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>>probably the tought week between this weeknd next week. then they'll a lot of deaths unforunately but a lot less death death and if this wasn't done, t there will be >>president trump agaia somber message he predicts thousands of americans wil die from coronavirus in the coming weeks. it's a new day. >>and we're turning the page on our old approach to w we coordinate w we collaborate how we organize and how we
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distribute information to you in the public around the issue of sting. >>gornor newsom says what we're doing is working and testing needs to be ramped up. >>he'll have more on our efforts here to curve the deaths in our state. >>to not be fully protected is is just stretchingour staff coa and he's out all proper acti. >>and bay area rses on the front lines of the pandemic pleading for re personal protective equipment amid a nationwide shortage. thank you r joining us on this sunday hunch aims fletcher and i'm darya folsom an we're gng to have all of the coronavirus news that you need today. >>but first we want to ke a look at the weather because it was already raining pretty good when i left the house this morning looks like is going continue john travel ining us remotely with the forecast for us this mornin good morning john. good morng guys, yeah we saw some good rainfall already across
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e bay area that cludes for the nth bay and then especially the south bay now into the tri valley all these areas look at rain actively fallg at the moment, so wet roadways if you have to venture outside. >>90 of us don't have to do that is morning. so i'd say wait to walk the dog or go on your walk untia little bit later on this is where we're at as far as rainfall goes across the region you can e those showers still pushing in as we speak for some areas across the bay area as for inland st bay, some heavier rainfall right now being seen ride out towards oakley antioch discery bay east of mount diablo a little bit further soutjust east of the blows of san jose you're lso looking at some heavier showers let's look the inland east bay right now a little closer livermore you saw some powerl rainfa moderate to heavy rain just moments o starting to lift a little bit to the northeast now so discovy bay out towards oakley antioch and eventually nortof the delta starting to
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see me of those heavier showers now picking up little bit further south rainfall has minished in san jose as compared to where you were about an hour or 2 ago you saw heavy rain to stt the morning roadways like 2.81 oh one and 85 ithe south bay are all a very t though from those early morning showers which as you can se here on satellite and radar still do continue.we saw completely parate band of rainfall working its y through the norty eli napa off to an 2 you bill boutahour ago was and the bits of some very heavy rainfall that is w since diminished, so we are looking at conditions coming down for some litle bit later on this morning, let's ve back to 09:00am right here because that's what i'm excting this next band of rainfall to really begin to start dropping on in the bay and sure remember yesrday we saw periods where rainfall increased and thentied down for a little bit we've got that going on yet again today so that next band of rainfall will start in the nth bay gradually working its way down a little bit furtherouth and
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's gointo take ti in doing so it's only by about that we art to see that same rainfall now making its way into theast bay, the peninsula and eventually the uth bay by the early afternoon.it makes 10 here a few areas of rain and thunderstor to to be noted, so we've got a very active day on top of us today, muchlike we had yesterday,i'm trackg the rest of your forecast an what to expect on into the upcoming week as well all still to come stay with us back to you inthe studio, thanks john. >>now to our coronavirus coverage the u.s. marking anothenew recordor most coronavirus deathsin a single day with this past24 hours now seeing 1300 people died from the rus. president rump says this week is going to be the roughest. he says countless americanswill die including doctorsand nurses on the front lines. >>a medical ofessionals what they've de because they are they walk into those hospitals you see him putting on the year and ere they're putting in orders that walking through the front doors. then some of
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those people that the guy guy. you know it's like incredible and we can say what we want. tony and ev about young >>medium age to have enty of those people dying to you know it's. >>it generally. it's the older people when they have problems in young people doingit hits middle age people to put these people walking into hospitals anthey watch a cute i think it's. that you could have and they're puttingheir out for them getting into and they're going in to go on strike. it's like a thatit's like a war. >>e virus has killed more than 8,000 americans. so far 285 of them right here in california in the bay area. 88 people have lost their battle with the virus 39 of those deaths the harde hit area of santa clara county san mateo county has had 13peop
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die 8 people have died in san francisco, 5 in contra costa, in alameda, 7 people in marin county have died coronavirus so far solano and sonoma counties those each of seen one death anin napa county the virus has killed 2 people. >>california is mping up testing in the state hesays the system needs to be more robust order to get an accurate count and a better pictreof the siation. the state is now working with u c dais and you see san diego to develop hubs to t more test results back. stanford is also working on blood tests to help out and recently they handed out more than 41 million 95 mks. newsome says the state is eing double digit increases when it comes to the need for ice you beds in hospitals and he stressed the need for everyone to continue to practice social distancing. >>but recognize 're not out of the woods. we still deh rates now over 237 12 plus 1000 people have tesd
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positive were seen double digit ineases in many of these areas including in rms of the icy you bets you do the math on that. this is serious. >>nowhe governor also says the state's backlog of coronavirus tests that need to be processed is down from level of 13,000 as of this morning, there e more than 12,000 positive cases, 2300 of them remain hospitaliz. and over 1000 are in intensiv care. we've been dog in californiappears to be working though, there is that silver lining lives are being saved in fact a new model by theniversity of washington shows fewer people are now projected to die in our state. this time last week the model predted that there would be about 6100 deaths in california by august 4th. well now that same model says that it's out 5,000. researchers say the decrease in the model is likely the result of the continued social distancing that we're seeing here such as school closures and shelter-in-ace orders and also major travel
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restrictions unfortunately, the model also predicts though rise in the national death toll. 2 more th 95,000 deaths from covid-19. >>and the south bay santa clara county as ou know has the most to coronavirus cas of anywhere here in the bay area and now poce are beginning to cite people fo not following social distancing orders with kron four'sgayle ong with that story. >>san jose police y they've responded to at least 766 locaons. nation 2 citations to businesses for not complyg th stay at hoe orders. it ws a warning san jose police chief die garcia gave early onif nonessential businesses operate during sheltein-place orders, they face a misdemeanor citation sansa clara county is the epicter of copa 19 in the bay area. >>county ficials grated the unity a b plus on physical distancinlast week we saw improvementempty streets and parts a sign of people following orders. >>one week latealso empty
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streets but as of april second san jose poce responded to hundreds of locations throughout the city and issued 2 citations police created a team designated to addrs businesses and individuals not complying th the county's order in santa clara county sheriff's deputies have been responding to calls what concerns of people not physically distanci understand fficult for everyone. >>well there's a lot of changes going on in the 30 who had from day to day the county sheriff's office is expecting the community to comply with public health guidines you want to first show up and you keep them poppy is a warning. >>we really donot want to fight anyone if you don't need . >>santa clara county da's office now they have a tip people can report on here nonessential businesse operating during the stay at home orders. gayle ong kron 4 news. >>7 '09 is the time today is palm sunday and chstians around the world world worship in a different way because of coronavirus almost all of the
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churches around the world are closed. so worippers will pope held mass this morning he behind closeddoors in the vatican. his message to hi billions of followers. protect others and continue to socially distance yourself. the archdiocese of san francisco is live streaming mass al morning long. >>we'll take a quk brea here 7.10 the coming upon the kron 00:04am morning news. we're going hearfrom some y area nurses on the front lines dangerous conditions. they're facing we'll have more on their story and then we're going totell you about the latest drivehru coronirus testi site here in the bay area and the requirements needed in order get tested there. so stay tuned for that and also a new warninfrom scientists asking peoplto stay away from beaches during this pandemic we're
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a new warning now from a california scientists don't go to the beach doctor kim prater says the beach actually one of the most dangerous places to be right now shfears the coronavirus is entering coastal waters and being transferred ck into the air right along the coast. >>she's adding that the 6 feet distancing role doest apply to the beach because coastal winds can skit strong at times sending the coronavis particle soaring well beyond that 6 foot periter, so just heed the warning don't go to the daryn over is weekend probably not the best one to do that the next week and must beclear and people may be itching to get outsid no beach is not the place to go just remember what we're saying in the news today we'r really seeing the difference in. >>our state compared to other stes terms of the curve the number of people who ve died and where kind of that curve is going a lot of them are waiting peak and we're already sort of rounding the corner and that is not really great and it's with it all because of what you guys are doing solutely let's talk about the weather as i mentioned it is a little wet
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out there. john travel joining us motely once again with the forecast. >>city he was so tied the car to he and the all of us a ttle bit out of it including a he was not what they get up off the couch, but yes this ekend, not the best one for really doing mu outside and especially not the beach next weekend where you're going to have the temptation to step out a lile bit more because that's when sunsne comes back out now this weekend rainfall and snowfall in the sierra has been significant it has definely relted in some good rain ross the bay area already yesterday and there's re where that came fromtoday you can see the ay skies over berkeley right here skies that will remain great for much the day so this is our system right hereit's currently bringing in rain from the south west pushing on into the bay area zooming in on the bay itself you casee we do have actively rain falling, including some
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moderate showers right on the peniula, some of our heavier east bay rainfall is now starting to move out of the area so you're catching a break in the tri valley as well as up and wn 6.80 from walnut creek down to the tri lley even on up to concord once you head rth of the car key is though county still holding on the light to moderate showers as you are as well and both ran and napa counties right now on over into sonoma county to so very active morning roadways are wet if you do have to get outside person grocery shopping sure most of us though don't have plans on that withsuch a stormy day ahead of us pefully if you stocked up you can just stay home and not even ventureout there because it's just t the eal conditions to be doing so at all this system right here will clea out to tomorrow and wh we're going to see after that point after these on and off showers today and even an isolated thunderstorm is a surgence in rainbow briefly tomorrow after pretty calm evening tonight, we'll see owers working their way in from a
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differe direction tomorrow athe system spends off to our south pushing in from the east so by 03:30pm on monday have the opportunity for an olated shower or thundetorm in their most o our rainfall though is actually going to be today so tomorrow just a brief riod of holding on and then after that looks like we're in the air for much the rest of the forecast and another snow makerin the sierra nevada, this is 3 weekends in a row with significant snowfall piling up up there that's really od news because we have the final snowball a survey of the season earlier and not only should aroun50% of normal snowpack so the feet of snowfall that you're getting up the sierra nevada is very welcome, especially considering you can't really travel up there so that impact is to banh compared to a normalweekend with roadways would have been super sy temperatures in the upper 50's for your daytime highs today, a touch cooler than yesterday was tomorrow despite the factthat we're going to be starting the morning cooler daytime highs will be just a littlebit warmer tuesday. you're going to see even warmer daytime highs yet which is the
