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Jose but we will see this line of showers making it farther to the south. As we get a closer look where its raining now concord, fairfield, vallejo, San Francisco and san mateo, well see that light rain continue. Mike, you spotted puddles in the north bay. I share these pictures closely. Its right here where the radar kari showed us through san rafael, showing up in portions of the east bay, contra costa county, no problems as far as traffic flow. Theres slowing getting away from the bay bridge. Im told theres a traffic break coming up because of the crash and that may be whats going on. Very light as you know. Back to you. Thats right. Bay area roads, eerily empty as most bay area counties remain under the shelter in place order. Today in the bays bob redell live for us in dublin with how the second day of the shutdown is starting out. Bob, what are you hearing out there . Reporter well, marcus and laura, what im hearing behind me is traffic on 580 where you can hear the traffic is at the limit. I was just on that roadway 45 minutes ago driving over here. Its nowhere near bumper to bumper, plenty of space to maneuver. Some video we shot in the south bay during the 2 00 and 3 00 hour, highway 87, 101 and i880. This is as we enter the second day of the stay at home order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Within the past several hours a seventh bay area county joined and asking residents to shelter in place. Sonoma county is under a stay at home order effective at midnight last night and for at least the next three weeks. The county is pushing back on criticism that it waited too long to join the six other counties with similar orders already in effect. County supervisor we spoke with him said its been only four days since the countys first confirmed case and they need to protect sonomas life blood, the wineries, as well as the countys dairy and poultry industry. Today everybody was crying. A lot of anxiety. At the end of the day stay home. It will save lives. Reporter now as we stand outside b. A. R. T. In dublin that Transit Agency is suffering as well. Its initial data from yesterday ridership numbers shows that ridership yesterday, tuesday, was down 85 compared to an average tuesday in february of this year. B. A. R. T. Says it could be losing 37 million a month in revenue. Thats why b. A. R. T. Is asking local, state and federal governments to provide them emergency stimulus. Reporting live here in dublin, bob redell, today in the bay. Hitting a lot of businesses hard. Thanks so much. The coronavirus epidemic hitting home in a new way this morning. The bay area tourist industry is taking a huge hit. One leader in the industry sending thousands of workers home. Today in the bays pete suratos is live for us outside of San Franciscos w hotel and, pete, im hearing that it abruptly shut its doors. Reporter that is correct. This is all happening as Marriott International plans to furlough its employees as they deal with a wave of cancellations as they deal with the coronavirus outbreak. It is the Largest Hotel chain in the world and the plan or the announcement would be to furlough tens of thousands of employees either to reduce hours or temporary leave. As you mentioned the w hotel did close doors due to low demand. The local impact of hotels in San Francisco, a lot of money will be lost. Reported that San Francisco alone in 2018 generated 11. 8 billion. Restaurants and bars take a hit as they close the doors and reports of more than 7 million workers being impacted. Reporting live, pete suratos for today in the bay. People cant wait until it is over. Thanks, pete. Today the senate is expected to take up the measure. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says it has, quote, considerable shortcomings. He also calls it necessary and urgent including provisions for free coronavirus testing, paid emergency leave, enhanced Unemployment Insurance and boosting food security. Meanwhile, the white house is on the next step. It would provide loans for Small Businesses and billions to other hardhit industries and may include a check sent directly to every taxpayer, perhaps up to 1,000. Home for the rest of the year, governor gavin newsom telling families schools will likely remain closed in an effort to slow down coronavirus. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us with what we know so far at this point. Reporter hi there, laura. A lot of parents are waking up not knowing what this is going to mean for the millions of kids in the Public School system here in the bay area. My family included. We went to bed not knowing exactly what this would mean. Were not the only ones who have these questions. The state superintendent tweeted after putting out guidance. Im hosting a webinar to discuss the details. We have room for 5,000 and just after a few hours we are already near capacity. That is how many people have questions. We plan on listening in to see what the rest of the school year might look like. The governor said that School Closures could go through this year and maybe up until the fall. As soon as Governor Newsom hinted kids would be learning from home, parents started thinking about what that would mean educationally but what that would mean for the entire family. For people who arent as lucky or have to depend on child care or other forms of care if they dont have care and have to take off work, it will affect them financially. Reporter the state superintendent pushed out the guidance on Distance Learning and how districts could go about providing that. For some that could mean teaching Via Teleconference and sending home printed materials. What we do know is employees will continue to get paychecks and districts will continue to provide meals for students who depend on them. Details