Now, your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. It may be Easter Sunday and a holiday weekend, but Health Across the country are pleaing with people to stay inside the covid19 pandemic, worried any social gatherings for Church Service or dinner could spiral up the crisis. Good morning, it is sunday, april 12th. Happy Easter Sunday to all of you celebrating. Im liz kreutz. Good morning, lisa. Liz, good morning to you. Plenty of great starting out there and some of you saw it all day yesterday. We got into lateday clearing. Today were forecasting a little sooner. Look how far that stratus extend to southern california. Its a bleak start but it will brighten up. 52 in the city, 51 on the peninsula. Pretty cool in the 40s on the peninsula earlier, and from the golden gate bridge, 53 in livermore. Easter sunday will brighten up and warm up. So cool at the coast. In with the brighter afternoon. We should see highs in the mid60s to near 70 around the bay and inland tonight. Clear night and less fog, wind shift for warmer weather for several days. How many and how warm . I will have the answers next. Liz . Easter celebration and passover will be different across the area. The first major holiday the coronavirus hit the United States with full force. Organizers of decadesold trad to w ws oinancetop mou davidson here for the fist time in its 97year history this mornings Easter Sunrise Service wont be happy. But the cross you can ee is lit up in blue as a beacon to show solidarity with Health Care Workers and only essential workers putting their lives on the line in this pandemic. Abc7 reporter martinez is showing us more how services have to shift to keep safe. Reporter since 1923 Easter Sunday service has been held at the cross in San Francisco. But now for the first time it is canceled amid the pandemic. Something needed to happen for easter, so i think illuminating the cross and showing there is still hope and light was pretty important to us. Reporter the council of armenian americans of Northern California purchased the cross in 1997. They wanted to light it in blue this year to show their appreciation to Health Care Workers, first responders, Grocery Store clerks and other essential workers. Theyre our saviors. Without them i think we would probably be a little bit lost as far as how we would survive ourselves. Reporter earlier in the day we caught Katherine Mcgee picking up her arm for Easter Sunday dinner. We will all sing and show off our hands. Reporter last time they celebrated was last june. They will be watching online. We will make new memories and look forward to next year when we can really celebrate easter together. Reporter a long line be seen outside noe valley bakery. Next door, a chock lid covered the owner said theres three high days for chocolate, christmas, valentines day and easter. Beautiful foiledwrapped items. Im fortunate enough i can let people knock on the door and help people. Although i dont sell what i was selling before this craziness, im selling enough. So i cant complain. Reporter reporting in San Francisco, lauren martinez, abc7 news. Boy, that looks delicious. New this morning, pope francis delivered his annual easter message ohe coronavirus outbreak. Hes urging political leaders to give hope and opportunity for people who have been laid out. He also expressed gratitude to doctors and nurses and firefighters in the fight against coronavirus. Only a handful assisted him this morning at st. Peters basilica there at the vatican. Just beautiful. Cities here at home are doing everything they can to shut down crowds. Whether people listen and follow directions remains to be abc7 reporter cronele bernard has the story. Were on like four weeks or so of us driving each other crazy. Reporter Gabriel Thompson from oakland is taking a breather, grabbing a walk in fresh air with daughter. But thats not always easy or safe. We try to get out. They bike. But these streets are busy and sidewalks narrow. Reporter the city of oakland has heard those complaints. What we saw is people were on the sidewalks up and down the streets getting too close. Reporter Council Member dan cobb they welcome shutting down more than a dozen neighborhood streets to cars. We want to make more room for people going outside on occasion occasion to take around the block or to the truck store, what have you, and do that in a manner where they wont be coming in contact with other people. Reporter the berry family likes the extra space. To ride your bike someplace flat without cars is a good thing. This is a good thing, especially for me today, because i didnt want to walk. I didnt even want to drive my truck so im going to get on my bike and ride. Oueeping the in San Francisco sixfoot distance are everywhere. Despite that we saw people on the embarcadero on the buildings Farmer Market clearly not practice gsz social distancingment many people are getting a notsosubtle warning. Many firefighters were out at ocean park to remind people keep your isiday weekend. Lets make it a memorable holiday weekend. Ment think about some things we can do besides going out to the parks or beaches. Think about some things we can do that does include going to another familys residences. Reporter marin county trying to avoid crowds they saw last month. The Sheriffs Department tweeting a few weekend remindsers, the first and the last, stay at home. Police and Fire Departments say neighborhood hikes and walks are perfectly fine but not if you have to drive there to do it. A stanford disease specialist is joining the is will to call on people to ea in small numbers, even if its indoors. It is a breeding ground to spread. It means youngerage people who are asymptomatic could put their grandparents at risk. This is real little a very important time, unfortunately, to stay away to doing what we love and make sure that the next easter everybodys going to be there and everybody can celebrate the way they want. Reporter dr. Goodman says you cant overstate the importance of maintaining social distancing until covid19 is under control. 