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Mistaken, the foghorn buddy . I will have to check. Foghorn boogie . We do have low clouds in place, 40s and 50s on temperatures, it will be cooler as the fog bank has a pretty good wrapup, inland 70s but the coastal bay getting into the 50s now and off to the 60s. Cell sal is here now. Amazingly it looks like a normal day. People on the road, some people may be avoiding transit and taking a car, that is my educated guess, ridership on the transit is down but, the traffic here looks about normal at the bay bridge which is to say 10 minutes 50 minutes for a delay north and south looking okay, no trouble getting to the airport, highway 4 slow, so is the 680, i noticed that slow traffic along the same corridors for Park Services are available on some of the other areas, we dive into that a little more in just a few months. Now lets go back to the desk. More breaking news, the market had a very tough morning, so much so they actually halted trading out of the gate and is reopened, actually down 9 at one time well over 2000, down 19 and change, down 8 , the coronavirus fears seems to be the big issue, President Trump announced a ban for the United States, wall streets did not agree or did not like what the president had to say, the markets again reacting today. A tough day, we will keep a tough eye on it for sure. We have word from congress the complex is being closed to the public for the spread of the coronavirus. It will stay close to the public until april, this includes all senate and house offices, the closure begins at 5 00 eastern tonight. Lawmakers affected and journalists and lawmakers will be the only ones still allowed in, again, the capital is closed to the public but as of right now, it looks like the business of washington if you will continues so certainly things are changing minute by minute. Lets focus on the number of new coronavirus cases reported around the bay area. Health officials in Santa Clara County with three new cases there. Bringing the Santa Clara County to 48. There are three cases there so far two more patients diagnosed in santa cruz four cases there 77 patients diagnosed in california four people have died. And advisory in the coming weeks recommending canceling and postponing gatherings to people of 250 more through the end of the month. Organizers create central distancing meeting people should not get closer than six feet from one another. Gatherings of people at higher risk should be limited to 10 people while also following the social distancing policy. The advisory with essential public transportation, Shopping Centers and dormitories. Specs of the biggest readily scheduled crowds around the country are major sporting events, the coronavirus is now affecting those, later today the National Hockey league could announce plans for the rest of the season after we saw the nba chuck many by postponing the rest of the season yesterday. Lets bring Elissa Harrington live at chase center in San Francisco where the warriors played last night. A shocking decision, what happened tonight is the warriors were scheduled to play the Brooklyn Nets but the game has been canceled, the entire season was postponed after rudy gobert preliminarily tested positive for coronavirus. Stunning video emerged mocking the coronavirus earlier in the week, he touched a bunch of microphones and recording devices to prove he was not scared of getting sick. That was monday. The player was sent to have coronavirus. Sending fans home, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks was courtside when he got the news. Not necessarily about basketball. Bigger than basketball. I am concerned about whether my kids have school or not are doing the right thing. Certainly a black swan event in my experience. So, you know, best all becomes a secondary. Reporter we are also waiting to hear how Major League Baseball response. Days released a statement saying theyre working on alternative plans because the city prohibits public gatherings of 200 people or more, the state of california recommended limit is even smaller. The regular season begins march 26. The as versus the giants canceled because of crud restrictions here in San Francisco. Live the chase center, Elissa Harrington, fox 2 news. I misspoke. They did not play last year. Panel change. The restrictions apply to men and women. Many conference tournament will be played this week without offense. Princess cruiseship people doctoral finally got today, 2200 passengers taken off the boat since one. It includes other military bases where they will also be quarantined. Its crazy, crazy for us to open up the back of the dhl doors and see that they look like they are tired and ready to go. They look like they were set up with whatevers going on and wanted to be over. The cdc expects to release the ship sometime today but it is unclear where it will go, the 1100 crew members may be quarantined at see. So the grand princess passengers with no symptoms could be transferred and said carlos. San mateo county officals say it is an ideal location because i hold up to 120 people and patients can be isolated from the public. So far none of them tested positive for the virus but a state of emergency workers say they want to be ready for any possibility. We have individuals testing positive currently at the air force base with a location i go to to receive alternate care until they are quarantined and that expires. That is what this facility will be a. California has a Good Public Health system but there is no reason to put people in hospitals if they do not need that level of care. The Trump Administration taking sweeping action and an attempt to limit the spread of the coronavirus here in the United States. First by batting foreign travelers from 26 European Countries. To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days. The president said travelers from europe with a ban have exemptions allowed for u. S. Citizens and it will not apply to the united kingdom. President trump announced Financial Relief for committees with School Events and businesses already affected. Back to wall street, stocks sharply lower as trading resumes, this comes with fears as many that the government is not doing enough to contain the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. We are going to share numbers with you now that we have not seen even with the past over two weeks of extremely volatile trading. The dow jones down by about 2000 points losing about 8 1 2 . Trading halted 50 minutes earlier, today it resumes but the numbers are going even lower. President trump addressed the nation and the world last night saying he was imposing a travel ban in europe and offers new measures to help contain the impact of the United States but clearly its not enough to reassure wall street or individual investors as we see the dow jones down by almost 2000 points. The story is very similar on the s p, that index down by almost 7 have , the nasdaq faring a little better if you can call a drop of 7 a little bit better, clearly a changing situation is why we are blocking the numbers of the dow jones on the lefthand corner of your screen, we are busy putting together a number of businesses im sure in dollars and cents so stay with us for that. Lets go to washington dc because as we reported a minute ago, there is a major effect on congress here, Congress Closing capital and all Office Buildings to the public here until april 1. This comes from coronavirus concerns. The house and Senate Sergeant at arms said in a statement the closure begins tonight. Now, the business of washington as of right now is expected to continue. Lawmakers, aides, journalists and official visitors will be allowed into the building, the public is not, stated says officials are acting out of concern for the health and safety of congressional employees as well as the public. If you can tell, the story changes minute by minute, if you have to leave you can take us with you, we have much more on the coronavirus locally and a much larger scale on the news app, if you have not already now is a good time to download at the app store or your smart device. Was take a breath and get you outside and check traffic with sal at 7 11. What do we have . We do have some traffic, i heard from a lot of people say for example, a registered nurse cannot work from home. Obviously. A lot of people cannot. Also, some people avoiding transit, lets go to the bay bridge. You can see traffic is backed up as it normally would be. Two weeks ago we would expect to see it at 7 00 in the morning, the pattern has been, early in the morning then later after 8 00 it starts to clear up if you want a way around it could benefit you, this is a look at interstate 880, you can see traffic will be okay. Highway 4 closed. These commutes are beginning to look normal, you know it is not normal . Hayward to fremont, that traffic in the Silicon Valley commute is not normal, there is a section that would be 87 northbound driving through the guadalupe parquet, avoid this, plenty of good alternates like the monterey highway, avoid the guadalupe parkway into downtown because of an accident near curtner. 