i'm eric thomas. >> and aye dion lim, wishing you a happy mother's day wherever you happen to be. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard joins us live now in san francisco with more on how families celebrated during this covid-19 pandemic. hey, cornell. >> hey, dion, mother's day definitely different this year, to say the least. no long brunches, no outs. but many families making the best of it, even if they couldn't be in the same room. >> it's your day, mom. >> greg smith and his sister are spending mother's day hanging out with their 89-year-old mom. >> happy mother's day. >> thank you. >> the balcony is as close as margaret can be these days. she is sending love and hugs from afar. >> sorry we can't be in a nice warm household. but this is a lovely place to be. >> margaret lives in vibrant park senior village in walnut creek where visitors are not allowed dow to covid-19. the last time the family was

together in the same room was christmas. >> this is surreal. but the thing is we got to be with her, which is what counts. and we'll look back on it fondly, perhaps. >> the concord police department tweeted these pictures, mother's day treat, flowers, cards and coffee for working moms on duty. >> happy mother's day. >> it's mother's day brunch to go at lb steaks on santana row in san jose. the staff happy to be busy filling phone orders for food, flowers, even chilled champagne. >> our doors are still open, and we're happy to accommodate and do everything we can to still serve our community. make everyone's mother feel special. >> the silver line is being with her husband and two sons and having an improvised brunch of takeout on the closest flat service they could find on chestnut street. it's not perfect. but she'll take it. >> we're all together. it's a really good thing.

happy mother's day to all those other mothers out there. lots of police were out here on the green. police were out here giving reminders about social distancing to folks. no citations issued. that's the good news. happy mother's day to all the moms out there, including my own mom. live in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> oh, i hope she is watching, cornell. thanks. moms we talk to say mothering is particularly hard during the pandemic. psychiatrist dr. allison meta out of san mateo says mothers face a lot of demands. >> i meet moms who are hiding in their closet to get a few minutes of quiet. i have another mom who is trying to do a very important presentation while having a sock stolen off of her foot simultaneously. >> dr. meta recommends today or really any day you wanto show your mom thanks, create an environment she can relax in. and if you still need to catch up with mom tonight, zoom is lifting their time requirements

and offering unlimited video and voice calls so you can talk to mom for as long as you'd like. if you do want to celebrate your mom online, we post this at our facebook and twitter pages. we also have a link to free e cards if you missed sending yours in the mail. governor newsom is promising more guidance this week on how restaurants may be able to reopen in the state. seated dining is included in the next part of phase 2 of newsom's reopening plan. he says more specifics will come on tuesday. >> and we'll be putting out subsequent guidelines by sector, by industry next tuesday, which will allow some more clarification, including checklists. we have a new checklist that goes through around hand washing, sanitation, thou to address the needs of customers through pickups, and how we can make the pickup and drop-off deliveries as well as pickups for customers easier. >> newsom has mentioned some ideas for the future of restaurants before, including

waiters wearing gloves or disposable menus. >> counties can continue to have stricter requirements if they want. newsom holds his weekday updates at noon, and you can watch him live on abc7 or on our app. in san francisco, nearly 60,000 people who work in the city's restaurant industry may be out of work. "san francisco chronicle" insider and abc7 news contributor phil matier is reporting that most of those jobs have either fully or partially vanished. work has also stopped for more than 16,000 hotel workers. there are job losses in the arts and entertainment sectors, along with retail and manufacturing, which includes tech jobs. that's more than 166,000 people affected. you can read phil matier's columns in "the san francisco chronicle" every wednesday and sunday. another question for local businesses, how are local wineries going to bounce back? small bay area wineries have lost 40 to 60% of sales during

the shutdown. top wine analyst rob mcmillan from napa county said wineries are going have to shift their business model, and many should think about marketing towards a younger crowd. >> i think at this point with older people sheltering in place, maybe a little less anxious to get out, you're naturally going to have that younger consumer in your tasting room. and so what i would suggest to wineries in my blog is that they think about maybe changing their tasting room. maybe we should think about surcharging, so like uber does. if it's suber busy, you raise the price. if it's not busy, you lower the price. instead of having a flat thing. >> rob says right now the average tasting fee in napa is about $45 per person. but many smaller wineries rely heavily on profits from tasting rooms and restaurants, neither of which will be reopening at full capacity soon. large wholesale wineries that

