>>good morning, everybody, thanks a lot for joining us is sunday april 19th the marty gonzales and i'm robin winston, a new academic article says that the u.s. must more than triple coronavirus test and testing to safely open the economy. harvard health researchers say the goal should be at least 500,000 tests a day right now that number's about 150,000. researchers also say the percentage of positive tests is still too high. and they add that if the u.s. does not have a grasp on the severity of the crisis and how to safely reopen society. the

world health organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3.12%. but right now in the u.s., it's about 20%. this comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u.s. last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but it's sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. >>and over 4500 people died on friday alone. last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and that's more than the number of people who died in the korean war. >>for weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms can't get tested. well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u.s. karen caifa has more. >>president trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. the virus has passed its peak. the

president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopening will begin monday. >>still crowds gathered in front of the state capitol in austin calling for more openings faster it. but governors in the hardest hit states a large scale testing capabilities need to come first casting. >>how you monitor the rate of infection. and you control for it. and that is the whole tension in reopening. >>there's new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start in the u.s. in the first place. fda officials say contamination in the cdc's manufacturing of the tasks likely led to weeks of delays. right now chicago and boston are areas of concern to doctor deborah birx of a white house coronavirus task force but she says national trends are pointing in a better direction this is really reassuring to us at the progress we're across the country. >>meanwhile, weekend

negotiations continued between congressional democrats and the white house on a deal to add more money to a small business relief program. initial funding ran out in about 2 weeks in washington, demonstrations took place all across the country last week with frustrated and angry protesters demanding. >>a reopening of the u.s. economy this despite warnings from the public health experts that reopening parts of the country too early could lead to a resurgence of cases >>you see the demonstrators there in huntington beach they want to end the state stay home order which was put in place by governor gavin newsome amid the coronavirus pandemic local police say the protest against small but quickly grew to over 200 people. >>and in california there are now more than 30,000 cases of covid-19 and more than 1100 people have died from the virus. los angeles county

officials announced 81 new deaths from the virus and 642 additional cases on saturday that makes it the deadliest day yet in la county. here in the bay area we've seen over 6200 cases and over 200 people who have died from the virus. santa clara has the most number of cases that over 1800 and over 70 deaths. alameda county is next with a number of deaths with 41, san francisco county has the second most number of cases at over 1100. >>well to the east bay now santa rita jail in dublin reports 3 new cases increasing the total at the jail to 15. the alameda county sheriff says and symptoms 15 others have fully recovered. we also know that one inmate who tested positive was released from custody back on march 1st and one point there were more than 2500 inmates at santa rita jail now there are just over 1800. others promising

news about a drug being tested to fight the coronavirus scientists say that early treatment on monkeys with the virus with remdesivir reduce damage to their lungs. now the drug was developed by of the bay area company called gilley at sciences. researchers say that the testing indicates that early treatment shows significant promise. >>thousands of motel and hotel rooms in california are ready to shelter the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic governor newsom in san jose mayor sam liccardo gave an update on project room key. that's the initiative to provide safe isolation shelters for the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic we have. >>1123. rooms. be available now for those covid positive individual snows, homeless individuals or vulnerable to come in from the cold to get the politics of this. it's tough and i just want them to know i have their back if you need support. i'll take the arrows in my back i create

some space in so call me and let me see what i can do. >>to secure your anxiety. >>project roomkey is also getting a big boost for motel 6 which will add another 5,000 room so the project in 19 counties here in california. >>well our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website kron 4 dot com go there and check it out when you have a chance to find the latest on the outbreaks right here in the bay area and interactive map that's been set up an easy to follow and lots of information on ways that you can stay safe. you can find all of this and more right under the coronavirus tab once again that's on our website kron 4 dot com. >>and coming up on the kron 00:04am morning news, the pandemic has put a spotlight on nursing homes around the world. we'll take a look at what those new numbers say about the bay area, nursing homes. plus a man is dead after a police shooting at an east bay walmart will break down what happened. and coming up after the break social-distancing can be tough for some as and break things up feelings of loneliness and

stress, we'll take a look at how crisis support services in alameda county are offering a helping hand. and we're taking a live look outside cloudy conditions at sfo this morning, the

>>welcome back everyone, many people in the bay area have been social-distancing for more than a month now. some cope just fine but others feel lonely and stress and that can lead to thoughts of suicide kron 4 talk to the executive

director of crisis support services of alameda county on how they're helping their residents through these difficult times. >>i would say the primary kinds of calls we're getting related to the virus is full of anxiety and stress and for that were really acknowledge that there is no road map when it comes to unfamiliar stressors and making sure people understand that they're not alone and how they're feeling to sometimes there's a sense of shame one hot people are having a hard time and acknowledging that decision-making fatigue that comes with unfamiliar situations so we're all making decisions all the everyday regarding what's safe for us for our families what to do what not to do so helping people focus on what they can control seems to be very helpful and creating routines whenever possible even if that is at 10 o'clock every morning i go for a walk around the block or on mondays i go grocery shopping south helping people. the 2 men to what they can control tends to health and have a better sense of the situation and have a feel more manageable and that really

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>>good morning. welcome at kron 00:04am morning news, what he say we got our first look at the forecast let's check in with dave spahr this morning heidi good morning. >>well good morning marty and robin good morning, everybody and we're off to get those typical clouds hanging around the media day as we kind of get the day started here a little bit little bit of a dark side and we're going to clear things up a little bit this afternoon here's the shot from alcatraz there you can see kind of the whole talk to the distance where the bay bridge is over orange coming in there just a touch and then we switch things around you to salt just before the golden gate about that little silhouette also i see some blue going on there so there is some promise around some of the peripherals of the day opening up the skies a little bit so after we get past that

will go into somewhat very ball to partly cloudy skies with the good patches, a son working here. but off to the left that's what we've been talking about our bout with rain arriving here over night or very early on monday but a run through that just a bit first of all check out some of our stats here the future cast for check out this fog. boom that's gone in no time so that will be handled very nicely in the next couple of hours here. temperatures across most the day we've got some upper 40's partially due to some clearing that actually happened overnight 50's off to the east bay, a very mild 58 going on oakland 54 for concord 46 chilly degrees for livermore and 54 san francisco, 48 on the ballot there. and san jose. so let's go forward with this future cast for we go through today, we clear out all right 6.30 tomorrow morning there you see the rain off to the coast. and it's due to make a strike for us going forward in. well we're right here. yeah, it was a good

jumps over there's the coverage area does not to be that exciting it doesn't look like we'll get a lot out of this. but it's just something that will say scattered showers at best. the mountains will pick up a little something but again very very modest what this this really hasn't turned into the kind of rain and then we're really hoping on here so a scattered shower monday event is how it kind of comes together so variable clouds today, cool mild 60's for most of the bay there couple token 70's which will underscore for you. then tomorrow with scattered showers morning event variable clouds we shift into cool conditions. and for this week turning mostly sunny warming and were returning back to the 80's inland and that will probably happen as early as wednesday thursday of the week ahead. for today, 63 san francisco still kind of a differentiation here with the microclimate ship checking in with san jose at 69 64 checking in for oakland and across the wider bay there we have coming in at 70 we've got mid to upper 60's up there on

the north bay 67 for livermore again 69 san jose coming up a little bit we'll have the 4 zone forecast and of course that extended showing you the nice warm speed spike we would call the summer months of what we're looking for towards the end of the week marty robin. >>all right dave sounds good. thank you. well emergency relief payments are on their way to millions of americans but some lawmakers are saying one single $1200 check is just not going to cut it washington correspondent trevor shirley reports that some in congress have an idea to give almost every american a cash payment each month until the pandemic ends. >>ohio democratic representative tim ryan says to save the economy almost every american making less than a $130,000 a year needs a monthly $2000 payment from the government and it stays in place every single months. >>until the unemployment rate gets back to where was pre covid-19 his proposed legislation also covers

college students and senior citizens along with $500 for all dependents under 16 so we want cover 8 to me. this is the best way to do it $1200 emergency stimulus payments from the cares act started arriving this week, but ryan says that's not enough to guarantee long-term stability it's got to be more whole us and more directly into the pockets of the american people but already some conservative groups say ryan's idea does more harm than good and i think we need to look at at the cost mississippi billion plus per month in additional spending the heritage foundation's joel griffiths is targeted payments to the unemployed is a better solution going ahead and dropping money helicopter style that just settles all of us with the with that erodes the value of our dollar but ryan says he's hopeful republicans will get on board just wants to really work on getting it down to the grassroots level and i hope that that appeals to a lot of the conservative republicans. he wants a vote in the house

once congress returns to washington reporting in washington, i'm trevor shirley. >>more than 100,000 job for wiped out in california last month that startling number is based on a survey taken the week of march 12th the state's unemployment rate hit 5.3% in march. the biggest losses were in the leisure and hospitality industry. >>local leaders want the federal government to provide more loans to small businesses that are struggling kron on sanaz tahernia talked to a bit san mateo county supervisor to learn more. >>one of the things that is a really hard problem is that no one has received. i've talked to businesses small businesses money for the paycheck protection program. these stories are shorter narrowly sad. i cleaners told me that you know they have 2 weeks left our restaurants businesses now 90 to 95%.

they're making decisions whether so close. some of these businesses if they're lucky. they had about 2 months in reserve. and so long that he helped. right now congress is negotiating with the white house to try and come up with another stimulus package. >>to help small businesses. >>well the u.s. and canada have agreed to keep their border closed for another 30 days that's aside from travel deemed essential that includes cross-border workers like health care professionals airline crews and truck delivery. a texas governor greg abbott says that he'll start the process of reopening the state this week. he says that a group of medical and economic experts will guide him through a series of small steps aimed at slowly reopening the economy plans to restart businesses won't come until april 27th, retailers won't be allowed to re open unless they can make home deliveries. the state says that hospitals can resume

surgery said had be been postponed by the virus but only if that does not interfere with the treatment of coronavirus patients schools and universities will remain closed for the rest of the school year. >>go ahead take you outside for a live look at conditions at the richmond sandra fell bridge, a cloudy skies and very very ann jenkins with aarp. in these challenging times, we need each other more than ever. we may be apart, but we're not alone. use aarp community connections

