not be until stage three, weeks or months away where shorter contract work places can return under safety protocols. They include churches, weddings, movie theaters, hair and nail salons, gyms, yoga studios, and others. When states that happens remains unknown. Stage four still an unknown number of months away, will and the overall shelter in place or stayathome orders. Then, and only then we once again be able to go to major sporting events, large concerts, conventions, amusement parks another close contact event. Everything hangs on the most important factor. Consumers. Customer confidence, just because your open and you have the ability to do Curbside Pickup or take a product from retail store and put it into the trunk to provide for social distancing physical distancing to a customer does not mean they are going to show up, nor does it mean the workers will show up. Reporter more guidelines for businesses will come next tuesday, but it is going to take quite some time. Thank you. Health department to keeping current orders in place for now and will not follow modifications tomorrow. Christina . Reporter today, seven Bay Area Health departments released a joint statement saying any changes to the health order will be evaluated of the local and regional level, but theyre not ready to ease restrictions like other parts of the states. Reporter even though california will allow some sectors to pick up, many bay areas will not follow those modifications. Want to stay the course, study the state order. Reporter dr. Chris says a majority of Health Departments are in agreement, they want to look at how the most recent changes to the stay at home order impacted chases at hospital number. Moving too soon to jeopardize progress and risk a surge of covid19 patients. Nows not the time to let down our guard. The virus is not gone, it is not less deadly. Reporter San Francisco, san mateo, santa clara counties and others will not allow Curbside Pickup. I think its great the economy has really been struggling. Reporter she was allowed to open last week and is expecting an increase in sales now that the state is using restrictions for mothers day weekend. A lot of people cant see their mothers right now, so theyre sending flowers instead, and weve even had people come to tears on the phone just saying i wish i could be with my mother, so im sending her these flowers instead. Reporter they will keep working on plans to reopen, but for now, restrictions take precedence over the state medication. There is concern that people are traveling to area looser restrictions in returning to the bay area, and that could be a means of spread. We do try to encourage people to not trouble unless it is necessary. We heard from Sonoma County theyre planning the state and allowing Curbside Pickup tomorrow where waiting to hear back from napa county. The city of San Francisco says if progress continues on reducing the spread they plan to allow Curbside Pickup to places like floors, music stores and bookstores as soon as may 18th. Thank you. The pandemic has taken a sledgehammer to californias budget surplus, and a briefing this afternoon, the governor reflected that one year ago the state had a surplus of more than 21 billion. Now the state is projecting a 54 billion deficit. The stated been working to pay down debt and boost social safety net programs, but it has all change would see spending on healthcare and millions of people unemployed. The governor said to release an update next week. The coronavirus continues to ravage the u. S. Economy, more than 3 million americans apply for unemployment last week. That brings the total to more than 33 million in just less seven weeks. Tomorrow the federal government is expected to release report showing the unemployment across the country is as high as 16 , that is something weve not seen since the great depression. Joining us to talk about these numbers is james mcbride. These numbers are staggering, read today that the number of people who file for unemployment in march and april may exceed all of the jobs created since the Great Recession. How are we going to get out of this and how long will it take . It is going to take a while, and i hate to tell you, but the president of the minneapolis was interviewed today he says the numbers are worse than what theyre expecting, and he thinks the employment rate will go into the early 20th, 21, 22, 23 . How we will get out of this is working have to reopen the economy the best weekend. This is been done in south korea and hong kong, and there does not seem to be an increase in covid19 patients. The number one thing will be reopening the economy as safely as possible. Do you see most of people currently out of work being rehired . Or are we going to see some people just losing jobs for good. Thats a really great question, i think it goes to the heart of the distinction between the Great Recession and what were going through now. Many of the jobs lost in the Great Recession were permanently lost, particularly for Older Workers. The people lost their jobs now, most of them overwhelmingly are temporary. People who work in restaurants, when they reopen, they will go back to work. Is a difference between a temporary situation which is terrible, versus the effects of a permanent layoff of workers, and they never came back into the workforce. The president continues to say we will come back strong do you agree . Were going to come back, but it will be very uneven. Your member after 9 11 it took three years for the Airline Industry to come back to where it was pre9 11. It looks like we may be looking at a similar situation for both the airlines, the cruise lines, and things like that. Theyre going to take a long time, some of the some of the businesses