Morgan hill and san martine. Notice snow close to mt. Hamilton. The air will get progressively cooler. A few more showers and rain moving into San Francisco and marin county and into the north bay rain making a comeback. Notice what were seeing on the satellite. The cold air support of that upper level low sending showers our way. We think theyll pick up in intensity. There is a chance we could have brief thunder and small hail possible at times. Notice the break between the showers and as we head to the evening approaching sunset should see the showers shut down and temperatures in the low 50s. How much rain and snow in the sierra coming up in 15 minutes. Well see you, rob, thanks so much. Cases of coronavirus continue to grow here in the bay area. One is an Airline Employee at sfo. Is has people stocking up a staying in. Overnight developments. Reporter Alaska Airlines does not believe the employer had prolonged contact with people. They and the infected agent are in quarantine. This comes as San Francisco residents begin adjusting to a new reality, the effects of social distancing. Sidewalks that are usually teeming with people are not at all. In the Castro District the Iconic Castro theater marquee is lit up but no events here, just a simple message stay healthy and safe. Well be back soon. Popular nightclubs are dark and will stay dark for quite a while. It is generally hopping. The music would be blaring. Reportene met friends for dinner and plan on supporting local businesses. Some residents are watching thats happening in europe anticipating the same may happen here. France has ordered cafes and clubs to close and spain declared a state of emergency. And at least two major u. S. Airports are seeing crowds like this at customs, dallasft. Worth, similar at chicago ohare as enhanced screening procedures by customs agents are enacted as part of new travel restrictions to and from europe. And a Jewish Community center in the bay area is another closure to prevent the spread of covid 19. It will be closed for about two weeks. This comes after someone tested positive for coronavirus. The person reportedly played a basketball game in the gym there on wednesday. Were told he did not use other areas. And a uc Berkeley Student has tested positive, a grad student that did not live on campus, not even within the city of berkeley. They tell us the student has selfisolated and does not have any serious symptoms. The numbers keep getting lower. San mateo is banning gatherings of 50 people or more. That ban goes into effect today. The Contra Costa County is the latest for restrictions on events. Gatherings of 100 or more people are banned in coco county. Bans on 100 or more people. All of this, of course, as coronavirus cases continue to climb here in the bay area. Santa clara county by far has the highest number of cases standing at 91. Contra costa county has 29 cases. Now to a bay area lab trying to help get test kits and up its supply. Take a look. This is roche, a Swiss Health Care Company. It has this commercial lab in pleasanton. The Company Received emergency approval by the u. S. Government. It will be the first to introduce commercial tests for the virus. The company showed us this testing machine yesterday. These instruments are very efficient, highly automated. You put a sample in and get the results out of the other end. Theres no manual intervention. Theres no messing with the sample once its loaded on these instruments. These new machines can process more than 1,000 samples and have results in less than 12 hours. Roche says it has 400,000 test kits ready, and its currently shipping them to multiple laboratories throughout the united states. A bay area congressman wants to know if there are health and safety hazards at Travis Air Force base n. A letter to the federal government north bay representative says he has several Health Concerns for people at the air base outside of fairfield alleging problem with social distancing measures and sanitation. He is urging the department of health and Human Services to investigate the claims there. We have a live look at the grand princess cruise ship that is still docked at the port of oakland, nearing one week now. This is where many people quarantined at Travis Air Force base came from. It could leave the port as soon as today. Right now about a dozen International Passengers and some 1,100 crew members are still onboard waiting to get off. State assemblyman rob bonta who represents oakland says those who get off the ship will be put on charter flights to their home countries and says that 19 crew members who tested positive are, quote, doing well. They remain under the care of the ships medical staff. Long shore Union Officials say more needs to be done. We want to make sure this contamination doesnt spread. We want to make sure the crew is treated now. This past week thousands of passengers disembarked from the ship. Now the ship will anchor in the San Francisco bay, its home port. While in the bay the remaining crew will continue their 14day quarantine. The white house says President Trump does not have coronavirus. The president s personal physician issued a release yesterday evening saying the president took a test. It was one week ago that President Trump had dinner with the brazilian president and his press secretary at maralago. That press secretary with the hat on later tested positive for coronavirus. As this outbreak grows, so does the number of questions about how you can catch the virus and how you can fight it. We have created a Coronavirus Crisis center to help give you the most uptodate information. There are now 288 cases across california, and here is how they break down by age. Only five cases in the group of people up to 17 years old. But then the next group is a massive jump, 176 cases involving 1864 year olds. Most are