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shooting inside a walmart store. >>it happened about 3 o'clock saturday afternoon inside the walmart on his spare ian boulevard in san leandro police say the man was holding a baseball bat and posed a threat to other shoppers in the store kron four's gayle ong reports now on what led to the shooting. >>the incident happened inside the store by the entrance and the whole ordeal was caught on camera cell phone video shows a man brandishing a back moments before he was shot dead by san leandro police during the detention. >>officers the boy that hasan. a taser was in effect. the same officer then fired one shot at the suspect striking him in the person. at the same time simultaneously the second officer, the for their taste. >>the incident happened just before 3.15 saturday afternoon inside the wal-mart on his spear in boulevard we spoke to a customer off camera who was inside the store and i heard. people ran towards. the back

from the front of the store saying there was someone with a gun and then there were someone shooting. this video shows the chaos inside then more people started to come towards them. and that's when everybody kind of started getting in panic mode and everybody kind of just wanted to find an exit and everybody was scared everybody huddled together san leandro police initially responded to a robbery but that was not the case when they arrived police say the officers attempted to detain the suspect but he was not co-operative the subject inside a walmart brandishing a bad. he can certainly. >>swinging at other individuals inside the store customers. so there's a threat. >>we're told the officer who fired his weapon is a 25 year veteran both of the officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave. detectives are combing through surveillance video from wal-mart and the officers body camera video the identity of the man killed is not being released at this time, reporting in san leandro gayle

ong kron 4 news. >>still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, the monterey county da's office is allowing victims to self-administer their assault exams for the first time ever we'll explain why officials say they have to resort to this. before we go we're taking a little peek outside checking in on the golden gate bridge. it's a mix of sun and clouds outside your door right now it's going to be cooler than normal on this a sunday morning and there's a chance of showers in your forecast dave spahr will

>>good morning. thanks a lot for joining us on kron 4 news weekend. it's a sunday april marty gonzales and i'm robin winston. >>the pandemic has put a spotlight on nursing homes all around the world where thousands of elderly residents who are most vulnerable to the virus are dying. newly recently least numbers show a stunning number of cases in the bay area within the area nursing homes, the gateway care and rehabilitation center in hayward is topping that list kron four's dan thorn talk with a nursing home advocates about the grim new numbers. >>a new state report shows more than 200 california, nursing homes have covid-19 cases, 34 of those facilities are in the bay area across 7 counties in congratulating ourselves in california for having sold by is the curve but social distance is a luxury. the moment, same as it

is in a prison mike dart is an attorney with california advocates for nursing home reform he says the lack of attention to nursing home residents who are the most vulnerable as well as workers at these facilities has allowed the virus to rapidly spread in the bay area, the gateway care and rehabilitation center in hayward leads the region with more than 102 cases among its staff and patients. >>other hard-hit nursing homes are canyon springs, post-acute care in san jose valley house rehabilitation center in santa clara and central gardens in san francisco. the state data does not include deaths, although it is known 13 residents have died at the hayward facility prompting an investigation by the alameda county district attorney's office dark is also not convinced by the numbers that have been reported so far that number frightening really is just the tip of the iceberg because the data is so >>we know that many facilities are not telling the state. >>the problems that they're

having the virus are many health care professionals college has program it and see how the president of the nation's largest long term care union says because of low wages workers have been forced to jump to 2 or 3 different nursing homes. s e i u local 2015 is continuing to push for more protection for workers which will also help keep patients safe. >>we need to make sure we are investing in the workforce in these facilities to make sure we never have this type of. problem a kid and there isn't even appropriate handwashing taking place these facilities much less the use of appropriate ppe we need to get state regulators into these places to make sure that starts happening. >>dan thorn kron 4 news. >>now to the north bay this morning face coverings now required in sonoma county this is the order from the sonoma county public health officer it took effect on friday. and

it requires adults to wear face coverings whenever inside away from home. now employers of essential businesses around the county must make sure their workers are covering up those businesses also have the right to refuse service to customers who defied the order. >>and i think it's really incredibly strange for them to be in a world where everybody is wearing masks. stan home. >>i decide to keep my car full of gas. i take my flu shot for a ride during the day i just don't get up and make sure the body. >>well in a bremer in county public health department issued a similar order it will go into effect on wednesday. enforcement also begins that same day on similar orders in alameda and contra costa counties, a violation could be put punishable by a fine jail time or both. >>a county fears of being infected with the coronavirus

have authorities allowing some assault victims to collect their own evidence. a forensic nurse through a video call geitz him through the hours long process. the monterey county deputy district attorney explains more about this process take a listen. >>so the officer doesn't become president. placed on the front door set and then wait to get off and then they can then goes the front door opens the door cn sample and then they begin a new video call. >>well the video call also includes the detectives and a victim at the tip once the victim statement is taken the nurse is the only one who remains on the call the victim then collects a sample under the nurses guidance and direction. critics say that self-administered evidence collection is a violation of due process and could lead to motions to have the evidence be dismissed. authorities say that so far to assault victims have collected the evidence and their crime in their cases.

>>former president bill clinton hosted guest speakers, including governor newsome and new york governor andrew cuomo they took part in a conversation on how the federal government should have responded to the pandemrc they also pointed out flaws in the current health care system and what the future may hold for the u.s. both president clinton and governor newsom agreed that neither the country nor the state of california are ready to get back to normal. >>we can get back to normal. until we got control of this virus. and we can keep it under control. and that might take longer than we once saw a taking longer. >>then we words but california has excelled in so many categories we have not been testing an eye on that night taken responsibility to do more and better for 40 million americans who happen to live. >>in this state. >>governor newsome went on to credit, californians was slowing the spread of the virus in the state by listening and hearing to the

stay at home order. >>well dealing with the coronavirus can be very scary and just on irving, but there's help you can call the national disaster distress helpline that numbers on your screen take a look 1 800 985-5990 there are people who are standing by who can help we've also posted this number on our website you can find at any time at kron 4 dot com. the kron 4 morning news, a new possible way to screen for covid-19 how this new process could be a game changer. >>and before we go we want to take a little peek outside this time around we're checking in on the san mateo bridge a live look at the commute here from the east bay over to the peninsula, not a lot of traffic out there on 92 so far it's moving at the limit, but if you look off in the distance you can see those clouds it's going to be a cooler than normal sunday around the bay area. so don't expect it to get very hot today. we actually have rain and the forecast coming up after the break we'll check in

with dave spahr and see just when that rain is expected to move in to the bay area we're all doing our part by staying at home.

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dogs are ready in 6 weeks if so the stocks could screen up to 250 people per hour. they caution that this won't replace traditional testing, but rather be used as a supplement since covid-19 tester in short supply and often take hours or even days for results to come back. >>one of the big questions that spans across the country are asking is when will spur peschel sports return. dallas mavericks owner mark cuban was asked if he thought the nba would be able to finish their season. >>i hope so ah but we're going to do what's best for everybody and it's 30 safety first and will defer to scientists and the doctors i mean there's nothing else we can do whatever the doctors say it's ok i mean setting a

date doesn't accomplish anything will react will just be agile as as as we can, but there's not really a plan we can put together the biggest mistake we can make is trying to rush. i mean that's the topic going on around the country right when do we start acting as if things are normal here when we dip our toes into opening up businesses. well the sports also looking into options about when they can come back to pg e's pga rather says it plans to resume. >>with the tournament in june in texas that event will be played without spectators, major league baseball also talking about having every team start the season in arizona but again without fans. >>and on the kron 4 morning news some unsettling news out of south korea this morning. the country reports that 163 of its coronavirus patients have tested positive again, we'll have more on this coming up. >>we have quite a bit cloud cover over the bay area for at this morning that yesterday and also appears like some clearing trying to happen off

with the best that's you know we're always a silver a crowd. we got to see some rain coming our way tomorrow morning we're checking your 4 zone forecast well medics that

>>welcome back everyone coming up on 7.43 thanks for staying with us let's check in with meteorologist dave spahr who is reporting from home. let's get a look at the sunday forecast good morning dave. >>well good morning, robin marty good morning. everybody

i'm not quite a bit of cloud cover we've been seeing but this time around we're seeing some patches of blue skies and sun coming in there so looks like in some cases raucous some clearing. this is not quite the deal we get from the bay bridge toll plaza as you can see that puppy cumulus looked over fog which will handle itself probably within the next couple of hours shot from sfo on the no delays happening here but again kind of the overcast were gloomy kind of walk that we have to get the day started. so in the big maps what we have coming up is up we clear out today, more clouds come in for tomorrow, but more importantly that's tomorrow's opportunity for rain is the shot we get and that's it upstream, i know you see other patches of clouds and systems and all that kind of stuff, however that's all going up and around us as high pressure starts to build and that means another warming trend our way by the middle of next week to the latter portion of next week so how much we going to get all right you got to pay a lot attention to the screen here because there isn't much to show but want to look for

anything we can hear as you can see some patches here a very modest rain it looks like. for tomorrow morning probably enough to wet the roads dirty your car all that kind of business for all the essential workers heading in. so what you might have to use your windshield wipers just a little touch. there that's about it. so there comes opportunity for rain success of systems upstream true, but because high pressure is building. that's can repel things and then look at the clearing pat starting to develop that's the high pressure really start to assert itself towards the end of the week. and what lot of traffic going up and around us and with all of that as we head on to the end of the week and the weekend that's we're going to see the temperatures spiked back again and another warm up our way let's get to it now your 4 zone forecast checking in for your sunday, 63 san francisco's mission district about 64. to the coast. it looks like 60 pacifica was 61 half moon bay 63 for daly city challenge here is sometimes those coastal clouds and fog irse very stubborn a clear 63

