and that's the future we all want to see. abbvie. here. now. . families and facilities feeling like their caught in conflict. tonight, the risk of newer nursing hom exposure in nursing homes. medical supplies ready to sell at a profit. the i-team goes one on one with the man in charge of cracking down on the suspects. this shutdown is leaving special ed kids in limbo. the academic consequence could leave them vulnerable for a long time. the first steps toward a recovery. they tap key leaders to figure out a plan. and safeway shoppers unable to find produce in their stores. now we know why. >> announcer: now your health, your safety, this is abc 7 news. we'll begin tonight with

vulnerable populations reexposed. tonight the abc 7 news i-team is digging into the number of covid-19 patients released from the hospital returning back to skilled nursing facilities and the problems that can cause. good evening, thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and imam ma dates. let's get right to stephanie eera who is track the numbers. >> reporter: we just learned 78 positive covid-19 cases in san mateo county are from assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. dozens of those patients required hospitalization, likely returned back to care facilities running the risk of exposing others. that's what san mateo supervisors are working to prevent. >> permanent dying in n homes. >> reporter: this is eric love, a residet that the skilled nursing facility in burlingame. our conversation via face time as slough self-isolating in his room. according to love and a current staff member, one drents and one

health care provider tested positive for covid-19. >> we just wanted to confirm the -- >> yes, somebody will call you. >> reporter: but the facility has yet to confirm that information with the abc 7 i-team. >> there's people walking around without masks. >> love is concerned if the resident and staffer returns, other patients may be exposed. >> senior facilities very nervous about that. >> reporter: san mateo supervisor dave fine recognizes the risk that's targeting our most vulnerable populations in nursing homes, some of which don't have appropriate facilities. of the 17 skilled nursing facilities in the county, five have been chosen to accommodate covid patients from the hospital. >> is five facilities going to be enough? >> that's a good question. i've asked that question. we'll have to -- we'll have to wait and see. >> reporter: roughly 7,600 people are living in senior homes across san mateo county,

1600 of which require specialized care like love who has preexisting conditions. >> i'm really in fear for my life. >> reporter: now, i've reached out to burlingame skilled nursing for further comment but have yet to hear back. san mateo county is expected to announce those five facilities that will be allocated are to covid patients by tomorrow. live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. >> all right, stephanie. thank you. a bay area man faces felly burglary charges for allegedly stealing personal protective equipment from a nursing and health care college. fremont police arrested 35-year-old brian schulman last night after they say he burglarized the una tech college compass. he's accused of stealing more than a thousand n95 masks as well as sanitizing wipes and protective gloves. all were recovered. he was cited and released. a federal task force is cracking down on ppe hoarding and price gouging. medical i have woodrow spoke to

the head of the task force about why this type of fraud could be rampant in california. >> reporter: pallets of masks. >> enough to outfit an entire hospital. >> reporter: which is what they recently seized from a brooklyn man who was hoarding them and selling them at a premium. >> he was selling that product at approximately a 700% markup. >> reporter: u.s. attorney for the district of new jersey is leading the hoarding and price gouging task force. >> there are just despicable actors who are taking advantage of fear. and it's the most unamerican thing that i think you can do in a time when the country is clearly in pain and needs this stuff to heal. >> reporter: from the east coast to the west coast, he says there are certain places where hoarding and price gouging is likely to be more rampant. >> brooklyn, new jersey, louisiana, california, this is where the materials coming in from abroad and being picked up by a lot of these fraudsters.

>> reporter: he says others are claiming to be able to get medical supplies and looking to secure an up-front payment. that's what investigators saw in the case of an australian broker who said a supply link could produce thousands of n95 masks. several bay area hospitals planned to make the purchase before they realized something was off. >> what you learn on the back end is that no product is actually it. >> what do you want to say to the bad actors that are doing that in terms of the likelihood they will get caught and charged and prosecuted? >> the department of justice takes this very seriously. you may see dollar signs, but let me tell you something, those dollars are short dollars. you are not going 10 to rich yourself because we are going to find out about it, we are going to bring you to justice and we are going to get that money from you and returned to its rightful force. >> reporter: melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. bay area health workers have been working on a plan to ease

restrictions on the shelter-in-place order. it's going to be a while before life gets back to normal. but things like landscaping and playing golf could be reintroduced as long as social distancing is maintained. some businesses that haven't been deemed essential could reopen with certain guidelines. an infectious disease expert at stanford university says regional collaboration will be being be the key to keeping the community safe. >> hopefully we'll be able to get through the next weeks and months with the stepwise approach. and for people feeling patient and rebuilding their lives slowly but surely to what they think is their own version of normal. >> the current shelter in place order is at the time to expire in 18 days. that is may 4th. president trump announced his administration's plan to reopen the american economy, shuttered of course by the coronavirus epidemic. the 18-page plan would ease restrictions in areas with low transmission first and are broken into three phases lasting 14 days.

