Today, and as we go into the rest of the afternoon, some popup showers still possible. As we get a look at our temperature trend in martinez expect it to start out at 50 degrees and reach into the low 60s going into the rest of today, so as we look at whats going on here much cooler temperatures for the bay area due to a cold front that will be sweeping through. Ill have more on that as well as the rest of the forecast coming up and, mike, youve been tracking the roads, whats going on out there . Were going at speed basically around the bay, a smooth drive as we look at the big view of the bay, the highways are not impacted by anything major, a flat tire being repaired. I do have an issue near the dublin interchange. Laura will talk more about that in the next report. Thank you very much, mike. We will check back with you. 6 01 right now. We continue our Team Coverage of the coronavirus pandemic from the bay area to washington. We want to start out with today in the bays tracie potts live in washington with a look at the action that lawmakers are taking. Tracie . Reporter lawmakers have yet to take any action but theyre working on it. The Senate Minority leader was on the phone around midnight twice, were told, with the treasury secretary trying to figure out if they can get this money into the hands of workers, a trillion dollar bill. Lets start with President Trump who has said he is sending help to california and other hot spots around the country, a navy ship headed to help relieve hospitals. Hundreds of thousands of pieces of needed equipment but it is still not enough. Capitol hill tries to figure out how to get that into the hands of workers, should it be Small Business loans, direct payments, that is what theyre trying to work out. There was a failed vote over the weekend, another one planned for this afternoon. Large Corporate Bailout with no protections for workers and virtually no oversight. Our nation cannot afford the game of chicken. This is, mr. President , a national emergency. Its not a partisan opportunity. Reporter the package theyre working on would total over a trillion dollars, some call it a bailout, some call it help for workers. They are still trying to work out the details that would include tack cuts, Small Business assistance for all the Small Businesses that have had to shut down and arent getting any foot traffic. Checks sent directly to americans. On affect the treasury secretary says a family of four can look for about 3,000 next month if they can work this out. Laura . Were certainly following that. Everybody wants to know how it will end. Thank you very much. 6 03 right now. The National Guard now says even though troops will be paid by the federal government, that does not mean they are under federal orders. They remain under state control. While troops can perform Law Enforcement duties, theyve not been asked to do so. Some are helping distribute food in california, washington and new york. A Navy Hospital ship ordered to los angeles, will be used to house patients not suffering from the virus. They need rooms at the hospitals. A second ship is being sent to new york city. In just a few hours from now the bay areas first city run covid19 Testing Center will open in the east bay. Today in the bays bob redell from hayward. This is encouraging news. Can anyone show up, bob . Reporter correct, laura. If youre showing symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath, you can see behind mean the city of hayward set up the tent, directly across the street from the station number seven. The tests are free to the public regardless of where you live, your immigration status. You dont need a doctors referral. Runs until 6 00 tonight and the way it works you show up and will be screened if youre showing symptoms a paramedic or emt will swab your nasal cavity and throat. The sample will be tested and you should get results within 6 to 12 hours. The lab is expected to provide between 200 and 300 test kits a day. They are trying to be proactive to get people into isolation quicken to flatten the curve. Reporting live in hayward, bob redell, today in the bay. Hopefully that will help as well. 6 05. As the number of people dying from the coronavirus continues to grow the stories are really starting to hit closer to home. For a bill roy father it meant not having his family at his bedside when he di. Infected with covid19. Today in the bays kris sanchez has a look at the heartbreaking story that his family is sharing very generously. They hope it will help people understand this crisis. Kris . Reporter maybe you saw some of the same posts i saw over the weekend, people asking does anybody know anybody who has had coronavirus . And this family is saying use our dad as the cautionary tale. This is the person you now know who had coronavirus and who has now died from it. I want to introduce you to gary young. He died tuesday after he was diagnosed with covid19. He was just 66 years old. His daughter told us he was shaking everybodys hand who came through the lowes store where he worked. He developed a cough and headache bad enough to send him to the e. R. Where he was sent home once then days laterhospit. His last days, his family via a cell phone as they looked at each other through two glass doors. There are no words. I was lucky enough to see my dad. I cant imagine what anyone is going through right now, theyre not allowed to visit in the icu. I know that my dad was heavily sedated in the icu. The nurses worked really hard with me to allow me to talk to my dad. We called his room and the nurses put the phone up to his ear and we were able to talk to him. Reporter the family had to selfisolate because of their contact with their dad and now they are making funeral arrangements. Those are going to be different for families as well because the cdc is asking Funeral Homes to limit the number of mourners to just ten and to provide a live stream when available so that people can mourn their people from afar. This family saying just stay home. Do what can you to slow the spread. Try not to be the person who infects