Situation. Also doing the small things for somebody is huge in the end. It certainly is not all gloom and doom. Heartwarming stories tonight of neighbors here in the bay area helping neighbors. Thanks for being with us. We have never faced anything like this. There is a lot of concern and a lot of questions. We do have some of the answers for you and guidance as we all go through this together. Im raj mathai inside the nbc bay area studios. And im janelle wang in the newsroom. At midnight, about an hour from now, a shelter in place order will go into effect in six bay area counties, alameda, marin, contra costa, san mateo, San Francisco, and santa clara counties. The order, stay at home for three weeks if possible. We begin our Team Coverage with nbc bay areas jean elle. Shes in San Francisco. Jean, its critical for people to follow this order. Reporter it is, janelle. Tonight were already seeing San Francisco Police Officers driving around with their lights on, letting people know the
Its a change from when life is kind of normal. This is a look at interstate 880 and you can see traffic here is okay. I have noticed that traffic is a little lighter coming in through livermore through the tracy triangle. Usually we have slow traffic here. This morning. 5 01. Lets go back to the desk. Seven bay area counties issued legal orders for people to stay home through april 7th. You can see the bay area counties and santa cruz counties. The shelter in place order took effect overnight at 12 01 a. M. Ktvus allie rasmus is in San Francisco right now and you have details on what is happening. Good morning, allie. Reporter good morning. Yes, were about five hours into this shelter in place order. We are on 2nd and Market Street in San Francisco. You can see behind us it is erie eriely quiet. Maybe a bus go by here and there. Other than that, its pretty quiet out here. I want to point out across the street there is a skrooens store that is open. But they are letting customers in one
Sal castanedas here now. It is quiet. And yesterday at 6 00 we did have people who were going to work and here on the bay bridge this morning at 6 00, it is absolutely light. No doubt a lot of people are heeding the warning to stay home. You can always send me a tweet. Were always on social media here. If you were not going to work yesterday and youre going today, let me know what kind of job you do. Im curious. All three bay area airports are still open. Public Transportation Systems are still running. They ask that you practice social distancing and should be no issue because transit systems are not crowded at the moment. 6 01. Lets go back to the desk. Strict shelterinplace order took effect at midnight in six bay area counties. Some of the bars, nightclubs, and restaurants in downtown san jose closed at midnight as part of that order. Ktvus allie rasmus joins us now to talk about the effects this is having on the bay areas biggest cities and the many people who are now out of work.
Bounds. If americans anywhere are threatened, i am ready andprepared to take whatever action is necessary. At 11 00 as tensions hit a nonew w high, a bay area lawmaker is teams up with Bernie Sanders to prevent america from going to war. Reporter just hours ago, Dublin Police recover what could be n a the deadly Home Invasion robbery that happened at this dublin condo. And will your weekend be a washout . A fresh roun in i wet on start to the reamin y ar weekend. Good evening, im allen martin. And im veronica de la cruz. Taking a live look outside, not much to see right now, but dont let those clear skies fool you. Darren peck here to show us whats on the way this weekend. Already seeing a lot of green showing up on the radar. So lets get straight to high def doppler to see where the rain is now and more importantly, where its going to be by early tomorrow morning. Well switch from live, put it into the futurecast. Play us forward and by 1 00 a. M. We have showers just about to work in
Atomic and molecular physics. We internally use really impressive guy this is a war things kind of things have been happening in oakland and berkeley the demick of senseless stupid. Were learning the 22 yearold byron reed was the alleged driver hes now charged with murder in special circumstances and 21 yearold trayvon eugene lee is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Both are also charged with Second Degree robbery. A neighbor says the changs family in china are expected to arrive here to the bay area on saturday grant vicki. I was so sad. Well now to a developing story tonight and a rocky official says another air strike has hit 2 cars carrying a ron. A romney backed militia this was just north of baghdad and this is today this comes of course is one day after a different deadly us attack. On the top iranian general Qassem Soleimani you know the Officials Says tonight 5 members of the militia were killed in the identity of the dead. Theyre not immediately known this is a developin