They just reported an increase of 9 cases. Santa clara has 848 cases. 53 people have died from coronavirus. There are four cases in mendocino county. One of the patients has recovered. Theres at least 42 tests still pending. Lake county hasnt had any cases yet. They say 82 people tested negative. The massive nursing home owned by the city and county of San Francisco is in a Coronavirus Crisis. The number of residents and staff that tested positive is growing rapidly. At the same time governor newsome is moving forward with a plan to move patients into nursing homes. He found that nursing home advocates are understandably very worried. Im at channel 7. The campus is not open for media right now. Laguna honda nursing and Rehabilitation Center is on lock down. The Coronavirus Crisis is growing there. Nine employees of the hospital have tested positive as well as two patients. The mayor said today the widespread testing is underway. The centers for Disease Control and state department of Public Health have sent Infectious Disease specialists to help stem the tied of inspection among 750 residents. We know that longterm care facilities are at most risk for coronavirus outbreaks. Therefore, we expect the situation to unfortunately get worse. On the same day, governor newsome told reporters he is moving forward with a plan to find beds in Skilled Nursing homes for the coming flood of coronavirus patients. Were also looking to get 1,000 nursing facility units up and running. And that idea frightens advocates including mike of california advocates for nursing home reform. Its like sending a child pyoure sending the virus which is an extraordinarily lethal killer of older people and sick people into a place that has only those kinds of and louisiana Public Health facing their own Coronavirus Crisis is prohibiting hospital and nursing home transfer of covid19 patients for 30 days. How can it be that louisiana is taking a more informed and progressive feel of protecting health than california. They have been slapped with a Class Action Lawsuit for abuse of patients. She could add to the class action depending on how officials handle the Coronavirus Crisis. Theres a major testing shortage at one of the most at risk Skilled Nursing facilities in the bay area. Theyre now pegged by senior officials as a hot spot for covid cases. Abc 7 news iteam reporter is following the developments for us. She is live at the newsroom. Two sources close to our investigation confirmed they had 13 positive cases of the coronavirus and now the citys mayor is pleading for more testing now. If people arent smart today, your neighbor could die tomorrow. The mayor shares a sad unnerving reality. They are our vulnerable population and ensuring that they have access to tests, not just today but on going the testing capabilities across the state are extremely scarce. A recent abc 7 data ana ana ranked california 45th in the nation conducting 515 coronavirus tests. The struggle not just in hospitals but nursing vulnerable populations. Sources say the facility rated much above average by medicare had at least 13 positive cases and one presumed death. The abc 7 iteam reached down to the facility that could not confirm the cases and did release this statement saying when we learned of the coronavirus threat we responded by applying plans and protocols and adding new layers of precautionary action to fight the spread of covid19. Administrators confirmed on march 11th patients were selfisolated to follow social distancing guidelines but its unclear if the Health Care Workers exposed were able to get tested. Right now, thats our biggest concern. Access the tests that are not drivethru facilities. The neighboring Business Owners heope for the same. Its frightening. If they need help they should get it. Its like very many communities in there. All the patients that tested positive are being cared for elsewhere. But we dont know how many other patients could have been exposed. Mayor martin says the San Mateo County drivethru test site is now offering to help. Live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. Okay. Stephanie, thanks very much. One of the most as you well know crucial steps for each of us to take is social distancing. Keeping space from other people. Staying home as much as we possibly can and today the mayor praised San Francisco for how people here are doing. We may not realize the impacts of this until this is all over but eventually we will learn, im sure, that because of what we have done and how we all have participated in complying with social distancing, it truly has saved lives. New data released just today shows how were doing when it comes to social distancing by tracking cell phone were doing pretty well if youre asking me to give the bay area a grade right now. I think it would be fair to give us an a. Its cell phone movements and it shows how the movements have shifted over the last few weeks. Here in the bay area its drastic. County by county new data shows were doing a good job social distancing. The data released to abc news measured how many miles the typical individual cell phones ventures from its starting point three weeks ago on march 9th. It shows how its changed in the weeks since. On march 9th, the typical resident moved 1. 7 miles from their home. The day the city announced the shelter in place order the typical resident went from one mile to their home. The next week residents moved a few feet from their home. Thats a 99 reduction in movement in two weeks. And all introduction of movement. 72 and 78 reduction in movement respectively. Staying at home and keeping our distance isnt working. We asked abc 7 special correspondent dr. Patel. Is there any indication that were beginning to flatten the curve. Its really hard to say right now if were flattening the curve. I think the good news is, something to be optimistic about is we havent seen quite the surge in the bay area that theyre seeing in other parts of the country. Its likely well still see a surge but the bay area was the first region to order a shelter in place and that could make a difference. I dont see how anyone cant say it makes a difference and that has to have some type of correlation in the amount of cases that we either have seen or are going to see. Overall the data shows that the state of california does have work to do in terms of social distancing particularly in parts of the central valley. Im sure that we all notice a difference over the past week. I remember this playground was still open here at the marina in San Francisco and here this parking lot was open and both has been blocked off and closed off to the public. And hopefully that soon makes a noticeable difference. Live in San Francisco, abc 7 news. Thank you so much, liz. Well, businesses throughout the bay area are struggling and many are looking for ways to stay afloat while helping others during this were seeing many bags packed by these employees and has an average price tag of 50 and theyre looking to feed at least 250 families. I spoke to david, david, how is your business able to do this . Through the generosity of others. What we depend on is small and large donations and we have been able to feed over 3,000 families so far since the shelter in place which means that roughly around 6 to 7,000 people are getting fed through the small donations and large donations through our website. Thank you so much. And its not the only business in San Francisco stepping up. Theres several that are also saying im here and i want to help. And thats something that many Business Owners