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slightest chance of a sprinkle or 2 ally after monday your chances of rain fall pretty much shot that leads us into a dry rest of the ward rested week and next weekend looking much drier and clear then this one has brought us also to back your way in the >>all righ thanks live shot 7.19 and new this morning, the >>after the itial ed 2 months. coronavirus outbreak in china critical medical supplies and equipment, yeah after review of federal purchasing contracts, it turns out the u.s. waited until mid-march begin placing bulrs of those and 95 masks and medical respirats ventilators and other quipment needed by frontline healthcare workers. don't forget the firsalarm of a global pandemic was sounded back inearly january and now hospitals across the country are dealing with having a treat thousands inected patients withoutthe equipment they need. one bay area nurse now is begging for help. >>health care workers have been hail heroes because of
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the work they're doi on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic but the selfless doctors and nurses saying they need protecti which fast. 2 mckernan is an rn wh works at the acute respiratory isolation unit at ucsf medical center she works 3 days a week 12 hour shifts in what has essentially become the covid-19 unit at the hospital. she says because of a shortage of personal protective equipment. they're forced to go without or reuse their gear ich is ngerous for tients and workers and has never been done before. >>to not be fully protected is is just stretcng our staff coach and he's out all proper actiocomic union says she's counting on her ployer and
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for the ate and federal goverent to pitch in. >>ppe shortages have been happening nationwide but thout the right equipment workers are left wondering if more problems are being lawyer and a. >>stop reay disheartening we should park md. >>commack union says that health care workers nt to continue helping these patients and helping out their communities but they too need help. the califora nursing association and naonal nurses united is hoping at congress will invoke the defense production act to produce the materialsthat are needed to help out in this battle, reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. >>people and businesses have been wonderng how they can help and now california is making it easier. this state has just set up a wesite for people who want to donate personal protective equipment to health care workers. if you go to covid-19 supplies dot ca
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dot gov you'll find a form you see this and you can put in your contact information and the amount and type of supplies that you nt to give we also have a link to is on our website at kron 4 dot com. >> a new drive through testing siteis open in fremont it's free for people who are sick. also for first responders and health care workers who may be expod to covid-19 it's a 2 part testing process first a person must have a fever of more than a 100 degrees and also sho symptoms of cod-19 like a cough or shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. also persistent pain or pressure in the chest and other respiratory symptoms, those all qualify. you al have have a referral from a doctor i should say that is not required so that's what's different re. the people who meet the criteria that you se on the screen will get swabbed in both their nasal. a track and also the back of the throat and this will be done inside theirehicle. and once those sampl are collected it will go to a lab in menlopark for analysis. any first responder or alth care
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professional who meets the testing criteria can bo a test in advance. >>after months of self-isolation the 650 cruise a crew members aboard the grand princess ship. they are out of quarantine now so they can walk around the ship finally the cruise line said members were allowed to ave their rooms and roam the ship they still have to wear protective equipment and gear and practice socia distancing. the crew's been quarantining in san francisco bay since 2 passgers and one crew member died on board from covid-19 about a 103 others tested positive all of the passengers were dropped off at the portof oakland last month and theship is expected to leave the base soon and spent several days at sea for routine marine operations. our coverage of the coronavirus continueon our website at kron 4 dot m. you'll have chance to go over the interactive map there and real crunched the numbers if you like and look at all the headlines for you on ways to
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>>.29 right now checking out the forecast not only s it raining in my neighborhood yesterday. >>as i looked out the but windy to pass that was still mornin i know sit across the bay bridge anyy go to thok john little breezy still this morning, a guess. >>we're ill looking at those runs this morning and it's not just for the pay either but all the y up into the sierra nevada where nds have actually contributed to a winter storm warning 50 mile per hour gusts up there. so i kw a lot of us not going to be traveling fortunately that means weather is going to have a double impact fous but should have be traveling into the sierra it would have been nice and should yo have been traveling out of sfo today it also would not have been anice day for it we've got rain actively falling at sfo as well ome pretty strong winds at thairport too so
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it's a good ing that we're all staying hunkered down today pefully comfortable indoors and i'd recommend a stay that way as much as possible today limit that walk as much asyou can as for rainfall is pushing on into the bay area mostly from the southwest, currently we can actually see some pretty good shower activity on areas like the peninsula and into the north bay east bay you've come do over the past few minutes the tri valley had been looking at heavy rain all right along 6.80 own on of 2 wle the creek in concord just about an hour ago that has come down but on e peninsula there you do see some heavier showers and in the north bay bergen county, a moderate rainfall right around sandrbell if you're crossing the richmond center fell bridge cambridge or golden gate anytime today do expect wet roadways as you're doing so further south and there's that heaviest of ral around valey d soh of half on bay on highway, one roadways are wet and conditions out there just not necessarily the best for stepping outside rit now now
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we are going to catch breaks from time to time as far as rain go, b n't expect that to be the last of it by 095am infal pis back up for the north bay in the same band ually spreads further southward te into the morning on into early afternoon by one 45pm and east and the south bay seeing some of our heavier showers so this is something we're going toe dealing with a lot of the y t just a morning rain fall but into the early afternoon snow in the sierra during thsametime now we are going to see some clearing going on tonight a pretty calm evening. but rainbow push is back samarra late morning into early afternoon again is will be brief income along with a few isolated going to be the moreoow unpredictable type of rain for you look at some sunshine temporarily and then those guard. so don't forget about that potential of afternoon rain fall tomorrow before we do clear out after that point on to the resof the week snowfall in the sierra neda for a 3rd weekend in a w
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snow will linger into tomorrow with cditions improving after thapoint as for today in the bay area daytme highs in the upper 50's so one of our cooler days certainly one of our cloudier and raini days to we have much better weather justround the corner which i'll talk more about still aheaur forecast back to you in the studio. >>this will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week. then they'll be a lot of death and fortunately. >>a bleak statement from president trump is the number of deaths from the corovirus continues to rise. >>1300 americans died just yesterday, 1301 day. the trajectory is frightening e death toll is 8,000 today last sunday james it was 2000 in the week before that 300 americans ve died. it is skyrocketing here are the number of infections. >>300,000 have tested positivemore than any other country in the world and the esident acknowledge states still don't have ough
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lifesaving ventilators for everyone who y need one. they also warn governors against what he called playing politics wh it comes to asking the federal goverent for supplies. >>nobody's ever seen anything like this in terms ventilators in terms of protective equipment. uniforms and outfits. but it makes it more difficult for distributors to prioritize the real ed. and did could intentionally and you know. that they th had everybody has proper intentions, but they want to make sure they're 100% and sometimes when they know they don't need that they wantedanyway. that gives hi that extra feeling of satisfaction but we just can't do that it not even possle to think abouit. and that's why a we're back up. >>remember we're back up. >>vice predent me pence says that fema is helping get ventilators to places which need the most he says the federal government is also working to get personal protective gear to those hot spots. well the president also
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said that he believes professional sports can resume quote sooner than later and that arens and stadiums will eventually be filled with fans attending games the president made those comments after speaking on a conference call with commissioners from the major sports. >>these are all the great leaders of sport and. they want to get back to got to get back he can't do this. this porch weredesigned for the wasn't designed for women have to get back. we want to get back on very soon. >>the governor gavin newsome says that he's not anticipating thahappening here any timesoon at least not for the nfl. >>and it lookslike they're going hit their peak. for the outbreak at coming up ptty soon anmandy gaither has more on what that meansfor them and the rest of the coury. >>it's the point at whicthe covid9 outbreak could start getting better. but it's also the point where it's at its
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worst. >>that is the ulimate challenge for the health care system. can we ndle that number of cases at the high point of the curve. they call it the battle of them at the top bause that's what it's the number one point of. to be engage meant of t enemy with more than 113,000 cov-19 cases, new york is now bracing for the a packs governor andrew cuomo believes it will happen over the next 4 to 8 days, we're noyet the a packs. a part of me. would like to be it the aacks and just let's do it. >>but ts part of me that says is good that we're t at the a packs because we're not yet ready for he a packs either muchlike how the world watched cas grow than diminish and cha all eyes are now on new yorto be the model for what's to come we. >>to care e hospital including personnel last 2000
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500 beds that we've but just javits including personnel. and we opn up to covid reacng the apex doesn'tmean the end this pandemic for new yorkerss just the turnin point leading the state down a lo road to recovery. >>i'm man gaither reporting. >>intense hospital needs and gh death and sickness numbers are expected to packs as part of new york's a preparations, new york ci convention center has been turned into a facility for covid-19. it has 2500 beds and its staff by the u.s. army. >>president trump by the way is reacting to the firing of santa rosa native navy captain brett cause you're after he wrote a lettepleading for help for his sailors aboard the uss theodore roosevelt. saors that wee infected with the coronavirus the presidentsays the captain kosher was inappropriate. >>more important. he wrote a letterthe letter was 5 page
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letter from the captain. and the letter was all over the place. that's not appropria. i don't think that's appropriate. and these are tough people these uh tough strong people i do it it looked terriblto be honest with you now they've made that decisi i did make the decision secretary of defense was involved in a lot of people arabout. >>i thought it was terrible what he did to write a letr. i mean this isclassen literature. this is captain of a massive ship that nuclear powered. he shouldn't be talking that way in a letter he could call and ask and suggest. but he epped in vietnam. a lot of peop got off the boat they came back and they had infection. and i thght it was inapproprie for the captain of thship could i want to i don't want tocomment as to whether or not but i agree with the decision 100%. >>meanwhile there are now a 155 cases of coronarus on the uss theodore roosevelt
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that said eric aircaft carrier. nearly ha ofhe ship's crew has now been tested for covid-19. the ship is now in port in guam where more than 1500 sailors are currently in quarantine while they wait for theicovid-19 test results. dealing with the coronavirus obviously can be for me unnerving for others and stressful for all of us. if you feel likeyou need some help or neesomebody to talk to there is the national disaster distress helpline it's been set up wi professionals on the other end that couldelp talk you through it it's 1, 809 8, 5 5990. again that's 1, 809 8, 5 5990 thers a text number if you're more comfortable doing that in a tty number that's been set up for the hearing impaired we'll always have this information for you on our web site so if you don't have a chanceto jot down the number now. if you don't think you need it now, but mayb later you do just go to kron 4 dot cowe've got th lately, i've dcovered at while keeping safe and staying , we can still go out! -sort of. so while you're discovering new things to do in the box,
