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 PublicHealth 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 and issuing recommendations to further protect seniors. Reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. Life on the streets during this pandemic is especially dangerous for people who are homeless in alameda on the state has donated trailers to house them and hopefully continue to flatten the curve of in flint infections. Con forcefully to call reports. Sewage gas electricity, running water, a couch table and a bed more than some of us have ever had soon these 4 trailers parked at Alameda Point in alameda will provide shelter for up to 8 Homeless People out of time who up until now have avoided an infection from covid19 and keep people who are at risk. Covid19 virus, an opportunity to be safe Staff Members from the citys homeless programs Operation Dignity and Building Futures have identified the first group of people to move in to residents per trailer until there eventually transition into permanent housing others will then take their place only those 60 years of age or older with Underlying Health issues without covid19 symptoms will be allowed to live in the mobile home see folks in our community the folks are hopes that. You know we could have known then what the way is going to people are unemployed, this could be right so having that mindset in dealing with on scene i think you get a different perspective that taking care of each community. The city will provide daily meals and weekly Laundry ServicesHomeless Outreach team members will check in every day and a paramedic will conduct a Wellness Check on each person 4 days a week. Earlier this month, the state of california donated the trailers to alameda. They were used by fema in the past we really want to check out the trailer, so folks would to move in ready for now the city says theres enough funding to keep the trailers at Alameda Point for 9 months in alameda felipe should all kron 4 news. Starting on monday Face Coverings will be mandatory for all the tea, a writers bus and light rail operators will also be required to wear a face mask coverings. In some areas such as cupertino Face Coverings orders a Face Covering orders i should say have already been issued this is all a part of santa clara countys Health Officers extension, a shelterinplace order to make sure everybody is safe. The city of oakland will be adding an additional 5 miles of streets to theyre slow Streets Program take a look at this map which shows the streets that will be closed to support physical distancing under the shelterinplace orders. Parts of 16th street 34th avenue 59th street. Alice street colby street in wayne avenue will all be closed. The the slow Streets Program launched on april 11th. We have more details if you need to look over all that information once again on our website at kron 4 dot com. Of work and struggling to feed their families and there is now a growing demand to help local food banks try to provide for those families. The California National guard is helping Second Harvest food bank pack and distribute thousands of boxes of food and yeah for people across san mateo and santa clara counties, Holy Trinity Church in san jose is one of more than a 1000 Distribution Sites where theyre at hearing to physical distancing rules is only adding to that challenge. See for the month of april we think were going to distribute 9 Million Pounds of food before this it was about 5 and a half million per month. That kind of need is only going to continue. Among Second Harvest partners is Sacred Heart Community services where the number of food boxes going out the door every day is up from 400 to now 550 boxes and in Sonoma County demand at the Redwood Empire Food Bank is up 50 50 since the pandemic started and there is sometimes not enough food to meet the growing demand. In daly city congresswoman jackie spear helped hand out food at a food bank event that attracted thousands of people. Second Harvest Food Bank sponsor, the event at Jefferson High School cars were backed up for more than a mile with people waiting in line to get their goodies a year ago organizers saw about 800 families per month. Now get this. Its up to 9,000 people per month representative spear is asking that if anyone can help out that they should do what they can to help the needy. Its not the time to clean out your pantry and give them your. No leftover cancer go the Grocery Store and get those items. Today is the day that you should write a check and how all those in need who are less fortunate than you. The event at Jefferson High School is held every thursday and saturday. Grappling with some devastating news on the economy as some advisors to the president they are warning of unemployment numbers straight out of the great depression. Jim acosta reports. Okay thank you very much just area what is shaping up to be the worst us economy since the great depression, President Trump said he has a feel for what americans are going through i feel and i think sometimes what i feel is better than what i think i view what we have now is obviously a period of. In here we are just it is what it is. Its just a very tough situation for the people of our country. All the loss the death. Nearly 4 million americans filed unemployment claims last week making for a staggering 30 million over the last 6 Weeks White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the numbers havent been this bad since the great depression. The fact is that right now you know 30 Million People have while for unemployment insurance. The Unemployment Rate is probably up around 19 and those numbers are startling as anything weve seen since the great depression. The president has been lashing out at age in recent days over polls, showing voters may punish him in the fall for his handling of the coronavirus is offering only rosy assessments of his team and is it fair for the voters to take into consideration, your handling of the pandemic when they assess whether to reelect you in the fall. Sure i think they do i think they have to do a number of things i think weve done a really great job. I think we did a spectacular job mister trump is also trying to rewrite history insisting that he inherited what he calls broken task for the coronavirus from the obama administration, but thats not true covid19 didnt exist until just months ago they had broken test obsolete s use a broken tests. Its a new virus so how could the test be broken when you needed a new test can win broken tests, we have tests that were absolutely a test that could take your people the centers for Disease Control has drafted new guidelines for reopening the u. S. With recommendations that school space test 6 feet apart. Houses of worship limit large gatherings and restaurants wish to disposable menus and plates. The president said he will be overseeing a new effort to fast track millions of doses of a vaccine for the virus we have a you know as a judge with that honestly i am. Ill tell you im really a judge of that the administration is hoping to have that vaccine ready by the end of the year timeline doctor Anthony Fauci said maybe possible we want to go quickly. But we want to make sure its safe and its effective. I think that is doable that thats a big things for the right place. With the pandemic still raging President Trump is looking to punish china for its handling of the virus, including the possibility of imposing sanctions on beijing. President who has praised chinas transparency on the pandemic has changed his tune. As critics say hes trying to shift the blame