Tonight in both counties. This means nonessential illnesses and social gatherings with stop between the hours of 10 00 at night and 5 00 in the morning. Flock it is absolutely essential and it is important people live by the rules and if more people to, we would have a lot shorter time period, and significantly fewer death. Meriden county is the only bay area county still in the red tear. The second most restrictive tear although that could soon change. Moderna is now the Second Company to apply for emergency use use authorization from the fda for the coronavirus vaccine. As casey reports with cases and hospitalizations on the rise across the country, plans are being made to get the vaccines distributed as quickly as possible. Reporter the numbers are staggering. The u. S. Adding more than for million new covid cases in the month of november. Help could be just around the corner corner with moderna announcing the have applied for emergency use use authorization from the fda for their v
Health experts are worried that if the trend continues, the county could run out of Hospital Capacity in the next three weeks. This is valley medical center, run by santa clara county, one of the largest and easiest in the area. Hospitals across san jose still have the capacity to take in new patients. The county Health Officer says that could change, especially with the upcoming holiday. Cancel your holiday plans. Do not travel. Doctor sarah cody did not mince words when talking about the consequences of able getting together for thanksgiving. The choices that we make in the next few weeks could mean the difference between enough Hospital Capacity and not enough. Reporter hospitalizations have increased in the last week by 50 in santa clara county. If the trend continues, the county could scramble to find more hospital beds within the next three weeks. The Health Department is working across the county with local centers to get ready for another surge of covid19 patients. They are ask
Local news station. Now with breaking news. It is absolutely imperative that we take action now. Each and every one of us in order to get through this. Local Health Officials sounding the alarm and shutting services as coronavirus cases surge across the bay area. America has more than 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 240,000 people have died from this virus. Here in california. We now have gone over 1 million confirmed cases of covid19. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 on this friday, the 13th im Justine Waldman we have a lot to get to this hour and well start right now with the Team Coverage we have on the new covid restrictions that are coming across the bay area. Well start in the south bay with kron fours rob fladeboe he is live for us in san jose. And rob the city Just Announced a backtrack. In its reopening plan part of the new details. And thats just tina Santa Clara County Health Officials are holding a News Conference here at the co
Restrictive to the red tier. San mateo and marin counties are not in purple yet lu they moved into the red tier, which brings us to our first guest. The Public Health officer from marin county dr. Willis. Thank you for joining us. Know its a big day. Thanks. Good to be with you. We look forward to your information because moving from orange to red such as your county did, what does that mean now . What changes can people expect to see and how soon . Yes. Were responding to concerning trends were seeing across the region. We had an almost doubling in our cases for the past two weeks, we were seeing about nine to ten cases a day, now were about 15 to 20 cases in marin. We wanted to be preemptive and made a decision last week to go ahead and adopt those policies and correspond to the red tier, despite being in the orange tier. The governor announced today that marin was being counted as a red tear. Mostly just closing more indoor capacity. In the red tier, in the orange tier of the 50 , r
Approved. Plus stay at home as much as possible. Thats the message from l. A. County. The strict new rule about to take effect down south also a holiday tradition continues despite the pandemic. The major transformation they made to keep families safe and happy. We begin with breaking news in sacramento. A mall shooting leaves one person dead, another critically hurt. Sacramento police say they were called out to the ardent fair mall just after 6 00 tonight after reports of a shooting. It did happen in the mall, sent people running for safety. Some people stuck inside mall stores for hours. Turns out the mall was busy because there were a lot of black friday shoppers there. Police say it was not an active shooter scenario and the gunman was able to get away. At this point no suspect description has been released. Good evening, everyone. Even covid19 could not stop the day after thanksgiving shopping push. Black friday a go albeit with some modifications. That includes masks, shorter li