- ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program call or visit this could be a potential model for others to replicate. >> the line gets longer by the day. 100s in san mateo county wait for a coronavirus test. and a race to find a treatment. a collaboration happen right here in the bay area. conflicting signs in the east bay. which parks are open and closed as people sheltering in place look for an outlet. >> now your health, your safety. this is abc7 news. >> and good evening. we'll begin tonight with the newest headlines from the coronavirus outbreak here in the bay area and around the state. governor gavin newsom has told the president he expects more than 56% of californian, more

than 23 million people will be infected over an eight-week period. the total of cases in california has risen to 675 with 16 deaths. napa county joins the bay area shelter order. just a few hours from now. also today, we learned a san jose reserve police officer has the virus. he is one of santa clara county's 189 reported cases. 14 new ones were reported just today. and big news from bart. the transit agency is reducing service hours because of a huge drop in ridership. starting monday, weekday service will be from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. beginning next saturday, weekend service will be reduced from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. >> more long lines of cars as people wait to get tested for the coronavirus at the san mateo event center. abc7 news reporter kris reyes is on the peninsula with more on day four of this pilot project. kris? >> good evening. well, you can see the testing site right over my shoulder. right there where the white tents are. but we wanted to give you this vantage point to show you what's

around it. a park full of families and neighborhoods. from the signs to keep your windows closed to the masked staff attending to drivers, it's yet another bizarre scene in our new coronavirus reality. you're looking at day four at one of the few drive-through covid-19 testing sites in the country, and the line getting longer by the day. >> having this test center in san mateo county be in the especially sterp of the region, this could be a potential model for others to replicate. >> this locate at the san mateo event center is an invitation only testing site, one of two in the bay area operated by verily life sciences, a subsidiary of alphabet, google's parent company. the other in san mateo county. everyone here had to answer an online questionnaire about their symptoms and travel history before driving in. about 130 people have been tested since the sites launched. 350 more are scheduled for the rest of the week. 12,000 have completed the online

screener test. on social media platforms, some in the community expressing concerns that they're not getting enough information about their new neighbor. >> make no mistake about it. the county is trying to do its best. remember, if anyone says that they have this all figured out, they're lying to you. we're trying to figure it out as we go. >> another point of confusion, these rvs. san mateo public health has confirmed that they moved 20 of them to the event center to help with temporary housing, especially those who cannot socially distance on their own. they also confirmed that two people are being housed in the rvs who needed shelter but not hospitalization. then this newsletter went out to the fiesta gardens community, a neighborhood near the site. the headline, the rvs will be housing covid-19 cases, that two people are in the rvs. all right. those rvs are over there by the

way. you can imagine the frustration. if covid-19 cases are being housed in your neighborhood you want to know. san mateo county public health telling us they cannot reveal that information because of privacy reasons. in san mateo, kris reyes for abc7 news. >> kris, thank you. san francisco is beginning to isolate homeless people and some could end up in luxury hotels. the city's human services agency has moved four homeless people who were tested for coronavirus into hotel rooms. it's now working on leasing hundreds of rooms over the next weeks for the homeless and first responders. most of the city's hotels are either closed or nearly empty. the bay area's shelter in place orders all have exceptions so people can get outside and exercise with proper social distancing, of course. but in the east bay, there have been some conflicting signs. abc7 news reporter laura anthony is live in lafayette with an update on where it's okay, laura, to be outside. >> well, hi, dan. it's a beautiful day, the first day of spring. i'm at the brionis regional

park. there is a number of people out here as we speak. this is operated by east bay regional parks. east bay mud also operating a number of parks and trails on this side of the bay. the trails have been open all along, but many of the parks did close initially. some of them are now reopening, but with strict limitations. >> it says welcome. and i know they want to welcome us. and yet i am kept outside. >> for so many people sheltering at home, the ability to get out and exercise, enjoy the fresh air is key. that's why seeing signs like these at the lafayette reservoir is especially disturbing. >> i wanted to go to the reservoir and get outside. >> how does it look? >> it looks closed. >> east bay mud has closed both its lafayette and san pablo recreation areas. the fear is those two facilities may become an attractive nuisance at a time when people are supposed to be keeping their distance.

