Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
Showing you the cloud free conditions where it is 37. Good morning to you in walnut creek, 35 in dublin, thats cold, 35 in livermore, 32 in novato. San francisco, 48, 40 in san jose. Compared to yesterday, were colder, three to seven degrees colder and this should be the coldest morning well cena while. Starting out with a lot of sunshine by 9 00, rebounding to the 40s and fichts, upper 50s by noontime. Pretty much for everyone, high clouds streaming in for a partly cloudy afternoon and temperatures will climb through the 60s by 3 00, and 4 00 will be around 60 and with increasing clouds tonight, maybe not as cold, well talk about and the prospect for thanksgiving weather and beyond, coming up. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Californias new curfew takes effect tonight, it applies to counties in the purple tier where the virus is widespread. Right now that includes the counties, as you can see here tonight map, napa, contra costa, alameda, santa clara, and santa cruz. The curfew goes into effec
Set to move in later today. Good friday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Well check in with mike in just a moment. The wind advisory also in effect ahead of that storm. Yeah, we are seeing some high winds picking up this morning out ahead of this cold front thats moving through, and we are tracking the storm as it approaches on storm ranger now moving into far Northern California as we go into this morning. Yes, the first storm of the season moving in and its really great to see although were not seeing a lot of rain with it, its going to be spotty. Were starting out dry as you get ready to head out the door. Were going to see some gusty winds throughout this morning into the day. And those high winds and chilly temperatures continuing. By this afternoon well start to see some spotty rain around the bay area and then another chance of showers on sunday, so ill be talking all about this with the time line coming up in a few minute
Health officials are issuing a curfew from 10 pm until 5 am for all counties in the purple tier, it goes into effect saturday and it is expected to last one month. Essential workers are exempt. The new restrictions target people who may be gathering with others outside their household, but for this new restaurant owner, the restrictions are devastating. 25 in Alameda County and now we are back to square one, for us, it is devastating because we dont have the clientele, we are not completely known yet. Figure i dont approve it, but if its going to happen is going to happen. Is going to be any bite to this curfew . Reporter Law Enforcement has been reacting, what i found interesting was that many Law Enforcement agencies said they had no idea the state would be imposing a curfew, so this came as a surprise to them, many of them saying in tweeting and sending out news releases, that they are going to focus on education, as opposed to citations. It should be a big wake up call to take it v
Our storm ranger scanning the skies. Meteorologist kari hall timing out the wet weather as today in the bay on Tuesday Morning starts right now. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. First well start with the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall tracking that rain. Has it already started to fall here . Not yet but we will see it the rest of the day moving north to south. We can still see the rain approaching the far northwestern california coast and were going to see that moving in as we go into today. As we power up storm ranger it is starting to pick up on some very light sprinkles but the heavier stuff comes this morning. Ill time it out in a few minutes. Mike, any issues for the Early Morning commute . No major issues but one in martinez. Lets look at the big view. You see green. That will put you at ease. A major connector coming off the carquinez bridge area. Theres glass on the roadway. There is glass from what, i dont know. T