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>>it is the time and you're not supposed to go out to except for maybe the walk the dog and today is going to be one of even the dogs not going to like oh i know, yes certainly need the rain boots are some puddles out there we john triba a remotely here with the focast talk more about th martin job. >>the bags and of those dogs that's and i want tbe but yeah, i don't know, but i want to go outside either, it's still loing ki of rough out there we have showers and cool temperures yet again you havon top of that some pretty breezy conditionto and it's just not the recipe for a nice day spent outdoors definitely helps tokeep inside do not miss out on ythinby staying inside you can see those cloudy skies and rainy conditions over in the east bay very windy for the south bay this rning and winds will continue for coastal areas, escially our upper elevations out of the east bay like all to month passed on into the early
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afternoon now generally as we move into e finish of the day thins are going to come down annot just wins, but al showers coming down towards the close the day today has been a very acive bay east bay and south bay of all checked in with some pretty heavy rain at times and as we make our ay through your current hour we're continuing to look at spots whererainfall is proving to morning spent outdoors at southern end the peniula sing moderate showers right there along 2.8also looking at wideread light showers up in the north bay and down the east bay from richmond tough oakland down eventually wards fremont even the northern end of san jose to livermore the tri valley, you're still also looking at some spots of heavy rainfall at this moment yesterday's rain having since cleared toy actually a pare resultg in 2 days in a row with the surge of rainfall now we're going to continue to see this rain fall on into the early afternoon today, another band will be puing through
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and then early afternoon, the southern end of the peninsula east bay and south bay you see at noon right infall pushing back in for areas like n se and thereally increasing it beyond that point towards around 03:00pm so we still have multiple hours ahead of us with some good rainfall to be seen it won't be until after 06:00 to 07:00pm that we really start to see conditions coming down a fairly iet evening and then tomorrow afternoon a brief resurgence ofrainfall to expect the possibility of that's not just for inland d areas because 04:00pm here even for areas like san francisco closer to the coast seeing hat potential of some after that point we do look at some drier and quieter conditns that includes for the bay area as well as the sierra neda, which now has seen 3 weekends in a row with solid snowfall and it's grea that we're seeing anotherdose of heavy snow because our snow survey of the last week
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reportedthat most stations only had around 50% of the average snowpack so the multiple feet that we are seeing today even though it would ha made for awful travel is definitely good even better news most of us don't even have to worry about adding up there as we are all shelter in place temperatures in the low to mid 50's right now not a big change in temperatures this afternoon on warming by around 5 degrees from currently to our daytime highs later today which will remain in the 50's r most of the bay, san jose 59 oaknd hayward conquered and front each 58 for your ytime highs tomorrow temperatures around the sam afternoon thunderstorms and just the slightest chance of a few sprinkles saying on tuesday really be on that point it's pretty sunny with daytime highs working our way backup into the 70's by thursday that will set us up for a much more comfortable weekend ext weekend but this weekend obviouy not the one to be doing much hopefully are inside and stayingdry this
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morning. back to u thanks john. >>now to an amazg story of survival actually a 90 year-old woman from the life care center in washington state who contracted vid-19 was actualy near death for a time. has n won her fight against coronavis sara sidery tells us how she managed to pull through. >>ni-year-old >>geneva would was sure she >>i said to thedoctor this . and i'm not going make it. >>doctors called her family and to say their final goodbyes to a call tt said that her over the place but and there they didn't think had just survived a stroke. >>but r rehab she was sent to anursing home topped. i couldn't do anything om a
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less jabber. anthe and ddenly she was dying. >>not from a stroke. but from contracting covid-19 there. it urned out woods nursing home was the first place in america to have a major deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus she did that by so coming back to the stroke.to be rule the strong-willed feisty gre grandmother who d survived dozens of flu's the depression and world war >>was a re shell of herself and then her 90 yr-old body fought back. >>it's great to and here that's far and be able to my
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kid i thought you were going to say a hug or a ki, but you tricked me and that was pretty darned she's bat kicking enjoying her favorite chair and making her special pato soup. >>the fight to save geneva was worth it her daughter says she has a message for politicians like texas eutenant vernor dan patrick, who said the elderly should be sacrificed for the economy. >>we'll take care of ourselves, but don't sacrific the country >>i guess maybe vis and see what he would do r her. many of us to get where they it's probably to get that virus and see how it feels. >>her mom has message for everybody else. fight the virus with everythg you've got. >>a furr that there year and this year and do what your
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said, and your and cheap. tea party. >>sarah sider cnn. >>right now and a quick run to the store to grab one or 2 necessities is kind of possible these days becae they're big lines outside because of social-ditancing at target walmart as we know ha in limiting the number of shoppers that are allowed n their stores in any one time. >>the new practice began yesterday we've sn it at costco both retailers though say the number of shoppers allowed inside will depend on the size of the store so it's going very depending on the facility walmart is aiming at about 20% of the ste's capacity to be in at any given time as i said costco ready stard limiting the number of customers. they did that last fridayand take a look ate line outside the costco in south san francisco. down the street. this was a line just to t into the parking lot before you actually get into the store costco's new policies also include no more than 2 people to enter the warehouse with each membership
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card and only members age 60 the morning until 9 that's tuesday through thursday and costco's also asking members to use social diancing guidelines by allong at least 6 feet of space between each person once they're inside the ore our coverage the coronavirus pandemic continues on our website at kron 4 dot m so go there. >>because we've got all the latest headlines. an interacti map and we also have that brand new website break to the california new website where you can help and if you have things to donate if you want to get them to people who need them. they've got a newebsite. it's a got a newebsite. it's a clearinghou for tha is this for real? oh... it's real. believe me. i meanthis is unexpected. you would say, remarkable? absolutely. a remarkable deal! thanksi get that all the time. wait what? grocrey outlet jingle♪
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like to give a shout out to jessica who lives in pittsburgh. she personally delivered pizzas soda and homemade masks to the pittsburgh police department yesterday. just because a member of th u.s. coast guard. the police department thanks her. and we thanher for her service and fortaking care her local officers. and we would like to hear who is a hero in your neighborhood y can nominate a person in your community doing great things to help others during his crisis all you have to do is go to kron 4 dot com slash features slash kron 4 heroes. and we look forward hearing from you about the amazing people doing good things in yo community. 7.56 coming up here in the next hour, the kron 00:04am morning news. governor newsome promising
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more coronavirus testing in california as the state works to make sure that people stay athome to flatten the curve. and this mes amid a grim message rom president trump who is telling the nation to bre for more coronarus deaths in the coming weeks. plus we're going hear om local nurses on the front lines at hospitals o are begging for more protective gear as they eat pati getting outside more now than ever before.
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toughest week between this week and next week. then they'll be a lot of death unfortunately. but a lot less death death and if this sn't done, but there will be death. >>preside trump there with a im messages. he predicts thousands of americans will die from coronavirus in the coming weeks. it's a new day and we're turning the page on our old approach to how we coordinate how collaborate how we organize and how we stribute information to you in he public around the issue of testing. >>govern newsome talks about testing as new models show fewer people are projected to die here than previously predicted. just sttching our stff is coach and he's out ll for
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action. >>and barry nurseson he front lines of the pandemic plead for more personal protective equipment amid a nationwide shortage. thank you fojoining us on this suay morning, i'm james fletcher and i'm darya folsom coronavirus is like a fire california is doing a good job putting a damper on it. >>the virus continues to kill at an alarming rate around the country we're oing to have the numbers in the headlines in coronavirus but we wnt to get a look at theweather first yeah first off let's head off to a well john's remote location this morning for the forecast grandma's actions. he's moving first time he's today's have no i thin you kind of feel that way though to after this rainy dreary if you don't want to leave the house you're really not missing out on anything because weather out there continuing to be less an ideal for any sort of outdoor activits today you can see acrosthe bay conditns definitely cloudy and rainy
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can see much of thsan francisco skyline from our view up in the north bay right there showers continue to push on into the bay area and we'll be looking for much of the day ahead some of our heaviest of rainfall has now worked its way on into the east bay, let's zoom on this area of showers that is currently moving to the northeast right around newark union city hayward even up to oakland, you seen some pretty heavy rainfall here in the past few nutes showers will continue to push along 8.80 and eventually up towards lafayette or and concord in walnut creek within the next few minutes as for the north bay, some isolated spots of heavier rain including on the noh side of the city of napa right now if you are traveling on 29 up towards saint helene and yacht bi some very wet roadways. i'm only for those people that must elin obviously most of us are staying at home and a convenient timing for rain to be stayg atme when you really don't hae too many aces they need to be going showers will continue off and
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eveninto e early afternoon mid afternoon areas like the south bay, the peninsula in the st bay are still going to be holding on some heavier rain from time to time it won't be until riht around really start to come down a ns quiet eveningbefore rainfall pushes back in tomorrow afternoon antomorrow afternoon. our best chance of some thunderstorms not just for inland areas either, but all the way out towas the coast areas like san francisco could get in the mix with me afternoon thunderstorms on monday before quieting down on into tuesday snowfall in the sier nevada for the 3rd weekend in a row, we're only a 50% snow pack for most of the sierra in our last snow survey, so this feet of snowfl that we're seeing is really good news after tomorrow, it does quiet down it looklike there's good quiet period ahead, not just for the bay, but also for e mountainsafter this weekend, rain and snow. >>temperatures in the day today will ri in the upper 50's, atever cooler days in this forecast, i'm tracking
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today and just what to expect in the rest of your forecast all stillahead back to you in the studio all right, thanks so 8 '03 and the death toll is more than 8,000 americans now you can see. >>how it's rising when you compare last couple weeks. 00 people died. today as of today. last sunday,the death toll was 2000 t week befo that just 300 amecan to die. james pretty dramatic when you put it in context like that predent trump says this week though. >>will be thtoughest for the u.s.. he says countless americans. we'll die doctor deborah berki should say with the coronavirus task force says that now is the time to sty home. >>watching them because they are starting to go and that upside of the curve. we're ping and believing that if ople mitigate strongly the work that they did over the last 2 weeks for blunt that curve anthey won't have the same upward slope and peak that new york, new jersey,
