Timeline that the state is anticipating a surge of coronavirus patients now next month. The direct payments can wanted more. So we think that theres a a path to getting more for the shrek payments. Yeah that was House Speaker nancy pelosi say more money is coming to help americans through this crisis will see how quickly congress can act good morning. Thank you for joining us here on the kron 4 morning news, it is wednesday april 8th, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom governor newsome says they were doing a good job hang in there its been 3 and a half weeks now. But the state is anticipating a surge of coronavirus patients next month. Yeah, he went on to say that because the curve is stretching our state is. Properly doing the social distancing and thats allowing the state a little more time to not only buy some of the equipment they need but also to help out other states that are in need as well yeah theyve sent off for a california has sent about 500 ventilators in total. To other states including 2 new york, new jersey and illinois as well were helping maryland, washington d c nevada and delaware with 2. 3 million california is applying for Unemployment Benefits the stem and stimulus checks. The governor says that the state is considering now extending direct mail payments to undocumented immigrants who werent eligible for that pay out initially so lets get an update on the latest cases has we tracked the numbers here in california statewide according to Johns Hopkins university, were seeing more than 17. 1000 confirmed cases with 450 people now dying from coronavirus here in the bay area there are almost 4,000 confirmed cases and heres a look at the numbers you see the columns there by county for total cases and for deaths santa clara continues to top the list on both of those counts with the most cases and now 43 deaths confirmed so far San Mateo County has 21 deaths, 9 people died from coronavirus in San Francisco county there have been 7 deaths reported in contra costa county, 15 deaths in Alameda County 10 in moran and 2 deaths in both napa and solano counties with one death being reported there in sonoma county. These new statistics weve reached out to the east bay congresswoman barbara lee about the increased impact that covid 9 team seems to be having among africanamericans take a listen to more of what she had to say about that. With regard to the Racial Disparities its its terrific of course the underlying issues around institutional racism and disparities have surface once the underlying issues as it relates to health care and the lack of experience to health care which has created these Racial Disparities when you look at as the race in my district for example when you look at Heart Disease look at high Blood Pressure when you look at diabetes when you look at all of the underlying conditions black and brown people have these disproportionately and what is happening in fact is the virus is attacking a communities of color people of color in disproportionate phrase, let me give you one example in milwaukee, wisconsin for example, the African American population is probably about 2829 yet 81 of deaths are African American. And we see this trend taking place around the country and its its horrific. So what im trying to do is never the Appropriations Committee is cheddar required the centers for Disease Control to begin to collect data based on racial and ethnic characteristics so we know what is taking place a week and direct resources into the hardest impacted communities to begin to close this disparity so everyones will be able become more stable in and able to the Proper Health care that they so desperately need. Congressman youre right to information on the rights of americans who are sick with the virus thats being made public really only handful of places so youre saying the problem might be worse, but we need to know that that should be tracked correct we have to now the date is important we know how important data is. Communities are beginning to do this. But of course as a member of leadership in Operations Committee on trying to get. Into our cares to requirements for cdc to do this. President trump says that he will require the cdc now to collect racial data. He says members on the Coronavirus Task force will start looking into that dana as it comes in. Leaders of 6 area counties officially called the school year that campuses are going to be closed for the rest. The Academic Year that includes alameda contra costa. Marin san mateo santa clara. And San Francisco counties schools are going to continue the at home Distance Learning. But there are still a lot of questions about next school year doctor Anthony Fauci spoke about that the new press conference. I fully expect though im humble enough to know that i cant accurately predict that by the time we get to the fall that we will have this under control enough that it certainly will not be the way it is now where people are shooting schools. So there seems to be some optimism about the fall the question though thats for for fall is summer. What about summer camps are not sure if those are going to be able to happen. The good news is that the kids will get their diplomas if their graduates in 2020, but theyre not going to have a big ceremony our a big party to mark the occasion, yeah, maybe later in the fall perhaps who knows but. Male students are also still in need of Crucial Technology to complete the coursework they need. To graduate kron fours taylor per second with a closer look at that. As bay area schools announced closures for the