issues. looks like the crash has cleared coming up in the next report. in the north bay. back to you. better news heading into novato. >> thanks, mike. >> thanks, mike. 5:08 for you this morning. on capitol hill the and are you still looking for president is focusing on reopening the country, but toilet paper? some say good luck to you. america's top health leaders are not onboard and are issuing him but next the new hot item a stern warning. walmart says is now flying off "today in the bay's" tracie the store shelves. potts is live for us from washington this morning with a look at what both sides are saying. tracie? you may be looking for mail. the u.s. post office is in trouble and may need a bailout. >> reporter: hi, good morning, marcus. good morning, everyone. but first, don't forget well, both sides are concerned another great resource f about health and the economy and coronavirus-related news is our the president's new coronavirus newsletter. task force will be looking at you'll get all the top headlines both this week. sent in one email straight to the president wants to reopen your box. the country as of may 1st. some health experts say we are not ready yet. it's 5:08. and this morning on the "today" we'll be right back. show we have heard, you will soon hear from, the director of the cdc talking about what it's going to take to get this country to a point where we can reopen for business. >> again, central to the success of that so we stay open is to be able to do early case

identification, isolation and contact tracing, and to basically prevent the opportunity for community transmission to come back into the system. antibody testing is going to give us a good idea from a surveillance point of view of how significant the outbreak was. >> reporter: so more widespread testing critical to making sure that once the country starts to reopen and we're hearing from a lot of health and economic experts that's going to have to happen gradually based on what the virus is doing in different areas. but to make sure we don't see a resurgence. now in terms of the economic impact, lots of people waiting on that $1,200 check from washington. some of them actually went out early. people started seeing them hit their bank accounts this weekend. the rest -- or a majority of them expected to go out by wednesday f. you're on social security, later this month, that's when you're going to get

your check. and if you do not have a direct deposit number on file with the irs from this year or last year's taxes, that paper check will be mailed out starting in may. but on friday we're told their website will have a portal where you can update that information and check the status of the money that's headed your way. marcus? >> i'm sure a lot of people will be updating. thanks so much, tracie. santa cruz police are now getting national attention after handing out $7,000 in fines to people who were visiting the santa cruz area, people from fr bn there. they weren't keeping their sociand now "today in the bay's thom jensen is covering the story for us this morning. the chief had warned people about this, thom, and, boy, he really meant it. >> reporter: he really did mean it, didn't he? he took to twitter and he warned people not to come to santa cruz, not to come to the beach

community as a getaway, especially with the great weather we've been having and are requested to have the next few days. it could be a lure to go to that community. he took to twitter and he told people not to come, and then he really got a lot of attention after he posted this tweet with a picture of seven young men from fremont getting citations. good monday morning. it could cost each one of those right now at 5:11 let's head to men $1,000 each for violating concord for a look at our temperature trend. we'll start out in the low 50s this morning. the stay-at-home order. a lot of sunshine as our temperatures warm up and it will be another beautiful day. >> what's not clear to people, we'll talk about this and the severe weather outbreak for governors, public health parts of the south coming up officers, every city and county next. in the region has said, stay home. so driving over to santa cruz to grab a beer is not the thing to and good morning. a very happy monday to you. do. so they got tickets. looks like we will see some down >> reporter: now the police arrows on the market as we get chief says he's paying extra back to work on wall street. officers and more overtime to futures calling for a loss at enforce the order, and they're the open despite the fact russia keeping crowds from gathering at popular hot spots. and saudi arabia have finalized he says they've written dozens their deal to decrease oil of tickets both to residents and production. the two sides have been in a outsiders but that most people

