California advocates for nursing home reform says its difficult to get a handle on the problem without testing i think one reason we may not be saying that kind of language yet is because testing is so still so hard to get California PublicHealth Officials released the number of deaths of Nursing Homes earlier this week for the first time. The numbers show one 3rd of confirmed covid19 deaths have come from these facilities. The numbers, however, could actually be much higher really surprising. Actually how little we know how that many of those numbers actually are. Thursdays Nursing Homes announcement came as President Trump declared may Older Americans month. The president says the commission on safety for Nursing Homes will be meeting soon and issuing recommendations to further protect seniors. Reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. Life on the streets during this pandemic is especially dangerous for people who are homeless in alameda on the state has donated trailers to house them and hopefully continue to flatten the curve of in flint infections. Con forcefully to call reports. Sewage gas electricity, running water, a couch table and a bed more than some of us have ever had soon these 4 trailers parked at Alameda Point in alameda will provide shelter for up to 8 Homeless People out of time who up until now have avoided an infection from covid19 and keep people who are at risk. Covid19 virus, an opportunity to be safe Staff Members from the citys homeless programs Operation Dignity and Building Futures have identified the first group of people to move in to residents per trailer until there eventually transition into permanent housing others will then take their place only those 60 years of age or older with Underlying Health issues without covid19 symptoms will be allowed to live in the mobile home see folks in our community the folks are hopes that. You know we could have known then what the way is going to people are unemployed, this could be right so having that mindset in dealing with on scene i think you get a different perspective that taking care of each community. The city will provide daily meals and weekly Laundry ServicesHomeless Outreach team members will check in every day and a paramedic will conduct a Wellness Check on each person 4 days a week. Earlier this month, the state of california donated the trailers to alameda. They were used by fema in the past we really want to check out the trailer, so folks would to move in ready for now the city says theres enough funding to keep the trailers at Alameda Point for 9 months in alameda felipe should all kron 4 news. Starting on monday Face Coverings will be mandatory for all the tea, a writers bus and light rail operators will also be required to wear a face mask coverings. In some areas such as cupertino Face Coverings orders a Face Covering orders i should say have already been issued this is all a part of santa clara countys Health Officers extension, a shelterinplace order to make sure everybody is safe. The city of oakland will be adding an additional 5 miles of streets to theyre slow Streets Program take a look at this map which shows the streets that will be closed to support physical distancing under the shelterinplace orders. Parts of 16th street 34th avenue 59th street. Alice street colby street in wayne avenue will all be closed. The the slow Streets Program launched on april 11th. We have more details if you need to look over all that information once again on our website at kron 4 dot com. Of work and struggling to feed their families and there is now a growing demand to help local food banks try to provide for those families. The California National guard is helping Second Harvest food bank pack and distribute thousands of boxes of food and yeah for people across san mateo and santa clara counties, Holy Trinity Church in san jose is one of more than a 1000 Distribution Sites where theyre at hearing to physical distancing rules is only adding to that challenge. See for the month of april we think were going to distribute 9 Million Pounds of food before this it was about 5 and a half million per month. That kind of need is only going to continue. Among Second Harvest partners is Sacred Heart Community services where the number of food boxes going out the door every day is up from 400 to now 550 boxes and in Sonoma County demand at the Redwood Empire Food Bank is up 50 50 since the pandemic started and there is sometimes not enough food to meet the growing demand. In daly city congresswoman jackie spear helped hand out food at a food bank event that attracted thousands of people. Second Harvest Food Bank sponsor, the event at Jefferson High School cars were backed up for more than a mile with people waiting in line to get their goodies a year ago organizers saw about 800 families per month. Now get this. Its up to 9,000 people per month representative spear is asking that if anyone can help out that they should do what they can to help the needy. Its not the time to clean out your pantry and give them your. No leftover cancer go the Grocery Store and get those items. Today is the day that you should write a check and how all those in need who are less fortunate than you. The event at Jefferson High School is held every thursday and saturday. Grappling with some devastating news on the economy as some advisors to the president they are warning of unemployment numbers straight out of the great depression. Jim acosta