Designed to stop its spread. Normal life coming to a halt in many different ways tonight. Seniors are being urged to stay home. The bay areas bustling restaurant and night life scene is going dark. Changing millions of lives. The cdc now says you should stay away from gatherings with 50 people or not. Tonight there is a surge of cases in the bay area. This is a big hit for a lot of bay area businesses. Reporter and there are a few bars and clubs we noticed tonight that remained open even after the governors announcement. Reaction from people is mixed so far. Some saying it is a big but necessary move by the governor. Others says it is an over reaction. This customer says the governor is going over broad. There are more people in a closed environment on my bus than there are at this bar. Reporter the owners of this irish pub had been kbegearing u for Saint Patricks day. A lot of bars buy a lot of inventory for this day, you know. And they cant get rid of the inventory. Its affecting a lot of small businesses. Reporter the governor issues the order for social distancing. Included in the announcement, wineries and tasting rooms. Rob owns a winery and says this will be difficult but survivable. We have been through the 2003 and 2008 recession. Reporter hes exploring options from his bank and the federal government. Also included in the announcement, restaurants. We are directing that we reduce the current occupancy within these establishments, and we require social distancing. Reporter the governor saying restaurants are providing a Public Service also through deliveries and takeout food especially as people are being asked to stay home. Tonight the governors of illinois, washington and ohio making similar announcements. Reporting live in San Francisco, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thanks very much. The availability of test kits has been a major issue, but help is on the way. The federal government plans to start setting up Community Test sites across the country tomorrow. The rollout over the next week eat site will be able to test two to four thousand people a day. Ten states already have drivethrough testing sites, including california. As the virus spread Tech Companies are answering the call to help. Googles Parent Company alphabet is helping people figure out where to get tested. It is a Bio Tech Company launching a pilot screening website tonight in conjunction with the government. It is called project baseline. It is live and here. In order to take the survey you have to be 18 years of age. You have to have a google account or set one up and you have to be within 50 miles of santa clara. Participants must be u. S. Residents and sign a Health Authorization form. Then personal information, name, age, address, email and phone number. Answer some questions. Based on the responses and test kit availability, a person will then be told whether they qualify for a test and where they can get it. Here is the latest look at the cases across the bay area. Santa clara county by far has the most with more than 100 cases. Late tonight we learned two new patients have been diagnosed at Travis Air Force base, including an active duty airman. Stay inside and stay safe. Thats the message for seniors in california tonight. The governor urging anyone 65 and older to selfisolate at home. Nbc bay area Marianne Favro live in san jose. Reporter instead of coming to Senior Centers like this one in san jose, the governor wants all of californias 5. 3 million seniors to stay at home. Well, its not a mandate. Today the governor strongly recommended people aged 65 and older stay home to protect against the coronavirus. This 70yearold in san jose says shes okay with that. I dont really have much choice. Everything is canceled and closed. Maybe ill go to the Grocery Store once in a while, but mostly i guess ill selfisolate. Reporter the governor issued the recommendation after the number of coronavirus cases in the state jumped 14 in one day. We are prioritizing their safety because of their unique vulnerabilities. Reporter bay area Infectious Disease specialist says it is a smart move. We know their body are more likely to have medical conditions. Rob has already been selfisolating for weeks. Yeah. Its probably good preventive medicine. Reporter today the governor also directed anyone with chronic illnesses to also selfisolate at home. Reporting live in san jose, Marianne Favro. Thanks very much. Sky ranger flew over the port of oakland a few hours ago and this is what it saw, the grand princess in dock. Some crew members will move the princess to San Francisco bay to be temporarily anchored. The governor announced it would be leaving around 7 00. You can see from this live shot, the ship still there. No word on when it expects to launch. As more people stay in, more people continue to stock up. All across the bay area and the nation, you can find long lines and bare shell fs at Grocery Stores. The Trump Administration today getting involved in all this. President trump had a Conference Call with good industry executives today to discuss what stores are doing to protect customers. There is no need for anybody in the country to horde essential food supplies. Just go and buy, have a nice dinner. Relax. Vice president pence called upon americans to only buy a weeks worth of goods. Already limits on how much of a certain item you can buy at stores. You will see even more limits in the weeks ahead. Some