This crisis headon and to address the needs of our most vulnerable on the streets and the sidewalks 50 Million Dollars on top of that for hotel motel conversions and heres the thinking. Were running models and ill just give you. One of those models for the purpose of full transparency over the next 8 week period. We have modeled then of the 108,000 unsheltered californians that are out on the streets. If you had an attack rate. Of about 56 . Youre looking at 60 plus 1000 individuals that may. Have covid 19 that creates a deep. Point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our Health Care Delivery system our capacity to move people in and out of the shelter safely without contacting other people in putting them at risk as well. So become good because governor Gavin Newsome expect 60,000 Homeless People to contract the coronavirus in the next 8 weeks. He is also preparing more than 1300 trailers that he just bought today and will install them across the state live in the newsroom. Allison them only on kron 4 news. Thank you ellen governor newsome also make the decision today to cancel statewide standardized testing this year students and parents have ns during this already anxious time that decision comes after yesterdays announcement. The governor said it is unlikely that schools in california will reopen before the fall, hows that for a reality check today we asked the state superintendent of schools, what it will take for students to in fact return to classrooms this spring. We do not know. How long this may be but we are always monitoring, were always listening to our Public Health officials. We do know is that the school being closed one of the best way we can flatten the 3rd as it relates to reducing the spread of the coronavirus but we also know is that we have a way to continue educating our kids in california just as lining in the custody in the California Department of education is working very closely with 1000 to help provided information to ensure its been so good in that case. Everybody kind of learning on the fly here part of the plan to ensure students still get an education while at home. Included a weather in our that was held today explaining Distance Learning to some 6,000 state educators down a worst Case Scenario schools shut down by the coronavirus might not open until fall. Each district is reacting to that possibility differently San Francisco unified says for now it still plans to reopen after 3 weeks while pittsburg unified has pushed its reopening date back to monday april 20th. Our first rob fladeboe has reaction now from the superintendent of one of the largest High School Districts in the south bay. With the all too real scenario that the coronavirus outbreak could linger into summer. Its looking like closing schools for 3 weeks may not be enough to help stop further spread of the virus. Governor newsome on tuesday said its unlikely that if any would reopen before the summer break. Such a scenario would be struggling or disadvantaged students and could impact standardized testing in Summer Learning programs i spoke with san joses east Side Union HighSchool District superintendent chris funk via face but school year. She. Year so that are decisions hes school year a nation is was a college or going to do with their regular schedule testing a the first 2 weeks of days. First a uh its the need to push these test back june or july sheet chests. It is industry just booking a profit or the best interest of our students. Nations schools close and chain closed fair for her students to have to take those same the years a lot in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Our lifestyles necessarily just hot. We were all young once but these Florida Spring breakers are defending their decision to going party during a pandemic this is video of cocoa beach. Earlier today, a lot wrong there and this comes as the cdc found that more younger people are being treated for the virus. Doctor deborah bricks, a leader of the trump administrations Coronavirus Task force cited a study during todays white house briefing. There are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the icy use. We think part of this may be that people heeded the early data coming out of china and coming out of south korea that the elderly are those with preexisting medical conditions were at particular risk. It may have been that the millennial generation our largest generation, our future that will carry us through for the next multiple decades. There may be disproportional number of infections among that group. And so even if its a rare occurrence in may be seen more frequently in that group. And the cdc report, 20 of the hospitalized patients and 12 of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 2044. Basically spanning the millennial generation. Now but its wanna counties are now issuing a shelter at home order in solano that order is Effective Immediately while napa as shelter at home begins friday at midnight in both counties. The order will remain in place through at least april 7th, the shelter at home order its much like the shelterinplace order. It mandates that people stay at home except for essential trips, including activities like youre running errands going to the Grocery Store getting medical help. You can still go outside as long as he stick to the social distancing requirement. If you are a worker at an essential business you can still go to work that includes businesses like Grocery Stores Convenience Stores news operations laundromat and banks theres a complete list of essential businesses on our website kron 4 dot com this order of course is mandatory and they say if you refuse to comply, you could be charged with a misdemeanor. And weve been hearing the phrase social distancing and will continue to do so and the