Live from the cbsn bay studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix 5 neck and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our Salesforce Tower camera as we look west on this wednesday morning. Good morning. It is april 22. I am michelle griego. Lets get to the first check of the forecast and traffic on this wednesday morning. Good morning. Happy wednesday and happy earth day. We are looking at a warmer day across the bay area. High pressure continues to strengthen and that means the temperatures will be on the rise. This is a live look with the Treasure Island camera with clear skies across downtown San Francisco. Livermore 47. 52 San Francisco. 50 san jose. Santa rosa in the mid40s. Through the day looking at 68 San Francisco for high, oakland tops out at 64, 77 san jose, 79 concord, 81 santa rosa, and fairfield. We will continue to watch temperatures climb. More on the full forecast coming up. Everything is clear from the east bay into San Francisco. No delays there. No toll takers at any bay area bridges. This is the san mateo bridge. So far so good. Things are moving nicely on the southbound side and northbound side of 880. The Golden Gate Bridge looking good but there are cones set up on the northbound side of the span into marin. There is roadwork around that area. Suppan 11 out of the waldo grade. A closer look at that coming up in the next report. Im anne makovec. The standoff that lasted 15 hours near San Franciscos union square. Finally ending peacefully late last night. The suspect was taken into custody just before midnight. It started at 6 30 am yesterday when a man was waving around a knife near jones and farrell. Police fired again and there was a foot pursuit. The suspect barricaded themselves inside a nearby Office Building on jones and ellis. It was by glide memorial church. Throughout the day there were negotiators on scene. They finally got this guy out. No injuries to report. Five more bay area counties are enforcing an order that all residents where facial coverings in public. Starting today, the health order will apply to in a when on a part train. Officials will be at station gates making sure writers are wearing some kind of face covering. The public will be reminded through pa announcements and filters around bart stations. Most passengers are happy with the rules. I think it is a message for people to take this seriously. Some people are lax about it and they dont think it is as serious as it is. Its not that great to prevent it as much as it is to stop people who have it from spreading it. Writers could be removed and may face a misdemeanor or find. Developing, Santa Clara County officials tell kpix 5 the first coronavirus related death in the u. S. Appear to have happened in the county. It comes after the center for Disease Control and prevention confirmed autopsy samples from two people who died in their Santa Clara County homes on february 6 and february 17, they were positive for the virus. The same was true for third patient who died march 6. The county initially reported a death on march 9. Testing was extremely limited them. Santa clara county executive jeff smith six setbacks they will find more in the future. The first death was a patient in seattle on february 28. Having symptoms is no longer a hard and fast requirement for getting a covid19 test. State Health Officials are easing restrictions and recommendations allow testings in high risk areas and group living situations such as care homes and presence. They allow for surveillance testing where supplies are sufficient. Efforts are ramping up across the bay area to do Contact Tracing to follow the trail of covid19. It tells the Health Department who they have been in contact with. The Health Department alerts those people and ask them to monitor symptoms and to quarantine if needed. We have started the training process and we have 30 o have sig to bmedical students contact traces. New cases are found through contract tracing. Apple and google are teaming up to develop technology that will remember electronically who you have been in contact with. A sign of hope outside san joses Good Samaritan hospital. Last month the hospital was using numbers. States move forward with plans to reopen, Health Officials are warning this may be the first round of covid19. John lawrence has more on this dire prediction. Reporter covid19 might give me new meaning to the phrase, home for the holidays. The concern is that in the he te. Portdr. Re, thus and flew head of coofcoronavirus could be more difficult than the current strand. Will there be enough hospital beds or ventilators or ppp. We have shut this estate down for 180 death, you have to be kidding me. Reporter protests calling for an end to stayathome restrictions. There young people trying to support their families and you decided you are not essential. Reporter President Trump and build benchmarks for states to ease distancing measures, but redfield called for officials to continue promoting social distancing and to increase Contact Tracing and testing. We are one of the states with the lowest testing capacity. Is this okay . No. We will have to be with solutio because we cannot rely on the federal government to help us. Today, an update on where california stance towards the goal of reopening the economy. Governor gavin newsom is expected to expand on the six criteria he laid out last week. It includes testing capabilities , whether hospitals can handle a surge, and assistant determine if shelter and place orders need to be reimposed. Watch the governors update today and every day at here on kpix 5 mac and streaming on cbsn bay area. Financial help on the way for small businesses. The house will take up a half trillion dollar deal to get additional funding to business relief programs. It provides money for hospitals and testing efforts. The bill will hit the president s desk by the end of the week but there is already debate over whether even more funding is necessary. For anyone who thinks this is the last train out of the station, that is not even close. Its also time to begin to think about the amount of death we are adding to our country. And the future impact of that. