>> newly unemployed americans have lost health insurance. what you can do to regain coverage here in california. abc 7 news starts right now. >> building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. more bay area counties are gearing up to formally enter phase two next week with businesses open for curb side pick up. >> i am excited to announce some good news for a change. >> 18 counties have been approved by the state to move faster through phase two opening dine in restaurants and schools but with modifications. >> this is a dynamic process. we hope in the next days, weeks, not just months to continue to see. >> governor newsom revised budget tomorrow. he is promising it balances variouses demands now facing the state. >> focusing on coronavirus mitigation, trying to do our best to suppress the spread at

the same time. we've got to mitigate and suppress these fires as we move into fire season. good evening. it is welcomed news certainly for a lot of people in the bay area. three counties are about to break off from the region's strict stay-at-home orders. >> on monday, marin, san francisco, and san mateo counties will be easing into stage two. amanda dell castillo explains what's to come. >> reporter: william fields is talking about the board game pandemic, ironic since the covid-19 pandemic has been far from anything fun. business is down 93% because of the virus. staff was back wednesday but fields says it still isn't business as usual. >> it's one of the biggest days. >> monday could bring more customers as san mateo joins marin and san francisco countys in branching off from the strict stay-at-home order, easing into

stage two with the rest of the california. >>er with going to start pick up. but we'll keep our door closed. i have signs that they can give us a call when they're outside. >> air lollipop can't wait. new orders will allow orders for curb side. >> graduation is one of our busiest season. it's great news. we're just taking precaution. >> reporter: logistics in manufacturing and other businesses can open with modifications. david can pa says it's time. >> if we see a surge, we may have to take that step back. but if we see that people are social distancing, they're wearing masks, and it's working, then we're able to look at the next progression. >> reporter: a big change from the strict six-county collective order that has kept all of the bay area sheltering in place. >> everyone thinks that they have answers and solutions. we're all learning.

so, let's contrast what we're doing to the state of georgia or other states. some of them are just opening. and so we're trying to take a responsible approach. >> reporter: in daly city, amanda dell ka ti amanda dell castillo. >> what about the rest of the bay area? alameda county plans to reopen next week. contra costa county is considering next week, and santa clara county has no time line. it is the question weighing heavily tonight on parents, teachers, and students. what will cool look like in the fall? education is one of the four pillars of promises we've made to you to help build a better bay area out of all of this and tonight we're getting a better idea of what families can expect the next school year. j.r. stone is in the newsroom with the story. >> so many districts are out there talking about what they may do next year. palo alto unified has a blueprint of what could end up

happening. >> we are looking at about 12 to 15 students in a classroom right now. >> that from palo alto unified school district don austin who says they're looking at the possibility next year of having middle and high school students come to school two days a week and work from home the other three days. >> students come for two days, the other half come for two days, day five in our model is teacher preparation day. >> what can be done to ensure student safety during the covid-19 pandemic. >> many schools are considering the possibility of having rotated schedules each day, that there be a morning shift for some students and there be an afternoon shift for other students as a way of keeping the class sizes small. >> when we asked you about a two-day at school week for your kids, you responded with dozens of comments, many taking it a step further with concerns about

elementa elementary kids like eshawn who is in first agreed. >> most of us can't afford a daycare or someone to look after our kids. >> elementary school kids would not be included in the possible two day at-school week. >> our goal is to keep our elementary school students with us as much as physically possible. >> all goals that could change depending on what happens statewide with the virus. >> we're trying to create things that honor the social distancing requirements, whatever those may be, but don't create a system that's scary for kids. >> now, the state would have to approve a two-day in-school, three-day at-home program. this basically splits everything into two different groups and rotates them on different days. the other two options in palo alto, everyone goes back for all five or everyone stays home for all five.

dan, ama, now back to you. >> all right. j.r., thank you so much to still figure out. as unemployment is skyrocketing so too is the number of americans losingggg health insurance during the pandemic insurance more important than ever. abc 7 news reporter kate larson looked into a new study of health insurance and how unemployed californians can regain coverage. >> reporter: nearly 78 million people in the u.s. lived in a family in which someone lost a job. a new kaiser family analysis shows that employer insurance. >> i'm really stressed out. >> reporter: rebecca lives in napa and lost her job and health insurance in march. >> i have a 5-year-old.