days in the weeks to come the term it means you know avoiding. Close contact with people to prevent catching covid 19 our kron fours gayle ong spoke to dockters from ucsf about what each of us can do to slow down the coronavirus outbreak. Doctors want people to understand that social distancing is a strategy to fight coronavirus not an overreaction to the pandemic understand these are extraordinary times and we have to take extraordinary measures to protect the population doctor George Rutherford is an epidemiology and biostatistics professor at u c s f. He says its all about understanding how this virus is spreading. Human to human and touching surfaces that humans recently touched and people showing no signs of coronavirus at all can be contagious. We found. First a decent china has a lot of mission. The people are transmitting have theyre very minimal symptoms or no symptoms at all. Its the new normal for the bay area and beyond residents ordered to stay at home with for 3 weeks essential Services LikeGrocery Stores pharmacies banks and gas stations are staying open despite a shelterinplace order people in alameda where out its allowed but recommended to stay 6 feet away from each other children seen here are too close. According to cdc guidelines and hear people appearing to be together doctors say that is ok obviously if youre with your spouse, youre to see all the time very parker just tell the time of year, same bed every night. Doesnt make a lot of difference when youre outside Walking Around a tree with your kids. The church state letting us now so probably doesnt make a lot of different steps. Its from that doctor Jeffrey Martin is also an epidemiology professor at u c s f. He says social distancing right now is the most important factor to control the covid 19 outbreak and the fewer young people who become infected lowers the rate to infect the older population, the most vulnerable to the disease whats in it for younger person. Not so much to protect yourself. Because of what its going to do to you but to the extent that you may spread the virus to. Doctor martin expects to see more cases and the next 7 to 14 days from transmission that occurred in the last 2 weeks prior to this intense social distancing. The best thing to do is follow the guidelines of local and National Authorities and to limit the number of new context. Gayle ong kron 4 news. While many restaurants are closed in San Francisco, another bay area locations, their employees are out of work but some of these owners are still offering to help people on the front lines of the pandemic fight. One local chef and his staff, theyre preparing meals for the ares in 3 San Francisco hospitals and as kron fours Taylor Bisacky reports now theyre not alone. I can tell is to take care of people theyre taking care of people. So we have to take care of the people or things or people chef and owner of cuts come in San FranciscoChris Constantino says. Now is the time to help others, especially those fighting the coronavirus on the front lines on tuesday, he and his staff of the cox come prepared with 125 meals for Emergency Rooms across 3 hospitals in San Francisco has said general ucsf and parnassus and ucsf benioff Childrens Hospital kind of turned into a go sunday situation. So hes. Really just covering the cost of the food for the restaurants just basic cause. Theres no profit involved to me and its getting good quality food to doctors and nurses that are treating. Patients of all kinds whether its somebody you may think they have covid 19 or someone being entered in the emergency room because they cut themselves for the down. And there right now and they just the doesnt he know says. An organizer reached out to coordinate deliveries between the restaurants and hospitals on a donation basis. Now he says other chefs in the city are getting involved to make a regular rotation of providing meals to the e ares jim altar of neighboring restaurant, shell be same properties. So she be delivering tonight. And its going to start continuously going to restaurants restaurant taking care of these. These folks in the hospital owners and staff pitching in after their restaurant suffered losses and were then forced to close or offer takeout only we all need to help we only return. Our restaurant is officially closed we have left. Jurors came yesterday. We have you know from the kitchen and the front of the house as well as my wife came down to help reduce and as we. There we have it hoping theyll be able to take care of their own once again when the bands are lifted. In San Francisco taylor kron 4 news. San jose mayor sam liccardo announced a new initiative to try to help people in need during this pandemic mayor liccardo was joined by other mayors pastors and Business Leaders at the Second Harvest food bank of Silicon Valley today. The city is asking people to donate money on a website Silicon Valley, strong dot com to help senior citizens, disadvantaged kids and other people struggling from food insecurity. And we know at a time like this when so many are struggling. We need to do more to ensure that all in our community have access to food through this crisis. Officials say the program is also accepting donations too. The new san jose strong program, those funds will be used to support low income residents and Small Businesses in the city that are being affected most by the outbreak in the bay areas shelter at home order. Fighters in the city of alameda are back to work after being quarantined 8 in total were exposed to the coronavirus and were quarantined but have recovered the remaining 2 though. Well be back on duty soon. Our first michelle kingston reports. The city of alameda fire fire tested positive for coronavirus earlier this month due to privacy laws. We do not know the firefighters age