Is timely. Just past the 1 million mark in terms of the number of claims just since march 13. 1 million californians have now claimed the need to get unemployment insurance. This cannot happen soon enough. Is millions file for unemployment there are some who dont know if they qualify for the governments help. Julie spoke to several self employed californians about the confusion. Reporter you may have seen these means joking about how look without the here in their salons. We spoke with some of the more than half 1 million californians in the cosmetology industry who are desperate for answers and for help. A lot of folks are saying they have to keep on working to survive. What is your reaction . Understandable. Most of our girls are at home. Thei families. While these women are abiding by the state home altar. Youre talking about bailouts for huge corporations. Selfemployed people. Reporter unlike regular employees who can file for unemployment. Independent contractors often pay higher taxes but that doesnt include unemployment. About 7 of the work force was selfemployed last year which includes the vast majority of the more than 600,000 with harboring and cosmetology licenses. We dont get unemployment. What do we do . If it is a government mandated shutdown why do we not have access to anything . Reporter through Disaster Unemployment assistance which is generally available to self employed individuals with the parent president declares a disaster. The official covid19 guidance still makes no mention of Disaster Relief for the self employed. We are very pleased with the increase in Unemployment Benefits up to 600 on top ofar providing. The federal stimulus will supplement state benefits. Californians already getting unemployment may get an additional 600 a week. Around 1000 total. Even the selfemployed will get that 600 from the feds for up to four months. There was no mention of the Disaster Assistance which could provide the selfemployed the same benefits as the rest of us. Our doors are shut by the state. It is not like this is our choice. Reporter unfortunately they say this disaster declaration doesnt automatically mean the folks who are selfemployed now qualified for this Disaster Unemployment assistance. They say theyre waiting on more guidance from the feds. The Governor Cuomo calls new york the canary in the coal mine. Warning other states they could become just like the empire state. We spoke to an epidemiologist at Stanford School of medicine. Doctor Stephen Goodman believes there is reason for cautious optimism. Where are the ventilators . Where are the gowns . Were are the masks . I feel for them. They are starting to be on the brink of what the italians experienced right now. They are worried and im worried for them. New york compared to the bay area is told by the numbers. About 2000 in all of california a population of 44 million as opposed to that 16,000 in new york in a population of about 8 1 2 million. It is really dramatically different on a population basis almost 20 times higher than here. New york everything is increasing about 30 a day. I think we can say pretty much for sure that we are not increasing at a rate of 30 a day. Anything close to that. The numbers we need to focus on our hospitalization rates. The numbers in the region who are serious enough to be admitted to a hospital. Those are important because they do give an actual sense of the word and the virus is putting of the region. Halfway is no way. The bay area is doing the right thing. It should continue doing this thing. The verdict on the ultimate impact of this will only be known in the next 2 to 3 weeks. We dont know quite if what we are doing is successful. Although signs that it is. As soon as we let down our guard that little ember of a fire can explode. Californias hospitalization rates late today the state told kpix 5 they are working on publishing that data. And will share it when it becomes available. The government did say 2 Million Masks have been distributed to hospitals across the state. It is still not enough. The state is working to get more. Today San Jose Police dropped off 9600 masks to oconnor hospital. It was one of several deliveries across the south bay. The Police Department realized it had a surplus of tens of thousands of masks stashed away. They were given the okay by the cdc to donate them to medical facilities. The hospital is not ready to accept patients. It will provide more than 350 beds for rotavirus patients. The hospital was at the close two weeks ago before the outbreak. But today the governor announced it is now part of the states portfolio. The shelter in place order has put a damper on celebrations including weddings. Rather than postpone some couples are getting married anyway with creative modifications. Ashley williams with the story of one happy couple who did just that. Reporter newlyweds carrie and tyler larson exchange vows over the weekend at amador cellars in front of a seemingly intimate group. Six guess. An efficient and photographer. Reporter they set out to say there i do on the five Year Anniversary of their first date. And just like every bride and groom to be the Rancho Cordova residents spent countless hours and Money Planning their dream wedding. Days before their fairytale nuptials they were forced to make drastic changes due to the spread of covid19. We decided that since most of our guests could