20 ucsf Health Care Workers are in new york city this morning. They left to help their fellow Health Care Workers fighting in the epicenter of this virus and nkhank you ting extraspaeshlwo that was part of the United Airlines boarding announcement as the doctors and nurses departed sfo yesterday morning. The team will bring urgent care to patients for one month at new yorks presbyterian hospital. Ucsf specialsizizes in emergenc care and will give them Critical Knowledge to bring back home. We do hope our Health Care Volunteers there will learn about what it takes to get through a pandemic like this and create a sustaining response and they can bring that learninglir we do have a surge. Check this out, Stephen Curry also had a message for the Health Care Workers before their flight yesterday. Its unbelievable, the sense of sacrifice and selfishness you stepping up to the call to serve people. These are just a few photos posted by the ucsf twitter page as well, showing other employees heartfelt sendoff messages to the team. Lets get a check o weather quickly with lisa argen. Good morning, and happy easter, everyone. Gray out there. Tough to scour this out. A live look outside in santa cruz. Its in the low 50s now. Back home it will be gray for the next several hours. Afternoon looks brighter and with the afternoon sun, were tracking a warmup for the first of the week. My accuweather forecast is minutes away. Together but how ipads are playing aerheovnow coronarutests. R. How you and eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. Now. 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. New this morning, fefignd are take a look at this video. Flames sparked before 5 00 this morning on arroyo drive. Crews say a burning car rolled down the driveway of the home and hit one of the fire engines. That complicated their battle against the flames. But it has since been contained. No residents or firefighters were hurt. This morning if you need another reminder to follow the shelterinplace orders, take a look at this. Seven People Police say are from fremont after they were busted to make a trip to santa cruz toz buy alcohol. It is not considered crucial and each person was cited with a 1,000 ticket. Ouch. A major concern ononirus pandemic is protecting areas potentialless populations at higher risk. Abc7 was in the south of market ashe yesterday. Here youre seeing small buses shuttle people out of the Episcopal Community shelter circle. San franciscos department of emergency organized the move but havent said where it took the residents. As weve been sharing, theyre looking for hotel rooms currently living on shelters or on the street. And in San Francisco weve been telling you about the troubled msc shelter. Its now functioning as whats being called a recovery sent ert after half of its resident tested positive for covid19 this past week. Its housing 144 people at fifth and bryant. Now most of the noninfected residents are living in city hotel rooms. And covid19 are making it hard for making it hard for any patients to see friends and family. Video chats on ipads have become the next best thing. They even launched a fundraiser to buy more ipads. Its incredibly difficult for a family who cant be with their loved onces at the bedside. Reporter at ucsf, visitors cant visit patients since covid19 went into effect in march. One way to help has been video chats on ipad. I wish iertion on an ipad are just like being in a room but nothing substitutes that personal connection, even if you cant touch or hug youre. Reporter doctor michelle is the Vice President of ucsf. She said she witnessed firsthand what the family could connect with through the video chat. We had one patient that had troubled with delirium, and for him to see the faces he recognized was incredibly impactful to his care and im pretty confident led to him being able to get his normal function back and be able to leave the hospital yesterday. It was really tremendous. Reporter she said using an ipad to communicate with patients isnt new but its never been implemented on such a large scale. She said 100 ipads have been donated so each bed in the ice litted area has around ipad. And some ucsf medical residents and students launched a gofundme, hoping to buy more. Were thinking about expanding the hospital and what are the rules for the ipad for family members who cannot make it to the bedside when this pandemic is over . First it was toilet paper, Hand Sanitizer s and n buying u. With Stores Closed for over a month, roots are showing up for many people. So theyre coloring at home. Sales are up 23 since this time last year and hair capitol hillers up more than 67 . And mayor gavin newsom share a easter message from his and his family. Were thinking of you at all and we thank you very much for your home orders and social distancing. We appreciate all of our first responders, Health Care Workers, our grocery workers, everybody whos keeping the essential businesses going and keeping people healthy and safe. And we just want to extend our appreciation and admiration to all