You can see, everybody and read, or in purple. We go forward hour by hour and you can see the bad air of meandering around. It does not change on the large scale basis but it is still just a cumulative effect. Better yesterday, worse air today, and it still will be bad tomorrow. Significant trouble spots will be the northbay and around the central bay, so San Francisco, oakland, spilling down but still unhealthy at best across the entire bay area tomorrow and even into sunday but there are going to be changes as we head into the weekend. Gradual changes, tough to notice any real different it h seabreeze to kick back in, it will clear some of the smoke this will be a gradual process that will take several days, we get into the details of how all this will happen and even what happens farther down. The city of san jose shut down several parks due to the unhealthy air, we saw park rangers locking updates, the visible role guard rose garden, park rangers asking others to leave. I was just
For east bay law enforcement. Another heartbreaking announcement tonight less than 24 hours after a deputy dies from covid19. But first, San Jose Police under scrutiny tonight after an arrest caught on camera. The cell phone video appears to show the officer kicking, then dragging a woman. Tonight that officer is on leave. Both the Police Department and the mayor responding tonight as the National Debate over Police Reform continues. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the story. Reporter the video posted to social media reveals the encounter wednesday night. It appears to show an officer kicking a woman while shes kneeling on the ground during a traffic stop, and police say not obeying commands. You can see what happens when the video is zoomed in. Shes then pinned to the ground. The other officer has his gun drawn, talking to the passenger. Ten seconds later after shes s feet. Josh gill shot the video as he was picking up food at mcdonalds near east santa clara and 101 in san jose. As soon as
Also, the state saw another Record Number of hospitalizations. There are currently more than 5600 patients in california hospitals. This is also the 16th straight day that hospitalizations hit record highs. How bay area hospitals are helping with the surge. You know how counties help each other in an emergency . That is mutual aid. They do the same thing in the medical community. The bay area is helping by taking in covid19 patient from as far south as Imperial County which shares a border with mexico. Both of the hospitals are overwhelmed with the nucases of reporter sergio works for medical Services Company transporting patients to the bay area. Healthcare system in Imperial County, east of san diego is being flooded with coronavirus patients. Be arranging a transfer when they cant find it locally. The radius gets wider and wider. Reporter ucsf is one of the hospitals taking patients from distances that are typically out by the norm. It speaks to the fact that it is unusual times. I
80s inland and its a very nice monday here in the bay area. We have some whale news for will watchers. A blue whale was spotted off the coast of pacific grove. A videographer captured these images yesterday. It is the first blue whale sighting of the year. I know that getting those pictures, for a lot of people was really exciting. Lets bring in allie and gus. I know many people are taking times off today and trying to do things they can safely do. I note during the pandemic many of us felt like we could not go out. But now our bosses here are seeing to take a moment for yourselves. It does wonders for your Money Mental Health and your overall treatment of each other. I know allie, we love our work and we feel necessary but just a day or two away can work wonders. Absolutely. Especially when a lot of the news is pretty heavy and serious. It is important to disengage for a while. And we have had gorgeous weather in the area. The fog has been absent and it is nice to get a break from tha
Out a number weeks ago. When i left you on thursday, there were 19 counties on that list. Today, we have 23 counties. And, you see there, newly added six counties, 19 6 does not equal 23 we are counties coming on and counties that are coming off for example, contra costa was on off now back on santa clara was on last week no longer on. We have in total new updated monitoring lists. Those six counties madera, colusa moehring, monterey and san diego that were added to the monitoring list. This is a list we lose for Technical Assistance to engage the local Health Officers working with the county to address criterions that they attested to they put forward as a county that needs to be monitored and need support if we are no longer aligned in terms of the initial expectations. One of the most important things we can do in addition to Technical Assistance, on that monitoring list, is to do more to focus on enforcement. Now, we walked through the beginning of our enforcement efforts we were a