7 12, lets bring steve back in here. Thank you. Its all about the fog. Plenty to go around, the coastal bay will cool down today, and will still get some 70s, 50s and 60s with the fog bank right over the hill. Plenty there, there wasnt any yesterday but there is today. Looks like low clouds and then we are on the move the next couple days. Southern california, rain, heavy rain, also phoenix and scottsdale, if youre going to spring training it does not look good there, 30s, 40s any temperatures, 50s from the airport, both 39 degrees, a little bit of fog also inland, not too much, most of it the coastal bay, it will be picking up in intensity the next couple of days, when system kicks out and another one is set to move in but not until the weekend, that is when we see the system drop in for a big change, rain develops at low snow levels. It is now 7 13. A big fund on a tiny object. Giving back what scientist discovered trapped in a piece of amber and why one paleontologist says this blew her mind. Continuing the coronavirus coverage as many schools across the bay area are keeping schools safe, why the Oakland School district to decide to keep campuses open, stay right there. The best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. A firefighter for the city of alameda has tested positive for the coronavirus. The city says the person is in quarantine and county Health Officials are working to identify anyone who might have had close contact. The city of alameda has canceled or postponed large events, at least four people in Alameda County have not tested positive for the virus. The oakland unified School District is not Closing School due to coronavirus as of right now. Officials say there are no confirmed cases in oakland public schools, there are two student cell quarantined to have not tested positive for the virus. District leaders say Health Officials recommend that schools are prepared to do so. In these two cases, they have not recommended Closing Schools, if we get the recommendation that they say we should close schools will close schools because of this situation, what we know about it, we have not determined it is necessary to close the schools. Schools will remain open the district is suspending or delaying activity with more than 100 people. The district says it is still considering what to do about School Sporting events. , State University ending facetoface classes through march 23. The goal is to give faculty and staff sufficient time to begin preparation to teach students online if the Virus Outbreak gets worse, this decision mirrors actions taken by chico state, san jose state and other universities as a response to what is now being called a Global Pandemic. Classes at sonoma state will resume march 24 after the scheduled spring break. Happening today, almighty schools links to San Francisco will start a twoweek closure, it affects all students from kindergarten to High School Seniors in Catholic Schools in marin, San Francisco and san mateo county, the closures include classes as well as plans School Events, field trips and community activities, the decision was made after a student at one school tested positive or the coronavirus, families will be reporting any other confirmed cases of the virus to the district. San francisco unified School District shutdown what Elementary School for the next couple of weeks. Four students at lakeshore Elementary School and some of the parents have reported having respiratory illnesses. The department of Public Health has tested the student for coronavirus but the test results not come back yet. Students and their families are supporting, the board of education will have a closed meeting with Public Health officials later today. Happening today, a decision to follow other major cities canceling large gatherings. Right now it is unclear whether wrestlemania will go on as planned. Wrestlemania is set for april 5 and 70,000 people have planned to attend. The city said the flagship wwe event would still happen. Lets get you outside to check in with sal and youre reportedly traffic. All right frank, good morning to you. We do see people on the road and i have a feeling some people are driving instead of using transit based on stories we have been doing, you have seen the bart station noticeably less crowded this morning and the roads around here, 24 through lafayette we have some cloudy conditions even though some people are working from home, you are expected to be lighter, this is a look at the bridge, the traffic is okay, bay idge packed up, looks like it normally would at any morning. This could be three weeks ago or so, traffic is moving okay, the last few days what has happened is after 8 30 or so, things have lightened up. Also looking at interstate 880, traffic moving well with the airports of, the 880 any 101 it also san jose all looking decent. 7 20, lets go to steve. We will take a look to the mountains, this looks like the weekend, a big sierra snow events. A little bit of rain but looks to be more of a snow with at least right now. Much cooler 50s to give you a heads up, lower snow levels is rain returns saturday, the sierra, i would double maybe triple some of these projections going into early sunday, 14 already and lake tahoe, projections of maybe 34 feet by to next tuesday, we get rain here, most of it falls sunday and that is a lot. Just be advised there will be winter storm warnings probably different for travel in the mountains as we get towards saturday and sunday into monday and tuesday, today, the fog is back. Lease for us, Southern California, it will be a lot of rain, pretty thunderstorm activity which will be developing, spring training does not look good. Also scottsdale. 40s and 50s, a lot of low clouds and fog. The system in some california. A wide variety of rain clouds in thunderstorms, we get the fog to fertile. Rain develops this saturday and it will be a much colder pattern and it looks like it will stick around into the middle of next week. 60s for some the coast and at the bay, 70s inland, fog will be a bigger impact friday as we started cool down as we get you into the weekend. 7 21, the art and music tech festival sxsw is canceled but, people who bought tickets will be getting their money back. Coming up, find out what they can get and why ticketholders should be surprised theyre not getting a refund. Training results on wall street results just this morning, the second time this happened in a week, coronavirus pandemic fears continue to rock the market. The dow jones is down again by almost eight whole percentage points, we are staying on top of stocks and will have more after a short wait. Which of your devices are protected by daily security updates . Daily security updates. Daily . I dont know. The only thing. Im struggling with this. 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Two officers jumped out of a car and when officer saved an overdose victim with narcan, a drug designed to reverse opioid overdose, the other arrested a suspected dealer across the street to the person was violating a restraining order and was caring 85 grams of drugs. Jury deliberations continue today for the trial of gently call who was found guilty this week of the murder of 18year old neil wilson in 2018. He was also convicted of attempt to murder for stabbing wilsons sister. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His attorney wanted to call a doctor to stand and testify in his defense. The judge denied the request. The sister latifah says the jury does not need to hear from any more doctors. I do not believe a doctor needed her. I mean, if he can sit and be quiet in a courtroom, for two whole days and not make grandmo attack him, what is a doctor needed for . If the jury finds him saying he will face life in prison without parole, otherwise he will be sent to a Mental Health facility. A new unusual species of dinosaur has been found at a site with paleontologists, they found a tiny skull trapped in amber, the fossil is a flawless dinosaur from the mesozoic era, it is believed to be smaller than a hummingbird. Its also unusual because it has really big eyes and lots of tiny teeth which leads experts to say they think it was a predator. We continue coronavirus coverage this morning, air travel dramatically affected by the pandemic certainly, coming up we show you how the airlines are easing rules for upcoming flights and what is happening on airplanes these days. As coronavirus fears increase, more people are working from home, we show you how they are preparing at the Grocery Store. Wherever we want to go, we just have to start. Autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Hospitals looking for new ways to stop the spread of the coronavirus. New processes in San Francisco. Ridership drops because of fears of the kroner virus what to do about the lost revenue. Good morning and one, im frank mallery. A busy morning and we bring the dow jones down by more than seven have , training was halted in a 6 00 our. Steve paulsons. You would think the weather would be the big story today. It will be on the weekend. Okay. By then we can fully close. Unfortunately, springtraining activity yesterday, not a go. I dont think it will be today if you go down the, Southern California watch it. Pretty good thunderstorms today. Big changes living for the weekend i have more that coming up. 60s and 70s today. Sal is here now. Some areas quieter, others cloudy, would you like to begin. We do have slow traffic here including the san rafael bridge. Some other bridges here, the bay bridge backed up, this looks normal with a lot of people going into the office. Some people are avoiding transit and taking a car instead. That is what we