>>in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 ns. >>the pandemic has led to cancellations of a number of gatherings like birthday parties and ddings and that of courseis taking a toll on businessethat host those types ofevents but one east bay companies usinits inventories to help healthcare workers instead we've got kron four's jason doom us with the story. >>3 months to a rental company typically rents out equipment for large gatheringand parties but as we know that isn't happening right now so the company decided to turna bad into a way we can gather. resources. the first stewart has been providing tents and floors for health care facilities while also manufacturing spcialprivacy screens get patients privacy. there's typically rus and procedures that ply totheir rental policy. >>that has chd to lp those in need >>th goal is to make sure. the facility access for patients and worry about.we alget through this is a community in the meantime store rental has had to furlough many of their employees but berman has remained optimist duri

some are unable to nnect th anyone over the phone at the unemployment office kron our's michele kingston reports. and it showed i had 0 recordings and i've d my job since march 4th of last year free on a wood has a hoe a husband and 2 chilen, but no paycheck, the employment development department center th after she filed which says she has no benefits available. i called and i e-maed edd several times today, but just like so many to reach anyby to answer any of our viewers questions. we understand your ustration i did find on the edd website that if this happs to you they may have no wage records support an unemployment claim or that they need you to verify your identy this is frustratinto wood who just wants to get paid a track caed ev-d. >>you get up is number most of the time cameron downing left his job to me-school is daughter. he's had trouble getting through to the emoyment development partment to file for unemployment. i got a hold of somebody. >>when i they told me i happened to my for my first 2 weeks to wait because i quit no i'm not looking for works jessi missed anti a pres

>>and that was michelle kingston reporting. grocery and supermarket chains across the country. they're boosting safety measures this week ores like wal-mart and target. they've announce changes aimeat protecting shoppers. kron four's dan kerman who joins us livand has details dan. >>well you know in addition, a grocery stores big box stores as you mtioned like walmart target which is the one we're in front of also costco are beefing up with their precautions can be many of these steps are alrey in place others are coming in the next seral days. >>if you think the lines are bad outside your local grocery store. take a look at this line outside the costco in south san francisco. this is the line to get in the li in the parking lot before you get in the store. it's all part of the new social distanci policies limiting those enterg the store at one time. among costco's new policies no more than 2 people to enter the warehouse with each membership card. only membs age, 60 or older can shop from 08:00a to 09:00am tuesday rough thursday and costco's asking members to use soci distanci

michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>if you're finding the dealing with the coronavirus and the isolation that we're all experiencing right now is getting a little too much for you. there is a resource that you can turn to with professionals who can help talk you through it gets the national disaster distress helpline you see the number on your screen you can either call them directly 1, 809 8, 5 5990. you can text you can also use the tty number there at the bottom of the screen. if you're hearing impaired. but again that hotline number is 1 809 8, 5.59. 90 if you don't think you need it now but might later we'll always have this information for you on our website at kron 4 dot coms you can reference it any time that you need. >>time now for 42 coming up next on the kron 4 morning news, new research showing that children likely have or have had coronavirus we'll tell you what health experts say parents can do to protect their kids during this pandemic. here's a quick live look outside our embarcadero camera in san fra

the communities as we move closer and closer and into the surge in contra costa county michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>their new son expects a surge of coronavirus cases to hit california by midmay and in efforts to combat the surge. he's turning the arco arena, the former home ofthe sacmental teens into a pop-up hospital take a look at the arena will provide 0 beds and will be ready to accept patients by april 20 us. >>for patients that are either be diharged from a hospital system om ou emergency departments are going hear directly with mild to moderate symptoms, it's a bigger than basketball. and if u can use our platform. too. in fact the world in a positive way and make a difference then that's what we need to do. >>well california willbe loaning 500 state ventilators to the strategic national stockprle inventory and that's an efforts to you know help states like new york who deerately need this type of equipment. governor newme al says that while there's a still a lonroad ahead for californians. we can't turn back oamericans whose lives >>well federal taxes are now . wefusing opro

call center might be exaly what yoneed to get your questions answered in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>we'l call centers number is up on the screen ere at the bottom it is 8, 3, 3, 3, 2, 0 1919 again 8, 3, 3, 3, 0 1919 and once again it's open from08:30am in the morning until 5 pm monday through friday. well in he south bay, a number of asian on busiesses have been targeted by vandals not clear exactly why, but there are worries that the vandalism might be mehow related to covid-19 kron four's rob fladeboe explains. >>surveillance video shows someone using what looks like a crowbar to smash virtually all of thfront wiows at this and 3 other lee's sandwich shop locations in san jose on wednesday. i spoke with owner 10 leigh and our customers coming into the stores, you know they're they're getting. >>scared and worried in us our to figure out what's going on with all this craziness going on a total of 8 asian own businesses were hit acss san jose and milpitas the damage is simir in each case, doze of windows smashed. >>the same suspect in the same truck turns up other vid