like restaurants will come back fairly quickly. So we are going to come back, but it is going to be uneven. It will be a while before people feel comfortable going to the stadium, sporting event, a movie theater. Student do see a fundamental change in the way we do business . Will we see more people working from home after this is over instead of going into the office . Absolutely, that will be one of the major impact because we are finding out that a lot of people can work from home, a lot of people like working from home and i think thats going to continue. Santa Rosa Junior College announced the fall semester will be entirely online. Is such as the workplace, but also education. So many aspects will change with people working at home. Lets talk about the stock market, why was the market up today given these on employment numbers, and what about all of the people who have lost a ton of money from retirement . Are they going to make that back . The only people to lost money were peopled took money of the market. They lost the money. Unfortunately thats a lot of people and a lot of money. The s p five hundred 22 billion of come out of that fund so far this year, almost 10 billion in just the last 30 day. If you take your money out you will incur those losses, if you stay, you will be okay because the market will come back in the market will exceed its former high. And always has been and always will. Will leave it at that, thank you for your insight tonight. Thank you. In spite of millions of jobless claims, wall street rally today. Investors hope the worst of the outbreak is over. The dow is up 211, the nasdaq up 125, the s p was up 32. Federal approval for second phase of testing of a potential vaccine also helped lift the markets. Two children died today after crash on interstate 580 lakeshore avenue, around 11 30 this morning. A honda slammed into a caltrans vehicle workers are working. It was then hit by a toyota minivan, the two children who died were the honda, third child was heard but is expected to be okay. The driver of the honda was taken to the hospital and just before 5 00 this evening, all westbound lanes of the highway reopened. A Grocery Store excuse to price gouging items by as much as 300 . The 5 30, the action that the state attorney general took today. What to expect in Children Place orders are lifted, while one study says to be its getting longer. Increasing crime assessing, the barry county that is now offering testing tall people who live there. Warm today, may be the warmest day we will see for a while. Warmer tomorrow and let, cooler coside. All of the numbers when i see you on the return of the break. The governor said that the First Community. Is of the coronavirus happened at a nail salon. Reporter smi hair and nail salons cannot open until phase three of the states reopening plan. You may recall that the cdc announced several weeks ago that the First Community spread case of the coronavirus happened in Solano County on fairbury 27th. The governor did not give any specific information about the salon or the person who contracted the coronavirus. People in contra counter county are being tested regardless of whether theyre showing symptoms. Officials demonstrated the test at press conferences afternoon, people can now make an appointment to visit one of eight sites in the county, and there is no upfront charge, people who dont have Health Insurance and still get a test. The county says that in order to ease restrictions, they need to increase testing. Thats about 2200 tested a, throughout contra costa county. We are currently testing about 500 people every day. So, that means we want to test 45 times as many people as we are testing currently. s makeup officials the residence can go online to get an appointment or call the hotline number at 8444210804. Is a bay area begins to look at how to lift the stay home orders, a new study indicates that his people returned to work, they could see longer commutes. Christian captain george is now live in San Francisco with a look at the factors adding up to the longer commute times. Christian . Yes. Reporter it all comes down to how many people make that switch from taking mass transit to driving in their own car. More people who make the switch, the longer the commute will be for everyone. There are key factors that that study does not take into account. Commuting during the pandemic has actually been relatively easy for those who still have to work. With most find the homes by Public Health orders. Now vanderbilt study is looking at what will happen if communities are reluctant to take mass transit when they returned to work. The bottom line is, the more communities opt to drive the longer the commute. Something the Transportation Commission which helps coordinate through the barriers monitoring. Vanderbilt study does a really, really good job of illustrating a worstcase scenario. I feel confident that we will avoid that worstcase scenario, but its going to be difficult. Reporter it says in the bay area, if just wanted for regular transit users decide to switch to driving a lead 20 minutes to the average ground trip San Francisco commute. If three quarters of those workers opt to drive, commute times could double. At something that would be really worried about, we can go from traffic heaven to traffic almost overnight. Reporter Jim Linderman bringing together business in public leader says its already looking at the issue. Debary counsel, we 350 members in every sector. Working with companies to talk about plans and how to look at what they county whirls are and what the state rules are. Reporter while the vanderbilt study raises significant issues, doesnt take into account certain factors such as higher in employment rates following