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connecticut and part of rhode island are having so this is a very important the next 2 weeks are extraordinarily important a that's why i think you've heard from docr fauci for myself from the president and the vice president that this is the you can on the presidential t guidelines, this is the moment to not be going to the grocery store not gog to the pharmacy by doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe and that means everybody doing the 6 feet distancing washing your >>and so it's harto believe these numbers are with social diancing. that's what's helping that's what's keeping the deficit down. the virus has killed more than 8,0 americans as we said. >>285 of those deathshere in california and in the bay area 88 people. >>have lost their battle with the virus 39 of those deaths than the hardest hit area of santa clara county. >>san mateo county has had 13
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deaths 8 peop have died in san francisco 5 in contra costa, 12 inalameda 7 people hae died in marin county. so r solano and sonoma counties havehad one death each and in-app of the virus has killed 2 people. >>well california is ramping up teting in the state adding the system needs to be more robust in order to get a more virus and who doesn't. e the state is now working with u c davis d yosee san diego to develop hubs to get these test results back quicker.stanford is also working on blood tests to lp out and fact recently handed out more than 41 million n 95 masks. newsome says the state is seeing double digit increases wh it comes to the need for i see you beds in hospitals.he stressed the need for everyone to continue social distancing is great. >>but recognize we're not out of the woods. we still is death rates now over 237 12 plus 1000 people have tested
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positive were seen double digit increases in many of these areas including interms of the icy you bets you the math on that. this is serious. >>and the governor also says the state's backlog of coronavis tests that need to be processed is down. it wasn't nearly 60,000 now it' down about 13,000 and as this morning, there are more than 12,000 positive cases, 2300 of them remain hospitalized with a ttle over a 1000 of them in intensive care. out that what we've been doing here in california appears to be working and saving lives and new model by the university of washington showsfewer people are now projected to die in our state. at this time last week the model was predicting that they would be about 6100 deaths here in california by august 4th. well the model now says only about 5,000 people may die. researchers say the decrease in the model's output is likely the result of what we've been doing the continued social distanci the school closures of the shelr in at home orders and the major
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travel restrictions fortunately the model though does predict rise in the national death toll to now more than 95,000 deaths frm covid-19 that's a crazy thing, whatever we're doing here we're all connected >>and as i said they're talking about like in michigan now they're treating it like a fire, yes, you like it keep spreading in fact i believe it's michigan yet michigan just overtook us it was new york then new jersey to california in terms of deaths now to michigan in terms of the number of cases and detroit is a special are especially a hot spot there. you know where else there's a hot spot in contra costa county nefact a mass isolation and uarantine order has been issued for people th coronavirus so those that have tested positive. >>the number of cases there went from 0 to 307 within a month and that sounded alar in after her sing home more than 2 dozen of these people are in a nursing facility kron forcefully to cll has mo. >>a dramatic ike in positive novel conavirus for covid-19
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cases leading the contra costa county public health ficer to be sure mass isolation d quarantine order for people with the virus and those closest to them. >>the medical or evacuation emergencies are e only acceptable reasons for covid positive people to leave isolation.re than 300 county residents have tested po there being 0 reported ses at the beginning of march. if you testepositive, but are not showing symptoms. you must isola for 7 days from the date of the positive test. if you've tested positive and are quarantine for at least 7 days since your symptoms started. you're also required to tell anyone you may have been in contact with but you'veteed positive the der then requirethose contacts to lf-isolate for 14 daysfrom the st time they were in contact with the person who tested positive. symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of brth, th
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public health department is also investigati 3 senior care facilities inthe county including are in day care center. this after contra costa alth services confirmed covid-19outbreak at the skd nursing cility, health services opened up an investigati into the facility after 2 staff members received medical care and testepositive for e vis. all staff and residents have since been tested andthe resul came ck positive for at least 27 people at this time e health department says no one from the facility who has tested positive has ied until further notice visitors, there are prohibited in contra costa county fleet should a kron 4 news. >>and our coverage of the corovirus continues on our website don't forget tokron 4 dot com. we'll have the very late on the outbreaks and the latest advice from national and local medical experts on how you can stay safe and keep yr loved ones safe as well st look for the coronavirus tab under the new section of our websitakr lately, i've dcovered th
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right we're back it is 8.5 and a quick warning now from a ys the beach actually is one of the most dangerous places to be right now you might think the opposite rising people call i meant the feature time now and it's the wind things and keep air right now turns out that nd is exactly the problem. >>it basically defeats the ole purpose of the 6 feet social-distancing rads keep carry. because the wind can >>any sort of respiratory droplets om somebody. well past 6 feet and you know land on you and your doctor was saying mething about that you could contaminate the water and thewater than the spray. >>cks it up can then now spre the virus toeverybody else on the beach, so she's recommendinnot to go to the beach which we saa couple weekends back a lot of people
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were there now this weekend of course not so much because the the rain but next week and potentially could spot such must be back every time th weather gets nice people get tempted to go out to be a cold idiot don't do it at the rain put a damper on that in a job now tell us about it. >>it definitely will rain is going to be putting a damper on anhing you want to be doing outside specially going to the beach considering that informationespecially a stay inside stay drbecause rainfall it's stayg with us throughout the course of the day today, not just for your morning not a pretty worked from sun old very green thankfl due to that rainll that we ne it and have seen over the past couple of days now we'll see more of it to as showers continue to work their way into the base from the southwest this morning coming in on the day some of our heaviest of rainfall at the time is actually sitting or wre about the tri valley on up into the hills above oakland and berkeley lafayette, a random or august seeing some heavier showers conquered and now a down
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towards walnut creek also fastarting a ght e heavier showers up in the north bay very widespread thurber and snow back and that the defitelyantivemorning so and we're going continue to see this forecastremaining active through the morning had 09:45arit he showers continuing to push on into the bay by around early afternoon, so heavr ran and then we with continue to see rainfall pushing in a 3rd band making itway in towas mid-afternoon after 056pm, we should start quiet down and into the evening a nice breather ahead of what will be thunderstorms into tomorrow afternoon between the hours of 02:06pm, tomorrow that's not just inland areas, the there but all the way out to the coast in areas ike san francisco after tomorrow. that's when we see our forecast starting to become a bit more still quieting down for the bay as well as sierra neada winter storm warnings do remain in effect through the day today on into tomorrow or the sierra as we don't just
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look at multiple feet of snowfall but also winds gusting as high as 50 mile per hour up there that's the 3rd weend in a row with snow and considering that we're only a 50% of average during our last snow rvey, it's great to see that we'vegot another big snow maker that we're currently in the midst of righnow temperatures in the low to mid 50's for your current temperatures and we're not goingto see much change and not into the afternoon day time highs only rise into the upper 50's o about 5 degrees warmethan where we're currently sitting soverall rainy and windy. not a good combination of factors for doing much outside a limit that walk as much as you can tomorrow afternoon thunderstorms after some sunshine from time to time to maybe thinkat all were cleared out, but don't be we still do have some rainfall likely to be seen tomorrow afternoon st a couple sprinkles possibltuesday really beyond that point it is dry and increasingly with highs back into the 70's by thursday and staying that way
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for your next weekend. back to you in e studio. >>thanks a 19 right now and we can't go back now, but ames it appears that we madesome mistakes yes thu.s. waited way too ng wasted precious months after finding out out the outbreak in china before it started stockpiling on criti after review a federa purchasingcontracts. it was revealed the u.s. waited until mid-march to gin placing bulk ders of thosand 95 masks and meanical ventilators and other equipment tt's desperately needed by frontline healthcare worker. don't forget the first alar of a global pandemic were sounded in early january. and it wasn't until mid-march at the u. started getting its act in gear. most hospitals across the untry are now treating thousands of infected patients without the equipment they ed to keep those front-line workers safe area. theyay have found answer to the cries for help to protect medical workers on the ont lines, they need masks. >>washington stte has come up
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with a revolutionary decontamination system gary at takes a look at how works. >>until now one of these and 95 masks uld be used only it was contaminated a t, then ohazard and you have to throw it away but this brand new revolutionary system being built right now can take fo 1000 of these every single day sanitize them clean them and make them reusable using a common thing like hydrogen peroxide. >>the decontamination system being installed at camp murray righnow so far is the only one of its kind anwhere on the west coas and it's bein called. a ga changer. the breakthrough technology uses shipping containers to clean nd sanitize 5,000 protective masks d even some face shields out one time up to 80,000 24 hour period using vaporized hydrogen
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peroxide and so alcohol. >>the time. >>r fever is abut 3 and a ha hours followed by several hours a variation to et to a level wherestaff can re enter th space the syst was invented and rushed to marke by a ience and tech company called battelle in ohio, there are only 4 of these in the country right now, and they're expected to help or even end health care workers on the front lis of e covid-19 pandemic. >>i'm really excited about this to shington. i think really grateful first sit survey is light and ted has >>this system is expeed to run arou the clock and put more than a half-millionn 95 masks safely back into us everysingle week when the delivery truck shows up to drop off their next segment, they drop off read with the pps been decontaminated the previouthat the people charged with fighting the rus and saving lives called this a blessing.
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>>the shortage of pp e is serious releasethat's the best protection is called his friend so safe is just tremendous the sciences who put together this new battelle critical care decontamination system. >>stay withor system you can actually clean and reuse these things up to 20 times. >>that will really lucky to have these folks right now they only exist in ohio new york, the d c repoing tonight from some amish pondering corker congrs avenue. >>and we've been talking about how a lot of people and businesses have been wondring how they can help. well california now is making it easier with a web site for you to go if you want to donate personal protective gear equipment for healthcare workers or any her kind of supply that we need right now you go to their website. it's cod-19 supplies dot ca dot-gov there's a formright there you see that that's where you put in your contact information and then the amount and type of supplies
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that you have and that you can sed. and we also have a link to this on our website at kron coronavirus is scary unnerving stressful. can give me a lot of anxiety and this is a great number to have if you n't need it already jot it down. >>because there's a disaster distss helpline you can call and there are people who will talk you through it 895, 5990. we also have a link on kron 4 dot com called for calm really has all the informatn they need so you get to places that you help. how you can help others and that ways that you survive this pandemic as raul hunker down and doing our best and only anas we're saying james week to show up...
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this sunday morning and it's already started raining in he 20 like yesterday. yeah heard all night felt the wind on the bridge this morning to john travel santa by with a look at the forecast anwhat we'll expect i guess today in the week ahead staying on settledown. yeah, you know what we are going to see improvements but we are definitely unttled today and even torrow to you might ink y're out of the woods. briefly tomorrow when you see thatsunshine peeking back out but some afternoon thunderstorms likely to greet us from monday see how we're still in the midst of you look outside at san francisco om across the day shows a clear view than what we saw a few minuteago showers have been in and out through the morning right now areas like san francisco are certain things see things brighteni up briefly, but there is more rainfall to the west a hangin out just off shore that s about to be pushing its way into the kreider situation in the city currently you're looking at light to moderate rainfall in the north bay and some of our heaviest of showers still continuing out in the east bay this morning where around san mon walnut
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creek conquered those showers have moved their way and now and tht is where you're looking at some of our heaviest of rainfall, lafayette on over to walnut these areas definitely on not just the rain the side but also the with the site this morning right around pa but some rerain falls pushing its way in towards moran, its noma counties that will be so by no means are we anywhere ose de with the rain it'sgoing to stay with us for much of the day in fact into latemorning early afternoon. >>when we can expectsome of 02:45pm right here a south bay southern endof the peninsu and the spacing some of our heaviest potential of rain after that things uiet down settang us up for a calm evening before tomorrow afternoon thunderstor popping up not just in mind but also towards the coast that includes areas like san francisco d even more in countyas well as our inland areas which re more prone to thunderstorms this time of year after that is when we start to see conditions coming
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down in early tuesdaon through the rest of the week looks to be etty calm after that point snow in the sierra nevada continues today into tomorw with winter storm warnings during the same time quieting after that point to fothe sierra jt like the bay area well. today's daytime highs remaining in the 50's not much different than currently more infoin your forecast is still to come back to you in the studio. >>this will be probly the toughest week between this week and next ek. then they'll be a lot of death and fortunely. >>andhat was the bleak statement from president trump reminng us that a number of deaths from the coronavirus will likely happenin the week ahead. we've got 1300 americans started dying just yesterday along at 1300 in one day and the trajectory is 8,100 today st sunday it was 2000 the week before that only 300 americans have died. >>here the number of infections. 300,000 people
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have tested positive. more than any other country in the world right here in the u.s. and the president acknledged states still don't have enough. >>of those lifesaving ventilators for everyone who might need one. he so warned governors against what he lled quote playing politics when it comes to asking e federal government for supplies. >>nobody's ever seen ything like this in terms of ventilators in terms of protective equipment. uniforms and outfits. but it makes it more difficult for distributors to prioritize e real need. and did could intentionally and yoknow. that they they had everybody has proper intentions, b they want to make sure they're 0% and sometimes when they know they don't need it they wanted anyway. that gives him that extra feeng of satisfaction but we just can't do that it's not even possible to think about it. and that's why and we're back up. remember 're back up. >>vice president mike pence says that fema is helping get
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ventilators to places which need the mo he says the federal government is also working to get personal protective ger to those hot spots as well. >>meantime though we continue to hear stoes from hospital begging for more gear, they don't have enougmedical supplies for themselves or their patients. ur shington dc rrespondent reports on the efforts underway to try to keep up with the influx of new patients. if we do not ha a coordinated response people are going to die. >>we're going to have patients die and alth care providers dies university of michigan ctor mahlon han says the shortage medic supplies to hospitals across the doing creative things with are peol protective equipment. i never would have dreamed up. i have never seen this level of anxiety among healthcare rkers and with the number of patients needing car increasing she's calling on the federal government to step inthis stateso when do
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their best to meet the challenge, but i think they're not can be able to do it in with e time pressures that we have we have to be coordinated michigan senator gary peters says the trump administration's choice to let states lead is slowing progress how states are out there trying to buy whe they can and what happens is they tend to bid against each other, but the national stck le of protective equipment ruingl, the white house says it is working to purase more. but they're also encouraging states to do more to notion of the federal stockpile was exposed our stockpiles not supposed to be you have to think differently michigan republican congressman bi high zynga says thwhite house is right to not the time to turn this into a politicaotball, you have to have some are federal coordination. >>yet at the same time having states and the states know better wh th ne. i'm absolutely furious. while lawmakers figh >>mahlon says time is running out in washington raquel martin. couple of things on that first of all california
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because we're talking abut how to get our medical supplies up remember they just open the website where you can go there's a link on kron dot com cause i was just saying yesterday member. >>fashion designer has a day is creating these masks for people because you don't want to do the medical mask, but she said i can also make gowns and stuff. it's tough right. how do i do it now that's how you do it and then also so they're so desperatein new for bodies for doctors and nurs as wl the governor announced the signing an executive order there to allow medical stunts who haven't even graduated they will graduate hill this spring rit to begin working right away and be cleared to goin and continue to well put themselves in harm's way t save lives. that's that's governor cuomo know vernor newsome here in california asked for something simar. >>people that were still in trainig to come on into the hospital totart helping out this is story harry sacrifice that they're makingby doing that all that all health ca
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workers. so we thank them absolutely dealing with the conavirus is scary just to have to you know here are the headlines right now eveto tap to keep up with the news can cause you to be really you know stressed out anxious worried, here's a number to call it's a disaster distress helpline 895 5990. you can also text talk with us to 6, 6, 7, 4, 6, and if you ever miss any of this information links website one numbers
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>>it's 39 and governor newsom sign an executive orde expanding child care services for health care workers and other esential workers. this as lawmakers around the country are ing for more childcare options during the pandemic our washington correspondent basal john has ore. >>household texas republican senator john cornyn says many of our front line workers cannot battled this pandic without day care for their children, it's not a matter just convenience, it's a matter of necessity that's why cornyn says congress included billion to keep chldcare facilities operating as part of the coronavirus relief package for people who are you know in public safety and the heth care professions, the grocery sres and center nda smith direcr of the bipartin policy center's early childhood initiatives says the money es to states and state officials must decidehow to spend it safely. this is risky rk. >>they are ting the children
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of ople who are outhere. >>and exposed. so governors are now havi to think through how do we make some of these decisions. texas governor greg bott says the 17,000 acres in the state will nohave to start doinhealth screenings for stafchildren and parents. lynette fraga with ild re aware of america says the money will also go towards cleaning sulies sanitizing equipment. >>making sure at they have are to make sure the bases are safe but she says the 3.5 billion is just a down payment we need so much more. approximately aboutbillion. she says that would keep day cares operating throu summer. fraga is asking coness for the additional money in the nexcoronavirus relief bill. in washington, i'm anna warninkey. >>after the break we're gng to take a look at the spread of the coronavirus conspiracy theories online and on tv even
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>>welcome back 8.44 on this sunday morning coitions out there good for staying inside that a mother nature cooperating with sheltering in place that's for sure you're not missng out on anything but not venturing out today you can see those gray skies sitting over san francisco an rain conditions also
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remaining across the bay area. it's not just rain either, but it's so quite breezy out therwinds will continue int the early afternoon before evenually coming down into the cle of the day towards the evening tonight, no rainfall is also going to st with us through mid-afternoon before coming intothe evening rainbow rkingits way into the bay from the southwest and you do see some of our heavr spots of rain over in the in the east bay now over mount diablo right around conquered walnut creek and up into la countyto widesea lighter showers up in the north bay and we've still got plenty more rain pushing into the bay area where that came from future cast showing u howlong it will st with us wards 1015 a band of heavier rain all working its as into after that point well showers push further to he south east and by the time we work into the early aftnoon, san jose in the inland east bay checking in with some heavierrain showers begin to die down after 06:00pto 07:00pm tonight and we set ourselves up for a calmer
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evening ahead of a few afternoon thunderstor building back into the bay area coe tomorrow afternoon mostly betwn 02:06pm, torrow after that we can officially ke that breath and relax because we've got a mu drier and calmer were cast from that point on needed this rain and we certnly need that snow in the sierra nevada has our latest snow survey indicated we only he around 50% of averagesnowpack we've seen multle feet of snowfall through the day yesterday a will continue to see that today one of the reasons we have a winter storm warning in fect not a lot of people ing to be traveling up there and hey it's a good time to be seeing a big snowstorm up in the sierra because well like said not a whole lot of us have to worry about it. we're down re sheltering-in-place low to mid 50's for your current temperatures daytime highs toy only 5 degrees warmer than that up to the uppe50's and oakland conquered a word, san jose and even san francisco sharing a a whole lot of temperature ot
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variatioacross the bay today morrow similar forecast to today as faas temperatures go you wl see some sunshine tomorrow and then afternoon thunderstorms building just a slight chance of a few sprinkles tuesday and after that looks like we're in the clear with sunshi and 70's returning by the end of this upcoming workweek and the start of the weekend back to you in the studio. >>thanks 46 antoday is palm nday and christians around the world will worship in a different way because of the ronavirus well except for a past in louisiana, who plans to hold 3 services at the 1000 member life bernacle mega church in baton rouge, louisiana in defiance of that state's order banning large gatrings. pastor, tony spell says he's defyinge les beuse the commandment of god is to spread the gospel.even the pope tugh is spreading god's word a way that won't spread coronavirus he he ma this morning behind
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closed doorin the vatican, his message to his followers protect others and continue on the soial distancing. the archdiocese of san francisco is live streaming mass all morning long. >>the u.s. nohas the most covi19 cases in the world and thousandhave died many people ntinued to downplay the seriousness of this disease. some even spreading dangerous conspiracy theories about it cnn's brian stetler has more. >>if you could see my hospital this physician says you wod know the horror of covid-19. >>but most people can't see inside the beleagueed hospitals new york in new orleans, miami and detroit and other hot spot anthat's given rise to the nus conspiracy theories and even some denial is a team that could hurt republican that's what people re saying film your hospital use social media are showing quiet scenes outside hospitals.
