It being a dui incident where one driver the driver was arrested. 4 people died. 3 of them were men, one was a woman. One person actually from what were understanding is still at the hospital at this time so it is such a horrific scene that they had to close down traffic for quite some time get the cars off the freeway. In fact they are taking cars off the freeway right now at cala roads you have to negotiate past this area to reconnect to 85. We do know because it was a dui involved accident that alcohol or drugs were possibly a factor in this maybe speed as well there been talking about because there are so few cars on the road at this time that that might been something that caused it that they were probably going too fast at the time as well but obviously were still early on in this investigation. This is such a massive scene darya and james at the Fire Department they had to come out as well they help search the area go through with their flashlights because its still dark at this hour, looking for evidence and they do not expect this seen as far south bound 85 to reopen. Its all at least 8 oclock this morning. Back to you all right, thanks a lot. Well james. All right, lets turn our attention back to our coronavirus coverage we do have some good news for San Francisco and san mateo counties because starting on and a more businesses will be allowed to reopen kron 4 Sarah Stinson is in San Francisco to tell us which ones and how its going to work one of the rules sarah. Well mayor london breed says as long as youre not in a shopping mall. You can now open for Curbside Pickup on live here on Chestnut Street in San Francisco, obviously a popular area for people to come and shop and this is the gap behind me an area where people can shop ensure gaps going to have a much time doing this because they have a functioning website theres a lot of local businesses that dont have a website that will need one because they depend on people walking by walking in and buying things so its going to be interesting but as weve seen restaurants have had to get creative and now its time for retailers, San Francisco and san mateo counties announced that they will be opening up for face 2 of californias. Effort to reopen the economy take a look at your screen you can see the list of counties in the bay area doing so this does not apply to shopping malls. But when the shelterinplace order went into effect many local businesses hato lay off employees making our unemployment rates spike significantly this is a step in the right direction and getting our workforce back to work and our economy back on track. But doing curbside only pick up and wont necessarily be easy for some local shops mayor london breed talked about how the the how there are so many benefits and how you know were getting stronger and heading in to face 2, lets hear from her. And so what this means now for our city is incredible because were talking about many of those Small Businesses in various neighborhoods where you see many of those shops that are closed. They will be able to open for pickup and 4. Curbside pickup and delivery which is going to be incredible. And we also know that they will be allowing manufacturing warehouses to open with a limited number of employee. But all businesses will have to follow a certain set of guidelines including social distancing. And no more than 10 people inside a business at a time like employees, especially if its a smaller business that number could go down as well. It will be a very interesting to see how some of these local businesses adjust to these new guidelines, im sure theyre excited to halfway get back in business but also theyre going to have to debate is it really worth it for me to reopen for Curbside Pickup or my just going to wait it out until we can fully reopen hopefully we can talk to some businesses people out here this morning. See how people feel about it for now live in San FranciscoSarah Stinson kron 4 news today you can check you havent checked yeah, this is one returns sarah so hard for us to know. As these businesses start to slowly reopen so will look for more do you know already. Sorry i couldnt hear you said what led to check on if returns are possible with this new reopening. Yeah that will be interesting for sure i know at least a target. If youre returning so if youre allowed to just kept right on in the store, but you can return it weird policy the okay all right very good sarah. Thank you. And as we continue to follow very latest were keeping an eye on the numbers of course which do continue to climb a sad to say here in the perry locally were looking at a little more than 10,000 confirmed cases with 371 deaths statewide the number of cases now more than 73,000 with almost 3,000 deaths across the u. S. As a whole the number of cases is quickly approaching one 0. 