Cinco de mayo is just hours away. Authorities in san jose are hoping there wont be street celebrations but some activity this weekend has them concerned. Bay area businesses eagerly anticipating relaxed shelter in place rules. Its a big improvement to be able to have local pickup like that. Tonight well take a look at phase 2 of the states reopening and why some might be left disappointed. With droughtlike conditions, fire season may come early this year. How the pandemic may change the way firefighters fight fires. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, concern over Cinco De Mayo crowds in associate tomorrow. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. This after a packed celebration was busted over the weekend. Joe vazquez reports that police plan to be out in force but they may only be able to do so much. Reporter Cinco De Mayo has drawn large crowds in the past. Because of covid19 theyre hoping that wont be the case tomorrow. Theyre preparing for the possibility, especially considering what happened this weekend. Id say 5,000 people here easily. Reporter carlos couldnt believe his eyes. He was doing his sunday shopping when he was watching this parking lot in East San Jose fill up with cars doing stunts. The crowd that gathered to watch was not social distancing. There were so many people standing around like this. Reporter hes a prominent dj in the town. Hed like to get back to working parties and celebrating his culture. But he says this was too much. In the midst of what were going through, for hundreds and hundreds of people who gather here, its beyond mindboggling. Reporter sylvia was here selling mexican flags. She speculates folks are tired of the quarantine and many simply dont believe the danger from covid is worse than the economic threat. Why so many days we went inside home, what can you do . Reporter San Jose Police drove through and dispersed the crowd yesterday. A spokesperson for the Department Says the officers are not going to walk in the middle of groups of people, but extra special operations and patrol officers will be deployed tomorrow to keep the peace. A Police Source tells kpix 5 the strategy will be to try to keep the crowd from gathering in the first place. In san jose, joe vazquez, kpix 5. San franciscos mayor is threatening to close delores park if people dont cooperate with social distancing guidelines. Over the weekend, dozens of people could be seen hanging out in groups at the park. Some were maintaining appropriate distance. Others not so much. It was much less crowded there today. People sitting on the grass were spaced a part. Police will be monitoring the park this week. Mayor london breed if people continue to gather in large groups outside their own households, she will close it down. In just days, california is expected to move in to the next phase of reopening. That includes allowing some retailers to open their doors. But kpix 5 betty yu reports its unclear if bay area leaders will give the green light. So the state is moving from phase 1 to phase 2 as early as friday. Businesses that can reopen with modifications include bookstores, clothing stores, florists, and music shops. Dinein restaurants, shopping malls, and offices will have to wait. That said, counties can still choose to continue stricter measures. People love coming in to shops and its our everything. Reporter steve stevensons everything basically vanished when he was forced to temporarily close two locations. 1234 go records in San Francisco and oakland. The loss surmounted to more than 100,000 in sales. As early as the end of this week, you will have the capacity as a retailer, with the modifications and the guidelines we set forth on thursday to begin to reopen for pickup. Its a big improvement to be able to have local pickup like that. Right now were only legally able to ship things to people and sort of that can be kind of a barrier to people. The Margaret ElizabethJewelry Store says 80 of its sales came from its brick and mortar shop in the marina before the pandemic. If were only allowed to reopen for curbside pickup, its a little tricky for us. Its essentially what happened when we first went in to the shelter in place, like a lot of businesses, we to of an ecommerce model. Reporter the owner says she isnt sure if hiring back staff or pickup only services make sense at this stage. The governor said county and city up governments have the final say on what can and cannot reopen. We want to also give these businesses time to know exactly whats expected and also to know what are the things that they need to prepare for as they begin to reopen. The governor will release more details on thursday. Mayor london breed said the city would work with the Governors Office to coordinate a potential move to phase 2 but did not guarantee anything would reopen on friday. In all, more than 40 states have announced plans to ease or end their coronavirus guidelines. Despite that, experts warn the danger has not passed. Nationwide, the number of new cases remains at around 30,000 per day. Eight states including texas continue to report sharp increases and the widely followed university of washington model has nearly doubled its projected number of u. S. Deaths by august. Thats partly due to relaxed social distancing restrictions. Cases in Solano County have surged and its because of an outbreak at a vallejo nursing facility. Nearly a third of the countys cases have been traced back to the Windsor Vallejo care center. Health officials there were alerted last week. 76 residents, 23 Staff Members have all tested positive. There are 320 confirmed cases in the county. Wildfire preparedness week tod a this yea familiar threat in california is colliding with the coronavirus. Kpix 5s Andrea Nakano