State wide order for people to stay at home. Statewide order is in effect tonight for everyone in california to stay at home except for essential jobs and services such as Grocery Stores pharmacies and banks, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 i pale more im ken wayne. The governor issued the order in a News Conference earlier tonight, he says the goal is to brand the spread of the coronavirus pie encouraging social distance and that is what we are doing here at kron 4 can and i are on opposite areas of the studio our grant lotus standing by on the other side of the room and look where our chief meteorologist us tonight. Lawrence karnow is bringing us the tenet and forecast from his home. The coronavirus has made the governor make this order the governors order comes after he issued a sobering warning that 56 of californias population are 25. 5 Million People will likely become infected with a virus over the course of a 2 month period. He made that projection in this letter sent to President Trump urging the president to immediately deploy the Us Navy Ship Mercy to be docked in los angeles until september the first that move would help ease any overcapacity at hospitals by providing a 1000 extra bands. He explained the need in an address this evening. Within a day or 2 were told least 5 days to get the mercy operation allies then you actually have to move that ship so one should not over promise you there on the east coast or the west quickly you can get those hospitals in the effort to be proactive the governor also said he is calling on the federal government to help provide to mobile hospitals to provide 496 extra beds, each california has about 90,000 beds in hospitals across the state but could need up to 20,000 more beds depending on the size of the surge of patients hospitals are also bracing for a potential worst Case Scenario if the virus does not slow down. Warnings are that hospitals could be overwhelmed with patients kron fours justine waltman explains how you can help out. As the coronavirus rapidly worsened medical professionals are concerned about an influx of really sick patients and who will care for them or certainly unprecedented times unchartered waters. Or all taking it, you know day by and were were learning as we go planning ahead the town of coma just put out a plea looking for any and all current or retired medical professionals. Who may be able to assist in response to covid 19 just like in other disasters such as an earthquake or fire. Volunteers will need to step up to the plate pandemic continues and it does escalate. That bill so there may be a need for Additional Resources on the web site healthcare volunteers dot ca dot gov you can add your Contact Information and medical experience. This is for doctors nurses dentists veterinarians and medical assistance. San mateo county wants to have this database ready in case of a coronavirus emergency added to the general all for folks looking back to life and Public Health professional. And to register in the of they need it. The idea is to be prepared for a worst Case Scenario. Im Justine Waldman kron 4 cases in the bay area there are a total of 460 with 189 a santa clara county, 89 in san mateo 70 in San Francisco 42 in Contra Costa County and 35 in Alameda County there are 16 cases in moran. 10 in Solano County 9 in sonoma their cases recorded at this time in napa county to keep those numbers from climbing San Francisco leaders are reminding everybody about the shelterinplace order maryland and brees said today while most people in the city are complying with the order to stay at home. The city will be cracking down on violators police chief bill scott says officers are routinely patrolling the city. If in the event that we keep having to go back to the same group of people are saying people weve worked with the City Attorney on a tie protocol on when to enforce. And that enforcement can be a citation it could be an arrest. The city also relocated its Emergency Operation center to the moscow knee center to allow for social distancing and it has been expanded to include disaster workers. Mayor breed also took the time today to criticize President Trump calling the coronavirus the chinese virus. She called the terms bit and says it puts Asian Americans at risk for being targeted. This is a time not for divisiveness is the time for us to come together and to support the residents of our city and not make people feel excluded. So this continues to be a problem where the continues to. Stand by his messaging around his labeling of the coronavirus and we want to make it clear that that is not something thats acceptable or tolerated here in San Francisco. The president has used the term chinese virus several times in his tweet he was also photographed today reading from notes where the word corona was crossed out and replaced with chinese to describe covid 19 the president defended his use of the word yesterday saying the virus comes from china. With limited travel in the ongoing shelter in place in San Francisco, some hotels in the city been forced to close. Others are operating at minimal capacities kron fours Taylor Bisacky talk to the Hotel Council of San Francisco tonight and she joins us now live from the city with more taylor. It can this is something that a majority of people in the service and Hospitality Industries are experiencing right now you know some of these hotels in the city had to cut their