Passengers that those infected will remain in the rooms until they can be taken to shore and then transported to the hospital, the Vice President said that that ship will be taken to a noncommercial port and those that need to be quarantined will be quarantined. But its unclear where thats going to take place. Reporting live in San Francisco, im jodi hernandez, nbc barnz. This will continue to develop over the next couple days one thank you, jodi. Contra costa county Health Officials say they have identified three more cases. Two new patients were passengers aboard the grand princess cruise ship and the other had contact with a covid19 patient somewhere else. Health leaders are calling for cancellation of large events, or for people of high risk of contacting the coronvirus to avoid them altogether. People at high risk should avoid Mass Gatherings such as concerts, sporting events or parades. There have been now been seven cases announced in that county. And extremely popular festival cancelled because of coronvirus. South by southwest organizers announced today the event wont go on in austin baug are because of virus concerns. South by southwest is exploring options to reschedule. But still the festival is popular for people from the bay area. Work from home if you can. Thats increasing the message from Tech Companies trying to avoid outbreak. And while that may be comforting to employees its stressful to the businesses that rely on all those techies. Nbc bay area kristy smith is live in the bay area with more for us kristy. We spoke with Restaurant Managers in San Francisco saying that business keeps dropping off for a number of reasons. And they think it is tied to concerned about the coronvirus. We also spoke with ride share drivers, and they have concerns too. I have hygiene. You have the Hand Sanitizer. Se it, yeah. And. Sayed drives for uber and lyft and lately sharing Hand Sanitizers with riders but he is concern about the coronvirus. I am scared today. I dont know why. Why. Everybody wearing the masks, you know. And there is some coughing. He received guidance from the companies and cleans the car often but says he may leave early today. A number of large parties cancelled the past week. Pete is the managing partner at the bar here on the embarcadero. Dinner business is down 15 and sees impact from companies saying twitter appear lyft Companies Work from home. Where that impacts us is lunch and after work. Those people working from home typically would be in the neighborhood come here after work. The impact on Small Businesses has been devastating. Jay chang is with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. One of our main messages you have to support the local businesses and local restaurants even if its ordering takeout from them and pick it up there. We caught up with one downtown bartender who hopes the situation improves. I think its because of the virus. People are afraid to, you know, go out to public places. Referee and so. Reporter some manager see a dom knee effect. Kristy smith nbc barnz zbliefrmgts coronvirus coronvirus has investors on edge stocks fell again today kamg a roller coaster week on wall street. Cutting losses rapid will in the time ten minutes of trading ending the day down 256 points. Billions of dollars more to fight the coronvirus. President trump signed a 8 billion response bill at the white house. Later touring the cdc in atlanta where the people is ramping up to address the production of test kits hoping to get another 4 million delivered next week. They have to do the Quality Control and then if they ss. I think i think unfortunately anybody right now and yesterday and anybody that needs a test kit theyre there. This the they have to test. The president said he would prefer the people on the grand princess cruise ship off the bay area to be kept onboard. However he says he will defer to experts. If you live in San Francisco you can now get text updates about the coronvirus. Today the Sf Department of Emergency Management and the department of Public Health announced the new covid19 text message alert system. Officials will now share new information about the virus and any cancellations of major events and public facility closures. Text covid19 sf to the short code 888 dsh 777 if you want to receive the updates. A big cleanup in San Francisco to help prevent the spread of the virus. Those are immune y workers cleaning and sand advertising a bus. They say they do this with buses and trains every night. The Agency Posted the video on twitter to show people what they do every day. Developments in the outbreak are changing by the hour pop. So created a coronvirus Crisis Center to make sure you have the information you need. As you know its impossible to buy Hand Sanitizer sold out everywhere but you can make your own you need two ingredients. Aloe vera gel and isopropyl alcohol. It has to be 99 concentration. You cant use vodka pap. Thats only 40 alcohol. When you mix the ingredients together, two parts gel, actually its one part gel, two parts alcohol. Mix well until thickening up and this will dry out your hands. Use the sanitizer as a temporary solution. The best way is to watch wash with soap and water, with soap for 20 seconds. You pew one part gel two parts alcohol. Health Officials Say no need to panic just prepare. If you want to stock up on feed we have a grocery list. Canned goods frozen foods including nutritious items, high fiber cereal is a good idea. Oatmeal, snacks like granola bars beef jerky and popcorn. Dy a poll today on facebook. Is the coronvirus kbaking travel . These are the results down there. As of about 30 minutes ago 45 say no but 