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And what could that mean for the best of the bay area . Also i dont want to create another reason for people to come out. She says her customers want social distancing and she was worri worried. The tough call she made to protect herself and her employees. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. And im jessica aguirre. How do we end the shelter at home . The governor says more testing, even if you arent showing any symptoms. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is at stanford where labs rex panneding that Antibody Testing. Stanford researchers have already launched a small study aims at people who may have already become infected with covid 169 but never got sick because their bodies successfully fought oft virus. That study is now expanding and at ucsf in the city a similar study is about to launch. At stanford universitying Clinical Labs robots are being used in blood testing for coronavirus antibodies. Liquid handling robots who need to be set up and they can just run it. Were trying to increase the number of those systems we have in place to deal with more samples. This kind of test was created from scratch at stanford in part because of the early shortage of test kits. An added boengs they say this test is very accurate. The bay areas aeshly decision to issue shelter at home orders has been a big help for researchers. That has given a a good position to try to bring up testing not have to deal with overloaded hospitals at the same time. Reporter a plan to roll out Antibody Testing is also in the works. In the meantime theyve expanded testing for patients coming to their hospitals for other procedures regardless of symptoms. They come to the hospital theyre in a special place because there are a lot of patients who are sick. You dont want to have them exposed to covid19. In the streets of San Francisco an daysal public testing site expanded today. Each sign of testing is encouraging news as Public Health officials consider when they can begin relaxing shelter in place orders. Sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Some notes from the white house. President trump says the u. S. Is past the peak of the outbreak, up next reopening the economy. May 1st is the president s target date for several states. Not necessarily us here in california but several other states. The plan says child care facilities and schools will be among the first to reopen so parents can get back to work. Well also be speaking to americas governors tomorrow and then well be announcing exactly whats happening. Well be opening up states, some states much sooner than others. We think some of the states can actually open up before the deadline of may 1st. Thats just a couple of weeks. Also today millions of americans received direct deposit stimulus payments from the federal government. You dont need to sign up, remember, these are automatic payments based on your tax returns from 2018 and 2019. And for those receiving checks in the mail president trumps name will be printed on them, which is prompting some controversy. Heres a look at the latest numbers across the bay area. San mateo has 767 cases. 7 new deaths. Bringing the told deaths to 28. Contra costa county has 615 cases. Santa clara still continues to be the county with the most cases. Statewide, though, yesterday turned out to be the deadliest day in california. 821 people died from the virus. And there are now more than 24,000 reported cases statewide. New at 11 00, big changes in santa cruz county. Tomorrow the beaches will reopen. And in two weeks theyre anticipating some people can start going back to work. This might give us some insight as to what to expect here in the bay area counties. Ian cull. Reporter for nearly a week the beaches in santa cruz have been empty, the waves untouched, to prevent the virus spread and overcrowding on the coast. Oldtimers tell me this is the way it used to be, nice and quiet. Reporter tomorrow they reopen. Along with parks and the wharf. Though most parking lots are still closed. Local surfers say the change is both good and bad. The weather warming up, people just going to start flocking over here and its going to create a lot of issues. People are really worried this weekend that theres going to be a complete invasion. Reporter the county is also considering peeling back some of its stay at home restr h among the lowest confirmed case numbers in the state. Were seeing a very flattened curve in santa cruz county, which makes me feel optimistic. Reporter if the progress continues, it may allow outdoor construction, golf, landscaping, and gatherings of 10 or fewer people with social distancing. Its really hard on the kids. I mean, for them to at least be able to sit in a park six feet in a park six feet apart from their friends would do a for their mental health. Reporter the county says its working with bay area jurisdictions to have unity on a new health order. For now officials remind we should recreate in our own towns. Surfers hope crowds wont come and wipe out the progress thats reopening the ocean. Lets just take it easy. Lets not get crazy. Stay home and let this virus pass. The beaches and the ocean and the mountains and everything will be here when its all done. Reporter in newsom alluded to no concerts, big wedding receptions or sporting events through the summer. Now Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says he doesnt anticipate large gatherings in los angeles until 