on october 18th she wrote. >> all schools in berkeley are ordered closed. 73 new cases today.hine is greatly upset. one of her boyfriends has just died at the infirmary. >> reporter: more than 600,000 americans would die, more than 50 million worldwide. merrier reported people were being pressed into service as healthcare workers. >> as soon as she got off the ferry boat, there were red cross workers who would pull you aside and try to give you a job. >> reporter: wearing masks quickly became mandatory. the family was photographed wearing theirs, and there are punishments for people who refused. >> and she told medical that oakland hat collected over $700,000 in fines for people not wearing masks. >> reporter: just like today there was distancing. businesses were shut down with a special prohibition against dancing. the letters cover only about 30 days, but already there was talk of lifting the bans. >> they let up gradually on the restrictions starting in mid- november, andpy january, it was back, and worse than the first time. so january 1919. so that's kind of a lesson for

and uc berkeley like many archives, libraries, is understaffed. when you do the search, usually of a researcher, i go to world.org or archived grid and put in these names. those websites will probably tell you if the person has a collection where the collection is. if they have multiple collections, type in benjamin franklin, i put in heinrich at uc berkeley and then closed collection, researchers can't go in. i read more about him, put together a good case and there's a form you can fill out and those archives that i know it is closed, i know this is a big deal and let me explain why. i am an established author with a real publishing company and this is why this man is significant and you need to open up the collection. i got an email back from the assistant to the archivist, this is probably not going to happen. we are so understaffed and the collection that is close for a reason. two days later her boss, laura michaels emailed me and said we will do it, you are right, he is great, we should open up the deflection. it will take two years. all of

he worked out of berkeley so that was important to me. and then the biggest thing for me -- there's one thing. one is, besides making history, what he did to make history, which is advancing forensics. what does that tell us about now? is that pertinent now? is forensics important now? yeah, of course it is. then really finally it's the big thing for hinrich that i think was in his favor for me at least, was that his collection at uc berkeley was enormous, and that was a really good thing and a really bad thing because it was an excellent thing pause it gave me a huge amount of sources, was also an excellent thing because it scared everybody else aware. >> when you say enormous. >> 120 boxes. and that doesn't even count the letters he had. >> it was closed. >> closed for 65 years. think when he died in '53 his youngest son mortimer got whatever the 1965 equivalent of a you haul is in dumped it at uc berkeley his entire lab because everything was there. and uc berkeley, like many other archives, libraries, is understaffed and so when you d

the city has partnered with uc berkeley school of business on this proposal.ng us now to talk more about this is that uc berkeley associate professor of finance at the school of business. professor, good to have you on. let's start off with having you explain who is going to be eligible for these emergency grants and how much money but they likely to be tapped into? >> the details of the eligibility, we are working out the details but the idea is that once the federal as well as municipal and state programs, th need for keeping the lights on in the business and growth for the future. so we are working very closely with the city to come up with a program to get private capital in in quantities.>> so this fund will pull together some public money from the city of berkeley along with capital from private investors as you said. what is the breakdown in terms of how much money the city will contribute and how much you expect is going to be coming from the private investors?>> again, the details are still working on the total dollars but let me convey the idea. the

uchi berkeley, like many other archives, libraries is understaffed. and so, when you do the search, usually as a researcher, i go to world cap .org or i tire of grid and put in these aims and those websites will tell you if the person has a collection where the question g is and if they he multiple collections. if you type in benjamin franklin he's at 12 different locations. i put in heinrich and he was at uc berkeley but then it said closed collection so that meant researchers can't go in. so, i read more about him and him i had put together a good case and there's a form you can fill out and it basically says i know is closed and i know it's a big deal and let me explain why it should be opened. i'm an established author, and with a real publishing company, putnam, anda this is why this n is significant and why you need to take the time to open up the collection. i got an e-mail back from the assistant to the archivist who eventually said good luck because it will probably not happen but we are so understaffed and this is the collection and is close

it's a play on words of berkeley and mine craft blocks. walking around is similar to walking around it in real life. >> it lets us build in 3 d. space. decent likenesses of the buildings on campuses. >> initially we were going to build the stadium. and it kind of tumbled into the entire campus project. >> in a month we built every single building on the entire campus. our goal is using this structure is to host a commencement ceremony on the day ours would have happened. >> especially for the seniors graduating this year. they don't get the closure. it really gives them an out let. saying this is my final step here. >> we'll have the virtual ceremony at the stadium. and the party continues on. >> there is an overwhelming positive response. if you go online and look at the comments. people are getting emotional about it. >> it will be open day for everyone to explore campus and take photographs. relive memories. >> it's may 16. we are in the process of figuring out to give everyone a cap and gown. and toss it up. and have that last celebrat

