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We might get some partly sunnys later today. Inch closer. But it really wont make a great impact. It will be as nice as yesterday. It is still okay to go out and take the walk or the hike or what have you. Little bit of a breeze, according up a few of those times. South breeze at three. Theres the leading edge of our first system. Much stronger once on the way for sunday. This will be a bigtime event for snow. Also cr. So we will have more on thats coming up and it pretty good rain for us. Highs today, a little bit of will average. Still mostly sunny. I would, lets talk to sal now. I believe that bay bridge, sal, that is still an issue. That is right. The bay bridge going into San Francisco has been an issue. Leaving San Francisco for oakland, we had an injury accident. And the danger is that you will come up on a quick, if youre not paying attention, eastbound, outside of the tunnel. Those crash there. Westbound, not affected. Also, the are clearing an injury accident on northbound 1 one in san jose. For the most part, the commutes are doing very well. Since most people are working from home are sheltering in place. Its some daca one. Lets go back to the headlines. We are starting with a breaking news about the major loss of jobs caused by the coronaVirus Outbreak. The march jobs report came out early this morning and the numbers were a lot worse than economists predicted. Ktvus allie rasmus is working from home. You have the numbers and it is expected to get worse in the weeks and months ahead. Good morning, allie. That is because last months job reports is from the beginning of march. Before a lot of these place and stay at home orders went into effect. About 80 of americans across the country at home. Even so, the big disturbing and historic, according to the u. S. Labor department. Employees should 700,000 jobs. New this morning, a crew member from the grand princess cruise ship has died of the coronavirus. And again, this is expected to be just the tip of the iceberg according to a news release, when it comes to the job the crew member from the philippines died in a hospital losses. They april and may jobs report after being transferred off the ship mess. Coming to clearer picture of workers still remain on board the ship. They are quarantined. The ship the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. Now, before all of this, u. S. Employers had been adding jobs every month for the past nine years. But because of coronavirus, things have taken a sharp and dramatic turn. In california, 880,000 people file for an opponent just last week. And those are the people who are made headlines last month went was forced to wait for days off the coast of california after infected passengers and crew new numbers were found report. Right now, the ship is sitting able to get through to the in the middle of the bay. States Deployment Office to time is now send that 16. File a jobless him. San francisco is planning theres so many can see right reasonable shopping bags to try now, the office is struggling to prevent the spread of to keep up. Coronavirus in stores. We have average 111,000 now, a complete turnaround for deployment insurance claims on the city, which is when the a daily basis in this state first in the country to ban the over just the last seven days. Those few days, pretty much, use of plastic shopping bags back in 2007. You can tell that story just cutting back on the with the panic attacks. Environmental impact of plastic because i was down to my last waste. But now, the San Francisco department of health says it is necessary to keep customers from bringing reasonable bags that could be contaminated into stores. Time is 7 15. The coronavirus has taken a major toll on businesses and perhaps hardest hit have been hundred bucks. Californias implement Development Department released this video of one of their call centers showing staff working restaurants. California Restaurants Association believes a third of the states restaurants could be forced to close for good under social distancing rules, trying to handle the flood of unless they get some help. And many of these businesses calls. They have shifted 850 staff will run by families. Members, california white, solely on processing those on ktvus Frank Mallicoat joining us now with the details of a San Francisco bistro that has been hit hard. Apartment claims as they come in. Good morning, friend. The state of california has set reporter yes, good morning up a website to help people who to you. It is called caponio. Have lost their jobs connect it is the but essential italian with employers that are hiring right now. It is called onward see a. We cafe where every one knows your have a link to it on our name. Website, ktvu. Com. Go there it begins and ends with their and click on the web links owner. Section. Reporting live, allie rasmus, located on union street and it ktvu fox 2 news. Has been around now for some 14 time , 704. Years. For locals and tourists alike. I attest to the fact that the food is endless and the obvious theres a look at the numbers. The staff has been without a from wall street. So far this morning those paycheck for nearly 3 weeks now numbers have been going up and and no one is feeling it more down since the markets opened a half hour ago. Than their owner. You can see on your screen, no, it is really hard for me, right now, the dow is down for my staff because they are slightly. The nasdaq and the s p 500, they are up. Always supporting me here. We will keep watching the markets all morning and we will tell you about any trends that they are always, you know, next may pop up. To me and always, you know, hav a time. , the uc system californias third biggest employer trying not to lay off for my staff because all those workers. Uc president said the uc system they dont have a job and will not lay off any career family and kids. Employees, at least through the so im devastated for them. End of june. Until the l. A. Times, she is hoping other California Companies will make that same pledge. They university of california it is not only the customers employees 220,000 thousand that have been shut up but also people. The neighborhood dogs. Happening today, health capannina takes care of every Officials Say they expect to see the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the bay dog that strolls by union with treats right at the front door. Area surpassing 3000. San francisco is reporting 16 as for michaele di ruoccos staff, they will be able to new cases for a total of 450 get back to work the moment though stores reopening. Im okay right now. With seven deaths so far. But, you know, the situation is San Mateo County moved past San Francisco, after 65 new cases a little difficult. Were announced yesterday. Weekend i think we can 10 people have died in that county. Santa clara county is the first survive. We are hoping everything goes well soon so we can go back to bay area county to the top 1000 cases of covid19. 36 people work. Reporter michaele was so have died in Santa Clara County. In fremont, coronavirus testing site will open up as a Fire Training center on stevenson boulevard. The test is developed as a worried about taking care of ra over 30,000. It is safe to say that is what we all need right now. Capannina was named from the island of capri, where he grew free. People must have symptoms of up. He told me, no matter what it the coronavirus in order to get takes, his stores will open tested. They dont need to have a again. Hopefully very soon. Referral from a doctor. Im Frank Mallicoat. The Testing Center is open to anyone. Leaders say they will prioritize testing for health care and Public Safety workers dave, you are going to have to such as police and check it out. Firefighters. The site will be open from 10 if you say it is good, i a. M. Know it is good. To 5 00 pm every day for 3 thank you, frank . Weeks or until the site runs it is good. 7 18. Out of test kits. And San Francisco, a new temporary changes are coming to drive to coronavirus testing site is open at San Francisco general hospital. That allows two cars at a time with two people in the car. The states food stamps program. California is hoping to make it also, walk up testing is a easier for lowincome people to help. The drivethrough site is in sign up for it. The hospital working lot. That program has seen record now, in this case, you do need signups week after week since to have a referral for either a this stayathome order started. And an order from governor San Francisco Health Network provider or clinic. An Emergency Department or an urgent care system to get newsom makes it so that people wont have to prove how much money you earn to get that tested. Time is 706. Help. Now in the south bay, health Officials Say as 60,000 theres a new resource for people unsure about where there next meals will come from. They have teamed up with second coronavirus tests waiting for Harvest Food Bank to create it. Results. And the like in getting results can be as long as 12 days. You can find a new interactive map at Silicon Valley strong. Org 90,000 tests have been given so far. Federal Officials Say only two states report more than a third of their tests for the virus positive. Showing more than 400 locations new york and new jersey. Californias report is a lot where people in need can get food. It also shows lake mills for lower. Senior citizens and children as california and Washington Well as locations of food banks remained steady at an 8 rate. So what we are seeing finally is testing improving, more and a restaurants that are open for pickup. Testing being done, still a right now, ktvu is teaming up with food banks around yeah, to help them raise money. Your donation helps make sure that food is available for people who need it the most. To get more information, go to our website, ktvu. Com foodbank. High level of negatives in states without hot spots, allowing them to do more of the surveillance and containment. No, dr. Burks says the federal government sending new rapid test kits to areas where doctors may not have access to lets talk about the labs that can process large changing weather. I know that this weekend, i numbers of tests. Type of invest plan to hunker down, make a big pot of stew and just get cozy with the family. What do you say . Normally, i would say, what time should dave and i be over, but i cant do them. Has been launched by the Santa Clara County service and i dont deliver. Department. It is created a special covid it is going to be one of 19 Investigative Unit. To track potential exposure to the coronavirus within the department. To know exactly who suffers from the virus. So far, 11 Sheriffs Departments Staff Members have those weekends, you guys. Tested positive for the no deaths. Big change here compared to coronavirus. What we have had. We have had some cold lows. Going through our hours of footage, just trying to identify anyone who may be, you know, they do not realize at still cold enough. The time, exposure to any sort santa rosa is 35. Sounds like even with some of respiratory droplets coughing or sneezing. Cloud cover, 40 degrees. A lot of interaction. Temperatures staying in, which went up to the upper 60s, low custody setting. 