That we saw over the summer in july. Weve talked so much about the twindemic, that covid surge combined with flu season. This could overwhelm hospitals in a matter of weeks, and despite the gloomy outlook, many local Health Leaders are feeling much more confident this time around. Here is nbc bay areas anousha rasta. Reporter if the latest surge in covid19 cases wasnt bad enough, now hospital workers and Health Care Workers need to worry about the looming flu season as well. We have been preparing for capacity. Making sure that we have equipment and supplies and just making sure that our protocols are in place to keep our patients safe as well as our Health Care Workers. Reporter dr. Sam shen is an emergency medicine doctor at Stanford Health cares palo alto campus and tells me he thinks the team and the hospital are ready to face a surge in covid patients. Should we hit a surge scenario, you know, we have prepared different backup plans. We have a scenario to manage surges and then we
Degrees warmer. Then at the same time yesterday so do enjoy this mild start. Im talking more in your forecast ahead. Rob, thank you john were off to a pretty good started traffic to its very quiet out there with no major issues a live look westbound 92, this is your drive out of hayward over to the peninsula. And you know its a little busy right here on the flat section thats completely normal so no problems just picking up and quickly so were looking at 12 minutes off to one o one were checking in on 80 your trip into San Francisco moving well looking good. No problems so far so easy 7 minutes off to one oh one or 2 the to downtown San Francisco and they were checking in on one oh one out of san jose to menlo park thats 26 minutes. The highway for all smooth and at the limit will check more traffic coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot rob. And our top story parts of the bay area are having to roll back on reopening because covid is on the rise and we showed you this map yester
Happened as he was climbing near or onto the third story of the Training Facility. We are trying to make sure that his family is the numberone priority and that they are given all the time necessary to mourn this along with all of his brothers and sisters at the San Francisco Fire Department. Reporter dozens of firefighters and Law Enforcement gathered outside the hospital where he had been taken after the fall. While little is known about exactly what happened, firefighters were able to tell us a lot about the life he lived. Jason is not only a fellow firefighter paramedic, hes a friend to all. Hes an advocate for public safety. Hes a father of two children, a husband to an amazing wife, and a child to a retired San Francisco firefighter. Reporter they say he rose from a paramedic in 2007, working mostly at station 49, that he attended fire academy, graduated as a firefighter paramedic assigned to station 3 in the tenderloin. Late today a powerful image as a procession for the fallen
And right now at 7 00, streaming on cbsn bay area, scattered showers hitting the area as we speak. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. This is just a taste of whats to come this week. Brian hackney is tracking the wet weather. Every little drop counts, and thats what were getting right now. Little drops. Theres more coming toward midnight tonight. Not much, but its all setting the stage for a more robust system coming in later. High def doppler is showing showers in daly city, mostly light. Some not hitting the ground. But it is up in the wine country. Higher elevations getting a few showers tonight. Futurecast shows when the brunt comes in. You can see here around midnight, the central part of the disturbance in the atmosphere is over the central part of the bay. You can hear a few splashes of showers, and thats about it. Midday tuesday we have a lot of sunshine coming in. In terms of amounts, maybe a tenths of an inch. More in weather including an incoming syste
Santa rosa about 81 percent of add to the totals when we get a more robust system moving in later on wednesday. Details ahead in weather. All right, thank you. Our other top story right now. A group of mothers in oakland have been given 5 days to leave a house theyve been living in illegally. But this group, moms for housing, says the eviction is unjust and has rallied up a lot of Community Support around their cause. Kpix 5s Juliette Goodrich spent the day in oakland speaking to the moms. Reporter ken, i talked to the moms, and also you can see the support directly behind me. Theyre standing guard outside this west oakland home. But keep in mind, these moms who are in there right ave lea pay rent. They decided to take over the vacant home out of the necessity and to send a message. [ chanting ] reporter Dominique Walker is one of the moms who took over this vacant west oakland home in november. She moved into the house with her 2 children out of desperation and to protest the housing