he was out of berkeley so that was important to me.hen the biggest thing for me, well, besides making history, what he did make history which y which is a dancing forensics is it important now of course it is. and then really finally the big thing for heinrich that i found was in his favor for me at least in his collection at uc berkeley was enormous and that was a good thing and a bad thing because it was excellent because it gave me a huge amount of sources and it was also excellent because it scared everybody else away because -- >> and use a enormous -- >> like 120 boxes. >> and that doesn't even count the letters. it had been closed for 65 years. i think when he died and 53, his youngest son just basically go with whatever the 1965 equivalent is and dumped it at uc berkeley because everything wasau there a. the only researcher i go to idle start putting in some of these names into those websites will tell you if the person has a collection and if they have multiple collections, and like ilikeif you type in benjamin franklin, he's

it's a play on words of berkeley and mine craft blocks.king around is similar to walking around it in real life. >> it lets us build in 3 d. space. decent likenesses of the buildings on campuses. >> initially we were going to build the stadium. and it kind of tumbled into the entire campus project. >> in a month we built every single building on the entire campus. our goal is using this structure is to host a commencement ceremony on the day ours would have happened. >> especially for the seniors graduating this year. they don't get the closure. it really gives them an out let. saying this is my final step here. >> we'll have the virtual ceremony at the stadium. and the party continues on. >> there is an overwhelming positive response. if you go online and look at the comments. people are getting emotional about it. >> it will be open day for everyone to explore campus and take photographs. relive memories. >> it's may 16. we are in the process of figuring out to give everyone a cap and gown. and toss it up. and have that last celebration.

and how it affected berkeley and the bay area. >> reporter: o board several uc berkeley students, wasequired to report their conditions to authorities each day. on october 18, she wrote, all schools in berkeley are ordered to close. 73 new cases today. ms. hein is greatly upset, one of her boyfriends has just died of the infirmary.>> reporter: more than 600,000 americans would die more than 50 million worldwide. as makeshift hospitals began to fill up, people were pressed into service as healthcare workers. >> as soon as she got off the ferry boat there were red cross workers who had pulled you aside and try to give you a job.>> reporter: wearing masks became mandatory and the family was photographed wearing there's and there were punishments for people who was fused. >> she told him that oakland had collected over $7000 in fines for people not we masks.>> reporter: like today there were distancing, businesses were shut down with a special prohibition against dancing. the letters cover 30 days but there was talk of lifting the bands. >> they let up gradually on the restrictions starti

we're in active discussions with the city of berkeley. and the public health officer to provide testing. to the city to the vulnerable and the community is the most in not says the lab will also analyze samples from bay area heth care providers much like the testing being done at u c davis where primates are being used to help develop vaccines. >>you see berkeley's lab will also focus on ways to treat covid-19 we're very mindful of the fact that the pandemic is not 2 years from now it's happening today so we're very interested in it. thinking hard about how to make sure that we support research that could yield tangible results sooner rather than later testing is scheduled to begin monday once up and running the university and nonprofit intend to share their testing process with the public whh could be replicated around the world felipe to of all kron 4 news. >>in the south by the health department has launched a new effo to keep the public informed about its response to the coronavirus emergency kron four's rob fladeboe as live from home

in berkeley, we launched a relief fund which the city provided $3 million to capitalize the fund. we are working hard to raise contributions from businesses and residents, we've had thousands of donations from people, from as little as five dollars to as much as $50,000. we are deeply appreciative that our community is stepping up and working to support small businesses and residential areas that are facing eviction during this time. i'm inspired by how our communities have stepped forward and provided great leadership. this has been a very challenging time because although we had to be physically distant it's been a great unifying moment. so for anyone who wants to donate please go to berkeley relief fund.org and we are continuing to provide as much assistance as possible knowing that those loans will take time to get into people's pockets. >> i wanted to add, we have a lot of great resources here in san francisco as well. we launched a fund to provide low interest loans and grants to our small businesses, we launch that yesterday. so if anyone needs information, whether you are

>>to the east bay this morning, researchers in berkeley have been working around the clock to set up a large scale robotics lab to test for the coronavirus scientists there tell kron 4 sweep to call that they're just a few days away from potentially testing up to 3,000 samples every day. >>through the university's nonprofit innovative genomics institute starting monday u c berkeley team up with you see san francisco researchers to provide large scale testing for novel coronavirus or covid-19. >>the automated robotics lab is being set up in a building on campus. the scientists running it are all volunteers like few order or a professor of molecular and cell biology at cow. he is co-leading the project we don't really know. >>how long we will have to do this we're hopeful we could be done in a couple of months and that's it. if that's the case will be the happiest people on earth. and i think it's unlikely we will run as long as it's necessary the system will be capable of testing up to 300 nasal swabs at a time and up to 3,000 today results will be available within one day or as quick

so the department of molecular and cell biologat berkeley, stepped up providing hundre across the bay area with satizer for free. >>so we're operating juston the time of the pandemic and sanitizerand other tools that people need to keep themselves safe and healthy ould be basic human rights and not commodities a simple fix to a big problem u c berkeley graduate student the desays covid-19 has shed lit on the fact that many. >>who e mot vulnerable in our communities don't have easy access to basic hygiene materials, it's the job of the government to take care of this, but clearly they failed disasoesly in this rega to realize that the free agts necessary to make the hand sanitizer very abundant. >>very inexpensive and that we could take it upon ourselves to kind of compensate for the fact that the government has been cking and that collecting its when the group found out staff members at the san francisco county jail had they worked around the clock to package and deliver 900 bottles of sanitizer to the jail. >>aa for each inmate at all 5 coun lockups and ov the last 3 weeks. they've a