4 million were just shy of that this morning probably topping that by tomorrow and then on the other column, you see the number of deaths weve now exceeded 84,000 if you want to more detailed breakdown of the worldwide numbers or the city by city comparisons and breakdowns just go to our website at kron 4 dot com happening today ousted vaccine director doctor rick bright will testify before congress. He was in charge of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine. Until he was ousted and according to his prepared testimony hes going to explain. Why he is worried this pandemic will get worse in the winter saying that he says he sounded the alarm about this and was ignored and then demoted hes also going to share his belief that the Trump Administration was unprepared. For the pandemic his testimony comes a week after he filed a whistleblower complaint saying he was removed from his post in retaliation because he did not promote a drug that President Trump claimed was a good treatment that was the drug chloroquine President Trump is publicly disagreeing with a member of his own task force doctor Anthony Fauci fauci warned senators that opening states to quickly could have dire consequences, he said without a covid19 vaccine in place in the fall, starting school could put lives at risk fauci advise schools to exercise caution in reopening in making their decisions saying that some may be should an op open at all yesterday, trump declared schools should reopen and he denounced fau shes warning. The cops just playing both sides to its just to me its not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to school. I think they should open the schools absolutely i think they should. 10 very little impact to young people. Doctor fauci has explained in the past that whether its acceptable or not whether we like it or not. The disease. The virus will dictate what happens. Fau she has said his opinions are based in science and also says the president considers multiple spur spect iv when making decisions. More than 770,000 students attending californias 2 Main University systems are not likely to return to campus this fall. On tuesday we found out that the Cal State University system plans to cancel nearly all in person classes and now the university of california is following suit. Yesterday a spokesperson for the u c system says its likely that none of its 10 campuses will fully reopen for the fall semester. And with the majority of classes transition into Online Students and staff will have to adjust to course kron fours Ella Sogomonian spoke with the president s of both san jose and San FranciscoState Universitys about the changes. Cal State University students will have to learn to create an Online Community to substitute the Traditional College experience thats because the Coronavirus Crisis is forcing the School System to host most Classes Online to prevent people from getting badly sick. Despite that some students will still be invited on to campus for courses that require hands on learning. But not everyone can participate in that face to face experience even for the courses for example are face to face there will be students who cannot get to campus. I have because theyre an at risk group or because they live so far away and they cant get here so well accommodate every student you cant make a face to face cost. I will also accommodate a faculty member again because of not risk category that he chased us accommodating physical distancing also means downsizing on campus housing. Which means another major decision will be who can stay at the dorms and what were doing right now is putting together what the priorities might look like. We havent made any decisions about that, but certainly somebody who is in a major where they have to be here for small classes and they out of the where they cant commute were obviously going to be very interested in seeing how we can support some of those students for other students who might live in the and all are in classes where they can take them. Then they probably wouldnt be a high priority but that those are the kinds of questions well be asking looking at some of the numbers and really r r cleaning protocols. Our ability to control safety of students people may be wondering of tuition will change but the s of state president explains. Well its hard to put a price on the traditional classroom experience setting up the virtual experiences, a big Financial Investment moving instruction virtually doesnt save any money it actually cost more than it cost more because we have to invest weekly in the things people need to do well. So this past semester we spent several 100,000 on laptops and hotspots like ice for our students our faculty and staff knew that for long. Now looking at specialized equipment that our students for example need to study her children while the san jose state president believes theres a Silver Lining setting students up for a new working environment thats been sped up by the pandemic. Good news for them about that is when they actually moved into the workforce, they will be moving into an employment market that is very different from what it was. Today twitter announced that its employees of the future will be able to decide whether they work from home in a virtual environment or come due on an actual twitter campus. Sports is a different story given that it requires contact. So thats canceled across the board this fall semester. Coaches will just have to get creative in train them from a distance to make sure that they remain in shape once game day finally comes. In the newsroom Ella Sogomonian kron 4 news. Our coverage of the coronavirus is always there for you on our website at kron 4 dot com just want to remind you of that because were updating it minute by minute as new details come and his stories come in. So check back often to get kron 4 dot com our whole front page has been redesigned to bring you the very latest news about coronavirus whenever you need it. Its 5. 