Lets check in with our friend mike nicco. I think that rainy weekend really helped us keep away from each other. It really did. It was the first time i got a little stir crazy to be honest with you. I wanted to go outside and every time i did i looked at the radar, but i found plenty of stuff to watch on tv. We still have that wet weather around and not quite as wide spread but just as intense, if not more intense in some areas than it was yesterday. So, one on the storm impact scale for showers, thunderstorms and some small hail and snow level down to 3,000 feet. You can see right now mainly across the monterey bay and creeping northward as an area of low pressure and counterclockwise hurling up some showers and thunderstorms off the Santa Cruz Mountains there to the southwest earlier this morning. So, that gives you an idea of how much energy is in the atmosphere. Heres a look at the quiet sfo this morning and you can see wet weather possible all day today with temperatures well below average. Upper 40s to barely some mid50s during the afternoon hours. Kumasi, reggie. Thanks, mike. The man in charge of muni is telling people, do not ride its buses unless you absolutely have to. This week most of the routes will disappear. Amy hollyfield is live in west portal this morning. Goodern moing, a morning, amy. This morning looking for muni employees at stations and posting signs and announcing the impact of which lines that will be impacted by the decisions that they say they were going to stay up all night last night making the decisions. Muni will go from 68 lines down to 17. It will be a big service change. They are still carrying about 100,000 riders a day, mostly essential workers. But they have to trim the service out of concern for the safety of their workers. Muni officials expect 30 to 40 of their employees to not show up for work this week. This is in response to the reality of our operators lives. We have a lot of operators who are members of the vulnerable population and members who are caring for vulnerable family members. So, weve been seeing a drop off in our operators and mechanics who are able to show up for work. Theyre saying theyre expecting Service Today to be a mess and unreliable. The advice is to find another way to get around, if at all possible. They hope to iron it out and start rolling out their new service tomorrow with a full Service Rollout planned for wednesday. They are asking for your patience and for you to leave muni to those who absolutely need it, if you can. Save the space for someone who has no other choice. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. That is a major change for so many people. Amy, thank you. 90 people here in the bay area have died so far of covid19. Nearly 3,700 cases. The most in Santa Clara County. They have more than 1,200 people infected. A field center in Santa Clara Convention center accepted its first patients. It has the capacity to serve 250 people who have acute coronavirus symptoms. Superior courts will not open until at least may 4th. In contra costa care center a patient died. The patient was already in hospice. 27 residents at the care center have tested positive and 18 others are waiting for their results. Officials believe the outbreak started with five people, three Staff Members and two residents. Now efforts are focused on preventing any future spread. The three facility employees who also tested positive are now isolating at home. If you need to go outside, it is recommended that you wear a Face Covering on your nose and mouth. Today Santa Clara County will give the officials more information about this. Jobina has more from the live desk. Goodern moi morning, jobina. Watch this briefing online this morning and streaming live on facebook and featuring the county supervisors. Officials say wearing these Face Coverings is not a substitute for sheltering in place, hand washing and social distancing. They provide a layer of protection. If you need to leave your home. Dr. Jennifer ashton talked about whether kids should be wearing them, too. The cdc recommends not putting these masks on toddlers under the age of 2, but we do think children can be infected, just not show symptoms and therefore transmit the virus. If theyre old enough to wear a little bandanna or a scarf, that might be a good idea. Dr. Ashton answers more questions from viewers coming up on gma and that News Conference with the Santa Clara CountyHealth Officials will start at 10 00 today. If you would like to watch on their Facebook Page scc public health. Kumasi, back to you in the studio. Thank you. Happening today, a new round of noontime updates coming from governor gavin newsom including what the state is doing to secure thousands of new beds. Over the weekend, Governor Newsom announced that a new state task force has set up five to seven testing mohubs was setp and also a new website for people to donate medical supplies at covid19 medical supplies. Now, surpassing 3,000 deaths. Abc News Reporter has more on the dire need for medical equipment. Reporter this morning, desperately needed protective fweer is arriving in the u. S. On three planes. Part of an effort by the white house and other countries called project onbridge. Onboard nearly Million Masks and 10 million gowns. The state is in grave need of equipment despite reinforcements from around the world. I understand what theyre dealing with. I understand theyre being asked to do the impossible. Reporter near los angeles an e. R. Nurse is finally home, but still on oxygen after being hospitalized with the virus for nine days. I remember one night laying in bed going, man, i felt like i could actually die. I could barely breathe and i diddant want did a ant want to be on a ventilator. I quit my job today. Reporter joins a list of Health Care Workers who