millbrae 66 from all known for burning again, heading down to the southern edge of the peninsula, upping it a little bit from yesterday 67 palo alto and mountain dew 66 for redwood city. meanwhile in the south bay, it's still up 60 store to close to 70 for morgan hill in san jose santa clara at 68 with cupertino milpitas at 69 2. he's bay shoreline to the south mid 60's, 66, there 67 for tri valley 66 personal and dublin, 67, jumping up the contra costa county we have 67 for walnut creek in concord at 68 61 for a berkeley and up here to the north bay 61 vallejo the chilly spot there 68 fairfield back adult 69 remember these are places we're going to see popping about 80 or so 66 for a sonoma and the weakening 66 for santa rosa and the coast quite chilly moran. lower to middle 50's at that look inside your screen as a little rain opportunity there and mostly sunny for the balance of the

week ahead quickly escalating up to about the lower 80's by the end of the week and the weekend. there's another little system to watch as we get past next weekend. that may hold something for us but for right now we're going to call that dry on into the following week rob situation, not looking good. we'll be checking into that maybe next hour here but to end so cal, they don't have that problem they've really improved their score. but that we're looking at a drought situation up in northern california. robin marty. all right dave. thank you. >>a popular ice cream business based in the north bay is closing 3 twins ice cream made that announcement on friday that business opened all the way back in 2005 and included sales to grocery stores, the ceo of the company says sales have been dropping and became impossible to keep operating. the coronavirus pandemic is sealed its fate. but they're hoping that someone else might be able to revive the brand. >>and is bringing on 50,000 new workers to help it deal with increased demand. this

comes on the heels of a previous hiring surge of a 150,000 new employees wal-mart is the nation's largest grocer and with so many people stuck at home, sales of household staples are up significantly. and now walmart says it needs more temporary and part-time workers to meet the demand. well trump properties, how furloughed nearly 2000 workers in several states, public records show the largest number of them are in florida properties and chicago las vegas and the washington dc area are also affected. according to the trump national doral miami has furloughed 560 employees while trump's mar-a-lago club in palm beach's furloughed a 153 nonessential employees terms of the stimulus package prevent president trump and his family for receiving federal relief funds for his businesses. >>in south korea about 2% of the country's coronavirus patients are testing positive

again after they supposedly recovered the country's health officials are investigating to find out why paula hancocks has the story. >>jane kim tested positive for coronavirus 3 weeks ago after returning from the united states he's been in hospital ever since one negative test this week gave him hope he had recovered, but the next day he tested positive okay a patient needs to negatives in a right to be considered recovered. the kim says even after he's discharged he will self isolate for 2 weeks to protect his family. >>it might our interest actually 2 under. i'm used to call him mister cohen at the time i certainly should joe saint isolation or j. >>it's a concern around the world cases of testing positive after appearing to have recovered from the virus or not you deputy director of korea cdc says there are 4 possible explanations are still poor just a week really

need your team. it's a calm breeze up. >>not just 2. here in u.s. secret. and trust of their trust her or so you try the tummy we had to be should ad you to come a pretty cool. >>khan says tests on the family of 3 who we tested positive have already been completed and there is no evidence of the live virus still in that body's. he believes remnants of the dead virus is the most likely explanation at this point your own deal. so says there's no indication recovered patients are contagious when they re test positive. >>and how it is in real danger for him secondary or tertiary entrance sure. >>one has to know more in about 2 weeks once tests a finished on well over 100 other cases where people have recovered then tested positive half of them. he says had no symptoms the kcdc has not changed its guidelines. recommending that all law

covered patients self-isolate for a food that 2 weeks just in case. they also say that they're going to start testing 400 recovered patients from this weekend to check levels of antibodies in an attempt to see what kind of immunity if any having this virus will give you. >>kim it's just a case of waiting how are you feeling at the moment it's only a start i got past hospital called it by jane i was a. >>a stray chance but dietary better. >>paula hancocks cnn seoul. >>before we go a little peek outside we're checking in on a very cloudy san francisco. this is a live look from our embarcadero camera you can see those clouds out there in the background it is 54 degrees right now in san francisco. so if you're head

>>welcome back everyone kron four's honoring heroes in the community who are doing good during the pandemic and today we're focusing on a group of private schools that donated personal protective equipment to first responders throughout the bay area. >>strafford schools delivered ppe to local hospitals that need it and included o'connor hospital in san jose and al to bates medical center in oakland. donations were collected from stratford school campuses. >>well keep in mind that you can spotlight, someone making a difference in your community we have a special section on our website, it's called kron eur i have to do is go to our

website look for that section click on lists little form it's a quick form that you fill out tell us about your hero and once again you can find that on our website kron 4 dot com we'd love to hear from you have so many people doing great work around the bay area. >>well we want to go ahead and get a last check of the weather for this hour from dave spahr. de ville you mentioned it looks gloomy out there is it going to a clear up later today. >>it looks like a well yeah, good morning guys, good morning, we've been looking into these bridge shots that to show us kind of a mixed bag there we see the sun in the clouds kind of mixture of the clouds are winning the battle for right now that's temporary. shot from u c berkeley was the east bay shoreline, a stock of the overcast and kind of gloomy skies. this clear patch around the golden gate has been filled in a little bit but again we expect that to clear out as we approach the noon hour. temperatures a bit on the chilly side up in the north bay, they're partially due to some clearing we had a about that instantly we have 8 o'clock numbers here ready santa rosa, 47 for nap and a bottle coming in about 48 and down in the east bay, we're

looking at 50's going on mid to upper 50's that that with oakland 5852 meanwhile for san jose. and a look at the fog that what are we so quickly it just it, but so does the uh board and there you can see it's gone well before news of the fog part that will be gone clout with that as well we have a mixed bag of sun and clouds this is what we expected the ballot to today, 69 san jose, oakland 64 san francisco, 63 in of course coming up next hour we'll take another look at that extended forecast in the 4 zone as well that you guys. >>coming up in the next hour on the kron 4 morning news officials say the u.s. needs to triple the amount of testing before they can reopen the economy. also we'll talk about what led to the shortage and delay of test. plus what was supposed to help american families and businesses through the economic crisis also creating a tax break that benefits the ret well explain that and wearing a mass at the layer of protection against covid-19 but what about your

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>>good morning, everybody, thanks a lot for joining us this morning and sunday april 19th i'm marty gonzales and i'm robin winston, a new academic article says that the u.s. must more than triple coronavirus testing to safely reopen the economy, harvard

health researchers say the goal should be at least 500,000 tests today right now that number's about 150,000. researchers say the percentage of positive tests is still too high and they and the u.s. does not yet have a grasp on the severity of the crisis and how to safely reopen society. the world health organization organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3.12%. but right now in the u.s., it's about 20%. >>this comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u.s. last week was the deadliest on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but it soared by 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday and over 4500 people died on friday alone last night was closed in on the 39,000 deaths and that's more than the number of people who died in the korean war. >>well for weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why people who

have symptoms can get tested. well there's now new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u.s. in the first place. >>the fda's fda says contamination of the cdc's manufacturing of the tests is likely what led to weeks of delay. the fda says it sent an official to the atlanta-based agency and said be wary when issues first arose with of the kits the fda and cdc later concluded that the design of the tests was fine but now an fda official a saying that the cdc appear to violate its own manufacturing protocol and the tests have become contaminated as for coronavirus hot spots now chicago and boston are areas of concern for the white house coronavirus task force. of demonstrations took place all across the country last week, what frustrated and angry protesters demanding a reopening of the u.s. economy. this despite warnings from the public health experts that reopening parts of the country

too early could lead to a resurgence of cases. >>demonstrations are demonstrators in huntington beach they want to end the state's stay at home order which was put in place by governor newsome amid the coronavirus pandemic local police say that the protest against small but quickly grew to over 200 people. >>and in california there are now more than 30,000 cases of covid-19 in more than 1100 deaths. los angeles county officials announced 81 new deaths from the virus and 642 cases yesterday that makes yesterday the deadliest day yet in la county. here in the bay area were seen over 6200 cases in over 200 people who have died from the virus. santa clara county with the most number of cases that it over 1800 and over 70 deaths. alameda county has the next highest number of most tested

41. in san francisco county the second most highest number of cases at over 1100. >>well in the east bay santa rita jail in dublin reports 3 new cases increasing the total at the jail 15. the alameda county sheriff says that 15 people are recovering with mild symptoms and 15 others have fully recovered. we also know that one inmate who tested positive was released from custody back on march 1st at one point there were more than 2500 inmates at santa rita jail now they're just over 1800. promising news on a drug that's being tested to fight the coronavirus scientists say that early treatment with rimmed is a very reduced disease and damage to the lungs of monkeys infected with the virus. the drug was developed by the bay area company called eli at sciences and researchers say that the testing indicates early treatment shows significant promise. >>thousands of motel and hotel rooms in california are now

ready to shelter the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic kron four's catherine heenan now with an update on project roomkey we have. >>1123. rooms. be available now for those covid positive individual snows, homeless individuals or vulnerable to come in from the cold san jose's mayor and what's happening in the hot spot of santa clara county. >>statewide there are now nearly 11,000 motel rooms available to shelter the homeless during the pandemic it is a move considered critical to curb the spread of the virus. as of saturday 4,211 people are already being housed. not that this has been easy some communities have been resisting the idea of homeless and potentially infected people moving into their towns and cities. the governor says he'll deal with it and then there are folks said just turn their backs in. >>say someone else's problem

and a and point fingers and we have few of those unfortunately in i just want to say this my heart goes out to them as get the politics of this. it's tough and i just want them to know i have their back if you need support. i'll take the arrows in my back i create some space in so call me and let me see what i can do. >>to secure your anxiety, the governor's hoping some of what's been happening to help the homeless now well continue long term. meantime he was asked again about including bay area. billionaire tom stier to a special task force on restoring jobs and the economy. some arguing the former candidate for the democratic presidential nomination is too partisan. >>but i tom's leadership is willing to take the sign up put up what he's done in his community bank and a focus on the triple bottom line up against anybody's philanthropy and the last decade, i look forward to his leadership and stewardship of this council. >>of course our coverage of

the coronavirus continues on our website kron 4 dot com there you find the latest on the outbreaks right here in the bay area an interactive map and lots of information on ways that you can stay safe. you can find all of this and more it's right under the coronavirus tap once again that's on our website kron 4 dot com. >>and coming up this morning on the kron 00:04am morning news, the pandemic has put a spotlight on nursing homes around the world, we'll find out what these new numbers say about bay area nursing homes. plus what was supposed to be a help for american families and businesses through the economic crisis is also creating a task tax break that benefits the rich will have that story coming up and after the break social-distancing can be difficult for some as it brings up feelings of loneliness and stress. we'll take a look at how crisis support services of alameda county is offering a helping hand. and a live look outside of cloudy conditions at sfo and very little activity this morning. so far.

