Briefing but we are keeping an eye on the governors movements today. Lets start in the bay area. Another county moving into phase two of the gavin newsom road to recovery. Contra costa county loosening up earlier restriction rules and is paid Business Owners could not be more excited and we go to ktvu Sara Zendehnam for details. Took a while to get here. Moving into phase two gets Contra Costa County one step closer to feeling somewhat normal again. At 6 00 a. M. The lucent shelter in place orders went into effect. A few hours later the protect you and Body Piercing and walnut creek open for Curbside Pickup zebra can only sell jewelry and the like for now. It is a step in the right direction. We are having limited staff, obviously. But slowly, we bring more employees back on. Hopefully opening up our perky location. Part of the counties entering the first part of phase two. Reporter businesses can offer Curbside Pickup. Manufacturers can also reopen with strict guidelines being in place. Businesses have to put social distancing marks on the ground and customers cannot shop inside and displays cannot be set outside with items for sale. We will stick their order in the band while they are six feet apart and closed the door and they can gather their purchases. With the easing of the rules of the county allows for outdoor gatherings where people stay in their cars. Coronavirus cases are stable and hospitalizations are down which gives businesses more freedom now in walnut creek shots are ready for what is to come. Just trying to rethink everything and do things smarter. It works out for the first phase. I am patiently waiting for the next phase. Reporter Sara Zendehnam ktvu fox 2 news. Check county by county for reopening. On the ktvu app there is a list of what is open where on the top of the first page. The number of coronavirus continue to rise here in california. A bit of good news to talk about. Close to 82,000 covid19 cases in our state, with 3287 deaths. Here in the bay area there are more than 11,000 cases with a total of 399 deaths and for the first time in two months the bay area reported no coronavirus deaths for two consecutive days. Today were the first reported deaths in the bay area in san mateo county. The u. S. Treasury and secretary of the treasury and Federal Reserve chair give an update today on a Senate Hearing on the state of the economy on the covid19 crisis. Jerome powell warned the longer the country is shut down the greater the potential for economic longterm damage as more than 36 million americans are out of work. Steven mnuchin testified about how federal relief money from the care act is being spent and questioned about what should have been next to get the economy back on track. One senator said the Federal Reserve by state and local government bonds. Projections released by moodys reveals that every state in the nation is already or will soon face historic budget shortfalls. The sacrifices we are making represents an investment. As policymakers we should continue to do what we can to cushion the blow. We have distributed 150 billion to states, local and tribal governments to the Coronavirus Relief fund for Central Services and weve improved nearly 25 billion and payload support for the airline industry. The chair, Jerome Powell, warned the Unemployment Rate could jump to 20 nationwide before things stabilize. The irs will mail out more than 4 million stimulus payments. Its already issued 140 million piece payments. People can make purchases and transfer funds without incurring any fees. Governor newsoms task force on businesses and jobs recovery is asking congress to pass 1 trillion in emergency relief for state and local governments. The letter signed by 91 california leaders, including bob iger and marc benioff outlines the budgetary challenges the state and local governments are facing right now. It would help with Contact Tracing in testing and preventing layouts for teachers, Police Officers and other first responders. A few hours ago President Trump said on twitter more than 700 million of federal funding coming to the bay area and use to support continued operations at San Francisco international airport. It will go to public transport including community in part to help with their economic recovery. Sfo has announced some nonstop service to europe will resume next month. There have been no flights to europe since april 1st. The airport announced it expects Additional Service to japan starting next month. The drug company madenra has a vaccine showing promises of health. The first vaccine to be tested in humans. Eat Healthy Volunteers were given two injections and madenra said it increase the ability for internet response. And why this trial appears to stand out. Reporter in the global race to find a vaccine, a cambridge biotech firm, madenra, provided hope. This induced a response and everyone that received the vaccine. Reporter it involved just 45 volunteers who were given multiples shots of the sarscov 2 vaccine. The study found all of the volunteers developed antibodies, with eight people having levels high enough to neutralize the virus. Our vaccines work. Coding the information the virus uses to take over ourselves. The strategy that madenra is new and the blueprint for the protein directed energetically into the blood. Injecting the viruses blueprint is different from other coronavirus vaccines