are dealing with to end this crisis. This is our 13th year. And i had a great team. And if i stopped, it was going to be really hard to bring everybody back together. Andriana lopez and her dont know each other. But this made them more similar than ever. If were going to go down and were going to go down swinging. Had to lay off 40 of his employees. And now hes gearing up to slim his business even more. Hes lending his to nonprofits during this crisis. A Homeless Organization theyre going to be needing vehicles to transport. Theyre using the restaurant to feed the most vulnerable. Were delivering meals to shelters and low income organizations. Last week, they delivered over 1,000 meals. Today the mayor says the city is making Resources Available to help sustain workers and businesses, but theres still a long way to go. A fund to provide a Million Dollars in grants right away. That money has of course quickly dried up. And we also provided a delay in business taxes. So now theyre hoping this weight of losses slows down as they try to survive. How do you think that your business is going to come out of this. I dont know. And thats the uncertainty that many Business Owners are struggling with right now. Letters like these from people in our community struggling saying thank you for your generosity. Its whats keeping them alive. Abc 7 news. Thank you. And the impact is being felt by businesses of all sizes. Macys announced it will furlough most of the 130,000 employees. The company will continue to pay Health Benefits and cover premiums. San francisco based gap will also furlough most of its employees and workers wont be paid but workers still receive benefits. And they will provide them for two weeks pay from benefits. Ranging from 20 to 50 . Executive chairman bob iger is foregoing 100 of his salary. Workers for instarting rotation cart and its in high demand right now of course. Theyve had enough and today thousands across the country went on strike. Abc 7 News Reporter. Youve likely seen them at the local Grocery Store but that might change in the coming weeks. Organizers believe about 10,000 shoppers refused to use the app as part of the movement. That even as a Company Tells us that the service is off of the charts. 200 a week working full time and my new job is to stay alife using my mask that i shop in. And getting my hand on anything i can buy. Hes one of the lead organizers of the strike that launched monday. As many in the country go into its third week of lock down. Heres a snapshot of what his job looks like in a coronavirus reality and why he is fighting for better working conditions. He has this to say. We love shopping. We love our communities and its time to be a leader, take care of your company by taking care of your front line workers for once. We requested an with instarting rotatio with leadership. Over the past month we have launched a set of changes to support the health and safety of our shoppers including wages and sick leave. They saw a 40 jump in shoppers signing on with the launch of the strike and more groceries delivered in the last 72 hours than ever before. We paid a visit to its San Francisco headquaters. Quite seemingly business as usual. And people desperate for jobs or working despite the lack of support and protection. It was just pay the 200,000 shoppers they have correctly now they wouldnt have to hire 300,000 more which is creating a half of a million potential asymptomatic and carrying vectors that might not have the proper yutensils to do safe deliveries. Now they seem to have the support of other workers. Whole foods workers all plan to call in sick tomorrow. All right, chris, thank you so much. As people lose their job to the pandemic, local food kitchens are seeing demand rise. At the same time their corporate donations go down. How theyre stretching their budgets to prevent people from going hungry. After a little end of march rain, get ready for some april sunshine and warming. 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Food kitchens that prepared meals to address hunger are getting demand and expenses. Demand because of unemployment and higher costs because donated food has dried up. David is looking at the impact tonight. He is live working from home. David. This is a major disruption in how food kitchens operated. Now theyre having to buy protein and bread in quantity. Feeding the hungry is a monumental task. The Nonprofit Group hunger at home has about 1 million meals per year. Across town, marthas kitchen has 600,000 in years. Theyre seeing a surge in demand tied to sudden lay offs. Some of them are volunteers from the hotel and culinary unions. Were talking over 10,000 people that are part of these unions and majority of them have lost it. Thats a huge increase. Each groups are determined to meet the challenge however its direct out of pocket costs because theyre no longer getting donations of surplus food in the kitchens that feed tech workers because theyre working at home. We have been doing about 12,000 meals a week. Right now were up at about 18,000 meals a week and i would anticipate that it will probably end up well probably max out at 24 how meals a week. Thats costing 50,000 more per month and could double to service over 60 partners that feed the hungry in six counts. Buy food that used to be donated and marthas kitchen is spending 15,000 a month to buy to go boxes and individual sandwiches and meals could be kept safe from the coronavirus and theyre getting help from the new Silicon Valley food recovery counsel. To be able to have the relationship with the distributor. We can use the counsel to redistribute to the nonprofits. And the hope is that working collaboratively could soften the impact. And others will make 4,000 sandwiches each week. Once you see the sandwiches that come in and youll know that theres a big need out there to be filled. Another challenges delivering meals for people sheltering at home or theyre awaiting test results is a major change in how they provide services. Were live working from home, david louis abc 7 news. Thank you. April starts on wednesday and it will be sunny and we find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. Were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. If you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home. Its just our way of doing our part. April is upon us. But finally were getting the weather that were waiting for. Spencer has the forecast. All right. March is going out with a little bit of a wimper. We had scattered sprinkles. April is bringing us sunshine. Live doppler 7 now and we have dry conditions and sunny skies at the moment. Current temperature, 58 in San Francisco. Low 60s and gilroy 55 at half moon bay. Heres the view at the Golden Gate Bridge where we see a lot in other locations. 56 in santa rosa and our forecast features are these. We can expect some spoy that we mainly sor the of and into early tomorrow morning there could be some left over sprinkles in the bay area but by midday tomorrow into the afternoon and evening mainly sunny skies and dry conditions and whats left of this system will be out of here. So looking ahead overnight conditions and low temperatures will be in the upper 40s to low 50 and its going to be even milder. Sunny skies, high temperatures up near 70 and in our inland areas mid to upper 60s around the bay and 60s or so on the coast and it cools down slightly on saturday as the chance of showers will move in and theres still a chance on sunday as a matter of fact. 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