with then there 175 beds will be made available at seton medical center in daly city but the majority of the additional surge beds will come from spaces like the santa clara convention center facilities outside of traditional hospital environment and san francisco cape bruny kron 4 news. there are now more than a 1000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 22 virus related deaths right here in the bay area. >>take a look at the numbers on your screen santa clara counties up to 375 cases, 16 people have die fair san mateo county has a 161 cases and one death. san francisco county up to a 152 cases contra costa has 86 1 death alameda county has a 124 cases in the north bay moran has 53 cases solano county is now to 24 sonoma county 31 cases and one death so far and that the county has 3. well a number of law enforcement officers and public health officials in the bay area have also tested positive for the coronavirus this includes for santa clara sheriff's deputies to santa rosa police officers and one san francisco police officer. each agency says that they are increasing safety precautions and protocols within their departments. well to the south in our recent report to the board of supervisors says as many as 10,000 county residents may be affected with the coronavirus supervisors are told that that scenario is based on the ratio of positive test 2 negative ones in the sec population. so currently labs are only reporting positive result, making it very difficult to know exactly how many people are being tested overall a new county order requiring all laps to report all positive and negative results was announced by public health officer doctor sara cody. well the new laboratory before reporting order follows information that shows the increase in the local transmission of the virus and also reflects the growing availability of the testing through commercial and academic laps. well, california prisons will not take in or transfer inmates until further notice. governor gavin newsome he signed an executive order for 35 state prisons and for youth correctional facilities. now the governor says he or the issue to protect the health and the safety of state inmates and staff. and this comes after 5 correctional officers and one inmate became infected with the coronavirus at 4 separate state prisons. a social distancing and public can be a real challenge, especially at crowded places like the grocery stores kron four's dan kerman visit some grocery stores to see exactly what they're doing to keep things clean and safe for customers as the covid 19 corona virus continues to spread. grocery stores like this whole foods and san francisco are limiting the number of people who go inside and those outside are being told to keep their distance from one another. >>similar lines can be found at the san francisco trader joe's for the same reason and here team members are also keeping customers up to date on what they've run out of the other grocery stores are stepping up. on the kron 4 facebook page leslie posts at a safeway in san jose. you have to form a line down the aisle and get assigned to checkout stand one by one. lots of tape lines on the floor to indicate 6 foot distances and josephine rights, they put a barrier between the cashier and customer check out which i think is a good idea. also a good idea cleaning shopping carts that whole foods we mentioned has a team member park right by the carts wiping them down before passing them on to customers. one of our viewers named just tells us not all stores are going that extra mile specifically this costco in san jose police. >>this is. >>just advise is bringing your own wife's wherever you go probably a wise idea. >>now safely trader joe's and whole foods just to name a few all say they're doing enhanced cleaning to keep the store even safer. in addition to that many of the stores are doing special hours for seniors. in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news. >>well to the east bay now a local delivery company that once served school lunches is now taking grocery orders online choice launch ceo justin gag and he launched a non contact drive-thru grocery pickup at the company's headquarters in danville so customers can go and you place your order online and they just drive up for your pick up their employees there they were and gloves they have home a mask on they will place those orders right in the back of your cars within 3 minutes. >>it's great to support a local business and it's wonderful that they're able give us the opportunity to get fresh groceries when it's so hard to get them right now. >>how quick is again safe choice lunch is accepting orders to say through fridays at 11:00am starting at 11:00am you must put in your order 2 days in advance don't forget that we have more details on our website kron 4 dot com. well protecting businesses across the bay area during this crisis is becoming more important as each day passes. many stores and restaurants now have boarded up their windows and their doors come for us to a bellow explains. >>this coronavirus this is a crisis is a mental crisis is a business crisis. and it's going to be with us for a long time as restaurant and nonessential store closures continue this is becoming a common sight across the bay area. >>stores and restaurants