. >>> marin county's public health officer has tested positive for the coronavirus doctor matt willis made the announcement from his home. >>> today i was diagnosed with covid 19. so i'm here on home quarantine as marin's 39th confirmed case. monday i was in the south bay area for the announcement of our shelter in place order. there may have been exposure in that community. >> reporter: he has been self quarantined from his family since his symptoms first appeared late last week. his test results came back positive yesterday. a source of the exposure is unknown. >>> and san rafael spotting several rvs and a parking lot behind the marin county civic center. we reached out to county health officials and they tell us that they are part of the response efforts to provide isolation shelter for residents who made may be affected by the coronavirus. >>> dry weather to start the work week. a lot of clouds overhead and that kept temperatures limited. only 50s 5 to 10 degrees of above average across the board. more of the same the next couple days. increasing rain chances as well. no rain righ

doctor matt willis made the announcement from his home. >> i was diagnosed with covid- 19. i am here on home quarantine as marines 39th confirmed case. monday come i was in the south bay area for the announcement of our shelter in place order and may have been exposure in has se munity. quarned his positive on sunday. >>> they are telling authorities are part of the response efforts to provide isolation shelter for residents who may be affected for the coronavirus we will continue to bring the latest car press conferences with updates on the pandemic live on kpix and cbsn bay area. >>> time now is for: 40. streaming on cbsn bay area. >> a crack down on social distancing. >> let's take a live look outside before we had to break. this is a shot of the skyline of san francisco for camera on >>> the city of oakland has a new interim police chief and it is a familiar face to the bay area. yesterday they confirm that susan mannheim will be taken over. as chief is the san mateo apartment. >> i think susan knows extremely well and i think that she's tough and she will make a differ

by the way, the doctor is feeling better, matt willis. he said today his temperature is down. a lot of people are happy to hear that because he's a really good guy. live in marin county. abc 7 news. >> that is good to here, wayne, thanks. >>> here are the latest bay area totals. alameda county recorded its first death total increasing 122 confirmed san francisco now reports 131 cases, increase of 23 overnight. overall 860 reported cases in the bay area and at least 14 deaths. in northern california mend seeno one case of the virus. none so far in lake county. >>> in the east bay cars stretch for blocks waiting in line at the bay areas first mobile coronavirus test site that opened this morning in hayward. but most people got turned away, why, laura? >> well, right, that's an evolving situation. we just talked with the fire captain who said they're changing their criteria. up until now if you did not have a fever of 100 or higher higher being turned away, now they're saying some of the people who got turned away, if they got simms could potentially come back and get a test. >>

matt willis made that video the cases have increased to 47. the doctor says he is feeling better since developing a fever and other coronavirus symptoms on friday and he's unsure as to where he may have contracted the virus. sonoma county also ordered all parks to close and that starts today. it even includes non-profit groups. officials say they made that decision because people did not practice social distancing. >>> another one of the hardest hit states issued a stay-at-home order. at least 110 people have died in the state of washington and that's why the governor ordered nonessential businesses to close, and gatherings including weddings and funerals are now banned. the governor says people should stay at home to stop the spread of the covid-19. the stay at home order will be in order until at least april 6th. >>> managers at food max off meridian and park moore avenues say a worker got sick during vacation and had not been in the store since march 6th. the store was closed for cleaning as a precaution. >>> we hear doctors and nurses sayi

matt willis made the announcement in a void owe message saying he's been self- quarantined from his family since the symptoms appeared last week. >> i don't know where i was exposed. monday i was in the south bay area for the schultzer in place odderrer and may have been expose uroin that community and -- exposure and my symptoms started days later or related to the work we're doing every day with people on the front line. our healthcare workers and emergency responders who are regularly exposed as they treat patients from our community. either way -- >> he is marine county's 39th confirmed case of coronavirus. president trump declared a major emergency declaration for california. ktvu sarah has the story. >> a major disaster declaration and sounds alarming but it's a really good step in helping california fight coronavirus. it means california is eligible for more resources. federal funds are available for state and local governments. it'll help with emergency support like disaster aid, legal services, and crisis counseling. this help comes as a time where healthcare workers are worried a

the people who may have had contact with the infected emplocetesttive for the coronavirus, doctor matt willis made the announcement from his home. >> eyes diagnosed with covid- 19. so i am here on home quarantine as marin's 39th confirmed case. monday, i was in the south bay there may have been extorted are in that community. >> doctoral assistance of quarantine for his family since his symptoms first appeared late last week.'s test results came back positive on sunday, the source of the exposure is unknown. >> happening today, the marin county board he supervises is considered a resolution to prevent the eviction of residents and small businesses. the measure would apply to rent payments due on or after last wednesday. it states that the landlord cannot evict for late payment if the tenant provides a notice within 30 days. meanwhile in the south bay, nonessential businesses not complying with the order could face possible felony charges. the district attorney's office has set up a hotline to report nonessential businesses that are staying open. >> if the business owner does not close the bus

