As going to the parks many parks actually are shut down and my colleague Sarah Stinson will have a little bit more on that and just a few moments but a lot of people are still walking past the barriers, the fences and enjoying the parks and obviously getting too many of those remote parks, they have to drive in moving forward. You will be issued and take it were not sure whats going to happen if you get repeated tickets. But they obviously want to crack down on that especially since a lot of officials are praising the bay area for doing such a great job with flattening the curve a lot of people are not and we saw this a couple of weeks ago where Governor Newsome he saw our footage and many other news footage of people flocking to the beaches and he told people to grow up and if theyre not growing up moving forward they will pay up. I cant believe at this point theyre still not listening you dont want that ticket thank you will we appreciate well as the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus near 17,000 experts say that we are 2 days away from the projected peak of doubts per day. But there is some hope with that grim forecast as the peak is not expected to be as deadly as originally thought. Lets take a look at the u. S. Numbers where they stand this morning this is according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker there are more than 466,000 cases in this country and more than 16,600 people have died. In california we have now surpassed 20,000 confirmed cases and more than 550 people have died over 361,000 people though have recovered from the coronavirus around the world. Here in the bay area there are now more than 4,000 confirmed cases and 115 doubts, 47 of those deaths are in Santa Clara County which also has the most cases at over 1400 21 people have died of the virus in San Mateo County 10 people have died in San Francisco and marin counties in Contra Costa County there are 8 deaths Alameda County has 17 deaths and in both napa and so a Solano County there are 2 deaths a piece. There is one death reported in Sonoma County. Appears theres been progress in the bay areas fight against covid19 theres been the possibility of seeing deaths and cases surging. However early actions taken by local Health Officials seem to be working very a doctor doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care. He agrees that the situation is improving our hospitals are not being overwhelmed and testing is improving. But he does say that the progress on flattening the curve needs to be viewed over the long term. Weve not been doing all of social distancing shelter a everything thats been done in our communities to prevent the spread of coronavirus just because its worked so far doesnt mean we can stop this as we stopped and people are closely interacting mr. Stowe coronavirus out there it can it can start to spread quickly. It can change direction. Well ask for the peak projections, they very to either late april mid to late may or june. Currently another big factor in helping to slow the overall spread should also be an increased emphasis on Nursing Homes and the Homeless Population to avoid keeping the virus around. This morning, theres a new option for people who need to use Public Transportation to get the to their central jobs or maybe a doctors appointment. Golden gate transit says it will be helping muni riders have been affected by the changes to munis bus routes. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson has all the details for you she is in San Francisco. The live report. Hi sarah good morning. Laurie good morning, this is definitely a good morning for essential workers as theyre hearing about this golden gate transit stepping up and helping out a new need as many as had to produce service significantly down to 17 lines of service they are significant lines very well use lines near hospitals but its not enough for some people you know some a lot of people are depending on you need to get to their aarons as well Grocery Store pharmacy name it and so thats why this is a very helpful the golden gate transit opening up stops in San Francisco further from what they normally do and this will allow those people who depend on you need to get the right they obviously its only for essential travel but as you recall muni only has the 17 such lines open because many of its operators are staying home to the coronavirus concerns we do have a map of the new stops there will be service to the financial district weekdays between the from the bridge down lumbar to Fishermans Wharf and we must plaza is also service to the Civic Center Area impasse that daily between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Salesforce Transit Center through lamar geary boulevard mannus and mission clipper card is the easiest way and the cheapest way for you to pay per use air adults will pay 4. 50 but clipper card will be 3. 60 user disabled k 2 and 0. 