>>in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>time nursing homes continue to be hot beds for the coronavirus the alameda county district attorneys also investigating the gateway care and rehab center in hayward for that very reason, 13 patients have died there because of the virus and an effort to get a handle on the influx of cases at nursing homes, the alameda county health department has now issued a health order. local health leaders say that they are also dealing with a shortage of personal protective equipment. >>certainly hasn't been putting in resource our us operations center has been. well going those as we can i was just hearing and today an update that gallons or shortage going everywhere signing at something that. >>it's been a problem and all of these studies and in the house as well as a shortage right now the s re revenge new july compared to the very highest priority and we really u.s. and hospitals and clinics also heard actually doing doing ok right now which is great and this is a real focus knees so intense

all first responders and health care workers during this coronavirus pandemic kron four's michelle kingston shows us how the dutch girl dry cleaners is saying thank you. 2 essential workers. >>they took an oath and an honor that we didn't when we opened up the business and so it's our time to shine and show them the look-back dutch girl dry cleaners in walnut creek says business is down about 80% since the start of the shelter-in-place order but they're finding another way to keep their doors open providing free service to first responders and medical staff i don't care if i see them every single day i want you to form here and being sanitized i don't want them to worry about it piling up at home really with the situation in the times we're in right now we can't let those types of things pilot how employees at dutch girl dry cleaners are taking in orders at the front door garments are kept in bags and put directly into the machines to keep everyone safe everything that comes inside is being cleaned at high temperatures any garment coming across the counter whether it be first responders med

is concerned that people are getting too relaxed with social-distancing with kron four's michelle kingston are reporting that he doesn't want anyone throwing away their masks too early and reporter repeating history. >>the weather is getting warmer in the bay area and people are spending much more time outside and the last thing we need is to have a spike of several 100 cases. here this week and because that's just going to set us back to doctor george rutherford an epidemiology professor at ucsf says everyone should still be wearing a mask in keeping their distance from people because the number of coronavirus cases and deaths are still rising so it's you know i think we're well out in front and where we're winning. but it's not time for a victory lap. the second go south any moment and there is the lesson of 1918. >>with a quick prematurely and ended up with 3,000 deaths in san francisco in 1918 doctor rutherford says san francisco had one of the best records in the united states in 1918 during the spanish flu pandemic and then went through with it went the basically came up to the end o

back in 1918 compared to right now kron four's michelle kingston takes us back in time. >>these are letters from 1918 mary rhodes wrote to her husband who was away on business in washington d c telling him what life was like in berkeley during the flu pandemic newspapers wrote about who was sick who had died and who was recovering a bit different than what is being reported today is the commuting smaller and so they knew more that people um but there was a lot privacy issues all kinds of things are front in the newspaper back in those about everyone's everyday life that you don't see today. >>you don't out today were seen the number of people while the case is that we don't know who they are. >>1918 newspaper clipping show as 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 kno

the students gave up when the shelter-in-place order went into effect with kron four's michelle kingston now speaking to educators about the idea. there's been a learning loss and you can either just wrong. you know roll over and just accept that or you can do some about it so that's i think it. >>if we can maybe start the school year low earlier that would mind that gap a little bit close that gap a little bit at this point it's just a possibility, but california governor gavin newsome said in his press conference on tuesday the school year may started bit earlier this summer nowhere to key common one more lie. >>what if right earlier this month, the governor also addressed with school may look like next year staggered schedules an extra cleaning obviously none of us ever could have imagined that this would be our reality. >>ever. it's like something you read in a book you know andrea frazee is a kindergarten teacher and an e r she says teachers will do what they can jump in and teach students in any way possible. >>in the classroom or from home if distance-learning continues i guess th

drjohn chinegwundoh is working on the front line at kingston hospital.is father and colleagues to the virus and says more data is needed. i think it's really important we look at why people have died, look at the patterns so if there are any lessons we can learn for the future, i think it would be very important. i'm hoping the department of health and public health england are collecting that data so we can help support communities in the future. the department for health says its current data on coronavirus did not track ethnicity, but these families hope this won't lead to them being overlooked. rianna croxford, bbc news. let's take a look at some of today's other developments. spain has recorded its lowest number of daily deaths for nearly three weeks. the total number of people who've died in the country now stands at more than 16,000. the government plans to ease some lockdown restrictions next week. italy has extended the country's strict lockdown for a further three weeks. a limited number of businesses will be allowed to re—open, but most have b