he doesn't have any medical now either. that's really scary. >> reporter: an estimated 27 million newly unemployed workers and their dependents could lose health insurance. nearly half of those are eligible for medicaid. peter lee is the executive director of covered california which can enroll people in private plans. >> 2 1/2 times as many people signed up compared to last year. we're talking every day we're getting thousands of californians coming in and getting insurance right away. >> the study shows states that did not expand medicaid will have major gaps in coverage. california expanded to help middle class families. >> we don't have gaps in california. >> are you saying that any person in california who lost their job and therefore their private insurance can find some sort of coverage through covered california? >> absolutely with one exception. if you're undocumented immigrant you may not be eligible for financial support. >> rebecca just signed up.

her coverage begins june 1st. enrollment is open now. new information tonight. cases of coronavirus tend to be more severe for people who smoke. that's according to a ucsf study. the study says the odds of the disease reaching a severe stage are about double for smokers. one scientist says that may be reflected in covid patients needing hospital treatment. >> i think the smoking we have in the state of california because of the state's anti-smoking program is probably contributing to the fact that california is doing pretty welcome paired to a lot of other places in managing covid. >> the study did not includ ecigarette use but scientists expect that creates the same risk. new developments, california officials say 18 mainly rural northern california counties will be allowed to open for phase two. that means they can allow customers in stores and diners in restaurants.

churches, hair and nail salons, gyms, and concert venues must remain closed for now. los angeles county has reopened its famous beaches but don't count on hanging out and soaking up the sun. our sister station in los angeles talks to those grateful to enjoy the surf and sand. >> reporter: beaches in los angeles county open again. >> beautiful day, nice weather and everything. >> reporter: attracting locals cooped up inside at home for nearly two months. >> it's good to walk and change your mood. >> reporter: l.a. county the last southern california county to reopen beaches for walking, running, swimming, and surfing after closing in march due to the coronavirus pandemic. >> fantastic. we can't wait to start using the beach again because we need fresh air and it's kind of depressing to stay home all the time. >> reporter: the weather at santa monica, venice beach, or

malibu, l.a. county beaches are only for active use meaning no sitting in the sand, no group sports like beach volley ball. piers and bike paths remain closed. >> as long as everybody keeps six feet apart and the mask and everything, everything is good. >> face masks are required unless you're in the water. rodon doe beach police patrolling the area handed out face coverings to those without. >> we just ask the community to do the best they can. help us help them, and keep us out of harm's way as well. >> reporter: abc 7 news. i'm dan noyes at stanford. the first san mateo firefighter to contract coronavirus has recovered and is back on the job saving lives in a different way. and it pays to be liked. 8 local restaurants get a surprise $100,000 donation. and the special salute for

first responders and health care workers across the bay area. i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we're getting a break from the rain for now, but a stronger storm is coming. i'll let you know when. >> all that's ahead. but here's a look at what's coming up on jimmal kimmel live. >> thanks dan and ama. let's slowly lose our minds together. >> i'm sorry. there's just not enough bubbles in this thing. there we go. >> that should do it. >> yeah. that could be the

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. new developments. nick bow vis is now cooperating with the feds. he agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud. he faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine on each of two counts. investigators looked into boefs in connection with san francisco's former public works director who's starched with corruption. the first san mateo firefighter to contract coronavirus has recovered, returned to work, and is now

potentially saving lives in another way. our dan noyes first met this hero two years ago and reconnected with him today for an i-team interview. >> i first met jone during the campfire in 2018. i shared the story of how he rescued a man, about helping the animals he and his crew came across, the horses, and the little dog they rescued. i caught up with chief novelli this morning as he wrapped up a 48 hour shift, back to work after becoming the first firefighter in the county to contract coronavirus. >> tell me about that moment when you realized i've got coronavirus. >> yeah. it was about midnight. i had night sweats as if somebody took a garden hose and hosed you off. it was that severe. >> he went into quarantine. the night sweats continued with a 104 degree temperatures and episodes of shortness of breatho >> you're living it, you're

going through it, you're praying and hoping it's not your time. >> those were a tense two weeks for firefighters of station 23 and their families. >> we had worked out together, used the same equipment where folks are sweating. there's six or seven of us in a room, so i was nervous and so were they thinking they were going to get it. >> but none of the other firefighters contracted covid-19, and once he rebounded, chief novelli contacted stanford blood center to supply plasma. >> the thought is that if you collect plasma from recovered patients that contains these antibodies and give it to a patient who's currently sick, that those antibodies may be effective against the infection. >> i watched as chief novelli donated today. it took about an hour and a half. that bright yellow plasma will help treat three or four coronavirus patients here or across the country.

