Vulnerable populations reexposed. Tonight the abc 7 news iteam is digging into the number of covid19 patients released from the hospital returning back to Skilled Nursing facilities and the problems that can cause. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. And imam ma dates. Lets get right to stephanie eera who is track the numbers. Reporter we just learned 78 positive covid19 cases in San Mateo County are from assisted living and Skilled Nursing facilities. Dozens of those patients required hospitalization, likely returned back to care facilities running the risk of exposing others. Thats what san mateo supervisors are working to prevent. Permanent dying in n homes. Reporter this is eric love, a residet that the Skilled Nursing facility in burlingame. Our conversation via face time as slough selfisolating in his room. According to love and a current staff member, one drents and one Health Care Provider tested positive for covid19. We just wanted to confirm the yes, somebody will call you. Reporter but the facility has yet to confirm that information with the abc 7 iteam. Theres people Walking Around without masks. Love is concerned if the resident and staffer returns, other patients may be exposed. Senior facilities very nervous about that. Reporter san mateo supervisor dave fine recognizes the risk thats targeting our most vulnerable populations in nursing homes, some of which dont have appropriate facilities. Of the 17 Skilled Nursing facilities in the county, five have been chosen to accommodate Covid Patients from the hospital. Is five facilities going to be enough . Thats a good question. Ive asked that question. Well have to well have to wait and see. Reporter roughly 7,600 people are living in senior homes across San Mateo County, 1600 of which require specialized care like love who has preexisting conditions. Im really in fear for my life. Reporter now, ive reached out to burlingame Skilled Nursing for further comment but have yet to hear back. San mateo county is expected to announce those five facilities that will be allocated are to Covid Patients by tomorrow. Live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. All right, stephanie. Thank you. A bay area man faces felly burglary charges for allegedly stealing personal protective equipment from a nursing and health care college. Fremont Police Arrested 35yearold Brian Schulman last night after they say he burglarized the una tech college compass. Hes accused of stealing more than a thousand n95 masks as well as sanitizing wipes and protective gloves. All were recovered. He was cited and released. A federal task force is cracking down on ppe hoarding and price gouging. Medical i have woodrow spoke to the head of the task force about why this type of fraud could be rampant in california. Reporter pallets of masks. Enough to outfit an entire hospital. Reporter which is what they recently seized from a brooklyn man who was hoarding them and selling them at a premium. He was selling that product at approximately a 700 markup. Reporter u. S. Attorney for the district of new jersey is leading the hoarding and Price Gouging Task force. There are just despicable actors who are taking advantage of fear. And its the most unamerican thing that i think you can do in a time when the country is clearly in pain and needs this stuff to heal. Reporter from the east coast to the west coast, he says there are certain places where hoarding and price gouging is likely to be more rampant. Brooklyn, new jersey, louisiana, california, this is where the materials coming in from abroad and being picked up by a lot of these fraudsters. Reporter he says others are claiming to be able to get medical supplies and looking to secure an upfront payment. Thats what investigators saw in the case of an australian broker who said a supply link could produce thousands of n95 masks. Several bay area hospitals planned to make the purchase before they realized something was off. What you learn on the back end is that no product is actually it. What do you want to say to the bad actors that are doing that in terms of the likelihood they will get caught and charged and prosecuted . The department of justice takes this very seriously. You may see dollar signs, but let me tell you something, those dollars are short dollars. You are not going 10 to rich yourself because we are going to find out about it, we are going to bring you to justice and we are going to get that money from you and returned to its rightful force. Reporter melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Bay area Health Workers have been working on a plan to ease restrictions on the shelterinplace order. Its going to be a while before life gets back to normal. But things like landscaping and playing golf could be reintroduced as long as social distancing is maintained. Some businesses that havent been deemed essential could reopen with certain guidelines. An Infectious Disease expert at Stanford University says regional collaboration will be being be the key to keeping the community safe. Hopefully well be able to get through the next weeks and months with the stepwise approach. And for people feeling patient and rebuilding their lives slowly but surely to what they think is their own version of normal. The current shelter in place order is at the time to expire in 18 days. That is may 4th. President trump announced his administrations plan to reopen the american economy, shuttered of course by the coronavirus epidemic. The 18page plan would ease restrictions in areas with low transmission first and are broken into three phases lasting 