Just how a soft and we are this morning. As we start to get closer to the lunchtime hour things will start to move and we will be opening up to a lot of sunshine for yourself a zone east bay and much of the north bay leaving all that fog hugging a lot of our coastal spots. Temperatures outside right now 50s 60s but im tracking some warm ones in some neighborhoods coming up this afternoon. I will have my full forecast in just a few minutes back to the news. Thanks a lot, lets get to the big story which is california surpassing another terrible milestone in a pandemic a 197 deaths yesterday the highest singleday total and now some doctors say the u. S. May need to hit the reset button altogether in its response to the pandemic. Whitney wild explains. It is time to reset medical experts at Johns Hopkins releasing a new report wednesday titled resetting our response urging the United States to reset its response with policy actions at the federal state and local level to get control of the
Ma message from the very beginning was this is not Public Health visit the economy. If we dont get the Public Health part right, you cant do the economy. Reporter is it still possible that we could still reopen cautiously if people wear masks . The masks are the most important thing we can do. If people reliably wore masks in all the activities where theyre coming in contact with other people, we would markedly decrease the transmission rate and stay on top of this. The virus doesnt care that we had a really good march, april and may. Reporter just to make something really clear, here in the bay area, the numbers have been trending upwards, but for the most part, we are still flattening the curve. Dr. Wachter believes we can come back as lo wear these masks. The bottom line here is that people have been getting inconsistent messages from government officials, from politicians, but this is whats going to save us and keep us on that course. The storys not finished being written. Right, a
The mayors to try to but the message from the very beginning was this is not Public Health visit the economy. If we dont get the Public Health part right, you cant do the economy. Reporter is it still possible that we could still reopen cautiously if people wear masks . The masks imrtant thwe can do. If people reliably wore masks in all the activities where theyre coming in contact with other people, we would markedly decrease the transmission rate and stay on top of th. The virus doesnt care that we had a really good march, april and may. Reporter just to make something really clear, here in the bay area, the numbers have been trending upwards, but for the most part, we are still flattening the curve. Dr. Wachter believes we can come back as long as people wear these masks. The bottom line here is that people have been getting inconsistent messages from government officials, from politicians, but this is whats going to save us and keep us on that course. The storys not finished being
County will join the rest of the bay area on friday as the bay area begins the next step there are still more than 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 390 deaths here are the latest numbers broken down by county, sam, a tail San Francisco, marin sonoma and napa counties have all reported new cases today, but no new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. For a complete list of local covid19 cases head over to our website kron 4 dot com at least for now most bay area jurisdictions will follow the same guidelines in terms of slowly winding down the stay at home orders and reopening the economy the last area holdout on opening the door to face to Santa Clara County. But word on that changed today kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom right now with more just a. While panels of the countys move forward Santa Clara County Health Officials said that there were no plans to ease restrictions but that changed today. And it will now allow Small Retail Stores to offer Curbsid
Fletcher and im darya folsom of the good news is though the governor says were just a matter of days away. From loosening statewide stayathome orders but right now 6 bay area counties are now saying they will have some changes tomorrow, allowing construction to resume with new safety protocols real estate open houses are going to be able to begin again. They also will have new limitations child care programs are allowed to reopen but they are limited to 12 children. Her facility, certain outdoor businesses like nurseries landscapers gardeners theyre allowed to resume business. But outdoor restaurants, cafes and bars are not allowed to reopen until we get i further lifting this order does not provide for that yet knows however the other shared outdoor spaces like skate parks golf courses, theyll also be allowed to reopen monday but social distancing guidelines will still be in force. These changes apply to alameda contra costa marin San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara counties as w