Area residents good evening. Everybody thank you for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 8 im pam moore and im ken wayne until now wearing face wear in public was an option but that will no longer be the case in 6 bay area county says ride these new directives com as the number of covid19 cases here in the bay area continues to rise. There are now more than 6,000 confirmed cases and 196 people have lost their lives on your screen you can see how the numbers break down county by county. Santa clara county still leading the bay area with 73 deaths and more than 1800 cases Alameda County has seen 40 deaths there are 28 dance in San Mateo County 20 and San Francisco county Health Officials have been encouraging the use of Face Coverings to try to prevent the spread of covid19 San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma are now taking action to ensure everyone is following suit. Kron fours dan kerman has our top story tonight more and more weve seen people who venture out of the house Wearing Masks or Face Coverings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus this weekend most of the bay areas 9 counties will make that a requirement under certain circumstances this will be a requirement for people. Who are standing in line. Grocery stores or any other place is open for essential services. Its going to be require when youre inside of those locations. Any time youre indoors or within close proximity of others within an essential business or at work like many of our City Employees who are essential workers on the front lines. You will be required to wear a mask. At a News Conference friday, San Francisco, public Health Officials were quick to point out this is in no way a replacement for other measures already in place wearing a Face Covering. Its not a substitute for staying at home steyn 6 feet apart. And frequent hand washing. Face coverings are not required when you are outside unable to be 6 feet apart from others. But Health Officials say getting into the habit of wearing Face Coverings is critical now for one shelter orders are loose and later by then people will already be in the habit of wearing Face Coverings at the Grocery Store in lines. While riding the bus taxi. River. It is likely that we will need to continue to do this for some time. Even after we start to emerge from our homes Health Officials say those aged 12 and under are not required to wear a Face Covering and those age 2 and under should definitely not where one due to the risk of suffocation. In San Francisco dan kerman kron 4 news. A reminder now on the counties which have issued their Face Covering requirement orders a sonoma more in San FranciscoContra Costa County alameda and san mateo. Santa clara county has recommended the use of face masks but has not at this point require them face masks are in short supply difficult to find and much needed by Health Care Workers. But local Officials Say do not have to buy a face mask later in this newscast want to show you video with easy to follow steps. On how you can make your own mask was simple items you probably already have at home. That is coming up. Well, i know we would never gotten on that boat to flee to realize there is any chance because he spent his life. Fighting. Are peoples lives and being aware of how fast. Why fans. A firefighter from texas lost his life after his wife says he contracted coronavirus on board the grand princess cruise ship you will likely remember that is the ship which docked at the port of oakland early last month. Now that mans wife is filing a lawsuit against the Cruise Company kron fours michelle kingston talk with her today about how difficult it was to watch her husband fall ill and not be able to get him the medical care he needed right away. Susan and Michael Doherty set sail from San Francisco at the end of february to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. What started as a cruise to hawaii ended with michael losing his life. There was not any. Inclination that anybody was sick on the boat or had been saying everybody was vacationing in having a good time the cruise ship headed back to the bay area bit earlier than passengers had expected. Salt and pepper shakers were no longer on the tables. Susan says self serving drinks stations were shut down when they docked at the port of Oakland Susan said her husband got a fever. One of the few symptoms of coronavirus passengers were told to look out for and whenever i talked to him and ask him anything. I just got blank responses a blank look she was not registering what i was saying frantic susan says she called the cruise ship doctor several times over the course of 2 days before they finally agreed to get him off the boat into the hospital, theyre acting like they had no control of the situation and. Couldnt help me and i needed help i can get off the boat to get help michael was rushed to an Oakland Hospital where susan says he tested positive for coronavirus while michael was fighting for his light susan says she was ordered to return to her cabin where she stayed until she was bused to Travis Air Force base for quarantine she was allowed to leave one day to visit him in the icy you where he was hooked up to dialysis machines and feeding tubes and in a medically induced coma. Michael took his last breath, 10 days after getting off the ship. The doctor called susan to let her know her husband was passing she said i can stay with you and. Countdown. This harbor bay. What she did to 35 minutes. Tory past. And she stayed on the phone and called as you know that already. And then she goes it 30 and intel what it would no longer be did. Susan says she also tested positive for coronavirus but was asymptomatic shes now back home in texas and filing a lawsuit against the Cruise Company for negligence Princess Cruises released this statement that says theyve been sensitive to the difficulties the covid19 outbreak is caused to our guests and crew our response throughout this process has focused on the wellbeing of our guests and crew within the parameters dictated to us by the Government Agencies involved and the involving medical understanding of this new illness in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. Today, california became the 8th state to reach a 1000 deaths from coronavirus and there are nearly 29,000 confirmed cases in california the United States has surpassed 701,000 total cases and nearly 37,000 people have died across the nation from covid19 the National Death toll has quickly escalated in just the last 3 days Johns Hopkins university has been tracking the death toll from coronavirus every day since the outbreak began. You can see where that number stands tonight and where it has stood in recent days in just the past 72 hours. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people here in the u. S. As the white house pushes to reopen parts of the economy in the coming weeks. Some governors are asking for help from federal government for testing. Something the president insists is already being done at the white house today, the president said the government would ship 5. 5 million swabs in the quote next few weeks. The u. S. Is currently testing roughly a 145,000 people a day and has a total of 3. 