County will join the rest of the bay area on friday as the bay area begins the next step there are still more than 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 390 deaths here are the latest numbers broken down by county, sam, a tail San Francisco, marin sonoma and napa counties have all reported new cases today, but no new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. For a complete list of local covid19 cases head over to our website kron 4 dot com at least for now most bay area jurisdictions will follow the same guidelines in terms of slowly winding down the stay at home orders and reopening the economy the last area holdout on opening the door to face to Santa Clara County. But word on that changed today kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom right now with more just a. While panels of the countys move forward Santa Clara CountyHealth Officials said that there were no plans to ease restrictions but that changed today. And it will now allow Small Retail Stores to offer Curbside Pickup for sales, starting on friday so downtown san jose. Another commerce hubs across the south bay will hopefully start to bustle again some businesses will reopen for outdoor Curbside Pickup as Santa Clara County. Enters face 2 of reopening the economy, Public Health officer doctor sara cody says the decision to move into phase 2 is based on indicators that were set by bay area Health Officials and those include a stable or declining trend in new covid19 cases, stable or declining hospitalizations increased testing improve supplies of pp and improved capacity for contact tracing. Our collective effort has significantly reduce the spread in our county. And we now have a little bit of headroom to consciously take another step forward new order will also allow certain other activities to resume, including car parades outdoor museums outdoor historical sites and publicly accessible gardens. The new rules will allow manufacturing warehouse and logistics businesses that are associated to retail. Can also reopened but still in effect customers must wear face coverings and keep at least 6 feet of physical distancing between people people are also encouraged to get tested if they have symptoms are of had contact with someone whose had covid19 or they work in a setting where they have frequent exposure to the virus again big news Santa Clara County, entering phase 2 on friday. Right now live in the newsroom. Im Justine Waldman kron 4 news. Thank you justine in Contra Costa CountyRetail Stores which had been forced to shut down because of the pandemic can reopen tomorrow, certain guidelines will be in effect only Curbside Pickup is available customers must social distance and wear face coverings. Are really asking folks this one i union street or the cooperative with the guidelines not to umass shaming but to lead by example and and uh you know follow all we use the term face coverings because its not always a medical grade mask, but it could be up and down it could be a scarf over your face and we do require at any time youre out in and youre are close to other people. Contra costa countys Health Officer says that they are getting close to 600 tests per day which supports the county entering the next phase, but the goal is to reach 2200 tests per day. Today San Mateo County officially moved into an early phase to expanding the list of businesses allowed to reopen to include for us that meant for example leicesters flowers in the city of coma reopened after being forced to close for an extended period of time for the first time in more than 20 years i happy that hes were able to continue to make deliveries for them and then they can call us. We could take their orders and ran into their car keys. Mel the good yet is who owns the flower shop with her husband says that their store will undergo some modifications to make sure it is in compliance with the health order before bringing her employees back to work inside this relatively small space that she says she plans for leicesters flower shop to be around for another 20 years despite the impact of covid19 on her business, San Francisco mayor london breed visited a Small Business it opened its doors today, thanks to the city now moving into phase 2 of reopening. This is green apple books on 9th avenue in the inner sunset near golden gate park. Mayor breed said she wants to be able to go inside businesses like this and walk around she also said she hopes residents will support local businesses that are offering only Curbside Pickup. Most stores are just some of the businesses that have reopened in San Francisco for Curbside Pickup, but there are other stores less suited for curbside shopping that are also coming back. After 2 months kron fours dan kerman reports for the first time in 2 months, many Retail Stores in San Francisco are open for Curbside Pickup, its nice to see the customers instead of just hearing on the phone or emailing with them for much of the day regular customers have been stopping by just for fun, you know you ballot either to pick up some puzzles or art supplies or to browse the redesign windows for fathers day cards and gifts. Instead of having themed windows which with allies have just brought. Down the street gallery of jewels they too are open for pickup, though here theyve also beefed up their website. Its a temporary solution that needs a longterm fix. Store manager jen rose norberg is hoping theyll be able to allow customers inside within a couple of weeks because she says jewelry doesnt lend itself to Curbside Pickup story of something