gender or how they got the virus but we do know 8 other firefighters were placed into quarantine after being exposed of those 8 firefighters 6 of them are cleared to return to work on wednesday. The remaining 2 firefighters as have pending clearances and ill return to duty within one week alameda mayor maryland as the ash crafts as the quarantine said not disrupted Emergency Services on the island to well these firefighters from foreign teen they on Fire Department remain fully step out and sure it by our fire chief for we forcefully just had class a new firefighters graduate and start working at that level them just week or so ago. So community and the fire stations remain in okay the Fire Department remain fully and were very grateful for that the 8 firefighters were identified as having possible exposure to the firefighter who tested positive earlier this month at this time, the mayor says that that firefighters, the only person within the department to have been tested this is these are people who ran toward danger, a wrench war. Of the flames and they are trained to respond in emergencies. All kinds of emergencies and they they are very strong in the in their resolve to just keep going in do what they need to do to protect the community. The firefighters are taking extra precautions at this time. Wearing gloves goggles masks in downs depending on the call and chris when they gonna call. They practice of the safety protocols and im so they that that is continuing in place as it has been in alameda michelle kingston kron 4 news at which it appeared or 4 zone forecast we get a live look right now from our sutro camera looking downtown San Francisco in the night of winter. Hard to believe there goes winter and there is San Francisco still all lit up. But my oh my what a different city what a different vibe, a whole different bay area and probably soon countrys chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us a lawrence these are strange times, yeah certainly you know winter coming and going barely knew you at all and not much in the way of rain but a lot of folks just kind of hunkering down now like they should and why not got a very serious epidemic and a problem out there right now but we also have some scattered showers continuing to roll around the bay area tonight, nothing too heavy just some remnants really of the low that has been spinning around releases the weekend the scene outside right now nothing really heavy but weve got some snow over parts of the bay area right in the south bay you can see the showers coming down in and around san jose toward milpitas and fremont continue to see some raindrops. Youre seeing some snow will Mount Hamilton a palo alto looking some scattered showers the same with livermore and a dry things out a little bit of a more rain moving in the concord napa blair youre seeing some scattered showers there too and they began lining up in the north bay but overnight tonight you see a decreasing showers and patchy fog going to be developing late night, some of the interior valleys, some of that ground fog tomorrow, partly cloudy but mostly dry for that first day of spring, partly cloudy for the weekend and then well get back to some rain and some wintry weather as we get back in the sunday and monday of next week. Temperatures are going to be chilly the skies still a covered with clouds right now but as the clouds being a break up tonight these temperatures really going to start to drop off still getting chilly in spots down the 40s in many parts of the bay area right now and certainly some much Colder Weather on the way tonight. High pressure want to try and sneak in here of course these are is a low pressure has kept things pretty since the weekend theyve just been kind of spin around finally this was going to call the way down to Southern California. Take the raindrops with it to all the way down in los angeles for tomorrow, but the bay area for the most part you see some pop up clouds some cumulus clouds over the mount hospital of them and i think we dry things out at least for a day temperature still remaining cool, but slightly warmer highs are going to be in the 50s and the 60s all around. Theyre getting a real handle on this pandemic will mean a dramatic increase in testing drivethru testing is actually under way at one of kaisers, San Francisco locations once a kaiser patients are evaluated by physicians that have a doctors order for a test appointment may can drive up and get their mouth swab all while sitting in their car. Patients then return home and isolate themselves and tell the results are in kaiser will not say just how many of these drive up sites are actually operational here in the bay area but earlier this week, stanford healthcare announced drivethru testing it expressed cares. Hoover pavilion location in palo alto. As this crisis gets worse the reality of the economic downfall is really sinking in the dow closed below 20,000 for the first time today in 3 years and even though grocery chains and Companies Like amazon are hiring right now. It has many wondering what they should be doing to protect themselves. I first of all bello has more. This was very unforeseen, although i kind of had a thought that might happen so i started working on our. What if strategy about 2 weeks ago trying to stay ahead of the curve prairie Restaurant OwnerAnthony Strong has tweaked his operations by turning his Mission District restaurant into a general store we dont sell anything my weight or measure you we just selling call items in bulk basically theyre selling everything from Fresh Produce 2 coffee and toilet paper and we 40 cases we have 4,000 rolls because its a nod to his great grandparents who ran a general store following the great depression. But it also gives those who work for him and the vendors