reports. Okay thank you very much just area what is shaping up to be the worst us economy since the great depression, President Trump said he has a feel for what americans are going through i feel and i think sometimes what i feel is better than what i think i view what we have now is obviously a period of. In here we are just it is what it is. Its just a very tough situation for the people of our country. All the loss the death. Nearly 4 million americans filed unemployment claims last week making for a staggering 30 million over the last 6 Weeks White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the numbers havent been this bad since the great depression. The fact is that right now you know 30 Million People have while for unemployment insurance. The Unemployment Rate is probably up around 19 and those numbers are startling as anything weve seen since the great depression. The president has been lashing out at age in recent days over polls, showing voters may punish him in the fall for his handling of the coronavirus is offering only rosy assessments of his team and is it fair for the voters to take into consideration, your handling of the pandemic when they assess whether to reelect you in the fall. Sure i think they do i think they have to do a number of things i think weve done a really great job. I think we did a spectacular job mister trump is also trying to rewrite history insisting that he inherited what he calls broken task for the coronavirus from the obama administration, but thats not true covid19 didnt exist until just months ago they had broken test obsolete s use a broken tests. Its a new virus so how could the test be broken when you needed a new test can win broken tests, we have tests that were absolutely a test that could take your people the centers for Disease Control has drafted new guidelines for reopening the u. S. With recommendations that school space test 6 feet apart. Houses of worship limit large gatherings and restaurants wish to disposable menus and plates. The president said he will be overseeing a new effort to fast track millions of doses of a vaccine for the virus we have a you know as a judge with that honestly i am. Ill tell you im really a judge of that the administration is hoping to have that vaccine ready by the end of the year timeline doctor Anthony Fauci said maybe possible we want to go quickly. But we want to make sure its safe and its effective. I think that is doable that thats a big things for the right place. With the pandemic still raging President Trump is looking to punish china for its handling of the virus, including the possibility of imposing sanctions on beijing. President who has praised chinas transparency on the pandemic has changed his tune. As critics say hes trying to shift the blame we just got hit by a vicious virus that should have never been allowed to escape china, they should have stopped at the source. They didnt do that. And that was jim acosta reporting for us this morning. A California Healthcare Foundation says that at least 75 of u. S. Support the ongoing shelterinplace orders in our state. They say the artists should continue for as long as needed despite the impact on the economy referee 11 of people disagree with the shelterinplace orders to the end and that skis may disagree with it to end that was the finding across age income as well as race demographics among African American and Asian American californians, 86 support continuing to shelter in place. Coming up on the kron 00 04am morning Contact Tracing is being used to slow the spread and prevent further cases of covid19. Well explain. And heres a live look outside at the embarcadero you could see a little bit. The trees moving on the left side of your screen, but it should be no problems today, especially not getting and welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news we want to get a check of the weather with dave spahr who joins us live now from his home dave can you tell me about the pollen count is a really above normal because were all dying here in the studio i ive dying as well i havent looked at it lately but im dying as well maybe we might get some relief on saturday. There is a little chance of a sprinkle in not much but maybe that might be just enough to take some of that. Paul out of the air hopefully would be that nice tree maybe that we can have dreams course we do have the winds are work. They are on shore will was talking about this earlier and there are Climate Control now heres a look at we got to the bay bridge not a lot way of fog going on this morning. Temperatures across the region, mostly the 40s for the north bay and the peninsula for the most part of the San Francisco coming in at 51. And the east bay shoreline also into the 50s in the east bay 53 meanwhile down the san jose. Getting to those winds however they actually ticked downward a little bit early on that this afternoon, the kick back up again still remaining out of the onshore westerly flow pattern and get quite a with that theyre on the looks like Central Valley off to the east a little bit by late overnight into saturday morning up by this time were going to be having a collection of cloud cover and the little shot of rain starting to drop south lets get into your 4 zone forecast check out what your friday looks like 66 San Francisco in Mission District looks like along the peninsula coast 64 daly city pacifica at 6164 for half moon bay. To the northern end of the