It restricts all nonessential activity between the hours of 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. , but will a mandatory quarantine for travellers be next . And if so, how soon . Reporter as covid cases continue surging across the bay area, San Francisco is embracing its purple status and the rstrictions that come with it, but just how bad are the numbers . I think were very close to santa clara. Reporter abc 7s Analysis Shows covid cases per capita between San Francisco and santa clara are both reaching the high 1,700s. To put it in perspective, San Francisco was averaging 139 new covid cases per day. Whereas santa clara is averaging 517. We may well have to act like santa clara has. I dont want to get in front of the City Health Department here, but theyre obviously weighing all these things and looking at the same numbers were all looking at. Reporter Santa Clara County Public Health officials have implemented even stricter rules, like limiting hotels to only essential travel and requiring peo
Our commitment to help build a better bay area. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes explains that california is expecting its first shipment next month. We are anticipating 327,000 doses of the vaccine, pfizer, to come in the next few weeks. Reporter Governor Newsom says he even knows roughly when the vaccines arrive but didnt want to reveal the date until he had the exact day. Were going to be seeing hundreds of thousands of people in california and millions of people in the United States get vaccinated in december. Its actually breathtaking. Reporter so here is what we can expect in the next few days. The vaccines exact date of arrival and the plan outlining who will get the shot first. The vaccines implementation will happen at the speed of trust, and that is part of the reason why we have built a set of committees. We have to start with Health Care Workers and probably people in nursing homes. And then ultimately, we will get to people over 65, people with preexisting conditions. Reporte
Meteorologist kari hall breaking down why thats causing concern as today in the bay begins right now. Good morning and thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Of course mike is keeping his eyes on the road. Lets start with the forecast for today. And this morning a very foggy start. Yes, we are seeing that in the south bay as well as other parts of the bay area as we wake up, take a look at our live camera in san jose. Its foggy and its chilly so we are going to see that for the next couple of hours and then turning very mild as we go into the afternoon with some sunshine. Taking a look at our breezy winds picking up for tomorrow. We are going to stay dry in the forecast as we start out with some cold temperatures and the fog this morning. We do have concern of freezing fog. Well talk more about that cong up in just a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . Kari, the fog is the topic of one of the chp reports. As we look at the
Thats going help our temperatures out. But as of right now we cold livermore at 36 dublin at 34. Definitely more mild right along the bay with alameda at 48 oakland at 43 santa rosa you are spot below freezing this morning at 31 degrees. All that but not too far away from freezing at 34. Im talking the nice afternoon that we still have to expect in your forecast. Robin has had a couple of issues on the roadways this morning. It looks like the bay bridge has gotten pretty packed pretty quickly and no fun sitting in this the backup is growing for sure it started off with a little stall at the toll plaza could have crash there was a van that was sitting there. With the damage bumper. We didnt see the accident happened. It was just that one vehicle that caltrans rolled out they pushed it out of the way and that sort of kicked off our back up at the bay bridge toll plaza so started traffic started stocking up behind that and then now we have the usual early commuters coming in so you put it
To the fog and hello to the sunshine again. Half moon bay, a cold start for you at 39 degrees livermore dublin in concord also in the 30s this morning bayside areas are more mild while the north bay or coldest santa rosa youre sitting right now at 30 degrees while napa at 34 get the picture, yeah got to bundle up as youre getting out there to kick off this descent december i guess youre dressing on a seasonable note though as it is december now and you want to dress up nice and cozy anyways. Weve had a few issues on roadways robins been very busy telling you about all of that that we do have fog out there will making an impact we have hot spots. Weve had multiple where we had right now the bay bridge. I just got word of a multi vehicle accident on the lower deck and the fog has rolled in on the bay bridge just like you said john so chp has issued a special dense fog advisory now. For the bay bridge. We dont have a camera on the lower deck, but just know that its very foggy across the s