stimulus package with another general -- >> what's his name? round ofoming soon fng >> i don't know his name. with mike and kari. together we are working on the >> if you find me his name, i stories that impact our team would appreciate. right here as well as you at >> the office is a bit up in the home. the coronavirus crisis. air. the inspector general of hhs we're going to get to that in a quit his job a couple days ago bit. first a look at the forecast for and is now the deputy inspector you today. meteorologist kari hall has been general who is in charge. working hard for us at home and, the study the president and kari, how is it looking today? reporter is discussing is old by coronavirus standards. it was done in the end of march we're starting out with patches of dense fog across parts of the bay area. before the peak. the situation with the acting secretary of the navy you can as we take a live look outside in san francisco still some low follow me for updates on twitter. clouds and there will be a slight chance of rain today. i'm scott mcgrew. i'll be tracking that with a and the pandemic is time line when you can expect impacting the legal system in some of those showers coming up all sorts of ways. and as we head over to mike a look at the early morning here to talk about the commute. challenges is district attorney that's right, kari. jeff rosen. you're talking about fog. d.a. rosen, thank you for being you see the yellow highlighting. with us this morning. that's where fog is registering >> it's my pleasure. there and a note >> i know your office put out a

psa on hate crimes. a moment to take a look at a short part of that. there are animals hit because of >> and if you hurt or threaten someone because of those things lighter traffic. you'll have a lot more to worry no problems all the way down to the south bay. >> reporter: good morning, lots of people are curious about this very expensive question. about than covid-19. in fact, alvin asked me about it >> thanks, mike. on twitter. on capitol hill president trump is pushing back on a does he have to pay his taxes by the april 10th deadline. report hospitals are facing a the color of their skin or where the answer varies by county. you think someone is from then critical shortage of supplies. you have attacked us all. let's start in san mateo. tracie potts is live from inside her home with the latest. >> i actually wrote down that the treasurer there just issued last part because i wanted to this letter saying san mateo is talk to you about it. i thought it was powerful to use pushing back the deadline from >> reporter: marcus, good april 10th to may 4th. morning. the attorneys in the office to the surgeon general on the talk about that. that's the first day after the "today" show echoing president once you attack one of us, you attack us all. current stay-at-home order is set to expire. trump that it's not the federal government but the states who san francisco has done the same. talk to us about increase report are primarily responsible for the treasurer there says of hate crimes since the property taxes in the city are the supplies and president now due may 4th. pandemic. trump's own administration but the bay area's remaining ic have you seen an increase in issuing a new report saying those supplies are inadequate. to the friday deadline. those report of crimes? some say they are unable to >> the states seem to be very >> we have seen hate incidences legally push back the due date happy. most of the critical needs are though they are offering a and hate crimes. selective break. being more than met. we filed a hate crime who said >> reporter: but a new health the treasurers in santa clara, department inspector general's to a vietnamese couple in a

report of up to 300 hospitals alameda, contra costa, napa, grocery store if i had an ak-47 shows their number one concern marin, solano counties i would kill you and made his is a critical shortage of indicated taxpayers directly supplies including test kits. affected by covid-19 can apply for penalty waivers or penalty president trump says that's not hand into the shape of a gun. cancellations. entirely washington's problem. those are the counties in we filed charges for hate crime yellow. you would do that after april >> states can do their own 10th. and he's in custody. testing. states are supposed to be doing >> people are scared in this if you're curious about your testing. county's due date we posted all hospitals are supposed to be doing testing. situation and there's no reason do you understand that? we're the federal government. nine treasurer's policies plus listen, we're the federal for anything like this. once the charges are filed, what links to their website in case government. we're not supposed to stand on policies and deadlines change.c. kind of penalties are we talking street corners doing testing. >> we are nowhere near the level just go to the main menu and of testing we need to get. about here? then click responds. >> for a misdemeanor hate crime, >> reporter: with nearly 2 million coronavirus tests done jail time. so far the nation's death rate one of the things that is so and a good morning to you. interesting is a judge is you're watching the third hour is climbing. of "today in the bay." now topping 10,000. encouraged to sentence someone thanks so much for joining us. i'm marcus washington. new york is seeing a slowdown but the nation's top infectious to educational classes, to learn and i'm laura garcia. disease expert questions whether lots to cover including the normal will ever look the same. about why people are the way surgeon general talking about the coronavirus, catching a lot they are as well as they're >> if you want to get encouraged to volunteer for of people off guard. >> many people at all levels victims of hate crimes and often pre-coronavirus, that may never just did not expect something happen with the fact the threat for the group they victimized. like this to happen of this magnitude. is there. >> reporter: president trump said he's open to working with we're all in this together and democrats on a second stimulus the message of that psa was to this virus has humbled many of to help the economy.

