Give you a sense of optimism in terms of the curve in california a venti a it is bending, but its also stretch. Bending is good stretching means and will go a little longer the state anticipates a surge of coronavirus patients next month. The direct payments can wanted more. So we think that theres a a path to getting more for the shrek payments. That was House Speaker nancy pelosi saying that more money is coming to help americans through this crisis lots to cover good morning. Thank you for joining us here on this wednesday april 8th, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom first the governor he says that were doing a good job. And try to flatten the curve but the state is anticipating a big surge in virus cases next month. Give you a sense of optimism in terms of the curve in california a bending a it is bending, but its also stretch. Yeah, the governor went on to say that because of coronavirus curve is stretching our state is doing a good job of social distancing and thats allowing the state now to buy some time and loan out some of its medical equipment to states that are in more need right now. We have kron fours Ashley Zavala with that story. Slow and steady or 2 words governor newsome used to describe the increase of covid19 conditions in california confirmed cases rose 10 tuesday, while the number of patients in intensive care increased by 4 . Let me give you a sense of optimism in terms of the curve. In california a venti a it is bending, but its also stretching it. The governor noting the bent and stretched curve is allowing the state to buy time and loan some of its equipment to states in need california tuesday night is set to send off 100 ventilators each to new york, new jersey and illinois, according to newsome another 200 will be distributed between maryland washington d c nevada and delaware, California State Health officials said by may theyre hoping to have them back to help nearly triple californias inventory of ventilators were looking to get somewhere between an additional 1520 more. To reach about 25 to 30,000 ventilators in the state of california. And we know that we dont need that at this moment. Economically with 2. 3 million californians applying for Unemployment Benefits and stimulus checks on the way newsome said the state is considering extending direct payments to undocumented immigrants who werent eligible for the federal payout as californians caring deeply about residents in this to provide support for those individuals lost the answers yes, all of that is being considered all part of a broader package where will all be making some significant adjustments in this physically socially and financially difficult time for many the state Surgeon General today issued a set of stress response guidelines to help californians co in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Ashley now lets get the very latest on the numbers in california according to Johns Hopkins university there are now more than 17,000 confirmed cases with 450 people having died of coronavirus again thats here in the state locally in the bay area theyre almost 4,000 confirmed cases of covid19. And heres a breakdown of the counties with the column for total cases and the column for deaths and you can see Santa Clara County tops. Both of those columns with more than 1200 cases and 43 people losing their lives so far San Mateo County has registered 21 deaths, 9 people have died from covid19 in San Francisco there been 7 deaths in Contra Costa County 15 in Alameda County 10 in moran and 2 deaths in both napa and Solano County with Sonoma County reporting just one death from coronavirus so far. The nations Surgeon General says that africanamericans are at a higher risk of coronavirus doctor jerome adams made this announcement after seeing data that shows africanamericans are getting sick and dying and more than 2 times the rate of anyone else in the u. S. And there are several reasons why. A particularly difficult problem. Exacerbation of the Health Disparity weve known literally forever. That diseases like diabetes, hypertension. Obesity and asthma. Disproportionately afflicting the minority populations, particularly africanamericans unfortunately when you look at the predisposing conditions that lead to a bad outcome coronavirus the things that get people into icy use require intubation and often lead to death. They are just those very comorbidities that unfortunately disproportionately prevalent in the African American populations who are very concerned about that its very sad. Its nothing we can do about it right now except to try and get the best possible care to avoid those complications and they want to get the best information they can about at the cdc and lawmakers have started calling for the cdc. To collect full racial data of coronavirus cases and several states and cities are already doing that oakland native representative barbara lee spoke with us today about what she says needs to be done. The African American population is probably about 2829 yet 81 of deaths are African American. And we see this trend taking place around the country and its its a really. So what im trying to do is number the appropriations committees to cheddar required the centers for Disease Control to begin to collect your data based on racial and ethnic characteristics so we know what is taking place so we