Singled out as a potential new hot spot. Expressing optimism that its measures are working. Were by any means im hopeful that the social distancing steps we put in place a few weeks ago show some signs of work. As hospitalizations in new york declined Governor Andrew Cuomo stressing. The numbers today are result of past action not a license to let up. The flattening of the curve last night happened because of what we did yesterday. If we stop acting the way were acting you will see those numbers go up. New jersey tightening statewide measures face coverings for all customers and employees essential businesses like Grocery Stores and pharmacies strict limits on capacity and gatherings that limiting the size of religious gatherings as americans celebrate passover and soon easter. The governor of kansas doing the same only to be overruled by the states legislative coordinating council. Which claimed her executive order went too far by quote singling out one entity and limiting the free exercise of religion. We. Were calling on every american in every state. First to listen to your state local authorities. But right after to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and know that in so doing will hasten the day will hasten the day that we put the coronavirus in the past and. And we uh we reopen their country. The White House Task force already working on a plan for that reopening. Possibly in a matter of weeks experts and those on the front lines urge caution. Im concerned that were setting dates and not listening to the virus. The virus is going to tell us when its safe to open up again. It to stay home and treat him sounds like a. New york recorded its biggest oneday jump today with deaths at 800 basically this is the 3rd day in a row that the state has set a record of the highest singleday death toll. The latest fatalities bring the states total to more than 7,000 s. Coronavirus fears have postponed primary elections across the country now lawmakers are pushing for states to implement universal mail in voting. So no one has to go to a polling place but idea is getting some push back to a clear reports now from washington. Yeah just physically distance to distance ourselves. Congressman Eric Swalwell is one of Many Democrats calling for universal mail in voting channel just after dusk and to set us back works as far as access. The polls more than a dozen states have delayed their primaries over coronavirus concerns swalwell says malin voting allows everyone to safely cast their ballots from home without delaying or canceling elections youve got just these types of cases are still by voting rules are set by each state individually democrats led by Speaker Pelosi are pushing for billions of dollars to encourage states to create their own mail in balloting Systems People may prefer to go to the polls but below that number is. The healthier for everyone mail in voting is a terrible thing but President Trump says he believes mail in voting could lead to widespread voter fraud you get thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebodys living room signing ballots all over the place House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy says money for mailing balloting doesnt belong in a coronavirus emergency bill to get you the day that because he had a change election law. Then there is some value think the issues. So its that Speaker Pelosi says the issue remains on the table as Party Leaders workout the next emergency aid package in washington, im joe khaleel. We will talk now about our Storm Tracker forecast to joining us from home is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with a look at what the weekend has in store, hey lawrence. Justine yeah i think the weekends going to be fantastic were going to deal with a couple of patches of fog these temperatures. Finally going to start warming up outside right now we do have some patchy fog out there. Well well see more of that of course in the coming months as we transition fully into the spring pattern out there you go you see the fog out there hovering over the mountain tops the marine headlines and pushing inside the bay low pressure still spinning into Southern California bringing them all a whole lot of rain in Southern California even more snow up in the Sierra Nevada as well, but the bay area were looking good here, heres the long range forecast. And youll notice right now that area of low pressure continue to spin around least for another day in Southern California are going to see a couple passing clouds from that system but thats about it then the low finally kicks eastward and that is going to change the pattern thats when High Pressure really begins to take over builds in as we head into the weekend certainly were going to see couple patches of fog in the morning. Easter sunday looking like well start with some patchy fog becoming mostly sunny and warmer lot of 70s popping up around the bay area on sunday and even more sunshine and warm weather on monday and tuesday of next week is that ridge of High Pressure really just kind of takes over. And it looks like no threat of any rain for quite some time so looks like after this uh system kind of moves out of california. Were done with any chance of rain for maybe the next 7 to 10 days. Overnight lows are going to be a little cool but not cold with cloudy skies numbers mainly in the 40s and the 50s by day around the bay area tomorrow were looking about 50 degrees in San Francisco 61 degrees in the mission 54 in daly city that fog and kind of sit along the coastline that will keep those numbers cooler up toward the beaches. 