Reporter the unemployment numts were sthour go up. To keep spreading the safety net. He is looking for help but the doors are closed. Mat sheen operator lost his job march 16th when his company had to shut down. As he tried to navigate the unemployment process, he fund out its difficult with the just about every thing is offices closed. They told me to use the different these days. Internet but i dont have that includes sports. Internet. I dont have computer. The league is on hold and the so i tried to reach them through the phone and its like Mission World needs something fun. Youre a good athlete. Have you played horse on the court . On the Basketball Court . Impossible. Santa clara county is trying to help with cities such as san jose seeing unemployment figures yes. Horse. Higher than 15 behind san to its coming back. Francisco with 17 . Here is anthony flores. The county in partnership with reporter to its a game we all played. Horse. Make a shot and your opponent Community Organizations launched has to match. The nba is planning to use the a covid19 assistant navigation hot line, and helping them apply schoolyard game to put basketball on tv. s no steph occcurry in the sho for unphoemployment insurance. I have never seen that many layoffs in that period of 200,0. Out. And each player will shoot in isolated home courts. I dont have no money for and five missed shots spells food. I need to pay my car. I didnt pay my rent the last horse. A champion will be crowned thursday. The nba is not the only sport month. And i kind of i dont know. Changes its game plan because of the coronavirus. I its hard for us. The Masters Tournament was it might be awhile before the cloud of gloom hoeferring every supposed to tee off. Us will be lifted and the instead, its rescheduled for jobless numbers probably will september. Not go down. We have so many sports as a in san jose, robert handa, nbc culture. And for them all to be taken way, its jarring. Bay area news. More that car has virtual we want to show you 24, this is a food line, a massive line racing to entertain fans. At a food give away. We put real world drivers in this is in san jose cathedral of racing online. Faith church. It looks realistic. Thousands of people showed up that is what fans want to for a box of food. See, players on the court. Sky ranger overhead. It wont be a nba game. It will be a game any one can there were so many people that nearby streets were shut down. If you want informationing how play. Anthony flores, nbc bay area. To donate to church and for the food drive, visit nbc bay area. Com. The bay area has mar than that is really good at basketball. That is anthonys two sons. There from the pandemic to covid19, the National Aids 404,000 confirmed cases of the memorial is doing something special. Its using the leftover virus. And Santa Clara County has more fabric from the aids memorial than 1400. Tonight, we learned another quilt to make masks. The quilt is symbolic in the infeked resident in east bay fight against aids and now against the fight against covid nursing home has died. 1. The number of staff and patients leaders say they will donate the masks. The fabric is left over from the rose to 65 people. 54 tons of material used from there is an outbreak in marin the aids quilt. County. Several people have tested positive and one person has the quilt has a panel each died. And an update in orrinda. Representing someone who died of aids. It was put on hold because of the virus. Its nice to see something to significant, so many decades 27 residents and 22 staff have ago, used now to what is happening to us now. Tested positive. The latest numbers, governor powerful and heart warming donation. Dont go away. Join us coming up in a couple new minutes at 7 00. New see you soon. Newsom says the state has 18,000 what we do now will forever change our tomorrow. Cases. That is 1300 people in the last 24 hours. Hospital iced, 2,825. The number of people admitted to the icu, intensive care, dropped about 2 . It is encouraging. And just again reinforces the incredible work you are doing to practice physical distancing, to stay an at home, its working in the state of california. That curve, it has been bent in this state. But its also again been stretched. The last 24 hours, 50 people have died. These are our friends, family members. The death toll in the state is 492. It is an attempt to flatten the curve. The Alameda CountySheriffs Department is releasing some people early. Nbcs melissa colorado on why they are pushing so hard to empty jail. This morning, they told me, irving, youre getting out. Reporter with nothing more than the clothes on his bag and a plastic bag, he wrapped up his 2 1 2year sentence early for assault with a firearm. I was supposed to get out next month. Due to the coronavirus, i got an early kick out. Reporter thursday, 12 jail inmates tested positive for covid 1. Two employees also tested positive. The Alameda Countys sheriffs sfi