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
Lets get right to our top story this friday morning. Bay Area Health Officials encouraging everyone to stay home this 4th of july weekend. Now this comes as the state and the bay area continue to see a rise in coronavirus cases kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Contra Costa County this morning. She has all the details sarah good morning. And theyre good morning marty i live here in Contra Costa County one of counties in the bay area that seeing a major surge in cases terrible time they cant believe were heading into the 4th of july weekend and were seeing a spike in cases when we were doing so well and now were seeing that resurgence. So officials are asking us to stay home and be safe. Why lets take a look at the increases that were seeing across the bay area in all of our take a look at your screen there are quite a lot of numbers but just to name a few Contra Costa County is seeing a 129 increase in cases in a 111 increase in deaths from may 31st until yesterday that the county saw a 207
Details rana. James and darya good morning that fire continues to burn you can see Law Enforcement have this road here closed off on east done this is in the unincorporated area out here now again that fire you can see the smoke in the background ongoing go ahead and give you guys a closer look because you can really see just how strong the fire is on the hillside then go ahead to the iris scans you guys can see there. But look at that the fire continues to burn even hours after it was started. Firefighters have been here on with a number of agencies trying to get the fire put out were going to show you that video from overnight here now the fire right now as we know is about approximately 40 acres in size that was the last update that cal fire gave out that was about 5 hours ago. So theres a strong possibility that th co since then now we do know some evacuations in the area are in progress for finley ridge road and that theres also a hard road closure like i mentioned on east done a
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