Alameda county jumped to 15 cases and gilroys mayor announced overnight one person there has died from the virus. Were still not sure if this is one of the two previous deaths announced in Santa Clara County but were working to confirm that for you. Governor gavin newsom is encouraging seniors to stay home and for all bars, wineries, nightclubs and brew pubs to close. A live look at sfo this morning. President trump is extending the european travel ban to the uk and ireland as americans are scrambling to return home. Meantime the coronavirus testing is supposed to ramp up across the nation. People in the bay area can access a pilot screening site created by google called project baseline. Its meant to connect highrisk people to drivethrough testing saernl centers. Much more ahead. Weve issued a micro climate weather alert as well. Live outside in San Francisco and san jose on your right and on your left, boy, look at the radar. Rain moving across the bay area this morning. We have certainly needed it, and kari hall has been tracking it all for us. Good morning. Most of us going out for work this morning have to deal with the rain as well so allow some extra time to get to work. As weve seen a lot of the heavier waves of rain coming through from San Francisco over to the east bay on southward. Were also getting some snow on some of the bay area peaks especially mt. Hamilton right now and parts of the santa cruz mountains. Ill be tracking this and well talk about the rain moving out later today coming up. Mike, you have the slick roadways. Theyre slick but clear and thats a problem actually. Folks may tend to drive at a higher speed with clear freeways. Now that is the issue. Everywhere is green. We have wet roadways. Highway 24, i have an update for the crashes coming up but no slowing. Know that. The backup at the bay bridge toll plaza has cleared. But, look, laura, very slick in this shot. Slow it down out there. 5 02 right now. Back to our breaking News Coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Our team is covering the impact from washington to the bay area. First today in the bays Chris Pollone live in new york city with some of this Mornings National developments including washingtons new push to get ahead of the pandemic. Chris . Reporter yeah, good morning, laura, Vice President mike pence and members of the Coronavirus Task force will host a news briefing a little later on this morning. So far in the United States we have more than 3,000 infections across 49 states, and that adds public and private the Vice President adds that private and Public Partnerships are allowing more testing to start taking place this week. Todays briefing comes as u. S. Senators have a big decision on their hands. Take a live look at capitol hill where senators are expected to start taking up a vote on a bill aimed at helping americans impacted by the pandemic. The multimillion dollar bill would ensure sick leave and include money for testing including people not insured. President trump will participate in two video teleconferences today. He, along with the g7 leaders, will discuss a Response Plan to the pandemic. Now President Trump, of course, declared a National Emergency on friday about the virus. The Vice President is expected to speak at 7 30 this morning and, of course, we will carry it live on nbc bay area. We will also be streamed on the nbc bay area app. Laura . All right. Thank you very much, chris, with the latest there. As soon as today testing should ramp up across our nation. Over the next week the federal government is setting up hundreds of Community Test sites. Each will be able to test up to 4,000 people per day. Health care workers and seniors with symptoms will take top priority. Also, right this minute, people in the bay area can access a pilot site created by google called project baseline. Its meant to provide screening and help connect highrisk people to drivethrough testing sites. It launched last night. To use it you have to live within 50 miles of santa clara and san mateo county. And be willing to sign an authorization form. At least two Bay Area Health branches are now setting up drivethrough testing sites. Kaiser permanente offering stations in parts of the east bay but this is only for kaiser members. Also, Stanford Express care is offering drivethrough testing for patients in its system. The first Clinical Trial will begin today on a vaccine meant to protect against the coronavirus. A government source says the trial will take place on some 2 dozen young, Healthy Volunteers in seattle. It is still likely to take a year to 18 months to validate a working vaccine option. 5 05 and a live look at sfo this morning. With President Trump extending the european travel ban to the uk and ireland, even more americans are scrambling to return home. Like the ban thats already in effect, that new ban will not apply to u. S. Citizens, legal residents and immediate family. It takes effect at midnight tonight. Bars, nightclubs, brew pubs and wineries across california are going dark after Governor Newsom ordered them to close in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Today in the bays bob redell live for us in livermore. Lets talk about this, what does this mean for restaurants . How do they fit in in all of this . Reporter marcus, governor gavin newsom has not ordered restaurants to shut down but is asking those businesses to cut their occupancy by half. Newsoms rationale for not shutting down the restaurants, he says theyre a needed service that includes takeout and delivery. With regards to the order to shut down the pubs, the bars, the wineries and nightclubs, not everyone is pleased. We spoke with a customer last night who thinks the governor is going overboard pointing out there are more people in a closed environment on a Public Transit bus, and yet those arent shut down and, of course, tomorrow is st. Patricks day, which is normally a big day for bars and pubs. Every small bar bought a lot of inventory for this day, for tuesday, and they cant get rid of the inventory. Its affecting a lot of Small Businesses. The dotcom bubble burst, the 2003 and 2008 recessions. Reporter he says this shutdown will be difficult but survivable. Hes already exploring options for support from his bank and the state and federal governments. Regardless of whats open and whats not, the cdc is recommending you stay away from gatherings with 50 people or more. Coming up at 5 30 the strong message Governor Newsom has for senior citizens. Reporting live here in livermore, bob redell, today in the bay. Thanks for the latest, bob. Lets talk about the kids in our community as well. So many children are out of School Starting this monday morning. A lot of parents are wondering what is next. A lot of teachers are trying to build some lesson plans, Online Learning, home schooling, extended break. We want to know what youre doing with your kids and give you resources to help you get through as well. Today in the bays kris sanchez, a fellow mom out there this morning, shes actually working from home today. Maybe we should keep it down. Are your kids still asleep, kris . Reporter our technical folks keep asking for an audio level and im like, i cant, theyre sleeping right through that door right there. Its good to be home with them this morning. Theyre going to be out the next three weeks and its something i found out while we were on the air on friday, so my brain has been spinning as much as yours has been over the weekend. Our particular district has not pushed out any Online Learning at this point, but i know a lot of you have gotten some Online Learning directives from your school. We asked the experts, and these are the home schooling moms who do this all of the time. They say it is best to involve the kids in coming up with a plan, something you can all work with. Make sure that you have a daily schedule for them as well so they know what to expect. Theyre used to that in their regular school day especially if they have been in a more pra decisi Traditional School environment. Theyre not used to pushing out all kinds of Online Learning. Create a work space where the kids can really focus especially if they do have course work and take breaks. We talked with the School Superintendent and she says its also okay to go outside and play. Some 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. Reporter now there are a lot of online resources, as the superintendent said. My favorite is our Public Library system. They have a lot of online content and ebooks available. You can order books to pick up in person so that only one person has to go and you can limit your social exposure that way. Scholastic has free content. Those are some i can vouch for personally but there are a lot of others. I will put the list up on my Facebook Page as well. Wed love to know what youre doing with your kids through this very interesting time. Make sure that you find us on facebook and join in the conversation. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. My son keeps asking, what are we going to do for p. E. , mom . That will keep us all busy out there. Reporter go play outside. People rely on meals during the week. Three major School Districts say theyll continue to hand out free meals to students so no one will miss having something to eat. That includes san jose unified, San Francisco unified, and west contra costa. Free breakfast and lunch is offered for anyone under 18. The meals will be ready for pickup at several schools in every district. Can you find a list of the pickup locations on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Its good to see them doing that. If youre a state worker working from home during this pandemic you may get more insight on how much longer youre going to have to work outside of the office. Tomorrow Governor Newsom is expected to issue new guidance. Many Bay Area Companies including tech giants like facebook, apple and twitter are all now encouraging employees to work from home. A live look at interstate 80. A lot of snow came down. Heavenly, kirkwood, north scar, squaw valley, Alpine Meadows and sugar bowl are shut down because of the pandemic. It was really bad when friends were coming home. I told them to stay until the snow is over with because of travel conditions. They live in sacramento so they didnt hear your report. They didnt watch . No. Not this time. We are seeing a lot of snow coming down. Sugar bowl has had over 40 inches of snow and you can see that its still really dumping down in the sierra. Really good news. Once the resorts do open once again, we are going to have some fresh powder. When we look at whats happening here in the bay area, some snow on our bay area peaks and were seeing some wet roads as we track this round of rain coming in that will gradually taper off as we go into this afternoon. Ill have a look at the rainfall totals weve measured over the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Youre tracking a crash near the caldecott tunnel. And this weather. The green we know, wet roadways. Blue means ponding and puddling. Scattered all around where kari reported overnight snow and rainy conditions. Slow and slippery. I80 was closed off at koufax still so an issue for marcus friends trying to get back to sacramento. They might have been stopped. Well