he works with some sort of you know, dont even know if its working at all yet. I know were getting people food and i know were keeping our lights on what were going to have his eyes we can financial analysts say those stimulus is on the way its Small Business owners like strong will likely have to consider layoffs and cutting costs where they can. Same goes for the average american a lot closer to a lot of maybe a little extra cash. Thats a great shame Financial Experts like rob black say you should focus on your needs instead of your wants and not make any irrational decisions right now. If you have a 4 one k and are still employed now is the time to fully participate if youre a good worker analyze those mandatory costs and limit your spending for those with portfolios dont pull out of the market. Instead understand what you own and make sure youre not fully invested in one sector or down last one month to one month ago, looked like a genius for invested. Got a little more diversification experts say what we can control is staying inside so take the time now to prepare for recovery want to get out of this probably 6 to 18 months back to the sad part about it start camps are kids camps. The details of that trilliondollar plus bailout in San Francisco noel bellow kron 4 news. The virus continues to spread there are now more than 400 cases in the bay area Santa Clara County remains the local hot spot. 175 confirmed cases there a 6th person in that county man in his 60s has died from the virus. The only other barry county with the reported death is san mateo county. One person died there. And the numbers are everevolving you can find the latest on our website kron 4 dot com and tonight around the world more than 8,800 people have died from the coronavirus that is. With more than 218,000 cases reported globally there are more than 9,300 cases here in the us with the death toll up to 150 in california. The total number of cases is up to 865 with 16 deaths developments in the coronavirus pandemic or of course rapidly changing but you can track the latest 24 hours a day. 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Common side effects include headache and tiredness. Ask your doctor today, if epclusa is your kind of cure. Cannabis dispensaries in parts of california are keeping their doors open as the state deals with the coronavirus pandemic yesterday mayor london breed announced dispensaries in the city will remain open. The american pair the dispensaries to pharmacies saying cannabis has medical uses that people rely on. Other counties have announced well bars and clubs must close during the outbreak Retail Stores can remain open. And in those counties cannabis dispensaries count as a retail establishment. Delta needs to hit the pause button due to the coronavirus outbreak. Those words coming from the delta ceo in a memo to employees today. Delta is now making even further cuts to service reducing 70 of its capacity. The airline said its parking half of its fleet. And executives are taking pay cuts. The ceo says roughly 10,000 employees have offered to take voluntary leaves of absence. The company is also closing the majority of its sky clubs for business travelers. There was no mention of layoffs but the memo did not rule out that possibility. Up next President Trump doubling down on his defense of why he continues to call the coronavirus that quote chinese virus. But supporters have to say about that rhetoric and to congressman have tested positive for the californians who suddenly find themselves unemployed because of this Health Crisis there is help out there. Our kron fours Haaziq Madyun gives us a look at californias Employment Development website with information you may find useful. The state of california Employment Development departments website now has a section dedicated for people who are no longer working because of the impact the coronavirus is having businesses throughout the state including jobs here the bay area according to the website those who are unable to work due to be exposed or testing positive for call that 19 can file a disability claim, however, your condition must be certified by a medical doctor we spoke by phone with Employment DevelopmentDepartment Spokesperson loree levy these are wage replacement programs. Designed to replace a portion of the wages youre losing through no fault of the around and the amount that you could receive is based on what kind of earnings youve had over the last 8. 12 to 18 months if you are a caregiver with that ill or quarantine Family Member the website has information on how to finally paid family leave claim providing up to 6 weeks of benefit payments for those who qualify employees with reduced hours or workers whose jobs could politely shut down due to call that 19 theyll find information on how to file an unemployment claim. Eligible individuals can receive benefits ranging from 40 to 450 per week now we should also note that california governor Gavin Newsome recently signed an executive order waiving the oneweek waiting period for Unemployment Benefits with the governors and waiting at the oneweek waiting period. At least when youre found eligible, we would be able to pay benefits. For that first week youre unemployed, rather than normally having that first week serve as an unpaid week. For more information logarithm on to the California Department of Employment Development website scroll down to the league for called it 90 haaziq kron 4 news President Trump says he has signed the Coronavirus Response bill the bill includes many provisions. Including free testing for covid 19 and paid emergency leave as for the Coronavirus Relief measure. It will allow for 2 weeks of paid sick leave if a person is tested. And treated for coronavirus. Today President Trump continued to call