Top story tonight, the spread of the coronavirus here in the us and right here in the bay area and tonight Health Officials in Washington State say 6 people have now died after contracting the virus 5 of those people. Were from king county and one was from the homeless county just north of seattle researchers say the virus may have been circulating for weeks undetected and the governor has now declared a state of emergency tonight. Were also learning about several new cases in the bay area this morning Health Officials announced 2 new cases, a coronavirus in Santa Clara County, this brings the total number of coronavirus cases in that county to 9 in San Mateo CountyOfficials Say one resident has tested. Presumptive positive for the coronavirus that means that person has tested positive at a Public Health lab. And officials are just awaiting additional confirmation testing from the cdc. The adult patient is now being hospitalized there in isolation and in this case, the source of the patients exposure is not know and this is in San Mateo County is activating its Emergency Operation center in response to the coronavirus outbreak the oc is located inside the countys Regional Operations Center in redwood city for now the oc will operate through this friday at which point officials will reassess the need for it and tonight governor gavin, newsome is ramping up the governments response to fight coronavirus governor newsome requesting Emergency Action from the legislature to make up to 20 million available to fight the disease this will be an early action item for the 20 20 to 2021 budget. And while there still are no confirmed cases in San Francisco city officials are moving forward to prepare for an outbreak. The city Officials Saying that its not a matter of if but when and last week, San Francisco declared a local emergency today they have taken further steps to prepare and reach out to the citys most vulnerable populations kron fours dan kerman live at city hall tonight, he joins us with more. What the mayor had to say than. A mayors walking people through all of the steps, San Francisco is taking step by step today announcing the citys going to be doing its own testing saying theyve added 50 additional workers and that theyre going to reach out to the most vulnerable of communities. Less than a week after declaring a local Public Health emergency. To prepare for the coronavirus San Francisco mayor london breed has announced the Citys Department of Public Health. Well now begin conducting its own coronavirus testing. Instead of shipping tests Cross Country to the centers for disease control. This will allow us to move faster and confirm any diagnose is more quickly the department of Public Health has received an initial allotment of 250 test kits for those who need cdc testing guidelines the testing going on 7 days a week turn around time will be reduced to just one to 2 days. Because were testing more and more people will get tested more quickly. We are likely to diagnose a case very soon and mondays News Conference the mayor was also asked if declaring a local emergency before San Franciscos first case was stoking fears among the public tap, she countered its simply about getting prepared. Were here to communicate to the public exactly the facts of whats happening. In hopes that they dont freak out we dont want the public to freak out over this because the fact is that creates chaos. We dont want chaos to happen theres no need for chaos. The mayor says the city is brought on an additional 50 workers to help with Emergency Planning and response and as part of the expanded effort. The city will reach out to the most vulnerable communities among them seniors, those living in multi person communities, the homeless and those in shelters, so they can be educated about how to best protect themselves. The city is also reaching out to those with chronic illnesses and Health Officials made it clear the public has its own role to play preparing. Wash your hands. Cover your cough and sneeze. Stay home if youre sick. Get a flu shot which does not prevent coronavirus it prevents symptoms similar to coronavirus. City officials also say that you should prepare for disruption that means for whatever reason you to not have school or can send your kids to school and the offices close make those plans for childcare now get them in place make sure you have medication on hand for 3060 90 days in case you have to stay in the house for any period of time theyre also talking about the fact that it somebody in your family get sick. Figure out now how to care for them without getting exposed yourself. Live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news all good advice. Thank you. Dan in the north bay Health Officials in Sonoma County have also declared a Public Health emergency after a second coronavirus patient has been confirmed. Also one school has canceled classes because of the virus kron fours Charles Clifford reports. Where in Sonoma County on monday. The department of Health Services has declared a local Public Health emergency as well as the local emergency. This comes after the county says the presumptive positive case of noble coronavirus has been found in a resident of Sonoma County. This is the second case of the virus here in the past week this patient involves someone. But recently been on a cruise from San Francisco to mexico and they have been back here in Sonoma County for about 10 days now we dont know the or age of this person or told the patient is apparently in stable condition and being isolated at a local hospital. Weve also learned that the Healdsburg School which is a private Elementary School up in healdsburg canceled classes after it found out that one of their teachers may have come into contact was someone who is infected with coronavirus we dont know if its the same person other resulted in that Emergency Declaration now the head of the school says they made the decision the cancel classes