The u. S. Senate approved a 480 billion are e leaf package with money for Small Business, hospitals and testing. It needs to be passed by the house. To the president. On the front lines of the pandemic. Some doctors and nurses are seeing hours and pay cut. Hospitals scale back nonemergency operations and treatment. Some facilities are struggling financially and so are employees. We have the details about difficult decisions being made locally. In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Front line workers are up against can you wants to hours and pay. Why do we have to foo to fooo bill. The nurse didnt want to reveal her identity. We agreed to alter her the anticipated surge hasnt come. We must adapt to the Financial Impact of the extraordinary events. Instead of lay offs, tli are launching a temporary wosh force adjustments. Confirming its navigating the Economic Impact of covid19 and implementing a temporary reduction in hours across the organization. Were being asked to ewe paid time off. Or go unpaid and go on unemployment. Until july. Or according to to documents, employees can expect a 20 pay cut for ten weeks. I hope they reconsider. Front line workers. Healthcare professionals once deemed essential. Searching for options and answers. We never hesitated. Going out to the unknown and risking our lives. Putting love a statement they said in part, this is a difficult but necessary decision to sustain the Long Term Health oflt organization. So we can county to provide Critical Services to the community. Test results have confirmed the earliest deaths from coronavirus happened in february. Not march. Like previously thought. Two people who died at home on february 6 and 17 had tissue samples that tested positive. The two deaths and a third on march 6 happened before the first death was publicly reported march 9. Daily mission here is has been to bring you stories to help build a better bay area. With the coronavirus pandemic, that challenge and mission is bigger than ever. Governments and businesses and people are looking to what the future will hold. That includes the San Francisco transportation agency. Today it announced plans to change some city treats into slow streets. Eliminating traffic to have more room to practice social distancing. Theres an even bigger opportunity to reslhape the cit. With 20 of lines operating. San francisco plans to close 13 miles of streets to most traffic. In order to give people on bicycle and foot more room to social distance. In the street. The family supports the closure. Allows people to spread out. Trying to stay safe. I can ride my bike all over the street. In yellow on the map are the 12 street closures that they would like to close to through traffic. Onut t fir closure here on page street. 41st avenue between lincoln will close. Cones and signs will indicate the slow street blocks. Parking and cross traffic will be permitted. Typically this rears two years of planning and three years fo get funded and imflemted. Five years of work in so far its been two weeks. Hes the director. He says its possible to slow Streets Program will expand and even continue after the shelter in police. He says the pandemic has made a lot of things possible. As a result of the emergency order. We are having to respond rapidly to the emergency. But its also forced an unprecedented level of collaboration. And opportunity to rethink our street. For the next generation. To rethink things in a better way. Were doing the thinkin now about how to bring services back. Do we bring things back exactly as they were before . Or better. Wednesday hes meeting with Bay Area Transportation officials to discuss how to spend federal stimulus dollars. To rebuild and reimagine. In less than an hour enforcement begins on mandatory mask rules in the bay area. All put rules in place within the past few days. You have to cover your nose and mouth while in public. Especially unable to maintain proper social distancing. The rules apply to transit agencies. The ferry is making it mandatory as of tomorrow. All workers and passengers on bart must wear a face covering. And drivers and passengers on buses. A flood of vehicles with people looking to get out and hike. Upset residents inrsreining see police have been issuing parking tickets. This came up during city counsel meeting as potential changes were discussed. The mayor has a suggestion. My preference would be to add at least the area that is the downhill sl downhill slope right above the entrance to the and put on barricades. It sends the message theres no parking up there. At all. Police chief says another option could be towing repeat offenders. New developments San Francisco flower market will reopen tomorrow under strict social distancing guidelines. The marketplace received special permission from officials to resume operations. Many rely on the flower market to buy merchandise. Tomorrow the governor is expected to give details about opening the economy and ease shelter in place restrictions. Some experts are urging caution. Its the question were all asking. When will california reopen . Theres a will the of anxiety and a lot of need to know. Under public pressure some states are already beginning to ease orders. In south carolina, some department and Retail Stores opened today with 20 capacity. Public beaches opened. In georgia starting friday, gyms and bowling alleys some restaurants and theaters will open. Next week in colorado residents will be recommended to stay home. But not required to. In tennessee and ohio a majority of the businesses will be allowed to reopen may 1. If not sooner. We need several things to unwind the current lock down if you will. And get people back into the public. As much as possible. One of the things that experts say is needed is from the white house guidelines. States can begin a gradual reopening if theres a decrease in covid19 cases over 14 days. Thats not the case in georgia for instance. Where the state department of health reported an increase in cases. And thats why newsom says california hasnt yet eased restrictions. We are not out of the woods yet. Practicing physical distancing has worked. To keep those numbers relatively model in terms of growth. If we pull back too quickly those numbers will go through the roof. Governor newsom says tomorrow hell update the progress and the time line for reopening the state. Well tune in for that. We will be streaming governor newsoms News Conference tomorrow at noon. Renters more protection from losing their homes and business spaces. The ordnance bars landlords from evicting tenants who dont pay rent if they lost their jobs or have to pay medical expenses. Renters have 120 days to pay back rent owed. Richmond city counsel voted against an emergency order to suspend rent and mortgage payments. It failed by a five to two vote. They say its unfair to expect people to pay the largest bills while many are out of work. Some members express fears richmond would get sued over the authority to enact a rent and mortgage moratorium. We have a special section on our web site with resources to answer whatever questions are about coronavirus. What about stimulus and unemployment help. What are the rules about face coverings. Find it owl all online. Grocery store workers say they have been harassed and yelled at. This evening they need your help. Warning about a second wave of the coronavirus this winter. Why experts say its likely to be worse. Live from home. Summer like heat is coming your way. Ill show you the temperatures coming up. A look at whats coming up tonight on jimmy kimmel live. Rand fast, reliable, secured internet from xfinity can help. We have plans to fit every budget with speeds up to a gigall at xfinity. Com. 