Heres a look back at about 2 00 this morning when some of the light to moderate showers moved through the south bay. More than a tenth of an inch in the mountains and 400 in the valley. Little slippery this morning, but you can see that has moved on and all of our neighborhoods are showing pretty dry weather right now even though we have pretty cloudy conditions out there still. Temperatures in the low to mid50s through 7 00 and stay at the 50s in the coast and we in h the low 60s at noon and mid 60s at 4 00 with more sunshine than yesterday and back into the 50s. Grab a coat if youre heading out this evening. Well take a look at the warmer weather coming up. Heres reggie. Thanks, mike. Easter at home. That is the new reality for so many people in the bay area this weekend. So, lets go to our reporter at home and that would be Julian Glover live from the south bay this morning. Good morning, julian. Hey, good morning, reggie. Yes. Certainly unusual in times that are far from normal. We know President Trump wanted to have the shelter in place order lifted by Easter Sunday and have the packed churches. But, here we are still sheltering in place and dealing with this new and temporary normal. We know it may be unusual for so many of you. You may be away from your friends and family and unable to celebrate together. I am missing my family in d. C. Religious leaders in the bay area and really across the country and around the world are bringing the church to you wherever you are staying safe and staying inside. We spoke to reverend lori manning who reminds us what were doing right now, wherever you are, sheltering in place is an act of olove and sacrifice and that is what the Easter Holiday is about. It doesnt matter who you are, we are connecting. Just because social distancing is in place and social events are in place. Love has not been cancled and we need love more than ever now. We need each other. And weerino need each other, even if we cant congregate in person. Now, reverend lauries church will stream good friday and Easter Sunday services on facebook and zoom and abc7 news we know so many of you wont get to the churches and celebrate in person. We will be streaming Easter Sunday celebration live on tv on all of our digital platforms. You can catch that at 11 00 a. M. On sunday. Sit back, relax and enjoy the service. Go on that Easter Egg Hunt with those painted eggs. We have to switch it up these days. Reporting from home, Julian Glover, abc 7 news. Eggs, rocks, whatever you got these days. That will work. All right, julian, thank noe talbo some thdell fro globa virus is closing i 10000 people w1. 6 io confirmed covid19. This morning, the says the wo should be prepared for the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression because of coronavirus. California now has more than 20,000 confirmed cases with more than 500 deaths. The bay area and Santa Cruz County eclipsed 4,500 positive tests and at least 119 people have lost their lives. A group of activists, attorneys and public defenders are calling for the release of all inmates from Alameda County jail. 11 inmates have tested positive and 600 others have been released to prevent overcrowding. Civil rights activists say not releasing all the inmates could be deadly. Ining inmates a dangerous. For crimes inclingxuassault,ris serious public concern. Up to 56 more lowrisk inmates will be released by monday. Alameda County District attorney released a statement. This office takes very seriously the duty to balance a defendants right with public safety. Governor newsom says there are plans to provide deep discounts on hotel rooms for Health Care Workers. Families that have been broken apart and not able to come back home. Many cases sleeping in their cars overnight. In other cases, unwilling because theyve been exposed to this virus. We need to do better. More than 150 hotels and motels are working with the state to provide vouchers and stipens to Health Care Workers. In the south bay, volunteers are providing food for people in need. Many of the serrecipients have never had to ask for help until now. Cathedral of faith where the line of people stretched for several blocks. One of the Church Pastors said they distributed a months worth of food just this week. Community members, Company Teams and volunteers have all come togetherto make it possible. Theres a lot of good people out there that really want to make a difference and weve gotten a lot of volunteers. Weve gotten over 100,000 in donations already in the first two weeks. Thats good to hear. Safeway, whole foods, cisco and the Second Harvest food bank are providing most of the food at this point. We have complete coverage of coronavirus on our website, abc7news. Com. Our most clicked on story right now is about a theory that californians may have developed some herd immunity to coronavirus last year. Now that former Vice President joe biden is the presumptive nominee for president , many voters are looking more closely at his policies. Yesterday he released his plan for student loan forgiveness. Jobina fortson is live with more on that. Good morning. His plan would forgive all undergraduate tuitionrelated student debt from two and fouryear public colleges and universities. I know a lot of people are excited to hear this information. This would be for borrowers who earn less than 125,000 per year. The federal government would make your monthly federal student loan payment until it is paid off. Forgiveness would also apply to borrowers