>> we know already that the us. >> caught a lot of people by acceleration of the pace of this remind everyone of what our surprise as americans count virus and this assault not on values are and shared humanity 368,000 cases, nearly 11,000 the lives but the livelihood of is and say, look, if you attack american people that we must do deaths. also, there may be a second more. that, you haven't just attacked >> reporter: that, the president an asian person, you've attacked said, could include a second round of direct payments to all of us in the bay area. stimulus package with another americans struggling to make >> just to let people know if round of checks coming soon for ends meet. you experience that or even see americans. and more of those headlines that, call local authorities. ahead for you. first, kari is tracking our now what everyone wants to know forecast. is when are we going to be done >> if you see that or experience more rain in the forecast with this? that, call the police. when will it be over? the police will investigate it today? we'll see a little bit of that is still up in the air. and take a report and bring it rain today. not as much as yesterday. it's unknown. to the d.a.'s office. in fact, as we take it hour by president trump asked about the and the other reason to send out social distancing guidelines hour we're going to see some that are in place until the end a psa like that is to encourage of the month. might that be lifted. victims to report these crimes spotty showers in the north by he couldn't say. early today and the rest of the because we know hate crimes are day we'll see our rain chances marcus? 5:03 and new overnight, under reported. going down but a pop-up shower or two may move through. new concerns about boris johnson people feel a sense of shame they've been singled out and to who remains in intensive care right now. intervene and diffuse a officially no change in situation like this. johnson's condition. >> we are all in this together, he's now receiving oxygen we all have to work together to support at the same time denying prevent situations like this reports johnson is on a from happening.

ventilator. a spokesperson also says johnson does not have pneumonia. i want to talk about domestic he went to a hospital ten days after being diagnosed. violence. in the bay area more than i saw those who are victims of 3,700 cases and more than 97 domestic violence getting out of deaths. santa clara county continues to the house, going to work. be the hardest hit. there's an escape. with the shelter at home people have nowhere to go. rent suspension is certainly have you had an increase within a hot topic all around the bay the county? area. suddenly unemployed residents >> at this point we're tracking are saying they really need some domestic violence carefully and help, but it also puts landlords in a tough spot as well. it's remained consistent to where it was this time last i want to check in with "today in the bay's" kris sanchez this year. it's very concerning to us morning live from her home with because we know that in this a look at some proposals now on the table for renters and the shelter in place order it's even actual homeowners as well. more difficult for victims to s and contact the police or a >> reporter: renters could apply friend to get out. for rent forgiveness under one proposal that will go before the it's something we're very city council in san jose. concerned about and looking for ways to reach out to the i would say if people are allowed to attend these meetings in person this would be a packed community and to victims to house.

encourage them to come forward. if victims need a place to stay the city councilmembers say we have shelter beds available families that can show a and motels and hotels we can put hardship because of coronavirus should be able to waive three someone if they're in an abusive months rent. this is not delay the payment situation. this is pay no rent at all for three months. >> thank you for joining us. they say property owners can we thank you for giving us that information this morning. then recoup the money. >> you are welcome. >> laura? some really good points >> their families will not be there. able to pay that back rent and thanks so much. switching gears certainly now. we're talking about baseball. so they're having to make we're in the season or should be choices between feeding their right now. families or paying the little they can towards rent. if it weren't already strange enough times that we don't have baseball going, they're talking about starting it up again, >> reporter: they are urging the though, but without fans and city council to reconsider some of the teams and players responding in part, quote, we are deeply concerned small being 50 miles apart. housing providers will be unable how is that going to work? that's the pitch the league is to bear the cost of this new mandate and may force rental housing providers out of now considering. business if they have to absorb a source saying all 30 teams would play in arizona. three months' financial losses. we don't know how people would phoenix already has ten