sell to supermarkets right now, they're seeing on average 60% boost in sales thanks to so many people sheltering at home. governor newsom has set out several requirements for counties that want to move faster to reopen. it includes increasing testing capacity, and no covid-19 deaths for 14 days. but some counties in northern california are plowing ahead anyway. yuba, sutter and modoc counties have allowed businesses to reopen outside of the governor's plan. dine-in restaurant, hair and nail salons are shopping malls are welcoming customers there. the governor's office has threatened to withhold federal disaster funding to those counties. >> everything that yuba and sutter counties has done has been consistent with public health and safety. i see no basis whatsoever to deprive them of federal funds that they're entitled to just like every county in the state. >> bar owners say state alcohol and bervelg control officers have paid visits to their

establishment, threatening to revoke liquor licenses. tesla ceo elon musk has plenty of take fers he decides to move out of fremont musk threatened the move after they said tesla couldn't continue making cars. the governor of utah said just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. we talk to tesla regularly and we're very engaged with bringing them to utah. to developing news now. the surfer killed in a shark attack in santa cruz county yesterday has been identified as a small business owner who hand crafted surfboards. the attack claimed the life of 26-year-old ben kelly, a resident of the santa cruz area. friends tell "the mercury news" kelly owned his own company, making boards in a watsonville fiberglass studio. the attack happened 100 yards offshore near sand dollar beach, just about five miles west of watsonville. state parks has closed the area where the attack happened until

thursday a mile north and a mile south of where kelly died. coming up on abc7 news at 6:00, airlines crippled by the coronavirus pandemic are doing their part to give back. how they're repurposing in flight meals. and i'm meteorologist drew tuma. it was a sunny mother's day afternoon out there today, but tonight the clouds make a comeback and rain returns to the forecast starting tomorrow. we'll have the timeline in the accuweather forecast ahead. plus, a beloved point reyes cafe is closing its doors after four decades.

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tomorrow. the rest of the task force remain in quarantine tonight, and andrew dembert has more. >> several trump administration officials now under quarantine following possible exposure to the coronavirus. dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, will start a modified quarantine, staying at home and working remotely while taking appropriate precautions to mitigate risks. also in self-quarantine for 14 days cdc director robert redfield and fda commissioner stephen hahn, the news coming after two confirmed cases of the coronavirus at the white house. one of the president's personal valets and the vice president's press secretary katie miller who is married to senior trump adviser stephen miller. on saturday, white house staffers were seen with masks, be up with senior military leaders, no one in the room was wearing one. the virus has taken a devastating toll on the economy. more than 20 million jobs lost last month. the highest since the great

depression. but the president's chief economic adviser trying to put a positive spin on the numbers, arguing the situation might not be permanent. >> about 80% of it was furloughs and temporary layoffs suggest strongly that the cord between the worker and the business is still intact. >> a poll shows 64% of americans say reopening now is too dangerous. but frustration is growing. states now grappling with how to get their economies reopened without sacrificing safety. >> there is evidence that when countries relax their economic controls, the virus tends to flare back up again. >> dr. ethan weiss was among 25 medical professionals returning to san francisco after volunteering in new york who found themselves on a crowded united airlines flight. he expressed concerns before boarding. >> i've been taking care of covid patients for the last two weeks, and i'm more scared about getting on the airplane on saturday than i am about walking into the hospital. >> united not commenting on why social distancing was not

implemented, but saying we've overhauled our cleaning and safety procedures and implemented a new boarding and deplaning process to promote social distancing, adding everyone was asked to wear face coverings consistent with their new policy. andrew dembert, abc7 news news, washington. ucsf doctors are getting help treating in arizona and new mexico's navajo nation. they have sent a team to new mexico. a team of seven ucsf doctors and nurses traveled to navajo nation in late april. the navajo nation president jonathan nez says the collaborative effort is helping to flatten the curve. >> i want to say thank you to the doctors without borders as well as university of california san francisco for sending their warriors to the front lines in this war against coronavirus. >> the federal government is also provided about $600 million

