We need you to get out there and do the test. Protect yourself. Protect your coworkers. Protect your community. And especially your family. Thats the call today from the head of a new covid19 task force. Doctor says anyone who has frequent contact with the public can receive a test for free even if they have no symptoms. Meanwhile hayward announce td its keeping the coronavirus testing site open through the end of the month. People do have to exhibit at least one symptom like a fever or cough. And all of this raises the question of how often should we be tested and will the state be able to accommodate the need. I Team Reporter is digging into the answers and she joins us now. Covid19 testing statewide has stayed consistent. The latest data shows a significant increase in early april. Nationally california ranks 27th. It begs the question as life starts to reopen, will our testing needs to be met . Thats why the testing has to substantially increase. We want you to be able to be tested multiple occasions. We hear the same message every week. You have been tested once and that doesnt mean you can getting tested once isnt good enough. We need widespread testing and as soon as possible. Emergency room doctor says it will stay that way until theres a reliable vaccine. Your test is only good for the period of time for which you have no other exposure. The expectation is test then test again. And now its not just recommended if you are symptomatic. Please get tested if you are working. Asking the working public to get tested. How often is good enough . If you are daily in contact with people who are sick, you need to be tested daily. This applies to healthcare workers and people who are frequently in close contact with others. If you are in contact with folks who are not sick and are totally a symptomatic. Weekly testing is probably fine. Week le testing. Is that realistic . It is. But its a matter of how quickly we can get there. According to to i Team Analysis this week nearly 28,000 covid19 tests were administered across the state. Per 1 million people. Thats an increase from last week roughly 21,000 tests. And more than three times the rate reported last month. Another surge could come. What happens then . If we have another out break, if resurge. Weekly testing would no longer be adequate. We have to do this and redefine the testing needs until we have a vaccine. The city says the focus now will be on expanding testing, out break detection and contact tracing. How testing efforts will accommodate workers needing weekly if not dale will testing is a whole different question. We reached out to the city for further comment. All right. One person who knows the importance of testing is bay area man who spent two months in the hospital because of coronavirus. Hes a story of recovery and resilience. He now has a message for the public. Almost killed me. Almost killed my wife. My daughter and my grandson. The feeling of being at home. Sitting in his own chair with his wife of 40 years by his side. A sensation mike will never take for granted. I went to the gates of hell. Coronavirus. Swift and fierce. It tore the former High School Coach apart from his family in march for ten weeks. Almost four spent in acoma. Given a 1 chance at survival. It was very painful. I just i dont think that people understand until it hits home. Mike is a true miracle. Coming out of acoma on easter. Vowing to never again be lonely. Not taking anything for granted. Im so glad it be back. I met mike three years ago when i came to san francisco. He was my ride share driver. A hobby he did for fun and what struck me was his effervescence. He has people recognize him everywhere. He has a huge personality. Which is still in there. Moving forward there are many ifs. We dont know what the virus did to his body. His cog native skills. His lungs. Are they going to be jeopardized . Concerned about how the world changed in a few short months. How do you feel when you see people out and about socializing . People take it as a joke. All the social distancing theyre not doing anymore, its like crazy. I know because i suffered through it. The road ahead will be long the family who have all sinced healed from their own bouts of covid19. Have one thing together. That bond and love for each other. Napa counties where people have already been pushing boundaries are now asking the state to move faster in the reopening process. They want to move to the next steps of phase 2. En wayne it napa today. Ses. Live from first street. Good evening. First street were told today two more businesses closed their doors due to covid19 restrictions. Business people are begging for some kind of relief. Even with the sound of chirping birds, Business People already have that mind set. It happened weeks ago. Talk about flattening the curve. Its a flat line. A they normally see 200,000 people a year. In the last six weeks, 100. So when on thursday napa county formally skds the state to open stores, restaurants and wineries for business. He can rattle off the economic chain of pain. We should have had a wedding tonight. Florists involved. Hotels. Catering. You name it, all that is just come to a complete halt. Signing the document. She worries about tax shortfalls without permission from the state. In the county budget were looking at between 10 and 20 million. I know that all the cities and towns are similarly effected. So are Small Business owners. Its a continued overreaction. Last week out of frustration he opened for business inside. Before the county shut him down. Call