hear anecdotally and it makes sense because transit numbers are down. Traffic is staying up there. You can see the commute on highway four for example is slow lets go back to the desk a new statewide policy for events that could draw large crowds. The advisory recommends canceling or postponing gatherings with 250 people or more from now until the end of this month. It says the smaller events should have organizers making sure people can stay at least six feet apart. Would also suggest people at higher risk should not attend events with more than 10 people. To still maintain a six foot distance requirement. The coronavirus cases we know about nationwide, Washington State has the most confirmed cases with 366. It is followed by california, new york and massachusetts. There were only six states that did not have any confirmed cases of the coronavirus. This morning, colonel cruise lines suspending operations on the Princess Cruises amid the coronavirus operate. All of this comes as the passengers on the grants Princess Cruiseship docked in the port of oakland and they will take off from the ship today. All Princess Cruiseship will be docked may 10, earlier this morning heard the president of Princess Cruises explain what will happen. We will take our fleet of 18 ships out of service and resets the environment conditions on board. Incorporating all the great learnings from the world Public Health experts. Like the world health organization, u. S. Center for Disease Control prevention and the Japanese Ministry of health. Passengers currently on board the princess cruise that led to the next five days will continue to sail as expected through the end of the crews. Anything scheduled past march 17 will and early and customers who book trips for later this year can get refunds or credit for future trips. Leaders asking for Emergency Funding for various Government Agencies to make up for a steep drop in revenue. A big drop in ridership the past month because of concerns about the coronavirus. Allie rasmus joins us live at the walnut creek bart station with more. Reporter we just lost her. We will check in with her momentarily. She has the transmission networking. Kaiser permanente providing driver testing for the coronavirus for people with respiratory symptoms. A video from a Similar Service being provided in south korea, the bay area largest Healthcare Provider raised tense tents outside the facility when patients with Doctors Orders can drive up and get tested. Sites are meant to prevent patients with symptoms from walking into the facility where they can potentially expose others. Nurses from several local hospitals are protesting the government response to the coronavirus. A national day of action was stage demanding better protection for nurses stations and the general public, that protesting guidelines for healthcare workers dealing with patients with the coronavirus. The nurses also say hospitals are not doing enough to make sure they have the proper equipment and training needed. Obviously we need to protect nurses to do their job well and if we can protect ourselves, we will do the best job for patients and make sure they get the best care, there is no lapses in care, no missing care. No contamination. Nurses say they have been trained in hygiene and isolation procedures but do not think there is enough Information Available and said they do not feel supported. They also have contacted osha and other federal agencies over their concerns. Back to our b. A. R. T. Story, b. A. R. T. Will ask for Emergency Funding for various Government Agencies to make up for a steep drop in revenue, the tragic agency has seen a big drop in ridership because of concerns of the coronavirus. Live in a r train right now with more on that. Reporter b. A. R. T. Has seen a 30 drop in ridership over the past month. So theres about 200,000 bart riders taking trains now on a tuesday. Weekday morning. Compared to almost 400 more than 400,000 about a month ago. We are on board a b. A. R. T. Train, we left the station about lets go. We are heading toward San Francisco, we are talking about if they noticed if its an unusual. How different is it now compared to a month ago . Compared to normal just before this happened, it was packed solid. No seats, even the handicap seats were taken. It would be full. He would have to crush to get on the train. Reporter a lot of people are told to work from home and some meteor driving because they do not want to take b. A. R. T. , what precautions are you doing differently . I have to be at the office so i take precautions with Hand Sanitizer, i have wipes i use. Just something kind freaky. Reporter we noticed people wearing gloves. Few people with masks. I have Hand Sanitizer in my purse. I try not to touch things after food, after i wash my hands. I see people with hats and gloves and masks, but i have not seen gloves yet. But i have seen masks. Usually i go to walnut creek and by the time we get to walnut creek, it is packed solid. Reporter when did you start noticing it getting lighter . Just this week or last week . Last week i noticed last week. Every day its lighter and lighter. More and more empty. Reporter thank you so much for talking with us. So b. A. R. T. Said they are trying to alleviate some of the fears of coronavirus and illnesses by setting up Hand Sanitizer stations, dispensers at all 48 stations. But b. A. R. T. Says about 60 of the budget comes from the fares so when you see a drop in ridership its pretty challenging financially for the station. Sweep up to a b. A. R. T. Representative who says they will reach out to bay area local, state, and federal leaders to see what kind of Emergency Funding might be available to them because of the coronavirus pandemic. They will try to seek funding to keep finances intact. Live on board a b. A. R. T. Train heading towards the tunnel, im allie rasmus, we will send it back to you. Nice job there. This morning eu leaders condemned President Trumps decision to restrict travel from 26 European Countries to the United States. European leaders say the president should have consulted with them because the virus is a Global Crisis requiring cooperation. President trump blame the eu for failing to take precautions to restrict travel from china and they say as a result travelers from europe and brought the coronavirus to the United States. Top Public Health officials and members of Congress Speak about the outbreak yesterday. This is a really serious problem we have to take seriously. I mean, people say the flu does this, the flu does that. The flu as a mortality of zero. 1 . This has a mortality of 10 times that. House democrats introduced legislation that will provide support to people affected by the virus including free testing, paid sick leave and funding increases to food. Legislation is scheduled for a bump later today. Vice president pence spoke of the present decision to travel ban from europe the next 30 days. Every american returning from europe will be screened as they return through 13 separate airports and, will be asked to self quarantine 14 days. The Vice President also said the Trump Administration is supporting state and local efforts in states such as california and washington where the number of coronavirus cases is high. Is the number of cases of coronavirus increases, so does the concern in many communities. People across the country stocking up on cleaning supplies. In alameda we spoke to a tech worker making sure he had enough groceries after his employer said everybody should work from home for the next two weeks as a precautionary measure. Surprisingly there is not that many people at the Grocery Store. But, there is also not a lot of pasta. That was interesting to see. The employee we spoke with says while he is prepared to work from home the next two weeks, his employer says they may extend the guidelines. A minute ago we saw allie rasmus on board a train, sal, the middle of the morning commute and theres plenty of room to stand and sit which you never see. Do you remember when we took the train to the super bowl from like marriage . Put your elbow to elbow. Its not happening. I think i know where people are going, they are driving. Its not a stretch to i want to show you this picture, lets take a look together here. Highway 24, crowded in the corridor were the b. A. R. T. Transit runs but you know, you really cannot blame some people. Maybe you are in a group or you just may be are in a situation where you just cannot be in a High Risk Group you have to drive, heres a look at the richmond bridge. This is a look at 80 westbound. Pretty crowded in the middle of the morning commute, this looks about the same as it what a normal day, cloudy at the bay bridge, to the east bay and we have crowding, 80 south with a crash and the northbound 87 there was an earlier accident, that is why i would suggest avoiding guadalupe parkway if another way instead of that. Some of the other freeways in the south bay are lighter than usual. What about the weather today i asked . I know the man with the answer. A little cooler, you know coast and pay five was take a look at the toyota tahoe report. This time we have something to talk about. Not so much today, 20s and 30s on temperatures police 23, tomorrow partly cloudy skies and snow be on the go and saturday and the sunday i dont think we go very far sunday. Maybe 3000 feet or 2500 feet looking like a major serous no event better late than