coronavirus pandemic from a lot of important angles today. we're going to start with a story that is a microcosm really of what we could all soon see all over the bay area. it's a story of two businesses on oakland's lakeshore avenue, a street lined with mostly locally owned mom and pops restaurants and services. abc7 news reporter laura anthony spent the day there. >> just basically surrender to what's happening. >> it's an ending kimberly leo never imagined, an agonizing decision imposed upon her by a pandemic to close her beloved oakland yoga studios called namaste. >> i looked at a hybrid, in-person virtual model and the expenses associated with that. just none of it pencils out. >> leo has tried to see a path forward for her 17-year-old business, one that doesn't lend itself to masks and social distancing. >> we come together in a room, and we're very close together. and obviously that's not going to happen.

>> the teachers here at least, they're dependent on how large their classes are. and they can't survive with a class that is 20% of what it used to be. >> on lakeshore avenue, even the most successful business, a restaurant with two celebrity chefs is trying to envision a future. >> i don't think anybody had pandemic in their business plan. >> tim nugent, the owner of shakewell has had to reinvent his business from fine dining to takeout, and with that lay off 70% of his staff. rather than thrive, the goal now is survival. >> i think if you stop, if you've already got boards up, you die, you don't stay alive. so people remember me, we're still here. so when that day comes, we're still alive. we're not forgotten. >> back here at namaste, owner kimberly leo takes small solace in knowing she is not alone.

>> i wish i could hug you. >> that doesn't make the goodbyes any easier. in oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. and employment rates are plummeting across california. a 42% decline in new jobs this april was reported compared to last year. tonight the i-team is digging into which industries are struggling the most. as stephanie sierra found out, there is one small silver lining in san francisco. >> it's a sign of the times, empty streets in chinatown. empty sidewalks. even empty tables inside restaurants. and if you ask brandon, owner and head chef at mr. jiu's, a michelin rated restaurant, his staffing charts are also pretty much empty. >> we have -- before we closed, we had about 55 employees here. as of now, there is about six of us. >> brandon furloughed a small fraction of the 33,000 employees in san francisco temporarily laid off since march 1. >> it's hard.'s hard.

>> abc7 analyzed data from monster.com. it showed how trends changed this april compared to last april. so far the biggest decrease in new jobs across the state is in the accommodation and food service industry, with an 81% loss. arts and entertainment comes second, down 67%. and educational services like teaching and administration positions come third, falling 62%. the only bright spot across the state is right here in the bay area. san francisco reports a 10% increase in new jobs. >> and believe it or not, some employers are hiring. >> we sat down with chris stayedleman. she is the director of nova, one of the largest work organizations in the bay area. her team helps with everything from resume writing to negotiating salary. >> we have had customers get jobs in the last month. >> the top five in demand jobs

are software developer, marketing positions, truck drivers, stock clerks and sales representatives. out of all the services your company provides, what resource has been the most resourceful to help you find work? >> a live body to talk to you on the phone, to answer your question, to tell you what steps you can take here, to give you some basic advice. >> how do you see the job market shifting here in the bay area? especially for those industries we know have been hit the hardest. >> i thin it's going to take a long time for the hospitality industry to rebound, and those folks are going to need a different skill set. but the skills they had in their prior industry are transferrable. >> a tough reality facing employers like brandon. >> if we only can seat 50% of our dining room, then it's pretty clear we can only really hire back 50% of the people. >> brace for what's to come. for more resources on how organizations like nova can help you find a job during this pandemic, head to our website,

abc7news.com. we have interactive graphs illustrating job trends across the state. stephanie sierra, abc7 news. >> all right, stephanie, thank you. working from home has risen sharply since the shelter in place orders took effect. but it hasn't increased evenly. a newly released survey found people with a six-figure salary were much more likely to be able to work from home compared to people making less. the survey from uc berkeley and tipping point community was done before the pandemic on the inequalities in the bay area. sonoma county announced it would allow more businesses to reopen tomorrow following some expanded guidelines from the state about what's allowed in phase 2. tis includes car washes, pet groomer, outdoor museums and botanical gardens. shopping malls can provide curbside pickup. we learned today marin county will move into phase 2 on monday along with san francisco and san mateo counties. alameda and contra costa county will enter phase 2 some time next week, to be announced.

