Quarantined, those that require additional medical attention will receive it. Reporter passengers aboard the grand princess today were getting cabin fever after 24 hours confined to their rooms, and feeling anxious about their health. I would like to test everybody, and test me to make sure, i dont want to take anything home to my family, you know, to be on the safe side. Reporter as we just learned, all of those passengers and crew members aboard the grand princess will be tested for covid 19. It is unknown exactly how long it will take for all of those test results to come back, we are talking about at least a few thousand test the need to be processed at this point, and as for where the grand princess will go, theres only so many deepwater ports, in the bay area, some of those are commercial, some of those are not, the question is where exactly does the ship and up. Allen . To just everybody will take a while, they want to another helicopter drop, but, once they do that, its going to allow some folks to go home. Right . Reporter eventually some folks will be allowed to go home, if people show up with positive covid 19 tests, they may have to quarantine, others may have to quarantine, theres a lot of holes that need to be filled in in this situation right now by the cdc, the state of california, and the u. S. Military. President trump also weighed in, on the fate of passengers on the grand princess. Frankly, if it were up to me, i would be inclined to say, leave everybody on the ship for a period of time, and use the ship as your base, but, a lot of people would rather do it a different way, they would rather quarantine people and when they do that, our numbers will go up. If it were up to me, i would do that way, people think we should do it the other way, americans, mostly americans, and we have to take care of americans. We talked to a woman on board the grand princess in february, it was the cruise to mecca mexico that sicken othe passcludinn who bemeas only coronavirus death. She and a friend were ill just days before docking, but were cleared to leave their cabins, then disembarked. What about ground zero . Us, that were on the ship, on february 11, through february 21. If i sound hissed off, i am. What about us, youre talking about 2500 people that got off that ship, that this this man died, got off that ship, and we are all Walking Around right now. Some of us are probably positive, and we are the carriers. Reporter she has since been quarantined but she says it ends in a few days. The same for every cruiss is now suspected as the source of two new infections,. A 3rd resident there is also infected, but it is from contact with a coronavirus patient outside the county. All three are in isolation in their homes. This afternoon, Santa Clara County reported for new coronavirus cases, making it 24, now, in the county. A man who lived with another patient who is confirmed to have the virus is under home isolation, and a man who recently traveled to india is in the hospital right now. The others, a woman also hospitalized, and a man who is isolated at home, both of their cases are still under investigation. Heres how this adds up around the bay area, 45 cases since late january, almost half former cruiseship passengers. A little over half becoming ill through community transmission. One of the countrys biggest festivals of the year is now canceled, because of the coronavirus. Days after assuring attendees at sxsw it would go on, bostons mayor is pulling the plug. The two week event featuring tech, film, and music attracts more than 50,000 people to the texas town, but the mayor says fears over spreading the disease forced him to declare a local disaster in the city, and shut it down. The event was set to kick off a week from today, and feature appearances by twitters jack dorsey, the beastie boys, and ozzy osbourne. Back in the bay area, kpix 5 has details on how one of the most vulnerable populations is coping with the outbreak. Seniors and Senior Centers in Nursing Homes have been a focal point of the Public Health response to coronavirus, with many seniors who rely on these facilities say they dont want them to close, or programs to be reduced. A lot of my friends, they come every day for lunch, this is their main meal. So, that would be a big concern. Reporter any 2yearold visits the Barbara Lee Senior Center every week to play cards and socialize with friends. She is trying to follow all of ofcis,pes the rom Public Health outbreak wont force the center to close. I try to make sure that i practice what they are preaching right now, about washing their hands for 20 seconds, and try not to touch my face. Reporter amid the deepening Public Health crisis, cities have adopted aggressive new measures to slow the spread of the disease. At Senior Centers, large classes and activities have been canceled, and meals are being switched to to go, or delivery only options. We are trying to be proactive, and not wanting to wait for there to be an outbreak before we shut down the programs, and we are being mindful of those that do need access to the service, like the lunch program. Reporter many seniors say they depend on the center for their physical and social well being. And hope that gets factored into any discussion of closures. I just heard of the fitness program, and its for my health, i need to lose weight, i need to strengthen my core, reporter Public HealthOfficials Say the coronavirus hits people over 50 and people with preexisting Health Conditions especially hard. But the push to keep those vulnerable populations safe is facing some pushback from the seniors themselves. I think that if you keep your personal hygiene well and wash your hands a lot like the cdc says, that would be okay. Reporter Public Health officials emphasize that this is an evolving response, they say that if the outbreak were to worsen, or expand, that new measures