are cooperating. battle with saudi arabia's bin nbc bay area talks to surfers and others frustrated about the stay-at-home regulations but they also agree a road trip to soliman. our oil industry suffered as santa cruz people are much and president trump intervened trying to get the two doing to flatten the curve. sides to patch things up. and speaking of flattening the curve we're going to take the next half hour a look at how you might like low oil prices, low gas prices, but wall street doesn't like it and big oil does people are doing. not like it, and it affects investments. the president tweeting he has a great job and quick action. spoken to both sides and he says it was a great deal for all. the san francisco business how are they doing now. times reports wells fargo is now we'll look in the next half hour. back out of that small business we're live in san francisco. thom jensen, "today in the bay." looking forward to seeing what that is, thom. loan arrangement, the one with the government, where the thank you. community leaders in oakland government makes the funds. want to make sure inmates small businesses go to the bank. released from custody in wells fargo says it is response to the pandemic won't withdrawing. there's worry in washington end up on the streets. about the u.s. postal service two nonprofits are about to get will run out of money, but ahead of the problem by buying president trump said he would up hotel rooms. veto a bailout if it were they'll talk about their efforts later this morning. offered. your mail carrier is carrying a grocery store workers from lot less mail. right now the postal service california will be among those that are taking part in a call owes a lot of money to its

for more safety measures. retirees. the mail service has enough they want this nationally as .s. airlines at balking at l well. "the washington post" counts more than 40 food workers who died nationally from washington's requirement that coronavirus. union members today will release new numbers on infections. there's an industry bailout. several airlines are surprised the government is asking for warrants in exchange for money. one food worker was not infected on the job. that means the right to own stock in the company. so washington would own parts of various airlines. >> kristen gillibrand plans to marcus and laura, it was not roll out a new relief plan to that long ago washington, many in washington, would have balked farmers. u.s. farmers are dumping nearly at the idea of distributing 4 million gallons of milk daily money directly to taxpayers or and smashing a surplus of millions of eggs. for the government to own pieces of private industry, but the world has really, really when it comes to worker safety changed. >> that it has. >> in a short amount of time it there are a lot of holes. seems like, too. just amazing. thanks a lot, scott. 5:13 this morning. some have stayed on the job. okay, so a lot of people have been looking for that toilet one group passed out thousands paper. walmart saying forget about that. the stores can't seem to keep for those who couldn't get them. hair care supplies on the

5:05 this morning and something good from a peninsula closed. that includes hair color high school. the students there helping products and those beard health care workers on the frontline. >> this is really nice. trimmers. i know about that one. sewing machines are becoming popular as many people are now trying to make their own they're from palo alto high protective masks. school, using a 3d printer to wow. make face shield parts. >> that is amazing. those parts then head over to a i could use a pair of scissors to cut my hair other than the sunnyvale nonprofit which office ones we have. it could be an interesting week. assembles the shield. the group has made more than 160 what are americans craving during the pandemic? face shields and their goal is cereal sales are going up. to make over 200,000. >> wow. cinnamon toast crunch and lucky >> very cool. charms are the top brands. isn't that nice? >> that is. apparently people are baking a >> that's great. lot more under self-quarantine. >> i don't want to make light of it, but they do look like hot spice maker mccormack sells wheel tracks. vanilla sales are up. i did bake over the weekend. a lot going on. >> no kidding. >> okay, mike, what's going on maybe they can repurpose it for something fun. >> making it work. over there. >> just finishing up some making it work is kari hall. breakfast chips. breakfast chips. >> were they good, though, that's the question?

a beautiful day in the north >> delicious. >> we may all come out of this a bay in the mid to upper 40s. the rest of the bay area showing little larger. >> that might be the case. low 50s. >> that's right. my next new normal may be something to help you out. our warming trend gets under >> okay. stick around for that one. way. our highs in concord reaching 74 degrees up to the mid-70s for a >> what's old is new. few spots like antioch, san jose reaching 73 degrees. we're finding what's old is new now in these times. we've all been talking about really nice weather once again. that. let's talk about something no rain. we were mentioning on friday the we'll talk more when we could possibility of a severe weather see some rain in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. outbreak and, unfortunately, we did see that pan out. i want to show some video we mike, how is that commute rolling? >> it's looking great. are getting now coming out of i want to show you the maps and texas all the way over to what to expect in the contra georgia where now we have costa county. the speed sensors at green. learned that over 16 people have died, and we have more than a to the robin williams tunnel. million people without power this morning. let's get a look because this morning it's happening and i was watching for that. louisiana's governor is now going to the city of monroe

