In the past two weeks. Good evening, everyone. Im julie haner. And im frank sommerville. Tonight we have another statistic thats as staggering. 1 million cases and rising. Today the worldwide coronavirus pandemic reached and then quickly exceeded that number, along with more than 53,000 deaths. And here in the bay area theres more sad news, all nine counties have reported deaths from the coronavirus. Everyone should work a Face Covering out in public. Regional Authorities Say wearing a cloth mask or bandanna may prevent transmission of the coronavirus. This in medical grade masks should be reserved for healthcare rkers. According to the Labor Department a record 6. 6 Million People filed new claims for Unemployment Benefits last week. Here in california 870,000 people filed firsttime claims. California has twice as many unemployment claims as any other state. The flood of new requests for jobless benefits is now threatening to overwhelm the States Employment offices. Now we have advice and information from the state. Reporter before the coronavirus pandemic, steve greg was barely getting by as an uber driver. Now hes among the millions who filed for unemployment. I know of at least half a dozen people in my family that have filed. Reporter as americans face shutdowns, layoffs and reduced working hours, this historic surge, more than 6 million new unemployment claims nationwide and 870,000 in california is straining the unemployment system. We have averaged 111,000 Unemployment Insurance claims on a daily basis in this state and just the last seven days. There californias edd, the Employment Development department, released this video of one callcenter staff are working under social distancing mandates and trying to handle the flood of calls. The edd says they shifted 850 staff to help process claims and they are urging people to apply online. There was no getting through on the phone. Reporter greg is desperate. The first few days, you can tell that story with the panic attacks. Because i was taught in my last hundred bucks. Reporter out until the delay, states are still waiting for federal guidelines before they can cut checks under the new pandemic unemployment release program that extends benefits to independent contractors, selfemployed and gig workers. I have not nothing in the mail, no emails, i checked daily. Sometimes more than once a day. Yeah, ive heard nothing. Reporter governor gavin newsom did announce new efforts to help businesses trying to keep people on the payroll and off unemployment. California now has 50 million loan guarantees for business is not eligible for federal relief and oneyear deferral of sales and taxes up to 50,000. Theres also federal disaster loans for Small Business and nonprofits and Payroll Protection Program grants. If you commit to keeping your employees, even if you have no business, even if your business is closed, but you pay your employees, this is a grant program, not a loan program. We make it to the governor announced that set up a website to help connect people to resources and companies who are hiring workers now. We have set up a link on our website. You can just go to ktvu. Com and click on web links. Federal stimulus checks are expected to start going into peoples Bank Accounts within two weeks, likely the week of april 13th. Treasury secre steven file with will get direct payment sent to their account. The administration will set up a website for people who dont have direct deposit on file so they can provide that information. Starting in may the irs will start issuing paper checks. That process could mean it will take as long as august to september for some people to get their checks. On wall street today stocks rose, despite the 6. 6 million on employment claims. Traders were encouraged by a tweet from President Trump that he expects russia and saudi arabia will come to an agreement on oil production. The dow rose 469 points, more than two resent. Next i gained 126 points and the s p was up 56. The Texas Industries that are feeling the pinch from this economic downturn include some that might surprise you. For example, the commercial fishing business that operates out of San Francisco bay. Atv is amberly is at Fishermans Wharf tonight and the sale of fish has gone way down because so many restaurants are now closed because of the pandemic. Reporter thats right, frank , the lights are on here Fishermans Wharf of the restaurants are closed. One of the few things we notice of any signs of life is a wholesaler who quickly found a way to adapt to the new challenges. Fishermans wharf looks like an unused movie set, a mere shadow of its prepandemic self. This electronic sign beckons, but there is no audience. At pier 45 a fish wholesaler is finding a new way to keep his doors open. Is actually pretty big one. Reporter halibut, a fresh catch from a local fisherman. Normally the owner of water to table cells solely to bay area restaurants. With the shelter and place order they closed and the market was suddenly gone overnight. Im pretty scared that we lost all of our restaurant business. But we immediately pivoted to home delivery. We reached out to our community and our email contacts. Reporter and started building a new clientele for retail customers. First it was a dozen orders. Then the next day after that we had about 40 and then it turned into 80 the next day and then we came in the next day and it was about 110. See if it is just not moving right now, not on the volume we are used to, not in the volume it takes to keep the industry alive. Reporter know what all the time is the executive director of the fishermens associations. He tells me to of the seafood pot then the u. S. Goes to restaurants. Now a new strategy, selling