A family stuck in peru, after that government closed its borders and canceled all flights amid the covid19 outbreak, hoping to come back home soon. Tonight, a Bay Area Hospital tells us they need supplies. Well tell you what theyre looking for average break from the rain tomorrow, before a cool and wet system arrives on tuesday. Abc 7 news starts now. Good evening. Im eric thomas. The number of coronavirus cases in california has exploded over the weekend. There are now close to 1500 people infected with thousands more awaiting test results. The number of deaths is steadily rising, at least 27 people have died from coronavirus. President trump today declared a major disaster decoration for the state, because of the pandemic. Santa clara county reported two more deaths today from the coronavirus pushing the regional total up to 13. It is by far the most cases in the bay area, topping 300. But every county now has reported cases. Napa county, confirming today, two residents there have been infected. If was the last county in the, it was the last county in the region to have a case of the disease. The bay area total is just shor short of the 800 mark. Weve been getting questions from lake and Mendocino County and Mendocino County has one case and lake county has not had anyone infected. The president s major disaster declaration will bring in badlyneeded federal help to the state. It includes everything from mask care to unemployment assistance. The president activated the natural guard in california, washington and new york. It will cost the states nothing and gives them full control. Also, he is sending a hospital ship to l. A. The Naval Hospital ship, the usns mercy, which is an incredible ship, these two ships are incredible. One on the west coast, one on the east coast, deployed to los angeles, to add emergency surge medical capacity. The mercy is expected to arrive within a week. It has 12 fully equipped operating rooms, a thousand bed hospital, a medical lab and a pharmacy. President trump is also sending large quantities of medical supplies within the next 48 hours. As coronavirus cases continue to increase in the bay area, so does the need for medical supplies. The areas major hospitals say they are in need and now theyre asking for donations. Abc 7 News Reporter jr stone is following this story. Hes now live in San Francisco. Jr . Reporter well, eric, right now, many of these hospitals are okay, but it could be a much different story in just two to three weeks. A garage full of masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer, being donated to Bay Area Hospitals, by bella nails in san mateo. One of my longtime clients texted me and asked if there is any way i can help. Vivian nguyen did just that, by working with suppliers to donate 42,000 gloves and more than 1300 masks this. As coronavirus cases continue to rise. And Bay Area Hospitals are put to the test. Its challenging. Ill be honest with you. Because with the market, and the amount of supply availability. Reporter specialty medical swabs and gowns are in high demand at ucsf. They along with others like stanford are asking for things like unused n95 and surgical masks, and unopened packages of gloves, and unused protective goggle, and sanitizer. For the region, thats where a lot of the ppe manufacturing has been, and so when those started shutting down, our suppliers started getting impacted. Reporter ucsf students at the front line sunday, when we spoke with them, they had received more than 8,000 donated items. Were getting masks, surgical masks, and n95 masks, which is a lot of people bought for the wildfires and were also getting a lot of gloves, goggles and face shields and bunny suits. It feels good to help. There has been a lot of friends and family on social media who have reached out who are willing to help fund the cost for this, because obviously it takes a whole village. Reporter and back out here live, you are looking live at San Francisco, where all is quiet this evening. I can tell you, ucsf is holding supply donation events tomorrow at three different locations. Their mission location, the mountain zion location, and also the Childrens Hospital in oakland. Reporting live in San Francisco, jr stone, abc 7 news. Thank you. Ucsf is getting help from sales for, the ceo tweeted today that the sales force Community Delivered 9,000 masks to the hospital. It is now working to deliver another five million this week, along with other critical personal protective equipment. Santa clara county supervisor cindy chavez held a different kind of press conference this afternoon to update the countys efforts to respond to the coronavirus. She kept her social distance by holding a conference call, with Santa Clara ValleyMedical Center chief executive officers paul lorenz and other officials. County officials are preparing to treat a surge of critical ill patients if the virus spreads. That plan would include looking at all 2100 adult beds that we can equip and staff for critical ill patients. Lore enz says people without covid19 would be moved to other facilitates to accommodate the more seriously infected patients. One of those facilities is the city of santa claras convention center. It will be for up to 250 people who need medical care. President trump has called for eight of these federal medical stations to be set up in california, providing 2,000 additional hospital beds. Now to a story weve been covering all week. The wife of an abc 7 news employee has tested positive for covid19. Maria gomez is an employee of santa clara county. She and her husband have been self quarantining for a week and will continue to do so for another week, per the quarantine guidelines. Gomez is feeling much better, and her husband never had any symptoms. Well have more of an update on the family tomorrow, right here on abc 7. Hayward will take matters into its own hands tomorrow when the city opens up its own covid19 testing site. The site will be located near fire station seven apt and huntwood avenue. The hours from 9 00 in the morning until 6 00 in the evening. 