york city, brian ore tell reached out to the dean of his alma mater at the llege of giering at u c berkeley with an idea to harness the power of these devices gathering dust in many people's home >>together with doctorat ucsf they've determined th just a few parts were needed to connect pap or by pap machines to oxygen masks or and no trade dealto bring and together they can be used to help lessen the rain this virus is putti the a provider. ly of ventilators >>pressurized air to your loss and it when a patient goesin. trouble u need to use that labor's and this is area where there when things a going bad what we're hing is that you'll be able to usethese for it goes and at the end when they tart coming out we'll believe that on deadly years they've tested the machines and of launched a web site for people want to donate their uned sleep apnea machines we're working. >>with logistics companies to try to take those off. and then deliver them to the hospitals they're not asking people to donate their c pap or by pap machines if they are in fact using thm to deal with their slee apnea but if y

berkeley farms is shutting down. parent company says that they have no choice. ♪ >>> the concession made by the judge because of the coronavirus pandemic. the best way to predict the future is to create it 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. >>> new at 10:00, the berkeley farms facility in hayward is going to shut down permanently. the parent company said in a statement that they are selling the business in order for daily operations employment to continue. several hundred workers are going to be out of a job. berkeley harms has been in operation since 1910. they plan to close the plant. to make a mother has been sentenced to seven months and prison for her role in the college admissions scandal. she was convicted of paying a $400,000 bribe to get her daugh

. >> a berkeley business is mass- producing these face shields made with baseball claps and plastic.ng them away for free here in the bay area and across the country. >> inside a warehouse in berkeley that normally produces robots and prototypes for a variety of applications this shop manager designed what he calls cap shields to protect doctors, nurses, and others. >> they were just telling me horror stories about the fact they're trying to save people's lives and they do not have the protection they need. >> the protection that the volunteers are producing starts with a baseball cap. >> with a piece of plastic attached to it is designed to be worn over the face mask use by healthcare workers. he tells me he has heard from doctors and nurses across the country. >> he says they are easy and on expensive to make. many baseball caps are donated. >> full of the tabs on it and snap on this piece. >> for each $1 for the material and 1 minute to make. invaluable to those receiving them. >> some of the time we are working outdoors, but that can help us. >> this nurse works outdoors when tri

los condados involucrados son alameda, contra costa, san francisco, san mateo y berkeley.idas restringen mÁs aspectos del sector laboral y el mismo tiempo regulaciones que afectan a los residentes de nuestra cÉlula. marÍa antonieta mejÍa nos explica los detalles de las restricciones. >> las autoridades de salud ampliaron la orden de quedarse en casa hasta el 3 de mayo y ademÁs ampliaron las restricciones. >> cada contacto y necesario con otra persona aumenta la posibilidad de que el virus se propague. la directora del condado de salud pÚblica de santa clara anunciÓ el aumento de dÍas del toque de queda. la orden de quedarse en casa se extiende hasta el 3 de mayo. se endurece dan las normas que permitan a las personas a salir de sus casas sÓlo para lo mÁs vital. >> es una orden mÁs estricta que trata de tomar acciones para prevenir que se continÚe propagando la enfermedad. reportera: tambiÉn es para el condado de alameda, contra costa, san francisco, san mateo y para la ciudad de berkeley. >> por ley usted tiene que mantener distancia social. al mismo tiempo los negocios qu

melissa colorado joins us from berkeley with more. this is what seniors hook forward to the most, these milestones. >> reporter: absolutely. prom, graduation, the last day of high school. those are the memories you look back on. and the fact of the matter is, prom was actually postponed until next month. and now students are bracing for the strong possibility that it will most likely be canceled. so certainly a sad end to the school year for seniors year at berkeley high school. classes will continue. they're going to happen online. but a senior tells us it won't be the same. >> first it was prom. i was super excited. >> reporter: forget senioritis. the coronavirus has likely cheated thousands of high school seniors in the bay area from rites of passages like prom and graduation. this high school senior at-bbig sanchez has a prom dress that won't be worn any time soon. >> i have friends that rented party buses and it can't be refunded. so now we're stuck with bills. >> reporter: the state superintendent stressed that education will st

berkeley is at 51 and 53 at redwood city, some of the activity you see on the northern edge of the low, so we will say san jose south and assist in moving into central southern california so that means more rain for la but what about us?>> maybe a little down towards radels have shown a weaker system on sunday and monday, and so we go back into the 60s and it could be an isolated 70 on saturday, cooler temperatures sunday and monday and mostly sunny and a little warmer on tuesday. >>> charges are now facing a man accused of stealing some of the most valuable equipment for healthcare workers and up next the details on this alleged crime, who the victims are and where the suspect is this morning. and we will tell you how hollywood is adjusting well movie theaters are closed. ♪ ♪ when you need it, jack delivers: order on uber eats, postmates and grubhub. 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, a suspect was kille

