Chinatown. That is a very bad sign. This 7000 squarefoot Chinese Restaurant has gone dark for two weeks. The owner decided to temporarily shut down for the month of march after business fell off the cliff. 70 . Reporter 70 . 70 at lunch. Dinnertime i think almost 90 . Reporter he says customers stopped coming fearing they could pick up the virus by being too close to others. He says the biggest victims of their employees. No work and no paychecks. They still have to pay the rent, pay their food. They are hurt. Reporter many stores have either cut back on hours or temporarily suspended operations, including this seafood restaurant. It is one of the biggest restaurants in oakland. A few doors down, they decided to close early and 2 00. Not a single customer today. Just one customer yesterday at her drycleaning business. Know people. Very quiet. Reporter heres a look at the pacific Renaissance Plaza in the heart of chinatown. Here is what it is like on the streets. Same problem. In San Franciscos chinatown, very little traffic. Some stores decided to cut down for a few weeks. Those who are open say they dont even make enough to cover utility bills. It is painful. I hope the government can help us. Reporter congresswoman barbara lee says relief is on the way. Low interest loans for Small Businesses and Unemployment Benefits for furloughed workers. There will be some bureaucracy, but i think with the designation of the natural emergency, a lot of the bureaucratic red tape will be way to relieve. Reporter she joins business groups from the African American chamber to the Latino Chamber of commerce. Mayor libey shaft says a nonprofit is giving no fee and no interest loans to Small Businesses and extra time for repayment. That is utilizing the internet. That is shopping online. That is buying Gift Certificates for a better time, which we are also very confident is ahead of us. Reporter when state assemblyman says whats good for Public Health might be bad for the economy. He says it is still safe to shop and eat out as long as you follow health guidelines. What your hands often and keep a safe distance from others. In oakland chinatown, i am da lin. Kpix 5. Today, Contra Costa County became the latest to ban gatherings of 100 people or more. We recognize this is the departure from the way most of us live our lives and will have impact on the community. The Health Department would not ask you to make these changes if they were not very important. This continues to be time to remain calm and not panic, while still being prepare. Contra costa county has the second most covid19 cases in the bay area with 29. Santa clara county has the most by far, 17 new cases announced today, bringing the total there to 91. San francisco announced five new cases for a total of 28. Health officials stress this is not unexpected as testing increases, so will the tallies. This just in, a cal graduate student has tested positive. She doesnt live on the campus or in berkeley. In an email, the chancellor said the student is self isolating at home. Meanwhile, stanford is taking drastic measures after it was announced today that a student there has tested positive for the virus. The first case on campus. The universitys provost is asking professors to make winter quarterfinal exams optional for undergrads. They are also asking students to leave campus by next wednesday. Those who have no other Housing Options will be allowed to stay. They will only be offering takeout meals. The gym are going to close. The universitys president released a statement today. I greatly appreciate your understanding, your care for others, and willingness to navigate these mini disruptions. Taking a live look now at the port of oakland were Union Workers say the diamond princess has way overstated welcome. The shipley tomorrow no matter what. Kpix 5s Wilson Walker found out it may not go far. Reporter all we know is that the grand prix princess is supposed to leave tomorrow. What about the crewmembers that are still on board . You are building a petri dish by quarantining the crew on the ship. This is more than a problem. This is a crisis. Reporter it was a host of bay area Maritime Union members this morning speaking on behalf of those we have not seen or heard from, the 1100 crewmembers who remain aboard the fire isstricken grand princess. 600 philippines. There are also koreans, italians. Reporter the crewmembers that did test positive have been removed, but we know virtually nothing about the remaining crew members that are now stuck on the ship. The rest of the crew needs to be tested, and they need to be given medical treatment now. To be able to repatriate them to their home countries. Reporter another complaint, ongoing working conditions under the threat of coronavirus. They say workers should be demanding greater safety precautions at all ports on the west coast. Go take your equipment and get it cleaned before you start work. You dont start no shift. You dont do nothing until they get your truck clean. That is the way they are going to play the game. That is going to stop work. They will be upset at that. Reporter we reached out to the people running the operation. They do not return our calls. The source close to the Governors Office tells us that gavin newsom wants this ship out of oakland, even if it means parking it in San Francisco bay for a time being. As for happens to the crew, that is still an open question. In oakland, Wilson Walker, kpix 5. We will have much more coronavirus coverage throughout this newscast. We also want to get to the other big story in the bay area, and that would be the weather. This is a photo of a rollover on highway oneonone near sausalito. Just stay home. There were plenty of people out and about in the rain today. The Farmers Market was open. There is more lane where all of this is coming from. Just not from the storm. There is more. Let me show you what is happening. Look at the south bay. Thats where we have the best