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check t my trie bonus jack! check it out with an extra patty! yeah! okles ri! oh hey man, uhh... [car beeps] my $4.99 triple bonus jack combo! stack it up for an extra buck. >>goosaturday morning to you thanks so much for joining us on kron 4 news weekend were sneaking a peek oside from the embaadero camera this morning we're off to a pretty good startwe should expect some springtime temperatures around the bit around the bay today, some plenty of sunsine well and us a chance of showers in the south bay but toy tomorrow ve that all covered for you in just a couple minus. we begin this morning with a look at e coronavirus cases bcounty now so far there are 493 cases in the bay area overall santa clara has the highest number
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ith 196 san mateo has 100 cases, 76 in san francisco county 42 in the east bay in contra costa county and 35 in alameda county. there are 25 cases in marine county solano county has 10 9 in sonoma county and na counties still not reporting any cases of the virus. we're al tracking this morning, the growing numr of cases across the state th state department of health to release these numbers showing the increase of cases every day. we started the week with 392 on monday now there are more than 1200 cases across the state. this is attributed to the raed up testing health officials say tre are now about 12,000 test results that are still pendinnow you can keep track ofall these numbers on r website at kron 4 dot com. todamillions of californians are staying home from work and for the second full ay since governor newsome issued that statewide order kron four's
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dan kermn now taking a look at the impact this order having on our economy. >>what the rest of california staring to experience san francisco has been doing for 4 days and this ithe result of the stay at home order empty streets and most stores shut down we can tolerate ts for a while i n't think we can tolerate refer to all jim wunderman with the bay area council supports the stay at home ordeas the best way of slowing the spread of coronavirus but says it will pack quite an economic punch the leisure and hospitality industry is somewhere around 12% the state's own work for second run 2 million workers now was just getting are killed. >>the construction industry finance is going to be deeply affected by this so i think it's going to be pretty across the board. >>i am kind of what. >>going to happ next lara cre roomba isalready years career and has worked as
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a housekeeper at san francisco's marriott marquis now her 40 hour work ek has been cut to 0 and shfears her health benefits may disappear next. >>i'm a single mom and i have 3 key 's signed on the ones providing for them. this land ki that ensures about what's happening because i really don't know how lo this we turn asked business leaders say whenever this ends the state will have to play a role in getting businesses both larg and small rolling again. >>anthat likely means low interest or no interest loans. >>because minus star and some businesses alreadybeen drained of its cash. and doesn't necessarily have the opposition to be able to go into the privat market w to get the support to start up again, you know i think the government's going to have to play or some role as a leader making guaranteeing them and ose kinds of things readily and it'that scale is
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going to matter business leaders say it really al depends on how long the stay at home order will last. >>the longer people are staying home and the longer these businesses are closed the harder will be for california to recover. in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news >>now let's to the south bay where downtown san jose also eerily quiet as most businesses they are closed. some business owners however are behaving badly not following the shelter-in-place order. san jose police say that they'redone was simply suing a non essentl or owners who are defiantly or s ignorant really anger lea stayg open. ole chief eddie garcia says beginning on monday violators could be facing misdemeanor tations. >> have several remedies to include criminal citation the business license sa%ctions and health code viations. we have been in contact with various city in canada departments to explore some of
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ese options again i'll tell you we don'want to go there. but to the edational portion of this is over. we that we need to all the community as a frankly police departments in the state i neeto treat this as seriously as it is. >>san jose poce have a newly organized its that will be patrolling the ty loing for violators far the department says it is worn 60 people and businesses. health officials in contra costa county say thathey are raing up testing for coronavirus this after the county also reported its first death from the virus. heal officials there say the patient was ithr 70's had and had an underlying heal condition. health officials did not identify the patients gender nor exactly where in europe they visited county officials did say they do expect more deaths. in her parts of the country and throuout the world. >>were at the start of this epemic here in contra costa
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county. that we know. the efforts to other countries to and shelring in place. take a while to take effect we also we're going to identify. mork more cases. so fortunately e we do it expect the numbers of th cases and deaths to go up before ey start to go do. >>well contra costa county has 42 coronavirus cases so far the county says it's also performing tween 4100 tests every day.a worker with the oakland policedepartment has test positive for the coronavirus it's the opd is first case of covid 19 that worker his self quarantine and is now recovering and the oakland police have not released any her details. our coverage of the coravirus continues on our website at kro4 dot com you'll find the latest on outbaks here in the bay area also an interaive map and
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plenty of information on ways that you can stay safe. yo can also find this on our web siteof the world by clicking on the ronavirus tab at kron 4 dot com. still ahead this protectivegear will find out the virus say they need most. plus the economic impact of the shelter at home orders hurting businesses will take a look at how city leaders are stepping up to help. and let's go ahead take you outside for epa live lo at very light trafficthis morning at the bay bridge we're going toet you know coming up next about the changes should be se at th ♪ oh, oh, o ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic®s helping many people with type 2 diabetes like james lower their blood sugar. a majority of adultswho t® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained i here's your a1c. oh! my1c iunder 7! (announcer) d you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 unds! (announcer for those also with known heardisease,
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it's just our way of doing our rt... joining us thissaturday morning we're taking a live look at a very few cars going to the bay bridge toll pla happening now drivers w cross the bay bridge or otr bay area bridges will not have to stop at toll booths to pay the bridge tos caltrans and the bay areaoll authority are some temporarily suspending cash toll collections for all 7 state owned bridges in the bay area until further notice. the move is set to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for both the toll collectors and people who pay the tolls now drivers who normally pay cash at the toll plazas will get a toll invoice later on in fast track or license plate accounts will nobe affected by this. governor newsom is deploying thcalifornia national guard to help food banks, many food banks as you
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know e suffering because of a lack of volunteers because of the coronavirus the governor also issued an executive order that allows residents to vote by mail in 3 upcoming special elections now this order also extes the deadline for ballot counting and tabulation and other respsibilities that are related to the state's esidential primary. california's emergency operation nter is up nd runing a to coordinate the state's coronavirus response. the governor has been meeting with state lay leaders from many agenciesalmost every day for e past weeks. cal oh, yes director mark ghilarducci says that a state government is well equippedto all new uncharted territory. s what what what isn't isthat we have we are bale tested. >>that has managed some of the most catastrophic events in modern times we've got tremendous organization and procedures and systems in
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place that we are leveraging to its maximum ability. we ha built in designed authorities that have been put in place through years of of the one event after the oth toake eyes more resilient and more capable of responding to events an we're leveragin those authorities in this way much of the advanced planning over the evious years it has been done in aall hazard environment not just for earthquakes and fires and floods. but events like this pandemic planning. >>george h e says that he spentthe past 3 decades in public safety at every level. but he admits this is by far one of the greatest challees the state has ever seen. dave. >>ok marty we are taking a tra of what's going on and with our weher and we have quite a bit of cloud cover which to dl with but you can see some sun pairing in there. all those barry temperatures. kelly t the upper 30's up there in the nortbay 40's elsewhere. this role nkered in here's what looklike a storm tracke for some rain bubbling in from the south nd early into next week. thas yo forecast
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>>good morning, welcome back let's take a live look outside where there's a little bit of acivity along the border in mark and errol this weather looks pretty good as far as going to give us forecast of what we can expect for the rest of the day. hi a morning morning, good morning, everybody we ght start off with the some sunshe and even into the afternoon up in the north a paicularly but later on today looks like some
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rain starting to develop. there's the shot from u c berkeley quite a bit of cloud cover. >>and as we see we got on the radar satellite there u see that rain bubbling up from the south. today's effort ll be very discriminato, however it's going to be mostly the south baythe peninsula little bit portions of the east bay, this is not to get too far bend that we'll see much more widespread bay area rainthat coming that looks like as we get into your sunday watch it in future cast force who i'm talking about is really kind of dissipates all but by late afterno. pretty dry up here in the north bay by comparison sake. we take a brather getting into sday, start off on a bad note, but he comes bubbling up and look at the coverage fun to get the north bay involved this takes us up to sunday evening the overnight hours quite active until your monday morning and through mday. certainly some much needed rain coming our way in won't be a kind of entering any plans with us all kind of hunkered like that's what stephanie some rain and a good time with that variable clouds and some showers south of the north bay with temperatures holding mid 60's. temperatures are very
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mild got the 60's going on for tomorrow. it's of some showers building from the uth rain and showers baarea wide that will late now. so probably be able to kind of salvage out a little bit of the early part of the day walk the dog do all that kind of stuff and then bo here comes the rain anyw, which we need to collect then for next week, it's rain howers unsettled weather pattern we get some thunder stop of thunderstorms involved in this too. what we get so instability aloft here that's a maybe on monday as we get into wednesday thursday and there looks like another do as we head on to the latter portion of the week. temperares again not too ba 64 san francisco and where there's a better chae of seeing rain 67 for san jose, not bad lookinfor a chilly start to65 meanwhile for opn across the wider bay. we've got those mid 60's working. 70 up to santa rosa. again 67 going off or san fransco or san jose rather san francisco at 64coming up a little we'll take a look at those longer-rge forecast
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as i mentioned earlier we'r going to start off the week, somewhat unsettled with thund showers and such and we'll take a ok at that 7 day as well marty sounds good in national news this morning, a mber of ve president mike pence's staff has tested positive for coronavirus. >>a spokespersonsays neither the vice president nor president trump has had cle contact witthat person. the office trying to figure out who else may have been exposed. vice president pee's the white house port pont person for corovirus a nofund on friday, he joined e prident and the white ouse task force for a briefing. president ump says he knows essential medical gear is inhort supply across the country. but he says it's on the way. >>regardless who gets them when they need them with gettg them to him now we're doing the production act wee doing it very much and we have a lot of things cooking right now at a high lel. remember this nothing like this has ever happened before. >>vice president nce added that while the wrist average americans remains low the
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coronavirus is about 3 tim more contagious than the flu. and americs need to follow health care to guidelines. in the east bay berkeley is counti down the days of the debut of its emergency relief and it's designed help small businesses and residents during the coronavirus pandemc now earlier th week, the city voted unanimously to create the multimillion dollar fund in hopes th there will be a community match kron four's dan thorn has more on hat fromberkeley. approved milli in emergency relief to help local businesses residents and nonprofits the emergency reli launches on sunday and people arbeing told to share their ories. store front shattuck avenue posted closed signs next to apology letters the coronavirus outbreak is forced to ese restaurants and shops totemporarily ot her while others are stggling to maintain. >>it's an economic blow. the city of berkeley is hoing to
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curb. >>with the recent quarter numbers >>ples like famous bow and others are trying to survive t recent downturn in business. they'vebeen sharing their stories to the berkeley relief and has a ea to the community to help pitch these local businesses explain just how hard it is bin. >>we're devaated and we have 36 employees who check to pay check will not have money to pay for rent or food berkeley mayor jesse air again says the funwill be managed by the city and will on be used for emergency grants the city then plans to give the money to those hardest hit the next few weekswill be a challenging time where tough decisions will have to be made. >> love to continue serving them. >>in health economics we financially and sport to keep on his this is it folks
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are kind of mean. can continue. >>federal and state money is also expected to help out the city of berkeley if youe ierested in donating to the berkeley really fun you can do so by going online at berkeley really fun t org. there will be a lach event at 3 o'clock on sunday afrnoon with the mayor reporting in berkeley dan thorn kron 4 news. >>an emergency funding initiative is also underway in oakland oakland's mayo libby sft launch the oakland covid 19 relief and it's a run purely public donations now so far 5 major donors have donated 2 and a half million dollars that money will go to lp small businesses senior first responders and anyone who is struling to make the rent. >>people may feel in danger of losing their housing. if y feel in danger of losing their housing in oakland please call 2, 1 one and asked to be connected to keep oaknd house again todathey e
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receiving a $200,000 contribution to the oakland covid 19 really i challenge other tential donors out there who have meanto addto that. >>that the need is great. in oakland adjacent cities and the more we can do the more people who have the means to help us to what we need to do to help those most in need. we asked them to to ep up. >>well mayor sheriff says that any amount helps no matter how small these are all tax deductible donatio are being collected at oakland fun dot org. they'll be spersed across nonprofits like mea on wheels and other public agencies as well. thisorning now we'll take a look at how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting is year's summer olympic games. there' speculation. >>that t games in tokyo >>that t games in tokyo this burger's delicious! >>that t games in tokyo let's make imore delicious! ♪ menutaur put an extra patty on that! bam! wo! uh-uhhh!
