Have been tested. As the human toll continues to go up, Public Health officers are continuing to warn people, take the coronavirus seriously. And one of them has a very special insight. Marin countys doctor matt willis was sick with the coronavirus for three weeks. We have what his message is for everyone out there. Frank, we found matt willis at marin countys Emergency Operation center back at work fighting the virus that took him down hard. His days are a blur of meetings, calls and decisions, but doctor matt willis embraces all of it, after being knocked flat by covid19 last month. I realized i had really underestimated the power and unpredictability of this virus. Reporter he got sick a few days after appearing with other county health officers, declaring the first bay area wide shelter in place, unprecedented then and followed soon after by a stay order. So i am here on home quarantine as marin 39th confirmed case. Reporter at the time his illness seemed mild, cough and aches. But
Youre watching kron 4 news news at 9. Kennedy to move into this next phase only they will assess back is is you know behavior thats not conducive with those guidelines that are currently in place and. And now 9 Governor Newsome saying even though we are making progress slowing the spread of the coronavirus we cannot let up now. Thanks for joining us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the governor urging everyone to continue to practice social distancing as he allows. More executive a tease out doors, including a playing catch skateboarding in golf and here in the bay area were just days away from the new shelter in place guidelines taking effect in 6 of the counties here restrictions will be eased in certain businesses and parks deemed lowrisk will reopen but Law Enforcement and medical experts say this is not the time to get complacent kron fours gayle ong joins us live with details about how are moving forward, i do it. Hi granted. Yeah were not out of the woo
In the meantime we are keeping an eye on the numbers in the bay area. They are now over 5,000 cases. And a good morning to you. Im marcus washington. Mike will have a look at traffic in just a bit. First, a look at the its friday, right . It is friday. It could be freak friday, who knows . It is one of those days we want to kind of enjoy and think about the weekend is here. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the forecast for us. Kari, what is it going to give us today . Yeah, it looks really nice for today. As we look at san jose and look at our temperature trend we had a lot of clouds yesterday morning to start out. I think it will be clearer today, and were starting out with mid50s. Well see our temperatures trend very nice going into the low 70s today, slightly above normal. As we get climates and what to expect today were going temperatures for the inland areas in the upper 70s once again and staying cool along the coastline with some low 60s as we get a little bit more suns
California advocates for nursing home reform says its difficult to get a handle on the problem without testing i think one reason we may not be saying that kind of language yet is because testing is so still so hard to get California Public Health Officials released the number of deaths of Nursing Homes earlier this week for the first time. The numbers show one 3rd of confirmed covid19 deaths have come from these facilities. The numbers, however, could actually be much higher really surprising. Actually how little we know how that many of those numbers actually are. Thursdays Nursing Homes announcement came as President Trump declared may Older Americans month. The president says the commission on safety for Nursing Homes will be meeting soon and issuing recommendations to further protect seniors. Reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. Life on the streets during this pandemic is especially dangerous for people who are homeless in alameda on the state has donated trailers to h
Continues as more than half of the United States start to partially reopen discretion. Is given to the governors they know the u. S. States. Is no the u. S. Cities. So you want to give them a little wiggle room. But my recommendation is you know dont wiggle too much while the reopening process will likely help the struggling us economy start to rebound from the pandemic. Some say doing so too soon may lead to problems because people are going to go back to more association. In some places in the country, its very likely that theyll be future peaks as well im John Lawrence reporting. According to Johns Hopkins university there are more than 1 million cases in the United States over 50,000 of those cases right here in california. More than 2000 people have died over 1100 of those deaths happening in los angeles. Here in the bay area were seeing more than a 1000 cases and over 260 deaths, majority of those cases and deaths happening in Santa Clara County with over 2100 cases and 111 peopl