being developed around the world. A lot of the skill and innovation that madenra is contributing is forming that blueprint in a way that it is stabilized in your body is sore protein can be produced and antibodies can be produced. The more traditional method is using a purified protein and inject that into the blood stream making antibodies in the bloodstream. One of the benefits is production. Its much more easy to make in large scale in manufacturing environments. You made last. Reporter there are potential pitfalls with new and unproven technology. It is very new. We have not seen a phase three trial with an m and ra based vaccine. So far the data looks good, as with everything that is novel, we dont have a lot of historical data. Reporter she said volunteers should be credited because they did not require Animal Studies before human trials. We have to applaud the volunteers who signed up without animal data being there. They took a bit off the risk for the benefit of all. Lets go to wall street and after the market had more jobs. At this point we see the dow jones is below its starting point down 147 points using more than one half of 1 . The s p down slightly after seeing some nice pumps. The nasdaq text heavy index is up almost one half bath 1 . The nasdaq will unveil new restrictions on companies to go public. The tighter rules will make it harder for Companies Based in china to debut on the nasdaq. It fouls in initial Public Offering last year followed by an internal investigation that showed the cfo and other employees fabricated sales numbers. The nasdaq will expect the auditing of firms handling candidates. Still to come here at noon. President trump threatens to cut funding to the world health organization. How the w. H. O. Is now responding. The rain has moved out of the bay area and warmer weather on the way. Rosemary orozco will be along with your full forecast coming up. Got it . Got it. Its slippery. Nooooo. Noooo. Nooooo. Yeeeesss. Quick, the quicker picker upper bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. Hey look, i got it. Bounty, the quicker picker upper. Z3vx9z z1s6z the w. H. O. Meeting for second straight day to coordinate the Global Response against the pandemic. A diplomatic fight could complicate containment efforts. Ktvu greg palkot has more. Reporter some 4. 8 million confirmed cases around the world, the kronos outbreak is still spreading. Tics overshado following a new threat to cut funding to the w. H. O. The president tweeting a picture of his letter overnight writing it is selfexplanatory. What do we get for the 400 million we give in china giving a fraction of that. The president said thats enough where we get very little in return. It shows an alarming lack of independence from china and the white house blames beijing for the worldwide spread of the virus and complains that chinese officials withheld information that could have avoided a pandemic. China pushing back strongly. It is futile to mislead the public in this way to slander china and its control efforts as it covers for its own incompetence. New outbreaks in some areas. W. H. O. Said Contact Tracing is the best way to make sure economies stay open and avoid a second wave of the virus. Use tests and isolate them in the economy will be able to go one. The w. H. O. Has 30 days to make major improvements or he will withdraw u. S. Membership in funding. In london, greg calcutta, ktvu fox 2 news. U. S. And canada will stay closed for all nonessential travel through at least june 21st. The original order was set to expire this week. The two countries doing well handling the pandemic but many canadians fear of reopening because of how many cases there are here in the u. S. I am out for a short walk before he jumps into the 4 00 p. M. News later today. That sounds lovely. That would be a great idea, gasia. The sunshine is back and we look at a dry and warmer forecast. Outside our doors at this hour we are having a mix of sunshine and clouds with a little bit of moisture. The sierra still with a bit of snow. Here is a view over sfo and you can see blue sky mixed in and at the bottom of your screen with got that bush thats moving around as the breeze is out there with us as well. 60 degrees in San Francisco. 60s in oakland and mid to upper 60s for the east bay of livermore livermore, as well as san jose. Temperatures started out cooler and we have flipped around and temperatures up a few degrees over napa, santa rosa, nevada by five. Palo alto, Half Moon Bay tag cooler for you there. The winds are light for the north wind. For oakland 14 Miles Per Hour in fairfield. A gentle breeze at three Miles Per Hour for you there. How about where we see the wet weather. A look at the entire state and into nevada it is moving there and as we look toward the sierra we have light rain and snow falling in the foothills as well as Higher Elevations of snow. Look where we ca few sprinkles over areas of the bay into the north bay and it looks over the postal range and Higher Elevations, picking up on a little bit of moisture around seven afl and over areas of the bay bridge in areas over east bay hills, as well as, the Santa Cruz Mountains. We have seen quite a bit of rainfall in our hills for the last few days. Here is a look at the sierra where you can see white and pink out there. Snow to be down to about 1600 feet for today. There is an advisory for Winter Travel that goes until 5 00 p. M. There is a look at your afternoon and the moisture hanging on to areas in the state. For us we are mostly dry and with partly cloudy skies into the evening hours. Afternoon highs for today. Seasonal and upper 60s for san rafael and 71 for the north bay and the east bay 72 expected over antioch. 