. >>> a small family owned restaurant in berkeley is calling it quits after decades in business. kpix 5's andrea nakano reports the stay at home order just became too much to overcome. >> reporter: 35 years ago, they opened the door to their restaurant. when the shelter at home order was first put place,th pua yi good. >> it doesn't hit you until you announce that you're doing it. >> reporter: they wrote an emotional farewell to their customers on social media and their website. >> we'll miss it dearly. it's been my life. i love to cook. >> reporter: his restaurant was the place to shelter in place when the earthquake hit and fires raged in the hills. now that place has been deserted as the coronavirus forced people to stay away. the financial burden just became too much to overcome. >> long term, this is going to be a hard thing to rebound from. >> reporter: he says this is his final act in the restaurant business and has no plans to own his own place again. many say the neighborhood gem will be dearly missed. >> i'm sad to see them go. they were fantastic neighbors and really a

>>through the university's nonprofit innovative genomics institute starting monday u c berkeley team up with you see san francisco researchers to provide large scale testing for novel coronavirus or covid-19. >>the automated robotics lab is being set up in a building on campus. the scientists running it are all voluntee like few order or a professor of molecular and cell biology at cow. he is co-leading the project we don't really know. >>how long we will have to do this we're hopeful we could be done in a couple of months and that's it. if that's the case will be the happiest people on earth. and i think it's unlikely we will run as long as it's necessary the system will be capable of testing up to 300 nasal swabs at a time and up to 3,000 today. >>results will be available within one day or as quickly as 4 hours a stark contrast to what hospitals and clinics across the bay area are experiencing with the turnaround often exceeding a week in order to stop the spread of covid-19 or not says it's imperative those who have been infected with the disease are identified and isolated as so

joining me this afternoon is berkeley mayor. thank you so much for being here.e spoke with you back i think it was in march of money. >> yes. thank you for having me. today the city of berkeley is awarding $1.7 million in grants to small business and arts on the stations in our cities whose revenues have been significantly impacted by covid- 19 and we knew that our small business and arts organizations, we are going to be negatively impacted by this pandemic and they cannot wait for state and federal relief. many applied for the loans, many of them have applied for paycheck protection financing, those resources have not yet arrived, and so, this is a grant, it is not a loan, and i think this is a tangible indication of the intangible bond that our community shares with our businesses and that we are going to stand together and support each other during this difficult time.t loans, as you and it is not just small businesses, talk a ableout who benefit from this money. >> absolutely. one of the things that is amazing about our city is we are really a hub for arts

>>through the university's nprofit innovative genomics insttute starting monday u c berkeley team up with you see san francisco researcherto provide large scale testing fonovel coronavirus or cov-19. >>the automated robotics lab on campus. the scientists ing running it are all volunteer like few order or professor of molecular and cell biology at cow. he is co-leading the project we don't really know. >>how long we will haveto do this we're hopeful we could be done in a couple of months and that's . if that's the ca earth. and i think it's ple on nlikely we will run as long as it's necessary the sysm will be capable of testing up to 300 nasal swabs at a time and up to 3,000 today results will be available ithin one day or as quickly s 4 hours a stark contrasto what hospitals and clics across the bay area are experiencing. >>with the turnaround often exceeding a week in order to stop the spread of covid-19 or not says imperative the who have been infected wit isolated as soon as possle a especially since most people are showing mild or no symptoms but remain highly contagious. we abso

54 and senate soma at 53 and a peak breeze at 37 and mount diablo at 30 and west/southwest in the berkeley hills which will keep the onshore going for most. north wind to santa rosa and temperatures mainly 60s and 70s, a little bump up tomorrow but not originally as much as we thought, and then i downshift and it looks cooler too much color towards the end of april into 1 may.>> small communities which usually depend on outside visitors are getting swamped with tourists during the warmer weather. next what towns along the russian river are doing to handle the rush of nonresidents. and taking advantage of the state home orders, major projects underway right now while there is less traffic on the roads in the bay area bit now this is a live look at the traffic now at the bay bridge toll plaza, a few cars moving through but just breezing through, sal castaneda will watch this and every thing else in traffic and bring this morning's edition of traffic jams coming up on mornings on 2. ♪ this virus is testing all of us. and it's testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so

that north wind, berkeley also getting that offshore breeze.e temperatures are lower, el cerrito, alameda, very mild. there are some big spreads here. north and northwest you have a little wind, allowing them to be a little cooler. water temps are really cold. 60 in sacramento and 32 up in south lake tahoe. you can see the fog coming out of the northwest. that will start to make an impact tomorrow but not today. temperatures are way above average for this time of year. 70s and 80s coast and bay, near 90 for a couple places. fog returns over the weekend. cool on monday and warming again by tuesday. >>> thank you. since last march, one in six americans have lost jobs. coming up at 8:00, why many are optimistic about the road ahead. and the warm weather heading to the bay area this weekend. how you can enjoy the outdoors while keeping your social distance. and the 49ers and raiders both had two first round picks in last night's nfl draft. we'll look at the players drafted by the two teams. there are times when our need to connect really matters. t