in relief funding to navajo nation. as the country begins to slowly reopen, air travel is still down more than 90%. so instead of throwing away meals that would otherwise go to passengers, they're being used to feed some of our community's most vulnerable. earlier this week, abc7 news was in san francisco's mission district where the latino task force held an event to distribute more than 7,000 meals. the covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected those in the mission. infection rates are higher because of overcrowded housing and many service workers are unable to work at all or can't work from home. >> now i'm living with nine people in my family, and we're living in a two-bedroom apartment. so if one person gets it out in the streets, guess what? then there is a lot -- the percentage of us getting it is higher. >> now recognizing the need instead of throwing out unused

in-flight meals, alaska airlines repurposed 12,000 pounds of food in the form of 40,000 snack boxes. >> it's part of a larger effort for us for a million meals challenge combined with repurposed food and then monetary donations. we have given back a million meals. >> united and southwest airlines have also provided meals to hunger relief efforts across the country. the station house cafe in point reyes station is shutting its doors after 46 years. in a facebook post, management said they were feeling confidence they'd make it through the pandemic after securing that emergency federal loan. but they say the lease is due to renew june 1 and can't afford the proposed rent increase. the cafe will be open for takeout until june 1. they say they are open to finding a new location for the future. coming up on abc7 news at 6:00, tonight two bay area natives give it their shot at the "american idol" top seven. we talk to one of them about the journey so far.

a basketball legend says the nba season should be canceled. plus is a baseball season on deck? the plan maj

"american idol" continues tonight with two bay area motivates in the top seven. >> abc7 sports anchor chris alvarez asked danville's grace leer what it's like to compete against francisco martin. >> francisco andri great friends. he is representing the bay area so well. it's really fun to have been climbing this competition, you know, with the two of us from the bay. ♪omeay i'll shn a star ♪ >> i love that they're rooting for each other too. tonight's episode will feature performances from the top seven contestants, all hoping to make the top five, and you can cheer on grace and francisco tonight on "american idol" at 8:00 right here on abc7. all right. time now to take a look at the

weather forecast. i it. >> there is. and there is a couple of days that we find rain on the seven-day forecast, eric. we're going say bye-bye to the heat of the past couple of days and say hello to some showers starting tomorrow. live doppler 7 along with satellite right now showing you it's a pretty clear picture for a lot of us, but you can see that cloud cover banked up right along the coastline on satellite. it's our storm that will be approaching overnight and starting to rain first thing tomorrow morning. but temperature-wise, ahead of that storm system, we're mainly in the 50, 60s. 64 in oakland. we're in 70, though, in san jose. we're at 59 in the city. 69 in napa, and livermore, 1 degree cooler at 68 degrees. so live doppler 7, alth olo cov first thing this morning. that morning overcast. it burned off for that afternoon sunshine. and now you can see those clouds moving in from the west with our next storm system. you can see it swirling throughout in the pacific. and that area of low pressure is

going to move in to northern california and drag a cold front with it as well. that cold front is what will bring the showers here to the bay area. so on the storm impact scale, we bring this back. we rank our storms from 1 to 5 to give you a better idea of what to expect with each storm. and the one arriving tomorrow and lingering into tuesday, it is a light level 1 system with light scattered showers. the north bay seeing the higher totals in terms of rainfall from a quarter to a half of an inch. outside of the north bay, there is rainfall totals really drop off pretty quickly, less than a quarter inch of rain. but still we will find showers across much of the bay area. so overnight tonight, first thing we'll fine those clouds thickening from west to east, and temperatures will drop from the mid-40s to the lower 50s over the next 12 hours. so let's time out that rain for you. future weather showing you tomorrow morning 9:00 a.m., we're finding those light showers first in sonoma county