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we really had a consultant who passed away at kingston hospital, where they were born and delivered, how important that is, how personal it is to so many of us and we agree on the need to protect them and he will know that getting the ppe where it needs to be is a massive international challenge the country faces globally from china to germany and we have done a huge effort to provide for example ventilators that bolstered the nhs during these difficult times. we've not been able to do that. the nhs would not be able to cope and since the start of the outbreak we have delivered 1 billion items, tens of millions from the administration. we recognize we have to strike even harder in this incredibly difficult and competitive international market. that is why we brought in my friend from dayton, chief executive of the london 2012 ethics who was pointedly on the domestic efforts. we delivered 34 million items of ppe across resilience and established a hotline for procedures and the website to make sure not only we got the amounts of ppe we need but also the most vulnerable and those on th

call center might be exactly what you need to get your questions answered in the east bay, michele kingston kron 4 news and we do have the call number there it is on your screen, it's 8, 3, 3, 3, 2, 0 1919. >>and it is open 8.30 to 5 monday through friday. there's another number that you can call after you call that what if you're frustrated call the disaster distress helpline at 809 8, 5 5990. and don't worry if you didn't get all thes >>not 45 all for friday morning we are starting off what feels like summer as we start the weekend because yesterday was toasty today going to be even warmer yet bring some of the warmest temperatures of e year so far backed skies are nice and clear right ow and under these clear skies temperatures wasting no time in climbing already san fraisco's just below 70 degrees right now with pittsburgh. fairfield santa rosa saint helene a clover dale novato hand sand in selm all in the 70 essence time skies will remain crystal clr throughout the day today o do expect a lot of sunshine. this friday in our warmest temperatures of e weekd tomorrow, you'll notice some c

to be able to support you and keep you open during these hard times tear in walnut creek michelle kingstonn 4 news. if you know somebody who's doing great things to help out the community in these difficult times. >>you can go to kron 4 slash feature slash con for heroes. and nominate someone and maybe we'll highlight them. we sure would love to hear about amazing people that you know. dealing with the coronavirus can be scary and very stressful so jot down this 800 number and give him a call if you needed somebody to talk to 1895, 5990 or you can text talk with us to 6, 6, 7, 4, 6, and we have all of this information also on our website at kron 4 dot com. let's take a peek at the forecast. it's wednesday i have to keep reminding myself i'm sure you do too because all it does kind of seem the same don't they you wake up you stay home, you do your work from home, you know you do want to probably get out for exercise or least walk the dog or something it looks like. the next week is going to be a great time to do that we even have a little warm-up in store for this weekend for easter and i d

drjohn chinegwundoh is working on the front line at kingston hospital. to the virus and says more data is needed. i think it's really important we look at why people have died, look at the patterns so if there are any lessons we can learn for the future, i think it would be very important. i'm hoping the department of health and public health

our michelle kingston reports. >>compassionate. and loving he's a hero. he's an angel all he is a saying here this is bob butler dropping groceries offer neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic throughout contra costa county waking up almost every day before costco opens its stores to buy whatever items his neighbors say they need items like toilet paper and eggs and grocery store items that are flying off the shelves are told the paper here today there are paper towels. >>this will open 7, 7 15 7.30 and if you need something be judicious but good to me on messenger and i'll do my best to get up and get it to you today these are just some of his posts on a neighborhood facebook group letting people know what's available at the store son asking what people are looking for is super humble and all he wants help those who can't get out very very humble for sure, i mean you really just feels like he's doing what anybody else would you which clearly isn't sure there's not everybody else doing it bob doesn't even ask people to pick up the items, he's purchased

