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Tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us at 10 on this tuesday night im pam moore and im ken wayne. The governor says hes using 6 factors to determine how soon california can ease its restrictions. They are expanding testing protecting highrisk groups, including Senior Citizens and people and facilities such as Nursing Homes ensuring hospitals have enough meds and supplies to care for patients progress in developing treatments. Ability of schools and businesses to support physical distancing and ability to decide when to reinstitute stay at home orders if needed. Tomorrow the governor says he will be specific to one of the key pieces of his evidence his administration wants to see which requires expanded testing and tracking of the infection. More tests. Will be made available we are seeing a significant increase in our testing remind and well go into this in great detail. Tomorrow and be much more prescriptive in terms of subpopulations and geographic distribution of tests and test sites also well talk more specifically about different types of tests. Some counties in Southern California already began lifting some restrictions on beaches and golf courses. The governor says local governments can make those decisions as long as they dont contravene or conflict was state guidance. Businesses around the bay area are finding ways to slowly reopen many of them are creating new Business Models centered around social distancing and new Health Standards. Boba guys in San Francisco close all 17 of its locations in the bay area in los angeles and new york but now is hayes valley location in the city is back open with popup version of the business caught boba guys express kron fours taylor the second walk through the reopening process she joins us now live with more on that taylor. You guys, this is a new small step towards a new norm, at least for now businesses like full of guys are changing the way that they operate so that they can reopen theyve been working on this concept for a month now and theyre sharing. This concept with other businesses hoping they can also adapt and reopen. And then that businesses are going to realize that Shelterinplace Socialdistancing covid19 might be around for a long time and this might be a discussion we have for several months the business are thinking that they have to adapt today in order to figure out how they want to keep businesses going in the future j chain with the San Francisco chamber of commerce says. Theyre seeing more businesses reopen with new Health Standards and expanded deliveries. One of those businesses adapting is boba guys and its octavia street location in the city utah Democratic Change or model s so we had to hibernate for a while and were coming back in the models which is pretty much all about Public Safety seat and making sure everybody is a socially respect chalco founder of boba guys cause their new model boat guys express. Here only employees are allowed inside as they serve up smaller batches of boba tea for customers through mobile waters in speedy contactless transactions. Theyre also incorporating new protocols like daily temperature checks before starting their shift. Amy i am not wearing a mask for the inner shoe you guys but everybody are scores property. And we have gloves on we have these temperature checks you take the temperatures but it down. Its looking for weak Contact Tracing what you see very popular in asia, which is where i think most of that. The high standards are right now for it and so we say what facilities and some case something does happen you know where it comes from chain says. Businesses reopening with safety modifications as the safest approach rather than lifting waters and reopening all businesses and wants a governor and the mayor have done an excellent job about being careful and cautious and proactive about opening the economy up the right way i think we see a lot of states around the country that are kind of just flying open the doors and letting everything come open and thats a very dangerous thing and its a very scary thing honestly, that does not give businesses a lot of confidence when we are seeing bolder brasher about opening up the economy is thats careful cautious. Medical approach that brings the most offense back to our eye. Majority of these businesses still arent making any money but theyre instead reopening to keep people employed now just as an example guys had to lay off 400 of their employees from closing those locations because of the coronavirus since this reopening of the public has expressed theyve been able to bring back in 20 more employees. Theyre hoping to do this with other locations as well, reporting live in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. People work at Grocery Stores drug stores, restaurants and on demand Delivery Services in the city can get better protection and benefits. Today city leaders approved an emergency ordinance expands workers rights package for people have to go to work every day during the pandemic the workers rights package includes personal protective equipment. Paid time while drivers clean their cars wash your hands. No Contact Delivery and uh no retaliation clause. Millions of people of course across california continue to file for unemployment