Again this is part of the effort to slow the spread of the virus as much as possible. Kron fours dan kerman has been following the story he joins us live. Dan. Or out in front of Sanchez Elementary School here in San Francisco in as you can see theres nothing going on there hasnt been anything going on here any of the other schools in the area across the bay area all day because the schools have been closed because of the shelterinplace orders and now the School Districts have decided because those orders are in place and because the schools need to contribute to the slow the spread of the virus. They need to keep the schools close not to the beginning of april but to the beginning of may. Across the Bay Area School classrooms, playgrounds and parking lots are empty. Thats because School Districts of shutdown classroom instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus of course he would rather be in school, we know that Public Schools are an essential part of or Greater School communit
Local news station. Now in i just minutes ago the Senate Passed a 2 plus trillion dollar economic stimulus package. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im grant lotus and i think you will kiss this historic bill was just voted on minutes ago. The highlights include direct payments of up to 1200 for working people. An additional 500 per child married couples earning up to 150,000 will get 2400. This bill provides billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion in Unemployment Insurance benefits and billion in loans for distressed companies. This stimulus package now heads on to the house which is expected to vote on it tomorrow. The latest coronavirus numbers in the bay area Santa Clara County continues to have the most trouble locally 459 cases along with 17 deaths. Tonight we also know that the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office has 5 confirmed cases in that department. The latest case there deputy who had been assigned to the Custody Bureau that deputy is now selfisolating at home meanwhi