reported the investigation into the are day care center started earlier thisweek kr four's michelle kingston reports outside the contra costa county health department. >>they're still testing but right nowe know4 residents and 3 staff members have testepositive to are in the outbreak at are n day care center at least 24 residents and 3 staff members infected so so we that this is a very vulnerable population and so we've. >>really been puing in strict recommendations and guidelines about. howling how to reduce the risk of an outbreak contra costa county conducting tests in awaiting results fr some staff members right ow 14 tests told staff and residents who e do not have serious symptoms are medical isolated to people who have tested positive are in the hospital proven medication treatment. >>and no vaccine. our primary weaps against this pandemic virus are isolation and quarantine of known ses. >>and their close contts. and for everyone elsin the community to strictlfollow the stay at home and social distancing directes. the investigation into the outbreak began ontuesday the 47 dead facili

>>in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news as san francisco works to stop the spread health officials want the city's most vulnerable residents to be aware of who to trust to enter their living space the san francisco department of public health posted this picture on his twitter page it is to inform the public that staff are conducting inspections to enforce cleaning at sorrows with a single room only facilities during this coronavirus health order it mentions that real inspectors will have dph badges like the ones you see in this picture. >>and that you should ask to see a bag before letting anyoinside. this comes as mayor london breed announced a million plan to cut potential exposure to more than 25,000 people living in homeless shelters, including navigation centers and single-room occupancy hotels people in those areas are typically clustered in close quarters increasing the risk for spreading the virus facebook is rolling out a new feature called community help. >>it allows users to post requests or offers to do saying such as picking up groceries running errands or donating to

yourself that extra risk when there's some peoplewho are out there willing to help you michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic continues on kron-on the 24 hour local news streaming service is free to download right now so you can stay informed and updated on this health crisis coming up on kron 4 news at a meat processing plants across the country have closed because of coronavirus outbreaks tonight. how the president says he plans to keep the supply chain stable. and the pandemic causing county fair cancellations what that means for high schoolers who have invested hard work into the future farmers of america certain businesses have the green light to operate under the new stay home orders after the break. we're going hear from san francisco mayor london breed about the concerns there there they are to ensure construction projects with some restrictions can resume on monday as part of the revised shelter-in-place order affecting most of the bay area earlier tonight on kron 4 news at 5, san francisco mayor london breed told us the pandemic is far from ov

dry cleaning and laundry service to all first responders and healthce workers are forced michelle kingston shows us how the dutch girl dry cleaners is saying thank you to the essential workers >>they took an oath and an honor tt we didn't when we opened up the business and so it's our time to shine and show th the look-back dutch girl dry cleaners and walnut creek says business is down the shelter-in-placerder but they're finding another way to keep their dos open providing free service to first responders and medica staff i don't care if i see them every single day i want that niform here in being sanitized i don'twant them to worry about it piling up at home really with the situation in the times are in right now we can't let those types of things i love how emplees at dutch girl dry cleaners are taking in orders at thfront door garments e kept in bags and put directly intthe chines to keep everyone safe everything that comes inside is ing cleaned at high temperatures any arment coming across the coter whether it be first responders medical staff are just our regular customers that we ha

>>that is michelle kingston reporting for us i governor newsom also mentioned either a vaccine or herd immunity a at home order. tonight kron ay four's dan kerman rerts fr ucf medical center to talk about what rd immunity means and how can beachieved. >>we talk about what the new normal will look like as i said a normal. it will not at ast intel we have herd immunity and we have a vaccine rd immunity came up again tuesday as thegovernor discussed modifying the ay at home order put in place to slow the spread of the to it. irus community refers enough. immunity in the is population so tha an organism of microorganism can no longer be transmitted efficiently and essentially dies out. so for measles that something around % of the population has to beimmune >>ucsf infectious disease specialist doctor george rutherford says there are 2 primary ways to achieve herd immunity. >>the old days, everybody got infected. you know so measles and rubella and ickenpox and schools, broerhood says that's not how herd immunity will be achieved wi covid-19 because this high asthe number of infections seem

and next it opened just days before the shelter home a new restaurant kes a quick adjustment to >>kingston has at story. >>the kitchen at pineapp time cupertino looks busy in this video, but the restaurant was forced to ut its doors just days after its grand opening last month because the shelt-in-place order. >>we just got all these great people who team of employees to start with us and we had to lay off everybody at the first we employees were receiving a paycheck but the restaurant did offer them free food, but right from the beginning i ow what i was donating to all of that. our insight team, so any employees that were laid off are like well coe to pick up food and groceries here is that of like having to go at the grocery stores after just few days the restaurant owner got takeout and delivery sevices up and running to help bring se of her staff back to work first couple these are very hard because i think eryone was frightened of what's happeng and kind talk so. >>people are kind has a name is even come and get tae out a lot of and now more employees are back a pineapple time making