the pandemic, reducing the people of community, and the fact that many may opt to make working from home a permanent fixture. Are people still going to be working from home . Maybe not every day, maybe one or two days a week, that takes some pressure off of the roadway. Reporter transit agencies are preparing for the return of commuters, it is developing plans for increased cleaning and ways to make masters a more appealing including face mask requirements, making Hand Sanitizer available, and system my changes including running longer trains to avoid crowding. Live in San Francisco, christian captain, ktvu. You will be able to just walk into the dmv, it is by appointment only. Italy for transactions that cannot be done online, the offices will open in the bay area include concord, San Francisco, the claremont oakland location, and the centers a drivers license processing center. No word on when the remaining 155 statewide offices will reopen. Hot one today, temperatures increased all over. In oakland, some folks exercising, others staying in the shade to avoid the sun. Bill martin is here now, bill you talked about hayfever and the pollen, i was inside all day today. Mise did not bother me at all. Adopt work, took me 10 minutes, or the time i got to work my left i was so irritated that i cannot get my contacted time during the newscast with one contact. Right now we are seeing grass pollen trending the highest, i kinda know where you live up in the hills, a lot of grass, and bloom it impacts a lot of people. Grass pollen is turning high, when it gets hot in the morning and late afternoon, pollens are worse. The allergist can be the worst, fairfield 95 degrees. Danville, 91, 92 in gilroy. Warm out there. Tomorrow it will be hotter inland, these 95s could turn into 98, 92s to 95s, along the coast it will be cooler. San francisco today got up there, to the upper 70s. The plan here is as we go through tomorrow, with peaks temperatures basically in the inland valleys. This is the back seat, with the return of onshore winds and fog, on monday the chance of a shower, wouldnt that be nice . It cools is off. No fog, you continue to get to the cable off of central tower. Beautiful day out there again, tomorrow will be beautiful but more of an onshore flow. More fog possible, but a nice day. Grass pollen is most likely the issue, the winds blow out of the west or northwest, 22 miles an hour. Tomorrow, let am going to call it hot. Around the bay will be pleasant and warm, at the coast it will be cooler. It will below 60. The fiveday forecast, i will see back here. Carjackings, invasions, and attempted murder just a few Violent Crimes and east baking is accused of. How authorities were able to make several rests of some alleged members. We have seen them take off across the country as a way to celebrate and show support while also maintaining physical distance. But now, barry county says driveby celebrations are no longer allowed. You with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. And now its no different. Because helping you through this crisis is what were made for. A person of interest is in custody for six suspicious fires that theyre investigating, theyll happened around the yacht harbor early this morning. The first was reported 45 20 a. M. , the largest fire happened about 5 45 at an apartment complex on midway road where a single unit was damaged. Other trash and debris fires were set nearby, but no injuries were reported. 42yearold james steffy is a person of interest and is not been located. Richmond police and the fbi announcer cracked tenants street gang that they say was responsible for a string of crimes including student shooting some elevations, and carjackings. As henry lee explains, the alleged reign of terror went back month. Reporter Surveillance Video shows four shooters including some of the salt weapon. Opening fire on rival Gang Associates at an apartment complex in march. At this angle you can see some of the shooters running toward targets before taking off. Were able to execute a series of search warrants to take those responsible the custody. Reporter now they say the government have been identified and charged in a string of terrifying crimes including a shooting at a liquor store in february. Attempted robbery, robberies, carjackings, weapons violations, and other crimes. Reporter including brothers and sister and juveniles have been charged. One defendant is a accused of this carjackings near san pablo. Others were outside of costco. Concord Home Invasion victim lost 20,000 and a rolex watch. The street gang is terrorizing local communities for months. Until they were removed from the streets and rested. Reporter investigator sees guns as part of operation no fly zone. A highcapacity glock and an ak47 magazine. Reporter it happened before and during the coronavirus emergency. All but one defendant is in custody with bill ranging from two to 10 million. Henry lee, ktvu. The attorney general is targeting price gouging. Grocery store that is been charged and how authorities use social media to make their case. An East Bay High School is celebrity seniors who will not get to experience the traditional Graduation Ceremony, how seniors are reacting to the unexpected and to their school year. Im missing my senior year, and that i have to go. Over my freshman year. Its kind of overwhelming a little bit. One of the largest events of Alameda County has been canceled. Officials made the announcement today, an event held annually for more than 100 years. And generally runs from june 19th through july 12th. County and for officials agreed to the safety of guests and staff it was irresponsible will to follow through the fair this year. Grocery stores been charged with price gouging, the California Attorney general the Alameda CountyDistrict Attorneys Office made the announcement following a joint filing today. The investigation began after a number of complaints from customers. Reporter the complaints came through emails, phone calls, and postings on social media. Authorities to the customers had emails the receipts to back them up. This Grocery Stores excused of flagrant price gouging. The Alameda County da and the state attorney general just filed charges. After the governors emergency decoration, they raised prices on goods by 30 . And in some cases, the original place was crossed out and the new price was put in. Reporter everything from onions to noodles to tee. Authorities notice the complaints on social media, then used receipts to document a pattern. In one case an item was priced at 2. 