Museums and botanical gardens. Sonoma county entered phase two last friday and county leaders say theyre strictly following the states guidelines. Marin county, San Francisco and san mateo counties will move into phase two on monday and alameda and contra costa. Napa and Solano County in phase two. Muni is expanding its Service Starting tomorrow. Resuming the san bruno rapid line and running buses more often rularha are leat crowd weve seen. Passengers have to wear masks and drivers will limit the number of rides. Well, after weeks of delay, the federal governments top experts on Infectious Diseases have released new guidelines for opening the country as many states have already started to do so. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with the very latest. Jobina. Overnight the cdc released new guidelines providing the most specific guidance yet from the federal government on how to safely tr were learning the co recommend school and camps stagger drop offs and limit how often kids mix into groups. Restaurants can open as long as they offer social distance and flexible leave among employees. After a top government scientist warned congress about the dangers of reopening too quickly. The window is closing to address this pandemic because we still do not have a standard centralized coordinated plan to take our nation through this response. Reporter at least 45 states have eased restrickrestrictions way. Prts of upstate new york will reopen today, but stayathome orders in new york city has been extended to june. Today republicans are calling it dead on arrival. Kumasi . Thank you, jobina. Governor newsom released his plan to balance a 54 budget deficit and it will likely mean cuts to schools and government services. Deferring payments and even canceling tax breaks will help close part of the gap. The remaining 26 will be from cuts. The governor wants to slash the salaries of state workers by 10 . He wants to pull back on new programs and he wants to take away 19 billion in funding for public schools. Breaks my heart because one thing i know about cuts, a human being behind every single number. Behind every category is a dream that is either deferred. In some case, a dream that is denied. Newsom says the cuts could be avoided if President Trump signs the heroes act. An aid package that will help states and local governments but as jobina mentioned, the president said the plan would be dead on arrival if it reaches his desk. Berkeleys mayor is moving ahead with a plan to help local restaurants. Wants to let restaurants turn sidewalks and streets into Outdoor Dining spaces. More than 350 restaurants in the city. Berkeleys food scene was hit really hard by these layoffs. The plan goes before berkeleys city council on june 2nd. San francisco and san jose are moving forward with similar proposals. The way we work will undoubtedly never be the same. 40 of workers in the u. S. Are doing their jobs at home and using different tools to stay connected. The changing workplace is one of the four areas that abc7 is focused on as part of our effort to build a better bay area. Dion lim gives us a glimpse to the hightech way we might work in the future. Can you show me around . Reporter what youre watching is almost like a s,cii movie. Spatial. I can circle what i like and x out what i dont like. Reporter taked the average two dimensional zoom meeting to a whole new level where social distancing doesnt matter. I can put my arm on a coworker. Reporter and frankly so realistic, its blowing my mind. This really creates a lifelike experience. I feel like im at a party. Reporter it was born out of necessity three and a half years ago. We were a team spread out between San Francisco and new york and missouri and were like, hey, wouldnt it be cool, i want you in here with me. Reporter and unexpectedly exploded with 1,000 increase in customers during the pandemic. Using any augmented or Virtual Reality device or just a computer camera. Users are transformed into a multitude of workplaces. Here the team is showing me how workers can collaborate on a layout of a cell phone store. I want to say we need another phone out here. Reporter designing on backpacks. One of spatials goal how to resolve the awkwardness of the chat. You dont have a party where theres 30 people in the room and only one person is talking. It feels like a speech. It is just not natural. Reporter in addition to a better work from home experience, the company ames to save users time. Wouldnt it be great if we never had to go on a 10hour, 20hour business trip. Reporter and employers money, but the spatial team acknowledge there will always be a need for inperson gatherings. Just where and when is up to you. In Virtual Reality, dion lim, abc7 news. Definitely some Interesting Times were in, mike. I love it. It is neat. The thing i noticed with zoom is as they were talking and too many people are talking, you cant its not the same as being right there and listening to three different people talk at the same time. Its different when you try to do it because its all coming out of one speaker. But that was fantastic. It doesnt eliminate us. I was really concerned about. We are a part of this. Yes. All right. Lets talk about the earthquake, kumasi. Got some good news. Some new news or news or hoerwer you want to say it, update. 5. 4, down but that is a very strong storm. Lets look back at our scale and show you what is going on as soon as it loads here. What were talking about it one that is a 6 happens about, sorry, its just taking a second for the graphics to load, i dont know why. It takes a 6 as we learned has at least 3 2 Million Pounds of explosives where a 5 does not. It could have anywhere up to a Million Pounds of explosives right there. The isis a 5. 