And is this the Covid Vaccine . The challenges still ahead thin fight against the virus. But first frosty temperatures across the bay area tonight with a freeze warning going into effect in just a few hours. And janelle, finally feels like november. Lets get right to jeff and how cold is it going to get tonight . Were going to get down to the 30s and some isolated 20s. The coldest weather is going to be in marin, napa, also sonoma counties. You can see on my weather map here that focus will bring us some widespread 30s and a few isolated 20s. Now, this will be in effect until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow so make sure to bring those pets inside. And with patchy frost possible you want to make sure to cover up those sensitive plants. How low are we going to go . Up in the north bay 31 santa rosa, 31 napa. Also cold here. 37 dublin, 35 levermer, and 36 san jose. Up to redwood city, 32 degrees. Well talk more about the cool weather that will stick around for tomorrow and also more chances of rain a
Ucsf believe this is for 3 reasons the first is were only as good as whats around us so if we saw in the country the rest of the country is on fire is like excluding with covid. And so is this because of the hot even with reduce travel, there are people going back and forth second. He says people are getting more comfortable lax in their precautions and probably having more small gatherings number 3 is its getting cold. So we know that these respiratory viruses love call not only because temperature aspect they survived betting cool but michael does is it brings people together you are if you go more likely going to meet somebody and then endure, setting versus outdoors. Something that doctor chan hong is more worried about after seeing celebrations on saturday once a president elect was announced while hundreds of people flooded castro street. Vast majority were Wearing Masks you may remember when we had black lives matter protests. People were also wearing their masks and the city di
Really anywhere across the bay area. And we do have multiple advisories impeach these are heat advisories and read something were all too familiar with those red flag warnings which are taking effect yet again later on today as winds pick up into the finish of the afternoon and then stay with us through the evening tonight that paired with low humidity and the really hot temperatures will have triple digit heat likely record breaking day time highs this afternoon means fire danger will again be very high today and especially concerning in the north bay around the glass fire talking about air quality there are pockets where its better pockets where its not so good as you would expect a nap and vacaville, some of our worst areas air quality wise right now guerneville over to even areas around santa rosa are looking at better conditions. A lot of our winds yesterday push wildfire smoke to the north and east, but it did settle into the bay as you can clearly make out just looking out your
Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. A Good Samaritan who tried helping two stranded swimmers was swept away by a strong current. All three ended up near a sand bar near plum island between new york and massachusetts. Eventually a coast guard crew managed to rescue them. The swimmers swallowed a lot of saltwater but are expected to be okay. Turning now to the growing concern among Health Care Workers about the rising rates of coronavirus infection. Now a new call for nationwide shutdowns. I spoke earlier with dr. Ravi. More than 1,000 Health Professionals have now signed a letter to the government saying its time to reboot our fight against covid19. They argue we should shut down the country again and start over with testing and tracing. Whats your take . Kenneth, i agree with many of the tenets of the letter. I think we do need to improve our testing, i think we need to ramp up our contact tracing. I do think it is going to be difficult to go back to square one across the nation. I think we do need to
Icu beds. A new study shows frontline positions across the country are feeling stressed and anxious pose at work and at home. The study conducted by ucsf is the first known study to assess stress levels of physicians in the u. S. During this pandemic kron fours michelle kingston spoke to a local emergency room doctor about how shes handling it all. I think i think it really does have a lot to do with the unknown and the anticipation and just not knowing what lies ahead emergency medicine physicians in 7 cities across the country say theyre experiencing rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion none of this is necessarily surprising as doctors continue to work tirelessly through the coronavirus pandemic it interesting that i think is Emergency Physicians we are used to dealing with a lot of uncertainty and stress all the time, but this is a new and different level according to a new analysis led by ucsf frontline physicians are feeling moderate to severe levels of stress and anx