Abc 7 news desk. Breaking news at the live desk this morning. A cruise member from the grand princess cruise ship has died. Sky 7 is flying over the cruise ship right now. We want to get you that so you can see the area. The crew member died in a San Francisco hospital after being tra transferred off the ship last month. Hundreds of workers remain on the grand princess docked at its home port in the San Francisco cruise terminal. 14day quarantine ends tomorrow. A coalition of unity groups and experts will hold an Emergency Press conference later today. Theyll be talking about worker safety, as well as testing. Reggie, ill send it over to you. I had forgotten that that ship is still here in the bay area. Bay Area Public Health officials are now recommending that you wear a face cover when youre out in public. We are talking about cloth face coverings, not the n95 specialized mask that people in the hospitals need. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with more on this. Amy . There have been debates on whether officials should make this recommendation and now bay area Health Officials are taking it one step further. They are recommending that you cover your face when you do your essential outings like going to the Grocery Store or the doctors visit. Just those essential outings you have to do. The World Health Organization still has not taken this step saying only the sick and those that care for the sick need masks. The concern is that once this recommendation comes across, people will keep all the n95 masks for themlves. Officials a emphasizing, leave those for the Health Care Workers. You just need a cloth mask. And President Trump is now also saying its not a bad idea to cover your face. The reason why the conversation is coming up now why the cdc may readvise their guidelines is because were getting more and more evidence that people can spread the is wn they are asymptomattic. 3m to produce more n95 face masks for medical professionals. The rest of us just need a cloth covering. Cove it could keep the virus from spreading and also just remind people to stay away and keep that social distance. That is still a key in this and then hand washing. Hand washing, social distancing still the top strategies needed in this fight. Reporting live from walnut creek, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Thank you, amy. I want to get some breaking news we just got into the abc 7 news room. The Labor Department just released the march jobs report and it shows that employers cut 701,000 jobs last month and this increased the countrys Unemployment Rate to 4. 4 . It had been at the 50year low of 3. 5 . But this report really doesnt even tell the full story because it doesnt include the layoffs that hit in the last two weeks. Now, experts say the Unemployment Rate could go as high as 15 over the next month. And that would be the highest since the Great Depression in the 1930s. So, well have to wait and see how investors react to this when the stock market opens up in about 30 minutes at 6 30. Well, there are officially more than 1 million coronavirus cases worldwide this morning. 11,000 of those are right here in california, but that number could be a lot higher. Jobina is at the live desk with a look at why. Jobina . Thank you, kumasi. The state has a massive backlog of 59,000 pending coronavirus tests and that number continues to grow. Unfortunately, this will not give us a clear picture of how many people are possibly infected in our state. Well bring up the graphic here so you can take a look at these numbers. The bay area and Santa Cruz County has more than 3,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Thats 230 people more than yesterday at the same time. 75 people have now died, including the first reported case from solano county. Santa clara county leads the bay area in confirmed cases with more than 1,000. Bay area officials are recommending face masks for everyone as amy was just mentioning, but social distance is still the most important for safety. 6. 6 Million People have filed for unemployment since the crisis began. And that includes 2 million californians. Weve averaged 111,000 Unemployment Insurance claims on a daily basis. The economic consequences are p profound. San Francisco Mayor london breed announced a new task force to speed ucoveryand speaking of recovery, the u. S. Treasury says americans should expect those stimulus checks somewhere in the next two weeks. Ill send it back to you in the studio, kumasi. Thank you. Governor newsom will give us an update on the states effort to protect Homeless People during this outbreak. This comes as San Francisco confirms its first case of coronavirus inside a homeless shelter. A person staying at the Division CircleNavigation Center tested positive and now that person is recovering at an Isolation Hotel while other residents are getting screened. Anyone with symptoms will be tested and relocated along with anyone who is at high risk of being infected. City supervisors are pushing to move all Homeless People into hot hotels. That Navigation Center sits in my district and i will fight to get every one of those residents like all of my constituents inside sheltering stare also d safe. Getting masks to wear at all more than 1. 