York hospital in question is had a huge surge in cases. Its even using a refrirated truck as a makeshift mortuary that and the problems at another nearby hospital in queens. Those problems have resonated apparently with the president. To us there was no question. What the right choice what this is. In my essentially in my community. The president says he is finalizing new strategies and well have details tomorrow. The bay area will remain under shelterinplace order at least another month, the San Francisco mayor. Giving residents a headsup today that that order is coming kron fours Charles Clifford has details. Well here in San Francisco on monday mayor london breed said that City Residents should be prepared to remain shtered in place for at least another month until may first as the city tries to slow the spread of the coronavirus now around San Francisco on monday traffic was light very few people out and about esseial businses like Grocery Stores remain open nonessential businesses remain closed. Heressome of what the mayor had to say on monday for the sake of planning and so that. Everye can begin to know that this is going to continue to have an you should definitely plan to a stay at home and this process and what re doing here. Will continue in till at least may first we already have made a difference in really saving lives. We may not realize the all over. But eventually we s will learn im sure that because of what we have done and how we all have rticipated in complying with social distancing. It truly has saved livesn monday afternoon and also the chance to talk to a woman who owns a needle workshop. In the Presidio Heights neighborhood she says shes not happy about the extended shelterinplacorder but she understands it certainly well it is inconvenient it is certainly probably the best thing for all of us d we just have you know we certainly dont want to get people sick by coming back too soon. Bill adair said that Bay Area Health officials would make an official announcement probably. On Tuesday Morning regarding the extension of the shelterinplace order but for now in San FranciscoCharles Clifford kron 4 news. And we have the latest numbers on the coronavirus cases in the bay area Santa Clara County 848 cases, 28 deaths, san mateo county. 309 cases, 6 deaths San Francisco county 3. 70 for 6 deaths Contra Costa County 100 87th 3 deaths Alameda County 267 7 deaths moran, reporting 93 cases, one death Solano County has 34. No deaths. Sonoma county 52 cases and one death in napa county. 14 cases and taking a look at the global numbers, there are more than 780,000 cases more than 37,000 deaths in the us there are more than 160,000 cases more than 2900 deaths in california more than 5,000 cases, 135 deaths, public Health Officials say it is clear that people in longterm Health Care Facilities are most at risk for getting the virus friday. We told you how San Franciscos huge laguna honda hospital loed its first cases, one patient 6 Staff Members now the numbers are 2 patients and 9 employees and with more test results pending the city is doing what it can to slow the spread there. Kron fours dan kerman he is live outside laguna honda and has the latest dan. Thats right catherine city officials are very concerned about whats happening here at laguna honda those numbers almost ubling just in the matter of days tests results still have to come back more than 750 People Living here in this longterm facility which as you mentioned is at most risk, according to public Health Officials have anywhere for this virus. City Officials Say getting this under control here is a top priority. The situation will escalate at laguna honda it will escalate here in San Francisco. And the fact that were taking such drastic steps to in essence. Pretty much shut down San Francisco has everything to do with how serious this is a grim outlook from San Francisco mayor london breed as she and pubc Health Officials announced the outbreak of the coronavirus at honda hospital haworsened. And now after the city had reached out to the state and federal government for help state Infection Control nurses and cdc Infectious Disease physicians and epidemiologists are on site. Thstate Infection Control nurses are creating expanded protocols in denver on environmental cleaning. Pp and staff safety. The cdc is intensifying the contact investigation o look for sources of infection and the pathway of spread. This will inform our current actions and outbreak prevention and n Response Plan that takes the coronavirus situation fully into account during laguna honda which has ov 750 residents. Cld turn into a repeat of the infections and death that raced through the life care San Franciscos Health Officer issued an order restricting visitors back on march 7th now more restrictive measures as the 2 units were staff and patients have contracted the coronavirus are under quarantine. All nonessential personnel are restricted from entering the facility. Essential deserves staff and residents are medically screened. Laguna honda staff are screened at the start of each shift. The outbreak is expected to escalate at laguna honda which is why city officials are asking the state and federal government for additional help this is just a start and im grateful for what we received, but i nt to be clear its not nearly enough to get us to a better place with specifically concentrating on laguna honda hospital. City officials are also telling us that laguna honda