5 a say yes. The poll about even. We will update you on the poll at 6 00. Jessica. Thanks, janell. Its a legal no no and ebay it blocked sales price gouging. Price gouging for hand sand advertise are and surgical masks. Its for u. S. Listings. Its concerned that inflated prices could violate price gouging laws. At a 20 pack of masks was listed at 100. Researchers at stanford say they developed they are own test for covid19 and say its faster than the one used by the cdc stanford doctors can get results in 12 hours using the test on patients showing symptoms a at the university hospital. Research team started developing the test in january and in february confirmed that the test is effective. As more cases of the virus pop up in the bay area cities and dts are taking measures to limit impact. It also means protecting rents esper while protecting the community. The events are cancelled. Damian truly owe is at a park where a festival to set to take part next week. The native American Heritage festival is still on for next weekend but other events are being cancelled as the mayor steps in to try to help those who might be vulnerable. These are tough times we know well have to endure in the weeks ahead. Reporter the coronvirus is consuming between 70 and 807 of the mayors time. In response to the community concerns. Mayor liccardo made this announcement. Anybody losing income and no longer able to pay rent we want to keep them housed. On tuesday the council will vote whether to outlaw evictions who are impacted financially by coronvirus. Liccardo says is the association of landlords is onboard and there may be help for small are landlords who themselves cant afford to lose a months rent. We just need to do everything we can to keep everybody afloat during this tough time. Reporter the moratorium lasts 30 days but that can be extended. The city also is taking a big financial hit. The fair grounds cancelled all events this weekend. Other groups are doing the same, including teach for america, which had a big conference scheduled on saturday. Safety and health comes first. And so we had to make the tough call. Reporter the mayor predicts the impact will be felt the next year in silicon valley. The native American Heritage festival says its working with the city and monitoring the alerts by the Public Health department to see what they will do next. But right now the festival is on. Live in san jose, damian truly owe, nbc barnz. Thank you, damian. A major fundraiser for south bay schools canalsled yes because of the coronvirus. Just this morning the San Jose Unified School district told the willow glenn performing Arts Booster Club to canceling the fundraiser for in evening. Willow Glenn High School depends on the evening to raise 90 of the money for the theater, dance, choir and band program. You know, the state doesnt Fund Anything around arts education. And so 100 of the funding comes from organizations like ours that fund raise around the school to bring in and infuse that. Is disappointing for them. Not only will they not raise the money tonight. The event cost about 20,000 which the nonprofitable probably wont get back. Just a reminder we are doing Something Different starting in a few minutes. We have three different experts on three different topics. Schools, health care and the economy. Yes and up next a south bay superintendent is he joins us with what you need to know and what theyre doing to keep the coronvirus out of the district. And despite the Virus Outbreak a hospital on the peninsula may be shutting down. What county leaders are trying to do to prevent that from happening. And change under way with the weather right now. Clouds on the increase, a few sprinkles in San Francisco and increasing rain chances finally making a comeback as we approach the weekend. How much of your impact could be impacted by the rain drops when we come right back . Tonight i take to you the streets, the workplace to Public Transit with an expert to demonstrate how to best defend yourself from coronvirus. Plus a look at the new challenge of all this face touching when we see you back here tonight. Dozens of new Affordable Housing units opened in the south bay today. New villas on the park is the name of the apartment building. New sleek and modern youd never guess its 90 residents were were homeless. Measures a housing bound passed by voters four years ago financed the complex. The nonprofitable group will operate it. As we lift others up we have to do it in a way thats justice centered and not charity centered. Because when its justice centered it looks like this. Not just housing, the People Living there have jobs. Theyll have access to Services IncludingMental Health care, job skills and some social activities as well. A former teacher at richmond high will richmond high will spend the next three years in prison. He had an inappropriate relationship with a 15yearold student. Lopez was arrested last summer and pleaded guilty last week to unlawful sex with a myren. He was first released today. The two it ho had sexual recommendations multiple times off campus. The 27yearold was a peh schoo soccer. San mateo county supervisors are about to hold an emergency meeting, wanting to save the only hospital in daly city from shutting done. The the compelled center filed for bankruptcy. They tried to find a new owner but were unsuccessful. Seton could shut down next week. Tonights meeting county leaders will consider a few options to save it. One of them buying the hospital for 80 million. Tonight we are doing Something Different. Three experts on three different topics involving the coronvirus. Our first is here. Dr. Olaria bow