Afterwards is, well, just what the Christmas Season is all about. Early today starts right now good morning im valerie castro. Glad youre starting your week with us im Frances Rivera the start of this week brings new hope the u. S. May soon see the approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but as the country anxiously waits, cases and deaths continue to climb as of today, there have been over 14. 8 million infections, and over 283,000 deaths, according to an nbc news tally. The pandemic isnt stopping pope francis from spreading an uplifting message this Holiday Season at his sunday blessing, the pontiff said the Christmas Season provides a sign of hope in this difficult time his words come as most of california enters a new virus lockdown nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald has the latest. Valerie, good morning millions of californians are waking up to some of the most restrictive measures weve seen since the beginning of the pandemic all while state officials do what they can to try to stop hospitals fro
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
Heavy rain. Also union city fremont, that is wet as well. 40s, 50s are the temperatures, a lot lips reported as well. Coming in the highway one. The mainline no doubt about it, union city, fremont, hayward, clear to san jose heading into the foothills. 60s or 70s on your temperatures today. 80 down to 237, just an fyi. Im watching it right now. As a matter of fact steve, and i can put it up on the mat here for you that a. D. D. And the whole area you are talking about that is rainy may start getting sums slow traffic. I do see some stilling already hear from union city, so this could be the people who are slowing down in that ring youre talking about, and so far so good. If this were a normal speed day, i would say we would have a lot of slow traffic. The slowest we have seen is approaching 580 near altamont pass. At seven on one, lets go back to garcia. For the first time in two months, the bay area has reported not a single rotavirus death in the past two consecutive days. There were
Fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco with those details dan. Play a retail store still closed here in the goal is to get many of them open by next monday, but there are no guarantees and that respects the Health Officer in the Health Director say it all depends on how many more people are getting severely ill. I know that people are anxious to see our city reopened im anxious to see our city reopened at a News Conference monday, San Francisco mayor london breed spoke of the kinds of additional business is now closed. That could reopen as early as next monday for delivery and curbside pickup. Music and record stores, hobby toy and game stores. Home furnishing and home goods, cosmetic and beauty supplies, but the citys Health Director caution that decision depends on the number of people. Who are hospitalized with covid19 today. There are 71 people hospitalized in San Francisco with covid19. If we can keep within the range for the next week. We anticipate allowing the nex
Push up in the Sierra Nevada, but it looks like that is about it. I dont think there is much left here for clouds. They have cleared some to the north. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. Everyone else in the 50s. So we will bump up, santa rosa 72 to 76. Didnt do much for the city. There is just too much low clouds. But we will continue to move up to near average or slightly below. 40 in kenly, 40 in kelsey. So there are some cool readings. 45, so it feels a little cooler there, most locations are that way due to the cloud coverage. When the rain ends it will be a little warmer, we will focus on inland areas for today until the weekend. So, 60s and also 70s for your temps today. I will head over to sal now and see if there is anything new going on. I know he has been talking about the ultima pass. It is still backed up a little bit, steve. We do have some slowing here and there around the bay area, and the pass is one of the spots where you will actually see some slow traffic here, and i