Area. 1,443 confirmed cases. 32 people have died. Santa clara county has the most cases. We are keeping track of our cases in mendocino, 2 and lake e county none. So much of the stories are the numbers and not the people they represent. Stephanie sierra has one familys painful goodbye. We are still trying to get our arms around the fact that she is gone. They are struggling to find closure after his mom died in a hospital monday night, a mere four days after testing positive for covid19. Thank god for the kind nurse that was taking care of mom. On monday she was able to get us on the facetime. Tell her that we loved her. He81yearold mother of two flew to San Francisco from panama. Feeling great, just like a bright beaming smile captured in these photos. Not until weeks later complications with allergies sent her to the e. R. Her breathing became more rapid. Did you think that was the last time that you would see her . No. But we knew quite possibly it was covid19. What he did not expect is his parting words to his mom would be through face time. The worst of it all was not being there physically in that room with her. Coping with loss during these strange times. Families will be hurt. Families will be broken. Everybody needs to take this seriously. Mike is thankful and he got to say he loves his mom even if it is through face time. You can hear the emotion in his voice. It symbolizes a new challenge that faces families today. It appears pats condition declined quickly. Yes. At first she had mild symptoms consistent with her allergies. Even mild symptoms can be telling. The city of oaklands virtual town hall. Set up to inform residents about what resources are available to them to help meet needs in challenging times and they already received over 100 questions since announcing the town hall. All submissions are confidential. Today was day 4 of drive through coronavirus testing and the first day we are hearing about results. Officials say on monday 54 of 207 tested were positive and they say they will release results 48 hours after each days test. Testing is free but you need to experience high fever or other symptoms. The roll out of covid19 testing is accelerating as more kits become available. A leading patholgist at stanford points out the results are not 100 accurate. Not that the test cant detect a virus but that the sampling involved in detecting the virus can lead to clinical false negatives. Patterson expects the rate of false negative 10 to 15 in line with other virus. Are they positive when you have the disease or positive or negative when you dont have the disease . That is the clinical performance metrics. Patterson is the ceo of a Company Running samples of covid19 at the labs. His research and development are focussed on treatments for patients with hiv and cancer with greater risk for the coronavirus. You heard dr. Anthony fauci underscore the need for more testing. Current covid19 testing is pa learned 17ears ago throatrodeber that they had a higher viral load than the nasal swab. Doing a throat swab is more invasive. With pressure to get people back to work dr. Patterson believes that blood tests could be a key step. They would have protection. In the meantime they are expecting results soon from a treatment they have been working on with a partner. We are thinking four moves ahead to say what is the next wave of diagnostics that will be critical in defeating the pandemic. In san carlos, david abc thenea ce workers and certainly so here in the bay area. Nurses and doctors are scared and frustrated by the lack of resources for themselves and their patients. These are Emergency Physicians that are trained for this. In boston he is on the faculty at harvard medical school. He grew up in San Francisco and he has been in touch with Emergency Physicians across the country and is concerned about the lack of ventilators at hospitals it around the country and that San Francisco needs an additional 300 ventilators. We can expand the capacity but those moves are very dangerous like having two patients on one ventilator or for doctors like me or icu doctors to make choices that we dont want to make. Which of these two patients has a better chance. Health care workers demanded the Alameda County board of supervisors take over the system over c i talked to the nurses before who were crying, frustrated about what is going on. In the south bay despite what officials have said the shortage of personal protective equipment is a frightening reality for Health Care Workers on the frontline. It is taking a tremendous emotional toll in our health care. Leaders need to use the defense protection act to mobilize and get support to hospitals around the country. 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The federal stimulus plan provides about 1. 