never, so these projections, that is just sunday morning. I think you could double or triple amount as we head towards tuesday and wednesday of next week, there are projections of 5060 inches of snow over the next 10 days up in the sierra. For us, we will get some rain, this looks more like a crs snow event, look at that, almost 3 inches, 36 inches of snow, the colder system. Really . Okay. Back to you guys. All right we will take it from here we are staying on top of breaking news from the stock market Trading Halted this morning for the second time this week, up next, and cook joins us for todays dollar incense to explain how the economy is reacting to the coronavirus pandemic. Also the coronavirus disrupted peoples routines and Blood Centers are feeling the effects, what specifically they are asking for and how they are working to make sure the coronavirus will not spread in their facility. Which i with mike for a look at what is coming up at the 8 00 hour. Good morning to both, the president suspending travel for most of europe for 30 days starting tomorrow night. Right now, many people are rushing to catch flights back to the u. S. The extreme summer going to to get back to the states. Then coming up viruses are not racist. They will get anyone, right . A call to put an end to misinformation about coronavirus affecting Asian Americans. We hear from journalists and advocates, we find out more after the break. The best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. 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Certainly a big impact, the general consensus is morning is the president did not do enough to leave concerns about not only the spread of the virus, but the Economic Impact as well. Trading was halted after the opening bell rang this morning for 15 minutes because the s p 500 dropped more than 7 , 8 actually so the First Circuit breaker kicked in to prevent a bigger slide. Taking a live look at the market right now, hovering at about that level, the dow jones down seven have , 1700 points there, the s p 500 down 6 1 4 right now. The nasdaq well below 7000 483 points on the nasdaq starbucks providing employees with benefits if they are affected by the coronavirus or the stress with access to Mental Health resources and compensated for any scheduled ships they miss because of the virus. The Employee Assistance program has counseling for members of the household and also added a Meditation App headspace subscription to support Mental Health. United Airlines Security to billiondollar loan to help a significant drop in bookings, the airlines being hit some of the hardest by the coronavirus say looking for travel within the u. S. Is down 70 and down 100 for travel to asia and europe. The united president with a 20 schedule cut for me and other airlines are cutting schedules and expecting losses for the quarter. Air asia taking a different approach to the coronavirus by offering free and discounted plane tickets. The Discount Airline based in malaysia offers the promotion across routes in asia and australia, they say they routinely hold major sales several times a year, for travel of july 2021. While Major Airlines struggle to have passengers, one is doing very well, private jets, Charter Company say they are seeing as much as a 25 increase in demand after the airlines cut flights, many private jets are flying the same routes and Major Airlines but they have more flexibility with departure and arrival times and of course my private. Travelers with a way to reduce exposure to the coronavirus. A short time ago before i came in, American Airlines announced its capping fares on several flights from europe, we talked about the rates to get home amid the travel ban and flights a bit ridiculous. 20,000. Yes. American airlines kept the fair and the other airlines hopefully they are expecting to do the same. Thank you we will see you again sim. Pam touched on this but we will share how Airline Passengers do not have to worry about getting a seat or finding overhead bin for their luggage these days. A man boarding a plane in salt lake city. He posted a video to twitter showing there were more than 100 antiseats on his flight. Seats are becoming empty more common as many people decide to stay home. Pam reported on this but as far as people willing to fly there are bargains out there for people looking this month and even a few weeks out, sometimes airlines let you look even farther in advance so if that is your thing you may want to look online for flights now. Nationwide people are urging people to continue to donate blood amid the her coronavirus topic. Blood Bank Officials say all blood types are needed, especially type o and platelets. Blood donation sites a people who visit mainland china, south korea, iran and italy in the past month should not give blood and anyone sick or thinks they may have been exposed to something with coronavirus should also postpone blood donations for now. Lets get you out on the highways and check in with sal to see how we are doing. It is crowded out there and some commutes. I see the bay bridge for example is not light, you can see slowing tablets go there right now. Traffic is backed up this morning and has been, the typical commute lets say six until now, it probably will stay that way, the last few days it has been lightning up at about 8 30 or so, well see if that happens, the 880 is slowing down, if anything, commutes are looking more normal than they did yesterday, more people coming, a couple issues, couple problems, southbound 880 on the way to stephenson, traffic is slowing down and that is why its so there, the south is recovering now from slow traffic here. Now, lets go to steve with todays weather. Thank you. The fungus back so a cooler coastal day, a big news for the weekend to give you a heads up. You might want to go friday. It probably will not happen. By the time we get to late saturday and sunday, there will be some really impressive snowfall out there, we will get some rain but this is more of a snow event that a rain events, lower snow levels, much cooler conditions on the way. Cooler close to the bay with fog, spring training does not look good, it was rained out yesterday and a lot of rain is down in arizona right now and Southern California. Temperatures on the coast in the bay will be coming down after mid 60s near 70s yesterday, not so much today, some rain towards santa cruz yesterday. That is all a shot of the bay area, 70s one more day and then a cool down then big changes coming. Thank you for that. We are going mobile, coming up we show you the new mobile only cafe that just opened in San Francisco. Many schools across the nation are canceling classes amid the coronaVirus Outbreak. Many students are feeling the impact. Coming up, why they say they are left without a place to stay. 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Do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on wherever we want to go, we just have to start. Autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Officials at the sxsw announced today will not refund people with tickets, and austin, texas they canceled last week. The organization turned to conditions noting event organizers do not issue refunds under any circumstances. Ticket buyers do not need to panic, the company allows them to defer tickets to use in a future sxsw conference for the year 2023. So far disney says it has no plans to close theme parks in Southern California or florida, disney says it is monitoring the coronavirus situation and is in contact with Health Agencies for information and guidance, the company says it is implemented measures at disneyland and disney world such as adding Hand Sanitizer and increasing the frequency of cleaning. Universal studios theme park also remains open in both california and florida, the company says its enhancing cleaning procedures as well on rides and attractions and restaurants and stores. It also increase the number of hand sanitizing units at the parks. Traditional lighting sermon is available flame increase happens today but it will be held without any spectators. Only 100 guests will be on hand to witness the 20 2011 torch lit in Ancient Olympia the birthplace of the olympics. The official for the olympics in tokyo says at least for now the games will move forward as scheduled on july 24 but he says, with the health crisis, if it gets worse, it would be better to postpone the games rather than cancel to hold an event without spectators to u. S. Soccer apologizing after the federation characterized female players as inferior to the male players. The National Womens team protested before the game against japan last night wearing warmup jerseys inside out to hide the u. S. Soccer crest. An emotion filed monday night they argued the women are not entitled to equal pay sing the mens job requires a higher level of skill based on speed and strength and not the womens. He apologized for the offense and pain caused by language in the file. The California Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit calling for declaring Martins Beach and or Half Moon Bay public property. The lawsuit filed by a Group Called Friends of Martins Beach said the family that owns the beach more than seven years open to the public. The current owner, a venture capitalist, purchased the beach in 2008 and closed it to Public Access two years later in 2010. Another lawsuit is still pending by the California Coastal