Anastasia ogrady. Daniel well its not exactly clear whats behind it. Obviously people are being infected. People who have coronavirus are transmitting it to others and there are things we can correlate with, it could be the protests that, indeed, happened all over the country for the last month. These were people in close proximity to one another, in los angeles, texas, florida, other states, it could be the number of people who have gone to restaurants, bars without masks and despite new infections do involve younger people, not the older Vulnerable People above the age of 70 who tend to be have the highest death rates. Some of the younger people are being hospitalized not too many of them are dying. The case rate is very high, the case numbers are high. The death numbers are not high, if you look across the states they remain very flat, so at the moment the surge seems to be located, paul, mainly in the younger population who has quite frankly been exposing themselves to one another
And lockdowns. Welcome, good to have you with us. You see this outbreak again across the south and the west. I guess the question is did these States Reopen too soon . If they reopened too soon its really odd because they opened in the beginning of may and throughout may very little changed and all of a sudden starting early june and accelerated in june theres a huge spike of positive tests in the states. If anything the lockdowns caused this what happened, why didnt it happen in may and not june and thats a very good question which i dont think we have the answer to right now but its also a question that the media is not really asking. Paul do you have any speculation yourself about why that is . Where are they coming from . You have seen, houston, san antonio, miamidade, Maricopa County in arizona. Alex june has been very hot in the sunbelt states, its typically hot in texas and arizona, driven people indoors and use airconditioning. There may be Real Community spread from that. Clea
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Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us on kron 4 news tonight at 8. Another big story tonight as the number of covid19 cases and hospitalizations continues to rise governor Gavin Newsome announcing several new restrictions across the state to try and slow the spread of the virus. We have live on 14 coverage from details on the latest order from the governor to how it affects parts of the bay area kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom with more on todays announcement just sing. Well pam Governor Newsom announced today the state is shutting down many indoor businesses thats because hospitalizations have increased by 51 . Over the last 2 weeks with these statewide Hospital Capacity now at 60 . So now restaurants bars wineries museums zoos card rooms and movie theaters must closed in 19 counties for 3 weeks now this includes santa clara. Contra costa and solano counties here in the bay area, 72 of the golden states population is now part of a Commun
Staying above the bay. So were pairing pretty well with visibility all the way across the bay area skies, nice and dry as well for your thursday, no big surprise there we work our way into july now at this point you dont expect much except for some coastal drizzle which were also free of this morning. So smooth sailing as you are driving into work. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures oakland, the most mild spot at 60 degrees while conquered pittsburgh alameda and hayward egypt, 58, north day tempecatures santa rosa, most notably down into this 40s right now with both santa rosa and san anselmo at 49 degrees. So definitely get those jackets ready to go factor in some winds that are breezy up into the delta through fairfield announced the coast and yes we do have a nice wind chill factor this morning its going make it feel brisk as youre ensuring outside for whatever you may be doing this Early Morning so just get that jacket on and youll be fine other little bit on the cool side.