Person we get the phone call for face time you know she could have right up to my mothers face and. You know i could i could tell my mom and loved her and how much i was going to miss are among the other covid19 victims at least 5 veterans at the holyoke soldiers home in massachusetts. The superintendent of that facility is now on paid administrative leave. And as the number of deaths rises Health Officials say the virus. Could surge later this year i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. It will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test identify isolate. Contact trace will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago, im john lawr nce reporting. And internationally spain now has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there saying now 849 people died yesterday alone due to the coronavirus and there are more than 9,000 new cases reported in just a 24 hour span. Spain now becoming a 3rd country in the world to overtake chinas total infection count. They come after italy and the United States and as more testing gets underway cases here in california continue to climb according to John Hopkins University there are more than 7300 cases confirmed here in california with a 146 deaths a breakdown locally by barry county shows that Santa Clara County still has the majority of the more than 200 case a 2000 cases now bay area wide and 848 cases there in Santa Clara County with 28 deaths, 374 cases are reported in San Francisco county they have 6 deaths, San Mateo County has 309 cases with 6 reported deaths while Alameda County has 264 cases and 7 deaths contra costa county. 187 cases, 3 deaths there in marine county there are 98 cases with 4 deaths Sonoma County has 58 cases currently with one death reported. Solano county has reported 34 confirmed cases while napa county has 14 cases of coronavirus the bay areas stay at home order has been extended as you know another month President Trump extended the nations social distancing his guidelines through april. Yesterday San Francisco mayor london breed told people to be prepared to stay home, she thinks until at least may first at means that people are still expected to pat practice socialdistancing and only go out if have to we heard from one local Business Owner who weighed in on that announcement. Its certainly well it is inconvenient it is certainly probably the best thing for all of us and we just have you know we certainly dont want to get people sick by coming back too soon. Governor newsome sign an executive order to provide relief to Small Businesses in california. Businesses that are filing a return of less than a Million Dollars now good. A 90 day extension for their tax returns and payments that order also gives Small Businesses until the end of july to file their returns for the 1st quarter. Its calling for reinforcements and the fight on of okay against coronavirus he wants to recruit. Thousands of Health Care Workers who are retired or working parttime or even in training right now kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has more. 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 that are either retired park time or in training to help the states response to covid19 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 the 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 covid19 hospitalization rates doubled while the number of i c u patients tripled in the last 4 days governor, newsome says about 1400 people are hospitalized while 597 of those are in intensive care 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 cut the parachute. When you 9 even close to the ground. Were not yet close to the ground governor newsoms tell a press Conference Monday was the first of whats now expected to be daily updates with the governor that start every day at noon. In sacramento, ashley zavado help out the homeless in Santa Clara County during this pandemic an outbreak among the homeless could immediately increase the threat to the broader population and Health Care Providers. And systems already in high demand. So now there are new efforts to do welfare checks on the homeless and a screen them for coronavirus in order to prevent further spread. Im receiving. Concerns complains inquiries from volunteers who are trying to deliver Services Food information into these encampments the for the host dont know whats going this are being tested the homeless are being screened. Well plan calls for welfare check points at all known homeless camps and to refer people to health and Welfare Services and testing centers. And emergency treatments. Well in the east bay we have oakland city Officials Say they actually began moving Homeless People in the local hotels, its all part of their plan to help them selfisolate during the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 400 hotel rooms are being set up and made available at the Radisson Hotel in the comfort in both near Oakland International airport. The first group who moved in yesterday are those who have been diagnosed with coronavirus and those who are experiencing symptoms. We also anxious about selfisolating and we feel anxious even when we have homes this is an opportunity to get to folks so they can really self isolate and that and the more healthy way to prevent them from not only getting the disease but potentially spreading. Happening tomorrow, Homeless People who are over the age of 65 or have Chronic Health conditions are expected to move in. Time now is 5 07 in San Francisco to patients and 9 Staff Members at laguna honda hospital have coronavirus and now the city is doing what they can to try to split slow the spread there. Laguna honda has more than 750 residents and doctors are afraid that that could turn into a repeat of the infections that then death rates that we saw in Seattle Washington at a nursing home there San Franciscos Health Officer issued an order restricting visitors way back on march 7th and now the 2 units were staff and patients have the virus 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 and look good on de. And thats why city officials are asking the state and the federal government for help as they develop a plan to manage the outbreak. To wear a mask or not to wear a mask thats a question a lot of people have the cdc encouraging. Everybody to wear just a cloth mask, better than nothing to stop the spread they think this is not a medical grade mast at all. But there are differing opinions and health world, the World Health Organization says people should not wear a face mask unless they are sick with coronavirus or caring from someone who is. We dont generally recommend the wearing of masks in public, but otherwise well individuals. Because a it has not been up to now associated with any particular benefit. It does have benefits psychologically socially and there are social norms around that and we dont criticize the wearing of masks and have not done so, but there is no specific evidence to suggest the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit. Season, you know, socially it may help because and people have noticed that you dont touch your face is mosque in much if youre wearing a mask, even something you know just not like a hospital grade one that will not be included at all in fact the cdc makes that advice today to the general public. You are absolutely not supposed to wear an and 95 or surgical mask. Those need to be reserved