thank you. you see the sign right there, a north bay town where everyone or close to everyone will be tested for covid-19. tomorrow is 4/20, a day that authorities are urni authority urging everyone to stay home. and tracking showers before warmer weather comes. all of th accu-weather. abc news at 11:00 starts right now. good evening. i m eric thomas. a north bay town is about to make national headlines. they plan to start testing everyone who lives there tomorrow morning for coronavirus, thanks to some private funding. testing is supposed to start in san francisco s mission district later in the week. it s part part of the ucsf project. abc 7 news reporter jr stone talked to some of the people behind it. everybody wants it and now it s happening. reporter: yuri is talking about something that might seem too good to be true. free covid-19 tests for everybody. it is true. and it is about to happen on a small scale in the north bay town of bolinas where there are
deadly spikes, but is sweden s more than $127 million tore gamble working thin to the incredible need coronavirus relief for food across the nation it will help support health care as food banks are working hard workers. michelle obama is doing her to fill a growing appetite with part to help parents at home more people in need. then to the scene of the she ll be reading classic worst mass shooting in canadian history. 16 people killed including an children officer. the shooter now dead children s books on mondays with was impersonating a royal michelle. protesters across the country are defying social canadian mounted police officer. distancing guidelines calling wicked weather and we re for an end to stay-at-home orders tracking it all. hi, everyone this will be the best regional it s monday, early today update i ve given since march erin mclaughlin joins us. 28 reporter: cori, it was a i want to show you our region by starts now. i m cori coffman. weekend
good morning, i m phillip mena. and i m cori coffman. the death toll reaches a grim milestone as clashes over testing begins it hr first confirmed case of coronavirus. and now more than 755,000 people are infected with the virus. over 40,000 americans have died from covid-19. at the epicenter in the empire state governor andrew cuomo is launching aggressive testing for antibodies this week and says new york has passed the high point of infection recording its lowest daily death toll in two weeks. here s a bright spot a patient getting a standing ovation as he leaves north shore university hospital on long island the 46-year-old was their 1,000th discharged coronavirus patient. can you see there doctors and nurses cheering him on. new york s finest are showing solidarity for those who lost their lives to coronavirus by wearing black bands across their shields. so far 28 uniformed and civilian members of the nypd have died from covid-19. starting today, walmart employ
park where in recent years people have come to celebrate all things marijuana. they will be ought patrolling. a very good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i m laura garcia. and i m marcus washington. mike will have a look at traffic in about eight minutes. first kari hall s look at the forecast. we re starting out this morning with light rain moving through parts of the bay area. and this is our only chance of rain for the whole week. a misty and drizzly start. it s been moving into parts of contra costa county from discovery bay extending up to santa rosa. we ll be watching this over the next couple of hours but clearing out as we go throughout the day and warming up for the rest of the week. we ll talk more about this in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. back to you. thanks, kari. lawmakers are set to be close to a deal to fund more small business loans, part of tas the country begins to reopen. today in the bay s tracie potts is live for u
find people who may be infected. new questions of how to balance privacy and public health. and economic survival. congress negotiates more help for small businesses struggling to stay afloat. how even some big retailers may go bankrupt. that s not good. but first, here s today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. really, any part of the country is vulnerable. even rural parts of the country. you see these superspread situations as we saw in south dakota. the debate over when the reopen of the country is getting political. it s no time to get cocky or arrogant. nobody wants to reopen this country more than president donald trump. they ve got cabin fever. they want to get back. they want their life back. their life was taken away from them. rallies to end stay-at-home orders were held over the weekend. it s the facts of life. we live and we die. so to shut down the economy because of that is it s insane. a gunman in canada has killed at least 16 peop