with federal Student Loans for tuition from private historically black colleges and university because we know many are private. Not the public he was talking about earlier. Thldlso s minit rvg institi some see it as a ppters oe ers, this week. Ill send it over to you, kumasi. Thank you, jobina. San francisco taking action to stop the spread of coronavirus. The interviews officials are conducting with every patient who tests positive. One woman is reminding us to be extra careful when we are opening our packages. The funny video she posted online. And heres a sneak peek at the weekend. You can see temperatures are trending up. But theyre not going to stop there. Even warmer weather next week in this time of crisis we run with them, toward those in need. We are 7,000 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and therapists supporting their efforts on the ground and virtually. And just as we are by their side, were by yours, too. With answers to your most pressing questions and expert advice at cigna. Com covid19 eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. Now. And expert advice and we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. Youre never more than seven minute away from your accuweather forecast. This is abc7 mornings. 6 10 right now and temperatures running in the low to mid 50s in San Francisco under cloudy conditions. Lets take a look else where and fog developing around fairfield and our cooler temperatures there. 45 and we have 49 in hillsburg and heres a look from our roof camera. Out and about today. Little bit stronger sunshine and start to think about using sunscreen, especially this weekend when the sun is going to break through the clouds even moreand theres still going to some pollen out there. Today will be your most comfortable day for outdrea b vs by 9 00. Increasing sunshine in the south bay and well be in the 50s through 11 00 and then mid 60s this afternoon and youll see more sunshine today than youve seen for the most of the week. In the 50s through 9 00 and then low to mid 60s from 5 00. 58 degrees during the evening hours. Well take a look at the warmer temperatures and 80 coming up in the forecast. Jobina, good any go jobina, any good news out there . The lights are still out. I spoke with a chp officer and hes thinking like myself, im so glad thisappenng norl coutor mess. The bay bridge where the lights are out to the Center Anchorage. This has been in place now since shortly after 5 00 id say or 5 30. A bridge crew is out there working on it. It appear theres is a power outage. That means the cameras are not working on the bridge and also no lights on the toll plaza for our essential workers that are making their way there. Make sure to slow down because it is very difficult to see in the area because it is so dark. Once again on the other side towards Treasure Island there, the lights are back on as you make your way into San Francisco. I will keep you posted on how this progresses throughout the morning. Ill send it to you, kumasi. Thank you. San francisco is taking more aggressive steps to slow the spread of coronavirus. The city with the help of ucsf is ramping up efforts to trace every case and contact each patient who tests positive for coronavirus will be interviewed. If they came into contact with anyone in the proceeding days ad offered a test. Any positive test will trigger isolation. Kristen zee talked about this with epidemiology at ucsf. Some of the people who are helping us Going Forward are medical students, the city librarians and some of the people from the citys Attorney Office which is quite remarkable. So, up to 150 people could end up working oteam. Well, two San Francisco restaurants are teaming up to reopen for takeout orders and it workers are depending on your support. 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Theyll accept takeout at anglers location along the embarcadero and order delivery through doordash. A las vegas woman has come up with a funny way to show us how she takes precautions when she receives packages. Thats very cute. She ends the video with the message saying stay home and stay positive but im more focused on how did she get clorox wipes. Exactly. En sme are you goio do at when you get it . If i got clorox wipes, i would do all that and then some. I would have a parade down the street, too. I believe you. We have some new developments about a story we told you about. Rvs 4 mds. The social Media Movement is keeping a bay area doctor in the front line in his driveway. He isistancing to keep his family safe. Amanda del castillo was there for thlivery. Reporter the poleselli trailer used to open roads and adventures is making a stop. It will stay parked outside this menlo park home providing a layer of safety for the people inside. We introduced you to the st. Martin family on tuesday. Brad is a father and doctor on the front line. Thankfully im healthy right now but i dont want to put my family at risk of anything. Reporter that forced a woman to take to social media. Emily philips asked her facebook friends whether anyone had an rv to loan. Isolation for her husband working as an emergency room doctor. I was terrified. Everyone is quarantined and im terrified to be in our own house. Reporter her request was answered by a woman named holly, a complete stranger. Now the two are cofounders of the rvs 4 mds. More than 24,000 members and more than 300 matches. The group is connecting rv donors with front line heroes desperate to keep their families