Restrictive tier. Its not the news we want heading into the holidays. As weve seen reopening, which is anticipated we started to see more cases. Like much of the country, cases are on the rise california and now 11 1 counti are moving into a restrictive tier. Contra costa moved from orange into red meaning substantial spread. Californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley said most of the transmission is coming from high risk situations where masks are not worn the entire time. Imagine multiple people at a small table playing a board game or having and sharing a meal. Across the state, the 14day Positivity Rate is 3. 7 up from 2. 5 . You can see on this graph showing bay area covid cases going back to march, cases arent yet where they were during the summer surge but there is a significant increase since mid october. We anticipate if things stay the way they are, between this week and next week, over half california own counties will mo into a restrictive tier. Reporte
Is growing every day. Chris ryes talked with two doctors on the front lines of the battle who are worried about losing ground. As the virus becomes more prevalent in the community, the chances that person sitting next to you at a dinner table or next to you in a store is infected is higher than it was, lets say, a month ago. Weve got to be super careful. New stats show thanksgiving could see the most air travel since the pandemic was declared. United Airlines Just added 1400 new flights. Add to that christmas and new years celebrations on horizon, dropping temperatures driving people indoors as numbers spike in the bay area and all over the country. Its a formula Public Health officials are extremely worried about especially considering everyones favorite holiday activity. Sit for many hours together with masks off because theyre eating. Thats a combination of all the things that are about as worrisome as you can imagine. You kind of get behind the eighth ball and you get to the point
The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
This is flightradar24. Com and it shows air traffic in the u. S. Right now. A lot of people are already on the planes. Anser hassan is live at sfo with what were seeing there. Good morning. Reporter what were seeing here is more passengers starting to check in. Look at the flight board behind me. These are the domestic and International Flights departing out of sfo all day today. So definitely not the volume were used to seeing for this time of year. If you pan over to the security checkpoint, also not too busy. According to abc news, 4 Million People have already gone through u. S. Airport checkpoints from last friday through sunday. Thats the most passengers weve seen since the start of the pandemic back in midmarch. Thanksgiving reservations were ticking upward in early october, but dropped with the surge in covid19 cases. One passenger says his wife is traveling for business and he wanted the family to be together for thanksgiving. At some point you have to step out on faith. Get i
Were concerned. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im anna dates. Thank you for joining us. Concern over coronavirus has the city of San Francisco taking a surprising turn, backward. Mayor london breed says at the end of the day friday, the city will eliminate Indoor Dining, reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters and pause reopening at high schools, elementary and middle schools can proceed. Heres the reason why. Three weeks ago, there were 3. 7 cases per 100,000 people in San Francisco, and now there are 9 per 100,000. San francisco is averaging 80 new cases a day. Thats up from 32 a day in early october. City Health Officials say that rate is increasing more quickly than the summer surge. It is entirely plausible that we will face a situation where our Health Care System could become overwhelmed and reverse the current progress that weve made. The hard choices that we make now will help make things better for us in the future. It will get our city open. It will get our businesses o