It restricts all nonessential activity between the hours of 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. , but will a mandatory quarantine for travellers be next . And if so, how soon . Reporter as covid cases continue surging across the bay area, San Francisco is embracing its purple status and the rstrictions that come with it, but just how bad are the numbers . I think were very close to santa clara. Reporter abc 7s Analysis Shows covid cases per capita between San Francisco and santa clara are both reaching the high 1,700s. To put it in perspective, San Francisco was averaging 139 new covid cases per day. Whereas santa clara is averaging 517. We may well have to act like santa clara has. I dont want to get in front of the City Health Department here, but theyre obviously weighing all these things and looking at the same numbers were all looking at. Reporter Santa Clara County Public Health officials have implemented even stricter rules, like limiting hotels to only essential travel and requiring peo
Keep people from mixing with others from outside their household. As these numbers continue to go the wrong direction, he says we are still expecting a surge from the thanksgiving holiday. If we dont act now, our Hospital System will be overwhelmed. If we dont act now, well continue to see a death rate climb. Reporter siding sharp increases in covid19 cases, hospitalizations, and death, governor gavin newsom issued a new regional stayathome order with strict new rules. Back to back days with 113 deaths just in the last 14 days, close to 1000 californians have lost their lives due to covid19. Reporter as of now, all nonessential travel is temporarily restricted statewide. The new stayathome order breaks the state into five regions instead of individual counties. Monterey and Santa Cruz County are included in the bay area region. When and areas icu capacity drops 50 or less, restrictions would go into place for three weeks but none of the regions currently meet the threshold, but newsom
Tracking that and the weekend forecast. Weve been dying to get out for a little walk, kari. Its been rough. Yeah. We can do that now that the sun has come back out. And we can see from our live camera from san jose, its be a beautiful morning now. Few lingering showers outside the sacramento valley, widening out the view to see what else is out there, the next storm is right there off our coast and will be moving in, starting in the north bay by tomorrow. So, as we look at how much rain we measured, this was huge. A lot of us got more rain with this one storm than we did all season long up to this point. And getting over 10 inches of rain at the santa cruz summit. Morgan hill from this one storm reaching six inches of rain. Fremont, redwood city, reacing over two inches of rain. Were seeing two inc san jose. Oakley reaching over 2 inches of rain. So now that we are getting a chance to let all of that soak in, temperatures are still pretty cool. And were going to only see it reach into
We start off the day. In San Francisco, 48 degrees with that fog. Check out santa rosa, another foggy spot down to freezing morning. Could be dealing with some black ice there, 41 in concord. Oakland at 45. 45 for san jose. As we look to our afternoon we will see plenty of sunshine and those mild temperatures above average. 62 in San Francisco. Mid60ss for san jose and concord. Three to eight degrees above average. We will talk about the rest of the week coming up and now lets check in with a look at traffic and some patchy fog out there this morning. We are see something of that fog on the san mateo bridge near the toll plaza. I do want to start off with ia trouble spot in brentwood, chp has issued a Traffic Alert on vasco road this is due to a deadly accident so that investigation will take some time. The closure will be out for quite some time. Highway 4. Its completely shut down until further notice. It was a two car crash that happened around 3 45. Use alternates in the meantime.
Mid60s for San Francisco and oakland. Upper 60s for san jose and concord. Highs about 5 to 11 degrees above average. Well talk about the changes in detail coming up. Lets check in with gi an na. Youre tracking two crashes. Reported by chp. One report of a trouble spot in the right lane. The other in the left lane. This is near the alma bridge. I do know lanes are blocked at some point. We wouldnt see these delays otherwise. Well keep a close eye on that. Were monitoring a minor fender bender. Traffic is getting a little slow anyway near the incline. Anne . Tracking the coronavirus, the u. S. Has passed the 14 million mark. It took 248 to reach the first 7 million cases and 69 days for the other 7 million. In california more than 18,000 new cases and 113 people died. The test Positivity Rate is also rising. Governor newsom will have new orders if the rate falls. Kiet. Reporter this is the new metric. Icu bed capacity down to 17 . Looks like we are weeks or days away from the new order.