Commission Also trying to get the beach declared public property. Caught on camera, frightening moment, a mountain in northern colorado. The deputy was responding to help a victim who was attacked by the very say Mountain Lion. The first victim was taken to the hospital, the deputy who responded was then bitten on the shoulder, the Mountain Lion was later shot and killed. Both of the people bit are going to be okay. Did you catch the masked singer last night . If you did not and you are willing to watch it, you are going to have to wait your turn right now or at least turner had, we are about to show you who was revealed in last nights episode. If you do not want to find out just yet, turn away. Oh my god look at fat. He put that on. The bear was the former governor in 2008 sarah palin. Not tina fey. Nick can and the judges said this is probably the most shock they have ever been on in the program. Sarah palin says sir mix a lock baby got back. You can watch the masked singer right here at 8 00 on ktvu fox 2. Stocks continue to drop over coronavirus fear. The final 300 passengers on the grand Princess Cruiseship finally let off the ship. The scene at the port. Of they can hotel on the peninsula used as a quarantine facility for some of the grand princess passengers, why state emergency workers say this is the best location to keep the community safe. Welcome back to mornings on 2. You can tell behind us a little bit of sun the weather is changing. We have fought back today some areas in the 70s. The coastal bay probably 56 with a low cloud deck making a pretty good push this morning after not being there at all. There will be some big time rain and thunderstorms in the city force. The fog retreats back to the coast, 50s and 60s inland. Pennsylvania 70s. Sal has an update on traffic. We have traffic upper believe it or not, a lot of people are in their cars this morning which could be correlated with your people on trains. Lets go to highway 24 as you drive through. Most people in their cars here as you head towards the oakland area from walnut creek, fog and a little traffic and the bay bridge is crowded, we will have more traffic in just a few. Lets go back to the desk. 300 passengers remaining on the grand Princess Cruiseship doctor the port of oakland are expected to finally disembark today. So far, 2200 passengers have been taken off of the ship since one monday. We go live to the port of oakland for the latest on the story, good morning. A busy week here at the port of oakland, more than 2000 people have left the grand Princess Cruiseship since it docked here at the port on monday. Now the plan is to get 300 or so still on board off this morning and into designated quarantines across the country. This as city leaders across the west set limits on Public Events in the california governor advised similar restriction statewide saying nonessential gatherings must be limited to more there 250 people. People need to say only six feet apart. The mayor of San Francisco and oakland have bans on events of more than 1000 people, theaters canceling performances, sporting events and conventions have been called off or postponed, twitter in the San Francisco chronicle enjoy your list of companies telling staff to work from home. In washington, gatherings in seattle area capped at 250 people at 53,000 students who attended the Seattle Public School have been told to stay home at least the next two weeks. Just an hour ago the governor of oregon announcing all events with more than 250 people are being canceled statewide. No fatalities in oregon but hardhit washington now reporting 366 covid19 cases and 29 fatalities, the death toll there almost tripling in the past week. Three deaths here in california, 180 confirmed cases, 1000 up and down the coast being monitored and off of the coast to because when this cruiseship leaves oakland, 19 crewmembers tested positive for covid19 and they are staying on board the cabin and quarantining at c. They are not showing any symptoms yet. A short time ago, Princess Cruise Lines announces it is canceling all cruises at least the next month. Back to you. Some of the grand princess passengers with mild or no symptoms to be transferred to a hotel and sent carlos. San mateo county officals say it is an ideal location because i hold 120 people and patients can be isolated from the public, so far none of them tested positive for the virus but state emergency workers want to be ready for any possibility. If we have individuals testing positive currently at the Travis Air Force base, we have a location they can go to to receive alternate care until they are quarantined here and it expired. As with the facility will do. Officals say california has a Good Public Health system but there is no reason to put people in hospitals if they do not need that level of medical care. The Trump Administration is taking sweeping action in an attempt to limit and control the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. Its banning foreign travelers from 26 European Countries. To keep new case from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States the next 30 days. Rep tpresident said the ban on travel to europe takes place tomorrow night, exceptions are allowed for u. S. Citizen undergoing screening it does not apply to the united kingdom. The President Trump also announced Financial Relief for commuters with schools, events and businesses being affected. This will be targeted for workers who are ill, quarantined and caring for others do to coronavirus. President trump now asking congress to fund 50 billion for the Small Business administration to begin issuing lowinterest loans to effective businesses. The new resurgence on travel for those living in the United States scrabbling to get a flight back home, before the new travel ban takes place tomorrow night. It is being traveled in such a shotgun fashion that nobody knows what is going on. One thing changes from minute to minute so, you cannot plan anything, you cannot make any decisions. Without everything changing. It what you make sure i get out of the United States before the moratorium basically. Although the travel ban does not affect americans traveling home from europe they will have to be screened when they return they will be asked to self quarantined 14 days. Breaking news on wall street, trading resumes right out of the gate, the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 8 , you can see that is where its at right now, soon after the drop trading was halted 15 minutes, the second time its happened this week. Investors fear not enough is being done to contain the economic damage from the coronavirus. The president announced a ban on travel for most of europe to the u. S. , also Small Business loans and it looks like that news is not having an impact on the market, yesterday the dow jones closed in a bear market for the first time in more than a decade. Breaking news this time from congress, the u. S. Capitol complex close to the public until april because of the spread of the coronavirus. This includes all senate and house offices. The closure begins at 5 00 eastern tonight. Lawmakers aides and journalists will still be allowed in so the business of washington will continue but, no outside visitors will be allowed in. The time is seven minutes after 8 00, any issues on the commute . Slow traffic out there, some people avoiding transit, it seems as if those people still have to go and are in the car. It is correlated anyways with traffic that is heavy along the b. A. R. T. Corridors. You can make your own conclusions from that. 80 northbound passing the oakland coliseum, slow traffic getting up to downtown oakland. As you look at the map here, highway 4 and 680 are slow there have been problems, but mostly slow traffic, peninsula traffic good and so is the northbay traffic. A lot of campuses closed in the south bay. Also tech campuses making it light. Lets bring stephen with todays weather. I think you showed the weather, fog for some, sunny for others, 60s and 70s, little cooler for us, all eyes with attention towards the weekend, the rain returns and not only rain but there could be some impressive snow totals come this looks like a snow event more than a rain event we will see highs in the 50s and some snow levels could get down to 2500 feet. Just the news for the sierra, there will be a lot of snow, double or triple some of these projections here as we go into monday, tuesday, maybe even wednesday. So, travel will be very difficult if not impossible by the time you get to sunday. Friday or later if you have to. We will get rain again, some of these projections look pretty good, going out to the middle of next week, that is a lot of snow. Is the forecast for now. Today father and son, Southern California already lit up and it will only be stronger. Thunderstorms today around los angeles, san diego, palm springs, las vegas, just looks like another rainy day for spring training. Cooler near the coast, 60s today, 50s and 60s after 60s and 70s yesterday, number thunderstorms out of the picture for now, highs in the 70s, coast of the 60s, all eyes again friday for the weekend, pretty good system. We continue the coronavirus coverage as many schools across the bay area are closed, students are kept safe from exposure, why the Oakland School district says it is deciding to keep campuses open. Shouldnt you pay less when you use less data . Now you can. Because Xfinity