have quit calling the risk too great. Vera said she walked away from her job in chicago to protect her family. Id rather be without pay for a couple weeks and have to look for another job than possibly lose my life or my family members. Reporter near orlando, florida, nurse kyle mcbride has been living separately from his wife and four kids from weeks already. We all need to lock arms and join as a community and be united. Reporter in minnesota, Leona Hernandez is leaving her husband and three Young Children for two months to travel to new york to help hospital workers there. We talked about should i stay here and wait until the need is greater in minnesota, but one thing i think that pushed me over the edge is the fact that the need is so great in new york. She the super hero. Shes not a real super hero, dad. Yes, she is. She is a super nurse. Reporter mona, abc news, new york. So many people making the ultimate sacrifices to help us all out, including people who work at tesla. Theyre making ventilators out of car parts. The auto carmaker released a video that shows the process. Ill walk you through the first prototype. This is the hospital grade supply that is going into a mixing chamber which is a car part that we use in our vehicles and the air coming out of this goes to a bench of sensors and goes to a filter and goes into the patients lungs. And then carbon dioxide. Tesla shared this update. Using components from its cars including the model 3 to develop this new ventilator design. That is the kind of innovation that we need right now, isnt it, guys . It really is. I just love to see people get so invested. No matter if youre working wherever you can do your part. I agree totally. Its nice to see tesla step up and do that. Yeah. All right. Guys. Lets talking about what is going on weatherwise. My heater just kicked on, again. It is chilly outside. But hopefully inside and toasty this morning. Thanks for joining us. You can see temperatures up to 15 degree cooler than where we were yesterday and the coldest temperatures up in lake and men mendocino counties. Need to keep everything protected through that time frame. As we head over to the east bay, temperatures here in the upper 30s to low 40s and even a 45 out around antioch and brentwood. Low to mid40s around the bay. And a little bit of fog developing around santa rosa. Right now the visibility about two miles. Right now you can see the rain encroaching rain from the south and no matter what your activity is, its going to be kind of scheduled around trying to find some dry spots, if you need to get outside. Heres a look at the north bay. The least likely area to receive rain, but you will. You can see the best chance on the hour is 3 00 and also probably the warmest this afternoon and more sunshine in the upper 50s. Barely into the mid50s in the east bay from 9 00 on and all bets are off on trying to find some dry weather and some of the heaviest weather in the east bay hills, excuse me, during the morning and the afternoon hours. Heres a look at San Francisco where we have a chance this morning of being dry, but as we head into the afternoon hours, have the umbrella handy if youre headed outside dress warm as we barely make it to 56 this afternoon. I do have some spring warmth and drier weather coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. First, lets get over to jobina and say good morning. How are you . I am doing well this morning. Good morning to you, mike. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone. So, we are checking in on traffic here. I am looking at just some minor crashes coming in from the chp, so not really worth mentioning at the moment because no major blocking issues are involved there. Well take a live look outside right now showing you san rafael, Clear Conditions. But, of course, you heard reggie ask k and kumasi mention the story with muni and the other avenues for mass transzt. Check those schedules before you head the door today. Coming up next, the seven things you need to know this morning. Also, a bay area reserve is taking extra precautions after a tiger in new york tested positive for coronavirus. The changes for zookeepers. If you stocked up at the store, you want 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. Welcome back, everyone. Its 5 14. If youre just joining us, seven things to know this morning. The Santa Clara CountyConvention Center is serving as a Field Hospital for covid19 patients. This is for patients who tested positive for coronavirus but dont need intensive care. Number two. Major service cuts are coming to San Francisco muni this week. The agency plans to only offer service on 17 of its 68 lines by wednesday. Muni says operators are not coming into work because of safety concerns. Number three. Today Santa Clara CountyHealth Officials will give us an update and more information about their new recommendation to wear Face Coverings. You can watch the briefing this morning at 10 00 a. M. Online. It will be broadcast live online with county supervisors. Students in san jose unified will be able to pick up free breakfast and lunch today. School buses will visit 33 school sites every week day. President trump is deploying 1,000 medical personnel to new york city to help battle coronavirus there. Because its still one of the nations largest hot spots. This will include doctors, nurses, respiratory specialists and others. Number six, we still have a storm impact scale. The showers and thunderstorms are going to linger today. In fact, theyll increase as we head through the morning into the afternoon hours. Expect some downpours, dangerous lightning, even hail and snow down to 3,000 feet. Number six. Except for some minor crashes out there on our roads this morning, our conditions are looking clear. A live look showing you walnut creek this morning. A bay area wildlife preserve is taking extra precautions. I should say, let me tell you first about this tiger who is 4 years old at the bronx zoo in new york city. Americas first Coronavirus Infection discovered in an animal. This tiger is named nadia and infected by a asymptomatic zookeeper. The animals are expected to recover. Many have asked how did a tiger get a coronavirus test when many people cant. The bronx zoo says it is different. You cannot send human samples to the Veterinary Laboratory and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories so there is no competition for testing between these two situations. A bay area reserve is taking extra precautions because of this. Closed because of shelter orders, but starting today it will require keepers who work with animals to wear masks. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone has the details. Reporter all animal keepers will be wearing these at safari west in santa rosa cloth masks with filters inside of them. We have pulled our keepers aside and let them know that there will be a little bit of changes. Reporter safari west doesnt have tigers like the baunronx z but the wildlife preserve has nearly 1,000 other animals. Hi, mama. Definitely our primates and our carnivores. So, we have cheetah, hyenas and lots of different species that could potentially be exposed. Reporter nikki smith has spent 14 years at safari west and says those in the animal world are aware of zoonautic diseases spread from humans to animals and vice versa which includes flu types and infections among other things. It is something that we actually train for. Reporter it may look like another day feeding the giraffes, but they have sprayed this area down. All of the handles right here and the light switches in an attempt to be extra cautious. Theyre also using gloves when feeding. Sanitizer for handles and doors when entering and exiting habitats and using foot bath stations when going into or coming out of those areas. So, we are taking every possible precaution. Reporter all in an effort to avoid the spread of a virus like covid19. In santa rosa, j. R. Stone, abc 7 news. Now officials with the bronx zoo stress that there is no evidence that animals play a role in the transmission of covid19 to people other than the possible transmission at a food market in china. No evidence that an animal infected any person here in the u. S. Just when you thought you may have gotten Netflixs Tiger King craziness out of your head, they are dropping another episode. The owner of joe exotics in oklahoma says that netflix is shooting an additional episode which he says could be released this week. So far there is no official confirmation from netflix. But tiger king is the most watched netflix show in the u. S. I have not watched it. Reggie, i know you have. Mike, did you get on it this weekend . No, i went a different direction. Ill tell you dont say ozark. You hear rumors about, there is a thing called and the title is kind of gruesome murder mountain and it talks about the cannabis culture how it started off as a hippy thing and they were going to live their own lives and then it turned dark. Now with the legalization of cannabis, its changed another direction. Its in our backyard so to speak and a very interesting documentary called murder mountain. I think you should watch it if you care about california and the cannabis at all. Thats what i watched. You guys . All right. Well move on to weather then. Sorry. Lets take a look at whats going on. Aic loo fr a look at the exploratorium. Active weather once again. Thunderstorms possible. Activity tapers tomorrow and then an extended period of quiet and warmer weather. In fact, well finally get a sunny and mild to, if not seasonally warm weekend coming at us. Right now you can see down street level in the south bay. Wet weather there. Little heavier on the Santa Theresa boulevard just to the west of coyote and heavier showers that were once thunderstorms about to rotate on to the Santa Cruz Mountains. As we head through future radar, as they move to the north and plenty of yellows and oranges and that is the threat of thunderstorms with small hail and you saw pinks and whites over places like mt. Hamilton. That is the snow that is possible. Now, overnight, we lose the daytime heating and lose the showers. Tomorrow we have just an oh, so slight chance of elevations in the south bay and east bay hills. Thats about it. If you get under one of these heavier amounts, you can get half inch to three quarters of an inch of rain today. So, its going to be more widespread than this weekend and more intense. Lets jump ahead to wednesday and look all the way to the weekend a slow warming trend with dry weather and a ton of sunshine. Thanks, mike. In todays gma first look the country is bracing for what could be the worst week yet in the pandemic and people are stocking up at the grocery store. Becky worley is showing us how to use the food we already have. Reporter in this mornings gma first look extending the shelf life of your groceries. All the different dates are all related to the foods quality and not its safety. Reporter experts like Consumer Reports amy keating say now is the time to utilize our freezers. Keating helps us break down a few popular items. First up, eggs. The date on the egg carton is not a live and die date. You dont need to throw the eggs out if its past that date. Reporter eggs will last in your fridge for three to five weeks after you purchase them. If you arent going to finish that carton in time, you can beat and freeze them in an Airtight Container for about a year. What about those expiration and best buy dates . When do we need to listen to them and when is there some wiggle room . Well have the answers you need and a great app to