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>>good morning welcome back to kron 00:04am morning news, let's go ahead and get a check of the forecast. and a visit to warren's home i death. >>you don't there marty good morning and robin good morning. and good morning everybody we're talking about a lot of cloud cover you can see from of the bridge shots there now that like yesterday's going to clear up pretty nicely for us. and we'll probably see a little bit on the way of sun and clouds today asserting contrast with what we're going to see tomorrow there's a shot from u c berkeley. the east

bay shoreline, they're still kind of overcast the same thing going on here for the golden gate. not much of a breeze either not much traffic one lonely car adding up to more at this hour all right. so here's we got on the satellite picture off to the left that's a the a band of cloud cover this kind of deliver this promised much advertised rain which is turning in to be a very modest affair. there are success of systems out in the pacific. however, with high pressure started to build that they're going to going up and around it so it doesn't look great hope for going to go to get much use out of it even going forward future cast for just a note, some of this fog us around some of these valleys. that's going to hamper with very quickly as well today to so kind of a typical pattern of the marine layer we deal with in the morning hours sun comes out it mixes out the atmosphere and the clouds and we go into more of a kind of sunny mode. temperatures right now we're already going to the 50's for good piece of real estate in this is an accomplishment for the north bay because overnight. temperatures dropped a little bit there so nap and santa rosa you're already up to 5053

the lazio 58 for oakland 55 also for concord and down south the san jose's checking in at about 52. so for future cast for here's the clearing out today clouds return overnight. scattered showers develop as you can see in the monday. not overly impressive the amounts are continue to drop as we look at success of model runs. although let's take a little dish happens up there to the mountains in the form of snow showers. the etcetera are elevations, we clear out a little bit by tuesday, so variable clouds today. corn mild 60's for most of the bay, although there are a couple 70's that are kind of poking out here and there. tomorrow scattered showers in the morning then variable clouds cool and this week, it's turning mostly sunny and warming returning to the 80's as we go inland. for today, check it out 63 san francisco, 69 san jose, even with the cloud cover looking for variety across the region, 64 for oakland across the wider

bay temperatures checking in to 70 for antioch to have the couple token 70's which will show you coming up a little bit more and your 4 zone forecast 69 for san jose in mid 60's cover a lot of the east bay shoreline also check into your extended forecast as well to show you some delicious lower 80's returning back into our extended forecast. robin back to you. >>all right, thank you dave. well for your money this morning, the trillion aid package known as the cares act was celebrated as a bipartisan effort to help american families and businesses through the economic crisis created by the pandemic but our washington correspondent allan alexandra le mon she reports a new study. >>found that the build says and you know there's a lot lot of tax breaks in there to benefit the ultra rich. >>democrats asked the nonpartisan joint committee on taxation to take a closer look at the 2 trillion-dollar coronavirus aid package and discovered a tax break for the rich that was snuck into the spill texas congressman lloyd

doggett and rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse asked for the review. >>they say republican senators included the billion tax break for the richest americans and white house as most democrats had no idea how cynical and wrong. >>in the midst of all this tragedy. it is to try to pull off a stunt. like this. the provision allows tax breaks for the past 2 years before the pandemic struck by doing great the stock market last year. >>they can offset. >>their games against people lawsuits, middle class americans got $1200 stimulus checks. congressman doggett says americans who make more than $1 million could get tax breaks of about one million each is designed pure and simple for a few big real estate developers. new vision of history can be 5 south dakota republican congressman dusty johnson says every

democrat supported the aid package and democrats also got some of what they wanted for some of that week's unemployment you know not my favorite, yes daga and white house plan to introduce a bill to try to repeal the tax breaks for the rich. >>in washington, alexandra le mon. >>well more than a 100,000 jobs for wiped out in california last month that startling number is based on a survey taken the week of march 12th the state's unemployment rate hit 5.3% in march. the biggest losses were in the leisure and hospitality industry. >>leaders want the federal government to provide more loans to small businesses that are struggling kron on sanaz tahernia talked to a san mateo county supervisor to learn more. >>one of the things that is a really hard problem is that no one has received i've talked to businesses locust this is money for the paycheck protection program. the

stories are shorter narrowly sad. i cleaners told me that you know they have 2 weeks left our restaurants businesses now 90 to 95%. they're making decisions whether so close. some of these businesses if they're lucky. they had about 2 months in reserve. and so long that he helped. well congress is now negotiating with the white house to try and come up with another stimulus package to help small businesses. >>well the u.s. and canada have agreed to keep their borders closed for another 30 days that's aside from travel deemed essential that includes a cross-border workers live health care health care professionals. and airline crews and truck drivers. a texas governor greg abbott says that he'll start the process of reopening the state this week. he says that a group of medical and economic experts will guide him through a series of small steps aimed at slowly reopening the

economy plans to restart businesses won't come until april 12, retailers won't be allowed to re open unless they can make home deliveries. the state says hospitals can resume surgeries that had been postponed by the virus. but only if that does not interfere with the treatment of coronavirus patients schools and universities will remain closed for the rest of the school year. >>i will say we sneak a peek outside sees me richmond sandra fell bridge, one car. right now. heading off to the central job right we'll be central job right we'll be right back. wow! i'm original. one of a kind. you feel me? love ya'. oop! you look cute. better than you! wherever drama pops off pop my 100% all-white-meat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just $5.99.

is so irresistible, you'll wanna eat them anywhere, so don't resist! pop 'em outside, or on the go, or on the way home! pop my 100% all-white-meat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just $5.99. >>welcome back everyone in monterey county fairs of getting infected with the coronavirus have prompted authorities to allow some assault victims to self-administer their assault exams at home. christopher solace explains. >>has seen assault examination is not essential services deputy district attorney lawn and a source says that's why for the first time ever. the monterey county da's office is allowing victims to self-administer their assault exams. >>in their own home so the officer goes to the victim's residence. places on the front door set and then wait to get

off and then they can then goes a door cn sample and then they begin a new video call. >>and that zume call involves a forensic nurse, the detective and a victim advocate. once the victim's statement is taken the nurses, the only one who remains on the call. and the victim collect the sample under the nurses guidance and direction our priority was to make sure that the victim has access to all of the sami resources that they want in person we don't want people to be discouraged because of fears of getting my wrist gears and going to tell him because these. >>examinations >>the kids the county are using our from preserve group, a company that halted selling after widespread objections and 2 state attorneys general threatening the company was legal action last year concerns that still remain. >>the idea of allowing a person to conduct a man home

rape kit test is just fraught with danger. defense attorney tom worthington said self-administered evidence collection is a violation of due process and he would motion to have the evidence dismissed. the most concerned about the possibility of tampering with evidence about. >>including correctly collecting evidence even if the person did use their best efforts to do it honestly. >>this aura disagrees. >>there aren't really any any concerns that we have and we believe in this evidence is going to be in this law we're going to be only a judge to sign. >>well coming up this morning, a man is dead in the east bay after a police shooting at a walmart will and tell you what happened. first we'll take a live look outside. i have some clearing skies at the golden gate bridge that shot live traffic dave spahr will be along in a in the east bay,

one man is dead after a police shooting inside a walmart store. >>it happened at around 3 saturday afternoon near the entrance of the walmart right along this bergen boulevard in san leandro the ordeal was caught on camera now officers initially responded to a robbery call. >>cell phone video shows the chaos inside the store, a man with a baseball was was there threatening people was shot and killed by san leandro police officers say that they tried to detain him, but he

was not cooperating. >>side of wal-mart brandishing that he can certainly swinging at other individuals inside the store customers. so there's a threat to officers, the boy that hasan. a taser was unaffected. the same officer then fired one shot at the suspect striking him in the torso. at the same time simultaneously the second officer, the for their taste. >>the officer who shot the victim is a 25 year veteran both officers are on paid administrative leave. detectives are combing through surveillance video from wal-mart along with officers body camera police have not released the identity of the man who was killed. >>continuing our coronavirus coverage this morning, the pandemic has put a spotlight on nursing homes around the world where thousands of elderly residents who are most vulnerable to the virus are dying. newly released numbers show a stunning amount of cases in the bay area, nursing homes. the gateway care and

rehabilitation center in hayward tops the list with more than 100 cases. other hard hit nursing homes or canyon springs post-acute care in san jose valley house rehabilitation center in santa clara. and central gardens in san francisco now this data does not include deaths. but it is known that 13 residents have died at the hayward facility. >>that number frightening really is just the tip of the iceberg irish mobster many health care professionals college has program it and seeing how we need to make sure we are investing in the workforce in these facilities to make sure we never have this type of. problem okay, and there isn't even appropriate handwashing taking place these facilities much less the use of appropriate ppe we need to get state regulators into these places to make sure that starts happening. >>well of the nursing home facilities that have reported cases to the state santa clara

county has the most in the bay area at 11 covid-19 cases connected to nursing homes make up at least 12% of the cases in california. >>your faith face coverings are now required in sonoma county that public health order took effect friday. khan forcefully to call reports from santa rosa showing how people there are just in to their new normal. >>businesses proactive in following orders either watch or germany, you don't want my rock and robbie on during bill road in santa rosa asking customers to cover their faces before entering the shop gets a pain. when we do it as we get through the order issued by the sonoma county public health officer requiring the public wear face coverings in indoor facilities outside of their homes went into effect on friday i have 2 children. >>and i think it's really incredibly strange for them to be in a world where everybody is wearing masks.

