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Can get back to work. Is what is this means now for our city is incredible. Because were talking about many of those Small Businesses in various neighborhoods where you see many of those shops that are closed, they will be able to open for pickup and for curb side pickup and delivery. Warehouses and manufacturing facility also be allowed to reopen, as well. But all are required to limit employees in the building and everyone must wear a mask. 15 counties in california will be allowed to more fully reopen because they have met the states conditions in terms of testing and a decline in testing. That means they can do everything under phase two. Reopening clothing stores, bookstores, Sporting Good stores, offices, restaurants with seated dining and shopping malls. California is trying to avoid another crisis, even as it manages the covid pandemic. Were talking wildfires. The state has already seen a jump in fires compared to the same time last year. Today, the governor and cal fire made it career, the coronavirus will not slow down preparations for fire season. Robert handa explains what that could mean for us here in the bay area. Reporter a light rain fell on the dry south bay Spring Valley hills today. A welcome sight for cal fire, though the deputy chief for bay area county says dont let it fool you. We are a little drier than we were last year. Weve had quite a bit more fires this year than we did last year. Thats enough to raise caution. Reporter Governor Newsom and cal fire leaders say they understand that concern. And today reassured the public that dealing with covid19 wont impact wildfire preparation. In fact, the governor said many state Fire Prevention projects, such as clearing fire fuels in the Santa Cruz Mountains will resume soon. The budget i will announce tomorrow will include enhancements for wildfire preparation and preparedness across the board, as well as suppression strategies and opportunities to be more resilient. Reporter the bay area cal fire deputy chief echoed that reassurance. Covid19 has taken the forefront of everybodys thoughts in california, and the world actually. The one nice thing is to know cal fire has been quietly behind the scenes ramping up for fire season. Reporter the bay area wont have to wait very long to see the benefits. New and returning firefighters begin training monday. Cal fire expects to be at full staffing by may 25. Robert handa, nbc bay area news. We want to look at the latest number, just over 100 cases confirmed in the past 24 hours. Santa claire au county is the hot spot with 2100 cases. People across the u. S. Are moving around more. We want to show you this map from the new york times. The dark orange spots in idaho, montana, those show people with the most activity, moving around. But take a look at michigan. That has the most movement and also where theres been the biggest then administrati biggest demonstrations against the shelter at home orders. Heres another way to look at this right now. The purple bar, this dark purple bar represents the percentage of people staying at home nationwide. This is before the shelter at home order went into effect. This is like february, beginning of march. Take a look. April, may. It peaked and do you see these peaks here . Right here . These are the weekends. So people going out on the weekends but staying home during the weekdays. Past this bar, this is just in the past week. It shows declining here, only 36 of people stayed home. So more people getting out. Thats an 8 drop compared to this time. So it comes as 23 states have reopened for business around the nation. Jessica . Thank you. School districts in the bay area face a very difficult question, how do you reopen schools in the fall and keep kids safe from contracting covid19 . The state superintendent says schools may have to adopt staggered shifts to give students more staff. That means some in the morning, others in the afternoon. That will likely force districts to hire extra staff, but many are asking how can they afford that considering the state is facing a 54 billion budget deficit. We know that this is going to be daunting for us, but we can stand up to the challenges. The Berkeley Unified School district is considering staggered School Schedules for fall. Some are starting to believe this pandemic will create changes that could last a long time, especially now that at least one company says its employees could work from home forever. Thats what twitters ceo is offering. So we decided to check out what that would mean for all those Office Buildings in the area of silicon valley. Scott budman has the answers. Reporter lets face it, apple didnt build a campus so it could sit empty. And the Salesforce Tower doesnt tower over San Francisco so people can work from home. Companies like twitter, facebook, and google are still getting the job done working remotely. They could get these functions done if theyre secure. Reporter but blue scapes Ceo Peter Jackson knows there are security risks to staying away from the tech mother ship. His companys Software Deals with just that. You have conversations that are very sensitive. And then you have people on those calls, listening in, or being able to get access to these documents. Reporter and what about commercial real estate . Its been booming here. Is the post pandemic future looking like a bust . Some of the folks i talked to are worried about it. Reporter or will Tech Companies use the ability to work in and out of the office as a competitive advantage . If we can find a better way for people to work here as a result of this, then that it will end up in our favor. Reporter ironically, Companies May