Only 68 icu beds available in the entire county of santa clara. That is part of the reason why Health Officials are now ramping up these enforcements no businesses because they want to keep people safe and doing this because of the Holiday Shopping season. Yesterday alone, Santa Clara County reported 512 new cases and setting a new record. 213 hospitalizations were also reported yesterday, including 45 new ones. Another new record. County believes those numbers will be even higher tomorrow. Those staggering numbers are part of the reason why enforcement efforts are being enhanced and the county Fire Department will now assist with compliance officers who have already been tasked with making sure businesses follow capacity restrictions and require face coverings and apply social distance guidelines. We are extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for, not only people with covid19, but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter
Usually it is conned by 9 30 p. M. Today, big fog bank but there are holes in it. It is not as robust as yesterday. At sfo, 50 degrees on the temperatures. San jose, 11 degrees spread. Temperatures will bump up a little. You can see clearing to the north. That will take us to near average temperatures. Santa rosa, San Francisco, hello for livermore and san jose. Lets get over to sal, it is 6 00 in the morning, is it all right out there sal . Is all right out there. We see it is getting more crowded on the short freeway, as you head out towards macarthur maze. It is not too slow. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza it will be okay. You can see the macarthur maze. You can see the toll plaza, it is not a big crowd. Normally we had a crowd this morning, but it is not there just yet. Lets go back to the headlines. We follow a developing story and oakland where police overnight shot and killed a man who had an assault weapon. This happened at 11 00 and San Leandro Police started chasin
Grim milestone tonight, 15,000. We are hearing details about a san jose woman who appears to be the nations first coronavirus victim. Reporter friends tell me they cant believe it. A southbay mother and wife who has now become the nations first covid19 death. That was 12 days earlier than the previous case. Patricia dowd of san jose was 57 years old when she died february 6th. This week, a new wave of grieving as many learned their friend tested positive after her death from covid19. ; was absolutely shocked, speechless. Reporter s be steve banner worked with her at research. Her linkedin page shows she was there for 27 years. She was a wonderful friend and colleague. She was warm, engaging, friendly. She was a great teammate, both at lam research and even after work. She was one of those people you like to be around. Reporter friends tell ktvu she was a graduate of st. Francis high school in mountain view, a wonderful, caring person. She became sick in late january with flulike sympto
The reporters we will update you with the latest numbers in and when this is over, the state. 39,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 96 we will all, continue, to thrive. Have died just yesterday bringing the total death toll in california now to more than 1500. The deadliest day so far came is so irresistible, youll wanna eat them anywhere, wednesday when there were 115 so dont resist pop em outside, or on the go, who died in one day. Or on the way home pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. Right here in the bay area there are currently more than 7000 confirmed cases of covid 19 with 243 deaths. Half 1 Million People have been tested for coronavirus here in the state and for the first time california has cleared its backlog of tests. That backlog reached 60,000 earlier this month and some people waited nearly 2 weeks or results of the test which slow down treatment. The forecast for warm weather is attracting more and more people back outside
The bay area atop the newscast but more importantly we will talk about tomorrows ring which looks more impressive than this coming up. For joining us, im juliette goodrich. Im Brian Hackney in the kpix5 studio, we learned that an inmate at the santa rita jail in dublin has tested positive for coronavirus, we are told they are being treated roundtheclock in the medical unit, the first case at the facility. 3300 cases in the bay area about one third of them in st. Clair county. 87 patients across the region have died. Today Governor Newsom says more needs to be done when it comes to testing. Let me just acknowledge on the outset, that the testing space has been a challenging one, for us, and i own that and i have a responsibility, as your governor, to do better, and to do more testing in the state of california. So far more than 126,000 people in the state have been tested for covid19. The governor has launched a new task force that will work to boost californias Testing Capacity when wo