lighter traffic flow, even just a few cars going slower will where they are saying up to 300 change our data. homes were damaged and in athy we're here to watch out for you. nofor some folks in the east ba mississippi we now learned that so many people have been killed there and officials are seeing the storms produce those powerful storms move through yesterday. so here is a look at where those storms are now. as we come back here live we are seeing the storms moving across the southeast now affecting georgia, south carolina,ast and watches in effect for those areas. and the reason why we have this very strong cold front sweeping through and it's dropping those temperatures. and so we've seen with that sharp drop in temperatures it's also bringing in that severe weather where cold air meets up with warm air and the clash of those two together are making those tornadoes spin up, so that's something we'll be watching going throughout the day. here we know our weather is very calm and we're going to see more nice weather as we go into the

next several days. looking at warmer air moving in. in fact, no storm is expected or rain anywhere across the bay area or across the region. it may not be until sunday we see the rain coming in. it doesn't look like a really high chance of rain at this point. looking at the seven-day forecast, we're going to see temperatures in the low 70s today. mid-70s tomorrow. temperatures peaking on wednesday. after that we'll cool down a few degrees but not looking at any showers coming in until about sunday for san francisco. we're going to see a warming trend with our temperatures peaking tomorrow at about 70 degrees and then cooler to the end of the week as we start to see more clouds moving in by this weekend. we'll be keeping an eye on what's happening across the south for our friends and family there and we'll have more updates throughout the morning. mike, what's happening for the

morning commute? no concern really. we have a smooth flow of traffic. i want to give a note to folks who may be spending time in berkeley or have spent time in berkeley. they might have spent too much time and gotten a parking ticket because the meter didn't allow that. if you did get a ticket the city manager says she'll consider waiving parking tickets with some conditions, of course. you have to email her, though, give your name, your citation number, a clear picture of the ticket. and i'm sure the ticket has to have been taken during the time of the shelter at home. that's what they're considering folks can't move their cars and they're doing what they're supposed to. make sure you contact the berkeley city manager for that. meanwhile, as far as traffic flow, kari, we'll look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the drive past emeryville and berkeley and throughout the east bay are fine. you see how light it is. do use caution, folks, you can drive faster but we do know that chp is doing their job as well. back to you. nks that, mike.

5:18 this morning. working on the front lines, an exclusive look inside one hospital that started preparing in december. how lessons learned by its staff during the ebola outbreak are keeping them one step ahead. but first, something good to share with you. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez sharing these photos of her family celebrating easter the weekend. i'll try to post something of my kids and how the easter bunny social distanced from us this year year. be sure to follow us. we would love to see your photos. you're watching "today in the bay." 5:19. everyone is working a little differently now.

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response. this has been on a much larger scale. >> ebola containment worked. you could keep it in one place and never let it out. that's how it works with containment. we can't link all the cases to where they >> you can hear more about what doctors are doing ahead on the "today" show at 7:00 right after "today in the bay." all right, laura, something good providing a little comfort for drive-through testing patients in palo alto. >> take a look at this. when they actually pull into one one fostanford testing site the are met by a nurse wearing protective gear. one doctor is making disposable head shots to attach to their gowns. she produced enough labels for nurses to apply a new one every time they swab test a patient and it helps to trigger some

smiling faces there as well. >> that is nice. that may add a little comfort in the trying situation. >> we have to try to look for the comfort in whatever we're doing, right? >> this is very true, laura. 5:24. one model projects coronavirus tests will peak this week. a live report on why it may be more complex than that and the new numbers showing more californians ignoring shelter at home orders. but first -- >> and we appreciate all our first responders, health care workers, our grocery workers, everyone keeping essential businesses going and keeping people healthy and safe. governor gavin newsom taking to social media thank all the frontline workers. of course this break we're taking a live look at the bay bridge toll