67 berkeley, 65 in San Francisco. Low 60s for the coastline areas right over pacifica in Half Moon Bay and 70 degrees for our well as gilroy. Your extended forecast here. We have dry weather moving forward and temperatures warm up wednesday into thursday and take a slight dip on friday and getting into your bay area weekend which happens to be memorial day weekend, upper 70s the low 80s and 70s around the bay and 60s expected around the coast. If you like it warmer the weather is on the way. Back to you. Auto plants back in business is more and more states ease coronavirus restrictions. Jonathan ciri talks about the precautions they are taking to keep the workers safe. By memorial day weekend every state will have started to ease restrictions. Massachusetts and connecticut lift measures this week, or california, new york and texas are planning for the return of pro sports. Sporting events, pro sports in the first week or so of june without spectators and modifications and very prescriptive conditions. More 130,000 auto workers are returning to the job is plants restart operations. 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Investigators looking into the death of a man found on the rail tracks this morning. Real workers responded fy15 near san leandro and oakland. Police are working to find out how and when that person was hit. 11 residents at the vallejo nursing home have died from an outbreak of covid19. The chronicle reports it happened at Windsor Care Center and 99 residents and 32 Staff Members have contracted the virus. The outbreak has affected more than 80 of the population at that nursing home. County Public Health officials are working with staff at staff at the nursing home to try to manage the outbreak. A uc Berkeley Fraternity taking heat for holding an end of year party in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. As rob roth reports city Officials Say everyone, including young people should practice social distancing to keep the entire community safe. At this fraternity off bank partway students were moving out for the summer. Here in the grounds of the frat name is ae. Cans and bottles of alcohol and paper cups littered the front patio. This was a photo posted on social media and it shows dozens of students attending the end of the school year party this weekend. It shows almost no one practicing social distancing. Berkeleys mayor says is risky. People should not have prep parties or allow large people to congregate. There is a very real risk of students and people attracting and spreading covid19. Berkeley Police Responded to all claim of noise. Everyone is at risk. This is really important for our community to help control the spread and to fight this virus. People responded more harshly. Watch the covid19 numbers and berkeley jump next week wrote one person. Another answered back said they are heading home outside of berkeley. I would not look for numbers to rise in berkeley as much as other places. And that is what concerns city leaders. Its the potential for spread. Its not only covid19 in your community but make sure you dont spread it when and other people in your community at risk. We encourage all of our students and Campus Community do adhere to all covid19 requirements, including practicing physical distancing and be respectful to our uc berkeley community. It could hold individuals or Fraternity Liable for violating any student kong rules. Distract the bay area taking a huge financial hit because of the virus. We break down how many jobs have been lost so far. Next. The longawaited piece of information revealed that this mornings ceremony for the bart station. Ktvu and donate to the Latino Community community. Harness the power with the Latino Community foundation. Well i switched to swiffer wet jet its an allinone so its ready to go when i am. The cleaning solution actually breaks down dirt and grime. So, it prevents streaks and haze better than my old mop. Plus, its safe to use on all my floors, even wood. Glad i got that off my chest and the day off my floor. Try wet jet with a moneyback guarantee Contra Costa County is loosening restrictions moving into phase two of the states reopening plan. Businesses can open up for Curbside Pickup, while providing social distancing guidelines for staff and customers waiting outside. Manufacturers that supply the retailers can reopen. Health Officials Say while the county is showing progress they nailed it to follow safety guidelines. They will need to continue to ask all of our Community Members to follow our key members to help stop the spread. Social distancing, wearing face coverings in public. There are new guidelines allowing people to gather while in their cars. Events cannot longer than three hours. And there has to be a host to make sure Health Guidelines filed in food sales and motorcycles are not allowed in the gatherings. Santa clara county will allow more Retail Businesses to open up this friday. No customers allowed inside stores. Many stores have managed to do business by filling online orders and shipping them