Strategic plans across america to deliver those vaccines safely and these doses cannot come soon enough as covid19 continues to devastate the golden state California Health officials reporting more than 35,000 new cases of the virus and 225 deaths both numbers shattering daily records more than 13,000 people are currently in the hospital thats also an alltime record and the states icu capacity is now at just 7. 9 some good news though california is expecting some 327,000 doses of the pfizer covid19 vaccine as early as monday. As part of the initial vaccine rollout the move comes after the fda authorized emergency use of that vaccine late last night. The chief operating officer of operation warp speed now praising the effort today calling it historic. For 7 months we have realized the greatest Public Private partnership in modern times. Doctors scientists researchers factory workers low just asians and hundreds more have all come together for single or purpose. That purpose save lives a
Home or order earlier than required so starting tomorrow, San Francisco santa clara and Contra Costa County stay at home orders will go into effect at 10 00pm then on monday just after midnight Alameda County state home order will kick in then on tuesday marine countys order will go into effect at noon this news comes as the bay area region including monterrey in santa cruz counties. Have not yet reached the states icu threshold. Health officials here in the bay area say they need to take action now so hospitals do not become overrun with patients. Here are the very latest numbers of icu bed capacity is across the state. Northern california and the sacramento regions are a little more than at 24 capacity. The bay area region is close to 22 regional stay at home orders in San Joaquin Valley and Southern California will go into Effect Tomorrow because capacity in those 2 regions now sit at below 15 . A stay at home order means that personal Services Like hair salons and barber shops must
Area counties will be under this new regional stay at home order. And then 2 more counties are to follow soon after the new rules coming us coronavirus move closer to reaching itals capacity. Thursday governor gavin newsom announced that order would go into effect in 4 regions intensive Care Capacity fell below 15 so thursday icu capacity here in the bay area was above 25 . Yesterday it dropped by more than 4 to just over 21 where it stands right now, although capacity did rise by half a percentage point today it is still dangerously low, which is now prompting several Bay Area Health officials to implement those new stay at home orders earlier than necessary. So heres one the orders officially begin San Francisco santa clara and contra costa counties will begin starting these rules on sunday night at 10 which is when the states curfew goes into effect. And the Alameda County it will take effect just after midnight on monday. A marine county doesnt start until tuesday at noon and once
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital earlier tonight, good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the accident took place at the departments training yard. An investigation into what happened is now underway or kron fours terisa stasio has details. The fire chief was visibly shaken as she talked about losing this firefighter. She also talked about how the Department Needs to be strong right now during this very sad time we lost a young man named jason cortez who has a wife. And 2 little kids as a father. Retired from the San Francisco Fire Department. All of them are grieving. As is. This Fire Department family. A somber San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson reflecting on losing one of their own. In a horrible accident. It was around 10 00am wednesday at the Training Facility on 19th and fulsome fire Officials Say the court has got injured he was rushed to the sucker berg San Francisco General Hospital. A short distance away whe
Camera here showing all the overcast conditions but that things are going to start to clear as we get closer of course to the afternoon hours. So what temperatures are going to be very similar to what we saw as a matter of fact yesterday so getting into the afternoon. Its going to be a little bit nicer once we get the visibility better right more sunshine out there couple miles of visibility. Wise for oakland and through hayward through atc are going to get some of the patchy fog. Pretty severed fog here along the coast but already were starting to see Clear Conditions, especially if youre more inland like concord right now, but we are going to see it for everybody as we get closer to midday today. And yes temperature were looking pretty good very even in some versus what we saw yesterday as well and then temperatures anywhere from mild to warm but some hot ones are going to return to us once again all those details coming up in just a bit back to the news, thanks rebecca, lets get to