Hit City Health Officials saying it is not a matter of when of if but when last week, San Francisco declared a local emergency today, the city has taken more steps to prepare and reach out to the citys most vulnerable populations. Kron fours dan kerman live for us at city hall tonight, he joins us with more on what the mayor had to say fan. Well you know not if but when and thats because theyre going to be ramping up testing actually doing testing for the coronavirus right here in San Francisco and with more testing will come more positive test thats just one of the things. That they are doing to prepare for the onset of a possible outbreak here. We must be ready because we know its coming. Its not a matter of if its really a matter of when. San Francisco Mayor london breed talking about how while still free of the coronavirus it will happen here in San Francisco must be prepared. The mayor made her comments at a News Conference monday as Health Officials announced the Citys Department
Outbreak to hit City Health Officials say it is not a matter of if but when Health Officials announced 2 new cases of coronavirus in Santa Clara County. This brings the total number of crowd of iraq fires cases in that county to 9 in San Mateo County Officials Say one resident has tested. Presumptive positive for coronavirus which means the person has tested positive at a Public Health lab. Officials are awaiting additional confirmation testing from the cdc has new cases with unknown are just begin to pop of understanding the risk of cor navirus has become more and more important. The cdc says at this point we should all be prepared for more cases to emerge across the United States kron fours well bellow spoke with an Infectious Disease expert at u c berkley is she standing by live with more well thats right the head of Infectious Diseases at u c berkeley doctor lee riley says. This is an outbreak it is an epidemic after comparing it to sars and mers he believes there are 3 likely outc
The question is, is it necessary . Tonight as the number of cases climb, heightened concern seems to be setting in. In Stores Across the bay area, the lines are long and in many cases, the shelves are empty. People arent taking any chances. Nbc bay areas ian cull joins us from the santa clara costco. If so many essentials are sold out, when are they expecting new supplies to come in . Reporter these shipments are coming and going all the time. For example, there was water going out tonight. They got some new water in an hour later. Some of those shelves are empty for good reason, doctors say. Public Health Officials are saying people should not be panicking, but they should get ready. The entire aisle of water and toilet paper sold out. In San Francisco, Hand Sanitizers and masks running low. And its not just the u. S. Grocery stores in italy and australia are out of essentials. When another shipment came into the costco tonight, these College Students saw the rush on water and joined
The rest of the week, im talking rain ahead still to come. Robin lets check in on the commute starting off with a t the bay bridge trip into San Francisco looking good right picking up just a little bit but. We havent had any problems all morning for the westbound trip so clear to the maze. Smooth on the upper deck 15 minutes off to fremont street traffic tracker and some more numbers and averages and youre freeways look great highway for 14 minutes, antioch to concord one on one easy at 26 minutes, san jose to menlo park. We in terry terry. We have never seen before and the spread of this been a Tony Partridge and thats cut that of community transmission. But at the same time which can also be contained with that right measures. Well coronavirus cases have spiked here in the us as the virus continues to spread fact there are now more than 100 cases across the country. And officials are warning that those numbers will rise a total of 6 people now have died in Washington State for those
Get a first check of traffic in the south bay. Fa so good. Have not seen any accidents or issues. In fact, we can see a lot of green on our sensors so some good news as you travel out of san jose this morni. 0, 87 or also some better news to report that broken down vehicle we had on the bay bridge is now cleared out of lanes i am seeing a slower pattern coming off the highway as you head into San Francisco. There may be some roadwork on 80 or 101 so that maybe backing up traffic just a bit. Not too bad at the toll plaza. Millions of democratic voters run the country are heading to the polls today for super tuesday. Pete buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and beto orourke are throwing their support behind joe biden this morning. Skyler henry joining us live from alexandra virginia where the polls are now open, so, skyler, house the voter turnout so far . Reporter good morning to. Welcome it has been a steady stream of voters that have come to this middle school here thus far. 14 states will parti