may be needed. Devon feely, kpix 5. Now the sanitation efforts to keep riders safe from coronavirus, the agency tweeting out video of cruise wiping down the handrails and seeds and steam cleaning the interior of cars overnight, they remind his customers, youve got to do your part to take precautions to help prevent that spread. You can now sign up to get text message alerts, with updates about the outbreak, San Francisco emergency Health Officials launching that system today, you can sign up i texting covid 19 sf 2888777. Users will be notified about Health Updates and potential closures due to the virus around the bay area. Stanford university is using its own test for patient to show symptoms of the virus. This develop comes after the fda gave the green light for academic and commercial labs to run their own test. Researchers at Stanford School of medicine started working on it about a month ago, we are told patient at Stanford Health and stanford childrens are now able to use it. Results can turnaround anywhere from 12 to 24 hours, ucsf is reportedly closer to deploying its own coronavirus test. This week made one thing clear, from wall street, investors dont know what to do about coronavirus. Stocks finished the roller coaster week surprisingly close to where they started. The main indicator all closed down for the day but the dow is up nearly 2 for the week, s p is down but the nasdaq gained a 10th of a percent for the week, all because of coronavirus anxiety, coupled with both good and bad economic news. Today, the Labor Department announced the economy added an impressive 273,000 jobs in february, the report blowing away all expectations, but it was compiled before coronavirus fears took hold. The nations unemployment race also took down to 3. 5 . However, Oil Prices Crashed to their lowest level in three years. Today, russia rejected a proposal from opec to extend Oil Production cuts through 2020. Those cuts are intended to prop up prices. One of silicon valleys biggest Venture Capital firms is offering free advice to companies in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. Suggesting ceos consider layoffs, in this blog post, sequoia refers to the virus as the black swan of 2020. And suggest the potential for financial problems arising out of the covid 19 outbreak, thats already battering the economy. The post suggest now is the time to evaluate whether you can do more with less, and raise productivity. You may not see as many tech workers out and about, facebook advising bay area employees to work remotely, starting today. Other Companies Giving that work from home recommendation our twitter, square, microsoft, and google. The move by google follows its earlier recommendation for employees in Washington State to work remotely amid the spread of the coronavirus. Stay with kpix 5 for the latest on the coronavirus outbreak, coming up at 5 30, a closer look at the advice to avoid large gatherings, and right now on kpix 5. Com, a breakdown on the clustered links to the grand princess. Taking a live look outside right now, what a difference we are seeing from earlier this week, after a record dry month of february, the 1st rain in more than a month is set to finally hit the bay area. Check out this time lapse taken from our salesforce camera as you can see those clouds moving in through the golden gate earlier today, Brian Hackney is in the Weather Center tracking when this longawaited rain is finally going to arrive. Right around sunrise tomorrow morning, 1st in the north bay it will spread south and it will be the 1st rain in more than a month, and its all coming down from the gulf as that lowpressure storms itself, it will spread a thin band of rain through the bay area, beginning before sunrise, in the north bay, after sunrise in the south bay, as you can see in the timing of the future cast, right here, 6 05 am, an hour and a half before the sun comes up i sunday morning, you can see that we have a pretty good band of showers coming through, but its a fast mover, and by the time we get to about noon, it is mostly out of the bay area, but it will leave scattered showers behind. About 1 10 to 2 10 of an inch of rain goes on, watch what happens on sunday. The atmosphere gets juiced up a little bit, so that by sunday evening it looks like theres a little bit more, theres an unsettled weekend on the way, chances for this pending outlook pretty good, San Francisco is a 70 chance of rainfall for tomorrow, to sum it up, a 38 a dry spell for San Francisco, ends early tomorrow. That will spread south bay widely tonight, and early tomorrow, and then a chilly unsettled weather pattern continues next week, we will have the details when we have the forecast in a few minutes. We will welcome the change. We are getting word of a new shakeup among oaklands top brass, the fire chief darren white is resigning, and heading to marin county. He will become the fire chief in san rafael, he took the top position in oakland not long after the deadly 2016 ghost ship warehouse fire. Deputy chief Melinda Drayton will take over as interim fire chief in april. Oakland also looking for a new police chief as well, after the firing of Ann Kirkpatrick last month. Coming up, bay area mayor pushing to hold evictions in the thick of the worsening coronavirus outbreak. Literary buffs looking to buy, listen up, a look inside a northbay houseboat once owned by a legendary poet. Kpix 5 weather is sponsored by mancini sleep world. Head over to mancini sleep world best buys mattress sale. Visit sleep world. Com. A couple of hot air balloons made an unexpected landing after floating off course in yolo county. One ended up in a parking lot on woodlands main street, the other landed in a neighborhood nearby. Crews responded, worrying that those balloons might have been in trouble, but the Fire Department says the landings were intentional. We are told nobody was hurt