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weekend calls for the ews postponement of the olympic games are growing. the ceo of usa swimmg says it's the right and responsible thingo do jack no debt dole's now has more the challenges that olympic hopefuls are facing. >>there's a new normal for us athletes is they prepare for the yet o be canceled tokyo games wednesday morning on social media gymnast sam mikulak poed a letter sent toathletes saying the olympic traing center in colorado spngs had been closed, i
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just want to take a stce o sand. because nothing's fainow the d scrambling to find a place to train. so is donovan frazier the reigning worlchamp in the 800 meters for me personally and they shut down all of campus which is where akshay. >>and when it comes to th weight room tonight this sports masges or something like that like all at. >>it is possible up to this point so mike mccaul lookin the chin missed many of the top us track and field athletes hae to figu out a y to stay shape incase the games go on as scheduled 5 in realistically. >>do you foresee se an olcs actually happening at this point the way things coinue to trend. >>i think it with things continue to trend. i don't think they will like to be optimistic at this point so donovan is left to decide whether to stay in oregon and figure out how to train or moved back michigan to familiar and comfortable surroundings. not the best
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scenario in an olympic year. >>donovan a the olympics only come aroud every 4 years we have devastating would it be if it doesn'happen rit now, especially when your peaking that just the right time yeah that's reform and did not get the opportunity to do that would be devastating >>on the journey to too. i'm jack tolls. >>t another possible event a delaed by the coronavirus is go ahd take a live look this morning on gt traffic
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with at least half million dollars and thousands of medical suppes donated silicon valley is doing its part to help slow the read of covid 19 in santa clara county. but the county says it needs more to deal with what's ahead kron four's gayle ong reports now from san jose. >>santa clara county has the most copa 19 cases in the bay area, the money and equipmt will go to the county's public health care system. >>these e the items needed for our donations so that g wee able to find more about a leader anso as you can se here handsanitizer gloves masks and all e things our front-line employees need to be saying cindy chavez president of the santa clara county board of supervisors says the county is well prepared but bracing for more covid 19 cases so this is an opportunity for s to get prepared in vance what we
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going to bring which is more people who are second we wanna ma sure our frontline employeesa healthy safe and well san jose yor sa liccardo called the health crisis a storm this is o fferent we're going to do this program do ittogether there is now a donation drive for money and supplies so far businesses and nonprofits show their generosity. >>the silicon vall leadership group is a leadin the effort. the group ceo carl guardino worked out a plan for donors siro 0 or platfor 0 banking foods so that 100% of every contribution goes to the lifesaving equipment, thousands of supplies from respators surgicalmask gloves hazmat uits have been donated the goal isto buy 400 ventilators with the money. organizers say ev one or 10 bottles of sanitizing products will keep workers healthy to save lives donations can be
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dropped off at the vley center medical foundati on cloth drive. >>reporting in san jose gayle ong kron 4 news. >>having enough medil supplies is a big issue across thentire country. in jaconville florida hospitals are struggling tomake the most out of the equipment they shortage of masks a ctor the a university of florida says a lot of e equipment comes from asia and coburn 19 is slow down production. you're good organization now encouraging local doctors to clean and reuse their personal oteive equipment. it's commony known as p p e's its equient warned to minimize exposureto hazards that cause serious workplace iuries and illnesses doctors offices have very little this equipment left or available to em. >>so patients also phicians are using best. >>torre n best rather shift. workers are at risk they're taking care of patients. care this their attention save
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lives. but at the same time they're putting their own lives at risk and thought havingthis protective equipment. the sun is a concern. >>an e-mail sent to the universi of florida health employees says of the hospital had only a six-weesupply of yellow surgical masks and a 30 supply other surgical mask to help with the equipment ortage doctors are advising patients to not go to hospitals if they are suffering from mild symptoms. and there's some relief for those who haven't yet filed their taxes because of the coronavirus pandemic the government is giving taxpayers an era 3 months to file their forms. treasury secretary steve mnuchin tweeted that he ismoving tax day from april 15th. to juy 15th. newton says he's acting trump state of california also pusng back the state's tax day to june 15th. well the fda
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is offering to work with anyone able to produce hand sanitizerit's a big change is the fda normally cracks down on theproduction of unregulated health products. the agency is releasing guidelines on how to produce and distribute those products and it's taking comments from consumers about any adverse reactions. breweries and severalstates are trying to fill the need for hand sanitizer. governor newsom is expected to announce more efforts to manage th coronavirus across the state with california's coronavirus case count up to more than a 1000 the state is working to maximize its hospital bed apacity across the state in anticipation of a surge of covered 19 tients. governor newsome soon is expected to announce that the state will be leasg a southern california hospital on thursday, the governor revealedthe state leasing 175 beds at seton medical center in daly city. these leases are de possible by a coven 19 emergency funding package at lawmakers appved earlier this week.
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the governor also requested to mobile hospitals and a floating hospital from the federal government that would add an extra 2000 bets. high school seniors across e bay area have no idea what'going to ppen to big landmark events in their lives like graduation and prom kron four's michelle kingston seniors in antioch high school who understand the importance of show social distance scene and aying inside. but they say they're still upseto be missing so much of an important year in their lives. >>zoe davis is a senior at aioch high school varsity track star and homecoming queen. she has a 4 point o gpa t is no longer in a classroom these days, she's inside sheltering in place at home because of coronavirus is a little bit. >>sad and. i mean. i'm a little b. disaointed that i probably won't be able to participate in ose things
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when zoe and her friends will go back to school still up in e air after california governor gavin newsome announced earlr this week. >>that it's ssible students may not return to class at all this year she isn't sure what will happenwith senior trips prom andgraduion it was very cousing and very like. >>a hard time for everybody to process what's happening right now. these are photos of happier times in new york high school students likemany across the country putting eir lives in major milestones on hold seniors possiblnot finishing out their final days with friends and favorite teachers who have led them to who they are today and where ey will be in the future. >>just being around my teachers in the la time because it's been 4 years and 18 years of school to building up for th annow i feel experience that i'll probably never get again in antioch michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>an in the south bay the
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gilroy garlic festival is canceled for this year organizers announcing the cancellation on friday, same given the unprecedented national emergency that we're facing we must put the health and well-being ofur community first thatfestival scheduled to happein july now despite last year'mass shooting that left 3 people dead and injured 17 other people. coming uthis morning, the coronavirus taken a financial tl on many bay arehow big tech is stepping in
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restaurants are among the business hardest hit by social distancing and the shelter-in-place order kron fo's maureekelly shows us how some volunteers in the tech sector are helping restaurants online. >>hopefully it's just stopping eping people. employees you know, i'm totally off the number of people andrew johnstone as the owner of the little to wallow restaurants of his spots he's had to close his sfo and mission locations as the coronaviru ept through the city, he's down to takeout and delivery from the 3 still open it's day by day because you knowevery down business tomorrow we're going to have to do more you know i mean there's other other mpanies that are just had to let erybody downstairs stating its small business ownerlike johnstone that a few tech entrepreneurs are trying to help by launching webses ke save our phase dot org. it was
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created by one of the founders of instagram to allow the community to help bay area reaurants, stay afloat by buying gift cards now they can use all sheila burroughs's with the website. help main street dot com. it has a milar promise this one goes beyond thbay area it also included new york in boulde colorado when it launched on wednesday and is adding more citi by the day we don't take free counry afloat nose and come out of th very fair to all restaurants appreciates the pport theye already gotten from their fans and from what these websites my pride they'rlimping along f now he just hopes people heed the warnings so things don't go from reallbad to even worse. what scar me is that people nothing of the nasty intervention. we just got locked down. th were. we're not business numbers and that's going to be a problem.