rain. It is an organized line that goes from the south bay over to the east bay. We will zoom in on san jose where theres plenty of green showing up on the entire city grid. The yellow and orange showing heavier rain. Those can be found a little bit up the road. Up toward fremont. This is pretty good rain coming down. I have been watching that for the last 30 minutes. The line holds together until you get to livermore. Lets go to a closeup look where we are also experiencing a similar amount of rain. Conquered, a sale of rain has moved to the east. It is making its way over the tiny Delta Community of nicholas. That is the story for the here and now. Tomorrow, we still have rain in the forecast. It is going to rain for the much of the rest of this evening. The futures, while they will bes body, there is a good chance of rain all the way through midnight. Tomorrow is different. I want to stop this right here. This gets us to noon tomorrow, on sunday. This looks different than what we were just seeing. Those spots on bearlike bulls eyes, those are where we have the potential for isolated thunderstorms tomorrow. Thats going to be part of this forecast for sunday, particularly north of the bay bridge. Sonoma, napa county, we have a chance of isolated thunderstorms. More on that and the snow in the sierra. Weight until you see how much we are going to get. I will see you in a few minutes. Rain is not the only thing causing the delays. We will show the snow right now. Snow in the sierras. Traffic is come to a full stop on interstate 80 just south of donner lake. The Placer CountySheriffs Office putting out this dash cam video of near whiteout conditions in Placer County. It is still coming down hard. Try to avoid interstate 80 if possible. In the bay area, the coast guard is mopping up a small oil spill the golden gate bridge. It is coming from a grounded fishing vessel. So for the oil does not appear to be impacting any wild loss. Meantime, the owner of a pipeline that spewed thousands of barrels of crude onto the beaches of Santa Barbara will pay 16 million to settle allegations that it violated safety laws. Texasbased pines allamerican pipeline owned the corroded pipe the spring a leak in 2015 atilled onbeaches that hundreds of sea birds and other wildlife and hurt tourism and fishing in the area. Panic buying is having a fever pitch in the bay area and beyond despite all the experts that say this they dont need a years worth of toilet paper. They dont need to buy food for six weeks. After the break, how to decide what you really need and what you really dont. If you are worried about taking public transportation, bart is floating a new idea tonight. Bring your own subway hand strap. The biggest culinary endeavor yet. Another day of people being panicky, buying step in the bay area. It started before the sun came up today. The line outside the cosco this morning was almost beyond belief. The photographer who shot this video took 2. 5 minutes to walk from the back of the left front. There is been a run on things. What should you be buying, and what is silly . Reporter brian todd breaks it down. Reporter shopping in the age of coronavirus. Across the u. S. , stockpiling seems to be everywhere. Whenever we do get new rations in of Hand Sanitizer and rights, we put them out by the registers, and they go within minutes. Reporter there are runs on many other items. We try to get anything you couldnt get. Yes. All the toilet paper is gone. A lot of the frozen food. A lot of the bread. Is pretty hectic. A lot of the frozen vegetables, cleaning supplies, even to a certain extent meats and dairy are hard to come by. Every single supermarket is like that. I cant even keep up. Reporter some Public Health experts say, lets slow down. They dont need a years worth of toilet tissue. They dont need cartons of paper napkins. They dont need to buy food for six weeks. Reporter experts say it is important for consumers to realize, this situation is temporary. Focus on simple nonperishables that can sustain is inside our homes. Figure out what your family likes. Maybe chance of tunafish, maybe pita butter and jelly. Whatever you can plan for a couple of weeks of not being able to go outside. Reporter Health Experts say that going out and crowding into your Grocery Store isnt the healthiest move. Standing in those long lines within a few inches of people is not the kind of social distancing thats recommended. They say, however, wherever you shop, do it calmly. Theres no reason to panic. Theres no reason to rush out and buy every items on the shelves. That just increases peoples sense of doom and gloom, which will not be necessary. Brian todd reporting. Is actually Science Behind panic shopping. Psychiatrist say comes down to human nature because humans are social animals. We look to each other on how to behave. When people see crowded parking lot and long lines and empty shelves, it makes them think they need to run out and do exactly the same thing. One good thing coming out of all that buyin, it is providing work for a lot of people who otherwise might not have it. Grocery stores in the seattle area cant hire health fastener. They are looking for thousands of workers to help the shelves get stockton keep the long checkout lines moving. One store manager says people who show up prepared to work will be put to work right then in there. From that to another man who is been working hard, slaving over a hot weather computer. Lets start with the rain and then we will look at what to expect over the next few days. That is a live look from the camera that sits on top of the salesforce tower. Plenty of drops of rain. If we look at the rainfall total of how we have done so for these numbers have gone up since the last time i showed them during the 5 00 news . San francisco has half an inch of rain. Santa rosa has less. The rain started in the north bay this morning. It has been focused in the South Central part of the bay area. Check in on