says it has cleaning, anyone in jail must get their temperature checked and wear protective masks and eye wear. They are handing out extra soap bars to inmates as wells a face masks. Since march, more than600 inmights have been reduced. And the next one to leave might be derek amena who is awaiting a retail. His Attorney Says his mental and physical health is so lets do the right thing, today. Deteriorating. He is doing horrible. Lets stay at home. He looks he only has a couple lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance teeth left on the bottom of his please, six feet apart at least. Mouth. They are hoping the judge lets look after ourselves, as well as others. Will consider his Health Problems and let him out early with an ankle monitor. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. Could he be exposed to it, he so those on the front line can do their part. Would be in serious trouble. A Conference Call with the and when this is over, we will all, continue, attorneys and judge will happen tomorrow morning. To thrive. In oakland, melissa colorado. Part of the great highway could be closed until at least may 3rd. Gordon march has asked the citys Transportation Agency to block off cars and traffic from lincoln to slope. Not only did it have to be temporarily closed because of blowing sand. But supervisor wants ped december tr to have more distance. Coming up, we investigate nearly a million why doctors are allowed to californians filing for unemployment last week. Perform procedures that dont what the state is doing to get people back to work. Appear to be essential. Evening, thanks for joining and the virus at crosswalks. Us for this special 7 00 p. M. A small change that has other cities taking know. Newscast. No paycheck janelle and not im chief meteorologist jeff much food. Thousands of people lined up ranieri. I will tell you what is on the today for free food. Way tomorrow and a look at the it shows how desperate our rainfall season and how were community is. Were joined tonight by jessica doing so far. I will e see you in about seven aguirre, whos working from minutes. What we do now will forever change our tomorrow. Home. Jessica . A Million People needed so lets do the right thing, today. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. And change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. So many of us are making big sacrificing right now to help stop the spread of this virus. Hospitals are also supposed to be doing this by postponing elective surgeries. We found out that some bay area hospitals are fought come plying. Here is candice nyugen. Reporter e elective procedures can wait. It puts patients and staff at unmess risk of getting covid19. Doctor and nurses tell us the procedures are still going on. And they are doing it to the bad their bottom line. This is San Franciscos campus. Four operating staffers tell us a surgeon continued to be Breast Reconstruction surnlryes. We were all, the nurses and skub tech and staff very surprised. One agreed to peek with us anonymously. We would expressing to each other concern its happening. Reporter they were instructioned to stand down for surgeries that can wait until after the pan demic to reduce covid19 risks within hospitals. The San Francisco department of Public Health issued an order saying failure to comply faces a threat to health. Many of us felt there wasnt enough scrutiny in making sure that the cases that were being booked actually were truly emergency. Staff was considered when somebody in the of raying room tested pos ti. This is slewly the wrong thing to do. Reporter dr. Scott levin is a surgeon. We had him look at a list of procedures performed in the pandemic. This is a list we got from a source inside the hospital and and had him review. If you can get a view, we have to do them right now, and no they can wait. Okay. Reporter breastectomy. No. Breast to implant exchange. No. Breast tissue expander insertion. No. Breastectomy with inplant removal and breast lift. Absolutely not. A procedure that levin says is not just unnecessary but potentially dangerous. In an average surgery, even in outpatient, the patient will probably cost the Health Care System 40 or 50 people in a few hours. Reporter a studly found out of 138 patients, more than 40 for infected in hospital. Nearly 30 of those infected were medical staff. Why would a surgeon continue to do the surgeries and why would a hospital allow it . Well, you know, there are financial rewards for Health Systems. Reporter youre saying its about money . That may be. Reporter hospitals earn on average, 700 more on each patient elective procedure. Postponing could cost hospitals billions of dollars. The Health Systems are trying to mitigate the fiscal impact. That is irresponsible. Reporter we reached out and uc davis said they are doing e elective surgeries but following cdc surgeries and doing ones that are time sensitive. A Spokes Person said the hospital is