rest of the school year state superintendent of public schools, Tony Thurmond tells parents and students that seniors will still have the opportunity to graduate and move on to college has been flexibility on every front that you can imagine. Our seniors are able to take the a p exams all of our Higher Education institutions have suspended the s a t as a condition for admission into our schools. Our School Districts are providing flexible grady in some cases, a past not pass framework for how students will be created and all of our institutions of Higher Education have accepted that as a part of the conditions for missions into our University Systems while students can still graduate. Ceremonies are up in the air, i know its disappointing. That we cant point to Graduation Ceremony can take place. Thats only because we want you to remain safe and we know that there are many districts that are planning literally planning virtual graduation ceremonies. Many of our districts are planning to have ceremonies after we received the allclear to return the campus is meanwhile schools and teachers are constantly working to improve the new norm of Distance Learning for the next several weeks the California Department of education, well work with School Districts to provide training on how to provide distancelearning however its proven to be more challenging for some students. Those without access to the internet or online devices for those students teachers are making accommodations with packets of material as the department of education works to secure more devices for the students who need them department of education is working with the governors office. And many in the Technology Sector to get devices and Internet Access to many of our students. Right now the department of education says its moving to provide a 150,000 devices for students so they have the resources to work from home like many of us weve been doing this for the last couple of weeks even then though they say its still not enough and theyre asking for donations. So if youd like to help their encouraging you to go to donate act as cte dot cnn dot gov. Taylors sacking reporting kron 4 news. With so many people staying home bar is going to take even nore trains out of service today. Yeah weve got will tran on that story for us this morning with more trains out of service will battle impact probably what times people need to show up for their trains right. Thats right you have to give yourself extra time because if you get your normal time to be standing at the platform right behind me at the lafayette station or all the other stations waiting for your train and wondering. Why is it not here yet i got answer because there are fewer trains. I didnt do this at 5 oclock james and darya so i waited an extra hour just to see how things are the only a 7 as will move the camera to the left of your screen look how empty this parking lot is ive been here so many times throughout the years and by this time we would see. Maybe a 100 maybe 150 cars already has people hop on the bart trains look at this it looks like a ghost town and this is the reason why bart is pulling basically have to strain out of that system. They may give you some numbers to think about before this pandemic and before the shelterinplace on any given day 400,000 people hop on bart trains every day. Now its 7 of what it normally is just to give you a number im not a math whiz but i do know its less than 40,000 systemwide and because of that barr says they dont need so many trains. Moving forward. The trains will be arriving at the stations every 30 minutes is set of say every 15 minutes every 30 minutes because every other train is being pulled to fit system. This is good news for weekend people. Heres why because the weekend schedule remains the same. Its only monday through friday. Its also good news a little bit of good news for some of their employees theyre not having layoffs or furloughs instead employees who can work theyll be shifted to other projects improvement projects and if they desperately need to take time off to take care of the family members who might have come into contact with somebody with coronavirus or if they need to be self quarantine now is the time for them to do it how long this is going to last well even the experts dont know right this is such a fluid situation so this is the new norm moving forward. Bart says by doing this he could save about 3 to 7 million every month. And lets face it bart relies on the writers to pay for a lot of that system and now its losing millions of dollars during the shelterinplace james started. Very good. Thank you will our coverage continues online you can read all the latest headlines there and theres an interactive map to give you an idea a state by state about whats happening and throughout the world as well and ways no matter how far from home i hit your phone to tell you te extrano hey i got your note besitos from mis litos and some oreos de mi hermano hola ja ja. Bam bam bam stay playful every day, Yo Puedo Ayudar ja ja oh oh oh thank you, brother. Stay playful, spread it round like an oreo. 6. 