>> we with finding that with the schools closed and people working from home, we saw a huge uptick in the number of people at those locations, and we could not meet our safe social distancing guidelines. >> it's a pretty nice trail to hike on. >> but east bay mud is keeping most of its 90 trails of hiking open and available to the public, seeking an outdoor alternative, perhaps a place to reconnect with nature. >> you kind of have to focus on what you're seeing and what is right in front of you. and it really does clear your head i think. >> earlier this week, the east bay regional park district closed all of its parks. but now the district is reopening at least some of them, like oakland's robert sibley, to allow access to trails and open space, but no buildings or bathrooms. for cyclists, though, it's not about what's open or closed. >> you need to decompress in these tough times. and yeah, this is my sanctuary.

>> now these are the signs that they put out here at this park. again, this one run by east bay regional parks telling you to maintain that six-foot social distancing to cover the coughs and the colds. now the east bay regional parks district does not require trail permits. however, east bay mud does. i can tell you east bay waif iving those permits for th foreseeable future. >> that's good to hear. laura, thanks very much. restaurants across the country are trying to find new ways just to survive. for many, that means leaning on one another. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen is live in the south bay with some of the efforts under way in that regard. chris? >> that's right. downtown campbell is normally packed with many people enjoying the night life. but as you can see, that's simply not the case right now. however, there are signs of life. this wine bar, for example, is open for business. so is the sushi spot across the street. restaurants working together to

weather the storm. many of us have been using the word tough as of late. tough times, tough everything as the bay area deals with the novel coronavirus crisis. but for businesses in downtown campbell -- >> just kind of figuring out ways we can partner tomorrow to make sure that none of us goes under in this very trying time. >> thinking outside the box could make all the difference. >> we need to be very creative in how we're going get through. this we can't just sit on the couch and wonder or hope. >> atsushi confidential, chef randy muster is now offering beer and dessert to go along with sushi take out, giving local vendors like frost brewing and the cupcake factory a chance to sell their products. >> everyone is in the same boat. we're all scared. so knowing that having a friend just reach out, it helps all of us. just thinking of other people and not just yourself is huge. >> and here you get the sense that businesses are really coming together. >> trying to let people see that

there is going to be a light at the end of the tunnel. we'll get through this together and we're doing our part to try to help out the local businesses. >> and community members are taking notice, offering whatever support they can, no takeout order too small. >> a bunch of little things add up to something substantial. it keeps people in their jobs. >> an emotional ride for many, who are now striving to maintain a sense of normalcy. >> you know, i make cupcakes. i want to bring some happiness and make people smile through this and do some celebrating at home. >> a tough journey ahead, but one that will hopefully be marked with milestones of strain. >> i've laughed. i've cried about 20 times a day over the last few days seeing how much support i'm getting from my friends. loyal customers as well as other people in the business community. >> the chamber has put together a list of businesses and restaurants that remain open during the shelter in place. we'll link to it on our website, abc7news.com. we're live in downtown campbell

tonight, i'm chris nguyen, abc7 news. >> all right, chris, thank you so much. we're going take a short break. before we do that, let's give you a live look from droneview7 over the embarcadero in san francisco. the bay area under a shelter in place order so you can see very equality all along the embarcadero, right? just a few joggers.

there are of course continued all-out efforts to find effective coronavirus treatments. today south san francisco based genentech announced the beginning of clinical trials. >> they're for an arthritis drug for patients with advanced pneumonia caused by covid-19. david louie is live with the story. david? >> and the kristen, what genentech is doing is one example of the race to find existing drugs to treat covid-19. at ucsf scientists are sharing

with others about which human cells and proteins the coronavirus targets. never have the stakes been higher. researchers and labs at ucsf's mission bay campus have been working around the clock to identify which human cells covid-19 invades and hijacks in order to survive and spread. it's estimated there are 30 trillion cells in the human body. the process is to pinpoint proteins that succumb to covid-19. by that they'll identify existing drugs that can interrupt that process. >> we sent out i think ten drugs so far, and they're testing them in the lab as we speak. >> this is the director of the qualitative biosciences institute. while his lab doesn't have examples of the coronavirus, his results are being shared with labs in new york and paris that do. some of the existing drugs being tested are fda approved to tr. t