200 to 350 tests will be administered daily, fwree ree o charge, open to first responder, medical personnel, and anyone who feels sick with symptoms of the virus. We obviously do have limited test kits each day, so we will test as many people as we can. W are working with the surrounding communities and the sal me da county Health Department to help other cities with test sites. The city is opening the site to alleviate pressure from Emergency Rooms an hospitals which is anticipating a surge in patients. Marin county, people could not stay away from the parks and inundated them and created a lot of anxiety among residents who were trying to practice social distancing and minimize contact. Cornell bernard found residents telling visitors to stay away. Reporter the residents took matters into their own hands posting themselves at the towns entrance pleading with visitors to turn around. They clapped and cheered when drivers obeyed. I want everyone to be aware that this isnt a spring break. It is not a vacation. It is a pandemic we are to stay at home. They posted signs to send a message. On saturday bolinas and Stinson Beach were overrun with cars and visitors looking for a break and beaches were packed. We wonder why it was okay to swarm Stinson Beach. Diana has lived in Stinson Beach for 50 years. We want to be safe. Im an old gray hair and i want to be safe, and i dont feel like i can even walk my dog right now. Someone posted these green flyers, saying if due live here, go home, and stay there. You are putting us in danger. Crowds force the closure of the stunson beach parking lot, sky oaks road on mount tam was also closed off due to crowds. The Sheriffs Department tweeted shelter in place is not a vai vacation. We strongly advise moving away from your home to enjoy the scenery somewhere else. We advise people to take the Public Health order seriously. Its not a joke. Its not a drill. It is important to practice social distancing. It is tough but the only reason im out here is exercise which is one of the activities. Diana urges everyone, please stay home. And if you need to walk, walk in your own neighborhood. We have a bad rap for hating tourists. But this isnt about that. Please come back. When everything is back to normal. We dont hate you. We heard some of these folks saying come back in a month, come back in two months, when things hopefully are safer. Sheriffs deputies who have been patrolling here most of the day seem okay with what is happening because locals are not blocking the road but local does say there is a large older population here in bolians and friends and relatives as you can plainly see doing their part to help keep everyone safe. Cornell bernard, abc 7 news. A los gatos restaurant has launched a no touch Grocery Store for shelter in place residents in western santa clara county. The grocery pickup lane includes various hard to find necessities including milk, egg, chicken, cheese, and of course, toilet paper. Abc 7 News Reporter luce pena has more on the story. Reporter it is complex measures but in this case, a very creative and timely way to go Grocery Shopping they found that it is a no touch store and a source says it is basically a drivethrough where you can pick up your groceries. Small business, restaurants and their employees are all struggling, pushing many Business Owners to pivot to survive. The whole idea is to keep them working so were not really making money doing this. Were doing this to make sure that families can feed their families. After closing five of the restaurants in the last week, alex holt came up with this. The no touch drive threw Grocery Store. You pull up, mcdonalds stooild style, you look at a menu that we offer and pick your choices and pull up to the next little place and you make your payment. Chicken and rice. A new concept targets social distancing. Something many shoppers have found complicated at the Grocery Store. I was about six feet in front of the person in front of me and someone stuck in between me and the person. And i let them know hey im trying to do the social distancing thing and he wanted nothing to do with me. The grocery pickup line, milk, eggs, chicken, cheese, and a family box to go. Family meals to go so people can go on door dash, and call in or just pull up and tell us what they want. Some might say this could be the Grocery Store of the future. Getting many excited, having to call and ask, not questions. And the first phone call, do you have toilet paper . Yes, they have toilet paper. 165 los gatos road. They open on monday, from 12 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. In the newsroom, luz pena, abc 7 news. Thank you very much. Bart sefrgs is being reduced starting tomorrow because of a huge drop in ridership during the pandemic. Stations will be open from ak in the morning until 9 00 in the evening on weekdays. Thats a threehour reduction in service. And Weekend Service will be reduced to 8 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Starting this upcoming saturday. People have to be in the station no later than 8 45 to catch the last train. It is also eliminated the extra commute trains. Bart says ridership is down 90 . Social distancing is being practiced at bay area bridges. They are now cashfree for the time being. The change went in effect yesterday at the seven bridges in the bay area. The Golden Gate Bridge has been cashfree for several years now. The goal is to minimize contact between toll collectors and drivers. Drivers without fast track will be billed by