is setting up a field care clinic. On the grounds of laguna honda that is just in case they have tseparate one group of patients from another live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you very much. Dan. Governor newsome he held a news briefing again today to update californians on the states response to the virus and heres part of what he said. Also remind everybody, its National Doctors in the United States of america and again just deep respect and admiration for all of our frontline employees from eang this moment i also want to express deep respect and to Mark Zuckerberg and facebook well aware of the need to surge with our health care they are providing statements for individuals they need transportation th need child care support. If theyre going to participate in this workforce that i can get the kind of support on things that otherwise will be paid for things not just like child care and transportation things like hospital rather hotel, rooms and accommodations so they put up 25 million and were very grateful to fabook for providing those stipends to help us in areas where we need a little bit extra support again thats the spirit of california thats the spirit of this moment, a spirit thats driving our resolve driving that resolve as well is the aggregation of all of these physicl assets that have taken place in shape over the course the last few weeks from the usns that now took their first patients just yesterday in los angeles to the 2000 rooms that will be surging from the support of the federal these feel field stations we already have our santa clara operation up and we riverside up and running we angeles and santa tale that will share some of that search in San Francisco part of the f a mess. A process again already operation allies set hospital already operation allies that we brought io the portfolio of assets here in the weve been talking over the to get Saint Vincent 366 stepped up as well. Fully california is trying to recruit hundreds if not thousands of former and future Health Care Workers saying there badly needed in the battle against the virus Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains the new to being launched to track them down. Governor Gavin Newsome monday unveiled californias newest effort to beef up its medical workforce, the state rolled out health court to see a dot gov to tap into an estimated 37,000 Health Care Workers thatare either retired part time or in training to help the states response to covid 19 for mental health. Experts for more and ts more pharmacists looking for marfa bottom us looking for more experts and respiratory care and the like technicians administrators doctors nurses. Were calling on to step up and step in and meet this moment while the state tries to increase the number of health care providers. Its also assessing more places to put patients to help ease hospital capacities. The governor said the army corps of engineers is looking at coliseums and arenas that could be turned into hospitals e state is also secured some hospital leases hotel rooms and a navy ship to help with space in hospital beds governor newsoms administration estimating the state needs an extra 50,000 beds for its possible patients search we project that we will need that towards the 2nd half of the month of may. So we are very busy trying to build towards that officials monday said covid 19 while the number of i c u led patients tripled in the last 4 days governor newsome says about 1400 people are hospitalized while 597 of those are in intensive re the governor still calling the statewide stay at home order indefinite if youve ever. You know, gone skydiving the worst thing a human being can do is t the parachute when you night even close to the ground. Were not yet close to the ground governor newsoms tell a press Conference Monday s the first of whats now expected to be daily updates with the governor that start every day at noon. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. We have been talking about the shortage of masks bofa in the bay area and across the country, not just limited to masks kron fours jason dumas reports that hospitals are also low on swaps. Hospitals across San Francisco are using every resource possible to help fight the covid pandemic but theyre still struggling to meet the demands of all the patients we are struggling to get swabs in order to test. So along the supp chain for testing. There are severe limitations because of this in most cases here in the city testing has been limited to those showing symptoms orhave hadhighrisk exposures we are still stggling along that testing on as quickly as p possible. So any scene from the specimen collection that you need for swabs from the processing reagents that are needed our supply chains are areum. Episodic and and hard to determine spend because of this the numbers could be misleading we still do not have an accurate prevalence number so in other words we do not know. Overall per 1000 people in San Francisco. Im what the rate is a virus infection is and we are working again with our u c berkeley and ucsf colleagues to to determine that number from a number of other data srces as quickly as possible to get assessments as will be very importce informing our models kovacs went on to say the homeless ll beable to get tested if theyre showing symptoms reporting in San Francisco jason mas scrum for news. Helen merrill one of the songwriters behind t hit song, i love rock and roll has died after being infected with the coronavirus he died sunday at a new york City Hospital he was 69. He was a big star in japan in the 70s, he and his late bandmate jake hooker wrote and recorded the a song i love rock and roll that was in 1975 with their band the arro in the east bay Oakland Police put out a Statement Today saying even during your Health Pandemic their work just the last month. They say they have arrested 22 robbery suspects along with 17 burglary suspects. Oakland police say theyve also solved 40 robberies and 86 burglaries for crimes spanning a few months. 