That is mayor london breed talking about the fact there is an outbreak of the coronavirus in San Franciscos biggest homeless shelter. Hello everyone, im Catherine Heenan that shelter his own 5th and bryant to the south of market neighborhood, 68 a Homeless People to Staff Members as the mayor said dan kerman is life and has the latest on this stand. Well the real concern of course here is that they have been worrying about vulnerable populations and talking about it for weeks. And now it has hit this homeless shelter, the largest one in the city and many of those who have tested positive have Chronic Health conditions, none seriously ill at this point, but that is a major concern going forward. 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. Public Health Director doctor grant colfax says the first 2 cases were confirmed sunday night. Those 2 were moved to hotels for isolation. 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. Typically this place can house up to 340 people on any given night. But city Officials Say their efforts to increase social distancing by spreading out shelter residents to other locations has made an impact as of last night. There were only a 100 residents in the shelter which has provided us with the flexibility to turn this from a shelter to actually a medical facility. Back live here at San Francisco city hall and while the city was talking about all of the things that they are doing in terms of helping the homeless population. Theyve been there been those who have been critical about the fact that theyre not moving fast enough. We can also tell you that city officials did admit while theres trying to spread out the homeless population, those efforts are not yet complete social distancing at San Franciscos homeless shelters again all say it not yet complete they are still trying to get there. Live at city Hall Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. A month ago we were yelling and kicking and screaming and demanding that people get out of these big crowded shelters and into hotel rooms because as we saw today, its its a parking it spreads like wildfire in these environments where people are sleeping rarely a foot or so away from each other. This was entirely preventable. San francisco supervisor matt haney hes reacting to the news about the homeless shelter outbreak. And again saying of precautions had been taken the situation could have been prevented. Weve got the latest numbers of cases in the bay area Santa Clara County. 1442 47 deaths, San Mateo Countys 638 21 deaths, San Francisco, 797, 13 deaths Contra Costa County 511. 9 deaths Alameda County 766 cases, 20 deaths, moran, 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. The u. S. Seeing a leveling off. Of the curve for the first time the announcement was part of todays white house news briefing, new projections from the university of washington. Im mark today as a probable peak in daily deaths 1983 americans expected to die from the virus to today of course americans being urged to continue taking precautions and there are concerns about new hot spots and baltimore and philadelphia. In the u. S. More than 18,000 people have died. There are more than 496,000 us cases the number of people who have recovered and the u. S. More than 28,000. The Santa Clara CountyHealth Department has an update on the spread of the virus in Nursing Homes and other care facilities kron fours rob fladeboe has more on the update including the Health Departments response. 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 and staff are in close contact. Health Officials 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. 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. We also ask that the level of care that a Family Member needs requires them to stand that facility that they stay there. We actually want people to move around as little as possible. Im just as were asking people who have homes to stay in their homes are asking people and facilities to are safe to stay there to continue to stay there. That is san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Some positive news from state leaders showing downward trend lines of the virus across california people are asking how soon the state mike returned to normal could be a little sooner than expected Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains. 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 the 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, its going to last until at least may 15th now Health Experts say precautions are helping. County Officials Say if the stay at home order is lifted to quickly more than 95 of county residents could be infected with the virus. 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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 that facility recently. 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 so 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 Coronavirus Infection rate among California Health workers have has spiked in the last few days more than 1800 Health Care Workers have tested positive. Nearly 7 times higher than mondays numbers. Some officials blame the surge on how cases are being counted before on the infections for workers who were exposed on the job were included. Now they are counting all workers who are positive for guard lists of where they were exposed. Time for a look at the forecast were talking about the fact it is easter weekend. Heres meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez time a presa. Yeah good friday today. Catherine lets take a look at todays daytime highs were right about where we should be for this time of year in the bay area are widespread 60s conquered though degree above average warming up into the low 70s and heres a live look outside from our north bay camera timber on and you could see clear skies right now but marine layer right off the coast. And it is going to make its way inland during the overnight hours future cast is going to show that high cloud cover blanket in the bay area during the overnight hours and better clearing by our saturday afternoon and then against low clouds and fog will actually impact most of the bay area not just along the coast but even extending into the interior valleys, very Early Saturday Morning until we start to notice better clearing and lifting right around our new lunchtime, our current wind speeds out there right now still breezy for those of you in downtown San Francisco seeing sustained wind at 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour and temperatures in the mid to upper 50s along the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Winds from low to mid and upper 60s everywhere else in the bay area overnight lows tonight, thanks to that blanket of cloud cover only cooling down into the upper 40s for most of the bay area in tomorrows daytime highs very little change from today but as we take a look ahead at the extended 7 day outlook you can see the warming trend will start on sunda