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>and suggesting it's not that bad inside i'm sick and tired of hearing about all is fake news, but they are lucky to be on the outside out becausen the inside this is a war zone. >>he medical war zone weeks of rhetoric from president trump and right wing stars downplaying the daers that looks ignorant now patric cowden whose husband died from coronavirus at a veteran's me. now worries ithe home's adnistrator was influenced by the predent e commander saying it was nothing you and wonders >>who soft pedaled the thre i just can't be mad about it i just think there was a lot of confusion. too much cfusion for us, thanksa serious tal radipersonalities and other pele close to the president's spread faulty informationabout the virus the coronavirus is is is the common ld fog tht was rush limbaugh back in february. as recently as last week, rush was down in the government's medical professionals we
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didn't elect president to differ on to a bunch of heal experts that we don't know. >>how do know they're even heal experts hdismisses true expertise yesterday and this week he's still focusg on the holidays. they want you to blame president trump for the pro trump media is on way to prop up the president. >>id new scrutiny of trump's belad response tothe pandemic some are still trying to downplay the severity of th disea, but most are shifting blame to china to democrats and tothe news constant complainingrending >>and frankly lack of accountability of that got sean hannity traing his sights on new york governor andrew cmo. >>while ignoring the trump administration's failures as the new york times reports blame the left is a big part of the aybook and right wing webses are still promoting anecdotes that sugsts things an't that bad. but the growing number of widows indicates otherwise. and this
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is our pearl harbomoment, that's what the surgeon general says. >>he says it's a defining moment for this generaon, and it will be the hardest nd the saddest week of most americans lives. ahead of us now as the death toll is expected to peak in the u.s.. next thursday. our coverage of the coronavus pandemic continues on our website at kron 4 dot com you can read all of the headlines. the latest news and also get ve important links to numbers and other resources that are available re in the bay ar. still ahead and the couple mning news coming up in the 9 o'clock hour, a community remembers a nurse stocg at a hospital and rus
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>>and we're back time now 8.54 the shelter at home ders been tough for all of us, especially for young kids have been separated from their classmates or teachers or friends. but they'r trying to ke the most of it. scol in pleasant hill traded and r a virtual learning for good old fashioned colode teachers drove by it rough the neighborhoods and waved from eir cars to students and family. >>they wanted to let the kids know that they e dearly missed. >>teach a camp for asked the they faxed a time i could i here and some teacher, i know
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at least fire away and >>this like a lot because ans that they're showing right discsed barron wis going around every neighborhood and tryingto tear up people because well you're stuck inside and you can't really do much for the teachers aregoing t an doing th to check, i feel like chair of people. >>well ey're all looking forward to getting back to css get back to their friends in the fall fingers crossed that that actually happens. >>and the up being home alone for your birthday that's probably t what any kid wants to do, but the campbell police department haa way to make your child's birthday special they are offering drive-by birthday celebrations. officer will come by with lights and sirens for your child's birthday santa clara county special appearance for this.
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and if you're interested in this type of celebration for your child you can go to our website kron 4 dot com for more information about that that's a way to be a like to hear your story of a hero do you know somebody you can nominate a person in your community doing great things to help others during this crisis go to kron 4 dot com slash atures slash kron 4 heroes. and we look forward to hearing more about the special person that you'd like to minate james all right we'll take a quick break it is 8.56 ill ahead here on the kron 4 morning news governor gavin wsome promising. >>more coronavirus testing here in california as the stateworks to make sure that people stay at home to continue flattening the curve. >>and this comes amid a grim reminderfrom the president who says that we need to brace for more coronavirus deaths in the weeks to come more that in a minut plus we're also hearing frolocal nurses on the front lines are in the hospita right now. in some cases literally begging for more protective gear as they trd treat patients, we'll
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predicts thousands of amicans will die from coonavirus in the coming weeks. it's a new day. >>and we're turning the page on our old approach to how we coordinate how we collaborate how oanize and how we distribute infoation to you in the publiaround the ssue of testing. >>even as california ramps up sting the governor says social distancing is working to keep infections down in california. >>cannot be fully protected is is just stretching our action. >>and local nursethere on the front lines of a pandemic pleadingfor more persnal protective equipment. amid a nationwide shortage, thank you for joining us this morning on this sunday april 5th on james fletcher and i'm darya folsom coronavirus is spreadi like a fire and calirnia is doing
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a good job of putting a damper on it. >>but the virus continues to kill and we're going to have the latest on the headlines, terrib numbers coming in to kron 4 but first want to get a look at the weather this morning because it is raing out there. yeah john trimble joining us remotely with a sunday, od morning john. his >>morning guys yeah raining outside yet again today much like we saw yesterday, you're not missing out on anything but not venturing outside definitely a good day to hunker down just a niceand warm and dry, most importantly indoors as for current conditions rainfall being seen out in the east bay county much ofa view from berkeley through the clouds and rain that is falling out there what we're seeing a is rainfall shing in from the southwest and it's going to stay with us not just through the morning but into the early afternoon to some areas to know where rain is falling a little have years that includes the peninsula withthese pockets of heavier rainfall about to be working their way on to the peninsula here in the next few moments north bay also looking at a pretty active situation east bay as well right around
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an eeoc oakley on up to rtd's a areas right alg highway for a right there in the nort bay from fairfield out to rio vista looking at some heavier showers at the moment little bit further north now but you're also eingsome areas of isolated heavy rainfall. therthern end of napa countalchcking inth some heavr spots of rain futurecast shows you that not just through the morning but on into the afternoon bands of morateeveheavy shers willcontinue to be pushing on of things you can see in the green and yellow there, but definitely an active day one to stay indoors. a quier evening tonight before resurgence of rain into tomorrow afternoon that could come along with a few rules of thunder not just for land areas, but clear out to the coast. arealike san francisco could even see a couple of those rules the thunder beforwe do come down for the rest of the forecast from tuesday on snow in the sierra nevada has been much
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needed her latest snow survey put most of around 50% of average so thismultiple feet of snow. we started seeing yesterday we'll continue to s today and even hang on to tomorrow is very welcome after that point it not just the bayonet dries outbut also the erra today's weather staying cool daytime highs peaking in continuing just as i showed you i've got an updated look at radar still to come in the forecast back to you. thanks john. >>let's get tothdeath tolls and it's now more than8,500 people who have died and you can see e toll rising, when you could just compare the last couplofweeks, 00 americans have died today last sunday that numberwas 2000 and the week before that just 300 americans have died james, yeah, and just in the past 24 hours alone more tha1400. >>americans have died an president trump says this week will be the toughest for the u.s. doctor anthony fauci who is leading the coronavirus task force is that ople need to continue social distancing. >>when people are separated fr each other virus does not
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transmit. it doesn't go anywhere. and that's he reason why something as simple as the physical separation shows all the time here from this podium. every aspect of that enng the covid outbreak in 30 days has some aspe of within that avoiding crow with that staying 6 feet away from people whether that's doing telling working all of it does th that's our most important tool. >>the healthexperts all agree now is not the time to even think about when we ght start to gather again as th virus has killed more than 8500 people so far in the country. 85 of those people died right here in california and in the bay area. 88 people have lost heir battle with the virus 39 in the hardest hit nta clara county, san mateo counthas seen 13 deaths 8 people have died in
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san francisco 5 in contra costa, 12 in alameda, 7 in marion county. solano and sonoma counties have had one death each and in na county the virus has killed 2 people. >>announced that the state is ramping up testing in fact he added that he's working with universities to develop ne ways to getthat testing done faster kron four's theresa takesa look that thsting space has been a challenging onefor an eye on that california governor vin newsome diving right in providing details about how the state is doing in its fight ainst the coronavirus. >>i have responsibility as your governor to do better and to do more teing in th state of cafornia. >>he says testing numbers are enough saying that the system needs be more robust to provide an accurate picture to do that. he says the state is now partnering with the u c davis and you see san diego to back are now in a position s where ican confidently say
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it's a new day. >>and we're turning t page on our old approach to how we how we organize and how we te distribute information to you ithe public around the issue ofesting. >>the governor also says that stanforis working on blood testto help out. and recently they handed out 41.2 million and 95 mass and while all of this is going onthe numbercontinue to rise. >>number of hospitalized. in the state system now 2300 a number ofeople on i see you 1008 that represents a 10.9%. increase. in i c u versus the previous day. some 12,02 individuals now have tested for covid-19 in the state of california, not laly the govern stressed. >> is now more important than ever to do the right thing, not to be lax and
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sociali. >>but recognize we're not out of the woods. we still is death rates now over 237 12 plus 1000 people have teed positive were seen double digit increases in many of these areas including in terms math on that this is serious e to recess stasio kron 4 news. >>well in the south bay santa clara county as we know has had more coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the bay ea and now police areciting people who are not following social distancing orders.kron four's gayle on has more. >>san jose police say theve responded to at least 766 locations. natin 2 citations to bunesses for not complying stay athom orders. it was a warning n josepolice chief eddie garcia gave earlyon if nonessential businesses operate during shter-in-place orders, they face a misdemeanor citation santa clara county is the
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epicenter of copa 19 in the bay area county officials grethe community ab plus on physical distancing last week we saw improvement empty streets anparts a sign of people following orders. >>one week lar also empty streets but as of april second san jose police responded to hundreds of locations 2 citations police created a d team designated toaddress sinesses and individuals not complying with e county's order in santa clara county sheriff's deputies have been responding to calls with concerns of people not physically distancing everyone. ifficult for >>well there's a lo of changes going on very fluid from day to day the county sheriff's office is expting the community to comply with public health guidelines you want to first show up and you keep them. well the issue a warng. >>we really do not want to fight anyone if you d't need to. >>santa clara county da's ofce now they have a tip li and the e-mail where people can report on nonessential businesses operating during the stay at
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home orders. gayle ong kron 4 news. >>today is palm sunday and christians around the world are worshiping in a different way because of coronavirus well except for a pastor in louisiana who plans to hold free services at the 1000 church in baton rouge. inga defiance of that state's order banning large gatherings. pastor tony spell says that he is defying the rules beuse quote the commandment of go is to spread the gospel. even the pope is spreading god's word in a way that won't spread coronavirus heheld mass ths morning behind closed doors in the vatin and his message his follows, protect others and to continue to soial distance. the archdiocese of san francisco is a liv streaminmass all morning long. >>well our coverage of the coronarus coinues on our website at kron 4 docom don't forget. that's where we'll always havethe very latest headlines, a very latest information and pdates from government officials and
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best keep yourself and your o family safe just look for the coronavirus section that under the news tab. kron 4 dot com. our we'll take a quick break it is 9 '09 still head on the sunday morning we're going to hear from some bay area nurse on e front lines of the coronavirus abouthe dangerous conditions. they're facing and then we're going to tell you about the latest drive-thru coronavirus testing site here in the bay area and the requirements needed in order to get tested there. >>and a new wning from scientists asking people now to stay awayfrom beaches during this pandemic will tell yo why. lately, i've dcoved that while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out! -sort of. so while you're discovering new things to do in the box, we'lbe here for you... at the drive-thru, on the mobile app, and th delivery. on the mobile app, tting outside more now than ever before. it's spring. the seon we plant, we garden, we grow things. we bring new cor to our oor spa.
