To decrease the risk of this continued transmission of this virus to other staff, other residents or outside the facility. Public Health Officials are now investigating and testing at two other senior care facilities in contra costa county. This pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down in california. Johns hopkins reporting there is more than 11,000 confirmed cases in the state. The bay area saw its total top 3,000 cases with Santa Clara County accounting for about a third of those. The number of patients in icu beds around the state now over 900. Thats about four times the count from just last friday. Ysisffs areal cos police chief siness owners found violating Public Health orders. Weve had to cite a business in the last 24 hours, and weve cited individuals in the last 24 hours. And these are people that have been warned before. Chief bill scott says there will be no more second chances. Anyone or any business found violating the rules a second time will be cited. Meanwhile, today mayor london breed issued a reminder about yesterdays recommendation from local Health Experts local Health Officer, rather, that people should wear a Face Covering when leaving home. There is no need for you to wear an n95 mask. We want to reserve those masks for Health Care Workers. Mayor breed added that face covers are not a replacement for social distancing. Both she and chief scott say on the whole, san franciscans have done a good job of social distancing and obeyinstayatho mask, but both local and federal governments are recommending people wear some kind of Face Coverings when they leaf home. Masks are hard to get. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes takes a closer look now and joins us live. Kris . Good afternoon, guys. Youre probably going to want to go for a walk this weekend, maybe go to the Grocery Stores. These are the masks that are hard to find. I should mention this was acquired prepandemic for a wildfire coverage. But the doctor i spoke to today said you dont need. This you might want to use Something Like this, a scarf. And the best thing to remember is make sure you cover your nose and your mouth. We took a drive through downtown San Francisco and chinatown and saw all kinds of face covers, including a scarf and a tshirt. Many people asking what should i be using. We put our viewer questions to epidemiologist at ucsf dr. George rutherford. Do i need a face mask if im standing in my yard . If youre not doing anything. And is it okay to wear a scarf over my nose and mouth . Yes, absolutely. What were trying to do is cut down on you expelling cough, sneeze respiratory particles. Thats the goal is to protect other people from you. The next question is how should the cloth masks be laundered . I would waush them in hot water. What would be the best protection if youre going for a run or a bike . I would say youre going have to experiment. Try a tshirt or Something Like that. Just a bandanna. Experiment for comfort and fit, but also how porous. Online, on etsy and amazon, the choices are endless. From fashionable to hightech. This one boasts breathability and filter technology. But dr. Rutherford says keep it simple. Cover your nose and mouth and save the professional stuff for the people who need it. Remember, the masks are just for when you good out, okay . An adequate mask covers your nose and mouth and cuts down on respiratory particles. Cloth is fine. Cotton is fine. Fabric is fine. There is no way its going to be perfect. But we have to reserve the perfect solutions, which are all the surgical masks and the n95 masks for the hospitals for now. All right. Speaking to the doctors advice to experiment, you might want the try this at home. Take a spray bottle, try different materials to see what materials wont allow that liquid to go through. And also whats comfortable enough that it wont fall off as youre running your errands or going for a run. Again, if you want to go out, you want to be covering both your nose and your mouth. And of course none of this is replacement for the most important advice which is the stay home. Kris reyes for abc7 news. So great to get all that information. Thank you, kris. Okay. Lets take a look now at where cases stand in the bay area. There are now more than 3100 cases and 86 people have died. Santa clara county leads the by area with confirmed cases with more than a thousand cases. And contra costa now with the Skilled Nursing facility outbreak is at 307 cases. Now going farther north, Mendocino County reports at least four confirmed cases. Lake county remains unchanged with no positive cases. A new coronavirus testing site now open in fremont. Health workers began conducts the driveup tests on stevenson boulevard today. Theyre expected to perform about 100 a day in order not the overwhelm the labs, which is what happened a at site in hayward. Heres how this works. The arrivals will be prescreened to see if they have at least two of the following symptoms. Theyre looking for fever, cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing. This will decide who receives the test, which is by the way free of charge. Multiple criteria. If you have any two of the criteria or a cumulative score, it doesnt necessarily have to be only the fever that would qualify you for a test. Were shooting for 10 to 12 hours on a negative. A little long other about a positive. And anybody who receives a test will be contacted about the Washington Hospital nurse. Officials hope to open a walkup site in the coming days. A fallen Santa Rosa Police officer who died from covid19. Look at this long trail of patrol cars that drove down