Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 pm and streaming on cbsn bay area Santa Rosa Police issuing a warning in the last couple hours after two more of its employees tested positive for covid 19. Good evening. Eight people within the department have the virus. The chief also sent out this message to people not sheltering in place. Our department is considering additional enforcement measures if we continue to see people out and about in violation of the order. I cannot emphasize this enough. Our Police Officers and staff who are potentially exposed to coronavirus as they respond to calls for service need you to stay home so they can continue to go to work. The other headlines tonight a huge jump in coronavirus hospitalizations statewide. The governor said they nearly have doubled over the past four days. It went from about 700 people to now more than 1400 patients. Take a look. Intensive care patients nearly tripling from 200 to about 600 statewide. The governor said the state has already secured a number of sites to function as temporary hospitals. Tonight the Oakland Coliseum is also being considered as a potential site to increase the states capacity to battle the virus. This evening we spoke to mayor libby schaaf on how oakland is dealing with the crisis. I spoke to all the ceos of oakland hospitals to hear about your surge plans. What they are doing to expand the capacity within their hospitals in the hopes that we dont have to take extraordinary measures like turning a Sports Facility into a temporary hospital. Plans are in the works tonight to care for people at the San Mateo County evenson said. Our Team Coverage from that location. Reporter we are being told National Guard troops are here all day today setting up this emergency hospital. We are going to have to take their word for it. They did not allow reporters inside the property so we could see it for ourselves. Supposedly they are working on it. It may not look like it from the outside the San Mateo County set a cash of medical supplies and equipment arrived overnight. It includes cots bedding and pedals enough for 250 patients that are socalled low acuity. It will be one of only eight locations of its kind in the country. Last week one of the first to get set up with that the Santa Clara Convention center. The National Guard put up 250 beds as well. This is about saving lives. Reporter the supervisor did not mince words about San Mateo County preparing for an onslaught of patients. If we do nothing we become italy. Reporter the states hospitals are seeing a sharp rise. If you are a Nursing School student or medical School Student we need you. If youve just retired in the last few years we need you. Reporter at his press conference the governor announced health core an effort to recruit healthcare workers everyone from dentist to psychiatrist. In order to fasttrack an army of frontlines soldiers to battle covid 19. Will help you with your relicensing. You will help you with the protocols and processes to get you up and running and get you out the door. So you can support the needs of people of the state of california. This is the work we have been called to do. Now is our time. Reporter the website to sign up is health core. Ca. Gov. As for the situation at the event center the National Guard troops are scheduled to be here tomorrow. Tonight there are 11 confirmed cases of coronavirus at san franciscos laguna honda hospital. And officials are preparing things to get worse at that nursing home. Andrea is live with how the city is turning to state and federal officials for help. Reporter there is deep concern for nursing facilities like this throughout the country. Those very vulnerable older populations call them home. About what could happen if there is an outbreak we are currently seeing at laguna hossa honda. The state and feds are here trying to keep it under control. Predictions from the mayor about the growing outbreak at laguna honda hospital. I want to be clear that the situation will escalate at laguna honda. It will escalate in san francisco. These experts are assessing the situation and will make recommendations for ongoing management of an outbreak that is expected to escalate. Reporter infectious control nurses as well as dedicated cdc staff are trying to figure out how coronavirus spreads and nine staffers and 2 patients on board south for sulfide. The state Infection Control nurses are creating expanded protocols on environmental cleaning ppe and staff safety. The cdc is intensifying the contact investigation to look for sources of infection in the pathway of spread. Reporter plans are underway on a Field Hospital on laguna honda campus preparing for the inevitable. More cases. Public Health Director said his Department Still cannot get enough test to figure out how quickly this is spreading. We struggle to get swabs in order to test. Along the supply chain for testing there are severe limitations. While we are working to expand Testing CapacityPublic Health lab is expected to triple its potential Capacity Starting today. We are still struggling along the supply chain to ramp up testing as quickly as possible. Reporter he said the problem with not having enough test as he cannot simply get a good number of cases of covid 19 per thousand