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maureen kelly kron 4 news. >>and still ahead as the bay area hunkers do for the shelter in place there is some do's and the are some do's
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busy with his watercolors let'check in at a time to fit whatever it takes that's right and as we start the day we have nd of the tale of 2 different types of they what we got going on take a look at the shot. here's who i'm talking on the left-hand de, your screen that's where we'll see a lot the south bay, peninsula, but the rain is really much further souththe soutrn san mateo county all the way into the south bay. >>but this ves you a general can probably see a lot more the way a songoing on today and that rain opportunity is going to stay prty much in the east bay, south korean peninsula that's the for this progression we think on balance we're going to get todaywith the north bay somewhat spared temperatures with clear skies up eir dropped in the upper 30's. 40's elseere with more cloud cover that can negotiate through 50 sajose, 44 antioch in livermore 45 going on for concord and 49 for n francio. i like the shot here of the bay bridge toll plaza temperatures at 4452 by 11:00am this is ome clearing skies for much of the east bay by that point is tperatures
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stilreach cup aloft. the 61 we're in somewh a mild pattern because this rain that we're getting is bubbling up from the south. there go the temperatures are somewhat mild success of systems will cool us off and those are dropping from the gulf of alaska check it out and future cast for this is today. and you see it really dissipates overnight sunday a little bit of sunshine for everybody again ear building in the day here thoseshowers the deeper moisture to the soh yet again d so we'll stay in ind of the mild air sector that gets more of the ba involved as we go io monday morning and that will probably spread out again during the day, let's check out the quantitatively how much rain we're getting you can see most of it to the south this is 03:00am on sunday, the way to get much better coverage as we get into sunday, proper. there you see the coverage it really stops around san francisco. in oakland doesn't seem to penetrate that far at 07:00pm sunday, it's really after that it starts to venture a little bit further up in the north bay that will be into overnight into monday morning. okay so let's see what happens again we're getting the utherly track of systems for
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now early next week find the system drops in the gulf of alaska, you will see in the seven-day forecast temperatures fall new opportunity for rain this may mean instality because you got cold air upairs. air instability drives may be some localized hail claps of thunder lighing won on all that kind of routine and then maybe a little bitleft er for thursday to clearing out though looks like on thursday for anotherweek or dose, happening into next weekend. we need the raiand were hunkered in any way so that's good newearly the following system monday into tuesday temps today up to 70 santa rosa elsewhere, mostly the middle 6s sunshine will be in shorter supply in the south bay and portions of the east ba7 day forecast check it out the rain coming and going in here notice the claps of thunder sticks of lighing in there too. notice the temperaturdrop as we get those systems in the gulf of alaska and new ones to look t for in the next weekend rty. all right dave thanks a lot get back to the news this morning, several us senators, including san francsco's
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dianne feinstein. >>are facing questions after was revealed that they sold off stock before the coronavirus hit the us. tom foreman has the story. >>up to one million in stock that's how much republican nator richard burr and his wife pulled out of the market on february 13th just before it started crasng losi 31% in 10 days time for sell off the public did not know the seriousness f the virus. it's it's like a miracle it will disappear but as the powerful chairman of the intelligence committee russia probe fame was getting detailed she just after rth sold those stocks he even told a gathering at the capitol hill club in dc the virus could be very bad, according to a recording obtained by npr is probably
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work and 1918 and giving birth says the npr reporis a bloid style hit piece that knowingly and irresponsibly misrepresented his comments he wants an eics investigation to prove he did not use insi information to protect his bank account but conservative pundits who have long thought burn not loyaenough to the president are pounng up he must resign from the senate and face prosecution for insider trading. democratic presidential contender andrew yang, tweeted if ou hear about a pandemic and your first move is to adjust your stock portfoliyou should probably not be in a job that serves the public interest. other senators are being scrutinized for big stock feinste and republican ji inhofe but both say their trades were initiated by othe and they were not as privy to virus updates. i do want to set the record saight republican senator kelly loeffler did attend the big virus briefing tweeted afterward about the work bng done to quote keep our country safe and healthy and she and
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her husband who is chairman of the new york stock change ld hundreds of thousands in stock. she said it was all handled by 3rd party above board, but i'm only informed of my transactions afteth occur several weeks so certainly those transactis at least on mybehalf were a mix of buys ansells very routine and the pridens assement of the mall and they said they did nothing wrong. >>i find them thwhole grp very honorable people. >>well that was tom foreman reporting n again senator feinstein reported that her husband sold off between one and a half million dollars worth f stock in allogene therapeutics more than mont ago that san francisco based biotech company researes and develops cures for cancer. senator feinstein says that she did not attend that january intelligence briefing and had no input on her husband's cisions at this point there's no concrete proof thaanyone acted on insider inrmation or broke any laws. but there a calls for an ethics investigation.
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well the shopping rush coinues around the bay area's we try to come to gri life. governnt leaders of insist there's no needto panic to panibuy or hoard suppliesnow take a look at the scene at the porayal hi safeway in san frncisco, this is on friday where you can sea long line outhe door and from the looks of it people were not exactly observing social distancing. the san francisco department of emergency manageent release these guidelines about social distancing. and if you're getting groceries or taking a walk you shoulavoid groups you should stay at leas6 feet away from others and reduce the me that you're around other people outside your home. there is one exceptioof the 6 feet role you can be closer than the reuired 6 feet if you are with people who live in the same house. and we will take a ve look outside from the embarcadero camera this morning cloudy start to the day butwe should have a nice spring day with a mild mperatures will be right back.
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>>the pandemic is hitting everyone rd but it's especially tough now for restaurants, many of them are closing down leaving many without jobs for the foreseeable future. in this morning's dine and dish vicki got dickey libby aka spoke with one a person who once ran a lebrated restaurant hat's now struggling to surviv. passing by a neighborhood
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market in san francisco know we bally the boxing wine general manager of one of the so many restaurants is showing he's witht a doubt a statement. is >>frederico says he's grateful to find work heing out his friend. many of his co-worers not so i. >>but he shop here in alley and i essentially busy right now to >>celebty chechris constantino who e also closed down his san francisco restaurant. cox comb is worried that fewer than one in restaurants will be able to come back after the crisis you
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are at this point the more. >>this is it don't matter if your the best of the down the street everybody isin fact getting into their weight. >>in the meantime frederico is holding out pe and helping box and sell bottles of wine to those who appreciate his knowledge in his effort. they are takinsome wind for sure huh i see some some takers but get through >>in san francisco, vicki liviakis kron 4 news. and ming up in our next hour we're going to continue to have updates for you on the latest number of coronavirus cases here in the bay area as the death count continues to rise. >>and then we'll hear from health ca workers who are fighting the pandemic on t front lines and the needs they have for essential medical supplies will be right ck.
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camerahis morning we're off to a nice start to hope youe enoying your saturday as best you can, hi verybody i'm marty gonzales. >>and i'm no well bellow we're practicing social distancing herein the studio just like everyo else across the bay area trying keep ourselves. protected against the coronarus family gt today's far with the forecast cong up in just a little bit but we want to start the moing by looking at the latest coronavirus numbers. >>so far ere are now 535 cases in the bay area. santa clara has the highest number with 196 cases, san mateo coun has 100 cases. there are 76 cases in san francisco county. 46 in contra costa county and 45 in alameda county. 38ases in marine county soano county has 13 21 in sonoma county and napa still not reporting any cases of the virus. and we're also tracking the growing number of state department of health a release these numbers showing
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the increase in cases each day this week. now we began on monday with 392 cases in the state. there are now more than 1200 cases across california. and this is attributed to the ramped up testing that health health officials they now say that there's about 12,000 sts results pending now keep in mind you can keep track of all these numbers on our website at kron 4 dot com noel. >>miions of californians are attempting to stay home for the second full day since governor newsome issued that statewide shelter-in-place order while many bay ar leaders agree they us that the stay at home order is the best way ofslowing the spread of coronavirus others recognize the ecomic impact it will ha. >>we can tolerate this for a while i don't think we can tolerated for too long the leisure and hospitality industry is somewhere around 12% of the state's own work
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for second run 2 million workers now is just getting are killed. the construction instry finance is going to be deeply affected by this so i think 's going to be pretty across the or. >>business leaders say it all depends how long people muststay at home the longer that happens. the longer these businesses e closed the longer it will be for california to recover. in the south bay authorities are urging people and business to follow that stay at home order and so far many merchants are in open defiance of that order kron four's ro fladeboe spoke with city aders on the consequences that some cod face. >>san jose is eerily quiet is most businesses appear to be closed downto san jose seems all but shut down strip malls are shutted parking lots are empty t still far too many businesses are not in
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compliance with e stay at home order says police chief repair shops, restaurants, 2 2 clothing stores, 9 hair salons 6 barbershopa smoke shops to flower shops the list goes on, but going forward nonessential commerce will meet with stricter enforcement says the chief. >>police id a newly organized units th will patrol the city in search of those idefiance of the order our current plan is to move from an educational stance to enforcement stance on any buness that have been contacted mourned and then reopens one still sees people on e streets walking dogs or out for groceries, but everybo needs to do their part stop the spread of the virus even if itmeans turning somebody in says mar sam, liccardo >>their courage folks if you see somebody that people leave this fire rating. the city home order from say
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>>so far 60 peoe and businesses cluding a gun stre have been warned about staying open in defiance of the order beginning mond that changes violators could face misdemeanor citation we have several remedies to include criminal citation the business license sanctions and alth code violations. we have been in contact with various city can departments to explore some of these options agaii'll tell you we don't want to go there. to the educational portion of this is over. we tht we need to all the counity as a police department quite frankly police dartments in the state i need to eat this as seriously as it is in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. health officials in contra sta county say at they're ramping up testing for coronavirus. >>this aftethe county also reported its first death from the virus. health officials say the patient was in their 70's had recently traveled to
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europe and had an undering health condition. healh patients gender nor exactly he where in europe they visited county health officials did say they expect more deaths as we've seen in other parts of the country and thoughout the world. >>were at the start of this epidemic here in contra costa county. that we know. the efforts to other countries to put in to do soci distancing and sheltering n place. take while to take effect we also know as we ramp up testing we're going to idenfy. mork more cases. so unfortunaty we we do it expect the numbs of both cases and deaths to go up fore they start to go down. >>contra costa county has 42 coronavirus cases so far the county says it's also peorming between 4100 test everyday. a worker with the oakland police department has tested positive for the coronavirus it's the opd is
