Before the heat up moves in. Over to martinez to see how our day shapes up. With a lot of sunshine well see our temperature trends starting to rise going into late morning into the afternoon. It may be a degree or two warmer than yesterday. Still going to be fairly comfortable with some of our inland valleys in the east bay and north bay reaching into the low 80s while along the coast. Well talk about how hot it gets in the full micro climate forecast. Breaking news out of the south bay. Santa clara police are investigating a double stabbing. This happened on homestead road. This is near lawrence expressway. No word on the condition of the victims or the suspect description. Of course we will bring you updates throughout the morning. The white house is downplaying dire predictions that the daily desk could double by june of this year. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us with more on that and President Trump on the road for the first time in a month, tracie . Reporter just over a month, actually, laura. Hes heading to arizona to see a mask production facility. Last in the state he said we could be fine by april and now its may and there are some dire numbers to report this morning. The New York Times cites a report predicting 200,000 cases and nearly 300,000 deaths a day by june 1st, nearly doubling what were seeing now. A separate university of washington model shows deaths skyrocketing to 135,000 by august. Theres certainly going to be more transmission, more cases and, unfortunately, more deaths. Reporter as much of the country starts to reopen theres open defiance of social distancing. Police are cracking down in some areas. Dont make us treat you like a criminal. Reporter as other states back off. We dont want to make criminals out of innocent people. Reporter unemployment expected to explode. I expect a number between 16 and 20 unemployment. Were going to need a phase four deal. Reporter instead of working on coronavirus funding the senate is back in washington approving a backlog of judges. I dont think anybody could seriously argue that filling Critical National security posts is not essential senate business. Judicial nominees, legal immunity for big corporations, in all due respect, republican leader, these are not the nations most urgent priorities right now. Reporter senators working under new conditions with members of the house still scattered across the country. And some of those members want to come back but they want rapid results testing as they come back to washington which is still a hot spot where cases are increasing of the president offered it, but then the top Senate Mitch Mcconnell and nancy pelosi said, no, because they think testing needs to happen elsewhere more urgently. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, tracie. The nations top expert on covid19 is minimizing one theory recently played out by the white house. Zi an interview with national , dr. Anthony fauci says there is no Scientific Evidence the virus was made in a chinese lab. He says researchers are leading to the conclusion it could not have been deliberately or artificially manipulated. It was started in a wuhan lab. President trump has since doubled down on the theory. 5 04 time for mothers day, Governor Newsoms can help decide which businesses are a go. Today in the bays Sharon Katsuda live for us in downtown walnut creek. Sharon, im being told whats expected to open could really cause a lot of traffic down there. Reporter yeah, and that is very good news. Now i come here quite a bit and its been a ghost town. Take a look at this flower shop behind me. You can see the windows are still covered up here. So this is very good news for local businesses. Under Governor Newsoms order florists and bookstores can reopen along with other nonessential Stores Starting this friday. They have to use social distancing measures and do curbside pickup. So perhaps take mom out for a stroll and shopping this mothers day, all local governments are looking at ways to reopen businesses safely. Mayor london breed says shes open to ideas and so are store owners. And the goal is to do it and do it responsibly whenever the opportunity presents itself to open anything in the city. Were retraining to shop for books elsewhere. For us, it is essential for us to stay and keep that connection with our customers and that were at the top of mind for when somebody is making a book purchase, theyre coming to us. Reporter shoppers we talked to yesterday said theyre up for this modified way of shopping versus receiving so many packages at home. And back here live in downtown walnut creek so many restaurants are still open doing takeout and are looking forward to this extra foot traffic but, of course, Governor Newsom saying if the rise in coronavirus cases goes up, then theyll all have to shut down again, at least at nonessential stores. Reporting live, im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. If youre going to go out, remember social distancing. Thank you, sharon. Despite Governor Newsoms plan to move into phase two of easing shelter at home restrictions, Los Angeles Mayor says theyre not ready to take that step. Mayor garcetti says many of the businesses will not be able to reopen friday saying if they do and they return too soon, well, that may undo the positive effects of social distancing and selfisolating. My promise to each and every one of you we will continue to be guided by first the medical advice we get from Public Health professionals. Second, by making sure we are not just saving lives but thinking about peoples livelihoods as well and that, third, we will share all of our Decision Making and all of our data with you. County supervisors will vote on proposed guidelines for how businesses there should operate once theyre allowed to reopen. Stanford has hit a major milestone when it comes to actually doing surgeries now. The hospital resuming those surgeries after connecting a mass testing of its employees. Stanford leaders say its testing more than 11,000 employees out of 14,000 workers. Only 0. 