pretty quiet, northwest at 37 at middle pekin mount diablo, and onshore breeze in the oakland and berkeley hills, a few high clouds to the north and temperatures will come up a little, 60s and 70s, inland you will get low 80s but now let's get over to sal castaneda and everything looks to be quiet so far unless things have changed .>> yes sir, things are quiet and everything is doing well, let's look at what would have been you can see traffic on the golden gate bridge looks good as we drive towards marin county in san francisco, when you're driving in san francisco be careful near 101 and 280, you will see lane closures and detours, traffic is light anyway and it is not causing a big traffic jam. now back to dave. >>> almost a dozen more us governors expected to announce plans to reopen their states in the coming days. they will be following the lead of governors in georgia, south carolina, alaska and oklahoma and allow some nonessential businesses to reopen that many of the states are reopening without the recommended testing and contact tracing and that is raising serious questions abou

so it's a play on berkeley and minecraft block. feeling of walking around is eerily similar to walking around it in real life. >> minecraft lets us build in three dimensional space using cubes that allow us to do pretty decent likenesses of all the buildings on campus. >> initially we were just going to build the stadiu. and soon it kind of tumbled into this entire campus project. >> effectively in a month we built pretty much every single building on the uc berkeley campus. our goal with using this structure is to host a commencement ceremony on the day that our commencement ceremony would have actually happened. >> especially for the seniors who were graduating this year, they don't get that closure. so it really gives them the outlet to say okay, this is my final step here. >> we'll have that virtual ceremony at the stadium, and after that, the party continues on. >> there is an overwhelming positive response if you go online and you kind of look at the comments people are getting pretty emotional about it. >> it's going to be a

. >> professor conas from uc berkeley is a medical historian. if the world seems scary now look back she says at polio. >> movie theaters closed. church services canceled. festivals canceled. kids kept home from school. swimming pools closed. it shut down american towns. >> reporter: this footage comes from a documentary called "the shot that saved the world" about dr. jonas salk and the fight for a vaccine. >> what people have to realize is that polio last century was the most feared disease in america. >> reporter: cases. where we're worried about enough ventilators now we faced a shortage of iron lung machines back then. polio paralyzed people mostly children. the mechanical lung would breathe for them. then as now parents and relatives could not visit the wards for fear of spread. >> in both cases you are dealing with an unseen enemy that comes like a horror film and you don't know who it'll attack next. >> but there were differences. americans had more faith back then. they believed in doctors, in the march of dimes, in government. now we h

makeshift hospitals were created in some people were arrested for not wearing masks in public in berkeley businesses were shut down cities like oakland and san francisco you know you know started doing these measures that really helped prevent some. deaths so. so that some or what what's happening now 2 once we started thinking about. >>have you know protections and keeping our distance from each other that in our numbers have gone down lisa guerrero with the contra costa county historical society founded urgency ordinance from the town of walnut creek. >>in 1918 during the pandemic it was unlawful to go anywhere without a mask, they were to consist of no less than the thickness of 4 pieces of medical cause she also found this public service announcement that circulated in martinez that reads coughs and sneezes spread diseases says dangerous as poison gas shells, they didn't believe that this was serious. >>at the beginning then just like today where people didn't believe it was. it was serious, it was just the flu, everyone, you know no big deal and it turned into being a big deal just l

dose of looks like into the early afternoon as what we're looking at live shot coming in from u c berkeley there's the east bay shoreline allit with the bay behind it we don't see a whole on the way of fog going on after a rain event that we have from ts weekend everybody getting something out of this 42 ll do t at 5:00am and 08:00am as well, mostly cloudy was showers as we approach the high noon hour and into the early afternoon but that will be over more than just showersand some cases a nice good heavy rain at times. and again soe mountain snows from to mount diablo speaking of snow is coming p a little bit take look at the sierra focast, they're still battling a winter storm warning fromand back to you all right day. >>well the coronavirus has ready claimed nearly 10,000 lives and u.s. officials say that there will be you know more to come it's going to be a rough week ahead, but they also hope that the tbreak may ease shortly afrward john lawree reports. >>president trump sa the u.s. is making progress in the war against the covid-19 andemic was starting to see light at the enof the t

jennifer doudna of uc berkeley, thanks so much. let's take a listen to the president. pres.tinue to send our prayers to the people of new york and new jersey, and to our whole country. right now, new york and new jersey are very hot zones. we are with them. we are with everybody. the struggle is our struggle and we will beat this virus. we will beat it together. i also want to send best wishes to a very good friend of mine and a friend to our nation, prime minister boris johnson. we are very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon, a little while ago. prayingricans are all for his recovery. he has been a really good friend. he has been really something special, strong, resolute. does not quit, doesn't give up. we have made tremendous progress on therapeutics. i had a fantastic call today which i will be talking about a little bit later. i have asked two of the leading companies -- brilliant companies others, theys, have come with the solutions and have done incredible jobs. i have asked them to contact london immediately. they have offices in lo

