The reason was, the person and not travel to any of the regions hit by the outbreak, or come in contact with anyone known to be infected. Epidemiologists say they did expect transmission through community what happen eventually. It does not come as a particular surprise to epidemiologists that study viral, respiratory infections. All of us assumed this would happen eventually. The question is, how extensive is the circulation of the virus . Reporter dozens of hospital workers that came in contact with the patient are being monitored. The hospital issued a statement saying, we launched a meticulous tracing of anyone in the vacaville hospital that had any contact with that patient. Those that met the moderate or high risk category are asked to stay home and monitor themselves for any sign of covid19. The schools in the Fairfield Unified School District are taking precautions. The district has ordered all commonly shared services at each school to be wiped with a disinfectant. This comes after the cdc notified the School District that an outbreak could come. Concerning the community is growing. I was getting a fever. I saw that in the news, and i thought, i should go get checked out by dr. It does worry me. Reporter Health Officials say they are retracing the patients steps, and talking with her she came in contact with. We did identify family members of this individual. They are in isolation, pending testing. They will remain in quarantine for 14 days, same as the last exposure to the patient. That the patients workplace has been fully addressed as well. Reporter officials declared Solano County a local, Public Health emergency. Lessen the risk to the general public is still relatively low. In fairfield, rob roth, ktvu fox2 news. Were learning more about the number of coronavirus cases in california. So far, there have been 33 confirmed cases. Five of the people have left the state. 24 cases were among evacuees flown back to the United States. Some of them are travel related. In one case, the virus was transmitted from a sick person to their spouse, and now there is the single case where the source is not known. Governor gavin newsom held a briefing in sacramento to discuss the case in Solano County, and the other confirmed cases. They say 8400 people are being monitored here in california for possible exposure, while traveling in asia. Given the questions about reported delays in testing that patient from Solano County, Officials Say the federal government sending california substantially more testing kits. The state will also have more places authorized to run those tests. The centers for Disease Control is sending 10 team members to california. We do realize this case we are discussing marks a turning point. As such, we are expanding surveillance activities, increasing Laboratory Capacity with more testing, and we are increasing demands on the medical system. State and federal Health Workers are preparing guidelines for schools and Public Institutions about what to do if there are more instances of Community Transmission of coronavirus. The virus is having an economic toll with the markets now in correction territory. They are down 10 from the recent highs. Companies including apple and microsoft, warning they will take a hit in earnings. As christian tells us, facebook is canceling a highprofile conference in the bay area due to concerns over the virus. Reporter for 10 years, San Francisco has seen its Tourism Industry grow. The travel Industry Leaders say visitors pumped 10. 3 billion into the citys economy. Now the covid19 virus is poised to hit the citys biggest industry. And there is no question, the advent of the coronavirus is impacting travel and tourism. It will impact San Francisco, same as other places around the world. Reporter face announced that due to health concerns, they will cancel the developer conference in san jose in may. Microsoft announced that they would pull out of plans to attend the 2020 Game Developers conference in San Francisco next month. City officials did address the San Francisco travel Association Conference on thursday, saying the Emergency Declaration was a proactive step, aimed at streamlining the citys response, when or if the first case of coronavirus arises. The city is in Constant Contact with the cdc. Safety is the citys top priority. They want to make sure the citys economy is protected as well. We are open for business. We do not have a known threat in San Francisco. We are putting the information out. Reporter the city is reminding the travel industry that there are no confirmed cases in San Francisco. Reliable information about the spread of the disease is the best way to protect the city, those that live here, and those that would visit. We are working, very, very closely to make sure realtime information is provided in a systematic, clear, consistent manner, as it relates to covid 19. San Francisco Police are looking for several people involved in a violent, purse snatching in chinatown. The victim was entering the stockton street tunnel when a car stopped, and the men inside jumped out and wrestled the purse away from her. Andre senior is here with the video that will hopefully help police catch the thieves. Reporter you can see the video behind me, the guys would not give up on their efforts to take someone elses stuff you did not matter to them that the area was under surveillance when they carried out their crime. A terrifying crime in chinatown, 36 seconds of which were captured on camera. A woman, targeted by thieves while walking to the stockton street tunnel from the sacramento street side on sunday morning after 9 00. A dark sedan stops