>>this just in to the kron 4 news room renz public health officer doctor matt willis has coronavirust tested positive and this is the message that he posted moments ago on you tube to get to the word out he didn't start showing any symptoms until last week and he immediately coren teen but before that he was in our studios on march 6 because we're doing a corona town hall meeting on march 6 and so you know as i was sitting in the studio right look at my iphone has one too. >>2 and a half weeks ago. so that is when he was in the studio so you can see how everything that comes around goes around you got to watch and listen as soon as people say they tested positive they have to get the word out because that everybody needs to be extra aware that they may have been exp ♪ ♪wild thing, you make my heart sing.♪ ♪you make everything... groovy...♪ done yet? yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry. you sure? hmm.mmm. ♪come on, come on, wild thing. if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>welcome back 9.46 skies definitely offering a lot of cloud co

matt willis recorded this message from his home. he started experiencing symptoms last week and immediately self-quarantined from his family. it's unknown how he got the virus. but he was meeting with various health care workers throughout the bay area. >>> he told students to come back to school to pick up their things in the middle of the statewide shelter at home order. scott budman joins us outside. one of the schools and -- scott, you spoke to the parents. they must have been a little bit alarmed. >> a little bit, jessica. they were told to come here to santa clara high school with their kids. then have the students go inside the school, clear out their lockers and get ready for distance learning at home. >> the line of cars dropping off kids was steady outside santa clara high school. told to stay six feet part and touch only their lockers. these santa clara unified district students were here to pick up chrome books and textbooks to get ready for distance learning. >> we're all sort of not sure how to make this work. >> it's

doctor matt willis matters with the marin county health department doctor alexander year with more inh formally more in general. doctor amy per act chief medical officer of grand rounds and doctor cesar job or herion from carbon helps thank you to all of you. well let us put this in perspective first, how is the virus different we'll start with you doctor willis how is it different from the ordinary flu. is it really more dangerous for the ordinary person. >>it's a great question and we're learning more about covid 19 every day. as we see global spread of the stone hill s we're seeing more and more evidence that it shares a lot in common with the flow. it's a virus. it's a respiratory virus is spread through droplets as people cough or sneeze into the air. that's the same way food is transmitted. we're also seeing that there's actually a wide range of symptoms among people who are infected. earlier reports coming out of china. so just to do get painted this picture of a very very lung disease causing a lot of das with about a 2% mortality rate in china as we do more testing and more t

matt, zero. willie hope they're all okay. >> good they're self-quarantining. we appreciate that. >> i'm glad, also, that some of those people in that group are starting to take things seriously. there were a lot of people a week or two ago that were mocking this public health epidemic. this possible pandemic. i think cnn is already calling it a pandemic. it is a pandemic in italy, where the entire country is being shut down now. i'm hopeful that other people a week from now will do the same. there are some fox news people, hosts who are aggressively, aggressively saying, you may not like the media, maybe you think the media is blowing it up too much, but there are fox news hosts who are saying, you have to take this seriously. i'm hoping all fox news hosts. >> it's the right thing. >> i'm hoping all pro-trump hosts on radio will start doing the same thing. because, you know, for a lot of these talk radio audiences, their average listener is 62, 63, 65 years old. those the very people who need to be told

willie? >>> let's go to italy. in rome, we find nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. it is feeling haunted on the streets of rome where you are and across the nation of italy. what is it like there right now, and how long do they expect this to go on? >> reporter: yeah, it is noon on a tuesday here, willie. as you can hear, we kind of found you the world's loneliest area. you've probably been to italy. there's some cars. there's some people walking around, but there's really not very much activity. this is normally a really bustling, frenetic city. you can hear some, you know, horns honking, but it is very quiet. it is actually quite chilling. this kind of lockdown that we've seen nationwide here in italy, as you mentioned, it is now spilling over borders into france and spain now. there's now 100 million europeans who are under some form of lockdown. we expect that to expand. germany is considering that. britain has been considering that. as mika mentioned, you know, boris johnson has been facing some pressure and some criticism for not locking down britain in the sa