Unusual step of telling their parishioners not to come in to church but instead stay home for services there. St. Patricks is going to be broadcasting live from the cathedral on its website, Facebook Page, etc. It canceled public gathering for this foreseeable future and will live stream holy week services. You can take a peek at what is happening in new york city. It is a good year and a good friday in general. You know, a lot of us do special things for easter weekend. And so i will start with you. Are things going to be different this weekend for your family . And if so, how . Usually we get together with a big group of us, not just the immediate family but aunts, uncles, grandparents, that kind of thing. This time we are going to stay home and it will be our immediate family. That is very different. It will be a little bit different. The biggestfamily has been doing since i was basically born. So will be different, we will stream mass here in our house this morning and we can pray and reflect. And in the end, most importantly i think we will toast to our health. And also pray for those who are sick. If you have friends who are suffering from covid19 or a friend who has a friend. It will be different, it will be unique. But easter is easter and we would do it and we will have the easter baskets and we will also have a little bit of an egg hunt. Not at the big park that we usually do with friends but we would do it right here in our little backyard that we have. So, excited for that over the weekend. When it comes to the coronavirus we do have some good news to talk about right now. Some states are seeing a lower rate of hospitalizations due to the covid19. Indicating that social distancing measures could actually be working. As jonathan reported, our supplies in case they continue to see a surge. Remic the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact state nationwide. New york state now has more cases than any foreign country. Infections in new york city surpassed chinas total. Although that countries figures have been disputed. The recent recorded its highly daily death toll for multiple days in a row. Governor andrew cuomo signed an executive order to allow more Funeral Directors from other areas to practice in the state. People that are tragically dying, about 800 over the past 24 hours, they are people were diagnosed a week or two weeks ago. Reporter hospitalizations have slowed down in connecticut and arkansas well california has seen a lower number of folks in the icu. In ohio, the number of people affected by the virus is lower than projected. But, heading into a holiday weekend, officials are warning people not to become complacent with social distancing. Do not use this weekend as an opportunity to break the rules. All the things in terms of progress could be turned back around very quickly. Reporter even as official see progress, they are so preparing for a potential surgeon cases. California spent more than 1 billion on supplies and plans to spend another billion to purchase masks. States are also teaming up with one another into donating supplies. We come up from the very beginning, wanted to be ahead of the search. We want to be here and not needed rather than not here and needed. Remic summary could still be on if mitigation efforts continue to work. In atlanta, jonathan serrie, fox 2 news. State of californi there are a confirmed more than 20,000 cases here in the golden state. 547 people have died. California does rank fourth in the u. S. A number of cases behind new york, new jersey, and of the state of michigan right here in the bay area, there are 4431 confirmed cases, at least 118 people have died. Governor newsom says a key statistic might indicate california is beginning to flatten the curve here and the number of patients in hospitals and icu units fell by 1. 9 from tuesday to wednesday. It was the First Time Since the outbreak began that the number of icu patients fell from one day to the next. The governor does caution a single 24 hour period is not a trend, but it is indeed a good sign. The city of oakland plans to close more than 70 miles of city streets so they can be used exclusively by cyclist and pedestrians during the shelter in place order. Allie is here to describe about what we know so far. Reporter we have been learning more about the plan just in the last half hour or so. Getting some clarification about it. The city of oakland is going to designate 74 miles of city street to be shared equally between cars and vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. It is an effort to allow more people to get outside and out and about safely in their neighborhood during the shelter in place order. It is called the oakland flow streets program. The mayor talked about it in a townhall meeting on facebook last night. An hour from now she was speak more about the details. City leaders said basically because all parks are closed the only place people can go outside is for walks in the neighborhood. Sidewalks for getting more crowded and getting difficult to remain the required six feet of space between people that is why they d spoke with an advocacy director. He says his organization and others have been working with the city on projects like this for a while. He explained that people who live on these streets included in this closure will still be able to drive cars to their homes. This will allow for local traffic. Everyone will have to share the road together. Cars are not overtaking people who are walking, they are overtaking people who are bicycling. It is an equal use of the street. Now, the route follow the citys existing and proposed bike routes in all neighborhoods. According to the map that we have you can see parts of lawton avenue, lakeshore boulevard, parts of mountain boulevard in montclair, a long stretch of excelsior and a broad stretch of 32nd street in west oakland. Mayor schaaf says other cities like denver have enacted similar measures. Now a cycling and pedestrian advocates in the city of berkeley has started a petition. The goal according to one of the citys policy directors is to start getting some signs and partial barricades up on some of these streets as early as this saturday. Again, less than an hour from now we will be getting more details about this from the mayor of oakland. Reporting live, allie rasmus ktvu fox 2. A new survey found more than 6 of San Francisco tenants cannot pay their rent this month because of the Economic Impact of covid19. The San FranciscoApartment Association found that the average amount of rent missed this month was 2500, which adds up to about 1. 