Newsome pulling an emergency brake on the states reopening process amid the covid19 pandemic this as daily covid cases in the state double over the last 10 days, thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan ken wayne has the night off. State leaders say an emergency brake was always part of the blueprint for california for reopening if cases that kept climbing nearly every bay area county is now losing ground and the states covid19 tear system right now a total of 40 california counties are reversing reopenings and moving to the most restrictive purple tear here in the bay area 5 local counties are included they are alameda napa contra costa solano and santa clara counties, San Francisco move from yellow to red today joining moran and san mateo counties new San Francisco Health Department has released a travel advisory this is asking people to. Please avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving and today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax s
Hospitalizations are 36. Sadly, the total number of deaths has reached 151, and we are seeing 5,000, almost 6,000 tests per day. Our Positivity Rate has went from a record low to now 1. 28 , and what does all this mean . We are seeing an uptick. Two weeks ago, we put a pause on our reopening efforts, and we made it clear to the people of San Francisco that we are seeing the number of cases increase, and we should be concerned. We had plans. We had plans not only to continue our reopening efforts, but we had planned to really expand so many services, so many businesses, and a number of other i think thisethings, o weeks ago, we knew we were probably headed in this direction, and sadly, what were seeing today has put us in a situation where we have to take a moment and to recognize that there is a problem. The upticks that we have seen are really a cause for concern, and its put us in a situation where we have had to make yet another hard choice. San francisco has been praised over the p
Days this is simply the fastest increase. California has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. The move today forces businesses in most california counties to either further limit indoor capacity take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow night so here locally all 9 bay area counties are either in the purple or red tears on the states covid and san Mateo San Francisco counties have increased as well but theyre not in that worst purple tier. Theyre now just a stalled out in the red tier, sonoma napa contra costa alameda and santa clara counties are in the most restrictive widespread. Purple state here. Sonoma county was the only county to not move today because it was already in that purple tier alameda napa and santa clara counties actually moved to tears from orange to purple due to rising cases and hospitalizations and they bypassed orange here and theresa is where we go next. She is live in. Dublin tonight to receive this is just so people to yet again be going s
Way. Im tracking tomorrows hour by hour rain chances in the forecast. In front of my door with your racist [ bleep ] this video has really struck a nerve. Tonight hear from the bay area woman who took on a racist neighbor. Plus, a Second Public Health Emergency is developing amid the pandemic. Tonight the emerging cancer crisis. Covid has created a perfect storm. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, in one hour, new coronavirus restrictions take effect as Governor Newsom announces hes pulling the emergency break on the states reopening. Heres a look at where the bay area now stands in the states colorcoded reopening map as cases spike, every county is now the most restrictive purple tier, or the substantial red tier. Now theres talk about a potential curfew, but as kpix 5s joe vazquez reports, some are wondering if it would even help. Reporter as of tonight, san mateo is one of the few counties in california still allowing f
Now at 11 00, were an hour away from new emergency restrictions. What you need to know, and is a curfew next . When you talk about a curfew, thats absolutely the wrong approach. Weve got more rain on the way. Im tracking tomorrows hour by hour rain chances in the forecast. In front of my door with your racist [ bleep ] this video has really struck a nerve. Tonight hear from the bay area woman who took on a racist neighbor. Plus, a Second Public Health Emergency is developing amid the pandemic. Tonight the emerging cancer crisis. Covid has created a perfect storm. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. Now at 11 00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, in one hour, new coronavirus restrictions take effect as Governor Newsom announces hes pulling the emergency break on the states reopening. Heres a look at where the bay area now stands in the states colorcoded reopening map as cases spike, every county is now the most restrictive purple tier, or the substantial red tier. Now the