>>a drive-thru restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations and even the outdoors anywhere for instance, 6 feet of distance between yourself and the next closest person cannot be maintained require face coverings army, i stand home. >>i decide to keep my car full of gas. i take my flu shot for a ride during the day i just don't get up and make sure the body employers of essential business is tasked with making sure employees cover up those businesses also have the right to refuse service to customers defying the indefinite order. >>neighboring marine county public health department has issued a similar order regarding face coverings that goes into effect wednesday enforcement begins the same day for the mirroring order mandated in alameda and contra costa counties face masks now a necessity for most of the bay area

>>the public health officer has requested the sheriff and all local police chiefs ensure compliance and enforcement of the order of violation constitutes a threat and menace to public health that could be punishable by a fine jail time for both. in santa rosa felipe should all kron 4 news. >>also in the north bay, a popular ice cream business is closing 3 twins ice cream made the announcement on friday. the business opened back in 2005 that included sales to grocery stores. the ceo though says most of the sales have been dropping and it became clear that it's impossible to keep operating and the coronavirus pandemic sealed the company's fate. they're hoping however that someone else might be able to revive the brand. >>is bringing on 50,000 new workers to help it deal with increased demand. this comes on the heels of a previous hiring surge of a 150,000 new

employees, wal-mart is the nation's largest grocer and with so many people stuck at home sales of household staples are up significantly. and now walmart says it needs more temporary and part-time workers to meet the demand. well trump properties, how furloughed nearly 2000 workers in several states, public records show the largest number of them are in florida properties in chicago, las vegas and the washington dc area are also affected. according to the organization a trump national doral miami house furloughed 560 employees while trump's mar-a-lago club in palm beach house furloughed a 153 non essential employees, terms of the stimulus package prevent president trump and his family for receiving federal relief funds for his businesses. >>for decades now dogs have been used to sniff out drugs bombs bodies even cancer. well now a team of british for certain researchers say they hoping that the canines keen sense of smell can help detect covid-19 as well london

university is working with the specially trained dogs to develop a new kind of coronavirus test one that doesn't require a swab if instead, researchers recently discovered the canine canines can detect malaria infections in humans and they're now looking into whether the same is true for covid-19 the training began last month and researchers hope to see if the dogs are ready to go in about 6 weeks. and if so those dogs could screen up to 250 people an hour. they caution this is not going to replace traditional testing but rather be used as a supplement since covid-19 tests are in short supply and can often take hours or even days for the results to come back. dealing with the coronavirus can be very scary and nerve, you know, but we want to let you know there's help you can call the national disaster distress helpline the number is 1 809 8, 5, 5, 9, 9, 0, and there are people who pick up the

phone who can help you. we've also posted that number on our website at kron 4 dot com. >>quite a bit of cloud cover we have across the bay area again this morning, however, the clouds will part clearing up a little bit into the afternoon, although will be in the chilly side and we're looking worked some raindrops as we go into the forecast moral 60 by hiding and 66 going on by 3. the pay some bills be back just that keep air the kron 00:04am morning news weekend edition continues. welcome back to

kron 4 morning news, good morning everybody and kind not overcast stake as we see some patches already developing from the bridge. cam shots but a kind of mostly cloudy and this is the shot we see from the bay bridge. >>that will be clearing out as we get to the late morning hours into the afternoon so things will be improving basically mostly sunny will be the rule today. oh we do have action here going on this is sfo. no delays being reported there by the way and there you can see to kind of the overcast mostly cloudy gloomy deal. so again that will clear out for today and this afternoon upstream we've been talking about a much advertised rain shower event. this will be a scattered shower one at that and we'll break this down just a bit. but that's what we're looking for upstream and then further to the left as you'll notice more systems off the pacific not unusual. but because of the change of pattern as we have high pressure build that can repel everything up in around us what doesn't what they want to get much out of it. for today's highs were in

the 60's over most of the bay area, 65 santa barbara, 73 looks like for central valley, bakersfield fresno sacramento coming in at 70 even up to reading about 70 as well as far as how much rain we're going to get not much a blink you miss a type thing, let's go for with all of waiting that you're ready to look at it here we go want to go forward little bit of green on the map there 100's of an inch of rain just an estimation of what we're getting. we'll call it some wet roads, scattered showers at that and the concentration appears to be peninsula east bay shoreline is where the most as a maybe in some of the valleys up there in the north bay so boom, there's are yet. by monday afternoon working on some clearing happening. but really into tuesday we start clearing out in the rest of the week most of the systems by passes to the north. we may get the tail wind of some of these under closer the analysis here. but the basic line is high pressure builds to the end of the week doesn't little cold for to get much out of the following weekend and really this gets us into the following week too remaining somewhat dry. i

don't have a loaded up here but the drought, a monitor here tells us that so cal's looking great. but northern california, the bay area we're getting into drought territory and to some degree the moderate category as well zipping in your 4 zone forecast here for today, 63 san francisco with the mission district coming in at 64. daly city 63 with half moon bay about 61 pacifica at 60 jumping on the bay side of the peninsula we're at 63 south san francisco brisbane at 6066 burlingame and getting some mid 60's to upper 60's going on here down southward to redwood city at 66 palo alto and mountain view. both at 67 and not get up to 70 here in the south bay, although close morgan hill 69 los gatos 68 also cupertino in santa clara hope it is at 69. he's the shoreline to the south in the mid to upper 60's livermore at 67 with pleasanton seminole 66. well the creek at 6768 for

concord to these again are areas to be watching later this week expect 80's coming your way is up as well as places like pittsburgh which are today 68 the nation's 65 with napa sonoma 6661 for the lazio so for santa rose will do about 66 and chilly lower to middle 50's for them are in coast. 70 forecast an improvement very quickly in the seven-day we zoom right to the 70's through the balance of the week and we're into the lower 80's by friday into saturday of next weekend for now it looks dry really for this week and into the following week, although. >>what check and see if somebody's system so maybe some sprinkles for the north bay we could use it. and kyra back just

>>well for your health this morning is becoming a requirement to wear a mask when you go outside in public such as to the grocery store pharmacy. well that mask of course adds a layer of protection against covid-19. but what about your eyes are health expert karen along joins us with some tips this morning to protect you from infection and kerry, you know so often we're thinking oh we're so focused on protecting our mouse and our nose with the masks we completely forget about our eyes. >>that's right and the best protection is ok makes sense or and so so opticians are actually saying the sales are up with since the outbreak of

the virus so people are really getting it to protect their eyes with glasses whether you need them are not i mean whether you need a prescription glasses right or not. >>so so so one of the best ways to protect your eyes and put the contacts away if you wear contacts and just wear glasses. >>if you can't because of the contact lens it only covers about 30 to 40% of your ocular surface so it's really good idea to put glasses on top some of optometrists say you know just you know trying to try to not go with the contact lenses at all and just wear glasses, ok, let's go back to the glasses foreign talking about glasses and sunglasses. >>they really don't have a full barrier from the droplets of covid-19 but they do provide more protection than if you didn't have them right. >>right it's better than nothing you know there are better ones mind the these

don't really protect a whole lot so i don't really wear this when i go out, but there are other ones that you know the wraparound glasses really the more protection so that would be a good choice when you're going out. >>you know one thing that we forget about with our glasses is that we need to take care of them and clean them. as we would any other any other surface or clothing our hands. it's the same situation with the glasses right exactly i take your glasses just like your hands you need to clock cleaned them you need to disinfect them as well because they're they're your barrier if any spindler anything respiratory part. >>droplets get on your glasses you need to get that off because you're constantly touching your glasses and they're right there on your face. >>one thing that you mentioned as well as don't use a dry paper towel or a tissue or a cloth, maybe even micro fiber cloth to to clean your glasses was that. >>right you know you always see people using their sure it

is trying to what because that's because a lot of debris gets on those surfaces that debris that dust particles so then you're just reading that drive right into your land says some people like the plastic lenses now and those one so scratch, you know you really can't read those scratches out so definitely never ever clean your glasses when they're dry. >>what do you recommend. >>still the way to disinfect your glasses think of it just like you would washing your hands you take your glasses and put him under luke warm air even cold water is ok just never hot water because at will disfigured you are a classic lenses. >>and then you just take and get them wet dish just a couple drops you put it in your hand and rubbed it around and then agitate and rub it around your whole class glass also to the friends also everything and then you know that little knows pets to

collect you know even more greece and makeup city could actually take a little really soft bristle brush and really just get into just long as you don't brush still insisting right into that little a little areas. but but just like washing your hands, you know once you watch to try to do it for 20 seconds then rinse rinse rinse you know get all that so ah so i should be singing happy birthday to me twice while i'm cleaning my glasses, is okay and then once that went ransom often use a a micro fiber clock and just wipe them like whites and down how often she would should we do this karen torre glasses you should do this definitely try to get in the habit of doing them in the morning, so you start out with really clean but then if you're going out in public. in come back in wa clean them just like you would take off your out you know that your clothes and jackets with that might be

contaminated right same thing with your glasses wash them when you're washing your hands. now some people might put windex or something like that maybe vinegar. >>on their glasses as that something you recommend. >>yeah that that is definitely in a no no it's just city moore and your glasses so definitely don't do that. >>i also know that their spray that you can that you can get specifically for glasses to those work does that work as well as maybe the a distant distant urgent. >>you know if this would be like something like that. yes right you know this would be quick if you really need to get the smudges out you know to what the glasses down but to really disinfect them the soap and water. okay, if you really want to clean the entire glasses, they left the frame it that's a great point because so often will just forget about the frames and just focus on the lenses. >>exactly yeah fact let's move on to a just i hygiene and what we should be doing when we want to protect our eyes.

