Said are infected. Dan kerman has the latest. The fact is the worst is yet to come for weeks now San Francisco city officials have warned the most vulnerable populations are most at risk for the coronavirus among them the homeless. Now an outbreak at the citys largest homeless shelter Multiservice Center self at 5th and bryant. We have identified. 70 people 68 members of the shelter as well as 2 Staff Members who have tested positive for covid19. Typically this place can house up to 340 people but efforts by the city to increase social distancing by spreading out shelter residents to other locations. Made it so as of thursday shelter Public Health director doctor grant colfax says the first 2 cases were confirmed sunday night. Those 2 were moved to hotels for isolation and then on wednesday all shelter guests were tested. Currently. My department is conducting a mass testing strategy at msc south. Testing all gassed and staff for covid19 whether they are showing symptoms are not. Again as of this morning. Dph had tested a 140 for guests and staff. Of these 60 cast and to step and to staff have tested positive for covid19. At this point. None of these people are seriously ill. Former guest. Of the shelter is in the hospital. And that was dan kerman reporting a San Francisco supervisor matt haney is calling this terrible devastating preventable saying weve been yelling and screaming for a month to get people out of these crowded shelters and protect them some stay one weve said move these people to hotels. I give them temperature checks masks ensure social distancing. He said that did not happen so this happens. Weve got the latest number of cases on the bay area Santa Clara County. 1442 47 deaths, San Mateo County 638 21 deaths, San Francisco county 797 13 cases Contra Costa County 511 8 deaths. Alameda well we dont have numbers for Alameda County it looks like maria now reporting 154 cases, 10 deaths Solano County 121 2 deaths Sonoma County 140 to one death. Napa county 32 cases and 2 deaths. You can see for the first time that in the United States were starting to level and the logarithmic phase like italy did about a week ago and so this gives us great that occur not only in specific places but were starting to see that change. And some encouraging news. The u. S. Seeing a leveling off of the curve for the First Time Since the pandemic hit that announcement was part of todays white house briefing. There are new projections from the university of washington marking today us a peek so far and daily deaths 1983 americans expected to die from the virus today. Experts say Americans Still need to take precautions of course and there are concerns about new hot spots in baltimore also philadelphia. We have the number of deaths in the country more than 18,000 people have died there are more than 496,000 cases. The number of people who have recovered more than 28,000. The Santa Clara CountyHealth Department has an update on the spread of the virus in Nursing Homes and other subject acute care facilities kron fours rob fladeboe he is live with an update on the latest numbers also how the Health Department is responding to this drop. Thats right catherine, the corona virus is also spreading among Staff Members as well as residents that some of these facilities the Health Department now says it is specialized teams to go in and investigate these outbreaks and intervene if necessary to help stop the spread of the the Health Department also out today with some grim new numbers, lets take a look. At least 27 cases of covid19 have been confirmed among the residents of san joses Canyon Springs post acute care center. Another 20 were diagnosed at ridge post acute care to name 2 facilities there have been 7 deaths so far the numbers are rising in include many Staff Members says the Health Departments doctor sarah rodmans. Currently were aware of 164 confirmed cases said the queue care facilities and 50 of those are among Staff Members. Nursing homes fall into that category of congregant living environments where residents. The staff are in close Contact HealthOfficials Say these clusters of infection are not unexpected some of those range from situations where there may be enough cases of their impacts to Staffing Levels patient care and thats where were most engaged to support them with whatever they need the county has issued detailed guidance to all Skilled Nursing and acute care facilities and conducting onsite consultation and providing extra supplies as needed what that looks like in our Skilled Nursing facilities is sometimes staffers working longer hours longer shifts. With more patients than they might previously. But we are seeing that that strength and resilience rise up to respond to the need and where theres the greatest need in terms of deficits of staffing our information and thats where the county is stepping in to to support the most testing is also under way to assess potential for new outbreaks in certain facilities and there was some advice for Family Members what we ask is that learned the policies of your facility where your Family Member is and follow those policies for the most part thats going to mean not making in person visits and trying to find other ways to connect with your loved ones whether thats over phone or video chat. Now doctor rather than also emphasized that in most cases, its best for residents to stay in these