highway 1 with their lights turned on this morning in honor of detective marilou armer. The 43yearold was californias first Law Enforcement officer to die from the virus. Eight other Police Officers have tested positive for covid19. A crewmember from the grand princess cruise ship that remains docked in San Francisco has died of coronavirus. This is video of the ship this morning from sky 7. According to a news release from the National Alliance for filipino concerns, the crewmember was from the philippines. The group says the crewmember had been taken off of the ship last month and transferred to a San Francisco hospital where he oup isai concernayuarantine ends a protest in a line of cars as advocates worry that the city of San Francisco is simply not doing enough to help the homeless. So far the city has rented almost 500 rooms for Homeless People to isolate, and 2,000 more hotel rental agreements are in the works as well. Kate larsen with a closer look at this issue. A caravan of cars circled San Franciscos Moscone Center while mayor london breed and city officials held a Virtual Press conference inside. The message still loud and clear at this socially dante protest. Police have blocked off howard in front of moscone where the citys Emergency Operations center are so the protests are driving around moscone in their car, honking to try and get more Homeless People into hotel rooms. Yesterday we had our first Virus Outbreak at a navigation center. Jennifer i the dictor of then o homele if we have thousands of People Living up on top of each other that are vulnerable, that are literally throw times more likely if they get the virus to use an icu bed, it makes sense to put people in hotel rooms now. Mayor breed has said that San Francisco does not have the resources to put every homeless person in a hotel room. At a briefing she explained who the city is prioritizing in addition to those who test positive for covid19. Our elderly homeless population, those who are over60, those who have underlining conditions, and those who are in our shelter system now. But many San Francisco supervisors, including dean preston dont think thats enough. Preston helped launch a gofundme and raised 100,000 in private donations to rent 25 rooms at the oasis inn near the tenderloin to get Homeless People who arent necessarily sick out of shelters. At some point, and should it be yesterday, but the city needs to run a program like what we did here. The oasis rooms are rented for the next two weeks, after which preston hopes San Francisco picks up the bill, all while city hall tries to keep its financial footing in the midst of this dauntingly expensive pandemic. Kate larsen, abc7 news. California is making an effort to get the homeless off streets. Gavin newsom outlined the progress this afternoon. Some 6,867 hotel rooms to be exact now are in our possession on the way to getting 15,000 in the phase 1 of our efforts. Its all around making sure that we address the most vulnerable californians with the kind of acua actynd focus. The governor added the state is working wit Peoples Movement during this pandemic by releasing portions of its vast data collection. The socalled mobility reports show how people are responding to stayathome orders. According to tech crunch, data from earlier this week showed a 47 drop in retail and recreation activity in the u. S. From before the outbreak. The company says it wants to help stem the spread of the virus, but without infringing on user privacy. The rules of social distancing. You know what they are. But are they actually working . The impact ofns like social distancing and how theyre working. Plus today should be the home opener for the giants. Instead, its a different kind of home game. Were going to talk live with giants ceo larry baer, up next. Im Spencer Christian. Were going from sunny to stormy in a rather short time. Ill have 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. L changes in our world. So we are helping keep you to date. Maybe you saw that meme on social media. Today is march 7. Today is actually friday, april 3rd, day 18 of our shelter in place in the bay area. It feels like so many more months have gone by since all this started. This was supposed to be the home opener for the San Francisco giants. Joining us now is chief executive officer of the giants, larry baer. And larry, thanks for joining us. I assume you are working from home like so many of us at this point. We are, larry. And our heart goes out to everyone in the Giants Community and in our Greater Community impacted by this. But we did not have a home opener today, as everyone knows. But we look to the day that well be able to bring some joy and some Community Spirit to everyone thats appealing down the road through baseball. The giants always put on such a great party on opening day. There is always dignitaries and some special guests that you guys surprise us with. I wonder what you thought of this morning when you got up as knowing that t notoing to t kind iont oraclbummer. What i felt wh weay at ho oper is get up, go out early to the ballpark, and i mean really early, and greet some of the people you havent seen in three and four and five and six months, right . The day of game worker, the security and the ushers, and ballpark vendors and the groundskeepers, give them a big hug. And we couldnt do that today. And those people are also part of the world of people that are suffering hardships. Weve created a fund for them. But thats what we all felt like doing. We did have an opening day from ed our fans to connect ng we dii with us on all sorts of social media and