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Curfew order most bay area counties are already under. We will look at where the numbers point to at this moment and what we are hearing from the governor from his latest update. Good morning. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Major changes could be coming for hundreds of thousands of people right here in the bay area if those covid tiers are changed like many people are expecting. Lets head you to kris sanchez who is live in menlo park. Reporter here on the street, it is definitely something of interest right now because if San Mateo County along with San Francisco and marin have to transition out of the red tier and into the purple tier with the rest of the bay area, it will mean a lot of changes and stronger restrictions. It would mean an end to Indoor Dining in those three counties and return to outdough only services for gyms and houses of worship. Indoor shopping would be licketlimited to 25 capacity instead of 50 they are joenjoying right now a
Were going to take sharp turn and were going to have a lot colder and its going to be wet as we get into tomorrow, im tracking a storm system that is coming out of the Pacific Northwest going to be bringing us. Lots of wind lots of rain and colder temperatures all have all those details. Coming up in my next full head and ill have that about 10 to 15 minutes for now though lets hit the roads, the dry roads for today and say good morning to robin good morning. Rebecca, its always good to have you here in the studio with us lets head over to the bay bridge were checking the drive into San Francisco. Its packed its not Getting Better at least not right now nothing in the way to cause us and traffic is this. The typical crowd here rolling into San Francisco. So expect a backup that spills through the bottom of the maze. Were averaging 19 minutes which is crowded slow not so bad in the out for you west of Treasure Island as well were checking in on the e sure thats one of your approach is 2
More Mental Health and telemedicine options. Hello and welcome to axios Virtual Event health care 2021. I am sam Baker Health Care at are coming to you from my home in washington dc. I would like to thank the United Health. For making these conversations possible and thank her audience. Follow along on twitter using the or following. Over the next three minutes we will unpack best way to unpack Health Insurance access and coverage in the United States and exactly what that path forward looks like following the election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you. It is terrific to be with everyone today. I would like to start off framing this conversation. Obviously, Health Care Access and coverage has been a hot topic for a long time but i think the pandemic has highlighted and illustrated some of the gaps we are dealing with in the system. We have seen millions of people lose their health determines because the
That blew through yesterday and today . Yeah, that is right, mike and gasia. Some neighborhoods picking up over two inches of rain, specially for the Higher Elevations. This was a productive storm, thankfully were not talking about flash flood warnings, nothing extreme in terms of advisories or warnings. Still, a beneficial rainfall in terms of water supply to start things off and fire danger. Take a look at some of the bigger rainfall totals. Well call them the jumbo rainfall totals. Around three inches of rain approaching three inches. Occidental in the north bay. 2. 34. Even kentfield over two inches of rainfall. Some more totals for you as we check in on those. The storm totals. Yesterday and into today. Were still adding to some of the numbers. Santa rosa, over an inch of rain. San francisco,. 42. Lifermore, close to a quarter of an inch and not so much for the south bay. San jose,. 08. This is the satellite and radar the past 24 hours. You can see the rain here into the bay area