along the coast. you can see much of the peninsula, the south bay and the east bay starting out with dry skies in the morning. and the rain, as the front slowly moves through, will really be in the north bay for the first half of the day tomorrow. it's not until tomorrow evening that the showers begin to move into the east bay, the peninsula and the south bay. and that likely occurs after 4:00. future weather will stop right here at 7:00 p.m. and it's either scattered showers moving into livermore or san jose along the peninsula as well as the santa cruz mountains. and then it's just an unsettled period as we head into tuesday. light scattered showers dotting the landscape from time to time, and some cloud cover lingering into tuesday as well. so total rainfall, what you'll find is anywhere from a quarter to a half of an inch in the north bay. and then outside of the north bay, you could really see those numbers fall off. you can see we're less than i would say a quarter of an inch outside of there. d owers with monday, ven-day tn

tuesday. we'll find brighter skies thursday and friday. but then again, rain returns to the forecast late saturday, and it looks like a rainy day next sunday. now abc7 sports with chris alvarez. >> mother's day is usually a special day around major league baseball. players wearing the pink wristbands and have the pink bats all in support of raising awareness for breast cancer. there has been no games yet in 2020, but could we be on the horizon of starting things up later this summer? according to an espn report, a return to play proposal could be put on the table as early as this week as major league baseball tries to figure out a way to open the season. the proposal highlights a season that could begin in july with games being played in home parks with no fans or in spring training combination of both. new gm scott harrison and evan longoria, they're willing to play wherever and whenever. >> we may not have a lot of choice, you know. if we can play baseball, i think all parties involved are -- have

incentives that are live here. we want to play as many games as possible. >> understanding that there are a lot of things that are bigger than baseball and what we're doing. and when they give us the go ahead, we'll be excited to get back out there. meanwhile, shaquille o'neal told usa today he thinks the nba should scrap their season. he highlighted player risks for rushing back into play-off games and says the season would have an asterisk for the champion. the nba suspended nearly two months now on march 11th when they stopped playing games. if the nba were to make a return, don't expect to see kevin durant take the court for the nets. adrian jaworski said durant is not coming back, quote, that's not happening, they're not playing it. on may 10th, 198 7 simply known as the sleepy floyd game against the showtime lakers. sc record 29 in the fourth quarter,

51 total. he had 12 field goals and 39 in the second half. both nba play-off records 39 points that was. he led the warriors to an epic comeback win 1 19-121. on this day 2019 steph curry winning the mvp for the 2015-2016 season. that made back-to-back mvp honors for curry. he became the 11th player to win the award in consecutive seasons. a tweet of a football player making this insane catch. the receiver goes up for the ball and somehow takes the ball in midair, wraps it around the defender, and catches. do not try this at home. there is a lot of injury risk factor if trying that move. guys? >> chris, you would knock all the bobble heads off the shelf behind you if you tried. >> i got to be careful where you swing your arms. >> i've seen dion make that

catch numbers of times. >> uh-huh. >> yeah. >> yeah, right. thanks, chris. well, coming up next on abc7 news at six, feeding frontline hospital workers. the positive impact being made by asian americans facing coronavirus-related discrimination. and here at abc7 we're honoring the class of 2020 who have had to forgo many milestones due to the coronavirus pandemic. coleman hays is graduating from sonoma county. coleman's mop says he works hard in the classroom and takes part in future farmers of america and plays three sports. good luck to you, coleman and congratulations. if you would like to honor a graduate, share the details on our

here is a question. have you noticed more animals roaming around? >> well, tonight on abc7 news at 11:00, big cat, coyotes and

slithering snakes. experts tell us what is really going on with what seems to be more sighings of wild animals here in the bay area. finally tonight, community groups throughout the country are spending this mother's day feeding local health care heroes. >> the group united chinese americans is teaming up with other organizations to deliver thousands of meals to hospital workers on the job today. the local chapter sent 300 hot lunches and flowers to staff at kaiser's santa clara medical center. organizers are calling this event food of love day. >> absolutely love it.

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