Reporter the unemployment numts were sthour go up. To keep spreading the safety net. He is looking for help but the doors are closed. Mat sheen operator lost his job march 16th when his company had to shut down. As he tried to navigate the unemployment process, he fund out its difficult with the just about every thing is offices closed. They told me to use the different these days. Internet but i dont have that includes sports. Internet. I dont have computer. The league is on hold and the so i tried to reach them through the phone and its like Mission World needs something fun. Youre a good athlete. Have you played horse on the court . On the Basketball Court . Impossible. Santa clara county is trying to help with cities such as san jose seeing unemployment figures yes. Horse. Higher than 15 behind san to its coming back. Francisco with 17 . Here is anthony flores. The county in partnership with reporter to its a game we all played. Horse. Make a shot and your opponent Community Organizations launched has to match. The nba is planning to use the a covid19 assistant navigation hot line, and helping them apply schoolyard game to put basketball on tv. s no steph occcurry in the sho for unphoemployment insurance. I have never seen that many layoffs in that period of 200,0. Out. And each player will shoot in isolated home courts. I dont have no money for and five missed shots spells food. I need to pay my car. I didnt pay my rent the last horse. A champion will be crowned thursday. The nba is not the only sport month. And i kind of i dont know. Changes its game plan because of the coronavirus. I its hard for us. The Masters Tournament was it might be awhile before the cloud of gloom hoeferring every supposed to tee off. Us will be lifted and the instead, its rescheduled for jobless numbers probably will september. Not go down. We have so many sports as a in san jose, robert handa, nbc culture. And for them all to be taken way, its jarring. Bay area news. More that car has virtual we want to show you 24, this is a food line, a massive line racing to entertain fans. At a food give away. We put real world drivers in this is in san jose cathedral of racing online. Faith church. It looks realistic. Thousands of people showed up that is what fans want to for a box of food. See, players on the court. Sky ranger overhead. It wont be a nba game. It will be a game any one can there were so many people that nearby streets were shut down. If you want informationing how play. Anthony flores, nbc bay area. To donate to church and for the food drive, visit nbc bay area. Com. The bay area has mar than that is really good at basketball. That is anthonys two sons. There from the pandemic to covid19, the National Aids 404,000 confirmed cases of the memorial is doing something special. Its using the leftover virus. And Santa Clara County has more fabric from the aids memorial than 1400. Tonight, we learned another quilt to make masks. The quilt is symbolic in the infeked resident in east bay fight against aids and now against the fight against covid nursing home has died. 1. The number of staff and patients leaders say they will donate the masks. The fabric is left over from the rose to 65 people. 54 tons of material used from there is an outbreak in marin the aids quilt. County. Several people have tested positive and one person has the quilt has a panel each died. And an update in orrinda. Representing someone who died of aids. It was put on hold because of the virus. Its nice to see something to significant, so many decades 27 residents and 22 staff have ago, used now to what is happening to us now. Tested positive. The latest numbers, governor powerful and heart warming donation. Dont go away. Join us coming up in a couple new minutes at 7 00. New see you soon. Newsom says the state has 18,000 what we do now will forever change our tomorrow. Cases. That is 1300 people in the last 24 hours. Hospital iced, 2,825. The number of people admitted to the icu, intensive care, dropped about 2 . It is encouraging. And just again reinforces the incredible work you are doing to practice physical distancing, to stay an at home, its working in the state of california. That curve, it has been bent in this state. But its also again been stretched. The last 24 hours, 50 people have died. These are our friends, family members. The death toll in the state is 492. It is an attempt to flatten the curve. The Alameda CountySheriffs Department is releasing some people early. Nbcs melissa colorado on why they are pushing so hard to empty jail. This morning, they told me, irving, youre getting out. Reporter with nothing more than the clothes on his bag and a plastic bag, he wrapped up his 2 1 2year sentence early for assault with a firearm. I was supposed to get out next month. Due to the coronavirus, i got an early kick out. Reporter thursday, 12 jail inmates tested positive for covid 1. Two employees also tested positive. The Alameda Countys sheriffs sfi says it has cleaning, anyone in jail must get their temperature checked and wear protective masks and eye wear. They are handing out extra soap bars to inmates as wells a face masks. Since march, more than600 inmights have been reduced. And the next one to leave might be derek amena who is awaiting a retail. His Attorney Says his mental and physical health is so lets do the right thing, today. Deteriorating. He is doing horrible. Lets stay at home. He looks he only has a couple lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance teeth left on the bottom of his please, six feet apart at least. Mouth. They are hoping the judge lets look after ourselves, as well as others. Will consider his Health Problems and let him out early with an ankle monitor. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. Could he be exposed to it, he so those on the front line can do their part. Would be in serious trouble. A Conference Call with the and when this is over, we will all, continue, attorneys and judge will happen tomorrow morning. To thrive. In oakland, melissa colorado. Part of the great highway could be closed until at least may 3rd. Gordon march has asked the citys Transportation Agency to block off cars and traffic from lincoln to slope. Not only did it have to be temporarily closed because of blowing sand. But supervisor wants ped december tr to have more distance. Coming up, we investigate nearly a million why doctors are allowed to californians filing for unemployment last week. Perform procedures that dont what the state is doing to get people back to work. Appear to be essential. Evening, thanks for joining and the virus at crosswalks. Us for this special 7 00 p. M. A small change that has other cities taking know. Newscast. No paycheck janelle and not im chief meteorologist jeff much food. Thousands of people lined up ranieri. I will tell you what is on the today for free food. Way tomorrow and a look at the it shows how desperate our rainfall season and how were community is. Were joined tonight by jessica doing so far. I will e see you in about seven aguirre, whos working from minutes. What we do now will forever change our tomorrow. Home. Jessica . A Million People needed so lets do the right thing, today. Lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Lets look after ourselves, as well as others. It will all be worth it. We can all do our part. So those on the front line can do their part. And when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. And change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. So many of us are making big sacrificing right now to help stop the spread of this virus. Hospitals are also supposed to be doing this by postponing elective surgeries. We found out that some bay area hospitals are fought come plying. Here is candice nyugen. Reporter e elective procedures can wait. It puts patients and staff at unmess risk of getting covid19. Doctor and nurses tell us the procedures are still going on. And they are doing it to the bad their bottom line. This is San Franciscos campus. Four operating staffers tell us a surgeon continued to be Breast Reconstruction surnlryes. We were all, the nurses and skub tech and staff very surprised. One agreed to peek with us anonymously. We would expressing to each other concern its happening. Reporter they were instructioned to stand down for surgeries that can wait until after the pan demic to reduce covid19 risks within hospitals. The San Francisco department of Public Health issued an order saying failure to comply faces a threat to health. Many of us felt there wasnt enough scrutiny in making sure that the cases that were being booked actually were truly emergency. Staff was considered when somebody in the of raying room tested pos ti. This is slewly the wrong thing to do. Reporter dr. Scott levin is a surgeon. We had him look at a list of procedures performed in the pandemic. This is a list we got from a source inside the hospital and and had him review. If you can get a view, we have to do them right now, and no they can wait. Okay. Reporter breastectomy. No. Breast to implant exchange. No. Breast tissue expander insertion. No. Breastectomy with inplant removal and breast lift. Absolutely not. A procedure that levin says is not just unnecessary but potentially dangerous. In an average surgery, even in outpatient, the patient will probably cost the Health Care System 40 or 50 people in a few hours. Reporter a studly found out of 138 patients, more than 40 for infected in hospital. Nearly 30 of those infected were medical staff. Why would a surgeon continue to do the surgeries and why would a hospital allow it . Well, you know, there are financial rewards for Health Systems. Reporter youre saying its about money . That may be. Reporter hospitals earn on average, 700 more on each patient elective procedure. Postponing could cost hospitals billions of dollars. The Health Systems are trying to mitigate the fiscal impact. That is irresponsible. Reporter we reached out and uc davis said they are doing e elective surgeries but following cdc surgeries and doing ones that are time sensitive. A Spokes Person said the hospital is rescheduling surgerieses and they are moving forward with elective surgeries they decide are urgent. The decision is made by doctors and patients and then reviewed by an independent contract horse is always a physician. Candice nyugen, nbc bay area news. Thanks. The pedestrian buttons are no longer working, the city just deactivated them when they push the buttons, now, quite turns green, the walk sign will light up. They say its about prioritizing needs. They should have the same access to the street and priority to cross the street. I wasnt even an agenda item. It was an announcement. They just knew they had our support to i do. Council members say they hope to make the change permanent. One thing we discussed, bac to school in the fall . Are kids learninging what t ag information. They could lose valuable knowledge on the shelter at home . A significant amount of valuable knowledge. New data that says kids could fall back an entire year in math because of the extra two ms of being out of school. Compounding that with with summer. In the summer when you dont go, its called the summer slide. You go back a little bit. You lose that knowledge. And now you add the covid19 slide to that, and kids are at risk of losing an entire year in critical math skills. I spoke to con academy about what the study means long term for kids future in mathematics and what we can do to try to help them out. So many students, especially in math, at some point, hit a wall. We know 70 of kids who go to Community College have to take remedial math. And the gaps are debilitating. This can be on top of that. Give me tips parents should follow a