that an act of principle. Born from desperation. I have been doing this a listening time. Ill survive. How deep is the hole . Its deep. Then katherine runs a boutique. Have you seen any improvement since the soft reopening . Her answer is im hopeful the state is listening and give us more than we have gotten. How much have you gotten so far, she said nothing. The county is waiting for word from the state. All right. Thank you. Health officials okayed a plan to allow large gatherings like Church Services and high school graduations. Only as drive through ents. Next week. How it will work. Visit Oakland City Hall and youll see a creative way to honor the class of 2020. Covid19 edition. Seniors who havent had prom or homecoming have this. Their names and pictures in lights in the civic center marquee. The idea of the mayor. Being able to do this we give them recognition they need and desire. The family has submitted the information and hope to see their sons photograph up there soon. We modelled cap and gown. And shared his thoughts. Its sad. Not walking the stage. But joining the marines i have another graduation i can look forward to. Today the Health Department cleared the way for a nontraditional graduation. A drive up ceremony. Where people are allowed to gather in cars. It does require the participants to stay in their vehicle. And it does require the Event Organizer to develop a written plan. They have to provide security to direct traffic. Here at Freedom High School they are changing Graduation Ceremony plans. It will be either a walk through ceremony. One by one. With no audience. Or it will be virtual. It wont change at the church either. They have been given benediction in the parking lot to families in their cars. We have a good group of volunteers who help organize it. People stay in their cars. They dont leave their cars. Most leave windows up because we have a very good pa system. Local authorities are aware of the services. But its nice to have the county official oak. Health officials hope to further loosen restrictions in the coming weeks if the rate of Coronavirus Spread stays flat. Both training and jobs are available for thousands of californiaens struggling to recover from the Economic Impact of the coronavirus. 7 on your side has really Important Information about how to apply and to get that help. I have to tell you this is some really good news. Were talking nearly 2,600 unemployed californiaens will get job training. Another 600 will get jobs. Temporary but jobs that will help them get through. Part of the 23 Million Program announced today by the state. Applicants who receive the highest consideration are those unlikely to return to their previous occupation. Services will include training, subsidized employment and job placement. 600 will be hired to fill temporary positions needed to attack this pandemic. Job opportunities include clean up and sanitation. As well as providing humanitarian aid. The money comes from the department of labor. Meant to address the Coronavirus Impact on the state work force. To apply for jobs or the training you can contact and register at your local American Job Center of california. A lot of people may not know where they are located. I have a link. Go to our web site. You can apply and hope pli get if on the training or job. The thing im happy about is theyre looking alt who is least likely to return to their old job. Those are the people that need the help most. Good to hear. That makes sense. Spending spree generous out pouring for students in oakland and the twitter ceo is setting an example for billionaires. A special tribute to the class of 2020. It maybe the next best thing to the real thing. Counting crows. Wait until you see why these bird are going a little crazy. Twit ceo provided a massive jump start to help Oakland School district close the digital divide. Making it harder to learn remotely. The district set a goefl raising 12 million. He donated 10 million. Just yesterday eleventh grader proved that words have energy and power. Im not alone. Many of the peers from oakland do not have access to technology resources. The impact on the academy and future is big. She was on a zoom call hosted by the school district. Looking to raise 12 million for computers and internet access. Phase 1 of the plan is raise 2 million now. Phase 2 would come later. 10 million. This morning twitter ceo tweeted 10 million to give every child in oakland access to a lab top and internet in the home. Closing the digital digital digl amazing shot in the arm for us. And it will enable us to have computers in schools and every student in the district to have a computer at home. According to the superintendent, 17,000 students in oakland lack high Speed Internet access and 5,000 have no access at all. You cannot be ab active member of the Society Without having access to the internet. San francisco has roughly 75 billionaires and some have come forward to donate money. Only after city officials complain some had not done enough to help. During this pandemic. We have to make sure that they understand their social responsibility of being not only a san franciscoen. But someone who should be contributing to society in this way. A will the of money being made is really off the backs of of the folks we need to help. That seems to be working. Today the Controllers Office released the names of those who already donated to the give to sf fund. We have t list on our web site. The class of 20 is finding new and creative ways to celebrate graduation. Berkeley is meeting lt