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I work behind the register. Im seeing customers come in and theyre rude. Not giving employees the respect ey safe w reps tell us they supplied all store soeshassocia with masks. But dont have them. And lack hand sanitizer. They added sneeze guard and one way aisles. Shoppers still do their own thing. And many customers arent socially distancing. These are my coworkers sp my family. Im protective. Give us a break. Its in the our fault. Were trying. They now have dedicated staff focussed on cleaning. Shes hopeful the shoppers who continue to come in do a better job of socially distancing and also showing a bit more compassion. All right. This is very sobering. Head of the cdc has reportedly told the Washington Post that is a second wave of the virus could be worse. He says welkd see the seasonal flu and resurgence of covid19 at the same time this winter. This year the cdc estimates 24,000 people died of the flu. Over eight months. 43,000 people died of covid19. In just two months. Together that represents a real threat to our healthcare system. Thats why we need to not only flatten the curve but raise the line to get our hospitals ready for what maybe coming in the future. Red field emphasized the importance of flu shots to reduce flu hospitalizations. It may save a hospital bed for your mother. Or grandmother. Who may get coronavirus. So true. New developments, california is now the first state to ease restrirkss to allow some asymptomatic people to get tested for covid19. These changes will apply to People Living and working in high risk places like Nursing Homes and prisons. The l. A. Times reports this is because there more testing supplies availablela. U. S. Senat appro a 480 billion Coronavirus Relief package. With money for Small Businesses, hospitals and testing. 330 billion go to boost a Small Business payroll loan program that ran out of the money last week. Additional 75 billion to hospitals and 25 billion spent to boost testing. For anyone who thinking this is the last train out of the station that is not even close to the case. Its time to think about the amount of debt that were adding. To our country. And the future impact of 60 billion to a business Disaster Relief fund. Farms would be eligible. It needs to be passed by the house. Fans of the music are answering a plea to help the record store. 400,000oa it opened the first store in berkeley 30 years ago. And operates in San Francisco and hollywood. 400 people work for them. Were partnering with i heart radio to support local businesses being hit hard. Thousands of Bay Area Stores and services are still open. Offering to help with essential needs and many are hiring as well. Click on support the bay. Thank you. Tomorrow is earth day. Much like many other events celebrations will be virtual. Experts say this is something that could pay off in the long run for the plant. The Global Pandemic that were seeing now is devastating. But when we look at in relation to Climate Change, there is a very small silver lining. We are seeing so many events and travel transition to being online. To having virtual gatherings. This is something that we should hopefully continue after the pandemic. Activists say one of the potential negatives from the out break is a shift in resources from Climate Change to fight the pandemic. National geographic launching a creative way to celebrate. With many people at home. Neighborhood safari. When its finished share your art through social media. Very clever creative ideas. Earth day tomorrow should be warm. Yeah. Everyone will be in their shorts probably and tshirts. Yeah. You can get away with that. Just about anywhere tomorrow. Let me show you a sample of the temperatures coming your way. 80 degrees in concord. Warmer in oakland. 73 degrees. 77 san jose. Temperatures certainly higher than today. This afternoon we had low 60s. To the upper 70s. Tomorrow goeng up. High pressure ridge building in. Sunshine and warmth over the next couple days. Right along the coast. Temperatures will be in check by a sea breeze and patchy fog. What we have tonight right near the coast. Those temperatures will in the 40s and 50s unless you are towards brent wood. 60 degrees. A live look from the east bay. You can see good visibility tonight. Warming trend continues through friday. Above average temperatures in most areas and expect a little bit of a cool down koom the weekend. Numbers in the morning 40s and 50s. A few patches of fog. Occasional high clouds. In the afternoon well feel that warmth. Starting in south bay. A mild day. San jose 77. 78 gilroy. Mid70s from mountain view. The sun will be shining. It will be up to 65 in halfmoon bay. Down ton San Francisco you need the shades. 69 degrees. Mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures in the 60s north bay numbers 80 santa rose. High cloud cover filtering the sunshine. In the east bay 74 degrees in richmond. Union city, fremont. And were feel the warmth inland. 82 degrees fair field. As we check out whats going to happen wednesday, tomorrow. In the afternoon you have the sun with the high clouds. Evening progresses, well notice the fog returning near the coast. That will help to take the temperatures down a skosh on thursday. The warming trend continues in the 7day forecast. Going from the low to mid to upper 80s. Were close to 90 degrees friday. Thats unseasonably warm. Low to mid60s coast side and a little cooler for the upcoming weekend. Very nice. Before you go you have been working from home for a few weeks. Today you have a new blog post talking about the challenges and the experience of that. Yeah. Really it has been now an adjustment. Its four weeks for me working from home. I feel as though we have a good routine. The rules are out the door. Kids bedtime. Screen time. A will the lot of you can relat. You have to let it slide. I have beenngot. House healthy. Good for you. 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