2 juvenilewere charged in 13 of the robbery cases. Comingup whats being done to protect workers and grocery and people in the delivery business. Theyre on the front lines too. Also more restrictions on access to state parks and the navy ship now in new york that will operate as a hospital. A navy hospitalship has arrived in new york city its going to be used to treat patients who do not have the coronavirus but it will help ease the burden on loal hospitals it has a 1000 beds, 12 operating rooms. It could be operating as early as tomorrow, although out there were patients were bei seen today. Mayor bill de blasio has been criticizing the president for suggesting that thousands of medical masks are disappearing from new york City Hospitals meantime, the mayor says he is hoping this hospital ship will be a big help to new yorks health care system. This ship arriving is not just. An exampleof help arriving in. Physical form is not just about the beds in that doctors in the equipment. Its also about hope. Its also about boosting the morale of new yorkers were going through so much is about saying to our heroes in those hospitals. Help has come. That relief is on the way. Tell you. How much this means it is so much more than even we realize at this moment. That our natiohas heard our plea for how a bank would not be at her example of all of america pulling for new york city than the arrival. The usns comfort. Again people without coronavirus symptoms will be sent to that ship another hospital has been set up at manhattan side vits convention center. A lovely day in San Francisco. But we have video from quadcopter for showing you the empty streets, youre looking at San Franciscos embarcadero and of course usually on a day like this the sidewalks would be filled with people enjoying that sunshine. But its good that obvioly people are listening to the social distancing guidelines. They are staying inside. And time for a check on the forecast. Heres meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez it really was pretty out today. Murray said. Yeah, its only going to get better in the coming days, katherine because tomorrow were going to be about a degree or 2 warmer so very little change but warming up to right about where we should be for this time of year. So lets take a live look outside downtown San Francisco. Tracking a mix of sun and clouds as the sunset is about to arrive in stormtracker 4 overall seeing an increase in that cloud cover for those of you in the north bay, mostly cloudy to cloudy skies. But overall dry and relatively pull specifically for those of you in santa rosa, 56 degrees widespread mid to upper 50s along the bay area coastline with low 60s as you make your way along the bay and even to most of our interior valleys right now for your moay night. Current wind speeds right now light and breezy sustained at around 15 Miles Per Hour or less. Getting that cool sea breeze influence pushing in that high cloud cover but overall wakeup planner forecast is going to show very little change temperature wise tomorrow compared to today, maybe a degree or 2 of warming and that warming trend is going to continue and also better clearing as well by thursday, but major changes arriving this weekend with the return of april showers more coming up on that in my full forecast in just a few minutes catherine back to you. Thanks for bruce a and i will talk to th. While millions of americans are confined at home a lot of others are in what are considered essential jobs that includ delivery people, a Public Transit workers Grocery Store employees. Vanessa yurkevich talk to some of those workers on the front lines. As millions stay home. Millions are out risking exposure to the virus on the front a new yorker i typically dont get scared of anything. You know what its essential that im theyre not doctors and nurses, but they are taking ca of america from tony mozelle a ups driver to grocers to food delivery all deem Critical Industries working around the clk in the face of the pandemic that the medicine regularly with the practice of the hospital regularly i just feel for lack of a better word privilege is still able to work and to watch out. Ups has nearly a half a million employees on the job around the world. Here are some still working in bergamo epicenter of the coronavirus in italy singing in solidarity. Companies like ups and freshdirect say theyre following cdc and w h o guidelines for social distancing and hygiene protocols so crazy like to understand how most people when they need us now. This pandemic is a lowrisk coming outside every day to do the job but after kind of like a superhero in the sense say when the world with face mask prioritize for hospitals. There are a few left for other critical workers. Warren william supermarkets in new york city have a small supply for their employees but no enough so they made their own.