need more commercial real estate because those companies will want us to spread out while we work. In san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Thank you, scott. The rift between President Trump and dr. Anthony fauci appears to be growing. Late today, the president publicly questioning the doctor he himself picked to be on the White House Coronavirus task force. Our raj mathai joins us now. The president is pushing back against many of the recommendations and observations that dr. Fauci is making. Yeah, you can see them start to paths. The business first path and the health first path and they do not align. At least one of the casualties here is optimism around the country. Lets show you what were talking about. More americans are starting to believe we will not go back to a high degree of normally for many months. This poll released just today, asking when do you think we can gather in groups of more than ten people. About a quarter of the people say not until later this year. About a quarter also responded, no big Group Gatherings until 2021. As for the rift between the president and dr. Fauci, most doctors will tell you this is a dangerous slope that were starting to go down, to question medical experts. Either we go from peaks to going down to valleys, you know, depending on when we open or close, or we see small, controlled outbreaks that our Public Health response is very good and were opening in smaller measures over a longer period of time. Or the worst case scenario, is next fall we get a second peak, which is compounded by the flu season. And we have seen that in past pandemics. In 1918 pandemic, the second wave was particularly hard to deal with. So nobody knows, and i think most scientists think that we know that were not immune, so we are going to see more cases. 23 Bay Area Companies expanding their testing. Does genetics, if anything, have a role in the severity of people getting covid19 . We dont know, and thats one of the concerns. What we know is there are certain groups of young people who do not have traditional risk factors for covid19 who are coming into hospitals and having a pretty tough time. Theyre critically ill, and we dont know if its genetics in those particular individuals that might be driving their risk factors for having a severe disease. So studies could give a signal to what it is that is in an individual that might be driving those risks. Thats one of the many things were trying to discover here. 23 and me wants your help the study. If youve been hospitalized by covid19 recently or a couple of months ago, they want to ask you a few questions. Jessica, youre cuban american, im indian american, we would be a good case study. This could help fight the disease from an ethnic stand point. They have been standing those emails out to answer questions about whether youve been ill or not from covid19. Good information. Thanks, raj. Knowledge is power. Thanks, raj. Rising numbers of cases inside Immigration Detention Centers has immigrants scared, and critics calling for change in u. S. Policy. Ill have that story coming up. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Tracking a little bit of rain right now and a preview of a storm this weekend. Ill have that for you in about five minutes. 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. Infectious disease experts across the country are warning of a new battle front of the Coronavirus Crisis. Immigrant Detention Centers. Half of them have tested positive for the virus in i. C. E. Centers. We have a rare glimpse of what it looks like inside an Immigration Detention Center from someone who was there. Reporter last year, Charles Joseph finished serving 12 years in prison for holding up a convenience store. Finally, and im so happy, im ready. Reporter he had one brief taste of freedom. Dressed up in my regular street clothes, im happy. My mom is out in the parking lot with my wife. Reporter but then he was detained for deportation. Mr. Joseph . Cuff it up. Reporter born in fiji, hes a permanent resident of the u. S. But not a citizen. Because of the crime he committed when he was 21, he can be deported or detained. So i. C. E. Sent him to the Detention Center near bakerstfield. Now covid breaks out. Reporter joseph and others there describe dangerous conditions at the facility. 100 men crammed into a small space, double bunks, two to three feet apart. Only five bars of soap for the entire dorm. Now the staff are coming in and out with no masks, no gloves, total disregard. Reporter joseph made a list of 40 men inside the Detention Center that he says have Health Conditions that make them vulnerable to covid19. Including himself. He suffers from asthma. During a video chat with the community organizer, joseph and his fellow detainees recorded a message about their fears. This pandemic requires social distancing, and that sim possible in this environment. This will turn out potentially to a death sentence. Reporter i. C. E. Began testing in february. In april, the number of cases jumped significantly and grew through may 6. Out of 1,593 detainees tested so far, about half tested positive. Us by telephone and asked that we protect his identity. Are you worried you might get covid19 . Im very afraid that might happen. I am worried about my life. Theres a lot of evidence that these i. C. E. Detention centers are incredibly bad at preventing Infectious Disease. Reporter dr. Ian kim is among more than 4,000 doctors across the country sounding an alarm about the spike in covid cases inside detention. The Vulnerable People will get sick and some will die. Reporter he points to a previous outbreak. Five cases of the mumps spread from texas to 57 facilities across 19 