99 a march 2nd, 4. 99 on the 14th, march 16th, it was 6. 99. We collected the evidence with the help of good folks to give us information and tips, and we filed the action. Will do that wherever we have an opportunity. A request for comment was not returned, but told authorities he was passing on increased cost from supplier. They say they never received any documentation, and no other stores showed similar increases. This is the only store where we found the evidence of price gouging. Reporter authorities for their taking these cases very seriously, but they need the publics help. Give us a receipt, you give us a photo on the website of a price, product, these things up a. The best piece of advice is buyer beware. Do not assume that people are acting in good faith. Reporter prices cannot be raised more than 10 by law after an emergency declaration, this marks the first ever price gouging action and Alameda County. Thank you. The city of fremont is among several that may delay the planned increase in the minimum wage. The minimum wage in fremont is said to jump from 11 an hour to 30. 50 on july 1st for businesses with 26 or more employees. The City Council Approved the proposal on tuesday night to draft an amendment to delay the increase by a year. It will be considered again in next weeks meeting, the city of hayward recently passed a similar delay. Supporters of an initiative pending to the November Ballot demonstrates how california schools will benefit of its fast. Is from the Consulting Company and says schools will result in billions worth of investments for schools, first responders, library, and county general fund to. It would raise property taxes on large businesses, the initiative would raise up to 12 1 2 billion dollars a year. Schools and communities first will reclaim 12 billion every year for californias critical local services in schools by closing tax loopholes and fairly assessing commercial and Industrial Properties worth more than 3 million. This initiative exempts from reassessment all residential property, small business, and agricultural land. Critics say it would be the largest property tax interests s history second needs 50 plus one vote to pass. High schools are planning for graduation, the traditional way is out of the question right now because of the coronavirus pandemic. Rob roth tells us on a school in antioch found a way for their seniors to have an early socially distant celebration. Reporter it is not what anyone would revisionist a few months ago. The 2020 graduate in class of Deer Valley High School in antioch lining up in cars to pick up the graduation caps and gowns. The school wanted to make it special for them. I appreciate whats going on. You cant hug them because we gotta stay apart. Reporter its going down as one of the first times to be a senior in high school. The senior trip so we had planned, prom, we dont get prom. And all the fun things. You dont get to do that anymore. Reporter the teachers and principals so they recognize the hardship the seniors face, cooped up at home, on the classes, and a year students will never get back. I get to see friends i havent seen in a while, i got to see some teachers. The only time i talked to them is by emailers and call. Reporter he plans on joining the marines. Got a think about the good times, thats all that matters. Reporter freshman year of college also figures to be quite different. More line classes, and likely few social activities. The student plans on attending the university of north texas in the fall. I am missing my senior year. And then i have to go. Over freshman year. And its kind of overwhelming. Reporter the actual Graduation Ceremony will be online at deer valley, if possible, perhaps a real graduation over the summer. The principal has a message for the class of 2020. I promise you something betters out there for you, dont give up, dont get discouraged. Life as a whole lot more, and a lot of graduation. A lot more celebrations coming for you. Reporter rob roth, ktvu fox2 news. Facebook is allowing employees to continue to work from home through the end of the year. The Company Tells us it will begin opening many offices on july 6th the earliest. The most staff will have the option to continue work remotely if they choose. Some employees will need to be onsite, but there are new details on which workers there will be. Facebook was among the First Companies to implement work from home policies to help spread the coronavirus. Countries overseas getting back to normal, has some European Countries are getting ready to reopen businesses including cafes and restaurants. The president has been exposed to covid19, the person in the white house who is tested positive for the coronavirus. Reporter sports director mark cabanas tells us what we know so far especially about the 49ers and how the league is trying to navigate this coronavirus pandemic. And. Lets get started. music fades in hey hi there are now more than 3. 