8. Closer to that 6. Closer to the 120 per year as opposed to the 1,200 per year. Yet, well find a lot of damage from those small cities around that. Just wanted to give you that update. Cloud cover in livermore, san jose and palo alto. Temperatures warmer and the rest of us clearing cooler. Start down in the south bay and mid to upper 50s right now and you can see pretty much mid 50s everywhere to get to the north bay with upper 40s to low 50s. Heres a look at what is going on from our roof camera. Looks dry out there and it will be dry. The only concern for the commute. A little bit of fog in the north bay this morning. Mass transit and a breezy afternoon on the bay, especially south of the bay bridge and down into the south bay. Heres a look at the north bay. 50s through 9 00 and then low to mid 70s this afternoon. We have an Atmospheric River coming our way this weekend. Yeah, one in may. Ill talk about that coming up. Here she is, hi, jobina. How are you . Hi, mike. Im doing well. Im glad you mentioned the fog in the north bay and thats what im tracking right now. Nice segue there. The chp has issued a fog advisory for the golden gate bridge. Lets look at it so you can see the conditions out there and as you travel further up into the north bay you will run into fog, as well. Be aware of the low visibility and it doesnt look too bad right now and we want you to slow down especially because there are various Road Construction projects out around the bay area this morning. That is all im tracking at the moment. Ill give it back to kumasi. A tool to fight coronavirus may be on your wrist. 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Mid to upper 50s at 7 00 and high clouds and sunshine and feeling pretty comfy at the coast and low to upper 70s away near the coast and gets kind of breezy this afternoon. 50s and 60s if youre heading out this evening. In fact, the entire state is quiet from 69 in yosemite to 96 sin palm springs to 63 in tahoe. In fact, were watching for forr from this atmospheriatmospheric. Heres kumasi. Thank you, mike. Some religious leaders are vowing to reopen their churches at the end of the month whether they have permission from Governor Newsom or not. They want churches to be included in the phase two reopening. The ban on Church Services is government overreach. Cant we reopen under the same conditions that the stores and supermarkets, marijuana clinics, tattoos parlors are opening under . Now some churches say they have safety protocols in place including masks and seating to keep everybody six feet apart. What if wearable devices like fitbits and smart watches could help detect covid19. Researchers at two leading bay area universities are looking into just that. Reporter a valuable tool in the fight of the coronavirus could be one you already own. I am wearing three smart watches and this ring is a sensor, as well. Were keen on this technology. Reporter technology that researchers say could be instrumental in telling you when youre sick even before youre symptomatic. Your blood oxygen could change without you knowing it. Reporter Stanford Medicine a new detection to detect covid19 through wearable devices like a fitbit or apple watch. We have a dashboard that collects all the information and well relay these warnings back to people. Reporter theyre not the only ones looking into how hes devices could play a valuable role. We have seen users coming to us saying my ring told me i felt sick before i felt sick. Reporter sponsoring research at ucst to study data combined with its wearable ring could develop an algorithm of onset, progression and recovery. More than 40,000 people are in the study, including 3,000 Front Line Health Care workers who have already been provided with a ring which could track ones pulse, movement and temperature. As for the stanford project, they hope to fine tune their algorithms with the goal of making the program live by the summer. Pretty cool. This years releases release brought in a record 5. 1 million to sonoma countys economy. Brewing Company Released in february and it was just for two weeks and this year they also sold bottles that you could take home. County Officials Say spending jumped 900,000 during this time. Yeah, look at those lines. Over 23,000 customers visited either the windsor or the downtown santa rosa it is considered the most des e desirable beer in the country because of the scarcity and the taste. Have you had it . Im not really a beer person . Do they have some with rose . Yeah. I dont think thats your crowd. I guess not. A beer mixed with rose. They have it, mike. Watch. Next year. You need this is your side hustle. Yeah, yeah. Your side hustle. You just thought of it. Go patent that before someone tries to steal it from you. Lets talk about what is going on weather wise. I see you have your tea, i have my coffee. Its friday. Hi, everybody. I hope youre in good spirits. Lets look at that swirling mass. That is the beginning of a weak Atmospheric River. We dont get many in may and i dont think we have had one this year and i had one since it has been such a dry year. Lets talk about what it is going to do as it rolls in. This is the water vapor and now the blue you can see just off the oregon california coast. Thats some of the deeper moisture. Thats what we want. We dont want that orange. That is the very dry air that is eventually going to move in behind this system. Lets talk about