at the entrance of the tunnel, directly under a sign that warns the areas under surveillance. The thief pops out of the vehicle, and walks out of frame. Seconds later, he is seen dragging a woman on the ground. There is a physical struggle over the purse, causing the victim to fall to the ground. The suspect dragged the victim as he was trying to grab that purse on the victim. Reporter a second man jumps from the same vehicle, assisting his cohort and tried to rip the purse away from the woman, who police will describe as an adult female. She was one a contacted police after the incident. We do ask for victims to comply, like in a robbery. She may have been complying, but she may not have been able to remove her belongings. Reporter the city of San Francisco installed 18 new cameras in chinatown, due to a rash of crimes. They are obvious. Maybe the crooks dont notice them, or dont care. Crimes keep happening. Business owner say they are seeing a different business because people are avoiding chinatown due to the coronavirus. The crimes are not helping. A travel agency, classic tours, is located close to the scene of the robbery. He does believe the crimes are being carried out by people from outside the area. It is giving chinatown a bad name. Business owners in the area have organized, sharing information on the social media platform, so businesses in be o and there is a lot of history here. When this happens, it will her business. Reporter the Police Department says they are investigating the purchase purse snatching. The sheriff says they are working on each crime reported in the city. We work just as hard on the cases that you see publicly, as the ones that you do not. Reporter you saw two people in the video. Police believe they are looking for a total of three people, including the driver of the car. San Francisco Police say they do not believe the crime was racially motivated. Are asking anyone that can assist in the investigation to contact the Police Department on their 24hour tip line. Andre senior, ktvu fox2 news. Coming up, an arrest was announced today in the robbery of an elderly, asian man, collecting recyclables in the bay district. What we are learning about the suspect . Drive february is leaving its mark on the snowpack. We have the snow survey results. We will look at the numbers and let you know if we are heading into another drought. We have a beautiful sunset. Temperatures are trending down. Perhaps we can have some rain coming back. We will let you know when that could happen, with the long range forecast. We are looking at the other races on the ballot for next tuesday outside of the president ial race. We are looking at the thursday evening commute on the san mateo bridge. Traffic looks to be moving along well in both directions. Ktvu news at 6 00 will be right back. Steyer wall street banks took advantage of millions of americans during the recession. So, my wife kat and i took action. We started a Nonprofit Community bank with a simple theory give people a fair deal and real economic power. Invest in the community. In businesses owned by women and people of color. In affordable housing. The difference between words and actions matters. Thats a lesson politicians in washington could use right now. Im tom steyer, and i approve this message. We choose to go to the and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. President kennedy knew settling for halfmeasures wasnt good enough. So when candidates say we cant guarantee health care for all, make College Affordable for all, combat climate change, or create a world at peace, remember that america is best when we strive to do big things, even when its hard. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Super tuesday is five days away. A number of democratic president ial campaigns are stopping in the bay area. Mike bloombergs longtime partner, diana taylor, attended an event in San Francisco to campaign for the former mayor of new york city. The event was for female entrepreneurs. She is a former wall street executive, and worked as a superintendent of banks for the state of new york. She did explain why she things that Mike Bloomberg is the right candidate for the democratic nomination. Reporter mike knows, deep in his bones, boosted by all of the women around him, that what is good for women is good for america. He will be a president that lives that. His record proves that. This evening, taylors talking to democrats. The group is the largest Democratic Club in northern california. While all eyes a been on the president ial primary, there are also a lot of important races on the ballot next tuesday. These are races that a californian republicans and democrats have been working on for some time. Greg lee spoke with the chair of both parties about what this primary means. We have a huge opportunity. We need you to give us a chance. Think this is an opportunity to showcase the great diversity that is california. Reporter the chairs of the republican and democratic parties are gearing up for a busy election year, starting with super tuesday. At the top of the ticket as the race for president , while the Democratic Candidates are crisscrossing the state, speaking to voters, their confident in President Trump taking on any of them, especially the front runner, democratic socialist, Bernie Sanders. A in california, there is great entrepreneurial spirit. We are capitalists. I dont think that the message resonates with the people in orange county, or the people that are in the Central Valley that the president was trying to help with the water situation. With the president that attempts to demonize and divide, i think we have a lineup of candidates that are speaking to the real bread and butter issues impacting peoples lives. Reporter the california gop has raised more money online last year than in the last two combined. Their focus . Down ballot races like house seats. It is the same democratic chairman rusty hicks after they led the blue wave in 2018, flipping seven seats in the midterms. we are protecting and preserving those that is important. We are fighting to take back the United States senate and taking back the white house. That darkness has been refilled with excitement and hope. We have just the right amount of people being upset and ready to get back to work. Reporter the strategy for the state parties is fairly simple, knock on doors immobilize voters to get to the polls on super tuesday, and in november. 