3 billion to the Transportation Commission dividing up the money. Imagine buying a new car without a test drive or the ability to kick the tires and give it a once over. Laura anthony is in the east bay with the story. Almost in an instant Car Dealerships in the bay area and around the country had to remake their business model. At ford sales have gone completely online and Home Deliveries must conform with state wide sheltering guidelines. Customers are going online and completing everything, getting financing and we deliver the car straight to the home. Sanitizing the vehicle. While the sales lot like this one are full of cars but empty of customers the repair side is still operating. We have a steep decline. But some report business is off by as much as 75 and it is also hard to get parts for various cars because normal supply chains were disrupted. Right now trying to stay positive and stay hope. This car here we worked on. He is a nurse. His car broke down. Like so many other businesses repair shops had to cut back hours and lay off employees in order to survive. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. The American Red Cross faces a blood shortage as blood drives are being cancelled over concerns over the coronavirus crisis. There are ways to help. Califor blood is off limits. Since the start of the Novel Coronavirus crisis, it has resulted in more than 4,600 fewer donations. Eva spent the afternoon at the blood center aware of the growing need. Takes two hours. I get to sit here and watch a movie which i could be doing at home or doing here knowing i am helping someone. The red cross reassured the public that Blood Donation is a safe process. To help maintain the safety of donors, volunteers and staff, every person that enters the facility has their temperature checked before walking in the center. No fever for me. My temperature was 98. 8 meaning that i to go. Car crashes, we still have many cancer victims, cancer treatments underway that critically need support with donations of blood. Officials hope the community will step up. We want to make sure that we have enough Going Forward into may and june. Blood donations do not stop. People always need blood year round. A chance for people to get out of the house to make a difference. More than 3 million americans filed for unemployment all due to the coronavirus pandemic, a huge increase in filings. They still have to eat. Bay area bad banks are ramping up and popping up. Up. Up. When henry ford invented the Assembly Line he never imagined it being used in circumstances like this. I dont think anybody on planet earth right now ever has been through anything like this. Al imps filled with people a crosvirusrearking waiting for bags from the redwood food bank. Times are tough right now. This was supposed to open at 2 30. At 1 30 cars were lined up and they started an hour early. Just a lot of meat. A lot of folks have no jobs. Shocked. I am really surprised by the crowd. That is sherry scott, a volunteer that helps schools with yearbooks in real life or maybe this is a more edgy form of real life. I lived through the fires up here, our whole community but neighborhoods. This is the world. We see three bags, produce, frozen chicken, meat, eggs, a third with dry goods. The bags went in to trunks. No need to stand in line and take chances. It is an amazing thing. I went to the store to buy celery and couldnt find it. Here is the opposite, on the service a gift of food and drill down a few layers it is much more, hope, knowledge, even in the moment of uncertain when people pull together each other. I think there are golden lessons that we are going to come together and maybe solve this together. In santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Discrimination towards Asian Americans in the wake of coronavirus is on the rise and now we have new numbers to show just how quickly hateful incidents are happening. The painful yet powerful stories. One week ago San Francisco states Asian American studies department asked chinese for affirmative action launched an online reporting center so people experiencing coronavirus discrimination could share their stories and there has been more than 100 reported cases each day. Many reported say they dont want to go on camera because they wereto my ne is jenny email to ori the chinese cultural center, you chinese caused this chinese epidemi epidemic. You are filthy, filthy people. American teenagers yell corona at us and a reports of hate crimes in recent weeks but all agencies know they are happening anecdotally and all are welcome to file official reports. It allows us to use resources and education and get a better understanding what is going on. White men on an open sidewalk stepped in front of me and coughed in front of my face. The beginning of making positive change. You can take action and help my money should work as hard as i do. So i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. Today, im earning on a charger. So, just the charger then . Ummm. Yeah sarcastically fantastic. Earn 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Check this out, ice cream grade was well named this afternoon. That is hail out of santa cruz just a few hours ago. A little late in the season to get the hail. Spencer is tracking the weather from home. Hi, spencer. Okay. It was quite chilly today. We had hail in spots and even Higher Elevations around Mount Hamilton we had snow mixing in with the rain. Doppler 7. Basically the bay area is dry at the moment and skies are partly sunny. Here is a view looking out over the bay. 53 here in San Francisco. Upper 50s, oakland and redwood city. 46. A few here from the Golden Gate Bridge looking forward. Skies mainly blue. 57 santa rosa. Petaluma and napa. Now our forecast futures as we look at a shot there on the south bay. Cold overnight and in the inland valleys. Bright skies tomorrow with a few puffy clouds around. Rain this weekend and it will be dryer with a warming trend next week. Nw to our frost advisory covering virtually all of the bay area from 2 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. And the freeze warning from 2 00 a. M. To 3 00 a. M. It it will be cold. Lows will drop down to 33 or higher in areas. That may kill sensitive plants. Please bear that in mind. Looking at lows, 29 degrees the likely low overnight. 