Now at 11 00, new guidelines aimed at preventing more deaths at Alameda County Nursing Homes. Tonight, why some care givers who tested positive for coronavirus could still be allowed to work with patients. Too little too late. Should have been done weeks ago. There has to be better oversight. Sonoma county is leading the way in the bay area, requiring people to wear masks. What led the county to enforce o announce a nepartnership to coordinate the rollback of coronavirus re think that weu ere not erybody goes onwhatever date right off the bat. Tonight the hurdles that still need to be cleared, and what those initial steps might look like. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, Sonoma County now the first in the bay area to make wearing face masks the law. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Kpix 5s Andrea Nakano is in petaluma with the order to cover up or face a citation. Reporter the new health order will go into effect on friday. The Public Health officer here
Treat those with coronavirus. We are going to reroute our medical Health Experts and people, our nurses, and other Health Support to help manage and maintain and support the people who have tested positive. Reporter for weeks, supervisors have been pushing the mayor to move the homeless into the largely vacant hotel rooms. They say the outbreak was tragically predictable. Nobody should be living in those environments, and so, what i am saying is, move these people now, and we should have moved them a month ago, and the people that you could not move, for whatever reason, should have been sleeping 6 feet apart, should have had temperature checks, should have had masks and gloves. They did not do that, and so now we have an outbreak. Reporter that can house up to 340 people at a time, the supervisor says many of the residents inside the shelter are waiting on the results of coronavirus tests for themselves. Live in San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. As we get further out,
Should have been done weeks ago. There has to be better oversight. Sonoma county is leading the way in the bay area, requiring people to wear masks. What led the county to enforce this order. Governor newsom is poised to announce a new partnership to coordinate the rollback of coronavirus restrictions. I think that we could look at a staggered return to work. Where not everybody goes back on whatever date right off the bat. Tonight the hurdles that still need to be cleared, and what those initial steps might look like. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, Sonoma County now the first in the bay area to make wearing face masks the law. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Kpix 5s Andrea Nakano is in petaluma with the order to cover up or face a citation. Reporter the new health order will go into effect on friday. The Public Health officer here in Sonoma County says theyre expecting a surge in cases and wanted to fight back by tightening protective measures. Sonom
Warnings no more on the eve of this holiday weekend, officials stepping up at the trailheads. Many people are wanting to get out this easter weekend but officials will issue parking tickets in hopes of keeping people closer to home. Thanks for joining us today. The enforcement comes as the number of coronavirus cases reaches a grim milestone. The worldwide death toll reached 100,000 and cases here in the United States surpassed 500,000 today. In the u. S. Nearly 19,000 people have died. The chief of the Health Organization said lifting the stayathome orders to early could bring a deadly resurgence of covid19. This morning as the Trump Administration creates a task force to look into how to reopen the countrys economy. Bay Area Health Officials are urging people to stay home this weekend and resist the urge to go out for a hike or even just leave their homes. This comes in some areas where enforcement is already stepping up. Debora villalon joins us live tonight from marin where tickets
About 920,000 claims just last week. And the keyword here is processed as Julia Goodrich reports, a lot of folks still have problems getting through in the first place. Reporter since we first ran a report on the Development Department this week, we received frustrating posts from bay area residents this week. They have problems they cant resolve. So we tried to get some answers. Be sure to make time to sit back and unwind. Reporter unwind is one thing she finds hard to do these days. She is unemployed and bills have added up. Its hard because i dont know where the money is going to come from. Reporter under the cares act, the selfemployed are entitled to unemployment compensation. But for victoria, its been an obstacle cours she cant apply online because shes worked out of california the last 18 month snail mail was her only option. But theres no box to check if you are selfemployed. It asks specifically for previous employer informatio so i wasnt sure i was doing it right but i put v