on how some School Districts are handling their Distance Learning up until this point. Im going to show you some of those examples coming up in the next half hour. Thank you very much. My kids already using zoom and cleaned out their desks before they left. Thanks, kris. 5 08. Leaders across the state are trying to assess where they stand fighting the pandemic including uc regents who will get an update during a scheduled teleconference. The Kaiser Family Foundation Nonprofit is holding a briefing to examine the response from the public and policymakers, and to help with making it in the bay, some bay area agencies are now halting the carrying out of eviction orders that includes deputies in San Francisco, alameda and sonoma counties, evictions wont resume until after the lockdown. The examiner reports though evictions are halted superior courts will still hold eviction proceedings barring the change in the current ruling. One of the highest Profile Companies is still fully open for business. But that might change. Alameda county says tesla is not essential. Tesla qualifies under the National Critical infrastructure designation. Founder elon musk told workers they could stay home if they wanted. The Sheriffs Office tweeted in part tesla will be allowed to maintain operations. Immigrant Rights Groups are outraged i. C. E. Agents are still arresting undocumented immigrants in the midst of the outbreak. Dozens of organizations signed a letter to Homeland Security this week asking the agency to suspend operations. The l. A. Times reports i. C. E. Agents were still at work in los angeles as recently as monday equipped with masks and wipes. I. C. E. Is saying the arrests will go on. Now to decision 2020. Joe biden a lot closer to sealing the president ial nomination. He won all three democratic primaries held yesterday, and last night called it a very good night for his campaign. Biden now has a commanding lead in delegates over bernie sanders. Ohio abruptly canceled its primary due to the pandemic. The sierra interstate 80 open with no chains. There were at least 18 crashes. Some areas reported getting up to 10 inches of snow. It wont help sierra ski resorts that are now closed. In the meantime, kari, look at that radar. Rain again. Reporter rain and sierra snow. Lets talk about the sierra pack. Im seeing in the past three days showing 79 inches of snow and just a week ago we were seeing our Sierra Snowpack about 10 to 15 lower than this. Its really helped to boost that Sierra Snowpack as that snow continues to come down and we will see it continuing today while the bay area gets some rain. In the forecast some additional snowfall totals about 5 inches. Heading over to mike you are hearing about a potential traffic break. Folks are sheltering in place. Thank you for doing your part. Off the berkeley curve coming to the camera, i havent seen a problem but they may have cleared the crash already. Well keep tracking it. Look how light the bay area bridge is as we expect. We dont see that often. Still ahead for you at 5 25 this morning, its not just california. The other states making the decision to cancel classes and the new overnight order for one of the Biggest Industries in nevada. Reporter id like to see the stock market stay open, though maybe with shorter hours. Well take a look. You can stay up to date with the very latest on the Health Crisis with our daily newsletter. Youll get the top headlines right in your in box. Head to nbcbayarea. Com to sign up. Youre watching today in the bay. Well be back this morning with a lot more news. With this one little nexgard chew comes the confidence, youre doing whats right, to protect your dog from fleas and ticks for a full month. Its the 1 vet recommended protection. And its safe for puppies. Nexgard. What one little chew can do. 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 14 a live look outside in san jose. The rain hasnt yet made it here but will be on the rain soon. Rain in the morning and a mostly cloudy sky and Cool Temperatures throughout the day. A closer look at this and whats ahead coming up. Kari, the flag in the foreground here in fremont and we see cars or trucks using the truck scales. Others i think are critical. Well talk about whats going on in the roadways coming up. Sounds good. Looks like another rough day is ahead for the markets. Scott mcgrew, rough or not, theyll stay open. Reporter yes, indeed, they will. There was some tuck about shutting them like we did on 9 11. The government says it would like to see that not happen. There is, though, a lot of uncertainty in the air. Let me take you out to tuesdays open on the nyse. This is the stock market open, just a sole figure grimly opening the bell by himself. Well, at least hes wearing green. Youre entirely right, laura, looks like a lower opening this morning. Dow futures calling for a plunge of 821 points. I feel were really getting to be experts on the futures market. At the Daily Press Conference secretary of the treasury Steve Mnuchin insisted the stock market should stay open though he acknowledged maybe with shorter hours. We absolutely believe in keeping the markets open. Americans need to know they have access to their money. Ive been on the phone with major banks, everybody wants to keep it open. Reporter the white house proposing the huge stimulus bill. Keep in mind this would be different than the coronavirus bill. We were seeing 850 billion yesterday. Now a trillion today. Well talk more about that as we talk about politics in half an hour. San franciscos lyft considering what new roles it could play in the crisis perhaps delivering medicine. Also actively lobbying for relief money from washington like the hotels and airlines are. Its hard to say, as pete was pointing out, whether the hotels or airlines or lyft can survive to the end of