60 degrees in millbrae 62 in burlingame about 64 redwood city, the south in looking nice tomorrow about 68 morgan hill 67. In san jose getting close to 70 degrees in livermore tomorrow afternoon 67 in dublin, 68 in walnut creek 64 degrees of berkeley get the idea some numbers looking very nice out around the bay area except some patchy fog along the coast. This weekend. The 70s begin to pop up all around the bay area theyre going to stick with us well into next week justine that list forecast back to you. Thank you. Lawrence now passengers who were aboard the grand princess cruise ship have filed a class action injury lawsuit in San Francisco in federal court. They allege that they were exposed to the coronavirus as a result of gross negligence by the companies that own and operate the ship. The complaint notes that before the trip from San Francisco to hawaii at least one passenger on the princess was reporting symptoms of covid19 despite knowing this the lawsuit says the company continued on with the voyage in a statement, the attorney representing the passengers says quote, carnival and Princess Cruise Lines negligently put thousands of passengers at risk of serious harm which risk will continue for some time. The lawsuit seeks compensation for the plaintiffs and other passengers were harmed this ordeal. Coming up we have the latest on the back and forth between President Donald Trump and the World Health Organization. And after the break doctor ruth white joins us to the best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. Abbvie. Are all social distancing. There are some ways that we can give back to the community right now doctor ruth white joined our morning show today to discuss ways that we can help our communities without going anywhere and without spending any money. So you can do things like dont a black soul and theres been a i have a friend les sickle cell and he was saying that he was at risk of not getting like transfusion with what he needed because there has been a shortage of some kinds of blood products so thats a great way be able to help others delivering meals so there are a lot of people who were shot in meals on wheels is is bringing food you can also volunteer at a food bank. So you know helping to whatever it is at in the back end of the of the the you can also do checks on your neighbors or Nonprofit Organization you can also make hygiene kits for the homeless so if youre somebody when i used to travel a lot ice to keep the little lotions and soaps or whatever and you can dont know donate those nonprofits will serve homeless and so theres and you can someone running errands you can volunteer on a crisis line. So theres lots of things that you can do if you have time more have concerns that will get you out of you know how bad you feel because youre able to out somebody else. And up next we talked with a bay so you might know the company for its organic frozen foods sperry usbased amys kitchen is doing a lot more to help during this time it has donated meals to food banks donated mass to local hospitals and is hiring right now i got to speak with one of amys cofounders during kron 4 news at 5 to find out how the companys efforts are working to help the community. Its been shot a mostly to keep the infection going realign production line so 6 feet between everyone weve got mass weve got i lasted is an separation we ran a test with heaters to keep this front of breaks and everybodys been very creative and its just very well and things are going really well everyone just so dedicated to the cause of getting our food out right now. So what were looking at is also some video of a massive amount of food that you were able to donate tell us a little bit about what you donated and where when and also why you wanted to do that. You know are the main purpose of an isis to provide halsey great tasting food to people times like this weve always tried to donate as much as we possibly could. We dont a 150,000 meals. Im tweeting editor and the bay area to food banks and really focusing on children and the elderly from these. Also we have a we have a drivethru and people First Responders can get meals for free from the drivethru. Were delivering to a Health Clinics and costs low and the testing centers, hot meals for for everyone. One thing im now President Trump has vocally criticized the World Health Organizations handling of the Coronavirus Crisis even going as far as threatening to cut their funding. The organizations director is now warning him to not politicize the virus. Isis war us reports. In geneva, the head of the World Health Organization fired back at the criticism of body. If you dont want many more body bags. Then you refrain from politicizing it. Tedros adhanom given a souls asked about criticism leveled against the by u. S. President donald trump said it is dangerous to get political during the pandemic no need to use called in to score. Political points. You have many other ways to prove yourselves. This is. Not the one to use for politics. Its like playing was fired. The day before mister trump criticized the w h o claiming hadnt raise enough alarms about the virus they called it wrong they call it around. They really they missed the call. They could have called it