store to stock up. >> i'm scared. you see, i came in to buy dinner and i see mass hysteria in there and i thought i better join in because the cupboards are literally, hardly any food. >> there are questions about the kids who depend on receiving lunch at school. the san francisco chronicle is reporting this morning that the district says that this meal will still be available for kids who qualify. but no details have been released on how that food would be served. this closure will include spring break. they're going to be out for three weeks and welcomed back on april 6th, at least that is the plan for now. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. staying home amid the coronavirus outbreak. >> overnight these new closures were announced. and south san francisco unified and all santa cruz county

schools will close on monday. other districts announced closures including west contra costa unified and all diocese in san jose and tamalpais union and woodside. we are keeping track of new closures and constantly updating te list on our website. you can find it at abc7news.com/coronavirus. 224 confirmed cases of coronavirus in california. that includes 140 here in the bay area. santa clara county has the most with 66 cases. napa county announced a health emergency, but there are no confirmed cases in that county. we're learning new details about three tsa agents at san jose mineta international they were working at terminal b checkpoint b during the evening ship. they checked bags and operated the x-ray and monitored the body scanner. each of them had a different last day of work and those days

ranged from february 21st and march 2nd. the sharks revealed a part-time employee tested positive. shark officials say the employee is under self-quarantine and they are recovering apparently feeling better. >> the, shas are heading back to san jose after the nhl decision to pause games indefinitely. the league still hopes to crown a champion at some point. since the stanley cup was first awarded in 1893, there have only been two total cancellations. one was in 1919 because of the flu epidemic. major league baseball has delayed opening day at least two weeks for now. all 30 teams were scheduled to play on opening day, which was march 26th. major league baseball has not had a mass postponement of openers since 1995 following the strike in '94 that canceled the world series. baseball has a 162-game

schedule. so, there's a chance they could play part of the season. minor league baseball is also on hold. the "grand princess" passengers have disembarked, a few hundred on board along with 1,100 crew members. many of the passengers have began 14-day quarantine periods at military bases. you could imagine they're pretty frustrated. >> part of the routine is that we don't know much. can't find out when we will be tested or if we will be tested. there seems to be a lot of conflicting information about that. >> governor newsom says california is reaching out to several nations to help the ship's crew members return to their home country. california now has the power to take over hotels and motels to isolate patients. so part of an executive order from governor gavin newsom. it allows the state to use hotels and medical facilities to serve as treatment centers. some patients have already moved

to hotels, according to the governor. a 120-room hotel in san carlos is now housing people who were previously quarantined on the grand princess cruise ship. house democrats are expected to pass a bill today to fight the crippling effects of coronavirus on the table right now. paid sick leave and other financial assistance for struggling families. andrew dymburt has more from washington. >> good morning. a bill could be passed as soon as today which could focus on providing relief for families and those most affected by the coronavirus outbreak. meanwhile here in washington two very different accounts on actual access to coronavirus testing for americans. lawmakers on capitol hill preparing proposals on the pandemic. after late-night discussions house speaker nancy pelosi says a deal is close to being done. some relief packages being discussed include paid sick leave, food assistance and free covid-19 testing. there is still confusion

surrounding test availability in the u.s. the president insisting everything is going according to plan. >> frankly, the testing has been going very smoothly. >> reporter: while top health officials strongly disagree with that assessment. >> the system is not really geared to what we need right now. what you are asking for. that is a failing. >> failing. >> it is a failing. let's admit it. >> reporter: lawmakers demand all americans have access to free tests. >> do not let a lack of insurance worsen this crisis. >> reporter: the new european travel ban creating chaos at airports around the world as americans try to get home. >> we are not sure if we are able to get back in. >> if democrats and republicans agree on a bill, which they fully are expected to, the money would come from that $8.3 billion emergency spending package that the president signed into law last week. andrew dymburt, abc news, washington. the stories and headlines related to coronavirus seem to be coming at every hour and we

