Produce, and we put a lot of effort into it together with lots of governor gavin newsom says that is why he is considering more stringent measures. If these trends continue, then well need to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic actions. The governor says if the current search continues, 78 of the hospital beds will be occupied by christmas eve. Icu beds could be at capacity by the end of the year. In order to change that trajectory, he is thinking about issuing a stayathome order for the purple tier more than 90 of the population of california. Were assessing this in real time over the next day or two to make determination of the deep purple moves more in line with the stayathome order that folks were familiar with in the beginning of this year. This is bad. We are in a bad space right now. It will get worse in the short term says dr. George rutherford. Even in the bay area, which is doing better than the rest of the state. We all need patients and to listen to the experts. We ne
To 15 , yet they are still opting to shut down. On the other hand, Santa Clara County is down to 15 , which equals 31 empty icu beds remaining in the south bay. Marianne favro is in san jose to see how hospitals are handling the covid surge. Reporter Regional Medical center of san jose is now at capacity, but it continues to accept new patients here in the emergency department. There are at least 66 Covid Patients at Regional Medical center, and the surge is straining hospital resources. We are at capacity. Theres essentially no more beds in the hospital to rapidly put the patients into their inpatient unit. Reporter the hospital continues to perform surgery and accept emergency patients. But elective surgeries have been put on hold. The Medical Center is also using beds in the postacute care unit to accommodate additional patients. But it wont be using the pandemic tents set up in the parking lot back in april. We think its going to be better to circle the wagon, have our Team Togethe
Tracking that and the weekend forecast. Weve been dying to get out for a little walk, kari. Its been rough. Yeah. We can do that now that the sun has come back out. And we can see from our live camera from san jose, its be a beautiful morning now. Few lingering showers outside the sacramento valley, widening out the view to see what else is out there, the next storm is right there off our coast and will be moving in, starting in the north bay by tomorrow. So, as we look at how much rain we measured, this was huge. A lot of us got more rain with this one storm than we did all season long up to this point. And getting over 10 inches of rain at the santa cruz summit. Morgan hill from this one storm reaching six inches of rain. Fremont, redwood city, reacing over two inches of rain. Were seeing two inc san jose. Oakley reaching over 2 inches of rain. So now that we are getting a chance to let all of that soak in, temperatures are still pretty cool. And were going to only see it reach into
Will it really work . The states top doctor is feeling the pressure and the resentment from many people in the community. Today he defended his decision. He said california needs to stay home. Because cases are continuing to hit record highs almost daily. He pointed to the success rate of shut downs in europe. Belgium put in a three week stay at home order. Its positive ratd fell from 21 to 8 in that time. England had a four week order. Cases dropped by 30 . He says he understands the restrictions are inconvenient. But its what the state has to do at this time as hospitals become over crowded. The goal of saving lives become threatened when the system isnt as robust and strong as it can be. To deliver care to as many californiaens as needed. Reminding everyone there is light at the end of tunnel. The first doses of vaccines expected to arrive one week from today. Hundreds of people crowded outside the courthouse today very few of them Wearing Masks to support the pastor who landed in f
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