, brian mooretell reached out to the dean of his alma mater at the college of engineering at u c berkeley with an idea to harness e power of these devices gathering dust in many people's homes. >>together with doctors at ucsf they determined th just a ew parts were needed to connect c pap or by pap machines to oxygen masks or and no trade deal to bring and together they can be us to help lessen the strain this virus is tting on the current supplyof ventilators a provider. >>pressurized air to yo loss and it when a patient goes to trouble. you need to use that labor's and this is aarea where there when things are going bad what we're is that you'll be able to use these before it goes to d and the end when they start coming out really believe that it may end dead leaders they've tested the machines and of launched a web te for people who want apnea machines we're working wi logis companies t try to take those off and then deliver them to the hospitals they're not asking people to donate their c pap or by pap machines if they are in fact using them. >>to deal with their slee apnea but if you

. >>> uc berkeley seeing a big thank you, the university's athletic department tweeting out these photos last night the football field and basketball arena lit up in blue to express gratitude for front-line workers. most courses at san jose state university will be offered online in the fall. provost vincent dell casino told the chronicle the school is making the move because social distancing will likely still be necessary. they are looking at ways to offer some in-person classes such as art and dance. san jose state does not plan even with most classes staying online. the coronavirus pandemic usinmac for those heading off llege the may first is the traditional deadline for students to put down a deposit for their future school, but with the virus, there's a lot of uncertainty or of classes will still be online. one college advisor warns some prestigious universities will still have plenty of applicant so students who hesitate me end up losing out. >> so they commit, they don't end up losing their spots so they will spend five or $6000 a semester. some schools are extending the deposit

in the city, 36 nampa, also san jose, westwind and mount diablo west southwest in the oakland and berkeley hills area, north and northwest yesterday. a series of systems on their way here, they all translates into a clear path, temperatures on the way, still a few above average but, the trend to average by the tamica to the week. all right, it's safe to say it's all about the bay bridge. >> it's all about the bay bridge. we have a big problem on the bay bridge, westbound, there is police activity it has been there since the night. right now, still lanes are closed with fremont street just at the bay bridge on the skyway in san francisco. single file trying to get on and people probably very surprised by this because you know, this has been the last month and a half or so. now, we have very slow traffic if you want to use a different way to cross the bay you can use the san mateo bridge, the san mateo bridge is much better for you. although more people are honest, kind of looking crowded, does not stop and go but i would bet san mateo bridge has more traffic with people crossing who heard a

berkeley grad elizabeth swanny. she wanted to give back. she created six youtube videos five in english and one in spanish that the community can use to stay fit. if you would like to access these videos from home go to youtube.com/usualer/1 ice fire. >>> if you know someone making a difference. we want to hear from you. e-mail your story along with the video to my hero at fox tv.com. >>> and we're looking at the weather forecast including this weather system coming in this weekend. not tomorrow but saturday and sunday. over all the next couple days will be like today. very similar to today. mostly sunny and not hot but temperatures in the mid- to upper 60s, overnight lows will be noticeable, cooler than they have been. we'll be just above freezing in places. the north bay you will find yourself in the low 30s, possible frost. it will be very cool. and that's the story. it 10 degrees cooler in fairfield than it was yesterday. as we go forward, sfo, a few clouds, barely hanging in. overnight low forecast. cooler than it has been. we've been

>>through the university's nonprofit innovative geomics institute starting monday u c berkeley team up wi you see n francisco researchers to provide large scale testing for novel coronavirus or covid-19. >>the automated robotics lab is being set up in a building on campus. the scientists running it are all vonteers like few order or a professor of molecular and cell biology at cow. he is co-leading e project we don't realy know. >>how long we will have to do this we're hopeful we could be done in a couple ofmonths and that's it.if that's the case will be the happiest people on eart and i think it's unlikelwe will run as long as it's necessarthe system will be capable of testing up to 300 nasal swabs at a time and up to 3,000 today results will be available within one day or as quickly as 4 hours a stark contrast to what hospitals and clinics across the bay area are experiencing. >>with theturnaround often exceeding a week in order to stop the spread of covid-19r not says it'imperative those who have been infected with the disease are identified and isolated as soon as possible especial

i want to give a note to folks who may be spending time in berkeley or have spent time in berkeley. they might have spent too much time and gotten a parking ticket because the meter didn't allow that. if you did get a ticket the city manager says she'll consider waiving parking tickets with some conditions, of course. you have to email her, though, give your name, your citation number, a clear picture of the ticket. and i'm sure the ticket has to have been taken during the time of the shelter at home. that's what they're considering folks can't move their cars and they're doing what they're supposed to. make sure you contact the berkeley city manager for that. meanwhile, as far as traffic flow, kari, we'll look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the drive past emeryville and berkeley and throughout the east bay are fine. you see how light it is. do use caution, folks, you can drive faster but we do know that chp is doing their job as well. back to you. >>> nks that, mike. 5:18 this morning. working on the front lines, an exclusive look inside one hospital that started preparing in d