9 million californians have filed for unemployment since march 12th and now theres a new website for people who are currently looking for a job. Heres abc 7 news anchor ama daetz. Reporter the website onward. Org will connect californians to thousands of open jobs and its very easy to use. From the home page, click on the connect to resources and jobs link and then be taken to a form to fill out. All you need to do is input your name, email and zip code. If you want, you can add other fields like desired earnings, type of work, when you want to work and preferred industry. But those things arent required. Next, click submit and then cri click on jobs and then search. A list of jobs will autopopulate. Again, the website is onwa onwardca. Org and a link on our website, abc7news. Com. Ventilators are key to fighting covid19. On a story youll only see on 7 a group of students and engineers and doctors may have found another way in an genc heres j. R. Stone. I have sleep apnea and this is, this is a machine. Reporter a cpap machine that engineer and executive Brian Martell says can be and should be used as emergency ventilator. Hes part of a group of anducan for support from local, state and federal leaders. This is a last resort option. Reporter dr. Aj daria and martell are part of the coid19 Rapid Response team who have formulated a way for the proper fittings and tubes to refurbish cpap and bipap devices that will be allowed to use them as ventilators in emergency situations. Theres tents with 300 people in them and they dont have ventilators. Heres a solution. This is a backup solution. Reporter the group is asking for those willing to donate these es to register their devices onventilatorsos. Com. In less than an hour after we learned of this, two viewers offered to give away their backup cpap devices. Definitely. I would love to help. I would be more than happy to donate it. Its right here. I got it from a friend of a friend. Reporter dr. Daria says these devices would be used in moderate cases of covid19 where the patient is suffering but still able to breathe on their own. It would then free up ventilators for more critical patients. If we dont think about it now in two weeks and four weeks when the surge potentially can happen, we can be overwhelmed. Reporter a reason why the group is acting now in hopes of getting the word out. J. R. Stone, abc 7 news. New at 6 00, we are learning new details about how hard the bay Area Real Estate market has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Also quarantined bachelor. The new Online Dating series swapping out the rose for a roll of toilet paper. And wintry weather is on the way. Check out some of these rain totals for the weekend. Totals for the weekend. Well give you an bubbles at this price . Is this for real . Oh. Its real. Believe me. I mean, this is unexpected. You would say, remarkable . Absolutely. A remarkable deal thanks, i get that all the time. Wait what . grocrey outlet jingle wow. I think ill take two. For the love oh. Youre never more than seven minutes away from your accu weather forecast. Were back and taking a look at frosty cold and even freezing temperatures that could daniel some sensitive plants and keep the pets in while you can through 9 00 in lake and mendocino counties. Mid30s in Santa Theresa and morgan hill and everybody else in the mid to low 40s under mainly clear sky. Few 30s up in the north bay and 51 right now in oakland. Heres a look at what to expect today. A lot of allergies are going to be flaring up because of the pollen and the high uv index. Temperatures pretty close to average today and very cold with that wet weather this weekend and hourbyhour look at that coming up. Irus paemic is ving aaj impact onheay area houngke accoin to data comptecte listings in dighly 1,000 at the start of march to just 550 three weeks later. The same thing is happening in the east bay. The ceo of Red Oak Realty tells the website curbed the number of new listings dropped 70 since the shelter at home orders went into effect. New at 6 00, the aquarium of the bay is closed because of the shelter at home, but the animals still need to be cared for. Why aquarium officials are now asking for your help. The coronavirus eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. Now. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. Yes, everybody shout out to cheryl the only passenger on the plane. Thank you so much for joining us today. We appreciate and value your business. Very sweet that these flight attendants were thinking of this woman named cheryl. She was on a flight that was not the flight she wanted to be on. She is visiting her mom and her mom only has a few days to live. She was flying from Washingtons Reagan National Airport to boston on march 27th. This plane can normally seat 100 people, but it was just her. The flight attendants had a little fun and hopefully brightened her spirits just a little bit. Take you now to the peninsula where im sorry to tell you that this years county fair has been canceled. The fair grounds are being used for a very important purpose. Emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic. It will be that way for at least the next 90 days. This is only the second closure in the fairs 86year history. You have to go all the way back to world war ii when it was shut down for one year. All exhibitor entry fees and Online Ticket purchases will be so, listen t this. Two men in San Francisco have started an Online Dating series based on the Popular Television show the bachelor. The creators behind the instagram show quarantine bachelor wanted to create a show while they were sheltering in place. They launched it a couple weeks back and now hundreds of applicants from all over the country. Heres how it works, instead of giving out a rose, you get a roll of toilet paper and instead of an engagement ring, you get a date. Making a decision is a lot harder than it looks. Having to do it and everyone know what is going on and everyone has their own opinion and objections to what you say and do. It is definitely a challenge. Poor richard. Well, the final roll ceremony will be posted on instagram