rescheduling surgerieses and they are moving forward with elective surgeries they decide are urgent. The decision is made by doctors and patients and then reviewed by an independent contract horse is always a physician. Candice nyugen, nbc bay area news. Thanks. The pedestrian buttons are no longer working, the city just deactivated them when they push the buttons, now, quite turns green, the walk sign will light up. They say its about prioritizing needs. They should have the same access to the street and priority to cross the street. I wasnt even an agenda item. It was an announcement. They just knew they had our support to i do. Council members say they hope to make the change permanent. One thing we discussed, bac to school in the fall . Are kids learninging what t ag information. They could lose valuable knowledge on the shelter at home . A significant amount of valuable knowledge. New data that says kids could fall back an entire year in math because of the extra two ms of being out of school. Compounding that with with summer. In the summer when you dont go, its called the summer slide. You go back a little bit. You lose that knowledge. And now you add the covid19 slide to that, and kids are at risk of losing an entire year in critical math skills. I spoke to con academy about what the study means long term for kids future in mathematics and what we can do to try to help them out. So many students, especially in math, at some point, hit a wall. We know 70 of kids who go to Community College have to take remedial math. And the gaps are debilitating. This can be on top of that. Give me tips parents should follow a home to mitigate what could be a year loss in mathematics. My number one tip for parents is try to keep it as simple as possible. There is enough to stress about in world now. If your student can do 30 minutes a a day in mathematics, and they can use free, noncommercial. And that habit over five months, i am confident they can keep with where they need to do. And also, reading can be at risk. The reading isnt as bad. You might read things that is a level above where you can read, you can still understand or make out what people are saying and understand the content. It doesnt work that way with math. If you dont have the basic principle of algebra, you cant go to the next level. And keeping up is important in the next couple months and summer as well. This will be a big issue. Thank you, jess coo. Here is a reason to smile. This toddler down watch carefully. Just wanted to say hi to the 4e789 helicopter pilot. The kid and mom, w thk, started wavin down low we are waving right back at you. I could follow her all day. So adorable. A little sunshine. We saw it this afternoon. Mostly cloudy today. Lets check in with jeff ranieri from home. Were shaping up good as we head to easter weekend and all the families out there waving an our sky ranger helicopter, we have great weather coming your way. And today, you will see in San Francisco, we do have high clouds back there in the distance. Its more of that filletered sunshine in San Francisco. 6 degrees tonight. We will drop in the 50s and hold on to some of the cloud cover. The doppler radar, we have rainfall in the south bay erm r earlier in morning. I will keep an eye on this. Its very light. We are drying on out. Tomorrow morning, forecast, upper 40s and low 50s. Not extremely cold, and then as we move through the afternoon tomorrow, what i want to you notice, its a sign of the times. Changing weather time. 70 in antioch, 71 in clear lake. We have warmer weather, 69 in concord and napa. We will go through full detail. And dry weather coming, a lot of us thinking about the rainfall. The lack of it. We are down 6 to 15 inches. We will look at the long range forecast and what i predict in the rest of april and may. You dont want to miss that. I will have it in 25 minutes and easter weekend forecast. We can still do easter even with covid19. We will get you scared away. Thanks, jeff. Still to come, living in new normal mines no hair stylist. How people in the bay area are coping. Everyone is working a little differently now. So we can still answer your calls. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. Im jessica aguirre, come toug live from my home studio. Today became may home hair salon. Vanity did get the best of my today. I will show you in a second why. Let me show you lidia. She is knowing me her roots. Yeah, we cant go to the hair salon. She is saying shes embracing it. No going to worry about it. And let me show you this, this is ray blare of pleasanton. He shows you he can still color his hair. Looking mainly. He said, got you, girlfriend, im with you. That is because i pulled out after pick of me today. Vanity got the best of me today. I couldnt take the hair color. Monica, my hairdresser, not going to be happy. But i did it out on of a box p colored my own hair. Gave myself a makeover. I may have trimmed my bangs a a bit. I know sonya