can direct resources into been hardest impacted communities to begin to close this disparity so everyone. Will be able become more stable than and be able access the Proper Health care that they so desperately need. President trump says that he will require the cdc to collect racial data. He said the members of the Coronavirus Task force are going to start looking into that data. Leaders of 6 perry counties officially announced the Public School campuses will stay closed for the rest of the year. And that includes alameda Contra Costa County moran. San Mateo Santa Clara and San Francisco counties schools will continue to use their at home Distance Learning. But there are a lot of questions about next year and doctor Anthony Fauci actually spoke about that briefly during the most recent Coronavirus Task force press conference. I fully expect though im humble enough to know that i cant accurately predict that by the time we get to the fall that we will have this under control enough that it certainly will not be the way it is now where people are shooting schools. Doctor fauci says the biggest question right now is whether the curve will flatten enough for summer camps to reopen in time well have to wait and see. The good news is that the kids who are on track to graduate to are still going to get their diploma. Yes, these will build across the stage in shape, the principals hand. Do all of that that much or many would love to do hopefully that will come in the fall, but in the meantime there are still some students in need of Crucial Technology to complete that coursework graduate with crawfords taylor per second to explain. As bay area schools announced closures for the rest of the school year state superintendent of Public Schools, Tony Thurmond tells parents and students that seniors will still have the opportunity to graduate and move on to college has been flexibility on every front that you can imagine. Our seniors are able to take the a p exams all of our Higher Education institutions have suspended the s a t as a condition for admission into our schools. Our School Districts are providing flexible grady in some cases, a past not pass framework for how students will be created in all of our institutions of Higher Education have accepted that as a part of the conditions for missions into our University Systems all students can still graduate. Ceremonies are up in the air, i know its disappointing. That we cant point to Graduation Ceremony can take place. Thats only because we want you to remain safe and we know that there are many districts that are planning literally planning virtual graduation ceremonies. Many of our districts are planning to have ceremonies after we received the allclear to return the campus is meanwhile schools and teachers are constantly working to improve the new norm of Distance Learning for the next several weeks the California Department of education, well work with School Districts to provide training on how to provide distancelearning however its proven to be more challenging for some students. Those without access to the internet or online devices for those students teachers are making accommodations with packets of material has the department of education works to secure more devices for the students who need them department of education is working with the governors office. And many in the Technology Sector to get devices and Internet Access to many of our students. Right now the department of education says its moving to provide a 150,000 devices for students so they have the resources to work from home like many of us weve been doing this for the last couple of weeks even then though they say its still not enough and theyre asking for donations. So if youd like to help their encouraging you to go to donate act as cte dot cnn dot gov until it was actually reported kron 4 news. With so few people commuting these days bart is taking even more trains out of service. Yeah weve got kron fours will tran standing by with more on what this means for you if youre heading out to the bart station a will. It means that you better get to the birds station earlier because the trains are not running as quickly as before you see how anti the situation is right now look at the i mean you dont see anybody walking to the bart stations are going to the platforms because the numbers are considerably down its only about 28,000 riders daily now systemwide and that is why theyre taking every other train out of its operation. Shelter in place as cause people to stay home. So moving forward monday through friday trains will be arriving at the stations every 30 minutes on the weekend that schedule remains the same. Bart says this will say that about 3 to 7 million every month and allow their employees who are sick or have Family Members who are sick. Possibly because of coronavirus that now they can can take care of their Family Members keep in mind how long this is going to last is anyones future. The expert is sad doctor fauci and he doesnt even know if school will resume as normal this fall, so you can imagine how things are with bart as well so plan ahead back to james and mary. All right, thank you very much well, 7. 