tonight at 5 00. Theyre hoping to get more applicants so they can launch samesex couples series, as well. What do you think, friend . I think i would watch. How about that. I mean, im entertained. I agree with you. What about you, mike . I would just want to be on the end of, i cant spare a square. White gold. Nice. All right. Let us know how that goes, reggie. Im probably not going to watch. Lets take a look at what is going on outside. Welcome to friday. It is 41 and mainly clear down in san jose. Your accuweather highlights, mostly sunny and seasonal. A few clouds this morning and a few more during the evening hours and a colorful sunset. Capture it, post it and abc7. Wed love to see it. Cloudy with rain moving into the north bay and then everybody gets wet starting tomorrow through at least monday. Lets take a look at our temperatures. You can see down in the south bay were looking pretty comfortable there with mid to upper 60s. That is the case in most inland neighborhood. Around the bay, low to mid60s and along the coast upper 50s to low 60s where its going to be a little breezier. Now, lows tonight are going to dip down into the low to upper 40s. With increasing clouds. Thats going to keep us a little bit milder than the last couple of mornings and once we get past that, thats when the rain will start to move in. I apologize. My computer is having a little bit of a hiccup. You can see the low to mid40s and even a few upper 40s. Lets look at storm impact scale. One for not only tomorrow and sunday but also for monday. Now, tomorrow, light to moderate rain in the north bay during the morning hours. Light rain moving into the rest of our neighborhoods during the midmorning and am to the afternoon and early evening hours and turns over to scattered showers. You can see them changing as we head through the evening and overnight hours. The stronger storm comes in as we head towards sunday and thats when we can have our downpours with the thunderstorms and some lightning hail and a snow level down to 4,000 feet and temperatures up to 15 degrees cooler than average. Kumasi, reggie. All right, thanks, mike. Now, lets turn to another meteorologist that we love, mr. Rob marciano. Hi, rob. Good morning, reginald, kumasi. Great to be with both of you coming to you from new york, lots coming up on gma. Little storm here but, of course, big headlines continue to be the Coronavirus Crisis with the number of cases now reaching 1 Million Worldwide and a quarter of those here in the u. S. We have all the bases covered, including the potential for finding a new cure from a doctor on that netflix docu series pandemi pandemic. We have some encouraging news from him. Also much more on the virus on many fronts. The economy. How you can get through it. There are a number of ways that we are going to share with you on how to kind of ease that financial crunch that so many families are feeling right now. And, also, heres a story about a man who got the virus and has been without his family trying to recover from it. After 23 days, hes been reunited and well have that story. So, those are the kind of stories we need to get more of as we try to get through this together, reginald and kumasi. I hope you and your family and your friends are well. Its unbelievable times, isnt it . It sure is. It sure is but still rays of light, rob. Good to see you. Thank you so much. Indeed. Patriots owner robert kraft is stepping up to help in the fight of covid19. He purchased n95 masks and used the plane to transport them from china. The masks will go to Health Care Workers on the front lines in massachusetts and new york. Coming up new at 6 00, Meghan Markles disney debut. The documentary hitting your tv just in time for the weekend. Also making sure the public stays safe at events like outside all right. Lets talk about what to expect this weekend rain wise. You can see the heaviest of the rainfalls in the north bay up to half an inch saturday with a tenth to a third for the rest of us. As we head into sunday, much strongerist systems in green, u inch. The rest of us up to three quarters. Other marine life at a public aquarium in San Francisco needs your help. The aquarium of the bay is raising money to help keep up operations during the shut down. Most of its workers have been furloughed, but theres a dedicated Team Monitoring and feeding 24,000 animals and 186 species at the aquarium. Theres a go fund me set up. The goal is to raise 500,000 so they can keep up with animal care during the closure. People have donated about 4,500 so far and they still have quite a ways to go. It is a national trend, gun sales have surged since the beginning of the covid19 shelter in place started. Businesses booming for a dublin gun shop. The owners name is Travis Morgan and in his 20 years operating the shop called guns fishing and other stuff, hes never seen a spike in gun sales quite like this one. Recent fbi data said california saw a 72 increase in firearm background checks since february. Got a gloc, got a beretta. You name it, we aint got it. People are worried what is going to happen being locked down and staying at home. A record breaking 3. 7 million background checks performed across the u. S. In march. Thats right around the same time that shelter in place orders prompted mass hoarding of toilet paper and cleaning supplies. In california, organizers are still planning to hold the outside land music festival. Two months after the current projected peak of covid19 hospitalizations. They are working closely with local officials to make sure if outside lands does happen, it will happen in the safest environment possible. The south by southwest Film Festival in austin is heading to amazon after