>> the centrifuge spins down the blood and separates the plasma component into a separate bag. >> chief novelli is ab positive, making him a universal plasma donor. so, he says every 14 days he'll be back to donate had again. >> maybe this is my calling. maybe this is why i got corona fairly early. >> reporter: his partner has not contracted coronavirus, neither did their three children. from the i-team at stanford, dan noyes, abc 7 news. warriors head coach steve kerr is an outspoken critic of president trump and now says he's providing the type of leadership we need during the pandemic. >> we need people to pull together and to ask each other to pull together, and i think that's one of the things that's demoralizing today that is just how divisive our president is. >> tonight he joined ro khanna on instagram for a discussion

about coronavirus. it's not the first time the two teamed up. they hosted a gun violence town hall. london breed is telling abc news more of the city's billionaires should be donating to the city's relief fund. >> we have to make sure they understand their social responsibility of being not only a san franciscan but someone who should be contributing to society in this way because a lot of the money that's being made is off the abacks of a lot of the folks we need to help right now. >> about 75 billionaires live in san francisco. city records show only a few have donated to the recovery fund. anyone can donate. we have a link on our website, abc7news.com. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and his wife priscilla chan have given $100,000 each to eight of their favorite restaurants. >> covid started, things were getting rough. like the first couple of days were really hard.

i was just trying to figure out what to do, so we started this idea called service meals where we take orders from the menu and distribute them to shelters and such. >> that is amazing. what a great effort. palo alto online says the other restaurants that received are in alabama toe, chef vesta. a special salute today from local first responders and health care workers. f 15 fighter jets from a fresno based air national guard squadron soared over the east bay and down into santa clara county this morning. we spotted them absolutely thrilling nurses, doctors, and other staffers.

>> i think it's really tremendous that they would pause and recognize the work that has gone on in california with health care workers. >> i've never seen a jet that close before. to see them fly that low and that slow is absolutely amazing. >> look at this great vantage point. tomorrow the u.s. air force thunderbirds will perform a similar flyover in southern california. we'll try to show you those pictures as well. we invite you to join better bay area project thanks and share your gratitude for everyone on the front lines of the covid-19 battle. use the #betterbayarea to show us how you're saying thank you and we will share their story. the battle is still very much on and they are doing heroic work. we've made great progress, but there's a lot more to do. let's turn our attention to the forecast. good skies for thefulliover today. >> a little gloomy. june gloom, not may gloom. right sandhya? >> yeah, it's more like june

gloom than may gloom, that's for sure. it felt like winter today. the temperatures were behind where they should be this time of year. we're going to see that turn around at least for a day. i want to show you a beautiful sunset. this is from emeryville. 8:11 we started to see some rays of the sun peaking through. is that gorgeous or what? it was stunning tonight. skies are pretty fair across the region. we've cleared out from the showers earlier today. in the sierra we're seeing a mix of rain and snow showers at the highest elevations. this storm system that's sending us waves of energy is still off the pacific west coast and we will see another one coming in here. it's going to be on sunday primarily going into the early next week. that's going to be a stronger storm. temperatures now in the 50s. live look from the san jose camera. areas of morning fog tomorrow. isolated showers, best chance in

the north bay tomorrow, and stronger storm coming in this weekend. we're going to keep the level one on there for tomorrow. they're going to be spotty to isolated, breezy at times, additional .1 of an inch of rain. 2:00 is when we start to see a few returns, 3:00 p.m. north and south bay, and 7:00 p.m. shower here and there. a little bit of drizzle here and there. temperatures 40s and 50s, fog in the morning. so, if you are commuting and you're an essential worker, you need to allow extra time. 68 in oakland, 73 in fairfield, san jose, 71 in palo alto, and breezy at times as we fast forward to saturday night mendocino county gets rain by 8:00 p.m. snowy in the mountains. snow level coming down as we head towards monday down to 6,000 feet. it is late in the season but we'll keep the showers going