staff or temporarily closed. But now some of those hotels are working with the sea to find a way to use those empty rooms for people to selfquarantine. Situations tell so then furloughed employees laid off employees and creating schedules for employees as well but its been something of themselves and in the south working on every every minute of every day San Francisco hotels hit hard by the coronavirus in a shelterinplace order. Kevin carroll, president and ceo of the Hotel CouncilSan Francisco has seen drastic changes across hotels over the last few weeks where many of temporarily closed because business is so slow cells are already seeing significant drops in their occupancy. But since come out and now with to continue shelter in place. Tells occupancy rates have become much much slower and were thinking most of the cells are in the 10 range and we also had situations where it sells have decided to temporarily close he says many hotels are now coordinating with the city to make use of their empty rooms. Working to provide 3500 rooms for people to selfquarantine their heads and territory that we havent done it before and i think is this is what weve been working closely with the city of San Francisco, council. And yesterday we met with the city in those cities apartments. It is tells can help with according to does all seem to be soft core tier can self quarantine for example, the rooms would be for people who currently live in communal spaces or dont have the ability to self Quarantine Hotel if not safest choice for your gas and people that are under quarantine in the same tally would be a situation merge entire town with few years. Now carol says that the hotels and city are working together on the funding in likely fema would help out as well. Now when i asked him what hotels would possibly be participating he did not give any specifics or names reporting live in San FranciscoTaylor Bisacky kron 4 news taylor. Thank you Alameda County released inmates early in an effort to try to curb the spread of coronavirus of the Sheriffs Office says most of those inmates are low level offenders who have already served a good portion of their sentence as kron fours dan thorn reports tonight this release will obviously lower the inmate population while also cutting the risk helping prevent a possible outbreak at the jail. More than 300 inmates have so far been released by Alameda County this week but this might not be the only group thats getting out early. No cases have been confirmed here at the jail but Officials Say this early releasing is a good way to keep it that way. A woman running for freedom after being one of more than 300 inmates released by Alameda County. Santa rita jail is reducing its population to help prevent the outbreak of coronavirus were not in the business typically of letting people out of jail. Until they have completed their obligations to the criminal Justice System but we are in unique and im president im Sergeant Ray Kelly with the Sheriffs Department says this decision did not come easy. The process began on tuesday to release prisoners who were mostly nonviolent low level offenders but not all of them fell under those categories there were some cases where people did have some felony assault history. There were cases where there were. People who had weapons type violations such an kelly says those particular inmates were vulnerable to becoming seriously ill. He says the release was done out of compassion but its being handled responsibly that was done in a way that was sensitive to the needs of those people. But it was also done in a way to protect Public Safety because obviously were not going to let a bunch of criminals out that we know are going to go do bad things in the community. Again this is possibly just the first round of people who are getting released early Sergeant Kelly says they are working with the District Attorneys Office to see if there are others who may qualify San Francisco and other bay area counties are also looking into the possibility of doing the same thing. Reporting in dublin, dan thorn kron 4 news Los Angeles County is also releasing inmates to free up space in the jails over the last 3 weeks the Sheriffs Department reduce the jail population there by about a 1000 the Department Says it expects to release more inmates so far there are no confirmed cases of the virus inside la county if you go to a bar station right now you will not be catching a train the last train of the night left at 9 oclock. Bart is temporarily cutting back on Service Hours after the coronavirus pandemic led to a dramatic drop in ridership kron fours gayle ong reports from union city. Bart has seen a decline in ridership by 90 of these new changes are a result of the coronavirus pandemic and shelterinplace orders. A handful of commuters could be seen at the union city bart station during rush hour thursday afternoon, one parking lot almost empty the reason why bart is cutting back on hours starting monday march 23th monday through friday service will be 05 00am to 09 00pm service right now ends at midnight starting saturday march 28 Weekend Service will be from 08 00am to its i mean all i can get there doesnt impact me too much so i get off of 5 so shots of the fun part was not available for an interview but posted on their website sfmta ac transit and other alternative Bus Operators will provide service after 09 00pm for any essential workers who have to stay late this