70s yesterday. That Sheriffs Department they are on the way down, back into 71. 66 today. Palo alto, san jose, santa rosa command center is running the down a couple of degrees. Operation. That will continue right into making sure theres adequate the weekend. A little bit of change here protective gear and staffing. Today compared to yesterday. All, the Sheriffs Departments the breeze has picked up for a now helping with highrisk few. Half moon bay has gone to 20. Out of the north, and more 40s than 30s all the way at santa rosa most are in the 40s. Redwood city, though, has gotten to 39. Tulsa as closed. Winds, sebastopol, petaluma, calls and decontamination if and even nap at this time, needed. Seneca county is also setup a public website to track the still in the 30s. Yesterday, we had a lot more 30 number of confirmed coronavirus cases. With information on the number tewes, 33s. We of patients who are spliced. Realtime information on the the coldest part of the number of beds and ventilators that are being used as well. Morning. We will start to warmup. We have going to that site at ktvu. Com. Click on web links when you weekend forecast, rain and get to our home page. Winds. Some. Okay. Firefighters redwood city investigating an overnight house fire that started about the breeze should put up here, 230 this morning at a home on especially saturday night, so seeing gusts, maybe 25, 30 senior avenue near el camino miles per hour. Real. The fire was in the living i think the strongest mice get room. Firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the rest of the has. Us some us. The big news will be not only the bad italian chief is looking for the cause. Way for us on saturday but we will keep it under mountain snow. Investigation for now. I mean, a lot of mountain snow we dont have any reason to here for shasta. Believe it is anything more tahoe, looking for feet. Than accidental. Not only sunday but also maybe so we will continue the into monday and also tuesday. Investigation. And the people who were inside did get out safely. Our projection, look at that, 38 inches by monday morning. Theres no word of any injuries. There could be some amounts. For us, a half inch to 2 inches of rain should cover it. 50, 60s today. Today, we will have to make a point of have that option, right, steve . Today is the day to get out and oh, you might get but you enjoy yourself and make that will have to pick and choose part of stew for the weekend over the weekend. Versus today, when it is no because you wont have much album to get out and do that. Else to do. Monday, some showers. That is a good idea custody. One more a nice day and then a thank you. Good system coming in saturday, very early april system for target stores in your neighborhood. Coming up, in the next hour, sunday into monday. Especially for the Sierra Nevada. 42. What is being done nationwide probably cloudy skies golden to promote social distancing and this could add a lot more gate park, 47 degrees. They were down to 41 yesterday. Time to your shopping trip. Also, the pandemic is having an impact on just about everything. And now it could push an unwelcome guest into your house we will tell you why the experts are warning you, stay prepared. So they are up six so far. San jose, dealing with some probably cloudy skies. 40 degrees. South, southeast. Miles per hour. Probably keeping that step up along some of that cloud cover. There it is. Beginning to move in. Not a big deal. It is a change from yesterday. Breeze at sfo, have they, hayward. A little bit warmer than most. Santa rosa, 35. Napa, 38. Fairfield, 38. Lately, ive discovered that while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. 37 in napa. That is a big change from so while youre discovering yesterday. 30s for sebastopol. Petaluma and mill valley, new things to do in the box, again, we were down around 32, well be here for you. At the drivethru, 33 yesterday. Theres our system on its way. On the mobile app, that leading edge, spinning and with delivery. With high cloud we can rain, two systems, the weaker one shows up on saturday. Lot of mountain snow. It arrives on sunday. The system will be a very slow mover. We go into saturday night, sunday morning and then it is just slammed ci mountains. On sunday night. And watch how the lower never really goes anywhere on monday into tuesday. It just keeps there slowly drifting saturday night. Keeping us and i would say probably all the way until the, if not tuesday night, wednesday morning. But the amounts are just eye popping for the cr, also, mt. Shasta. We will get some pretty good rain here. Probably around that. But you have to the travel, i know some of you do. 15, 80 today and tomorrow gunn city, just dont think it is going to happen. On the mobile app, whaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Look at. Would. 30 inches of snow. Mostly sunny. 50s, 60s, on the temps. Lets stay at home. And today will be okay. Lets wa just not as nice as yesterday. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. We are looking at temperatures to continue to be falling as we it will all be worth it. Go into the weekend. We can all do our part. All right the state, thank you. Time now, some 11. So those on the front line can do their part. You are trying to disinfect your house to keep the spread and when this is over, of the coronavirus down, chances are you may be missing we will all, continue, many key areas. We will tell you the top hid to thrive. And surfaces you should put on and restaurantsrestaurant i while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Chris isaak, San Franciscos own chris isaak, sunset district. That is right. Sing it, my friend all right. And this is saul vigil. Thank you, salt. Nice request. This brings me back of it. If you have a request, send in a song. We do traffic jams every day of the week to help you working from home, in case you have just send us your request on facebook. Twitter or instagram. Using the hashtag ktvu. The coronavirus seems to be affecting every avenue of daily life. We know one of the nations top experts on rodents says we should be seeing more than usual. The expert is warning us to be prepared for that. That new yorkbased consultant says with restaurants close because of the pandemic, rats are now forced to scrounge elsewhere for food. Because restaurants scraps are certainly a major food source for rodents. Normally, they are out at night. They will show up during the day. Show up during the night. Show up at any time. In new orleans, rats reportedly already started swarming the streets as their usual food scraps are not available. Many of us are trying to make sure our homes are properly cleaned and sanitized these days. But there may be some spots you are missing. Dr. Oz has a list of the top 10 hidden surfaces you should add to your cleanness to help keep your family healthy. They include refrigerator door handles, vacuum handles, cleaning Spray Bottles themselves as well as baseboards. Microwave touch pass. Light switches, toilet flushes, doorknobs, dresser handles, and your carpet this comes as new research from the new england journal of medicine claims the coronavirus can live on plastic objects for up to 72 hours. A hightech helper is working with patients an italian hospital. This is tommy, one of six robots offering integral support to the human workers by reducing their exposure to the disease. Doctors and medical staff can make it to the patients through the robot. They cwondering if you should now start wearing a mask when you went to the pharmacy and a grocery store. Might be wondering what kind of face mask . If you are not a medical personnel or a first responder. Coming up, the new guidelines on Wearing Masks to help curb the spread of covid19. Plus, a cluster of coronavirus cases. What is happening and what staff and Health Leaders are doing to contain the coronavirus. The best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abwe dicines of the future. And happier, while making medicines that we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. Good morning. Earlier today, the march jobs report came out and the numbers were worse than expected. We will tell you the numbers and exactly what they mean. Plus, and mothers dealing with major changes since hospitals fill up with coronavirus patients. We will hear from a mom who is considering her new options. Announcer from ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Well, good morning to you. Thank you for joining us and welcome to mornings on 2. Im dave clark. , good morning to you. Im 11. Im gasia mikaelian. We were talking during the. About the music world. Bill withers, the man behind lean on me, had just passed away, 81 years old. He died of heart competitions. Big, big, loss. I did no bill withers. Many fond memories. Incredible performer, incredible man. Im stunned to hear this. But, yeah. It is breaking news and, yeah, thank you for relaying that. No, of course, of course. I think about that song. I promise to the producer i would not think but, lien on me just friendship at the very core, friendship and love and trust and these are ideas that we shall be leaning on these days more than ever. I know Steve Paulson, your Music Library goes deep as well. I know you are thinking about bill withers and his song. It will be a lovely day. How is that . That is appropriate. A lovely day because the weekend will not be. But today will be nice. Maybe not as nice as yesterday. Temperatures still a few 30s, santa rosa. 35. A lot more 40s. Including san jose, you will notice some partly cloudy skies. 