14 right now get a look at the weather and uh im kind of looking forward to a break in the shy hard to get the loss of the dog in ionian to come back all weathers lot of complications. Take a dog and they do not like the blow dryer do not because i love that dog smell in the house so id i have to do the blow dryer and its just its not already that process starts knows no dogs weeks on the as you can see he joined morning inside along with pieces of that were going to enjoy a nice are forecast ahead of us thats for sure so as you do walk the dog get outside these next few days just expect some big improvements from where we were this past weekend. Heres a look outside this morning. Some fog his trip to denver parts of the bay area most notably the coast this morning half moon bay, San Francisco novato all looking at visibility falling below a mile of the city areas as for oakland a little bit later on this morning towards 07 00am you can also expect of disability impact due to this fox going hang out with a few of us this morning with little clouds for other areas before we do see some clearing skies later on today low pressure to our south in a storm system that has resulted in some rainfall for southern and Central California which really just starting to our south though the bay area now looking at the impact so much as just a couple of sprinkles up in the mountains right above san jose sides that it is quiet out there a nice quiet just misty and foggy start to the day simes of cloud cover mixed in with sunshine today. I want to call this one partly cloudy because youll get a dose of sunshine. But youre also going to see clouds at times to keep the jacket on now tomorrow going to be cooler and cloudier than today will be with snow showers lingering in the sierra nevada. Couple overnight sprinkles possible tonight leading into tomorrow which will be the cloudy a standard forecast friday will have improved clearing still staying on the cruel and seasonable side before that warm weekend around the corner from saturday and sunday todays daytime highs in the 60s and 70s with concord antioch napa and santa rosa are spots in the 70s. Elsewhere were staying in the 60s today with cooler temperatures out towards the coast by saturday and sunday it will be nice out there as will be monday and tuesday of next week too so there are improvements in the forecast better walking weather. But of course keep that social distancing your top concern. Back to you guys very good. Thank you john. Well to help prepare for the expected surge in cases, San Francisco now has a Hospital Unit dedicated just to covid19 patients from percent kerman has more now from Saint Francis memorial hospital. On the 6th floor of Saint Francis memorial hospital, a unit is now open dedicated to only those with the coronavirus in an open to go with 10 and we have availability to expand to 40 bets. It would probably will do that in 10 been increment depending on where volume. Are we also have a band Critical Care unit thats associated with the unit could that we would use of the patients on the unit got sick enough to need penetrators or her local share support. The unit has been used as an overflow area during busy times. But after discussion with the San FranciscoHospital Council the Mayors Office and the department of Public Health he was identified as the spot that would be quickest and easiest to press into service. We have the 2 hospitals here in the city in our sec white house for redwood city we reached out to volunteers and had a number of nurses in staff that were interested in coming in staffing the if we do grow we likely will need to look at other resources for staffing, the Saint Francis foundation and ucsf health of each year marked a Million Dollars to help fund the unit. Right now it has 5 patients but thats expected to grow which will also increase the need for personal protective equipment. We uh you know fortunately have not read into anything in we measure our burn rate. Based on the number of patients in we have constantly looking for new vendors. I think the supply manufacturers are ramping up someone so we have not been in a situation we didnt have the supplies. But i think that if we were situation we had no thoughts of patients. We reached our partners i think we would all pull our resources. Well i was dan kerman reporting now theres been another outbreak at the bay area senior facility in contra costa county. Its at the Carlton Senior Living facility to downtown Pleasant Hill for residents there have now tested positive 3 our 3 are actually hospitalized right now 9 Staff Members also tested positive. The Health Department says that theyre testing other people now who might have symptoms and dont forget last week we just had that outbreak that was reported at a senior care facility in orinda 49 people there have tested positive. The city of oakland open a new drive through testing site for front line workers we spoke with the mayor about what people should expect she says theyll be more sites like us to count. Were hoping that as testing becomes more available and results come out faster were going to be able to expand dramatically we have scoped out some additional drivethru sites. So were ready to expand as soon as the testing availability a meet need. Mayor chef also went on to say the bay area is doing better than any other part of the state at social distancing. And the fact that we were the first region of the country to have a shelter in place is going to pay off. New this morning tesla employee plays are being told to expect cuts in their pay and there will be for lows. In an email obtained by cnn tesla says that workers are going to see a 10 drop in their pay and that takes effect on monday. Tesla is hoping to have things return to normal. They say by some time next month. They have about 10,000 employees here in the bay area. While the drive to test for covid19 may seem like a quick way for you to get answers. Doctors warn that the results might not always be right and Infectious Disease society of Amer