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 partular benefit. Again we expect hear something today that word could come from the cdcs will be monitoring that if they make that commendation again that does not mean you should wear a surgical mask or an and 95 those are for health care were absolutely to be the cloth masks the to be best use case for tt. Meantime the various stay at home order has been extended for another month mayor london breed says will be a formal announcement later today, yeah, in fact the Health Department is going unveil their plans kron fours Charles Clifford has more on the story. Mayor london breed said that City Residents should be prepared to remain sheltered in place for at least another month until may first as the city tries to slow the spread San Francisco traffic was und light very few people out and about essential businesses li Grocery Stores remain open nonessential businesses remain closed. Heres some of what the mayor had to say for the sake of planning and so that. Everyone 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 were 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 impacts of this until this is all over. But eventually we will learn we have done and how we all t have participated in complying with social distancing. It truly has saved lives, but 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 shelterinplace order but she understands it certainly well it is inconvenient it is certainly probablthe 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. Mayor said that Bay Area Health fficials 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. As more testing gets underway of course the number of cases here in california continues to climb. Cording to John Hopkins University as you can see on the screen. We have more than 7300 now confirmed cases in california with a 146 deaths and locally here in the bay area it breaks down this way weve got more than 2000 total santa clara still has the majority at 848 confirmed cases with 28 deaths. Second San Francisco county 374 cases they have 6 deaths there also success reported in San Mateo County of 309 confirmed cases Alameda County has 264 cases with 7 deaths contra costa county, 3 deaths with a 187 confirmed cases. Marine county has 98 cases 4 deaths Sonoma County, 59 cases, one death. No cases of death reported in either salon or napa county but as you can see they do have confirmed cases that theyre treating Solano County but 43 napa county with 14. A virus in San Francisco to patients and 9 Staff Members at laguna honda hospital have the virus laguna honda has more than 750 residents and doctors are afraidbecause they dont want a repeat of what happened with the infections and deaths that raced through our nursing care home. Outside of seattle, San Franciscos Health Officer issued an order restricting visitors back on march 7th and now the 2 units for the staff and patients have the virus are under quarantine. All nonessential personnel are restricted from entering the facility. Essentil deserves staff and residents are medically screened. Laguna honda staff are screened at the start of each shift. And they are expecting the worse they think its 7 probably gas calais delegate a honda and thats why theyre asking say and federal officials for aid and additional help in managing thatoutbreak. Well happening today we have. We talk about the central workers in our mind instantly goes to hospital workers right but essential workers also includes those people that make sure that we have the food we need to survive were talking about Grocery Store workers an nationwide whole foods employees are apparently looking to do a sickout protest they want better protections. Amid this none of us knows if like were saying in the beginning of the show if we have the virus or not. And kron fours will tran is out there live in san mateo and will thats why the employees are so concerned for themselves and for the customers. Absolutely they want their implore you to do more things to make sure that they are safe now whole foods in san mateo o of hillsdale boulevard. It is open, but th are practicing social distancing you can see that employee and iend you need to know this not a strike this is a sick out across the country. But there are a lot of people still showing up because let face it they are grateful for a paycheck because 2 weeks ago the government declare the grocery workers are essential workers. However it doesnt mean that theyre not fearful every time th head into work because what you talked about area. The unknown there could be a customer who is asymptomatic and then pass it along to them so they say if were going to be here then we should get hazard pay perhaps as much as twice. What theyre paid right now theyre also want whole foods the company to make sure that they provide an of disinfectants another the equipment to make sure that theyre safe and if they feel for whatever reason that they need to quarantine themselves and they dont feel right that they stay home that they should be able to get sick pay for that then theres the otr issue we saw this at amazon in Staten Island yesterday where thatfacility came they discover that one person came down positive with coronavirubut it was still operational and they want cilities to immediately shut down and thats the same argument that the whole foods employees theyre also asking as