and many of them continue to have major issues with the filing and more frustrating many that many of them are unable to connect with anyone over the phone at the Unemployment Office kron fours michelle kingston checked in with some people here in the bay area who still havent been paid. And it showed i had 0 recordings and ive had my job since march 4th of last year 3 on a wood has a house a husband and 2 children, but no paycheck, the Employment Development Department Center this after she filed which says she has no benefits available. I called and i emailed edd several times today, but just like so many of you at home i was unable to reach anybody to answer any of our viewers questions. We understand your frustration i did find on the edd website that if this happens to you they may have no wage records reported by your employer to support an unemployment claim or that they need you to verify your identity this is frustrating to wood who just wants to get paid a track called evd. You get a busy number most of the time Cameron Downing left his job to homeschool is daughter. Hes had trouble getting through to the Employment Development department to file for unemployment, i got a hold of somebody. When i they call me i happened to my for my first 2 weeks to wait because know im not looking for work just become mist anti a preschool teacher is having a similar issue question i have really is i cant really look for work every tree schools closed. And we in question i feel like its making so many more companies are people. If the. Requirement is to put your looking for work is that why people are getting stuck a td says that they will not penalize you for saying you will not be looking for work. And you will be paid benefits for that week if you meet all other eligibility requirements but that isnt the case for miss anti im just still waiting everything is pending. It says confirmed it says its fear. Its just in limbo in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news, there is a new web site for people looking to help their communities all across california. The state has lost california volunteers dot ca that gov. It offers visitors options to work at food banks donate blood deliver meals or join the California Health corps. Governor newsom says anybody interested in helping out will be matched based on their expressed interest and local needs again that web site addresses california volunteers dot ca that goes. Were tracking for buyers cases here in the bay area 150 new cases of covid19 reported today bringing the case count now to more than 6700 lets take a look county by county at the breakdown here it is on your screen. Santa clara county continues to be the hardest hit with more than 1900 cases and 88 deaths. Alameda county there in the middle of the list has the second highest number of cases, 1243 deaths and more than 200 people in all in the bay area have died he can find a complete list of the counties on our website kron 4 dot com. Reports of an Alarming Number of covid19 infections at another bay area nursing facility, this one is in San Francisco. Kron fours Haaziq Madyun talk to a Health Care Worker at the Central Gardens, a Skilled Nursing facility. What bp in fact Health Care Workers and residents combine for a total of 62 positive covid19 cases here at the central garden Skilled Nursing facility in San Francisco certified nursing assistants oiler who is among those whose test came back negative. According to the California Department of Public Health there are 1224 Skilled Nursing facilities here in the state. 254 of those facilities reported having one or more cases of cold that night he Central Gardens being among the facilities with the highest number of positive cases of one location, the situation has landed on the radar of San Francisco department of Public Health director doctor grant colfax. When we became aware when we were notified of initial cases on march 30th. We immediately started collaborating with the facility was a state in terms of ensuring as much was being done as possible to both the residents and the staff the question of why there are so many positive covid19 cases at Central Gardens in the midst of a citywide shelterinplace order remains a mystery so right now everybody is negative. But this i know i reached out to Central Gardens management to hear what they have to say about all of this i received no reply in San Francisco Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. People in the bay area and bay area counties will have to cover their face in public areas, an essential businesses common spaces and went on Public Transit the new mask order will go into Effect Tomorrow in contra costa and marion counties as well as in the city of berkeley, San Francisco Alameda County and san mateo San Mateo County all have the order in place already but they will begin enforcing it. Tomorrow morning. And the rush was on today to make face mask, this was a line outside joannes in pittsburgh this evening, viewer denise cantu trial. Share the pictures on her Facebook Page dozens of people waited to get inside the store to pick up some fabric for there homemade masks were told the store was only letting in 17 people at a time. Testing for the coronavirus is starting to ramp up and so is Antibody Testing but there is still some uncertainty surrounding hills at about a test as far as what they can tell and what they cannot tell us well for us dan kerman explains. For the last 2 weeks stanfords new coronavirus Antibody Test has been in use and Health Care Workers and patients which weve done is that if we look in the first week effort section we just takes me about a quarter to a 3rd of people who are truly affected him to talk to police as you move on to the second week. It could be up to 65 or 70 . Was it into the 3rd week for 90 . And after 3 weeks we find that almost everybody has anybody to the new virus while theyve learned about the rates of infection. They have not yet determined what most want to know. Whether antibodies prevent you from getting the virus again. Everybodys really hoping for said the tests will also be courage to tell what your immune status about this particular virus in Stanford University virology Professor Robert siegel says at this point. We dont know the answer to that. But having antibodies does not necessarily mean you are immune. For measles if you have and i set means you are are immune to measles and you wont be affected again. If you take the example of hiv if we test you if your test positive for and by said hiv the virus in the end of ice co exist, so that means that you are infected bird if you have antibodies youre actually at higher risk for infection with a different strain of dengue a so so having antibodies may actually not protect you it may actually mean that you are at at more risk for more serious disease medical experts agree all tests are not equally reliable. Researchers at stanford are hopeful in time we will have the answers we need. Were in the process of getting a much better statute of another human immune system you know in emerging. Residents and is responding to this new but this is all happening on a you know thats 4 times jill its quite different from the base of the post medical research so my guess is well have a better idea before long. But were still in the early stages, right now stanford is also working on a second test to determine if those who have antibodies have immunity. In San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. If antibodies do prove to be an effective treatment doctors are going to need a lot of samples ahead tonight at 1040 a National Call for plasma donations. A mobile clinic is going around the bay area offering covid19 tests with rapid results Carbon Health has been setting up its mobile clinic in parking lots. Today was near walmart in pleasant hill, pleasant rather off of rosewood drive. With our going hear from the doctor there. This clinic made its first appearance last week in San Francisco, anyone can book appointments and confirm locations through an app the doctor that you just saw says it takes less than 30 seconds to administer the nasal swab test. Usually posted to the op with before the end of the day so keep patients get the results fairly quickly within a couple hours. On average carbon house says it is testing about a 150 people a day for covid19 its next stops include fremont napa novato and the layout San Francisco Police Investigating a car crash that killed a woman and a dog earlier this evening, police say preliminary information shows about 00 20pm tonight, a silver nissan suv drove right through a fence at 25th and dakota streets and then down a hill. The crash killed a woman and a dog and injured 2 other People Police say the investigation is active right now they dont know exactly what caused this crash. All right, lets take a live look outside tonight, San Francisco city hall is lit up, but we want to show you that picture there it is San Francisco city hall lit up in green as well as some other buildings around San Francisco tonight because it is all in honor of earth day which was today, thats right the annual event to well actually visit tomorrow today most of the day is celebrated around the to demonstrate well in some parts of the world, it is so today tomorrow, its. Its green out there so were celebrating lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has more on the years that we might see tonight. Yeah guys have been running the outside to check it out now the meteor shower just rising up and or skies now so this is good in that time were going to see some of the meteors from the lyrid meteor shower will have more on that in a moment outside right now we do have mostly clear skies looking good out there. A good night for the meteor shower twos weve got just a couple of patches of fog near the coastline with that is about it. They may have noticed today we warm things up quite a bit in right the average in the San Francisco and then you start to see things change 67 degrees in oakland, 70 degrees in san jose 71 and live more how about 75. In concord and 77 degrees in santa rosa. That trend going to continue tomorrow in fact likely going to start to talk about some 80s. Heres a look at the satellite image you can see just a couple of patches of fog along the San Mateo County coastline. Otherwise, mostly clear skies around the bay area, the winds theyve been kind of kicking up a we talked about the breezes yesterday and certainly theyve arrived youve got the winds to 22 Miles Per Hour at sunset beach 15 in pacifica 7 in San Francisco 19 in mill valley a