in the city and county of san francisco. That will help them scale up their efforts or skill them back if it is a lower percentage than they think. Without those solid numbers trying to plan for what could be coming becomes that much more difficult. Testing is underway at two new drivethrough sites in san francisco. The one you see here is in an alleyway. That you drive into one noriega street and the outer sunset. Another one is now open your chinatown on vallejo street. North beach garage. These tests at the site only take about 15 minutes. To get the results. This is a test that recently got fda approval. It is looking specifically at the antibodies that your body produces. So we can detect that a lot faster than the pcr method. It is actually really good. It is 89 accuracy. Dont just show up because both of these sites require a doctors referral before a patient can be tested. A third testing site is expected to open later this week near oracle part. We are learning new details about oakland strategy to protect the homeless from the spread of the coronavirus. State officials secured to hotels the comfort inn and Radisson Hotel near the coliseum. They will be used to house homeless men and women who need to be quarantined. A group called Abode Services will provide Case Management security and food. The rest of us can self isolate in our own home. That is not an option for the People Living on the street. Even not an option for many that are living in the shelter environments which is a congregant living setting. One of our street teams and one of our homeless clinics identify someone who had symptoms and was able to go to a shelter because it was a risk of that person infecting other folks in the shelter. And needed a place to stay where they could recover and not infect other people. The hotels will provide nearly 400 rooms. Public schools in san jose using technology to keep the educational process knowing while classrooms are being closed. The Elementary School district has provided free laptops and tablets to any student who needs them. At the same time teachers have set up temporary classrooms at home. The goal is to keep students engaged and connected to each other during the shelter in place. Internet access remains a challenge for some. But parents give the system high marks. Academics on par with what they have been doing in the classroom. However i wish they would add little more interactivity between the students and the teachers and amongst the students. Teachers are trying to introduce new material and new lessons to their online classes. At the very least they want to prevent kids from falling backwards and further behind. Coming up next the event that drew hundreds of people and there is no social distancing. The warning tonight from police and the east bay after a disturbing sideshow during the shelter in place. The guidelines will be very much as they are maybe even toughened up. Will there be new social distancing restrictions on the federal level . What the white house is monitoring tonight. Is the type of news that makes you wonder will macys survive this pandemic . A bit of a change as we are finishing the month of march and heading into april. The stormtrack shifting to the north. Mostly dry weather this week. There are rain chances down the line in the forecast. We will attract those coming up. Today kpix 5 is launching better together. 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There are swinging around out there. Somebodys going to get killed. A lot of these bystanders may be very sick and a couple weeks. If they live with their parents or their grandparents those other people they are putting at risk. To potentially die from the covid 19 virus. Three people were arrested and 14 others cited and a dozen of those vehicles were towed away. Switching gears to whether still a couple clouds out there. Paul hagan is tracking the forecast. Beautiful sunset in progress right now. You saw it from the Salesforce Tower looking from Treasure Island to downtown. A little layer of cloud cover reflected in the last rays of sunlight. In just a few minutes. A pretty pleasant evening overall. Temperatures as they stand right now middle to upper 50s to around 60 degrees. 60 on the button concorde in oakland. Upper 50s in the city and livermore. Over 50 san jose. Middle 50 santa rosa. Had a lot more cloud cover throughout the day. Just barely more than a trace of rainfall. 1 100 of an inch around santa rosa. A few light showers making their way through the north bay. Lingering cloud cover will keep temperatures from dropping too far overnight. Right now in the city 57 degrees. Only dropped another five the rest of the night. Middle to upper 40s further inland. Close to what is normal for the last full night of march. Tomorrow temperatures close to normal for the last day of march. Middle to upper 60s depending on how close you are to the water. At worst a degree or two below average. The different areas around the bay with temperatures further away from the water will be further in the 60s. Along the coast upper 50s for pacifica and half moon bay. Upper 60s for east bay locations. Further into the upper 60s the further inland you go. Right around the bay low to middle 60s. Not bad for the last day of