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first case of covid 19 that worker has self quarantined and is now recoverin but the oakland police partment not releasing any further details about that case keep in mind that our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website atkron 4 dot com you'll find the latest on outbreaks in the bay area. also an interactive map and information on ways you can stay safe. you can find it all and more just go to the coronavirus tab on our website at kron 4 t com. >>on the kron 00:04am morning news, a nationwide plea for find out what health care to workers fighting the virus ed most plus the economic imct of the shelter at home order hurting businesses ho ♪ ♪wi thing, you make my heart sg.♪ ♪you make everything... groovy...♪
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>>back and we're taking a li look outside at hardly any well no traffic to speak out on that they come. the bought bay bridge toll plaza drivers w cross the bay bridge or other bay ea spans will not have to st at a toll booth to pay brid tolls caltrans in the bay area toll authority are mporarily suspending cash tollollection for all 7 state on bridges in the ba area until further notice now this move is to minimize the risk of exposure to a coronavirus for both the toll collectors and the drive drivers who normally pay cash will get a toll invoice later on in the male drivers who use fast track or licensplate
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accounts will not be affected. >>gavin newsom is deployg california national guard members to help food banks, many of them are lacking volunteers because of the coronavirus the governor so issued an executive order to allow residents to vote by il in 3 upcoming special elections. the order also extends the deadlines for ballot counting tabulation and ther responsibilities related to california's presidential primary. marty. >>operaon center is up and running through cordon 8 california coronavirus response governor newsome has been meeting with state leers from major agencies almost every day for the past several week cal oh yes director mark joe tucci says that the sa govnment is well equipped to take on the situation. this is all new uncharted territory. >>what what what isn't is that we have are a battle tested. that has managed some
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of the most catastrophic got tremendous organation ve and procedures and systems in place that we are leveraging to its maximum ability. we havebuilt in designed authorities that have been put in place through years of of the one eventafter the other to make cars more resilient and more capable of responding to events and we're leveraging those autrities in this way much the advanced planning over the previous years it has been done inan all hazard environment not just for earthquakes and fires and floods. but events like this pandemic planning. >>ghilarducc is battle tested as well he says he spe 3 decades in publ safety at every level but he admi this is by far one of the eatest challenges that california has ever seen. it was a good morning today, smart hide a welcome morning morning. we're looking at 40's over good piece of real estate this morning, some chilly 30's up there to the north b. showers bubbling up from the
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south looks like it will stay out of the north bay for better coverrow we have good morning,
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welcome back to take a live conditions along the cloudy waterfront in san ancisco firm that a market there a shot. >>let's get the forecast from our kron 4 meteorologist states r heidi yeah pretty much cloudy skies we got going on in this is also something we see inland happening to the eaky space
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shot coming in from sun all basically overcast, but there is some rain bubbling up from the south.here you can see it kind of that tion and you can see it covering some portions of the east bay too. however, it's not going make much penetration into the north bay today tomorrow, we'll get some much better coverage across the wir bay, it looks like the forecast modelson future cast for its run through it toda there's the kind of peters out a little biin the early afteron rebuilds again now to key in the santa cruz mountains and up to mount hamiltonlooks like the late afternoon that aided by some daytime heating now mountain snows. yeah they continue as well then overnight not too much acivity was told the churning low to our soh. tomorrow morning. let's get some covage across the bay here we go it'snot really to late in the day we see it really start to get mo active. in over night to monday morning. so it's going to be best shot forain, it's late tomorrow rough the overnight to get that looks like it looks breaks up a little bit for your monday morning as well shot from snow in the background we got vaable cloud showers south of the north bay aswe got mild temps
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though too because t storm system is coming in from the south. so it's more mild that air unlike its other system is going to come from the gulf of alaska cooling us down so mild 60's on top stake in p today, even in the south they we get rainso showers bill from the south rain and shows bay area wide laid it looks like anthat will be particularly tomorrow and tomorrow overnight then for xt week we've got showers and rain thunder showers monday inttuesday, particularly got some colder air aloft helping out here and then some rain returns by friday breaking up n thursday said thursday looks to be our in the bunch and look at the variety of temperatureswe're not going to see much sun in san jose still at 67. 65 for oakland in 64 anwhile for san francisco across most of the district. it's middle to upper 60's and places like santrose with the n and about 70 now those long rae forecast models have again more rain forced intonext week we'll take a look at those includingyour extended forecast as well back to.
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>>in national ne, a member of vice president mike pence's staff has tested positive for coronavirus a spokesperson says neither pence nor president trump had close contact with that person. the officeis trying to figure out who might have been exposed though the vice president is the white house's point person for covirus on friday. he joined the president and the white house task foe for the briefing. the president says he knows essential medical here is short supply, but it's on the way. >>regardless of who gets them when they we're getting them to him now we're doing the production acwe're dog it very much and we have a lot of hings cooking ght now at a high level. remember this nothing like this has ever happened before. the president vice president added while the risk to average americans is low of the coronavirus is about 3 times more contagious. then the flu and americans need to foow health care guidelines.
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berkeley is counting down the days to the debut of its emergency relief and it's designed help small businesses and residents during the ronavirus pandemic earlier this week the city voted unanimously to create the multimillionollar fund with thehope that there will be a community match. kron four's dan thorn has the story from berkeley. berkeley city council approved million in emergency relief to help local businesses residents and nonprofits the emergen relief launches on sunday and people are being told to sre their stories. >>store front after store front along shattuck avenue posted closed signs ne apology letters the coronavirus outbreak is forced these restaurants and shops to temporarilyshot her while others e struggling to maintain. >>it's an economic blow. the city of berkey is hoping to curb.
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>>places like famous bow and others are trying to survive the recent downturn in business. they've been sharin their stories to the berkeley relief and has a plea to the community to help pitch these local businesses explain just how hard it is bin. >>we've got a cnn we have 3, 6 employees who i have the money to pay for rent or food or clean mayor jesse air again says the fund will be managed by the city and will only be used for emergency grants the city then plans to give the money to those hardest hit the next few wks will be a challenging time where tough decisions will have to be made. >>we love to continue serving them. >>in health economics we financially and support to keep on his this is it folks are kind of mean. >>federal and state money is also expected to help out the city of berkeley if you're
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interested in donating to the berkeley really fun you can do so by going online at berkeley really fun dot org. there will be a launch event at 3 o'clock on sunday afternoon with the mayor reporting in berkeley dan thorn kron 4 news. >>an emergency funding initiative is also underway in oakland oakland's mayor libby shaft launched the oakland covid 19 really fun, it's run pro purely on public donations and so far 5 major donors have donated 5 at 2 and a half million dollars that money will go to help small businesses seniors. first responders and anyone who's having trouble making the rent. >>people may feel in danger of losing their housing. if you feel in danger of losing their housing in oakland please call 2, 1 one and asked to be connected to keep oakland house again today they are receiving a $200,000 contribution to the oakland covid 19 really.
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>>i challenge other potential donors out there who have means to add to that that the need is great. in oakland adjacent cities and the more we can do the more people who have the means to help us to what we need to do to help those most in need. we asked them to to step up. >>well mayor sheriff says any amount helps no matter how small these tax deductible donations are being collected at oakland fund dot org. and will be dispersed across nonprofits like meals on whls and other public agencies. still ahead this moing how the coronavir pandemic is affecting this year's summer olympic games a special love the speculation now the summer olympics in tokyo. the best way to predict the future is to create it
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the postponement of the olympic games are growing the ceo of usa swimming says it's the right and responsible thing to do. jack dole's now with more on the challenges some olympic hopefuls are facing. >>there's a new normal for us athletes is they prepare for the yet to be canceled tokyo games wednesday morning on social media gymnast sam mikulak posted a letter sent to athletes saying the olympic training center in colorado springs had been closed, i just want to take a stance of sand. >>things need to get postponed because nothing's fair now rating us champ is scrambling to find a place to train. so
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is donovan frazier the reigning world champ in the 800 meters from a partially they shut down all of mega campus which is where akshay. >>and when it comes to the weight room like this stuart smith size there are some like that like all that. >>it is possible up to this point so mike mccaul look in the chin this many of the top us track and field athletes have to figure out a way to stay in shape in case the games go on as scheduled 5 in realistically. >>do you foree se an olympics actually happening at this point the way things continue to trend. >>i think it with things continue to trend. i don't think they will like to be optimistic at this point so donovan is left to decide whether to stay in oregon and figure out how to train or moved back to michigan to familiar and comfortable surroundings. not the best scenario in an olympic year. >>donovan a the olympics only come around every 4 years we have devastating would it be if it doesn't happen right
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now, especially when yo peaking that just the right time. yeah that's reform and did not get the opportunity to do that would be devastating. >>on the journey to tokyo. i'm jack tolls. >>side at the golden gate bridge looking like it's a beautiful day up that way we've got a look at your forecast coming up in just a bit stick with us.
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with at least half a million dollars and thousands of medical supplies supplies donated, silicon valley is doing its part to help slow the spread of the covid 19 in santa clara county. >>but thecounty needs more for what's to come kron four's gayle ong reports from san jose. >>santa clara county has the most copa 19 cases in the bay area, the money and equipment will go to the county's public health care system. >>these are the items needed the most what we're looking for our donations so that we're able to find more about a leader and as you can see here hand sanitizer gloves masks and all ththings our front-line employees need to be saying cindy chavez president of the santa clara unty board of supervisors says the county is well prepared but bracing for more covid 19 cases so this is an opportunity for us to get prepared in advance what we know the coming weeks are people who are second we wanna make sure our frontline employees, a healthy safe and
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well san jose mayor sam liccardo called the health crisis a storm this is no different we're going to do this program do it together there is now a donation drive for money and supplies so far businesses and nonprofits show their generosity. >>the silicon valley leadership group is a leading the effort. the group ceo carl guardino worked out a plan for donors 0 0 or platforms 0 banking foods so that 100% of every contribution goes to the lifesaving equipment, thousands of supplies from respirators surgical mask gloves hazmat suits have been donated the goal is to buy 400 ventilators with the money. organizers y evn one or 10 bottles of sanitizing products will keep workers healthy to save lives donations can be dropped off at the valley center medicafoundation on clothes drive. >>reporting in san jose gayle ong kron 4 news.
