Fire. Good morning. It is sunday, april 19. Lets start with a check of the weather. An interesting comparison, the picture behind you is from the tower looking east and is dark and cloudy. Let me show you the camera towards the trivalley where you see some clouds breaking up. Some of us have some openings in the clouds. The weird thing is you get an opening like that across the bridge, the temperatures will drop more. It is 57 oakland and almost 10 degrees cooler in santa rosa. Anna compares with 24 hours ago about seven degrees colder than yesterday at this time. Those places that seem less cloud cover, livermore that is you, petaluma about seven degrees cooler. Low to mid 50s, grab a light sweater. The clouds will fill out. Then we have more blue sky into the afternoon. Daytime highs today are very much like yesterday which means mid to upper 60s. I will be back we have a small chance of rain tomorrow morning but nothing to write home about. New projections show that people fewer people could die from the coronavirus than previously predicted. That could be an argument to open up the economy sooner. But kpix 5 tells you some disease experts say not so fast. Reporter atovth tsh t away from the measures working. Reporter the institute of health just lower the nationwide projection to just over 60,308 deaths. I think this is great news but this stuff can go sideways in a hurry. Reporter dr. Christopher murray says this states in the south will have small epidemics. A number of areas like california and the bay area have successfully flattened the curve. And the shelter in place and the measures weve taken have had an impact on the transmission of the virus. Reporter experts say the bay area would suffer 44,500 deaths. It is at 170, to date. We are in the good ship in california and the west coast. Other states are playing with fire. Reporter the Trump Administration has touted the model in recently declared several states to open up their economies including minnesota and michigan. Factors like the current rate of transmission, Testing Capacity and Contact Tracing among others needs to be considered. I think governors are trying to make this decision based on those kind of factors and not really on some national model, frankly. Reporter opening up the economy and lifting these measures too early could end up being a direct lesson of the 1918 influenza epidemic. If it is done too early, it could come back next week. The battle over reopening america is intensifying. In florida beaches in the northern part of the state have reopened, texas has announced plans to relax restrictions on Retail Stores and parks while states like california and new york are adding restrictions. President donald trump claims this efficient Testing Capacity has been built to allow states to reopen. Since we released the guidelines to open up america again, and this was two days ago, number of states led by both democrat and republican governors have announced concrete steps to begin a safe gradual and phased opening. Reporter most governors and Business Leaders say more is needed before that can happen. Experts at harvard say the testing needs to triple before that can safely happen. More than 250 Skilled Nursing facilities with over 3500 residents and Staff Members have reported cases of the coronavirus. Among the latest outbreaks is in the redwoods Spring Healthcare center. 106 residents and 50 employees tested positive. A spokesperson says they say 10 people have died there. They have three breakouts now in Skilled Nursing facilities that would break your heart when you learn more about them. Its a reminder that none of us are immune from this disease. And that if we start to take it serious we will have seriously consequence. There are 102 reported cases skilled facility. The state inspected the facility and has the power to take it over if necessary. Gateway has been cited in the past for problems with understaffing. Local and state leaders are taking measures to protect another vulnerable population during the outbreak, the homeless. On saturday, governor gavin newsom announced a partnership between the state and motel 6. It is an effort called project room key. They want to house homeless men and women in vacant hotel rooms. They have secured nearly 11,000 rooms and an additional 5000 with motel 6. The governor has called the project the path towards resolving the states preexisting crisis of homelessness. The mayor shares the seime dowant thesoms lyen fofew hs lets give counties and cities the dollars they need to purchase motels so we can really aggressively address the homelessness crisis that will be here well beyond the time that this pandemic passes. There has been pushed back to the plan in southern california. The governor called out the opposition saying, they would be on the wrong side of history. We are following the Police Shooting in the east bay that left a suspect dead. It happened yesterday at a san leandro walmart. Police responded to a report of a man weaving a baseball bat inside the store. Officers deployed their tasers and they didnt have much of an effect as the suspect ignored their orders to drop the bat. He approached them and when he didnt stop, the officer shot and killed him. There was an employee over the speaker who said Everyone Needs to find the nearest exit and leave. The suspect was identified as a black male. Ficeinvolvedis minist authiere io from the wibe viewed working with Law Enforcement and appreciate the Quick Response of local authorities and are thankful that no one else was injured. A kayaker is recovering after being rescued after the coast of pacifica. They were spotted