challenge using mine craft to host a virtual celebration tomorrow. Digital team gives you a closer look. Were using mine craft as a virtual space to recreate our campus. Its a one to one replica of the campus. That will be used for a commencement and two day music festival. Starting may 16. At 2 00 p. M. We are talking to the chancellor. Who will be speaking at the commencement and shes visited the server. A couple times. They created an avenue tar for me. And asked if i would speak at the graduation. Of course i said yes. For the commencement event we have chancellor. The chief story teller. Mine craft. As well as the ceo of razor. And the cofounder of twitch. We have created cap and gowns for college graduates. To come and put on. The people who are on the stadium will be able to throw their cap. After the ceremony well have an after party. With musical guests such as cash cash. And so many more. We will be Live Streaming it on twitch and you tube. Even if you dont understand the game you can have someone showing their perspective inside the game. If you want more information on how to participate, how to log in. Or watch. Well have a web site. We dont know when the in person graduation will happen. It will happen. It will either happen at some point this summer. Or happen at the time that we have our winter commencement. Or this Time Next Year when the class of 2021 graduates. This project is so much the berkeley spirit of you see a problem and heres a solution. A creative solution. Id like to say what i always say at graduation. The out looks let their be light. And go bears. Pretty impressive. They can attend a two day musical through sunday. Isnt that fun. Very creative. We put a link to stream that on our web site. And the news app. A will the of sunshine out there today. Rain is headed our good evening. Happy friday. It turned out to be a beautiful day. I want to show you live picture. A few people are out on the beach socially distancing. Temperatures right now low 60s to upper 70s. Warmest spot got up into the low 80s. We have a few high clouds streaming in. Ahead of the main storm. Which arrives this weekend. It is actually quite impressive for midmay. As yu will notice it looks like a winter storm. Youll get at least another half a day before the rain begins. Roof camera a little breezy. Rain develops in the north bay tomorrow evening. Wet, cooler and breezy sunday. Showers will continue into next week. First thing in the morning a combination of clouds and some patches of fog. Temperatures mid40s to the upper 50s. For the afternoon hours. A mild day. Touch cooler than today. 63 halfmoon bay. 70 oakland. Mid70s around livermore. 78 in san jose. A level 1 system coming in saturday night into sunday. First the north bay sees the showers at night and everyone does sunday. Gusty wind on sunday. Theres a possibility of thunderstorms with hail. Its mainly sunday night into monday. Hour by hour we go time line 7 00 p. M. The rain is in the north bay. You will notice into 11 00 p. M. Still the focus is there. Light to moderate. The rain will spread on sunday it will be coming down hard in spots. At 7 00 a. M. We head into 10 00 a. M. Scatter scattered showers and the pattern will continue through the night sunday. Mountains see the snow. It continues into monday and tuesday. The storm is in the going away quick. It will be a slow mover. And thats why rainfall totals i took it through tuesday night sthoe you just how much. Most of you will fall between n inch of rain. In terms of the mountains theres a winter storm watch at midnight monday. Until tuesday. Three to eight inches about 6,500 feet. Lake level a foot for the peaks. If you have to travel for business, count on difficult travel. 7day forecast evening rain tomorrow in the north bay. And sunday, monday ask tuesday. A level 1 storm. Slight chance of thunder sunday night. Better chance monday. Cooler weather and showers linger. Into tuesday. Finally tonight. With people staying home, animals have more space to roam. Transforming urban spaces into wild lands that you can witness and enjoy right here. A flock of crows chased a coyote in the middle of san francisco. Many birds will dive at predators including humans to drive them away during nesting season. It escaped the onslaught with resistance from traffic. World news next. 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Today, were going to talk about how to groom your dogs. laughing he looks like a Fried Chicken leg. I have some key tips that will be helpful in working from home. Dada daddys gotta work. Today im going to show you how to plant some seeds grow things youre going to eat you guys, ok . Ok how to make a simple loaf of sourdough bread. I forgot to score the tops, yall. Tonight, the new and alarming estimate just in from the head of the cdc. The new models that he says now show 100,000 deaths here in america by june 1st, just two weeks from now, as this country now reopens. Among the states starting to reopen, parts of new york. Now comes news of a barber who the governor says ignored the guidelines before, staying open. Saying the barber now has coronavirus and has infected more than a dozen customers. Several states in the northeast revealing their plans for reopening, and what does it mean for the memorial day holiday . Tonight, the news from texas. After reopening there, now setting new records in the number of cases and fatalities. And tonight, with 36 million americans now out of work, the news of retail sales plunging more than 16 . That is a record. It was worse than expected