more personal something thats more intangible you have to hold it you have to feel it you have to feel. The emotions and memories that come through when youre touching or wearing that piece of jewelry just for funds david island degrees Curbside Pickup is not sustainable for the long term. But says hes waiting to see what the city has to say about when and how customers will be able to re enter the store to the north those guidelines are i may have to reset the entire store and remove sections so that i can have social distancing and thats going to be this i love the game now not all stores have reopened along the 24 street corridor, some are still setting up and will open later in the week still for traffic has picked up during the day. In San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Governor newsom announced today, california is relaxing rules for counties which want to push ahead and reopening the economy but those counties must meet new criteria in order to do so the criteria will include counties to have stable covid19 related hospitalizations with a percent change of less than 5 over a sevenday average or no more than 20 covid19 hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks. Counties must also have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 residents in the last 2 weeks or less than 8 of the tests coming back positive in the last 7 days with that all but 5 of the states 58 counties are likely eligible to begin offering in restaurant dining. Were moving into important. A few weeks ahead of us and were going to start seeing a lot more lets just make sure we do it thoughtfully. And very very strategically we see a sudden number of surgeon in the hospitalizations or a number of increase in cases throughout the county. We want to make sure that the counties have thought full plans to be able to potentially reinstitute parts of the stay at home orders that we are loosening a relaxing today. Governor newsom says california could be a few weeks away from professional sports returning but without fans instore shopping open houses of worship and the reopening of hair salons and barbershops but still out of the reopening conversation for now jims tourism and Entertainment Venues in 102 days more than 90,000 people in the u. S. Have died from coronavirus. That is the latest update today from Johns Hopkins universitys covid19 tracker there are now more than 1. 5 million confirmed cases in this country statewide here in california there are now more than 81,000 cases and more than 3200 deaths. President trump now claims that he is taking the malaria drug to protect against covid19 that is despite warnings from his own government of potentially harmful side effects. The president claimed that he has taken hydroxychloroquine for weeks he says his doctor did not recommend the drug he says he requested it from the White House Position that doctor reportedly concluded with the president the benefit outweigh the relative risks, however other highlevel leaders say the president s behavior could be dangerous for a number of reasons. Hes our president and i would rather he not be taking something. That has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his shall we say week group had but hes morbidly obese they say because people take it for a flat that we somehow getting it for for random providers. In having its near consequences medical problems causing. Weeks long hospitalization. Weve had patients who take hydroxychloroquine for whatever disease a half luke this or Rheumatoid Arthritis and he still get covid19 so that should tell us something. Fox news channels neil cavuto urged the networks viewers not to follow the president s example after that meal caboodle was targeted in a series of read tweets from President Trump. But in a new study published in the journal of the American Medical Association it shows that hydroxychloroquine does not work against covid19 and could cause heart problems coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 9 oclock a local doctor will join us live to talk about the risks of this controversial drug. Right now the kron on app is free to download 24 hour local news streaming commercial free, so you can stay informed and updated on the health crisis. Coming up on kron 4 news today criticism mounting over how the leader of the u. S. Has handled the pandemic but the white house says the president is not the problem snow blanketing roads in the sierra we have the latest on this late spring snowstorm plus powerful pictures of pleasanton couple showing what [music] [music] especially in times like these, strong Public Schools make a better california for all of us. Its been more than just a portrait on the front porch for us. Its been sort of documentation of. The people. Yet their homes when they just when they cant do anything and go anywhere. Looking for a way to make an impact a pleasanton couple is photographing families and the tri valley area who are sheltering in place getting a glimpse of what life is like for bay area parents and children during this pandemic as kron fours michelle kingston explains the pictures may be free, but they are powerful. But i think i think theyll remember the good as much as they remember that that this goes on the top of our list of one things weve done together. 