gave you a hair cut the other day. Dont we have one of the producers here. She used to cut hair . We can enroll her for emergency work. Yeah, it was an emergency jae, jessica, now you know you can do it and it looks great, you with save money. You dont have to go see your hairdresser anymore. Yeah, i have to do the mani pedi next. That tomorrows assignment. And the nbc bay areas family adjusting to the new normal. Chris sanchez just turned her living room. We have a live studio audience, and around there is that the dog . Is that the dog . Yeah, we will see on the morning news cast. Lets go to Jodi Hernandez . Why do you celebrate a sweet 16 . They planned a scavenger hunt, and the end led to a virtual Surprise Party set up in the graduate. Oh, happy birthday. That is really cool. When we return at 6 30, a lot of talk abouthe microbiologist. And a safer way to transpor your food, next. In this time of crisis we run with them, toward those in need. We are 7,000 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and therapists supporting their efforts on the ground and virtually. And just as we are by their side, were by yours, too. With answers to your most pressing questions and expert advice at cigna. Com covid19 no one thought it would be easy. I think its harder than we imagined. Right now, that is new york citys mayor reflecting on another rough day. The state of new york saw a record increase in covid19 deaths for the third consecutive day. But there are signs that the final death toll nationally wont be as dire as projected. Date today, dr. Anthony fauci, he said we are a big country and the story changes. There are signs of hope. Yeah, more hospital patients are being discharged after surviving covid19. And death estimates are trending down. From about 200,000 deaths to 60,000. All end kaindicates, its wo america. Its working because you are doing it. Todays white house briefing, the cautious optimism is tempered. Continue staying home. Encouraging news from the nations top doctor at the white house briefing. Many potential treatments. We are doing a lot from a scientific standpoint so when we get to next year, next foul, ne next winner, hopefully we have something to offer. He said the National Institutes of health is testing the drugs. Work surpd way on two potential v vaccines. And joining me now is Jessica Rivera with covid19 disperse research network. Can we talk about Antibody Testing . Stanford is testing their Health Care Workers to see if they had it, didnt know it, they are immune or lower risk. They should be treating patients. Is that a good assumption to do that . Yeah, a lot of health care facilitieses, stanford, the city of San Francisco was doing it for first respenonse teams, and number of hospitals. Its helpful. But there is concern about the accuracy of the test. False negatives as high as 20 brn20 . When you talk about immunity, that is too high of a risk of failure, telling someone they are not immune when they are is a problem when youre trying to raise the line and increase more people. I know the general public, i received messages, they want to check if they had it. They are curious. I dont know if that is a good ming. Thatry like, i have antibodies. I can go out and im not going to sty ay at home. Do you think its a good idea . The long haul, yeah, we will have to have Antibody Testing before we have a vaccine. The testing needs to get a lot better. It needs to get more accurate. It needs to provide more confidence to Public Health officials. In this space, if you shoot for 90 of considered high. But when you think about population health, the smallest error with blow up in a large population. We need to make sure the testing is e vehicle tiff enough. We are in week four of the shelterer in home order. Wuhan lifted it after 11 weeks. Were in week four. Do you think we are doing to do i in a couple months . Yeah, its still hard to predict. I think we have more shelter in place works ahead of us. Its important to the calibrate the expectations looking at wuhan. They have not returned to normalcies. The schools are closed. The number of businesses are doing modified hours and people are encouraged to stay home unless they have to go out. They are trying to reintergrit. And going back to normal is going to have to happen in a fazed approach. Its not going to be and everything is back open and things open up slowly with different precautions. We heard a lot since the beginning of the pandemic, the warm weather, it becomes summer, it will stop spread of the virus. Do you believe that . To date, we have no reason to make that assumption. Reduced ability for a virus to spread, its likely to go away in the summer and warm months. I think we will see some degree of waves in covid19. But we believe its going to be persistent. If you think about the epicenter in asia where the clines are warm, and in the United States and abroad, we have no reason to make assumptions its going to change. It