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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm July 13, 2024

Workforce to stay at home it will be less business in the restaurants and the other establishments the count on that traffic. Corporations are going to whether the effect. Reporter smaller businesses are far more vulnerable. This is with the lunch crowd looks like at a deli in North San Jose in the age of coronavirus tables that would be full tech workers are now half empty. And business is down 15 to 20 . Especially with the start up that we are trying to build our business is Something Like this to hit us. It is not crippling us by no means. It is significant. Reporter for now they managed not to cut employees. Even as a worsening and widening outbreak takes a big bite out of business. This is of course a dynamic situation that changes virtually by the day. He put in the concert and Convention Industry estimate could easily be 3 to 6 months before business returns to normal. People in the concert and Convention Industry. The kpix news at 6 pm begins right now. Chopper 5 over the grand princess cruise import oakland. Where some passengers are finally getting off the ship after being stuck at sea due to the coronavirus. But no one is going home quite yet. It was wonderful to be able to get out. Maybe we are about to dock now. Coming up Stanford University looking more like a ghost town is all in person classes have been canceled all lessons now held online. A predictable reaction from some oakland neighbors when they learned that their city would be welcoming the grand princess. Our top story on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Passengers are disembarking from the grand princess cruise ship. As we speak. Good evening. And all 19 crewmembers and two passengers were diagnosed with the coronavirus. We have Team Coverage on this developing situation. Lets get to juliet goodrich live at the port of oakland right now. Reporter what a day it has been. This was not their port of call this particular cruise. This is where they are at the port of oakland. I want to zoom in and show you some of these passengers who are as well on the cruise ship as we speak. It is probably dinner time. A lot of the passengers will still be here overnight until they are told they can leave the ship. All day we have been showing you some of the passengers disembarking. Our aerial shot showing you the passengers getting their temperatures taken. Others boarding buses to head to Travis Air Force base. We are also told some of the canadian passengers who were on the ship have actually been disembarking heading onto buses to then go on to chartered flights. As the cruise ship was heading into the port as you see behind me i was able to face time one of the passengers who is still on the ship as we speak. She was elated to come to shore. For these grand princess passengers seeing the port of oakland seeing land was a welcome sight. One step closer to heading home. We face time to Maureen James of san mateo as the grand princess sailed into port. Is it nice to see land or you might be on the ship the next couple days . It is nice to see land. We might be here. We are pack but we might be here the next couple days. We have not gotten the baggage check yet. At this moment we are not one of the ones giving all. Reporter passengers like monica finally able to leave their cabin. Reporter monica was on a Family Reunion cruise but here was the real reunion. After being confined for four days from seeing family. Reporter my roommate sister put her cup of and she was able to hear the captain giving a speech to his crew about. Grand princess. We are going to take care of these people. He has been amazing. Reporter back out here live now i want to show you some live pictures of this freight ship coming into the port of oakland. It gives you an example that it is business as usual on this particular area. Aside from the grand princess. Now being docked here. How long will the ship be here . It could be anywhere from 24 to 48 to 72 hours. Once all the passengers are cleared off the ship and taken to either Travis Air Force base Southern California or other parts throughout the United States or even out of the country. Crewmembers will still stay on the ship. The ship will then leave to be somewhere docked for a while. They will be quarantined for 14 days. That is the latest here. A live look at Oakland Airport to northfield. A reminder this is not the main terminal. We believe this is where canadian passengers will be taken in the next few hours. They will board the 747 for a trip back to canada. Later u. S. Passengers not from california will also be brought here for flights to quarantine in texas and georgia. Andrea joins us live from ucsf one of the many hospitals that may be caring for passengers who have tested positive for coronavirus. Reporter just last week 21 people aboard the grand princess tested positive for covid 19. They were 19 crewmembers and two passengers. They were the first ones off of the grand princess. This afternoon when it docked in the port of oakland. The