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dan noyes has this exclusive report. >> reporter: san mateo county health confirms to the iteam that is investigating how the coronavirus infected three residents. the nursing home is closed to visitors and families. >> the families are freaking out and also because they can't see their loved ones. they can't see them physically at all and we don't know when we will. >> reporter: both of julie's parents are residents. her father is in the hospital. she happened to take her mother home for dinner sunday. she would like both to be tested for coronavirus. but atria and the county say they won't give tests unless the patient shows symptoms. >> i'm not happy about it but i don't know what i can do about it. >> reporter: why would it help you to have your mom tested? >> so i know she doesn't have it for her sake and myself and my partner's sake and my son. >> reporter: even though i emailed and called, atria has nt responded. the residents who have coronavirus went to the hospital this past thursday, friday, and sunday. the remaining residents are restricted to their apartments and meals a

dan noyes has this exclusive report. >> reporter: san mateo county health confirms to the iteam that is investigating how the coronavirus infected three residents. the nursing home is closed to visitors and families. >> the families are freaking out and also because they can't see their loved ones. they can't see them physically at all and we don't know when we will. >> reporter: both of julie's parents are residents. her father is in the hospital. she happened to take her mother home for dinner sunday. she would like both to be tested for coronavirus. but atria and the county say they won't give tests unless the patient shows symptoms. >> i'm not happy about it but i don't know what i can do about it. >> reporter: why would it help you to have your mom tested? >> so i know she doesn't have it for her sake and myself and my partner's sake and my son. >> reporter: even though i emailed and called, atria has nt responded. the residents who have coronavirus went to the hospital this past thursday, friday, and sunday. the remaining residents are restricted to their apartments and meals a

dan noyes, abc 7 news. >>> the food and drug administration has approved a coronavirus test that provides results in less than 15 minutes. abbot which has labs in the bay area expects to deliver 50,000 tests per day starting next week. just last week, the fda approved another rapid test that provides results in 45 minutes. right now, it can take several days to get results. >>> apple has released a new app and web site to help you screen for the coronavirus. it asks you about your symptoms and gives you information on covid-19. the resources which are already available were created with the help of the cdc, fema and the white house coronavirus task force. apple ceo tim cook announced today that the company is d donating 10 million face masks in the united states and europe. >>> a welcome site at the port of los angeles today. one of two hospital ships from the u.s. navy positioned in place. it's much needed help for what leaders in l.a. county predict will be difficult weeks ahead. the u.s. navy mercy will provide 1,000 extra hospital beds in southern california. the hospital ship will ca

. >> i'm dan noyes. stay with us. i visited a family self-quarantining. they are frustrated over the rate of testing. >> we'll be airing a special on the coronavirus. >> pandemic, what you need to know and change the world. here at abbvie, we're inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier... ...and happier, while making medicines that help people right now. because that's the present we wanted to live in. and that's the future we all want to see. abbvie. here. now. >> announcer: now, your health, your safety. this is abc7 news. >> and a reminder here at abc7 news, we are no longer sitting together in the studio. we are spread out as an example of social distancing to reduce the spread of coronavirus. >> well, let's get you caught up now on the latest. santa clara county reported two new deaths in just the past hour. one man is in his 80s, the other man is in his 50s. both passed away yesterday. there are four total deaths in santa clara county. >> at midnight tonight, a shelter-in-place order takes effect in six bay area c

dan noyes, abc 7 news. >>> the food and drug administration has approved a coronavirus test that provides results in less than 15 minutes. abbot which has labs in the bay area expects to deliver 50,000 tests per day starting next week. just last week, the fda approved another rapid test that provides results in 45 minutes. right now, it can take several days to get results. >>> apple has released a new app and web site to help you screen for the coronavirus. it asks you about your symptoms and gives you information on covid-19. the resources which are already available were created with the help of the cdc, fema and the white house coronavirus task force. apple ceo tim cook announced today that the company is d donating 10 million face masks in the united states and europe. >>> a welcome site at the port of los angeles today. one of two hospital ships from the u.s. navy positioned in place. it's much needed help l.a. coun will be difficult weeks ahead. the u.s. navy mercy will provide 1,000 extra hospital beds in southern california. the hospital ship will care for patients without covid-