>>yes, so think about got only keeping your hands clean. but keeping your face clean as well as your glasses and you know all those 3 combined. you know you think about your glasses there right there on your by your eyes and that's the the virus can get into your mucous membranes of your eyes. >>also yes so keeping things is number one. >>what about when we head in the car do should we have a little travel kit for glasses as well. >>yeah i like to have you know you won't have the u.s. open later cheap keep some of your liquid if you really need to clean your glass lenses but also have a some gloves and hand sanitizer because if you get something in your eye in your eyes get eric take that you want to make sure your hands are clean your fingers are clean. and now that the allergy season is going to be coming around. you know you i

get it read in it she and we'll tend to want to rub your eyes that's another reason why the glass is a great because they're a reminder you have something right there in front of your eyes before you go in. >>rug rug, your eyes, yeah and as we mentioned to begin this segment. we often take our glasses for granted our eyes for granted. we need to protect them as much as we need to protect our miles and those as well. >>right and we we couldn't take our glasses off we set them down on potentially contaminated surfaces and then we put them back on right so really start being more aware of your eyes as well as everything else i awareness all right karen. thank you so much. much. >>you're - [narrator] if you watch tv using an antenna, listen up. kron four is moving frequencies on april 29th, and you will need to re-scan your tv to keep watching this channel. re-scanning is simple, and requires no new equipment or services. if you watch kron four through a cable or satellite service, your service provider will do it for you.

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welcome the kron 4 morning news, thanks a lot for joining us this sunday april 19th marty gonzales and i'm robin when sen. >>a new academic article says that the u.s. most more than triple coronavirus testing to safely open economy. >>harvard health researchers say the goal should be at least 500,000 tests a day right now the number is about 150,000. researchers say that the percentage of positive tests is still too high. and they and that the u.s. does not have a grasp on the severity of the crisis and how to safely reopen society. the

world health organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be between 3.12%. well right now in the u.s., it's about 20%. >>well this comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u.s. last week was the deadliest on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but it's sort of i 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday and over 4500 people died on friday alone last night we closed and on 39,000 deaths that's more than the number of people who died in the korean war. >>for weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms can't get tested. well we have new insight this morning in the how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u.s. karin caifa has the details. >>president trump says a few states are ready to open some businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. the virus has passed its peak. the

president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopening will begin monday. >>still crowds gathered in front of the state capitol in austin calling for more openings faster it. but governors in the hardest hit states a large scale testing capabilities need to come first casting. >>how you monitor the rate of infection. and you control for it. and that is the whole tension in reopening. >>there's new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start in the u.s. in the first place. fda officials say contamination in the cdc's manufacturing of the tasks likely led to weeks of delays. right now chicago and boston are areas of concern to doctor deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task force but she says national trends are pointing in a better direction this is really reassuring to us at the progress we're across the country. >>meanwhile, weekend

negotiations continued between congressional democrats and the white house on a deal to add more money to a small business relief program. >>initial funding ran out in about 2 weeks in washington, i'm karen caifa. a number of demonstrations took place across the country last week with frustrated and angry protesters. >>demanding a reopening of the u.s. economy this despite warnings from public health experts that reopening part of the parts of the country too early can lead to a resurgence of cases traitors and huntington beach they want to end the state's stay at home order which was put in place by governor gavin newsome amid the coronavirus pandemic local police say that the protest against small, but it quickly grew to over 200 people. >>and this morning, a wisconsin woman who survived the coronavirus has a message for the protesters take a listen. >>to everyone crying and complaining about the safer at

home being extended let me put things in perspective for basically had to learn how to walk again due to muscle atrophy from being 100% better in for 2 weeks. i'm lucky to be alive get some stuff done around your house. everyone is in the same boat. stop complaining and be thankful for your health if you think being confined to house is bad imagine being confined to a bed. and that's best case scenario. i mean because people are dying from this. >>well that was le a bloomberg and she has just recovered after being in a nine-day coma because of the coronavirus. >>in california there are now more than 30,000 cases of covid-19 and more than 1100 deaths. los angeles county officials announced 81 new deaths from the virus and 642 new cases yesterday that makes yesterday the deadliest day yet in la county. you're in the bay area were seen over

6200 cases in over 200 people who have died from the virus. santa clara county remains the highest number of cases over 1800 and over 70 deaths. alameda county has the next number of the deaths at 41, san francisco county has the second most number of cases at 1100. >>i'm hopeful that we can reach an agreement that the senate can pass this tomorrow and that the house can take it up on tuesday. and wednesday we'll be back up and running i'm hopeful that i think we're very close to a deal to die and i'm i'm hopeful that we can get that done. >>well, i was treasury secretary steve mnuchin saying this morning that he believes congress will reach an agreement today on more funding for small businesses 100 another $3 billion for the paycheck protection program. it ran out of money about 2 nt signed the last stimulus bill. the news of more potential help for small businesses comes after more than 100 hour

rather 100,000 jobs were wiped out in california last month. the startling numbers based on a survey that was taken on the week of march 12th, the state's unemployment rate hit 5.3% in march. the biggest losses were no surprise they were in the leisure and hospitality industry. >>it got some promising news on a drug being tested to fight the coronavirus scientists say early treatment with the rams a severe reduce disease and damage to the lungs of monkeys infected with the virus. the drug was developed by the bay area company gilley at sciences. researchers say that the testing indicates that early treatment shows significant promise. well our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website kron 4 dot com a great place to go and get lots of information the latest on the outbreaks here in the bay area an interactive map and information on ways to stay safe. you can find all of this right under the coronavirus tap. once again that's on our website kron 4 dot com.

>>and coming up this morning, a man is dead in the east bay after a police shooting at a walmart store will have everything that happened there. and california farmers forced to destroy their crops because they say they have nowhere to sell them during the pandemic. and coming up after the break some of the biggest names in music coming together to raise millions of dollars to fight the coronavirus will have the highlights coming up. it will take a live look outside and there are cloudy skies at sfo this morning will be right back.

>>welcome back everyone, the organization of global citizen and the world health organization they partnered with some of the world's top music performers for the one world together at home concert. early this morning global citizen tweeted that the event raised more than a million to fight the coronavirus pandemic rick damigella has the highlights. >>d tonight if i can and just give you permission to pharma. some. >>lady gaga began the evening encouraging the audience to smile with the performance of the song popularized by nat king cole. >>during hardships like this. we have to lean on each other for help. my friend, the late do with this. has the perfect song about that.

>>stevie wonder followed with bill withers lean on me with there's passed away march 30th from an on covid-19 hart issue we have to all come together to find it on a global scale, let's tell our leaders that we needed to strengthen the health care systems all around the world. so the crisis like this never happens again. sir paul mccartney made a call to action before leading into the beatles classic lady madonna set to get images of health care june and you are those performances were within just the first 15 minutes of the program hosted by late night talk show host jimmy fallon jimmy kimmel and stephen colbert. >>in a sign of the times the rolling stones performed, you can't always get what you want

socially-distanced from each other from 4 different locations, the star-studded show closed with celine dion lady gaga andrea bocelli john legend and chinese pianist long long performing the prayer. >>in hollywood, i'm rick damigella. i want to show how well take a look at this tv and movie star john krasinski hosting a virtual prom. >>for 2020 high school seniors. he got a little help from the jonas brothers and billie eilish as well with the music and seniors across the country all of participated from their own homes, kaczynski called the event, the sgn prom and that name comes from the web series that he's using to cheer people up during the pandemic is called some good news. >>well we could use coming up our way here we've got a lot of cloud cover to start things off but the clouds are starting to the parts will be some sunshine looks like later

today about the rain situation of the drought situation has gotten worse up here in northern california and not much the way relief cause medically tomorrow morning. yeah, we'll check into that shot ran across one to weekend

>>good morning, everybody welcome back to kron 4 morning news time to get a check of the forecast with dave spahr hide a good morning. >>well good morning marty and robin good morning, everybody

and we've been battling quite a bit in the way of clouds this morning like yesterday but we're starting to see them open up another spot, so it's a very hopeful, we'll see somewhat of a mostly sunny motive, variable clouds depending on your exact perspective and so forth. so has some work to be done from the shot from u c berkeley there you see the east bay shoreline off to the distance here. so this is what we got going on from the golden gate again we have the cumulus kind of hanging around but again there's that nice stream of blue sky and there to tell us what our future will be for today. so satellite radar picture you see the collection of cloud cover that looks very auspicious upstream here. yeah looks very promising there. but it's that work has medically pleasing than what we're going to actually get out of it to be frank with you. mostly we're going to have this week ahead is a dry forecast with just about of some morning showers tomorrow. now temperatures right now is too quick check here, we goo 51 going on santa rosa. it was a little cooler this morning up in the north bay. we have temperatures drop a little bit because skies kind of open up

the touch middle to upper 50's line up the east bay shoreline 56 down there to san jose 56 also for could 54 for livermore just for comparison sake. there you notice a soul core up north compared to where we were 24 hours ago and some of those inland valleys off to the east bay but ever so slightly it is future cast for this is where it is and we do clear out for these afternoon, yeah and then boom here comes again cloud cover and there's the promise of the rain for tomorrow morning. this is enough to get wet the roads making use your windshield wipers just a little bit and it will be basically a morning affair, providing more action really in our mountains with snow showers you can see they're in it it really diminishes pretty quickly. a tuesday morning curiously around monterey bay looks like a couple stray showers hanging around a little bit we go into a dry pattern for the balance of the week. still kind of overcast to the bay bridge toll plaza shot to the east bay shoreline or excuse me the east to east bay hills up in the distance there. for the clouds cool and mild for today to mostly sunny

and spot 60's for most of the bay area will be some stray 70's here and there and tomorrow scattered showers in the morning hours and then variable clouds and cool and that for this week ahead turning mostly sunny and warming and we're going to be returning to the 80's going on in london that may happen as early as well wednesday thursday still seeing we give them closure how that comes together 63 san francisco, 69 san jose, slight microclimates check in and hear 64 for oakland just a wide shot of we got going on for today, nice recovery up there in the north bay after a chilly start 66 santa rosa. napa 65 70 meanwhile for any ah we have a couple token 70's on the board which will explore in the 4 zone forecast for you. coming up in just a bit along with that extended to end the drought situation, not looking good up here in northern california and in so cal, it has improved because of recent rains. again we'll check in your 4 zone forecast coming up

