Reporter weve heard plenty of stories from other countries about healthcare workers, police officers, firefighters all getting sick while taking care of covid19 patients themselves and bringing that home. Mayor london breed wants to stop the cycle and find a place fur healthcare workers and frontline workers to live while they fight this disease. While hospitals, doctors, and nurses ramp up fur the anticipated patient sick with covid19, they are trying to figure out where to house the essential healthcare workers. We dont want healthcare workers who are on the front lines to go home and potentially infect others or be infected in their communities and not be able to work. We are standing up hotels fur them as well. Reporter hotels which have seen occupancy rates plummet as tourism evaporates from shelter in place orders, they may have new guests. Healthcare providers. They are trying to procure those rooms in addition to 3500 rooms that have been set aside to isolate patients who may contract covid19 as well as others. We secured our first lease yesterday and moved the first people in this morning. The first people were homeless individuals. They were tested in the hospital but arent showing signs that need them to be hospitalized. We moved them from the hospitals to that particular hotel. Reporter those rooms are in addition to the trailers that the state of california is sending four potential homeless patients. With all of these measures the message is still clear from city leaders, stay home. We have a role to play in the citys response. Stay home, only leave four essentials. Reporter coming up tonight on kpix 5 news at 7 00 we hear from the San Francisco police chief about enforcement of the shelter in place order has been working. Im standing on San Franciscos embarcadero and you see a lot of runners and joggers. What he has to say about that coming up. Ondrea borba, kpix 5. Wilson walker live at the San Francisco general hospital. We have talked a lot about the people who will need intense care at the hospital like this with ventilators being a potential Critical Care unit. Theres another challenge facing the hospitals, what to do with the people who arent very sick but need somewhere to stay where they could get well . Please , dont go to the emergency room unless you have a true lifethreatening emergency. Reporter San FranciscoHealth Officials are begging everyone to avoid the er if at all possible. The overwhelmed Healthcare System is at the heart of this crisis which means finding a place to isolate people who dont necessarily need a hospital. You have to look at procuring additional assets not just to the homeless prefer the general population. Reporter the governor thinks california will need as many as 20,000 additional beds beyond the current hospital capacity. This friday we will announce two large hospitals that we have procured that will be bringing into our portfolio to address the gap. Reporter the hospitals are just the start, the state has identified 960 hotels it could use along with 1300 trailers and the possibility of temporary facilities at places like county fairgrounds, armories, and even vacant lots. San francisco has already started using hotel space 41 population. The first people who were homeless individuals. They were tested in the hospital but arent showing signs that need them to be hospitalized. So we moved them from the hospitals to that particular hotel. Mac we asked if San Francisco was looking at any other locations to isolate those who dont need to be hospitalized. Im told bill grams Civic Auditorium was considered but found to be a bad fit four this job. Its fair to assume other sites have been looked at. Anything to take the strain off of our hospitals and our badly needed Critical Care services. Those places desperately need to be saved four those who are truly ill. Reporter we talked about the San Francisco general here, we spoke with leadership and of the challenge, having people who really need hospitalization from any reason but not letting the people who are infected with the coronavirus infect the other patients that are here at the hospital four whatever requires them to be here. Im told that they are going to make one specific floor of the hospital entirely fur the patients with coronavirus. They will isolate that floor fur those patients. In china when the explosion really happened, they actually cut hospitals in half, truly building walls in the middle of the hospital wards to keep the infected away from the noninfected. There are all sorts of challenges taking care of the sick, isolating those who are too sick, keeping the people sick away from those who arent infected with the coronavirus in the hospital. Its challenge on top of challenge and thats the preparation underway. Live in San Francisco general, Wilson Walker four kpix 5. One of the reserve officers has tested positive four covid 19. The individual is now self isolated at home. The department has ordered all potential exposures to stay home. So far, no other officers have been reporting symptoms. There are now at least 475 confirmed cases in and around the bay area. About 40 of them are in santa clara county. Some good news though, no new deaths reported today. That number still stands at seven. Meanwhile in the south bay the community is coming together to ensure healthcare workers have the critical supplies. Today one person who manufactures latex gloves dropped off 40,000 pair at valley medical center, they are accepting donations from masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes. The gmc health store in San Francisco is collecting supplies fur healthcare workers in the city. The signs went up in store windows. The manager says he was inspired by a friend who is a nurse to turn the store into a drop off zone four the signs went up in store windows. The manager says he was inspired by a friend who is a nurse to turn the store into a drop off zone 4m95 masks and other items. San francisco, santa clara county, and alameda county, the area working with plans to release jail inmates early to prevent an outbreak behind bars. Our reporter is that the Santa Clarita jail where people have been walking out the door all day