in the bay area, only santa clara county has yet to determine a date. npa and sonoma and solano coins are already in phase 2. religious leaders from all over the state are calling on the governor to allow parishioners back into their churches in places of worship as part of the state's phase 2 reopening. during a news conference at oakland's gospel church, the ban on services during the coronavirus is government overreach. >> can't we reopen under the same conditions that the stores and supermarkets, marijuana clinic, tattoo parlors are opening under? >> some of the churches say they already have protocols in place, including masks, seating to keep parishioners six feet apart, and cleaning and disinfecting of pews after every service. they say they're ready to reopen may 31st, regardless of what the governor says. an attorney who was there says he will defend anyone who is arrested. in san francisco, sfmta is

going to run more muni buses starting on saturday. it's down to only core routes right now with limed capacity to ensure social distancing. all passengers must wear a mask. for the first time in more than 80 years, the annual stern grove festival in san francisco is canceled. this is video from prior years. the concerts were set to run from june to august. today horse racing resumed at golden field with approval from the health department. sky 7 is overhead. there are no fans in the stands. jockeys have to wear masks and changes have been made behind the scenes to improve social distancing. these are the first races in more than a month. governor newsom has announced that the state has gone from an operating surplus of $21.5 million to a deficit of more than $54 billion. a $75 billion swing. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow is here with how the governor says california is going to try to balance this

budget. melanie? >> dan, the governor is proposing cut, including a 10% salary cut for state employees as well as pulling back some new programs. the governor says if president donald trump signs the heroes act, cuts would be immediately halted. >> we're at a time that's simply unprecedented. >> governor newsom announcing his plans to balance a $54.3 billion deficit in light of covid-19. >> while the numbers have certainly changed, our values remain. >> those core values public education, public health, public safety, and people hit hardest by covid-19. governor newsom says existing reserves, funds, deferrals, and tax credits will hope close the budget gap. california will also pull back new programs. the remaining 26% solution will be from cuts. governor newsom is proposing a 10% pay cut for all state employees, including those in health care and public safety. other proposed cuts include $19 billion in cuts to grades k through 12.

>> it breaks my heart, because one thing i know about cuts, there is a human being behind every single number. behind every category is a dream that is either deferred, in some case a dream that is denied. >> the governor says those cuts could be avoided if president donald trump signs the heroes act, an aid package that would help states and local governments. >> these are cuts that can be triggered and eliminated with a stroke of a pen. the president of the united states with the stroke of a pen could provide support for speaker pelosi's new heroes act, and these cuts would be eliminated. >> what this is what this country needs. >> as they say, doa, right? doa. dead on arrival. >> mr. president -- >> of course, nancy pelosi knows tat, you know, obviously. >> the governor also announced today that he is projecting california unemployment will peak at 24.5%.

melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >> all right, melanie, thank you. millions of californians may be able to receive 13 weeks of additional unemployment starting on may 27th. but laurie levy of california unemployment shared details with us on abc7's getting answers newscast earlier today. >> that extension we're actually getting out a news release this afternoon with what the plan is for rolling that out. it is very complex. we just got some guidance in fact last night from the federal government in terms of how it's meant to be operating. >> that exchange happened during our weekday special called "getting answers" which you can watch both live on television and online at 3:00 p.m. abc7 news anchor kristen sze asks experts your questions every day to get answers for you in realtime. join in on facebook live, youtube live and the abc7 news app. the mayors of 11 of

california's biggest cities are asking some of the nations biggest internet companies to continue to help low-income families during the pandemic. the mayors of oakland, and san francisco were among those on the letter sent to ceos. their specific requests include extending free service for low-income families to july 31st, ecke panneding program eligibility and removing barriers to enrollment, including staff and language options in call centers. today oakland unified school district and leaders launched a major campaign to close the digital divide. they're hoping to raise $12.5 million to supply a computer and internet access to every student in oakland who needs one for years to come. this is a program that would have helped jessica ramos, an 11th grader at skyline high. >> my family did not have the internet, and i could not finish my work, which lowered my grades, and i missed some dead lines to fill out some scholarship applications. but i was lucky enough to get that back. but i wondered how many students in oakland are going through this?