at the upper end of the age bracket. There are 105 cases involving people over the age of 65. There is growing concern over the Health Care Systems ability to deal with the rise in coronavirus patients. First it was the availability of test kits. Now come questions about the number of ventilators in the u. S. A big limiting factor in the number of ventilators, right around 160,000, by some estimates even a modern epidemic can cause 200,000 cases so some are already being used. At that point what has to happen is doctors need to make a triage decision who can stay on the ventilator and who needs to be removed from the ventilator and who can we take care of at that point. The red cross urges people to donate blood. The big concern a shortage could lie ahead. And the regular flu season has already hurt the supply. People did turn out to help at this blood drive on Market Street in San Francisco yesterday. Theyre urging anyone who is healthy to mroes come out and donate. Weve been following this pandemic since the very beginning. We have indepth information on our website. Be sure to check out our special report titled understanding coronavirus. You can stream it right now. If you have an iphone, you can point it to the bottom left of your screen. You fled need to open your camed point it to the qr code that will take you to our special page where you can stream on your phone. Much more ahead on today in the bay. We go live to washington to talk with chuck todd and get a preview of this weeks meet the press. Some big changes in las vegas to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Which big ticket shows are going dark for the foreseeable future. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. So, i go to floor decor, where they dont just know the difference between products, they live for it. From american hardwood to spanish porcelain to italian marble, im looking for inspiration from every part of the world. So, when it comes to discovering every imaginable tile, wood, laminate or stone without compromising my design, one aisle doesnt cut it. I need an entire store. Now, ive got one. Explore floor decor in person or online at flooranddecor. Com welcome back. Its 7 12. It is time for our weekly chat with chuck todd, moderator of meet the press. Hi, chuck. As always, thank you for joining us this morning. No larry today, im sorry to tell you. He is enjoying some time off. Chuck, President Trump, of course, declared a National Emergency for the coronavirus. After an entire week where we saw schools, we saw concerts, large gatherings, sports leagues all shut down how do you think this administration and state governments individually have been handling this pandemic . Well, look, i think state governments have taken the lead and you can see that in our new polling thats out where more people give their state governments higher marks than local or federal. What feels like mixed messaging youll hear from people like dr. Fauci that seem to be pointing in one direction. The president can sound as if hes pointing in another direction. There has been a sense lets just take the testing issue. For three straight weeks weve been told the tests are going to ramp up. No rampup, no rampup. One more time, no, this time we mean it. The private sector is there. I think thats contributed to a little bit of skepticism on what the feds have done so far. I do think everybody is trying to get back on the same page, if you will. And you introd this having to do with all the closings, while dr. Fauci didnt say hes ready to recommend a full closing of all bars and restaurants everywhere, he seemed to hint thats a pretty good idea if you have Community Spread that thats what you have to do. The point is this, and he did say this, people should expect more shutdowns. People should expect even fewer places open than already are. This is not the worst yet. The worst is yet to come. Oh, boy. And, chuck, we have seen three states make changes to their upcoming president ial primaries due to covid 19. How do you think this virus is going to continue to affect the campaign . I think it does to the campaign what its done to the nba season. Its in suspended animation. Ask me again in 30 days. Thats where we are now. Ive talked to some democrats who are relieved it isnt a close race right now, that it looks like joe biden is almost on the verge of being the presumptive nominee. Talk about a nightmare scenario for the democrats had they been in the delegates log where it was unclear who had the lead. I do think that is going to make it almost easier for some officials to delay primaries. Theyll feel less pressure. Ill tell you this, i dont know how Bernie Sanders can effectively go after joe biden tonight in a debate without risking alienating people that are watching because the focus, i think, of everybodys attention among democrats is the coronavirus and trying to draw contrast on the iraq war vote tonight at this debate might come across as tone deaf. I do think Bernie Sanders is in a rough position here in trying to campaign normally and try to make a comeback. It will be interesting to see how they kind of stick together in this time although theyre trying to beat one another. Chuck todd, i wish we had more time. As always, thank you so much. We look forward to seeing you a week from now. But we hope you join chuck for meet the press that will focus, of course, on coronavirus. He will talk to dr. Anthony fauci and Ohio Governor mike dewine and exclusive intervwswi Massachusetts General Hospital and the president of ucla health. Lots of good information coming up. Be sure to tune in right after this newscast. Back here locally some Small Businesses across the bay area are still facing uncertainty as coronavirus has so many people staying home. Now theyre saying they need help. We were in oakland yesterday