have to show thatdeto qualify. facilities within a short distance allowing for a lot of this is an interesting story for later today. flexible scheduling there. let's talk about property taxes. some speculate the diamondback only san francisco and san mateo could host every day and players delayed the date payments are would be tested before every due. the new due date is may 4th, the game. they admit there's lots of hurdles to overcome. first day county offices would be open if the shelter order is lifted. having all the teams there in that immediate area would bring you may be able to pay your property taxes late without a whole new face to baseball. penalty or late fees if you live we've seen a whole new face to in santa clara, a.m. me da, this world in the last month or so. contra costa county along with let's switch gears and get a marin, sonoma, napa and solano check of the forecast with county. meteorologist kari hall. you might have heard that report how are we looking for today? from consumer investigator chris chmura earlier. it's looking better, laura. it could potentially change. we're dealing with dense fog. a live look outside in walnut some counties are saying their hands are tied because property creek and the fog is what we'll have to deal with. taxes are due by law. a lot of people head out the we'll track that for you and the door, our essential workers starting to leave this morning. rental forgiveness action. a lot of people do need help

right now, kris. about three-quarters of a mile thank you. through the tri-valley. some dense fog as we start out leaders in the south bay plan to today. discuss new housing options for we've also had this storm system that's been very close by. the homeless amade the pandemic. now it is moving away. we're not going to see as much in terms of rain for today but we still will have spotty mobile homes, recreational vehicles and tiny homes be used the system remains very close to the bay area. as temporary shelters. the state announced it was we are going to have some nice, securing thousands for the homeless to try to flatten that cool temperatures today with curve. breezy winds but then going into the same debate, today's the rest of the forecast we're going to be warming up. supervisors plan to make more available for the homeless. highs in the mid-70s and san many are staying at the moscone francisco into the upper 50s today but then we'll see our center west, but two people herece. weather warming up. about 20 others were exposed and mike, you've been tracking the is now closed for a deep morning commute and so far it's been pretty quiet. anything new popping up? cleaning. now i'll send it back to you. >> santa clara county has a new thank you. happening now for you eerie new decontamination site for first images emerging from the city of responders over on heading street at the training center love. there. new drone video showing the streets of paris abandoned

at least 11 members have tested including several famous positive for the coronavirus. landmarks normally packed with the majority of them are tourists. france has 98,000 cases and more deputies. an east bay respiratory than 8,900 deaths. we'll be right back with nbc bay therapist is giving us a glimpse area responds answering your of what her life is like right now. she works the night shift in questions about those property taxes due this friday. walnut creek and she as well as her colleagues put their lives on the line treating covid-19 patients. she says the hospital has enough ventilators right now, but that could change. >> i know we're preserving them as best we can right now. it's a fear because we don't know how long this will go on for. >> she says she worries about getting the virus but is more concerned about her family. she is isolating from them making sure they don't get infected. one san jose distillery is doing something good and it's getting the attention of mayor sam liccardo.

they shipped 440 gallons of hand sanitizer to people on the front lines. the distillery went from whiskey production to making hand sanitizer. repurposing themselves. >> everyone wanting to help out is what it's all about right now. there are times when our need to connect really matters. meteorologist kari hall is to keep customers and employees in the know. keeping us up to date. i know when i left out the to keep business moving. comcast business is prepared for times like these. building yesterday, got drenched with the rain. powered by the nation's largest gig-speed network. yeah, and then a few minutes to help give you the speed, later it's sunny again. reliability, and security you need. we've been in and out of the tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. rain. some of us did get a pretty good and a team of experts - here for you 24/7. soaking yesterday. we've always believed in the power of working together. it was great to see. now that storm system is moving away and it's still bringing in some moisture to the bay area and will bring in a slight chance of rain today. for the most part the center of that storm is moving on. so as we go into today we're still going to have some slight