well but a lot of people it seems like theyre showing up this is not a strike. This is of the hour where you have to be at least 60 years old to come in there and shop but keep in mind this could be the trend moving forward to this is reached a boiling int james and darya because we saw instacart employees do the me thing yesterday where many either did not show up or walk off the job and by the way daria i took your challenge so to speak the last hour and try to interview people yeah and you might as well playthe theme song to Mission Impossible no balance to be close to me and its almost invite everybody is afraid heres great reporter tip. And heres what ive seen some people do. So when you wear a mask obviously to protect just in case rig they dont know of here positive maybe you are you dont know if you have no symptoms and then ive seen reporters go to somebodys hand them a mike with a paper towel so that thir nobodys touching the mike in common and then they can speak and you stand back anthen you take the mike back and thats how some interviews are being done. Ive done this wary. Aaron carroll has said you know our boss extend your arm and have them speak up a little louder right right, nobody wants to try to create soal distance, but the only problem as well one everybodys afraid to lets face it they want to get the goods they want to get the oceries so its double mission waste a second talking to me they nt to get their items understand of all thanks a lot. Well. Well also in an effort to try to protect customers from employees walmart now has announced that its going to begin taking the temperature of every single one of its employees when they show up to start their shift and if they do come across an employee with a temperature of more than a 100 degreestheyre going to be sent home and told to seek medical help. They wont be allowed ack to work until they can prove that they havent had a fever in 3 Straight Days teams where was that to a restaurant in la that took everybodys temperature coming into the restaurant knows it does uth korea told they were doing they were they were wanting customers and then you felt safer being in the right now you cant even restaurants anyway now its not take out. Yeah. Also this morning too as we take a close look at the south bay. Theres a call to do more to help out the homeless. In Santa Clara County while this pandemic is going on because would immediately increase the threat to the broer population and to the Health Care Providers and Health Care System thatalready feeling the strain. So now there are new efforts to do welfare checks on these homeless encampments in to screen. The folks the for coronavirus in order to prevent any 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 screened. Homeless the plan calls for these welfare check points to all known homeless camps and refer people to health and Welfare Services and Testing Centers and emergency treatments as well. Our coverage continues online weve got ll the latest headlines on their everything thats going on in the bay area, the state the nation and then the world and an interactive map and ill give you everything you need to know and ways to stay safe. Its all on kron 4 dot com. And still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news. What if youre out of work. Unemployment benefits e expanded under the new coronarus relief stimulus package, well tl you what you need to know about those nefits. And local hospitals are struggling to find resources to fight the pandemic well tell you about the importance applies the running low on. Its 13 right run over to get a little tea, but you know whos in the kitchen. John is actually hear it couldnt be easier for you top. I become holding up your coverage for but yeah we are looking at a little bit of sunshine as you can see a high pace right now, but also a bit of f out there looking at berkeley currently there is a some clearing going up currently definitely wasnt the clearest morning though, and still certainly some great going on outside as you are stepping out there and now to a current lee has the worst of disability really anywhere across the y area but it has improved since earlier this morning steins do generally clr out the rest of the day today and by the time we work our way into the afternoon you can actuay expect a whole lot of sunshine all across the bay area. Even out a little bit closer to the coast right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with redwood city at 48 oakland, our warmest spot at 56. Well the way how in conquered egypt, 52 degrees napa a 53 lots of sunshine later today in fact are already getting that for some spots in the day but then theres also this other spots youre kind of holdouts fully out of that fog and cloud cover couple of sprinkles could be seen in the farthest northern reaches of Sonoma County ide from that though it is very dry across the bay area and were going to stay that way through much of the week ahead of us a pretty quiet forecast and back tuesday wednesday thursday into friday do expect a continuation of this trend weather 60s 4 daytime highs today cooler at the coas while were and concord in antioch egypt 67 while haywa but report free my age of 64 well mid 60s can expected into wednesday thursday and friday expect a cool down into the weekend highs fall back and below 60s by saturday sunday and monday with chances