The congressional hispanic caucus, has said there is a lack of latinos in the incoming cabinet, if confirmed this air will face the daunting task of leading the department during a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 people has disproportionately affected people of color. Our other big story this sunday night more than 30 million californians now facing stay at home orders and less than 2 hours at 10 00pm. Those orders will go into effect for 3 bay area counties that San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. The order is very similar to the lockdown that many of us all the way back in march. Those counties now taking an earlier approach to governor newsoms order that requires counties to go into lockdown when icu bed capacity has dropped below 15 . Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area, no hovering around 24 . Number of Health Leaders across the bay area say right now they dont want to take any chances. Thats why theyre doing this early. Stay at home orders will also
To the fog and hello to the sunshine again. Half moon bay, a cold start for you at 39 degrees livermore dublin in concord also in the 30s this morning bayside areas are more mild while the north bay or coldest santa rosa youre sitting right now at 30 degrees while napa at 34 get the picture, yeah got to bundle up as youre getting out there to kick off this descent december i guess youre dressing on a seasonable note though as it is december now and you want to dress up nice and cozy anyways. Weve had a few issues on roadways robins been very busy telling you about all of that that we do have fog out there will making an impact we have hot spots. Weve had multiple where we had right now the bay bridge. I just got word of a multi vehicle accident on the lower deck and the fog has rolled in on the bay bridge just like you said john so chp has issued a special dense fog advisory now. For the bay bridge. We dont have a camera on the lower deck, but just know that its very foggy across the s
Get on roadways the east bay actually pretty clear as is the north bay and no coincidence that these are also your cooler spots livermore and dublin at 3735 in the meantime san jose you have increased marine layer and thats more mild temperatures that 45 napa at 34 right now while santa rosa, the cool spot at 32 degrees. So quite the range of temperatures depending on where youre at i will be talking about yet another sunny day, no big surprise there and your afternoon i am talking to robin right now about some traffic though, and it does look like even though its only 05 00am weve got an issue already thats right. We do out in the brentwood area along vasco road which is not heavily traveled during this time of morning john. But it is a major hot spot because we a fatality now just confirmed by chp. So vasco road is closed between highway 4 and walnut to investigate this fatal accident was a headon collision. So we dont know how long its going to take to clear but if you normally use
Continuing to see those strong winds this morning to gusting regularly into a 40 mile per hour range for parts of the bay area. So thats something that you are definitely going to need to know as youre getting out of bed this morning youre driving to work going to be accompanied by a very noticeable breeze. This morning rc church our view is Crystal Clear and dry these are offshore winds so its keeping any sort of marine layer fog pushed out of the region where we at with winds right now will sonoma Calistoga Napa some of our notably more breezy areas well into a 20 mile per hour range for your wind speeds currently sandra fell Petaluma Santa Rosa also notably windy and will remain fairly windy throughout the morning too we ease off wind speeds gradually through the rest of the day and by the evening tonight were done with the stronger winds but we are definitely in the midst of him right now and paired with dry conditions we do have heightened fire danger does red flag warnings for al
Story over in oakland and San Jose International airports, Oakland International is expecting half the amount of travelers they saw last year. San jose International Says it normally sees 178,000 passengers over the holiday week. But this year theyre expecting just 30 to 45,000 when all is said and done wednesday the day before the holiday obviously is going to be one of the busiest days are also looking at the weekend sunday and monday in particular mask and social distancing requirements are well marked around the airports San Jose International has even implemented you ve lights on its escalator handrails. Officials are also reminding out of state travelers of the 14 day self quarantine once they returned to the bay area. You can expect to see and hear a lot of messaging that talks about some of the Current Health requirements, including that quarantine requirement because we really want people to understand and adhere to that in San Francisco noelle bellow kron 4 news. Tonight at 5