Weeks. Locally, california schools may not reopen for the rest of the school year. This according to the state superintendent because of the current social distancing guidelines. California has the third most cases in the United States with about 7500 people infected. The bay areas shelter in place order has been extended through may 3rd. There are restrictions. Most notably, Construction Projects are halted and many places are being closed down. That includes playgrounds and dog parks. The new restrictions announced by Health Officials today affects six bay area counties as well as the city of berkeley. Chris nguyen joining us from san jose with the details in the south bay. Chris . Hi, larry, good afternoon. That previous order was set to expire on april 7th. It has now been extended to may 3rd as you said, with authorities telling us that they simply need more time to help reduce the spread, to slow down the spread and to help reduce future impact on our local hospitals. This aftern
We had three fatalities so far. Reporter there were calls on the World Health Organization for limb change there i wonder what your thoughts are on that . Senator martha mcsally, for example, called for dr. Tedros to resign. Look, this not the time to be doing that kind of change. There will be a lot of time to look back to see how the World Health Organization performed. Meantime what our task is to preserve and protect the american taxpayers, make sure our resources dont go to places that wont deliver on behalf of the American People and the world and President Trump and i are determined to do that. Okay. Follow up . Reporter quick follow up he is a busy man. Reporter china has responsibility to get correct figures. How would you broadly characterize cooperation with china right now. Lots of places weve been cooperating, right . Theyre providing us assistance where we need it. There are places on the ground where we do have access to the data we need. Were deeply appreciative of that
Very strong downpours and as we go through santa clara, cuperti cupertino, more rain through saratoga and up towards fremont, fremont boulevard into newark, looking at a pretty soggy start to your sunday. Pleasanton and livermore, 580, rain. Lighter rain through berkeley, kensington and richmond. Heavy showers from napa, moving into around American Canyon highway 12, just over the watter there, highway 37, sears point and very light shower activity scattered from guerneville, through dylan beach. Santa rosa is quiet. Light to moderate rain today, storm impact scale of one. A chance of a thunderstorm, gusty wind. At 10 00 we have heavy rain in the north bay. Through the noon hour it sinks south and east and were looking at a soggyernoon from1 00, more ewnast bay, a break later on this evening into the overnight hours, but weve got more rain for your monday. Well detail that in a few minutes. Liz . Thanks, lisa. As of this morning, close to 90 people have died of coronavirus in the bay a
Lighter rain up to the north from marinwood and san rafael and further to the north, penngrove through santa rosa a few scattered showers, in and around sonoma as well. There is more offshore, as we widen out the per peck stiff. Its a one on our storm impact scale. Light to moderate rain, gustier winds, chance of a thunderstorm with hail. 52 cupertino and saratoga. Are 54 in san car close. Check out 10 00. Its raining in the north bay and by noontime we have heavy downpours in the east bay, the south bay, this continues theres still showers in the forecast for your monday. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Close to 90 people have died of coronavirus in the bay area as of this morning and santa cruz county, with more than 3,000000 confirmed cases. Santa clara county is approaching 1,200 cases with San Francisco, alameda and san mateo topping 500 cases. Mond see know county remains with at least four cases, lake county continues to report none with 14 peop24 people tested. Weve been plotting the ca
During business hours. Now, your health, your safety, this is this morning big promises straight from Governor Newsom, more he testing for californians and help for medical workers. As of this morning close to 90 people died of coronavirus in the bay area and Santa Cruz County with more than 3,500 confirmed cases. San francisco topping 500 cases. Mend siino coun Mendocino County reported four cases. And weve been plotting the cases on this useful draft to see the trend. This includes the bear aay and surrounding areas with a jump in days starting march 1. Its sunday, april 5th. Im liz kreutz. 24u thank you very much for joining us. We will have much more on the coronavirus in a moment but we want to start a quick look at the Stormy Weather were tracking this weekend. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Hello it, its certainly been a soaker out there. You see the counterclockwise rotation offshore bringing instability and rain to much of california. We go in closer to American Canyon, up to