not be there. Almost all of them. We would live stream the wedding for everybody. We were able to get everybody there. Everybody got to enjoy the day. With us. We had more people on the live stream than we had originally planned to be at the wedding. Reporter parents and siblings got to witness the bowels. Up close and personal. Grandparent stayed home to comply with cdc guidelines. I didnt want to risk anything. They joined us on the live stream and they had a great time. Reporter in the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis. Postponing the main event was just not an option. We wanted to be married. It wasnt about the party. It was about getting married. Reporter friends and family witness the ceremony via the interweb. Loved ones even got a chance to witness their first dance. We dance to Michael Boulay everything. Reporter when they thought their magical night was coming to an and they arrived home to a special surprise. We drove up and we saw they had put all the signs up. One sign read to have and to hold and pandemic and in health. It is safe to say this covid19 wedding will go down in history. They look very happy. Coming up with many hospital workers for using and even bleaching their masks to stay safe from coronavirus we go inside one tshirt factory linda boyd practically overnight. The pandemic brings up eerie parallels to the aids crisis that ravaged San Francisco. What activists say is the biggest difference this time around. Coming up a critical life saving resource during this pandemic in we have just learned that a gate agent at the Oakland International airport has now tested positive for the coronavirus. Chopper 5 over the airport right now. Those are the gates Officials Say the individual last worked on sunday in terminal 2. The agent worked at gates 23 25 26 and 27 in that day. And use the mens restroom at terminal 2 baggage claim. There is no telling how many people he came where she came into contact with. The airport has closed all the gates that the agent was last seen working. In the mens restroom for cleaning and disinfecting. That is what they are doing right now. Southern California Company has shifted from making close to making masks. At first they were giving them away. But now as stacy butler shows us it is growing into a viable new business. Reporter when all his orders came to a halt last week amidst the pandemic of dual who owns the largest t shirt Manufacturing Company in the country chose the pivot in the face of panic. Do something for them and their families. Reporter the only way he could do that go from a nonessential business to a critical business overnight. These people behind me have never sewn a mask. Ive never made a mask. Reporter in one week his entire Business Model of ended. He bought all new machines and train them to make 100 three layered cotton masks. For medical Personnel Police and firemen for free. The are not the 95. These are cotton masks that are reusable. But at least some protection. Reporter the orders from hospitals are piling up. This is kaiser. Reporter just as he started to wonder how long he could afford to pay his staff for masks he was giving away fema took notice. Yesterday the federal agency placed a massive order for medical personnel fighting covid19 on the front lines. It was millions now it is billions. It is such a shortage we need to fill. It is longterm. It could be up to 18 months. The company has already sent out thousands of masks in a single week. Paul hagan joins us now. How is it looking for the rest of the week. Better as we hit the next couple days if you want to beat the cabin fever by going for a walk. Around the neighborhood. Stay six feet apart dry day on the way for friday. More good news in the grand scheme of things heading into the weekend. Rainy weekends are not what you want. We definitely need the rain. Was showers tomorrow. Is that storm system works its way inland. We will be in between things the end of the workweek on friday. The next system arriving saturday with the next chance of rain. We have some rain out there right now. Especially Sonoma County in northern napa county. Heavy downpour is especially to the north of santa rosa. This is well to the north of napa itself. It is swinging to the east. It will take a while for this to fade off the radar. It will as the sun goes down. It takes some time for those heavier downpours to finally start to evaporate. Showers of the Contra Costa County well to the east of 680 moving to brentwood. For the south not as much activity over the south bay. First southern Santa Clara County to find showers and locally heavy downpour as they are. Everything into motion everything is pin wheeling around the storm system that i showed you on the big picture perspective. That will swing further and further and lent the next 24 hours. We still have to keep that shower chances into the forecast into thursday. Most of the activity this evening does fade off the radar. A couple sprinkles possibly do late evening and overnight. Some chilly temperatures overnight for the north bay. Somewhere showers trying to develop on thursday the especially when temperatures warm up from the chilly start. The way it works with this weather pattern is missing showers developing over the higher terrain. The optimal range especially. Some of the mountains for the north of the bay as well. That activity just drifts