8 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus are in the world, 260,000 deaths from the virus. The u. S. Has more cases than any other country with more than 1 Million People infected. Falling far behind is spend 221,000 cases. Across europe, major cities are slowly and cautiously starting to reopen. In paris, cafes or reopening was limited capacity. Version schools are expected to follow soon, and in germany, shops and restaurants reopened this week. Is city slowly but again, officials are bracing for a possible second wave of the virus. The World Health Organization says every country should move at its own pace, but none should reopen prematurely. Will want to see the normal social and economic lives are turned. The question is, what are the risks . Restrictions are still in place in the uk, while spain has the most cases in europe, the uk has the largest or highest death toll with more than 30,000 deaths from the virus. A member of the military who serves as a valid a has tested positive for the coronavirus. The white house says they tested positive yesterday after showing symptoms, the report raises concerns about the president s possible exposure to the virus. House press secretary says the president and the Vice President have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health. Uc san diego will be the first campus in the uc system and one of the first in the country to broadly test students for the coronavirus. 5000 students living in Campus Housing will be getting self test kits starting next monday. University officials hope it will help curb the spread of the virus on and off campus. This is a major step toward resuming oncampus courses in the fall. Trying to get ahead of the virus in the following students and faculty and staff come back. We hope in full steam, to be able to identify people who are shutting the virus before of the Testing Program works, officials plan to test roughly 65,000 students, faculty, and staff yearround on a monthly basis. The nfl says it is business as usual, and they released the schedule for the upcoming season. Markel tell us who the niners will be playing in the Las Vegas Raiders. The special weight used by police and Fire Departments supported healthcare workers today. It is warming up, today we had 95 degrees and then, cooler the coast, but tomorrow into the upper 90s inland, back here without forecast. The nfl still operating business as usual, the release the schedule for the 2020 season. Our sports director with what weve learned so far, where the niners going to be playing . Is one of those things where you can understand where the nfl is coming from. They have to believe that the season will go on. And mark my words, and have 1 million contingency plans behind it, but they want to just go on as scheduled and here are the highlights. 49ers having won the super bowl, everyone was excited about the prospect of who they will play, and believe me, the network believes a lot of the rest of the country wants to see the 49ers as well, lets take a look at some of the highlights, as the actual entire season starts september 10th, but the 49ers will open up september 13th versus kyler murray and the arizona cardinals. But they will be on, get this, five primetime games including three sunday night games, two of those will be played at levi, that will come against the eagles, the rams, the dallas cowboys. Their schedule is loaded with all kinds of data see that once. They will be out one monday night game, december 7th against buffalo. This is going to be so popular, thursday, november 5th, at levi stadium, that is a fox game, against the green bay packers. That will that will draw some writings right there. And then im kind of interested in this one, october 25th at new england, jimmy groff logos back east to play the patriots, the team from whence he came, and you know the situation there, but more spotlighted had tom brady been there, but that still game to mark on your schedule all of these with a big if of things for free the super bowl is scheduled for february 7th in tampa, but the way they have set things up they can push that back at least several weeks if they have the back things up and play a schedule that doesnt fold out like the one they have, we will call it in pencil, so far. A lot can change. Up still trying to figure out how theyre going to. , from what ive heard they may not allow the state to be full the feds would have to have distance between each other, and if thats the case, with a test every Single Player on both teams just before the game to make sure theyre okay . That is the question, every time you think youve got a proposal that makes a lot of sense, you think about it another five minutes, and 50 mark questions come to your mind. That is something all major sports are up again. Major League Baseball is trying to get back in business by early july, and then just question after question comes up, and i guess we just the worst thing you could see is to put it out there. I know you hate this, only time will tell. But what else can you do . I know, i know. The raiders thats what i was going to ask you, i cant stand saying the Las Vegas Raiders but what is their schedule look like . Let me give you some highlights there while we have some time, the Las Vegas Raiders, not exactly rolling off the tongue. Monday, september 21st will be the home opener, and that a couple other notables november 22nd, the chiefs, the super bowl champions versus the raiders. Thats on a monday night, on fox, we will be televising the chargers against the raiders in both of those teams supposedly will be opening up with new stadiums this year one in l. A. , and one in las vegas. And all they can really do, theyre