somebody else because you dont know who that will be, laura. So sad. I was there when my mom passed away and, you know, while it was the hardest place to be theres no other place i would want to be. My heart goes out to that family. Really heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing their story, kris. Reporter its unbelievable they would have to be so far away. Social distance. Stay away. Got to get over this. The turmoil on wall street having an impact on the pension fund. Calpers has lost 69 billion. Funds surpassed 400 billion. Cities, counties, schools will have to make up the deficit translating into higher taxes. Stay up to date with the very latest with our daily newsletter. Youll get the top headlines delivered to your inbox. Okay. Lets switch gears and talk about the forecast. Checking in with meteorologist kari hall. We could use a little bit of sunshine. Were going to get a little bit of sunshine and a little bit of rain. As you make plans to get outside, just a headsup there will still be off and on rain in the south bay as we get a look at the storm system nearby. We are not seeing any showers across the bay area. It is to our south and east. The rest the day well see a partly cloudy sky and at 3 00 notice where were seeing rain. We will see a chance of showers moving in and also for the south bay and then going into tomorrow i think it will be more widespread but overall this rain will be light and will add in to some muchneeded rainfall well see for the middle of the week. Well look ahead to the weekend heading out the door this morning, mike, were so farseeing a pretty light commute. Thats right, kari, and Good Conditions watching for the effects of the rain kari is talking about. Weve had a couple earlier car fires. Not a major issue right now for the car fires. The problem is sparks coming from a chain thats dragging behind a big rig here heading to the dublin interchange for south 680 because of the earlier car fires im extra worried about sparking chains. The chp will likely clear it. The rest of the approach to the bay bridge, a flat tire being prepared, that is cleared from the roadway. Were going to talk about b. A. R. T. Were going to talk some numbers coming up. 6 11. Come up next canada and australia pulling out of the 2020 Olympic Games calling to postpone the events are growing. And now President Trump is weighing in. Well tell you about his message for japans Prime Minister all coming up at 6 25. Checking the futures ahead of the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial trending upward thanks to no help. Scott mcgrew will join us next with a look at our business and tech report. And look at times square, a live look right now. A normally bustling city. Streets are quiet as theyre on lockdown right now. My money should work as hard as i do. So i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. Today, im earning on a charger. So, just the charger then . Ummm. Yeah sarcastically fantastic. Earn 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Right now at 6 14 we are going to have still a chance of rain in the forecast today but it is dry this morning as we head outside in walnut creek. Well see a clear sun rise right now about 45 minutes away and well see a mix of sun and clouds and cooler temperatures only reaching the low 60s. Well talk about where well have the highest chance of seeing rain and what else is in the forecast coming up. We have good news in the trivalley as we zoom to niles, around palomar word is the car fire the vehicle involved, has wheels that are in Good Condition and they can hopefully tow it out of the roadway. We do have some breaking news just in. Pg e has just reached a plea agreement in connection with the campfire. The utility will plead guilty to 84 counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and one count of unlawfully starting a fire. The company will pay 4 million in fines and will fund efforts to restore access to water for residents impacted by the loss of the canal there. It resolves all state charges against pg e related to the deadliest fire in state history. 6 15. The fed is taking historic action this morning promising to buy up an unlimited amount of government debt. Scott mcgrew, there will be a lot of it. Reporter yeah, and there already was. Good morning to you. Now senators are talking about a new, possibly as high as almost 2 trillion stimulus bill. Ive been watching the futures here in my living room. Lets put them full on your screen so you can read them better. Things are looking good. The dow industrials expected to gain 251 points on the open. This after the fed said it would step in and buy all of that government debt. Senators will take another vote on the stimulus package at 9 00 a. M. Our time. Democrats blocked a version of the senate bill they said would have given more than half a trillion dollars to companies without enough oversight. If you compare this to the t. A. R. P. , this has fewer rules and oversight than t. A. R. P. Did. Well talk more about the coronavirus stimulus bill as we talk politics coming up in about 30 minutes. The one thing you should know its grown. When i first reported this to you last week it was 850 billion. Now, as i said, were closer to 2 trillion. The money designated for companies alone 500 billion. President trump was challenged at his sunday press conference why he had not inspoked the defense production act to require companies to change their production lines to things that would help. He said twice he has invoked the act but he has not. Telling companies what to do would be nationalizing them. Thats not true. The companies would remain in ply vat hands but they would be told what to make. This is much like the second world war. The ford plant that used to be up in richmond converted from making fords to making jeeps and tanks but was still owned by ford. It was paid by the government. Repurposing themselves for the moment. Thanks, scott. Its 6 18. Tom hanks and rita wilson doing a lot better down under. Hanks tweeting two weeks after our first symptoms we feel better and they