covid 19 the quote chinese virus and he said he doesnt think theres anything wrong with that sie using that term which really started a few days ago, many people have criticized the decision to do so critics saying stigmatizes china and Asian Americans they say its racist to use that language when confronted today about the matter mister trump defended himself. Its racist at all no matter of it comes from china. Commission chair for the great love for all of the people from my country but. As you know china tried to say one point maybe this stuff down that it was caused by american soldiers that can happen. Its not going to happen that as long as im president comes from china. Republican senator ted cruz is also weighing in on the president s republican supporters seem to be backing him here senator Lindsey Graham is also blaming china for the outbreak telling reporters that he believes the Chinese Government suppress information that would have helped the world. A lot of people agree with that and another defender of the president texas republican senator john cornyn said today that there is quote no coincidence that contagion as such as the coronavirus start in china. Thats where it came from. I think china is to blame because the culture where people eat batch. Snakes. Homes and things like that these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and thats why china has been the source of a lot of these viruses like mers the swine flu. And now the coronavirus. Fellow republican senator ted cruz who by the way has been quarantining after coming into contact with someone infected. Hes under fire for using similar rhetoric on a podcast he called the covid 19 virus. The quote virus that was earlier this month. Congress is seeing its first 2 cases of coronavirus the first announcement today came from republican florida representative Mario Diazbalart he announced on twitter today that he has tested positive. His office says that he developed a fever and a headache saturday night but is now feeling much better diazbalart began self quarantining in washington on march 13th, according to his statement and utah democrat representative ben mcadams announced on twitter tonight that he has tested positive. He says he will continue working from home and tell it safe to end his self quarantine. Well assess his president ial campaign after the vermont senators for showing. Yesterday and those democratic primaries in a statement is Campaign Manager said. Sanders will have conversations with his supporters but that in the meantime. Sanders is focused on the governments response to the coronavirus outbreak in despite the virus, voters still in most states turned out law yesterday 3 states and those voters delivered big wins for joe biden the former Vice President s sweeping yesterdays primaries. Hes now projected to take florida arizona and illinois the winds give biden a considerable boost in the delegate count. As he battles, Bernie Sanders for the democratic nomination mary maloney is in washington with more. Joe biden continued his super tuesday streak picking up delegates. We move closer to securing the democratic partys nomination for president , but the elections in florida, illinois and arizona happened amid the coronavirus pandemic like to live life of love by that target category for the virus. I was worried about looking. But then i thought who cares right this is more important. In a stunning turn of events late monday just hours before polls were set to open the state of ohio announced it was closing all polling sites due to concerns over the coronavirus the order from the state Health Director after court rejected the governors plea to move the primary to june. Now residents in ohio will have to wait while state officials attempt to figure out whats next. There was no way that in good conscience we could or election and certainly. Im not a legitimate election given that we were telling a large portion of the ohio population that they should not come to the polls the drama in ohio is the latest chapter in a primary race up ended since the virus began spreading rapidly in the us, im speaking to you from my home in wilmington delaware as more states postpone their elections. The Democratic National committee wants to shift from in person voting. And transition to other methods like voting by mail all to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus early next time i will do it. Maybe no with a man. Here in. In washington, im mary moloney. Weve got partly cloudy skies still some showers around the bay area right now more to come well talk about that in a few minutes plus how tv icon Oprah Winfrey is responding to rumors that she was arrested this week. 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The lakers were the last team to play against brooklyn today, those players underwent tests and the results are not known but players on a 14 day self quarantine elsewhere in the League Members of the Oklahoma City thunder receive their results today all tested negative for covid 19 the thunder opted for tests after their exposure to the utah jazz last week a team that had 2 players test positive. The okc tests were conducted to a private lab. Nba commissioner, adam silver said today that a teams have been tested so far also in the sports world tonight as legend dave stewart announced on twitter tonight that he has tested for the virus. But the results have not come back yet. Some sad news today out of 49 ers headquarters as the man who was a coach on all 5 of their Super Bowl Championship Team has died at the age of 88 bill macpherson hired by bill walton his first year with the niners in 1979 and part of the franchise for 26 years passed away yesterday, one of the most respected teachers in the game he worked in multiple capacities on the 