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the air circulating absolutel but th's part of the problem e says people can unwittingly put coronavirus into the water and then the spray and thocean when can throw that into othepeple's faces people that are farther out than that 6 feet social distaning reirements. so you think you're safe, but you feel that sea breeze on your face and you don't know that there could be coronavirus in that and that's the g worry w that couldspread mh faster at the beach and that that's probably why don't forget they came out west to the warning saying everybody should be wearing a mask so that you don't cough or sneeze and that would spread. yeah, you know mabe even beyond where we are w james, even when it comestalking you've got respiratory droplets that come ouof your mouth and i into the air so be real careful about that i know the beach probably won'be high because the rain but john travel here talking about a forecast that probably could include beach what a weather later on right john. yeah, it could definitely include that later on like this said tody for beach and he was kind of
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gross out there not onlyis it rainy and grey, but you've so got some pretty strong winds closer to the ast to your view from timber on is oking pretty wet rainfall having fallen up in rin county resultinin a wet lens on camera therand that's just the situaton all across the bay something that we really eeded to see was this rain and the snow in the sierra nevada has also been especially considering you can't really avel anywhere today so i just want to t some valuable rain working at the bay area there are some spots where rainfall is heier and that inudes portions of the peninsula on up in summer in county nortrn napa county and then out to the delta just east of antioch and oakley starng calm down a bit out to the east bay towards livermore on towards fremont and san leandro but definitely still an tiveday with plenty more rainfall ahead of by 1045 and other band of rain pushes into the peninsula and the north bay this will push further eastward by noontime down into the south baand east bay by this point and
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then a resurgence of rainfall after that another round of moisture making its way off the coast pushing in news the south bay east bay and peninsula specially on into the early afternoon a iet evening ahead of us conditions calm dn before rain and even some afteoon thunderstorms tomorrow. this will be lot more brief with so sunshine to start the morning and then clouds lling in towards the afternoon on monday infal not just for inland areas, but also a few rolls of thunder possible all the way up wards the coast in areas like san francisco after that point we quiet down not just in the bay, but also in the sierra with winter storm rning staying in effect until noon tomorrow as multiple feet of snowfall continue to accumulate. >>today's daytime highs not our current temperatures are right now are in the mid to low 50's mostly with some upper 40'sin the north bay our daytime highs are only going to be upper 50's so not much different than what we're currently sitting hayward oakland conquered and free much all 58 for your highs
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today, a look ahead at tomorrow shows tempetures around the same do we'll see somemore sunshine tomorrow, understorms things quiet down into tuesday with just a slight chanceof a few spnkles after that it's going to dry and much warmer with 70's returng by thursday, taking usinto the following weekend. back to you guys. 9.18 in all across the country we've seen hospital workers caring for coronavirus patients and trying to oid thr own peril. they're t they're helping patients, ryan young takes us inside a hospital in chicago that is overwhelmed. >>it's just amazing to me how quicklpeople they come in they okay and then they don't. >>at chicago's rush university medical center. doctors and nurses come to work to fight covid-19 on saying all the. the lined up inthe wting to be used. that's not exciting the work starts right as they
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walk in the door. >>patients hypoxic so they're trying get her oxygen saturation impaired and. quickly. this is kind of what happens when she comes you try to minimizthe number of people that are the room right now as you can see they're filing care for people in on the key people and people tryingto get her stabile so that she doesn't front of and a leader. in >>stress almost definitely high. 100% difficulty sleeping at night. i thnk it's important to note that this affectsthe young and the old no one telling me ino this that all this is our d-conn area. >>meant around last. >>we're taking care of our ke allies which is our. >>persons und this sick. many times show up in denial their symptoms now wanted to be sick. >>i'm sure afraid of what
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could be next some peope turn around and we actually in it can be it can be an experience i think when people come in and they are. >>maybe they haven't been in the medical system foa whe or there. they don't really know. you ow the state of things now and they see as personal protective equipment are mass in e tent set can see right now e have a beast does come in who actually is known cause anhand it feeling short of breat themselves. those here believe in a oath to helpsave lives. i think something going to stick with me through all of this is. just kind of initiative people into getting and ingenuity people are in committg to sites figuring this out as we go i think every health care professional. >>gets into this you know because they want to help people so being able to be somebody who can make a difference this timeis also something that i think is it empowering frying young cnn
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chicago. >>there's a lot of confusion and frustration around how small businesses can continue paying their employees. now this is getting help from the federal government we actually have erick rucker now speaking to smalbusiness owners about me of the issues they've come across. >we've seen a lot of ups and downs16th street auto body has een a downtown sacramento staple for decad. ese days, the business remains open, but owner clark mcgee says paranoia now the norm among customers the same they're e of getting out of their cars.larry dropping the carson and leery of love people they don't know bein top pickup and drop-off of customers cars along with extensive cleaning when they're do with business not like it once was mcgee says he is hoping the federal governmenpaycheck protection program loan money would hp keehim from laying off workers. but he says he has already run into isss attempting to apply for the program with his bank. >>it said that start a file,
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but right now they said they're not septon applications servedcollecting information based up what thfindings out because it's a sentence dynamics its they don't know what wo it's really going to be muggy isn't the only one having application problems. >>we're asking for details and and what financial inrmation to the need to win to pluck a shuns how doyou apply what arthe requiremes how do you make sure you so ty just basically don't have any of tt infoation available yet know we hernand is the cfo for zocalrestaurants. hernandez says his bank was also not ready for hito apply. >>the loan progr is a first come first serve situation. >>the bestpart of what makes this program very appealing is the fact that you can be forgiven for the majority of the low. this is when this when you see everyone rushing to get this scand. >>but for many with small businesses the fear is when their banks are ready for them to apply it might ready be too late. we're trying topush to be in the fnt in the front of it, but you know buy
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a plane quickly that what we're trying to do right now crossing your fingers that are crossing our finge. >>well dealing with the coronavirus and this shelte at ho order and the week after week ofdoing this can obviously very very unnerving very stressful. if you are feeling anxious about all of this and you need somebody to talk to there is the national disaster stress helpline it's been set upwith professional health the people who can walk you throu and talking through all of this the number ofthese see on the screen is 1, 895 5990. again that's 1, 809 8, 5 5990 you could text you uld also use tty for hearing impaired and if you need to references number later on inthe day n't worry. we've got this graphic for you on ourwebsite at kron 4 dot com. on the kron 4 morning news a community remembers a hero nurse who died of coronavirus while working at hospital in stockton will have her story.
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>>29 and. home get that signal up it's raining out here all have that has to do th not things over inside outside which is going to be kind f a a messy sloppy for people walking the dog today because of the worst graham or are we looking right now he's in that he founded even no interest in going tside, and hey i'm right there with them. i don't really want thead out there either hopefully you have chance stay indoors. stay dry and stay warm on this rainy sunday. much like we saw yesterday got more of that much needed rain ahead of us looking at satellite and radar you can see showers pushing into the bay area from the south west, let's zm in on some of the spots that are eing the most of rainfall rht now that includes areas like san francisco actually a bay bridge is very we
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thankfully. that is not as much traffic is usually be seeing on it. t roadways e wet out there, including the bay bridge, golden gate bridge and the richmond center fell bridge this morning, zooming back out and up into the nth bay also some showers right around heavier step around i 80 between vacaville and das and further south in the day we are drying out the east bay for the moment, there are more showers sitting on th peninsula that are abouto be working their way in a northeastey direction at will be pushing into the east defitely a lot more inall ahead of us on into the afternoon u can see those spotty showers multiple waves of rain continuing into the early afternoon it's aft 06:00pm tonight that conditions really do calm down a quiet evening before an uptick in rainfall on into tomorrow afternoon and even a couple of thunderstorms could be mixed in there come 02:00pm to 06:00pm on monday showers
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ithe sierra also continue into tomorrow with winter storm warnings reining tell new not day after that point drying ba out and sierra certaiy did need that now temperaturesn the upper at 50's for bay area daytime highs today, i'm talking drier, warmer d sunnier conditions and the restof your forecast still to come back to you guys in the tudio. >>thanks john 9.32, and e can't go back now that it appears the u.s. wasted precious time we waited 2 months after finding out about the outbak in china before starting to stock up on critical medical supplies and 're dealing with the effects of at now a review of t federal purchasing contracts in the u.s. showed tha >>apparently the federal government waited until mid-march to gin placing bulk orders foese and 95 masks th arin desperate need right now veilators to which are in short supply other equipment to eded by frontline hethcare workers. the first alarms of a global pandemic don't forget we're sounded back in ear january, but it asn't for 2 months before we started thinking
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about placing orders to stockpile and now hospils across the country are forced to treat thousands of affected patien without the equipment they eed to keep themselves andtheir patients safe. one very a nurse is now begging for lp. patients right here for the community to not be fully protected is it's just >>that nurse streets coronavirus patients inn francisco and she are more personal protective gear for herself and her fellow medical workers comp wasdan thorn has her story. >>alth care workers have been hailed heroes because of the work they're doing on the front lines of t coronavirus pandemic but the selfless need protection which here y fast. 2 milk almond coonan is an who works at the acute respiratory isolation unit at
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ucsf medical center she works 3 days a ek hour shifts in what has essentily become the covid-19 unit at the spital. she ss because of a shortage of personal protective equipment. they're forced to go without or reus their gear whch is ngerous for patients and workers and has never been done before. >>should not be fully protected is is just stretching our staff coach and he's out all proper action comic ion says e's counting on her employer and for the state and federal government to pitch in. >>ppe shortages have been happening nationwide but without the right equipment workers are left wondering if more problems are being lawyer d a. >>stop really dishearteni we >>public union says that health care workers want to
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continue helping these patients and helping out their communities but they too need help. the california nursing asciation and national nues united is hoping that congress ll invoke the defense production act to produce the materials that are needed to help out in this battle, reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. >>maybe you can help a lot of businesses and people have been wondering what can i do well and now california has made it easy for you they set up a web site if you nt to donate personal protective equipment to health care workeri have to do is go to covid-19 supplies dot ca dot gov. and yo see that form ght there that asked for your contact information and th as e scroll down you'll see there's this box is where you can put the quantity and e type of supply that you have and then when you can ship it to tem. we have a link to this on our website at kron 4 dot com. >>this had these been our new drives are testing site is open fremont it's free for
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people who e sick. also for first responders and health care workers who may have been exposed to covid-19. it's a 2 part testing process, firstly a person has to have a fever of more than a 100 degrees and show symptoms of covid-19 which include things like a cough or shortness of breath difficulty breathing, maybe have persistent pain or pressure in the est or other respiratory symptoms. you do not need a referral from the docr simply if you have these symptoms or if you're a first respoer who may be to go get one of the swabs r they'll swab both your nostri and your throat and then they're going to do that with you still inide the car. that you're separated once those samples are collected that will go on to a lab in meo park for analysis again any first responders e health care professiona who meet the testing criteria could book a test in advance. donald trump byhe way is reacting to thetfiring of santa rosa native navy captain brett kosher after he wrote a letter pleading for help for his sailors aboard the uss
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theodore roosevelt th were affected with coronavir th president says that what the captain did and his mind was inappropriate. >>more importantly wrote a letter. the letter was a five-page letter from the captain. and the letter was appropriate. i don't think not that's appropriate. and these are tough people these uh tough strong people i do not look terrible to be honest with you now they made that decision i did make the decision secretary of defense was involved in lot of people are about. i ought it was terrible what he did to write a letter. i mean this is classen literature. this is captain of a massive ship that's nuclear powered. he ouldn't be talking that way in a letter he could call and ask and suggest. but he stepped in vietnam. a lot of people got off the boat they came back and they had infection. and i thought it was inpropriate for the captain of the sp to goi
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want to i don't want to comment as to whether or not but i agree th the decision 100%. >>meanwhile there are about a 15cases of coronavirus on the uss theodore roosevelt it's an aircraft carrier with thousands of people on board nearly half of the ship's crew s now been tested fo covid-19 thehips at port in guam. we're more than 1500 sailors are quarantined right nowwhile they await the results of those tests to come back yu talk about sails the surgeon general says this is our pearl harbor moment. the hardest and saddest of e most americans lives as the coronavirus death toll is expeted to peak in 11 da. right after his heth experts say now is not the te to take socially distance rules and relax them. president trump ys he believes that sports venues are going to be filled witfans sooner than later after a conference call with commissioners of all the major sports. the president said he believes at sports are going be back by august september.