. >> i'm dan noyes. coming up, why are some grand princess passengers refusing to be tested for coronavirus? i my money should work as hard as i do. so i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. today, i'm earning on a charger. so, just the charger then? ummm... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ yeah! (sarcastically) fantastic. earn 1.5% cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. chase. make more of what's yours. >> announcer: now, your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. >> welcome back. very soon we expect to hear from governor gavin newsom about california's response to the coronavirus pandemic. >> we will bring that to you live. but we'll start this half hour with the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak. >> so, alameda county will release more than 300 jail inmates cutting short their sentences because of coronavirus concerns. many are nonviolent offenders. the union for san jose firefighters says 12 members of the department have tested positive. one firefighter was sent to

the i-team dan noyes's has the story you'll see only on 7 for marin county's drive through test site. >> marin county has been quietly testing people for covid-19 at this drive-through facility in san rafa san rafael. not just anyone can come. >> this is a physician refefrl only site, so if individuals do show up without an appointment, unfortunately they will be turned away. >> reporter: by guards at the entrance, hendricks tells me 700 people have received tests at this site. at the on set of the coronavirus crisis, tests were in short supply, but counties have run into another problem. >> now we're facing a complication where labs are not able to keep up with the demand, and so we're only able to submit, for instance, at our state lab up to 50 tests a day when quite honestly, we are testing more than that number every single day. >> reporter: marin and other counties around the bay area and the state are ramping up their testing, but new data shows california is far behind other states in terms of testing. the abc7 i-team ran an analysis of the number of coronavirus tests performed

dan noyes has this story from the covid-19 test site. >> reporter: for two weeks ma rib county has been quietly testing people for covid 189 at this drive-through facility in san raphael, but not just anyone can come. >> this is a physician referral only site, so if individuals do show up without an appointment, unfortunately, they will be turned away. >> reporter: by guards at the entrance. hendricks says almost 700 people have received tests that the site as seen from sky 7 today. at the onset of the coronavirus crisis, tests were in short supply, but counties have run into another problem. >> now we're facing a complication where labs are not able to keep up with the demand so we're only able to submit, for instance, at our state lab up to 50 tests a day when quite honestly we are testing more than that number every single day. >> reporter: marin and other counties around the bay area and the state are ramping up testing, but new data shows california is far behind other states in terms of testing. the abc7 i-team ran an analysis of the number of coronavirus tests performed in every

dan noyes has been investigating what if anything has been done to warn passengers who may have had contact with the agent. >> reporter: some employees are worried about the spread of coronavirus at oakland international after gate agent who worked sunday tested positive. showed me pictures of terminal two, workers doing a deep clean. worked gate 23, it's cordoned off. and 25, 26 and 27. and used bathroom at terminal two baggage claim. southwest tells me the cleaning was performed in accordance to the guidelines frm worker said he's been told to go heavy on the hydrogen peroxide. >> not going to touch anything, going to walk in the door and sit down. i'm sure southwest and airport have done everything in for that. >> reporter: but others do have concerns. one flight attendant messaged me, we're worried about him and other employees who worked with him. here's hoping everybody else is okay. he tested positive at this gate. few passengers took the news in ride>> because of the spacing a time they've had to clean up, i believe southwest probably took care of it. still staying spaced. >> for me

i-team reporter dan noyes has this exclusive report. >> san mateo county health confirms to the i-team that it is investigating how the coronavirus infected at least three residents at atria burlingame. the nursing home is closed to visitors and family. >> the families are freaking out. and also because they can't see their loved ones. they can't see them physically, at all. and we don't know when we will. >> both of julie berke's presidents are atria residents. her 103-year-old father is in the hospital and just happened to take her 83-year-old mother home for dinner sunday. she would like both to be tested for coronavirus, but atria and the county say they won't give tests unless the patient shows symptoms. >> i'm not happy about it, but i don't know what i can do about it. >> why would it help you to have your mom tested? >> so i know she doesn't have it both for her sake and my sake and my partner's sake and my son. >> atria has not released statements about infections even though i called. another patient said the residents who have coronavirus went to the hospital this past thurs