we just got hit by a vicious virus that should have never been allowed to escape china, they should have stopped at the source. They didnt do that. And that was jim acosta reporting for us this morning. A California Healthcare Foundation says that at least 75 of u. S. Support the ongoing shelterinplace orders in our state. They say the artists should continue for as long as needed despite the impact on the economy referee 11 of people disagree with the shelterinplace orders to the end and that skis may disagree with it to end that was the finding across age income as well as race demographics among African American and Asian American californians, 86 support continuing to shelter in place. Coming up on the kron 00 04am morning Contact Tracing is being used to slow the spread and prevent further cases of covid19. Well explain. And heres a live look outside at the embarcadero you could see a little bit. The trees moving on the left side of your screen, but it should be no problems today, especially not getting and welcome back to the kron 00 04am morning news we want to get a check of the weather with dave spahr who joins us live now from his home dave can you tell me about the pollen count is a really above normal because were all dying here in the studio i ive dying as well i havent looked at it lately but im dying as well maybe we might get some relief on saturday. There is a little chance of a sprinkle in not much but maybe that might be just enough to take some of that. Paul out of the air hopefully would be that nice tree maybe that we can have dreams course we do have the winds are work. They are on shore will was talking about this earlier and there are Climate Control now heres a look at we got to the bay bridge not a lot way of fog going on this morning. Temperatures across the region, mostly the 40s for the north bay and the peninsula for the most part of the San Francisco coming in at 51. And the east bay shoreline also into the 50s in the east bay 53 meanwhile down the san jose. Getting to those winds however they actually ticked downward a little bit early on that this afternoon, the kick back up again still remaining out of the onshore westerly flow pattern and get quite a with that theyre on the looks like Central Valley off to the east a little bit by late overnight into saturday morning up by this time were going to be having a collection of cloud cover and the little shot of rain starting to drop south lets get into your 4 zone forecast check out what your friday looks like 66 San Francisco in Mission District looks like along the peninsula coast 64 daly city pacifica at 6164 for half moon bay. To the northern end of the peninsula pretty much the middle to upper 60s like burning again, heading down to the south and the southern and we still have the 70s hanging on not as potent as they were before Mountain View 7370 to palo alto in redwood city and then for the south bay. Oh yes forget the 80s. Its now middle 70s for good chunk of real estate here 77 morgan hill, san jose 75 along the santa clara milpitas at 74. And the east bay shoreline to the south lower 70s, 74 for pleasanton and livermore 7572 personal dublin at 74. And look at the temperatures here we still have a difference between the inland areas in the upper 70s and along the east bay shoreline in the lower 70s but were getting a little closer together which we will do also on saturday particular with that little shot of rain 79 fairfield okay back of the others are one 80 okay, applause applause, 66 going on for the late show the cool spot. Air conditioner because of the onshore flow near 77 napa sonoma at 76. And santa rosa coming in at 79 a chilly 58 per point re and stenson beach at 60 will not be a good weekend for the beach vertically on saturday. As that shot of rain gets here for saturday temperatures fall we kind of trot out somewhere around sunday as we do clear out nicely warming up very quickly and before you know it by thursday, some spots in the bay might even koch up to about 90 or so to finish off the week. So thats the story of spring, you know you go through all these wardrobe things and sweaters to short sleeve shirts is what we do during the spring months well back to you speaking us letters i like your sweater day. Lets head outside and give you a quick traffic check what traffic right, heres the bay bridge. We dont expected of course to pick up any time soon as so many people are sheltering in place keep in mind do not stop at the toll plaza they will not take your cash you if you dont have fast track dont worry about as they will send you a bill through the mail from there lets go to the sandra fell bridge Richmond Sandra fell bridge even lighter one said the headlights heading right to the toll plaza 9 minutes, if you need to cross that spanned from richmond in summer in county. Heres a live look outside at the Golden Gate Bridge to a couple of cars heading into San Francisco, no problems no fog in that area as well roughly about 19 to 20 minutes from novato into the city. Contact tracing is being used to combat the spread of coronavirus its a process that help slow or stop previous epidemics like ebola and sars mandy gather has more in this mornings health minute. Contact tracing tracks down anyone who might have been infected by a person who was recently diagnosed with covid19 to those contacts can quarantine themselves and prevent further spread the centers for Disease Control and prevention say Public Health staff work with the patient to help them recall everyone with whom theyve had close contact during the time frame while they may have been infectious then contacts are provided with education information and support to understand their risk what they should do to separate themselves from others who have not been exposed. Monitor themselves for symptoms and the possibility that they could spread the infection to others even if they themselves dont feel l. Researchers say the u. S. Cant safely reopen without significant amounts of Contact Tracing in testing. Contact tracers use a variety of methods, including phone calls emails and social media messaging a recent Study Released by Johns Hopkins university estimates the u. S. Needs at least 100,000 additional Public Health workers to help with Contact Tracing before it is safe to reopen for todays health minute. Im mandy gaither. For the first time this years Little League world series and the championship. Tournaments theyve all been canceled this side the Little League world series has been held every august since 1947 and has never been canceled. Organizers say travel restrictions will make it just a stop to hold qualifying tournaments for International Teams and to bring those teams safely to america. Events are being planned for next year, however, happening today, nba players will soon be allowed to return to Team Practice facilities in some states players can work out individually at Team Facilities if their local government does not have stay at home orders so the warriors will not open their practice gym because california still has shelter in place. Now the places will not be able to work out a couple of other locations so they still have to figure out where to practice alternative arrangements are being made for a players living where stay at home orders are still in effect to try to find out where they can continue practicing because rumor has it that the season will begin probably in july team sports may be on hold during the pad pandemic but the bay area Lakes Community is doing its part to stay engaged. Kron fours kate rooney tells us how a local basketball coach is r