The students. Christian yes heather, alex districts around the bay area really around the state are working on their distancelearning plants. Now that it is becoming abundantly clear though students might not be back in their classrooms before the end of the school year the bay area going growing increasingly accustomed to seeing empty School Buildings and empty schoolyard. Now the governor acknowledging it is increasingly unlikely that students will return to the classroom this year practical we should be clear that the right thing to do for our children, the right thing to do for the parents, for households, for the communities in which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligation through Distance Learning the governor and ask google is stepping up providing thousands of computers and Internet Access points to facilitate Distance Learning for all students. 20 thurman is following up on a memo sent to schools district statewide. Out of abundance of caution we believe it is most important that all of our schools maximize their efforts around distancelearning to help all of our students now districts throughout the state are working out the details on how to handle distancelearning making sure all kids have the computers and Internet Access to keep up. Troy flipped for the California SchoolBoards Association said the direction from state leaders will now allow School Districts to make definitive plans going forward. Among them is how district will make up for lost instruction time. He says with a mix of high income and low income urban and rural districts a one size fits all solution will not work that may look like an extended school year, it may look like in an early start in subdistrict but some district may opt to have school on weekends. Some schools may even contemplate the move to a Year Round School model. San francisco schools are saying as with districts around the bay and around the state it will be focused on long term plans aimed at making sure kids are fed and educated. One is to continue to provide free meals to students in the second is to provide some sort of ongoing learning opportunity. The first optional but then starting april 13 as a mandatory part of school for everyone. The governor said that around the state there working to make sure that graduating seniors are able to leave school and get on with their postgraduate lives but meanwhile the university of california system announced it is suspending s. A. T. And a. C. T. Testing christian, thank you. There are more than 8000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus here in california according to john hopkins university. So far 187 deaths have been reported statewide and Governor Newsom says 774 patients are in intensive care units at hospitals all across the state. The governor says those numbers are important because the state must prepare now for a surgeon hospitalization and icu patients. In the last 48 hours, over 34,000 retired doctors, nurses and medical students have signed up for the States Health corporate the governor also talked today about masks and how not to wear them as a substitute for social distancing. They are not a substitute for physical distancing. They are not a substitute for stayathome order. They are not a call to get folks to find and 95 mask or surgical mask and pulled them away or compete against our first responders, our front experts say Wearing Masks may prevent the amount of infection particles in the air. However, they are recommended only for the sick or anyone who is caring for them. Goal area counties are bracing for a positive possible wave of covid19 patients and there working to provide more hospital beds but in santa Claire County officials are converting empty spaces into the hospital words. We are live in salmon mattea with what is being done there. Jesse heather, good afternoon to you. The county event Center Serves as an Emergency Evacuation Center during crisis so officials here decided to take advantage of a lull in activities due to canceled bookings and they decided to retool the center so to speak and help to stop the spread of the coronavirus practical theres nothing else going on here thats why it makes so much here to stage this year, have it ready here and get it up and running very quickly if we needed in a traditional work day members of California InternetNational Guard completed the set up of the fourth medical station in the state. The 55,000 square foot building at the San Mateo Event Center now houses 250 bedford all of our airmen have made all of these beds to be prepared for when they are needed. So far San Mateo County has seen over 300 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths. Officials say they decided early on to mobilize resources to supplement the countys 2400 licensed hospital beds and 110 icu beds. Especially with the spec are of a third more cases of the coming weeks. We realize when that surge gets here it is too late. Youve got to prepare ahead of that we are doing everything we can possibly can to support the public during this challenging time in addition to caring for 259 acute patients those who do not need ventilators area hotels to be used to treat people infected by coven 19. Officials are asking the public to linda hann by donating personal protective equipment such as gloves and n95 masks this is our generations challenge. Officials say the equipment here can be easily taken somewhere else, maybe to a hospital and set up there if need be. The air guardsmen men and women who