>>in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>yes, we arall at home, but you have to go out some time and when you do you risk bringing germs back into your homes. stores are doing things to try to keep yosafe. like social distancing limiting hours limitingthe number of people that can go incasco at home depot to name a few arting friday costco is not to allow more than 2 people to enter any warehouse on anyone membership cards only tthe maximum hat can go and that will limit the crowds. they also are changing some of their hours and you can only get one package of toilet paper home depot is also making a few changes. they have issued some new guidelines limit the number of customers inside at a time so you m start seeing a line for that reason o get in homedepots i know that safeway and some other local grocery stores are doing their part. trying to police the number of people that are in lines and that they are 6 feet apart. we probably heard abou that cruise ship with hundds of passengs infected way rob not talking about the

kron four's michelle kingston reports. >>one of my doctors contacted me march 9 and that that is much bigger than what we've got and when you need a home your kids needto stay home if you're headed into home. >>he needs to stay home just a couple show was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer 3 years ago her younget child was in kindergarten, jessica was 33 years d she said 49 treatment centers done 44 rounds of chotherapy and a major double suery. she's tough she's a fighr. >>and she's now going through a clinical trial at ucsf hospital, i'm super excited to be here and one of the early patients th trial and i am feeling really essed to be part of it each round of her clinical trial once lasted 6 hours because of coronavirus they've been cut in half although lab in prioritize the current a very tempting they're doing the minimal lot have thing called e hearing >>where they study how the new drug to interacting with your body that completely help to aside from her rounds of clinical trials, jessica is staying home her kids h

kron fo's michelle kingston has more. >>barriers so we don't have enough vices on for students to have a mindto when technology. we also i don't ha ou acces the internet school officials in santa clara county say they need at ast 15,000 more devices in order to supply each of thr students wi what they need to do online distance-learning during the and a family needs a device on tht they're gog to be engaging in schooling. >>with an online presence. they need to be able to have that dece for learning and not have to >>a container share withother membersof the familykron 4 checked in with a few other bay area school distric, san jose unified school district ofcials say they're distributing 00devices this they've already distribud west ntra costa county unified school district officials say they haveenough chromebooks but they'rein need of hot spots governor gavin newsome says one in 5 students in the state of cafornia don't have access to high speed internet or appropriate computing devices home earlr this month, california

kron four's michelle kingston has more. >>daughter is getting one assignment. every couple of days that's optional. it's better than nothing but there's no steep through directed learning it all on student to do it and sells michelle martin is the parent of a leland high school student for almost 3 weeks now she says her dahter is better at home with little to no contact from or teachers or work being assigned while many districts across the country are utilizing virtual learning in hosting classes online some parents within the san jose unified school district believe their district isn't doing enough. >>it's better than nothing but it's a one-way communication so the teacher might put something up and say take a look at this. it email your message or if you have any questions and i'll get back to you but there's nothing's formal there's no attendance being taken there is no one. place for the kids to go to meet. it just seemslike it's. could be one long holiday. so parents say they reached out to the district but have heard no response to their quesons the di

but nowcontra costa has opened up a ca center to help people in need kron four's michelle kingston explains hoit works. no question is too sml or too large this is the new contra costa county call center available to you monday through iday 8.30 to 5 helping small business owners and workers through unemoyment during the coronarus pandemic the phone lines are staffed by social service workers and workforce devepment department employe i filed last month. >>yet to receive a payment yet so you now have 3 numbers to call unemployment but none of them getting a live contact. these are just some ofthe dozens of concerns we have heard from contra costa county redents and their families who are trying to file for unemployment or just get through to the employment devepment department to get questions answered for th5th wek in a row millions of american workers applied for employment. >>first time claims totaled 4.4 million jt last week alone. i mean we've hearof so many reports from. >>in igils wanting to reach the state edd office to t information. >and that's been hard i have called and i had em

