The curve. Good afternoon reporter california secretary of health and Human Services doctor galley confirmed the state is in the midst of a coronavirus surge, saying he is telling it the californians the way he would tell any patient. As i said, my patients, often when im worried i will tell you, she penry with me and we are there. Reporter infection, hospitalization and icu rates, all up sharply over the course of the last two weeks. Here, since the beginning of november in the same oneweek period it has been a 47. 1 increase. This is almost a 20 faster rate of rise in the fastest rate of rise we have seen in california. Reporter with thanksgiving less than two weeks away and families considering gathering, dr. Galley also announced a travel advisory, urging people to not travel and if they must come asking them to quarantine for at least a full two weeks, in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. Travel, having others travel to your home could potentially cost increased transmi
Update. Heres where we stand joe biden with 238 electoral votes. Where President Trump with 213 the magic number 270 and there are still enough votes out there still enough electoral votes for either candidate to claim victory before all is said and done so we have off to the far right there of nevada that is on hold right now because the secretary of state said that theyre not going to issue a release any more new numbers until tomorrow. So as it stands we have joe biden with a slight lead there all indications are that his lead will continue to grow because a lot of votes to lift count or in heavily democratic populated james so hold on soda for example when people say oh no that is not going to be decided tomorrow does that mean we wont know till tomorrow, not necessarily lets take a look at the other states in play we have the rust belt, this is the iron wall the democrats need to secure if they want to claim victory youve got wisconsin michigan pennsylvania at this point weve got
Can make it out here from your berkeley cam visibility is holding up a bit better for most areas than it was yesterday as cloud cover sitting right above the bay, albeit it will be a great start to the day a lot like yesterday for bayside areas. Air quality is good for most of us a mix of the yellow and there though indicating moderate conditions and youll see more and more that yellow into the afternoon today. 50s for current temperatures and a few 40s up in the north bay nevado san anselmo and santa rosa. Among those spots starting off pretty chilly and even cooler for the days to come. Robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the morning commute starting off with the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco, not bad at all leading up to the toll plaza so come on in, we are trouble free hot spot free right now for the trip in all the way across the upper deck in right along the skyway its going to be clear and smooth through downtown San Francisco heres 92 our busiest bridge and
Theres a red flag warning so we have to watch out for more fires threats as we go through the weekend more bad air in the bay area and were looking at more damage the entire city of calistoga has been evacuated calistoga still okay but everybody had to get out your kron fours will tran has been driving around there for us this morning giving us boots on the ground, a first person perspective and will what are you seeing this morning. I see the flames are right behind the same house that ive been showing you since 5 oclock in the morning. We have a location the firefighters tell me this is tucker road off a highway 29 about a mile from calistoga so this is your home. It is fine for now they have dozens of firefighters and i just stepped out you can clearly see there your backyard. Right now theyre actually laying down some Fire Fighting fire with fire creating a line and how hunting is this james and darya theyre saying right now the fire is playing nice so theyre keeping a close eye on
Back on march, 1620 20 the bay area was the first region in the country to issue a shelterinplace order in response to the covid19 pandemic. But this is written. A 100 years from now everybody is going to remember that day that the that the 6 perry counties plus the city of berkeley lock things down it stopped. Literally thousands of deaths, although california is trending in the right direction for slowing the spread of the coronavirus doctor George Rutherford professor of epidemiology at the university of california San Francisco says now is not the time to stop being vigilant. I mean you can catch yourself on the back a little bit. I mean we clearly did a great job in march and april and into may. Little away from us in june as you know he is referring to the pandemic surging in the wake of the memorial day weekend. He cautions the return of that behavior could prompt another surge over the next 6 months which has some major holidays. We have a very clear example of how we can mess