49 ers Coaching Staff linebackers coach defensive line defensive coordinator assistant head coach and defensive assistant until 1998 after he left coaching he stayed on as the teams director of pro personnel and as a personal consultant until 2005 that your son is survived by his wife elsie 5 children 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Todays edition of Free Agency News the raiders country continuing to bolster that defense. Reportedly signing cornerback eli apple to one year deal the 24 yearold drafted by the giants in 2016. But then traded to the scenes where he spent last season. The cover corner expected to help a unit that ranked youre dead last in pass defense in interceptions is the latest defensive addition, the silver black sign 2 linebackers earlier this week, including single rams star Cory Littleton also karl joseph will be joining the Cleveland Browns coming up on kron 4 sports attend more we made usaa insurance for members like kate. A former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. So when her car got hit, she didnt worry. She simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said. I got this. Usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it easy. She can even pick her payment plan so its easy on her budget and her life. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa francisco streets look here these days so they do but the vegas strip is about to have people doing double takes as. That is governor has ordered all casinos in that state to shutdowns that affects reno too but in vegas, you tire about a massive flashy buildings that are going dark marquis some of them have a message that says. Goodbye for now on them work a matter reports. You are being told not to go you are being told not to go out taking serious steps to stop the spread of covid 19 governor steve says the lack directing all nonessential businesses across nevada to shut down for 30 days, including casinos on the las vegas strip. And fremont street. At this time we must act aggressively and decisively to protect ourselves. Our families in our community several strip hotel and casinos already announced temporary closures including the venetian up a lot so when encore cosmopolitan and all mgm resorts properties now almost follow suit governor says a lack also requesting all restaurants, bars and pubs in. Nevada close by noon wednesday, unless they can provide their Service Using delivery or drive through the governor hopes companies are compassionate if they care about their own wellbeing if they care about the wellbeing of their loved ones. They will heed this advice. All essential services such as groceries pharmacies and gas station should remain open governor says a lack urging everyone to take these measures seriously we are strong. We are resilient we will get through this. That was our commander reporting for us tonight all closures including 4. The casinos on the strip are for 30 days after that time is up governor select says. Well then decide if they can reopen or if the closures need to be extended medical workers near seattle are taking a do it yourself approach to address the shortage of protective masks since standard masks are in really short supply Providence Health system started making their own. Officials say workers patch together face shield using marine grade vinyl industrial tape foam and elastic all the supplies came from home depot and a local craft store around renton washington about 20 administrative workers put together 500 of face shields this week. The next step is to ramp up that operation and the new gear will be used to providence hospitals all across the seattle area, Washington State of course has been one of the hardest hit with more than a 1000 cases and over 50 deaths. 4 zone forecast time as we take a peek outside get a live look at San Franciscos embarcadero on this wednesday night, couple vehicles out there, but not many and that is what we will be seeing vicki for the foreseeable future joining us now chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to talk about what we can look forward to in terms of the weather yeah, this last night a winter were seeing a few more showers around the bay area dry up toward the Golden Gate Bridge right now, but certainly some popup showers out there right now and more snow in the Sierra Nevada continuing to fall there as well. Adding to some very impressive total some places over 7 feet so one a ski resort 9 feet of snow since the weekend. You see that pop up showers developing around the bay area even now continue to see some light showers outside so yeah certainly Winter Weather hanging on as we get ready for the beginning of spring tomorrow in the high country weve got a Winter Weather advisory that continued until tomorrow expect another 5 inches of snow there hear the rest the bay area going to see those temperatures a little bit warmer by tomorrow afternoon with partly cloudy skies 50s in the San Francisco about 61 in oakland and also into san jose. All right lauren forecast for you here we go weve got the storm system rolling through right now thats going all the way to Southern California tomorrow that will allow us to start to clear out not entirely from the cloud you can still see some partly cloudy skies but at least it will be dry tomorrow. Then these 2 storms start to merge off the coastline and eventually approached the bay areas we get a lot of part of the weekend bringing another round of rain on sunday, a possibly in the money then a cold storm drop south the gulf of alaska to keep things going on tuesday with a lot more snow in the high country and then kind of storm after that right through the middle of the week then model start to diverge a little bit one of the models want to bring a chance of rain as we head in toward the following weekend to so still a very active weather pattern as we head into the first week of spring, partly cloudy skies dry for tomorrow and friday looks like a chance of showers again on sunday more rain maybe some thunderstorms next week all right lawrence meantime city officials in cocoa beach florida. Theyre trying to crack down on all the crowds at the beaches side during this coronavirus pandemic is what it looked like a little earlier today. As you can see a lot of people and they are not practicing social distancing a it is spring break there and you know what that means. Mayor ben malik says he doesnt want people coming to the beach in the crowd levels are way too high. According to cdc guidance levels cramp. Was struck by its most powerful earthquake in 28 years this morning. You see what happened a lot of damaged the 5. 