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may 1st, that is the date america's top doctor says president trump is focusing on when it comes to reopening businesses. and the u.s. has nearly 558,000 cases of coronavirus and 22,000 deaths. and we now have the most cases in the world. here in the bay area now five weeks into the shelter at home illnessesrising. there are about 5,000 confirmed cases. more details on these stories just ahead. and a good morning to you. thanks for starting your morning with us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. i hope you had a blessed and happy easter. now back to the workweek at least for us but the whole gang is here. good morning, kari and mike as well. hello to my good friend marcus. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, good morning. kari, you have a look at the forecast for us. a live look outside in

walnut creek. a cool start. as we look at our temperatures in the low 50s as we get ready to head out the door we'll see some sunshine. as we go into this afternoon it's going to warm up. we do have another nice day ahead. warmer than yesterday as we reach into the low to mid-70s. san francisco reaching up to 65 degrees so i'm watching a warming trend and a chance of rain later on. we'll talk more about that. mike getting out the door this morning essential workers. it looks like a pretty smooth drive. >> it is very smooth right now, kari. the essential workers keeping our lives working. i want to talk about a delay you might have if you're riding b.a.r.t. in oakland the 12th and 19th street stations and others throughout san francisco will have a couple entrances closed. you might have to use a

different entrance. the reason they're closing a few entrances they're trying to focus all of their efforts on making sure fewer entrances to keep it as clean as possible. not because of decreased ridership. they're able to do this because there's decreased ridership, so fewer entrances is not as high. keep that in mind. back to you. we'll see if that could change shortly, mike. this morning the president is really trying to focus on reopening the country. he's scheduled to meet with his coronavirus economic task force as well. "today in the bay's" tracie potts joins us live from washington this morning. tracie, the top health officials to the president are trying to exercise some caution here. >> reporter: exactly, laura. so there are two big concerns, the health of the nation and the economy, which has been hit so hard by this coronavirus. 17 million people have applied for unemployment. that is the president's focus

thh this new task force that's focusing just on the economy. health experts are concerned to make sure that the country is ready to reopen by the president's goal of may 1st. and this morning we've heard from the cdc director who is suggesting it may not be so much about when we reopen but where and how. >> we have to reopen correctly. it's going to be a step-by-step gradual process. it has to be data driven. and, as i said, i think it would be community by community, county by county. we've all sacrificed a substantial amount. >> reporter: you'll see the full interview in a short time on the "today" show. the checks everyone is waiting for, the $1,200, some of them went out this weekend. people started to see them hit

their bank accounts on saturday. the bulk are expected to go out, the government says, by wednesday. now if you're on social security, yours will be later. those will be issued at the end of the month. if you don't have direct deposit information on file with the irs, those paper checks start going out next month. by the end of this week they will have a portal online where can you update that information and check the 1259 status of your money. >> a lot of people will be want to do that. hopefully they see the paychecks soon. marcus? >> right now the bay area is one confirmed case away from reaching 5,000 cases. sonoma and marin counties are both reporting new cases. santa clara county has the most cases of covid-19 with more 1,600. and communities across the bay area have gotten good reviews for acting quicker than most this is on social distancing to flatten the curve.

are people still following the rules? "today in the bay's" thom jensen is live with the new data and what it suggests. thom, what is it saying? >> reporter: good morning, marcus this data is based solely on people's driving habits. it's from a company called unicast that is normally tracks driving, the movement of smart devices and where people are driving for businesses but in the age of covid-19 to track whether or not people are actually staying home and, remember, just a couple weeks ago using the same data communities across the bay area received top grades, straight as, because the data showed people were doing a great job of staying home. now look at the latest grades. every county from napa to santa cruz getting a c. marin county dropped to a b and california getting an average grade now of a c as people may be getting tirld of staying at

home, getting out and about with the better weather or getting complacent and think we're through this now and it's safe. health data appear to show that we are not out of this and people should continue to cut down on nonessential driving. this is not the time to let up according to health official who is are continually estimating when the peak number of cases and deaths will occur in the state. according to new data from the university of washington's institute of health metrics and evaluation an estimated 66 deaths in california on wld be a peak, that would be the most yet on any single day in california from covid-19. compare that to new york state which had nearly 800 deaths at its peak just last wednesday and, again, nearly 800 on thursday. we'll show you how one community