for frontline medical workers who as we know are in desperate need james. Happening today we have whole foods workers nationwide expected to call out sick as they protest for better protections amid this coronavirus outbreak kron fours will tran live in san mateo with some of the demands that these employees are asking for will. This is not a strike change so if you needed a whole foods it is still operational in fact the lights just turned on you talked about it. This is a sick out across the country you can see employees inside they want double the pay they believe working right now is extremely dangerous for them and their family that government 2 weeks ago declare that grocery workers are essential workers. But they claim their boss is not paying them like essential workers who are risking their lives. Among the other demands that theyre hoping for that if an employee at a particular store tests positive for coronavirus at that store it needs to close down immediately and indefinitely also they want their boss to pay for sick time should they feel they need to south korean teen or if they obviously come down the coronavirus that they need to be quarantined for 14 days if their boss should pay that. Now whats happening at whole foods is following other Companies Like amazon where employees in new york they walked off the job yesterday at their facility after an employee tested positive and then instacart did the same thing so call ahead at whole foods, yes, theyre open today, if you need to come down. But how efficient is anyones guess back interesting all right, thank you very much. Well of course our coverage of the coronavirus continues online. Dont forget you will always have the very latest updates for you from the cdc, the white house local officials and well continue to explore the local impacts here around the bay area of our shelter in place order and all of that just look for the coronavirus tab. Under the new section of our website at kron 4 dot com. Well take a quick break coming up here on the kron 4 morning news the challenges of preparing for a baby in the middle of this pandemic well tell you how expectant mothers are changing their birth plans at the last minute plus local hospitals are struggling to find resources to fight this pandemic for go into details on the most important supplies that theyre now starting to run low on plus Unemployment Benefits or expanding under the new Coronavirus Relief stimulus package, outback deliv. So now, you can enjoy great steaks here. Big game platters here. And date night essentials here. Get free delivery when you order now through outback. Com outback steakhouse. And we are back 5. 15 is the time on the kron 4 morning news want to get the very latest with the forecast we have john travel once again joining us remotely from home with the weather outlook for today, john. There you guys not black at home this morning and looking at a nice day to stay at home a few were already planning on doing so which im sure you were San Francisco you can see behind me with some cloud cover overhead this morning, most of all we see are seeing is low clouds not want augie out there this morning those cots were berkeley examines want consumers are pretty evident in the distance visibility is Holding Strong across most of the bay area although at times highway one oh one and nor state could be impacted by some spots of fog on something you want to watch out for by the afternoon all that called coverage not low conquer without this morning will be clearing conditions generally improving 40s and 50s for your morning temperatures cloud cover has kept us nice and mild through the morning so temperatures are actually starting off really 30s on ticket Tuesday Morning skies, sunny and in the afternoon and they not only going to help to make things nice and comfortable, you see it the so we do have some showers in the northern part of the state you do see sort of sprinkles area just prior to the Northern Tier of Sonoma County aside from now were me try to temperatures in the 60s for daytime highs hayward and fremont at 64 each fall conquered in antioch at 67 San Francisco cool but comfortable 63 when she added the sunshine that will eventually make its way out towards the afternoon. Tomorrow thursday and friday clear days and just a touch on the warmer side friday being our warmest day of your forecast before temperatures cool again into the weekend and chances of rain fall return back to you in the studio. All right. Thank you very much john a quick check of the roads this morning and looking here at the chp incident page it looks like they have no major problems out there. One traffic collision, but no injuries reported so that you get cleared up pretty quickly thats northbound 8. 80 just north of winton in hayward here the bay bridge toll plaza shows its a pretty light ride heading from oakland into San Francisco again. Essentially only essential workers should be out and about this morning and thats what were seeing here in this camera shot also looking at a similar scene here on the san mateo bridge where traffic on 92 is moving at the limit doesnt matter which direction youre headed. Theyre both moving just fine this morning all keep an eye out let you know if there are any problem spots out there that pop up this morning. 17 right now and we have heard the Horror Stories coming out of particularly new york city where the Health Care Workers cant get enough protective gear the masks and gowns that they need. And its also a problem its becoming a problem in the bay area as kron fours jason do mess explains. Hospitals are low as well on testing swabs. 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 supply 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 or have had highrisk exposures we are still struggling along that supply chain to to ramp up tests seen on as quickly as possible. So any scene from the specimen collection that you need for swabs from the processing reagents that are needed our supply chains are are um. Episodic hard to determine spend because of this the numbers could be misleading we still do not have an accurate prevalence number sewn up her overall her 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 sources as quickly as possible to get assessments as will be very importance informing our models kovacs went on to say the homeless will be able to get tested if theyre showing symptoms reporting in San Francisco jason dumas scrum for news. 5. 19 and for your money this morning the trillion relief package for coronavirus includes a billion injection to expand Unemployment BenefitsKarma Dickerson has more on who can apply. There are many aspects to the federal stimulus package for example, helping employers keep people on the payroll or rehire people they had to lay off. Nevertheless we do know there are people who are out of work and will continue to be out of work or even just have reduced hours. There is help in this package for you, heres what you need to know the spirit of the bill is to help people a lot of gray area here parveen timber a local employment Attorney Says hes pleased with what she views as key protections for workers included in the stimulus plan, the main take ways an extra 600 a week in benefits bring california of macs weekly benefit to over a 1000. Good freelancer self employed and parttime workers who historically can apply for Unemployment Benefits are