33 at santa rosa. Inland east bay and south bay will see temperatures dropping into the upper 30s. But by afternoon tomorrow look for partly to mostly sunny skies with a few lingering skies, breezy with highs ranging from the middle 50s at the coast to about 60 around the bay shore line and few 60s inland. Now we will bring in the storm impact. The storm ranks only one a storm of than intensity but it will produce wet weather. Most locations will see a tenth to. 4 of rainfall. Here is our forecast animations. Light rain in the north bay. Becoming more widespread and steadier as it sweeps to other parts of the bay area. It will be a wet day for all locations. A break saturday into sunday before the next wave of light rain and showers move in producing snow both days over in the sierra. It will be a wet system for the bay and for the sierra. Moving on to the rainfall estimates. Most locations will see under a half inch of rain, over. 4 in San Francisco. Third at richmond and a quarter of an inch in san jose. Rainfall totals will vary widely. Here is the sevenday forecast. On sunday we will get milder than saturday. It gets much milder next week with a string of mostly sunny days monday through thursday with highs tuesday, wednesday, thursday ranging from the lower 70s to inland middle to upper 70s on the coast. Milder springlike weather is on the way but we have to deal with a chilly and rather damp weekend first. We are ready for the string of sunny days. Thanks very much. We heard the elderly are more at risk for coronavirus and younger people are at risk too. That is part of the message that warriors star steph curry shared. And new at 6 00, the iteam visits okafor airport after a Southwest Gate agent tests positive for coronavirus. See what if anything is being done to alert passengers. What are you getting from the federal bail out and know wh animal noises animal noises morning. This rooms booked. Oh. Yeah. Okay. animal noises lifes more fun with a dog. And doglife is more fun with milkbone. Now, your health, your safety. This is abc 7 news. Today the u. S. Passed china for the country with the most diagnosed coronavirus cases in the world. Total in america now exceeds 82,000. A half Million People have been infected with covid19 according to Johns Hopkins university. Italy reported 662 new deaths and more than 6,000 new diagnosed cases in the past 24 hours. In spain more than 4,000 people have died from the virus. Unemployment filings have soared. More than 3 Million People ap y applied in one week, the largest ever documented by the labor department. This comes as the Senate Just Passed a Coronavirus Relief package. I am glad both parties came together to provide relief for American Workers and families in this hour of need. The bill next goes to the house for a vote that is scheduled for tomorrow. Stocks surged on wall street as a massive relief bill gets closer to passing. Jumped 20 since tuesday. Nasdaq jumped 5. 6 . The vast majority of americans will be getting checks from americans. But when will you receive that money and how much will you get . Michael. Dan, those are the two big questions. What am i going to get and when am i going to get it. There are exact numbers if you look in to things and i have nearly 85 of americans will receive a cash payment. But there is a sliding scale. Here is how it breaks down. Single taxpayers earning up to 75,000 will get the full 1,200 payment. Married couples earning up to 150,000 will receive 2,400. Families also receive 500 per child. What if you earned more. For every 1,000 above the cap subtract 50 from the check amount until it goes down to 0. Singles earning over 99,000 and couples over 198,000 will receive nothing. As paychecks dwindle Everyone Wants to know when i will get my check. The president wants to get cash now. I mean now in the next two weeks. That was ten days ago. Now treasure secretary Steven Mnuchin says most people should receive payments in three weeks. Some say that is optimistic. Ks out in witecessi b it could quicker. And there is more relief too. The bill provides 600 per week in Unemployment Benefits on top of state payments and more workers qualify including part timers and gig workers. The benefits run through july. How do you apply . You dont have to. The federal government knows how much money you paid last year and know how you pay. If you electronically file they will send it to you electronically. You will get your money a lot quicker that way. If not they will cut you a check. Keeping track of this as things change and we will keep you uptodate. Keep watching abc 7. All right. Thank you so m