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said that Paycheck Protection Program will be changed to prevent Large Companies from getting loans. He said big firms that have already been approved for loans will be asked to give them back. A live look at oracle park where the San Francisco giants are the latest in a long run of employers to lay off workers. 1200 game day staff are set to lose their jobs. They were told a few weeks ago. The giants will provide supplemental payments and relief grants to those affected. Frustration mounting for californians filing for unemployment. The Development Department has expanded phone Service Hours as a record 2. 7 million file for unemployment. The agency continues to face criticism for people who have not been able to get through on the lines despite making dozens of calls. I tried calling starting from 8 00 in the morning when they opened until a few minutes before 8 00 until random times throughout the day. Pretty much i was never able to get through, not once. There is no progress. Sometimes hundreds of times in one day. The agency has shifted workers to answer phones and process requests. A fremont man was arrested again just nine days after being released from a county jail. Police first arrested Christopher Sylvester in fremont on april 2 for multiple counts of commercial burglary but because covid19 rules require zero bail for nonviolent offenses, he was released five days later. Sylvester was arrested a second time on april 16 in Santa Clara County and allegedly went on a crime spree that included stealing cars from a car rental place and arraigned on monday and once again released on l. Changes that could last beyond the outbreak. Next, longterm impacts the community faces. Getting work done while the sts y. The push to fix the roads in San Francisco. Lets take a live look outside at the skyline of San Francisco from our camera on Treasure Island. A beautiful site. Remember, we want to bring you the good news happening in the bay area and connect you to people looking to help. Go to kpix. Com together and you will find stories about how were better together. Send your story ideas to together cbs. Com. Wow im original. One of a kind. You feel me . 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People are going to get comfortable with the shop at home option. It makes more things available because all of the worlds inventory can be at your fingertips and on your computer. Department stores like macys are already struggling. Neiman marcus is expected to declare bankruptcy in the coming days. New video from the port of los angeles. 24 well takers anchored off shore, four times the usual number waiting to unload crude for mexico or alaska. Will companies have so much supply they have run out of storage. Many ports around the world, companies are storing it on ships for now. Wall street tumbled on tuesday amid another selloff in commodities. The dow dropped 631, nasdaq lost 297, s p 500 fell 86. Will continues to lead the selloff. The cost of a barrel of u. S. Oil to be delivered in june fell 40 settling below 20 a barrel. Netflix is one of the few companies benefiting from the steno mortar. The Los Gatos Company reported a recordbreaking jump in subscribers. They revealed it added more than 15 million new subscribers in the first quarter, more than double its expected 7. 2 million. The company saw quarterly revenue of more than 5 billion but in a letter to shareholders the company warned that it may see a drop in viewership and membership growth once the lockdown is lifted. We are keeping an eye on the stock market that opens in about two hours. We will bring that to you live. Healthcare volunteers will get some help from greyhound to get to their patients suffering from covid19. The rides for Responders Program will offer free rides to healthcare volunteers traveling to help during this coronavirus outbreak. Its also open to firefighters, Law Enforcement and other volunteers. Take a live look at sfo where it is looking like a ghost town these days. The airport says that ridership and flights have seen a shocking 97 decrease in travel. The inside of sfo is eerily quiet. Security and cleaning crews are onsite but overall it is empty. Escalators are shut down and some elevators are turned off. Rose of looking terminals sit dark. Only seven International Flights were scheduled yesterday. It is more than surreal. Its eerie. You can walk down long stretches without seeing anybody. Nobody. The parking structure is equally spooky. Empty spaces as far as you can see with only a few cars parked. We dont see