Do one without the other. The guidelines provide a framework for lifting restrictions in three phases based on benchmarks like hospital conditions and a steady decrease in cases. In contrast, some state and local leaders have extended their stayathome orders until may 15. Californias order has no end date. In a call the president reportedly told all 50 governors to call their own shots. Something Governor Newsom said he appreciated. Recognizing that differentiation that exists in persisting terms of the conditions in counties and states across the nation. If they need to remain closed we will allow them to do that. Earlier this week the governor announced he is coordinating with oregon and washington i went to reopen based on their own six bench marks including developing therapeutics and the ability of businesses and schools to support social distancing. Lawmakers, Business Leaders and medical experts have said that the key to reopening is more testing. We will need to broaden still our testing capacity, broad and still our ability to do Community Surveillance in this state. Mr. Trumps message to governors is an aboutface from wednesday when he said he could force states to reopen. We have the right to do whatever he want, but we wouldnt do that. We would have the right to close down what they are doing. A constitutional law professor says the president does not have that kind of power. In terms of requiring states to act, he has no such authority. The 10th amendment is reserved to the state all the powers that are not expressly given to the federal government. You heard about phase i in the intro, phase 2 is schools, churches of ours to reopen with proper physical distancing and some nonessential travel can resume. Phase 3, social distancing is relaxed and large venues can open, it still seems like we are quite a bit away from that here in california. It does give you hope but a ways to go, greg, thank you. To read the president s three phase plan in its entirety, visit ktvu. Com, you will find it right on the home page. Staggering deployment claims in the last week are adding to the largest number ever seen in a single month in the u. S. The Labor Department says 5. 2 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week, that raises the total to 22 million, the worst job losses on record. Right now, 12 Million People are already receiving an appointment checks, matching the peak from the great recession. Tom vacar joins us with a deeper look at the numbers and what some say we may have to do to turn things around. There is no way to sugarcoat these relentless numbers and remember, weve only been in this for a month. This is a whole magnitude of difference, what we are seeing. Long time labor lawyer minces no words about unemployment statewide and nationwide. We have an additional 5. 1 million new unemployment claims nationwide, that brings us to over 21 million just in the past four weeks. In california where weve been averaging about 42,000 new claims we, the last four weeks have been devastating, unemployment well past the worst of the worst in the great recession. We had an additional 660,000 claims this past week, and we are now up to 2. 6 million. And the hits just keep on coming. The president of the economic roundtable, a nonprofit nonpartisan california think tank that analyzes economic and social environmental conditions says the coronavirus is undermining californias workforce as never before. The share of workers at risk using the factors from the Federal Reserve bank is about 43 of the labor force. That is much bigger than actual Unemployment Rate now, a lot of workers are at risk. If the shutdown stays in place for a long time and the reopening of the nation goes slow, the Federal Reserve bank has projected that as many as 47 million americans could lose their jobs. That would raise unemployment to 32 , far above the percentage back in the Great Depression of the 1930s. I think we could be looking at Something Like that, it could be extremely possible. I think its important to bounce back quickly. Bouncing back may require state and federal programs harkening back to the days of the Great Depression. We need to look at new kinds of interventions, we may need to look at Public Employment interventions. In the very near term we need to make sure people have food, we need to make sure there are food banks in communities. While all of this is going on, state and city budgets nationwide have mostly bled out of money in congress has yet to address this issue. Reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. That is something we havent even touched on yet, thank you so much. Wall street shook off the employment numbers to focus on more positive economic news. The dow went up 33 points, nasdaq jumped 139 points and the s p was up 16 points. Gains from amazon, netflix and Healthcare Companies all helped push the markets higher. The Small Business administration said today that the Paycheck Protection Loan Program for Small Businesses is now on hold. The program has reach the 349 billion lending limit and is unable to accept new applications right now. The Program Began less than two weeks and provides loans at very low Interest Rates to businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Thousands of Small Business owners whose loans have not yet been processed must now wait for congress to approve another 250 billion for the program. Johns Hopkins University number show more than 27,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in california. More than 900 people have died and more than 450 of those deaths have been in los angeles county. The universitys data shows that the curve of new cases is flattening though. There were 1300 new cases yesterday, the most in one day so far. The last was 2200 on