peninsula pretty much the middle to upper 60s like burning again, heading down to the south and the southern and we still have the 70s hanging on not as potent as they were before Mountain View 7370 to palo alto in redwood city and then for the south bay. Oh yes forget the 80s. Its now middle 70s for good chunk of real estate here 77 morgan hill, san jose 75 along the santa clara milpitas at 74. And the east bay shoreline to the south lower 70s, 74 for pleasanton and livermore 7572 personal dublin at 74. And look at the temperatures here we still have a difference between the inland areas in the upper 70s and along the east bay shoreline in the lower 70s but were getting a little closer together which we will do also on saturday particular with that little shot of rain 79 fairfield okay back of the others are one 80 okay, applause applause, 66 going on for the late show the cool spot. Air conditioner because of the onshore flow near 77 napa sonoma at 76. And santa rosa coming in at 79 a chilly 58 per point re and stenson beach at 60 will not be a good weekend for the beach vertically on saturday. As that shot of rain gets here for saturday temperatures fall we kind of trot out somewhere around sunday as we do clear out nicely warming up very quickly and before you know it by thursday, some spots in the bay might even koch up to about 90 or so to finish off the week. So thats the story of spring, you know you go through all these wardrobe things and sweaters to short sleeve shirts is what we do during the spring months well back to you speaking us letters i like your sweater day. Lets head outside and give you a quick traffic check what traffic right, heres the bay bridge. We dont expected of course to pick up any time soon as so many people are sheltering in place keep in mind do not stop at the toll plaza they will not take your cash you if you dont have fast track dont worry about as they will send you a bill through the mail from there lets go to the sandra fell bridge Richmond Sandra fell bridge even lighter one said the headlights heading right to the toll plaza 9 minutes, if you need to cross that spanned from richmond in summer in county. Heres a live look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge to a couple of cars heading into San Francisco, no problems no fog in that area as well roughly about 19 to 20 minutes from novato into the city. Contact tracing is being used to combat the spread of coronavirus its a process that help slow or stop previous epidemics like ebola and sars mandy gather has more in this mornings health minute. Contact tracing tracks down anyone who might have been infected by a person who was recently diagnosed with covid19 to those contacts can quarantine themselves and prevent further spread the centers for Disease Control and prevention say Public Health staff work with the patient to help them recall everyone with whom theyve had close contact during the time frame while they may have been infectious then contacts are provided with education information and support to understand their risk what they should do to separate themselves from others who have not been exposed. Monitor themselves for symptoms and the possibility that they could spread the infection to others even if they themselves dont feel l. Researchers say the u. S. Cant safely reopen without significant amounts of Contact Tracing in testing. Contact tracers use a variety of methods, including phone calls emails and social media messaging a recent Study Released by Johns Hopkins university estimates the u. S. Needs at least 100,000 additional Public Health workers to help with Contact Tracing before it is safe to reopen for todays health minute. Im mandy gaither. For the first time this years Little League world series and the championship. Tournaments theyve all been canceled this side the Little League world series has been held every august since 1947 and has never been canceled. Organizers say travel restrictions will make it just a stop to hold qualifying tournaments for International Teams and to bring those teams safely to america. Events are being planned for next year, however, happening today, nba players will soon be allowed to return to Team Practice facilities in some states players can work out individually at Team Facilities if their local government does not have stay at home orders so the warriors will not open their practice gym because california still has shelter in place. Now the places will not be able to work out a couple of other locations so they still have to figure out where to practice alternative arrangements are being made for a players living where stay at home orders are still in effect to try to find out where they can continue practicing because rumor has it that the season will begin probably in july team sports may be on hold during the pad pandemic but the bay area Lakes Community is doing its part to stay engaged. Kron fours kate rooney tells us how a local basketball coach is running 24 miles in 24 hours to try to make a difference. Csu east bay head basketball coach brian rooney knew he wanted to get involved in the fight against covid19 watching his wife a nurse go work the front lines each day was all the inspiration he needed to want to get involved she goes to to work in and helps people along with thousands of doctors and nurses. No First Responders and and all this type of things and ah my. Broken lee in my my kids were just talking when she went to