march. Average high is 62. We should be right at that level to the afternoon hours tuesday. Little bit cooler further to the north but not too bad. Temperatures in the 60s. One location remaining in the middle 50s and lake work in lake county. A couple sprinkles still trying to make their way to the north bay through the evening. Those are barely going to be measurable. Lingering cloud cover with us throughout the day tuesday. Gradually that will dissipate. Clearing skies to a colder night tomorrow night into early wednesday. Lots of sunshine for the first day of april on wednesday. The next good chance of rain is still several days down the line. We will be in the it is not likely to rain category of 10 or lower the rest of the work week. Nearly 5050 chance on saturday and sunday. That is down the line. Numbers will likely go up. The chances of rain will go up closer to the weekend and we get more confidence in what the various models are telling us. Centers while we are dry multiple 60s around the bay. Middle to upper 60s inland. Along the coast to upper 50s. All these numbers through friday close to normal for late march and early april. The cooled off into saturday and sunday with the rain chances possibly lingering into early next week. Asking for kids pictures. They have been drawing at home. Whether they are drawing whatever they see out the window or whatever is on their mind. A lot of other people and that is coronavirus. Everything he roads below that is factual. Im glad to see even sixyear olds i getting a handle on the facts. If you want to share your kids pictures use the hashtag kpix on any social media platform. We will share these for the foreseeable future. Heres a look at your top national headlines. The number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. Is approaching 100 50,000. 150,000 the Navy Hospital ship comfort arrived in new york city to relieve the pressure a local hospitals. The vessel has 1000 beds and we treat noncoronavirus patients. In maryland the governor has issued a stay at home order. The governors of oklahoma and texas say anyone traveling from states with hotspots will need to self quarantine. President trump is praising the uptick in privatesector production of insulators and personal protective equipment. Ppe. The white house is now extending social distancing guidelines and travel restrictions through the end of april. The guidelines will be very much as they are and maybe even toughened up a little bit. Theyre having a tremendous impact. Macys and gap were furlough more than 200,000 employees beginning this week. The chains of close stores and seen a major hit to sales during the pandemic. Macys stock is down nearly 70 for the year. Still to come can you really make a ventilator and just a couple hours . What is next for california couple stranded on a when we face adversity, we find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. Were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. If you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home. Its just our way of doing our part. Passengers are stranded on a cruise ship were four people on board have already died. At least two people tested positive for covid 19 on holland americas. We are not sure what is going to happen to us. A couple from los angeles is among the passengers. Their vacation began in early march in south america. Just over a week into the trip the Global Pandemic caught up with them. Healthy passengers were allowed to transfer to another shipment last night both vessels were permitted to pass through the panama canal on their way to florida. And his wife have been quarantined in their room for more than a week. They dont know what is coming next. March 14 they were allowed to disembark. That is in chile. Shortly thereafter they were told no other city or port would allow them to dock and they would have to stay on the ship. Obviously ventilators are a Precious Resource these days. But now engineers at the university of oxford can assemble a basic prototype in less than two hours. They just successfully tested it on a medical dummy. There socalled nofrills design uses just a resuscitation bag. A few valves and electrical circuit. It cost about 100 to make. This is something you cannot together in a weekend. Massproducing it will be simple. We have gone back to basics. Weve gone back to probably the state of insulators 10 or 15 years ago. The oxford engineers hope to soon get government approval so they as a mother and a wife, i understand how challenging this moment is for our families and our communities. That is why our state is responding at every level of government to slow the spread of covid19, while ensuring our most vulnerable californians have what they need. But we can each do our part. And it starts by staying home. I know this is a big sacrifice for so many, but staying home saves lives. Learn more at covid19. Ca. Gov. Your top coronavirus headlines six bay area counties are now extending the stay at home order until may 1. It comes after the number of hospitalizations statewide nearly doubled over the past four days. A makeshift hospital is being set up at the San Mateo Event Center as the county prepares for a surge in cases. State officials have secured two hotels in oakland to house