and talked to some business owners. They told us its been tough. More and more people are working from hole. Theyre avoiding going out to slow the spread of coronavirus. Its, of course, good for Public Health. We need social distancing. Its bad for business. So city and state leaders gathered together yesterday to discuss options to help their businesses. We are hard at work. We are putting our heads together, rolling up our sleeves and identifying solutions. For Small Businesses we put some tax benefits into the bill last night which we are still sorting through. The house of representatives, of course, over the night on friday night, passed a coronavirus package. We told you about that yesterday morning. The senate is expected to vote on it as early as monday or tuesday. The always busy Las Vegas Strip is not immune to the covid19 pandemic. Shows all along the strip a going dark until further notice. Cirque du soleil is canceling shows in vegas and across the globe. Also, the long running penn and teller comedy magic show canceled effective immediately. Magician David Copperfield and another vegas mainstay said he, too, is suspending shows. Also postponing or canceling performances the Jonas Brothers and kelly clarkson. And in a move aimed to help with social distancing amc and regal theater chains are cutting their seating capacity. They are capping seating within each individual theater to 50 capacity. Amc says it will not allow more than 250 people in any auditorium. Amc and of crises as americans stay home to avoid becoming infected. Both chains say they are implementing heightened cleaning protocols. Thats happening, too, at our station. Were being really safe. Meteorologist rob mayeda is in for vianey today. I never see you, but we did not hug today. Thats unusual. Were keeping far away from one another. Its sort of an ironically good time to stay inside for social distancing because we have all this rain. And the travel conditions in the sierra, the roadways have been shut down so theyre recommending folks stay home as opposed to heading up to the high country. We have the clouds, still more showers outside. And, yes, San Francisco will be looking at rain at times, and were hopeful to get a few sunny breaks later on. 48 degrees to start the morning off. Mostly cloudy conditions and rain off to the west and theres a view of the shark tank with the wet roads around san jose also starting off in the upper 40s. And the temperatures will not move a whole lot today. Looking at highs in the low 50s for most of the bay area which, of course, means snow levels by march standards will be quite low. Low enough to be near the top of mt. Diablo and mt. Hamilton at times during the day today. Right now still pretty active as you look to the south, our weather watcher, alvin letting us know weve had more than an inch and three quarters of rain thats come down. Its still coming down around morgan hill. Scattered showers around the trivalley and there is mt. Diablo. Looking at sleet or wet snow near the summit. Showers around San Francisco and more rain into the north bay. So the key here its not nonstop rain but bands of showers moving through and you can see these little spotty clouds, popcorn like clouds offshore. Cool air aloft which will set the stage possibly for some isolated thunder, right around midday. That would be the best chance of that. Could see small hail. Notice the time stamp as we head to the evening. Things should begin to calm down. Well lose the firepower once the sun sets. The air will be cold enough, the higher peaks, the santa cruz mountains, the diablo range, north bay hill tops above 3,000 feet, could see snow at times heading into monday. So rain totals for sunday are going to be less than we saw yesterday. The highest totals will likely be around the santa cruz mountains, locally closer to a half inch of rain along highway 17. Overall a quarter inch to a third of an inch around the bay area. Look at the chance of snow here on the higher peaks of the north bay, also around mt. Diablo and mt. Hamilton and we might see a little bit of snow at times heading into monday. Midweek a bit of a break that area of low pressure moves through southern california. Notice the sevenday forecast at the bottom of the screen as we approach friday and next weekend look what happens here. Another area of low pressure drops down the coast which could put us in a very similar pattern to with a were seeing now. After february we didnt have any rain. Were starting to catch up now. The sierra for weekend snow totals this weekend three to four feet of snow, and we might see more as we head towards next weekend. San francisco a bit of an unsettled day. About everything the weather could throw at you, clouds, brief hail, and some snow around the peaks in the bay area. More rain as we approach next weekend. The final week of winter around the bay area is looking more like it in the sevenday forecast. Back to you. Just in the nick of time. Thanks so much, rob. We have much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, are you prepared as coronavirus spreads across the u. S. Americans are urged to practice social distancing. Would you know what to do if you had to care for yourself or someone who is sick in your family . We have a report you dont want to miss with steps you need to take now. Welcome back. There are so many questions swirling as we deal with this uncharted territory and something a lot of people are wondering about is selfquarantine. Nbcs vicky nguyen gives us a reality check. Growing concern across the country people remaining in quarantine because of the coronavirus. Reporter each day brings new headlines about coronavirus and communities under quarantine. So what if you or someone you work with ends up in a selfquarantine situation . With me to help sort that out is th