her one day and you know how can we help rooney learned that a friend dan kurt has was running a mile every hour for 24 hours to raise money for covid19 relief. The coach asked if he could join and miles for meals was born. Anyone can run and anyone who doesnt want to run can donate to the cause with all donations benefiting Alameda CountyCommunity Food bank that we just kind of stars friend deal through social media through our website word of mouth and and the response it has been great so far 58 runners are participating with nearly 3,000 raised for the food bank routing hopes this is just the beginning were looking for to hopefully growing for sure because its you know what im trying to tell people is its not just about these 24 out people on. And certainly the food banks are going your help for a long time rooney is unsure whether hell sleep in between miles or stay up for the long haul but hes hoping hydration and motivation for the cars will get him through. Reporting in San Francisco, Kate Rooney Kron 4 news. Saluting the class of 2020 this morning. We want to congratulate nina know laura nina is graduating from saint ignace gacy especially say College Preparatory high school right here in San Francisco. She will be attending San Diego State university where she is a d one recruit for the womens rowing team. You know hopes to become a Political Science major. You can let us know about to graduate in your life just go to kron 4 dot com find salute to grads 2020 under the news tab. Then submit a picture of your crab let us know which high school they will be graduating from and whats next for them. Break right now lets go outside to as you can see no problems flashing lights there are planes are taking off and landing you wont have any problems but always make sure problems but always make sure to call ahead you just never why choose invisalign over other aligners . Only invisalign treatment uses smarttrack technology. It moves teeth more comfortably and predictably than ordinary aligners. So i can create custom treatment plans for every smile. So i can create custom weve been honoring people doing good things in their communities today were giving a shout out to a group of churches in the south bay teaming up to help people in need. The 7th Day Adventist Church of sunnyvale joined other churches and teamed up with fight the hate to give out groceries at drivethru sites that focuses on people struggling financially because of the pandemic there are giveaways at 5 different locations yesterday and they are. You can spotlight someone making a big difference in your community we have a section on our website called kron 4 heroes. All you have to do is fill out a quick form let us know why you think theyre a hero. You can find that on our website kron 4 dot com. We want to check on the weather with dave spahr a lot of people getting up this morning thankfully having a job including me, lets what can expect this morning dave. Well well we are talking about the pollen earlier and its in the may category for what weve got going on its oak grasses in mulberry of the culprits with all of this and the forecast looks like its going to be lot worse next week, so whatever youre going to help to with allergies and so forth got to keep up next week we have a chance will sprinkle moving in this weekend and that will rewrite the poll and your car here is the shot from u c berkeley, a fairly clear shots we only have a little bit of glaze going on this morning from the golden gate as well those bay Area Temperatures get a load of this were in the chilly 40s up in the north bay midfifties off to the east bay except tri valley, there are 49 livermore 51 per san jose. And what we project going on this morning. Well were up to 53 come atm at 11, 66, although highs today will be a little bit more modest than what they were from yesterday. Again we should drop out if you will by saturday or sunday with the sun coming back in full force and a big warm up is expected next week well be talking about that as well as your 4 zone forecast well back to you. Dave still ahead on the kron 4 morning news at the next hour mark people. The spending Time Outdoors under the revised shelterinplace order why officials warned we cannot fall back and all that progress that we made so far. Plus its medical Team Appreciation day at one hospital in San Francisco as Health Care Workers fight on the front lines will bring you their celebration. While one in San Francisco is now open after construction on the bridge deck. A live look at the progress and details straight ahead. Mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. Everyone, thank you for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, its friday may first believe it or not and will trend in for robin with stan brand new month a Marty Gonzales and happening today in oakland. Crews will be closing 5 more 5 more miles of streets as part of the citys slow Streets Program the program launched last month in an effort to make it easier for people to physically distance themselves weather outside. Heres a map showing exactly where some of those street closures will be happening. The new closures in effect today include parts of 16th street 34th avenue 59th street, alice street colby street and wayne avenue and we have a complete list of the closures on our website you can find the kron 4 dot com. Happening today, protests will be held across just a state from a day and many of them