5 million of unpaid rent in the city. Another 16 of landlords surveyed say tenants broke their lease or gave their 30 day notice this past month. Easter weekend is going to be very different for millions of people do to stay at home and shelter in place orders. As ray reports, the government is giving urging everyone to continue following social distancing rules. Christians in germany celebrated good friday with a driveup church service. Juice celebrating passover are also trying something new, like this family from virginia who hosted a virtual seder. But as believers practice their faith during one of the worlds holiest weekends, americas top Infectious Disease doctor says social distancing is more important than ever. Despite it being a time when people normally come together. Even though we are in a holiday season, now is no time to back off. As i say so often, now is the time to actually put your foot on the accelerator. Meanwhile President Trump looking forward to the next coronavirus stimulus package. He tweeted we should have a big infrastructure phase 4 with payroll tax cuts and more. Economic bounce back. We had a bluecollar boom and now we want a bluecollar bounce back. Reporter before a phase 4, congress is trying to pass an interim bill to keep cares act programs from running out of money. Thursday, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell asked for unanimous consent for an additional 250 billion to help Small Businesses keep workers employed. It was blocked by democrats, who called it a stunt. Something that is go it alone, take it or leave it, and totally violate the spirit all of us have been working on during this crisis. Reporter Financial Assistance is related urgently needed. According to the National Federation of independent business, about 70 of Small Business owners applied for emergency loans in the last week. Steve, it is going to be a nice weather weekend and i think that people are going to try to get out, but they are going to obviously have to observe social distancing but the weather is nice. At least we are finally getting some breaks and low cloud deck and the high cloud deck. We have been cloudy with rain off and on, cold temperatures all the way since last friday. Today is the first sign really of some sun breaks. I know there is still fog out there. But a little warmer in the next week, more sun and warmer. We will carry that into the weekend. There are signs of the fog bank burning off sooner, some the city which could drop to 53. San jose still mostly cl and 56. There was some rain over the last 24 hours. Santa clara valley, Santa Cruz Mountains down toward watsonville had about a 10th of an inch. Even honda and Black Diamond mines and los gatos. Out to brentwood also a little bit of rain in the last 24 hours. Just an amazing low for this time of year. We are still churning off southern california. But the breeze has turned a little more northerly. That will help. Yesterday was more west southwest at the times and we really had a hard time with the higher cloud up above getting sunshine. We are seeing some upper 50s already. Declare victory and enjoyed because it is a sign of things to come here throughout the day. And probably into the weekend as well. One more day to probably get some record rainfall and record maximum temperatures in parts of southern california. Will go history books for them for april 9th. But the loan is finally moving to head down toward nevada and arizona. That will give them some pretty good rain over the weekend here. By tonight and tomorrow it should be out of california. Some patchy low clouds, mostly sunny, partly sunny, upper 60s. 70, about the same set. There was to be fog night and mornings but it will burn off sooner. Coming up next right here on mornings on 2, a call to release inmates. Still to come in the next half hour, the push from advocates to limit exposure at the santa rita jail in dublin. 20,000 work of protective gear ripped up from the south bay. The latest on the search for the suspects. With coronavirus spreading, people at higher risk must take extra precautions. You are at higher risk if you are over 65, or if you have an underlying medical condition, like heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, or if your immune system is comproat higher risk,eason. Stay six feet or two arm lengths away from others. Better yet, stay home if you can. The choices you make are critical. Please visit coronavirus. Gov for more information. New this morning, San Jose Police investigating the death of a person inside a home. We want to show you somebody about our crews got just about 45 minutes ago showing police on crocker drive right near monterey road. A sergeant on scene would only say that they are treating this as a crime scene. As we get more information about the case we would bring it to you. Thousands of hate crimes targeting agents americans has been reported nce the coronavirus first spread. From spray painting a car in fresno to an alleged acid attack in new york city. Fear is spreading among the Asian Community and beyond. Marlee martinez reports. Reporter images of hate, and Asian American family and friends know finding their seb about coronavirus. And