in the waters and distress on friday, before 4. A coast guard helicopter crew arrived on scene minutes later and hoisted the kayaker into the helicopter. The kayaker was treated for hypothermia. A group of restaurants is preparing and delivering food for hospital workers carrying for coronavirus patients. The effort is now developing into a national network. Reporter in San Franciscos financial district the restaurant is closed with the owner and chef is busy. Packing 180 meals of duck breast with rice on his own. He is personally delivering them to Zuckerberg San Francisco general. Just helping the people that are on the frontline that are taking the brunt of this and working there behinds office. Long shifts and also putting themselves at risk. Reporter he is one of several San Francisco restaurants part of a nationwide network called frontline foods. The Movement Began as an idea among San Francisco friends, including Emergency Department nurse sydney crustal. We very much want the restaurants to be in business and thriving when we get through this difficult time. So, as much as it is a morale boost for in the hospital, we l support for the restaurant workers and the chefs in the area. Reporter it started with small donations and one restaurant delivery. In one month, the operation has grown to reach seven hospitals and 20,000 meals in San Francisco alone. Frontline foods has since expanded to 46 cities with countless volunteers. And raised more than 2 million. Its also partnered with world central kitchen, a global nonprofit. 100 of donations goes directly to local restaurants. Having income from frontline foods, and also be able to help, is tremendous for us. Reporter they have gone from 113 employees, to just three. Between his two restaurants. Often overwhelmed, hospital set staff say the opportunity to try San Franciscos finest foods makes them smile. I cant thank the community enough for this level of support, to be able to pour some good energy into this that makes a difference, is incredible. Now, so far frontline foods has delivered 70,000 meals across the country. A community is getting together to make sure that no one is left hungry during the uncertain times. Years ago members of the sick Community Found a free meals on wheels food truck. They are expanding their efforts and on saturday they cooked up 900 meals for shelters in downtown san jose. Amid the pandemic, bay area students are stepping up to help healthcare workers, students at Santa Clara University delivered nearly 5000 facemaskss 28 stanford medical collection site yesterday. The campus is basically deserted except for international students. Thstuden able use connecti thei china, to purchase medical gradhealthcare workers. We all have a shared future and this coronavirus is an enemy to all humankind not a problem for a particular country or a particular race or ethnicity. Judith lee is not alone, angela lou, junior at a high school, started a gofundme page to raise money for protective gear that will help healthcare workers. So far, shes raised 10,000. This project gave us a sense of purpose like we are doing something, we have something a goal to focus on. Something to get us through this challenging time. And jill is still taking donations and there is a link at our website at kpix. Com. Check out more positive stories like this at kpix. Com where you can connect to people in your community, who can help and you can send your eato er cbs. Com the into contact wi the coronavirus patient. If the family of bald eagles shows up in an unusual place now that stayathome orders are keepin San Francisco is launching a plan to track and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. We show you how Contact Tracing works. We can have people tested, we can have people tested that may have been in contact with someone who has been infected. Reporter mayor london breed says tracking every case is the goal and today the city rolled out a plan for that. The app will allow people to keep track of their symptoms and to check in with people who are monitoring their condition. This will allow for swifter more efficient communication. Better Data Tracking and stronger interventions to reduce spread. Reporter the appou its own, the city needs a hundreds to dop staff,city torney ucsf medical reporter expanding this regionally if the prototype is successful, they will broaden out to the bay area. They will need a staff of thousands to do that. The city could eventually expand the program regionwide but it would need a staff of thousands. The stayathome orders are giving the animng eck out these photos from arizona. State wildlife workers capture these images of a bald eagle family nesting in a cactus. To call it a rare sight is an understatement. The game and Fish Department in arizona says it is the first time theyve ever seen it. Pretty, nonetheless. Blue skies this mo for parts of they area i show this earlier, the one in the tri valley towards the east. Here is the Golden Gate Bridge, this is a bit more impressive in terms of clear skies. If anywhere gets socked in with low gray, this is the first place but we have a bit of an opening. If you look at it the east bay, totally different story. Nice batch of low clouds developing. There is an impact on the way it feels because if you have clear skies overhead the temperatures are seven degrees pretty much, livermore, as well, 46 and the trivalley. As far as tracking the clouds we see them building more through the late morning and that gets us to the 10 a. M. Hour. They dont last long see will get plenty of blue sky today. Daytime highs today are just like yesterday. A nice day