april 5. We are learning of a deadly outbreak of coronavirus at another bay area nursing home. This time in redwood city and prosecutors arent are now investigating the facility were more than a dozen residents have died. Reporter there have been allegations that the hayward facility were forced to care for residents while sick themselves. They da will determine whether that amounts to a crime. At least 13 residents have died at gateway care and Rehabilitation Center in hayward. Now, Alameda CountyDistrict AttorneyNancy Omalley has launched an investigation into the facility. The District Attorney is looking to see if there is terminal negligence in this situation. Ktvu legal analyst Michael Cardoza says the da will determine whether staffers were forced to treat residents. They will look into safety at the longterm care facilities. I want to know, as this facility sent people in knowing that that they were infected with the virus. To make another question was whether they had proper safety gear and did enough to separate the sick from the healthy. How are they treating their patients . Are they isolating them efficiently . Cardoza said it might be difficult to prosecute gateway. Experts and doctors will come in and say this facility did all they could and da experts will say no they didnt, here is where they failed. Ktvu has learned of at least two deaths at a facility in redwood city. Health Officials Say at least two dozen people overall have died from covid19 in san mateo county, but they are not providing a breakdown of where they passed. Ive reached out to gordon, and also the san mateo da said he has not opened up an investigation into nursing home deaths at this point. An extraordinary number of coronavirus related deaths overwhelming a nursing home in new jersey where police found 18 bodies. The governor of new jersey called the site a makeshift morgue. Five bodies discovered at the home last sunday after complaints from staff and family members to law enforcement. The next day an anonymous tip came in to police and 13 more bodies were discovered. At least 68 residents have reportedly died at the nursing home in recent weeks. With a large number of them testing positive for covid 19. Health officials in the bay area working on ways to relax the current shelter in place guidelines. The county that is opening its public beaches and parks and the rules you will still have to follow. And if you havent received your federal stimulus check yet, you are not alone. What is leading to the holdup and how the irs is responding. A pretty significant cooldown today, about 10 degrees in many locations, and we are heading that way right into the weekend. Ill have the details. Researchers in the area develop a coronavirus test that delivers results in less than an hour. Why they say the specific test could be made were widely available than others. Researchers here in the bay area have developed a new rapid test for covid19 against results in just minutes. Its an important step in combating the pandemic. Christien kafton spoke with an Infectious Disease expert that said the test can be an important tool in getting the world back to some semblance of normal. Reporter know your enemy is a quote from the art of war and it speaks to this moment as the world battles the coronavirus. Now researchers at the university of california San Francisco have developed a new rapid test in helping medical experts know who is infected and who isnt. We are talking about millions and millions of tests, right, so its very important that we should develop one that is really convenient as well, a rapid test. Scientist just developed a test that medical experts say its a pinprick test that could yield results in 30 to 40 minutes. It is easy to implement and interpret, and requires no specialized equipment. All of which can make the test more widely available. The new test has yet to receive formal approval for clinical use from the fda and they are trying to fasttrack the approval process through a so called emergency use authorization. Infectious disease experts say this test takes a novel approach and having different kinds of tests will be important Going Forward. To adjust the containment we have to see who has the wires and who doesnt. They will conduct covid19 test on all patients Going Forward in hopes it will go a long way on easing concerns of patients and medical staff in days and weeks to come. A team of uc berkeley researchers launching a new study to better understand the current spread of covid19. They will test 5000 Healthy Volunteers between the ages of 18 to 60 in multiple communities across the bay area. Researchers say that data which is relatively unaccounted for, is needed in aynor in order to understand and stop the transmission of the virus. They will look for risk factors in the transmission and the true extent of the Community Spread of the virus. As we told you at the top of the newscast, President Trump has unveiled a three phase plan for reopening the economy but local governments are able to decide when they want to lift restrictions on their own. For more now on when the bay area could see restrictions begin to loosen, an Infectious Disease expert with ucsf. So when do you think we could start to see some easing of the guidelines, and what do you think will happen first . Well, i think that we have a very basic need which is really to understand whats going on in the community we are so far operating in a little bit of a black box because we dont have enough testing. And because we dont have enough testing, we can have a good barometer of whats going on in the community. We need a barometer because if we want to ease restrictions, we have to know if those restrictions that we ease are having that consequences or not, and we really need to