but still have to go to work. there's no indication on how many employees plan to take part in this sickout, and if that has the potentiallos ton the term. for now fremont, julian glover. yesterday london breed told people to prepare to shelter in place until may 1st. people should only leave house to get groceries or exercise or medical care. and the number of cases in the b bay area has now

old number. there's new deaths for a total of 48. to our north, mwe are tracking the cases in the bay area through a bell curve. you can see where we were as of last night. the curve was fair flat but we saw it take shape with a surge in cases. you can see it's obviously getting steeper. what we want to see is the line flatten out and that would mean the spread of the virus is flattening out, and so when you hear officials say flatten the curve, this is what they are talking about. we are tracking the growing number of cases across the united states. johns hopkins university reports

there's 165,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the united states, more tn 3,000 people have died. most of the casualties are in new york state and doctors say the worse is yet to come. and andrew cuomo called to health workers to come from around the country to help if they can. >> you will see it everywhere. new york is just first. >> los angeles is also seeing a spike in cases. in louisiana the governor says the state is just days away from running out of the ventilators. and yesterday the president showed off a test kit that could be done in just five minutes. governor newsom is calling on health care professionals to statewide to join the fight.

>> technicians, administrators, doctors, nurses, we are calling on you to step up and step in. >> california has created a new health core, a platform to match workers with facilities. the governor says california needs recent retirees or nursing or med students who are about to graduate to come forward and help out.>> and then here details. >> the doctor said it would be two to three days, and my first test was on the 11th and i did not get results until the 28th. >> she waited more than two weeks to find out she did not have covid-19. she did have another form of

coronavirus, called that is not the deadly one. >> to be so isolated. >> changes in parts of the e cgley i testing in the testing robotic testing lab. >> we know we have the capacity to ramp up to 1,000 a day and higher than that. >> it's a lab made up of 50 voluntary scientists from uc berkeley and uc san francisco, and they are trying to do it fast. >> this is a very important way to address the virus right now. >> if you go i for test next week, where can you go to get fast results.

those from uc berkeley say they are still finalizing that and it will be at some locations closest to them in the east bay. in the news room, jrjrjrjrjrjrjr news the order allows for mail and dmv several hotels in oakland you had will be used to house the homeless in this pandemic, and they include the radisson. four people moved insar and the e 393 available.n ord to el toet people off stree.prior to

and supportive housing and now more than ever they are our most vulnerable. >> the state is leasi hotels and partnering with other organizations to provide services like food and housekeeping. we hope you join us for a town hall on thursday. the town hall will be virtual and interactive. we will have a panel of expert contributors and real-time audience interaction. make sure you join us. local food kitchens are seeing a rise in demand at the same time corporate donations are going down. see how they are making more with less. and meet the photographers behind this that calls it smiles

from a distance. hi, everybody. let's take a look at neighborhood temperatures to start out. mostly cloudy in san francisco. you can see temperatures running from 50 to 53 degrees outside. how about other neighborhoods, especially when you head inland. it's cooler. you can see temperatures in the mid-40s in places like walnut creek and pleasanton and even i. san francisco one of the milder spots at 53 degrees. it's about 55 degrees and mostly cloudy at the toll plaza right now, and it's going to be a slight chance of a shower in the north bay, and a breeze over the bay itself. it's going to be more comfortable this afternoon. you can see temperatures hitting the mid-60s in the north bay this afternoon. in fact, from noon on we will be in the low to mid-60s. as far as the east bay goes, you are seeing increasing sunshine as we start off the

here's a look at san francisco, and you can see we start off cloudy, and then we jump up in the low 60s during the afternoon hours. we have a warmer day tomorrow, and a cooler day on the way before rain is possible this weekend. we will talk about that coming up next. thank you very much, mike. good morning, everyone. checking in on traffic here, we have clear conditions across our roads right now, and just checking my laptop, the chp log is looking good. we are going to take a live look here at walnut creek. smooth conditions across the roads, as you heard mike explaining. it's nice and clear for your ride today if you have to go in, but i expect most of us to be staying home. with that i will head to break. we will be back.

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on your 12-hour day planner. we will stay in the mid to upper 50s at the coast the remainder of the day. as we hit 60 at noon, the breezes will pick up at the coast and in the mid and upper 50s if you are going before the sets. you can see still up across the northern part of our state, not as active as yesterday. it gets less active throughout the day. eureka, a slight chance of showers there. 85 in palm springs. we have significant snow coming to tahoe and the sierra. heads up if you ride ac transit, you will see changes starting today, you will see week-day only local lines will not operate. following the lead of cities across the world san francisco is cheering for those on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis.

abc7 news was in the western addition last night. >> without grocery store clerks and health-care workers in hospitals and janitors cleaning into, ldings that to bus drivers, this would be even harder than it is right now. >> i don't think we feel that much love all the time so it's so great to have so many people behind us, and appreciative of us. >> the cheers have been echoed around the world in italy, new york, and here in the bay area. 7:00, and all you have to do if you want to be part of it, open the window and make noise for the front line workers. food kitchens that prepare meals to address hunger is

seeing higher costs because donated food has abruptly ended. many groups have to pay out of pocket for more to go boxes and hand sanitizers and mask. now they are getting more. >> to be able to have that relationship with the distributor and we can use the council to redistrict to the non-profits that will all be needing the same. >> it's still early but the hope working will help. a mom is getting a lot of help from her neighborhoods and even strangers.