fremont where we have been watching steady rain. That extends all the way over toward the trivalley and into livermore and toward concord. We come back out for the wide view, im going to play this forward on future cast to show you what rainfall totals look like. Is going to keep raining over nine. We have seen heavier totals so far. In fact we are seeing some of the heaviest rain of the day right now those locations we were just looking at. If we add up the rain between now and midnight, thats pretty much what we do, pickett may be another third of an inch of rain on the south and east bay. Remember sundays rain. It will become in the former vice latest thunderstorms. We could get popup showers. Thats probably the main focus for tomorrow. There is one other item of interest. Look at the blue splotch. Late tomorrow night, down in the hills of the south bay, that is mount hamilton. We could see perhaps as much as a half an inch of snow. Its cold enough for that, particular tomorrow night when the real cold air starts to filter him. Your tomorrow morning slows. A saukies dart in the mid 40s for most of us. In addition to the rain, theres a lot of snow falling in the sierra. Everywhere in red on this map is under a winter storm warning. If we take a look at important details, snow was going to be down to 2500 feet. That is going to make travel difficult to impossible, particularly tonight through sunday. The winter storm warning in the sierra stays in effect until we get to 5 00 in the evening. If you take a look at the snow, that is going to start piling up. We pick up as much is four feet of snow in the Higher Elevations. Its not only the sierra. Look over here for the coast range. The mountains that surround lake county. Theres a winter storm warning appear until tomorrow morning at 11 00. We can add more snow to the surrounding peaks above 3000 feet. As low as 2500 feet. Heres the reason why i said this is going to go on for a while. The current storm shows up off the coast. You can see the clouds spinning. Watch what happens. We have to get to about wednesday before that thing finally starts to lit up we will get a break wednesday and thursday. Look, in time for the end of next week, another storm sitting right off the coast. Put it all together in a seven day, rain for the next three days. We get a break wednesday, thursday. The next storm moved in just in time for friday and saturday. Back to you. Bart ridership stopping by the day as coronavirus fears rise. New number showing a 43 drop in commuters on the last two weeks. On average 375,000 people ride the train on friday. They are testing a cleaner option for passengers. The idea is that each persons or could have their own strap to take home and clean before use. Bart plans to take opinions on the idea before rolling it out. Coming up in sports, more covid19 quarantine for some athletes. The lasting effects reaching everywhere. Steph and iesha curry are stepping up. We want to make sure we rally around everyone and ensure that these kids are not wondering where their next meal is coming from. Hopefully you can join the fight with us and have each others backs as we go through this uncertain time in our community. Roughly 18,000 kids rely on the free or reduced price breakfast and lunch they get at the school. The district says 12 sites will provide grab and go meals while the campus is are closed. Suddenly uncharted territory. You and i have households of kids. Yes, we do. I should mention, today is steph currys birthday. Happy birthday to him. On pie day. March 14. Us that later in the show . First of all, a college note. This is a big one. The pac12 conference has canceled all Athletic Competition for the remainder of the year due to the coronavirus. The big ten made the same move on thursday. Nba christian would of the Detroit Pistons became the third player to test positive. He joins utahs rudy gobert and donovan mitchell. Wood showed against utah on saturday. He showed no symptoms and is doing well. Speaking of mitchell who tested positive on thursday, one day after his teammate rudy gobert, today released this video for quarantine. Whats up, everybody. Donovan mitchell here. I want to say thank you for your continued support. It means a lot to me. I feel fine. Things are going well. Just taking the proper precautions. I got to stay in isolation. Solo in here, playing video games all day. I cant wait to get back on the floor and play for the best fans in the world. I miss playing in front of you guys. I will see you guys soon. A segue to baseball and the giants. They faced three options yesterday. Stay where they are first ring training, go to the teens city, or go to the home city where they start to figure out whether the delayed season will continue. If you think pro golfers are upset at the postponement of five pga and three lpga events, what about the frustrating up and coming yoabout to meet, who needs tournaments to elevate i nt know how long this is going to take, how long its going to last. Reporter one day, he will play in the masters. The marin county product has to have that mindset. No tournaments available, though, because of covid19. He used a golf term, thats a hazard. Attornment in l. A. , was going to be at brookside. It would have been a good place for me to go play and try to win something. Reporter all the 19yearold can do is this, strike ball after ball, watching his favorite pros, that is out. He will be a sophomore in the fall with the seawolves at sonoma state. One of his favorite tournaments to watch as the masters, and he doesnt get to that. Meantime, he has to keep practicing, getting both each and every day. You know who i really feel bad for . I feel bad for the seniors in college and in high school whose spring seasons are over. Thats true. I didnt think about that. I agree. You can still get out there and golf. Rain permitting. Thank you. Coming up in the next half hour, the results are in for present trumps coronav