are on the front lines working to protect us these days and all the time tonight kron four's mi kingston caught up with2 bay area fire districts to see how they're dealing with working durinthis pandemic. >>firefighters in santa rosa are spending their days responding to emergency calls in cleaning their gear putting training classes on hd just for no different than any of e fire department will have all those issues one rson within the department has tested positive others have had to quarantine because of family members testing positive santa rosa fire chief anthony gossnurse as crews are taking their temperatures twice a day. >>the sooner we n t this to to move through and the better off we're all going to be but we need to take care of each her and were to let that ppen and 95 masks are being worn on every call chief costner says they have enou protective gear fothe next 2 months and they're cleaning the station 3 mes a day that we also checked of the contra costa county fire protection district there following similar protocols as of today now we are just assuming that there's possi

consists concerned that people will start tting down their guard and that the virus will michelle kingston explains. 's >>the weather is getting warmer in the bayarea and peopleare spending much more time outside and the last thing we need to stab spike of several 100 cases. here this week and because that's just going to set us bto doctor george rutherford an epidemiology professor at ucsf says everyone shouldstill wearing a mask in keeping their distance from people because the number of coronavirus cases and deaths are still rising so it's you know i think we're well out in front and where we're winning. buit's not ti for a victy lap. the second go south any moment and there is the lesson of 1918. >>with a quick prematureland ended up th 3,000 deaths in san francisco in 1918 doctor rutherfor says san francisco had one of the best records in during the spanh flu 1918 pandemic and then went through with it went the basically came up to the end of people wearing masks and throw away or masks parties >>in november of 1918 after world war one ended. >>there was anher huge wave of transmissio

kron four's michelle can kingston talk to a volunteer who will be making those calls. >>my is volunteer and my passion is working with the morse adams is one of 300 united employees who will be calling older californians beginning next week through the governor's latest initiative, these social bridging project far fewer people fine right now and so we decided to hit at united airlines is partnering with least owes california. the california department of aging community. emergency response teams in sacramento state university calling thousands of older californians who are staying home providing them with one on one communication and the opportunity to connect with people providing resources and checking on their well-being we have this opportunity we have this time. >>and we look at it as what better way to give back to our customers and are isolated population during these uncertain got united airlines has seen a significant drop in travelers because of coronavirus so now in between serving those who are still traveling. >>employees in la san jose and san francisco

are unable to connect with anybody over the phone at the unemployment office kron four's michelle kingston checked in with a few people here in the bay area who still have not gotten paid. >>the tribe called ev-d you get up is number most of the time cameron downing left his job to home-school is daughter. his wife works at a hospital and they made the decision as a family that her job was more valuable downing has had trouble getting through to the employment development department to file for unemployment. >>just like so many other kron for viewers who have e-mailed us saying they can't reach anyone or that they filed but have not received any money i got a hold of somebody. >>when i they call me i happened to my for my first 2 weeks simply because know i'm not looking for works jessica missed anti a preschool teacher is having a similar issue question i have really is i can't really look for work every tree schools closed. and we in question i feel like it's making so many more companies are people. if the. requirement is to put your looking for work is that why people are getting stuck

making hand sanitizer and supplying it to community members who are in need kron four's michelle kingston reports. >>now it's still just a blast to help out you know, i know that that's the purpose right now is to get hand sanitizer to everybody people are lining up outside bay area distilling in brentwood to fill their bottles with hand sanitizer one of many items that's nearly impossible to find in our grocery store shelves right now i couldn't believe the need of it. and that was you know. 100% of the reason why we felt. let's just give it to the people as quickly as possible don isla flom produces brentwood sweetcorn vodka and whiskey and his distillery but says his phone has been ringing off the hook with more than 30 companies reaching out asking for hand sanitizer which he's making with vodka that hasn't been proved down yet for drinking last weekend he opened his doors for just 6 hours since as he filled more than 2000 bottles up with his hand sanitizer the line wrapped around the building started an hour before. >>every day. before we opened up. people are standing in the rain at

