Will be opened up for the homeless. The scene today reminiscent of this, the more rooms for housing protest in oakland late last year, a group of homeless mothers occupied a home for several months after being forcibly evicted in january, they were given the opportunity to buy the property. Developing news out of palo alto where smoky fire near the popular hiking area beneath the stanford dish could be seen for miles. You can see multiple patches of thick smoke coming up from the dry grass, fire crews aggressively attacked it, even cal fire joined the fight. Fortunately only vegetation burned, less than three acres per onto the other big story today, a Bay Area Company at the forefront of working to treat the virus just got fda approval from a promising experimental drug. Today the fda granted emergency use as a result authorization for Gilead Sciences remdesivir drug earlier this week, the National Institutes of health announced the results of a study showing hospitalized covid19 patients who were given the experimental drug had a faster recovery time. About four days faster than patients who didnt take the drug. From Clinical Trial to getting it authorized, its been a speedy and effective process. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of patients getting the medicine so we made a decision to donate about 1. 5 million vials of remdesivir. Pheasant run today said he urged the fda to give remdesivir emergency approval. Gilead expects to manufacture more than 1,000,000 1 2 doses by the end of the month. We will have much more on this developing story coming up at 6 00. One day after Governor Newsom decided not to close bay area beaches, there are now some restrictions in santa cruz. Reporter access to the coast of californias beaches has been come become one of the thorniest issues during the stayathome order and its because californians believe the beaches belong to everyone. We shot this video short time ago that shows sheriffs deputies and Police Officers with the Santa Cruz Police department ticketing some people at the beach at cal beach here near the boardwalk. Health Officials Say this is a nightmare scenario to have people coming from all over the area, congregating at the beach and then returning home, possibly with the virus in tow. I think we should be compassionate, reasonable and fair about beach access. Reporter Santa Cruz County is closing all of its beaches between 11 am and 5 pm every day, a policy designed specifically to discourage day trips to the coast, in violation of the states emergency stayathome order. Under the policy, people can still access the beach to go surfing, swimming, boating, etc. , but camping or hanging out on the sand especially in large groups will be prohibited. I feel like its very easy to socially distance at the beach. Reporter helen and her daughter claire visited santa cruz from modesto, they say they felt cooped up after weeks of staying home, but are trying to be responsible guess. I feel like you should be allowed outside of your area as long as you keep social distancing rules. Reporter the Sheriffs Office says it will aggressively enforce the daytime closure policy, sending teams and offroad vehicles to warn or to get beachgoers, and it appears to be working. We found only a handful of beachgoers along some of the most popular and normally congested stretches of beach near the boardwalk in santa cruz. Its a delicate balancing act in a community where access to the coast is one of its most cherished values. If they just do the stayat home order people will go crazy and regardless they will just come out. People are not really bunched up as you can see. Reporter it is after 5 00 so people are allowed together here on the beach, they also need to maintain social distance while they do that. The sheriff said this policy will likely be in place for at least three weeks and then they will tweak it depending how well its working. A live look at ocean beach where some people are taking advantage of the warm weather today. Parking lots remain closed the beach itself is open as long as people keep their distance from one another. We are nearing the end of the current shelter in place rules in the bay area because starting monday there will be certain modifications which means that the reopening of tennis courts, golf courses and other outdoor activities, what are you looking forward to doing when the new rules take effect . Weigh in on our facebook, twitter, you can maybe see your response on tv per today is mayday which is also known as International Workers day and essential workers protested all across the state. Some nurses in the bay area walked off the job to demand safer conditions, others gathered at the beach in orange county, protesting the lockdown. In sacramento, hundreds of people gathered outside the state capital, calling for the state to reopen. The group organized the demonstration to push governor get governor gavin newsom to end the stayathome orders. Protesters originally said they would stay in their cars, but most of them ended up gathering around the capital and were not social distancing. We need to open up california. This is ridiculous. As you can see by my signed, we are practicing our First Amendment right. Officers were on hand but no word yet if anyone was arrested. Today Governor Newsom was asked about those protesters. If i got involved in every protest up and down the state i will would be involving myself in the efforts to start to make meaningful modifications to our stayathome order and attend to a lot of the issues in the state. I count and defer to our team and the california highway patrol, particularly at the state capital, i dont get involved directly in permitting decisions, i think that would be an unfortunate place for