14 days. The first calls on employers have their employees return to work in phases and minimize nonessential travel. Schools, churches, bars, gyms, and large venues follow in phase two. Under the third phase, those venues just mentioned can reopen with limited social distancing. Should be noted here that governors, not the president , have the final say when the stay at home orders in individual states are lifted. The president reportedly acknowledged that during his call with governors. In the midst of this pandemic, School Districts continue to navigate their way through social distancing. As abc 7 News Reporter explains, special education kids seem to be the most vulnerable if in these uncertain times. Hi. This is matthew turlly would was diagnosed early won autism. He turned 3 years old just as the shelter in place man dade went into effect. This is the age when children with special needs transition from receiving services from the state to getting them through a school district. Right now the guide thans were getti guidance that were getting, we can resume eat valuati eat val n process when schools reopen, so thats ball. That means he would be in limbo for six months without an individualized Education Plan from his local school direct, berkeley unified. In other words, a loss of precious times. Getting involved and having therapy at a very young age is critical and clinically shown to help improve. When the lockdown doorder ca, they were quick to pass senate bill 117 to provide guidance and to protect School Districts granting them the right to way of waive certain requirements. Now theyre allowed to extend timelines. But family advocates say its time to think out of the box. We could make those kids automatically eligible. Right now, if districts are having a hard time coming up with online instruction for their regular education students, the reality is that very little is being done for those in special education programs. Parents are being left with that task. Theyr trying to be therapists. Theyre trying to be friends. Theyre trying to be teacher to their kids. This is mentally hard while theyre also trying survive. Reporter there are more than 700,000 special education students in california. Leann, abc 7 news. Fremont is now the first bay area city to require people wear a mask or a Face Covering when in an essential business, like a grocery store, gas station, or laundromat. That also goes for employees in those businesses and the Face Covering must be provided by their employer. If youre not wearing a Face Covering, you may be refused entrance or service in fremont. Employers must also allow employees to wash their hands or use Hand Sanitizer at least every 30 minutes. Well, were familiar with shortages as grocery stores, but for the past few days bay area residents have noticed a produce shortage. Have you seen this . Shelves at some safeways are completely empty and a lot of people are wondering why. Abc 7 News ReporterLauren Martinez went to find out. Reporter this safeway in downtown San Francisco has limited produce and limited entry. Were expecting not to find a few things. Reporter this couple went in with their list and came out with some of the items they wanted. Theres zero avocados in there. Yeah. No carrots, very few bell peppers. Produce. Surprisingly it were eggs. Reporter produce shelves are empty not only in safeway, but in brentwood and san jose. We flew over a Distribution Center in tracy where a worker reportedly passed away from covid19. In a statement they said, quote, we were saddened to learn that an associate at our tracy Distribution Center has passed away due to complications related to covid19. Our hearts are heavy and our thoughts are with that associates family. In sack contrac contrac contracc governor planned to address a plan for two weeks for workers infected with covid19. The groc eshs association is encouraging people to use grocery delivery service. Joshua used to be a ride share driver, now he delivers groceries through instacart. Produce aisles are a lot of times completely devastate rrds pastas gone, flours gone, sugars on. They shortage is only temporary. Were hoping its just temporary. Abc 7 news. A meeting of the mayors, leaders of the bay areas biggest cities come together this afternoon. What theyre saying about the Coronavirus Crisis next. A stanford professor and the biggest coronavirus study of its kind. It could tell us a lot about immunity levels in the population. Plus, the biggest cargo ship the or the where can a healthier heart lead you . For people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. It was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. Heart failure can change the structure of your heart so it may not work as well. Entresto helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. And with a healthier heart, theres no telling where life may take you. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The mosterus sidefangioede, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. Novartis thanks the heroic healthcare workers fighting covid19. Abc 7 news asks the mayors of the three largest bay area cities to join us today to talk about the biggest coronavirus concerns that you may have. San Francisco Mayor london brooed, oakland mayor and san jose mayor joined abc 7 news anchor dion lynn remotely to provide some answers and dion is in the newsroom with more on what i thought was a great discussion. I appreciate that very much, dan. We got so many questions on our facebook and instagram pages and covered a lot of ground. And one of the topics we discussed is how life is going to change even after the pandemic is under control. One of the many questions we received was about disaster response. What will change during largescale events such as wildfires or what we saw with the flooding in coyote creek where 14,000 people were evacuated . What does Emergency Planning look like Going Forward . Because its not as if people can congregate in large groupsny longer, perhaps its like these schools, maybe they need to start segregating in some way. What would you say to that . Open up the High School Gym and make sure everybody is well fed and cared for doesnt work in that pandemic. Some noncongregate shelters, prefab indicated dorm rooms that we can build quickly on a few sites, that will serve covid individuals today and Homeless Individuals well into the future. Those are the kinds of things that were pushing very hard on right now. On the topic of shelter, i asked mayor london breed about housing the homeless in hotels during the pandemic. She spoke about the tremendous logistical challenges. We recently had the instance where more than 100 Homeless People had come down with coronavirus at one of the citys homeless shelters. Moving forward does this exacerbate perhaps the need, the urgency to move the homeless at a quicker pace . Our social workers, our shelter workers, they are having a really hard time with helping to get their patients and the compliance of these shelters in some cases to follow some of the most basic orders that were implementing. And on top of that, we are trying to aggressively expand our capacity with Disaster Service workers, people who work for the city but may work for park and rec, the library, or any other department. We have to bring them in, socially distance them, train them, and get them to take shif that we control who goes in and out of the hotel. Were controlling whats happening in the elevator. Were struggling with our challenges of getting one person at a time to use the elevator and not to crowd in on the elevator, not to go into each others rooms. And some of the other issues that we face. It is complex. Now, obviously we just scratched the surface of youre discussou with three mayors and a doctor. Youll hear from more of our pan efists tonight on the news at 6 00. Live in the newsroom, dion dionn we are learning more about stanfords Massive Research project with major league baseball. 27 of the 30 teams are giving the professor help to control of spread of coronavirus. Concession workers and staff have been tested for antibodies. This will give insight into how widesps people who had minor or no symptoms and therefore a window into herd immunity. This is a study that is critically important to help us understand how the epidemic is moving and where we are in the epidemic. Having two teams in a town where theres that will actually help us save quite a bit, because its not just a city as a whole or bay area as a whole, its parts of the country parts of the country will have different parts of different problems. Well be able to make much better datadriven decisions whether about when its safe to open up in communities with studies like this. The professor says he hes results from the test will be made public within two weeks. Up to 10,000 people will be studied. A new cdc report has revealed how the Coronavirus Spread from a patient to Health Care Workers in solano county. In february, the woman was the first in the u. S. Diagnosed with covid19 stemming from an unknown source. Hospital staff originally did not suspect the virus because the patient had not traveled outside the country. She ended up exposing 121 Health Workers, 43 were tested but only three got the disease the report found all three who tested positive had been in close contact for about two hours with the patient. Two of those had no protective gear on during their interactions. Now those who tested negative had shorter exposure times, about half an hour or even less than that. And they worked farther away from the patient. Keep your sweaters handy. It is definitely cooler outside. Look at this great look, though, outside. Abc 7 news meteorologist will be along with the forecast next. And a reminder to wax the disney family sing along at 8 00 tonight. Theyll sing and dance to your favorite disney songs from their homes. All proceeds help feeding ive been involved in. Communications in the media for 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Siky 7 was above the port of oakland as it welcomed its biggest ship over. Its 1,310 feet long out meshing it by 1,007 feet. The port says the ships arrival is also a reassuring sign amid a decreasing cargo during the coronavirus pandemic. You can see the video in the video here that the skies were clear, it was a nice day outside, so lets turn things on over to abc meteorologist. Take a live at our mount tama pie yas picture, about 2,600 feet deep, driving the temperatures down. Up to 17 degrees cooler right now in san jose compared to 24 hours ago. You can pretty much see why its socked in across the region and were even monitoring some thunderstorms and snow showers in the sierra. Thunderstorms up in northern california, all in association with an area of low pressure spinning off the Monterey County coastline. Thats going to squeeze out a little drizzle during the overnight hours here in the bay area and may trigger an isolated shower tomorrow, but its isolated at best. First thing you will notice in a minute it will be gray. But right now its 50s, 60s for your temperatures. Heres what youll see tonight and tomorrow from our exploratory c