with the challenges thats posing this fire season. Reporter during this pandemic, one of the concerns is having to do Mass Evacuations in the event of a wildfire. Shelter space is going to be limited so theyre asking people to take action now before a fire gets out of hand. Were already 400 fires ahead of our average for this time of year. We are seeing fires happening. Reporter with Drought Conditions in northern california, there is concern about how early and how dangerous wildfires season can be this year. We know in the last three years we had five of the deadliest fires in californias history. Reporter in contra costa county, crews have been in the hills getting ready for the worst case scenario. Dont knowhat to anticipate. Meet dught, w heavains we alwse to be as w canye not to get caught off guard basically. Reporter theyve been cutting fire trails for them to access. The Fire District has started staffing wildland units. And new this year, fire control workers. A team comprised of those aspiring to be firefighters. We depend a lot on cal fire which is really helpful, but as resources get stretched, to have them assist, its going to be extremely helpful. Reporter plans are in the works to provide more space at command centers in case of a wildfire to try to limit the spread of the virus but when a wildfire is raging, firefighters realize they may not be able to follow covid19 protocols. Cal fire says it has added resources to help fight fires from the air but the focus right now is on having people clear that Defensible Space around their homes. Turns out california is number one in fraud complaints related to the coronavirus. Its awful. The pandemic is hard enough itself. In tonights project home, we investigate how scammers are targeting renters in desperate situations. What happened when we answered a fake apartment ad. Tonight a major move from juul as the San Franciscobased ecigarette giant tries to rebound from recent setbacks. And a twitter employee fighting for his life tonight after getting caught in a hail of gunfire while picking up dinner. Tonight, the big show of support from his community. Hes our friend. Hes our loved one. He is a and its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. Now our original series, project home. California has the highest number of fraud complaints related to covid19 and in the bay area, that means more fake apartment listings. Theyll try to steal not just your money but your identity. Its really hard actually to decipher between whats real and whats fake. Reporter when aj baxter found this three bedroom, three bathroom apartment listed for 1925 a month in san jose, he thought it was too good to be true a he was right. Ive actually been running in to quite a few different scams. So far this year, the ftc has received 18,235 reports of scams related to covid19, and collectively americans have lost 13. 4 million to this type of fraud, including fake apartment listings where scammers use social distancing as a convenient excuse. Aj showed us the series of emails from a suspected scammer named adam. Off the bat, he tells aj due to social distancing, he cannot see the unit in person. He then gets right to the hard sell, pushing aj to reserve the place before someone else does because other people are showing interest. The most interesting part about it is the price that he had on the property was probably 50 of the market rate. So its really obvious something was going on. Aj asked is this a scam . Adam was ready with another excuse, this time blaming the federal government. Saying the property was initially listed at a higher price but all homeowners had been asked to lower their rents during the pandemic which simply isnt true. If a listing sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Reporter captain with sunnyvale says its a big red flag. He wants consumers to know social distancing is not an excuse. In many cases, you can tour Vacant Properties by getting access to a lock box. Always verify the company is legitimate through their website, email accounts, and by talking to the person on the phone or via facetime. Dont respond to listings that require cash or wire transfers. And credit checks are also a red flag. What the scammers will typically try to do is try to get as much of your personal information up front as fast as possible because thats the goal of the scammers to grow it in to identity theft. Reporter chuck hadmer is the cofounder of one rent, a Property Management startup. We ourselves have been victims of people trying to copy our listings. Reporter chuck created a site called scamlord ai that can help identify a fake post. We have a database of all these potential scammers. Why dont we build some technology that can help people detect and stop fake landlords. Reporter chuck sent us an example of a listing his site flagged as fake. We decided to let them give us a runaround. This two bedroom, two bathroom is listed on craigslist for an unrealistic 900 a month. When we inquired about the place, the lister told us hed moved to spain and was now renting through airbnb. He started asking us for personal information like our whats app number and a drivers license photo. Next he told us, dear blank, unfortunately its not possible to see it prior to booking in payment. This is airbnb policy. Which isnt true. Im just trying to figure out if the postings im looking at are real or not. Reporter we tracked down a legitimate listing, via apartments, which represents this apartment and others for upwards of 3800 a month. After that the craigslist posting disappeared. Its awful. Its awful. The pandemic is hard enough itself. Reporter as for aj, hes still searching for a place and struggling to trust online listings. Luckily he backed out before