Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 i keep telling people its really eerie. The surge we have been anticipating has not yet come. In preparation we have built out capacity, and we have delayed or canceled elective procedures, and we tried to make the hospital as empty and prepared as possible for an influx of patients. On the peninsula, a Skilled Nursing facility they are our vulnerable population. And they have access to tests, not just today but ongoing. A Skilled Nursing facility considered a risk of coronavirus cases, and they are facing a testing shortage. They had at least 13 cases and one presumed death. Its unclear if Health Workers were able to get tested. The mayor, as you just heard, testing is the biggest concern. They took precautions to fight the spread. After today hayward is reopening its own free center, and its opening back up for anybody showing symptoms, like a fever over 100 degrees or shortness of breath. Its going to be open to anybody regardless of the immigration status. Governor newsom is holding a News Conference every day to update the state on its response to covid19. Today he is expected to launch the initiative to help older californians connected while staying at home. We will see what the details are when we watch the Conference Live at noon. Hes looking for workers to join the New California health corp. According to the website, these are paid positions. Health professionals, california needs you. We need you and we encourage you to take a look at the health corp. Website. Five steps to put the medical workforce to relieve pressure on our health care system. It didnt just say doctors and nurses, and it was calling on behavioral health, and the entire spectrum. So to be able to run a Efficient Health system requires many things. We wanted to help on the 18th. Currently there are 760,000 Health Care Professionals across the state. According to Governor Newsom, more than 37,000 can be added by reaching those that got out of the workforce, and those about to get in. At the valley nursing, they had to pivot. Instructors implemented virtual situations online to manage the patients with covid. There are concerns, especially from retired healthcare workers. We spoke with many off camera about the risk, people who questioned what a return might mean for their health, their safety and whether there are enough supplies to meet the mow many. I hear their concerns, and i understand that, and what we need to Pay Attention to is what the working environment will be like. Are we going to have enough gowns, gloves and masks to keep everybody safe. In a tweet, Governor Newsom called medical professionals as the heroes of the moment, and said we need an all hands on deck situation to be prepared for whats ahead. Get as many people as they can. Recently retired, about to graduate, whatever it is. I am sure they are concerned about their safety. I am sure they are, but they have a call to duty. Good morning, mike. Yeah, i have a couple of friends on facebook that have done exactly what you mentioned, come out of retirement to help their fellow friends and former coworkers, so its great to see that unity still lasting, and all of us coming together for that. Lets talk about what is going on weatherwise. We are starting with our neighborhoods and going to the inland east bay neighborhoods where its mostly cloudy right now and temperatures running in the mid and upper 40s, and even to 51 right now. Bitsburg, lets talk about getting out and about today. Its mostly cloudy, the exploratorium. Allergies will be your main issue if you have to be out and about. Not as chilly this afternoon. Look at these temperatures as we look at the south bay. Were jumping from 51 to 59 at 11 00, to low to mid60s with increasing sunshine this afternoon. You will probably have the most clouds linger over your neighborhoods compared to everybody else. We jump from 51 at 7 00, to low 60s at noon to mid60s for several hours this afternoon. Our final stop will be the peninsula, where we will see a little more sunshine, and temperatures jumping from 51 to 63 this afternoon. You can put the umbrellas away for this afternoon, but we are talking more in a bit. Theres a crash northbound 880 past winton. Theres gas that spilled across the highway. We want to take a live look outside here, and you can see the Clear Conditions everywhere else across the bay area. Aside from that issue in hayward Everything Else is looking good this morning. Several beaches are closed in santa cruz county. It has nothing to do with the coronavirus. Theres was a shark attack. That shark bit into a paddle board narrowly missing the boards rider. This was on friday. All beaches between sunny cove and cap tolla will remain closed to surfers until tomorrow. And then practicing social distancing but it just was not enough to stop the spread among this ask a number one, prepare to shelter in place through may 1st, at least. Mayor london breed warned San Francisco about that extension. Several counties are expected to follow suit and that will be announced probably today. Whole food employees are expected to plan a mass sickout at Stores Across the country today. No word on what stores or how many employees, but workers are demanding better paid leave protections and social distancing protections in stores. You have to have visible coronavirus symptoms including a fever over 100 degrees and shortness of breath for testing in hayward. Number four, for the first time there are 800,000 coronavirus cases reported worldwide. These are numbers from just this morning from Johns Hopkins university. Weatherwise, we are back. Temperatures pretty close to average today and tomorrow with cooler weather and a possibility of wet weather coming up in the accuweather 7 day forecast. I am following a crash right now on northbound 880 past winton. The Fire Department is on the scene. Make