so some of the ones that we have coming up, we have a talk on the chinese exclusion act san fraisco. we th totheraid cry ss's sis. we have a talk on denim for people like super excited about salvage and what is that and stitches and all the details that go into denim making. we have a talk about that. and many, many more. another series that we are doing is a film series. so thinking about the myth of the american west, we are showing series of classic westerns. so we are showing high noon, which you may know is actually considered an algory of what happened to the ride writers in hollywood but is an incredible movie. it has the man to shot liberty balance with john wayne. and misfits, of course. marilyn monroe and her iconic lea vie's jeans. and we e west as a place where we are horseback riding and getting the motorcycles to ride to the sunset. we are doing several talks, lectures. we have one with the historian lynn downey who wrote a biography of levi strauss and books about san francisco's jaouish community -- jewish community. and conversation with lori star and the director of

travelers from european countries to the us is going to have a tremendous impact on visitation to san fraisco in absolutely he ban ontravel from europe to san francisco is going have a major impact. >>art hse industry and our small businesses according to recent statistics from the san francisco travel association 20 to 18 visitor volume was over 26 milln up 1.4% viitor spending exceeded biion that's up 7%. the executive vicpresident of the san francisco travel assiation birth this will says those mbers reflect travelers from ovseas and many of our overnight visitors are from western europe for e young from the european countries. we understand the travel ban is temporary and does exclude the uk at this point. however, the impact is is quite significant in germany is one of our top 5 marks for international visitors, the spokesperson for the san francisco chamber commerce jt drills down even more france last year was the greatest growth spend from international visitors in san francisco, so dogma ju those 2 majorountries alone accommodate for millions of dollars and cents economy, however wit

rain with mount diablo itself nearing 2 inches rainfall that's somethg we really needed to see san fraisco hayward and san jose really not sitting too bad eier i mean some of these cases nearing an inch of rain yourselves now this mornin on top of that even more rainfall widespread showers being seen across the bay area right now lighter for the north bay and the peninsa looking at some light showers currently some of our heaviespots include portions of contra costa and solano counties with snowfall currently falling in the mountains above san jose. very much john let's head to the south bay right now where the coronavirus emic hitting businesses hard in santa clara county. >>this after the county issued orders to ban gatherings of re than 35 people. small businesses isunnale say the sales are down and restaurants are beg told operate with cuside food and delivery only. >>that side of the busess is actually keeping us live ro with you know some oxygen for whatever directive, you know we gefrom the state of from de a county or from the sea will will follow everybody comes in there like pani

san fraisco international airport sees its firscase of coronavirus after a customer servi agent tests positive for covid 19 the alaska airlines agent was workg at either the ticket couer or gates before going home with an illness on tuesda >>the airlinesays they learned of the case on friday and have ben in conct with have been exposed were told those employees have sense voluntarily self isolated and alaska airlines spokesperson says they do not believe any guests were at risalaska's ticket counter at sfo was se some customer satday including christina who was catching a flight to seattle the pacific northwest city was the first the country to deal with an outbreak of the coronirus christina was a alaska airlines agentwas infected but needed to fly home. >>i brout my own lives i everything down i'm my hands and do what i can not touch everything they can to it and think they he i think we're all generally atthe same amount of ri. so. we're out and about around and there. >>alaska airlines says even before lerning about this case they've been taking eve precaution to keep employees an

>>hospitals across san fraisco are using every resource possible to help fight the covid pandemic but they're still struggling to meet the demands of all the patients we are struggling to get swabs in der to test. so along the supply chain for testing. there are severe limitations because of this in most cas here in the city testing has been limited to those showing symptoms or have had high-risk exposures we are still struggling along that supply chain to to ramp up tests seen on as quickly as possible. so any scene from the specimen collection that you need for swabs from the processing reagents that are eeded. >>our supply chai are are um episodic hard to determine spend because of this the numbers could be misleading we still do not have an accurate province number so in other words we do not overall per 1000 people in san francisco. i'm what the rate is a virus infection is and we are working again with our u c berkeley and ucsf to to determine that number from a number of us states forces as quickly as possible to get assessments as will be very important informing our models ko

here at the bay bridge already it not even 5 30 this morning so a lot of activity heading into san fraisco robin winston in the traffic cenr will keep us updated on the drive times this >>thanks for staying with us 5.23 on this dnesday morning hopefully had a nice rtful night last night because you want to get out there and enjoy today to its fullest yet again we have lots of sunshine do expect some comfortable temperatures already a pretty clear san francisco as wellas the rest of the day 40's and 50's for most of our current temperatures what we are going to see later today a range of 70's to even a tease for daytime highs. now paul levels you mahave noticed have been particularly high these past few weeks you've also probably noticed some flowers in bloom across the bay area as we've seen such sunny and dry conditions that does mean that as you'restepping outside the season even a little bit more moderate to high llen is remain in wednesday and thursday well friday and saturday ahead of next week's rainfall are actually going to see high pollen levels and you can blampart of that due to