Mobile gives you more flexible data. You can choose to share data between lines, mix with unlimited, or switch it up at any time. All on the most reliable wireless network. Which means you can save money without compromising on coverage. Get more flexible data, the most reliable network, and more savings. Plus, get 300 off when you buy a new Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra. Thats simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click or visit a store today. The city of alameda has canceled large events, the oakland high School District not closing any schools as of right now, officals say there are no confirmed cases within Oakland Schools, there are two students with self quarantined they have not tested positive for the virus. Officals say theyre prepared to do that. They have not recommended to close schools. We will close schools. Because of this situation. What we know about. We have not determined it is necessary to close schools. While schools will remain open the district is a suspending or delaying activities with more than 100 people, the district is still considering what to do about School Sporting events. Sonoma State University suspending facetoface classes for march 23. The goal is to get faculty and staff sufficient time to begin preparation to teach students online if the virus up it gets worse. The decision and others as a response to what has been called a Global Pandemic. Classes resume march 24 after the scheduled spring break. Almighty schools into the diocese of San Francisco starting a to a closure. Kindred for high school and Catholic School in marin, San Francisco and san mateo county. The closure includes classes as well as planned events, field trips and community activities, the decision was made after a student at one school tested positive for the coronavirus. People are being asked to report of a confirmed cases of coronavirus to the district. Espn reporting another player for the utah jazz testing positive for the coronavirus. Donovan mitchell now being treated, one day after teammate rudy gobert tested positive after the nda shot the sports world by postponing the season. Elissa harrington is live this morning at the chase center where the warriors are scheduled to play game tonight but not anymore. Tonights game against brooklyn will not happen, all games in the nba on hold after we know two utah jazz players tested positive for coronavirus. This is according to espn the Second Player tested positive. Donovan mitchell, that makes this video were starting to see. This is monday rudy gobert he the virus jokingly touching a row of microphones at a press conference to make a point he was not scared of getting sick. Only a couple days later, he was sick and tested for covid 19. A preliminary positive result came back before tip of. Fans sent home from several games last night with an announcement made, a San Francisco band of large events of no more than 1000 people. The president of the state warriors had a meeting about how to make use of the facility during this time. Really important we express our greatest level of cooperation possible and collaborating with them coming up policy. It affects not just the warriors but in all events, at the chase center. At least the next two weeks. Majorleague baseball in the middle of spring training the radar season starts march 26. They so far have not suspended games but crud restrictions have forced changes. Around here the giants game was canceled, the oakland as released a statement saying they are looking at alternative plans. Elissa harrington, ktvu, fox 2 news. Also we are just learning in the sports World Major League soccer is now suspending the season until further notice. That is coming from Sports Illustrated. Also a lot of talk about Major League Baseball and what they will do regarding spring training and the start of the season as well. Right now, Sports Illustrated says Major League Soccer is suspending its season until further notice. The ncaa play march madness basketball without fans attendance to the coronavirus, the restriction will apply to only essential staff and limited family are allowed to attend the games and many conference tournaments will be played this week without fans. With talk about the roads and major changes you are seeing as a result of some people staying home, the people skipping mass transit to get behind the whale, sorted out force. Its anecdotal evidence but let me just tell you this. Correlated with the b. A. R. T. Drop off, more people on the b. A. R. T. Corridors and cars, you draw the conclusion. I think i have. This is a look at the bay bridge. Backed up all the way to the macarthur maze and it seems busier than it was yesterday at this time. This is a look at interstate 80, driving up to downtown oakland, san mateo bridge looks all right and there is a marked difference between traffic in the north side of the bay area and traffic in the south side. North side, northeast, along the b. A. R. T. Corridors, more traffic than you get down to the valley, a lot of the tech campuses not closed but people are not going, they are working from home, stanford students studying from home if you will and the traffic is a little lighter in this region. Lets go to steve. Big news for the weekend, today fog, cooler on the bay and tomorrow we start a transition to a cooler day. We will get rain no doubt about it. We start saturday and may go into next tuesday and wednesday. Much colder air with thunderstorms likely as well as we had towards monday and tuesday. One projection for snowfall. I would double or triple by the time you go to next wednesday. Looks to be what is going on. Some of the projections. One inch of rain equals 10 inches of snow. 3 feet, look at that over the rest of the sierra up along the slopes. A lot of snow. Definitely time for a snow event in shasta and low snow levels. If you are in Southern California arizona there will be pretty good rain or maybe thunderstorms in los angeles also las vegas and again, scott still dealing with clouds and rain and they had a lot of yesterday. Doctors cooling off of your closer to the coastal bay, oakland to San Francisco santa cruz temperatures coming down, no rain for santa cruz as of yesterday. 70s one more day that we start to really cool down tomorrow and all eyes will be on the weekend. Pretty significant changes its great to hear about it. Thank you for that. Continuing coronavirus coverage, air travel, coming up, easy the coronavirus increases and more people are told to work from home stocking up at the Grocery Store first, we tell you what they found, coming up. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. Wherever we want to go, we just have to start. Autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Check Police Responded to san pablo and university avenues after finding evidence of gunfire. The men refused to come out of the house but negotiators eventually brought them into custody. No reported injuries in the scene has since cleared. A suspected drug dealer with 82 felony charges behind bars this morning. An overdose victim recovering after quick thinking i San Francisco police. San Francisco Police shared an image on twitter after two officers jumped out of the car at hyde and turk street. Used narcan to reverse and opioid overdose. The other arrested a suspected dealer across the street, the person was violating a restraining order and police say they found drugs on him during the arrest to a federal jury ordered b. A. R. T. To pay several thousand dollars to the family of a man shot and killed by police. 28yearold Sahleem Tindle was fighting with a man across the street at the boston. His family filed a lawsuit against b. A. R. T. Claiming Sahleem Tindle raised his hand and moved away from the other man when he was shot. The gun was recovered at the scene of the shooting but its unclear if Sahleem Tindle had control of the weapon when shot. Jury deliberations continue in the sandy phase in the trial of john lee call. He was found guilty this weekend the murder of mia wilson at a b. A. R. T. Station two years ago, he was also convicted of attempted murder for stabbing wilson sister. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His attorney wanted to call the doctor to testify in his defense but the judge denied the request. The jury does not need to hear from more doctors. I do not believers a doctor needed to rule out if he is insane. If he can sit and be quiet and a courtroom for two whole days and not make any outbursts about aliens or his grandmother or people trying to attack him, what is a doctor needed for . If he jury finds john the call saying he will be in prison without parole otherwise will be sent to a mental hmatt court to see if prosecutors can use dna samples. He is accused of 13 murders and raping more than 50 women throughout california. Prosecutors were originally allowed to obtain swabs of the dna of dangelo but were ordered to hold off after his public defender complains. Prosecutors say new dna samples will be used in separate investigations. Harvey weinstein back in the hospital for chest pains he experienced following sentencing to 28 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. The 67yearold was convicted last month of raping a woman in York City Hotel room in 2013 and for another assault on a woman at his apartment in 2006. The art music tech festival sxsw canceled, the people bought tickets will be getting their money back to coming up, find out what they can get and why Ticket Holder should not be surprised they are not getting a refund. 