7 magnitude quake rattled Salt Lake City cutting off power to 10s of thousands. And this is video of the aftermath of the quake was centered 10 miles west of Salt Lake City started about 7 oclock this morning local time their operations a utahs Public Health lab were halted as the building was assessed for damage. The States Coronavirus hotline went down after the quake. People there were holding on in their beds. Well as kind of like being on a roller coaster but youre laying in bed, it was expecting does my sisters alarm clock, a shiite has so much but it got worse and worse and joe i finally falling off my bed when i realized it was an earthquake. There are plenty of aftershocks today in the mayor of salt lake is warning. More are likely. So theyre tame a news for tonight, Oprah Winfrey was trending on social media today, but not for a good reason. Last night rumors began circulating that the 66 yearold talk show host and media mogul had been arrested for trafficking. Well winfrey took to twitter to dispel those rumors posted video. She denied reports that she was arrested at her home raided by law enforcement. Our pro winfrey telling her 43 million followers quote being trolled her some awful fake saying its not true. The next stop for Harvey Weinstein is reportedly a maximum security prison in upstate new york a state correctional official says the disgraced movie mogul has been assigned to the windy correctional facility, its just east of buffalo. Also houses john lennons murderer Mark David Chapman weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison last week for criminal act in rape involving 2 women. But he was then hospitalized for chest pains, the 67 yearold will stay windy until officials determine which facility is best suited to hold him. Up next you know selfisolating during this viral outbreak can get pretty lonely, especially if youre [sfx doorbell] hello, i saw you move in, and i wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood with some homemade biscuits oh, thats so nice and a little tip, geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. Hmm cookies uhh, biscuits. Mmmm, is there a little nutmeg in there . Oh its my mums secret recipe. You can tell me. Its a secret. Is it cinnamon . 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We went for out there to join us in whatever way that you can figure small everything makes a difference everything that we do together makes a difference and together we will conquer this tough 100 going through we will we have faith when encourage one of everyone else either keep the faith also practice social distancing super important. Yeah and the ran for you guys, thank everyone out there. A beautiful thing and of course Golden State Warriors star steph curry and his wife i should they did something similar this week, they teamed up with a local food bank to provide more than 1 million meals to students in oakland, who cant attend schools due to the coronavirus shut down its good on that battalion sir finding little moments of joy during these stressful times. Q couple here was a scene dancing scene there right through the window theyre under lockdown of course and people are gathered in what a scene their reality in italy is pretty grim the number of new cases of coronavirus is rising there at a rate of about 3500 or more every day. And the death toll has topped 2500 more than 60 Million People are living in a lockdown order the highest concentration of cases in that country is in northern italy. On elderly woman in ohio says yes she sure mrs. Going to concerts Movies Book Club meetings and lunches with their friends by her neighbor doesnt water to dwell on on being lonely so she invited her kids over for an impromptu porch concert with the cello is going on there. She is of course a safe distance away she listed an on as the kids performed with their chose doctor say even during this time of social distancing. We still need some form of human interaction. That wraps up kron 4 news at 9 and music is our primetime coverage continues at the top of the hour, pam moore and ken wayne will be back in just minutes on kron 4 news the other going to be talking about abrupt School Closures suddenly forcing students to learn from home and how that can have an effect on their mental health. And new at 10 with the state is doing in an effort to ease the transition. Smart is losing 10s of millions of dollars as it deals with an 87 drop in ridership the change the Transit Agency is making to its Service Starting tomorrow thats all just minutes away on kron 4 news at 10 and want to leave you here with a live look above San Francisco. City hall there lit up in green and red that is in solidarity with italy who is of course dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis there a little bit ahead of us and when we face adversity, we find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. 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