set this up today this is the fourth of eight that they are on their way to east bay to set up a 50 moppet live in san mateo this afternoon jesse gary ktvu fox tv news typical all right, jesse thank you very much. We want to talk more about these makeshift hospitals. Mark former fema appointee. Other any preferred sites for these types of conversions . Im sorry we obviously are having some difficulty hearing from mark hopefully we can reestablish our connection bring that interview in just a moment. The u. S. Is now above 213,000 cases of covid19. This time yesterday was about 184,000 per the National Death tolls now stands above 4700. Everything yesterday the white house said there could be anywhere between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the u. S. As a result of this pandemic during todays Daily White House briefing, it was focused largely on enhanced counter narcotics intervention by the u. S. Military. They said cartels may try to take advantage of the outbreak to step up drug smuggling pit but the press conference did touch on the pandemic its upward that u. S. National security advisor answer questions on whether the u. S. Had the information that china has downplayed or even deliberately covered up the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. Unfortunately are just not in a position to confirm any of the numbers confirming them you got access that are coming out of social media and some of the few reporters left in china h confirm any of those numbers. Admiral mike gill they said the u. S. Navy is making progress on the situation aboard the uss roosevelt in guam. At least 93 crewmembers have tested positive positive for coronavirus for the navys work , to identify hotel rooms and other facilities in guam where they could be housed practical coming up here on the for foxnews across the country and around the world preparing for an influx of patient still to come. How the hospitals are dealing with the shortage of supplies. Also local food banks seeing an increase in demand among the outbreak coming up the executive director of the San FranciscoMarion Food Bank as we here at. To team up with food banks around the area to help those in need area weather, lots of sunshine today but the of some wind, breeze kicking up this afternoon. I will let you know when rain is scheduled to return in the bay area forecast. We want to continue artist several states including right here in california. Lets bring fema president ial a are there any preferred sites when it comes to making these kinds of conversions . There are in this particular case but these are federal medical stations that are equipped by the health and Human Services department by the federal government based on the equipment down, the National Guard typically sets it up. Theyre looking for large landmass areas so they can get up to 250 people into these makeshift hospitals but keep in mind they also theoretically are not going to be treating coronavirus patients but what we are hearing at the javits enter in new york as they are enough room between patient, six feet. All right i apologize folks but it seems as though we are continuing to have some audio problems with mark again, always nice to hear from him he provides great insight as we try to figure out more about these makeshift hospitals that are going up in so many places. Jesse gary telling us early about the one going up in San Mateo County but again we will try to get mark back if we can. Ktvu is partnering with food banks all around the bay area to help them raise money during this critical time. Your donation will help ensure that food will remain available for those who need it most. Joining us this afternoon is paul ash executive director of the San Francisco maron food bank. We really appreciate you coming on to talk about these important issues facing our community how great is the need . Many more people are turning to food banks like yours at a time like this question might thanks, alex. The answer is we dont know exactly. We are bringing out more food. Some of our distributions are four and five and six times as big as they were a month ago. And yet at the end at that time, we still had people waiting to be served. Where are you in terms of supplies . Wellstocked are your shelves question might while, we are the fortunate time in terms of our supply. When this occurred, we had a good inventory level so we are probably going to be good for the next two or three weeks. And then we are going to see our inventory levels drop and thats when we have got to have worked in advance to make sure that we have got donations lined up, that we are accessing federal commodities and if we need to, were going to be purchasing food. And the families were coming in, are theres a lot of families that have never before turn to a food bank and now all of a sudden because we have this outbreak and we have to stay a homeowners and people are losing their jobs, addressing families that have never turned the food base before now coming in looking for help . Yes, thats exactly right, alex. I was volunteering in a petri with my family on saturday and it was a drivethrough pantry. Folks were opening up their trunks and we were putting the food in their transferred you could see that these were folks a few days ago were using the poles, where using the cleaning equipment that was in their trucks. One fellow was a crossing guard. You can see his signs of probably was unemployed because the schools are closed. So yes, these are folks we do not