Particularly among people age 50 to 64. This years dominant strain is age 3 into which researchers say appears to be stronger this year that was last year but it is not clear why. This was particularly strong in that is why the transmissibility is more. It is not to late to get the flu shot. The cdc that it will not be clear exactly how well the shot is working until next month when the flu season is expected to peak. At the current rate the cdc estimates about 34 Million People will get sick from the flu before the season ends. Behind every statistic number in the flu outbreak is a person who had a life and people who love them. Rob roth spoke with one family who just lost their loved ones. Jason is one the most recent people to die from the flu. His family took him off life support yesterday. Reporter these are two people jason left behind, his wife and sister. The still cannot believe he died from having the flu. It has been eight treacherous three weeks. Reporter his home he was ho
Weeks. Reporter they say he wasnt feeling well on christmas. At 44 years old and in good health he thought he could ride it out. Fever, feeling like the typical flu that everybody gets that lasts a couple of days. And so, you know, he was in bed with the flu. As far as he knew the fever and feeling altogether bad. Reporter his wife says she finally convinced him to see a doctor who detected pneumonia, gave him antibiotics and certainty him home. Four days later he went to the hospital. He seemed to be getting worse. He started coughing. He had a coughing fit and was turning blue. And the nurses are running in trying to intubate him. Reporter barbeau, who worked in i. T. Went into a medicallyinduced coma eight days after first feeling sick. He would never regain consciousness. He was transferred here to California Pacific Medical Center where he stayed on life support for three weeks but the damage the flu did to his lungs was too much to overcome. His family removed him from life suppo
The Oakland Hills this afternoon. Viewer david yuen collected it in his hand. He saw it falling in his backyard. In berkeley, hail. Check this out, it pelted this deck for several minutes. So much hail fell in this backyard, a child was able to mash it up and bunch it together into a chunk of ice. Almost a snowball. Take a look at what we captured on our east bay hills towercam ra this evening. This is a time lapse of that falling hail. The National Weather service is forecasting this could be the coldest night in San Francisco in more than four years. And its already in the 30s in places around the bay. Chilly indeed. It is in the Single Digits in truckee. Meteorologist drew tuma is here with live doppler 7. Winter has returned to the region. Chilly temperatures this afternoon. And a little bit of wintry precipitation earlier. Live doppler 7, its quiet. We take you back to around 5 00 earlier this evening. We had one shower pop up in the east bay. As it moved through Higher Elevations
Street level radar from berkeley, University Avenue heading into emeryville. Oakland. San leandro, showers. Ive had numerous reports of hail in the east bay along with the showers. Right now in vacaville, fairfield, air base, were seeing showers. Heres whats coming. A freeze warning for virtually all inland areas midnight to 9 00 a. M. Mid20s to low 30s. Bring the pets inside. Protect the plants and the pipes. A frost advisory covering the coastal and bay shorelines in the throw mid30s. A hard freeze warnin tuesday, 1 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. For the inland areas of Solano County and lake county. Thats where temperatures are supposed to be in the low to upper 20s. Bone chilling cold, cold enough to make you shiver. We will be setting records by tomorrow morning. Ill be back to let you know how cold in your area coming up. Dan, kristen. Thank you so much. Some of the chilliest weather in the east bay. Folks are definitely feeling it. Alyssa harrington is live at the plaza in downtown conc
It didnt stay solid for very long. In berkeley, they saw hail. It pelted this back jarred deck for several minutes. A child was able to mash them together into a chunk of ice with all of the hail he could get. Kind of a snowball, right . Kind of. The viewer who shot this video said he saw a mix of hail and snow. Less than two hours ago thrk is a time lapse of falling hail. Lets get a check with spencer christian. It didnt last long. But it did happen. We are not seeing much at all in the way of moisture showing up there. Just little small patches of green. And this is what happened over the last few hours. The system did produce isolated hailstones. Freezing rain, even snow. All of that did happen over the period of about two hours or so. What is coming behind it is frigid air. A freeze warning in effect tonight. That darker blue color there, away from the coast and the bay shoreline we recolle shoreline. We will see low temperatures. Hard freeze in solano county. Protect pets, plants