really do. Check out rita wilson now. Trying to be handsome this is hiphop up to date i give props to hiphop so hiphop she is feeling better. Pretty impressive as well. Its nice to see their great recovery, gives people hope a little bit. Do you have any rapping skills out there, kari hall . Yeah, i think thats definitely the song of the day to help pick you up. And so lets talk about whats going on here in the weather department. Its been nice to see the rain that moved through over the weekend and well still have some rain coming in as a new storm system approaches. Lets talk about our live view over the south bay and our temperature trend for willow glen. Were going to start out at about 50 degrees and it will be cooler today. You will notice that especially if you had a little time judd yesterday. Were going to reach into the low 60s by this afternoon compared to system low 60s that we had yesterday. So as we check out whats going on, we had the storm system that still remains very close by. As we are farther to the north some clouds approach, this is ahead of a cold front. Today well have lingering showers in the south bay and east bay and then the cold front will come through later on today and keep it cooler, as i take off the banner you can see the line of clouds. Checking out whats headed our way for the rest of the week some spotty showers today and the middle of the week. It will not be a strong storm system but a some rain moving through. We will be drying out as some rain stays mostly to the north of the bay area. Our rainfall totals remain light. Were looking at about a quarter to a half inch of rain, maybe higher in a few spots. Our sevenday forecast shows well see temperatures reaching the low 60s today, upper 50s tomorrow, once that cold front moves through and more widespread rain and going into wednesday moving out by thursday and we are sunny and mild for the weekend once again. Mike, heading out on the roads no rain. How is the commute looking . Even if there was rain the commute would be at speed and thats the warning for tomorrow looking ahead. Looking at the commute is at speed. Green sensors all around the bay calling out one issue weve been tracking in the trivalley, palomar is just off 84. There was a car fire there and the wheels are intact on the vehicle so the tow truck is en route to help out. Only an issue if that is your cutthrough from 680 to the niles canyon area. Looking at the trivalley, nice, smooth flow at speed out of the altamont pass. No delays to the bay bridge. A shoutout for b. A. R. T. We talked about the massive decline in mass traffic. B. A. R. T. Numbers are down so far, laura only 10 of what they did, maybe 12 . Averaging 88 tuesday through saturday. Thats a tremendous impact. Thats why b. A. R. T. Is reducing service, theyre stopping at 9 00 p. M. Back to you. A big loss of revenue there for them. Thanks, mike. 6 21. A shelter at home order in effect for the entire state of new york. Cases skyrocketing there. The extreme measure one Hospital System is taking that will leave fatherstobe scrambling, and people are showing what its like to be home during the shelter in place order. A lot of people gardening, tackling home projects. Send more of what youre doing to pass the time. Make sure youre social distancing. Follow me on facebook, twitter and instagram. Id love to hear from you. Youre watching today in the bay. When we face adversity, we find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. Were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. If you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home. Its just our way of doing our part. Let s take a look at the newest coronavirus numbers from around the world. Welcome back, everyone. 6 25 right now. Well take a look at the newest coronavirus numbers from around the world. Nbc news is now saying more than 300,000 people have tested positive for the virus and 12,000 people have died. The death tolls keep rising in the hot spots of spain, iran and italy. In the meantime italy is enforcing new security measures to slow the spread of the virus. The government is banning travel except for urgent business or health reasons. All nonessential businesses will also close starting on wednesday. Italy is the new epicenter for the coronavirus as more deaths than any other country in the world. New word the 2020 summer Olympic Games in tokyo may be postponed after all. Leaders insisted the games would go on as planned. But over the weekend australia and canada indicated they would not send athletes due to pandemic fears. The ioc plans to monitor developments with japan over the next month before making a final decision. Overnight President Trump tweeted the u. S. Will abide by whatever decision is made by japan. 6 26 right now. Happening now new york city this morning boosting its Coronavirus Response amidst a new surge in illness. As of last night a statewide stay at home order took effect. Many businesses now boarded up after concerns about looting. The number of confirmed cases in new york city shot past 10,000 with deaths near 100. 6 26 right now. Kari hall is giving a forecast from home this morning. Good morning. A clear sky and as we head out the door in dublin a milder start but it will cool down today so dont expect much of a warmup from where we are now. Well be in the low 50s this morning, only reaching 59 by early this afternoon. Well talk more about this and where we could see some rain coming up in the micro climate forecast. Plus, for hundreds of families the coronavirus outbreak is very real. Some in the bay area have lost loved ones including a gilroy family. He was not a traveler and as much as it hurts that hes gone, i believe hes gone because he was a nice, nice man, and he shook anybody and everybodys hands. He talked to everybody. New on today in the bay, the message to all from a daughter after losing her father to the pandemic. Youre watching today in the bay. My money should work as hard as i do. So i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. Today, im earning on a charger. So, just the charger then .