5 million results. Vice president mike pence said there are enough tests to begin reopening states. Our best scientists and Health Experts assess that today. We have a sufficient amount of testing to meet the requirements of the phase one reopening state governor should choose to do that. Coronavirus task force Officials Say the country would need to process more than 4 million tests a month to enter the first phase of reopening states in addition. The u. S. Is expanding its surveillance sites in order to better track coronavirus heading into the weekend now there is a stalemate in washington dc over new money for Small Businesses, the first allocation of money ran out yesterday after just a couple of weeks the white house has propose a plan for another installment of funds for the Small Business loan program. Congressional democrats also want another allocation of money for Small Businesses but they are also pushing to add money for Health Care Workers and others who need Assistance Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says negotiations will continue through the weekend there are 3. 1 million unemployment claims in california and an Unemployment Rate s. More than 5 so today governor gavin newsom declared california is now officially in a pandemic induced recession. The governor has tapped dozens of Business Leaders across a number of industries to an Economic Recovery Task force. We are blessed to have the kind of human resources. Only a nation state. I could be afforded and we have task 80 of them. To work through each and every sector of our economy to put together tangible actionable ideas for short term medium and longterm economic recovery. The governor tapped for former california governors into the group along with many big name Business Leaders, including apple ceo tim cook. And walt disney ceo bob iger was so many people the governor says the members will be split up into subcategories and he has said meetings will begin soon. In Southern California more than 100 demonstrators gathered in Huntington Beach today define social distancing guidelines to protest california stay at home orders. The demonstrators could be seen holding up signs that read liberate Huntington Beach open cali now protests against the stay at home guidelines have popped up across the country in recent days, including in oregon and in michigan to name a few locations. In this newscast. We will see the president s response to these demonstrations. Our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic also continues on kron on the 24 hour local news streaming service is free to download right now so you can stay informed and updated on this Health Crisis coming up empty shelves and some bay area supermarkets, even though Food Producers say there are no shortages in the food supply. Why they say people shouldnt worry for 20 is just days away and a local rapper has a message for his Bay Area Community about that high holidays. Also find out where new coronavirus testing site just opened in San Francisco. Im justine for over 80 years, nissan has been with you through thick and thin. And now is no different. Were offering Payment Options for current owners and our Service Departments are here to help. And for future owners, were offering no payments for 90 days on 14 models. This is help when you need it. Health experts agree widespread testing is needed before stay at home orders can be lifted. And a new covid19 testing site just opened in San Francisco today kron fours Justine Waltman live for us in our newsroom with detail so justine how is this site different well this new testing site that the city created is in partnership with verily and one medical and this one will be open to anyone experiencing covid19 symptoms. Weve been flying pretty much flying without a protest you Infectious Disease expert doctor John Swartzberg explains why covid19 testing is the key to reopening businesses and ending the shelterinplace orders. It will tell us. How dangerously were people at the u. S. For example. If we let people out and we dont see the increase in the number of cases by testing. So we can look were people out in will monitor that if we dont see more cases we can let more people out on the other hand if we let people out and we just need find out number she growing up you know it will pull those people back in work again. So allow us to bring people back safely. San francisco opened a new testing site friday on 7th street in soma it is drive through and by appointment only at first the site will only test 200 People Per Day with the goal of expanding in the coming weeks. The citys other testing site along the embarcadero is just for frontline workers increased Testing Capacity is considered a critical resource in the citys efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus we dont know how many people are infected dont have symptoms. The number could be as high as 50 or we just dont know. So the expanded testing is expected to increase the number of positive confirmed covid19 cases in San Francisco. A link to make an appointment for this new San Francisco site is on our website kron 4 dot com live in the newsroom. Im Justine Waldman kron 4 news. Thank you justine and oakland city leader says a program to make streets pedestrianfriendly has actually created dangerous Road ConditionsCity Council Member no guile calls the current Road Conditions at the intersection of east 16th street and fruitful avenue hazardous. That intersection is part of the citys quote slow Streets Program air libby schaff announce that program last week the plant closes miles of city streets to through traffic in order to help residents with social distancing during the covid19 pandemic. This is a residential street. Where people live. Street i would walk by street fest were not the safest drivers are you know even with all regulations have salt i turn around and look at across to the site. Not for strength that has nothing to do with public safety. The councilman says he has raised his concerns with the citys Public Works Department and his next move is to try and remove the barricade legally. In response oakland mayor libby shaft for her office forwarded a pair of tweets from the Citys Department of transportation. It says the open slows Streets Program rolled out quickly in response to the unprecedented and ongoing covid19 emergency. We at oak dot want to recognize and acknowledge that many openers were not consulted in this process. We have heard frustration from June Community members asking for more communication from Oakland Department of transportation, were committed to making improvements to address his frustration and honor our partnership with the community we serve. A popular bay area rapper has a message for the Bay Area Community just days ahead of for 2420 is the numerical code for marijuanas high holiday for 20 is traditionally a day of public celebration of everything related to marijuana but not this year and as a reminder, San Francisco mayor london breed posted this message from the 40 on her twitter account. It was going on areas before he signed amy and i happen to be in one time just to say. A is for 20 come in there and i really want cause bay here. We all love full 20. We all do you know me but please dont disobeyed a game and right now the game made a made you feel me well miss it a fall, a was man, you know the covid19 in for people personally there has there. So we got to practice social distance mistake in the encouraging young to stay in the house. This is the bay we bury a strong the stay in the house man. We love full 20, but lets not get out there and crowds and all lets not do that. Again there was a 40 in past years it look like this thousands of people would come together to smoke marijuana in Golden Gate Park on Robin Williams meadow and hit the hill, but the mayor says if people gather on 4. 20 this year they will be cited a