mail with cameras taking pictures of license plates. There is no change for those who already have fast track. From developing a faster test to cracking the coronavirus, the bay area is in the forefro a look at what scientists are doing right now to get a better understanding of the virus and how they can help in developing drugs to treat. It trying to get home a bay area family finds itself stuck into here country because, in another country because of the coronavirus. Hear from them and their or deal in peru. All kinds of weather right now. Mostly clear night with a beautiful view. As we look across the bay. A drooi dry day tomorrow. But more wet weather and cooler temperatures heading our everything was so fresh in the beginning. But that plug quickly faded. Luckily theres febreze plug. It cleans away odors and freshens for 1200 hours. Breathe happy with febreze plug. Breathe freely fast, with vicks sinex. My congestions gone. I can breathe again ahhhh i can breathe again ughh vicks sinex. Breathe on. Do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we needed somebody to lean on lease the volvo xc40 for 329 per month. At your local volvo retailer. If youre thinking to head to clear lake in lake county, think again. The county Health Department has ordered the closure of all waterways to boating. Motels and hotels and Vacation Rentals are no longer able to take reservations but there are exceptions. People who have to be lake county residents or essential employees. Right now the race to find a treatment for this virus is happening in the bay area at ucsf where scientists are on a mission to break down the dna of the virus, and identify which of the human proteins it interacts with. That information will provide a critical road map for scientists. Theres a lot of effort out there trying to develop drugs to target the virus, which is great. Were taking a different approach. Were looking step by step, starting at the exact protein but branching out and expanding that list, to see what we have that could sort of corden off the virus. Ucsf researchers have found about 50 drugs that are already fda approved that interact with the same proteins as the virus and theyre looking for more. Peru has sealed its borders in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In the south american country, hundreds of american tourists are stranded, including a Santa Rosa Police officer, and his family. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to a local family and has their story. Reporter it started as a dream vacation. Two days later, the unexpected happened. 4 00 or 5 00 in the morning, we woke up, on monday morning and had that panic, out of the bed, and oh, my gosh, peru is closing the borders, we need to get out. Exactly a week ago today. Perus president declared a state of emergency. Closing their borders and mandating a 15day quarantine. Tourists were given 24 hours to evacuate. And we went down to the airport, and the airport had been surrounded by the peruvian military and they were basically barring anyone from coming into the airport. And the family is not alone. Theres also a facebook group, over 3,000 members, who say theyre also american, stuck in peru. Hoping for the u. S. Government to get back to them, and fly them back home. California congressman jared hubman says at least 30 of his constituents, including the family we talked about are stranded overseas. What is the u. S. Doing to bring the families back . Right now theyre really not and that is part of our frustration. The state department is giving useless advice, telling people to search the private airlines web sites for flight, and flights are getting canceled. Today, the words from President Donald Trump during the press conference were directed to this group of americans. Were working very hard on getting a young group of people out of peru. Words that the family are holding on to, while looking at this map of confirmed covid19 cases, increasing every day, in peru. The latest count, 363. Every day, i have kind of woken up with the hope of todays going to be the day, today is going to be the day that it is going to happen. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. Hundreds of quarantined passengers from the grand princess cruise ship are just a day or two from getting their freedom back. Michelle heckert tweeted a thanks to the stranger who donated pizza to the group tonight. She and hundreds of others have been in quarantine at Travis Air Force base since disembarking from the ship earlier this month. The grand princess by the way is still anchored in the bay. The Airline Industry has been devastated by the coronavirus. But we have one bit of positive news. Three Chinese Airlines plan to resume nonstop flights to francisco. China eastern plans to resume sfo and shanghai flights by the end of the month and china week, and air china resumed the nonstop Daily Service to beijing on saturday. These flights were suspended at the height of the Virus Outbreak in wuhan. Shifting now to the weather, the rain certainly returned today to parts of the bay area. This video was taken this afternoon, near downtown san jose, where there was a downpour and reports of thunder and lightning as well. The National Weather service said the storm was capable of producing small hail. But some of us couldnt see much, or any precipitation at all. It was quite a range. Some areas had sunshine. Some had downpours. And thunderstorms. Even some small hail. And its all due to the system that is heading south and then moving inland overnight. You can see with live doppler 7 and the satellite radar image. It has headed south. We could still see some isolated showers and tomorrow morning, it should bed center over las vegas, but this system has brought quite a bit of rain and still bringing