of every shape and size a completely boarded up there taking a huge sacrifice right now in what they're doing fillmore street is known as one of the main hubs for shopping and dining in san francisco. but now it's a bit of a ghost town i really feel for them. the street looks. >>really bad it looks shocking when when i walk down the street. so many started some businesses the fillmore district merchants association was created after the 19 oh 6 earthquake hit san francisco. >>so they've been through disasters before but this one is a little trickier to people is not so much to market them or chance and really unify the community with the merchants. these days the can't do this because we can go out so they're turning to new solutions asking people to support in different ways during this time it should post on social media on your on or on your social media platform. this is a july businesses that you like to be tonight they've even set up a go fund me page to help keep the lights on down fillmore street asking for donations to keep up with street maintenance and security issues. they're also helping business owners figure out which grants and loans might be available to them it's confusing time for a lot of merchants. so they need all of this assistance, he are thinking that this crisis will be over at some point and when when we that we were we really want to make sure that we are strong unified. >>in san francisco noelle bellow kron 4 news. >>new this morning all san francisco city hall weddings through at least april 30th are postponed that's in order to help contain the spread of the coronavirus people with previous appointments will get the priority when those appointments and openings are back up again. state beaches in san mateo county are now close lot of folks have been flocking to beaches. so gates to beaches are also locked the state close down the beach parking lot as well you know after large crowds started showing up there and people flock to them over the weekend. despite the stay at home order. now while some neighbors say the closures are necessary not everyone is happy about that decision. >>they were people on the beaches and i did not notice a lot of social distancing. >>the beaches are still open. so we just wanna make that clear it's just the parking lots that are close and then the trails are also open along with the bathrooms. the considering modifying his social distancing recommendations an effort to help the economy. but lawmakers warned that lifting restrictions could actually have deadly consequences washington dc correspondent alexandra le mon explains. >>president trump says he's taking medical advice about the coronavirus pandemic into consideration, but he wants people to return to work soon for my opinion more people are going to die. >>if we allow this to continue we have to go back to work president trump also said he hopes to have businesses up and running again by easter. it's like this cures. >>is worse. then the problem california congressman mark takano says he's also worried about the economy it is jarring to be in this new reality. >>we can't. comic. the economics i had a human by doctors and lawmakers like senator richard durbin of illinois warned that if restrictions are lifted too soon the death toll could be devastating and that too would hurt the economy it is a great personal sacrifice and burden for many families to go through this, i know. >>but if the end of the day we could reduce the number of people who suffer or die from this virus is worth the sacrifice while president trump and the coronavirus task force have issued recommendations it's actually mayors and governors who are issuing orders that people must follow. >>this week governors around the country is should stay at home orders, including washington governor jay inslee it's time to hunker down. in order to win this fight in washington alexandra, the mound. of course our coverage of the coronavirus continues right on our website kron 4 dot com. >>there you'll find the latest on the outbreaks are in the bay area we have an interactive map that set up for you a lot of information on ways that you can stay safe and keep your family safe all of this is available right now kron 4 dot com you just go to the coronavirus tab on our website kron 4 dot com. well coming up next morning news, south lake tahoe is a popular getaway spot for many people in the bay area. >>but it too is fighting the coronavirus pandemic and immediate requests made by the city's mayor to keep visitors away i have to cancel my trip you should not be heading up there right now even though we do have lots of snow. a little peek outside before we go we want to check in on conditions around the bay area we have some off and on throughout the bay area. so you want to make sure that you have the headlights and wipers on reduce your speed when driving out there we'll have your full forecast coming ice... is this for real? not exactly that's bargain bliss setting in you're basking in the glow of orangic produce at shockingly low prices. i guess the choir isn't real either? oh no, their real. their here every sunday afternoon. ♪grocery outlet jingle ♪grocery outlet reprise welcome back to the kron 4 morning news and thanks for waking up with us on this hump day if you're heading