rain chances but overall our trend will be for us to dry out. that means a little bit more sunshine here and there. we are going to see improving weather though all of that rain was much needed. we probably need a bit of a break. we'll see only slight rain chances between today and tomorrow. i'll have more on that as well as the weekend warm-up. and, mike, you've been tracking what's going on around the bay area. things are pretty calm. i guess that's the update, the normal flow of traffic, very light right now. i do want to talk about the lightening of our commute has had a huge impact on our transit agencies and another announcement for b.a.r.t. hoping to fix one problem but it might cause a problem for riders out there. b.a.r.t. announced they will run trains only every half hour for all of their weekday service.

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right now at 5:14 we will have a very chilly start to the day in martinez and more sunshine for us today, not as much rain. i'll be tracking where we may see spotty showers in the forecast coming up next. and good morning. a very happy tuesday. one thing you probably will not be doing is going out to any open houses. real estate agents say the

number has dropped off a cliff. buyers don't want to leave their homes and sellers don't want anybody in their homes. compass real estate did a study that showed the number of open houses in san francisco is fewer than 20 a week. enormous gains monday. the dow jumped better than 7%. the nasdaq up about the same percentage wise. futures call for another jump today, maybe 600 points. the good feeling we're seeing comes from some normalcy returning to places like china and falling infection rates in some parts of europe. that is there, this is here. things are so bad in new york airlines are cutting flights. that's down to 13. as we were saying monday, many of those flights are empty. marcus and laura, i got a note

from all state. it's reducing my car insurance bill. mine and everybody else's by about 15%. because we're not driving as much. american family insurance is doing the same. fewer miles less expense for the car insurance company. if your company hasn't contacted you yet maybe you ought to contact them because now the pressure is on. we know at least two are cutting rates. >> on my to-do list today. >> there you go. not going anywhere. thanks a lot. 5:16 this morning. something good to talk about. one group of sons in the uk paying triblt to their mom every day. she's a nurse, laura. >> that's right. i like that little accent there, marcus, as well. making sure they try to do something different every time she comes home. take a look.

jonathon lake posting this of he and his family applauding lynn lake as she returned home from work. the 25-year-old described his mom as a hero on twitter. they've also played music and done a balloon drop as she walked in the door which is really sweet. >> and well deserved, too. i love seeing that. >> applaud those health care workers. >> mom is working hard, especially the two on the screen. moms working at home as well as caring for the kids including meteorologist kari hall. you're doing it all for us. well, thank you. of course all the moms out there and dads are really having to juggle work and home school and also being around the family all of that time. we are also trying to find those opportunities to get outside, but we've had a lot of rain. let's talk about how much rain

we've measured for the bay area. since saturday when the rain started and the storm was a good one, take a look at how much rain we had at mt. umunhum over 5.25. that was pretty good. looking at mt. tamm where we had over 3 inches of rain and for the berkeley hills about 2 1/2 inches of rain. for dublin about 2.4 and then in san jose about three-quarters of an inch of rain in san francisco. so it was really good to see the showers moving through. in terms of our temperatures we have some upper 30s right now in parts of the north bay and spots like napa as well as livermore and san martinez, a very chilly start to the day. and then we have the storm system that was just over the bay area yesterday that brought all of that rain. now it continues to move away but still pulling in rain bands around that and so a chance of

some of those showers to move through as we go into this afternoon. we are going to see still some of those showers in the forecast for today and then looking at right now not a wig showers, mo that dense issues for you. as we go into the afternoon our hour by hour forecast shows as the rain clears out we'll see a few times the sun peeking out as well. we are going to keep the rain chances in there because the storm system is so close by. as we go through the rest of the forecast once again our trend will be for us to dry out and we'll also warm up. we're looking at highs that will stay in the 60s today, and then we'll start to see some 70s in the forecast for the rest of the and those 70s means sunshine, perfect weather. we still have to limit our time outside and also social distance. as we head over to mike, that fog is going to be the main

problem for drivers heading out this morning. yes, and the chp reported fog at 92 and 280, your usual suspects. so do be very careful. we've seen that cropping up on our maps in the north bay. traffic is smooth. i do want to give an update for muni. big changes for muni today start ing to run only 17 of your bus routes there. they've determined by ridership. ridership is down. more of a problem 40% of their operators are out on self-quarantine. so that's a safety issue for all of them. they've reduced the service. 17 core buses only for muni. the bay bridge toll plaza, driving into the city is not a problem as long as you have a car. we talk about that. not everybody has the same resources. back to you. >> thanks, mike. 5:20 this morning and next here on "today in the bay," maybe you're concerned about your pets and coronavirus.