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>>thank you gayle having enough medical supplies is an issue across the country in jacksonville florida hospitals are struggling to make the most out of the equipment they do have and facing a shortage of sks s well a doctor at the university of florida health says a lot of equipment comes from asia and covid 19 has slowed down production. the organization is now encouraging local physicians to clean and reuse their personal protective equipment, personal protective equipment is commonly known as ppe and its equipment warned to minimize exposure to hazards. but cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. >>doctors offices have very little of this equipment left or available to them. so patients also physicians are using best. they were what best rather shift healthcare workers are at risk they're taking care of patients. infected. finding supports care this their attention save
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lives. but at the same time they're putting their own lives at risk and having this protective equipment. this a concern. >>if you see a health care worker, thank them for what they're doing an email sent to unersity of florida health employees does state. the hospital only had a six-week supply of yellow surgical masks and a 30 day supply of the procedural surgical masks and to help with the equipment shortage doctors are advising patients to not go to the hospitals if they're suffering from any mild symptoms. some relief for americans who still haven't filed their taxes we are getting an extra 3 months to file amid the coronavirus pandemic treasury secretary steven mnuchin tweeted he's moving tax day from april 15th, to july 15th. mission said he was acting at the direction of president trump. california also pushed back the state's tax day to june 15th. the food and drug administration is offering to
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work with anyone able to produce hand sanitizers the fda normally cracks down on production of unregulated health products. the administration says it's laying out guidelines on how to produce and distribute these products and it's taking comments from consumers about any adverse reactions now breweries in several different states are among the organizations trying to actually fill that need party. >>is expected t announce more efforts to manage the coronavirus across california with the state's coronavirus case out and bowed to more than a 1000 now the state is working to maximize its hospital bed capacity across california. in anticipation of a surge of covid 19 patients, the governor is expected to soon announce the state will leas a southern california hospital on thursday, the governor revealed that california is leasing the 10175 beds at seton medical center in daly city. these leaseare made possible by a covid 19 emergency funding package lawmakers approved
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earlier this week. the governor also requested to mobile hospitals and a floating hospital from the federal government that and some 2000 extra beds, 2000 extra bets. school seniors across the bay area have no idea what's going to happen to those big landmark events like graduation and prom kron four's michelle michelle kingston spoke with seniors at antioch high school who say they understand the importance of social distancing and staying inside, but they're still up sent to be missing so much to an important year in their lives. >>zoe davis is a senior at antioch high school varsity track star in homecoming queen. she has a 4 point o gpa but is no longer in a classroom these days, she's inside sheltering in place at home because of coronavirus is a little bit. >>sad and. i mean. i'm a little b. disappointed that i probably won't be able to participate in those things
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when zoe and her friends will go back to school is still up in the air after california governor gavin newsome announced earlier this week. >>that it's possible students may not return to class at all this year she isn't sure what will happen with senior trips prom and graduation it was very confusing and very like. >>a hard ti for everybody to process what's happening right now. these are photos of happier times in new york high school students like many across the country putting their lives in major milestones on hold seniors possibly not finishing out their final days with friends and favorite teachers who have led them to who they are today and where they will be in the future. >>just being around my teachers in the last time because it's been 4 years and 18 years of school to building up for this and now i feel like i'm missing out on experience that i'll probably never get again in antioch michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>the gilroy garlic festival
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will not happen this year organizers annoced the cancellation saying given the unprecedented national emergency we face we must put the health and well-being of our community first the festival was scheduled to happen despite last year's mass shooting which left 3 people dead and injured 17 others. also san francisco's annl bay to brkers has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns city officials made that announcement on friday the event which was scheduled to take place in may will now be held on september 20th 2020 all existing 2020 bay to breakers registrations will be honored for this new date. and one of america's favite national parks is closed to visitors yosemite national park closed on friday at the request of the local health department while other national parks have closed some areas this is the first national park to close entirely hotels and restaurants at yosemite closed
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tuesday as a precaution. guests were told the shutdown would last until at least the end of the month already. >>thanks a lot more coming up on the kron 4 news weekend of the coronavirus has taken a area businesses we'll take a look at
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>>welcome back restaurants are among the businesses hardest hit by social distancing. and
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this shelter in place order kron four's maureen kelly shows us how some volunteers in the tech sector actually helping restaurants online. >>pope stopping the bleeding at this point keeping people employed you know, i'm totally off number of people andrew johnstone as the owner of the little to wallow restaurants of his 5 spots he's had to close his sfo and mission locations as the coronavirus swept through the city, he's down to takeout and delivery from the 3 still open it's day by day because you know if we don't see business tomorrow we're going to have to do more you know, i mean there's other other companies that are just had to let everybody downstairs stating its small business owners like johnstone that a few tech entrepreneurs are trying to help by launching websites like save our phase dot org. it was created by one of the founders community to help bay area restaurants, stay afloat by buying gift cards now they can use all sheila burroughs's
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with the website. help main street dot com. it has a similar promise this one goes beyond the bay area it also included new york in boulder colorado wh it launched on wednesday and is adding more cities by the day straight to this. we don't take free country afloat nose and come out of thisvery fair great. the owner of the little to all restaurants appreciates the support they've already gotten from their fans and from what these websites my provide theyre limping along for w he just hopes people heed the warnings so things don't go from really bad to even worse. what scares me is that given a thing of the nasty intervention. we just got locked down. and then where we're not business numbers and that's going to be a problem. maureen kelly kron 4 news. >>still ahead this morning is the bay area hunkers down for the shelter in place there are some do's and don'ts that you
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little bit above freezing. >>you can see little in the way some of that rain also to in the forecast looks like you know the foggy like conditions low lying clouds that type of program. >>so the different imagery we see there than elsewhere across the bay and protect the up to the north bay with much better clearing that we saw overnight as well, here's the rain bubbling up from the south now getting some real estate off to the east bay to getting some of the peninsula involved we can expect more of that today still chilly up there in the north bay at rosa. everybody else is at least graduate into the 40's you see 50 for open 50 san francisco in 50 also san jose 44 for tri valley live shot comes in from the toll bridge or toll plaza for the bay bridge 56 looks like by high noon to 3 o'clock we're talking 61. this is mostly the east bay's we're looking at and points north for the most part probably contra costa county north. with that still some shower chances down to the south and looks like, although it's not noted here and took in the south bay that's where the lion's share of the rain is for a earlier today you see kind of breaks up in the redeveloped with
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daytime heating protecting the higher elevations. tomorrow different story, the rain is a bit later on to develop will host starting to get some coverage across the district. this is frozen about 3.15 heavy rains obviously to the south was the same program we're seeing today stuff coming up from the north or south rather and that means is very mild air two's we got a lot of the 60's going on even with all this cloud cover deeper moisture does make a pass across the region overnight. by monday morning that rain is starting to really wayne and we'll see it far up later on turned the thunder showers though early into the week. now what it looks like the rain collection for today. well this goes all the way up to 04:00am on sunday, very very modest sort just mentioning may be hit or miss will sprinkle here. but the coverage gets a little bit more generous later on in finding even in the north bay, although we're not seeing any readings on that the lion share of that's going to happen overnight sunday night into monday morning so again although we're getting this weekend is pretty much from the mid latitudes but it's really early into next week that we start to get the
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systems out of the gulf of alaska that's going to usher in a cold or rain in lower snow levels to for all locations, here's a little break in midweek again maybe source a thursday here and then by friday saturday there again more unsettled weather more upstream for the week that follows look at some of that snow is in there too tony some air masses kind of cold at least a lot should mention that that first wave moving in from the gulf of alaska early next this week coming up. monday tuesday because couple claps of lightning or thunder rather and some strikes of lightning with all of for 10 shalee some hail because of some colder air mid 60's for highs across most of the midday 68 conquered 66 for cup of the north bay here list to santa rosa about 7065 for napa in san francisco at 64 lining up for 7 day forecast claps of thunder and strikes of lightning even run now wednesday looks like breaking up a little bit as we finish off week, but again more into next weekend back to you. like this out. it has been a trying
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week for millions of people here in california and across the entire country and around the world as well. >>and now that the weekend is here a lot of people are looking for things to ke them busy.reporter lonnie wong brings us some of the weekend's do's and don'ts. >>those not inclined to walk or jog to cure their cabin fever found a haven, a sacramento skull facility, th driving range and putting greens were bustling welcome this course can exercise. in a senior. morton gulf, the operators of the city's taken oats barley kavanaugh big maloney and land park golf course is decided to stay open using precautions approved by county health officials, the gulf shops and restaurants are closed. gf carts are sanitized and only one rider is allowed on them. while washes are off limits. every other stall the driving range is close the loan from 9 foot separation between golfers starters are only taking cars, no cash allowed. and the holes on the greens are screened off so golfers don't have to reach
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into e hole to retrieve their bowls, everyone here was glad the measures were taken to keep the course is open it is nice to have a place to go and be able to get outside not be stuck in the house are going out for 10 days. >>i had to do some of course it can be expensive to play a round of golf but the people that manage take a note from the other city courses say that doesn't cost anything to use are putting a chipping greens for free. anothe approved activity is biking the precautions are also required. mike spice in downtown sacramentohas closed its public retail space it's helping regulars remotely navigate its website for products in parts it is staying open to service bikes whether the needed for work or play it gets told is an >>that when the work is done it's white downs antis again to know miller's glad her bike is now ready to go this weekend, yeah get out and walk and try to ride my bike in. it kind of helps keep me sane thate had a need to take care of her physical and or mental health still spacing his advice for group brides
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it's really imperative that we keep our business for people respect the measures that have been put in place that we can all get through this thing together. >>yeah, some great tips. there that was lonnie wong reporting and again to be clear. you can go outside under the shelter at home order from the governor as long as you keep us a safe distance between yourself and others. well it has been a few days since that initial shock of being told to stay home except for essential task right here in the bay area for some shoppers. the sense of urgency does remain, but are they keeping their distance while waiting in line that's a good question kron four's haaziq madyun took a look. >>the shopping rush continues even after government leaders and says ere is no need to over stop because they say cold it 19 will not have an imct on the food supply it has been several dayssince the shelter-in-place order was issued in san francisco. and as you can see at this pretrial hill safeway store a long line out the door and appears folks are not exactly
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observing the minimum space recommendation for those out there getting supplies or just getting some exercise during the shelter-in-place der here are the social distance requirements of the best ways to protect yourself and others from the san francisco department of emergency managemenavoid groups, stay at least 6 feet away from others reduce the time you are around others outside the home even when you are 6 feet away that would include standing in line at grocery stores there is one exception to the 6 feet rule according to the san francisco department of emergency management's website when you're outside you can be closer to 6 feet if and only if you're in the presence of someone you live with. in san francisco has the menu kron 4 news. >>the coronavirus pandemic is causing a boost in the number of people giving up their pets at least that's the se for a shelter in elk grove near sacramento, right now pet rescue workers say economic hardships could be the reason
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why th elk grove shelter is now closed and the organization has stopped adoptions officials say they've been able to get some of the pets into foster homes, but as time goes on officials say shelters will continue needing some help i do anticipate this gettingorse. >>i am very concerned about at it does mean for the local cats and dogs if you're stuck at home and your border need something to do there's definitely a shelter path that would benefit from having some time. i'm in a home with people. >>in the bay area, the east bay spca has suspended all adoptions but their full service veterinary clinic in oakland will be open by appointment only the latest update on the san francisco spca website says the organization has temporarily suspended volunteer visits with their animal therapy program and has canceled mobile vaccine clinics. >>and we'll take a live look outside of conditions the market general this morning with some clearing skies will
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>>welcome back the pandemic is hitting everyone. hard but it's especially tough for restaurants which are shutting down across the board leaving many without jobs for the foreseeable future in this morning's dine and dish vicki liviakis talk with someone who was once. >>at the helm of celebrated restaurant that's now struggling to survive.