. >>> i'm dan noyes as covid-19 testing is ramping up, why is the state of california so far behind otherf testing? >> announcer: now your health, your safety, this is abc 7 news. >>> and fweegood evening, thank for joining us. just a few minutes ago, marin county reported its first death from coronavirus. >> the victim was a man in his 70s. he had been in the hospital for three weeks and was a passenger on the grand princess cruise ship. >> the mayor of los angeles says new numbers show the coronavirus is expanding in los angeles county at a rate faster than new york. >> governor newsom has signed an executive order to stop the eviction of renters statewide. >> president trump has signed a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus package. checks are expected to go out to many american families at the beginning of next month. >> and the u.s. navy's hospital ship mercy has arrived at the port of los angeles. it will provide expanded capacity to help what could be a surge in patients. >> we are not waiting for the crisis to hit and then react to it. >> in the bay area, the number of confirmed case h

nonprofits in that piece is the nonprofit that i was supposed to be doing the emceeing for along with dan noyes this weekend. i know how important that event is to them every year and i am super disappointed they have to postpone it. >> it leaves so much up in the air. >> they really rely on it. hopefully, mike, you do a lot of these events, too. better day coming forward and people will be more generous. >> hopefully people won't forget because they don't attend and give generously like they always do. let's talk about what is going on weather wise. thick fog up in the north bay and sliding south on 101. the winds are. let me show you the wind flow. this is not going to stay all in the north bay. it's going to slide down both sides of the bay shore and maybe even make it down to the dum barton bridge. you can see it's definitely starting to take over the bay bridge as we look from the east bay hills. this is going to be a morning event by the afternoon hours. sunshine and warmest temperatures today and tomorrow. un sw possible as w get deeper into that wet weather. mid to upper 60s along the c

. >> dan noyes speaking with many involved.er of lawsuit climbed to five with more on the way. the main complaint, the princess cruise line knew a passenger left that ship in bad condition and pointed to the coronavirus, yet the company allowed thousands more to board putting this health at risk. >> i think they put the money ahead of the safety of us and our friend. >> i spoke with him at lockland air force base in texas where they are under quarantine. they drove historic route 66 from chicago to san francisco to board the "grand princess." they heard about the coronavirus outbreak on the "diamond princess" in japan but trusted the company would keep them safe. >> didn't hear about anybody sick on this boat until we were the second or third day in the cruise we started hearing rumors of other passengers on the previous cruise having illness issues. >> their lawsuit said it knew at least one passenger of a prior voyage had symptoms of coronavirus yet made the decision to continue the voyage that began february 21st, 2020, with

a southwest worker at the airport contacted dan noyes and shared these photos with us.ays airport employees are worried about the sick agent and anyone who worked with him. >>> the number of coronavirus cases keeps increasing with more test results being completed. now a total of 1,206 cases in the bay area and 27 people have died. marin, napa and sonoma counties reported new cases. five people in the bay area tide yesterday. four of those deaths in san mateo county which has a total of five deaths. santa clara also reported another deadly infection. two confirmed cases of coronavirus in mendocino county. the most recent case is related to high-risk travel and that person is isolated at home. >>> congress is moving forward with that $2 trillion emergency relief deal. the senate passed the bill overnight and now it's headed to the house. abc news reporter cuetara has more. >> reporter: after five days of tough negotiations. between the senate and the white house over the largest economic relief bill in u.s. history today the vote was unanimous. overnight, the senate unan