we're going to talk about the new details about your animal safety. but first, take a look at this, marcus, something good. san francisco city hall lit up in purple last night honoring hospitality workers. other landmarks like sfo, chase center, moscone center will be joining in on that movement for the next two mondays. nice to see. a lot more ahead. 5:21. you're watching "today in the bay."

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5:23 on your tuesday morning. l.a. county is opening up free coronavirus testing for anyone who needs it as the cases there are actually starting to soar. 15 people died yesterday bringing the total to 147. about 6,300 people have tested positive. mayor eric garcetti said there are no longer any testing restrictions. previously the county was giving priority to those most at risk including seniors. the mayor is trying to shelter home sheltering at home advising everyone to avoid going out for any reason. >> in the last two or three days we'ven the first 23 are getting sick, and that is something to keep motivate to you stay at home. >> l.a. county has opened 13 public testing sites about half of which are in the city. it'll soon have the capacity to

test 36,000 people a week. 5:24. and in chicago african-americans are making up nearly 70% of coronavirus related deaths. mayor lori lightfoot says we are engaging communities that have traditionally been overlooked and that have suffered disinvestment and neglect for generations. new worries about the pandemic seem to pop up every day and this morning the "today" show expert vicky nguyen is answering your questions about disposable gloves. >> reporter: don't forget to use the #withyoutoday on facebook and instagram. a lot of you are asking about gloves, specifically, is it okay to reuse disposable gloves if you wash them. okay, we checked with the makers as well as health experts who say, no, disposable gloves are really designed for one-time

only use. if you're washing them you might put micro tears in them or not be properly disinfecting them. coming up on the "today" show we'll talk more about grocery stores, what can you do to get grocery delivery when so many services are booked up for weeks, you can't get a delivery slot. plus, asking people to avoid grocery stores, how do you get what you need? we're going to show you all ahead on "today." >> we will look forward to it. 5:26. pet owners this morning wondering if they can pass on the virus to their of a person to a tiger at the bronx zoo. nadya, a 4-year-old tiger, contracted the coronavirus from a symptomatic worker. nadya is expected to be okay. veterinarians say there's no evidence of human to pet transmission. >> all the leading experts in the world have said that they do not believe that animals can

share covid-19 to people. if you are sick and know you're sick with covid-19, you should use some common sense procedures. >> if you have the virus experts recommend that someone else actually take care of your animals. something good to tell you about this morning. this one out of michigan with much of the country sheltering inside animals taking over some city streets. take a look at this here this is video from grand rapids. a herd of deer roaming the empty streets -- or running. look at that. so really, apparently, everyone enjoying seeing all of this and as we're doing the social distancing, of course those animals are taking it upon themselves to take over the streets. why not? >> they're taking them back. >> much more ahead for you that morning. 6:27 right now. next the top stories we're following including working to flatten the curve. the steps we all can still take to make a greater impact.

plus, working to help small business owners. the new bay area push to help those that are currently shut down. you're watching "today in the bay."