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>>passing by a neighborhood market in san francisco's know we've alley tre boxing wine frederico used to be the general manager of one of the most celebrated carried a few angler like so many restaurants is showing he is without a job, a statement. there's no >>frederico says he's grateful to find work helping out his friend. many of his co-workers not so i. >>but he shot during rally and i essentially busy right now too. >>celebrity chef chris constantino who are also closed down his san francisco restaurant. cox comb is worried that fewer than one in 4 restaurants ll be able to come back after the crisis you
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are at this point the more. >>this is it doesn't matter if ur the best of the down the street everybody affected to get a bigger weight. >>in the meantime frederico is holding out hope and helping box and sell bottles of wine to those who appreciate his knowledge in his effort. they are taking some i see some some takers but get through in san francisco, vicki liakis kron 4 news. >>that's all we can hope is to get through it all safely well still ahead the next hour kron 00:04am morning news will continue to update u on the latest numbers of coronavirus here in the bay area as the death count continues to rise. and then we're going to hear from health care workers who are fighting the pandemic on thfront lines
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morning, thanks a lot for joining us this saturday morning hope you're enjoying your saturday as best she can as we take this live look outside from the embarcadero we see some clearing skies dave spahr will be along in just a few minutes to give us more abt the forecast. hi everybody i'm marty gonzales. >>and i'm no well bellow we are practicing social
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distancing right now just like all of you trying our best to stay safe and healthy as marty said of we are going to take a look at the weather in just a bit but i think we're going to start off with a look at the numbers. the latest numbers of coronavirus cases in the bay area. >>yeah we see the numbers there on your screen from santa clara county, a 196 cases still the largest number of cases in the bay area san mateo county has 100 cases there are 76 cases in san francisco, 46 in contra costa county 45 in alameda county going to the north bay, 38 cases in marine county, 13 in solano county. there are 21 cases in sonoma county and napa is not reporting any cases of the virus thus far. we're also tracking the growing number of cases across the state as california's health department released these numbers showing the increase in key cases every day this week. now we began the week on monday with 392
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cases. >>well now there are or over 1200 cases in california. >>this is attributed to ramped up testing and health officials say they're now is still about 12,000 tests that are results are pending. you can keep all of the contract of all these numbers on our website at kron 4 dot com. well. >>and today, millions of californians are staying home are trying to stay home for the second full day since governor newsome issued th statewide isolation order kron four's dan kerman is taking a look at the imct this order is having on our economy. >>what the rest of california starting to experience san francisco has been doing for 4 days and this is the result of the stay at home order empty streets and most stores shut down we can tolerate this for a while i don't think we can tolerated for too long jim wunderman with the bay area council supports the stay at ome order as the best way of slowing the spread of the
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coronavirus but says it will pack quihe an economic punch the leisure and hospitality industry is somewhere around 12% of the state's own work for september and 2 million workers now is just getting are killed. >>are the constructn indury finance is going to be deeply affected by this so i think it's going to be pretty across the board. >>i am kind of what's. >>going to happen next lara lucre roomba is already experiencing it for the last 8 years karin that has worked as a housekeeper at san francisco's marriott marquis now her 40 hour work week has been cut to 0 and she fears her health benefits may disappear next. >>i'm a single mom and i have 3 key it's signed on the ones providing for them. this land kind that insures about what's happening because i really don't know how long thiswe turn asked business leaders say what ever this ends the
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state will have to play a role in getting businesses both large and small rolling again. >>and that likely means low interest or no interest loans. >>because minus star. there is a business is already been drained of its cash. and doesn't necessarily have the opposition to be able to go into the private market but to get the support to start up again, you know i think the government's going to have to play or you know some rules that either making guaranteeing them and those kinds of things you're making capitol hill who very rarely and its scale is going to matter business leaders say it really all depends on w long the stay at home order will last. >>the longer people are staying home and the longer these businesses are closed the harder will be for california to recover. in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news. >>now to the south bay where downtown san jose is eerily quiet as most businesses there
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are closed. but some business owners are behaving badly not following the shelter-in-place order. san jose police say that they are done was simply warning non essential business owners who are defiantly or ignorantly staying open. police chief eddie garcia says beginning monday violators could face misdemeanor citations. >>several remedies to include criminal citation the business license sanctions and health code violations. we have been in contact with various city in canada departments to explore some of these options again i'll tell you we don't want to go there. but to the educational portion of this is over. we that we need to all the community as a police department quite frankly police departments in the state i need to treat this as seriously as it is. >>san jose police have anewly organized units that will patrol the city in search of violators so far the department says it has warned about 60 people and businesses. now to the east
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bay where health officials in contra costa county say that they're ramping up testing fow car across virus. this after the county also reported its first death from the virus. health officials say the patient was in their 70's and had recently traveled to europe and had an underlying health condition. health officials however did not identify the patients gender nor exactly where in europe they've been visiting. county officials say they are expecting more deaths as we've seen in other parts of the country and throughout the world. >>were at the start of this epidemic here in contra costa county. that we know. the efforts to other countries to put in to do social distancing and sheltering in place. take a while to take effect we also know as we ramp up testing we're going to identify. mork more cases. so unfortunately we we do it expect the numbers of both cas and deaths to go up before they start to go down.
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>>contra costa county has 42 coronavirus cases so far the county ss it's also performing between 4100 tests every day. >>our coverage of the coronavirus cotinues on our website kron 4 dot com there you're going to find the last on outbreaks in the bay area and interactive map and information on how to stay safe. you can find all of this and more just go to the coronavirus top on our website kron
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>>good morning. we're back we're taking a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza on happening now drivers who cross the bay bridge or any other bay area span. well not have to stop at a toll booth to pay the bridge tolls caltrans and the bay area toll authority are temporarily suspending cash toll colltions for all 7 state owned bridges in the bay area until further notice this move is to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for both toll, takers and for drivers. drivers who normally pay cash will instead get a toll invoice later on in the mail. drivers who use fast track or license plate accounts will not be affected by this. >>california's emergency operations center is up and running to coordinate the state's coronavirus response governor, newsome has been meeting with state leaders from many different agencies almost daily for the past few weeks, cal oh, yes director mark ghilarducci says state
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government is well equipped to take on the situation. >>this is all new unchaed territory. what what what isn't is that we have we are a battle tested. that has managed some of the most catastrophic events in modern times we've got tremendous orgazation and procedures and systems in place that we are leveraging to its maximum ability. we have built in designed authorities that have been put place through years of of the one event after the other to ma cars more resilient and more capable of responding to a man's and we're leveging those authorities in this way much of the advanced planning over the previous years it has been done in an all hazard environment not just for earthquakes and fires and floods. but events like this pandemic planning. >>dillard it she says he has spent 3 decades in public safety at every level and the greatest challenges that
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the state has ever seen, dave. >>okay temperatures inthe 40's across a good piece of the real estate with some 50's around the immediate bay. we're tracking some showers concentrated in the south bay, they'll spread out a little bit today better coverage tomorrow going to have that near and far forecast for you. near and far forecast for you. coming up around ♪ ♪ the wait is over. try my newiny tacos. 15 for 3 bucks or loaded for 4 bucks. delivered exclusively with uber eats.
