Youre watching kron 4 news news at 9. Kennedy to move into this next phase only they will assess back is is you know behavior thats not conducive with those guidelines that are currently in place and. And now 9 Governor Newsome saying even though we are making progress slowing the spread of the coronavirus we cannot let up now. Thanks for joining us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the governor urging everyone to continue to practice social distancing as he allows. More executive a tease out doors, including a playing catch skateboarding in golf and here in the bay area were just days away from the new shelter in place guidelines taking effect in 6 of the counties here restrictions will be eased in certain businesses and parks deemed lowrisk will reopen but Law Enforcement and medical experts say this is not the time to get complacent kron fours gayle ong joins us live with details about how are moving forward, i do it. Hi granted. Yeah were not out of the woods yet weve been hearing that a lot of top Infectious Disease expert doctor Anthony Fauci says he is concerned about a second wave of the coronavirus meantime Law Enforcement says people could get cited if they dont follow Public Health orders. Were asking for people to abide by the safety order a reminder from captain bill frost of the Sausalito Police department captain faa says officers have given plenty of warnings to nonresidents over the last several weeks after overcrowding in popular areas. The city has closed for Public Parking lots on weekends and holidays, the slow the spread of covid19 if contacted nonessential travelers can be sighted 500 officer still need a legal reason to contact that individual a. Asked for additional cation and detain a person conduct an investigation may area Public Health officials announced new stay at home orders to last through may for everyone living or working in alameda contra costa moran, San Francisco, san mateo santa clara. And the city of berkeley, the new orders begin monday may 4th searing outdoor business is considered low risk and operate outdoor seating at restaurants, cafes or bars are not included businesses like nurseries can reopen but on thursday we found people shopping for plants in walnut creek we now know about the importance of wearing a face mask doctor Jeffrey Martin is an epidemiology professor at ucsf i think with the weather tier people seem to be more relaxed about these restrictions well i think its human to become. Relax particularly if youre. I havent been affected yourself. Well, the amount of transmission in the bay area has been a relatively small compared to the world. Doctor martin says dont lose sight of the ultimate goal of flattening the curve we could be let our guards down have another you know raging wildfire, you just have to not let our guards down and cant keep up the same. Spirit that the community has exhibited over the last 6 weeks. One is to new orders go into effect next week you can expect Law Enforcement to continue to go on with the educational approach. But if they find anyone who are clearly violating Public Health orders they can face a hefty fine depending on the jurisdiction. Gayle ong kron 4 news. Thank you gayle, a new poll says that at least 75 of californians do support the ongoing shelterinplace orders. They say the orders should continue for as long as needed despite the impact on the economy roughly 11 of people disagree and want to shelterinplace orders to and that was the finding across age income and race demographics among African American and asian californians. 86 support continuing the policy. The polling was done by the nonprofit california healthcare foundation. Beaches in some state parks across much of california will remain open. But that is not the case in one county know the governors decision comes after a memo circulated last night Warning Police chiefs that all beaches in the state would be shut down. California Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains. Still perturbed by its packed beaches last weekend governor Gavin Newsome thursday ordered a temporary closure of beaches in Orange County only have to own that and you have to figure that out Orange County area. Republican senator john moore lock released a statement saying in part Governor Newsome just doesnt seem to get it. Residents have been responsible the county hasnt seen the surge in its hospitals and 6 weeks into the shelter in place order the beach may be the best medicine. The announcement comes after a california Police Chiefs memo circulated overnight cleaning new sums administration was going to shut down all beaches in state parks, bottom line that was their memo but that moment i got to as relates to the issue. That im grappling with weve been consistent. We have been clear we have been transparent weve been talking about this every day the closure comes after images saturday showed 10s of thousands of beachgoers on newport beach. The governor singling out Orange County while complementing other Southern California areas for having controlled beaches amid the pandemic in san diego and el and others that ive done an outstanding job and we want to just focus on where theres a problem the governor wouldnt say whether this is a warning to other counties with open beaches. He says he hopes the temporary closure is for a very short time in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. The california Police Chiefs association released a Statement Today saying quote in an ever changing environment we sent out information regarding decisions that were still evolving which was regrettably shared outside of our police chief membership. We apologize for the undue concern that cause to the public our colleagues up and the governor as well as his county is getting ready to reopen trails and more than half of its parks kron fours Maureen Kelly explains whats being done to encourage visitors to be safe while still getting fresh air and exercise. Starting monday, the locks will be coming off the games keeping people out of over a dozen San Mateo County parks San Bruno Mountain was one of the countys 23 parks that was shut down in late march after too many people likely feeling cooped up from shelterinplace showed up when the weather got warmer, but now the county Parks Department has decided to reopen just over half of their parks, including San Bruno Mountain for trail use and the distinction for that is that we wont have any other services. With the exception of some parking lots and restrooms but Everything Else we typically have open and available to visitors like visitor centers. My playground and picnic areas. Well and so were really focusing im getting people out on the trails and were excited about you know being able to welcome them back on those trails again they chose the parks close to residential areas as the ones to open back up. Narrow trails have been turned essentially into oneway streets for hikers single direction trails which allows people to hike in the parks on the trails in a single line you can surcharge that 6 feet of distancing. Visitors have been asked to maintain social distance hike single file know gathering with people outside your household and bring up Face Covering the crystal springs, regional trail was straws 650,000 people a year is one of the parks that will be back open to visitors but only to those on foot. Bicyclists will have to wait a little longer a full list of what parks are reopening and which remain closed can be found on our website kron 4 dot com. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. The city of los angeles is now the first major us city offering free coronavirus testing to all residents regardless of whether they have symptoms. Mayor Eric Garcetti says there are 34 testing sites across the city and the county and as many as 18,000 people a day can be tested. At this point the free testing is only available to the citys residents. But about half of californias coronavirus cases are in the la area. President trump announces new measures as coronavirus continues to wreak havoc at Nursing Homes. California Public Health data released just this week shows nearly 40 of the deaths in the state have happened at Skilled Nursing and assisted living facilities. Offers dan thorn has a look at some of these new initiatives and whether they go far enough he has the story now from walnut creek. As Nursing Homes continue to be deadly covid19 hotspots the president announces plans to protect the facilities and their residents among the new initiatives more ppe shipments to medicaid medicare Nursing Homes 81 million in congressional funding to increase inspections. A requirement for Nursing Homes to report information about covid19 cases to the cdc and also requiring Nursing Homes to inform residents and family members about new cases, nursing home worker and Patient Advocates say the last part is crucial get think down that this is a given that it should be obvious that it happened in fact. It is not happening consistently off to the families find out for the first time from the media that virus is spreading in a facility where a loved one is living. Whats not included in the new initiatives is the promise of testing for residents and staff at longterm care facilities, mike dark with california advocates for nursing home reform says its difficult to get a handle on the problem without testing i think one reason we may not be saying that kind of language yet is because testing is so still so hard to get california Public Health officials released the number of deaths of Nursing Homes earlier this week for the first time. The numbers show one 3rd of confirmed covid19 deaths have come from these facilities. The numbers, however, could actually be much higher really surprising. Actually how little we know how that many of those numbers actually are. Thursdays Nursing Homes announcement came as President Trump declared may Older Americans month. The president says the commission on safety for Nursing Homes will be meeting soon end issuing recommendations to further protect seniors. Reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. No one could have planned for this type of financial emergency know what. Colleges and universities face lower enrollment rates for the next Academic Year of course because the pandemic smaller private schools are expected to experience huge financial losses with less tuition coming in our kron fours tailored attack explains how some students will spend the year instead and how schools are coping with their plans. We know its not going to look the same its so thats where this and are you planning really comes in will it be fully reopen and we do some classes still online some sauces in person kristin stories president of the association of independent California Colleges and universities. Were a icc you says theyre hoping for the best but planning for the worst come fall the ai ccu represents 85 independent nonprofit colleges and universities in the state. Including santa clara university, university of San Francisco in California College of the arts to name a few all of them bracing for financial setbacks all of Higher Education and public and private nonprofit were in this together that we do have a unique said count were not state funded institution or not. Statesupported institutions that most of us most private colleges nonprofit colleges art which independent which means were enrollment dependent and so that will that financial modeling something were certainly looking at the American Council of education projects, a 15 drop in National Enrollment for the 2020 to 2021 Academic Year, something that Gap Year Programs feel as interest increases were seeing that theres a much bigger demand this year than there has been in previous years i think the last time we saw this kind of man was finally obama took to get here early tv is the ceo of youre on a Gap Year Program based in San Francisco where students travel in volunteer abroad. And later attend workshops in the city katie says theyre seeing more interest from students and parents who dont want to pay the hefty tuitions for online learning. A lot of students thats a lot of screen fatigue i would say at this point for this general apathy towards online classes. However, the coronavirus also affects Gap Year Programs. Instead of traveling abroad theyre looking at alternative experiences in the states either way students are forced to make life changing decisions during a time when nothing is certain and Taylor Bisacky reporting kron 4 news. Getting an early start to the new school year thats an idea Governor Newsom proposed recently to try to offset any learning lost because of the pandemic teachers and administrators in an east Bay School District though tell kron fours a secret june maybe a late july early august start to the school year would really create additional problems. We are considering the prospect of an even earlier school year as early as late july early august. We dont have the resources to put it simply to Start School Early if we move the start of school out. There will be even more work to do in even less time this gives you an idea of what the conversation is like regarding the possibility of getting an early start to the next school year the wake of the covid19 pandemic California Governor Gavin Newsom started the discussion in an attempt to prevent a loss and education continuity. The concern around learning loss. I think we may want to consider getting that school year moved up a little bit however, starting the school year early presents several challenges for administrators and educators and cash strapped School Districts like west contra costa who say what they need is number one. Definitely more resources right most funding reduction of costs isis materials for teachers that masks resources to keep teachers and students safe which we dont have right now then there is this the centers for Disease Control and prevention guidelines for planting of opening schools which includes increasing the space between desk at least 6 feet in california and were kind of size or higher than the national. The National Average and theres not a lot really 2 straight out that School Administrators and the Teachers Union both say that employee contracts would also present another obstacle to moving the School Start Date the governor maintains he is just getting the conversation started so were beginning to socialize that we may know. Decisions definitively in that space Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. We are going to take a live look outside of San Franciscos embarcadero this on this but is it thursday or what years day to check my phone i let you know hard to keep track these days meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is with us now on the breezy talking about maybe a little bit of rain this weekend. It looks you know not that promising grandin vicki unfortunately our storm track. Keeps the rain well to the north and well to the east of us so were just going to be wrapped around all this moisture but were going to remain dry. Yet again so ending our wet season on a warm and dry know as we wrap up this very dismal wet season. We got about half percent of the rain that we should be getting but one thing that we are noticing though very pleasant temperatures today and for tomorrow as well and heres a live look outside and we take a look at the castro cameras city hall lit up in red white and blue. On our First Responders this evening because of this coronavirus pandemic so