a politician to go. What i am responsible for ultimatelys Public Health it the governor also said we are getting very close to making changes to the state stayathome order. Weeks, not months, about four or five days ago, i want to say many days, not weeks as long as we continue to be prudent and thoughtful in certain modifications. We will be making some announcement i think. The governor maintained that behavior would be the only factor setting us back calling on people to resist the urge to gather in groups. As for testing, california is now up to 655,000 total tests done. We are averaging 25,000 tests per day, the governor says its progress but its still not enough. Onto campaign 2020, presumed democratic nominee joe biden was forced to address a story thats been swirling for months. That he sexually assaulted an office staff for nearly 20 years ago. No, it is not true. Im saying unequivocally, it never happened. Tara reade worked in then senator joe bidens office in 1993, she said he assaulted her in a capitol hill hallway, we want to warn you, her description from last march is graphic. I remember the coldness of the wall and i remember his hands underneath my blouse and underneath my skirt and his fingers penetrating me as he was trying to kiss me. Tara reade said she told her supervisor at the time about the Sexual Harassment at from the senator and she lost her job. She also told two staffers but neither could recall the conversation to cbs news. We go live with how the accusation could affect the candidates president ial prospects. Reporter strong reaction coming in from both sides, the Vice President addressing this issue for the first time in detail since those allegations surfaced just a few weeks ago. Women have a right to be heard and i will always uphold that principle, but in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters in this case the truth is the claims are false. Reporter soon after biden made that statement on tv, supporters and critics in the bay area voice their opinions reacting to his denier denial of tara reade accusation of sexual sawpit i think its democrats will be glad that the Vice President is addressing it himself in his own voice. Reporter with biden facing more scrutiny the debate has again returned into whether theres a double standard and how the media covers these kinds of accusations. The things biden is accused of dont come close to the things President Trump even admitted doing and in terms of Brett Kavanaugh theres a different standard for president ial candidates. Reporter more than dozen allegations have leveled allegations against President Trump. Supreme Court JusticeMatt Cavanaugh face multiple accusations during his confirmation hearings. It was all of her every newspaper in the country every day, weeks and weeks on end. I think the republicans are being let off much too easily, what biden today sat down for an interview to be questioned at some length based on his statement, ive yet to see President Trump questioned on the many allegations of sexual misconduct. If this is one woman with one allegation that cant be proven, then joe biden probably emerges from this relatively unscathed. Reporter latebreaking on the story, biden is sending a letter to the secretary of the senate asking for the location of the possible harassment claim that was filed by tara reade 27 years ago, the letter reads, in part, quote saying i request you take or direct whatever steps necessary to establish the location of the records of this office and once they have been located to direct a search for the alleged complaint and to make public the results of the search. We will have much more on the story throughout the day and on cbsn bay area. Still ahead on kpix5, streaming on cbsn bay area, a 90 two foot yacht sinks during rescue operation, incredible photos from the air, details on why the ship went down. The hot pockets aris makes a bid to avoid jail time in the College Admissions scandal, why the judge isnt budging. Can we use common overthe counter medications to treat covid19 . A look at the groundbreaking work for ucsf scientists to pave the way toward treatment. Nice weather around the bay area today, temperatures mostly in the mid to upper 60s, low 70s around the bay but well into the 70s other this just in, north Korean Leader kim jong un has reportedly made his first public appearance since theres been speculation about his health and whereabouts. According to the Korean Central News Agency he attended the opening of a factory today. This would be the first time hes been spotted in nearly 3 weeks after he missed a celebration for his grandfathers birthday which is the countrys most important holiday. A costly and catastrophic day on the ocean for boaters off Northern California, the crew of the 92 foot yacht going coastal radioed before noon yesterday that they were taking on water about 35 miles south of monterey. The Coast Guard Boat arrived and begin escorting the boat to shore but hours later the water was too much and the crew was rescued but the going coastal sink spilling some 1200 gallons of diesel fuel into the ocean or the ships captain is hoping to salvage the author two defendants convicted in the College Admissions scandal wont have to serve their prison time right away. The hot pockets air and former investment executive Douglas Hodge asked the courts to let them serve their sentences at home because of the pandemic. The judge refused and agreed to allow them to delay going to prison until summer. She was sentenced to five months for paying a proctor to correct her daughters act exams and making false claims about ones volleyball accomplishments. Hodge paid more than half 1 million in bribes to get his four children into elite schools as fake athletic