stores ramping up hiring to keep up with demand while others are reducing the hours theyre open to the public to give workers a chance to restock. When are those hard to find items going to be back in stock . Thats the question. Ceos are wondering, asked for patience from shoppers. Now the fight to stop the coronavirus is taking a critical turn. A trial evaluating vaccine is going to start tomorrow. A Government Official says the first participate in the trial will receive the experiment vaccine in washington state. Public Health Officials say it will take a year, maybe 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine. Coronavirus continues to cause chaos on the stock market. Global stock markets dropping, even though the Federal Reserve cut its Interest Rate to nearly 0 today. The emergency rate cut is the second in two weeks. This one is an unusually large one percent point cut. The dow is going to slump more than 1,000 points. The s p 500 will fall by 500 when stocks begin trading in the morning. Live at sfo, there are a lot of questions tonight from airlines and passengers. There are no Domestic Travel bans, but new prevention measures are often sweeping the warning. The airline is taking a big hit as passengers cancel trips on mass. Colleges and universities shifting classes to online only. Craft State University campuses in the bay area joining that Group Starting tomorrow. This is San Francisco state, cal state, east ward bay campuses. All events also canceled. Tonights democratic debate went ahead as scheduled. Former Vice President joe biden and Bernie Sanders greeted each other with a elbow bump. The two president ial hopefuls receiving questions about how they would respond. That went on for a full hour. The crisis showed shortcomings in American Health care. Biden calling for massive federal programs to pay for treatments, testing and economic aid package for individual americans. This is something that is after great consequence. This is Something Like a war. And in a war you do whatever needs to be done to take care of your people. This coronavirus pandemic exposes the incredible weakness and dysfunctionalty of our Current Health care system. Much more Coverage Later in the show including the pledge both made about their potential running mates. Check out our special report understanding coronavirus. You can stream it online right now. Just pull out your iphone, scan the qr code in the corner of your scone right there. It will take you right to that video or head to nbcbayarea. Com. Live in san jose tracking more rain. You saw mariannes live shot coming down on her. Maybe some low snow tomorrow morning, rob . Yeah. Were here north of san jose airport. Might be able to hear it on the rooftop here in the studio. Weve got some good downpours now. Whats also interesting is the color coding here. The areas south of livermore. Not as much north of San Francisco or north of concord. It is the south bay that will get the most of this. Between now and 6 00 a. M. , a few spots may get close to an inch of rain. That is a lot of rain coming down overnight. Yet, snow levels dropping with it. A closer look at snow expectations and how much longer the rain and snow will be part of the picture and the forecast in ten minutes. Still ahead, gambling now off the table at some of vegas biggest casinos. Social distancing, you have been hearing about it all weekend long. What exactly does it look like . An indepth look. And another look at that qr code. If you have an iphone take a picture of that code, bottom lefthand side of your screen. That will take you to all of your coverage on our mobile app. We will be right back. Which of your devices are protected by daily security updates . Daily security updates. Daily . I dont know. The only thing. Im struggling with this. Some providers you have to manually download updates to each device. Comcast business securityedge updates every 10 minutes to help keep your connected devices protected against new ransomware, malware and phishing threats. Every 10 minutes feels pretty good. 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The groups director announced its temporarily stopping all operations around the world and it will be evacuate all volunteers. No posts will be closed and they hope to return as soon as conditions allow. Since it began back in 1961 under president kennedy, more than 235,000 americans have served in the peace core in more than 140 countries. Social distancing. You probably heard that phrase as a report on the Coronavirus Crisis. Here is Garvin Thomas to show us what it looks like and why it is so important. By this point in the coronavirus outbreak, you have all probably heard of the term social distancing. But one thing that not everyone might grasp is that its important to do even if you are or no one you live with is in high risk group. This isnt really about protecting yourself. We reached out to a doctor, chief of emergency medicine at ucsf to help us explain. What were really trying to do is prevent spread to the rest of the community thats at risk, people older than you that have Underlying Health conditions. You can do what you want, but you need to be really, really cautious agent your getting it and exposing other high risk people because thats exactly what we dont want to do right now. What does social distancing look like in real life . Here at our house were doing the best we can. Working from home when