Access to a vaccine until spring time of next year at least i talked to doctor matt Willis Warren countys chief medical officer to get the latest on whats known. This is based on current information of course that could change this as bay area counties are among those scrambling to get ready for distribution. Think the first of the first phase is going to be essential workers. So if hospital workers are emergency room doctors, others youre really on the front lines and most at risk of being exposed and are so necessary for our response has got to be the First Response thats phase. One a. And then youre going to have. The Water Community by people who are at higher risk themselves of becoming infected old or older residents people chronic diseases, et cetera and then in that 3rd face were really talking about more the general population as a whole so were from essential workers to atrisk Community Members and then the community as a whole this probably going to be about a 4 month time f
Thats a scary thought. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. This new curfew will only be in counties in the purple tier, but keep in mind thats most of the bay area. Live with more on the plan and cornell, the impact. Yeah. State Officials Say our covid cases are rising higher and faster. Health and Human Services secretary said more stringent actions may be needed if we cant flatten the curve quickly. It means nonessential work, and gatherings must stop between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 nam purple tier counties. This starts saturday night and will be in effect for a month. We certainly didnt this to have stories of people being pulled over or in some ways, targeted at 10 00 or 10 25 or whatever time. This is meant to have us have another tool, another reminder, another action to take to contribute to us coming together as a state and controlling this pandemic and getting us back from purple to less restrictive tiers across the state. Now, Santa Clara County is one of those affected coun
November alone about one quarter of all us cases since the pandemic began. More than 256,000 people have awesome that died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in the bay area. Local Health Departments now reporting 185 new cases of covid19. Nearly 139,000 cases have been reported in 1900 deaths have been recorded here in the bay area since the start of the pandemic california seeing 14,000 new cases today. The states Positivity Rate over the past 2 weeks has now jumped to more than 5 . With cases skyrocketing all across america tonight, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Now strongly warning folks not to travel for the holidays. The cdc says the safest way to celebrate thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people that you live with yet the tsa says friday and saturday. Where the busiest day since the pandemic brought air travel to a near halt in march and wednesday and sunday are expected to be the busiest travel days of t
With people who look like they might need a little help and chatting with merchants but now this time around they are unarmed sf police chief bill scott says the retired officers have undergone refresher courses in deescalation and crisis intervention. Training but when they hit the streets they will be armed only with their years of experience and hes a sfpd officers both command Staff Officers up and down the ranks. Who know the city like the back of their hands, they know the people they know the culture they know the flavor. Retired officer lee dahlberg used to walk this speech as part of his job on the force. Were going to be the eyes and ears up here and try to remedy problems. So we dont have to get off your and take take your time. Knowledge and background. Thats pretty much what we can do to help every day the ambassadors will first check in with the Central Police station then touch base with the Union Square Business Improvement District who are happy to have the extra help
Here in Alameda County and any other purple tier county. I spoke to the owner of the dirty bird lounge in hayward, and hes worried this curfew is not only going to cost him money, but hes worried he might lose some bartending staff. I think a lot of them will probably just go back on unemployment. Its unfortunate. Reporter eric had big plans for december. With Indoor Dining off the table, the owner of the dirty bird lounge in hayward paid roughly 10,000 to build an outdoor patio for his patrons. I was hoping to have it open the beginning of december. Right as this is all happening. Yeah, i signed a lease literally just yesterday. Reporter this afternoon, a stunning announcement out of sacramento. Starting this saturday, he and his staff will have to shut down early, cutting into his weekend hours, which is when he sees the most customers. It will probably be like a 20 to 30 drop in business for friday and saturday. The other days are already relatively slow. Reporter he owns two other