temperatures first and then well get to that system and mid to upper 60s for most of the coast to the bay and low to mid 70s in the south bay and low to mid 70s in the south bay. Tonight well drop down into the low and even a few upper 50s. Napa could be the cool spot at about 49. The blanket ofke us mild. Here we are saturday morning, we are waking up to increasing clouds and by the afternoon hours, you could see the rain light to moderate, green to yellow moving into the north bay. Several hours of rain in the north bay during the overnight hours until the rain starts to move south as we head towards sunday where well get several hours of rain, also. Turn over to showers sunday night and even a chance of thunderstorms sunday night into monday and that would mean hail could be possible. But its small hail. Peasize hail. Not the big hail balls that you see in the midwest that damage things. Well have a lingering chance of showers tuesday a one on the storm impact scale and drier and warmer weather. A new warning is out this morning accusing tiktok of violating childrens privacy. And elmo is officially the first sesame street character on instagram. Heres techbytes. A serious charge against tiktok. The app is collecting personal information of children under 13 without their parents consent. Tiktok has not commented on had latest complaint. Last year they revamped. In michigan robots are now making food deliveries. Two College Professors have created the autonomous robots roll through the streets at 15 Miles Per Hour to a preprogrammed address all without putting customers or workers at risk during this pandemic. Elmos world has come to instagram. The giggling red muppet is the first sesame street character to have his own account. According to the description it is run with had help of elmos mommy and daddy. He has has more were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Its hard to be stuck at home right now. But we want to say thank you. Because youre being a big helper. When you stay home. Youre protecting other people from getting sick. By calling a someone you love whos stuck inside, youre giving them a smile. And they need it when you wash your hands for like the hundredth time today. Youre keeping your family safe. And by being brave. Youre helping us all be brave. We know its not easy. But helping will make everything go back to normal again as soon as possible. Youre part of a big family of helpers around the world. And youre making a big difference. Find ways to help children feel safe at unicefusa. Org covid19. Thats unicefusa. Org covid19. All right. If youre just joining us, an update on the earthquake. Originally 6. 4 over in nevada and downgraded to 5. 8, which is still a very powerful earthquake. So powerful it was felt 235 miles away in san jose. Has the equivalent of nearly 30,000 or 30 Million Pounds of explosives. So, theres going to be some damage in some of those smaller cities over there. We have Atmospheric River coming our way and it will set up in the north bay. You can see saturday evening already up to half inch of rain and look at that, up to two inches possible in the mountains while only a tenth of an inch is possible in the south bay. So, its going to unload most of its moisture up in the north bay. All right, thanks, mike. The 49ers are making contingency plans to hold Training Camp outside of california this summer. Santa clara county shelterinplace order is extended until the end of the month but if it continues until the end of july, they will need to hold Training Camp somewhere else. Arizonas governor says professional teams can resume operations starting today. November november already has restrictions lu s loosened the. San jose open its gardens for selfguided tours. The touchless outdoor tour has 20 stops throughout the fouracre garden. Visitors have to wear masks and social distance from other guests. The fame home is known for its really bizarre design. Thats still closed. Tours of the garden will be offered thursday through sundays but you have to buy your tickets online in advance. A north bay congressman is clean shaven again. A democrat Mike Thompson pledged to shave off his corona beard if people donated to shave his neighbors. Here is video that thompson shared on his facebook as he shaved off his white beard. It had grown over the past several weeks and took out the razors after donors gave 20,000 to Community Action of napa valley. There you go. Thank you very much for your contributions making sure were able to feed people who need meals and there you go. I still have a face for radio. His wife jan is, quote, even happier that his corona beard is now history. Now jans opinion is the only opinion that matters, but i will say, im here for a good beard. You like a beard . Drews got a very nice one. Im not sure i could do that. Try it, mike. You think i should. You can say corona. Yeah, ill see if we can run that by the boss. I mean, just having not cut this for nearly two months is really pushing it, i think. Lets talk about what is going on with the Drought Monitor and the latest data came out yesterday and the little bit of rain held everything at bay and twothirds to threequarters of our neighborhood. Well put a dent into that, not only over the weekend but also that chance of thunderstorms with small hail rolling in to monday and a chance of some scattered showers into tuesday. So, outside of what is going to hit saturday and sunday with that Atmospheric River, another potential quarter to half inch of rain is possible. Maybe another inch up in the north bay. If this hol