online. Cheaper prices for the consumer and it means we can move volume right now. Reporter sportfishing is worse off, dead in the water because of social distancing. The captain of a charter boat shared with me this video of a typical outing. What i would love to see is 2025 people in my boat having a good time fishing. And we cannot do that because we are mixing people from different houses. Reporter selling direct to consumers has brought back 60 of his business and his grateful. Is for us something that is recession proof or even pandemic proof weve got but access to that protein right off of our coast. Reporter the wholesaler and charter captain told me they have their eyes on the salmon season and the beginning of may, hoping it wont be delayed , optimistic the fishing industry will bounce back when the pandemic is over. A new drivethru testing set for the coronavirus opened today at zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. The site can take two cars at a time with two people per card. There is also walkup testing available. The site is located in the hospital parking lot at 23rd and potrero. To be tested you have to have a referral from a San FranciscoHealth Network divider or clinic from an Emergency Department or urgent care facility. In fremont the vice mayor says a 20 Virus Testing set there will hold a soft opening tomorrow at the Fire Training center on stevenson boulevard. The only criteria to be tested there is that you have to have coronavirus symptoms. A referral from a doctor is not required. The state of california still has a backlog of almost 60,000 coronavirus test yet to be returned. Governor newsom said the lag in getting results could be as long as 12 days. So for 90,000 tests have been administered. Federal Officials Say two states are reporting more than a third of their tests for the virus are positive. New york and new jersey. Californias number is much lower. California and washington remained steady at an 8 rate. What we are seeing finally is testing and proving, more testing being done, still a high level of negatives and states without hotspots, allowing them to do more of the surveillance and containment. The federal government is sending new rapid test kits to areas where doctors may not have access to labs that can process large numbers of tests. President trump said he received that . Tested and tested negative for the virus for a second time. The crane way pavilion is being converted into a medical station to help handle the anticipated surge in coronavirus patients. Tran was henry lee tells us the building is a perfect location for this. [ screaming ] the crane way pavilion was bustling with activity on thursday. The Historic Building is being transformed into the medical station for coronavirus patients. It was very obvious this would be a phenomenal facility to conduct such a mission. Reporter dylan is a doctor who manages the property which provides isolation, privacy and plenty of scenery. If there are patients coming in with initial symptoms or patients recovery, take a look at this view. This is a view youre going to have and i believe your mood helps in your recovery. Reporter the building is huge, no tents are needed. The National Guard is bringing in beds and medical supplies. Contra costa county is coordinating medical staffing. The facility would only be used if local hospitals dont have enough room to handle covid19 patients. It wont be used as an icu or for acute care. We are going to be kind of a Triage Center where we will be sending people either to the hospital or even get there on the way to recovery for them to quarantine themselves at home. Reporter the crane my husband home to craft fairs, rosie the riveter festivals. In february it was the site of a Bernie Sanders rally. But the goal now is to have far less people inside. Ideally i would not like to see a single patient here. We are setting this up in case we do. We dont want to be caught unprepared. Reporter the building has a storied past. He used to be a ford auto plant, workers then switch gears helping to make jeeps, tanks and military vehicles during world war ii. Notes about fighting this war against the pandemic. Theres a lot of history here. Reporter a history that will hopefully bode well for the future. We know we will win this war and we want to do it and do away with the least amount of lives lost. There the goal is to get the crane way ready for any influx of patients by the third week of april. Ran back in the bay area forecast. We will talk about that when i see you after the break. Medical grade masks sitting in warehouses to be auctioned off. A ktvu investigation. Then at 10 30, giving birth during a pandemic. How couples are changing their plans to stay safe and stay together. We are concerned erica might not get to meet her right away. Because people need masks, we need masks. We have all heard the pleas for physical protective equipment being made all over the country. Now a ktvu channel 2 news investigation has found that masks come ventilators and other supplies are being auctioned off online. Investigative reporter brooke sharon uncovered thousands of masks sitting in a warehouse and were sold to the highest bidder. Reporter a website that sells a variety of government surplus has states in a fierce battle over a pallet of respirator masks and they are all expired, still it didnt stop them from being sold for a huge markup. On the front lines these are valuable resources and online theres money to be made. I think thats wrong. Reporter pallets of n95 respirators , like this one, auctioned off for thousands of dollars. And one auction there were two bidders from new jersey fighting back and forth trying to get this pallet of n95. Reporter Mark Lindquist is an air force veteran and just wanted to help amid the coronavirus pandemic and looked into buying masks to donate to his va hospital in phoenix. I believe everybodys first focus should be, lets make sure our people dont die. Reporter which brought him here to a website that resells government surplus, like a military 4 x 4 with this tanker truck, even a helicopter from Pennsylvania State police, or the 950,000 plane. But what lindquist found was marked up surgical masks. I had to watch those three pallets of masks set there. So it tells me that the leaders arent trying hard enough, quite honestly. Reporter bidding started in florida at 11,500, thats about . 