months earlier they would have known. They should have known and they probably didnt know so well be looking into that very carefully in his remarks on wednesday to direct a general the double pointed out that the organization. How to be closely following an issuing advisories about the virus since early january. Trump also criticized the w h o for not supporting his travel ban of people coming from china they said theres no big deal. Theres no big problem, theres no nothing. And then ultimately when i closed it down they actually said that i made a mistake and closing it down and it will turn out to be right. A cnn fact check found although trump is correct to the w h o didnt support his travel restrictions with china. The w h o opposes most International Travel restrictions. And season as ineffectual. While not addressing mister trumps criticism directly the director general called the u. S. And china to not cooperate. The United States and china should come together and fight. This dangerous enemy. They should come together to fight it. Mister trump also repeatedly said the w h o had been china centric. There are 2 general said they dont play favorites if you look back over the years even theyre very everything seems to be very biased toward china. Thats not right. Were close to every nation. We have a colorblind. What do you call it. Well as blind, we dont see for is and reach and the port is the same. For as weak and the strong is the same for a small and big is the same. For as people already in the south zone in the nose east or west on the same. One point on tuesday. Mister trump said he would suspend funding for the organization. Though he later denied saying that and then clarified he was just going to look into it, hes a suarez cnn. Lets move things along now and talk to our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow working from home tonight with a look at that 7 day forecast i saw some upper 70s on there. I hope thats going make some people happy. About that. Yeah keep your fingers crossed boy everythings going to be grown right we had so much rain in the beginning of this month and they get that sunshine going to certainly a lot of things can start growing in a hurry thing outside the Golden Gate Bridge right now just a beautiful sight, some patchy fog out there toward the golden gate and a mixture of sunshine and gentle breeze is blowing right now the fog likely to fill into the bay overnight tonight. Temperatures if you want to go for an evening walk 58 degrees in San Francisco, little goal grab a jacket if youre in san jose 62 degrees there 60 degrees and live more still partly cloudy skies 64 oak concord 64 degrees in santa rosa. All right here we go around the bay area for tomorrow. Were enjoying some warmer weather you may see 70 degrees in antioch 69 in concord 69 degrees also in livermore about 60 the morgan hill. You see plenty of sunshine. I think in the afternoon away from the immediate coastline and that will bring those temperatures comfortably in the mid to upper 60s by tomorrow afternoon. Out toward the beaches are to be looking at some 50s next couple days. Yeah, here comes that sunshine justine as a very nice weather that is forecast looking forward to it thank you lawrence and after the break well introduce you to tonights kron fours heroes. Al harrington was a valuable member of the Golden State Warriors for 2 seasons his role on the really believe team is etched into bay area sports history. But now that hes retired hes making his mark in another industry that is close to his heart. For 2 years Al Harrington lit up the scoreboard at oracle arena for the Golden State Warriors now he is helping to light up something that he believes is an important as ever during this when there are no harrington founded the cannabis brown viola in part to help eliminate the stigma of marijuana it is named after his mother viola who suffered from glaucoma carter are secured. Trip to the covid19 pandemic has caused harrington to switch of business. But he believes now is more important than ever to be there for his clients 4 states where california colorado. Michigan well, you know what i recommend is you are no states that want to every market that breaks huge different places in San Francisco, im jason dumas skrine for news. And lastly tonight, were shining the spotlight on dancing without limits, a Nonprofit Organization based in danville thats dedicated to serving bay area kids living with down syndrome. The nonprofit was cofounded by for High School Girls attending San Ramon Valley and monta vista high schools. The group wanted to give kids living with down syndrome a way to express themselves while being quarantined so for the last several weeks dancing without limits has been hosting free online classes every week through zoom all 4 members can provide dance classes while their social distancing. The students have been dancing competitively for years and hope to share their love for dance with kids who have special needs. So if youre interested about learning more. You can find the link to the nonprofits website on our website kron 4 dot com way to go girls. So you can nominate a person in your community doing great things to help others just go to kron 4 dot com slash features slash kron 4 heroes and we cannot wait to hear from you about the amazing people in your community doing good right now. 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