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
So sadly instead of crushing the virus it appears that the trumpet mistaken will use its final moments in office and the desperate last step to destroy every possible protection for American Health and well being so many people have said to me a private some of you along the way what damage do you think that trump will do between losing the election and the swearing in the inauguration of joe biden maybe even phrase it quite that way but thats how i heard it and we knew that he would be up to mischief separate and apart from that trying to destroy the credibility of our elections which we criticize other nations for doing and now ways all enemies foreign and domestic make an assault on our elections well we have one domestic but apart from that on the policy side which is why we are here people asked that question. What will he try to do that is harmful and one of. This week they show their hand we had suspicions of it but can speak publicly about it because until they went public this
Changes hell make starting on day one. And the latest signs of the growing covid surge across the u. S. As hopeful new information comes in about a leading candidate in the search for a vaccine. And a very good monday morning, a chilly start to our day. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. We have to start with these cold temperatures. Kari, will it be cold throughout the day . Yes, and were looking at well below normal temperatures setting records for lows this morning. Were going to have more of these frosty mornings and cool afternoons over the next few days and were also tracking some more rain set to move in by the end of the week. I want to show you what youre going to feel as you step out the door. Check out concord, now 32 degrees. Freezing in a lot of spots. Well talk about whats ahead in the forecast. Thats coming up in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking getting throughout the commute around the bay area . Kari, im worried about folks heading across the bay bridge into
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Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu