That have implemented this. Live coverage now in concord with more on the economic fallout is the federal government now plans to issue checks to Many Americans trying to help out. Reporter checks and also some tax relief here. One of the things the president said today as he is extending the deadline for the taxes by 90 days. With no penalties or late fees and no interest up to 1 million. That does help keep some money in peoples pockets for now, but many of the people i talked to around here say they are really struggling and facing an immecash crisis. The Trump Administration accelerated its response tuesday to triage the damage the coronavirus has done to the nations economic health. Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. I mean now the next 2 weeks. To make a shot and therefore some American Families but the administration did not say whether checks would reach 1000 the senator met romney has proposed. We must 1st prioritize Economic Solutions that are focused on workers and their families. Its my intention that the senate will not adjourn until we have passed significant and bold new steps. In downtown concord people say cash would help. It would help. Especially if i can go to work. Im sure would help somehow but i think its putting a band aid on a wound that need surgery. Is this owner tried to get a Small BusinessAdministration Relief loan to avoid layoffs by the governments rollout has been too slow. Iona security business and we had to a probably 40 of our staff in the office. Is professor says any relief checks should include money for families with children in speed is essential. We probably have started into a recession at this point. Its not for sure and a lot of the economic repercussions have not really began yet. Some of the firms who have lost a lot of customers have not yet laid off people. Some Small Businesses already are desperate. Right now im doing one employee and me. Normally i have 6. This restaurant opened weeks ago and now they have to cut staff hours. If we let them go i do not think they can find a job right now. We feel bad about that. Some republicans are balking at the 1 trillion price tag for those stimulus checks. Others do not think all americans particularly wealthy ones should be receiving that money. Here is one thing to the u. S. Treasury secretary reportedly told republican senators today that the Unemployment Rate could hit 20 . If this stimulus bill is not passed. This is a really big decision that is in congress right now on the senate. No word though yet on exactly when they might take any action. Stocks rallied today after the white house promised the hugest in this package. The does a more than 5 ginny 1048 points. The nasdaq was up 430. The s p 500 was up 143. Those were about 6 . Strike the people stayed home today on her 1st day of the shelter in place order across much of the bay area. The idea is to minimize social interactions to slow the spread of the coronavirus and it may be with us for some time. Amberly joins us now live where he streets have been on the quiet all day. This cafe is offering their signature irish coffee to go. On day one of San Franciscos shelter in place order. Getting fresh air and we figured on our way home we would go 2 blocks away. Might as well. St. Patricks day is normally the boot of is the busiest day of the year. Not now. The irish do is on the cafes limited menu as the business adapter serving only take our. Locals and visitors came here in search of a sense of normalcy. This family from florida just arrived in the city. They found alcatraz closed and few people in this normally busy area. Its a little eerie. We are able to try right down there. This is day one and we have 3 weeks to go and maybe even longer. At city hall London Bridge gave an update on life and a shelter in place it appears you said we are better off on day one than before but urged the public to be patient in the civil and Public Health crisis that has no definite end in sight. This is probably about saving lives. This is why we have to take such drastic measures. This is going to require a lot out of all of us. Back in this area one couple bought irish coffee hoping that a familiar workout place will help resource some order in what is now an uncertain future. Both just got laid off. One is a dog walker and the other a server. We are trying to figure out the next move. Do we stay here in the city . Even though we do not work. Are we going to cacique a family . If we knew it would be a couple of weeks we would probably stay but we have no idea. It could go on for months. Officials in the south bay say most businesses are complying with shelter in place order. The Sheriffs Department says they havent encountered any major problems thus far. They also say more deputies are available to patrol the streets and if the order is violated people could be charged potentially with a misdemeanor. Officers are hoping to educate rather than a crackdown. The question i get a lot is this martial law and it is not. Its my. Were looking for voluntary compliance and really to contain the spread. The sheriff also said 6 inmates have been released early from jail due to exposure to the coronavirus. They are now under house arrest with an electric monitor. All of them only had a short time left on the sentences for nonviolent crimes. The california governor said today few if any schools are likely to be open this school year. This is a very sober thing to say. I cannot say this for certainty but i can say it tonight anticipated schools are going to open up in a week. We do not anticipate in a few weeks. The governor says more than 98 of California School students are now studying at home. He encourages parents to go online and look at the detail curriculum guidelines to help homeschool their children. There are now at least 360 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the bay area. Santa clara county has the most of them with 155. Napa has no cases of for. San mateo county has 64 cases. San francisco has 43. Morgan county is up to 15 cases. In Sonoma County that number is 6. In Solano County there are 8. Contra costa reports 39 cases. Alameda county has 37. Google has begin to help expedite drivers testing in the south bay. County officials today confirmed google Sister Company is now conducting drivethrough coronavirus testing. Its happening at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. People can schedule appointments online. The way you have access to it is go to project baseline and fill out a questionnaire and it will let you know whether or not you are a can to get to get tested there. If you show up without an appointment you wont be let in. The mobile coronavirus testing at the county fairgrounds is one of 2 sites in the state to the governor says he is hoping that will expand to other parts of california. Coming up. Legitimate news articles about coronavirus blocked on facebook. The bug that the company is acknowledging tonight. Voters go to the polls in 3 states. Up next. Joe biden on his momentum in the race for president and what he says is needed to fight the coronavirus. Shouldnt you pay less when you use less data . Now you can. Because Xfinity Mobile gives you more flexible data. You can choose to share data between lines, mix with unlimited, or switch it up at any time. All on the most reliable wireless network. Which means you can save money without compromising on coverage. Get more flexible data, the most reliable network, and more savings. Plus, get 300 off when you buy a new Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra. Thats simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click or visit a store today. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. Tackling this pandemic is a national emergency. Is going to require leadership and cooperation from every level of government. Is going to require us to move thoughtfully and decisively. To quickly address both the Public Health crisis as well as the economic crisis. Joe biden, calling for unity and action. He swept the 3 democratic primaries today during a time of national crisis. He won in florida, illinois, and arizona. Making it more and more likely that he will become the democratic nominee for president. He cruised to victory in florida with 83 of the precincts reporting joe biden leading 62 to 32 . He scored another win in illinois. Here is a look at the numbers from illinois. 74 reporting joe biden with 59 over sanders. 36 . The former Vice President also won easily and arizona with 60 of the precincts reporting joe biden. 42 bernie sanders. He did not address supports tonight. There is no indication that he is dropping out of the race so far. Canada and United States reportedly working out details of a mutual ban on nonessential travel between the 2 countries. Meanwhile the Trump Administration is considering a plan to turn back anyone who illegally crosses the border from mexico. Officials say the president is about special powers during the pandemic. The been would be one of the president s most aggressive attempts to deal with illegal immigration. Facebook temporarily blocked links today to affected new stores about the coronavirus. The company said the issue was due to a bug in their antispam system. The users complained links to news stories about School Closings and other information were blocked by their automated system. Facebook report of the said its human moderators were sent home because of the pandemic but a spokesperson said today the issue was unrelated to any changes in the companys workforce. This proposed new ballpark is facing a lawsuit. A group of shipping, tracking, and Steel Companies say they oppose it. The group says they want to preserve the working waterfront and they should build their new stadium at the existing coliseum site. The as have been hoping to have the new stadium built in time for the 2023 baseball season. Still to come. A nurse sounds off about coronavirus preparations. Depending on how sick they are. I do not know what we are going to do. The nurse says planning and training have been inadequate and that its already too late. Todays White House CoronavirusTask Force Briefing and a message to young people. Scattered showers and even thunderstorms today across portions of the bay area. Still a check shower chest tomorrow but a few changes by the beacon beer we will have your updated forecast coming up. Its only human to find inspiration in nature. And also find answers. Our search to transform. Farm waste into renewable natural gas led chevron to partner with california bioenergy. Working to provide an alternative source of power. For a cleaner way forward. This doctor had an Important Message for young people who may not see the coronavirus as a threat. When i was young a long time ago i felt that i was invulnerable the way i think many of us feel we are invulnerable. When we are asking the young people to help us with this Mitigation Strategy by staying out of the bar and restaurant and really trying to distance yourself. Dont get the attitude i am young. You are certainly less vulnerable but what you might inadvertently do and i know you do not want to do that. You do not want to put your loved ones at risk. Particularly the ones who are elderly and the ones who have compromised conditions. We cannot do this without the young people cooperating. Please cooperate with us. Well most bars and restaurants should be closed in the bay area on the st. Patricks day people in some areas are still going out to celebrate. And then there is this video sent to us from San Francisco. A concerned viewer wrote i do not think the citizens got the memo on social distancing. The city order does allow people to get outside and get some fresh air but it also requires people to keep their distance if they do not already live together. Tonight a nurse is speaking about the conditions Everett San Francisco general hospital. The emergency room is not ready to handle a potential flood of coronavirus patients. If San Francisco sees a major spike in patients many will end up here in the emergency room. Some nurses say they are short staffed and have not been trained well enough to handle a search. We still have not been trained in disaster preparedness. That is kind of out the window at this moment. She has been an er nurse in San Francisco general for the past 4 years. We 1st met her about 2 weeks ago when she and other nurses held a rally expressing their concerns. She says there have been some improvements since, but there is not enough protective gear. The fear is for a medical staff to become infected. They are at a high risk. Still testing them and they are in a private room. We are supposed to be using masks and a full gown and eye protection. As of today we are very low on the. She says another nurse been 2 hours looking for the proper protection recently. If we have a surge of coded patients depending on how sick they are i do not know what we are going to do. With schools closed many nurses are worried about who will watch their children while they are away on long shifts. She is worried about having to choose vespasians will get carry in which wont. A dilemma italy has been facing. 2 weeks behind where italy is at and if we do end up in the place that italy is at we are going to have to make the same decision they have to make. The hospital is doing a good job at keeping the visitors out and there have been more communication between the administration and staff recently. She says forcing people to stay home could be a game changer in keeping the infections down. Hopefully that will be enough to keep us out and making really tough decisions in the next couple of weeks. London bridge issue date ration to speed up the hiring of nurses and healthcare workers. We also heard from a hospital in oakland expressing concern for the readiness there. In San Francisco, ktvu fox 2 news. Just a quick update on bay area weather. We had some sunshine and even thunderstorms and hell especially out towards the livermore area. Tomorrow will not be a washout but the possibility of a shower. I think is that for a bit of a walk or a little bit of a stroll. Tomorrow if you mostly cloudy skies with the chance of a few scattered showers. Here is the rater showing you this. The bulk of the action earlier today. Look at all the snow showers up in portions of Mendocino County upwards lake county as well. Right now the radar over the past few hours. Youre starting to see them dissipate. Current numbers 40s and some 50s. San francisco in the 50s. San jose, 46. Concord at 48 degrees. Our live camera for tonight. We still have mostly cloudy skies. Overnight lows will hold onto the cloud cover. Upper 30s to the low mid 40s. San francisco mid 40s. Fairfield, 30 degrees. Heres the plan for tonight. Lots of clouds and throughout the day was to allow the possibility of a sprinkle or if you scattered showers and then by 3 or 4 clock mostly cloudy skies. This cool weather pattern will stick around into your wednesday forecast. Here is the forecast model. Put this into motion. Not a lot of widespread rainfall but still the possibility of a few scattered showers. This is 5 00 and as we head into wednesday evening we scale back on the showers and although we could have a few left over showers in portions of the south bay. Tomorrow just be prepared for a few scattered showers that could develop throughout the day. Temperatures will be in the mid to upper 50s. Here is a look at your 5 day. It looks like thursday and friday just partly cloudy skies. Into the weekend picking up the cloud cover with a chance of a shower. It looked like a better chance by sunday night and into monday. Still to come. No games being played, but there is a big sports headline tonight. It appears that tom brady has found himself a new team. Up next. Mark tells us it looks like tom brady is going to florida. The best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. There is a lot of talk about tom brady officially leaving the patriots. We do not know yet where he is going, but mark has the latest. 20 years with 1 team. He will not be the longest tenured player with wanting to ever leave that team. He is definitely leaving. He made that official on social media today earlier and then it looks pretty sure like he is going to wind up with tampa bay. The announcement that he was coming and taking those rings with him did not exactly stunned the fans in new england, but to say the least they are disappointed there. The buccaneers say nothing is official get in tampa, but basically every outlet you look at right now is saying this is going to be probably confirmed as soon as tomorrow. Las vegas. The odds of the buccaneers winning the super bowl are 16 1. The new england patriots, 20 1. The fans are lining up for season tickets already in tampa. Its not even officially appear the 49ers like the teens i got to the super bowl and they are doing everything they can to make sure it stays intact. Ronald blair signed a oneyear deal. Missed much of the past season with an injury and theyre hoping to get this guy on the field for the 1st time. Signing a fouryear deal 2 years ago. He tore his acl in practice and has not played it down yet. They have restructured his contract in hopes he can get on the field for the 1st time as a 49ers running back. Also of note, the 49ers have extended matt breida and kendrick born. Both to oneyear deals. I guess when brooklyn announces that 4 people on their team have not contacted the coronavirus and the biggest name of all, kevin durant, is one of those guys. You have to make that as a big time news story. Obviously still recovering from the torn acl, but he has been traveling with the team for quite some time as he recovers. Interestingly enough the Brooklyn Nets were set to play the warriors the next day prior to the suspension of nba play. Today he was quoted as saying everybody be careful. Take care of yourself and quarantine. We will get through this. We have a little time, so why not . Check this out. Everybody looking for something to do. How about this guy . A chip shot into shot glasses. This is 2 different. Those are not golf balls. Those are pingpong balls. Thats some nice accuracy. Apparently things you can do at home. Check this out. Exercise for your cat indoors. As he tries to get it right into that little cup right there. The cat is not having it. Check this out. Trae young from atlanta. He does not have a court outside, so he is shooting into his laundry basket. One of the best players in the nba. Just cannot get enough of his basketball stuff. That is the sporting life. Back to you guys. We needed that. See you later, everyone. Good night. Good night. Oh. Phil okay, im up. Did you drop him, too . [ chuckles ] grab my leg, buddy. Here we go. Oop. I come from the land down under. He doesnt. I was conceived in australia on my parents honeymoon. It was a romantic summer night their summer on a blanket in the park. I still have that blanket. Phils mom left us money for a trip there, and when the rest of the family found out, they all just jumped on board. My moms grandfather was australian, and shed spend her summers their winters visiting him. It was a very special place for her. She always wanted me to see it. Wait you still have that blanket . Yeah, silly. Its the one on our bed