67 a mask. Then days of bidding ramping up a couple weeks ago, duking it out california and new jersey. Sometimes minute by minute. The winning bid, new jersey at 26,900 for nearly 7700 respirators. Thats roughly 350 a mask. That mask sitting in a warehouse in florida, that was government surplus, shouldve been in the hands of somebody in a hospital in new york city this past week. Reporter to make matters worse it was possibly Government Agencies bidding against one another for what was originally Government Property into these masks were expired, by many years. Still, no better than no mask at all. I think its ridiculous because all of the hospitals right now are running low on supplies and we need them for patients and employees and staff. Reporter it was cold and isolated insulin and the private seller was blamed even though the Company Acted as auctioneer. We found is the coronavirus outbreak grew, so did the sales. Pallets of respirators going for 6000 on january 20th. Then 21,000 on march 10th and jumping to that 26,900 on march 17th. Its sad that people will actually hold materials and try to wait for somebody to buy it at a higher rate. Reporter exactly one year ago a pallet of these trend 98 n95 masks went for 250 or . 25 apiece. We are talking about people hoarding these goods and materials on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the market and ultimately deriving when full profits. Reporter attorney general william barr explained President Trump signed an executive order to address hoarding and price gouging on scarce medical supplies. But if you are sitting on it, on a warehouse with masks, surgical masks, you will be hearing a knock on your door. There planet says it is not under investigation and a spokesperson said that Company Took Action to remove n95 masks and other medical supplies from inventory, returning them to the federal government so they could get in the hands of health workers. We need to get these things moving and i, as an american citizen, and asking for our leaders to do things now. Get a plan reporter the plan now says of plan is to identify any high Priority Medical supplies and return them so they can get to areas of need. But we found ventilators like this one still for sale. The company insists its taking additional steps to respond to the pandemic. Right now we have people making masks, First Responders using them, auctions of respirators and surgical gloves and they have since disappeared from that website. Gov planet also removed all the evidence we found of the n95 masks. All right, we got rain back in the bay area forecast. Not for your friday, but for your saturday and sunday. This is the weather system we are watching right here. It comes on in, starts coming in saturday morning and then by saturday afternoon is raining. Then there is a second wave back in here that comes in on sunday. Its a wet weekend ahead, but not before tomorrow, which is going to be beautiful. Tomorrow will be a lot like today with temperatures back into the mid and upper 60s. Kind of breezy perhaps along the coast. Overnight lows not as cold as they were last night, last night we got down to freezing in some spots, but we might see a little bit of frost in this inland bed valleys yet again tonight. Alive camera shot looking towards the bay bridge and it was kind of cloudy and dark but its not. Its just a camera shot, its pretty clear outside right now. These are the forecast overnight lows for tonight. 40 degrees and antioch, 35 in santa rosa and 34 napa. Those numbers right there in the frost zone. Some are facing the tops and such and we will probably see a little bit of frost in the Early Morning hours. The plan tomorrow, perfect day. Plan on saturday and sunday, rain back in the forecast and snow up in the mountains. East Bay Park Police say they shot a coyote today that is believed to have attacked a sixyearold girl yesterday. That little girl was attacked yesterday afternoon while she was with her family and dublin hills regional park. Park police say as many as six coyotes approached the group. One of the coyotes jumped on the grill and bit her in the neck. She was taken to Childrens Hospital in oakland with non lifethreatening injuries. Police spotted that peyote this morning and killed it. It is being tested now to see if its dna confirms it was linked to the attack and also to see if it had rabies. Another speed bump in the president ial election. Todays decision to reschedule the democrats nominated convention and have a four a change, too. At first a car to car shooting leaves one man dead. The violence that played out tonight on a bay area boulevard. Theres no place like home. Especially when xfinity has you covered with fast, reliable internet. With advanced security to help keep you secure online. And with the most tv shows, movies and streaming apps all in one place. With simple Digital Tools you can get the help you need or even trouble shoot your services on your own. 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