listen to highlights of great games. We have the Travis Ishikawa game, what we call which is the when in 2014 send us to the world series, we had that streaming all over the place on facebook and twitter and on television. And i heard john miller do a wrapup on a stratomatic virtual baseball game. You beat the dodgers. Evan longoria made a diving play. Youre 10. Gabe kapler remains undefeated. But ultimate crystal ball question here. If we can get through all of this in a few months, is there a target date to start the baseball season . I heard some people whispering july 1. But it may be later than that. And how many games would you have to play to have a meaningful season and go into a postseason . You know, larry, i think that if you go back in history, the resumption of baseball through crises, even going back to 1918 with the spanish flu and the end of world war i, baseball has created a healing, soothing tonic for this country and in local communities too. If you go back to the earthquake here in 89, or 9 11 around the country. So the answer is we want to get some kind of season in. If you can have a respectable number of games and get to have a win and wild card, et cetera, and have a postseason, i think it would be Great Healing for the country. And it would be different. But Everybody Knows these are extraordinary circumstances. So i dont want to pin a date on it. There is discussion of possibly resuming initially without fans at the ballpark. So people will be able to enjoy the games from home. And that would be if thats the way we bring it back safely, were going take our views from public Health Officials. Well, we appreciate your time, and i know everybody in the community always looking forward to opening day. I hope we do have an opening day in a few months and look forward to seeing you at oracle park with all the giants and gabe kapler and everybody. And resumption of whatever normal is at that point. Well, lets all stay connected virtually. Lets all shelter in place and really distance ourselves. Our players are sending those messages out. Our organization is sending the messages out. The more we do that, the sooner we can resume. Thank you, larry, and take care. Well see you at the ballpark some time in the not too distant future. Absolutely. Im counting on it. And have a great weekend. Stay safe. Thank you, my friend. It would have been a breezy opening day. Lets get to Spencer Christian who is life from home tracking our weather. Hi, spencer. Hey, ama. Hey, larry. I enjoyed your conversation with larry baer. That was terrific. Really uplifting. A and the weather right now is uplifting, but that may not last long. We have sunny skies across the bay area right now. Mild conditions. Beautiful view looking across the bay here from our exploratorium camera. 57 degrees in San Francisco. Low 60s in oakland. Redwood city, san jose and gilroy. 55 at half moon bay. Blue skies over the golden gate right now. Its 66 up in santa rosa. We have mid60s also at petaluma and napa. Upper 60s at fairfield, concord and 63 at livermore. And looking at the shark tank in san jose, these are our forecast features. A cold stormy pattern begins tomorrow. Well see waves of rain and showers continue into monday. And it will be dryer and warmer late next week. But before, that lets bring in the storm impact scale. The approaching storm, two storms, one tomorrow and one on sunday. Beth storms rank 1 on the impact scale. Rain first and then showers. And there is the possibility of lightning, hail, and even light snow in the higher bay area peaks. Overnight as the rain starts developing in the north bay, look for low temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. As str throughnd up into showers later in the day, upper 50s a the coast to maybe 60 around the bay. Low 60s inland. And here is our forecast animation starting at midnight tomorrow night. Notice how midnight tonight, i beg your patterned, going into it tomorrow morning. Notice how that first wave of rain starts swinging through the north bay in the Early Morning hours tomorrow. As it moves through the remainder later in the day, it will break up into scattered showers by Late Afternoon and evening. But it will be followed by another wave or several waves of rain coming in with the second storm early sunday morning. And that will continue through the day into the evening hours, and well probably have showers from that storm continuing into monday. And while its raining here, of course, it will be snowing rather heavily in the sierra. Rainfall estimates in the bay area will be from a third of an inchinome north bay locations which may receive over an inch. In the sierra, we have a winter storm watch from 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow to 11 00 a. M. Monday. We expect 1 to 3 feet of snow. Generally some higher peaks could get up to 4 feet of snow. Here is our accuweather sevenday forecast. Notice weve got some unsettled weather remaining with us through monday. But it will start to clear partially on tuesday. And by late in the week next week, well get sunnier skies and more springlike weather. More baseballlike weather once again. Larry and ama . Spencer, thank you. Avoiding contact from groceries to gas. The changing way were getting our fill. We have a pretty good idea when were going get those government checks. People were afraid i was contagious. I felt gross. It was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx. Four years clear. Real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. An increased risk of infections if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or