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Hospitals try new ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the new screening process now being used in San Francisco. B. A. R. T. Ridership dropped because of concerns of the coronavirus, we explain why trends leaders are doing to make up for revenue. A busy thursday we are so glad youre here. Miracle march possibly, maybe not a miracle but definitely things are changing soon. Mary march, anything you want. I think for the sierra it could be a minorleague miracle. A lot of snow up there. We will have a rain on the way but today, fog in Southern California. There will be thunderstorms activity, some downpours there, and others have day for spring training it looks like in phoenix. Also scottsdale, coming down from yesterday, the fog was back inland, we still have 70s but more on the weekend changes coming up at about ten minutes. For now heres sal with traffic. It is busy. At the bay bridge toll plaza, busier today than it was yesterday at this time. Here it is 8 30, it is backed up still to the macarthur maze. So, days of light traffic is not continued so far. 880 northbound, little bit slow still so, still busy, san mateo bridge looking good. The south Bay Community commute also lighter we talk about that when we come back in a few moments. Lets go back to the desk. Governor gavin newsom issued a new statewide policy for events that could draw large crowds. The advisory recommends canceling or postponing gatherings with more than 250 people. From now until the end of the month. He says smaller events have organizers making sure people can stay at least six feet apart. Suggest people at higher risk should not attend events with more than 10 people and still maintain the six foot distance requirement. A new summary of coronavirus cases nationwide, Washington State has 366 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Followed by california that new york and massachusetts, only six states in the country with no confirmed cases. A this morning, Carnival Cruise lines suspending operations of the Princess Cruises amid coronaVirus Outbreaks as the final 300 passengers on the grand Princess Cruiseship docked at the port of oakland. They will be taken off the ship today, carnival says all Princess Cruiseship will be docked through may 10. Earlier this morning, we heard from the president of Princess Cruises explaining what will happen next. Truck we will take a fleet of 18 ships out of service and reset the environment conditions on board. Incorporating all of the great learnings from the worth Public Health experts like the u. S. Center for Disease Control prevention and the Japanese Ministry of health. Passengers currently on board a Princess Cruiseship in the next five days will continue to sail as expected through the end of the crews. Anything scheduled past march 17 will end early and customers who book trips for later this year can get refunds or credit for future trips. We show you how b. A. R. T. Trains and stations are far less crowded than they typically are any weekday morning. Lets talk to allie rasmus. I know you been talking to b. A. R. T. Writers the lets talk about how the agency is asking for help because of a drop in ridership. We confirmed the bar general manager will be reaching out to state local and federal representatives from the bay area to see what kind of Emergency Funding might be available because of the coronavirus pandemic. A train heading to San Francisco just came through in the last five minutes. Its fairly empty. We have seen a lot of passengers this morning, some with gloves, some with masks. People we spoke to say they are taking more precautions in general. B. A. R. T. Saw a 30 drop in weekday ridership over the past month. The estimate losing anywhere between 445,002 600,000 every weekday in lost revenue from low ridership. People are told by their employers to work from home, others are free to be around large crowds, again, people this morning we spoke to have to take extra caution as they do need to still go to work. I take more precaution with hansen kaiser and wearing gloves. Just trying to be more cautious because a lot of people were. It has been empty with a lot of Seats Available which is unusual for a b. A. R. T. Toward San Francisco city. People are scared. , more and more people are working from home. Are as installing Hand Sanitizer and every station to try to alleviate some of the worries of coronavirus. All stations will have at least one dispmounted on the bright side with trains and tear b. A. R. T. Says its easier for riders to maintain the armslength distance recommended to keep people from spreading illness, will not refund any service with shorter trains on the tracks because of lighter crowds but again leadership will reach out to various local state and federal agencies to see what kind of funding, Emergency Funding may be available to them because piercing a steep drop in ridership losing 400,000 600,000 a day because of it. Live in walnut creek, allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. A man in the grand princess now under quarantine after the air force bases with her grandparents. She told us that she was with her grandparents sailing nearly 3 weeks ago. They spent several days in the room on a ship to wait to find out when the grand princess could dock. She and her grandparents were allowed to get off tuesday. Grandma and grandpa, they try to get their exercise, grandma jumped around a little bit. I hope to write more music. It has been pretty good so far. We cannot complain so its been a positive experience for us. Reporter she says she and her grandparents have been trying to make the best of the situation through music, dancing and as you mentioned, exercise. Colleges in the bay area around the country are canceling classes but problems are now coming up and some are telling their students to leave campus. Uc berkeley had online instruction because the coronavirus. Sanford of the university sending students home. International students are now facing a difficult time as they have nowhere to go pick some school say they will make exceptions in extreme cases but many have not made those guidelines clear. Kaiser permanente providing driveup testing for the coronavirus for people with respiratory symptoms. This video is from a Similar Service being provided in south korea, the bay area largest Healthcare Provider with tents outside a handful of facilities inviting patients with Doctors Orders to drive up and get tested. Sites are meant to prevent patients with symptoms from walking into facilities where they could potentially expose others. Lets talk about your morning commute. For many work in school is still happening the routine is changing. It has changed though some commutes look pretty typical, busier than yesterday. Yesterday at this time things were kind of slowing down. Or evening out. This morning we still have a big back up here at the bay bridge. Traffic is going to be busy, the 880 is slower than it was yesterday as well. Perhaps more people avoiding b. A. R. T. Or more people going summer. San mateo bridge traffic okay. I promise you look at the south bay and we go down there and you see traffic is light on a lot of the commutes because several people, tech companies, told to work from home. 8 37 lets bring stephen with todays weather. Todays weather has fog or son, clear at the bay, we are closing in on the weekend. Something finally looks like it will be in our favor as far as the rain and snow in the mountains. It will be much colder, 50s for highs, snow levels by sunday could be down around 2500 feet. Again that will be the weekend into next week. Maybe all the way into wednesday. Fog low clouds already beginning, they really wrap up tonight and tomorrow as we cool off tomorrow, rain again, phoenix, scottsdale, los angeles, very heavy rain and right now in dealing with rain, need to wait a couple days but it will be cooler, no rain for the santa cruz area like yesterday. That is all south, highs near average, close to the bacon above inland, one more day, on their way down. Fog will be really wrapped up friday, a big cool down then we set the stage for what looks like for five days of active weather with bigtime snow. Right here. Thank you. Starbucks stepping up to help employees during the coronavirus topic. Resources available for those troubled by the virus. A significant drop in bookings, find out what United Airlines is doing to make up for those losses. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. Wherever we want to go, we just have to start. Autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Welcome back, the coronavirus continues to have an enormous impact on wall street. Stocks entering new territory, we are glad youre here with dollars and sense. Reporter there in their market territory. By definition thats when indexes are down 20 from the last closing high. The feeling this morning is that the president s did not say enough to ease fear or do enough to offset huge Economic Impacts, the coronavirus is having, Trading Halted after the opening bell rang this morning for 15 minutes because the s p dropped and the First Circuit breaker kicked in again to prevent a bigger fight. A New York Stock Exchange for a live look. Dow jones heading down another from about an hour ago. Down more than eight have , 2000 points for the dhow on the downside, the s p 500 now down almost a , the second Circuit Breaker kicks in if the s p 500 dropped 13 . We will keep an eye on that, the nasdaq well below 8000, down 600 points for the nasdaq 273 50. United airlines secured a 2 billion loan to help us i drop in bookings, united says bookings for travel within the u. S. Are down 70 and down 100 for travel to asia and europe. The Company President announced plans to extend the 20 schedule cut for me, other airlines also cutting schedules and expecting to post losses for the quarter. Or asia taking a different approach to the coronavirus offering free discounted plane tickets the Discount Airline based in malaysia is offering the promotion across routes in asia and australia, air asia says it routinely holds major sales several times a year and the deals are good through july 2021. Next year. Airlines are struggling to keep business but private jets are seeing as much as a 25 increase in demand after airlines have cut flights. Many of the private jets fly the same routes as Major Airlines and have more flexibility with departure and arrival times and, of course, armor private, travelers are turning to private jets as a way to reduce exposure to the coronavirus. Starbucks working to provide employees with the benefits they might need if they are affected by the coronavirus or the stress it might bring, employees have access to Mental Health resources and will be compensated for any scheduled ships they miss because of the virus. The Employee Assistance Program Offers members of their household. They also added the Employee Benefit of a subscription to the Meditation App headspace to support Mental Health. Something good any time of year. Also this morning, starbucks says some cafis may switch to mobile or drivethrough orders only, and not let people into the cafis. He did say he would only close cafis if its a last resort. It could happen. It could happen. It especially when you talk about people handling food and everything. Extreme caution. Thank you. Back to sal we go, the thursday commute starting to lighten up. It has not. Yesterday at this time the bay bridge was lighter, today its not. And, all of these commutes that are busy are right on the b. A. R. T. Corridor, highway 24, interstate 880, highway 4, san mateo bridge and below if you will, that commute, let me down the bridge, the places where the tech campuses a lot of peop there have been told to work from home, that is kind of a tale of two different bay area commutes. Regional differences from what you see on the roads. 8 45. Lets bring steve back and. All right, we will get to it. A little cooler on the bay, sunny inland, one more day of sun and tomorrow really cooling off in advance of weekend changes. Temperatures drop into the 50s, maybe mid 50s by sunday and monday, we will get rain and this looks like a major sierra snow event at least we hope so, this year it will be, we have not had much this year as you know. There will be some projections brighter than this. Projection 15 inches of snow. By tuesday night into wednesday you could have maybe 30 minutes 45. That is some of the outlook they still give us rain off and on, maybe thunderstorms, cold unstable air coming in this time of year with the days longer providing tremendous lift, look at that over the sierra. Branches translate at least three feet. Travel will be probably impossible saturday and sunday to the mountains. Today, cooler coast and bay, Southern California expecting bigtime thunderstorms, rain down there, phoenix and scott still not so good, it will be another rainy day like yesterday. Temperatures by the bay, coastal fog back, 50s and 60s, some temperatures near average. Some well above, but not after today. Starting tomorrow we get ready for what looks to be like quite an interesting weekend. 8 47, travelers canceling trips over coronavirus fears, one group appears to be taking advantage, still to come, who is snapping up airfare while others steer clear of flying. More and more people staying indoors over the coronavirus pandemic, concerns tell you how Small Business is being impacted. California phones offers free specialized phones. Like cordless phones, phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Call or visit Michael Vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. 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There also asking to give customers more incentive to come out and shop. It definitely i encourage the mayor to look at the parking which would help people. I hope some sort of assistance for Small Business owners. Whether it be a Small Business loan or some type of help so they can continue to operate. Expects a businesses are urging customers to go online and order products from their website if they prefer to stay home. San francisco taking action to help businesses impacted by the coronavirus. The mayor joins the board of supervisors to announce the relief effort. We are starting with 1 million for the fund which provides at least 10,000 grants for Small Businesses. We are allowing Small Businesses to defer the next round of Quarterly Business taxes to next year in february of 2021. The city plans to provide disability insurance, and family paid leave with partial and applied it to people who find themselves on a reduced work schedule. The number of cases of the coronavirus increases so does concerns and many committees, people across the country are stocking up on supplies. In alameda last night we spoke to a tech worker making sure he had enough groceries after his employer said everybody should work from home the next two weeks as a precautionary measure. Surprisingly there are not many people at the Grocery Store. But, no toilet paper, that was shocking. Not a lot of pasta. So, that was interesting to see. The employee we spoke with said while he is prepared to work from home the next two weeks his employer says it may extend guidelines. Precautions surrounding the coronavirus with a Nonprofit Community based organization as well. The nonprofits are struggling to find volunteers, the San Francisco food banks says only a handful of volunteers showed up yesterday to sort of back foods, the food bank says its using Emergency Fund inch to find presorted produce but its more expensive. On a longterm basis, we cannot do our work without volunteers. Made a few weeks we can make bandaid fixes but a longterm basis we need lawsuits back in here. Nonprofits are canceling fundraising events because of city restrictions on public average. Blood Centers Nationwide urging Healthy People to continue donating blood amid the coronavirus uplink. Blood Bank Official say all blood types are needed but especially typo. Blood donation site say people who have visited mainland china, south korea, iran or italy within the last month should not donate blood, anybody sick or may have been exposed to some with coronavirus also postponed their blood donations. The Hospitality Industry taking a huge financial head as a result of the coronavirus, still to come, why some in the industry say fallout is actually worse than what they saw after september 11. Going mobile, up next we show you the new mobile only cafe that opened up doors in San Francisco. 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A First Responder was lowered by a cable and pulled him from the tangled tree limbs. He was relieved after the rescue and thanked everyone that helped save him. Phils coffee opened up the only mobile cafe in San Francisco. Its on the sales force center on mission. Theyll have to download the phils app to order and pay for drinks. Theres a small outdoor patio. All prices are the same and if all goes well, they plan to open up more app driven cafes. Southwest will not refund people with tickets. The event in austin, texas, was canceled last week and the organizations terms and conditions note event organizers do not issue refunds under any circumstances. Ticket buyers dont need to panic completely. Theyre allowing them to defer tickets for future events till year 2023. Disney has no plans to close the theme park. Its monitoring the corona virus situation and in contact with Health Agencies for guidance. Its implementing measures at disneyland and world such as adding Hand Sanitizers and increasing the frequency of cleaning. Universal studios remaining open. Its enhancing cleaning procedures on rides and attractions and inside the restaurants and stores and put more Hand Sanitizer stations throughout its parks. The traditional Lighting Ceremony of the olympic flame happens today in greece. An official for the olympics in tokyo said at least for now, the games will go forward as scheduled on july 24th. Theyll be able to postpone the summer games and cancel or hold them without spectators. The world of sports taking a huge hit from the corona virus from postponing the nba season but halting major league games. Italy, iran, and other places but people arent throwing racial slurs at italians. Backlash against the Asian American community because of the corona virus. What advocates are saying about the spread of misinformation and blatant racism. The markets plumbing again this morning after another break in trade. How this could affect the economy in the bay area a live of fog and thats where the cruise ship was or is, its behind the fog and there are