the first calls on employers have their employees return to work in phases and minimize nonessential travel. schools, churches, bars, gyms, and large venues follow in phase two. under the third phase, those venues just mentioned can reopen with limited social distancing. should be noted here that governors, not the president, have the final say when the stay at home orders in individual states are lifted. the president reportedly acknowledged that during his call with governors. in the midst of this pandemic, school districts continue to navigate their way through social distancing. as abc 7 news reporter explains, special education kids seem to be the most vulnerable if in these uncertain times. >> hi. >> this is matthew turlly would was diagnosed early won autism. he turned 3 years old just as the shelter in place man dade went into effect. this is the age when children with special needs transition from receiving services from the

state to getting them through a school district. >> right now the guide thans we're getti guidance that we're getting, we can resume eat valuati eat val n process when schools reopen, so that's ball. >> that means he would be in limbo for six months without an individualized education plan from his local school direct, berkeley unified. in other words, a loss of precious times. >> getting involved and having therapy at a very young age is critical and clinically shown to help improve. >> when the lockdown doorder ca, they were quick to pass senate bill 117 to provide guidance and to protect school districts granting them the right to way of waive certain requirements. now they're allowed to extend timelines. but family advocates say it's time to think out of the box. >> we could make those kids automatically eligible. >> right now, if districts are

having a hard time coming up with online instruction for their regular education students, the reality is that very little is being done for those in special education programs. parents are being left with that task. >> they'r trying to be therapists. they're trying to be friends. they're trying to be teacher to their kids. this is mentally hard while they're also trying survive. >> reporter: there are more than 700,000 special education students in california. leann, abc 7 news. fremont is now the first bay area city to require people wear a mask or a face covering when in an essential business, like a grocery store, gas station, or laundromat. that also goes for employees in those businesses and the face covering must be provided by their employer. if you're not wearing a face covering, you may be refused entrance or service in fremont. employers must also allow employees to wash their hands or use hand sanitizer at least every 30 minutes. well, we're familiar with

shortages as grocery stores, but for the past few days bay area residents have noticed a produce shortage. have you seen this? shelves at some safeways are completely empty and a lot of people are wondering why. abc 7 news reporter lauren martinez went to find out. >> reporter: this safeway in downtown san francisco has limited produce and limited entry. >> we're expecting not to find a few things. >> reporter: this couple went in with their list and came out with some of the items they wanted. >> there's zero avocados in there. >> yeah. >> no carrots, very few bell peppers. produce. >> surprisingly it were eggs. >> reporter: produce shelves are empty not only in safeway, but in brentwood and san jose. we flew over a distribution center in tracy where a worker reportedly passed away from covid-19. in a statement they said, quote, we were saddened to learn that an associate at our tracy distribution center has passed away due to complications related to covid-19.

our hearts are heavy and our thoughts are with that associate's family. in sack contrac contrac contracc governor planned to address a plan for two weeks for workers infected with covid-19. the groc esh's association is encouraging people to use grocery delivery service. joshua used to be a ride share driver, now he delivers groceries through instacart. >> produce aisles are a lot of times completely devastate rrds pasta's gone, flour's gone, sugar's on. >> they shortage is only temporary. >> we're hoping it's just temporary. >> abc 7 news. a meeting of the mayors, leaders of the bay area's biggest cities come together this afternoon. what they're saying about the coronavirus crisis next. a stanford professor and the biggest coronavirus study of its kind. it could tell us a lot about

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abc 7 news asks the mayors of the three largest bay area cities to join us today to talk about the biggest coronavirus concerns that you may have. san francisco mayor london brooed, oakland mayor and san jose mayor joined abc 7 news anchor dion lynn remotely to provide some answers and dion is in the newsroom with more on what i thought was a great discussion. >> i appreciate that very much, dan. we got so many questions on our facebook and instagram pages and covered a lot of ground. and one of the topics we discussed is how life is going to change even after the pandemic is under control. one of the many questions we received was about disaster response. what will change during large-scale events such as wildfires or what we saw with the flooding in coyote creek where 14,000 people were evacuated?

what does emergency planning look like going forward? because it's not as if people can congregate in large groupsny longer, perhaps it's like these schools, maybe they need to start segregating in some way. what would you say to that? >> open up the high school gym and make sure everybody is well fed and cared for doesn't work in that pandemic. some noncongregate shelters, prefab indicated dorm rooms that we can build quickly on a few sites, that will serve covid individuals today and homeless individuals well into the future. those are the kinds of things that we're pushing very hard on right now. >> on the topic of shelter, i asked mayor london breed about housing the homeless in hotels during the pandemic. she spoke about the tremendous logistical challenges. >> we recently had the instance where more than 100 homeless people had come down with coronavirus at one of the city's homeless shelters. moving forward does this