25 you can also receive a fair credit when youre transferring between golden gate transit and mean you say you can hop on the transit and then get on you need to get to where we need to be that way to just transfer free transfer and that will be super helpful so anyway to help out or central workers is great are care workers people who are keeping the restaurant open for take out those people are really helping at all of us who are staying at home so this will help how those essential workers. A live in San FranciscoSarah Stinson kron 4 news all right sir, thanks uh front live report from San Francisco robin. Thank you marty to the east bay now theres an increased concern about senior care facilities in Alameda County. After 7 residents died from an outbreak at one particular center in hayward gateway care in rehab center there in hayward also reports 25 Staff Members and 40 residents have tested positive. The county is now working to contain the spread. The number sizing you know everything from importance our personal protective equipment and really trying to cut co waiting and then any patients with symptoms and alum making sure that theyre isolated as many people know a lot of recommendations around making sure that no nonessential visitors come in and singer of activities we have a long checklist recommendation. Well gateway is also being criticized from some family members who say that they have not been given updates about the health of their loved ones. Now weve reached out to gateway for comment. But so far we have not heard back from them. Alameda county is partnering with the state Health Department to establish a special task force. Has been an adjustment for many but especially for victims of Domestic Violence. It can be increasingly dangerous San FranciscoOfficials Say that during the first week of the shelter in place. They saw a sharp increase in requests for Domestic Violence services only to see that drop off the next week. Now the das and Mayors Office theyve reached an agreement with a Real Estate Company fairness to provide 20 of Furnished Apartments for survivors of Domestic Violence. People are stocked with their abusers chance go out into the community see in the places they normally would. Someone who might have been coming in and participating in support groups are seeing a peer counselor or you any number of local resources. And now those things may not be available to them in the same way. City officials are already working to make 20 Additional Units available Domestic Abuse survivors and their families can stay there rentfree for 90 days. In the east bay, the Group Shelter in cars now working with Contra Costa County officials to run a homeless shelter at a local motel, premier inns has been transitioned into a 65 room shelter that will operate for at least 4 months all of this to help slow the spread of the coronavirus its the latest effort to help get the homeless off the street during this pandemic last week the city of San Francisco announced it would be sending homeless to hotels after 2 Homeless People tested positive. Also last week Governor Newsom announced that money from the federal government would also help pay for at least 15,000 hotel rooms for the homeless across california. Its not yet clear though if that motel in concord is part of that program. The virus infection rate among californias Health Care Workers has spiked over the past couple of days. Yesterday, the States Department of health said that more than 1800 Health Care Workers have tested positive for coronavirus and thats nearly 7 times more than the number of cases on monday. Officials blame the surge on how theyre counting cases now before they only had included health care infections for workers who were exposed on the job, but now theyre counting all Health Care Workers who are positive regardless of where they were exposed. California is trying to extend extra benefits to Health Care Workers on the front lines, the california healthcare workers now have access to travel vouchers and stipends now on thursday Governor Newsome announced the state will reimburse lowwage workers. 100 of hotel casa designated locations. Well also provide vouchers to those and others who need help too sleep away from home because of their work. So that theyre allowed to stay closer to their patients and provide them the opportunity not to worry about being out of pocket or worry about exposing their families or god forbid worried about another night sleeping in their car. So they can stay closer to the needs in their communities. Well the 150 hotels that are part of the states a bulk purchasing plan. Theyll be available on a new state website is called cal travel store dot com that starts today. Newsome said that fema will help fund this program along with a 25 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg the Governor Also Announced a handful of airlines will be offering free roundtrip tickets to Health Care Workers. Im sure they need it. And still ahead on the kron 4 morning news. Were going take a look at how Staff Members at ucsf are using both high and low tech to make face shields for Health Care Workers. And an oak a new covid walk up testing site open in the east bay, well tell you everything you need were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news were heading into an easter weekend unlike any other, but we want to get the forecast from dave spahr should be pretty nice out there hunting. Yeah, it looks like it will be good morning marty and robin good morning, would have to share this the sky with some clouds going on today, but a little bit better. Clearing is expected. When we get into the weekend and on into the following week. Heres a look at is somebody we could see some snow