that's right 400 gallons that's how much hand sanitizer a group at u berkeley has handed out over thet few weeks in fact th can sharyn out 60 gallons an afternoon. >>and has far given to hundreds across the bay whil they're happy to do it th group says it wishes this wasn't so desperately needed. >>so we're operating just on the sic principle that in the time of the pandemic and sanitizer and other tools that people need to keep themselves safe and healt should be basic hum rights and not commoties a simple fix to a big problem u berkeley graduate student the dea says covid-19 has shed light on the fact that many. our communities don't have easy access to basic hygiene materials, it's the job of the government to take care of this, but clearly they failed realize that the free agents o necessary to make the hand sanitizer very abundant. >>very inexpensive and that we could take it upon ourselves to kind of compensate for the been lacking and that nt has collecting its when he group found out staff members at the san francisco unty jail had tested positive for covid-19 they workedaroun

uc berkeley professor of energy daniel common explained on abc 7 news at 4:00 that oil companies can just shut down entirely. >> you just can't cut it enough. the demand has dropped so low and the future forecast for additional oil is so low that even with saudi arabia and russia cutting quite dramatically, there is still literally a lot on the market. >> and here's how the change in oil prices affects us at the pumps. nationally the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded has plunged to $1.81. aaa says that's down more than a buck from this time last year. in california, prices have fallen to $2.81 compared to a little more than $4 last year. >>> in berkeley, top dog may go out of business because of the pandemic. the hot dog shop has been around for more than 50 years with a handful of locations in berkeley and oakland. only the shop on durant avenue in berkeley remains open in the pandemic and only for take-out orders. a go fund me page has been started and in less than a week has raised more than $6,000. >>> small businesses should be able to get help from federal funding

nap airport with the westwind and west southwest with the oakland berkeley hills to mount diablo at 21. everything is in place already. a series of systems that will be having not only clear conditions but on sunday, there county. for us, upper 60s on the high side. cooler and would coming into sunday, after that it looks like we are warmer early to early next week, today, clear for all. cooler with wind, a couple 80s. into the weekend it will be cooler. >> all right, thank you. >>> later today, bay area counties give us an update on the shelter in place and what they're not doing too protect your health and safety. >>> hair salon in vacaville reopening defined state orders, more on why the salon order is taking the risk . teammates help each other find a way to win, just like covered california helps you find health insurance you can afford. they're the only place you can get financial assistance to help pay for health coverage. plus, this year, the state is providing more help than ever before. and because a new law requires californians to have health coverage or pay a penalty, cove

several other districts are doing the same this spring including san jose and berkeley unified schools. >>> there's a new shelter at home milestone showing how difficult things can be for people even that are not ill with coronavirus. oakland soo that 1 million meal mark in handin tt. all that food assistance to families. we'll check in with "today in the bay's" kris sanchez this morning. you see this need. it shows it all year round. >> reporter: yeah, but definitely the need has deepened now that families are needing that assistance as well, laura. when oakland unified passed that million meal mile mark, they passed it by almost 100,000 more meals. so they are distributing a lot of food in oakland and really districts around the bay area. the food distribution is a life line for families whose children qualify for the free or reduced meals at school and now that campuses are closed districts have tried to find a way to get that food to those kids. staff is providing assistance for the families of 14,000 students through the school meals program. the alameda county food bank and many

we'll see some 60's on the map but we're still all in the 50's as of right now oakland at 58 berkeley in napa as well as a in santa rosa beach at 54 degrees currently high pressure it's trying to build back in but the stub or low still sits across southern california. and that is resulting in not just the clouds that we're seeing in the bay area but some persistently rainy conditions from central to the southern parts of the state that includes the central valley, the coast and into our inland deserts as well snow in the sierra nevada, meanwhile back here at home, it's just the clouds that we're going to be seeing today a few sprinkles may try to fall in our upper elevations such as the santa cruz and diablo range is. >>aside from that though a dry thursday ahead of us a bit more clearing this afternoon then yesterday just a few spots of sunshine working their way through the clouds tomorrow a bit more clear skies just yet temperatures remain cool in the 60's though, by the time we work our way into the weekend saturday and sunday we will see some sunshine but skies still staying part

>>hi catherine yeah, let's take a live look outside from the east and berkeley and we're noticing clear skies so 's going to make for beautiful sunset later this evening. temperatures out 50's and 60's turning into 40's for overnight lows. so we are going tobe about 2 to 3 degrees warmer during the overnight hours and tomorrow daytime ghs about 5 degrees below average widespread upper 50's with low 60's for your afternoon highs because i'm tracking 2 storms the first one set to arrive first impacting the north bay by saturday morning dry conditions out there right now storm tracker for but youcan see right around sunrise light bands of rain becoming more widespread with scattered showers by saturday afternoon and we could see about half an inch rain or less for most of the north bay with about a 3rd of an inch of rainor less for e rest of the bay area with breezy winds but his second stronger storm arrive right after that first one exits that one is going bring us se light to moderate rain on sunday gusty winds and also the potential r pop-up thunderstorms that could bring us hail as we

reporting live in berkeley, lauren martinez, abc7 news. >> thank you. with the updated shelter-in-place order, essential businesses like grocery stores and takeout restaurants are being told to implement social distancing protocols while staying open. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen is live in the south bay with that story tonight. chris? >> hi, dan. the new shelter-in-place order clearly defines what businesses have to do in order to remain open, with social distancing now mandatory. as the bay area shelters in place, essential businesses have basically become community gather points, a place for people to connect and converse. >> how they're doing at home, how we're doing here. and that's sometimes the only contact that some people have in an entire week. >> much of the conversation is now about the new social distancing practices that businesses must display to stay open, including signs at each public entrance reminding people to stay away if they're sick, and to maintain at least a other once inside. hand sanitizer must also be provided to customer