noise for medical workers on the front lines of the pandemic. People plan to yell out of their windows and bang on pots and pans at 7 00 tonight. A seattle area choir held a rehearsal where they were practicing social distancing, but since then two people in the choir died and dozens more are sick. The group didnt know the morning of the rehearse annual officials issued an emergency order that groups of ten or more should not gather. Every member had their own sheet of music, and they didnt shake hands but stood apart. Little did we know what we were all taking home with us, right . We are just awfully glad that we beat it. We got through it. They got through it, but obviously others didnt. The doctors said the virus could have spread through the droplets released while singing. That is scary. In this mornings a look, a defiant pastor arrested for continuing to hold sunday church services. Its not about a virus. Its about the church being an essential service to the community. The pastor of the river church in tampa is accused of ignoring local stayathome orders, and even Live Streaming the service, you can see him preaching to a room full of people shoulder to shoulder. We will have much more coming up at 7 00 a. M. , plus George Stephanopoulos goes oneonone with the u. S. Army corps of engineers. If you are looking for something to do with your kids during the extended stayathome order, nasa is here to help. They are bringing the university straight to your living room. I has dozens of tutorials. You can learn to make an edible spacecraft and rockets you can build in your own backyard. Theres even an online game that teaches kids about satellites. I was happy when you heard and adults. I was happy when you said something you could make something you could eat. Everything there, i am onboard with. I had a feeling you would be. Y you know what i will be doing when the show is over. Good morning, everybody. Good morning to you. So nice to see everybody this morning. Lets talk about the weather, because, you know, saw so many people Walking Around and so many people smiling at each other and then parting ways on the sidewalk, and thats fantastic. Didnt feel any negativity about it. Lets talk about the Golden Gate Bridge this morning, and we will use that as the backdrop. We will have a lighter breeze along the coast, and cooler lows and fewer clouds the next couple of nights. We have cooler weather for sure this weekend and the possibility of light showers. Lets talk about the temperature spread. 61 around half moon bay, and then places like ukiah and then up towards San Francisco, you get to 69. Tonight it will be cooler than this morning. We have a dry cold front that will go through late tonight and that will introduce us to Clear Conditions in the morning. We are going to dip in the mid30s to a few upper 40s around oakland and san mateo. Theres the cold front. It will leave most of the moisture up to the north, and you can see some of the green blips right there trying to move into northern counties. Lets talk about the accuweather 7 day forecast, today we will have a few clouds, and tomorrow into thursday, we will have more sunshine, but notice the temperatures drop a little bit, and then friday we will have high clouds that drop our temperatures again. Our coolest weather will be this weekend, so have our app handy. It will let you know where the showers are that pop up and where they are going, so you can get outside when its dry and shake off some of the cabin fever. Take a heavier coat. Temperatures in the upper 50s to near 60. Still ahead this morning, expectant moms to make tough decisions about who will welcome back. Lets talk about temperatures as we head deeper into the forecast. Our mildest afternoon as we head into the weekend will be friday as we stretch from the mid50s at the coast to mid and upper 60s in the inland neighborhoods. Notice everybody pretty much back in the 50s as we head into saturday, and the chance of showers does begin. Then take a look at this. Sunday, not much warmer. Still in the mid50s to about near 60 degrees, so a little below average. We will pay for the sunshine and dry weather as we begin april with wet weather and cooler weather this weekend. Thanks, mike. A lot of expectant moms are rethinking their birth plan because of the coronavirus. Some are having to decide between their partner and she and her husband will be firsttime parents, a monumental moment that he might have to sit out. How do you tell your partner, i love you, but i am so need somebody else with me in the delivery room for the beirt of your first child. If we have to choose one of us, it probably makes more sense for jen because shes medically trained. She provides emotional support to women giving birth, as well as physical support like massage. Its like having your best friend with you that knows the ins and outs of labor and birth. She said it has been difficult for couples to make the decision. Its breaking our hearts across the duala community. Maybe alex will come to the hospital with me, and jen could be on an app. Yeah, its going to be a virtual birth in some way. That is some crazy times, the choices they have to face. A growing number of stanford students say they appreciate the safety needs to move on online classes, but they argue the tuition value drops by losing inperson discussions with faculty or research laps. They are asking for up to an 80 discount in some cases. Sanford said there will be no discounts. Heres sweet news. Girl scouts are selling cookies online. You can also donate them to first responders, front line workers and local causes in need, but it appears bay area girl scouts are not selling online. You can still choose which troop you want to buy from. Were coming back with a full 90 minutes of news, concerning the privacy concerns with zoom conference calls. Whole foods employees are demanding several things