>> officials estimate close to 25,000 public school students in oakland don't have their own computer, internet access or are underconnected. so far $1.8 million has been raised for this campaign. coming up next, perspective from abc7 news contributor and chronicle insider phil matier on what the bay area will look like if and when jobs come back. plus, we take you to a north bay bakery where a long line was a good sign. i'm spencer christian. our showers are winding down. we're drying out, and a warm-up is coming our way. but it will be brief. i'll have the accuweather

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unplugging and turning off devices when not in use... or closing your shades during the day. stay well and keep it golden. our major focus today is talking about the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and we're joined now by abc7 news contributor chronicle insider phil matier. phil, the governor today talked about an unemployment rate that could swell to 24.5%. we talk about it being

depression era numbers. of course many of those jobs will come back, a little bit more quickly than obviously the depression was a totally different thing. our economy failed then. this time our economy has stalled or been shut down. talk a little bit about how quickly jobs might recover and how many might not come back. >> well, i think it's important to reiterate what you said, dan, going out of the gate. it's not that the economy crashed because there was some fundamental flaw or corrosion on the underside and it collapsed like in the depression or the last recession, it's because something happened and we decided to turn it off. and the question is how quickly can we turn it back on and get things going. and it's going to depend largely on what kind of field your in. construction, for example. we've already seen a significant increase in the jobs there because we've simply allowed the projects to start working again. so people are going back to work. anybody on the bay area road sees the pickup trucks going in and out of the bay area. agriculture. it's not as if people are going to stop eating. that's going to come back.

manufacture. elon musk is opening up tesla and we'll see how that goes, but those jobs are coming back. the tough news for the bay area is we also deal with tech and we deal with tourism and convention business, and that could be tougher coming back. i mean, san francisco airport has 42,000 jobs out there, and they're at 3% right now as far as capacity of airlines coming in. how quickly does that come back? that's going to depend a lot on the rest of the world and how much money they have to spend. >> phil, that's a great point because the life's blood in some respect in san francisco particularly and the bay area, wine country and other areas is tourism. >> yeah. >> that could be potentially years before that really comes back to where it was before this happened. >> well, we've already lost six months they're expecting of convention business, dan, and tourism business as well. okay. it's not going to be a great summer. that's probably $4.5 billion. does it come back and how fast it's going to come back? it's going to come back. the question is when. san francisco and the bay area has another one. we do what we call business

service. we don't necessarily make things, but we make things for companies to do things faster and better, providing business services. are those companies that are using the apps developed here and the systems developed here going to want an upgrade this year, or are they going to say no, we're going to hold off and see how it goes. the surveys of the local businesses and the bay area businesses show that they can handle it for about a month. some say they can handle it for two months. but everybody is expecting it to be back in two months, and we'll see what it is. question a lot of it is going to be is how much disposable income is out there. granted, 25% are unemployed. but those are the filings at least. some of those people have jobs, lost hours and now can qualify for a helping hand. so we're jumping from building to building where that action character in the middle is pumping. do we hit it? if we do, how much is the tumble before we're back on our feet and running again. >> no easy answers on this. it's going to differ between differ sectors of the economy and the job market.

phil, thanks very much. you can read phil matier's columns in "the san francisco chronicle" every wednesday and sunday. thanks a lot, phil. a bakery in the north bay is symbolic of a small story perhaps telling us a great deal about larger ones. it has to do with economic ripples and how a federal payroll protection loan has restarted a small busines. here is abc7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> for any small business, a line is a good sign, an the longer the better. in this case, it also represents a promise of better times. >> i don't know any of these people, but to just be around other human beings, even with masks on. >> and so the crowd outside mh bread and butter, the owner letting customers in one at a time. >> green dot. perfect. thank you. >> in the back her husband nathan finishing gluten-free mffins. what time did you start work today? >> it got here at 2:45. >> meantime a crush of customers at the counter. if you detect energy inside, there is goo.