long. Reporter thats right, every 1015 minutes we see a group of people walking out of the jail with bags of clothing. They are smiling and happy to finally be leaving this place. Not everyone is happy about it some people worry that this could increase crime. Reporter freedom at last four these young women, just a few minutes ago they were inmates, now they are free people. Im breathing fresh air out here. Im happy. My heart started beating. Im happy whenever i get out of jail. Its a good thing. Its a trip to be outside of the jail, lookit, im not in there and im out here. This is a good feeling. Reporter one person was surprised by their Early Release. His latest runin with the law was a repeat dui conviction. I wondered why i was getting released. They just released me. They dont know how. Reporter the Sheriffs Department is right now there are no coronavirus cases in the jail. Reducing the inmate population will help her manage future outbreaks. We are in unprecedented times. We are doing everything that we can on the Public Safety side during times like this, tough decisions have to be made. Reporter they started the Early Release process on tuesday, 300 inmates, most of them are nonviolent, lowlevel offenders. Some of them we typically would want to release, people who had been involved in some assaults, assault with a Deadly Weapon or brandishing handguns. Reporter the sergeant says they are being released because there are Underlying Health problems, some in the Community Support this. I feel like releasing them isnt that big of a deal. You are helping yourself by helping them when you let them out. Mac some worry that they will have to deal with more criminals on the street on top of the pandemic. Its a litteylecomancdeer. G reporter here are a few more inmates just walking out of santa rita jail, walking to a van nearby. The van from the Sheriffs Department will transport them to the nearby dublin bar station. The Sheriffs Department will continue to identify more low level offenders to release in the days to come. Four now, live here in dublin, kpix 5. Still ahead on kpix 5 and cbsn bay area, panic shopping fur bottled water of all things. Why bay area water Officials Say tap will serve yooutbreak. And why the Golden State Warriors arent going to test all of their players fur coronavirus. 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We are saying its absolutely unnecessary, a glass of water from the tap is safe and continuous. Its always there. Thats one less trip to the supermarket which is putting yourself at risk. Reporter the San Jose Water Company president says tap water is treated to specifically remove viruses as well as other contaminants. Chlorine, ozone, all those techniques are designed specifically to remove and deactivate pathogens. The epa, centers for disease control, and World Health Organization have confirmed Drinking Water isnt a source of covid19 transmission. Drinking water is safe. Reporter the administrator of staff is working home during this time, the technical crews are staying on the job but are taking extra safety steps like keeping distance between workers and driving in separate vehicles while they work. And all of the treatment processes , they check online to make sure that filtration is doing what its supposed to do. Reporter he was seen drinking a glass of water from his own tap. Bottled water is monitored as infrequently as once per year. We are doing this on a continuous basis. Reporter there could be a perception problem fighting against tap water but water providers say they are fighting to change that one glass at a time. In san jose, kpix 5. The Golden State Warriors say they arent testing healthy players four coronavirus. The team says they will test players if they start showing symptoms. The general manager bob meyer says right now they arent interacting with anyone and says, we arent better than anyone he, we arent worse, we are just about team like any other company. The announcement comes after several pro athletes and celebrities were tested amid the National Shortage of test kits. Stay with us fur updates from top california and bay area officials on the next steps during this coronavirus lockdown. Go to our website kpix. Com or your cbs news app. We were talking about all the snow making that great pure Drinking Water from the bay area. A lot of people have refrigerator filters. They are taking advantage of the dry weather today. A lot of people are keeping social distance from each other but some showers have popped up mainly over inland south bay and east bay locations. These wont last long. They will fizzle out over the next hour or so. We have seen fewer showers compared to the past couple of days were received fewer ones tomorrow. We cant rule out the possibility of a couple of sprinkles. Those will be few and far between. The showers have washed pollen out of the atmosphere. The medium category four tomorrow, the medium high category on saturday with a high category on sunday before the next good chance of measurable rain arrives in the afternoon into sunday, continuing into sunday that will wash stuff out of the air on monday. Temperatures running in the mostly mid to upper 50s. Below 60 degrees in oakland. The city checking into 56. Theres a little bit of cloud cover overhead but most of us are still dry with temperatures tonight dropping down to the low to mid 40s in most locations, a little warmer around the bay. In the valley spots, further toward the north. Tomorrow almost exactly a normal day. At least temperature wise, the only context in which we could say its a normal day fur this foreseeable future. High temperatures across the area which isnt bad at all. Your best chance of reaching into the upper half of the 60s looks like it will be around san jose, santa clara, farther inland heading into the north bay. Temperatures are going to warm up even more as we going to the first half of the weekend. Saturday looks like the day fur any Outdoor Activity before the next chance of rain arrives on sunday. Sports is coming up after this quick break. Stick around. More kpix 5 news is on the way. A lot has changed overnight. 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