in that sense, near 70 for many locations in the south bay, 69 san jose. 67 sunnyvale. Upper 60s for much of the east anwe see ll. 67inn 66, aympat those numbers as well to the north. Sunday lets look ahead to monday. We are still on track for a very unimpressive small chance of rain. For monday morning you can see the system sitting off the coast if we bring this in the future cast, the showers which look so good, fall apart as they come onshore. This gets us to tomorrow morning at 9 a. M. Some few green blips on here. If we look at this more, they turn into light rain, perhaps. For tomorrow morning, in very isolated locations it will look like a storm on monday morning with the clouds and you may get some rain in your part of the bay area but this is less than one hundredths of an inch of rain. Ou can see this band of green rain but even here the totals are light. We will get a dusting of snow in the sierra an inch of snow on donner pass. Anybody who does happen to be traveling in the mountains on monday, will have some slick roads on top. In the seven day forecast, we covered all the excitement. Monday small chance of rain. After that we will turn the corner and the weather is going to be complete opposite. We have a big warmup coming our way, sunshine across the board and daytime highs into the mid 80s. There is reason to believe that warmup will last beyond the seven day forecast and into next week. More on that as we get posted due next week. Theres where things stand, i will be back with another look at the next half ho yesterday the clouds cleared out and it was a pretty nice day at that point. Yes. Probably a similar thing today. We will probably have as much sunshine today. Despite the rain weve seen, new study finds california in the grips of an historic mega drought. The study from Columbia University thudedthat driest time in 1200 years. Researchers say while the so called mega drought as part of a natural cycle, Climate Change is making it worse. As for the wet stretch . It turns out it was the 20th century. We will show kes the se for the coronavirus. We have the story now. Reporter patient tested positive for the coronavirus, time is critical to chase where theyve been and who theyve seen. They can access that information as little as 10 minutes. If i was confirmed with coronavirus, what would you do then . We put in the mobile phone number, the credit card number and set the time and all the information we need appears in m fore you noticed you had symptoms, how long you spent in each place and how busy the area might have been. Mobile emergency alerts are sent to the public, six or seven a day telling you about cases in your area. It wasnt always this fast, they say it take up to 48 hours to get the same affirmation five years ago. Officials can now use patient statements, mobile records, credit card transaction, cctv footage for an accurate tracing of transmission. One recent example in my neighborhood shows just how much detail is being shared with the public with the government and local businesses. I know the exact locations this individual went to. I know the door that they use in order to get inside my local supermarket. I even know that they bought dried chili peppers at the checkout. Could this model be used elsewhere . This is not advanced technology while other companies have laws allow them to use this personal information. Reporter there are apps here and maps showing every case in your neighborhood and the country, started by students and adopted by the government and a nap showing which pharmacies have masks in stock. It is this system using big data to track citizens who tested positive that is the key first step the policy of traced test and treat. Spain may extend a lockdown for another 15 days to contain the spread of coronavirus. They want to continue the state of emergency until may 9. He will seek approval from his cabinet on wednesday. Nonessential workers are slowly returning to work in the country is easing the lockdown restrictions as new infection rates slow down. The Prime Minister wants to lift the confinement order for children on april 27. He is praising the discipline and sacrifice of the spanish people. Turkey has surpassed iran for the number of coronavirus cases in the middle east. They saw an increase of nearly 3500 cases yesterday. The turkish minister announced an extension of travel restrictions currently in place across 31 provinces. More than 1800 patients have died so far. Asitaly remains under lockdown . Venice is streets and canals are now deserted, the streets around the citys iconic cathedral normally crowded with tourists, were empty. Italys the country worst hit from the pandemic and it has been in lockdown for almost 6 weeks. The country reported nearly 3500 new cases yesterday and more than 23,000 people there have died. Canines have been used to sniff out drugs, bombs and cancer but now british researchers think they can help detect the coronavirus. The London School of hygiene and topical medicine is working the specially trained dogs to develop a new kind of coronavirus test, one that doesnt require a swab just a sniff. The Organization Recently discover that canines can detect malaria infections in humans. Now they are investigating whether the same is true for coronavirus. If so, they could be deployed to screen people for the virus and it wouldnt replace traditional testing though but it could serve as a supplement since test are in short supply. The tough choices facing the nations governors about when to loosen restrictions, to put in place during the ongoing pandemic. 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