question is where exactly did the passengers and crew members get taken . Chances are it was to one of the many bay area hospitals that has tents set up like these would to take patients who are sick. When cases of covid 19 require hospitalizations hospitals have a plan and it begins before the front door. Many hospitals including ucsf have tense up to screen and handle patients before they are taken inside with other medically compromised individuals. You want to protect if wed have a patient who has covid 19 we want to protect any of our Staff Members from getting sick and of course we also want to protect our other patients from getting sick. Reporter once inside their options for isolating infected patients. Behind these sets of doors is a negative pressure room. One of 100 in San Francisco. When you come to the second door you are in the patients room. This room also has negative pressure with respect to the. The air is flowing into this room not out of the room. Reporter we dont know if any of the patients that were taken off the grand princess were brought here to ucsf. Or any other hospitals in San Francisco or the bay area. They will not release that information to us. We do know there are hospitals around the area that are prepared to take care of the desperately ill from this virus. If it is needed. A woman in her 60s from Santa Clara County Officials Say she had Chronic Health conditions and was hospitalized for several weeks. She died this morning at Mountain View el camino hospital. In all Santa Clara County has a total of 37 cases. Today San Francisco reported five new cases of the coronavirus. Bringing the citys total now to 13. Contra costa county has nine confirmed cases. Alameda county has two cases. Schools are taking precautions as well to protect students and staff from the outbreak. Live at Stanford University with the latest changes there. Reporter we are here at the main entrance where normally this is busy. As you can see foot traffic is way down. Just about an hour ago the poll also Unified School District a short distance away made the big announcement they are canceling all major events with more than 100 people that includes assemblies and field trips and of course prom. Schools and campuses all over the area taking dramatic measures to try to stay ahead of the virus. At Stanford University it was eerily quiet. Not a soul to be found on the manicured lawns of the main entrance or memorial court. The first day of cancellations for all in person classes. It will be this way for two weeks until spring break. As a result many students have already left campus. But not engineering student julian ochoa. He showed us how to classes will be taught for the next two weeks. Online. He said watching lectures on a laptop is not the best way to learn especially if it is a prerecorded video and you have questions. The move to ban in person classes do you think that is an overreaction . I feel like it is a necessary move. There are a lot of older staff and administration on campus. Reporter this afternoon at uc berkeley announced it will be canceling in person classes and moving all lessons online until spring break in two weeks. U. S. Schools have not seen widespread closures. Santa clara county department of Public Health is taking it on a casebycase basis. Only considering closure if a student or staff or has a company confirmed casement at Oak Grove High School the campus underwent a level i deplaning over the weekend. After one student was confirmed to have contact the Family Member who had a confirmed case of the coronavirus. Sophomores said many of the rooms smelled like leech and cleaning solution. Does that make you feel better about coming to school today . A little bit yes. To make sure it is cleaned up so i can come to school. Nobody can catch it. Reporter this is a fluid situation as you can imagine. We heard from Lowell High School in San Francisco. They were close today. They told parents they will be closed for at least one more day on tuesday. Health officials are saying they dont want to do widespread closures because it does not appear kids under the age of 18 will develop severe symptoms from covid 19. Still ahead much more continuing coverage on the coronavirus. The fear the cruise is bringing to People Living near the port of oakland. Did you notice the warmup today . Some of us went up as much as 7 degrees. That is step one. Tomorrow we will take another step up. We will talk about the warmup and the small chance of rain we have coming up. Ea of sings and service, geico is the easy choice. We could even help you with homeowners. Oh not again oh, thanks you know automated lights are just the beginning. Pretty soon theyre gonna have eyes. Everywhere. Well goodnight. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. When the grand princess docked at the port of oakland it brought more than just the virus. They brought fear to people nearby. John ramose is there. Reporter people in west oakland feel they have been the recipient of a lot of the pollution from the port anyway. When a ship comes in with a deadly virus on it there is bound to be suspicion. We will get the virus. It only seems fitting that when oakland ship finally comes in it would contain a deadly virus. They dont care about. They dont care what happens to us down here. Reporter it is a fairly common sentiment in west oakland. The People Living in these workingclass neighborhoods feel forgotten and our so called booming economy. Couple that with the uncertainty of what is on board the ship is having a predictable reaction. Honestly everybody is acting like we are in some zombie apocalypse. Reporter Margaret Gordon is trying to be a calming voice in the neighborhood. She is fall to reduce pollution coming from diesel trucks idling at the port. And while she thinks it makes sense for the ship to dock here she also understands the skepticism of her neighbors. West oakland is the urban toxic soup on multiple levels of pollution in the bay area. We have a variety of things that need to be cleaned up. But with this virus coming about it just adds on to peoples fears. Reporter miss gordon said she is more afraid of the emissions the ship causes trucks to be backed up. But there is no changing mimis mind that oakland is getting dumped on once again. Oakland does get dumped on a lot. They dont care about oakland. They didnt want to going to San Francisco and we dont want it coming to oakland. Reporter no one knows how long the ship will be there. For these folks that asked of the uncertainty and the fear. Passengers will be disembarking the crew ship throughout the evening. Stay with kpix 5 and cbsn bay area for the latest updates as e l ssen aring. Dapeck is he. Taking break from all this coverage fsome brighter news. Think about that if you were about to step into daylight for the first time and how many days and it was on the bay area on a day like this. This was a fantastic day. We would do it again tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be warmer than today. Lets talk about the temperatures. 2 degrees shy of 70 in the north bay. 65 fremont. 64 San Francisco. For a 5 degrees above average. A cow much warmer than yesterday they are each number shows you how many Degrees Higher we are than 24 hours ago. 11 degrees warmer in the north bay. 5 degrees warmer in san jose. As we look at high death doppler there is nothing on it. Lets switch to future tests. There is this lingering possibility for a sprinkle into tomorrow afternoon. We will start out Tuesday Morning with clear skies. That is a blank map is far as clouds or rain. Then we get into the afternoon the clouds come back much like they did today. Second half of the day. This time they might try to bring a sprinkle to the south bay. It looks unimpressive. Dont count on much at all. The next chance of rain doesnt get here until saturday night into sunday morning from his shows up right there that does not look like an impressive shot for rain. We will keep a close eye on that as we get closer to it. The more noticeable item is tomorrows jump in temperatures. 6 to 7 degrees warmer than we were today. That covers the forecast. The coronavirus has impacted high school championships. Weve got the uptodate list and boots might be made for walking. This giant hoping to stick around. Coming up. High School Basketball state championships are now feeling the effects of the coronavirus. Three schools forced to forfeit and ended their season. San Francisco Lincoln high school was since a host the Norcal Division four championship tomorrow night. The district suspended all sports activities. Archbishop close today had to cancel their matchup with the lasalle in division i. The middle School Girls Team late last week. It is not confined to the gym. The pga championship scheduled to be held here at harding park in may. That could change due to the virus. The pga tour is considering moving the tournament to sawgrass in florida if things were sent here in San Francisco. Raiders release linebacker whitehead to free up more than 6 million in salary cap space ahead of free agency. He started all 32 games in his two seasons with oakland. Arriving off to a new town we wondered who is the giants new cowboy . Might have found him. I noticed cowboy boots. Are you a cowboy . I was say im a cowboy. Almost a cowboy. The bullpen has new sheriff in town. Now you come in as an experienced veteran. I would say that. Reporter maybe sheriff is a stretch. Made his bigleague debut last may but quickly found himself all alone in the wild wild in the west. I tried to call my parents and they didnt answer. My brother and sister didnt answer. My youngest brother who is 15 at the time he answered. Reporter the only phone he cares about right now is the bullpen phone. The 27yearold is working to become the guy called on to get the final three outs. Do you see yourself as a possible closer . That is an earned role. I have not done near enough to earn that. Whenever you are kid you always think i would love to be a closer someday or a starter. For me it was always a closer. He is off to a slow start. Right now in spring. Will be right back. With time, comes change. Thats for sure. 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