12 right now and still ahead and as the pandemic wears on economists are afraid of another housing crisis on the horizon. Well tell you what getting outside feels really good more now than ever before. Its spring. The season we plant, we garden, we grow things. We bring new color to our outdoor space. Were here to help you make your home the best it can be. Is the time our checking out the weather and its nice to get a little break from that rain it was good to get the rain will be wrong. And it was a good amount, but it is nice to have a break yeah, it was nice to keep those hills green john, but i guess we have drier ahead right. If the drier weather ahead, but that rain like you guys mentioned was super welcome. We needed that after the drier start to the season really nice way to get april kicked off especially up in the sierra where they really did heavy snow that we got to but if the rain got shut down some sunshine is ahead for us that are looking forward to that you can see some clouds this morning so definitely not a clear morning just yet we are going to hold on to low cloud cover through much of the next few hours into the afternoon though a dose of sunshine between the clouds can be expected and most importantly the drive one as you get outside for a walk around the neighborhood low pressure resulting rainfall for southern and Central California were bit too far north for this thats been the story of the season, the showers. In Southern California that just not really impacted the bay aside from a couple of sprinkles out that blows east of san jose weve been nice and quiet across the bay area this morning today were going to be seeing some cloud cover at times but also clearing into the afternoon. So good chance to step outside with a light jacket on and enjoy what will be a seasonable day couple sprinkles really just to barely skirt the southern end of the bay area during overnight hours tonight will are all sleeping tomorrow more cloudy astin cruelest a of the forecast really only a chance of a couple sprinkles in the mountains above san jose like santa cruz and diablo range is aside from that this is a dry forecast ahead of us into friday, some better clearing to be expected that sets us up for a really pleasant easter weekend around the corner. Todays daytime highs, mostly in the 60s although conquered antioch napa and santa rosa, our inland further north in the bay areas are in the 70s, san jose in Mountain View and the upper 60s ball, oakland at 65 in San Francisco at 63 tomorrow a little cooler in the lok saudi or friday, some clearing going on and that sets us up for saturday sunday monday and tuesday of next week with some really nice weather highs will be in the 70s skies will be nice and sunny the only concern here is everyones going to want to be enjoyed that weather. So yeah, a lot of practice at social distancing as things do get nice again. Back to you in the studio. Thanks a lot time 7. 17 and economists are afraid that the trillions of dollars in federal Coronavirus Relief is postponing another housing crisis moratoriums on foreclosures and evictions are working now. But when those are over landlords are going to want their rent Raquel Martin has more. Eventually the rate will be due sullivan green with urban Institute Warns the Coronavirus Crisis could be followed by a housing crisis and we need to be planning now for that class green says millions of americans me longterm solutions to keep them from losing their homes if their jobs dont survive the pandemic renters are more likely to be hard hit by the crisis that ended lower incomes and they also tend to work in the were seeing are losing jobs. The trillion coronavirus who leave law does give temporary protection from eviction and foreclosure for some americans but green says Congress Must provide longterm support for many more of us weve got to do more ohio senator Sherrod Brown says building more Affordable Housing is key we just need to. Out there theres democratic lawmakers say they will not allow a flood of foreclosures and evictions like those caused by the financial crisis in 2008 illinois congresswoman cheri bustos says families not banks Must Come First at this point i think it is fair to say that were willing to look at it and make sure that were helping our families but kansas Republican Ron Estes says congress should wait a bit because this is where people come to work. The employers who are in the way hes would be place to get back it as well as does argues the money already in the pipeline might be enough in washington Raquel Martin. Well congress is working on another Coronavirus Relief package for Small Businesses and Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the house is ready to move on it. This week potentially. President trump is asking for billion for Small Business loans. Democrats say they want to include protections for renters and minority business owners. Their specific demands have been fleshed out just yet. The Speaker Pelosi says they know that and other relief package is sorely needed they will get it done. The speaker also says she believes there is a path to getting more direct payments to americans. New this morning tesla employees are being told to expect cuts in pay and potentially for lows as well in an email obtained by cnn tesla says that workers will see a 10 dip in pay its expected to go into effect this coming monday. Tesla says it hopes to have things return to normal sometime next month. Tesla has about 10,000 employees here in the bay area. Nike is transfo