last li high school you can have them stay home and it will be an excused absence for now live in san fraisco sarah stinson kron 4 news art. thank you very much sara and while their opening at low, they're closinin other areas because of conavirus concerns the archdiocese of san francisco. >>is shuttering all of its 90 catholic schools fo2 weeks starting tomoow. this comes after one student had tested positive atone of the schools on monday. the e all more and sanmateo counties co and these closures obviously include not just the classes in the learning but all the school activities sporting events and hool fundraisers. a lot of parents to juggle their schedules but they say that rather that than be sorry. >>i think it's great i think it's good news. i think tht we should take precautions now and not waittil the fires hit stairs, parents working with each other to make sure that their students are taking care of why they're out of scol it's safer communities. i think it's a good thing think it's necessary and a cision on the administration's fo >>students are expected to colete their work tho

fills him like his dry >>teaching dog it does not work as well as that's music to the city's in san fraiscos for news. >>time to chect you can attend tonight, we got the clouds rolling in right now in northern california those showers begin to show up in the northern part of e state not here just yet, but they are on the way just on a approach shellfish and ey'll come on shore little later on in fact, here's your latest computer modeand you see some of the showers moving on by tomorrow morning and that's going to pick it up tohe middle of the day nd by the afternoon turning more widely scattered showers inthe evening. you see the snow piling up in the sierra nevada, but i think the bulk of this storm is going tocome on right as we towards sunday morning there you o that's what we can see a real papa, me heavier amounts of rain maybe some thunderstorms en it tapers off the showers in the afternoon onsunday with clearing bytemperatures arounthe bay area tomorrow nt to be cool a highs on in the 50's outside early temperatures are hovering a very co new the coastline, the summ maybe low 50's ou

neither campus has someone who is infected or known to be infected at least low high school in san fraisco remained closed today all events are also canceled. and it will remain closed at least through tomorrow. this comes after students parents tested positive the school is continuing a deep cleaning before anyone goes back on campus. no students have been diagnosed with the virus and officials say they are exploring options now for students to continue learning. a school has to remain closed for an extended period of time be on tomorrow. 2 more san francisco schools are closed. i see a cristo rey academy shut down for the next 2 weeks after a staffember tested positive. students will be back on campus friday march 20th they hope archbishop riordan high is also closed after parents of a student tested positive. it is set to be shut down until march 22th. as that state has also canceled on campus events but classes will happen online in the south bay, san jose state university tonight suspended classes through friday. the president says classes will resume either fully online or instructio

rain coming its way the shot from alcatraz the foreground here is that like coming out downtown san fraisco ckground. there's a shot of the gold gate bridge off to the east things are a ttle clearer it's really behind us or off to this direction things start to get a little bit more nasty with another doseof some heavier rain there you see the flow pattern again west to east or southwest to northeast mountain snows continuing. the fog situation that does clear up pretty nicely it looks like to the afternoon. unlike what we had from yesterday, although there were some clear patches work into. into tomorrow morning. it looks like that fog does return with the rain. temperatures for us now where the 50's 40's hodgepodge although most the readings are still in the 40's at this hour. a little cooler than we were this time from yesterday the breakdown for you today again with some silver lining off in the distance 40 able by high noon by 3 o'clock keep some of that light in or on and off rain in the forecast coming up in a bit we'll take a look at what those models have to say about all this at a

moon bay strangely and not as much of a san jose 0.13 but to a almost half of an inch of rain for san fraisco in future st for watch this go into motion looks like a collecon of some heavier rain occurring prior to noon and then in the afternookind of a spotty shower even kind of left er and the rain appears to dissipate for overnight only to rejoin us again formonday early morning now that batch of rain ere doesn appear to be too intense however in the long range forecast models are show in improving quotation marks forecast for us as we get into next week there you see another little systemit's up to the north. we'll get the very tail end of that so improving sky conditions, drying out for much of the balance of next week, although it doesn't lk to be as warm as we thought and then right on cue again for a weekend it looklike maybe will be spared on saturday but into rain trying to work in here and certainly in the following wek looks to be unsettled and looks to be ol as well. here's a look at what the drought under looks like and look at the coverage area or the moderate area. you can see