as they continue to work in the middle of the pandemic. Plus, emotional stories from the front i do motivational speakingld. In addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Now, your health, your safe safety, this is abc7 news. Now at 5 30, first insta cart and now whole foods. Are workers say they are in danger, exposed to the coronavirus and they are wanting changes. And uc berkeley found a way to dramatically speed testing up. We want to start with our top story today. Happening today workers at whole food Stores Across country are planning a sickout. They are demanding hazard pay for workers that come in and sick pay for those that decide to stay home. Julian Julian Glover has more on this. We know whole foods is opening up for folks 60 and over, and only allowing certain numbers of people in the store at some time, and now the employees are threatening a sickout today. The move has the potential to close stores in the bay area and across the country, and employees say they are forced to work under these conditions to keep the stores open. They are asking for guaranteed hazard pay for all scheduled hours worked, and paid leave for self quarantine, and also new policies to facilitate social distancing inside the stores between workers and customers. Theres no indication of exactly how many whole foods employees across the country will be taking part in the sickout today, and if it has the potential to close stores or slow operations to keep the shelves stocked. Thank you, julian. The governor signed an executive order giving Small Businesses an additional 90 days to file taxes and make tax payments. The same order also allows for mailin dmv renewals. California is also waiving continuing education requirements for several professions. The number of cases in the bay area surpassed 2,000. There are 2,275 cases across the 10county region. Santa clara now has 848 cases. It also reported three new deaths for a total of 28. Marin county saw its deaths jump from 1 to 4 bringing the bay areas total to 56. To our north, is here. Last week we saw the curve start to take shape and its obviously getting steeper. What we want to see is the line flatten out and that would mean the spread of the virus is slowing. When you hear Officials Say flatten the curve, this is what they are talking about. We are on the verge of the upswing in cases across the u. S. Yesterday was the single highest jump in one day since the outbreak started. Nearly there are 165,000 cases, according to Johns Hopkins university. More than 3,000 people have died, and most of those people are in new york state. This is unlike anything you can seen before. You will see it increasing, and you will see it everywhere. New york is just first. Governor cuomo is also calling on healthcare workers to come out, and our governor, gavin newsom is asking for the same thing, as los angeles is seeing a spike in cases. Today the white house is expected to paint a grim future for the virus london breed told people to prepare to shelter in place until may 1st, only leaving the house to get groceries, get exercise or receive medical care. Only essential workers should be going to work. When people are outside they have to be especially cognizant of social distancing. A new study is finding that might not be enough. Jobina has more from the live desk. Good morning. I am looking closely at the study from m. I. T. , and a professor says six feet may not be enough to prevent the spread of covid19. She says droplets have the potential to travel up to 27 feet. The full study is published in the journal of the medical association. The cdc and the World Health Organizations has recommended six feet apart, and the question has been raised should there be more than six feet distance. We are hearing more of the absolutely heartbreaking stories coming from healthcare workers fighting the crisis on the front lines. They are making sacrifices across the country and being separated from their families as they work nonstop to slow the spread. This morning, hospital workers on the front lines, fearful, exhausted. I worried about bringing the virus home from work to my family. Shes an and she is intebaiting coronavirus patients on her own, and she already updated her will and is living separately from her family. Sarah moore, a nurse in st. Paul, minnesota, and a selfproclaimed germaphobe said she did everything right but still tested positive for the virus. I couldnt get out of bed. I felt laike i was hit by a truck. Doctors and nurses describe the emotional toll of being the last ones with dying patients. I just came from a patients room. Hes actively dying, a positive diagnosis of covid19, and his family couldnt come so i had to facetime his family. This is a popup lab made up of more than 50 voluntary scientists from uc berkeley and ucsf. Its hard to say how many we will do initially, but we have the capacity to ramp up to 1,000 a day and potentially higher than that. This is an important way to address the virus right now. Thats amazing. Its unclear which medical centers uc berkeley will partner with. Its likely they will be partnering with locations closest to them in the east bay. Those are volunteers. I love it. I love to see that, too. Local food kitchens are seeing a rise in demand and at the same time corporate donations are going down. Capturing slices of our new normal. The photographer behind the porch portraits that she calls smiles from a distance. Cant wait to see that. But first we are checking in with mike. Thank you, kumasi. Good morning to you. Reggie, hi. We will take a look at neighborhood temperatures, and then if you have to commute, what to expect there. First, a look at what is going on as we have temperatures in the low to mid50s, and you get to places to redwood city and men low parks. Most of the bay outside of the beforementioned cities, in the mid to low cities. Lets talk abou