Mostly a celebration that this planting has been recognized as something that everyone can celebrate. Reporter a new way to celebrate. A bay area legend is using his platform to spread. And i want to express my appreciation to the ambassador of the bay, e 40. Reporter last night we caught up with e40 over instagram live. At least seven people close to him have tested positive for covid19. Hes asking everyone to home. Dispen dispensaries are doing deliveries. This was the scene this morning. This seems long but this industry has also taken a hit during this pandemic. Cannabis businesses are declared essential. Theyre essential but not equal. San francisco has a gross receipts tax thats coming in january thats going to tax cannabis retailers 51 times higher rate than your traditional retailers. Reporter as we speak, San FranciscoPolice Officers are patrolling golden gate park. Any violators will be cited. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. Today San Francisco released a map of coronavirus cases by zip code showing which areas have a higher rate of cases than others. The highest rates are in the so mania and mission neighborhoods. I want to stress that no zip code or neighborhood is inher t inherently safer than another. Every san franciscan should exercise precautions. This map should not make anyone feel more relaxed or at the same time more fearful. We have the map available on our website, abc7news. Com. Now, Governor Newsom says tonight on wednesday he will have more information about the process of lifting restrictions in california. I know how impatient people are, but again, i just cannot express more gratitude for the incredible and heroic work all of you have done to soften the blow of this virus so far in the state of california. One bay area town is making history tonight, one of the First Communities in the world offering a free coronavirus test to every single resident. Abc 7 news was in the north bay today where they are setting up drivethrough testing sites. The idea came from venture capitalist yuri englestrom. He and others say they were inspired by an italian town who successfully warded off the virus by tes resident who lives there. They hope doctors here will understand how the virus spreads. We know very little about how the virus moves through a community and behaves in a Community Setting so thats really our motivation for doing this. So far they have not reported any confirmed cases of coronavirus. Englestrom has raised 300,000 in private owe dagdonations to it. Six counties put Mask Restrictions on. So far theres no requirement in napa, solano or santa clara counties. Already the rules are creating drama. Dion lim joins us live with that story. Dion. Reporter yeah, ama, drama is a good way to put it. I spoke to a woman who shared some disturbing video when accusations over covid19 safety turn ugly. Why doesnt she go back to where she came from. Reporter this shocking video taken along the great highway sunday morning is hard to watch. Americans said we dont want you here. Reporter recorded by amanda law out walking her two dogs when she was suddenly approached by this woman who accused her of not adhering to certain distancing rules. She was very emotional and she speak a little bit in my face. I was like oh, no. Reporter you can hear and see the situation quickly escalates and takes on racial undertones. This is how stupid like nasty people should stay get back reporter half a dozen bystanders jumped in to help. They say they heard the woman acost others along the past earlier who were not Wearing Masks while running outside, something not required if social distancing is being practiced. Exactly the behavior San Francisco mayor london breed wanted to avoid, as heard in a press briefing on friday. If you are not a police officer, dont act like one. What we dont want is more confrontation. Reporter amanda is clear to point out shes not sharing her story to shame anyone, rather to help educate in an already challenging time. Instead of focusing on, oh, wow, this is terrible, but, you know, just to be aware of the situation and think of like what we can do, like what we can do to avoid the situation happening again. Reporter she has this message of thanks to the Good Samaritans who broke social distancing rules to steps in and help. You guys saved me, literally saved me. If anyone sees Something Like this happen, they should step in. Reporter and we are so glad shes doing okay. Now, i spoke to San Francisco police who say they are getting a lot of calls about enforcement, but right now they are focusing on what amanda is trying to do right now, which is educate others on the rules of social distancing and mask wearing. Live at home, im dion lim, abc 7 news. All right, dion, thank you. Now, we took seven of your top questions about new rules about masks and face coverings to address specifically here tonight. Abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes with the answers. Reporter so yes number one, where are face coverings mandatory in the bay area . Heres a map. So five counties and the city of San Francisco, Pleasant Hill and fremont. Question number two, why are masks only strongly recommended here in santa clara county. The doctor says she is mindful Law Enforcement resources are stretched. Its not something that i can ask my colleagues in Law Enforcement to enforce. Urgent recommendation. Reporter question number three, who should be wearing these masks . Well, anyone over the age of 12, children who are younger and not required to wear them even though masks of all sizes are available everywhere. Question number four, when should we be Wearing Masks . Anything that can cover your nose and your mouth when you are standing in line or in any location