home to mitigate what could be a year loss in mathematics. My number one tip for parents is try to keep it as simple as possible. There is enough to stress about in world now. If your student can do 30 minutes a a day in mathematics, and they can use free, noncommercial. And that habit over five months, i am confident they can keep with where they need to do. And also, reading can be at risk. The reading isnt as bad. You might read things that is a level above where you can read, you can still understand or make out what people are saying and understand the content. It doesnt work that way with math. If you dont have the basic principle of algebra, you cant go to the next level. And keeping up is important in the next couple months and summer as well. This will be a big issue. Thank you, jess coo. Here is a reason to smile. This toddler down watch carefully. Just wanted to say hi to the 4e789 helicopter pilot. The kid and mom, w thk, started wavin down low we are waving right back at you. I could follow her all day. So adorable. A little sunshine. We saw it this afternoon. Mostly cloudy today. Lets check in with jeff ranieri from home. Were shaping up good as we head to easter weekend and all the families out there waving an our sky ranger helicopter, we have great weather coming your way. And today, you will see in San Francisco, we do have high clouds back there in the distance. Its more of that filletered sunshine in San Francisco. 6 degrees tonight. We will drop in the 50s and hold on to some of the cloud cover. The doppler radar, we have rainfall in the south bay erm r earlier in morning. I will keep an eye on this. Its very light. We are drying on out. Tomorrow morning, forecast, upper 40s and low 50s. Not extremely cold, and then as we move through the afternoon tomorrow, what i want to you notice, its a sign of the times. Changing weather time. 70 in antioch, 71 in clear lake. We have warmer weather, 69 in concord and napa. We will go through full detail. And dry weather coming, a lot of us thinking about the rainfall. The lack of it. We are down 6 to 15 inches. We will look at the long range forecast and what i predict in the rest of april and may. You dont want to miss that. I will have it in 25 minutes and easter weekend forecast. We can still do easter even with covid19. We will get you scared away. Thanks, jeff. Still to come, living in new normal mines no hair stylist. How people in the bay area are coping. Everyone is working a little differently now. So we can still answer your calls. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. And were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. Im jessica aguirre, come toug live from my home studio. Today became may home hair salon. Vanity did get the best of my today. I will show you in a second why. Let me show you lidia. She is knowing me her roots. Yeah, we cant go to the hair salon. She is saying shes embracing it. No going to worry about it. And let me show you this, this is ray blare of pleasanton. He shows you he can still color his hair. Looking mainly. He said, got you, girlfriend, im with you. That is because i pulled out after pick of me today. Vanity got the best of me today. I couldnt take the hair color. Monica, my hairdresser, not going to be happy. But i did it out on of a box p colored my own hair. Gave myself a makeover. I may have trimmed my bangs a a bit. I know sonya gave you a hair cut the other day. Dont we have one of the producers here. She used to cut hair . We can enroll her for emergency work. Yeah, it was an emergency jae, jessica, now you know you can do it and it looks great, you with save money. You dont have to go see your hairdresser anymore. Yeah, i have to do the mani pedi next. That tomorrows assignment. And the nbc bay areas family adjusting to the new normal. Chris sanchez just turned her living room. We have a live studio audience, and around there is that the dog . Is that the dog . Yeah, we will see on the morning news cast. Lets go to Jodi Hernandez . Why do you celebrate a sweet 16 . They planned a scavenger hunt, and the end led to a virtual Surprise Party set up in the graduate. Oh, happy birthday. That is really cool. When we return at 6 30, a lot of talk abouthe microbiologist. And a safer way to transpor your food, next. In this time of crisis we run with them, toward those in need. We are 7,000 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and therapists supporting their efforts on the ground and virtually. And just as we are by their side, were by yours, too. With answers to your most pressing questions and expert advice at cigna. Com covid19 no one thought it would be easy. I think its harder than we imagined. Right now, that is new york citys mayor reflecting on another rough day. The state of new york saw a record increase in covid19 deaths for the third consecutive day. But there are signs that the final death toll nationally wont be as dire as projected. Date today, dr. Anthony fauci, he said we are a big country and the story changes. There are signs of hope. Yeah, more hospital patients are being discharged after surviving covid19. And death estimates are trending down. From about 200,000 deaths to 60,000. All end kaindicates, its wo america. Its working because you are doing it. Todays white house briefing, the cautious optimism is tempered. Continue staying home. Encouraging news from the nations top doctor at the white house briefing. Many potential treatments. We are doing a lot from a scientific standpoint so when we get to next year, next foul, ne next winner, hopefully we have something to offer. He said the National Institutes of health is testing the drugs. Work surpd way on two potential v vaccines. And joining me now is Jessica Rivera with covid19 disperse research network. Can we talk about Antibody Testing . Stanford is testing their Health Care Workers to see if they had