With their own plan on how and when to ease social distancing. California is putting together a bottom up plan, a framework for targeted interventions and easing of restrictions in the state. The government doesnt get opened up via twitter. It gets opened up at the state level. We will make decisions based on science. Reporter legal experts agree the president has no authority to lift state emergency orders. Hes defending how he handled the coronavirus crisis. Everything we did was right. Reporter now millions are without a paycheck waiting for money from washington. We expect that over 80 million hardworking americans will get the direct deposit by this wednesday. Reporter but the next round of covid19 funding is in limbo. Top democrats are refusing to sign on unless money is set aside for hospitals, state and local governments, food stamps, and in minority owned businesses that have trouble getting traditional loans. Now, speaking of those loans, Small Business loans, the government says theyve approved nearly a million of them, but its the banks and the lenders that have to write the checks. They have some concerns about how the government approved them. Bottom line, it could be june before we know just how much of that money was actually handed out. Thats the latest live from the east coast. Im tracie potts, today in the bay. Thank you very much, tracie. A lot of Small Businesses still waiting for that money to come in and also if you are among the 2 million californians that were left unemployed during this covid crisis, your money may be coming your way as well very soon. About a quarter of a million payments should be hitting mailboxes and debit cards as well within the week. State staffers worked throughout the weekend. Lets check in with today in the bays kris sanchez this morning. Kris, the stimulus funds went out, too. Reporter yeah, and governor gavin newsom said the state of california was among the first states to try to get that money into the hands of people who are so desperate waiting for that life line. I want to show you what you can expect in terms of financial help at this point. If you filed for unemployment, you can expect your weekly benefit as usual, however, with that 600 weekly boost through the federal c. A. R. E. S. Act for the next four months should be coming through. Those were processed over the weekend. 224,000 supplemented Unemployment Benefits started hitting debit cards at the employment offices on sunday. Some folks could get checks. In terms of federal stimulus, the maximum benefit of 1,200 for individuals making up to 75,000 a year, married couples, thats up to 150,000 if you file jointly, and 500 per child. You can expect that via direct deposit by wednesday at the earliest. Welfare, Social Security recipients, you are included even if you were not required to file an income tax return. Youll remember that the benefits are a little different for folks with higher income this is just a baseline. The irs overwhelmed by requests for help set up a new site where you can check when you will get your payment and how much you can can you check that out. Irs. Gov coronaviruseconomic impact payment. Just go to nbcbayarea. Com or find me on twitter. Im krisnbc. If you are comfortable we would love to hear whether or not you are getting your benefits, how your process has worked. Wed love to continue that conversation on facebook. You can find us there as well. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Cover up or risk the consequences. New mask requirements are about to go into effect. Thom jensen is live in sonoma where starting friday everyone will have to wear some sort of Face Covering or, thom, they could face some penalties, fines. Reporter good morning, marcus. Thats right. Beginning friday if you dont have some sort of Face Covering over your nose and mouth in all of Sonoma County you could face not only a fine but a misdemeanor with jail time. I have mine down just for a minute here. This goes into effect friday. You can go without the mask in your own home. In public situations, in any indoor facility besides your own home or at any enclosed open space or outdoors if youre unable to keep distance more than six feet from other people you will have to wear a mask here in Sonoma County. Santa clara county is scheduled to discuss Face Coverings covid. With the exception of Orange County every large Southern California county already has some sort of public Face Covering requirement in place and you have to wonder when we do start seeing a loosening of maybe some of these stayathome orders, which the governor will talk about and well get to that in the next half hour you have to wonder if that might include some sort of Face Covering as well as we try to get people back to work. Were live in sonoma. Thom jensen, today in the bay. Sounds good. Well check back with you. It is 5 06. A look at the latest bay area numbers with more than 5,200 confirmed cases. Sadly 146 people have died. A decision made this week in washington is actually paving the way for california schools to pick up the pace in transitioning to that Distance Learning that so many kids are having to deal with right now. The department of education approved californias preliminary request to use federal funding for Technology Purchases and teacher training tied to Distance Learning. State education leaders now plan to get public input on how that money should be spent. Happening today concord Leaders Debate to change their own salaries but theyre talking about a pay cut not a pay hike. Councilmembers may vote to slash their salary by 10 . Thats from the ongoing financial challenges the city is now facing due to the pandemic. City executives may have their salaries slashed by 5 . If approved those cuts would save more than 300,000 over the fiscal year. Thousands of Prison