Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we
Berkeley youre at 56. Well, San Francisco at 55 right now. Later today, daytime highs rise into the 80s 70s for most of us this is actually a little cooler than yesterday, especially for the south bay. Were daytime highs will in some cases only rise into the upper 70s, ive got more your forecast still to come daryn. They fly 7 o one right now california is shut down again because coronavirus is surging the governor announced a major step in rolling back the reopening yeah ordering all counties to shut down indoor operations for certain. Businesses, the restrictions are even tighter 4 counties on the states watch list which includes a few right here in the bay area. This morning, los angeles on high alert and on the verge of a complete shutdown weve never had as many people infected or infectious. Weve never had as many recorded positive cases each day. And weve never had as many people in the hospital Los Angeles County reported nearly 2,600 new coronavirus cases monday. As california
The intense heat happening elsewhere around the state got 60s in place along most of the east bay, real estate 50s up to the north bay. A chilly 46 Half Moon Bay thats delightful 62 meanwhile for san jose. But to compare things for just 24 hours ago, a look at inland spots really dropping off conquered 5 degrees behind you can see up in the north as well will make up for that this afternoon, however, as we warm up winds currently work on the Single Digits for the most part well get that typical on shore wind again kind of shielding us a little bit at least in spots this afternoon. Heres what it looks like were at 83 by 11 oclock at 2 at 95. Some folks getting close to 100 if not getting there will be showing you all about your forecast. Coming up in just a bit back to you sounds good thing today, california continues to be a hot spot for new coronavirus cases in the u. S. On thursday, the state recorded nearly 8,000 new cases and more than a 140 new reported deaths. Now here in the bay
Were connected to fraternities so not necessarily parties at a Fraternity House but maybe activities with the putter need is going to another event at another location but that association was definitely there she says these were indoor gatherings where people were not Wearing Masks or social distancing and some of these infections lead to secondary spread within households. Health officials with the campus and the city of berkeley have been using Contact Tracing to reach people exposed to those students who tested positive advising them of corn teen requirements and arranging for testing but the fact that their case count tripled in just a week has campus officials concerned they may need to re evaluate. Their plans for the fall semester if this trend continues its important for young younger people to understand that theyre not immune from this disease is not only that they can harm others that they care about and maybe not even know, theyre harming them they could be asymptomatic. B