40 degrees. 30s and 40s to start. 50s, 60s, and mix of some high, low clouds. It will be filtering in in advance of this system, which is on the way and there it is. Not, just a few high clouds coming in. This is a chance for yesterday. Discovered that system. Lets get to the facts here. Meantime, mountain snow, it will be following sunday into monday. 38 inches. We will have more on our rainfall totals coming up in about 10 minutes. Highs today will be the 50s and also the 60s. Okay, over to sal now. I no other to the oakland side of the bay bridge, we had an issue. Is that better, south . It is better. They have cleared it a little bit. Also on that side of the bay, northbound 101, near airport boulevard, theres a report of a fire. Sitting smoke onto the freeway. And south San Francisco Fire Department is still responding. In general, though, the commute is light as most people are not going. They are working from home or perhaps not going at all. This morning, a lot of schools are out, obviously. The roads are going to be like. Dont drive too fast. But for the most part it has been a pretty decent commute. 7 33. Lets go back to the headlights. All right, sal, thank you. We are following in developing story in okay. There is a heavy Police Presence on macarthur boulevard. Police have not said anything official about what theyre doing. People are being asked to avoid that area. We will continue with the pictures we have on the screen here go. Neighbors, you may have delays if you are heading out to be somewhere. But again, this is in the city of oakland. And we will bring you more details as we get them in. Now to the big news about the u. S. Economy. Wall street adding this week, very, very volatile. Investors are taking in information. Particularly this morning, the amount, a huge drop in the number of jobs. Pam cook is back now with todays dollars and cents. Pam cook good morning. Yeah, we talked about the numbers reported. 700,000 new filings last week. Compared to 100,000 that economists were expecting. But even more telling is what is called the household survey, now, that helps the Labor Department come up with the all important rate. That survey shows nearly 3 Million People are now out of the job. , taking a look at the opening bell, when that bell rang, numbers dropped about 1 . The bad news on wall street on jobs is being offset by what wall street sees as good news. Prices of oil is up. We just estimate. Come up with an agreement about production. But that is offsetting those losses and as we take a live look at the numbers, you can see dow jones hovering about that level down one and one in quarter percent. The s p 500 hanging onto the 2500 right now. It is down almost 1 . Same for the nasdaq as well this morning. Now, today, the 2 trillion stimulus package may not offer immediate relief for many Small Businesses that are affected by this pandemic. But today, is when they can start applying for special federal loans that will be forgiven if they maintain their employees and use the money for approved reasons such as rent or utilities. But the wall street journal reports some major banks are not ready to handle what is expected to be a flood of applications. This morning, though, bank of america, the only one to announce that its portal is up and running, running and ready to accept applications, the other banks say the program lacks specific guidelines. Now, Governor Newsom says Small Businesses will have a wide range of options for federal and state assistance. The package includes 50 million in loan guarantees for businesses that are not eligible for federal released. Newsom has also proposed a one year deferral of sales tax receipts. Up to 15,000. Plus, the Program Offering payroll protection grants. If you commit to keeping your employees, even if you have no business, even if your business is closed, but you pay your employees this is a grant program, not a loan program. The state of california has set up a website called onward see a to help people who have lost their jobs. Actively hiring right now. Theres also some information about emergency resources and help and training for people who are pursuing perhaps a new career in all of this. That is a look at your dollars and cents. Lets go back to dave. All right, ham, thank you. 7 37. We are learning how tampa bay areas Real Estate Market is dealing with the coronavirus. 250 active listings in San Francisco were pulled off the market in the second week of march compared to only 16 listings removed the week before. San mateo and Alpena County needs with more than 100 listings pulled during the second week of march. In Santa Clara County, that number was almost 200. Well, car mechanics are considered an essential business during the coronavirus pandemic. But there just have not been a lot of customers. Some say business is down 90 . Shop owners talk and compare and they see everybody is hurting. We talked every day and they see didnt have work and we think we dont have work. We are hanging in there. I have been here 13 years. I dont want to close the shop. They see the do take precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus, wearing gloves, disinfecting all the services, and also add protective plastic over the seat and the steering wheels. All right, across the United States, almost 1 million women are expecting babies to be born in the next three months. Some are now questioning having a traditional hospital delivery. Pregnancy and delivery especially can already be a stressful time. But many parents are worried their hospitals will be understaffed. Some are now turning to home births. Most of those are already booked up. It is honestly super heartbreaking, it has been so hard. Didnt even know. That is really, really sad. Having my parents and brothers and his kids involved. Many people say it is a strange time to be isolated from family. Some are trying to find a several lying, saying these will be even more memorable. More quality time together to bond with their new babies. Meanwhile, a nursing home in the south bay is dealing with a cluster of coronavirus cases. Nearly Georgia People are housed at Canyon Springs in east san jose. Officials say the two residents and staffers there tested positive for covid19. The hospital. Was discharged the situation with a nursing home or any confinement situation, prison, for example, it can be extremely dangerous. Canyon springs caters to people who need care after hospitalization. As well as those with dementia. Officials say stricter protocols are now in place including screening staff and essential visitors and monitoring Residents Conditions more frequently. Anys demand to ktvu, Canyon Springs officials said, quote, our top priority remains the health and wellbeing of everyone in our facility. Target is doing more to try to stop the spread of coronavirus at its stores. Target will start monitoring the number of customers inside the stores and limits on who can be inside will vary from store to store. The goal is to make sure that theres enough room for social distancing. Target will also begin supplying store cashiers with masks and gloves in the next two weeks. All right, hard time is 7 40. That number of daily users of zoom, the video comforting app, ballooned to more than 200 million in the month of march. People working at home. The companys cem says more than 90,000 schools in 20 countries are using this Videoconferencing Service to teach classes remotely. Some Company Still have Major Concerns about the privacy as part of the reason zooms stock value dropped yesterday. As much as the ktvu news team was working at home, between zoom, skype, live view, we have it covered. Steve paulson . Well, im on skype. Im sticking by that. It has been good. You are oldschool. It doesnt matter. It works. They said, steve, you sound best on skype. There you good. Thank you. We are on all sorts of points. 30s, 40s of the times. Yesterday, we had some 60s and 70s. Vacaville was 71 today. 66. Palo alto, 64. Santa rosa dropped to 3. Already some her regards, a few patchy low clouds around. Little bit of breeze. North of 22. That is keeping some of these most of the lows up. We got critical minimas yesterday. Over the place. Not so much. Redwood city is 39. There are a few 30s to the east and also to the south. That is the leading edge of our first system. The heavier rain shows up on city. Heavier no as well. Especially sunday afternoon into sunday night and monday. This will also be theres your first system 30. At the the stronger low . And on sunday. And it really is slow and stop. It will continue unrelenting, i think, with no. I would be surprised they did not shut down 15, 80. It never goes anywhere very slowly, i should say. Southward, all the way to the wednesday were going to get moisture. That is going to keep us in the mix, i think until the middle of next week but the snowfall will be just astronomical really for early april. This is a big system. Rain fall for us, half an inch to maybe 2 1 2. Some of these, you have to drive 50 or 80 or saturday. Just dont think youre going to make it to the. Look at kirkwood. 38 inches of snow forecast. 2 feet at least. Today, though, mostly sunny. 