with infections rising globally, the need to identify effective treatment has disrupted the way scientists work, traditionally operating simply in silos. thinking crisis in my opinion has brought out the best of many different scientists. they have ignored the credit that i think they've all come together in a way i've never seen before. >> collaboration will prevent duplicating efforts while accelerating the discovery of effective treatments. the technology at ucsf was developed several years ago and has been used on hiv, ebola and west nile virus. the race by this team to help covid-19 patients is narrowly focused. this is the chair of the department of cellular and molecular pharmacology at ucsf. >> everybody else is looking at a list of 20,000 proteins. we can look at a list of 200. so to pick the 200 out of 20,000 and to focus on those for these last two weeks and for the coming months. >> the food and drug administration today is also considering the use of plasma,

blood from covid-19 patients who have recovered to treat other patients. the antibodies in that plasma might help with the other patients' recoveries. live at home, david louie, abc7 news. >> thank you, david. >> now, if you owe more taxes to the irs, we actually have some good news for you tonight. >> 7 on your side's michael finney joins us now from his home as well with the very latest. michael? >> yeah, it's a little bit of a silver lining. a bit of good news. and we hope there is going to be even better news to come in just a couple of days. here's what's happening. the treasury department has extended the deadline to pay your federal taxes to july 15th. now that's a 90-day ex-stefnlgts however, norman golden of the golden gate society says there is a big catch. >> but they're still saying you have to file your return by april 15th or file an extension by april 15th, or else the deal

is off. if you don't file or return an extension, then they're going to assess penalties and interest. >> filing an extension would give you an additional six months to turn in your taxes. many taxpayers may choose to do that since some tax preparers have shut down their offices due to the coronavirus. now there is something you need to know, though. that was by their own choice and is not mandated by the shelter in place order here in the bay area since tax preparers are exempt. the treasury department may decide to push the april 15th deadline back a few more months. >> there has been pressure just today to get the treasury to extend the filing, not just of payments. and so the people don't have to file the extensions. >> now california already took the action. you have until july 14th.

let me double-check that. june 15th. i wanted to get that right, to file your taxes. the actual paperwork and to pay them. june 15th is the new date for your state taxes here in california. >> all right, michael, thank you very much. great information. >> more time is nice. thank you, michael. all right. let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. first day of spring, and it felt like it today, sandhya. >> yeah, it's milder outside, dan. springs officially starts tonight at 8:49 and even milder weather awaits the next few days. take a look at this live picture from our exploratorium camera. it is good to see blue skies mixing in. and on live doppler 7, still tracking a few showers showing up. this around pescadero ranch road. in the sierra nevada, seeing snow still falling. it is actually very good to see this from tahoe. it looks more like winter. temperatures mid 50s in san francisco, to the upper 50s in san jose. 60 degrees in gilroy. 55 in half moon bay. today's highs have been in the

upper 50s to the mid-60s. golden gate bridge camera really no breeze, and seeing some sunshine. upper 50s to petaluma. 65 in fairfield. 58 in livermore. and from our san jose 87 camera, you're seeing the puffy cumulus clouds. season changes tonight. isolated showers are expected through tomorrow, and dry and warmer conditions for saturday. rain is back sunday afternoon. so the hour-by-hour forecast, don't be surprised if this evening around 6:30, 7:00 p.m., there is one or two showers that show up. so when you're out and about, if you are taking a walk, make sure you just have that umbrella handy. and then for the rest of tonight, you get a break. tomorrow morning it's going to be a combination of fog and clouds. and tomorrow evening, you see a few more showers showing up. this is just instability showers. you have the sun heating the atmosphere and you have enough moisture in the air. so in the morning, time to bundle up. mid 30s to tupper 40s. there will be a chilly conditions with the fog around,

something you'll have to look out for. and in the afternoon, if you do have to get out to run some critical errands, definitely expect milder weather. 61 in the city. 62 is an rat. mid-60s rosemont. 65 in antioch. 64 san jose. 63 in palo alto. saturday is a little brighter. it's also warmer. you're going to see 70s inland, low 60s coastside. sunday still pretty mild for this first weekend of spring. and then monday, those temperatures begin to fall. so the accuweather seven-day forecast will go with the morning fog. a milder afternoon. certainly brightening up for your saturday along with warmer conditions. and then a weak system comes in sunday. it's going into skachlt it will bring us just enough rain to get the ground wet sunday into monday. and then another storm. that one is going to be colder for midweek. will bring us more rainy conditions. scattered showers tuesday. wet weather for wednesday. and certainly cooler by then.