facilities, she discouraged Family Members from a moving their Family Members out of those facilities and we also a its not just Santa Clara County also have some new numbers here catherine from Alameda County, the Health Department saying that the. Hayward acute care facility in hayward rather the gateway acute care facility rather in hayward now has 41 residents testing positive 25 Staff Members that had 9 deaths there and then that that Castro Valley at the east bay postacute center 15 residents. Theyre testing positive 21 Staff Members 0 deaths at that facility reporting live rob fladeboe kron 4 news all right. Thank you robin, thanks for the updated numbers. We do have some positive news from state leaders showing downward trend lines of the virus across the state. How soon will things return to normal could be a little sooner than expected. Capitol Bureau ReporterAshley Zavala has that story. These graphs show county by county state health and Human Services secretary mark galli showing the declining trend lines and steady hospitalization rates of covid19 across california, this is a point of pride for californians that weve done so well with what weve been doing galli said friday california may be hitting its hospitalization peak now as opposed to what was projected to hit in midmay what that tells us is that if we continue doing the wonderful things that californians have banded together to do that we may actually continue on this trend. And avoid a higher slope. The line that we have been planning a route governor newsome applauding californians for staying home and physical distancing but urging the state to continuous effort even with temptations like Easter Sunday this weekend, the future happens inside of us its decisions not. Conditions that will determine the fate and future of this model, your individual decisions. Despite the positive outlook work still continues across the state to increase hospital bed capacity and to bring more personal protective equipment into the state when exactly california will return to normal governor newson had this to say we have. Detailed strategies that were working on that were very close to making public. So know that we are as deeply eager to provide you that information as you are to receive that information state Officials Say theyll likely keep up those stay at home orders for at least the next few weeks so that hospital rates go further down. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Los angeles county has extended its stay at home order for another month that will now last until at least may 15th. Health experts say the precautions clearly have been helping. County officials stay if the stay at home orders lifted too quickly more than 95 of county residents could be infected with the virus. Coming up the local Humane Society helping to make sure that no pets are going hungry during the pandemic and how the National Guard is helping out a local food bank and after the break why the city of oakland is closing more than 74 miles of city the city of oakland wants to let neighbors years 74 miles of surface streets for recreation kron fours Charles Clifford has that story. Well here in oakland on friday marilyn the chef announced that the city wants to use 74 miles of surface streets within the city for people to recreate to get outside go for a walk or ride their bikes and just basically get out of the house during this coronavirus shelter in place now the city is essentially taking an old bike path plan something weve been working on for a while and translating into what they call a slow streets program. Now you can still drive on the streets, you just cant drive through the streets if you live on that street are you a business there you can still drive your car in there, but they want to stop the through traffic and make a little safer for people to go out any walk in the street and get some exercise now the mayor had a press conference on friday. She said she feels this is a really good way to use public space to give people an opportunity to exercise we want oakland ers to recreate in a socially distanced manner of physically distanced manner. And by opening up our streets to bikes joggers pedestrians, were giving oakland ers more room to spread out safely now the city acknowledges that this is a big project and they currently dont have the staff or the equipment to pull it off overnight so theyre going to face it and theyre going to start on saturday by a going out and putting cones and signs. On 4 streets and then slowly over the days and weeks ahead they want to work on getting that signage in those cones up at the other 74 miles of streets across the city, the city is also working on a website which hopefully theyll have up in a few days to give people more information but for now in oakland Charles Clifford kron 4 news. A major coronavirus outbreak continues at the gateway care and rehab center in hayward 9 people have died 25 Staff Members, 41 residents infected. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson talk to a woman whose father died at the facility recent play. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak at the gateway care and rehab center in hayward a woman was notified that her father died at the facility. But no one would tell her how her father died and now shes desperate for answers. And they 21 sorry, she was unresponsive and im like im responsible case you guys like provides him what it was like no maam im sorry he passes a response like what happened i dont know maam we get our around 7 oclock in the morning. We found him unresponsive she lena price told me she found out her father died on march 27th 2 days after know, russ went out from gateway no one was allowed to go there to visit but there was a case in their of coronavirus price later heard from others about the significant outbreak at the facility with dozens of cases and several deaths do you suspect that your dad died of the coronavirus yes, i do. I the 7th of april to mortuary and i asked if they if they if they could do a test or whatever and they say she would call the Health Department of health from this is that nothing he can you. Theres no test that they can administer prices father had been there for over a year for rehab because he had a blood clot in his arm can they were still some reasons to like a campaign makes him good use of his arm that he initially come home back to us but her father never came home and not only is she trying to grasp how he died. She says the people at the facility treated her and her mother. Terribly east responsibility. You know said you just need use your responsibility unique in that year prices trying to talk to a manager at the facility and get her fathers medical records in the meantime she hopes her story will shed light on what needs to improve at gateway, so this doesnt happen to someone else ive called the Gateway Care Rehab Center 2 days in a row and have not heard back of also emailed and called the Health Department to talk to them about this story and the overall outbreak at the facility but still have not heard back. No comment so far stand by as we continue to follow this. Im Sarah Stinson reporting well send it back to you. The corona virus infection rate among California Health workers it has spiked in the last few days more than 1800 Health Care Workers have tested positive. Nearly 7 times higher then mondays reported cases some officials blame the surge on how cases are being counted before on the infections for workers who were exposed on the job or included. Now they are counting all health care hawk have tested positive regardless of where they were exposed. Time for a look at the forecast and were looking ahead to the easter weekend. Heres meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez haima bruce a. I havent yet happy. Good friday, lets take a live look outside in the south and san jose we did notice a few degrees of warming for most of our interior valleys about 8 degrees of warming for most of our inland spots and a few degrees of warming along the coast and along the bay so were noticing clear skies out there right now stormtracker 4 not even tracking low or high cloud cover but all of that is going to change during the overnight hours we are going to see the return of patchy dense low clouds and fog specifically for interior valleys and along the coast were going to see at or near 0 at times and shortly before the noon lunch time hour that only going to see better lifting and clearing or most of the bay area, current wind speeds out there right now noticeably breezy in downtown San Francisco seeing sustained winds at 20 Miles Per Hour with wind gusts reported that 25 mile per hour range see and jose and fairfield also noticing near 20 mile per hour wind speeds right now temperatures as you head out the door 57 degrees and have day on account of that cool sea breeze low 60s for downtown San Francisco with widespread mid to upper 60s as you start to meet your way inland. And overnight lows will be on the mild side and widespread upper 40s for most of the bay area they had santa rosa cooling down into the mid 40s with antioch even milder than that 50 degrees for your overnight lows in tomorrows daytime highs were going to warm up a few degrees from today but were still going to be about 2 to 3 degrees below average along the coast and along the bay low 60s to mid 60s there with widespread upper 60s and even some low 70s as you make your way inland with temperatures in our interior valleys about 2 to 3 degrees above average and taking a look ahead at your easter weekend warming trend will continue or starting monday and all the way through the middle of next week we could be 5 to 10 degrees above average with widespread 70s inland and upper 60s for most of the coast and interior valleys cap. In fact you thank braces see you in a few minutes. Still ahead another warning on scams associated with stimulus checks and after the break a Bay Area Company tells us more about new testing of a in nearly 100 years serving the military community, weve seen you go through tough times and every time, youve shown us, youre much tougher your heart, courage and commitment has always inspired us and now its no different so, were here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on and the online tools you need because you have always set the highest standard and reaching that standard is what were made for foster city based company says it has new results on a promising corona virus drug. A study says round is of our showed improvement in 68 of the severely affected patients who were tested. The company is called gilley and they say there are several trials, underway and says its goal is to add to the growing body of evidence as qu