50s, cities on your times. Then tomorrow, we will count it up. Rain will start the general area of letter rain. And and it really picks up sunday, sunday night into monday. Okay, steve, thank you. All right, 7 42. An historic east bay building being converted into a medical station to handle the anticipated surge of coronavirus patients. We will tell you leaders say the ideal location. At 8 00 for the first time, a person at a San Francisco homeless shelter has died after testing positive for the coronavirus. Protecting others living and working in that vulnerable environment. As still to come on the 9 00, no home opener for the San Francisco giants or their plans. We will talk to giants ceo larry baer about his reactions to the canceled games and across major league april. We will be right back. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Fema told a House Oversight committee that most of the 100,000 ventilators President Trump promised the u. S. Would get for the coronaVirus Outbreak wont be available until june. Fema says a shortage of ventilators would get worse by the middle of this month before the Virus Outbreak peaks. No, they also say they distributed tens of millions of respirators, masks, and gloves and 8100 ventilators cusing on getting those 100,000 ventilators. All of those vendors that we are buying them from will need potentially will need help in their supply chains with their suppliers. No, that white house says President Trump is invoking the defense production act to clear up any supply change chain problems in the making of ventilators and also make sure the production of additional n 95 face masks curves. Increasing calls for people to cover your face in public to keep the coronavirus from spreading. Ktvus Elissa Harrington with us now to talk about this new information and as officials, what they are finding out about the virus and why. This new recommendation. Good morning, elissa. Health officials want people to cover their faces out in pu they still want the hospital grade mask to be saved for First Responders. They see everyone else should wear some sort of cloth covering. Heres new york city mayor bill de blasio what are you talking about these new guidelines mean. It could be a scarf. It could be something you create yourself at home. It could be a bandana. It is not, not need to be professional, surgical mask. In fact, we dont want you to use the kind of masks that our First Responders need, that our Health Care Workers need. Dont use those. I cant be clearer. This is some video of what it looked like in new york. More more people are covering up outside but you still only be out for essential needs. Health Officials Say when you do those errands, cover your face. The face coverings when combined with social distancing and handwashing will to protect yourself and others from transmission of a coronavirus. Some people with no symptoms or mild symptoms of covid19 could be carrying the virus and not even know it. A mask does not protect you from covid. It protects other people in the event that you have covid. Can, n95 masks should still be reserved for Health Care Workers. Any type of cloth that you to use to cover your face should then be washed in hot water. Reporting live, im Elissa Harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. All right, elissa, thank you. The east bay city of richmond, the craneway polling pavilion being converted into a medical station for coronavirus patients later this month. That Historic Building right to the, along richmonds waterfront will become a 250 bed medical station for coronavirus patients. The National Guard is bringing beds of medical supplies, all of those coordinated by contra costa county. The medical station will only be used if local hospitals went out of space to handle coronavirus patients. Were going to be the intermediary. We will be kind of a triage. We will be sending people either to the hospital or if they are on their way to recovery, for them to quarantine themselves at home. No, through the years, the pavilion has hosted craft fairs, rosie the riveter festival, even a Bernie Sanders rally that february. Pepsi says it is providing food and medicine supply to those in need. There. He says it is contributing 25 million every year to areas affected by covid19. Money set aside to buy a protective personal equipment for Health Care Workers and provide meals to food banks. The company is planning to donate to people who need them around the world. A Major Property owner in the bay area says he is waiting two months rent due to the coronavirus up. He has more than 55 tenants, including retail, bonuses. He says the shop owners should not have to pay rent because they have been forced to close. Paying upwards of 4000 a month in rent. In april and may, though, he says they will pay nothing. Encouraging other Property Owners to do the same. Your time son is joining us again. Gasia, and steve, i know you are expecting a can of snow out of the mountains. But will we get a measurable rain here in the bay area. Okay yeah, definitely, dave and gasia. It will start a little bit on saturday and then we pick up sunday, sunday afternoon into sunday night as the stronger system begins to move in. San jose, even with some clouds around, it still got 40 degrees. The system yesterday was sunshine. That wont be the case today. There are some clouds already moving in through. A lot more 40s. Redwood city is 49. Fairfield, 38. That is down from yesterday. That held our temperature up. The first system will arrive on sunday monday. It will weaken as it moves south. It will just give us a general area of rain. The secondary system the stronger one, goes downward along the coast, all the way into sunday night, monday. And that will really ramp up some rain fall, maybe two and a half, santa cruz mountains. Around rushing river area, coastal, but the snow is just through the roof here. South lake tahoe, even up to mt. Shasta and projections to sunday night into monday. I mean, kirkwood, 38. You can easily see some totals like that, maybe three or 4 feet by the time we get to monday. So 15, 80 your travel plans today into saturday, i dont think you may get on sunday. 50s, 60s on the temps year. Cloudy with rain developing story. Measurable amount. Heavy with the wind moving in sunday, monday, maybe even some thunderstorms. Pretty active pattern all the way into early next week, you guys. Okay, steve, thank you. Getting supplies to the people who need it the most. Coming up in the next hour, the operation to get more hospital scrubs to doctors and nurses around california and the reader tv show that is involved. Later at the 8 00hour, nationwide blood shortage has the food and drug administration. Relaxing some of its rules on who can out what one charity is using to help sniff out cases of covid19 within a matter of seconds. We all have pain we all have sorrow welcome back to the mornings on 2. Unfortunately, we have heard the great bill withers passed away at the age of 81. And immediately, we had a request coming in. Rain on me thank you, anthony and many others who requested bill witherss song. In memory, he passed away today at 81. And some good music. If you have requests, go ahead and hit me up on social media. Facebook, twitter, instagram, use the hashtag ktvu. Somebody to lean on 7 56 year. The coronavirus is affecting just about any part of normal life, even affecting the powerball lottery. Lottery Officials Say that there will no longer be guaranteed Powerball Jackpot amounts. They see the changes are necessary because ticket sales have dropped significant wind. Requiring people to stay home. Powerball tickets, by the way, sold in 25 states. Docs are being trained to detect the coronavirus. They are preparing dogs to sniff out cases of covid19 within seconds. They are training dogs the same way they trained for other diseases. Indicating when they have found them. The team is targeting those individuals. They need to be tested and then go back into isolation. This could really help reduce the nd how it has been occurring. Officials with the charity say the six weeks should be enough time to train the dogs. Big bill looking for a pet to keep them company right now have some great ways to get that done. The and york friends of Animal Services sponsoring the adoption fees for all animals at the antioch Animal Services through may 2nd. And york residents will still need to pay 20 licensing fees to cities. Adoptions right now are taking place by appointment only. Now, is cool in San Francisco is celebrating its 150th birthday tomorrow. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, was for tomorrows and festivities have been present. Instead, there will be a virtual celebrating with the videos, digital books, and 40 problems. To toast golden gamission on tomorrows virtual solution at ktvu. Com and we will see you there when the party happens later. Meanwhile, some children are enjoying easter eggs thanks to an early visit from the easter bunny. Be canceled the Animal Community family day at the park event. Organizers decided to use the eggs from the canceled egg hunt and give them active side. Yesterdays deliveries also give teachers at the center a chance to meet students at a distance. Nikon is offering free online photography classes. The Nikon School Online is offering 10 classes for you to livestream. Topics include how to get started with photography, childrens photography, and so much more. Between 15 and 45 minutes. They normally cost anywhere from 15 50. Nikon, one of the many arts, entertainment, and Technology Company is offering free classes. Reporter a new jobs report is up economists say it is not positive. We will break down the numbers and why some say the economy could get much worse before they get better. Plus, thousands of coronavirus tests still waiting to be processed in the state of california. Find out what is behind the backlog. Plus, tracking the virus. The new task force looking out for potential exposure. Announcer from ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. All right, good morning, everyone. And welcome back. To mornings on 2. It is friday, april 3rd. Im mike mibach. Good morning, mike. Good morning to you at home. It is a busy morning. I think weather is one of our big focus is for sure. Steve paulson has been telling us about the change. It is one of the biggest changes we have seen in a while. This. You know, in the year that has not been that great, but looks really good for people, in fact, we will get some good rain out of it. Some bigtime snow. I mean, we are never going to get back 100 . It is too little, too late for that. That is for sure. 39 now in santa rosa. Made it to 35. 