bauer from the rockville School District. Superintendent. I know there are no cases in the allen rock School District what are you telling your students or preparing to make sure the virus doesnt spread in the district. Thank you for inviting me, ladies, i want to make sure that Everybody Needs to be calm. I saw some prek students last night and they took it the best way reminding each other to wash hands, make sure they use cough etiquette and they use the words. The children know what to do. And thats what we tell everybody. Keep calm, be mindful of our hygiene habits and, please, do not horde important items like sanitizers and water because were not apartment at that point yet. There are other situations where those things might be needed. Theyre taking it better than the parents probably. Absolutely. So lets say right now things are great and nothing happened. But if there were to be exposure in the allen rock School District, what would be the first step and whats the protocol so that parents would know what are the steps that would be put in place. So this is for allen rock or any other district because thats the protocol we are all following from the Public Health department. So the only ones that can determine that this is a case of coronvirus is only the Public Health department. And thats the only one that can tell us with certainty whether a case is this matter. What do you do with the kids though. At this point we follow the directions from them. Depending on the case, what they are saying is that we have to sand advertise completely the classrooms, and interestingly enough, as of two days ago because news is evolving. I want to remind people about that tonight. What i say tonight might not apply tomorrow. Changing. Thats a disclaimer. As of today if this happens we are supposed to sand advertise and there will be an issue of quarantine for the family. And all of those steps and guidelines come exactly from the health department. If the School Closes down what do you do with the children then. We follow exactly what any other emergency situation, we will alert the parents about the situation. We will wait for the amount of time where the school is going to be closed because right now it can be from two days to 14 days to a month. And we have no clue about any of those things as of right now. Because it has not happened in any of our allen rock schools. And so we have to wait for the specific guidelines from the authorities to be able to proceed. Okay. Hopefully nothing happens. Hilaria bauer thank you for joining us. Thank you. Several schools are close inned bay area because of the coronvirus concerns we posted the list on the website and keep it updated as closures are announced. You can find it on nbcbayarea. Com click on oh on the koerchs coverage tab. And rob a lot of changes. And the camera behind us, some dropping returning to the camera lens. Its been 37 days but it looks like the dry spell is about to come to an end. We could be hours away from the rain returning right now. Mostly cloudy skies over san jose. Temperatures today not bad. We actually managed 67 degrees but cooling now as the clouds fill in and 59. Emeryville here. Breezes picking up a bit. 3 miles an hour at 57 degrees. And . San francisco sprinkles close to downtown. And we get excited about that. Because we havent had measurable rain since the 28th of january. Right now 54 degrees by lets say 12 could 14 hours from now as you wake up tomorrow morning we should see light rain moving through. Temperatures starting today in the upper 40s. Highs tomorrow continuing the cooling trend around by both and sunday highs in the upper 50s. To near 60. Morning rain, followed up by afternoon showers. You can see a lot of clouds spilling in the bay area, the rain producing type, still a little bit farther here offshore. The timing looks to be a mainly saturday morning to midday saturday, light to moderate rain event. Through midafternoon into the evening, you should catch a break so skies clear. Things temporarily dry out into saturday night. Sunday more clouds spill in and we could seeites latd showers into sunday evening. Rainfall projections again relatively low. But again this is the first we have seen in 37 days. Anywhere from a dwr inch of rain in wettest locations to about 0. 19 of rain and a lot of saturday morning. Next up next chance of rain coming in for monday, tuesday, wednesday. Notice where the storm is, hanging out west of southern california. Odds are thats where the biggest rain totals will be through the first half of next week. Big rain expected for l. A. But moving to the north, notice the rain totals with the second storm stay mainly south bay focused. We think the santa cruz mountains, areas south of santa fe early next week could get more rain. Finally changes breaking the dry weather pattern, light rain to start the weekend. Cool and cloudy at times and then i do think a little more rain could be headed our way possibly monday, tuesday and wednesday. Right now less than a quarter inch for most of the bay area but its a Welcome Change from the dry and ufrmt high fire danger, too we have seen the last couple weeks. Take whatever you are offering. Exactly thanks, rob. Coming up, from delivering packages to curing colds, the process amazon has been working on for years. Just because were super hungry. Doesnt mean you got to spend a lot because dennys brought back the super slam™. With eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes. All for just 6. 99. The 6. 99 super slam™ is back see you at dennys amazon says its working on a cure for the common cold. 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