Inmates are waking up free this morning. Those new details due to a statewide emergency order that, in fact, freed them out just to try to stop the spread of coronavirus in jails andssued t order to free bail and misdemeanor and lower level felony offenders. For Alameda County its amounted to the release of 56 additional inmates. Thats on top of the more than 330 that were released last month. Santa clara county d. A. Tells us they expect between 100 and 200 inmates will be released over the next few days. In San Mateo County in the meantime, 130 inmates have been released, and that is thanks in part to jail reduction, the bail bonds, i should say. Joining us now to talk more about the impact of all of this is the chief deputy in the d. A. s office this morning. Albert serrato, thank you for joining us this morning. Its my lets talk about thi. 130 inmates, we understand that most are misdemeanors . Yes, and lower level felonies that you mentioned. Okay, okay. You have great concern with this. Well, sure. I think what the order did, it was a little bit too broad and did not allow discretion by our individual judges so cases like elder abuse, for instance, that may be continuing would be eligible for release other than zero bail. Right. And some of those offenders are we tracking where they go . No, theres really no means to do that especially if theyre pretrial. People on probation or parole would be a different story this is a bail schedule dealing with pretrial theyre facing, i guess, some of these, going down the pipeline in the future there, and youre going to have tons of backup now because of this. As we push this off into the coming months were going to see increasingly long calendars of cases that have been stacked up for months. I would imagine already going through the judicial system can take a long time, can get backlogged. It could go even further, i would imagine, because of this. Yes. That is a concern. Right now were not seeing as many cases come in that will mitigate it somewhat. As the shelter in place orders are lifted and people get out and about their business, i think were going to see an uptick. Thats interesting to see not as many cases. Maybe one Silver Lining in all of this as well. Weve seen that in the short run here. I wish we had more time but thank you for joining us this morning. My pleasure, thank you. 5 10 for you that morning. And time for something good. Were actually seeing acts of kindness everywhere during these tough times, and here is more of that this morning. Mountain view Police Officers handing out muchneeeoe living in rvs. Officers gave away 300 masks, nearly 400 hygiene kits and 170 grocery gift cards. Now this was all made possible by donations from local nonprofits and churches. Everyone lending a helping hand. Its hard for anyone to go out there and find the essentials that you need. But when youre already facing hard times you cant even go out there to get them. Youre right. Nice to see. It is. You know what, its nice to see meteorologist kari hall working from home for us as well. Kari, those numbers down behind you a little low. Is that going to change throughout the day, im sure . Yes, its going to warm up quite a bit. Even look at how cold it is in the north bay as we check out napa starting out at 39 degrees. Elsewhere we have some milder air but its still a chilly start on what will be a very warm day. In fact, our temperatures will reach into the valleys and tomorrow will be the peak of our temperatures. Well talk more about that, a cooler weekend and a chance of rain coming up in a few minutes. And mike right now tracking the morning commute. How is it looking . Standard, kari. The new normal almost everywhere around the bay,tracking the lasn northbound 880. Its over on the right side. So the east bay no longer clear. Its northbound 880 at thornton as a crash is reported. Three cars involved from chps report and i do see some slowing up on the scene. Well check that as chp gives us an update. No other problems around the bay. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 5 12 this morning. When will levis stadium oregoncal park have another concert . Coming up, how long one music expert says youll have to wait for the next big show. Its going to get a lot easier to get things from amazon as they add workers. Ill tell you all about it coming up. But first, something good to share with you. Last night State Capitol building in sacramento lit up in blue honoring the Health Care Workers on the frontline. Governor newsom retweeting out the photo saying in part, quote, your courage, service and sacrifice are all an inspiration to us. And we here at today in the bay certainly could not agree more. Well be right back. 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. Right now at 5 16 if youre about to step out the door in the east bay, lets check out our temperature trend in concord. Its a chilly start to the day, only some mid40s but it warms up quickly. The jacket you need this morning will not be needed later on today. Well talk about some warm weather in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. And good morning to you, aa. You know you may have asked your Mortgage Company to go easy on your mortgage payments or maybe asked your landlord to go easy on your rent. Well, youre not alone. Tesla is doing the very same thing, asking its commercial landlords to reduce their rent. This comes just days after furloughing many of its salespeople. The wall street journal says tesla asking landlords to give a break on rent at tesla stores where it sells cars. Amazon says it will lift some of the restrictions its placed on nonessential items as it ramps up packaging and delivery. Amazon had said it would prioritize certain shipments because it was so overwhelmed. The company has hired and continues to hire tens