You know that can be difficult we dont spend a long time. Its a critical moment. Right now at 3 stay home covid cases have hit a record and to stop the momentum of this deadly virus Health Officials are pleading with the public to avoid gatherings and non essential travel. This thanksgiving holiday. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman Santa Clara County recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases on tuesday thats 512 new cases of covid19. Its a number of covid hospitalizations thats also concerning because that is also at a new high and officials are warning that theyre now running low on hospital beds. Kron 4 tahernia joins us live now in the newsroom with more on the warnings officials are sending. Good afternoon sun os. Hi just saying hello everyone so as covid19 cases surge here in the bay area Santa Clara County Health Officials are urging residents to stay home and avoid gathering and traveling ahead of the thanksgiving holiday that c
Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. Thank you. On behalf of the meeting, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public on time. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During this health crisis, the board of supervisors is meeting remotely and will proceed as though they were meeting in their public chamber. The board of supervisors realizes that public input is essential and more important during the time of covid19. So we hope that the public will take advantage of the following opportunities to participate in this meeting or comment remotely. If youre using the u. S. Mail, please address the envelope to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, 1 carlton b. Goodlett place. Thats San Francisco, califor
Busy today in Santa Clara County, especially at the fairgrounds. They had 2500 testing slots today which were all taken. And that is where we find da lin at the fairgrounds in san jose right now. Reporter all is quiet now because they close down 3 00 but ill tell you, earlier, a lot of folks, as you mentioned, coming home from their thanksgiving trip, also some essential workers as well as folks who are saying they have symptoms and want to get tested. 18 testing booth at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Each one with the short line of cars. Some cars contain families of up to five people. All getting tested at the same time. That is a lot of people. The line has gone so fast. Some just came back from a trip and somewhere required by work. If we are positive for covid 19 we are not allowed to work. Health Officials Say Santa Clara County has no single day covid cases in the bay area and they are seen troubling trends. We are definitely seeing our people with symptoms or have a house
One passenger told us it was a bit nerveracking considering the current covid surge and how close everybody is sitting next to those on the plane. I was nervous sitting next to each other as people are walking past you shoulder to shoulder. Im so sweaty, i cant wait. Waiting as far just to get here. Reporter so remember Health Officials are recommending against traveling at all for thanksgiving, but they are saying if you did travel, theyre hoping youll be able to quarantine. But they are asking you to stay inside as much as possible for the next two weeks. Brian, theyre just desperately worried here that people are coming back from these travels. They are going to infect more people in a time when we already have a major surge going on. I dont know what your senses are, but all the implications to just stay at home during thanksgiving. Why are they going to obey the suggestion that they quarantine for two weeks . Reporter yeah, well, i mean look, information is very important right no
In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late