may lessen. We have to see. Do you think it will be a resurgence in the fall or winter . I do. We have to have things in waves. As we have the growing pains of reintegrating in normal life, we may need to pump the breaks on things we are getting used to to slow it down. We have to keep the pace steady. Okay, we have to remain vigilant and be extra cautious. From San Francisco, thank you so much for joining us. Hope to see you again soon with more of your knowledge. Thanks for having me. En to, Governor Newsom is defending his decision to lend ventilators to other states. The National Guard delivered 500 ventilators to new york, new jersey and illinois. Its part of an effort to help the other states manage their surge of patients. He said we have about 8,000 ventilators in california and the State Hospital system is using less than a third right now. We thought it was the right thing to do and the response ib thing to do as american citizens to save lives. Oregon and Washington State have also loaned ventilators to the National Stock pile. With so many of us relying more on food deliveries, there are more concerns ababout how to make sure your food isnt tampered with. And business is suddenly booming for a local economy. Here is more. Reporter its the stuff you by that comes in a bag. Theres a good chance that bag was made at pan pacific manufacturing in hayward. We make backs for many industries. The restaurant, retail. Reporter he saw evidence the world might need. Door dash driver sips milk shame. It makes sealed to go delivery bags for third party deliveries. You take your bag, you open it up. The bag has a strip to seal it. And you go like that. And then youre done. Making of course if anyone tries to tamper with it. Back in march when governor gavin newsom, demand for the bags took off, as restaurants converted their menus to take out only. When the food is packaged in the delivery bag, the consumers have more confidence hasnt been any tampering and the bag is clean and safe. Restaurants are new now using the bag for takeoff. A way to ensure that nobody touched it. Tan had to add two new machines to keep up. And the pandemic helped one part of his business, the economy has hurt demand for the other bags he makes. A lesson that sometimes you just have to roll with change. Nbc bay area news. Still to come, nnl returns this saturday with a social social distancing e twist. We will tell you about it next. What we do now will forever change our tomorrow. So lets do the right thing, today. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. More difficult times for bay area companies. Yelp is cutting the work force. Its laying off 1,000 employees. The ceo said they had to impose cost redictions to survive the pandemic. Theyre not the only company. Eventbrite cut 450 workers this week. If you plan to go to easter events, they want to thin out crowds in open porks and open spaces. They are restricts open spaces even more. And the general manager is asking people to please stay home. We have a full list of Bay Area Park area. Com. Free mond mondfremont is ex to tests. Until today, tests were only available in cars. Now, walkups are allowed until each days appointments are filled. A doctors prescription is not required. Snl is returning this weekend. Nbc announcing today that the show will be this saturday night with new remotely produced content as the show practicing social distancing. Not many details. A new edition of weekend update. Not sure how much of the content will be live. That is okay. We are expecting to be live. Snl posted this photo. Several cast members, and it looks lake a zoom video there. It will air here on nbc bay area this saturday at 11 30 after our news cast. I am laughing now. A lot of people have up been inside watching tv. Its nice to see fresh episodes coming back. We want to get outside. Lets get to jeff ranieri outside in his backyard. Yeah, just a little bit of fresh air now. Birds are chirping and after clouds this morning, the sun is coming back out. I will talk about my long range forecast and what i predict for the rest of april and may and Easter Sunday. We will let you know if there will be this much blue sky. We are information hoabout h you are going to get a stim louse payment. That is next. The best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. We find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. Were offering current chevy owners onstar crisis assist services and complimentary wifi data. To help keep you on the road, the Chevy Certified Service experts are here and ready to help if you require parts, maintenance or repairs. You can also still shop and schedule your Service Appointment online. Its just our way of doing our part. Remember that 2 trillion Economic Relief package passed by congress . Part of the deal is the stimulus paymented headed to millions of americans and a lot on lining up hoping to steal that money. Lets bring in consumer investigator