out. County Officials Say they can take the step now because they did not see a spike after construction work was allowed to resume. In the time that it has transpired since then, almost two weeks weve had an incubation. That has not resulted in massive infections or clusters. The county is lifting its been a driveby celebrations and post two weeks ago. People are still from the same household and no one is allowed to leave the car. They need more mass testing and Contact Tracing before salons and churches can open. Mayor london breed helped celebrate the opening of the store green apple books. The city will follow Health Guidelines as they ramp up the economy. She understands why people want to happen quickly. We appreciate there is Curbside Pickup at retail. When i go by my candles i want to walk around even if i cant touch something. City Health Officials will keep a close watch to see if the number of cases increases and if there is a good trend customers could be allowed back into some stores by early next month. Check county by county information on reopening with the ktvu app. We are keeping a running list right at the top of the page. The city council in san jose hearing on a plan to get back into business. The city is considering a plan to let Restaurant Owners set up tables and the proposal would allow Public Recreation space to be used and applied to other outdoor Business Activities including gems and yoga studios as well. The city of san mateo, and berkeley, are considering similar proposals right now. The governor has hinted some in store shopping could be weeks away. The owner of one gift shop isnt waiting in the find the shut down order. Ktvu ashley shows us the ownership. Going against the health order and the gift store out of the envelope on the citys main drag. I was set up a long time ago but now i am really fed up. The Stores Closed in march with sales down 98 . No assistance from the government. Mary reopened earlier this month. You are allowed to walk into safeway and a lot of places. They have the guidelines in place. We have the same guidelines. Inside the store everyone must wear a mask with a limit of three customers inside at one time and customers as to stay six feet apart. Retailers can offer storefront and Curbside Pickup only starting friday. The last county in the base area to enter phase two. We have a population susceptible to covid19. We do not have a vaccine. Thats why we have been proceeding very slowly. I think they are making decisions based on what they want and not what we need. The store has gone from creating wedding invitations to selling yard signs and making t shirts. A bestseller, gavin newsom, not essential. Made and thunder but to make a point. He decided after eight works i was nonessential. Im essential and they do matter. Im a little confused because everyone else is not open. I felt a little uncomfortable going into the store. Reporter cheese garnered support. As a Small Business owner you need to do what you need to do. For those questioning their decision she says she feels strongly about her opinion. Ktvu ktvu fox 2 news. Massive job cuts worldwide, and certainly here in the bay s 100,000 people haveoff over the past 10 weeks. Tesla alone laid off more than 11,000 workers. Air b b air b b and the ymca and the ymca laid off 2000 workers. The Golden State Warriors cut more than 1700 jobs from the teams parttime event staff. Jcpenney plans to close 30 of its stores. They will close 200 stores this fiscal year and 50 more next year as it looks to turn its business around. They have yet to identify which stores will be closed and how many employees will lose their jobs. Last bankruptcy came years after declining sales for jcpenney. The latest local tech firm allows employees to work at home. Ceo jack dorsey will allow the square employees to work at home. It fouls a similar policy announced by twitter the other San Francisco firm led by jack dorsey. At the back plans to bring back its employees. The ceo estimates 30 capacity with as many as 60 rotating in the office, maybe once a week he said. He made that on the verge cast podcast. The senator is the secretary in the Federal Reserve chairman appeared before a Senate Committee today answering questions about the federal governments response to the Economic Impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Foxs Lauren Blanchard with the latest. Vice president pence and secretary nation meeting with republican leadership. The senate must deal with the 3 trillion relief bill, the heroes act. Secretary nguyen and federal share Jerome Powell from head to the Senate Banking committee to answer why there have been so many issues with the paycheck protection program. We had certain concerns in the first tranche. I believe its been corrected. The first time lawmakers can question how where well here projects are handled. When can we see who is getting the dollars. Everything is posted on our website. As much transparency you said, as a senator from antenna and a member of the banking community, i am not seeing any of it. Reporter in the meantime President Trump said monday hes taking the antiviral drug icq. What do you have to lose, okay . Speaker nancy pelosi said she would rather him not take it because he can have significant side effects. His age group and his great group, morbidly obese, as they say. Its not a good idea. Any use of