Home to at least now may 3rd happening today, the Santa Clara Convention center is going to be used as a makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients kron fours will tran is there live to take a look and how its going to be seup well. Daria you justheard the numbers of fatalities from im coronavirus and that put some strain on the hospital in a preemptive move. The city of santa cla they allowed people to go inside specifally and heres video the National Guard going inside last frid it is ready to go ey spent 12 hours side the Convention Center setting up 250 cots for men and women they will be separated the whole idea ju like shelter in place is to flatten the curve take the load off the hospitals they will start accepting patients who are positivfor coronavirus and that is important cause if you are next to each other in cots you dont have that 6 feet of distance apart from each other, but the good news is since they are positive for coronavirus they do not need to social distance, th
People who have already tested positive. They do not want the virus to spread any further so well talk more about how theyre going to handle them once they get and oakland, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher will get all that half a moment first want to check with weather and traffic find out of 30 problems out we did you will begin in the Traffic Center robin thank you we do have a hot spot that were waiting to a clear get out of the way it happened at 5 30 this morning. And that really stacking up traffic on westbound 80 its 80 west after solano avenue. Its a multi vehicle accident that theyre working with in the 3 left lanes so Traffic Alert remains in place. And its really impacting people on the upper east shore freeway its crawling out of hercules back from highway 4. But if you get on the freeway anywhere after the crash. Its going to be wide open for you 60 minutes right now total for the drive time from crockett down to the maze, heres a peek at the bay bridge toll plaza if
From there. Oakland and San Francisco dry, partly cloudy and comfortably cool rob. All right. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco still stacked up at the toll plaza and a lot of these folks that you see here they were late getting to pay kates because they were stuck on the shore freeway we had a hot spot up enrichment and so that held back a lot of folks so they made it now its a jam from the bottom of the maze, but still under 15 minutes to make it an highway for me still have a motorcycle crash working in pittsburgh westbound at bailey we have 2 lanes closed 2 left lanes blocked so its crawling out of pittsburgh right now but keeping traffic light on the bay 0. 5 45 minutes because of that crash antioch over to concord will check more slow downs coming up. That was the announcement to passengers over the weekend and this morning we just found out moments ago that they will be docking at noon. At the port of oakland that infected ship with 21
What a welcomed sight. We have not seen that in a long time. Every little bit of rain helps. You can see it there. I know we got no rain in february. Satellite radar right now, it looks a lot more exciting on radar than how much we will see today. If i move this one further down towards the south bay you can see it moving into the peninsula. We will have our best chance of rain between now and 10 00 a. M. As we head towards the afternoon, you will notice that temperatures will be running a lot cooler today. Upper 50s and we may have another chance of rain. I will talk about that in our forecast coming up in 15 minutes. We look forward to that. Now we begin with a late night announcement from stanford. A faculty member has tested positive for coronavirus. The final two weeks of the Winter Quarter will be moved to online formats. The university will remain open but employees are encouraged to work from home. I think they are happy class got cancelled to not get the disease. It is a very,
Just announcing it will send medical personnel to texas as the pandemic pushes the state to the brink. Its another sign hospitals and First Responders in texas are becoming overwhelmed by the surge and its not just texas. 32 states are seeing a spike in cases. 130,000 americans have now died from coronavirus dr. Fauci warning that the problem is getting worse. Were surging back up. Its a serious situation that we have to address immediately. Two top doctors in the country with these ominous words. Were in free falls. The president is in complete denial. The white house claiming the u. S. Is, quote, a leader in the fight against coronavirus. I think the world is looking at us as a leader and covid19. Wow, is this what she means . That the United States has 4 of the worlds population but 25 of the coronavirus deaths. Maybe thot. Maybe the green line at the top of the chart. It shows u. S. Cases in march. Roughly the same spot as italy, germany and france. The green line is surging. Its i