are keeping track of them with a live blog. if you're working from home or want to know the latest at any time, go to abc7news.com/coronavirus. with coronavirus now a pandemic, coronavirus, your work life is no longer business as usual. next the changes some bay area companies are making to keep employees safe and healthy. fear of the coronavirus reaches the happiest place on earth. details on disneyland's historic decision. i mean, we kind of new it was bound to happen at some point. you have so many people there. but still a little sad. >> definitely sad and then hearing the last time this happened was after september 11th, it definitely is unfortunate. >> get you caught up on that story, but, first, we have to talk about this rain that is coming this weekend. >> we have a wicked weekend on the way with possibility of thunderstorms and small hail. today, it's kind of quiet other than the fog. you can see it taking over the

north bay. the usual spots, petaluma up towards santa rosa. a few cool spots napa at 40 and 42 and 51 in vallejo. and san francisco down the bay shoreline into the south bay. redwood city would be an exception. 47. we even have low to mid-50s inland and 48 right now in half moon bay. heefrz here's a look at walnut creek and fog and breezy this afternoon. breezy in the afternoon main commute planner issues that you'll run in to today. here's a look at the peninsula. 49 at 7:00. and see some sunshine and push us into the mid-60s and temperatures drop to 57, so you'll need a jacket this evening. east bay valleys pretty quiet with clear conditions this morning at 48. up to mid-60s around 1:00 and then you can see the temperatures taper as it gets breezy this afternoon to 57 at 7:00 and our last stop will be the south bay. and wake up to a little cloud

cover. mid-60s with sunshine this afternoon and clouds increasing at 7:00. >> checking in on traffic here, we'll start off with our webster street tube closure. a full overnight closure that is going on from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. due to maintenance work. still in effect right now and this is happening through may of this year. i will keep you posted on how everything goes in case it ends early. live look now showing you the san mateo bridge here. traffic as people move east and westbound right now and no problems in the area. live look showing the golden gate bridge now very light up here now. i'll leave you with the drive times we have here this morning. tracy to dublin, 28 minutes. no slow down there for our super commuters which is good. antioch to concord 13 minutes and san rafael to san francisco, going to be a 15-minute ride teammates help each other find a way to win, just like covered california helps you find health insurance you can afford. they're the only place you can get financial assistance

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how crazy the weather is up in tahoe. they have an avalanche watch through monday, but just down in the lower elevations they have a fire weather watch. which means windy and let's take a look first today. a little bit of snow. the mountains valley rain and yosemite at 60 and 62 in l.a. and 63 in san diego. the snow packs at about 38%, but we are going to receive anywhere

from five to possibly seven feet of snow. first about four feet this weekend. we have the winter storm watch 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. saturday to monday. then monday, tuesday, wednesday, another foot to two feet is possible. six to seven feet. travel is going to be impossible, if not the closures keep you from doing it at all. jobina. hall of famer charles barkley is self-quarantining and awaiting results for coronavirus test. the tnt made the announcement last night. he felt sick after getting back to atlanta from a trip in new york and after talking with officials at turner sports and a couple doctors, he didn't want to take any chances. kumasi. >> thanks. rudy gobert apologizing for not taking warnings about coronavirus seriously. he was the first nba player to take positive. you remember this video, he was intentionally touching all the

microphones, all the recorders at the news conference. his apology says i part, i was careless and make no excuse, i hope my story serves as a warning and causes everyone to take this seriously. the nba suspended the season and league commissioner adam silver is hoping for the finals in july or august. the college basketball season is over, too. the ncaa canceled the national tournament and that means no selection sunday and no final four. the ncaa tournament is in play every year since 1939. it generates almost $1 billion in revenue. well, disney is shutting down its theme parks and cruises through the end of march. disn disneyland and california adventure will close tomorrow along with the paris resort. walt disney world in orlando studios in florida will close on sunday. disney cruise line is suspending four cruises starting tomorrow. the closures are getting some mixed reaction. >> i think it's stupid that they didn't do anything sooner to address this issue that's going

around the world. >> we used a ton of our miles to get here. we have two kiddos. the hotel, we're literally just going to check in. probably out a big chunk of change. >> disappointing for a lot of people, but governor newsom applauded disney' decision to put safety fist. disney is the parent company of abc 7. >> safety first. universal studios is also following suit here. they are closing the hollywood theme park beginning tomorrow. universal hopes to reopen the park on march 28th. companies across the bay area are stepping up to protect their employees and customers from coronavirus. >> many asked their employees to work from home. dave louie looks at how that's going. >> nearly 18,000 cisco employees are working from home in san jose and pleasanton offices. they are using webx for meetings. a hunger by other companies to do the same as they step up to

minimize risk to employees ask customers. >> not only sharing the technology, but we're also sharing some of the best practices and learnings to help them kick off and get started, as well. in addition to that, we are offering webex free around the globe to help people that need to get connected and don't have the means to do so. >> reporter: only a skeleton crew is staffing the office kbm home that works for top tech companies. 150 employees in san jose, san francisco and sacramento are working at home for the next two weeks. they've already been touched by covid-19. >> we had a project in seattle where one of the members of the installation crew got sick with coronavirus and was diagnosed. so they had to quarantine their crew. so we had to move that installation into another installation team and that's the first we've had that. >> reporter: stock market turmoil fueled by jitters impacting the valley's real estate market. >> many of our buyers have stock

options that they're relying on using that money for that down payment. they are delaying their buying decision until the stock market rebounds. >> reporter: older sellers are being asked to stay home during open houses for their safety. so many offices have spaces like these where people can collaborate and interaction among employees is encouraged but this current crisis may cause some companies to maybe start working from home might be an idea whose time has come back. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> like you don't really think about all the ripple effects. it's not just, oh, i'm staying home or look at this crash in the stock market. it's just affecting so manyd industries. >> even the changes to our own building and what we do here. we don't have a remote kind of job, so, this is interesting how this is all unfolding. >> we'll keep you updated on all the changes that are happening and what we can expect for our weekend weather. mike? >> lifestyle changes both ways. time to get out the umbrella and

time to think about how to get around when it's going to be wet and what to do when it is wet. maybe stay inside and quarantine yourself with a good book or a movie or television, even though there won't be any sports on it. find something to do when it's raining this weekend. right now looking at a little bit of haze and fog from the east bay camera. fog not quite as widespread as it was yesterday. mainly locked in the north bay, but some of it may slip out of there. we'll keep an eye on it. partly cloudy this afternoon and cold, wet and stormy not only this weekend but monday and tuesday and dry with some minor warming thursday. but we're not getting the 70s back any time soon. say hello and good-bye. because this is the last day for 70 degree temperatures when we barely make it in the east bay valleys and mid to upper 60s and upper 50s to low 60s alon ast a into san fe bez cft ais starting at 3:00. tonight back in the 40s where most of the green starts. here's our low. it is going to develop as it

slides down and sits and spins on top of us. you can see here we are at midnight and the showers are rolling in at 8:00 in the morning and then it just sits there and stalls down in the south bay with more showers possible as we head throughout the afternoon and into tomorrow. looking at more showers and just going to keep going and going and going on and off. some areas will be steadier the closer we are to the coast and because no one impulse is stronger than the other, just a one on the storm impact scale. several inches of rain is possible. i'll show you that next. we'll talk about the express lane construction here from the san mateo project and still in effect right now. you can expect closures on 380 in south san francisco and, excuse me, on 101 between 380 and that is the area. a live look now in oakland showing you 880 at the coliseum and headlights making their way south in the morning and beginning to get busier in

walnut creek. here we are looking at 680. the taillights are working their way south on the right hand side of your screen and we have more drive times here. albany to the maze, four-minute ride. fremont to san jose, 14-minute ride. kumasi. >> thanks, jobina. hackers are now using fears around the coronavirus to access your information. here's techbytes. >> hackers using the coronavirus crisis to steal your information. >> reports that hackers are uploading showing the virus' hot spots. once the map is open users are redirected to a site asking for your personal data. the map is published by john hopkins university is an example of a nonmalicious tracker. apple protect consumers and workers from covid-19. >> only shoppers that make a request will be allowed to dry on the devices. the company has reduced the number of chairs in stores to

promote social distancing. keeping the virus away from international space station. >> one astronaut and two russians prohibited from leaving their training center in russia and not flying to space until april 9th. >> space might be the safest place right now. >> have a great day. >> so many thoughts that i will keep to myself. well, here's a small piece of good news here. no reported cases of coronavirus in sonoma county, but it's not stopping health leaders to take aggressive action to keep people safe. an unexpect

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here's a look at the best policy starting at 5:00 tomorrow morning through 5:00 sunday for thunderstorms. you can see it's mainly marin, sonoma and up into lake and parts of or parts of lake and l men dese mendesino counties. sunday into monday, it spreads to the east and to the south starting to take over parts of san francisco, contra costa and alameda county. so, some small hail is possible and brief, intense rain is possible. for tomorrow we're looking at anywhere from a quarter inch of rain in the north bay to nearly an inch around the bay and then we keep adding on another quarter to half inch sunday. >> thanks, mike. no reported cases of coronavirus in sonoma county. the health department went to

four sites to test up to 80 people with flu-like symptoms, some are healthy and others do have underlying medical conditions. they are using data from the testing to get an idea of the potential spread of coronavirus. >> over the course of the next three days, we expect that we'll have at least 20 persons tested at each site for covid, which will double the amount of testing that is done so far and giving us more data to see what's going on in our county. >> there's no sign of community spread in the county, but officials say it may just be a matter of time. coronavirus fears in the turmoil it's causing in the global markets are driving gas prices down. gas is less than $3 a gallon at this station. this is the gas & shop. nearby arco gas is also less than $3. one driver had a glove on his hand when he was fillin up. aaa says the national average price for a gallon of gas is down 6 cents since monday. the agency says fewer people are

driving because they are working from home. that ripple effect, mike. >> a positive effect there. okay. let's take a look at what's going on monday. future radar we'll start at midnight and then head throughout the day and you can see a wave of wet weather roll through, taper a little bit as we head into the evening hours and then another wave is going to come in tuesday morning, but notice it's more heavier, i should say, in the central valley and up in the sierra. but it's still by the evening hours just about over. let's take a look at what will happen monday and tuesday. we already saw how much rain we're going to get this weekend. the next two days after that. another half inch is possible to two-thirds of an inch. this entire time it is snowing in the sierra. if you want to get up there, you have to go today. it's more likely the roads will be closed starting sunday and possibly monday and tuesday with those feet of snow in the blowing and drifting snow that is going to happen. now, if you get caught under one

of our thunderstorms, you could have some locally intense winds, locally intense downpours and also some small hail but it won't do any damage. let's talk more about what is going on outside. here's jobina. >> thank you, mike. good morning, everyone. in berkeley earlier this morning a crash that caused a power pole to come down. i want to let you know on gilman between 2nd and 5th street. that downed power pole and some traffic diverted in the area. be aware of that this morning. doesn't look until it is cleared up until mid-morning because the crew won't get out until 7:00 a.m. looking at 87. very light traffic and if you're thinking about heading the door earlier. same story as people make their way towards the toll plaza. moving over now, we have more drive times and walnut creek to dublin 13 minutes and highway 1 to los gatos 20 minutes. hitting local tourist

attractions. the popular amusement park that is shutting down. pg&e showing flexibility as the outbreak spreads. what it is willing to do to help virus >>th pusafe. before we head to 5:00 this morning, we're taking a live look outside, we'll be right back.

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we're live at sfo. >> if your commute includes b.a.r.t., finding a seat is all of a sudden pretty easy. more companies are ordering employees to work from home but b.a.r.t. is losing millions of dollars. good morning on this friday, march 13th. >> we'll get to all those stories in a moment but never more than seven minutes away from the accu weather forecast. >> take a look at what's going on with the visibility. and right now most of the fog is confined to that area. and the reason why is we have a stronger onshore breeze and the more west to east wind which is a more north to south wind. that helped push the fog down the bay shore and into the south bay. i don't think that is going to happen and if it does, it will be a lot less than it was yesterday. so, looks like mainly the north bay is going to feel the brunt of that fog and below visibility creates the morning commute. we have mid-40s to about 50 this morning about the same as yesterday. this afternoon will be mild. it will be seasonal and not nearly as warm as it was yestda