>> they are the photos of our new reality. families sheltered at home, all captures by amateur photographer eeks ago she grabbed her t.st cannon camera to document life with family, her husband and four daughters. >> i wanted toves home on her c, and one day on her electric bike, she had an idea to capture her own neighbors' stay-at-home lives with her camera. it starte wriends in earin neigorho, and this weekend, and i hopped on my bike and did 13 families. >> the result was amazing. still life images of smiles from a distance. >> i can't even tell you how many families have said that it has been so exciting for them to

get dressed. >> there's even an impromptu driveway dance recital. >> it makes me feel really good and even better that other people are finding joy in it, too. >> i will send you the digital copies. >> she could be charging families big bucks for these candid close-ups, but she's not taking a dime. >> payment in smiles, and pay it forward. >> life in pictures, a snapshot of these strange times. in san rafael, cornell barnard, abc7 news. >> mike, that is really sweet. the pictures are beautiful and it's nice to see the families together making the most of this, you know. >> i agree totally. i also agree that, you know, i think the snapshot for a while there took a backseat to the video when we were all discovering social media and all that. still, a picture, you know, a

picture tells 1,000 words, and i it still works, i do, and i thank her for doing that. let's talk about what is going on in your neighborhood, and i will give you a snapshot of what to expect in the next seven days. see what i did there? temperatures in the mid-50s right now, and you can see the cloud cover over us. look at this, increasing sunshine. looks like it will be milder during the afternoon hours. the coolest mornings are ahead of us tomorrow morning, thursday morning, friday morning, and then we have cooler weather this weekend for sure, and it's just wh w g r and h much. early to tell. let's talk about temperatures today. under increasing sunshine, we have low to mid-60s from the coast and into the bay a degree afternoon, one of the warm spots. tonight you see the cooler

weather, we will have mid to upper 60s. let's talk about what is going on. here's a dry cold front. we had a few stray showers in the north bay yesterday, and they are isolated as the cold front rolls in and weakens. it will introduce us to cooler mornings and afternoons. but not today. let's look at the potential for wet weather. you can see around lake and mid seen yo counties. april starts tomorrow and it will be a brighter and milder day, and we cool down a little bit on friday and the extra clouds and chance of rain will be our coolest weather on saturday and sunday. looks like a spring seesaw, but not a huge fluctuation, just from the upper 60s to lower 60s.

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welcome back. with the extra sunshine we are back, back to average or close. we are on a degree either side, even if you look at redwood city two degrees different. just aorf caution. i know a lot of us are out walking around and the pollen is going to be high, and those are going to be the high wear that screen, the sun is getting extrd more news with kumasi. and the pandemic is landing

another blow to retail, and macy is furloughing 125,000 workers and will operate with a minimum workforce. macy's closed its doors two weeks ago, and most sales driedd up. if you placed an order with macy's, they should arrive but could be delayed. from the 7 on your side team, the coronavirus relief package includes a tax a tax a x from your ira. you can pay it back in three years there will be no penalties. so basically it's a loan to as $100,000. and then schools will stay

closed for another wildcat maso mi nrhe campus, and watching and waving from the curb. the community is coming through to help the oakland zoo from the pandemic, and there are concerns about how the zoo might be able to pay to feed the animals and the staff taking care of the animals, and the zoo received $14,000 in donations, aedn at's just within the 24 fray. t sd big thank you to everyone who donated. we love to see that. >> that is awesome. people are suffering and yet still thinking of others this time of the year. that's fantastic.

thank you, everybody. i want to talk about what will happen this weekend. we will start on friday. we want to get outside, and it seems to be raining every weekend. just like last weekend there are dry pockets when you can get outside. temperatures will be cooler, so don't put the heavy coats away just yet. as we head into saturday, most of us back into the 50s. one of our cooler days, we may get to 60 but barely 60 in places like napa, fairfield and san jose and antioch. sunday could be cooler near the coast as the breezes pick up. mid-50s there to barely a few 60s inland. after mother nature teases us with a little warmth today and tomorrow, we will try and time the rain out coming up in the next half hour. coming up next at 5:00, how you can help girl scouts that were forced to change their dat

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