8 weeks ago and bill steckel burga pleasanton couple in their 70s decided to start photographing families of the tri valley area as a way to give back make an impact and help their community at a time when they were told to stay inside from a far distance using mullens bill is documenting life at home for families during the coronavirus pandemic this stress to school work the Hand Sanitizer the toilet paper the heroes on the front lines in their messages to their neighbors home people. Years from now look at these pictures and remember that there was some good. Some good times as well as the difficult times and challenges. So far this tecklenburg said photographed more than a 160 families some celebrating birthdays graduations mothers day newborn babies, a new fourlegged family members they do this for free in our most interested in photos of Health Care Workers and First Responders we snow weve seen with their families and. Theyll get home and so have their scrubs honor week when firemen had his turn out each you know, its its just will it be hard to know so its very emotional, sometimes people like christina valley smith, who is a nurse and her husband whos in Law Enforcement and when she asked what my husband and i did she was like. Thats exactly what we want is your families that we want to cater and theyre just dismiss to pull it was amazing. So weve gotten a lot from this that we have no idea whats going to happen. I mean here we were isolated. This is a time when you need to be near family. In our family is all over the country so we had a boy that really got field with this project its been incredible. In pleasanton michelle kingston kron 4 news new testing sites have been announced in the bay area more testing of course is one of the factors used before going into the next phase of reopening california the city of oakland says there will be a new testing site at Allen Temple Baptist church in east oakland. In pleasanton the new testing site will be located at the Alameda County fairgrounds in San Francisco mayor london breed announced there will be 3 new covid19 testing sites a mobile site in the tenderloin a site at city college and another in bayview Hunters PointSan Francisco currently has 2 testing sites. One in the south of market area and one on the embarcadero all of those testing sites are free to the public. Earlier today on kron on we talked with San Francisco district 6 supervisor matt haney about the need for testing in the vulnerable neighborhood in the tenderloin. Ultimately in a neighborhood like the tenderloin were going to be testing here continuously accessible on site in some cases directly for people at their buildings and so this is really a First Step Towards ensuring that the people who need to get tested here in this neighborhood are able to get some many of the people who are have been exposed have not had symptoms. So come out and be tested its free available to all tenderloin residents. It starts this wednesday and you can check out at s f dot gov accessed get tested sf you can sign right out and we really are encouraging encouraging everyone in the neighborhood who wants to be tested to come on be tested. The state of california is also set up a website to find a testing site near you the link to the site can be found. Right there at the bottom of your screen. Mayor london breed also announced the launch of a Meal Delivery program for at risk seniors in need of food assistance, the great place Emergency Food Assistance Program will deliver 3 free restaurant meals every day to seniors while supporting local businesses at the same time. This temporary program will be funded by the state mayor breed released a statement that reads in part quote staying home is especially important for seniors who continue to be at greater risk for covid19 great place to live in sf will provide freshly prepare nutritious meals for our seniors helping to bring much needed business back to some of our local restaurants. The Citys Department of disability and aging Services Estimates that great plates delivered sf with the number on your screen could end up serving more than 6,000 seniors every day. If you are interested in this program and want to learn whether or not you are eligible. Call 4153556700 for assistance. While most of the bay area saw rain over the weekend in the sierra take a look at this a lot of fresh snow is there this video was shot over the weekend and posted on the caltrans twitter account. It was a white out on interstate 80 at the South Yuba River at about 6,000 feet in elevation chain restrictions are in effect for parts of that area and now this live look at interstate 80 in soda springs, more snow and rain is in the forecast we welcome in our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with more on this late spring snowstorm. Lawrence. They have about that guy certainly a lot of exciting weather around the state of course we had a rainier do. One of the Sierra Nevada. Yeah, they got some more snow up there that continues to fall up there tonight, heres a live look outside this one from castle peak you see all those roads are clear but you got to be careful getting up there tonight, it is going to be slick theres more snow on the way in which the storm warnings are up in the Sierra Nevada fact expecting more snow overnight tonight and on continuing small morning maybe into the afternoon. So if youre traveling that way certainly make sure you check on your Road Conditions there may be some issues getting up there who got lot more snow to come to show up on the Doppler Radar there are about above 6,000 feet or so as were seeing that snow. Well see another 2 maybe 4 inches of snow overnight tonight into tomorrow morning and down below it has been all about the rain and the thunderstorms and watt and active afternoon it was acros