outside for a jog or run, let's check in on the forecast first we want to check in with dave spahr who is reporting from home. we're still practicing, social distancing here in kron 4 so dave howe said weather shaping up as the rain going to taper off today or is there more to come if. >>we have a little bit more calm and you are noting some of your way into work today and we'll see some probably over the entire region, however it's going to favor the peninsula. the south bay and parts of the east bay as well. now we're noting right now a little cluster down around the coast along the peninsula, half moon bay. you can see there are 3 san mateo county and about to hit the santa cruz mountains but still a little bit up the north bay of them are looks like as well, but down here in the south is where the concentration will be today and look at this coloring up there in mount hamilton. yeah we have cold air aloft, that means 2 things mountain snows even local mountains throughout the bay area and number 2 that also means some claps of thunder because of some lightning because a corner lot. sfo, no delays cooking here we can see a very wet there as well as there's the shot at alcatraz to san francisco behind it so getting right here what we have is still some rain lingering again favoring the south. the north is going to dry out particularly tonight. so that's why that to. frost advisories in place for thursday morning clear skies drier air moving in but the south bay in the east bay different story though it remained a chance of some showers as we can see that you can actually see the dry now occur late in the program there you see some clearing happening by 11:00pm but elsewhere across the bay still looks like there might be some stray showers at work here and that will re fire up again, it looks like into thursday with daytime heating places like mount him a hamilton on mount diablo might see a couple little bit of those showers cooking. so future cast rain, let's watch what happens today in the coverage, most of the rain we're going to get over the next 48 hours on balance will be probably over the say 12 to 24 hours. most of the rain tomorrow will be somewhat very very spotty and again favoring the south. now the models let's go through in terms of these winds want to show you this on wednesday afternoon. the winds start to build this is after most of the rain is said and done. we have the winds actually uptick in this is an onshore wind. so don't expect much for temperatures remain prime quite cool all the way into the weekend, here's a long range forecast models for you first get through this a cluster here and that is the weekend comes another batch to make note of it's a fast mover though we might be able to salvage a little bit of sunday. let you get out for that jog without getting rained on and walk the dog and such into next week that doesn't look particularly for exciting doesn't but we looked for a warming trend into early next week. we've got temperatures climbing on us now for it's chilly upper 50's again. some will poke out here and they're all that's going to do is add energy for the atmosphere to but cook up a little bit some of those isolated thunder showers but look at this 7 day forecast as we get past the rain over the weekend lower 70's for your monday into tuesday we do see another system by midweek next week that may provide maybe perhaps a stray shower or they're not particularly clear on that, but let's enjoy at least the warning coming our way through the earned it by this point robin. all right. thank you. >>let's check in on traffic now you know we get a little bit of rain there's always an increase in the number of crashes and spinouts so we don't want that to be you take it easy slow it down out there. the bridges are looking good. here's a live look at the richmond center fell it is picking up we have some folks that have to get to work so if you need to use west 5.80 are doing fine so far with no major problems across the span heading into the north bay we just want remind you that toll takers all around the bay area they are practicing social distancing so there will be no one there to take your money. he just roll right on through you'll get a bill in the mail not a ticket, so you don't have to worry about you know miss behaving everything's fine just rolled through the pay gates for the toll takers are also practicing social distancing all right, let's check in on the golden gate. little peek here and one on one, it's looking good so far with no problems into or out of san francisco. i do have word of an accident and a random this just popped up west 24 at fish ranch, looks like a spin out that may be blocking several lanes so west 24 little heavy for you leaving or ended because of that new crash but after that you're good heading through the caldecott over to oakland continuing to san francisco. no other problems we'll check back in on traffic coming up in just a bit. with the recent storms and now would be the perfect time for skiers and snowboarders to head to tahoe right. but the puck haitians spot is turning away visitors because of the coronavirus pandemic majors ski resorts are temporarily close officials do not think that there are enough supplies to take care of residents and visitors. marley martinez explains. >>a