union city bus driver had this to say about the changes. We dont become many people because everythings must you must close in. We dont see many people around. For weeks barr has been monitoring the coronavirus outbreak and the flow of writers numbers show ridership has plummeted the Transit Agency feeling the Economic Impact citing a million reduction in revenue part is seeking emergency funds from all levels of government during this crisis, bart says they will monitor ridership data each day to determine how long the Service Hours will remain in effect reporting in union city gayle ong kron 4 news. Tesla will temporarily suspend production at its fremont factory starting on monday. The company kept this east bay facility running even after Alameda County issued a shelterinplace on to say this week ordering all nonessential businesses to close. This was how it looked at the factory this morning you can see the parking lot was full tesla argued against the shelterinplace order saying all of its 10,000 employees are essential workers. After meeting with local state and federal officials today tesla said that it will suspend production from the end of the by the end of the day on monday one other note tesla has been mentioned as one of the Tech Companies which may help to make more ventilators for the state. Just need to do what were being told you could save someones life do it its not worth it you do not feel the pain. A plea from a gilroy woman tonight after she says she lost her father to coronavirus his daughter says her 66 yearold father complained of a cough. Before we went to the hospital that he was put in isolation after just a few days he passed away kron fours michelle kingston shares a grieving daughters message to you. He was just a great. Or a man with a big heart stacy still those speaking out after losing her dad to coronavirus just need to do what were being told you could save someones life do it its not worth it you do not feel the pain still the says her dad went to a hospital in gilroy on tuesday march, 3rd complaining of a cough that wasnt going away. She says he was sent home and told to go to his doctor. His doctor then sent him back to the hospital 2 days later, he was frustrated he knew there was something wrong with him it was during that second trip to the hospital that he was tested for coronavirus in put into isolation just a few days later, gary young passed away he was 66 years old. I got to still be here. Its he may be you know if they catch him on tuesday. We dont know one way or the other i just know that there is you know always that possibility because they didnt sent home that he could still be here still the hope sharing her story will help others realize how serious this viruses and follow the orders and stay holed up i lost my dad, you know it people dont take this seriously and so it hits home for an end to hit home for me and the reason i decided to come out and tell my story is that some of the stress appeal this. He is awful still the says theyre unsure how we ca coronavirus she says her father didnt travel much but that he loved to shake hands. He was a giant teddy bear basically Everybody Loves and he was so friendly he had the biggest heart in gilroy michelle kingston kron 4 news. Well, the message to social distance of course also applies to everybody whos trying to stay active during the shelter in places was the scene along the iron horse trail in walnut creek today. A lot of people were out and about riding their bicycles walking their dogs they still have to maintain that sixfoot distance so it was a nice day today and i guess thats why so many people were out and about even though it was cloudy was probably hard for a lot of folks to stay inside. Alright, our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in chernoff alyssa illuminated by candlelight. In his secret whcther lair lawrence was thats where thats right. A is yeah certainly hard to stay inside all the time, you know you need to get out there and brie so that fresh air and certainly today after the storms come through the there didnt get much fresher than today and it was shot there now we do have some partly cloudy skies. We are seeing a few scattered showers pop up for the Sierra Nevada and some snow up there as well but were drying locally and that is as we head into spring now looks like well get a little bit of a break you can see the storm clouds start up are just little bit a lightning strikes over the foot hills there of the Sierra Nevada, but this is really kind of winding down but were not done with the rain by any means of looks like were going to see some more that we turn other right now just a little bit of cloud around the ground and hes not seen rain just some partly cloudy skies doppler just picking up some stuff in the sky right now temperatures are running in the 50s 60s for highs today is running below the average for this time of year only 59 degrees and temperatures go 64 oakland 61 degrees in san jose in livermore 63 in concord and 62 degrees in santa rosa tonight, partly cloudy skies will be a little bit chilly overnight tonight, a low is expected to drop into the 30s in some of the valleys tomorrow. Partly cloudy a little bit warmer mostly dry around the bay area on a friday and i didnt get out there and enjoy some of that fresh air this weekend we are expecting some changes partly cloudy to start your weekend but then here comes some winter like storms a