that often. The airport is reminding anyone who does travel that face coverings are required at all times while at sfo. The San Francisco department of public works is taking advantage of the shelter in place to repair roads and sidewalks. The little traffic on the road is making it easier to repair potholes. Workers have masks and are keeping distance. They are working on public projects like improving parks and sidewalks and cleaning up graffiti. There is not a lot of traffic in saananis. s chance ooth d feagai we are working hard to keep the city clean. There is a lot of graffiti so we wish the graffiti vandals which shelter in place. To keep people safe, San Francisco is closing up 13 miles of streets to cars. The closures will allow residents to take walks and maintain social distancing. The city will block off the streets in phases. This includes ortega and the sunset, page street, and that ellis street in the tenderloin, 17 and 22nd street in the mission. San francisco is following oakland lead with the idea. The city is in its second phase of the slow streets program. It has closed 75 miles of roads. Here is merely what they check of the forecast. We are looking at clear skies with a few clouds out there. Through the day get ready for a big warm up in store. Its warmer than yesterday and we will continue on the warming trend three today and through the week. Here is a live look with their salesforce terry camera as we look east. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s. 54 concorde and oakland. A few more clouds with livermore at 53. 50 san jose. Mid40s in santa rosa. Mainly clear skies. And warmer wednesday for us across the bay area with mostly sunny skies. A few more clouds of the day and temperatures will peak on friday. All because of a strong ridge of high pressure. Hour by hour in seven cisco we are looking at 11 am at 62, 1 00 65. 68 in San Francisco. For oakland, at 11 00, 64. 74 for a High Temperature in oakland and san jose. 77 the High Temperature in san jose. Its all because of this strong ridge of high pressure. Warmer as we look ahead to the rest of the week. As we go through the afternoon we are looking at mainlyny skies anas head to tomorrow, plenty of sunshine expected for thursday. Temperatures on the climb through thursday and friday. Looking ahead we are going to see plenty of sunshine through the week. 77 santa clara, 77 campbell, 79 brockport freshman morgan hill. For the east bay, 79 concorde, and some of the warmest temperatures 82 in pittsburgh. 83 fairfield. Antioch big 68 San Francisco, 72 brooklyn, 81 for the north bay, 82 st. Helena. A warm up through the week and plenty of sunshine into next week. Lets check in with gianna. Good morning. Unfortunately we have a trouble spot through this grade along 680 around koopman. Anaccide involving a tanker truck at iss the road offramp and the number three lane on the main line of the freeway are shut down for cleanup. This has been out thfor a while so expect that to be in effect for quite some time. Still early and not a lot of cars on the roadway. Hopefully the lanes will be reopened to by then. Other than that you have roadwork throughout the bay area. 880 oakland northbound, not causing any brake lights so thats good is. There is construction through there. Also parts and 101 will be affected to san mateo and the south bay. This is a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Some cones there. We dont see any delat now. No troubles but on the bay bridge, traffic is very light in both directions. Today is the 50th anniversary a birthday. What people can do to celebrate on their own at the changes chopper 5 over a dead whale that washed up on San Franciscos baker beach. Scientists from the marine procedure on the humpback yesterday to determine how it died. The public is being urged to e that is due to shelter in place orders and potential disease the well may have been carrying. Today marks the 50th anniversary for earth day but this year the annual celebration is going to look a little different. Organizes have gotten together a list of Digital Events that you can do from home. With half the worlds population staying at home, these cloudy days are bringing clear skies. This is wonderful, people in denver and new york, all cities are seeing the best air quality theyve seen in a long time. The 50th anniversary of earth day comes as global emissions are expected to fall to the lowest level since world war ii. Water is clear and animal sightings are up. Even rare wildfires in a declining Bee Population could benefit as clears fields are not cleared as often. Probably three weeks worth of growth that we would not have had. This is an exciting time of year because now in britain you have all of these plants gearing up with loads of energy to start flowering. More than 1 billion people typically participate in earth day activities and this year there are plenty of ways to celebrate the outdoors from inside. Earth day. Org has an interactive map with Virtual Events all over the world from Film Screenings to siddons. There are lots of practical things you can do from your home. Consider a no plastic challenge starting with one item. Reduce meat and dairy consumption. Cut back on water use. Started backyard compost pile. Build a birdhouse or feeder. Make crafts with recycled items. Climate watchers say to brainstorm about the future. Think about