Breezy along the coast and for parts of the bay as we go through the day. Here is a live look with the Treasure Island camera. 48 concord, 49 livermore, 50 San Francisco. Santa rosa, 40. With the sunshine daytime highs slightly below average. 59 separate cisco, 62 oakland, 63 san jose, 64 concord. Highs today running from 3 to 4 degrees below average. We are tracking the next weather system. I will timeout when we see the wet weather for us coming up. Lets check in with gianna for traffic. Thanks mary. If you are looking towards the bay area bridges, things are looking good. No delays on the sent detail bridge. We have a few brick lights and minor brake lights along the 11. We have roadwork there. We have a few lanes shut down for the ongoing roadwork happening through their for the lane expansion. Keep that in mind as you are out and about. Looking at the Golden Gate Bridge, things are quiet. No delays and no cars working across this span. We have roadwork north of year that they are
Using technology. Your smart phone will likely play a role. If you test positive, it will help locate anyone youve been in cabbing with. Thats where it can help the people on the ground identifying the people that had contact with somebody who was infected and being able to get these people back into sheltering in place. In addition to testing for the virus, there will be testing for antibodies in blood samples. It will tell us who was infected a week ago, two months ago, four months ago, it will tell us how far the virus penetrated into our society. One thing we dont know whether it will tell us or not is the antibodies antibodies detects are they protecting us . How long will bos. Thats why experts believe a vaccine will be so important. The other way to be protected is to achieve whats called herd immunity. When so many people become immune to covid19, it stops the infection. Haywards coronavirus testing site opened at a new location today. In parking lot a. It allows more space for
Drivers to slow down, especially with all these people out on the roadway. To be clear, oaklands slow streets is not to close any city streets, rather to limit traffic to locals only on certain residential streets and quarters. That means if youre driving in your own neighborhood, maybe getting a delivery to your home, those are okay, that is local only. This will apply to 74 miles of oakland streets, as you mentioned. Thats 10 of the citys roadways. Were taking this opportunity to try some new things. Oaklanders are very anxious right now, and really trying hard to adjust to a radically different reality. And we hope that this slow streets movement will help give some joy, some recreation, some exercise, in a safe and physically sdadistanced way to oakland families throughout the city. Reporter if you drive on a slow street without knowing it, you will not get a ticket at this point. This is an education campaign. But a city councilman is urging the sheriff to crack down on speeding a
Extinguished. California is getting closer to reaching an important goal. I think its quite gratifying. Reporter the university of washington in seattle crunched the latest data. Here is the surge of covid cases in new york, and here is california. The bay area should be get congratulated. The curve looks plenty flat right now. The peak of hospital cases now hits the golden state on april 13th. Lots of capacity right now. Reporter ucsf epidemiologists explains there is a caveat. This pandemic is made up of different epidemics spreading through the state. There is one epidemic in Southern California, there is another epidemic in the bay area, there is another epidemic in sacramento. Reporter that means the apri 1e is a blended date. They probably wont hit all at the same time. If anything, we might expect the bay area to come a little before the ones in Southern California, which would be if we could if they could be separated that would be great. It really helps out with sharing equipm
Bay area on the front lines sayi are facing ensh whes to tips re getting by as much they can during this emergency. While some struggle to make ends meet, others struggle to fight the demand. Well show you how a home testing kit works. Good morning im devon feely. Emily turner has this morning off. Lets get a check of our weather in the Weather Center with daren. There are showers down in the south bay. Most of this is to the south down around santa cruz and monterey. But some of this is going to get into the south bay today. Since we have a chance for light showers, im going to show you that were going to spotlight the time frame right here. Watch what happens as we go through the rest of today. San jose could pick up. 10 of rain today. Some of this, but really it would be light unless youre down in the south bay. As far as getting you ready to step out the door right now, temperatures are in the low to upper 40s. 49 in san jose, oakland, and San Francisco. Ill be back with more on th