possible is a good step. Card games and board games with mom and dat to replace play dates and sleep overs with friends. Cooking at home instead of going out to restaurants. Activity is still important, but these days it is a walk in the woods or a trip to the beach rather than participating in sports or dance. What social distancing does not look like is Standing Shoulder to shoulder with dozens, perhaps hundreding of others in a bar, which it seems is what many italians were doing when they country was at the stage of the outbreak where we are now. They all of a sudden had an explosion of cases almost within a matter of a couple days. It is sort of like, whoa, this has gone rampid already. The goal of social distancing is to achieve another term you have probably heard of, flattening the curve or slowing the spread of the outbreak so as not to overwhelm or Health Care System. The doctors final message is thats something the government or hospitals cant do. Its up to all of us. Everyone needs to take responsibility and step up and do the right thing. Thats the only way its going to happen. Garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. Starbucks continues to change the way its doing business amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. For the time being, no one is allowed to sit inside or outsid. Online and drive through orders will be taken. They know the changes will work because they already successfully implemented them in china. With kids from preschool age to high school at home for weeks, parents are overwhelmed on how to keep them occupied and caught up on school work. We have some suggests with kids not equipped with google classroom and zoom. It is important to create a daily schedule, time for school, meals, chores and some fun. Create a workplace for each child and change it up for different subjects. Some schools change rooms for science, math, et cetera. Changing learning environments can help the situation feel more normal. Make it fun. Puzzles, art projects, always good ways to keep your child engaged. We spoke to the superintendent of schools at 5 00 tonight. She said getting outdoors is important, too. Physical activity, fresh air is really important. We also are encouraging young people to continue to read, to play games. There are educational materials and things Available Online to continue childrens learning. Every day tasks can turn into a learning experience. For example, baking can turn into a lesson on math and reading and following instructions. The two remaining democratic president ial candidates faceoff on the debate stage tonight with the nation struggling to control a pandemic, much of the conversation was focussed on how each would focus on the emergency. Both had harsh words for president trumps handling of the situation so far. Biden went so far as to making a major commitment. I commit that i will in fact pick a woman to be Vice President. There are a number of women who are qualified to be president tomorrow. I would pick a woman to be my Vice President. When asked if he would do the same, sanders said, quote, in all likelihood, i will. The two runners clashed about social security. You have been on the floor of the senate time and time again talking about the need to cut social security, medicare and veterans programs. Is that true . No, its not true. But we did not cut it. I know but this week primaries are set to move forward in illinois, ohio and arizona. However, coronavirus precautions may push voting back. Rob joining us now talking about the rain and the snow and the wet bridge right behind you, rob. It is an interesting night, San Francisco seeing less rain than san jose and santa cruz mountains. Still, showers in San Francisco at 48 degrees, but it is downpours occurring now around downtown san jose around 46 degrees. Chilly temperatures and air that is cold enough to give us those snow showers now as low as 3,000 feet east of san jose. Santa rosa 38 degrees. It will be chilly tomorrow morning, cold enough for snow. But the snow showers and the moisture will be mainly south of San Francisco as we head towards tomorrow morning. Upper 30s to low 40s for morning temperatures. Highs in the mid to low 50s. Morning rain for the south bay transitioning to scattered showers and, yes, a chance of hail. Look at the radar right now. Areas around the south bay just a steady coming down. Radar is in the snow right now. Well take you closer to san jose. Campbell, willow glen, right there along highway 85. The rain is coming down pounding on the grounds. Watch out for that. Even as the rain lets up, all of what were seeing right now, likely will cause flooding of the roads. Those higher hills see the snow there, too. As you move away from freemont, rain there and showers around San Francisco. Notice the north bay not seeing a whole lot. Most of the moisture will be aimed in. You can see that area of low pressure now finally starting to move down the coast. So most of the rain that we see over the next 24 hours is going to fall between now and before sunrise. Look at that. Half inch to an inch of rain in the next six to seven hours. Thats the reason why you probably will have on the roads and the reason why the weather alert extends beyond the weekend and to the beginning of your monday morning. Probably a few more showers mainly focussed on the south bay. Here is the fun part of the forecast. As you see right now on the radar, the higher hill