Communicating via videoconferencing. Sources tell nbc bay area news all nine bay area counties plan to extend the shelter at home at least until may 1 to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. As you know, we have a shelter in place order through april 7th. In this week well likely get a second shelter in place that will extend that date. Reporter word of the upcoming extension in the bay area comes as President Trump moved to extend nationwide social distancing guidelines. The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end. Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to april 30th to slow the spread. Reporter the president once hoping to get people back to work by easter now saying that was just an aspiration, that he expects the country to begin recovering around june 1. Meanwhile, in the bay area, the push continues for social distancing, especially by keeping people out of parks and beaches. After large crowds last weekend, parking lots were closed, and people seemed
Necessary in order to help reduce the spread of coronavirus kron fours will tran. Is following that part of the story for us this morning, joining us live with the latest on how this is going to be impacting. Everybody will. Its already impacting millions of people on the 7 Million People a lot of them are still out and about but lets face it the bulk of them will be at home look at this and we want to give you this great Vantage Point to show you the traffic and to San Francisco. Yes, thousands of cars clearly but the volume nothing that we would see on a normal Tuesday Morning. But people are still coming in because essential services, including you can see the truck driver because groceries and other goods are heading to the Grocery Store. So you dont have to rush. A lot of places have made drastic changes. Let me show you some video all over the bay area. Restaurants, including San Francisco, san jose all across Alameda County. They are either shutting down our drastically reducing
Still ahead your forecast rob. Thank you john so far traffic has been light and quiet around the bay area. Weve had some minor issues but nothing major awful we dont have any hot spots or alert. Were checking in on westbound 80 the trip into San Francisco looks really good. It should be light once again today its in so many folks are working from home so 7 minutes off to fremont street. Heres the richmond sandra fell another good commute its easy heading to the north bay 8 minutes for your drive. 92, it is a little crowded so the trip here leaving hayward well be a little sluggish on the flat section but no problems heading to the peninsula. Heres a big traffic tracker were checking more freeways and drive times and they. Look good so far were looking at 10 minutes here for 5. 80 westbound from livermore to dublin, 6. 80 south dublin to fremont is trouble free. I dont see any trouble spots for the nimitz freeway right now so that ripped through hayward san leandro union city will be fi
Richmond, still no word from the demepublic health as to the exact timing when we may learn of the test results the a passenger on board said the captain didnt have much more information either as to when we might be updated, perhaps governor gavin knew some said the tests would take 4 hours to process, all we know we may get the test results sometime today. 45 samples for the coronavirus are here, taken from both passengers and crew members aboard the grand print issue we are mays offshore. By National Guard helicopter in the middle of the pacific. 35 passengers have had flulike symptoms and some people are already feeling better. People like chris grady who felt fine the entire time he is starting to get cabin fever. First th jsaid th we be skipping due to due passengers being sick. Reporter how to disembark passengers and crews safely without exposing anyone else to the virus. The cdc and state are considering a number of locations including San Francisco. However, where the ship wi
Depend on school for childcare. Emergency room doctor nurse Nurse Practitioner and you have kids you have no capacity to have those kids at home without your own presence being there. We will be setting up ways to continue to provide meals for our students who rely on them. We are considering what if any Childcare Options we can extend to families during this unplanned closure. Reporter the decision has been made and as for what comes next. We will come out with more information. If you are asking if we have all the answers at this point we dont. Our goal is to get more and more answers out. Reporter the decision made the last couple hours. This just getting out the parents will have to figure out what to do for two weeks. Spring break is the third week of that break. It is built in for them. What changed their mind . There were the students at lakeshore elementary that were reported to have a respiratory illness last night. That is why that School Campus specific closure happened. Tho