when coronavirus hit two months ago, this bakery had to lay off 37 employees. between yesterday and today, almost all of them came back. >> like putting people into financial hardship is never easy, and also not knowing that if we were going to survive or ever -- i'm telling my employees, oh, we'll bring you back, but i don't know if that's true. >> trying to make sure that we were open for them, that we had a business for them to come back to was really important for us. >> the return happened only after they received a payroll protection federal loan, and that in the second round. dan came back yesterday. >> it was a long time. but it went by once we found our routine. but at the beginning, i didn't think we would be out into may now. >> but they were, and now they're back, and if you believe in the symbolism of baby steps, take the return of this small business to heart. >> it feels like we might be getting back to some kind of normal at some point. >> who wouldn't stand in line for that? in san anselmo, wayne freedman, abc7 news.

>> good point. well, did you see some rain out there where you lived today? i certainly did. if i don't missed this storm, guess what? there is another one soon for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities.

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fewer people are driving because of the pandemic. this is a live look at 680 in cal nut creek. now a won't deliver its annual forecast for the memorial day weekend. last year 43 million americans traveled over memorial day weekend. aaa expects its forecast to return for memorial day of next year. so it will be quite some time before we hear anything from aaa on that. but we don't have to wait long to find out about our weather forecast. >> no, we do not. ama, spencer christian is here with more rain coming. spencer? >> that is true. but not before we have a sunnier and warmer day than the rain comes quickly after that. here is a look at live doppler

7. at the moment, we are mainly dry across the bay area, but there are some isolated showers, spotty showers, way up in the northernmost part of our viewing area. that's move along and look at current surface wind. it's breezy, but not terribly windy across the bay area right now, and it's warmer in most inland locations, especially at this hour yesterday. about 5 to 9 degrees warmer in most inland spots. here a look at current temperature readings. in san francisco 59 degrees. 67 across the bay in oakland. 69 in redwood city. san jose 68. 67 in gilroy and 61 at pacifica. on we go to other locations around the bay area. 63 in santa rosa right now. 68 petaluma. napa, 64 degrees. and upper 60s at fairfield, concord and livermore. and these are our forecast features. we'll see the possibility of a few more isolated showers tonight, but mainly in the northernmost part of the bay area. most of us will be dry. it will be sunnier and warmer tomorrow after some lingering morning fog. and the next storm arrives late

saturday, continues into early sunday and beyond. so we've got quite an impressive mid-may storm coming our way. this is our forecast animation for tonight. you can see a few patches of greenway up north around cloverdale over to ukiah. that will fizzle out quickly. before midnight, we expect conditions to be dry across the bay area, but we'll have lots of clouds gathered overnight, high and low clouds. even in the early morning hours, some of those low clouds will linger, but by midday we'll see mainly sunny skies across the bay area, and that will give us a chance to experience warmer weather. overnight lows will be generally in the low to mid-50s, and tomorrow's highs will range from low and mid-60s a the coast. that's pretty mild to upper 60s and low 70s near the bay shoreline to upper 70s to about 80 in the warmest inland locations. and as we look ahead a bit more to saturday, it will be another relatively mild today, not quite so warm as tomorrow. but we'll see a good bit of sunshine during the early day on saturday before the clouds thicken and that storm moves in,

and you'll see a drop in temperatures on sunday and a further drop on monday. give you a look at the forecast animation for the approaching storm, starting saturday evening. notice by 11:00 saturday night, we'll see rain sweeping through most of the north bay and pushing southward and eastward during the overnight hours into sunday. sunday is going to be a wet and breezy day followed by another wave of rain coming in on monday and some snow in the sierra. it will be enough instability in the atmosphere that there is a possibility of some isolated thunderstorms on sunday and monday. maybe even those storms will be accompanied by small hail stones. so bear in mind. we're going have some pretty unusual mid-may weather before things start to normalize again. so here is a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. it begins and ends with a similar conditions. sunny or warmer tomorrow and sunnier and warmer next thursday. but in between we have some stormy weather. so sunday, monday and tuesday, the storm activity coming our way ranks 1 on the abc7 news storm impact scale.