>>korn morni news, a lab at u c berkeley stepping up to fill in need across the b area we'll show you how helping a lot of us stay clean. plus a san francisco man is sharinhis experience and his battle wi the coronavirus will hear his story. socializing play such a large part in l of our lives coming up after the break 're going to show you how some winees are staying connected with stomers through virtual tastings. and what they're starting prove on that front as well around wine country which getting into the upper 70's of looks like it's after the show he started see that show he started see that invold forecast expect wow! i'm original. one of a kind. yofeel me? love ya'. oop! you look cute. better than you! wherever dramaops off pop my 100% all-whe-meat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just $5.99. wherever dramaops off pop my 100% all-whe-meat classic or spicy our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence... ...so we can spend a bit today, knowing we're prepared for tomorrow. wow, do you think you overdid it maybe? overdid what? well planned, well invested, well pro

>>well with the need for ventilators at a critical point in places like new york city with u c berkeley engineers and doctors at ucsf getting creative in order to provide them with something fact they're making ventilators out of machines that have been typically used for people with snow at lee pappy a they've determined to just a few parts are needed to connect a c pap or a bipap machine to oxygen masks or tracheal tube. and when put together they can be used to help lessen the strain on that the virus is putting on the current supply of ventilators they've tested the machines and they've launched a web site for people who want to donate their sleep apnea machines that aren't being used right now. >>there's about 10 million it in the united states and most people don't like them and they put them in the closet, we have the devices operating in the laboratories out and cal they're being tested. they're simple parts. we have bills as materials were now trying to work with logistic companies to get those parts and these devices to the hospitals. >>so if you have a c pap or a bipap machin

with the fog, you may need the wipers if you're right at the coast and we do have some fog around berkeleymonday, starting out with the gray and a lot of sunshine on the way. we warm up close to 90 degrees inland on tuesday, so here's a 48-hour look at the low cloud deck as it ebbs and flows into the bay area, pulling back for a s full sunshine today and by the san mateo coast, the marin county coast it's back tomorrow morning and stays right there along the san mateo coast allowing for that afternoon sea breeze andpetures wit low 60s to about 80 again. so today, 72 in oakland, san mateo and richmond, so certainly cooler here with the westerly winds. 75 in san rafael, a couple of 80s, up towards santa rosa, the delta, and cooler from about six or seven degrees in san jose today for upper 70s. soover all, five to eight degrees of cooling in our warmest locations and into monday the fog with us, keeping us in the 60s at the coast, milder as we head across the bay. here is the warmup with mid and upper 80s on tuesday, even some mid-60s perhaps in the city. as we go into wednesday a sharp cool

>>and on kron 00:04am morning news, a lab at u c berkeley is stepping up to fill in need across the bay area we'll find out how they're helping ny stay clean.plus a san fransco man is sharing his experience battling the coronavirus will hear his story coming up an antibody tests are being veloped at stanford medicine, we'll take look at how they could be a key in helping produce a vaccine. and let's go ahead and take a look at a more traffic than you think this early tuesd morning on the san mateo bridge will be in these uncertain times, lo after yourself, your family, your friends. t know when it comes to your finances, we are here for you. what can i do foyou today? we'll take a look at the portfolio and make adjustments. i'm free to chat if you have any more questions. our j.p.morgan advisors are working from home to hfor more than 200 years,is. 've helped our clients navigate historic challenges. and we will get through this one... together. ♪ ♪ tuesday morningme to get a check of the weather forecast this again is from dave spahr hi dave. >>hey good morning marty and robin good mor

. >> reporter: uc burke berkeley studies the industry and called marathon a major producer. it can process 161,000 barrels of crude oil per day and employees about 740 people. but with wholesale prices dropping, it no longer makes economic sense to keep the refinery running. >> there's just way too much gasoline being produced, and the refineries have no place to put it. so somebody was going to have to stop producing, and it looks like the marathon refinery is the first one in the bay area to actually go all the way to shutting it down. >> reporter: normally that would scare this gas station owner who said that marathon is his main supplier, but not now. >> because no demand is maybe not going to affect that much at all. >> reporter: this man said his business is down 80% and we're it is he can step keep the station open long enough to make it through the hard times. >> i hope everything goes back to normal soon, before we go bankrupt. >> reporter: so definitely tough times for the gas station owner, as refine the expeu. berkeley says today thatthere fornia thatll shut down