so dan, until then, i think we have a little bit of a break here. >> right be nice. >> for the widespread rain. >> get outside

countless people are pitching in now to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. but here in the bay area, one tech innovator is hoping to be a force multiplier. how he is doing it. >> for medical professionals on the front line, fighting covid-19 is one challenge. finding the right armor for battle is another. some hospitals across the country are already facing shortages of critical protective gear. >> right now i have people from all over the country calling me and saying there are nurses in seattle cutting bits of plastic in conference room with scissors and duct taping them to rubber bands because they don't have face shields. >> that's when bay area robot builder and tech entrepreneur decided to jump into the fray, raising a flash army of engineer, makers and medical

sterrets. in less than a week, he's recruited 15,000 volunteers charged with a single goal, producing open source designs for those in demand items. >> all of the open source designs anybody has ever come up with, grab them, pull down plan, have medical professionals vet them as quickly as possible. >> a how to on making everything from masks to surgical gloves to hand sanitizer. and once they have those designs in hand, the idea is to distribute them free of charge to micromanufacturers everywhere. potentially unleashing a second wave of makers to knock out these items, using everything from 3-d printers to laser cutting machines. >> everybody from a guy with his garage to the table saw and a sawing machine and a printer to the factories in the u.s. who are retooling. >> other high profile tech movers like elon musk are already considering their own

plans, but with supply lines from china possibly down for months or years, a grassroots army could fill in the gap. >> because we need this. there may not be material coming from china to save the day. >> in san francisco, dion lim, abc7 news. >> all right. here is another look from droneview7 live along the embarcadero in san francisco. kristen, as we have seen all around the city and all around the bay area, things have really slowed down, thankfully. >> yeah, that's a trickle of cars, but ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ blow a kiss into the sun

♪ we need someone to lean on ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ all we needed somebody to lean on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ all we need is someone to lean on ♪

a salute to educators doing everything they can to help their students adjust to learning from home. >> melissa pixcar is in livermore. >> this is mccovey stewart, a second grade student. mccovey and her family have been adjusting to life at home since the shelter in place order on monday night. >> it's been a little bit overwhelming, how do we keep any kind of normalcy. >> serena has been doing her best to keep mccovey busy by setting time for art projects and their favorite activity zoom zoomba. >> mccovey has been a little quietly anxious. >> but thanks to her second

grade teacher who is able to bring a little bit of sunshine into mccovey's life by having a chat on facetime. >> it was such a breath of fresh air to see the instant smile on mccovey's face. >> her mother explains she has been on cloud nine since her chat with her teacher. >> she just so nice and it makes me feel really, really happy when i'm around her. >> this afternoon, i spoke aftr this teacher who wishes she could have said goodbye before the shelter in place order. >> i mate being away from my students. it makes me really sad. at this point in the year, you feel like they are your children. >> even though they are apart, she will always be available for her student, especially through facetime. >> felt it would be a good way to connect with my kids, and to have some one-on-one time with me. >> they are looking forward to going back to school. >> i hope it's over soon. i hate the idea of us being out the whole school year. >> i don't want to spend my

whole summer at home. >> in livermore, melissa pixcar, abc7 news.

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the nightime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. tonight, the number of coronavirus cases spiking in america and the dire warning just moments ago. from new york city's mayor, saying, there will be people who die who didn't need to die. tonight, the mayor saying this is going to be one of the most difficult moments in new york city's history. more than 3,600 cases in this city alone and at least 22 deaths already. the mayor calling it staggering. the toll mounting across this country tonight. the governor of california now predicting in the next eight weeks, 56% of the people in his state will have the virus. president trump tonight ordering the administration to fast-track the trial of possible treatments, including a malaria drug already being tested in some of the most severe cases. what the fda is saying tonight. this evening, thousands of americans across the country lining up for te