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Cases there will be more joyful these people were years that actually calling now as you know john the nation words youve got to be warriors week. We cant keep our country close down. And we have to do something. The president went on to say this pandemic is worse than both the attack on pearl harbor and the attack on the World Trade Center in new york. If we tested every single american in this country at this moment, we have to retest them an hour later and then an hour later after that because at any moment you could theoretically contract this virus. So the notion that Everyone Needs to be tested is just im simply nonsensical. The notion of testing has long been an issue during this pandemic doctor Anthony Fauci has said that testing is important an important factor when considering reopening the country to its fullest today. The new White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany clarified who President Trump believes should be tested. More than 57 need to be tested are vulnerable populations thats why doctor birx has repeatedly emphasized the need to surge Nursing Homes with the testing. Meat processing facilities. Thats where the testing is needed we have to be strategic with our testing and we have done that so far. More than 7. 7 million americans have been tested thats according to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker map about one 3rd of all coronavirus cases in the world are right here in the United States tonight more than 73,000 americans have died. And there are more than one 0. 2 million cases in our nation in california. There are more than 60,000 confirmed cases and the virus has claimed the lives of 2400 people as some states take steps to try to reopen some Health Experts are saying that we could experience a socalled second wave of covid19 infections. The answer is unclear though along with when such a second wave could be expected. The cdc works with a number of Different Research institutions to create forecasting models but most projections are for just a few weeks out. But theres no doubt that i knew were going to a second spike good news is we have a lot preparations that undertaken are in place and so were definitely more prepared for. Potential surge and we and we were once a month ago or 2 months ago when this was all very very new. Doctor if he says realistically that could mean continuing some measure of physical distancing until a vaccine is widely implemented. On thursday the governor will issue guidance to retailers regarding the states expectations for reopening the guidance will include Curbside Pickup from not essential businesses, however, the bay areas current shelter in place order is more strict than the states and that is what will apply as much as mayor london breed want Small Businesses to open and people to go back to work she says San Francisco is still thick in the pandemic. More. That people have interactions with other people. The likelihood that other folks will continue to get infected. And so as difficult as i know this has been we need to keep that in mind when making decisions about reopening. This was the scene at the lowers park and this morning mayor breed threatened to close the popular park in for crowding continued, but she said people did a good job. The past few days of only being with members of their own family there and staying 6 feet apart and she wants that to be the norm tonight there are now more than 9,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the bay area and 330 333 people. Have died from the virus Santa Clara County continues to lead the bay area with more than 2200 covid19 cases, san mateo San Francisco and alameda counties all have more than 1300 cases for a county by county breakdown you can head to our website kron 4 dot com and in fact santa clara and contra costa counties both saying they need more time before they reopen Health Officials in both county say there is a lot of work still to do a Santa Clara County widespread testing and Contact Tracing are still lagging. The goal is to test 4,000 people every day currently about 8,800 im sorry 800 to a 1000 tests are being done every day both county say any further loosening of the stay at home order is dependent on 5 indicators whether the number of covid19 cases and hospitalizations is flat or decreasing whether there is an adequate supply of personal protective equipment whether the need for testing is being met and whether there is adequate capacity for Contact Tracing Health Officials say opening too soon would be risky. San francisco restaurants are anxious for the next few phases of reopening some are already planning what their restaurant will look like and how it will adapt to physical distancing. Tonight kron fours terror attack he talked to wine bar and restaurant divvy know thats in Pacific Heights. And she joins us now with more on how thats supposed to work out taylor. Yeah they say its all about making customers feel comfortable and safe will be changing their floor plans and lay out even ending barriers to their car seats. Were treading water right now they will be open just a little bit of food and wine to go service is no more for us and all that. Tim heyman owner of school board of you know in San Franciscos Pacific Heights neighborhood says the pandemic in shelter in place order are killing businesses right now his wine bar is currently doing 