be prepared for some very unusual, unmay-like weather. dan and ama? >> but we'll take it. so yeah, we will take it. thank you, spencer. the federal government is providing billions of dollars in loans to help small businesses stay in business. next, meet too small family businesses who benefit. some bay area residents are turning their furloughs into opportunities. i'm michael finney. i'll explain how that's happening, coming up on 7 on your side. >> abc7 is partnering with iheart raid wrote to help support local businesses being hit so hard during this pandemic. just go to abc7news.com to find resources. click on support the bay. it's all right there for you. and while you're online, check out our new interactive online experience about life after covid-19. we've been talking with experts to get an idea about how things will change. it's really interesting, and you will find it all at ab

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building a were bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. [ closing bell ] >> wall street rallied back from a sharp morning drop. the dow ended the day with a 377 point gain. the nasdaq went up by 80. the s&p gained 32. also rising, american unemployment claims. nearly three million more americans filed for unemployment in the past week. that brings the total to roughly 36 million in the two months since the pandemic prompted widespread orders for people to stay at home. and businesses to shut down. most economists have forecast that the official unemployment rate could hit 18% or higher in may before potentially declining by the summer. there is some good news here, though, here in the golden state. >> that's right. the pace of unemployment claims in california is at least slowing. there were more than 32% fewer claims filed for the most recent week compared to the week

before. still, according to the u.s. department of labor, 4.2 million californians have lost their jobs over the past eight weeks. more than 21% of the state's workforce is unemployed. jobs are a big focus of today's newscast because they're a part of our efforts to build a better bay area. small businesses across the bay area are crediting a federal loan program for keeping them afloat and their employees paid during the shutdown. abc7 news reporter david louie shows us two examples. he joins us live. hi, david. >> hi, ama. many small businesses think of their employees as family. layoffs lead to a choice between paying rent or buying food. a low interest loan program has made a difference. these are some of the 49 employees at hayward's automatic controls engineering whose jobs were in jeopardy. it would have been a double whammy because her husband had already been laid off. >> they've got mortgages to pay. they've got rent to pay, they've got utility, food to put on the table.

and we're a small company. and so these are like all family members to us. >> company owner rob crowder was among the first to apply for a paycheck protection program, or ppp loan. he applied for and was loaned $7,001. that allowed him to resend layoffs. owner kathleen gonzalez and husband credit their lender for assuring them the 1% loan would come through. >> we're here. don't worry. we've got you. it's -- it's going to happen. and because i was out of my mind not knowing, you know, what to expect. payroll f two and a half months, and they're waiting to learn if the loans will be forgiven. california bank and trust says it handled nearly 8400 applications ranging from $500 to $10 million. >> over 5,000 banks participated in this with thousands and thousands of businesses.

had they not been given this loan to help run their business, i can't even begin to imagine the impact that it would have. >> the impact on field installation foreman would have been serious. he supports a family of five. now small businesses still face uncertainty, including the possibility of future interruptions. if a surge in infections leads to a second round of lockouts. we're live, david louie, abc7 news. >> all right, david, thank you. almost 75% of small businesses applied for help from the federal paycheck protection program. less than 40% actually received money, according to a survey from the u.s. census bureau. so far the program has paid out more than $530 billion in low cost loans. >> and countless people, maybe you who found themselves unemployed after the pandemic are now taking action and seeking to upgrade their skills. as part of our effort to build a better bay area, 7 on your side's michael finney takes a look at a few of the options that are out there.

and he joins us live. hi, michael. >> hey there. you know, many people that have lost their jobs are now looking around at their life and saying maybe it's time for a change. post pandemic. chris webber lost his job as a bar manager in san francisco due to the pandemic. at about the same time, fernanda deleon's employer furloughed her from her position in retail. both say they don't intend to return to their old jobs, and they're taking big steps towards new careers. >> and i've been wanting to make a career change, and this just kind of came as an opportunity to restart. >> let me go into college to able to have a major and be someone in life. >> fernanda decided to enroll in a nonprofit center for employment training in san jose to get certified as a medical assistant. adrian diaz is cte's admission adviser. >> cte, i consider it a family.

