Thanks for joining 9 oclock, everybody im grant lotus can over and Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight. Local city leaders they are not taking any chances with the virus. Yeah we are not taking chances either and crown for trying to practice what we preach Health Officials obviously stressing the importance of social distancing to try to slow the spread of this virus. So were doing the same catherine over there about 12 feet away. Lawrence karnow to my right gangs all here so this is will be doing for the foreseeable future yeah and the cdc actually recommends at least 6 were doing better than that to protect ourselves and to stay on the air to bring you the latest information you need to know today residents in 6 counties have been advised to remain at home, leaving only for essential needs and the supplies in the following counties, San Francisco more in santa clara san Mateo Alameda and contra costa. This order takes effect at midnight we know it will last at least 3 week
County of santa clara. Thats 36 more cases than i reported on monday. I have signed a mandatory order prohibiting public or private gatherings of more than 100 people. Santa clara county takes dramatic action. Public schools in Santa Clara County will close to student attendance beginning march 16th through april 3rd, 2020. Each of these institutions are giving guidance, doing it frankly with the heavy heart because there are tradeoffs with every decision that we make. I recognize we are in very difficult times. These decisions are hard to make. We are balancing the Public Health need to slow the spread of infection with a significant impact, we know these actions will have on the lives of our residents. We believe these actions are necessary to protect the wellbeing of our community during one of the most historic Public Health challenges of our time. Once again, we begin with important knew developments on coronavirus. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. These new developmen
To be picking up on much rainfall potential today watch out for a couple of scattered showers possible this afternoon for areas like san jose palo alto and Mountain View nothing really much further north and entered temperatures by the afternoon were talking 60s for your daytime highs pretty similar to yesterday a little bit warmer and a little bit clear though. Robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the morning commute which is off to a fantastic start very quiet into San Francisco, heres a live. Look you see that back up over there the cash lanes on the left its been like that. Throughout the morning just stocking up really off and on so from the bottom of the maze through the tolls and off to fremont street its going to be easy 6 minutes. We dont have any problems on 92, but its one of our busiest bridges we have a crowd here west of the tall plaza, its already sluggish on the flat section but overall a nice trip to 13 minutes to the peninsula. Thats the message to everybo
Meantime weather and traffic updates and we get all of that probably how the roads busy another problem on the east shore freeway salt truck westbound 8 and the rain is fizzling out against these next couple days were not going to get my yeah, its just a south bay really Southern California system south a fairly skirting the Northern Edge of what will be some rainfall for southern neighbors. Bay area though yet again were left out in the dry as you could say the goal gate bridge is nice and clear this morning fog is at a minimum you do see a some isolated showers to our west. But these are really crossing to the south. So besides san jose areas like morgan hill, the Santa Cruz Mountains were not really looking at an active start to the week for us so a quiet start to the week easy for your travels. But by this point youd rather be talking about rainfall. 40s and 50s for your current temperatures definitely get your jackets ready to go this morning and youll be keeping them on hand, but
What this might mean for all of us will. Heres what you need to know it is not a lockdown so youre not forced to stay inside your home, you can clearly see a lot of people are not staying inside you can see the traffic behind me as theyre trying to head into San Francisco, thousands of cars but obviously not the volume that were used to seeing at this time of the morning. But you can come and go. But you have to give a good reason why essential services thats the key so take a look at your screen is hes been on the show you some video first before i tell you the alameda counties and all the other counties affected. They may show you video of whats happening all over the bay area in san jose when they found out that today at midnight just a few hours ago that it would be a shelterinplace a lot of businesses went ahead and close for the night closed early telling their workers and less you have an emergency we dont need you to come in. And this is going to be incalculable as far as the l