34, oakland, livermore and also san jose. 30s, 40s of the times. Mostly sunny. This, some our cloud up around 50s, 60s on the temps later today. It is going to be slightly cooler compared to the yesterday. All eyes, though, will be on the weekend system. Hire clouds. 30s, 40s, on the temps. 50 at sfo polk 48 also open. 42, wanted career. That fire system does not look like much. But just get ready. The Second System on sunday into monday. It is packing what looks to be a really good. That is know, pretty good train for tell tickets into monday and maybe even today. More on that in about 10 minutes. Highs today in the 60s, 50s for some. Sal is here now. We have improved a little bit. We had some earlier crashes, one of the bay bridge that we heard about. If youre driving from San Francisco to oakland. Or the other way around. The bridges are doing okay. A couple of minor things out there. Public transit is on a reduced schedule, as you now. Still plenty of room for social distance. And right now, as we look at the south bay drive, that is improvement. An earlier crash on 101 has been removed. It is 8 01. Lets go back to the desk. All right, sal, thank you. The u. S. Labor department announced that United States has lost more than 700,000 jobs just last month. That number much bigger then economists have actually predicted. Lets check it with ktvu initial prediction before this was released, 150,000 jobs lost. The actual report that came out 5 30 our time this mine. 700,000 jobs lost according to the u. S. Labor department. And that number is not expected to really paint the whole picture of the economic damage from the coronavirus crisis. That is because that number is based on surveys at the Labor Department with employers at the start of the march. The beginning of the months. The shelterinplace and stay athome orders were in effect. Keeping about 80 of americans across the country at home. Even so, the numbers are historic and disturbing. An apartment now stands at , almos point up from just last month. Again, this is expected to be just the tip of the iceberg. It will paint a clearer picture of the economic damage. Some economists are predicting that it could bump up in the months ahead to 50 higher. It is the highest it has ever been since the great depression. U. S. Employers have in telefonica long, just last week, 880,000 people file for an apartment. Those people who are able to get through to the states and opponent offices. There are so many begins right now. The office is struggling to keep up. We have average one 11,000 on apartment insurance claims. On a daily basis. In the state over just the last seven days. The first two days, pretty much, you can tell that story just with the panic attacks. Because i was down to my last 100 bucks. Kalif runners employment Development Department shared this video of one of their call centers, showing staff working under social distancing rules. Trying to handle the flood of calls. They said they have shifted about 8 to 50 people focused solely on processing on apartment claims. No, the state of california has set up a website to help people who have lost jobs get in contact with companies that are hiring right now called onward ca. You can find a link on our website, ktvu. Com, and click on the web links session. Allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. All right, allie, think for deaths. Lets take a peak at the numbers. Wall street and how investors are reacting to that on apartment great. The dow jones is in negative territory. Currently trading down about 1 . The same could be said for the nasdaq and s p 500, both those indexes down, close to 1 . But the Third Largest employer in california trying not to cut any jobs. Uc president announced that the uc system will not lay off any career employees, at least through the end of june. She told the l. A. Times that she hopes other california committees will take a similar pledge. The diversity of california employs 227,000 people. Happening today, health Officials Say they expect to see the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the bay area to surpass 3000. San francisco is reporting 16 new cases for a total of 450 there with seven deaths. San mateo cisco after city five cases were announced yesterday. Santa clara county is the first bay area county to top 1000 cases of the coronavirus. You can find the numbers in your county by scrolling across the bottom of your screen. We will have it listed for you there. Coronavirus testing site will open up on stevenson boulevard. The test itself is free. The people have to have symptoms of the coronavirus to get tested. They do not have to have a referral from the doctor. The testing site is open to anyone. They will prioritize testing for health care and Public Safety workers such as police and firefighters. The site will be open from 10 a. M. To 5 pm every day for 3 weeks or until the site went out of test kits. In San Francisco, a new breakthrough coronavirus testing site is open. It allows two cars at a time with two people. Are. The drivethrough testing site at 23rd. You do need to have a referral for this one, either from a San Francisco healthor an urgent care center. Health Officials Say as of this morning, california has a backlog of nearly 60,000 coronavirus tests all waiting to be returned. Getting results. It can be as long as 12 days. 90,000 tests have been administered so far. Federal Officials Say only two states are reporting more than a third of their tests for the coronavirus is positive. That is new york and new jersey. Cal farleys report is much lower. All right, california and washington remain steady at an 8 rate. So what we are seeing finally is testing improving, more testing being done. Still a high level of negative and states without hot spots. Allowing them to do more of the surveillance and containment. Dr. Birx went on to say that the federal government is sending new rapid test kits to areas where doctors may not have access to lab second process large number of tests. A new type of investigation has been much by the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Department. It has created a special covid 19 Investigative Unit to track potential exposure to the coronavirus within the department and know exactly who some of the survivors can impacted with. So far, 11 Sheriffs Departments Staff Members have tested positive for the coronavirus. Hours and hours just trying to and then by anyone who may be, you know, they did not realize at the time, exposure to any sort of respiratory droplets, coughing or sneezing. A lot of wind direction. Obviously, in the custody setting. The sheriffs. Command center is running the operation making sure theres adequate protective gear and staffing. They have a Virus Response Team helping with high risk calls. Santa clara county has also setup a public website to track the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. The number of patients hospital is. Realtime animation on the number of beds and ventilators being used. We have a link to that website at ktvu. Com. Just click weapons when youre at the top of our home page. New this man, firefighters in redwood city are investigating an overnight house fire. That for kept up around 230 at a home located right off of el camino real. That fire was in the living room and they were able to keep it from spreading to the rest of the house but the battalion chief says the cause of the fire is not yet known. Let get you out the door while you can. This weekend is going to bring big changed. That is correct. Get out and enjoy while you can. It will not be as nice as yesterday. It will still be okay. The big change starts on saturday. Stronger system will role in on sunday. Temperatures did make the authorities. 39. Mid40s for most here. 47 degrees. San jose, 40. From cloud cover around. Vacaville hit 71 yesterday. Not today. 