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little clearing what do you think you're always looking at the silver line trying very positive guy or the fortunately bump bump foam. so showers course we need all right we're all kind of hunker down and select the rain com which we do have portunities not just today this weekend into early next week we'll take a look that far forecast for you, but first the near this is what we got right now look up there to mount hamilton, let's agree and some rain. food some snows up there. but certainly some rain lots of low clouds and fog were dealing with 2 this is kind of spreading out the portions of theast asia will see as well live shot coming in from seminole here there you have your overst skies marty's eyeballing the silver lining right about there. so we're looking for where every cam so my early kind of pulse 8 amount of showers going on in some of the selective areas, then it dies off in the with daytime heating boom and does it again. now we don't have this this air masses comingin somewhat mild that's why temperatures still in the 60's even in pces where we're projecting rainbow one on that could be a little different in early into next week. 50's now across a good
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piece of real estate 40's up to the north bay whch is a great recovery because they have 30's just last hour, 46 santa rosa, 41 for nevado 51 meanwhile for san francisco. again it's the toll plaza for the y bridge temperatures go from 59 to 62. we'll call this variable clouds and all of this can't rule out maybe some showers developing after the 4 o'clk time watching future cast for this the morning paul station then the afternoon complements a daytime heating. sunday with daytime heating oh yeah, look how they all kind of spring alive year mountain snows continue in let's go further out there we get better coverage for everybody, although in the north bay, it's still kind of sparse by comparison and by monday morning at lou looks like 's losing some punch that we have success of systems dropping of the gulf of alaska. that's going to be what next week's story is let's look at the collection box he get out a sunday morning not much across the district let's get in sunday afternoon. good coverage, south of the golden gate d the delta looks likes
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points of south as we will pick up maybe about a quarter of an inch of rain as kind of an average san jose not that 0.32 hayward also 0.31 so, and initially the first wave for the weekend is all from the southern trackbut then out of the north comes by tuesday's you can see. rain from the gulf of alaska system so what this means that this is cold air upstairs. so that will generate maybe some thunder showers isated with have potentially maybe some hail too also lowers those snow levels to in the mountains as well we get that for wednesday that we take a break on the thursday. let's go forward into the latter portion a week other piece of energy drop south. and yet the success of one up to the north as well so we're still going to be in someat that unsettled pattern opportunities for showers coming and going through the period there's another little dose there by tuesday the following week highs today, middle to upper 60's that's about all santa rosa at 70 wow 65 for oakland 67 meanwhile for san jose in the 70
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forecast, this is what's happening with the cold air upstairs, mike it some instility monday into wednesday. then again a break by friday in the following weekend looking at maybe more chances for rain back to you. >>in national news, a member of vice resident mike pence's staff has tested positive for coronavirus a spokesperson says neither pence or president trump had close contact with this person, but they artrying to figure out who might have been exposed the vice president is the ite house's point person for coronaviruon friday, he joined the president and the white house task force for a briefing, the president says he knows essential medical ar is in short supply. but it's on the way. >>regardless of who gets them when they we're getting them to him now we're doing the production act we're doing it very much and we have a lot of things cookinright now at a high level. remember this happened before. has ever >>the vice president added whle the risk to average
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americans is low the coronavirus is about 3 times more contagious than the flu. and americans need to follow health care guidelines. we are awaiting another press conference with the coronavirus task force there at the white house we will bring that to you live as soon as it begins right here on the kron 4 weekend morning news party. >>berkeley is on counting down to the day's 2 of its debut of its emergency relief fund. it's designed to help small businesses and residents during the coronavirus pandec earlier in the week, the city voted unanimously to create the multimillion dollar fund hoping that there will be a community match kron four's dan thorn has the story now from berkeley. >>berkeley city council approved million in emergency relief to help local businesses residents and nonprofits the emergency relief launches on sunday and people are being told to share their stories. store front after store front along shattuck avenue posted closed signs next to apology letters
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the coronavirus outbreak is forced to these restaurants and shops to temporarily shot her while others are struggling to maintain. >>it's an economic blow. the city ofberkeley is hoping to curb. >>with the recent quarter numbers >>places like famous bow and others are trying to survive the recent downtu in business. they've been sharing their stories to the berkeley relief and has a plea to the community to help pitch in these local businesses explain just how hard it is bin. >>we're devastated and we have 36 employees who check to pay check will not have the money to pay for rent or food berkeley mayor jesse air again says the fund will be managed by the ci and will only be used for emergency grts the city then plans to give the money to those hardest hit the next few weeks ll be a challenging time where tough decisions will have to be made. >>when you serving in health
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economics we. >>financially and support to are kind of mean. can folks continue. >>federal and state money is also expected to help out the city of berkeley if you're interested in donating to the berkeley really fun you can do so by going online at berkeley really fun dot org. there will be a launch event at 3 o'clock on sunday afternoon with the mayor reporting in berkeley dan thorn kron 4 news. >>and still ahead this morning, we'll take a lookat how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting this year's olympic games. there's speculation. the summe olympics in tokyo coffee before your 8 a.m.
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>>welcome back calls for the postponement of the olympic games are now growing the ceo of usa swimming said it says it is the right and responsible thg to jack tolls has mo on the challenges olympic hopefuls are facing. >>there's a new normal for us athletes is they prepare for the yet to be canceled tokyo games wednesday morning on social media gymnast sam mikulak posted a letter sent to athletes saying the olympic training center in colorado springs had been closed, i just want to take a stance of sand. >>thgs need to get postponed because nothing's fair now rating us champ is scrambling
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to find a place to train. so is donovan frazier the reigning worlchamp in the 800 meters from a partially they shut down all of mega campus which is where akshay. >>and when it comes to the weight room tonight this sports massage there. some like that like all that. >>it is possible up to this point so mike mccaul look in the chin missed many of the top us track and field athlets have to figureout a way to stay in shape in case the games go on as scheduled 5 in realistically. olympics actually happening at this point the way things continuto trend. >>i ink it with things continue to trend. i don't think they will like to be optimistic at this point so donovan is left to decide whether to stay in oregon and figure out how to train or moved back to michigan to familiar and comfortable surroundings. not the bes scenario in an olympic year. >>donovan a the olympics ly come around every 4 years we
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have devastating would it be if it doesn't happen right now, especially when your peaking that just the right time yeah that's reform and did not get the opportunity to do that would be devastating. >>on the journey to tokyo. i'm jack tolls. >>well the coronavirus pandemic is causing a boost in thnumber of people who are giving up their pets. at least that's the case for a shelter now grove near sacramento. pet rescue workers say that economic hardships could be now closed and the shelter is organization has stopped adoptions. officials say that they've been able to get some of the pats into foster homes, but as time goes on. officials say the shelters will continue to need help. >>i do anticipate this gettg worse. i am very concerned about what it does mean for the local cats andogs if you're stuck at home and your border need something to do there's definitely shelter path that would benefit from with people. ime i'm in a home >>so it's even affecting our pat sunny in the bay area, the
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east bay as the east bay spca has suspended all adoptions but they say their full service veterinary clinic in oakland remains open by appointment only the latest update on the san francisco spca website says the organization has temporarily suspended volunteer visits with their animal therapy program and also canceled mobile vaccine clinics. and coming up thismorning let's take going to take a look at what's coming up deiah coronavirus ken a financial toll on many bay area businesses we'll take a lo at how big tech steppi in new covergirl clean fresh skin milk a vegan foundation formulated without formaldehydes, phthalates, parabens, sulfates, and talc giving me a healthy natural look that sa... this is me. covergirl
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a half million dollars and thousands of medical supplies donated silicon valley is doing its part to help slow the spread of covid 19 in santa ara county, but the county needs more for what's to come from forcgayle ong reports from san jose. >>santa clara county has the most copa9 cases in the bay area, the money and equipment will go to the county's public heth care system. >>these are the items needed for our donations so that g we're able to find more about a leader and so as you casee here hand sanitizer gloves masks and all the things our front-line employees need to be saying cin chavez presde of the santa clara county board of supervisors says the county is well prepared but bracing for more covid 19 cases so this is an
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opportunity for us to get prepared in vance what we know the comingweeks are going to bring which is more people who e second we wanna make sure our frontline emloyees, a healthy safe and well san jose mayor m liccardo called the health crisis a storm this is no dierent we're goingto do there is now a donation drive for money and supplies so far businesses and nonprofits ow eir generosity. >>the silicon valley leadership group is a leading the efrt. the group ceo carl donors siro 0 or platforms 0 r banking foods sothat 100% of every contribution goes to the fesang equipment, thousands of suppes from respirators surgical mask gloves hazmat suits ha been donated the goalis to buy 400 ventilators with the money. organizers say en one or 10 bottles of sanitizing products save lives donations can be
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drped off at e valley center medical foundation on clothedrive. >>reporting in san jose gayle ong kron 4 news. >>having ough medical suppies is an issue across the country actually in jacksonville frida hospitals are struggling to make the most out of the equipment they do have an facinga ortage of masks a doctor at the university of florida health says a loofthe equipment comes from asia and covid 19 has slowed down prodtion. the organization is now encouraging local physicians to clean and reuse their personal protective equipment, personal protective equipnt iscommonly known as p p e an it's warned to minimize exposurto hazards at cause serious workplace injuries as well as illness as. >>doctors officesave very little of this equipnt left or available to the. so patients also physicians are using best. they were won best rather shift. workers are at risk theretaking care of
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patients. infected. fighting support care ts their attention save lives. but at the same time they're putting their own lives at risk and quipment. this a concern. >>definitely an email sent to university of florda health employees states the hospital onlyhad a six-week supply of yeow surgical masks and a 30 day supply of the procedural surgical maskto help with the equipment shortagof doctors areadvising patients to not go to the hospitals if they're suffering from only mild symptoms. for americans who still haven't filed their taxes we are getting an ext 3 months to file amid t coronavirus pandic one of those people treasury secrery steven mnuchin tweeted heis moving tax day from april 15th, to july 15th minute d said he was acting at the direction of presiden trump. california also pushed back the state's tax day to
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june 15th. andthe food and drug administration is ofring to work with anyone able to produchand sanitizers the fda normally cracks wn proction of but the administration says. it's laying ousome guidelines on how to prode and distribute the products and it will be taking comments from consumerabout any adverse reactions breweries in several states are among th organizations trying to fill this need party. >>governor newsom is expected to annoce more efforts to manage the coronaviruacross the state with california's coronavirus case count up to more than a 1000 nothe state is working to maximize that spital bed capacity across california in antipation of a surge of covid 19 patients. governor wsome is expected to soon announce that the state will be leasing a southern california hospital on thursday, the governor realed that the state is leasing 175 bes at seton medical enter in daly city.