we on the looks pretty good for their weekend. However looks like some rain potentially some sprinkles going on here on sunday all right back to the home front, heres the Golden Gate Bridge and you can see some cloud us off in the distance but the sun making itself known so were getting some of that going on, but again variable clouds on balance for today taking care of some last minute fog and some of those inland valleys because of all the surface moisture and it will be some of the low lying clouds to maxing out again not entirely though for today. They are in temperatures, weve got a lot of 50s on the board here midfifties at that cooling off a little bit an antioch some last minute cool down 49 their 51 for concord and also livermore 53 at the santa rosa, but now that the sun is joining us we probably will see temperatures go. And the other direction. Theres a look at what the future cast for has to say kind of a mixed bag, some sun and clouds we have going on here throughout the period as youll see better clearing though on our saturday and for sunday little warming this weekend but more into next week thats when you see those numbers really start to get some octane to them here, variable clouds still cool on today mid to upper 60s in some inland valleys, particularly all right. This weekend better inland clearing the lower to middle 70s going on in london, this is a work in progress here. The next week mostly sunny warming in some spots. Inland may top off at about 80 or so that could be a quick peek and then we drop off because theres yet a new system by the following weekend. 62 San Francisco, 65 for oakland 68 or so for san jose. Dont quite see a whole lot of the decoupling of temperatures for the inland regions contrast to what near the coast today shorts get little warmer in places like santa rose antioch to concord we expect a much better more pronounced climb in temperatures a little bit later on in the forecast period will have your extended coming up in a little bit along with the 4 zone to see how your neighbors will be doing today. But again a better warmup are expected by the middle of next week. Robin whats going on the track while folks are heading to work this morning, some folks are heading to work in. It looks pretty good so far at the bay bridge toll plaza so if you need to use westbound 80 no problems to worry about clear on the upper decks move through downtown San Francisco. But on the opposite end the San Francisco north to 80 right before one on one just got word of accident there blocking your 2 left lanes once again north to 80 right before the one o one connector in San Francisco, heres a peek at 92 are checking out the trip across the san mateo bridge looks a little bit better compared to the last hour it was pretty crowded heading west standout so overall its nice trouble free under 25 minutes from the nimitz to the bayshore marty all right robin thank you. A desperate shortage of protective medical equipment like face shields that we all know about some Staff Members at ucsf and now been taking matters into their own hands to take care of that more than a dozen 3 d printers at ucsf have been buzzing. Theyre turning out critical parts for face shields orthopedic surgeons at ucsf found instructions online on how to print face shields this effort all started about 3 weeks ago to take care of this growing concern about the supply of what is a it necessary piece, a protective equipment. Particular virus. The primary mode of transmission is droplets. So you want to be able to protect the frontline clinicians especially going to doing any kind of procedures but long as any kind of of bodily fluids. They want to have that front line defense of about shield. Well the materials are an expensive the cost less than 2 to make shield and theyre producing more than 300 face shields every day the frames can be cleaned and reused and the front face plastic can also be swapped out as they need to robin. Well now to the east bay where the city of fremont is wrapping up efforts to test people for coronavirus they have now launched a free walk in testing site now in order to get tested. First you have to make an appointment and you also have to have symptoms of covid19 it will take one to 3 days to receive else tests results. The goal is to make people aware of you know whether they have the coronavirus a not and if you do you can self isolate. So if i tell someone that ok you have. Call that 19 theyre going to take more precautions you know, and they cannot stay in the home stay in one room in isolating themselves what is somebody who dont know that and theyre still feel like they have allergy symptoms still going out to out for a walk or something. Well right now the site can only do a test per day but there are planning to get that number up to 50 thats their goal keep in mind that if you want to make an appointment check out the number thats on your screen right now you call 5 one o 2526808. You can set up your appointment that way. Well call that 19 has ended most and her son interactions lead to financial turmoil for countless people. But the trillion package signed into law in march aims to assist those people. Jane jane has those stories and more this morning. The number of people who find themselves suddenly jobless is now totaling in the millions this is causin