12 and still ahead new concerns over how the coronavirus is impacting children, well tell you what Health Experts are seeing in hospitals around the world across the country and here in california plus preparing for the wildfire season with this pandemic help firefighters plan to keep us safe this summer. Were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Weather is getting warmer and drier across the state california is preparing to juggle the wildfire season along with the coronavirus. Capitol Bureau ReporterAshley Zavala takes a look at half. Well its put many parts of life on pause, the coronavirus isnt stopping californias wildfire season state leaders said wednesday. So far the state has fought more than 1100 wild fires in 2020 response. Prevention and preparedness very simply those 3 things every one of them. Is being invested in despite a billion budget deficit governor Gavin Newsome doubling down on funding boosts for cal fire. The governor wednesday affirming his commitment to appropriate money for 450,000 acres and forced management 600 additional firefighters 26 new fire engines for incident command units and 12 black hawk walked that back just too important in terms of our mutual aid and Public Safety well as state leaders work to make sure covid19 doesnt financially hinder the fire fight the virus will change how state Emergency Management handles future fire evacuations possibly doing them even more ahead of time than usual. Were looking at possibly using hotel. Where we have the opportunity to evacuees in hotels, single rooms. Versus congregating in a large. Sort of like a dormitory or or School Gymnasium which we typically were looking at an event that we do do putting in partitions is segregating appropriately pretty air cleaners and air purifiers in place how much all of this will cost cuts might be made and how it could affect taxpayers governor newsome is set to lay it all out in his updated Budget Proposal thursday. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. 5. 16 right now lets get a look at the weather because things feel a lot different than they chillier fog year and i did see at the house a few sprinkles like it predicted this week john. In some sprinkles out there which i guess maybe drops in the back as far as where should be to get caught up with where we should have been this past winter season as far as rain goes you just i actually story about fire season ahead of us and the latest Drought Monitor does show some modest improvements, thanks to those light sprinkles that we have been say a severe drought still does gripped much of the northern part of the bay area but just abnormally dry conditions for a further southern reaches of areas like Santa Clara County down in Santa Cruz County. So we have seen some modest improvements, but the light showers are going out to 2 but surely from the drier conditions that we did see earlier on in the air this morning, some misty spots right along the coastline, youre getting a better view now at San Francisco, the top of the sales first hours of spirit and thought moments ago now you can actually see it so theres fog ebbing and flowing right along the coastline watch for some foggy areas on the highway one off the coast and then one o one as you head up into the north bay as we have seen some dense fog at times up in the north bay, especially a fog lifts burns off into the afternoon and you will get some sunshine and theyre a mixed in with those clouds that will be pretty persistent through the day. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures oakland, the warm spot at 60 degrees. Well one 40 on the bow actually 2 of assailants elmo now dropping to 49 degrees and say oh lead to a 48 degrees currently so this is your cloud cover sitting across mo of the bay area where overall pretty quiet. This morning so for essential travelers roadways are dry at the time you are seeing some light sprinkles right offshore Sonoma County that will work their way on inland throughout the course of the morning. What this means for us is that we could have some wet spots at times for some of our north bay road ways towards the latter part of the boarding our first system still sitting right off to the northwest off the coast of oregon. This Second System though that i have drawn out well offshore is actually going to be making its way our direction of the latter part of the weekend. And this one is really going to be talking with that a lot more rainfall than what weve been seeing the past couple days so from just a couple scattered sprinkles today lingering on to what will be widespread rainfall looking likely into sunday and for the north bay, some pretty good showers look likely as well. A future cast of rainfall total shows you that i that i would work our way into sunday we could see well over half an inch of rainfall for the north bay anywhere from a quarter of an inch to just over half an inch of rainfall for the rest of the bay area too so thats some good rainfall considering what time of year it is working our way into maine now well take it. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s for your highs today, its a comfortably cool once a keep the jackets on and tomorrow and saturday youre warmer days before cast your days to enjoy some sunshine as you step outside while sunday and monday seeing cooler temperatures and the uh the return of some rain back to you guys in the studio. Thank you john if you need to travel on a plane make sure to bring a mask most Major Airlines are now requiring passengers to wear them inside the terminal and in the plane and kron fours is he doing explains more. Most Major Airlines are now requiring passengers to wear facial coverings upland boarding the plane, im a fan of it i think anything we can do to help protect ourselves and everyone else we should. Do a census is going to National Airport spokesperson doug april says facial coverings are now a part of the new normal for air travelers in the covid19 here really what were seeing is more and more airlines all migrating to that place where you need