We still have enough firefighters in our reserve in order to fulfill our commitment to the community. Reporter and to backfill firefighters are here on their days off to fill those shifts that are vacated by the affected firefighters. They say they are still responding to every single emergency call that comes in, but they do warn the public as a precautionary measure, they are showing up with respirators for theirs and your safety. Were live in san jose, dimian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Thank you, damian. The confirmed cases of coronavirus continues to grow in the bay area. Just over an hour ago, Santa Clara County said there are now 66 people who have tested positive. San mateo county also saw a jump today. 20 people there now confirmed to have the virus. Just into our newsroom, a second Bay Area School district is shutting down. Just minutes ago, west contra costa unified announced it will close all schools for three weeks beginning next monday. San francisco unified made a simil
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The storm system irtself is a couple hundred miles offshore. Clouds in place for much of the day. We have a couple of returns on live doppler 7 but the atmosphere still so dry that this is evaporating weave before it reaches the surface. Our storm system out to sea a couple hundred miles away from us. It is moving in our direction, and it will bring us our next chance of rain. Future weather, when do we expect rain . Tomorrow morning, 11 00 a. M. , thats when we expect that storm system close enough moving onshore that youll begin to see some drops reach the ground. With this storm system we do have a chance of seeing a thundershower. The Storm Prediction Center which monitors the entire u. S. For a chance of a thundershower is placing the region under an isolated chance any shower that does poppive could have lightning and hail. Well time out the storm system in a few minutes. People in san jose are still rebuilding from last years devastating floods and theyre not happy to see severa