is trying to crack down on people violating the stay-at-home orders. what they did this weekend to show their city is not one to go to for a beach cruz getaway. that's coming up. thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> definitely stick around for that one. thank you, tom. the curve is flattening in our nation's epicenter of new yk those are some of the numbers we're finding. at the same time the death toll continues to increase. across new york nearly 99,000 cases. over 6,000 deaths. governor andrew cuomo says the number of hospitalizations is down again. cuomo announced two executive orders. the first directs employers to provide essential workers with masks at no cost. the second order in regard to expanding antibody testing. >> the associated press is tracking the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes and has counted more than 3,600, about eight times the

amount ten days ago. the numbers are likely much higher because they were never tested. a family of a 20-year-old southern california nurse's assistant is mourning her death from coronavirus. she worked at the same riverside county senior facility recently overcome by a large outbreak. her family says she had been working to get her degree in nursing and died on friday. >> it's shocking. we're speechless about it. >> her family says she called 911 with breathing problems on april 4th and died one week later. right now medical workers are racing against time to beat the spread of coronavirus. in fact, there's an interesting daily study going on right now by stanford university. with us to talk about it is the medical director of digital health at stanford dr. lawrence "rusty" hofmann.

thank you for joining us. >> good morning, laura. >> so tell me about this study. i saw it online myself and was so intrigued by it and what you can learn from it. >> right now we've only tested less than 1% of the u.s. population. we can't fight a problem we can't measure. the symptoms precede hospitalization by ten days so if we can find out who has symptoms we can predict where there will be hospital surges and monitor the stay at home orders and when they should be lifted. it's a one-minute survey that asks you simple questions how you're feeling and subsequent days five to ten seconds. >> if you're able to gather could this be used in the future as well as we start to come out of our quarantine but know the virus is still out there? >> absolutely.

i was on the phone with the public state health officials how this could be used to help us understand as we start lifting the stay-at-home orders, is there a spike in symptoms which then you match with local testing rates like at stanford, 10% of the people we test are positive for covid. you take all the people that have symptoms and say maybe only 10% truly have covid in order to predict what's going on with the virus. >> it's really interesting. you're asking people as well once they're able to respond to it, they respond daily as well. >> it's stan.md/covid19. i'm hoping to appeal to everyone's sense of civic duty. i would like every american to do this every day so as a doctor i can figure out who will be showing up at my hospital ten

days from now that i'm going to have to take care of. >> right. you're able to prepare. we'll try to get the word out as well and continue to do so. dr. hofmann, a pleasure having you. >> likewise, laura. thank you. take care, be safe. >> be well. 5:39 for you this morning. and happening now palo alto's mayor trying to remind everyone to throw away the used masks and gloves into the trash. he tweeted these photos of masks and gloves on the ground and said he's been seeing a lot of those littered on the ground and adds, quote, let's all keep each other safe. and that's good advice. >> so important to do. >> absolutely. all right. coming off of a great weekend, the sun was out, it was shining. if you and your family were able to get outside the door and take some pictures, i saw a lot of that on social media. will that spill over into this week, kari? >> yes, it's going to still be a really nice day. we did have one rogue storm that

blew up north of santa rosa yesterday afternoon. that may have had people running inside with heavy downpours. a few clouds, a live look outside in dublin if you're about to start out. temperatures in the upper 40s but reach into the 60s for today. mike, you have a new normal. what is it for today? we had to find a solution. we talk about comfort eating and last week we had easter ham and candy might have been at our house. we have to work off those calories. i found a zumba instructor on facebook offering high energy classes to his computer. i think it's a bunch of friends who have joined him, actually clients, perhaps, on zoom and he's doing that, teaching it from his garage. you might see a couple friends in the driveway. they're all socially distanced. there are plenty of opportunities like this. a lot of folks on facebook, social media offering it.

folks, if you have an idea how to bring a little bit of normal like this back into your life for quality of life that would be great. share that with me. i'm at mike inouye on twitter. as we come back here i know i did my exercise this weekend. i moved the elliptical exercise machine downstairs by myself. my back is okay. >> it's all about lifting. >> wow, strong. thanks, mike. >> gravity, mostly gravity. >> we'll take it any way we can get it right now. 5:41 this morning and the number of californians unemployed is growing. still ahead for you this morning the new action the state is taking to offer more help to those still seeking benefits. president trump had a really rough sunday on the sunday morning shows, and he's fighting back. we'll fill you in coming up. plus, the touching message warriors star steph curry is sharing. a lot more ahead. you're watching "today in the

bay." step by step, we're going to figure this out. we're gonna find a way through this. we're working really, really hard in hospitals, our nurses, our techs, all the docs. it's about staggering when people get sick so that the hospitals can cope. we're gonna go through an awful lot of these. all across puget sound, people have been stepping up and donating personal protective equipment. we stay at work. for you. you stay at home for us. just know we're all with you.

