Shut down yet again. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. Five of the bay areas nine counties have announced the new stayathome order, taking action before they reached the states 15 threshold for icu bed capacity. San francisco, contra costa, santa clara, and alameda counties will all be under the stayathome order by midnight tonight. The order in marin county starts on tuesday. So far at least san mateo, sonoma, and solano counties are not telling their residents they have to stay at home. Now under the order there will be no indoor or Outdoor Dining at restaurants. But takeout orders will still be allowed. Wineries and bars will also have to close, so will hair and nail salons. Officials are warning people not to gather outside of their own households during the holidays. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama here now with how people and Business Owners spent the final hours before the order goes into effect. Jana . Reporter frank, some of the businesses said they saw a last minute rush. Peopl
Driver. According to police officers, more importantly was a witness to the scene so they did talk to that driver and that muni bus about 2 minutes ago just left here as far as this intersection it looks like now that the tow trucis here. Its kind of take a little bit longer because they have obviously remove the suv and then that blue honda but could wrap up at around 10 oclock or so back to you all right, thanks a lot. Well. 9 oh one is the time, lets also find out about the weather too because weve seen fog blanketing the entire bay area this morning. How long is it going to be sticking around john it looks like weve got at least another hour of it for most areas guys between 10 11am i think is thats when most of the clearing is about to occur so still late impact for those of our those of you who may be or later commuters getting out there into this gray mess that weve got going on you can see from berkeley here. There is definite blanket of fog in the distance, but there is some c
Department planning a special enforcement action. Now tonight, ktvu has more on stores facing citations or fine fist they violate health and safety fine if they break them. Reporter it is aimed to protect the community. Reporter more shoppers are expected to visit shopping malls and big box retailers hoping to score it. Increased risk for coronavirus to spread. We will have Law Enforcement officers patrolling the area. They will be visiting all of the poplar destinations. Extending into the weekend. Santa clara county inspectors performing double duty as enforcement officers. This is not complying about the health order. Possible violations include employees not wearing masks, no social distancing and stores and exceeding capacity limits. And fined if they dont have protocols and limits posted. Fines can be 500 and up, head into the thousand fist violations are severe enough. Unlike past enforcement when businesses could correct the violation, citations this time around will not come w
The pandemic. Marine county is the only other in the red tier as of right now. And there has been no mention so far about marin county going into the purple tier. At this point right now, health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark ghaly is giving an update on the states response to covid19. Well monitor the briefing and bring you an update coming up at 12 30. Governor newsome gave his update yesterday afternoon while quarantining at home with his family. This is after his children were exposed to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. He talked about vaccines yesterday, specifically how the state would store the keys and how they would distribute them as well. And his plan focuses on having people most at risk to receive the batch of vaccines, which might be available next month. Skilled nursing facilities, Residential Care facilities. Assisted living facilities. Of course, our First Responders and other critical infrastructure. Were making sure were protecting those that a
Hopkins camera. You can see the clouds in the sky through the afternoon, mid to low 50s to low to mid 60s for the afternoon. I will take you hour by hour on live in a few minutes. Lets go to gianna. Still slow it is. No friday light here unfortunately. Construction is blocking a couple lanes. Everything was supposed to be cleared by 6 00 but it doesnt seem thats the case. You can use 580 through oakland as an alternate but they have a couple lanes blocked because of the trouble spot along the nimitz freeway north bound. Elsewhere, a slow ride into the Altamont Pass. Delays on 205 at mount house and extend with a 32 minute drive time towards 680. We just heard from the chief of the World Health Organization about the coronavirus. He is urging all of the countries in the organization to not rely solely on a vaccine to solve the pandemic. We have a long way to go. The world cannot put all its eggs in one basket and neglect the many other tools at our disposal. Reporter he says when we do