hydroxychloroquine and has to be discussed with your doctor. President trump threatening to permanently pull funding saying it has an alarming lack of independence from china. Lauren blanchard, fox news. This morning at the white house President Trump announced a plan to provide billions of dollars to help farmers and ranchers whod been hit hard. Farmers they say 40 of what they produce good restaurants. Restaurants forced to shut down offering only Delivery Service have nowhere to sell the products. My administration is launching a sweeping new initiative. The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and we are providing 19 million to support our agriculture producers. The president said 16 billion would go directly to farmers and ranchers. New in noon. We now know part service will be available. The final safety inspections have been completed for lupitas and other stations. Part pains will begin june 13. The warm spring stations, the part in the cta signed a 2. 3 billion extension. This is an exciting day, not only for part in the city of san jose, but for the people of the bay area. What is so exciting as having transit that can next five counties. People, real people can be connected. The only thing left before passengers are allowed as the California Public utilities commission. That agency has 14 days to approve. Still to come here at noon. More children impacted by a mystery illness that could be connected to the coronavirus and the new cases we are learning now in california. Sunshine across the bay area with warmer weather on the way. Ktvu Rosemary Orozco will be here with your full forecast coming up. We are learning about more cases of a mystery illness going to covid19 here in california. Four children and been diagnosed with a rare inflammatory disease. The children tested positive for for covid19 and 22 cases under investigation. The cdc plans to include the bay area in the nationwide study of more than 3000 people to track how the coronavirus is spreading. Samples taken over 18 months to attempt to track the spread to see how the antibodies evolve. A preliminary version set to begin in june or july including the bay area, los angeles and new york. Samples will be tested for antibodies created for when the immune system has the virus. Three new systems opening up in the new sites help the citys underserved communities and conducted at the Bayview Health center, the Tenderloin Recreation Center and the city college rec center. Combined they can test more than 500 people each day. Times and appointments very at these three locations. For the first time in six weeks some san jose restaurants were back in business. Customers who buy their favorite food items and drinks from 10 vendors at san pedro square in downtown. It was only walkup service and they were facemasks, plastic shields and social distancing. Its important to have a small piece of their normal ba. We are incredibly excited ne normal real soon. Its been hard for everyone, especially the downtown community. We are the heart of downtown san jose. Community leaders same nearly 95 of its downtown san jose has been shut down and even though businesses are not turning a profit they are bringing in some money to get through this difficult time. In oakland the city launched a 625 thousand relief fund to help the east bay artists who face a financial crisis due to the pandemic. The city is teaming up with a private foundation to offer direct grants of up to 2000 to artists, our teachers and nonprofit arts workers. The grant money will help all the east struggling to make ends meet, especially those in underserved communities. In just 20 minutes or so since we checked in with you, Rosemary Orozco, my window has gone from bright sun, to dark clouds, back to bright sunshine. Expect hello to you, gasia. Hello to you alex. As the system thats given us quite a bit, moves off to the east. A live look at the oakland estuary. We have blue sky and cloud cover. A bit of a breeze in the wet weather still hanging on. Here is a few at sfo. We start a breeze out there in the winds will continue for your afternoon today. As far as rainfall amounts, urban areas have picked up anywhere from a half inch to an inch of rainfall and are there is more than that. Mount diablo more than an inch reported there. Mount tam more than two inches, Santa Cruz Mountains more than 2. 5 inches. This is all great news and we are way below the seasonal average. Now the system begins to push out over areas of nevada and you can see scattered showers up over the sierra. Some just skirting the central and southern portions of california. For us, not so much. It loose looks like the san joaquin valley. Into the sierra we continue with light snow falling. Between 6000 feet and 6500 feet. We do have an advisory for travel that goes until 5 00 p. M. For areas above 6500 feet above 50 as well as 80 and a few inches of new snow fall expected for today and over the last 24 to 46 hours several inches of snowfall reported. For us a mix of sunshine and clouds and a few sprinkles. Temperatures range from the low 60s at the coast to low 70s inland. Write about where we should be and it had cool for some of our inland cities. Here is a look. North bay 63 in novato. 