we're known for our hands-on training. >> christen rolled with an eye at becoming a salesforce administrator. this is the group's executive director. >> we provide services to everyone who needs support with job training, job placement, anything to do with a job search space. >> despite its name, the majority of students at jvs are not jewish, including chris. he was skeptical at first. >> how good could it possibly be, especially if it's free. you know, but to be honest with you, i have been blown away by the training. >> the program can be difficult to get into as classes fill up in ten minutes. on the other hand, cte admits 95 of its applicants. the 13 to $15,000 tuition for most students is supported by federal grants and student loans. fernanda hopes to minimize her loans by relying on her savings and unemployment. >> i applied for unemployment to pay my school.

i'm not able to use all the money they're giving to me. >> both jvs and cte programs can be completed in about nine months. both boast job placement rates of 70% of its graduates. >> if our students do not get a job within their career, within their specific field within six months, then, you know, we've not failed but we've -- that's where we kind of make the benchmark. >> since the pandemic, jvs has seen a shift in student needs. >> that's riley highlighting the need to double down on technology skill building, digital literacy and digital fluency. >> both chris and fernanda are looking forward to a brighter future. >> i wanted to help my family and other people. >> there is a lot of opportunity for me. >> i have links to both programs. you can check them out at abc7news.com. now as part of abc7's commitment

to building a better bay area, i hosted a virtual job fair today. it went extremely well. here is what we're doing. we're working hard to land you a job. now if you had -- we had advice strategies, actual job listing, all available today. ziprecruiter julie pollock told me there are bright spots and reasons to be hopeful. >> you know, in every crisis there are always companies that are hiring, and in this crisis in particular, there are companies that are expanding hiring precisely because this crisis has changed the way we are living our lives and has increased demand for certain goods and services. >> talk us through why you're companies and let's go through that. >> as bad as the job market is and the economy is right now -- >> well, let's try to drop that, if we can, guys. julia says one example, there we g

go. >> hey, you guys. let me say julia says one example is ecommerce, which has seen a huge jump in sales almost overnight. and now needs a lot more workers than they had before. the streaming event ended this afternoon around 5:00, and the conversation, believe me, it continues. we've linked all the information you need. all you have to do is go to our website, abc7news.com. all right. well, coming up, we're going to talk live with an economic expert from uc berkeley's school of business about unemployment and the impact to small businesses. stay tuned for that. and next, see how your smart watch could be used to detect coronavirus. we have breaking news in san francisco to tell you about right now there is a large police presence at a hotel on market and valencia street in the upper market area. that's what you're seeing here. sky 7 is over the scene at a travelodge. a source has confirmed this is one of the hotels where homeless people have been quarantined

because of the coronavirus pandemic. we will continue to have updates on the for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto is a heart failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart so it may not work as well.

entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. and with a healthier heart, there's no telling where life may take you. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. novartis thanks the heroic healthcare workers fighting covid-19.

starting tomorrow, oakland will ban all vendors, including food trucks from city parks for the rest of the month. the vending ban also covers parking areas next to parks across oakland, which includes lake merritt, and the city will prohibit all parking around lake merritt on weekends and the memorial day holiday. the city hopes this order reduces crowding. happening now, oakland mayor libby schaaf is opening plans for a new task force stemming from the pandemic. she is making the announcement during her weekly town hall, which is under way. mayor schaaf says the task force will focus on racial disparities with the virus and why some

people are more susceptible to it. she has appointed 12 member. they'll work through the end of the year and hope to have three public hearings to get input from locals who need help. what if wearable devices like fitbit or smart watches could actually help detect covid-19? as chris nguyen explains, researchers at two leading bay area universities are looking into that possibility. >> a valuable tool in the fight against the novel coronavirus could be one you already own. >> i'm a big fan of them. in fact, i'm wearing three smart watches right now, and this ring is a sensor as well. so we're very keen on this technology. >> technology that researchers say could be instrumental in telling you when you're sick, even before you're symptomatic. >> your heart rate goes up, your skin temperature can change. your blood oxygen can change without you realizing it. >> stanford medicine is now recruiting participants for a new study that aims to detect viral infects like covid-19 through data collected from wearable devices like a fit bit or an apple watch.