66 santa rosa down through palo alto and san jose also down. City seven, palo alto. 64 today. Some of this our clouds coming in. It is also giving us more of a westerly breeze. Sfo. And half moon bay, north, 22. San jose High School South east. So a lot more 40s. Still 30s in there. But nearly the amount we saw yesterday. Widespread. The first system there but it is going to rotate. He was rain starting saturday morning. The secondary system is the one that really is going to be the one that sets the stage for some. Good rainfall totals, maybe 2 1 2, therenday. That is the colder system that comes in the morning. Look at the there. I mean, it is relentless into sunday night, monday. The lowest is moving ever so slowly, all the way into monday night, tuesday and wednesday. So we will still be in the widow. More rain and from some mountain snow, all the way into the mid week. That is the way its looking. Totals for us are pretty respectable, ill say. Were looking for an inch and a half or some, for santa rosa, sent us mountains. The snow the sierra, also shasta, lassen, looks to be stacking up, maybe 3 to 4 amoun kirkwood there forecasting 38. The european model forecasting 38. The gfs is having a difficult time. 50s, 60s on the times. Colliding with ring on saturday and a stronger system. Some thunderstorms popping up toward monday into tuesday. All right, steve, thank you for that. San francisco one of the first cities to ban the back you reversal in the middle of this health crisis. What shoppers need to know before they head off to the grocery store. Some restaurants continue to get hammered during this pandemic. After the break, the owner of one Italian Restaurant in San Francisco, how he is helping out his employees that he says are like family to him. Good this morning, singer bill withers has died at the age of 81. Leane on me when youre not strong and ill be your friend all help you carry on bill withers, of course, known for vocal songs from the city including eight no sunshi withers died earlier this week. Lean on me was performed at the inaugurations of barack obama and bill clinton. Inspiration during the coronavirus pandemic. San francisco is reporting its first confirmed case of coronavirus in one the citys homeless navigation centers. The Citys Department of homeless and housing said the individual tested positive earlier this week after staying at the Division Circle navigation center. There are no concerns about others since social distancing inside some of the shelters and navigation centers, possible. The city is trying to test the one who came in contact with that person but it is hard to track down who was staying at an individual shelter. Each and every night. San franciscos banning reusable shopping back to prevent the spread of covid19 his stores. This is a complete turnaround there for the city, which was one of the first and the nation to ban the use of plastic shopping bags back in 2007 to reduce the Environmental Impact of plastic waste. Now, San Franciscos department of health says it is necessary from keeping customers bringing contaminated bags in the stores. The California Restaurant Association sent a letter to the Governor Newsom claim that as many as 37 restaurants have been shut down near the state. Permanently. Not even trying to reopen. Ktvus Frank Mallicoat joins us live this morning. Frank, i know you spoke to the owner of one popular bistro in San Francisco. He, like many, are very concerned. Reporter it is a tough situation, and some are offering takeout while others have sure. Of life capannina is the ultimate neighborhood Italian Restaurant. It has been operating for 14 years and it all starts with their owner, michaele. He treats everyone like family the minute you open the door. One of the first , after just one visit. He and his staff has been closed now. It is a heavy financial burden. For michaele, it is so much more than that. I just miss seeing everyone. For me, coming here, it is everything. I come here and my staff, all my friends, and my customers are like my fans. So i miss everything. Well, it is very emotional. Not only because the restaurant is closed but michaele is from italy, which has been devastated by the virus. His family is healthy back home. As for his customers, they are counting the days went those stories finally reopen. I feel like im in lately whenever i. The best of italy. The involvement, everything. Plus, the food is fabulous. I thought for that. It is traffic. Michaele was so worried about his staff, he went out and started a gofundme page. At last check, it is raised over 30,000. So that is the kind of guy he is. So many personal stories out there, especially with the refreshments that are online. Im Frank Mallicoat. You might, you got to check out the pasta there. It is families. Friday night, no . Obviously, we cant die in. Hey, encouraging if one if they can, if they can to order takeout. At least once a week. Frank, thank you for that story. Coming to the states for stan program. Hoping to make it easier for low income people to sign up. They have seen record sign up since the state order began. Executive order from the governor makes it so people would have to prove how much money they actually earn to get that help. In the south bay, theres a new resource for people who are uncertain about where their next meal is going to come from. That city of san jose has partnered with second Harvest Food Bank. You can find a new interactive map at siliconvalleystrong. Org. It shows more than 400 locations where people in need can get food. It details of free meals as well as locations for food banks and which restaurants are open for pickup. Ktvus proud to partner with food banks across the bay area to help them raise money for the good work they do. Your donation helps ensure that food is available to those who need it most. For more information, please go to ktvu. Com all right, back to the Steve Paulson legal. Steve, today was supposed to be the home opener of San Francisco giant. The were talking to the owner. No baseball today. Mike, im in, it may be a long time. Maybe july 1. But who knows . That is a long time off. Away. Today is the day the again. You may want to get out again. That walked in, whatever. It is going to be a lot tougher over the weekend. We may get a break saturday evening. Santa rosa, 47. Golden gate park, which made it to 41 yesterday. Little bit of a breeze. Patchy fog. That is why it is in the upper 40s. Currently, 49 degrees. You see some of those higher clouds coming in. Low clouds as well. Little breeze is there. Not that strong. Northwest, 20. Same near nevada. 36, lakeport, 39. Fairfield in the 40s. Redwood city, 39. Sfo, 50. That is the first system. It is the weaker of the two. It is still going to give us some ring. Will beat heavier to the north. A lot less than the south. Secondary system comes in and that is the one that is going to go right along the coast and that is the one that is going to usher in some heavier rainfall. Some of the weiter locations. It is just eyepopping the amounts that are being forecast. Shasta, north of reading. Santa rosa, santa cruz, both an inch and a half. There will be more than that. 38 inches of snow forecast between saturday and monday morning at 3 00 a. M. So winter storm watch will take the mountains all the way into monday, maybe tuesday. 50s, 60s on the times. Mostly sunny. Rain starts saturday, the stronger system sunday into monday. Maybe even today. Thank you custody. Coming up, are you trying to does affect your home to help prevent the spread of covid19 . Chances are you are reason some ski area. We will tell you the top and surfaces you need to have on your cleaning check was. The pandemic is having an impact on just about ever thing. Some experts say some unwelcome guests could come into your home. They are warning people to be prepared for more rodents. There are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. Powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. To help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. Tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. And a team of experts here for you 24 7. Weve always believed in the power of working together. Thats why, when every connection counts. You can count on us. Whaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. 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. We will all, continue, to thrive. Sunshine when she goes its not warm should when shes away aint no sunshine when shes got back to mornings on 2. The late great bill withers, in case you have not heard, he passed away today. 81 years old. And some people have been sending me songs. Bill withers. So thank you for your requests. And if you want to send me a song to request, send me one. Use the hashtag ktvu on twitter, facebook, or instagram. 8 25. Another. People could be seeing more rodents. One of the nations top experts on warning more rodents is want people to be prepared will be forced to scrounge for food elsewhere. Because restaurants scraps are day. Show up during the night. Stronger than any time. In new orleans, rats have reportedly already started swarming the streets. Their usual food scraps are nowhere to be found. I know a lot of you are working very hard to keep your house is clean, but you may be missing some areas. Dr. Oz has the list of hidden surfaces you should add to your to clean list. They include refrigerator handles, vacuum handles, Spray Bottles, floor boards, private flashes, dresser handles, and your car. It comes as new research from the new england journal of medicine says the coronavirus 10 with on plastic all. From voting scraps from medical tv shows to Health Care Workers. The scraps you see on Greys Anatomys and other medical shows. Need them. They are living in these scrubs for almost 12 hours a day, sometimes for more than one shift. It is important that the scraps be comparable and easy to care for in order to protect their families. They had to come home, wash them, and they need to be able to the, but he also said it will donate 350,000 masks to hospitals throughout california. Coming up, speaking of masks, a lot of you may not be wondering, should you be wearing a mask . You should you be covering your mouth or nose with Something Else . Any people are now concerned about preventing the spread of covid19. We will talk about the new guidance from local leaders on Wearing Masks that help slow the spread. Also, coronavirus cases. What staff and county leaders are doing to help. Lately, ive discovered that while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. While keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. As of this morning, the march jobs report did out. The numbers are even worse than what most economists had expected. We will break down the numbers and what they mean for the market. Also, amid the coronavirus pandemic, we are focusing on what expecting mothers are doing as they are doing with major changes, hospitals up with coronavirus patients. Hear from a mom toby who is considering new options now. Announcer from ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. 8 30 on the dot. Friday morning. Im gasia go morning. Im mike mibach. Gasia, my children wrestling. Theres no their wrestling is on. They pick up wrestling. Wrestling on a bed, that is kind of our ring. Yeah. It is good exercise. I love it. Awesome. Never really enjoyed it before. All the sun. Mike, dont pull a muscle or anything, now. We need you. We need you. Good to go today. Understand that, believe me. We do have mostly sunny day. Not as nice as yesterday. But still, this will be the last really good day until maybe sometime next week. 30s, 40s. 46. Vacaville, sneak in, 71 yesterday. 