certainly use the surplus. reporter paul vercammen got a first look at the potential food crisis here in california. >>agribusiness community throughout california suffering unemployment now 5.3%. this is santa paula population, 30,000 and at this food share of that everybody driving up to get a box of free food and a bag of her dues and the people at food servant or a county say they're seeing a lot of new faces people who never before needed that helping hand for its work furloughs it's reduced hours, it's actually losing their jobs, you know it's a combination of all of those that is that is causing people to have to go out and wait in line to be able to get their food. >>i work at the unified school district and so i work for the after school program. >>since the kids aren't in

school. i'm not in school and the kids back in school i probably won't be back to august. >>and then the growers here in this county, they say people are just not demanding their produce not a restaurant and not the stores. we came upon one farmer who basically had to just pack up a bunch of celery and leave it in the field. >>because there was no one to buy. >>it's not going to garbage is going back into the ground which puts some nutrients back on the ground but it's very expensive way to do that because of the decrease in demand world harvest in a few days a week just to cut to order and special orders for customers already have contracts with us to consequently our employees are working less hours and last area to get. >>so it's been kind of like hard for us to provide like some food, yeah because we know we have to some bills to pay will have to pay the rand. >>so unprecedented numbers of californians streaming per these pop up food distribution events like this when will it

end they just don't know. they're wrapping up and preparing for the next ways. in santa paula california, i'm paul vercammen. now back to you. >>former president bill clinton host and guest speakers, including governor newsome and new york governor andrew cuomo for a conversation on how the federal government should have responded to the pandemic they also pointed out flaws in the current health care system and what the future may hold for the u.s. both president clinton and governor newsom agreed that neither the country nor the state of california are ready to get back to normal. >>we can get back to normal. until we got control of this virus. and we can keep it under control. and that might take longer than we wish to solar taking longer. >>then we words but california has excelled in so many categories we have not been testing an eye on that night taken responsibility to do

more and better for 40 million americans who happen to live in this state. >>well governor newsom went on to credit, californians was slowing the spread of the virus in here in the state by listening and paying attention to and following the stay at home order. >>in the u.s. and canada have agreed to keep their border. close for another 30 days sets aside from travel deemed essential that includes cross-border workers like health care professionals airline crews and truck drivers. well texas governor greg abbott says that he'll start the process of reopening the state this week. he says a group of medical and economic experts will guide him through a series of small steps aimed at slowly reopening the economy plans to restart businesses won't come until april 27 retailers won't be allowed to reopen unless they can make home deliveries. the state says hospitals can resume surgeries that have been postponed by the virus. but only if that does not interfere with the treatment of coronavirus patients,

schools and universities will remain close for the rest of the school year. >>and still ahead this morning, the pandemic has put a spotlight on nursing homes around the world, we'll find out what the new numbers say about bay area nursing homes. but first we'll take you outside for this live look at cloudy conditions on the approach to the richmond bridge wi ♪ ♪ when you need it, jack delivers: order on uber eats, postmates and grubhub.

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police shooting inside a walmart it happened around 3 saturday afternoon and side of the walmart on us period boulevard in san leandro police say the man was holding a baseball bat and pose a threat to others in the store kron four's gayle ong reports from san leandro on what led up to that shooting. >>the incident happened inside the store by the entrance and the whole ordeal was caught on camera cell phone video shows a man brandishing a back moments before he was shot dead by san leandro police during the detention. >>officers the boys that hasan. a taser was in effect. the same officer then fired one shot at the suspect striking him in the torso. at the same time simultaneously the second officer for their taste. >>the incident happened just before 3.15 saturday afternoon inside the wal-mart on his spear in boulevard we spoke to a customer off camera who was inside the store and i heard. people ran towards. the back from the front of the store

saying there was someone with a gun and then there were someone shooting. this video shows the chaos inside then more people started to come towards them. and that's when everybody kind of started getting in panic mode and everybody kind of just wanted to find an exit and everybody was scared everybody huddled together san leandro police initially responded to a robbery but that was not the case when they arrived police say the officers attempted to detain the suspect but he was not co-operative the subject inside a walmart brandishing that he can certainly. >>swinging at other individuals inside the store customers. so there's a threat. >>we're told the officer who fired his weapon is a 25 year veteran both of the officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave. detectives are combing through surveillance video from wal-mart and the officers body camera video the identity of the man killed is not being released at this time, reporting in san leandro gayle

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morning, welcome back thanks a lot for joining us on kron 4 morning news it's and april 19th, i'm marty gonzales and i'm robin winston. >>the pandemic has put a spotlight on nursing homes all around the world where thousands of elderly residents who are most vulnerable to the virus are dying. newly released numbers show a stunning number of cases right here in the bay area. >>the gateway care and rehabilitation center in hayward is topping the list kron four's dan thorn talk with nursiog home advocates about those grim new numbers. >>a new state report shows more than 200 california, nursing homes have covid-19 cases, 34 of those facilities are in the bay area across 7 counties in congratulating ourselves in california for having sold by is the curve but social distance is a luxury. home same as it is in a prison, mike dart is an attorney with california advocates for nursing home reform he says the lack of attention to nursing home residents who are the most vulnerable. >>as well as workers at these

facilities has allowed the virus to rapidly spread in the bay area, the gateway care and rehabilitation center in hayward leads the region with more than 102 cases among its staff and patients, other hard-hit nursing homes are canyon springs, post-acute care in san jose valley house rehabilitation center in santa clara and central gardens in san francisco. the state data does not include deaths, although it is known 13 residents have died at the hayward facility prompting an investigation by the alameda county district attorney's office dark is also not convinced by the numbers that have been reported so far that number frightening really is just the tip of the iceberg because the data is so >>we know that many facilities are not telling the state. >>the problems that they're having the irish scots are many health care professionals college has program it see how the president of the nation's

largest long term care union says because of low wages workers have been forced to jump to 2 or 3 different nursing homes. s e i u local 2015 is continuing to push for more protection for workers which will also help keep patients safe. we need to make sure we are investing in the workforce in these facilities to make sure we never have this type of. problem a kid and there isn't even appropriate handwashing taking place these facilities much less the use of appropriate ppe we need to get state regulators into these places to make sure that starts happening. >>dan thorn kron 4 news. >>in the north bay where face coverings are now required in sonoma county that order from the sonoma county public health officer took effect on friday. it requires adults to wear face coverings when indoors away from home. now employers of essential businesses around the county must make sure that their workers cover up those

businesses also have the right to refuse service to customers who defied the order. >>and i think it's really incredibly strange for them to be in a world where everybody is wearing masks. stan home. >>i decide to keep my car full of gas. i take my flu shot for a ride during the day i just don't get up and make sure the body. >>and in neighboring moraine county, the public health department issued a similar order that will go into effect on wednesday. enforcement begins that same day on similar orders in alameda and contra costa counties, a violation could be punishable by a fine and jail time or both. >>thousands of motel and hotel rooms and california are ready to shelter the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic kron four's catherine heenan has an update on project room cheek. we have. >>1123. rooms. be available

now for those covid positive individual snows, homeless individuals or vulnerable to come in from the cold san jose's mayor and what's happening in the hot spot of santa clara county. >>statewide there are now nearly 11,000 motel rooms available to shelter the homeless during the pandemic it is a move considered critical to curb the spread of the virus. as of saturday 4,211 people are already being housed. not that this has been easy some communities have been resisting the idea of homeless and potentially infected people moving into their towns and cities. the governor says he'll deal with it and then there are folks said just turn their backs in. >>say someone else's problem and a and point fingers and we have few of those unfortunately in i just want to say this my heart goes out to them as get the politics of this. it's tough and i just want them to know i have their back if you need support. i'll take the arrows in my back i

create some space in so call me and let me see what i can do. >>to secure your anxiety, the governor's hoping some of what's been happening to help the homeless now well continue long term. meantime he was asked again about including bay area. billionaire tom stier to a special task force on restoring jobs and the economy. some arguing the former candidate for the democratic presidential nomination is too partisan. >>but i tom's leadership is willing to take the sign up put up what he's done in his community bank in a focus on the triple bottom line up against anybody's philanthropy and the last decade i look forward to his leadership and stewardship of this council. >>monterey county fairs of being infected with the coronavirus have authorities allowing some assault victims to collect their own evidence. a forensic nurse through a video call guides them through the hours long process. the

monterey county deputy district attorney explains more about that process. >>so the officer goes to the victim's residence. places on the front door set and then wait to get up and then they can then goes the front door opens the door cn sample and then they begin a new video call. >>well the video call also includes the detective and a victim at the tip once the victim statement is taken the nurse is the only one who remains on the call the victim then collects the sample under the nurses guidance and direction. critics say that self-administered evidence collection is a violation of due process and can lead to motions to have that evidence be dismissed. authorities say that so far to assault victims have collected the evidence in their cases. >>a popular ice cream business based in the north bay is closing 3 twins ice cream made that announcement on friday. the business opened back in 2005 and included sales to

grocery stores. the ceo says those sales have been dropping and became impossible for the company to keep operating. then the coronavirus pandemic sealed the company's fate. they are hoping though that someone else may be able to revive the brand. questions of fans across the country are asking is when can we expect to see professional sports return. well, nba hall of famer charles barkley says it's going to be a long time before the sports world gets back to normal. >>i never thought in my lifetime, we would be without sports you know, i've been to not 11 that's probably the worst thing i've been through in my life but i never thought we could never play sports. event of an and you know i got to tell you some is going to be a long time before things are normal. even when we get back the plans for us we're not fans are not going to be allowed into stadiums all the arenas but man it's going to be a long time before fans they become the games again. >>well some sports are exploring options about when they can come back the pga

says it plans to resume with the tournament in june in texas but that event will be played without spectators. major league baseball is also talking about having every team start the season in arizona but again without fans. >>for decades dogs have been used to sniff out drugs bombs bodies and even cancer. now a team of british researchers hope that the canines keen sense of smell can help detect covid-19 the london university is working with specially trained dogs to develop a new kind of coronavirus test one that does not require a swap justice f. researchers recently discovered that canines can detect malaria infections in humans and they are investigating whether the same is true for covid-19. so the training began last month and researchers hope to see if the dogs are ready in 6 weeks if so the stocks could screen up to 250 people per hour. they caution that this will not replace traditional testing but rather be used as a supplement sense covid-19 tester in short supply and