right on through tuesday. a look at the accuweather 7 day forecast and it features a little bit of something for everyone. notice the ones on the seven day forecast, four out of the seven days we have a one. few showers tomorrow, not a big deal. friday is the break, sunshine, warmer weather. rain is developing late saturday night so we'll put the one on for sunday. cooler showery pattern going into monday and tuesday. after that, we'll dry out. ama and dan. >> sounds good, sandhya. thank you very much. coming up tomorrow on "good morning tomorrow" tracy morgan chats about the

new developments, it seems vehicle gatherings as graduation ceremonies won't be happening after all. the district sent families a letter today saying due to the size of graduating classes and restrictions of the county's car-based celebrations order, it just won't work. so, graduations will be celebrated in person whenevers that allowed. we showed you the f-15 flyover by the air national guard a few moments ago cheering for front line workers around the bay area. here's a day in the life courtesy of abc 7 news viewers.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ now abc 7 sports with larry beil. >> good evening, the 49ers will head into the season with a young but dangerous group of wide receivers although without the reliable emmanuel sanders. sanders left for new orleans leaving a void that debow samuel hopes to fill. e he's been working out in houston with adrian peterson and trent williams. >> the guy we're training with is adrian peterson and his trainer and trent williams is out here.

training with these guys is probably one of the hardest workouts i've been doing since i've been playing football. but i feel like when it's time to go back and just looking at guys like kb and all the other teammates working hard, i think we're taking advantage of the opportunity we get, able to work out, and get back when the season start. >> if not for the pandemic, the pga championship would be teeing off tomorrow at hardy park in san francisco. it's been moved to august. the pga tour plans to restart next month. event director barry deech thinks that should help brighten spirits. >> i think we're seeing that with all of golf reopening across the country. i think we're seeing it just in the reopening of the courses here in the bay area and people wanting to get outside and getting that exercise and just getting their minds off of it. so, if we're able to bring that to a global audience with the excitement of players, it's what

we're shooting for. >> tomb for tonight's edition of call my play. you know the drill. time to hit the hard word. king castro is a 10-year-old with quick hands. select. look at the up and under. where's the foul call? he's confident. this young man has some range. on the step back from deep. splash! and watch the reaction from the coaches. easy rider, we just called your play on abc 7. >> send me your video. use the #abc7callmyplay as if the gigantic spleded jason momoa isn't scary enough, he can do more than act. he can excellent at ax throwing from distance here. momoa posted the video including tremendous no-look throws -- are you serious -- right at the target. don't make

and thank you so much for joining us tonight. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. for larry and sandhya, all of us here, we appreciate your time. right now on "jimmy kimmel," bill murray. have a great night. >> announcer: today, tamron

officiates a virtual wedding. join us as this couple says "i do," plus, why celebrities like viola davis, ll cool j, and others say their marriage has lasted. we will talk with phi phil donae and his wife, marlo thomas, all next on "tamron hall." ♪ >> tamron: hello, everyone, welcome to "tamron hall" from my home. we've been talking a lot about love in this new world, i guess you can describe it, that we are living in. dating on apps, people who in the past said they would never go on a dating app, now they are on it and they are meeting new people. we talked with a couple, i thought it was so adorable, who actually had a virtual date on

zoom, she poured her a glass of wine, he poured his glass of wine, they got to know each other miles away. another favorite, a guy who had his eye on his neighbor for some time, he decided to use his drone and fly over at date request to her balcony. they went on a social distance date. imagine that, probably something we've never said in our lives, the date where we practice social distancing. in the end, we know that all you need is love but how do you sustain it during this very difficult time? how do you keep the love balance in check? i'm going to marry a couple on the show today, actually. they are starting their journey. yes, you heard me right, i went online, i got a license, and i'm not afraid to use it. i will perform the very first ever "tamron hall show" wedding. before we get to the wedding, someone i've loved for a loan