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>>these are all the great leaders ofsport and.they want to get back to goto get back they can't do this. this porch werdesigned for the whole concept of ounation wasn't designed for women have to t back. we want to get back soon very soon. >>how soon do they want to get back and why would they want toget back it's too soon i an in normal football, your would star in september. gornor newsome sa he doesn't anticipate that happening and in that call with the esident the nba commissioner, adam silver noted that he would need an all-clear from health officials before the basketball seasonwould start and that jamedoesn't start in a normal year until october and we'll see where we are then. >>retired new orleans saints kicker tom dempsey by the way just died of coronavirus he was known for his record 63 our goa he died in a retirement home in louisiana, was 73 years old this virus has been killing people from
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ar-old nurse life a 57 >>trying to ve lives at a hospital in stockton charmaine nero has the ory. >>family photos show 57 year-old gefrey van back doing what he loved mo spending time with his wife of more than 30 years and his 4 children all of his work ies were just saying whoa. >>always talk about us and how proud he was of us. is a funny golucky guy caleb on that says her dad was working as a nurse at aint joseph medical center we tested sitive for e new coronavirus and then after that. >>he had pneunia. en he just got. it just took over. it took over so fast that no one. no one can control that. >>sadly he died from covid-19 complications earlier this week, the family suffered yet
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another blow when his wife karen boback registered nursecase manager at lodi event hihospital tested positive forcing her to sell quarantine at her loan, i hope dad passed away on tuesday. >>and my mom we haven't been able to cosole her. >>so togethewith loved ones friends in t community kayla says they gathered outside her parents home for a vigil. shining flashlights inside to show her mother she wasn't alone and so we went out side in front of our house. >>and we kept soci distancing. i'm so thankful and grateful for the peop that showed up it's really hard not to people there. the there are but doing all this we can show her we are there. >>even through grief kill now hoping to spread a message to others as her family continues to mourn the loss of her dance. >>theytake it seriously because it can haen to
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anyone. >>it literally can change so we're like the effect it.in an instant. >>at home on a lot of healthcare woers are working d they need somebody to care for their pets wh they're in business is stepping in to help as we head to the eak. remember told you yesterday how to turn a bandanna into a face ask. >>well, here's the u.s. surgn general demstrating the same thing. >>here's how you can make your own face covering in a few easyteps with ite you can find around the house like an old scara band overhand tao or you can make a face covering out of old t-shirt voting to the middle om the bottom. voted to the midde from the top. hold itagn to the middle from the bottom. and again from the top and then. she reprimands one on one time in the other si. the middle and you have to
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her head turns into a clothes line coat hanger for all your clothes that i never did are good john travolta forecast maybe you e going to step outside today and actually get in a phsical wa. bring the boots bring the umbrella right down. and if you e stepping outside you're going to wish you had that coat hanger is all your clots are going to be but yes bring the boots bring the umbrella another rainy day ahead of us across the bay makes shelterinin place and stying in all that much easier when thisis what the outse looks like right now you casee timber on a year that's not so bright and sunny more rainfall on its way oninto the early afternoon as well sittng in on the day we do have some spots of heavier owers falling on the pensula right across the y and now and oakland as stretching up through the late so very active situation on the map right now a good on to stay indoors for a ew re minutes maybe time iraq wisely bere do seanother ba of showers pushing in later this morning shower activity stays with us onthrough the early afrnoon after 06:00pm
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tonight conditions will definitely come down and actually fairly quiet evening set up a quiet start to the morning tomorrow before thunderstorm activity builds after 02:00pm tomorrow on torture around 06:00pm a brief area isolated heavier rainfall and then after that. >>things officially quieting down for the rest of the forecast also going to be quieter after monday for the sierra nevada which is picking up feet of snowfall this weeken anywhere about 4500 feet. winter storm warning remains in effect through tomorrow, this is some needed sn up there and hey no one's traveling anyways so good timing 40's and 50's for your current temperatures with oakla and concord at 54 degrees almeda in berkeley a 51 ll the north bay, some uppe40's, currently later today, per 50's will be our daytime highs with redwood city hayward fremont oakland and concord all at degrees today tomorrow's daytime highs around the same as today' even though are going to see some sunshine tomorw. we also do have some afternoon
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thunderstormjust the slightestchance of showers tuesday, i'm going to say it going to ba dry one for most of us ter that skies really clearing out with 70's returng in your forecast by thursday taking us into the upcoming weekend aftethat point back to you guys in the studio. thank you john. >>washington post and put is response to the coronavirus kron four's terisa stasio spoke with one of the reporters. >>california washington state. very aggressive eps very early to try to get ahead of this and others are still not doing so. but all thatsort of also reflects back to the the president himse who has sort of failed. 2 sent a clear and consistent message or send an exctations for e entire country. until very recently he himself was not even that hearing too many of the guidelines and you know onof the crazy details in the story
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we puish today talks about. a republican polling. became very worrisome to party leaders this month that show that republicans were far more likelthan democrats to ignore. social-distancing other recmendations and more literally tting themselves in great nger because they were paying atntion to what the president was saying as opsed to health officials. >>when you track and then you add for example, thgovernor of florida. the govenor of florida has said that you can still meet for mass for chrch services. and that's kind of makes me just hurt for those people because they're doing exactly what the health officlshave said not to do. >>that's right. i don't ink there's respect heah official whether it's anthony fauci or others who would in
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those rules and guidelines that governors in florida and elsewhere are are e adopting. >>there's more of that interview r on kron on and you can watch the entire saying if you download the pay wall during this td the emergency. so hat gives you access to news, 24 hour 7 days a week with no commercis right now james. >>well with most people staying at home there isn't a lot a call for dog day care centers right no but one bay area daycare is offering their services to people on the front lineswho are essential that have to go into wok kron four's justinewaltman has more. >>it looks fun and fuzzy at thgrateful dog even the coronavirus panmic crush this doggy day ca company i've had to go into persona savings just to keep our aff employed because wee we're in the business is down 90%, most people are working fm
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home and not traveling. so the need for dog boarding went bottom the doggie day care has 2 lotis one in san francisco's marina district the other in marine couny in green break off one oh o, while it could have closed the owner decided it was important to stay open were literally just open for people do. are out there working essential businesses that need a place to keep eir dogs. the grateful dog follows all cdc guidelines r keeping clean and safe distances. >>by still operati during these difficult tim it is theiway of giving back to the doctors nurs and first responders ho must report to work and need care for their dogs feel have to doour part. >>plus the pets still want to ay ll day. >>dogs the dogs that people need people we're here for them to go the appreciation for being up anrunning r essential workers is flooding social media. >>like this comment from a
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physian at ucsf while business is turning this fills the owners hearts with gratitude people who don't evenuse as from other counties. think yes for staying open for so it. we don't for that. because business is downso much the grateful dog had to reduce its hours even so it ca accommodate graveyard and weekend shifts for any do ownewho needs that kind of care right now. >>in the newsroom. i'm justine waldman kron 4 ne you dot need to keep making payments for that annual disney pass because disneyclosed the world and theland. >>because of coronavirus so if you paid upfront for your pastyou have 2 options you can either get a refund for the days that werclosed for the park days that were closed or disney will extendthe expiration date on your past to make up r the period of time lost people w pay monthly will t be chge during the closure times and they'll get a refund for any parents that they made. after
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their birthday. the campbell police department has a way to make it special officerare doing a drive-by birtay celebration where they will sound sirens and flash their lights. santa clara unty firefighters also make a spial appearance for this. and if you' an interested person or parent you want to call this a out for your kids for their birthday you can go to our web site at qom for dot com for more information. >>well this moing we would ssica who lives out in t to pittsburgh. shpersonally delivered pizzas and soda and homemade masks to the pittsburgh police department yesterday. jessica is a member the u.s. coast guard and the police department wanted to thank her and so do we want to thank her for her seice and for taking care of her example of pele being heroes in their own neighborhoods, they were doing the other foot tap instead of all right again senator fist mp go and if you know somebody in your neighborhood who is doing something special something great for people in t in your community during this
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time of crisis nominate them for our right heroes program already highlighting i'm just go to kron 4 dot com slash feature slash kron 4 here is to see the address there it's the 3rd bullet point. and we look forward to hearing who in your neighborhoods doing amazing things we'like to share the good news becau we need good news do if you do't walk out the neighborhood by the way number one where for that. >>and i would say bundle up because it's windy and well trump that cold, but it is windy and that makes it seem colder and the rain. >>the showers are going to be lingering for some days now see thsun made full till thank you so much for joining us on this sunday rning we'll see you back or daryn myself in a couple days we've got marty and robin joing you tomorrow.
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