3 without symptoms tested positive for covid19. The hospital says new protocols are now in place including daily screening of employees and patients when they arrive at the clinic. San francisco county excuse me, San Francisco continues to push and provide more for those who are working on the front lines of the crisis. Today supervisors will debate adding incentive pay and hazard pay for employees and homeless shelters and other high occupancy essential job sites. The city this week also finalized a Free Testing Program for all essential workers whether or not they show symptoms. Happening today Santa Clara County is hoping to vote on a plan aimed at trying to maintain the current drop in all the congestion we see on the roads even during even when the pandemic ends. A proposal calls for commute free commitment from Silicon Valley companies. It would encourage extending telecommuting to cut down on air pollution. A look at how clear it is. The spare the air season began yesterday and of course a record low number of cars on the road. They have dropped 20 or more on the pandemic and that is good news. Its been clear the past few days. That very nice weather and some fresh air but we have started to see a few more cars out on the roads recently so well see how that goes with our air quality as we start out this morning its a chilly start in the north bay down to 41 degrees in napa and in santa rosa but compare that to concord where we have 56 degrees and were in the low 50s in san jose. Youll see our temperatures in the mid50s to start and then trending into the mid70s by noon. Were going to see sunshine and warming temperatures just slightly warmer today compared to yesterday. So ill be watching this and well talk more about a hotter forecast ahead. Youve been talking a traffic alert. You caught me tracking that traffic alert. On the very edge of alameda county, look at your maps. Dublin above where it says hayward. Dublin for 580 westbound. We have a little slowing but lanes are clear now and so there should be the dublin grade. Over here we do have a reestablishment of traffic flow. Theres Traffic Control now somewhere around Mountain House road. That should be clearing by 6 00. Well follow it. 5 10 this morning. Next here on today in the bay were going to talk about the major hold some stores and fast food chains including right here in the bay area. Nearly 4 million californians are out of work and california will have to borrow the money to make sure they get some of it. You thought you werent going to have a graduation this year . Youre crazy. Plus, honoring 2020 grads. The star power that came together to surprise students finishing up the school year. But first we also continue to celebrate graduates going without an official ceremony. In our great grads segment a big congratulations to these 12 high school students. We want to see candids of your graduates. You might see them here. You can find me or marcus both on facebook. Im laura garcia nbc bay area. He, of course, Marcus Washington nbc bay area. A lot more news ahead. Right now at 5 14 lets head over to san jose. I got our temperature trend. Well start out nice and comfortable and well see our temperatures warming up today reaching into the upper 70s by early in the afternoon. We are going to continue to heat up this week. Some will be hitting the low 90s. Well talk more about this in the forecast coming up. Good morning and a very happy tuesday to you. The wall street journal is reporting this morning that the bay area ecigarette company juul is going to to washington, d. C. That makes sense. The company didnt need to be in the bay area. It was just founded by some stanford grads from here and juuls biggest challenge is regulatory. Washington is where the regulators are. It does, though, bring up the question how many Smaller Companies will choose to stay here if and when the pandemic ends. San francisco has some of the highest rents in the world and up until now the justification many had was this is where the best talent is. You have to come to the bay area. But this whole idea of working from home may change that as both employees and bosses realize it is possible to conduct business from your home and it kind of doesnt working receiving jobless benefits, california, its costing enough money california has become the very first state to borrow money from the federal government to pay for jobless benefits. The journal says california asks the u. S. Treasury for 348 million. Nearly 4 million californians are out of work and on unemployment benefits. Speaking of numbers, new numbers reinforce what weve been talking about with houses. Not only are prices nationwide not going down, theyre going up. Far fewer people buying homes, of course, but demand is down but so, too, are supplies. Far too few people selling. The latest numbers from the National Association of realtors show, and, again, nationwide, home p this month compared to last year when life was normal. Inventory, though, the number of houses, marcus and laura, on the market right now is at a fiveyear low. People just want to sit and stay, i guess. Shutdowns of meat packing plants are hitting home to burger chains. Wendys had to remove burgers from some locations. At least three san jose locations were out of the hamburger patties. Some longtime wendys lovers invoking the phrase wheres the beef. Recent shifts to fresh beef has left them more vulnerable. Its Cinco De Mayo and this year just happens to fall on taco tuesday and despite the pandemic restaurants are still finding ways to celebrate. Can you get free queso blanco. Taco bell has a do it yourself kit. If you want to be more adult like yard house has 6 margaritas to go. Make sure no drinking, no driving. Trending for you this morning, actor John Krasinski has done it again. He got some big stars to help out. Some good news. Many students ask for advice on what comes next and how to overcome hurdles in their adult life. To the students surprise celebrities like steven spielberg, john stewart and oprah even zooming in to answer their questions. I believe failure is an opportunity to move yourself in a different direction. It gets better because youve learned the lessons from the first time. So true. John stewart told one student to start living in the moment right after he apologized for not being oprah. We all do that. Thats pretty cool. Its nice that they got some good advice. Theyre not going to hear any commencement speeches this year. I think that may top it for some of them. Big time. Lets look at the forecast this morning. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that, starting out nice and cool this morning, kari. Yeah, and weve also seen a lot of clear skies around the bay area. Here is a look at that view as youre heading through dublin. We can see a lot of the headlights there on our camera. More people getting up and out the door. If youre still at home and thinking of something nice to do outside in the north bay around petaluma, we are going to see temperatures in the middle of the afternoon at about 80 degrees. The wind at about 10 to 15. So if youre grilling, its going to blow the smoke away from the patio area. Also warm temperatures going into the afternoon. Enjoy dinner outside with all of that sunshine. It wont be as hot as the weather were getting ready for. As we look at our high temperatures for the day, low 80s for the north bay. Coastal areas will stay in the 60s. I dont think well see much of a warmup even by the end of the weekend. A wide range in temperatures across the bay area. As we check out our forecast we are going to see High Pressure continuing to build here and that will keep it very warm especially as it moves right over the bay. That gives us that sinking air and as it sinks it compresses and warms up. The good news is we do have some relief coming our way by the end of the weekend and we may even see some rain in the forecast next week. Here is a look at our sevenday forecast showing the temperatures that will be in the low 80s, upper 80s tomorrow and then some 90s for a couple of days. And saturday is also pretty warm but then by sunday its feeling much better and, of course, thats mothers day. Dont forget that its time to start making those plans for San Francisco, for the most part, staying in the 60s and 70s over the next seven days. Mike, youve been keeping an eye on a traffic alert. Whats going on right now . Ill take to you that traffic alert. I want to stop by dublin and zoom to 580 approaching Schaefer Ranch road. It was focusing into the red zone. I was told lanes would clear. Starting to improve the speeds. I think it was a distraction and a little bit of a lag. Traffic is relatively light so it was able to clear to dublin grade. They do still have traffic moving in both directions but theres Traffic Control. The big rig still there on byron highway. Do worry about that if youre traveling through byron house. If you dont know where it is, dont worry about it. We still have the slab repair work. Back to you. Thanks, mike. A faceoff in the courtroom. Next for you this morning the legal battle now set to play out over wisconsins stayathome orders. Plus i dont have any kids of my own but they are my kids. A special surprise for one librarian keeping the spirit of reading alive. Youre watching today in the bay. Theyre our neighbors. And theyre our friends. Theyre our parents. Our brothers and sisters. And our children. But now, they are more than that. They are forever our heroes, too. At prudential, were fortunate to know and serve them. The front line they are forever to move our nation forward. To all the heroes, we thank you. we may be stopped, but the people we need, they keep moving. So we can start again. Thank you. Is there a better alternative to braces . Only invisalign aligners use smarttrack technology. It moves teeth more comfortably and predictably. And in many cases, it works faster than braces. upbeat music two Southern California cities are reopening their municipal beaches after submitting a we work social distancing plan. Laguna beach leaders say they revised plans and those plans will prevent got the attention two weeks ago. Sunbathers will not be allowed but joggers, surfers and swimering will haswi swimmers will have access. A case that is challenging its stayathome orders. Justices will rule on whether or not the governors executive order should remain in place. Oral arguments will be made against the current order today. The suit also seeks to block an extension on the order. The governor says the order will save lives. We all need something good right about now and today is Teacher Appreciation day with all the Online Learning going on. Im guessing most parents are really appreciate what teachers do right about now. I know ive heard you praise your kids teachers. Always, always. Shes amazing. But in this story were talking about a Nebraska Elementary School librarian really helping to keep her students love of reading alive with the help of costumes, a green screen, and a whole lot of heart. I dont have any kids of my own, but they are my kids. I have 750some kids and i just want them to know that we care about them, we love them and we miss them. Isnt that sweet . The love to show how much her videos mean to them coming up on the today after today in the bay. Its really sweet. All the teachers say how much they miss their kids and i think its sincere. Its nice. We love them and appreciate them. Much more ahead this morning. We have the top stories including empty emergency rooms. Our emergency volumes have gone down quite a bit, about 50 . Were going to talk about what Northern California doctors say is behind that growing decline. Plus, the results are in. Who researchers is a are most at risk from gettin