66 today. Palo alto, san jose, in santa rosa, all down a couple of degrees. And that trend will continue right into the weekend. And walltowall sent yesterday. From higher clouds are sneaking in right now. 24, half moon bay. Breezy in hayward, san jose also sfo. , most of the lows up. We still had a few 30s. But not nearly the amount we had yesterday. Word what is 50. Our first system is right there. Saturday, much stronger system, the. It is on tap for sunday, sunday night into monday with a lot of mountain snow. What looks to be pretty good reins as well. Starting sunday going into monday. The stronger system is on sunday. 50s cities on your temps today. The okay. Sal is here es no debris repor southbound 680. Right near 580. A pallet in the road. Last few days, we have a lot of debris. From this live picture, things are light out there. Because, of course, a lot of people are working from home and schools are but when crashes do happen, they tend to faster and sometimes they block all the lanes. We dont have anything right now but we will keep you posted. It is 8 30 to. Lets send it back to the headlines. All right, sal, thank you. The monthly jobs report came in this morning and the on deployment rate is expected to get a lot worse before it gets better. Lets check in with ktvus pam cook for this mornings dollars and cents. 700,000 jobs last month, that compares to 100,000 that economists were predicting. Even more telling, what is called the household survey. That survey helps the Labor Department come up for the actual on deployment rates. And that survey indicates nearly 3 of work. So again, we get those reports in. They are expected worse. No,ing bell rent this morning, stocks had been lower. That bad news, is the offset by good news for investors and workers in the energy sector. At the price of oil is up. Amid talk of increasing production. Taking a live look at our the big board, more numbers dropping a little bit. No doubt about 300 points or so for the dow. The s p 500 and the nasdaq down about 1 1 4. When any 3rd . It will be very interesting to see where they close as we could see a bigger drop by the time we head back to the closing bell. It will take some time for that 2 trillion stimulus package to filter down to many Small Businesses. Today, it is when they can start applying for special federal loans that will be forgiven if they retain their employees and use the money for approved reasons. Such as rent or utilities. However, bank of america is the only big bank that is announced. Its application processes up and ready this morning. The other banks say the program has been lacking specific guidelines, more thorough details and guidelines for reportedly given to them but late last night. Now, here, california Governor Newsom says Small Businesses will still have a wide range of options for state and federal assistance. The package includes 50 million in loan guarantees for businesses that are not eligible for federal relief. Newsom is also proposing a one year deferral of sales tax receipts up to 50,000, plus a Program Offering payroll protection grants. If you commit to keeping your employees, even if you have no business, even if your business is closed, but you pay your employees, this is a grant program. Not a loan program. The state of california has set up a website called the wall street journal nine to help people connect with companys that are actively hiring right now. Now, just to give you an idea. The job losses in that report this morning. Not surprising. The biggest, travel and hospitality industry. That is actually followed by health care and social services. And and Business Services retail and construction. That is a look at your mornings dollars sense. Lets go back to mike. All right, pam, thank you for deaths. It is springtime. That means that will state markets pop. That is not the case. The Real Estate Market here in the bay area is definitely taking a hit. The San Francisco Business Journal reports 250 active listings just in the city. They were pulled off the market during the second week of march compared to just 16 listings removed the week before. San mateo and alameda county, seeing more than 100 listings pulled. And in Santa Clara County, that number was nearly 200. Auto mechanics considered an essential business but during this pandemic, there are not many customers out there for those mechanics. Some mechanics say business is down 90 . The shop owners talk and keep her and say they are all hurting. We talked every day and they see didnt have work. Say we dont have work. We are hanging in there. I have been here for 13 years. I dont want to close the shop. The auto shops say they take precautions to prevent the spread of the virus. They wear gloves, and at protective. A west United States, more than 1 million women are expecting to give birth the next three months. Many are now questioning having a traditional hospital delivery. Pregnancy can be a stressful time for many. Many parents are worried that their hospital will be understaffed as the coronavirus patients. Some women are turning to home birth. Most of those are already booked out. It is honestly they dont know where they are going to end up. That is really, really sad. Looking forward to having my parents, my brother and the kids involved. Many say it is a strange time to be isolated from families. Some are trying to find a silver lining. They will be even more memorable. They will have more quality time together to bond with their new babies. Lets focus on what is happening in south bay because the nursing home there is now dealing with cluster of coronavirus cases. Nearly 200 people are housed at Canyon Springs in east san jose. Officials say the two residents and four staffers tested positive for covid19. One resident was discharged before test results came back. The other is in the hospital. 26 other residents and staffers are now being tested. I think the situation with in the a nursing home or any confinement situation like a person for example, can be concerning. Canyon springs caters the people who need care after hospitalization as well as those with dementia. Officials say that stricter protocols are in place, including screen staff and essential visitors and monitoring residents more friendly. Candace burns said, quote, our top priority remains the health and wellbeing of everyone in our facility. And retail giant target is doing more to help stop the spread of coronavirus at its stores. They will start monitoring the number of customers at its stores and the limit will vary from store to store. The goal is to make sure theres enough room for social distancing. Target will also begin supplying store cashiers with masks and gloves in the coming weeks. Well, lets focus in on the next few days. Steve paulson, because we are going to get wet. It looks like sandy, he said, its the biggest a. That is correct. By far. Sunday into saturday night, and also monday. Not only for rent but it really navigate mountain snow is the way it is looking. Not only taco, truckee, but also into shasta and last night. We have alreadt as cold as yest average high is now in 63. The record is 39 41, the record low. And then 50s and mainly mid60s here, by this afternoon. It just a lot of high clouds kind of scooting through. More of an onshore breezes kitchen on the northwest. Not that strong. But enough of a breeze to stir things up. 30s for a few. 40s, even 50. Hayward, sfo, and even half moon bay. Theres the for system. That will give us some rain on saturday. It will weaken as it moves up. It will have some okay ring. We might get a break saturday night, saturday evening, into early sunday. Theres going to be some heavy sierra snow. It is fast. In fact, it keeps things going all the way into monday. Maybe tuesday, by tuesday night, i think the low will start to work its way toward central in southern california. It is in line for significant snow through the middle of next week. We will get some pretty good rain out of this. Santa rosa, santa cruz mountains, rushing river, marin county as well. It is the huge amounts up in the Sierra Nevada, i mean, you are seeing 38 to almost 40 inches of snow being forecast for kirkwood through monday at 3 00 a. M. More than that. Probably on monday afternoon into tuesday. For some. 50s, 60s on their temps today. Mostly sunny. The when will. About the weekend. Offandon rain will take us into the weekend and than some pretty cool conditions. Thunderstorms on monday into tuesday. Mike and gasia . All right, steve, thank you. Well, today would have been ines de for baseball. Instead, theres no hope will home opener. Still to come on the 9 00, we are going to be speaking live with giants ceo mary baer about his action. Plus, Historic Building in the east bay now been converted into a medical station to help handle the anticipated surge of patients. Coming up to hear why city leaders say the prevailing enrichment is an ideal location. 