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three months of rent forgiveness for those impacted. and on capitol hill speaker nancy pelosi says she's already working on another trillion dollar bill to help struggling americans. and a good morning to you on this tuesday morning. thanks so much for joining us here on "today in the bay." i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia along with the rest of the gang. we're all here. hey, a reminder as well, it's takeout tuesday. tuesday typically has been a chance to support some of the businesses, the restaurants, that are out there and give yourself a night off from cooking, although maybe a good night to barbecue with no rain in sight today maybe? we've seen that rain off and on for the bay area, and this storm system is still very close to us and we will have some scattered showers today but we're not going to see it as much as we did so the rain much more spotty than we've forecast

but not too bad if you're going to be out grilling today and just make sure you have a way to quickly get inside in case you get caught in one of those downpours. we'll talk more about this and some drier weather in our forecast coming up in a few minutes. mike, you're tracking the morning commute. how is it looking? it's looking as we expect, light traffic. volume means people at speed. a note, you've been talking about the fog. you see that registering on our road weather index, the yellow highlighting. chp on the peninsula shouting out in san mateo you'll find some fog and there's a new crash at 92. i don't think it's related but i'llno if it is. back to you. all right, sounds good. we'll check back with you. there's some new evidence that social distancing may be working in our state, but the governor still warns don't let your guard down. i want to check in with "today in the bay's" bob redell, also social distancing, reporting from home this morning. talk about flattening that curve. good morning, bob.

>> reporter: good morning to you, laura. the whole idea of flattening the curve we all don't get sick at once and then overwhelm the hospitals. take a look at these recent projections from the university of washington institute for health metrics and evaluation. you see the lower blue curve that represents the projected needs statewide for ventilators here in california. you can see it's well below that green line that represents the 2,000 that are available so that you see that blue curve starting to flatten that's at least in theory what they think might be going on. the need for hospital beds is the purple curve, well below the purple line that represents the roughly 27,000 beds available. the institute predicts california will peak with 70 deaths per day on april 17th, so that would be a week from this friday. and the total deaths will plateau at the start of june with just under 1,800 fatalities. again, these projections are based on the assumption we all

practice social distancing through the month of may. now yesterday we spoke with dr. sara cody, a santa clara public health officer who led the shelter in place that started march 17th making us the first region in the country to take that dramatic step. she says it's too early to give a set date when everything will reopen even though we're not at peak yet, the social distancing measures are helping. the u.s. surgeon general on the "today" show. >> i don't want to say they've hit their peak yet because sometimes places will come down and pop back up again. washington, california, kudos to the public health professionals out there who have flattened their curve. >> we're not in crisis. we're not in chaos. everyone who is going in needing medical care is getting medical care. and that's a really good thing. what you can see is the growth has slowed, so we're still growing but we're not growing as

fast. this is working. we're seeing some signs this is working. >> reporter: we also asked dr. cody do you know how many people have recovered from covid-19? she says right now they're not able to track every person who becomes infected and recovers at home or in the hospital. reporting live here in the east bay, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> all right, bob, thank you. a possible glimmer of hope in the epicenter of the virus despite new york hospitals still being overloaded this morning. the city reporting 266 new deaths bringing that total to more than 2,700. city leaders are hopeful that they are seeing a flattening of the curve and the number of deaths and new cases, but it's really still too early to know for sure. there's also more help for patients looking with more allowed on the navy's "usns comfort" hospital ship. governor cuomo is doubling the fine for not social distancing to $1,000.

about the only thing known so far about the new health corps set up a lot of people are signing up for it. governor newsom actually set up the health corps in our state last week and more than 80,000 people have since signed on. almost nothing is known yet how it will operate, how much it'll cost, and if taxpayers will end up paying for it. a semiretired radiologist says retired workers are the fit. >> because of our training we are able to function in a health care environment in ways that other people cannot. we understand isolation. we understand infectious disease almost regardless of what specialty you're in. >> the governor envisions the corps will staff 66,000 hospital rooms. it may be needed when the number of cases peak. san francisco's struggling small business owners may soon get a boost from supervisors.

the board today debated on a resolution calling for new protections to restaurants and other merchants who close their doors. it calls for the state insurance commission to grant certain exemptions. today's meeting will take place remotely using zoom as a platform. all right. taking a live look at sfo on this tuesday morning where the number of travelers continues to actually plummet. only 136,000 people were screened at the nation's airports last week and that's all coming from the tsa. a year ago there were 2 million passengers for that very same period. what a huge difference we're seeing here and that is actually a 94% decline in passenger traffic. it could really hurt the airlines as well. >> i had a friend traveling from dallas to las vegas this past sunday. he said six people were on the flight. >> are you kidding me? wow. >> yeah.

