Streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera. Looking east, you see the bay bridge and city, all the sparkling lights. Good morning. It is friday, november 20. You can see the weekend too. I can see that very well. Right there. Lets get a check on our weekend forecast with meteorologist mary lee. Good friday morning. Good morning michelle and len. The weekend is in view and it looks like a beautiful weekend. We are looking at mostly sunny skies, mild temperatures today. Enjoy it. A live look at the Mark Hopkins Hotel camera. Its a cold start. We are down to the 30s, 40s, 50s this morning. 44 livermore, 50 San Francisco, san jose 48. Santa rosa is down to 36 degrees, definitely a cold start for you. Many locations are colder compared to yesterday at this time from 2 to 11 degrees colder compared to yesterday with the 24 hour temperature change. It is not as foggy as yesterday but we are dealing with areas of fog, three miles for the visibility in
The homeless. Tonight, we look into their concerns. My buildings have had three intruders that we know of. Right now a fire at the mention of a hollywood alist are. And a hollywood tradition in Santa Clara County will look a whole lot different this year and we have an exclusive, inside look. Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area. The coronavirus spreading out of control. California reporting nearly 7500 new cases today but here are the really troubling numbers. Hospitalizations are up about 38 compared to two weeks ago. And the number of patients in intensive care has spiked 34 . The state also reporting 69 new deaths yesterday. One bay area county is seeing a spike in cases right now in a new segment of the population. As Andrea Nakano reports from downtown novato. Reporter the Marin County Health department is learning specific things about this recent outbreak. In order to slow the spread the recommendation right now is for restaurants to voluntarily decrease their
Bridge toll plaza. It is. Metering lights are on and we are starting to see a back up. You see traffic stacking up a bit as you work out of the east bay into the city via bay bridge. Once you pass this, it looks better across upper deck into San Francisco. A couple hot spots to look for, if you are taking bart, we are dealing with bart delays on the richmond lines. This is due to an equipment problem on the tracks. Do plan ahead if you are taking bart. South 880 is pretty busy. We are seeing brake lights away from 92. There is a crash not far from the connector and theyre just clearing it out of lanes. Reporter we are getting new information in now on this Apartment Fire in San Francisco. This is video from the citizen app from earlier this morning. You see the flames shooting out of the window. Thats on the 11th floor of this high rise on davis court. A total of 22 apartments were significantly damaged by this fire and five people were injured, escaping the building. When firefighters
From santa clara. They have logged their highest number of coronavirus cases in one day. Taking a look at those numbers right now, 407 cases logged yesterday. Again, that is the highest since the pandemic beganment hospitalizations are also up significantly. 166 today as opposed to just 100 a week ago. Again, this came with an urgent warning. Lets go to San Francisco where their Top Health Official is speaking. We are to shelter in place. Have while we have some actions to negate increase in cases, nonessential office use, further reverse our reopening and force us back to shelter. We need to enter this holiday week with a sense of urgency and commitment. Lets look at some data. Can we have the first slide please . As you can see on this slide, since the beginning of october, we have experienced a steep increase in our rate of cases. This shows how quickly the virus is spreading throughout our city. Importantly, this rate of increase is higher than we experienced during our summer surg
That we saw over the summer in july. Weve talked so much about the twindemic, that covid surge combined with flu season. This could overwhelm hospitals in a matter of weeks, and despite the gloomy outlook, many local Health Leaders are feeling much more confident this time around. Here is nbc bay areas anousha rasta. Reporter if the latest surge in covid19 cases wasnt bad enough, now hospital workers and Health Care Workers need to worry about the looming flu season as well. We have been preparing for capacity. Making sure that we have equipment and supplies and just making sure that our protocols are in place to keep our patients safe as well as our Health Care Workers. Reporter dr. Sam shen is an emergency medicine doctor at Stanford Health cares palo alto campus and tells me he thinks the team and the hospital are ready to face a surge in covid patients. Should we hit a surge scenario, you know, we have prepared different backup plans. We have a scenario to manage surges and then we