kind of backed into a corner, you got to lay it out there like it is. And then you change what is going on. I cant wait for packers, 49ers, eryn rogers, Jimmy Garoppolo that will be good would. Thank you and we will see you again at six. They go. Nice day out there. The golden gate bridge, kind of saute is when you get the evaporation the sea surface, evaporates and the solid particulate hangs in the air so you get used to call that a saute but if you live out of the coast you noted talking about. When you look at it from a distance you can see above the version up here its pretty clear. Down here were there is evaporation and assault gets hung up in the visitor, you get a salt haze. And provides particulate from the fog to cling onto to form more easily. When you see it it can be and will probably see it the next 48 hours, but it will be an opportunity for the fog to grab onto some of the particulate. And be foggy. Fog should be back in the next couple days, winds are blowing north north northwest, north north north. Not quite offshore but we are seeing north northwest almost offshore in some cases. 95 in fairfield, 92 in brentwood, a degrmore degrees. Gets the upper 80s in the inland spots, says maybe. I think that makes sense, i think tomorrow morning there will be patches of it and you can see the coast. That is where the cooling is, in length, not so much. Mid 90s, maybe 96, if you get to 96 for a couple cities is not hard to find and 98 out there. Probably the warmest day of the year and lid, along the coast it will be cooler because of the sea breeze. Winds will be more north northwest instead of north north north northeast. Friday, here we go, i know a lot of folks are back to normal. Airquality reports today, Washington Post put out an article about airquality down by 50 , Carbon Dioxide and nitrogen dioxide responsible for 7 Million Deaths a year, and the number down about 50 worldwide. There is a point of error there like it 10 to 12 point error, but the point is, that the big jump. If you look at the models or literature its really impressive. Soulfully more people were carpool after this. Keep the highways more often, keep the atmosphere clean. I will be back here in a little bit with the forecast for the weekend. Thank you. More healthcare workers are being shown how theyre appreciated during the pandemic. [ sirens ] firefighters, police, deputies from all over and procession today to several hospitals, maki at kaiser permanente, oakland medical center, u. S. Csm, a childrens hospital, Summit Medical center in both oakland and berkeley. Thank you for all you guys have been doing, the sacrifices you make, the long hours you take from your family. The danger you put yourself into, working in the hospital. We are all in this together. It was a good way of showing the healthcare workers that they stand with them, and that we are all in this together. How Santa Clara County is working to help Domestic Violence victims, plus, Food Assistance programs across the country are finding themselves overwhelmed by need as account numbers outbreak continue. Ive got that story coming up. The growing trend of celebratory caravans, now banned in one bay area county. Well tell you why Health Officials say there are no more driveby parades being allowed. Huge plume of smoke seen for miles in the south bay after a bus catches on fire. Coming up, the latest on the investigation into what caused it. Stop struggling to clean tough messes with sprays. 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Millions of americans are out of work and that is overwhelming food banks and pantries with firsttime customers and it is not just here in the bay area. Fox News Reporter has more from washington. Reporter as the coronavirus outbreak grinds on more than 33 million americans have lost their jobs causing a massive surge in demand in food banks and pantries across the country. Food Bank Customers have increased an average of 70 with at least 40 needing assistance for the first time. With so many people still in quarantine some groups have had to get creative. We have a pantry that goes to several sites. Reporter advocates a is the first expense newly Unemployed People struggle with and with supplies running low some people have started growing their own fruits and vegetables to help bridge the gap. I was originally going to plant a small vegetable garden this year, but i decided to transform as much is that if i could. Reporter in new york a new Program Hopes to fill two needs at once. Taxi drivers delivering food from city run pantries to those under quarantine. People get stuck home with no job and no food and we are helping them and the city is helping us. Reporter a nationwide meat shortage is making it hard to feed clients. President trump invoking a to get Older Workers back on the job and it says he expects Industry Leaders to cooperate. I think i got the message. Within a week and a half we should be backup. Reporter in mid april usda announced a 19 billion Food Assistance program. In washington, chris jenkins, fox news. Governor gavin newsom says stage ii is a go allowing some businesses to reopen with modifications. Now it is up to individual counties to decide how to proceed. We look forward to working with local partners to pull them in and have them help move forward. It is announcement we have been expecting. Cautious optimism this evening. Here in the bay area six counties say they are ready to relax restrictions. Meanwhile across the country, new numbers show nearly 40. 2 americans filed unemployment. That will number to 33 million. The total number of claims here is more than 4 million during the a week since the shelterin place order began. Governor newsom confirm the state is facing one of the