of sunday evening. She says that no students or faculty of been diagnosed with the virus, but they werent taking any chances. As a School Leader you always want to confer with thn professionals in the field and we reached out to Public Health, but it was before hours and so we made the decision using an abundance of caution because we wanted to confirm the Public Health professions. The director says they are hoping to resume classes may be on tuesday depends on what theyre told by Health Officials in meanwhile that lot local Public HealthEmergency Declaration. Well have to be approved by the board of supervisors here in Sonoma County and a special meeting that could happen some point this week. If that passes that will free up resources to help contain the virus and also treat these patients, but for now in santa rosa Charles Clifford kron 4 news. All right, thank you charles and white house says handing down new travel restrictions tonight following the spread of the virus worldwide park road first theresa joins us now from the newsroom to give us some details on this announcement recent grant vicki just a short time ago the Vice President spoke about the new travel restrictions. What the government is doing. It it will be a. Multiple the temperature checks in the airports for people before theyre boarding. And working very closely to assist them in implementing that the Vice President s spelling out the details about the new travel restrictions. As the coronavirus moves past borders sickening more and more people around the a briefing today was were in more than 60 countries at this point. And so were going to continue to focus on. Ensuring that we do all we can to prevent. People coming into the country with the disease to mitigate any spread of the disease once we identify cases and of course to provide treatment. This weekend the president advised americans not to travel to certain areas of italy and south korea and there is currently a ban on foreign nationals who have traveled to iran. In the last 14 days, the action the president authorized this weekend. Raising the travel. The advisory with that the American People should know that we are saying that they should you should not travel to certain sections of italy or south korea. Those advisories may expand but will will allow the case the caseload in those countries to define in addition to that by establishing the screening protocol which will be in full force and effect within the next 12 hours in both countries that will ensure that anyone traveling on a direct flight to the United States of america receives multiple screenings at all airports in italy and south korea. News conference late today, the fda announcing more kids going out so that people can be tested the Vice President also stressed that this was not the time to panic and that there are currently no travel restrictions within this country. Thank you theresa meantime bay area merging its see management personnel are closely tracking the spread of the coronavirus bracing for it to become a potential pandemic kron fours marine chilly takes us inside the center where they are monitoring the situation. Im inside the Emergency Operations center for Alameda Countys office of Emergency Services and the Alameda County sheriff is also the emergency manager for californias region to which covers the entire bay area in fact it stretches all along the coast from Monterey County all the way up to the oregon border now this room is quiet right now as the staff here are monitoring whats going on with the coronavirus both locally and globally they say they are ready at a moments notice to activate it would all depend on how robust and how big this thing gets monitors on the wall so the worldwide spread of the coronavirus. Weve dealt with sars to the swine flu. The h one n one and different influenza has over the last decade so so we we have always been involved in that role in regards to Public Health. But the coronavirus is something new and unique and its you know to understand whats going on were actually monitoring the situation globally and then as we filter down a hill into our country the state and then within our region and our county Sergeant Ray Kelly says they use this room for other major bay area disasters like wildfires and earthquakes if and when they need to huddle up here to coordinate a response to the fallout of a potential coronavirus pandemic Public Health agencies would play a major role, the red would probably be very important. If we had to set up temporary hospitals were temporary shelters for people to quarantine people from the Situation Analysis room they can monitor traffic and weather conditions and the joint information room they keep an eye on National Local and social media looking for updates and snuffing out the internet rumors last time the Emergency Operations center was activated was during the Public Safety power shutoff last year. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. And our coronavirus coverage continues on kron 4 dot com. There you can find a link to the interactive map as well as a special report on how to stay safe. And a timeline of events from the initial reports of the virus to today you can find all this in our section dedicated to the coronavirus it on our website kron 4 dot com. Coming up taking extra precautions, how a couple of Palo Alto Schools are working to prevent the spread of coronavirus and checking the polls in california who voters say they are supporting ahead of super tuesday. Im meteorologist Lawrence Karnow were talking about some very gusty winds temperatures in this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service. He revitalized American Manufacturing as the head of our middleclass task force. He led our efforts to combat gun violence. He fought to make college more affordable, championed landmark legislation to protect our women from violence. 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