pristine layer of snow blankets slopes in south lake tahoe. but on the ground the focus is shifting away from ramping up tourism and instead cracking down on the spread of the coronavirus the mayor of south lake tahoe showing us this request to the city sent to all vacation rental permit holders yesterday. >>to see sprinting to non-exempt short-term visitors until at least april 23th, just 30 days from now an immediate request for all vacation home owners to stop renting out immediately after the city saw thousands of visitors this past weekend. >>despite governor gavin newsome mandatory order to stay at home. we want to share time with everybody we just don't right now the reason the city's limited health care resources part memorial hospital is the only hospital for the city has fewer than 10 i see you beds and ventilators and not enough. that's not enough for 30,000 people. a terrifying thought for sure march rhianna who isn't even leaving her car to get groceries my husband's during the shopping inside and we have gloves. >>we have sanitizer. and we have homemade wipes because you can't find wipes especially here in tahoe, she agrees with the city's request to pause rentals because she is especially prone infections i survive swine flu in 2009, but i was sick for 6 weeks in and out of the hospital 3 times. >>and so i have scar tissue in my lungs this tahoe residents asking would be visitors. please stay home. i'm actually had friends from the bay area say oh you guys got snow last week and we're going to come sliding where should we go on like donald please don't. >>yeah that's not a idea i was marley martinez reporting south lake tahoe is of course an eldorado county with so far is reporting 3 cases of the coronavirus the county has been under a stay at home order since last week. in tokyo are officially postponed until next year. the game will still be called the olympic and paralympic games, tokyo 2020. and the olympic flame will remain stored and displayed in fukushima. right here in the bay area, the news of the olympics and postpones is is hitting close to home for the us crew team since 2017 the best american rowers in the country they've been training right here in the east bay with hopes up you know representing our country in the 2020 games. training for the olympics is a full time job. now like many who have lost their jobs due to this outbreak most of the athletes. we'll head home. >>the future will basically the highest me on my own general fight and i think that was the case for most of my teammates here for a lot. as well. >>well olympic more might to santos says that everyone understands that in order to compete one day you must be safe and healthy he went on to say that this year's group was full of potential with young guys who have yet to compete in the olympic games. before we go we want to take a little peek outside if you're going to step out maybe for a jog or run it is a little chilly outside a waking up to temperatures in the 30's. >>and the 40's around the bay area 46 in san francisco, 35 in santa rosa, 44 degrees right now in fremont to grab an umbrella bundle up if you're heading out for a walk or run maybe we'll be right >>welcome back to kron 4 morning news, good morning, everybody and waking up to yes some rain still returning in some areas picking down the southern end of the peninsula we're seeing some around san mateo as well that rain will continue in kind of rotation if you will around us a little bit want to know some of this fog in the east bay, she gets a little worse in the next couple of hours before it finaly clears out robin was talking earlier about those chilly temperatures well, at least we have the middle 40's across a lot of the midday but it's cold up in the north bay mid to upper 30's and will get colder tomorrow but already recorded this morning by double digits up to santa rosa 12 degrees behind yesterday and you can see half a dozen elsewhere across the bay easily. so look at what your forecast lines up today would keep it cloudy to start most areas. but the sun to win the battle in some cases it will be a variable clouds on balance with a few isolated showers robin. >>all right. thank you dave for coming up in the next hour on the kron 4 morning news at 5 berkeley unified school district. it's considering extending school closures throughout the month of april, how they're planning to take care of students during the closures. and several beach parking lot across the bay area will be closed after they were flooded with crowds over the weekend we'll have an update on that and a deal has been reached on the coronavirus economic stimulus bill what happened overnight and how this will help you. >>we'll pick outside here's a live look from the embarcadero in san francisco. it's a little soggy out there so you're waking up to some scattered showers just keep that in mind if you're about to step out. 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after sleep deprived nights and marathon negotiating sessions. a bipartisan agreement on the largest rescue package in american history. this is not a moment of celebration, but one of necessity. >>well while you were sleeping. the white house says it has reached a deal with congress for stimulus package to help jolt the struggling economy as the coronavirus