Almost a 109,000 every day covid related deaths are up 18 over the same time span averaging 939 per day over the last 2 weeks. The virus has killed more than 237,000 americans. To the south bay now officials are warning of a possible return to tighter Health Orders in the wake of the surge in new covid19 cases. Santa clara countys Public Health officer and other officials calling on the community to stay on guard against the virus. 358 new covid19 cases reported yesterday. It is the most since the middle of july. Theres also been a sharp increase in hospitalizations to more than a 100. The newest infections are mostly in people between the ages of 1834 years old the county is stepping up enforcement of the health order and so far 79 businesses have received notices for noncompliance amid more than 1000 complaints state leaders are already gearing up to work with the president and Vice President elect joe biden and kamala harris. Although President Trump has yet to concede in the presid
Fours tapers actually chris sacchi rather she talked to a doctor at u c s f and she has concerning the weekend celebrations in how people were affected by that taylor. Can begin theres no doubt about it its definitely concerning to see an increase in those daily cases, but the good thing well if you want to even call it that, but the important thing to know is that San Francisco is in seeing an increase in hospitalizations that will be important because we typically see those hospitalizations increased as cases increase. So of course experts are now warning people to stay vigilant and to not get too comfortable, especially as the temperatures drop. Like many other bay area cities, San Francisco is also seeing a rise in coronavirus cases recording more than a 100 new daily cases over the past few days. Experts like doctor, peter chin, hong at ucsf say this is happening for several reasons people are getting comfortable and probably having more small gatherings and more people are also t
60s nice chance to step out there while its common well, its cool and just to save or a bit of a fall field before it straight back into the heat this afternoon with mideighties for san jose low 80s in oakland and 70s solidly for San Francisco. Robin were off to the golden gate still waiting for the fog to clear john its been covered in fog throughout the morning drive thats what we have a dense fog advisory. In place heading across one o one there it is still tough to coming across the span and excuse me, but no the problem so far still clocking in at 20 minutes which is fairly quick novato to the toll plaza here the bay bridge. We are delay free no nothing to stress out about heading into San Francisco. The backup that we have from west grand. It is gone so were down to an easy 12 minutes off to fremont street well check more bridges coming up back to you its a lot robin i know one and lets get to the big story in our team coverage, the north bay is once again facing critical weather
Iraq to another frigid start this morning for those of you that are venturing outside early risers yeah youre getting some of the coldest of it too so we we understand each other getting up early like this looking outside at your berkeley cam you can see just how clear skies looking outside we do or have another set of not just frost advisories, but also freeze warnings those deeper blue purple areas are actually combination of both frost advisories and freeze warnings that we have going on this morning for portions of marine sonoma and napa and solano counties cities or remain in effect through 09 00am this morning as temperatures in these areas fall as cold as the mid 20s and some of our rural areas, especially in sheltered valleys where those temperatures get really cold in the mornings also areas like santa rosa you fell into the upper 20s yesterday susceptible to temperatures just as cool if not colder than that yet again this morning so 30s and 40s are your current temperatures r
Ucsf believe this is for 3 reasons the first is were only as good as whats around us so if we saw in the country the rest of the country is on fire is like excluding with covid. And so is this because of the hot even with reduce travel, there are people going back and forth second. He says people are getting more comfortable lax in their precautions and probably having more small gatherings number 3 is its getting cold. So we know that these respiratory viruses love call not only because temperature aspect they survived betting cool but michael does is it brings people together you are if you go more likely going to meet somebody and then endure, setting versus outdoors. Something that doctor chan hong is more worried about after seeing celebrations on saturday once a president elect was announced while hundreds of people flooded castro street. Vast majority were Wearing Masks you may remember when we had black lives matter protests. People were also wearing their masks and the city di