safe. For the st. Martins, its the polesellis. You want to keep family close and together and especially during a time likth reporter the effort comes ae literally ha in tstng. Theyre having faith in what is going to happen. Its something small that we can do for this family who is doing so much for everybody else. Reporter at the st. Martins, lots of relief with one little road bump. I think its going to be difficult to make sure that im the one staying in there and we keep the boys out of there. They said they would rather have daddy inside the the rv. L abc7 news. That is really cute. Of course, were hearing so many great thank you stories and moments of gratitude. And my very favorite so far is from the San Francisco gay mens chorus. They just did a beautiful tribute honoring those people like the doctor you just saw who are working in our hospitals right now. True colors shining through i see your true colors and thats why i love you so dont be afraid to let them show say what you want to say and let the words it marks the first ever virtual chorus they recorded in theto of the gay chus it fea 150 way, youan wchreust launched, including this video called sfgmctv. Its a free online platform. And they decided to dedicate this first video to our first responders. Im telling you, its worth looking this up and watching the whole thing. You will be better for it today, i promise. We invite you to join better bay area project thanks and share your gratitude for everyone on the front lines of the covid19 battle. Use the betterbayarea to show us how youre saying thank you and well make sure to share the love. Reggie, you are right. Even just that few minutes, that few seconds already just theyre so talented. I know. One of my friends works for the gay mens chorus and i had no idea he was working on this project and when i saw that pop up yesterday i was texting him and telling him what a fantastic job they did. Can you just imagine the logistics of getting all those people together for a zoom call. No. And they all sound so great. The blend is good. Yeah, they did a good job. Hi, mike. Good morning, mike. That really warmed the heart this morning. Cant wait to hear more of that. Warm sunshine in the forecast also as we head through the weekend. Welcome to friday. Lets take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge where its pretty cloudy and calm conditions as High Pressure starts to take over more control of our weather as this is a transition day. Well see a little more sunshine and feel just a touch warmer and get back to average tonight. Clouds and fog when we wake up tomorrow morning and then the sunshine, those highs, theyll be hopping up into levels above average for today. We have mid to upper 60s in most neighborhoods. Out at the coast and into San Francisco, upper 50s to low 60s. Tonight, mid 40s in our deepest inland valleys to upper 40s to low 50s around the bay. Look at all that gray out there. It will go away a little bit quicker than the last couple of days where its hardly gone around. Sorry about those bad frames in there. What i wanted to show you was the water vapor imagery to give you an idea of how low the circulation is with that low. Pushed it well down into and the jet stream usually moves our storms along, but not this one. It is pretty stubborn. Lets talk about a Cloud Forecast that will turn into a temperature forecast. You can see by the afternoon and early evening hours, we do break out in the cloud cover especially in the east bay and north bay. Overnight, you can see the marine layer clouds come back. Look at tomorrow, they are etreat ba retreat back to the coast. Thats why the coast never warms up as the rest of us because more of a late spring early summer pattern. Keeping you in the 60s while the rest of us hit the 70s almost 80 degrees inland by tuesday. Hope you enjoy it. Gosh, its hard to believe that well get close to 80, mike, thank you. Now, well turn to our other favorite meteorologist, ginger zee. What is coming up on gma at 7 00. Good morning, ginger. Mike got to say broad, low pressure system and i think he was looking at enhanced infrared. Whatever it was, i just caught the end of it and i was very jealous. Lets talk about what i will be getting into it and that is a tornado outbreak for Easter Sunday and the coronavirus pandemic. You know the numbers. You have been reporting them. Nearly a half million cases now in the United States and new york state is one of those places where we have more victims than any other country in the world. So, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to join us live from the u. S. Epicenter this morning. Also, were going to get into the new cutting edge effort to test for coronavirus antibodies. Myself and so many other americans are interested in this. As simple as a our answer. Who will get the test once its out. Easter sunday being two days away and a bunch of places thatt are still planning to hold services. So, these places where the authorities are refusing to close their doors, were going to tell you how you can worship at home and stay safe and also give you some ideas about how to make the holiday as good as it can be while youre celebrating this weekend. Then a message of hope. You saw that video hopefully of the woman being released from the icu. She has a message for everybody this morning and big vote of gratitude for all of the medical staff that took care of her. It will get you crying in the best way coming up here on gma. Reggie and k