>> we have a dashboard that calebs all the information and will relay these warning back to people. >> and they're not the only ones looking into how these devices can play a valuable role. >> hey, my ring told me i'm feeling sick. >> san francisco based ora health is sponsoring to study whether data collected by its wearable ring can help build an algorithm to help identify covid-1919 onset, progression and recovery. more than 40,000 people are in the study, including 3,000 frontline health care workers who have already been provided with the ring, which can track one's pulse, movement and temperature. >> we're seeing lots of different efforts, lots of different companies and technology help come together to better protect people. and we couldn't be more proud to be participating in that right now. >> as for the stanford project, researchers are hoping to fine-tune their algorithms over the next two weeks with the gel of making the program live by

the summer. >> the next steps are to roll it out to everyone if we can, literally get it out to millions of people and try and alert them when we think they're getting ill before they realize it. >> in silicon valley, chris nguyen, abc7 news. >> all right. we have a couple of dry days in the forecast before the next storm arrives.

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as you well know, the pandemic is having a massive impact on the economy, and that's one of four areas we are focusing on in our efforts to build a better bay area. and joining me live is jim wilcox of uc berkeley's haas school of business, a former fed economist who also served on george h.w. bush's council of economic advisers. thanks for coming on. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> if you were to advice this president about the economic conditions to come, what would you tell president trump? >> i would tell him that both speed counts and size counts.

what we need in addition to some of the terrific program we've already enacted is in effect more of the same. we need to help not only some of the workers and businesses that have been troubled, but also parts of the health system and frankly, our state and local governments could use some more help. and the sooner we get the next legislation enacted so that people are confident that there will be more help on the way, the better off we will all be. >> yeah, there is another massive package being discussed right now. jim, how can the federal government afford all of this? >> it is expensive, but we can afford it. fortunately, we're a big strong economy. we have some troubles right now, but in fact we can in fact borrow enough to get us through this. and, in fact, a lot of these programs really should be viewed as investments, because the more

that we can help people sooner, the more businesses that we can keep alive and operating later this year, the better off we will all be. >> all right, jim, one of your areas of expertise, and there are many, are small business and small business lending. let's talk about those mom and pops for just a moment. certainly in the bay area, and to some degree around the country, but it's so expensive to do business, and many of them were barely surviving when the economy was booming in terms of paying their lease payments and their labor costs. how many businesses -- not a specific number, but how many businesses do you think will not be able to survive this and will never come back? >> well, it's going to be very tough sledding through much of the summer for a lot of these small businesses. fortunately, the ppp program that was passed does provide hundreds of billions of dollars of support for these small businesses. and i'm hoping that all the

small businesses that would find such a program useful will really try to take advantage of it, because there is still billions left to be available for these small businesses. >> okay, jim. >> but it will be -- >> before we go, jim, very quickly, this is a great learning opportunity for your students, whom i'm sure you're working with online. what are you telling your business students what we're watching? >> well, i'm telling them that this is something that none of us have ever seen before. we don't have it in textbooks. we don't have it in the data. we don't have it in our memories. we've never seen anything like this, and so we try to look for a close analogies, but i also try to tell them that there's plenty of reasons for hope, and perhaps especially in california. >> all right. on that positive note, we appreciate very much, jim. thank you so much for coming on. jim wilcox, professor at uc berkeley's haas school of business. be well. stay safe. great to have you on the

program. let's switch things over and talk to spencer christian, because we saw a little bit of rain pass through. and spencer, more is coming. >> that is true, dan. we have a little bit of lingering spotty shower activity way up in the northernmost part of our viewing area right now, as you can see on live doppler 7. we have a mainly dry night. overnight lows in the low 50s for the most part. tomorrow, after some lingering morning fog we get a bright, manly sunny day in the afternoon, and highs will range from mid-60s a the coast to low 70s at some bayside locations, to upper 70s inland, maybe even 80 degrees at a couple of inland spots. but then we get our next storm. you mention rain coming in. we're going get quite a bit of it. here is our forecast animation starting late saturday night. it will be raining by late saturday night up in the north farther south. it's certainly going to sweep southward and eastward overnight sunday. a wet, breezy day on sunday and another wet, rainy day on monday with colder air coming in. the atmosphere is going to be unstable. we might even see a thunderstorm