but its unclear why the people operating the balloons decided to land in town. San jose mayor is taking steps to protect renters during the coronavirus outbreak. Proposing a temporary moratorium on evictions in the city. This is an effort to work collaboratively with our landlords, to ensure that no one is pushed out the door, while they are having to either go without income, perhaps in some cases job loss, in some cases loss of hours worked, and in many cases there will be no income at all. Reporter the mayor says workers would have to provide proof of need, and the unpaid rent would eventually have to be reimbursed landlords. What the memo calls for is that there be a reasonable period of time for landlords and tenants, after the conclusion of this emergency, for them to negotiate a payment of rent over a period of time, say four months, something that gives tenants a reasonable amount of time to catch up. The city is talking t ll asance tany laidoff workers, the mayors proposal going before the council next tuesday. President trump visited tornado ravaged tennessee today, walking through a devastated neighborhood alongside the states governor and local leaders, the president also toured a donation site and met with survivors, at least two tornadoes left more than 50 miles of destruction, and killed at least 25 people earlier this week. The damage estimated in the billions of dollars, he is promising federal disaster funds will start flowing soon. God be with them, and we are going to be with them, we will be with them all the way. We need the government help, you can see the homes are destroyed, it was horrible. It was horrible. Tennessee native taylor swift is donating 1 million to Tornado Relief efforts, she called the losses in her home state devastating. Swift is supporting the middle of tennessee Emergency Response fund. We here on the west coast know have no idea the force of the tornado, to see Something Like that. And it leads its a step in the right direction as we get showers coming through tomorrow morning. It wont put a complete damper on the weekend, itll be springlike and remind us what winter was supposed to be like. But not that much of either, it wont be that cold or that wet, but youll see that as we sit at the forecast, lets look at the skies lowering ominously, over the bay area behind sutro tower and the numbers right now, productively chilled, with readings in the mid50s, and mostly cloudy skies around the bay area, that low will drop on saturday, and when it does it spreads mostly, for a brief period will come down, but it will be brief, and then it will be scattered showers behind for saturday midday, and saturday afternoon, some clearing in the northbay, as we look at the time lapse, right there, stopping at 6 am on saturday, and you can see it over the central bay area, at that point, and then it moves out of the bay, and leaves us with scattered showers by saturday afternoon, and then again, watch this, as we go towards a sunday, it remains unsettled, rainfall amounts from this wont be huge, as you can see in the future cast about 1 5 of an inch in santa rosa, down to 1 10 in san jose, not a lot. But theres a Winter Weather advisory because it will turn to snow in the mountains where they are expecting 4 to 8 inches, so, expect a little bit of trouble trouble, future cast shows no acute relations will reach almost 1 foot at donner pass. Heres what we are inspecting, rain in the north after midnight tonight, and then the central bay area by sunrise, tomorrow morning, and it will leave us after it sweeps through with unsettled weather right through tuesday. Overnight lows tonight, looking at santa rosa coming in at 43 degrees in napa, 47, 47 at fairfield, and 47 for livermore. And then, dont forget, this is the weekend we spring ahead, by sunday, sunup will be at 7 30 am, and sunset sunday night will be at 7 10 pm. Forecast high for tomorrow, looks like 59 degrees for santa rosa, we will be in the mid50s bay wide, the big story tomorrow will be that it finally gets wet, that will snap 38 days in a row, without measurable rainfall in the bay area, it will happen around sunrise tomorrow morning, the extended forecast we will look for showers around the bay area tomorrow, not a lot, 1 10 to 2 10 of an inch, and on sunday, sunday is interesting, theres a system that will go down over Vandenberg Air force base will be on the Northern Edge of that system, so we will have a few showers on sunday, monday and tuesday, variable clouds, and a few scattered showers, none of these in the next four days are going to be big rainmakers, and cumulatively we dont get that much rain, and by the time we get to wednesday and thursday, sunshine back in the 70s. Coming up next, a woman in need living in a crumbling dangerous home, she gets a lifeline from one very generous group. Wimpy trash bags . Cmon. Hefty hefty hefty hey ladies. Buy hefty ultra strong at a low price. Dada i wish. Get hefty ultra strong at a low price. A house bill with some literary history, just hit the market, it can be yours, the 1200 square foot floating home once belonged to the late poet and childrens author shell silverstein. It has two bedrooms, one bathroom, and its where the sidewalk ends. It was originally built in 1965 atop a world war ii linen barge, the houseboat listed at 783,000 and probably has a light in the attic. Silverstein did pass away back in 1999, he is known best for the book the giving tree, as well as his collection of poems for kids. Sunday International Womens day, and there are plenty of celebrations happening all across the bay area. In sacramento a group of volunteers are coming together to restore the home of a woman in need. Kpix 5 renie santos shows us the inspiring coalition that is making a difference. Reporter the drilling, tearing down, and painting. All serve a bigger purpose than what can be seen just on the outside. The