Bay area researchers are hard at work developing a new kind of coronavirus test. How it could help americans get back to work. That will allow us to process new protocols in order to get people back into the work force, or at least back into society. Santa clara county has the largest number of coronavirus cases in the bay area. Now local leaders are offering a bounty for ventilators. Just one hour until the start of more Major Service cutbacks to bay area transit. I think the cut was really dramatic and drastic. I dont want the buses to stop. Tonight the potential impact on essential workers commuting during the coronavirus outbreak. Now at 11 00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, californias governor feeling confident enough to send hundreds of ventilators away. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. Katie nielsen reports the move comes as one bay area county is helping to pay for old ones. Reporter ventilators are often the best chance of survival for patients with a sev
3,600 confirmed cases of covid 19 in the bay area. A third of those are in hard hit Santa Clara County. The bay area is expected to reach its peak later this month, but will we building be ready . They are predicting we would not have shortages in regular or icu beds even at the peak. Reporter professor tara dion says early shelter in place orders may save californias Healthcare System from running out of beds, but cautions the system will still be under enormous strain. There is an issue of where those beds are and are they in the right place . So as a whole across the state, i think we probably have enough icu beds. The question is are they in the places where well have the patients coming in . Reporter shifting beds, equipment or patients around the state the professor says will be a huge logistical and administrative challenge and while the state has done what it can to slow the spread of the disease and flatten the curve, there may still be shortages looming of ventilators and oth
Washing stations to help those most in need. Grand princess returned to San Francisco where it docked. Members of the National Alliance for filipino concerns protested as the ship is closer. Theyre outraged that the crew is still on board the boat. Theyre calling this inhumane. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena j n joining us live now with the latest. Luz . Larry, that Filipino Community group wants crewmembers to get off the ship and get tested for covid19. Four days ago one of the passengers, one of the cruise members died of coronavirus. The grand princess is back at San Franciscos cruise ship terminal. On board, over 650 filipino memr wre concerned about hipmo tm crewmember from the grand princess cruise ship died of coronavirus in a San Francisco hospital. A day later on april 4th, hundreds of crewmembers who remain on the ship completed their quarantine period, but theyre still not going home. Very upsetting. For one worker to die in the bay area should have never happened. Over a mont
Lets check in with our friend mike nicco. I think that rainy weekend really helped us keep away from each other. It really did. It was the first time i got a little stir crazy to be honest with you. I wanted to go outside and every time i did i looked at the radar, but i found plenty of stuff to watch on tv. We still have that wet weather around and not quite as wide spread but just as intense, if not more intense in some areas than it was yesterday. So, one on the storm impact scale for showers, thunderstorms and some small hail and snow level down to 3,000 feet. You can see right now mainly across the monterey bay and creeping northward as an area of low pressure and counterclockwise hurling up some showers and thunderstorms off the Santa Cruz Mountains there to the southwest earlier this morning. So, that gives you an idea of how much energy is in the atmosphere. Heres a look at the quiet sfo this morning and you can see wet weather possible all day today with temperatures well belo
Encroaching at us from the south, that is the way the storms move today from south to north throughout most of the day. Heres a look at the exploratorium where it is just cloudy and quiet. Temperatures in the mid 30s to mid40s at 7 00. As the rain gets heavier this afternoon, temperatures will steady if not fall a little bit. Upper 40s to mid50s and same thing at 7 00. We have nicer weather if youre tired of the rain coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Back to reggie. The man in charge of muni is telling its riders unless you have to ride its service, please dont board a bus. A lot of changes coming over the next couple days. Amy hollyfield is live this morning for us. Amy . Hi, reggie. A look behind me. This station here is closed and caution tape blocking the gates there and they have station agents there and signs saying the station is closed. Muni service is expected to be a mess and unreliable. They are reconfiguring their service. They are Cutting Service but trying t