Scale. Chance of scattered showers. Live look at doppler 7, our sweep of rain changing to snow up in parts of the lake county, yountville is wet. Over to guerneville and jenner, south from hercules to western marin. A break archound walnut creek a scattered showers milpitas through san jose. Its 50 santa clara. 47 in mountain view. A chillier start out there with 44 in 1 00 the showers become more scattered and through the afternoon a few weeks of sun, a possibility of a thunderstorm arrives throughout the day and the evening hours and well talk about a chilly and wet start to the week ahead. In just hours, well be getting an update on the first case of Community Spread coronavirus in Sonoma County. Leaders say this is an employee at the rower in Park Health Center believed expoelex exposed from a source outside the facility. A second patient has been tested with result pending. Details today at noon. While you were sleeping new bans on public gatherings took effect in a few counties.
36 in clear lake. Here is the plan for the rest of the day. 10 00 we have showers, cold temperatures in the 40s. The rain pulls out of the north bay by about 1 00. Its still raining though from san ramon, Mountain View and the south bay. By the evening hours we get a break but we are looking at a chance of a thunderstorm as we take you through your monday morning, which still has a level one on our storm impact scale. Liz . Thanks, lisa. Happening today, in just hours, well be getting an update on the first case of Community Spread coronavirus in Sonoma County. County leaders say this is an employee at the the rower in Park Health Center believed to have been exposed from a jours sou source outside the facility. The employee is in selfquarantine. A second patient has been tested with result pending. Details today at noon. Health officials will be giving a press Conference Today at noon. While you were sleeping new bans on public gatherings took effect in a few counties. Santa clara cou
Upper 50s. Well get one completely dry day in this weekend before more rain is on the way. Reggie . All right, thank you so much. Governor newsom made an extraordinary move last night when he told all beds for coronavirus hospitals. Jobina has more on that. Californias fight against the coronavirus is keeping Seton Medical Center in daly city open. The hospital recently made headlines about its imminent closure but now Governor Newsom says it will undergo a multimillion dollar project to get ready for patients. 177 hospital beds will be designated, excuse me, for covid19 patients at seton. The state is also planning to transform dorms to house patients. The governor is asking the federal government to ready field hospitals and bring a Navy Hospital ship to los angeles. If nothing number of californians sickened would overwhelm our health care system. An attack rate of about 56 . That the virus will impact about 56 of us. You do the math in the state of california, thats a particularly
Expenses plus 2. 7 million. Officials say the state will lease 177 beds. Thats almost half the beds in the hospital. They will dedicate certain floors to the coronavirus patients. The community had been very worried about losing this hospital wondering where people who needed care would go for help, especially as this pandemic hit. So, there is some relief that the state is using seton. They still have to move in the medical equipment and train the staff, so theyve got a little work to do. So, no word on when the state is going to be moving in here, but a big relief for this community. Live in daly city, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Thank you, amy. So, now, we want to look at the cases in the bay area by county. There are now 483 total. Marin county reported ten new confirmed cases last night and that is the largest single day increase since the first case was reported there on march 4th. Santa clara county continues to report new cases. 14 in the last day bringing their total to 189. S
Officially declare the coronavirus pandemic a National Emergency in the last couple of hours the bay area saw yet another coronavirus death a second person in Santa Clara County has died because of the virus. The local Health Departments, santa county says a woman in her 80s who was hospitalized on march 9th has passed away now that the United States has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic people want to know what comes next the house in washington dc is expected to vote any moment now on a relief package called the familys first Coronavirus Response act kron 4 grant lotus in the studio with what all of this means for the country grant well ken and pam number one money this Emergency Declaration means that. A lot of money is now available to help fight this crisis 50 billion will go to both state and local governments in response to the outbreak as part of the executive actions. The president is working with Drug Companies to expand coronavirus testing across th