or two monday or tuesday. there will be snow in the sierra. and finally this storm will wind down late tuesday night. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast on sunday, monday and tuesday, we are ranking this storm number level 1 on the abc7 storm impact scale. and then we get some clearing and some warming up late next week. dan and ama? >> okay, spencer, thanks very much. all right. time to turn to sports. larry is talking with some big names about what they're doing during this shelter in place. larry? >> yeah, we've got an exclusive chat with sharks captain logan couture. how is he hoping with the season in limbo? reading. and you're not going to believe how many california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours.

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captain logan couture told us he will be on a conference call tomorrow getting briefed on the league's plans to try to finish the hockey season. a guest today on our with authority podcast. long-time shark working out every day. we talked about his passion for reading. would you believe 40 to 60 books per season? his painerance as well after having teeth knocked out repeatedly, an his favorite football team. that's all on the pod. but first, what about this season, currently in limbo? >> for me, i see both sides. i see the point in saying what are we doing here if we're going through all this to play six, seven, eight games, right? but at the same time, i also say it would be nice to get a camp in the middle of summer, to get playing hockey again, to really break it up. because if there is no hockey and if the next season doesn't start until december, we're look at a massive break. that's a long time to be away from the game. i do want to -- i wish we'd be playing right now. but unfortunately, that's not realistic. >> what have you been doing to pass the time? i've seen the book club posts.

that's a really cool thing i'm sure is passing a lot of time. i've seen the haircut situations. we're all cutting our own hair too. we were joking about that before the show started. what have you been doing to get through everything staying at home? >> the same as everyone, reading, watching tv, movies. i wake up, try and get into a routine. i wake up early in the morning and get a workout in. i've got a peloton bike that i was able to get at the early stages of this quarantine, and i've got some weights and i'm able the work out. and then just some time on the couch, some time in my backyard. that's basically it. >> casey pratt with the cameo there on the podcast. is the risk worth the reward? tampa bay seas bake snell saays no. he says the cut they're proposing is not fair because the players are the one risking coming down with coronavirus. >> the risk is way the hell higher and the amount of money i

make is lower. why would i think about doing that? i'm just saying, man, it doesn't make sense is for me to lose all of that money and go play and then be on lockdown, not around my family, not around the people i love, and get paid way the hell less and then the risk of injury runs every time i step on the field. it's just not worth it. it's not. i love baseball to death. it's just not worth it. >> wow. we'll see how this plays out. time for abc7 call my play. your videos, my narration. voila, you're on tv. here is oliver from walnut creek. >> 8-year-old oliver broadbeck is a line drive machine with sister annabelle watching, oliver rips pitch after pitch after pitch. oh, look out, dad. free facials coming your way. to steal a line from oliver, please, sir, i want some more. oliver, fancy footwork, shoots and scores. hey oliver, we just called your

play on abc7. send me your videos. use the #abc7callmyplay so we can put you on tv. oliver's dad came very close to having logan couture's gum line. be careful, dad. and we finish with best wishes for art house, 73 years old. he is in the icu in houston, battling coronavirus. a lot of a's fans remember art how, and we all wish him well at this time. dan, ama? >> absolutely we do. thank you so much. i'm amanda del castillo. open air dining. that's the hope for restaurants and retailers post pandemic. which bay area cities are considering and the concern. that story at 11:00. and napa county says it's ready for more business reopenings. what that could mean for wineries and tasting rooms. and coming up tonight on abc7 at 8:00, who wants to be a millionaire followed by station 19 at 9:00, and the series

finale, end of the road of how to get away with murder. that's at 10:00. and stay with us for abc7 news at 11:00. >> and "jimmy kimmel live!" comes on at 11:35. abc's "nightline" airs after at 12:05 a.m. that is it for this edition of abc7 news. look for news any time on the abc7 news app. thanks for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. for all of here, we appreciate your time and hope

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