often take hours or even days for results to come back. well many people in the bay area have been social-distancing for more than a month now some cope just fine but others film only and stress and of course secondly to thoughts of suicide kron 4 talk to the executive director of crisis support services of alameda county on how they're helping residents through these difficult times. >>i would say the primary kinds of calls we're getting related to the virus is full of anxiety and stress and for that were really acknowledge that there is no road map when it comes to unfamiliar stressors and making sure people understand that they're not alone and how they're feeling to sometimes there's a sense of shame one hot people are having a hard time and acknowledging that decision-making fatigue that comes with unfamiliar situation so we're all making decisions all day every day regarding what's safe for us for our families what to do what not to do. so helping people focus on what they can control seems to be very helpful and creating routines

whenever possible even if that is at 10 o'clock every morning i go for a walk around the block or on mondays i go grocery shopping south helping people. the 2 men to what they can control tends to health and have a better sense of the situation and have a feel more manageable. >>well if you or anyone, you know is suffering the crisis support services of alameda county offers a 24 hour crisis helpline the numbers on your screen right now 1, 803 0, 9, to one 3 one. there's also a youth tax line you can text the keyword safe. 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, that service is available from 04:00pm to 11:00pm daily. well our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website go to kron 4 dot com you'll find the latest on outbreaks in the bay area an interactive map that's for useful and lots of information on ways that you can stay safe all of this is on our website. it's right under the coronavirus taft and once again that's at kron 4

dot com. >>trevor shirley in washington what would it take to make sure every american can vote by mail this coming november. it's a debate lawmakers and good morning,

welcome back to kron 00:04am morning news, we started the day pretty gray and a little bit chilly for this time of year let's find out from dave spahr that's going continue throughout the rest of the day pi day.

>>hey good morning marty and robin good morning, everybody we're going to prove the sky conditions going on here as we get into the afternoon although a little bit maybe on the chilly side, you know mel probably be temperatures in the 60's for most of the bay area will check in your 4 zone forecast coming up in just a bit live shot coming in here from the bay bridge other you see all the overcast that the gray that i'm already was talking about still with us working on that part sfo no delays happening here we did see some traffic earlier going on so no delays from sfo from what we got. now what we've been talking a lot about is this rain and there's an opportunity tomorrow with that line of cloud cover you see off towards the west. the pacific is providing a lot more of those however the doors open right now and for tomorrow morning. but it does not look quantitatively to be that much enough to wet the roads over the windshield wiper action for essential workers and so forth and then boom that's kind of it we're not going to pick up a whole lot know upstream again most of these other systems they'll be going up in around us

checking into bexar she'd be statewide temperatures today we got the lower 70's to middle 70's for much of the central valley today. sacramento comes in about 7063 per san francisco. moderate 58 and mid 60's down to the coastal southern california, future cast rain we frozen this here because we're going to run through this to show you what we're getting this is kind of lipstick on a pig of prey to say to be quite candid with you not a lot as you can see is what we're getting here just to get enough to wet the roads. cosmetic rain if you will and not much more upstream, it looks like for the week ahead, it just didn't come together air force in terms of getting something really juicy the deeper moisture, we're open on. so there's an opportunity that happens in a monday. we have a stray shower or 2 tuesday morning cookie for the santa cruz mountains points to the south down to moderate potentially but then a high pressure builds into repels everything that comes off the pacific you can see all the systems bam bam bam up to the

northwest, avoiding us entirely so it looks to remain dry and temperatures will warm so it is definitely cool today compared to what's coming our way 63 san francisco's golden gate park sunset district about 62. let's keep going here for 60 pacifica 61 half moon bay, 63 for daly city. lower 60's cover the northern end of the peninsula brisbane around 6066 for burlingame and that's kind of the indicative boise, heading down south san mateo what about 6566 foster city was 67. now to do. and the south bay again sluggish for those temperatures 68 for santa clara, 16 also cupertino 69 morgan hill, los gatos at 68 east bay shoreline to the south and middle 60's 66 there 67 going on pleasanton and livermore dublin also 67 to know what 66 then dole 67 now walnut creek at 67 to but again later in the week you folks will be looking at numbers approaching about 80

by thursday friday berkeley at 61. so we see some decoupling between the east bay shoreline and the inland valleys, a touch warmer as we see in some of these valleys up here and the north bay vacaville and fairfield 6869. benicia 6561 filet o and 66 for sonoma. santa rose at 66 with petaluma chile at the marine beaches at 55 point re and 53 going on for stenson beach. there you have the 70 forecast we rocket ship right through the 70's and the lower 80's and a lot of those inland valleys like we talk about in the east bay in the north expect those 80's to return a little flavor of good solid spring coming our way late spring. enjoy it safely and and the social distancing as you were and the bay area temperatures up that could be in the upper stimilus 70's. what we do all that so you see the difference already starting to develop with all about keeping our eyes out for rain unfortunately doesn't appear to be very much of it after we get past monday morning's scattered shower

event robin backed all right. thank you dan. >>the navy's top admiral will soon decide the fate of captain brett crozier captain crozier was fired after pleading for his superiors to move more quickly to protect us coronavirus infected crew on the uss theodore roosevelt. now admiral mike gilday will decide whether captain crozier step out of line when he when around his chain of command and sent an e-mail pushing for action to stem the growing outbreak which has killed one sailor crozier was fired on orders from the acting navy secretary thomas mobley who has since resigned. vice president mike pence traveled to colorado spring saturday to speak at the u.s. air force academy graduation. >>and this year's a ceremony as you might imagine looked a lot different compared to those in previous years as cadets were practicing physical distancing and no spectators attended the ceremony, the vice president had planned to just send a video message but instead he opted to go opted to go in

person. when organizers decided to hold the event on campus. a time. a great challenge in the life of our nation. you all here. in the pursuit of your commission and the service of this nation have been through a lot. >>and while we don't find more like the usual graduation at the air force academy. let me tell you this is an awesome sight. >>well the vice president also said that he wanted to be with the cadets as they began their service much of the country remain shut down with many colleges for going in person graduation events because of the pandemic. >>there are less than 200 days until election day 2020 and with the clock ticking the debate continues over the need for mail in voting. >>washington correspondent trevor shirley reports on efforts to make that happen.

>>voting rights advocates say because of the coronavirus every american should have the opportunity to vote by mail in november are showing is that no citizen should have to choose between their own safety and exercising their fundamental right to vote nick troiano with the nonpartisan political reform advocacy groups unite america says the clock is ticking. we anticipate that states will need to take action sooner rather than later to put necessary preparations in place so democratic senator sherrod brown wants congress to take action to allow mail in voting in all 50 states and every voter should be sent a should i think the older she said about the many republicans oppose mail in voting and president trump has said he thinks voting by mail could lead to massive fraud this whole thing about the massive voter fraud is a total mess, but republican national chairwoman ronna mcdaniel backs the president. mcdaniel says the federal government should let the states decide

for themselves >>right now 17 states have strict rules on who can vote by mail but 33 others allow a mail in ballot for anyone reporting in washington, i'm trevor shirley. >>well let's talk about your health it can be hard to feel in control when they're just so many unknowns during a global pandemic and doctors are seeing an increase of people that are looking for help to cope. melissa rainy has more in today's health minute. >>as the world health organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic the number of prescriptions being written for anti-anxiety medications sort. according to express scripts a pharmacy benefits manager just days after the announcement prescriptions for drugs like xanax and value spiked by 34%. women saw almost double the increase is men with usage going up by 40%. it's not

surprising that people are feeling the toll on their mental health. most of the countries understand homers schools are closed and unemployment is at record levels. a kaiser family foundation poll earlier this month, 45% of people said that stress related to the coronavirus had a negative impact on their mental health in a separate poll from the american psychiatric association. nearly half of the respondents said they were anxious about contracting the virus. in another 62% said they were worried about a loved one getting it as we continue to deal with the unpredictable make sure you're not only finding constructive ways to manage stress. but continue reaching out to those around you. for today's health minute i'm melissa rainey. >>all right, let's take you outside for a look at conditions at sfo still great cloudy and a bit chilly, we'll be right back.

>>welcome back everyone kron four's honoring heroes throughout the community, everyone that's 2 and a great job during this pandemic and today we're focused on a group of private schools that donated personal protective equipment for first responders throughout the bay area that's strafford schools, they delivered ppe to local hospitals that need it. that includes o'connor hospital in san jose and all to bates medical center in oakland. >>the donations were collected from stratford school campuses in the bay area. >>great job guys for donations are greatly appreciated

remember you can spotlight, someone making a difference in your community we have a special section on our website called kron 4 heroes go to the site pull out due out that the quick form tell us all about your hero and you can find that on our website kron 4 dot com. >>and we're going to wrap things up for us here live our news continues on a 24 hour news app kron on. >>you're going out do not forget your mask that's very important too and have a fantastic day. oh you know actually before we do that let's check in with some of u.s.. >>good morning robin good morning mike is our coronavirus coverage continues today will be talking to the alameda county public health officer about the county's new mandate requiring residents to cover their face in public. we'll also be speaking with someone at one medical health care to talk about covid-19 testing that will soon be available through their facilities so download the kron on app for free because they live with us all day long back to you guys. all right, let's take a look the 7 day forecast today we will have a mix of sun and clouds with

highs in the 60's tomorrow, there is a chance of rain. >>then after that it looks like high pressure is back in control we're going to warm it up and highs will be back in the 70's marty boy what what a change from hadn't asked if that's going to wrap things up for us, thanks so much for joining us. >>rob and i will be back on wednesday daryn james take over tomorrow. wow! i'm original. one of a kind. you feel me? love ya'. oop! you look cute. better than you! wherever drama pops off pop my 100% all-white-meat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just $5.99.

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