normally see. Theres these are folks that again were working just a few days ago. Now they are wanting how they are going to keep themselves and their families. You brought up the issue of the schools being closed, now we just have the official announcement from state leaders today that the schools are going to be closed for the rest of the academic year. I know traditionally a lot of your meals are distributed through the school. How do you work around the closures of all the campuses here for the foreseeable future question mark yes. 44 of our 275 pantries were located in schools. So we lost them immediately two weeks ago. Weve been able to come back and partner with the School District to distribute groceries at the same time that they are distributing the school meals for kids to take away print we are still short ribbon putting up papa pantries that are three and four and five times bigger than our normal pantries trying to catch people who were displaced by the school closure. Were going to continue to grow those. We have got 11 open so far and we are going to continue to grow them in the coming weeks. And paul are you getting enough volunteers coming down to the pantry and being able to help out with some of those pop up delivery sites . I mean obviously there is a stayathome order so people are being urged to stay home but are you still getting volunteers coming down to help out . Go we are still getting volunteers. Some days we come up a little bit short. Know people change their mind or decide its not a good idea but we are practicing social distancing, providing gloves, Hand Sanitizer all that sort of thing so that people feel comfortable. We asked the city for activation of the National Guard over a week ago and we are still waiting to hear from them. It is our hope that they will make a decision and we will have a consistent supply of skilled volunteers, people that can drive trust, have language capacity what would be the role of those National Guard members specifically paul question mike is a going to be to stock the shelves, the kind of move the canned goods on the other food items and get them to those delivery points question mark but can do all those things. Plus many of them have class see licenses and drive trucks per they can operate Warehouse Equipment so they are invaluable. And paula finally here, you know times are tight for a lot of folks who are watching this right now. How far would even a small modest donation go for you guys right now . Yes but we are really efficient with peoples money. For every dollar that is donated we are able to supply food for two meals. So small donations go a long way. Obviously, larger donations go even further. All right, we really appreciate you coming on. Paul ash, executive director of the San Francisco marin food bank. As you just heard paul say your donations can make a huge difference for people here in the bay area right now. To learn more about how you can help out you can head to our website , ktvu. Com food bank. Its a great thing to be thinking of others if you can right now. Even five dollars goes a long way to help those in need. Right now were going to bring you into talk about another really nice day out there today yes thats right, heather. Five dollars yes, definitely. Hoping that can be happening. Yes, lots of sunshine out there. Bit of a breeze kicking up. I better remind myself this is spring time and thats when the wind picks up usually in the afternoon especially near the bay. Thats what we have for today. We will basically have the same story as we head into your thursday per the plan is this as we take a look at the forecast for tomorrow, we do have lots of sunshine out there with temperatures on track for our live camera where we could see lots of clear skies in the forecast. Lots of sunshine as we head into your thursday and forecast highs will be mainly in the 60s for afternoon highs but the winds to pick up around 15 to 25 miles an hour lots of clear skies up and down the coast right now. In fact the clouds even being swept away from the coastline. We had patchy cloud cover last night but things clearing out rapidly. Here in the bay area we are still dealing with this drive weather pattern right now. It will be changing as we head into the weekend asup. You can see napa a ghost of 22 miles per hour. Westerly wind at about 17. Oakland actually sfo westerly 25 in san jose northerly at 18. Heres a live camera looking out toward San Francisco where we have lots of sunshine. Most arrows this afternoon in the 60s. San francisco downtown right around 56 degrees. As far as overnight lows, we will have mostly clear skies. Some call numbers out there and temperatures to start up tomorrow morning will be close to freezing for santa rosa in napa. 30s and 40s the start of the day and then here is the forecast models you can see later on tonight. Still clear skies and tomorrow the same deal but this is thursday morning 8 00. Then afternoon hours mostly sunny skies but look at this rain offshore, this will be our next funnel band. This will be a factor as we head toward the weekend for this fun is developing offshore i will be moving officer as we head into the week in prayer that will be the source for some rainfall saturday into sunday pray coming up well talk or about that incoming season we will be updating your forecast in just a little bit all right, mark thank you. Expected searching coronavirus cases could overwhelm the nations healthcare system. 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