of thousands of employees. Amazon, though, is restricting who can get into their amazon fresh and their whole foods deliveries saying new customers will have to go on a wait list. Now if youre a current customer, you already know its almost impossible to find a shipping date to get groceries delivered. The nasdaq managed to move higher yesterday as governors talked about reopening states at some point. The reopening process will be slow. In some cases states may have to shut back down if there are second waves of infections. Now were not there yet this is just talk. We start earning season today. Well learn about how badly companies were hurt by the shutdown. Banks in particular. Jpmorgan chase reports today, bank of america and citigroup tomorrow. Now youve been at home all this time. Maybe youre like us and working at home, maybe youre just helping kids learn. What do you do in your free time . Maybe you binge watch something. How about you learn something . Coming up at 6 15 well talk to the ceo of an Online Learning company about all the opportunities, not just at his company but all over the internet. Learn something. Marcus and laura, when our grandchildren ask us, you were locked up in your house for one month, three months, six months, who knows how long, what did you do . We can say, i binge watched dexter or i learned italian. One of the two. You know whats funny, though, i still dont have free time. Im so busy with i feel the same way. With triplets, yeah. Really i think ive started watching a couple shows and only a couple episodes in. Its tough out there. Thanks. Thanks, scott. You know what, take a listen here, we all love a good concert but dont expect the music to come back too soon at least not at bay area concert venues and forget seeing large sporting events. One expert tells the mercury news they do not expect those kinds of large gatherings to return anytime before thats a bummer, right . I have some tickets to a concert in the fall. I guess that might not be happening now. Janet jackson maybe . How did you know . Is it really . It is. Shell be at s. A. P. Center, yeah. No, she wont. Nor will you. 5 19 this morning. You know what, a lot of things people are dealing with but something great to tell you about is a concert, well, a nice cold one. How about that. Thats just what one 98yearold woman in pennsylvania was hoping for. Thats right. She was just ordering a cold one and it went viral. Take a look at this. Her plea for more beer quickly went viral after she held up a vine in the home. She shelters in place. The company posting these photos on twitter saying the company dropped off several cases of coors light right to her doorstep there. Thats service. When i saw that, and she doesnt live here so she wont see this or hear this, my aunt loves beer. So when she gets 98 if this happens again i could see her doing that. Yeah, no kidding. She loves her beer. She can have whatever she wants at 98. Absolutely. Maybe thats the secret. Hey, you know what, we may have found it. They actually do think people are consuming more alcohol these days because theyre staying in. They are saying that, yeah. I have my little cup of coffee. How about you. I have nothing. My little protein shake. There you go. I start out with coffee and a srt out with a look at the forecast this morning as we check out the weather across the country. Ive been watching this because we know we have that big Severe Weather outbreak across parts of the midwest and the south due to the strong cold front sweeping through and now we can see the temperatures behind that front and at least the Severe Weather threat is gone for all of our friends in the south, but look at how much colder it will be and still we can see that front sweeping its way across florida so the temperature there near record highs reaching 97 degrees today. Meanwhile in detroit it will stay in the 30s all throughout the day. You can see the wide range in temperatures. For us its going to be a really nice day as we reach into the upper 70s for most of the south bay, east bay and inland north bay. Over the next several days well see some cooler air starting in come in by the end of the week after a warm start to the week. This weekend well see an approaching storm system that will bring in a chance of some showers by late sunday into monday. This storm system looks like it will be falling apart as it approaches. Not a high chance of rain. We are going to see some dry weather and some warm temperatures for today, tomorrow. Thursday is also looking fairly mile. Then the weekend as it gets here some of our warmest inland spots will only reach into the mid60s with some more clouds. Ill be watching that for you and, mike, youve been watching the roads. How is it looking for those essential workers this morning . Overall very calm. I have a note as we look at the map. If youre traveling on the nimitz heading through fremont, check this out. We do have a crash and, in fact, we do technically have a Traffic Alert issued by chp. Only one lane open. It doesnt sound like alerts for the actual issue as far as the injuries because there arent any major injuries reported, but we do have a lot of slowing right as you get up on the scene. You can get off and go surface surface streets. I would stick it out for a few minutes. I think theyll open lanes pretty quickly. Well track that. Back to you. 5 23 and what some floridians accuse the governor there of not telling them as the number of cases continues to grow. But first, something good to share with you. This sign thanking Health Care Workers on the lawn in front of Stanford Valley care over in livermore. If you have something good to share with us, be sure to tweet nbc bay area using the something good. Youre watching today in the bay. Mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partn