recruits. San francisco is expanding coronavirus testing at nursing facilities, Health Officials are now requiring all residents and staff in the citys 21 Skilled Nursing facilities to be tested for coronavirus. Testing will begin monday at laguna honda hospital and as of today, over 20,000 people in San Francisco have been tested with an average of nine percent testing positive. The governors plan for a vast force of healthcare volunteers is not panning out as planned, research by the Associated Press reveals two thirds of the 93,000 people who signed up for the California Health core lacked valid medical licenses. In only a third of those actually filled out an application, so that left a little more than 10,000 for a final review, only about half of them now cleared to participate. A live look now at san jose international, despite a 97 percent plummet in air travel, the airport is moving forward with an ambitious expansion plan. The brute blueprints include a new concourse with 14 new gates, a 330 room hotel and a 5000 space garage. The airport expects to see a 50 percent increase in passengers within the next 15 years. In the meantime, Southwest Airlines will be mandating facemasks starting may 11, they will also be limiting the number of passengers on planes and implementing social distancing guidelines. A live look outside downtown San Francisco from our salesforce cameras, a nice, pretty clear day. Our chief meteorologist joining us now, and im assuming with clouds we will cool down over the weekend. We are going to cool down quite a bit with a lot more cloud cover in place, maybe even the potential for little bit of drizzle especially along the coast and by the bay. The reason for the changes, a storm system bringing quite a bit of rain to the Pacific Northwest even a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms for southern washington and northern oregon. The rain is going to miss us other than the chance for drizzle, maybe a few sprinkles in the north bay and sunday we will clear out, but it is going to be breezy on sunday and because that strong onshore breeze sunday will be the slightly cooler half of the weekend even with more sunshine. Weve seen plenty of sunshine, the closest clouds are still well off shore but they are going to move onshore as we head into the evening and tonight and by tomorrow morning the future cast anticipates low visibility, not just clouds but some clouds sitting at ground level in the form of fog and future cast also painting a slight chance of what its calling rain but really this is just drizzle or mist, right now its hard to believe were talking about clouds moving in just a few hours from now because lots of sunshine as we looked out over the be a bridge. 65 degrees in the city, temperatures otherwise in the 70s. With increasing clouds, temperatures will stay in the 50s, mild for the second morning of may to start the day on saturday and temperatures tomorrow just dont warmup too much from the starting point, just barely touching 60 degrees along the coast and mostly in the middle portion of the 60s around the bay and inland locations have the best chance of getting above 70 degrees. The cooler half of the weekend will be on sunday, temperatures will bounce back next week. Sunday looks like a nice day, just breezy and a bit on the cool side with a big warmup putting us back up to about 80 inland by wednesday and i think we will be seeing an offshore breeze by thursday and friday so well inland spots reach the mid to upper 80s, even around the bay, mid to upper 70s. Will have a look at the future cast coming up in the 5 30 half researchers at Oxford University say they are one step closer to getting a vaccine to protect against covid19 onto the open market, with human trials underway. Researchers expect to have an idea of the vaccines efficacy and safety by june or july. They are now to teaming up with astrazeneca to get it to the masses if it works. If it is successful they hope to produce 30 million doses by september when its cold out, the uk will have First Priority with the u. S. Following shortly thereafter. An International Team led by ucsf scientists have discovered how a range of existing drugs may fight the virus. Repr thout human bo, replicate, or infect anyone else. Now some scientists have focused their brainpower on the human body in order to fight back at we took a different tact, we went biology first. Reporter a global team of scientists formed a Rapid Response research team, they created the first ever blueprint of how the virus hijacks and rewires human cells. They then used that map to uncover drugs already in existence that may help to fight the virus fueling this pandemic. They identified less than 100 different drugs and compounds. Reporter the blueprint shows more than 300 human proteins that the virus requires to get into human cells. They then looked at different drugs on the market or currently in development to see if any of them interact with these proteins. In Lab Experiment using monty self, the team found antihistamines, antipsychotics and antianxiety drugs block the virus from getting into the were seen two cancer drugs, both are used for multiple myeloma. The blood cancer affects the type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. A common ingredient in cough medicines actually stimulated the growth of the virus. Well researchers are not advising people to stop using it. It would be wrong not to highlighted because it could be detrimental so more work needs to be done for sure. Reporter they also found progesterone interferes with the virus. The secs hormone is produced in greater quantities by women and may help explain why men are more likely to get severely ill and died. 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