>> what's he doing going anywhere? >> well, he lives in las vegas but went to dallas early on to try to stay with family because he's lived there alone, but he had to go back to work now. that's the only reason why. >> that's the thing. exactly. we're all sheltering at home. marcus holding down the fort. did you water my plant? >> i did. i watered your plant yesterday and it says thank you. thank you, uncle marcus. >> thank you, my friend. thank you. kari, how are you doing? i'm doing good. i'm watering all of my plants and, you know, trying to take care of the backyard and all of that stuff, too. it's been a little bit easier thanks to the rain, but now we have all of these clouds rolling by and i wanted to talk about our super moon we'll see tonight. in fact it's called a pink super moon. now don't look for it to actually be pink, but it will appear larger and it's mainly because it's a little bit closer to the earth because we are now in springtime. we are closer to the earth with the moon and it'll appear about

14% larger and now they call it the pink super moon because this is the time we have certain types of some flowers that bloom so it really core relates to the bloom of flowers in springtime that will be something cool to look up for tonight right at about sunset at about 7:35. so we hopefully will have some clear skies but still some rain chances. we'll talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. heading over to mike you've been tracking something. what's been going on? you know, kari, we're looking at what's normal for folks because this situation isn't what we had originally planned for our lives, even a month ago. let's look at how we'll celebrate, though. we had so much gloom. people are finding a way in this new normal to have celebrations. i want to show first a picture from auntie denise. jocelyn is over on the left with her parents kathy and ryan.

kathy reached out to me originally, jocelyn just had her 5th birthday and we celebrated using virtual means. i met everybody in this picture in live events including jocelyn. friends and family, dana is a famous filmmaker, producer, director. she used to work with us at the station and now she's super famous and most recently had a birthday and that was a celebration. she didn't do a little birthday party but a pub crawl, something more adult, i think. now, also, folks, those interested in a survey, advanced dermatolo dermatology, they're saying during this shut-in period people are taking less care of themselves and that is an issue. one thing i noticed is talking about people not doing their hair. we're on the air. how can you not do your hair, folks? talking about having to get haircuts and maybe alterations

to our natural color. we're going to investigate that and i think i will have something you might find interesting tomorrow. you may see it at the beginning of the show. >> i think we all understand the haircut things. it's been three weeks. i go every week and this is three weeks. it doesn't look too bad on camera but i'm hurting right now. >> i would love to do that. can you imagine social distancing with clippers. >> i'd like to see that but it won't happen. all right. thanks. 5:41. returning to the field? next, the unusual pitch now being considered that may bring baseball back in a matter of weeks. the acting secretary of the navy may not be acting that way much longer. a look at that controversy coming up.

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5:44 this morning. there are more calls for the president to fire the acting secretary of the navy this morning. this is even after thomas modly apologized for what he said. right. as you know modly went aboard the u.s. aircraft carrier "theodore roosevelt" and said some tough things about that carrier's former captain over the ship's public address system. now we know what the crew thought of the captain. bay area native brett crozier, dozens of video has sprung up as the crew cheers his name in support as he disembarked from the carrier the last time. here is modly seen at an earlier press conference. he relieved crozier of command for sending out a widely read email asking essentially to take

his ship out of commission, to evacuate his sailors who face the coronavirus epidemic onboard. the navy said it's not what crozier did, it's how he did it with the email that lost him his job. the secretary of the navy now faces losing his job for his own behavior name calling the captain monday morning. by midday he release add statement saying i stand by every word i said. by monday evening reversed himself saying i don't think captain brett crozier is naive nor stupid. meantime in washington the doctors working on the coronavirus team in the white house say it will be a very long time before we return to normal even after we leave our homes. dr. anthony fauci pointed out we would not be interesting things to be normal until people were protected from the virus and that means a vaccine. the inspector general for the

department of health and human services says hospitals are having a hard time getting equipment and tests. president trump says he doesn't believe that. >> did i hear the word inspector general, really? it's wrong about it. >> it's your own government. >> wepeor