20 of its usual business something he says is unsustainable as he anxiously awaits for guidance from the city. Hes already planning for the day when customers can dine in once again normally our capacity as 49. And we would have liked tables all throughout the middle here, but for right now we really spend it out to sort of allow thats exceed separation caymans rearranging inside seating moving most of the chairs outside where he says customers may feel more safe. It will also install barriers between seats at the bar on our bar area. Partitions that will go here and kind of come out like that. It you can imagine like a plastic partitions im very similar to like what you see at the retail stores. And that will allow you know probably as many as 6 of the bar, they also have sanitizing stations for employees and guests plus contactless transactions and pp for employees i can that its going to be mass and welts. That will be needed to where we have a good pos system allows for Contactless Payments weve had that before since the outset um utley heyman says its all about being as clean as possible. Alone for customers to feel comfortable in public again. He says restaurants will look much different when they reopen that is if theyre still financially able to herd numbers of 30 to 50 or the restaurants are going to close them. I dont think thats off. I think thats accurate were going to see a lot of beauty more than city are really. Bush to help Small Businesses and make it easier. Him and says it will probably be a long time before things return back to normal and people adjust both physically and emotionally well over as restaurant theyre trying to make things field a little more normal or get back to somewhat of a normal feeling as of today, theyre back open 7 days a week reporting live in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news and i think you as restaurants and food places reopen in the bay area weve created a page on our website to keep track of what is open. Restaurants can fill out a form on kron 4 dot com to let the Community Know theyre open for business. The page also shows of a restaurant has delivery or curbside options. You can find a link on our home page its called yes were open bay area florists are among the next list of businesses to reopen just in time for mothers day flower bowl. Floresiensis in walnut creek was closed for nearly 2 months under the stay at home order is started taking in online and phone orders on monday, but because of the overwhelming volume of orders, the owners had to stop taking orders this afternoon for the rest of the week thats because the business is currently under staffed the coowner says that they are not taking large events like weddings graduations ceremonies and birthday parties until the foreseeable future. Its 8 leaders say they are working on the shipping 10s of millions of masks across the state the governor says hes now ready to reveal the secret contracts for those mass said he has with a chinese company. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has the story. Governor Gavin Newsome says california is now in possession of nearly 20 million surgical masks which he says is allowing the state to move into its next phase sooner news who said wednesday, the state is in the process of distributing the masks, theyre part of a billion deal newsoms Administration Made to secure personal protective equipment for california, but weve never been in this we were the beneficiary of these larger contracts and some security in our supply chain the governor first announced the contract last month saying it would bring in about 200,000 units of personal protective equipment monthly into the state we just make sure we deliver ultimately on the needs of so many whose lives literally at risk. The governor says california now faces an obstacle and delay with n 95 masks requiring federal certification to bring them into the state newsoms administration has kept contract details with chinese manufacturer b y d for the n 95 and surgical masks under wraps citing numerous reasons including security lawmakers and critics have scrutinized the secrecy newsome wednesday promising to make them public sued wanting to deliver and get this done in to save lives at the same time to be as transparent as a human the candy to you because you deserve it. And so youll get that and i hope i hope it doesnt impact the contract, i pray it doesnt in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. A local company has made an anonymous donation of 1 million face masks to bay area hospitals that donation is part of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group covid19 challenge so far that challenge has raised more than 7 million in donations and equipment 4 area hospitals. Hospital leaders say the donations are greatly needed now and in the future. This is going to be with us for a while and when you just look at the volume of patients that we see here at stanford as well as our sister organizations throughout the bay area. And this is going to be an ongoing need well into the future. Several Medical Center has already received about 100,000 masks king says that donation will also allow them to resume trading other medical cases and performing surgeries that had to be put on hold. Well today is National Nurses day and the start of National Nurses week and what a time to honor them kron fours michelle kingston checked in with some bay