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those leasesare made possible by a covert 19 emergency funding package, the state lawmakers aproved earlier this week. the governor also requested to mobile hospitals on a floating hospital from the federal government that would add an extra 2000 bets. high school seniors across the bay area have no idea what going to happen to those big landmark events like graduation and prom kron four's michelle kingston spoke with seors in antioch high school who say they understand the importance of social distancing and staying inside. but they're still set to be missing. such animportant part. of the ar. >>zoe davis is a senior at antioch high school varsity track star in homecoming but is no longer in a o gpa classroom these days, she's inside sheltering in place at home because of coronavirus is a little bit. >>sad and. i mean. i'm a little b. disappointed that i
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probably won't be able to participate in thosthings when zoe and her friends will go back to school is stil up in the air after cafornia governor gan newsome announced earlier this week. >>that it's possible stents y not return to class at all thiyear she isn't sure what ll happen with nior trips prom and graduation it s ve confusing and very like. >>a hard time for everybody to process wh's happening right nowthese are photos of happier times innew york high schoostudents like many across the country putting their lives in mar milestones hold seniors possibly not finishing out their nal days with friends led them to who they are today and where ey will be in the fute. >>just being around my teachers in the last time because it's been 4 years and 18 years of school to building up for this and now i feel like i'm missing out on
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experience that i'll probably never get again in antioch michelle kingsn kron 4 news. >>well the shopping rush coinues around the bay area's we try to come to grips with this new way of life. government leaders insist there's no need to paic buy or to hoard supplies. bu take a look at the scene at the port, harold hill safeway store this is in safrancisco on friday with a long line out the door and from the looks of thingpeople are not exactly observing the social distancing that we become aware opast couple of weeks, san rancisco department emergency management release these guidelines abt social distancing just a reminder if you're a getting groceries or taking a lk. you should avoid groups and try to stay at least 6 feet away from other people and reduce the timethat you're around others outside your home. now of course, there's one exception to the feet rule and that is you can be closer than th required 6 feet if you're with people who live in the same house. >>governor gavin newsome is deploying california national guard members to help out food
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banks, many are lacking in voluteers right now because of the coronavirus the governor also issued an executive order to allow residents to vote by mail in 3 coming special elections. this order also extends the deadlines for ballot counting tabulation and other responsibilities related to cal primary. >>several us senators, including san francisco's dianne feinstein are facing questions after it was revealed that they sold off stock before e coronavirus hit the us. tom foremanhas me. >>up to one mlion in stock that's how much republican senator richard burr and his wife pulled out of the market on february 13th just before it started crashg sing 31% in 10 days time for sell off the public did not know the seriousness of e virus. it's going to disaear one day it's like a miracle it will disappear but as the powerful
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airman of the intelligence committee of ruia probe fame wagetting detailed she just after birth sold those stocks he eventold a gathering at the capitol hill club in d the virus could be very bad, according to a recording obtained by npr is probably worand 99 and giving rth says the npr report is a tabloid style hit piece that knowingly and irresponsibly misreprented his comments he wants an ethics investigation to prove he did not use inside information to protect his bank account but conservative pundits who have long thought burr, not loyal enough to the present are pouncing up he must sign from the senate and face prosecution for insider tradingdemocratic presidential contender andrew yang, tweeted if you hear about a paemic and your first move is to adjust your stock portfolio you should probably not be in a job that
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serves thpublic interest. other senators are being scrutinized for big stock dus democrat dianne feinstein and republican jim inhofe but both say their trades were initiated by others and they were not as privy to virus updates. i do want to set the record saight republican senator kelly loeffler did attend the big virus brfing tweeted afterward about the work being done to quote keep our country safe and healthy and she and her husband who is chairman of the new york stock exchange sold hundreds of thousands in stock. she said it was all handled by a 3rd party above board, but i'm on informed of my transactions after they occur several weeks so certainly those transactions at least on my behalf were a mix of buys and sells very routine and the president's assessment of the mall and they said they did nothing wrong. >>i find them the whole group very honorab people. >>well that was tom foman reporting now again senaor feinstein reported that her husband so off between one and half millionollars worth of stock. in allogene therapeutics more than a month
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ago that san francisco based biotech company researches and develops cures for cancer. senator feinstein says she did not attend the january no input on her husband's had decisions at this point there's no concrete oof of anyone and acting on insider information or breaking laws, but there e calls for an ethics investigation. well they've be stranded in honduras since last weekend will finally they're back home. we're talking about members of thus women's tackle football team, they're all back home this morning after being stranded in that central american country for more than a week. the pentagon flew a milita plane to bring the team from honduras to charleston south carolina. it's all part of a biggeus mission to repatriate american citizens during the coronirus outbreak. football players are all part of a nonprofit amecan football events team usa. they arrived in honduras last week for tournament. but by last tball
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saturd night the remaining games were canceled as the honduran government banned large gatherings and by sunday flhts out of honduras had beengrounded. >>we are taking a live look outside at the goden gate bridge, a little more cld cover than when we last checked in on this we'rgoing to get a check of your forect in st a taking a live look
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outside at our sit at the suture tower it is looking a littlehazy out there dave thitime last weekwe were seeing rain will we see more rain this weekend. yeah, it looks like today antomorrow know it's very very scattered is the story we have for this morning particularly in. >>dierent parts of the bay are seeing kind of different types of weather this little bit more ominous than what 're actually getting the amounts that been collected in the south baythis is of the system is reallmuch favoring the south this go around. it's been very modest only couple 107 inch of rain us far in parcular the higher elevations, we'reooking at as well elsewhere across the bay doesn't look great for for rain today tomorrow, 'll get more of the bay involv particularly overnighinto monday morning. and also after this first morning pole stati it will break up a little bit befe the daytime heating will fire up again moreshowers probably in the higher elevations. there's a live shot from semine you can see still that overcast that we have hanging around in the satellite looping there you can see the collection and what this does is cover up the
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sun a littlebit we don't get as much daytime heating kind of the exhaust clouds start to dissipate and we get more of the sun backed t of the ground that will than far off again some more later afternoon evening showers going on here, let's go and run through th on future cast for you see it dissipate and then redevelop later afternoon, not toomany hours of sunshine left so then begin dissipates welcome snows by the way do continue into tomorrow. wkind of repeat the process a little bit wh more development of the south but then her coveraget looks like a little bit from sunday night into the overnight and also little bit the way more deeper isture which to work with here looks like those other clearing patch developing into our monday, however before more unsettl weather early into next week o mostly cloudy showers outh. south of the north they were talking about mild with tomorrow shows build from the south rain and showers bay area wide late. and then for next week, we're showers and rain under showers breaking up by thursday only redeveloping into friday look
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at these temperatures though mid to upper 60's in cases particular the seeing ain in san jose at67, 65 for oakland in 64 for san francisco. that because the source of all this air mass is from the south. a little different to wt we're going to see later next week when these systems come in from the north that we have mid to uer 60's going on the southern end of the bay but up to 70% of rosa. complements a better day time heating and sunshine for 70 forecast noting some strikes of lightning here wednesday and also monday that's to the instability being driven by cold air aloft coming in from that. gulf of alaska notice a bit of a temperature drop to more showers into next week and it looks like back to you. as we follow the govnor's order to shelter in place during the coronavirus pandemic e social distance seen the lack of social activities. >>lack of freed to come and go aswe please all of this can cause stressand anxiety. so we want to rn our health expert, karen a lot to eyes join us wih some tips
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that may help make these uncertain times a little bit more bearable also strengtheni our immunity and karen joins us by skype either care in our area that i know they're really little bit more than 6 feet apt. yes, >>let's talk little bit about some things that we c do that to help us gethrough this and a healthy way. onof the first things you talk abo isthe ct that stress really does weaken the immune system. it really does the court is always have it on our ability to to fight off those pahogens that enter our body so whatever we cado to try to reduce that a good thing. >>and l's talk a little bit about some things that we can online. such is a may be watching me ted talks. >>exactly still learning new things you know a t of people said that they used to uses take them 3 hours to commute a day younow they game maybe 15 hours of time.
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in given week. so let's a great opportunity to learn a new skill male take some classes, ted talks are reat they air less than 18 minutes long. also there's a a website called skill share and i love them because they create all these online classes that are intuition is only a 25 a while that's a great deal and you can eat free. >>you can't be free. so you don have to pay if you want the premium 8.25 a month, you know one thing that a lot of people are doing is they're also going online to exercise instead of going to the gym since they can't now they're exercising online as well. >>absolutely the are a lot of things you can get r free on you so take advantage of that. >>one of the thing that you mention is to start a gratitude journal can you explain what yomean by that. >>yes that's something i teach
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in my stress management classes, you know for gratitude is actuay a learned skill. and i'm still practicing gratitude every day perspective they can make start thinking more outside of just what ihappening around you. so writdown things everyday that you're grateful for your thankful for and that'going to. kind of open up their world and actually make you feel better. >>and it doesn't necessarily have to be lae life changing things that we're grateful fo that can be just so you hato act of kiness that happened to you or are u gave something to someone else and that's something to be grateful for. >>exactly exactlyso it doesn't have to be thilong journalt can put more stress on your life rightust a take some notes but actually be moraware ofhose things that are our go in your life and you don't get make you feel more positive and
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optimistic. >>andyou also recommend heading to the kitch. >>oh you you know you finally might have some time to yeah, if you don't know how to there are a lot of onle colaneri classes. they're also a lot of yotube videos lots of food blogs that you can take advantage but i now that your kids are home, this is a great time to engage with the children and he said a new life skills. >>that is so impoant because right now so many parents are focusing on just getting through the school lessons with mathand science and things like this. it a nice break for everybody to hop into the kitchen and maybe make lunctogether or somethinglike that get dinner ready. >>absolutely because actually cooking is a learning learning oprtunity you know you learn matthe hoh a learning how to out how to read you learn about science and how cooking more cseh low. it's a it's one of thlessons
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he can instill in cr your daily routine. >>this next tip that you have certainly would be helpful but i know a lot of people put it off and that is to de clutter house. be clean ound the >>yes, thats one of those things we put off but when at in this it clred situation, 24 7. and you know it might with it what i really like ing that decluttering it it makes you decide what's most impornt in your life. yeah, a great point get rid the things you just don't need any more. yeah, yeah, and the last and well so if u are stuck in your house, you declutter you'll haveless to eat to and more space and you'll helping someone else out who is is donate na those clothes and things like this the last one i love and that is of course. >>watch something fun. yes, much of things and y know
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laughter really saythe endorphins those national pain killers and it gives you makes you feel good. >>so kind of goack to some of those movies or shows that you liked as a child that ten brings bacgood feelings. 2 but ink think >>we all need that escape right now karen in and thank you so much for those tips and stay se. >
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>>welcome back the gilroy garlic festival will not happening this year organized organizers anunced the cancellation saying gin the unprecedented national ergency we face we must put the health and well-being of our community first the festival was scduled to happen despite last year's mass shooting which did leave 3 ople dead and injured 17 others. >>and san francis's annual bay to breakers is also postponed because conavirus concns city officials made that famous yeay run through the city s scheduled to take place in may will now be held on ptember 20thall existing 2020 bay to breakers registrations will be hored for that new date. and one of o now closed to visitors yosemite national park ose friday at the quote at the request of the county health partment there. other national parks of close to some areas but this is the first national park to cle
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entirely in the country. hoteland restaurants at yosemite were shut down tuesday as a precaution. guess we're told that closure would last at least unl the end of the month. all right marty here's a quick look at our 7 day forecast we have some thunder showers visiting us into next week with some cold air aloft gog on in temperatures dropping ths 50's a little bit. >>there will be back to more rain it looks like intthe following weekenwith milder temperatures just like th week. all right da thanks a lot that's going to do itfor us, thanks so much for joining us. yeah we will continue to update you on coronavirus on our kron on streaming app it's 24 7 and it is free right now during coronavirus stick with us. in a man's world?
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