chris. I am so interested in the story. What is the plan and how can they cut them off . They are going to be attacking. A common phishing scram here. They are going to delve into everything about the virus. The imposters will sit us with letters, emails, text messages, maybe a knock at the front door. Thooefs will pose as the irs, ask you for bank info and try to drain your account. The irs doesntnt give anyone p your personal information. Most payments are automatic and the irs says they will not call you, text you, email you. Anyone who tells you they will get you money faster is lying. The bad guys are preying on our pandemic fears. If anyone texts you and says im from the government or here is a free coronavirus test, click this link or call us back, go to this link or callist to process your 1200, its all a scam. The government and none of these people communique over text. They have a surge of criminal activity. Some might be going out today. The fbi says they reviewed more than 1200 covid19 scam complaints since march. Today, we learned new info about a stop ep in the process. The irs is going on mail you a late letter after it sends you money. Within 15 days of being paid, the letter should arrive and it will confirm that you were paid and how you were paid. If you get that notice in the mail and didnt get paid, the irs says the letter will have instructions for how to report it and you should immediately. Were taking your coronavirus questions every day, head to nbc bay area. Com. You can go to respond from the main menu or call it. I will be back at 7 00. We have a good yes to question. How do you handle an expired license. I had an apointment next week for Something Like that. Lets get a check of the forecast. Jeff ranieri. Its Easter Sunday. I have to plan an easter egg hunt. The weather looks good. Were going to come through with a really nice Easter Sunday forecast as we head in the weekend. And i want to start off with something a little different tonight. After we had the on again, off again rainfall chances, a mix of blue sky. What does the long range forecast look like as we continue through april, the beginning part of may . So, lets go ahead and get you into my predictions here. I do want you to know that we are right now no el nino or el nina. We are not seeing that now. And dry interwarmer, High Pressure will be blocking any major storms. And as we head to the rest of april and may, im calming for a 70 chance of additional storm systems. Right now, they look very light to moderate. I see two or three more storms coming in. There is a chance of wet weather to come. We will start off dry and e notice the cloud cover at 7 30. And the overcast beginning for us and the afternoon tomorrow, Sunshine Building in and across the mountain tops, you might see dark clouds over mt. Hamilton and the santa cruz mountains. We will start tomorrow morning, not too chilly. Upper 40s and low 50s. If you want to go yoga outside with zoom or skype or any programs with friends, you will have nice weather. You might need a hoodie and sweat pants, shorts and a tshirt, not enough for you. San francisco, 52 and east bay at 50. As we move through tomorrow, i will call for the best time to get fresh air, from 1 00 to 6 00. That is when i expect the sunshine to go back in the forecast. Notice the sunset, 7 38. We are getting more and more daylight as we continue through thing. Tomorrow, 69 in morgan hill. And alameda counties, low 70s. Antioch and pittsburg. And 67 in palo alto. And the colder ocean breeze. San francisco, 69 for the marina, and the north bay, 70s in clear lake and a Beautiful Day here in napa at 69 degrees. The extended forecast in San Francisco, 65. Dry, monday, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday of next week. And the inland valley. Here we go, really, really nice. Clouds on saturday, afternoon sunshine and 70. Easter sunday, 74. The warmest day next week is 78 and next thursday, day 31 inside with covid19. Holding on to the 70s. The kids, Easter Sunday, focused on the forecast. Great for the easter bunny in the morning. Be sure to wear the mask and be safe. And the weather call, he is doing all the precautions to make sure little kids have fun. And the parents too, they are going to have a good time. We like the sunshine coming up this weekend. Thank you, jeff. Up next at 6 00, the nba has a new idea. Its an Old School Game that you probably played yourself but its being made new again. Well explain. Everyone is working a little differently now. So we can still answer your calls. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. By the enrock and roll tour ill turn you [ screaming ] zombies. If were gonna save the world we need to unite all the trolls. Like country. The country trolls look friendly. Get em. [ screaming ] hip hop. Tiny diamond is my name peace and love tiny and daddy out. And techno. Get ready for the drop. 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