exacerbate perhaps the need, the urgency to move the homeless at a quicker pace? >> our social workers, our shelter workers, they are having a really hard time with helping to get their patients and the compliance of these shelters in some cases to follow some of the most basic orders that we're implementing. and on top of that, we are trying to aggressively expand our capacity with disaster service workers, people who work for the city but may work for park and rec, the library, or any other department. we have to bring them in, socially distance them, train them, and get them to take shif that we control who goes in and out of the hotel. we're controlling what's happening in the elevator. we're struggling with our challenges of getting one person at a time to use the elevator and not to crowd in on the elevator, not to go into each other's rooms. and some of the other issues that we face. >> it is complex. now, obviously we just scratched the surface of you're discussou

with three mayors and a doctor. you'll hear from more of our pan efists tonight on the news at 6:00. live in the newsroom, dion dionn we are learning more about stanford's massive research project with major league baseball. 27 of the 30 teams are giving the professor help to control of spread of coronavirus. concession workers and staff have been tested for antibodies. this will give insight into how widesps people who had minor or no symptoms and therefore a window into herd immunity. >> this is a study that is critically important to help us understand how the epidemic is moving and where we are in the epidemic. having two teams in a town where there's -- that will actually help us save quite a bit, because it's not just a city as a whole or bay area as a whole, it's parts of the country -- parts of the country will have different parts of -- different

problems. we'll be able to make much better data-driven decisions whether about when it's safe to open up in communities with studies like this. >> the professor says he hes results from the test will be made public within two weeks. up to 10,000 people will be studied. a new cdc report has revealed how the coronavirus spread from a patient to health care workers in solano county. in february, the woman was the first in the u.s. diagnosed with covid-19 stemming from an unknown source. hospital staff originally did not suspect the virus because the patient had not traveled outside the country. she ended up exposing 121 health workers, 43 were tested but only three got the disease the report found all three who tested positive had been in close contact for about two hours with the patient. two of those had no protective gear on during their interactions. now those who tested negative had shorter exposure times, about half an hour or even less than that. and they worked farther away from the patient.

keep your sweaters handy. it is definitely cooler outside. look at this great look, though, outside. abc 7 news meteorologist will be along with the forecast next. and a reminder to wax the disney family sing along at 8:00 tonight. they'll sing and dance to your favorite disney songs from their homes. all proceeds help feeding i've been involved in. communications in the media

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siky 7 was above the port of oakland as it welcomed its biggest ship over. it's 1,310 feet long out meshing it by 1,007 feet. the port says the ship's arrival is also a reassuring sign amid a decreasing cargo during the coronavirus pandemic. you can see the video -- in the video here that the skies were clear, it was a nice day outside, so let's turn things on

over to abc meteorologist. >> take a live at our mount tama pie yas picture, about 2,600 feet deep, driving the temperatures down. up to 17 degrees cooler right now in san jose compared to 24 hours ago. you can pretty much see why it's socked in across the region and we're even monitoring some thunderstorms and snow showers in the sierra. thunderstorms up in northern california, all in association with an area of low pressure spinning off the monterey county coastline. that's going to squeeze out a little drizzle during the overnight hours here in the bay area and may trigger an isolated shower tomorrow, but it's isolated at best. first thing you will notice in a minute it will be gray. but right now it's 50s, 60s for your temperatures. here's what you'll see tonight and tomorrow from our exploratory camera, pretty much

overcast skies. cooling continues through the weekend and we are looking at spotty light showers for monday morning. so the computer models are really scaling back on that monday system. now, as you look tomorrow morning, 40s, 50s, blanket of cloud cover and certainly some damp areas due to the drizzle. for the afternoon, it's going to be breezy along the coastline. those temperatures anywhere from about 57 to half moon bay, antioch. today's high temperatures, anywhere from the mid-50s to 78 degrees in fairfield if the was definitely sunnier there than here. there's a beach hazard statement up for tomorrow. 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., a higher risk of rip currents and sneaker waves along the coastline so definitely something to look out for. hopefully you're not all congregating at the beach, but if you do go out for a couple minutes of fresh air, something to watch out for. the hour-by-hour forecast, 11:00 p.m. sunday night you will notice a little bit of shower

activity beginning to develop. a little bit of that is going to be drizzle. and then monday morning for essential workers, commute time is going to include some wet streets. very scattered, very slight going into 8:00 a.m. sierra will be getting that snow. and then the system does wind down. but the snow levelsful be pretty high up in the mountains. the seven-day forecast, it's a morning gray and drizzle that will greet you tomorrow. mix of sun and clouds. the cooling continues for the weekend and then a level 1 system for monday. spotty light showers followed by sunnier and mildier pattern tuesday through thursday. but i'd call this napping weather. i'm awake. >> all right. thanks, sandy. nights are definitely different in the city these days. you're going to hear exactly how as we continue. and as we head to break, a huge bloom of poppies now in the

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