area hospitals to see what theyre doing to say thank you to the nurses and how some of you continue to say thanks. Close to 2000 or cuts to live or to nurses at saint marys and st. Francis hospitals on National Nurses day to show their valued and appreciated this idea of her. To my life as were watching all these people in hospitals working so hard making the sacrifices that theyre making the taken the risk that theyre taking to say how can we show our appreciation and gratitude nurses at Kaiser Permanente in john your health also recognized as heroes. The tears come from as far away as washington in addition to the work you do each day. You have gone above and beyond the call of duty in responding to our nations invisible enemy. Covid19 and from hollywood where mark walberg delivered hundreds of meals to say thanks ive always had a huge appreciation for mom did and what people do in public service. And back home and cheer squad says things to ucsf benioff Childrens Hospital it. And National Nurses united holds a virtual art show to highlight the need for personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic while hundreds of volunteers in pleasanton make thousands of masks and other needed accessories in just a few weeks for nurses are so grateful for the work that youre doing. For being the winds too face this situation, michelle kingston kron 4 news another. A Beautiful Day around the bay areas it turns into night. Were told you can see city hall there in the lower left and the heart with the sf and the lights thats lime green in honor of Mental Health workers month. So thats why those colors are out there paying yeah and its a beautiful picture to us a clear night lauras to see all those lights. Certainly years. A day to day in these next few days going to probably the hottest days of the season, mister parts of bexar these temperatures will likely soar into the 90 starting tomorrow also it is going to heat up in a hurry as High Pressure sits overhead looking out toward the golden gate bridge. We are currently fog 3 out there right now likely to stay that way all night long look at the temperatures today, almost 90 today in santa rosa they checked in at 88 degrees 86 in a bottle 83 the napa valley 86 in concord 85 in livermore 79 in san jose de won in redwood city and 71 in San Francisco temperatures out the door this evening still looking very comfortable many spots till 70s in redwood city 70 is eman in concord in the 68 play on 60 in santa rosa, 59 degrees get a little bit of wind there in petaluma High Pressure building in over head on that is going to mean were going to see beautiful weather ahead as we will see more of an offshore component to some of those winds and were seeing a little and now you can see more northerly component in sonoma mill valley since the beach then a or a westerly wind right along the coastline into San Francisco, sfo pacific and now, but overall the trend is going to be more of a northerly component that is going to the next in some nice dry air into the bay area that you keep us fog free, not allow the temperatures to heat up in a hurry for tomorrow as well so get ready and then its going to be hot spots tomorrow and yet we want to be prepared for that mostly clear cool tonight in spots inland a little breezy over the mountain tops and those winds over a 1000 feet probably gusting to 30 maybe 40 Miles Per Hour in some spots, plenty of sunshine them are cranking up the heat by tomorrow afternoon here comes that big dome of High Pressure just laying across california bringing those offshore winds that is going to crank up the heat may be a good 10 degrees tomorrow, and maybe even warmer than that as we get into friday that will likely be the peak of the heat that we start to talk about the weekend and mothers day were going to talk about that forecast coming up in a few minutes guys back to you all right. As Many Organizations shift to virtual some are now dealing with unwanted guests. They are called zoom bombers that is where people join Public Meetings and say or do inappropriate things. It happened at a Berkeley High school last month and now at an east Bay Community college and there are more kron fours gayle ong joins us live. She has details on this scale. And the contra costa Community College was conducting a Virtual Meeting for its students and Community Members weny it was bombed by photography part on graffiti. The meeting was interrupted by a tsunami or somebody essentially hacking into the meeting and taking control of that meeting. On monday about 50 students and Community Members gathered for a virtual town hall to hear about the latest campus updates. Campus Officials Say the hacker was able to get back in the meeting and thats when they ended it immediately and at that point we decided that it was in the best interest of everybody to just. Shut down its not the first time its happened in April Berkeley Unified School District temporarily suspended online Distance Learning via zoom and google me. After a man reportedly appeared naked in a virtual lesson at Berkeley High school it also happened at a church in salem Cyber Security experts say to prevent the socalled zoom bombers one should screensharing for everyone except for the host. And cohost also mute audio and disable video for meeting attendees generate a random meeting id and always use a meeting password back in march, the fbi warned about teleconferencing an onli