Reporting its second highest single day covid death toll. In california shattering a record, nearly 21,000 cases in 24 hours. 113 deaths. And the Positivity Rate hovering around 7 lets take a live look at san jose were Santa Clara County appears to be in the worst shape this evening. There are only 44 intensive care beds left in the entire county. But there is some hope on the horizon for these vaccines. Reporter just a short time ago the county sent us the final draft of the Vaccine Distribution plan that just got uit is 65 pages long. No indication as to exactly how many doses they have or when they will get here but they are working on it. Before we get into that lets talk about hospitalizations, it is not looking good. These numbers are gravely concerning. The assistant chief medical officer development is sounding the alarm about hospitalizations. Currently there are more than 1900 and the hospital right now, 287 or covid patients. Santa clara county is at 80 capacity, only 44 icu
The week into the weekend coming up. Lets check with gianna and how that morning commute is inup. A couple hot spots already. Along 580 working your way east around north glenn weve got a crash in the left lane. I checked with chp and they will run a traffic break to get everything to the shoulder. You will see brake lights temporarily and then things should open up. On the flip side west bound which is the commute direction, we are seeing crowding, a busy ride out of tracy. Starting around Mountain House onto 580, it gets better past north flynn to the dublin interchange. Thanks. New, a woman is in the hospital after she survived falling off devil slide trail cliff in pacifica. It happened just before 10 00 last night. The woman and her boyfriend saw their car trying to be towed so she tried to run toward it. In the darkness she fell off a cliff. Firefighters scaled down the cliff, found her alive and brought her back up. She was taken to the hospital immediately. We are waiting for w
In the bay area. It is still bad because of the wildfires. We have the latest on the spare the air alert. The smoke is hanging over several areas. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. It is monday, august 24th. You will still see smoke around the bay area. Rosemary is here, in for steve paulson, she has all the information about our forecast. Good morning, dave. We have cloudy skies in some spots, even a few light scatters of showers following over the bay area. Here is a look at Storm Tracker two. You can see we have got a little bit right along the east bay shore there. Some areas over kensington, maybe the berkeley area, emeryville, just on the edge of that, it is stretching over the berkeley hills. As we shift to the north, we have more widespread rain tracking some up over Higher Elevations. Calistoga is shifting in, napa is seeing light rain as well. Into the sierra, where we started earlier this morning, quite a bit of thunderstorm
A very good friday morning we do have that lower deck. To you. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. An earlier crash, a tow truck well get to your traffic and weather in just a bit. And crews there. Three out of your five lanes are first lets look at the headlines. Closed. Two lanes are still open and at the stroke of midnight a few lighter traffic is able to still hours ago banks began accepting get by. Loan applications from small youll find slowing there mid businesses that comes from the 2 trillion stimulus package. Span. No delay so you can use the bridge eastbound as an speaking of which were alternate. Back to you. Getting a clearer picture when thank you, mike. Americans will start getting coming up next on today in their stimulus checks and the the bay we speak to the wait for some may be months. Archbishop of the Catholic Church in San Francisco this well dive deeper into the morning. The changes the church is headlines. First a check of the forecast with meteorologist
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