know what the incidence of the disease is in the community. You mentioned testing, in order to reopen the economy, Health Officials are working hard to massively scale up testing and contact tracing, why is that so important . Its important in an elementary form, which is you want to identify those who have infection so you can contain them and prevent them from spreading it to other people who dont have the infection, so in different places they do different things, but essentially containment is a very basic feature of Public Health, and if we can get there i will feel more confident personally about easing restrictions somewhat. Is the world desperately works to find ways to slow the spread of the virus, scientists are working hard to find ways to fight the infection. Are there new treatments being looked at you can tell us about . I think one of the treatments im a little excited about, although we need the randomized controlled data to come up, which was made by gilead, and was made to combat ebola. Weve been studying that in covid19 patients, and thats an iv only treatment. The next type of therapy that we are looking forward to rolling out is a convalescent serum, and its from a virus of covid19 that donates antibodies to patients battling the disease currently. And many others are being worked on, but those are the two that will probably be launched and we will have data for soon. I know everyone is very anxious to get these therapies, treatments and vaccines out as soon as possible. Dr. , thank you so much for your time tonight, we appreciate it. A significant cooldown, very noticeable out there, high temperatures a good 10 degrees cooler than yesterday all because of this weather system. You can see it offshore right now, throwing up some green offshore but it is showing up some areas of precipitation. Basically what is going on is the jetstream is dipping out, and this is one system here, another system back in here that will follow that same path and move in here as we move into the bay area weekend and that keeps things cool. Thats why the cooling trend is underway. We do have some thunderstorms up there by urretaviscaya. So that is a lot of activity and you are pretty darn north, but im sure you might be hearing some of that thunder and lightning. Cloud cover at the coast, temperatures much cooler. So a couple of days ago we had mid 80s, that is not the case today. The winds is onshore, and the trough that i outlined for you a moment ago, that is responsible at the surface for these wins, and you can see how far they have extended into the central valley. Its really some significant cooling, and you will see that as evidence by departure from yesterday. 11 degrees cooler in fairfield, 11 degrees cooler in hayward, so its really cold down. Almost 20 degrees cooler in san jose. So the plan here is, we will not cool dramatically tomorrow, it will be similar to today, but we will gradually lose that he can get into a more cloudy pattern tomorrow, saturday, sunday and monday. I will be back with the latest model and the fiveday forecast. Weve heard countless stories of people having a hard time tracking down the stimulus checks. Coming up, the issue somewhere having that include checks being deposited into the wrong bank account. Stomach and police in fremont stop a man accused of stealing medical supplies including masks, wipes and gloves. Why he was cited but not jailed. And a member of oaklands professional soccer team arrested. The allegations of inappropriate contact with a minor. For many of our members, being prepared. Wont be a new thing. And it wont be their First Experience with social distancing. Overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. Usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. And well be here to serve for a hundred more. This evening Many Americans are still reporting problems with the irs website as they try to track down the stimulus payment and there are also reports that people had checks deposited into the wrong bank accounts. Christine arendt on is live with more on the story. The irs says they are working hard to deliver all these payments to all eligible americans as quickly as possible but many people say they are confused and cant get the answers they need. The stories and messages we are receiving on twitter are similar, people keep having issues with the irs website as they try to track their Economic Impact payment. I logged on and the first thing they gave me was the same error message everyone is getting. Joe is far from the only person who says he is eligible, has filed his taxes and all the information he is putting into the at my payment feature is correct but his payment status is unavailable. I sort of understood that probably the server is overloaded or perhaps theres a ton of people applying at the same time. But the fact that it persisted and i tried throughout the day, its been two or three days now ive been trying it at various times, sometimes late at night. Thinking perhaps at weird times the server will be cooldown and yet, the same thing. I know ive moved a couple of times within the last year, so maybe the address i was inputting was not registering. Another person emailed us saying they got the room but the website said the cash was sent to a bank account that didnt belong to them. A spokesperson said the irs is moving aggressively to provide Additional Information and resolve any issues. Hopefully at the end of the day its just clutches with so much going on with the website and sooner or later payments will start trickling in. We just want to work, we just want to earn our income, we are not asking for a handout or donations. We want to work, but the problem is we cant. The irs has not confirmed payments going to the wrong bank account but im told a