68 in brentwood. A pretty day for you there. Low 60s in hayward and 61 San Francisco. Upper 60s by the water in Half Moon Bay. 60 degrees over pacificalow 70s bay side communities and into our inland cities 69 into napa and 72 for antioch. A beautiful 71 for you san jose and 78 los gatos as well as santa cruz. If you look for warmer weather is on the way wednesday into thursday. Upper 60s to low 70s and a tag cooler rolling into the final day of the week and the weekend happens to be memorial day weekend. 70s and around bay. Upper 70s to low 80s for our inland cities. It looks like the warmer day. Back to you. Rosemary, thank you. Parking lots at state parks are slowly opening across the state of california. They were close to reduce crowds and maintain social distancing. Only a portion is open. People should avoid people from their own household. The capital cove boat launch. They must be inspected before they are allowed in the water. Five other launchers including pleasure cold and canyon opened and rv camping was open at five locations and tent camping is not allowed. The Visitors Center is not open. Helmet prototypes with modified facemasks that might contain surgical or n95 material. The and that the medical dr. Was not sure how the modifications would work but the engineers working with oakley could find a design that covers a players entire face mask. The nfl is still set on starting play in september, even as the three other major sports leagues are still in limbo. Still to come at noon. A remarkable achievement. A greatgrandmother took home a diploma from uc berkeley. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Him High School Seniors in south korea are headed back to class. The government decided to reopen schools to allow seniors to prepare for college exams. Students at lower grades will gradually resume classes starting may 27. Here at home students in alameda getting six extra days of vacation. The last day of school will be may 29th instead of june 8th. The Unified School District voted to end the Academic Year early. It would be better spent looking to spend time looking for improvements for fall. Virtual graduations are funded for more than 1000 High School Seniors. The supervisor wants to spend 103 thousand and cover caps and gowns and cover the seniors in the Jefferson High School district. The superintendent does not want covid19 to rob the seniors of this onceina lifetime milestone. Uc berkeleys class of 2020 graduates made of of mostly people in their early 20s and one woman with a great grandmother. Jules patrice means is a 67 yearold greatgrandmother who graduated socal with a lifetime of challenges from having a baby to suffering a stroke. One name of the cal students who could not graduate on stage this past week and because of the pandemic. As the school year winds down ktvu highlights teachers making a difference. Today mrs. Flack. Mrs. Fleck your student kaylee says you are her hero because you always believed in me and support me. Its because of you i like math again. Kaylee writes i am forever thankful thankful. You are a great and strong teacher. To nominate your teacher send us an email and tell us why they deserve to be recognized. Send photos and videos as well to my hero and fox tv. Com. During this time gardening has experienced a real boon. Many people digging into plants and plant growing for the first time as a way to alleviate the concerns surrounding this pandemic and Jackie Ibanez has the story. As people look for new ways to spend their time in quarantine, home gardening is blooming. Many plant vegetables to take control in these uncertain times. Its the perfect idea to have a roof garden. For some its about Building Community and maintaining a positive mindset. Its good for our Mental Health and its been good with connecting people as well. Others develop a green thumb out of necessity. Some unemployed workers are growing their own food to ease financial stress. For those with Underlying Health concerns its a way to avoid overcrowded grocery stores. The little amount of money that i would spend on maybe an ice cream here or there, or a special treat or alcohol is cut out completely to basics. Seed companies are reaping the benefits. Oneto keep up with this surge in demand. One day we sold a certain amount and the next day three times as much. This has never happened to us before. Prices gardening is not a new phenomenon. The number of people growing their own food spiked during both world wars and the 2008 financial crisis. Jackie ibanez fox news. The San Diego Zoo will not reopen as planned. They will limit the number of guests allowed and required staff and visitors to wear masks. County Health Officials did not realize zeus are forbidden to reopen by the state of californias rules. We are happy to share this new addition. The first pygmy hippo and more than 30 hippos. I know mike is on assignment and busy. Alex its been a treat having you here at noon and we can look forward to you and the four. Hopefully you can join us here at 4 00 p. M. A pleasure. Have a good rest of your day, everyone. Homes, we have more and more concerns. E more and is it ok if i visit friends and family and social distance from six feet apart . If i go showing, can i bring covid home . Dr. Oz should i use Public Restrooms . Is it safe to get a haircut . What surfaces are the most dangerous to touch . Were assessing the risk so you have the facts. Coming up next. [sirens blaring] dr. Oz its day 120 of the coronavirus pandemic in america. And today, im start