2021. Nobody was looking forward more to an l. A. Nba champion or world Series Winner than me. But lets be clear, right now there are no small gatherings and getting back to medium and large gatherings will take time. Mayor says until theres a vaccine or a pharmaceutical invention large gatherings just cant happen. The Navy Commander from santa rosa who was recently fired could be reinstated. The New York Times is reporting the navy is reviewing findings of an investigation into the events surrounding the removal of captain brett crozier. He was the he was in command of the uss roosevelt. Earlier this month he was removed from the post after he wrote a letter to the military leadership asking for help following covid19 outbreak on the ship. That letter was leaked to the media. President trump criticized him for writing the letter. 615 crew members havepositive, himself. One person has died. Our Investigative Unit has learned the Alameda County District Attorney is investigating the Gateway Care Center in hayward. This is a nursing home. 67 66 people have tested positive. 11 patients have died. State records show this home has had problems meeting staffing requirements. Now families are worried about the standard of care and ppe supplies. The owners have yet to comment on the investigation. Weve also learned that a similar facility near gateway also in hayward has an outbreak, possibly because of shared Staff Members. Well, as you know, millions of californians are facing financial ruin as a result of the economic collapse caused by the coronavirus. And a lot of people are turning to the federal and State Government to bail them out. Trillions of dollars are on the way. But the question is when it get here in time to save all those businesses . Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney has more from San Francisco, where so many people are hurting. Reporter giorgios pizzeria in San Franciscos Richmond District has been here on clement street since 1978. Were day by day right now. Were hanging in there. But definitely the loan would help a lot. Reporter owner robert contini has applied for federal money to the 350 billion payroll protection program, or ppp. Like so many Small Business owners, hes waiting. Nervously. I think we submitted our application last friday and we havent really heard anything from them yet. So its a little like i dont know whats going to happen. A little frustrating. Reporter nii solis is taking home giorgios pizza dough, but hes still waiting for the dough from his 1200 covid stimulus check. He hasnt seen it yet. Personally i have not. I also i dont think i know anyone who has. Reporter the fed approved 300 billion for the stimulus. It pays 1200 to people who made 75,000 or less last year. 2400 to couples making 150,000 or less. Yuko gnawman found the money direct deposited in her account this morning. I asked how are you going to spend it, yuko . Pay taxes. Reporter or maybe something a bit more fun. Id like to say im going to hawaii, but its not going to happen. For a while anyways. Yeah. Reporter californians also receiving unemployment checks. 335 million in payments went out on sunday alone. Theres another 600 in there per person, compliments of the federal government. The next round of checks will go out to 2 million additional unemployed. To deal with the increase in unemployment, Governor Newsom today announce the Employment Development Department Hotline number is going to be staffed from 8 00 in the morning until 8 00 p. M. Seven daes a week. And that starts on monday. In San Francisco Terry Mcsweeney, nbc bay area news p. Terry, thank you. A groundbreaking decision. California will give money to undocumented workers. Theyre not able to get any federal help. The governor announcing today california is the first state to do this. The checks will be for up to 1,000 per family. South bay immigrant advocates praising this move. It will be to pay partially rent or definitely for food, and so we do welcome this great news. The governor says 10 of the states workers are undocumented. He said about 150,000 people will get a check distributed through a local nonprofit. We are on until midnight. Ahead, not Wearing Masks and not taking social distancing seriously. The extreme step a local Restaurant Owner took to try and protect her staff. Also, will we be socially distancing until 2022 . What our home life and work life might look like. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. After some 80s today Colder Weather and the chance of rain on the way. Ill detail it for you coming up in seven minutes. Ing. A 10yearold girl who went missing. The girl has autism. She was last wearing black leggings, a pink shirt, and no shoes. She had a braid and a purple skrun chi. If anyone has seen her or knows anything about her wearabouts youre asked to call redwood city police. Are we getting a little lax . Nearly a month into our shaelter at home order some people are worried that their friends, neighbors, even clients just arent taking the threat of the coronavirus seriously. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more if San Francisco where people are asking for help while others say theyre just shutting down. Reporter the owners of cassava restaurant say they had a good takeout business going but they made the tough decision this week to close up to protect employees and send a message. We were concerned how relaxed people were. So i felt that it was more dangerous. Reporter the owners of cassava made the tough decision to stop Takeout Service this week and close. A statement to customers mentioned the fact that many san franciscans are not covering their faces puts our staff and our community at risk. They also dont want to be the reason people are going out and hope the boarded up restaurant will remind people the Coronavirus Health threat is not over. I also wanted to send a message this is not time to relax. Reporter along the marina green efforts to social distance seem to be relaxing. Exercise paths are crowded. Ive got to wear a mask when im out because its safe. Reporter 77yearold gale goldeen is wearing a mass whk shes out on her bike or walking. Shes fed up with runners who arent. Here comes one right here. Its terrible. Reporter goldine says she hasnt asked anyone to cover up but she has asked for space and it didnt go well. When i walk, they run by very fast, you know, really close to me. D them, stay farther away. And he said, go home. Reporter shes hoping for help from law enforcement. We did see park rangers out at dolores park reminding people to social distance. Sfpd says it has cited four people and five businesses for violating the shelter at home health order. Covering your nose and mouth is recommended but not required here in San Francisco. And back here at cassava the owners of the restaurant say they plan to continue paying their 17 employees with money from a go fund me campaign, loans from the city and the feds. They want their employees and everyone else to stay home. In San Francisco jean elle, nbc bay area news. Jean, thank you. A difficult task is about to begin in the city. Its called Contact Tracing and it involves tracking everyone who tests positive and everyone they had contact with. The goal is to find and isolate newly infected patients before they can spread the virus. To get it done the Health Department is working with ucsf. It will put in and train it will pull in and train every available researcher, librarian, and staffer that they can work to work as tracers. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine or to basically give them the relief that they are not infected. The tracer training is already ramping up. The governor has said this kind of tracking will be critical to getting the state back to work. Well, weve been warned. Governor newsom says it will take months. Researchers at harvard suggest it might take years. We could be socially distance ing in the 2022. What will that look like . Heres nbc bay areas melissa colorado. Thermometers are very difficult to get. The hand sanitizer, i cant get it right now. Reporter a thickstoryfront glass separated us from talking to oakland pharmacist andrew byers. No customers are going in and neither are we. Ever since a stayathome order went into effect byers says his pharmacy has been footing the cost for delivering medication to his customers homes. The stimulus package that has been offered to us has not come out to us yet. So were just absorbing as much as we can as long as we can. Reporter which raises the question, how long will we have to live like this . I know this is really hard to hear. Were never going back. We have to realize that nothing will ever be the same. This is like a world war. Reporter bioethics professor jody halperin with uc berkeley says if we loosen the social distancing rules expect covid19 to resurface with a vengeance. Opening soon will not save the economy because we will have a resurgence. It will harm the economy more in the long run. Reporter halpern points to this harvard study published on tuesday. Researchers said without a vaccine social distancing until at least 2022 is the only way to keep the coronavirus at bay. Also worrisome, researchers warn that even if the virus appears to have been wiped out by then it could reappear in full force by 2024. Right now weve tested 1 of people in the united states. So a lot of the failure here is a failure of human action and resources to get the testing where it needs to be. Reporter in oakland melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Okay. Birthday parades are the new thing, but one parade in antioch extravagant, extra special. Even the Contra Costa County Fire Department came out to wish abigail yamaguchi a happy 19th birthday. Shes battling brain cancer and she has a compromised immune system. Friends, church members, First Responders all showed up making signs and dropping off presents. Abby says shes very touched by the response. We were actually talking about it like as they were coming around i was like oh, it would be cool if we saw our friends who work on the ambulances and one of them popped out of the door. And it was really cool. We wish abi the best. Her mom thanks everyone for staying home during the crisis. She says abi is one of those highrisk people so its important that we all keep our distance from people like that. Even a present being delivered right to the driveway. I know. Thats really sweet. How sweet is that . Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. I know were not really keeping track of the days anymore, but were heading toward the weekend, jeff. I know. And today for the first time in a long time i was like i cant wait for the weekend. I think because this thing at home, its starting to become habit. So im looking forward to putting things away, the computers away for a little bit this weekend and just taking a little time for myself. I know some of you working from home are doing the home schooling, thinking the same thing. Lets bring you to that live High Definition camera right now. In the south bay we have a little haze after that warm weather today where we did have some low 80s. Look at these temperatures. Got up to 81 in san jose. The lowest was in concord at 82 degrees. Redwood city also 78 and hercules with 78. Now, tomorrow i do see things beginning to cool off a little bit. We have a system near the coastline. And thats going to help to bring back some clouds for the morning and 50s. By the afternoon instead of plain old sunny skies were going to switch it up and have some partly cloudy skies. The cloud cover thats going to help Cool Temperatures off. Instead of low 80s were backing it down to the mid and a few upper 70s inland. 77 in clearlake, napa 74. Livermore 74. And instead of low 80s in san jose youll be back down to 73. Lets get a closer fix of that cloud cover because thats going to be the real sharp change for us tomorrow morning. And youll see it will be most numerous through San Francisco. The bay, contra costa, alameda counties. And some low clouds for the north bay. Maybe not as much for the south bay. But definitely going to look different to you outside tomorrow afternoon. And through 2 00 well see some high clouds spilling over the bay area. Heres the deal. We are looking at a new change to the forecast. I wanted to make you aware of this. That a system to the south by friday morning could bring up a few spotty showers. Coming up in 25 minutes ill take a closer look at this friday chance and also this late sunday into monday shower chance. So ill see you in 25 minutes and well go over all those shower chances. And yes, well get you ready for the weekend. Kind of feels like the weekends coming our way, right . For you all the time since youre home. You get so thrown off. No, it does not. I will tell you you bring up a good point. Theres a lot to do at home, especially if youre home schooling as well. Thanks, jeff. Happy to be working but yes. Well, sheltering at home. How about jimmy g. Style . Where we saw the 49ers quarterback. Happening now, fire crews are at a house fire in south san jose at curry and manila not far from bern hoelt middle school. A mother, father, and two kids inside at the time. Were told they made it out safely. No word on what started it. But we are back with more news after this. You may not be thinking about blood donation, but blood is needed to save the lives of people who are sick with a range of illnesses. Its easy and safe to give. If you are in good health, please donate. We need heroes now. Visit red cross blood dot org to schedule an appointment. Okay. This is interesting. Major League Baseball players and Staff Members are now taking part in a covid19 study. Yeah, the athletics first reported that 27 teams including the as and giants are taking part in a study thats looking for antibodies. Its conducted by stanford researchers and it tests for a blood protein that the body creates in response to the virus. Now, players, families, coaches, staff, even the concession workers and ushers are among those participating. In all, jessica, 10,000 volunteers signed up. 375 people from the Giants Organization were part of the study. Stanford expects to have the results by next week and then somehow read that data to help with trying to figure out a vaccine or other antibody tests for covid19. Well, you never know who youre going to see walking in the neighborhood nowadays, or in this case throwing footballs in the neighborhood. Heres one you might like. Thats jimmy g. , looking good even during a shelter at home. The 49ers quarterback doing a little workout at my sons elementary school. Dont saying hey, we know that. He was friendly and posed for some pics with the kids but of course from a safe distance. He looks good, jess. Okay. He does not look good like hes packed on the covid 19 like the rest of us. No, he doesnt. Coming up in our second half hour, not going to football games, baseball games, no concerts until 2021. L. A. s mayor says that is a possibility. The people who would hurt the most if that happens in the bay area as well. 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. Ill turn you all byinto rock zombies. Ld tour rock and roll [ screaming ] if were gonna save the world, we need to unite all the trolls. Like k pop. Reggaeton. Yodelin. And hip hop. My whole bodys made of glitter and ill throw it in your face well, were doomed. A smooth jazz troll . I dont care for smooth jazz. The World Premiere is now in your home. Go to watchtrolls. Com for more. Rated pg. Right now at 11 00, a stunning statement from l. A. s mayor, one that definitely caught the bay areas attention. Large gatherings like sporting events and concerts could be on hold until 2021. All i know is while we dont know the date when those things will return i know that they will be sooner the more that we take these actions. Those actions that mayor Eric Garcetti is referring to include testing and maintaining our social distancing. Are you stunned by it . Well, it could be devastating for people who make their living being part of large venues. Thats a lot of people. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd spoke to people here in the bay area who wouldnt be able to survive financially if our local stadiums and concert venues remain empty until next year. Reporter paul is a professional lighting designer in the bay area and says he and his wife havent worked for over a month. Shes a production coordinator. So we both saw that faucet shut completely off