things went too far. He knows other renters are still getting duped right now. The best way to protect yourself against these scams is to be educated about them. If youre somebody looking for a place, have a skeptical eye. They also tell us usually the people who are running these scams dont live in the United States and thats partially why theyre so difficult to catch. Thats right. Theyre so difficult. Its all online. They can disappear like that. What does enforcement even look like . How do you get these people, these scammers that are duping these folks . Its tough, and as you know, the fbi will investigate big cases of fraud. Theres usually something going on for years and years for that to take place. If youre looking at what happened with aj, he didnt lose any money and that posting was taken down. That scammer might be an example of somebody who can easily get away. Number one rule of it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Keep sending your stories and your ideas to project home and see all of susies reporting on our website. A twitter employee is on life support tonight. The innocent victim of a shooting in San Franciscos mission district. Caught in a hail of gunfire when someone fired 50 to 60 shots. Tonight twitter is full of condolences and tributes to the 22yearold. He graduated from cal last year where he was part of the student government. Friends remember him as a man of passion and drive. One of the most inspiring things about him is he was someone you knew was going to make a difference in whatever community he was apart of. Its obviously heartbreaking but i try to remember that every time i think of him. Courtney tweeted about enjoying a burrito in delores park moments before the shooting. Police are not commenting about the crime other than to say its unacceptable. Tonight juul confirms its moving its headquarters from San Francisco to washington, d. C. But will maintain a presence here in the bay area. The wall street journal reports the restructuring will include cutting a third of its staff and scaling back its international footprint. Juul has been blamed for contributing to a surge in teen vaping. A bigger presence in dc could be helpful as federal regulators decide vaping products can remain on the market. Check in with paul right now. Pretty nice weekend and even better week ahead. Temperatures are going to warm up even more. We saw plenty of sunshine today. Its going to be another week where its challenging to adhere to those social distancing guidelines and just avoid everybody as you try to get out and enjoy the nice weather. Right now looking toward downtown, things are looking awfully good. Let me see if my maps are going to click forward here. There we go. Temperatures still in the 50s and 60s. 60 on the nose right now in san jose. Its 63 degrees in oakland and in concord. Only 55 degrees in San Francisco but still clear skies overhead which means good viewing conditions if you want to get up in a few hours basically or just stay up until then. See if you can catch a few shooting stars in the eastsoutheast horizon between 3 00 and 5 00, the meteor shower. Up to 50 meteors per hour. But the almost full moon trending that direction is going to obscure the visibility of a lot of those meteors. Youll still be able to see the bright ones though. Temperatures are going to drop back to the upper 40s and low 50s pretty much across the board by early tuesday morning. Well warm up nicely which good news. Griffins from foster city where temperatures are going to warm up in to the low 70s by tuesday afternoon and not bad at all for early may. Temperatures are going to be warmer across the bere today w 60s along the coast. Mostly mid even upper 70s for the south bay. Mid to upper 70s for the trivalley. Then farther inland the delta climbing up in to the low 80s. Around the bay, upper 60s, low 70s. About 5 degrees above average and thats going to be the case everywhere, even our neighbors to the north. We go from the mid to upper 70s for the north bay. Farther north in to sonoma and napa counties. Well see temperatures topping out close to 80 degrees. Quick check of the 7day forecast is going to show us a big warming trend by the end of the week. Near 90 degrees thursday, friday, and saturday inland. Well in to the 70s by the bay. 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Because when everyone gets counted on the census, it helps inform public funding in our neighborhood for the next ten years dont just talk about it be about it complete the census online, by phone or by mail. Shape your future. Start here at 2020census. Gov. You know, elizabeth, there are road trips, then theres this story. And i love it. A road trip to california cut just a little short when a utah state trooper discovered a 5yearold kid driving an suv. I feel like you would be this kid when you were five years old. It happened in a town north of Salt Lake City when the trooper noticed an suv weaving on the highway. He pulled the car over and found the 5yearold in the drivers seat barely reaching the pedals. How old are you . Youre five years old . Wow. The boy apparently decided, yeah, he wanted to go buy a lamborghini in california. So he grabbed the keys to the family car as one does and then just started driving. Troopers say he only made it a few miles from home before being stopped and he only had 3 in his wallet for the lamborghini. His Parents Tell Police his sibling was watching him when he took the car. At least he got good taste. Give him that. Dennis odonnell. Why monday morning felt a little more like christmas for bay area golfers, and why this date in history will have a special place in the f like cordless phones. phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this stat