of rainfall also returning on those same days cut the john there was a tornado in arkansas youre not going to believe. Whose house it wiped out that doctor. That doctor on the other side of the glass adorably thats as close ashe could come to his a little sun because he had to be quarantinebecause hes a work so here and want to bring coronavirus and just in case every day. So the doctor was a work like he always is and the sun and the mother thank god were at her mothers house, look at their house. So while theyre all away on saturday, the house got wiped out in a g tornado is that just the saddest all happening while hes on the front nes battling in all these patients with coronavirus and away from his family now have now happened on top of it all. All also can. News of the coronavirus we have 2 ships carrying 6 passengers inuding 300 americans that are pleading with florida officials to let them dock. So th can get some help for these poor people but floridas governor says their resources are already stretched too thi so hes inclined not to do it because hes about like 2 ships ship was one i forget the name of the ship, but so they were down by the panama canal and let him go through. Because theres 18 1800 people on board 4 had died and we have for now they are almost 200 that are sick. So they split into 2 ships healthy and apparently healthy and and on well and nobody let them dock and thats going to be the issue now Governor Ron Desantis of florida says hes been in contact with the coas guard. And he is considering letting them dock maybe at Fort Lauderdale but nothings been decided yetbill. Make that decision later today well keep you updated on the story. And we told you about the masks shortage both nationally and here in the bay area, but its not just limited to masks as kron fours jan dumasexplains. Hoitals are also low on testing st. Hospitals across San Francisco are using ery resource possible to help fight the covid pandemic but theyre still struggling to meet the demands of l the patients we are struggling to get swabs in order to test. So along the supply chain for testing. There are severe limitationbecause of this in most ses here in the city testing has been limited to those showing symptoms or have had highrisk exposures are still struggling along that supply chain to to ramp up tets 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 province 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. With our u c berkeley and ucsf colleagues to to determe that number from a number of othedata 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 symptom reporting in San Francisco jason dumas scrum for news, 18 and for your money this morning, the checks have not even been printed yet. And scammers are already eyeing your stimulus money Mandy Gaither takes a look at what you should watch out for. Well before youve even got your stimulus check a warning fr the fbi and several state attorney generals dont fall victim to phone calls texts emails or websites that ask for personal or Financial Information in order to receive your federal payment Officials Say that includes paying someone who calls for the promised to expedite obtain a payment or loan for you if youre eligible for relief you do not need to make any upfront payment or pay a fee o receive your stimulus check people o file tax returns electronically and provide the irs with their Bank Information will likely get their payments earlier through direct deposit paper checks are expected to take longer to mail out, youll receive a notice by mail no longer th15 days after the payment was distributed. Detailing out how it was sent and an irs phone number to call of the funds failed to arrive. Most americans will receive up to 1200 for todays consumer watch im Mandy Gaither. So many people are losing their jobs are furloughed macys Just Announced layoffs of most of their 125,000 employees th week. Dip in les because of the e pandemic nobody go into the stores, nobody can shop in a lot of people are trying to buy stuff on their selling stuff online thats their hope. They y that they will. Try to effect as few employees as they possibly can by this and just keep they have to keep just who is needed right now and jaes they dont need that many people now unfortunately so we have more people filing for unemployment as a result. Still ahead here news, well have details on what parents should know if theyre looking to keep their kids safe from the coronavirus will have that full story for the 23 is the time for your health this morning. The federal government is expanding medicare teleheth services to try and reduce the number of people. That have to show up to visithe doctor in person in our washington correspondent kelli meyer takes a closer look. Health ce workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are trying to do more checkups from home we have. Moved every patient we possibly can to a virtual platform doctor ned le gary is practicing what is known as telehealth doing all his appointments virtually that includes regular primary care visits surgery followups and even potential coronavirus cases minimizing exposure. Keeping people separated. Reassuring people who are fearful and taking here. Urgent en even chronic medical needs that need to be maintenance as they want. President trump expanded access to Medicare Telehealth Services in early rch as the virus continue