around before phase out once again. Rain saturday. I will come back in just a second and show you that. Looking to the east of the bay bridge. Looking nice. The clouds are not dropping as many showers as they have of the past couple days high temperatures we are not very high. Middle to upper 50s well below average for highs across the board today. It will be chilly tonight. Especially for the north bay. Low to middle 30s. Valley locations around the bay itself with stay at worst around 40 degrees. That is below average but we can handle it. If frost advisory for inland marin county Sonoma County and napa county as well. Overnight low temperatures dropping low to middle 30s in most locations. Cover up any plans you have gotten into the ground already. High temperatures tomorrow they will bounce back from the chilly start. 4 to 5 degrees below average across the board. Just a couple degrees warmer than today. Touching 60 for their warmest locations. Maybe just above 60s for some of the warmest spots further inland. Slightly further inland into Contra Costa County fairfield up to 61. Further north or temperatures will bounce back from the cold start. Upper 50s to around 60s in between scattered showers we will see once again with the next chance of rain on the way for saturday. Friday will be a dry day. Fair with the clouds as we headed to the day on friday. Clouds thickened friday night. Tried to start saturday. It doesnt last long. Often on showers that will be with us throughout the day saturday. That will linger into the second half of that weekend. In between the showers on sunday. A bigger one up next week as the atmosphere dries out monday tuesday and again mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. With the covid19 pandemic Emergency Preparedness is a major concern for many in the bay area. Climate change is a pressing issue. This would jefferson award winner helps others learn to be resilient in the face of both. I sat down with her before the shelter in place order to find out why she does it. The number one issue we are all facing. Julie is talking about Climate Change. She is doing her part at home to help. Is a resilient neighborhood climate team member. Julie is signing up for mce online. Mce Community Choice energy is a nonprofit that offers Renewable Energy or electronic generation from marin county and other eligible bay area residents. It is incredible. Easy to do. You have the empowered people. Reporter one of the simple steps encouraged by tamra peters founder of resilient neighborhoods. A nonprofit dedicated to fighting Climate Change by helping individuals reduce their carbon footprint. I couldnt sit back with Climate Change. Reporter she piloted the program in 2010. Back then helping 100 marin county households orgato 20 cli lose 500,000 pounds of carbon output. Since then resilient neighborhoods has helped its teams reduce annual area Carbon Emissions by more than 9 million pounds. It is five meetings over 10 weeks. They report what they have done. Team members are giving scores of actions to choose from. That is just the beginning. Other Neighborhood Team members like Lisa Williams a composting. Shopping at farmers markets and using alternative methods of transportation like electric bikes. Tamra is a connector. The work is more important than ever. Reporter planning for emergencies is an important part of her lesson plan. Where people have responded because we are feeling it now. Reporter now the covid 19 pandemic. Tamras latest group was supposed to graduate soon. But wont be meeting in person for the foreseeable future. Still she is hopeful. We have to be resilient. Reporter for empowering others to make a positive change for the environment this jeffersons award goes to tamra peters. She has scheduled her current classes graduation for next month and she is hopeful they will be able to meet. You can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online. Kpix. Com yearold. The bay area mayor worried some people could fall through the cracks during this pandemic. The aid that might be coming to those who dont have six sick paid leave. A floor of st. Francis hospital and sepsis cleared out for an expected surge of coronavirus patients. Today the city gave us a better idea of when they think that might happen. Normally this room will be filled with members of the disabled community. Now they are at home. Coming up how they can we go get some ice cream . Alright, we gotta stop here first. From smarter atms, to after hours video tellers comcast business is connecting thousands of banks to technology that turns everyday transactions into extraordinary experiences. Hi there. How are you . Do you have any lollipops in there . laughing no, sorry. Were helping all kinds of businesses go beyond customer expectations. How can we help you . But buick and gmcs commitment to you, remains the same. We understand you want to feel safe. So were offering current owners complementary onstar crisis assist services. 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Cemeteries would not let them bury the bodies in the cemeteries. If you died from aids. The boat today he is seeing another deadly pandemic with covid19. He said this time it feels very different. I wish hivaids would have had the same coverage. The approach to the new stories that people that are ill with covid19 is much more sympathetic. Reporter aids was a