this week in new york, Surveillance Video of an attack released by the nypd. The council on American Islamic relationships calling for a hate Crime Investigation in what they say is an alleged acid attack of and Asian American women. The motive unknown, but they say this is the latest in a frightening string of bias against the asian communitof lo angeles sounding off. T widespread is Asian American discrimination because of covid 19 . That is what the asianpacific policy and toweling up now. The organization helping stop the hate reporting website. They have received over one 1100 reports in the first two weeks. Over 1400 reports total. Want does that number mean to you . Means that this is a widespread issue. Reporter the organization, joining hands with las Public Health department to dispel the myth. The cdc even trying to quell the stigma with their own guidance. They are receiving reports from students, teachers, even doctors. The perpetrator punched in the had 20 times. A small group of students in her fourth grade class yelled kill the chinese, kill the chinese. Even as they are trying to save lives, one doctor was punched in the parking lot. It feels like nowhere is safe right now. I grew more afraid of getting attacked then actually getting the virus itself pick reporter jessica lives in the east bay. Now, she carries pepper spray and a stun gun. I would take the bart from the east bay going into the city and i was afraid that something would happen to me. Reporter an effort to empower those afraid, not just attract the numbers, but to take action. If there needs to be a change in the law, or if there needs to be a reminder to businesses that they are not allowed to discriminate, whether it is a public accommodation by Grocery Stores and pharmacies, whether it is in the workplace, or wherever. San jose police are searching for thieves who targeted a Small Business at the supplying first in responders with critical protective gear. The break and happened last weekend. That store on toy on avenue. The thief with 20,000 worth of gloves, facemasks and hand sanitizer. We need is essentials for our community and to help workers and people who really need it. We are in an epidemic that we are short on supplies. And to have someone come and vandalize and take our supplies it is unfortunate. Police have seen an uptick in price gouging for masks and other cleaning items. The owners say surveillance cameras to capture images of the thieves outside the building. The images appear to show three people inside a gray ncv. At the beginning of the night we talked about how many bay area churches will be using the internet this easter weekend to reach out and connect with their congregations. By staying home, they will they will also be going to church in that sense. Amber lee talked with local religious leaders about the challenge. We are really putting our faith into action. Reporter faith into action for bishop pete clark means bringing Easter Services from his church in east oakland to the community on facebook live. The church is empty physically, but words of hope will be offered through a paid sermon sunday morning. Connect with the body of christ. Reporter one man says it is important to have Easter Services even without being in a church. It helps us keep our heads up. Reporter bishop clark is coping with a personal challenge. His 72yearold fath er in oakl is hospitalized. Suffering from covid19the ambu him from the house and i have to stand across the street because of the virus. Reporter he tells me there is good news. His father was taken off a ventilator wednesday after 10 days in the hospital, and he is improving. Clark says Easter Sunday means renewed hope. Know better how about friday is, sunday is on its way. Reporter 200 easter baskets, families will be able to drive by and pick them up, maintaining social distancing. We cannot be in the presence of one another, but by way spirit and being able to connect in social media, you can interact. Due to the times that we are in, giving something for the kids to be happy about and letting them know that easter is still here. For clark, easter represents hope as his father fights to recover from the coronavirus. No matter how rough it gets, hold onto your faith because if you can keep the faith, the faith will keep you. Reporter this sunday will the special meeting, a reminder that you dont need a building to come together. Coming up, attempting for parents to handle the transition to online learning. Still, not all parents are happy with the thingshalf hour, Bay Area School district is making adjustments. Plus, struggling with being cooped up inside all day . Next we get advice from a wellness expert on how to exercise your mind and body while still practicing safe social distancing. Were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. There are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. Powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. To help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. Tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. And a team of experts here for you 24 7. Weve always believed in the power of working together. Thats why, when every connection counts. You can count on us. Staying in shape while sheltering in place can be a challenge. To give us tips on how to exercise your mind and body while still social distancing, we are joined by wellness expert. Good morning dominique, what are some of your tips . I have one that i can probably give you right off the bat. For me, it is not making as many trips to the fridge. [ laughter ] good morning, thank you for having me on your show this morning. Yes, that is a good tip to start with. There are multiple things we can do during this difficult time without having to leave our homes. That we have gives opportunity to integrate movement, mindfulness, and actually taking care of our body holistically. In a gr