>>and kron four's mielle kingston caht up with firefighters a2 bay area fire district to see how they're dealing with working during this pandemic. >>the sooner we can get this to to move through and the better off we're algoing to be but we need to take care of each other and were left firefighters in santa rosa are spending their days responding to emergency calls in cleaning their gear putting training classes on ld because of the coronavirus we have all of our as safety gear on so glasses 95 sk and aon's clowns. >>so we are protected is as well as we can beone person within the department has tested ositive others have had to qurantine because of family members testing posive santa rosa fire chief anony goss nurse as crews are taking eir temperatures twice a day now we also checked of the contra costa county re protection district there following now we are just assuming that there's a possibility of inction and every sile medical call. and we're going into this calls with our ews a completely protected wi full personal proctive equipment. >>4 people within the contra costa county fi

can't replace if you want fly you're worried about getting all the time in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>well tonight, nurses at saint mary's medical center in san francisco. they held the donation drive for protective gear and rally demanding protection when treating patients with covid-19 organizers say they want the same amount of staff to treat covid-19 patients just like other bay area hospitals and that there is a lack of personal protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers. >>a southern california hospital has reinstated these nurses who were suspended after refusing to care for virus infected patients without being equipped with respirator masks, 10 nurses were suspended after making these demands they took this picture is that a hospital in santa monica hospital now says it has enough masks to equip everyone caring for covid-19 patients, the hospital also says it has set up a system to disinfect and reuse the masks pg and e says its president and ceo william johnson will retire in june that's expected to happen after the company's reorganization plan is

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to fedex and plans to donate me to local police and fire departments next in brentwood, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>well the sports world was turned upside down following the coronavirus pandemic but it wasn't just prsports. so we're talking about city college of san francisco's men's basketball team was in the midst of one of its best seasons ever after having a perfect record and dreaming of a championship. the season was over in a snap. >>it's a special group undefeated really unselfish. scored over a 100 points a game through 30 games of the year you know we have 10 guys and fulton played in. >>they they just rule skilled group probably best to her head here. >>well luckily, this won't be the end of the road for lot of these players 5 of already earned scholarships to major universities as for next season, the players who didn't earn a division one scholarship say the likely return to city college where they hope to pick up where they left off. coming up on the kron 00:04am morning news hospitals across the u.s. are being forced to make some tough decisions as coronavirus cases c

kron four's michelle kingston shares more of one parent's concern. >>the daughter is getting one assignment. every couple of days that's optional. it's better than nothing but there's no steep through directed learning it's all on student to do it and sells michelle martin is the parent of a leland high school student for almost 3 weeks now she says her daughter is better at home with little to no contact from or teachers or work being assigned while many districts across the country are utilizing virtual learning and hosting classes online some parents within the san jose unified school district believe their district isn't doing enough. >>it's better than nothing but it's a one-way communication so the teacher might put something up and say take a look at this. it email your message or if you have any questions and i'll get back to you but there's nothing's formal there's no attendance being taken there is no one. place for the kids to go to meet. it just seems like it's. could be one long holiday. some parents say they reached out to the district

what life was like here during the 1918 flu pandemic and today's coronavirus kron four's michelle kingston has some old for photographs and newspaper clippings to show you the difference. >>these are letters from 1918 mary rhodes wrote to her husband who was away on business in washington d c telling him what life was like in berkeley during the flu pandemic newspapers wrote about who was sick who had died and who was recovering a bit different than what is being reported today is the commuting a smaller and so they knew more that people um but there was a lot privacy issues all kinds of things written in the newspaper back in about everyone's everyday life that you don't see today. >>you don't out today were seen the number of people while the case is that we don't know who they are. >>1918 newspaper clipping show as makeshift hospitals were created in some people were arrested for not wearing masks in public in berkeley businesses were shut down when cities like oakland and san francisco you know started doing these measures that really helped prevent some. deaths so. so that some or wha

our first michelle kingston shows us. >>no question is too small or too large this is the new contra costa county call center available to you monday through friday 8.30 to 5 helping small business owners and workers through unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic the phone lines are staffed by social service workers and workforce development department employees i filed last month. >>and i get to go to yet to receive a payment yet so you now have 3 numbers to call unemployment but none of them getting a live contact. these are just some of the dozens of concerns we have heard from contra costa county residents and their families who are trying to file for unemployment or just get through to the employment development department to get questions answered for the 5th week in a row millions of american workers applied for unemployment. >>first time claims totaled 4.4 million just last week alone. i mean we've heard of so many reports from. >>in the vigils wanting to reach the state edd office to get information. >>and

>>in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>help for undocumented workers in california announced today governor newsom says that they will receive $500 per adult with a cap of $1000 per household doors longtime well known that an ex activist tweeted today thanking governor newsome adding undocumented workers are most disproportionately impacted during this crisis president trump has now unveiled guidelines to when the u.s. economy, yeah, it is a 3 phase plan and the president says it will be up to each governor to determine when a state goes to the next phase camila bernal has the latest. >>the decision to reopen the country will not come from the president is going to be up to the governors will work with them we're going to help them. but it's going to be up to the governor's the white house issuing guidelines to help but the states will not be forced to follow that our approach outlines 3 phases and restoring our economic life. we are not opening for once. but one careful step at a time that on light switch on and off is

the best teachers in the nation and we have the best staff in the nation in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news meantime, college students are suing the california state university and the university of california system's demanding refunds that's after campuses were shut down because of the pandemic. >>the class action lawsuit filed in federal court in los angeles and in oakland say the universities are refusing to refund campus related fees. the campuses had been closed defense march and shifted to online learning platforms for more than 700,000 of the students. >>the fees range from $850 to more than $4,000. the lawsuit claimed to schools have improperly retained these fees for services that are no longer available. neither university system has yet released a statement in response. >>a modified shelter in place order is expected to be revealed tomorrow for 6 pay area counties that is according to moran county's public health officer doctor matthew willis he says the new order will relax restrictions in some areas. full details will come out tomorrow currently there are more than

making hand sanitizer and supplying it to the community members who need it kron four's michelle kingston reports. >>now it's still just a plus to help out you know, i know that that's the purpose right now is to get hand sanitizer to everybody people are lining up outside bay area distilling in brentwood to fill their bottles with hand sanitizer one of many items that's nearly impossible to find in our grocery store shelves right now i couldn't believe the need of it. and that was you know. 100% of the reason why we felt. let's just give it to the people as quickly as possible don isla flom produces brentwood sweetcorn vodka and whiskey and his distillery but says his phone has been ringing off the hook with more than 30 companies reaching out asking for hand sanitizer which he's making with vodka that hasn't been proved down yet for drinking last weekend he opened his doors for just 6 hours since as he filled more than 2000 bottles up with his hand sanitizer the line wrapped around the building started an hour before. >>every day. before we opened up. people are standing in the rain at

eing at school i think it's just going to be really excited to be back at in brentwood, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>let's move on now to the north bay with the city of santarosa's launching a pandemic response team to battle the growing coronavirus cases kron four's ll tran is enlivened and santa rosa this morning with more on this brand new program i will good morning. >>in morning. marty the reason why they're doing this because they know coronavirus is not going anywhere in a hit very close to home because the police station is right in front of me there's e fire department and one of their fellow first responders died over the past week from coronavirus or name is mary lou armor so ey sped up the process realizing that they need to do something. more than just fight fires, they're so used to fighting wildfires but these days. >>it's something that they don't see that scares them the rus covid-19 ich is why they developed 3 teams made of 2 people each so 6 people altogether a volunteer basis and all they will do marty. >>is respond to 911 calls. that have people on the other and o

they've received 300 pledges from teachers principals and community members kron four's michelle kingston shows us. how you can help. >>i teach your is calling families every day. and sow we are hearing directly from my students and their families and what they're going to meet iverson camello is the principal at bridges academy at melrose in oakland and saw firsthand how many of her students families who are undocumented immigrants for unable to afford rent pay their bills and buy essential items because of the shelter-in-place these families are not eligible to receive the federal stimulus checks or to file for unemployment iverson camello says she first asked a few of her teachers at they be interested in giving their stimulus checks to the undocumented immigrant families within their school we saw how much. >>they why are suffering the families were really need. so we are we decided what we can do is just give us get what we have and then. but now we can actually open up most of ai donations and pledges actually coming from the public after so many of her teachers offering to help ive

now that man's wife is filing a lawsuit against the cruise company kron four's michelle kingston talk with her today about how difficult it was to watch her husband fall ill and not be able to get him the medical care he needed right away. >>susan and michael doherty set sail from san francisco at the end of february to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. what started as a cruise to hawaii ended with michael losing his life. >>there was not any. inclination that anybody was sick on the boat or had been saying everybody was vacationing in having a good time the cruise ship headed back to the bay area bit earlier than passengers had expected. >>salt and pepper shakers were no longer on the tables. susan says self serving drinks stations were shut down when they docked at the port of oakland susan said her husband got a fever. one of the few symptoms of coronavirus passengers were told to look out for and whenever i talked to him and ask him anything. >>i just got blank responses a blank look she was not registering what i was saying frantic susan says she called the cruise ship do