17,000 new volunteers for the republican party. They are being activated to make sure the Republican Voters are getting out to vote on march 3. It is important that we motivate and empower working people, occasional voters, and young voters, voters of color, to step forward and make their voice heard. Reporter california has a jungle primary. The top two vote getters, regardless of party, advanced to the november election. The data analysts predict voter turnout in california could reach 10 million people, or 50 of registered voters. In the newsroom, greg lee, ktvu fox2 news. Stay with ktvu for complete coverage of super tuesday. Will have the latest results starting at 4 pm. It will continue for the next 7 1 2 hours on ktvu and ktvu plus. A stunning sunset is going on out there. We want to show you where the sunset is coming from. We have high clouds coming in from the south, courtesy of a subtropical environment. This will give you a great sunset. You get these high and middle class. It is coming from the south. The humidity will increase tomorrow. It may feel more muggy tomorrow. Temperatures will be a few degrees cooler. That will mainly be due to the cloud cover. It will seem about the same due to the humidity levels. The plan over the next few days will be for the temperatures to be trending down. That is a good sign for things changing. It has been day after day of temperatures like this. This is sunset. Look at the temperatures. It is 60 degrees right now. That is warm any time of the year. As we look at the temperature departure, it is about the same as yesterday. This is the sunset we were talking about. Do you see that, frank. That is beautiful. This is worth going to your tv to look at this one. These sunsets, when you get the subtropical clouds, you get these really cool things. You get these beautiful clouds. We are looking at the sunset right now. [ laughter ] i know. Stick we would hope for days like this. I saw the kids. The berkeley crew is still out there. I can see cal out there as well. I the way, i hope you get to see this. When we come back, we will look at the forecast for the next few days, and the cooling trend over the weekend. California department of Water Resources conducted the third survey of the season. This month is shaping up to be the driest february on record. Our meteorologist was there, asking the experts if we are heading for another drought. Reporter on a morning that felt like a warm spring day in the sierra, the department of Water Resources conducted is third snow survey of the winter. Phillips station is a short hike off highway 50, and near the tahoe resort. This is one of over 200 snow courses that are monitored. The bible snowmelt supplies about 30 of californias water needs. Just two months ago, winter was off to a great start with the snowpack measuring 90 of average. Since then, this february will go down, ending up as the driest of february in the northern sierra on record. Mack sean is the chief of snow surveys with the department of Water Resources. He walked the snow course, and sampled seven points along the way. We did record a snow depth of 29 inches. We have is no water content of 11. 5 inches. That results in a 47 of an average march. Reporter if you melted the snow, a water depth could be measured. The latest snow water equivalent of 11. 5 inches will help with runoff predictions. The measurement of 43 inches at this time last year illustrates how conditions can quickly change. Does this change mean a drought . We will get concerned over a couple of years. A few dry months, it really does not make a drought. Reporter the major reservoirs are in good shape, things to last years epic winter. Of the 154 major reservoirs, we are 104 of historical average. Reporter the next survey is set for april 1. That is when the water content typically peaks. That will be a key indicator of how much water slept in the sierra. All they can do now is hope for a a miracle march. After the break, we will hear details about a local doctor that is charged with serious sex Crimes Involving children. The allegations against him, and where he worked in the bay area . A suspected motive is revealed in yesterdays deadly shooting rampage at a brewery and milwaukee. It and pass it out to all the cops, throw them against the wall and frisk them. Vo and he blamed the end of discriminatory mortgage practices for the financial crisis. Bloomberg redlining if you remember was the term and dont go into those areas and then congress got involved and local elections were as well and Congress Said it was not fair, people should be allowed to get credit. Vo those policies were racist, and Mike Bloomberg was wrong to support them. But, thankfully, there is a better way tom steyer will be a president for all of america. Tom will use his experience starting a Nonprofit Bank<