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out martinez and our temperature trend for today. going to start out nice and cool with low 50s. sunshine and warm weather in the forecast. we'll get a look at the rest of the week coming up in a few minutes. breaking news to tell you about, a live look from the

damaged area that suffered through the storms that was sweeping through the south, south carolina that we're looking at now. you can see a lot of trees in situations like that. there has been a lot of damage reported because of the tornadoes sweeping through the area over the weekend. they're looking for some of the damage. a trying time for people dealing with natural disasters like this and dealing with covid-19. we'll continue to follow the story and will bring you any updates. laura? chp today plans to update the investigation into a really horrible incident in contra costa county last friday night. it happened on interstate 242. that's when a 63-year-old antioch grandmother died in the through the windshie windshield. the woman's two grandchildren were in the back seat. no one else was injured. they believe the brick was

likely tossed from the highway 4 overpass. a sexual allegation for joe biden from long before he was ever vice president. a former staff assistant claims biden assaulted her in his senate office -- this was in 1993. a new report from "the new york times" found no collaboration from two friends she claims she once told. recently filed a police report and biden's spokesman calls the allegations false. president trump september out several angry tweets yesterday. >> that's right. this is after he got some criticism from some of those sunday morning programs. scott mcgrew joins us with more. good morning, yes, specifically from cnn and fox news. cnn where dr. anthony fauci was talking about how soon we can reopen the economy. >> if you just say, okay, it's whatever, may 1stk, turn

the switch on, obviously if you do it in an all or none way there's an extraordinary risk of a rebound. >> now fauci responding to a later question would say more lives could have been saved if the country had locked down earlier and that's what got the president's attention. fauci did not specifically criticize the president. logically the sooner you shut down no matter what the more lives you save. we could have shut down at the very first whiff of coronavirus in china, but that wouldn't have made sense. but the president quickly re-tweeted a tweet with the #firefauci. he was angry at fauci about that. the bigger problem over the weekend, though, came from "the new york times" and an article saying that the president was warned several times, documenting the warnings, but still played down the severity of coronavirus, played it down as the flu or something that in his words would miraculously go

away. and fox news picked up on that. >> i want to stay with you and ask you about this really stunning report in "the new york times" this morning. that top health officials within the administration were warning the president from mid-january on about the real threat of this pandemic. and that it took weeks, in a sense, really, more than a month for president trump to respond. how damaging do you think that is to the president? >> that's the television show "fox news suayd by chris wallace, son of famous "60 minutes" journalist mike wallace. the president then tweeted out that chris wallace was a mike wallace wannabe. that tweet got a lot of pushback even from conservatives including the national review who said the president had gone too far. now there were no daily press

conferences over the weekend. we do expect there will be one today. we will be watching that for any new news and, of course, we will bring you updates. i always update you on twitter. you can find me on twitter @scottmcgrew. >> thank you very much, scott. california's unemployment office is offering something new. some expanded hours for people at least on the phone lines. now taking calls from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. monday through friday. this comes after complaints about people not getting access. people have questions about benefits. beneficiaries can get up to $450 a month and state benefits as well as $600 a week through the end of july. the $600 is expected to be added to checks beginning this week. >> right now passover ends this thursday. the age of the pandemic, finding

different ways to have a traditional. reimagining other traditions is the rabbi bloom. u, nice to be here. >> so let's talk about this. the pandemic has changed all of our lives. how has it impacted services for you? what would you normally see during a week like this? >> well, for regular services in the sanctuary there would be 50 to 100 people at any event and i'm in a room by myself for the passover we streamed. >> it's so different. >> right. nothing replaces human contact. it's opened it up for all kinds

