Going down but a popup shower or two may move through. Our trend over the next couple of days will be for the bay area to get a chance to dry out. Well warm up. The temperatures and whats ahead the rest of the week in a few minutes. Mike has a look at the morning commute. Light traffic volume. The green sensors are all over the bay. San mateo, the crash is on the shoulder. No injuries. Theyre not saying visibility was an issue but fog in the area. A camera by. Higher speeds now. Going to have to watch out. Be careful. President trump is pushing back on a new report hospitals are facing the critical shortage of supplies. Tracie potts is live inside her home in washington with the very latest. Tracie . Reporter hi, marcus. The report about the shortage of supplies caused a dustup at the White House Briefing yesterday when President Trump was asked about it, he seemed to suggest the person inside his administration who put that report together may have been playing politics. The states seem to be very happy. Most of the critical needs are being more than met. Reporter but a new Health DepartmentInspector Generals report of 300 hospitals shows their number one concern is a critical shortage of supplies includingt trump says thats no entirely washingtons problem. States can do their own testing. States are supposed to be doing testing. Hospitals are 130supposed to be doing testing. Were the federal government. Were not supposed to stand on street corners doing testing. We are nowhere near the level of testing we need to get. Reporter with nearly 2 million coronavirus tests done so far, the nations death rate is climbing now topping 10,000. New york is seeing a slowdown but the top Infectious Disease expert questions whether normal will ever look the same. If you want to get to precoronavirus, that might not ever happen in the sense of the fact that the threat is there. Reporter President Trump says hes open to working with democrats on a second stimulus to help the economy. We know already that the acceleration of the pace of this virus and this assault not on the lives but the livelihood of American People we must do more. Reporter that, the president says, could include a second round of direct payments to americans struggling to make ends meet. Now the big question here is when do we start to see a change . When is this coming to an end . Its not clear were anywhere near that. Asked whether the social distancing guidelines can be lifted at the end of the month, President Trump said he couldnt answer. Marcus . I guess well wait for the answer to that question. New concerns about Prime MinisterBoris Johnson who remains in intensive care right now. Officially no change in johnsons condition but the minister says hes receiving oxygen support, at the same time denying reports johnson is on a ventilator. A spokesperson also says johnson does not have pneumonia. He went to a London Hospital on sunday ten days after being diagnosed. There are more than 3,700 cases and 97 deaths in the bay area. Santa clara county continues to be the hardest hit with more than 1,200 confirmed cases. Rent relief is a hot topic as People Struggle to make the rent. Theyre asking a lot of elected officials to do something to help. But theres also the homeowners, the landowners as well. This is certainly a hot topic. A lot of people, you know, april 1st came and went and the rent was due. Reporter yeah, and a lot of folks are saying maybe we cant pay it next time. The city council in san jose will talk about that and if you could attend in person, i would say this would likely be a packed house because a lot of feelings on both sides of this issue. San jose city councilmembers say that families that can show a hardship because of coronavirus should be able to waive three months rent. That is not pay it later, not defer it, but not pay it at all. Property owners would then recoup that money via Small Business loans that are becoming available. Their families are not going to be able to pay that back rent, and so theyre having to make choices between feeding their families or paying as little as they can towards rent. Reporter now they are urging the San Jose City council to reconsider responding in part we are deeply concerned small Housing Providers will be unable to bear the cost of this new mandate and may force rental Housing Providers out of business if they have to absorb three months of financial losses. Were going to track that issue in the San Jose City council today and will track the Santa Clara County supervisors meeting because theyre talking about what to do and how best to house the Homeless Population during the coronavirus pandemic. The state is securing hotel rooms but a supervisor is proposing adding more rvs, things like mobile homes and movable tiny homes to add to the mix and to increase the inventory. Both of these meetings will be streamed. If you want to participate you can do that. You can watch them online. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. San francisco supervisors plan to talk about making more hotel rooms available for the homeless and right now many of the homeless are staying at the moss cone y Moscone Center. Two people tested positive there. Its now closed for a deep cleaning. Santa clara county is rolling out a new Decontamination Center for its first responders. Theyre using the center on heading street. They had people test positive. The majority of them are deputies. A distillery is doing something good during the pandemic, getting the attention of mayor sam liccardo on twitter. They shipped 440 gallons of Hand Sanitizer to people on the front lines making the transition from whiskey production. Several bay area distilleries have made several moves. Its really a good thing to see stuff like that happen. Repurr posing themselves. Youre staying in and healthy giving us the forecast, kari. Yes, and weve seen a lot of rain. Thats Something Else good weve had for the bay area. Lets talk about the rainfall totals we had because this was a pretty significant storm. Look at the rain on mt. Umunhum. And then for mt. Tam we had over 3 inches of rain there. We also had some decent rainfall from san jose to San Francisco as well as the Berkeley Hills where we had about two and a half inches of rain. Its great to see that good soaking and now were going to see much less rain in the forecast for today as well as tomorrow. Well have more on that coming up. Mike, youve been tracking the roads. We have a new crash. Coming into San Francisco south 101 approaching the Golden Gate Bridge just between there and Robin Williams tunnel word of a crash, maybe two vehicles involved. No injuries reported but it is blocking a lane. Its dark and there might possibly be fog through the area. That is the issue. The Golden Gate Bridge traffic flow clearly light here. A note now as we get to mass transit. I want to talk about b. A. R. T. They have big changes today. This is a huge reduction. Now that is a problem if youre planning on frequent trains but it will hopefully save them 3 million to 7 million. It dropped off with so much ridership. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 09 for you this morning. Still ahead for you on today in the bay, at 6 25 were going to talk about the new push to make sure everyone in their county can get tested for coronavirus. Engineers try to solve the ventilator shortage, and wall street on a pretty big tear. The numbers coming up. But first dont forget another great resource for coronavirus related news. Our nbc bay area newsletter. Youll get all the top headlines sent in one email straight to your inbox. Sign up. Its 6 10 right now. Everyone is working a little differently now. So we can still answer your calls. 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. Whaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. Right now at 6 13 were starting out with some patchy dense fog over walnut creek. Watch out for that. Were seeing visibility cut down to half a mile and that may slow down a lot of drivers heading out the door this morning. Were also seeing a slight chance of rain. Rain chances wont be as high today as weve seen the past several days as a storm system moves away. Well also start to see our temperatures warming up. Well talk more about this and a look at the micro climate forecast coming up in a few minutes. And a very good morning, a very happy tuesday to you as well. There were enormous gains on the market. The dow jumped better than 7 . The nasdaq was up about the same percentage wise. Futures calling for another jump today. Not nearly as big but still good. This good feeling comes as well see normalcy returning in china and falling infection rates in some parts of europe but that is there and this is here and it is no time for us to let our guard down. You need to keep sheltering in place. Weve talked a lot about ventilators in the past. Sometimes covid19 can get so severe you cannot breathe on your own and the worry is if enough people go to the hospital and need them there wont be enough to go around. Thats why were staying in our home. Its so if we get sick we get sick one at a time so there are enough ventilators. There is this idea of turning other things into ventilators. Brian martell is part of a group from uc berkeley and ucsf venti Rapid Response team turning peoples sleep apnea machines, the bypass for cpaps. I cant see you but i understand you have one of these things with you. You cant see me. All right, well, yes, i do. I have a unit here no, no, no. My point was, brian, they can see you. I cant see you. Im just going to be honest. Youre going to show me something and im not going to see it but the folks at home can. Early in the morning, thank you. Here is a typical home unit this is a bipap machine right here and this is effectively the kind of machine that were asking people to register online on a website ventilator sos. Com and so this is what a machine looks like and they use theres about 8 million to 13 million in the United States and the majority of them are not used and we believe theyre probably sitting in peoples closets. Thats the source of the machines that were looking for. How complicated is that to turn into a ventilator in the way that we think of ventilators . An intu bags ventilator . These are not meant to replace hospital grade ventilators. This is an option were trying to provide to in emergency use, when they either dont have ventilators or when theyre so short on ventilators they might use these when its critical for a patient and after theyre coming out of it. Reduce the load. Or if theres no ventilator, it would provide an option. It would be a replacement for that. Is the fda okay with that . Well, these devices, these machines are fda approved positive pressure devices for peoples lungs. Thats what they are made for so what were working on is trying to take this device and easily pair it with two options the doctors know that they have either an intubation tube or a facemask. Its not an optimum solution because the doctors are going to be concerned about the pressures that you can deliver with an intubation tube. And a facemask doesnt have as many