dan noyes has been investigating what, if anything, has been done to alert customers who had contactat agent. >> some employees are worried about the spread of coronavirus after a gate agent tested positive. the employee sent me pictures of terminal two with workers doing a deep clean. the agent worked at gate 23, you can see it cordoned off and gates 25, 26, 27 and that he used the bathroom at the terminal two baggage claim. southwest tells me an enhanced cleaning of the gate areas was performed in accordance with applicable guidelines. they shut down and cleaned the bathroom. a maintenance worker said he was heavy on the hydrogen peroxide. >> wrm i'm not going to touch anything. i touched my bag and i'll walk in the door and sit down on the plane. m thstnd the airport has done everything they are supposed to do to take care of that. >> reporter: other southwest employees who do not want to go on camera citing company policies have concerns. one said we're allorked with hi the past week. we're just hoping that everyone else is okay and didn't get infected. >> we tested positive at t

dan noyes is catching up with a passenger whose voyage went terribly wrong. >> look at that. >> therenne is giving us inside look at travis air force base where 858 people are under quarantine for fear they contracted coronavirus aboard the grand princess cruise shp. >> ship. >> it's really hard. >> a cruise to hawaii surrounded great to her. after all what could go wrong? >> girlfriend was golden gate and do you want to hashare my cabin? it's leaving from san francisco and we don't have to fly anywhere and drive up to the ship with all of our stuff and get on and we were having a blast! >> reporter: but as the ship departed, hilo, hawaii, the captain announced they would stop a stop in mexico and return to san francisco. a passenger on the trip before had died from coronavirus in placer county. >> that was this ominous, ominous time that we went, my goodness, what is really happening? >> reporter: all passengers confined to their cab bin. she watched a hospital helicopter drop test kits to the ship and some tested positive. >> those will to go a federally isolated place in california

a southwest worker at the airport contacted the eye team dan noyes and shared these pictures with us.irport employees are worried about the sick agent and anyone who worked with him. the airport has given no further information aboutthe man. >>> the number of coronavirus cases keeps increasing with more test results being completed. there are now a total of 1,208 cases in the bay area and 27 people have died. marin, napa and sonoma county reported new cases. five more people in the bay area died yesterday. four of those deaths in san mateo county which has a total of five deaths. santa clara also reported another deadly infection. >>> there are two confirmed cases of coronavirus in mendocino county and the most recent case is related to high-risk travel and that person is isolated at home. lake county still has no reported cases. >>> congress is moving forward with that $2 trillion emergency relief deal. the senate passed a bill overnight and now headed to the house. ines de la cuetaro is in washington with more. >> goodern morning. after five days of tough negotiations between the se

. >>> this is dan noyes in larkspur. it's 7:00 in the morning on tuesday. you can see the drizzle descending on mount tam. this is redwood high school. so it's weird to get used to the idea that the students aren't starting to arrive at this point. but life as we know it now continues to move on. just walking the dogs right nowm >> so many amazing scenes. >> yes. >> and it was quite drizzly today outside. >> it was a little cool. meteorologist sandhya patel has the forecast. she is working from home. sandhya? >> it has been a cold storm that has really changed up our air mass. i've been tracking it from home. i want to show you live doppler 7 and get down to street level where it is raining now. let's get you in closer here. as you can see on the peninsula, showers around burlingame, skyline boulevard. if you are stepping out to run some errands, you do definitely need to carry that umbrella, as you will notice around scots valley, summit road and the santa cruz mountains also seeing some wet weather. and some pockets of moderate showers in the east bay aro

. >>> i'm dan noyes, just arriving at oakland international airport. and take a look at this. i'm in short-term parking. look. i have never seen these parking lots so empty.w. >> that is remarkable at short-term parking at the airport. >>> well, a website is using gps data to see how well people are doing at social distancing. see how san francisco and other bay area cities stack up. >>> plus, coronavirus has forced fans to stay home this opening day, but major league baseball says there is still reason to celebrate. >>> i'm abc7 news news chief medical correspondent dr. jennifer ashton with tips to stay safe. as the coronavirus outbreak continues to evolve and more testing is done, we expect the when we face adversity, we find a way through it. it's about taking care of each other. it's the small parts that make a big difference. at chevy, we promise to do ours. we're offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. if you need a new chevy, interest-free financing for 84 months - with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular m