>>> tonight on kqed newsroom. restaurants struggling to hang s during the coronavi crisis, now face a new obstacle to getting financial relief . >>> plus, we will talk with religious leaders about the challenges and blessings of co leading theiunities through this unprecedented time. good evening. and welcome to kqed newsroom. i am priya david clements. we begin tonight with a look at the devastating impact the coronavirus has had onsismall sses such as restaurants here in the bay area francisco board of supervisors passed a resolution saying that covid-19 results in property loss or damage, and poses a danger to the public. inteto help small businesses, such as h restaurants,ich have been hit especially hard by the pandemic. restaurants like cassava in san francisco can stay open byng shifo take-out or delivery service only. many of them have applied for federal or city funds to survive the crisis. but now, some are facing a new huncle. insucompanies who say the coronavirus has not caused direct physical loss or

>> tonight, on kqed newsroom, bay area counties extend the stayt home order foanother month. to slow a possible surge in are the extreme measures making a difference? al, the largest relief package in u.s. history is leaving some workers behind. we will hear what is being done to help the mo vulnerable plus, a local artistshares her crafty solutn, to help first responders fighting the pandemic. while keeping her business afloat. >>> good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. we continue our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, which has now infected more than 1 more than 50,000 lives, around the world. tonight we begin with local efforts to slow the transmission of the coronavirus, and covid-19, the disease it causes. >>> this wee counties extended a stay at home directive until the beginning of may, new w restrictions are in place. they include banning most new construction, closing dog parks, puplaygrounds, and ic picnic areas. also, california students will likely ntinue distance learning, for t academic year. so far california hospitals have not seen the rapid surge in c

while keeping her business afloat. >>> good omevening and weto kqed newsroom. we continue our coverage of the haronavirus pandemic, whic now infected more than 1 million people, and claimed more than 50,000 lives, around the world. tonight we begin with local efforts to slow the transmission of the coronavirus, and covid-19, the a diseasuses. >>> this week all nine bay area counties extended a stay at home directive until the beginning of may, ctnew restns are now in place. they include banning most new construction, closing dog parks, playgrouand public picnic areas. also, california students will likely continue distance learning, for the rest of the academic year. so far california hospitals have not seen the rapid surge in covid-19 cases, which have overwhelmed new york and other hotspot region also this week, top white house scientists revealed data showing that actions dilike socialancing and shutting nonessential businesses work. they can slow a surge in new cases if done early and aggressively. >>> joining us now is doctfo george ruth and an infectious

>>> tonight on kqed newsroom, president trump signs into law another round of coronavirus relief offending. >>> plus in the first study of its kind in the nation, ucsf researchers are testing everyone they can in two local communities to uncover w the virus spreads. the governor to open shuttered businesses, we zero in on one california county that is pushing to reopen right now. >>> and we connect with a best- selling local artist who is inspiring kids around the world to pick up their sketchpad and drop with her. >> hello and welcome to kqed newsroom. ek it's six of sheltering in place in northern california. we are continuing r ongoing nav today, president trump signed into law coroa new 484 billion stimulus package. the bulk of the money, $310 billion will replenish the paycheck protection program. this second round of relief also includes funding for hospitals, testing and disaster related votes. >>> joining me now by skype is a physician and congress member -- cok ress member thyou so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me on. >> letstart with the paycheck protection program

welcome to kqed it's week six of sheltering in place in northern california. we are uicont our ongoing coronavirus coverage. today, president trump signed into law a new 484 billion stimulus package. the bulk of t billion will replenish the io paycheck proteprogram. this second round of relief also includes funding for hospitals, testing and disaster >>> joining me now by skype is a physician and congress member -- congress member thank you so much for joininus. thank you for having me on. >> let's start with the paycheck protection program. what about the mom-and-pop shops? >> you know, what we saw in the first interaction, the first round of $50 billion was the bigger firms that had relationships with banks got the bulk of the money. we really want to make sure that tse resources got down to the smaller businesses, as you saw the mom-and-pop businesses are ally devastated by this. you know, for credit baions, communits, that was the place where a lot of the smaller businesses me back. we also wanted to make sure this money didn't go to hedg and we also put t

next question goes to kate, kqed. kate, kqed, are you on the line? okay. then moving on, jamie, associated press. >> hi. >> go ahead, jamie. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> hi. for trent, if you could provide as much detail as you can on -- and thank you for the numbers that you gave today on the hotel rooms and the rooms that you've got available of which you -- >> jamie, you cut out there. say it again. >> can you give us an idea of how many people will be moved from the shelters, the traditional shelters to this moscone -- [inaudible] >> jamie. you're cutting in and out. could you move to a better location, and i'm going to move onto the next person. jackson, nbc bay area. >> yeah. as a follow-up, can you tell us, we have some reports that some 30 patients have been relocated from the facility at laguna honda as a result of the diagnoses or the test positive. can you comment on that. >> so that's not true. let me reiterate that. there are between 20 and 30 patients at laguna honda who are well enough to receive care out of the hospital, and those populat

and welcome to kqed newsroom. i am priya david clements.begin tonight with a look at the devastating impact the coronavirus has had onsismall sses such as restaurants here in the bay area francisco board of supervisors passed a resolution saying that covid-19

while keeping her business afloat. >>> good omevening and weto kqed newsroom.overage of the haronavirus pandemic, whic now infected more than 1 million people, and claimed more than 50,000 lives, around the world. tonight we begin with local efforts to slow the transmission of the

inspiring kids around the world to pick up d their sketchpad drop with her. >> hello and welcome to kqedsroom

. >> and the next question is from shannon lim of kqed. there's a question and followup. what are san francisco's plans to start testing hopeless people for the coronavirus? do they have a protocol for who they will be testing and when this will begin. >> so i appreciate the question and i'm emphasized that we are expanding our testing and it's a key priority of the department's. i just want to be transparent, though, what we're doing. to give you an example, when we send our request up to state with regard to asking for more help and responding to the laguna honda situation, part of that request was the request for more swabs, testing swabs. therthis is not just limited ton francisco but a national shortage and we are struggling to get swabs in order to test and so along the supply chain for testing, there are severe limitations. while we are working to expand testing capacity, my public health lab is expected to triple its potential capacity starting today and we are still struggling along that supply chain to ramp up testing as long as possible. so anything from the sp

>>> hello, welcome to kqed newsroom. ngnight we are contin ongoing coverage of covid-19. it has been five weeks of sheltering in place here in the bay aray. on wednemillions of americans received economic impact payments in the bank accounts, up to $1200 per person. also tho we come another 5 million unappointed. altogether, 22 million e to the coronavirus. eir bs this week's infusion of cash from the government will help, several legislators such as our americans need somesort of y ongoing financial relief. joining me now by skypfrom washington, dc is looking congress member, thank you so much for being with us. >> things are having me on. three make you pointed to the bipartisan white house advisory uncil which just heits first call on thursday. can you tell me about this councils makeup and what it is expected to actually do? >> well it is bipaisan counsel, ithas about 10 house democrats, 10 senatedemocrats we are providing advice about what we need to do. to rebuild our economy. i emphasized two planes, that we need testing, massive testing able to reopen our ecomy a

>>> hello, welcome to kqed newsro. tonight we arcontinuing ongoing coverage of covid-19. it has be five weeks of sheltering in place here in the bay area. on wednesday, millions of americans received economic imct payments in the nk accounts, up to $1200 per person. also those we come another 5 million people file for unappointed. altogether, 22 million americans have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. this week's infusion of cash from the government will help, several legislators such as our first guest this evening ney american some sort of ongoing financial relief. joining me now byskype from washington, dc is looking congress member, thank you so much for being with us. three make you pointed to the bipartisan white house advisory council which just held its first call on thursday. can yotell me about this councils makeup and what it is expected to actually do? >> well it is cobipartisan sel, it has about 10 house democrats, 10 s senate democr including senator rbin. we are providing advice about what we need to do. to reb ld our economy. i emphasized tw we need

i'm going to go to kate, kqed. kate, kqed? okay. i'm going to go with mission local. nope? okay. christian, ktvu. christian, you there? >> i'm here. >> yeah -- [inaudible] >> okay. >> okay. i have a question. >> okay. go ahead. >> i'm wondering what is -- [inaudible] >> christian, you're cutting in and out, so i'm going to move on. [inaudible] >> okay. christian, we didn't get that, so i'm going to move on. why don't we go, goran, new york times. goran, new york times. julio, univision. jackson, nbc bay area. >> yeah, can you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> so dr. colfax or whoever chooses to answer, we understand that some ucsf physicians are seeking the -- seeking -- the pulmonary and critical care facilities are seeking for everyone at ucsf are requiring everyone to wear masks to protect against the spread. what's the current response to that? we're led to believe that at least s.f. general, the answer's been not yet or no. >> this is mark lehrer from ucsf. there's been a lot of science on the spread of covid-19, and the predominant science belief is this is droplet spread, no

according to kqed, crews from marine express have been removing waste from the ship since march 10.crew members and passengers were quarantined on that ship after a coronavirus outbreak . and east bay representative told us said this process destroys the coronavirus of the sewage. >>> back >>> amtrak routes being change. amtrak released a statement saying resulting lack of sufficient staff is causing a suspension of amtrak service between denver and reno and by extension emeryville. passengers can use a combination of other amtrak trains including the capital corridor to san francisco and points between emeryville and reno. no word on when zephyr surface into the bay area will resume. >>> downtown san jose. it could become home to the largest subway tunnel ever built . the san jose mercury news reporting the 5 mile long tunnel tunnel would shuttle trains between downtown transit stations. the platforms would be 100 feet below street level and require elevators for passengers. would be part of the second phase of extending bart to san jose. the first phase is scheduled to open up lat

newshourctions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> hello, welcome to kqedltering in place here in the bay area. on wednesday, millions of americans received economic imct payments in the nk accounts, up to $1200 pe

to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into san francisco to do a live radio thing on kqedthe thing about life radio is it begins at a very exact time. the thing about going through san francisco traffic is that you are really not going to make your exact time. so i was supposed to be 8 a.m. pacific time that i would be there for this national radiohead and at 8 a.m. i'm still on the road in the back of this car creeping up the freeway at, i don't know, seven miles an hour, nine miles an hour, whatever it was. i'm looking out the rights that of the car and san francisco-based out there and the city of san francisco or the southern suburbs is spurting out in the hills in front to be and i'm missing my deadline which is a horrifying thing for journalists to do, but i'm just thinking to myself, this is the world the fremont made. [laughing] for better, sometimes worse but it is really one of the most wonderful cities and i seize any opportunity to get here was delighted to be researching this book in part because i i knew t would give me an excuse to do some research in and ar

from marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new public health order regarding face coverings? >> as i stated, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. i want to make something clear. when i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesn't mean we're not engaging. our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with many, many people. and i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a san francisco police officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you don't have your face covering on. please be patient with us because we are here to help. our goal is to further promote the public health orders. our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. our goals are actually to keep our public healthy is safe. be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please don't mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. we are engaging thousa

from marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new public health order regarding face coverings? >> as i stated, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. i want to make something clear. when i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesn't mean we're not engaging. our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with many, many people. and i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a san francisco police officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you don't have your face covering on. please be patient with us because we are here to help. our goal is to further promote the public health orders. our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. our goals are actually to keep our public healthy is safe. be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please don't mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. we are engaging thousa

from marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new public health order regarding face coveringsed, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. i want to make something clear. when i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesn't mean we're not engaging. our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with many, many people. and i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a san francisco police officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you don't have your face covering on. please be patient with us because we are here to help. our goal is to further promote the public health orders. our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. our goals are actually to keep our public healthy is safe. be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please don't mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. we are engaging thousandsch people a

from marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new public health order regarding face coverings? >> as i stated, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. i want to make something clear. when i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesn't mean we're not engaging. our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with many, many people. and i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a san francisco police officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you don't have your face covering on. please be patient with us because we are here to help. our goal is to further promote the public health orders. our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. our goals are actually to keep our public healthy is safe. be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please don't mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. we are engaging thousa

from marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new public health order regarding face coverings >> as i stated, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. i want to make something clear. when i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesn't mean we're not engaging. our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with many, many people. and i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a san francisco police officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you don't have your face covering on. please be patient with us because we are here to help. our goal is to further promote the public health orders. our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. our goals are actually to keep our public healthy is safe. be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please don't mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. we are engaging thousan

. >> and the next question is from shannon lim of kqed. there's a question and followup. what are san francisco's plans to start testing hopeless people for the coronavirus? do they have a protocol for who they will be testing and when this will begin. >> so i appreciate the question and i'm emphasized that we are expanding our testing and it's a key priority of the department's. i just want to be transparent, though, what we're doing. to give you an example, when we send our request up to state with regard to asking for more help and responding to the laguna honda situation, part of that request was the request for more swabs, testing swabs. therthis is not just limited ton francisco but a national shortage and we are struggling to get swabs in order to test and so along the supply chain for testing, there are severe limitations. while we are working to expand testing capacity, my public health lab is expected to triple its potential capacity starting today and we are still struggling along that supply chain to ramp up testing as long as possible. so anything from the sp