Stay at home orders are now in effect for for bay area counties at San Francisco santa clara contra costa and alameda counties are in counties stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow at noon. The order will be in place until january 4th as of now Sonoma Napa Solano and san mateo counties are not planning to go into a stay at home order until their icu bed capacity falls below that 15 threshold that state home order does mean personal Services Like hair salons and barbershops can no longer operate restaurants can only offer takeout or delivery means Outdoor Dining is out of the picture. It also affects indoor gyms drivein gatherings outdoor playgrounds Entertainment Centers zoos and museums open airbuss and boat operators all of these businesses must now close we begin our coverage of these shutdowns in the south bay. The new more restrictive health order. In Santa Clara County will no doubt take some getting used to in terms of whats allowed and whats not were going to check in
See moraine county is the only bay area county outside the purple tier and still in the red there is a flurry of speculation about what the new stay at home order restrictions will look like ground force dan kerman talk to medical experts tonight about that as well as how it might help slow the surge that were dealing with an joins us now dan. Well medical experts seem to agree that some sort of a rollback is necessary, especially to put off that overcrowding of hospitals to the point where there might not be any hospital beds left in 2 weeks in the bay area. They also talk about various levels of a stay at home order it does not necessarily have to be the draconian one we saw in spring, but it could be something more limited like what were seeing now in Santa Clara County. One version of a stay at home order could look like this abandoned streets like we saw back in the spring. But while affective on slowing the spread of covid19 his Economic Impacts could prevent the state from repea
More than 19,000 californians have lost their lives to coronavirus and in the south bay there are new fears that hospitals in areas hit hardest by the virus are running low on icu beds and could reach capacity by mid december at same time officials reported some progress in planning for the arrival in distribution of the vaccine. Kron fours rob fladeboe has more on this live from san jose rob. And thats right ken and pam a county Health Officials at a briefing here at the Government Center today offered very few specifics, but they did say that they now have submitted their a vaccination protocol, the Distribution Plan to the state of california has required at the same time though they say they are quote extremely worried about the rising tide of hospitalizations and they are encouraging people to more fully cooperate with the new restrictions imposed this last weekend. Heres more. The answer i have for you today is that that that number is evolving Santa Clara County Health Officials
From suture tower at San Francisco. Didnt show you this he very much yesterday at least not early on because you couldnt see any of it that cloud cover was really blocking it out that is obviously not the case this morning visibility is just fine low clouds all but gone for most areas and thats the way were going to stay now theres some truly fog out towards the Central Valley. If you happen to be heading that way but not something were really looking at much here in the bay area aside from some patches of fog so do watch for those isolated patches closer to the coastline, 30s and 40s for most of our current temperatures oakland you are in the midfifties that much of this time yesterday now were at 46 degrees so noticeable cool down the at 43 while Napa Petaluma nevado same in and santa rosa. All our cities in the 30s this morning you can see how big of a drop in temperatures that is for some of these areas novato down 20 degrees from the same time yesterday thats definitely a differen
Chilly out there this morning were seeing clear skies than yesterday but not Crystal Clear in fact if you look out at our sutro tower v you can see that thin veil of low clouds and fog that is sitting right through Sales Force Tower right across the bay itself so that is going to result in a couple of patchy areas remain counter some low visibility on roadways. Both of the coast along the bay and even towards our inland areas, the Central Valley has our heaviest dose of fog this morning, skies will gradually clear and then it sunshine the rest of the day in fact thats going to make one of our coolest morning. So far one of our warmest afternoons of this forecast right now though were still in the 30s for dublin and livermore each at 38 degrees santa rosa youre at 36 when the at 34 degrees right now napa a cool 36 degrees. So yes get the jacket ready to go as you venture out there over to you robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the traffic and its quite busy in some spot