that provides an essential service. Reporter question number five, when can we take them off . If youre traveling alone in your car or with an immediate household member, you dont need to cover your face. If youre out running, riding your bike, walking your dog, basically that is not necessarily a requirement to wear a face covering. Reporter question number six people are being told to wear masks. What do they need to know about taking them off and putting them on . When you put it on, make sure it covers your mouth and when you take it off, try not to touch the mouth, take it off on the sides. Reporter an finally, question number seven. Why do we need to wear masks in public . To keep the people around us safe and slow down the transmission rate in the bay area. Reporter it can be any facial covering that you can make yourself or find resources in your community or online. Kri kris reyes for abc 7 heres another question, how do i stop by glasses from fogging up while wearing a mask. Well have that answer coming up. Local agencies ten to make adjustments brought on by the shelterinplace orders. Muni is actually adding some bus routes back in San Francisco. Sfmta says it has more staff available so its able to expand Service Starting on saturday. Golden gate transit resumed some bus trips but suspended others. In a week b. A. R. T. Will reduce its early bird express bus service that runs between 4 00 and 5 00 a. M. B. A. R. T. Trains dont start until 5 00 a. M. Happening now, a deadly crash has three lanes of northbound 101 near the embarcadero exit blocked. Sky 7 was over the scene this afternoon. You see it there. Police say two cars were involved in a small crash. A third car going toward them made an unsafe turn which caused the vehicle to flip and eject someone from that vehicle. That person has died. Traffic is backed up as the investigation continues. You see the backup there, so do avoid this area if you have essential business to take care of. A lot more to come here tonight. A federal program to help Small Businesses is out of money, leaving some Bay Area Companies in the lurch. Now theyre waiting on a deal to be made in washington. Well have the latest on that. From 7 on your side, a successful start for californias jobmatching website. Now other states want to copy it. Im spencer christian. After a chilly breeze today, a warming trending starts tomorrow. Ill give you a closeup lets take a look at the latest numbers on coronavirus in the bay area. We are now at 213 deaths. Santa clara county has the most cases with 1,192. Solano county jumped to 180 cases. Numbers are also in from other parts of california. Lake county has 6 confirmed cases. Mendi Mendocino County has 5. Neither has reported any deaths. We are charting the total number of cases on this graph. This includes data for 14 counties, the bay area and beyond. Does the number of confirmed coronavirus patients accurately reflect how many people have been infected . Researchers at the university of Southern California did a study that may surprise you. Veronica from our sister station in los angeles has the story. Reporter roughly 4 of adults in l. A. County are antibody positive for covid19. That means 220 to 440,000 people had the virus in the past even if they didnt show any symptoms, but it doesnt mean that we are necessarily beginning to show herd immunity. The concern here is we dont want the public to interpret these test results as, oh, i think i have immunity because that question hasnt been credibly, scientifically answered yet. Reporter the doctor from usc says even if you are antibody positive acti positive, theres no knowing how much that immunity you have and how long it will last. I still sort of cringe at the thought of many, many people crowding into a small restaurant or bar. At this point i think that just sort of invites widespread viral transmissions. Reporter this could give the county a road map for when w could start loosening the restrictions in l. A. County, but chief science officer dr. Paul simon wants people to understand life will look very different for some time. Mayor Eric Garcetti announcing sunday sharp cuts to next years budget, including a temporary furlough of city employees, which will result in a 10 reduction in pay across the board. Soon many departments will have to operate at sharply reduced strength. Cherished programs will lose rc Community Services will be changes. Civilian employees who work in departments will be affected. [ bell ringing ] stocks fell today in large part because the value of crude oil plummeted to its lowest level ever. The dow closed at 23,650. The nasdaq dropped as well losing slightly more than 1 . The s p 500 also went down in todays trading. Crude oil prices even dipped into the negative range because producers are running out of places to store oil and theyre offering deep discounts to wholesalers. A lot of this is happening because were driving less because of these shelterathome orders. Uc berkeley professor of energy daniel common explained on abc 7 news at 4 00 that Oil Companies can just shut down entirely. You just cant cut it enough. The demand has dropped so low and the future forecast for Additional Oil is so low that even with saudi arabia and russia cutting quite dramatically, there is still literally a lot on the market. And heres how the change in oil prices affects us at the pumps. Nationally the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded has plunged to 1. 81. Aaa says thats down more than a buck from this time last year. In california, prices have fallen to 2. 81 compared to a little more than 4 last year. In berkeley, top dog may go out of business because of the pandemic. The hot dog shop has been around for more than 50 years with a handful of locations in berkeley and oakland. Only the shop on durant avenue in berkeley remains open in the pandemic and only for takeout orders. A go fund me page has been started and in less than a week has raised more than 6,000. Small businesses should be able to get help from federal funding through the paycheck protection program, but that program is out of money. Congressional leaders are hopeful a vote in the senate will happen by tomorrow or perhaps wednesday on an emergency funding package. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra is following this and joins us live. Stephanie, is there any update on the number of secured loans across the state . Yes, ama. More than 112,000 Small Businesses in california have been approved for loans under the paycheck protection program. But now that its out of money, bay area Small Businesses are relying on the Economic Injury disaster loan to make ends meet. Sales are 80 down for Vicki Marchant owner of a Furniture Store in redwood city. Weve never had to shut down the business. This is the first time in 55 years weve had to shut down the business. Reporter she applied for an Economic Injury disaster loan after struggling to apply under the paycheck protection program. She waited 28 days but finally got approved. It was an absolute burden being lifted. Reporter marchant is one of 2100 Small Business owners in california thats been approved for a loan. I am scared. Reporter matt feldman romero, owner of a child care center, isnt as lucky. We were forced to lay off 75 of our staff. Reporter after already being denied for a ppp loan, he tried to apply through a Different Bank but has yet to hear back. Its been really hard having to wait and not having any answers. Reporter with the federal loan program out of funding, hes hoping his loan is still being processed, unlike joe field who weve profiled the past two weeks. There on my screen is the latest email from wells fargo. Reporter field is the owner of a concordbased comic bookstore. He waited a month, only to be denied a loan. Theres no more money, we are shut out. Reporter leaving hundreds of thousands of Small Business owners in his position, now left to reapply if additional funding is approved. Should Small Business owners who have yet to hear back from their bank automatically reapply or whats the next step for them . For any borrower who applied for the ppp loan by their lendinger and hasnt been messaged back, please go contact them to finding out where you are in their internal processing. Is there a chance the loan is still being processed . Yes. The bank could have gone in and processed a bunch of them and yip p input them into our system and is now just getting back to contacting those borrowers and letting them now. Reporter the bottom line is if you havent heard back from your bank yet it doesnt mean you wont receive funding. The additional stimulus package is likely to be 250 billion and another 120 billion for minority owned businesses. Abc 7 is partnering with iheart radio to help support local businesses being hit hard during this pandemic. Thousands of Bay Area Stores and services are still open, offering to help with essential needs and many are hiring too. Go to abc7news. Com to find resources. Just click on support the bay. Its going to warm up this week. How do you like the sound of 80s by the weekend . Spencer has the sevenday forecast, next. And here at abc 7 we are honoring the class of 2020 who had to forego graduation ceremonies because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nina caiton deserves to be recognized in every way after commuting and helping her mom raise her two Little Sisters so congratulations, nina, well done. If you want to honor a graduate share the details on our website, abc7news. Com. We may give them a shoutout on television or online. Please, no professional photos, right . Just casual ones. On the site you can check out a Photo Gallery of all the seniors were honoring. Stay her we are destined to do something meaningful. What do you think a private, christian, education looks like . Gcu offers over 175 high quality online programs. Visit gcu. Edu. Good news to share with you. A Little League team has received a 5,000 donation to help them recover from two thefts. It comes from hayward firefighter 1909. They had its clubhouse broken into twice in the past week losing all of the snack bar food and all of the equipment, including players uniforms. In addition to the Fire Department donation, more than 4,000 has been donated to the teams go fund me page. We have a link to it on abc7news. Com. Great to hear. Dont those thieves know theyre supposed to shelter in place . You cant go out and take stuff like that. Come on. Lets turn our attention to the weather forecast. Spencer christian is here. Yes, dan, im forecasting in place. Heres a look at whats going on right now. Its mainly dry but we have a couple of isolated sprinkles in the north bay. We had sprinkles earlier today as well. Not much in the way of measurable rain, just 0. 01 of an inch. Although somehow redwood city squeezed out 0. 16. Thats our wet spot. All spots are breezy right now. Most spots. Novato is showing up calm but just about all other locations are showing wind speeds from 15 to just over 20 miles per hour. So it feels a bit chilly out there right now. Current temperature readings are 57 in San Francisco, right around or just above 60 in oakland, redwood city, san jose, gilroy 58, Half Moon Bay 55. To the north and east we have current readings of 62 in santa rosa, upper 50s in petaluma and napa, low 60s at fairfield and concord and 57 at livermore. These are our forecast features. Well see partly cloudy skies tonight. It will be breezy once in a while, maybe even