states. If and when it explodes with a covid19 outbreak, that becomes the course of an outbreak that then infects the community that overwhelms our hospitals. And the hospitals in the region. Theres no reason to be in prison right now reporter christina believes the solution to the crisis is to end detention, because theyre being held on several not criminal charges there. Many of these individuals are also folks who have lived here in the United States for decades, who have children, who have spouses in the United States. Reporter an i. C. E. Spokesman said the agency is already reducing the number of detainees. Field arrests in Northern California are down from 168 arrests in january to 30 in april. Nationally, arrests are down 71 so far this year. The aclu and coalition of attorneys founded a Class Action Lawsuit against i. C. E. , demanding the release of vulnerable detainees, including Charles Joseph. Due to his asthma, a federal judge ordered his relief last month. I thought it was a dream. I thought i was hallucinating. Yeah, i was safe. It felt like i was leaving my brothers behind, you know . Reporter while advocates say this crisis shows how important it is to eliminate immigration detention all together, i. C. E. Officials say theyre merely following u. S. Law and policy. Its a debate sure to rage on long after the covid crisis ends. Im stephen stock, nbc bay area news. Thank you, stephen. Lets get a check of the forecast. Another day of cloudy skies, and jeff, this could continue for a while. Yes, we do have some more rainfall ahead. But heres the good news, janelle, jess, everyone at home. A little window of some sunshine coming our way before we see our weekend storm system. So thats good news for you. As we look at the radar and satellite, we did get a little fwit bit of rainfall today, nothing big. We have the Doppler Radar scanning. And we are following some consistent shower activity over morgan hill right now. This is moving off towards the east. So youll likely continue with spotty showers through 6 36 tonight. Tomorrow, isolated shower chances right here for the morning. Cool 50s and hold on to that possibility at least through the early afternoon. Temperatures warm up a couple of degrees. Well go with the low 70s here for the south bay and the east bay, inland valleys. And closer to the water, we have 69 in oakland, 64 in San Francisco, and 58 in half moon bay. What i want to do is push it ahead towards the next storm system we have moving in. So you are ready to go for that. You can see sunday morning, 1 00, this is a widereaching storm from the Pacific Northwest all the way down to the bay area. And as we continue through sunday, i think everybody in the Morning Hours will get some rainfall. Now, well go over those totals a lot closer, but the good news about that is the pollen. If your allergies have been bothering you, that is certainly going to help. Well talk about those totals for sunday, and well show you exactly when some sunshine returns. Ill have that for you coming up in about 25 minutes. Okay. Thank you, jeff. May showers. Did you see them over the bay area . Well show you the f15 flyover. And the concerns over the financial costs. Raj mathai rejoins us next. Take a look. Our live cam in emeryville this wednesday evening commute. Its pretty light. This is interstate 80. If you notice the skies are quiet now, but that wasnt the case earlier today. Welcome back to studio z. Im raj mathai. Earlier today, a lot of people were looking up in the sky. The f15s from the central valley, the California National guard making their presence known. Did you see them . Did you hear them . The jets circling the bay area, oakland over to San Francisco, down the peninsula to san jose. I saw them at palo alto at 11 00 a. M. Sharp. A lot of people started to cheer where i was. Maybe where were you, as well. They buzzed more than a dozen hospitals and health care facilities. Down below, this was cool to see. The heartfelt cheers and gratitude from all the health care workers. This was the scene at Regional Medical center in san jose. But really, this is what it looked like in so many different hospitals and medical centers. You can see the doctors and nurses taking a quick break to look at the sky. It was just such a feeling of deep gratitude for the recognition, acknowledgement of all the work that the frontline staff have been doing. So were just very grateful. We should add this air National Guard confirming to us that what was done today, no extra cost to taxpayers. This was considered a training mission, which was regularly conducted at this time. They just did it with all the hospitals. You ready for this . Who is the guy with the white beard . Within the past hour, we saw warriors head coach steve kerr. You recognize him there . He was joined by the congressman on instagram live. The warriors and its 400 employees are eager to get back to work, but they dont know if theyre going to finish this season or even if theyre going to begin next season on time. So a lot of concern, of course, for all the pro sports, especially here at home with the warriors and the nba. Lets end this evening, at least our segment with some ghosts. And whats the deal here . This is the most goat stories weve run in my 20 years of the station. Yesterday we saw the goats in san jose. Today we see the goats in San Francisco. But this time it was all planned. Supervisor matt haynie sharing this video with us. The goats eating the reweeds at the dog park. How is that for our daily quoto of goat stories . I was stunned by kerr and the beard. Hes working it. Yeah, hopefully i love the coloring of the beard and h

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