of people to participate in services and the passover seder. people from all over the world, my past congregations and places like montana and australia, jewish and non-jewish friends from all. it gives normalcy even if there's no contact. we can still do them in a sense. >> it's looking like the glass half full. now you're opening the doors to many people who may not have come because they couldn't get there or just didn't know much about it or want to know more. it's opening the door. >> absolutely, for people who want to know more, for the elderly, people who don't want to get in their cars. there's that silver lining as well. >> i know you have another seder coming up this thursday. talk to us about the plans for that. >> so it's not a seder this coming thursday, it's our eighth day of passover, the ending

service to passover, and that's thursday morning at 9:00. and there will be people there tuning in. i'm looking forward to it even though i'll be speaking to an empty room. >> i'm sure a lot of people will be listening. thank you so much, rabbi bloom, joining thus morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> laura? marcus this morning was supposed to be the morning after the final round at the masters, the big golf tournament there. the giants would have finish add series in san francisco and the a's would have taken on the yankees. people wonder if we would have had these sporting events if people would have even shown up in the stands. a new seton poll says no. 72% say they won't attend a sporting event unless there's a vaccine. it's only slightly less for people who call themselves sports fans. 83% of people say they would watch the games with no fans

just on tv. >> just want to see the action. 5:53 this morning and now to something good. warriors star steph curry is thanking frontline health care workers who are now helping out in new york. >> yes, over the weekend a team of ucsf nurses, over 20 of them, traveled to the big apple. they'll be working at local hospitals there. curry said their act of kindness is amazing. >> unbelievable the sense of sacrifice and selflessness and you stepping up to the call and to serve people and go above and beyond. we're thinking about you, praying for your health and your safety and now you're doing amazing work helping people who need it the most. >> we certainly applaud them. curry also wished them the very best in the coming weeks. time now to check in with meteorologist kari hall. 5:53 right now. how are we looking for today?

it's going to be another beautiful day n. fact, as we start out we have some cool temperatures with some upper 40s and low 50s to start but then warming up as we go into this afternoon. even warmer than yesterday. our hour by hour trend, we're making it to 3:00 with upper 60s, even some mid-70s for the inland east bay and parts of the north bay. expect our temperatures to continue to warm up today but cool down quickly right around sunset. we are going to see those temperatures coming back down to the 60s. and we'll start out tomorrow morning very much like where we're starting today with some low 50s. if you're planning to head out toda antioch, we're going to see our temperatures in the low 70s, a light wind throughout the day and a nice way to spend our time -- outside time with the family, maybe just having dinner out there this evening. over the next several days looking at more dry weather, warm temperatures. and it may not be until this weekend when our next chance of rain comes in.

we have a whole week of dry weather, it looks good we're going to see time down the line with our temperatures very springlike reaching into the mid to upper 70s, just slightly cooler by the end of the week. and, mike, you're tracking the morning commute. how is it looking? i'll take it from here, kari. happening now for you spain allowing some nonessential workers a return to the job today. so far only construction and factory workers are allowed back. millions of masks will be handed out. the number od 17,000. much morp news after the break. everyone is working a little differently now.

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in default the government will temporarily pause collection efforts through the end of september, but they're not erasing any debt. what you owed before you will still owe later. for private loans, the rules are different. there is nothing universal there and no guarantee your lender has a grace period at all. don't assume, though, there's nothing or anything automatic for that matter. go ahead and call in and ask for help. ideally make contact before you fall behind. there's more detail out of all of this on nbcbayarea.com. just tap responds from the main menu. some time hopefully this week we will be able to say that you'll know when you're at the peak when the next day is actually less than the day before. but clearly the rate we are stabilizing across the country in terms of the state of this outbreak. >> your headlines at 6:00. the director of the cdc says there are new signs for hope.

what he says about a time line. just one confirmed case away from reaching 5,000 cases of covid-19. at least 139 people across the region have died. and a live look at capitol hill this morning, those stimulus checks are start to in roll into americans' bank accounts. and thanks for joining us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. i hope you had a great easter kari, the weekend was gorgeous. what's the forecast for today? it's going to still be really nice. now yesterday we may have had some of those people out egg hunting running inside.