of you out there that are continuing to do what you can to bend the curve in the state of california. So we want to wish you all a very happy easter. Thats right. Happy easter were thinking of you. Lots of love bye wondering if thats a little bunny she was holding, the daughter was holding. Looking for something to do today with your kids to celebrate easter, safari west is hosting its annual hunt for the hear online. Go to the Facebook Page at 10 00 this morning, coming up soon, to watch the staff search for mr. He hare, who was lost on the property and leaves a trail of animals to find. Theyre also hosting a eggdecorating contest. Winners will receive safari west gift cards. A check on the weather with lisa argen. Im going to be joining the other folks, doing a group of zoom with easter friends today. See how zoom easter goes. Yeah, that sounds like fun. We will see how it goes. And yesterday thes. Those in the 50s know the fog didnt clear. And the south bay and morgan hills were in the 60s. But today the fog quite extensive through the Sacramento Valley and looking at nothing but gray for the next couple of hours. Still on track to warm up and brighten up. As we widen out the view from live doppler 7, you can see how extensive the low clouds, the fg is all the way from the bay area. The Central Coast down through san luis abyss bose, southern california, looking again with the gray skies, temperatures fairly uniform in the 50s. Oakland in the upper 50s, Half Moon Bay 52. We had a few syncytials earlier around the city. Last night Half Moon Bay, 55. And temperatures really not budging out of the lowtomid50s out of santa rosa and concord to livermore. We will look at fog and low clouds to start out for everyone. Clearing to the shoreline and less fog. That will aid and coincide for warmer temperatures monday, tuesday and wednesday. As for today, once again it looks as though we will see the clearing, partly cloudy skies. 1 00, you see a few areas of buildup in the upper elevations from the mountain to hills up in the north bay but overall, forecast is clearing, hopefully sooner than the 4 00, 5 00 we had yesterday. Tomorrowooking at the clouds and warmer day. As for the highs, upper 50s once again. Ranges from the breezy winds at the coast of San Francisco to about 69 in concord with partly cloudy skies. Lets check out the wind profile. Not much out there through the evening hours but look what happens as we get into monday. We have the wind shift and still have the northwesterly flow. But as we get into tuesday, winds begin to shift to a northerly component and then oehing monday,ooking at the tuesday, north to northeast and ramping up, thats how we will get that warmup and scour out that marine layer thats just been with us for a while now. 68 in oakland for your afternoon high. Tomorrow 70s inland. Look at tuesday, were warmer with oranges coming into play. Remember the offshore flow with temperatures near 80 above average for your wednesday. The accuweather sevenday forecast, today were working on the sun, trying to scour out those clouds. That stubborn marine layer, we should good afternoon sun for the easter bunny and looking at numbers going up with the offshore winds. By thursday things reverse. More an onshore push. Were looking at clouds, cooler temperatures, not that cool though. Maybe a few sprinkles by the ended of the week. Liz . Lisa, sounds good. Hopefully it does warm up. That will be nice. Thanks, lisa. One easter tradition we have to do without it. Pressure is mounting for airlines to give money back to customers forced to cancel their flight due to the coronavirus pandemic. We have the story. Reporter michelle looks back fondly on her 25 years of marriage. One of the couples most memorable trips was to florence, so they decided to return there to celebrate their silver anniversary. They booked their flight on Swiss International airlines. The then the pandemic broke out and those plans came crashing down. My husband realized that our plans might be disrupted. Reporter they decided to reschedule the trip in october. They easily changed both their Hotel Reservations and train tickets but swiss air refused to make changes. Senators kamala harris, bernie sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar recently wrote letters to the ceos of 11 ndactomers to the recent 25 to billion bailout of the industry, and called the refunds a moral responsibility. The u. S. Department of transportation ordered both domestic and Foreign Airlines to make prompt refunds to passengers for flights it canceled or with significant schedule changes. The Airline TradeGroup Airlines for america told us its industry expects revenues this year to plummet 252 billion but remains committed to being responsive to travelers need. This is a professor in marketing. She believes they have no choice but to offer refunds. The airlines have to do this. It would look so mersary and incompatible with consumers desires to milk them. Reporter she said the pandemic will pass but the lasting images from it will not. If they make the mistake of not being compassionate, not offering refunds, consumers wont forget it. Reporter the perresies ended up canceling their flight thinking they would have to eat the cost of the ticket. We contacted Swiss International airlines on their behalf. The next day the airline changed its policy company wide. It wrote considering you canceled your tickets only one day before the introduction of this new policy, we exceptionally decided to fully reimburse your tickets. Im convinced that without the in