see what their update is later today. East 24, that crash did take out a pole so there are some power lines down and, marcus, a smooth drive. Again, watch the wet conditions. Back to you. Its a wet one this morning. Coming up, even Luxury Brands that are helping out during the coronavirus crisis. The common product now stopping the perfume production. Reporter and just like kris sanchez, i also have a new studio. It feels like home. Well take a look at the Serious Business of wall street coming up. I love how he has the crackling fire going. Look at that. Major League Baseball is on hold. The details were learning about the leagues first confirmed case when today in the bay continues. Were here for you. Awesome internet. Its more than just fast. It keeps all your devices running smoothly. With builtin security that protects your kids. No matter what theyre up to. It protects your info. And gives you 24 7 peace of mind. That if its connected, its protected. Even that that petcamera thingy. [ whines ] can your internet do that . Xfinity xfi can because its. Simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ] right now at 5 16, we are under a micro climate weather alert due to more waves of rain moving in especially in the east bay and south bay as well as the peninsula. More on this and well talk about it tapering off as we go throughout the day coming up in the forecast. And come closer to your screen if you cant see this. The water is taking up behind the cars, traveling across the san mateo bridge. Thats what makes visibility tough at times even though it might not be raining and also slick conditions. Folks are eager to get to the clear roadways but i have a new issue for the bay bridge to the north. Thank you very much. When you have a problem you have to look for a solution. And thats exactly what were doing. Continuing to bring you business and tech news, im in the studio. Marcus is in the newsroom. And scott mcgrew is at his house. Were all practicing that social distancing. He has the crackling fire, marcus. I know. I like that, scott. This is not so terrible. Yeah, yeah. Now i noticed kris sanchez had a tripod. I have gone online and have one fedex tomorrow. Im holding by hand. It looks like another rough day on wall street as you saw. The fed cut Interest Rates to zero. You would think that would leave them with few other options. Indeed they do have other options. We saw that during 2009 as they bought up all kinds of things in quantitative easing. As for the money going into the system, money cant fight a pandemic, so we will see what, if at all, that does. Lets look at the futures. This is the best on the open. They started betting so heavily against the good open that they shut down the futures market. We may see that on wall street as well. Weve seen the Circuit Breakers kick in. There is some debate whether Circuit Breakers make any difference at this point. It could be that we know the bad news. Circuit breakers are designed to stop trading when bad news comes in suddenly. We dont know what to make of this. We know what to make of all of this. Airlines really suffering. United says its cut about 50 of its routes. On friday delta said it had more cancellations meaning more than bookings. Jetblue said this is the worst since 9 11. Movie theaters are the same way. We practice that social distancing. The Worst Box Office in probably all of the history of measuring the box office. This includes 9 11. The pixar movie did well in the sense it was number one. Its understandable people, marcus and laura, will want to kick back, watch a movie, get their minds off what is happening. Thats probably something that needs to happen at home. Im looking forward after my shift is over. Ill be working from home and catching up on all of these streaming things. Im way behind. This weekend i went to the movie theater. There were like six people in the entire theater. A lot of people deciding to stay home. We were all spaced out, too. That would be okay. No popcorn. I heard as well that online when you have to prebuy your tickets theyre leaving seats in between so that if you do go you wont be sitting by anyone. All practicing that social distancing. Good to see you. Thanks so much. Well check back with you as well. 5 19 for you. And some of frances more luxurious brands are suddenly moving from perfume to hand sanitizer. A hot commodity. That includes Louis Vuitton which will begin making antibacterial gel in france. The Company Plans to provide it to french authorities for free. They are approaching a shortage in hand sanitizer. Theres a new app meant to help everyone with what may be the most difficult adjustments to make to help stay safe. Touching your face. The company slightly robot redesigned its wrist band to vibrate if you touch or come close to touching your face. The wrist band was designed to alert people with touching disorders like uncontrollably pulling your hair. You can track your progress through your phone. Ive been keeping the sanitizer handy because we touch our faces a lot with the makeup. Here is a look at the rain and radar showing were seeing the waves of showers coming through. Some bouts of heavy rain here and there in the east bay as we look at all the different colors. This shows snow coming down on mt. Hamilton, our bay area peaks will see light snow as well as a wintry mix. Were seeing that in the santa cruz mountains. Some heavy rain moving through some of those areas. The north bay not getting as much of the rain. Here is the center of the low pressure showing some lightening off the coast. We look at what were seeing today and if youre wondering how much rain we measu