problems in that regard but you have to worry about breathing out and thats a concern the fda is concerned about and so were working with the fda, working with doctors to get these options so a doctor can make those decisions. Sure. So you said lots of people have these in their closet, fairly well known people can prescribe these, dont like them and dont use them. Give that website again if people are interested in donating and helping out. Its ventilatorsos. Com or. Org, both urls. And to date fair enough. Go ahead. Theres been bryan martel is part of the uc berkeley and ucsf ventilator Rapid Response team. Thanks for being with us this morning. Marcus and laura, another thing, i have a note from all state. Its reducing my Car Insurance bill, mine and everybody elses by about 15 because were not driving as much. Fewer miles, of course, means fewer crashes. If youre not with one of those two companies i suggest you call your insurance company. I sound like chris chmura, dont i . They probably would give you a discount if others are doing it. Another way to save. It really is. We said earlier im going to write that down on my to do list. I did write it down. Scott mcgrew saving some marriages by couples getting rid of the cpap machines. Absolutely. We want to get a look at the forecast today. Kari hall has been tracking what we can expect today. How much are we going to deal with today if any . Its going to be very spotty. Not as much rain today and will get more sunshine. I know we need that, too, but weve seen signs of love all around the bay area, as we take a live look outside in San Francisco. A couple of the buildings lit up there with hearts and the building in lights so thats nice to see. Weve seen some patchy fog for some of us. Were starting out with a clear sky over the south bay. Take a look at this as we get closer to sun rise seeing our temperatures in willow glen starting out cool with low 40s. The rest of the day will warm up nicely. We see a lot less rain here in the bay area as we see temperatures in the upper 50s reaching into the 60s for today but still that rain is very close by and the storm system will sti bring in a chance of scattered showers so were going to keep that rain chance. The main participate of that storm system is pulling away. So were looking at some slightly drier weather for today. A few spot showers today and early tomorrow. We could see a quick moving shower moving through parts of the bay area late tomorrow night. Other than that were looking very nice for the rest of the week, into the weekend. Highs in the low 70s inland with some sunshine. As we head over to mike, youve been tracking the roads. Any new issues popping up . Kari, were still tracking a crash. Well talk about that more. Minor slowing there. More of an issue is muni. Making some dramatic changes today. They are running 17 bus lines because of the dramatic reduction in operators. Theyre down 40 , out on selfquarantine, so this covid virus really impacting their ability to actually get those buses on the roadway. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 21. And next here on today in the bay, maybe youre concerned about your pets and coronavirus. We have some new details to tell you about to keep you and your pets safe. Good news Everybody Needs to know. And here is Something Else, something good. San Francisco City hall lit up in purple last night honoring hospitality workers. Other landmarks like sfo, Moscone Center will be joining in on the movement for the next two mondays. A lot more news ahead. Youre watching today in the bay. Welcome back, everyone. Its 6 24 right now. In l. A. County theyre actually opening up coronavirus testing to anyone who needs it because cases there have recently shot up. In fact, overnight 15 people died yesterday bringing the total to 147 in that area. About 6,300 people have tested positive. Mayor Eric Garcetti said there are no longer any testing restrictions. Previously they were giving priority to most at risk including seniors. It will soon have the capacity to test 36,000 people per week. In chicago africanamericans are making up nearly 70 of coronavirus related deaths. Black residents also have more than double the number of confirmed cases than white residents. Mayor Lori Lightfoot says, quote, we are engaging communities that have traditionally been overlooked and that have suffered in disinvestment and neglect for generations. New worries about the pandemic seem to pop up every day. This morning the today shows vicky nguyen is answering your questions about disposable gloves. Reporter dont forget to use the withyoutoday. A lot of you are asking about gloves specifically is it okay to reuse disposable gloves if you wash them. We checked with the makers as well as Health Experts who say, no. They are really designed for onetime only use. You might put micro tears or damage them or may not be properly disinfecting them. Coming up this morning on the today show well talk more about Grocery Stores, what can you do to get grocery delivery when so Many Services are booked up for weeks, you cant get a delivery slot. Plus with people to avoid Grocery Stores ho wt you need . Were going to show you all ahead on today. 6 26 right now. Pet owners this morning wondering if they can pass on the virus to their animals. The latest concern after a report of a person doing that to a tiger at the bronx zoo. Nadya, a 4yearold malaysian tiger, contracted the virus from a symptomatic worker. Nadya is expected to be okay and veterinarians say theres no evidence of humantopet transmission. All the e