Hotspots. And so we have been preparing for that. All right. More on that in just a moment. But new at 6 00, an indepth look at vulnerable places. Skilled nursing facilities. There are thousands of them across the state and a number of them are waging their own battles against the spread of coronavirus. Today Governor Newsom announced the state has trained and is deploying 600 nurses in that effort. Nbc 7s Melanie Woodrow woodroww more. Reporter 41 residents tested positive for covid19. 25 Staff Members and nine deaths according to Alameda County Health Officials. Family members are worried for their loved ones. I didnt know people had been dying here. Last i had heard, there was one person who tested positive. Reporter Health Officials say the spread of these types of facilities is to be expected because of the congregant setting. This is a very vulnerable population. They have a lot of medical conditions. Reporter dr. Erica ponce says the county is recommending universal masking and
Taking it up a notch. When we close our streets to cars, we open them up for amazing possibilities. People all over oakland are walking and biking in streets that they normally would not. Right now, on the kpix news at 7 00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, scramming to stop an outbreak of the coronavirus at a large homeless shelter. We spoke to some city officials who say they saw this coming weeks ago. Reporter the shelter had two cases on sunday, five cases on wednesday, and now 70. An example of how quickly the vican spre people saw this coming. An outbreak has occurred in mse south, one of our shelters. 70 people. 68 members of the shelter, as well as two Staff Members who have tested positive for covid 19. Reporter the largest shelter in San Francisco is now functioning as a ward for the infected, with medical staff on men of them have Chronic Health conditions, and are vulnerable to getting very sick, or even dying from coronavirus. Reporter the announcement of the outbreak comes
Have a spraks will protect us. Cases. Across the country there are more than 550,000 reported cases. They now admit the government nearly 22,000 people have lost their lives because of the virus waited too long to order protective measures. Which remains more than any if we had right from the very other country. On this very unusual easter beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little different. But there was a lot of pushback sunday, faithbased groups have about shutting things down back moved services online. Then. Meanwhile the Treasury Department said tens of millions gatherings are not allowed in an of people will receive their attempt on limit the spread of coronavirus stimulus payment through direct deposit this the virus. Week. How is all this received . Some hope for so many suffering reporter some churches are Live Streaming mass. Americans. Ruse offering a service. This could cost more money. Most said yes, it is different but theyre grateful they are able to sta
Death. Good evening im ken bastida. Im juliette goodrich. The man who died was in his 70s and was a passenger on the grand princess cruise ship when it sailed to mexico late last month. The Health Department says he has been hospitalized 43 weeks before passing away this afternoon. The Santa Rosa Police chief announcing two more employees have coronavirus. That is on top of the three officers who tested positive earlier this week. A high school has transformed into a care site for people who do not have coronavirus. This is from people who need care but also need to be kept away from hospitals that are filled with coronavirus patients. Beds, medical equipment, and other supplies are scheduled to arrive over the next few days. The same situation underway at a location in the south bay. Len ramirez is there. Reporter the Santa Clara Convention center normally hosting a lot of hightech business meetings and things like that but now for the foreseeable future it will be a hospital were man
Its distancing. Its social distancing. Thats good way of putting it. Its far off the coast on a high def doppler. You can see it towards monterey. So what i want to do is take live radar and we will switch this to the futurecast and show you how those showers sitting off the coast are going to get pulled up mainly into the south bay today. So a closer look right there getting us into the afternoon. We have a few spotty showers focused on the south bay, which is now Late Afternoon early evening. And you see a trend here. If we sigh rain in the bay it will happen mainly in the south bay. Cant rule out a possibility of a few showers in the north. But mainly to the south. If you want to see how much we will get, its. The lot. We are looking at mayor a quarter of an inch of rain for san jose. But everybody else gets a 10th of an inch of rain if we are lucky. Its not raining now. So if you are stepping out the door, here are the numbers. We range anywhere from the low 40s to about 50. Its 50