this because, marcus and laura, we have no idea when the end of this is. Youre so right. Just uncharted territory that were all kind of dealing with almost daytoday here. We really are. All right, scott, thank you. Well, 5 17 this morning. Another update from bay area native tom hanks. He posted this photo of an old corono typewriter hes using while in quarantine. After one week symptoms for he and his wife are the same. Neither had a fever. The couple tested positive in australia where production is halted on the film he was shooting. Oh, and hanks says the bad news is rita keeps feeding him. Some good news trending this morning, if youre getting bored of watching netflix by yourself, theres a fix for that, Google Chrome called netflix party. Once you download it you and your friends can get together virtually and watch netflix at the same time. It even has a chatroom. Probably no surprise here but netflix reportedly seeing a big surge in viewers who are now hunkered down at home. Sometimes people do that to get away. That is understandable. I still havent had time to just sit down and watch anything but news or my kids. I turned it on yesterday and still didnt get to watch what i was trying to watch. All right, here we are at 5 18. A look at the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall tracking some rain in our area. How long will it linger around . Its going to last for quite a while. Laura, i recommend love is blind on netflix. Thats what i was trying to watch yesterday. Hey, we can do a netflix party. We could. Were not together enough. Not at all. So we can do it virtually. I love it. Lets get a look at the rain moving through. Were tracking the showers moving through much of the bay area right now from marin county down to San Francisco including much of San Mateo County and then over to the east bay right now, just to the north of san jose. Well see the rain chances continuing today. There will be very much like yesterday a break by late morning into early in the afternoon and then by 2 00 were suddenly starting to see some activity here just popping up here and there very scattered with some of them producing heavy rain and possibly a wintry mix with some hail as well as some very heavy rain, so well be watching out for that chance, even a few thunderstorms possible. And even tomorrow look at the time frame. Tomorrow at 5 00 there still po and around our area because of this low thats very slow to move away. So it just depends on where that rain depp sides to set up in terms of how much additional rain well see, but we do still have some rain chances in the forecast for today as well as tomorrow, but there will be much more of a break from that rain and also some milder temperatures. Look at the end of the week into saturday. Perfect weather reaching into the upper 60s. You might want to get out in the backyard, maybe take the dog for an extra long walk. Well have some nice conditions before that rain comes back on sunday into early next week. Mike, tracking the roads, really not too much to track. The volume of traffic very light, as youd imagine. Only the essential work going on there. But that includes overnight road work. Watch for crews. We do have rain. Thats registering as wet roads. On the peninsula no problems reported. Over here we have a crash reported right before 24, but also wet roadways. Ill steal karis radar. Look at that, thats right where we see the radar in contra costa county. Slicker roadways. No matter how few cars are out there there may be an issue for traction. A few cars. You do see damp conditions. We dont expect metering lights to be on because they werent yesterday. Of course we follow anything unexpected. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Coming up, forget about escaping the shelter in place by going camping. The new closures that are in place. And we want to know how youre spending your time right now. Angela luc planting vegetables with a little helper there. And leaving notes for senior neighbors offering to help including doing outside chores. Let us know what youre up to this morning or even as youre in shelter in place. Can you find us on facebook, instagram, twitter as well as at nbcbayarea. Com. Much more ahead for you. elevator rings great bag. Twins excited intake of breath my bosss boss, has the same taste in bags. I knew we were similar. Just two fashion forward powerful women with great style. Although, ill bet she overpaid for hers, i mean, i got this italian leather beauty for way less at t. J. Maxx which is good business. I think shed appreciate smart decisions like that. Oooh, i should tell her welcome back. 5 24. Across the nation overnight new drastic measures to combat the coronavirus. Kansas became the first state officially to cancel the rest of its school year. Also all casinos are shut down throughout the state of nevada. The governor ordering that shutdown at midnight. Closures are in effect for the next 30 days. On the east coast for now new york mayor bill de blasio holding off on issuing a shelter in place, but that could change in the next 48 hours. The city experiencing a surge of 100 confirmed cases with the city approaching 1,000. A lot of questions as the party seems to carry on. Take a look at this, along florida beaches. Many College Students are on spring break right now and, as you can see, beaches there still open for business. Floridas governor has ordered all groups to be ten people or less. Many are still outraged believing this will cause the outbreak to spread. The governor did order bars and nightclubs closed after originally allowing them to stay open. Florida already has 216 confirmed cases and seven coronavirus deaths. National parks all over the u. S. Are now shutting down. They are closed until the end of march. The Yosemite Lodge is closed. Roads, trails,