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. Learning fema told a House Oversight committee that most of the 1000 ventilators present or promised the is what happened in wont be available until june. Fema Officials Say shortage of ventilators would get pushed by the middle of this month before the coronaVirus Outbreak possibly peaks. They have distributed tens of minutes of respirators, masks and gloves and 8100 ventilators from the Strategic National stockpile. Right now, the focus, though, is on acquiring those 100,000 ventilators. All of those vendors that we are buying them from will need potentially will need help in their supply chains with their suppliers. The white house announced a President Trump is invoking the defense production act to clear up supply chain issues encountered in the manufacturing of ventilators and to ensure the production of additional n95 masks. Theres new recognition out there that if one should wear a mask when they are in public to keep the virus from spreading. Ktvus Elissa Harrington joins us live with more on the story. Elissa, good morning. Good morning mike. People need to know that this does not have to to be a hospital grade mask. This needs to be a cloth, face covered, Something Like a bandanna, a towel or a tshirt. Anything that covers your nose and mouth. No, intermediate majors cities were the virus is pretty, people already covering up outside. I study wearing the mask today. I was coming out to costco and figured i need to take as much protection as i possibly can. It is the epicenter of the national crisis. So, yeah, im terrified to go outside. During the state of in order, you should only be out for essential needs like going to the doctor or getting groceries. No, health Officials Say when you do run those areas, you need to cover your face. Face coverings when combined with social distancing and handwashing. Better protect yourself and others from transmission of covid19. When it comes to masks, Officials Say its not just that someone can be infected and that no one. They are also putting the virus can linger in the air longer and travel further than the previously thought. The virus can actually be spread even when people just speak as opposed to coughing and sneezing. The better part is that when you are out and you cant maintain that sixfoot distance, wear some sort of facial covering. Now, another thing Health Officials want to make sure you know is that when you you a cough covering, dont just use it over and over again. Wash it every time you come home in hot water with soap. Those n95 masks, hospital grade masks should be reserved for hospital workers and First Responders. Reporting live, im Elissa Harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. All right, alyssa, thank you for that in the city of richmond, the craneway pavilion is getting converted into a medical ation for it is kind of located right along the water there in richmond. It will become a 250 bed medical station for coronavirus patients. The National Guard is bringing beds and medical supplies are coordinated by contra costa county. The proponent will only be used if local hospitals run out of room to handle covid 19 patients. Were going to be the intermediary. We will be kind of a triage. We will be sending people either to the hospital or if they are on their way to recovery, for them to quarantine themselves at home. Nogo over the years, the pavilion has hosted craft fairs, will be the riveter federal, even a Bernie Sanders valley. It is providing food to medical supplies for people need. There. He says it is contributing 25 million every year to areas affected by covid19. Provide meals for food bank. Planning to deliver the money and donations worldwide. The commercial fishing industry is also taking a hit during this health crisis. This is what San Franciscos fishermens look like a virtual ghost town. It has gone way down because of all of the restaurants that are closed. One fishman says he usually only sells to restaurants. He has made a change to try and stay in business. But pretty scared that we lost all our restaurant business. We immediately pivoted to home delivery. Of Fishermens Association says 80 of the seafood caught in the u. S. Goes to restaurants. West talk about what is happening here at home in the bay area. Health Officials Say that Golden Gate Fields is shutting down due to the increased concerns over the coronavirus. The truck was only allowing essential personnel. Still life horseracing. The county leaders said the trick is not an essential business. The tight quarters make it impossible to maintain a safe distance. It is home to more than 1200 and 400 people work there to take care of there. Being trained to sniff out the coronavirus. The charity in england is preparing for dogs to work on the front lines, living up cases of covid19 within seconds. The charity is training the dogs the same way they were trained to detect diseases. The team screens people, targeting those individuals. This could really help reduce the spread and also to understand how the spread is occurring. Officials with the charity say that six weeks should be enough time to train the dogs. People looking for a pet to keep them company right now can find some great ways to do so. They are sponsoring the adoption fees for all animals at the antioch Animal Services. Antioch residents will still need to pay a 20 licensing fee. Adoptions right now are taking place by appointment only. Mike mibach, my children have been bugging me for a dog for years. I am beginning to consider it. I know you are adopting, one of the best things you and your family have done. Dont consider it, gasia. Just go out and do it. With you make that move, you will never look behind. No, it has been wonderful. She loves having us around. All i time now. You can tell she is on the couch, on the bed, under our blankets now. But look, it is been a rough week. How about three weeks for children being stuck at home . You can tell the difference because they do bond with their dog and it puts a smile on their faces. My children smoker hey, im smiling with them right there. If you dont have a dog and you want to adopt one, i recommend it. I recommend getting out today, Steve Pickett tomorrow and sunday, definitely going to be wet. It is going to be a lot tougher. Today is the day to do it. You might be able to tomorrow. Some bricks in the rain. Saturday afternoon. Before the stronger system comes in. The average high is not bump it up. 41, the record love. 1901. A few high clouds, you know, not that sunshine. We had yesterday. Advance of the system which will be here on saturday. It will paint a little bit more rain north of the golden gate it will start to weaken as it moves south. By the time we get to sunday, sunday afternoon, that is when the stronger system moves in. It is going to go right along the coast. There could be some isolated areas of 2 1 2, not. Maybe Santa Christmas and we will get some rain. Underperformance. Not over perform. We will see if the hold on. The Sierra Nevada looks like a slamdunk. Those, just all conversations. This is a setup for them to get some really good early april now. That is not bad for early april. Today, mostly sunny. And it is a mike mibach go out and do it day. It is going to be lot to cover over the weekend. Storsystem sunday into monday. Maybe some thunderstorms those snow levels by then as well, you guys. Thank you. Still to come on the high t first, though, a nationwide blood shortage has the fda lexington rules. Details and changes to tell you how you can help after the break. 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. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Phil weathers use me who passed away was at today, yesterday . One of my favorite artist, people have been sending me requests since they found out about the news. Send me your request. Use the social media platforms facebook, twitter, instagram with the hashtag ktvu. 8 57, the fda is relaxing its restrictions on blood donations from and bisexual men. Previously only male donors who i had not had sex with another man in the past 12 months were allowed to donate. That limit has been shortened to the past three months. It is also been reduced for women who have had sex with a man who has had sex with another man. Lgbtq advocates welcomed the change, especially in a time of a shortage in nation blood supply. Scott weiner says even the relaxed regulations are based on a viewpoint from the past. When reviewed hiv is only a disease affecting men , intravenous drug users, when there was not good testing. The skate state senator men cannot donate blood to find someone who can, and donate on their behalf. Today would have been golden gate parks preview of the big day tomorrow that wouldve been the 100 150th birthday celebration, because of the coronavirus pandemic, most of tomorrows plant festivities have been postponed. Instead, there will be a virtual celebration. One with videos, podcasts, and photo albums onto taste the big milestone. We posted all the information about the virtual celebration on ktvu. Com. And, when the party happens later this year, we will bring that to you. Some children at a Childcare Center in the east bay are enjoying easter eggs thanks to an early visit from the easter bunny. The city operated facility canceled its annual Community Family day in the park. Organizers decided to use the eggs from the canceled egg hunt to hand them out curbside instead. Yesterdays deliveries also gave teachers at the center a chance to see the children from a distance. It is a great opportunity to get out here and show the community that we are still here, we care about them and want everyone to be safe. With the Current Situation it is nice to offer something to the parents and let them get out the house a little bit. The Community Center has also been delivering bags of food to people in need. The my hero bay area spotlight this morning is shining on alvin schad and his family. They own best coast burritos with locations in oakland and emeryville. Over the past week they have been donating hundreds of burritos to hospital Emergency Rooms across the bay area. If you would like to get a meal to healthcare workers, he has created a gofundme page. We posted a link to that campaign on our website, ktvu. Com. You will find it under the web links tab. This morning on the 9, we know dozens of California Church members are sick with covid19. Why they continue to gather, even after the Church Building shut its doors. Plus, bay area baseball fans have to wait for next seasons home opener. We are talking live with the giant ceo and president about the change in plans due to the coronavirus pandemic. Also, cooking well quarantined. How to whip up a legitimate meal with what you already have in your fridge and pantry. We are talking live with east bay caterer, olivia cole, to get her take on flexible pantry