The congressional hispanic caucus, has said there is a lack of latinos in the incoming cabinet, if confirmed this air will face the daunting task of leading the department during a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 people has disproportionately affected people of color. Our other big story this sunday night more than 30 million californians now facing stay at home orders and less than 2 hours at 10 00pm. Those orders will go into effect for 3 bay area counties that San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. The order is very similar to the lockdown that many of us all the way back in march. Those counties now taking an earlier approach to governor newsoms order that requires counties to go into lockdown when icu bed capacity has dropped below 15 . Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area, no hovering around 24 . Number of Health Leaders across the bay area say right now they dont want to take any chances. Thats why theyre doing this early. Stay at home orders will also
Seeing some encouraging numbers on the pandemic. But some Health Experts believe a resurgence is on the way. Some bay area restaurants are open for the first time this year, but will anyone show up . I dont know a lot about stocks. They helped them go up. Small Investors Team up to throw wall street into turmoil. New at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a live look outside, one final round of rain moving through the bay area right now. Paul heggen is tracking the storm for us tonight. One more round of organized rainfall is moving in. This is the same area of rain we were tracking earlier when it was still well off the coast. But now its moving into some spots that really need a break from the rain. Including the Santa Cruz Mountains. One more burst of heavy downpours. It is about to cross over the Santa Cruz Mountains and roll through the santa clara valley. Same thing for morgan hill and gilroy. Some spots that have seen the heaviest rainfall amounts so far. This is not the only bat
Catching even a little bit of sunshine later today. So, big changes ahead after a soaker of a storm with an Atmospheric River the last few days. The Atmospheric River well out of the area. You can see on hidef doppler lingering showers for us. You can see light shower activity over gilroy, 101 and up across the north bay from st. Helena and napa, vallejo and fairfield picking up light rain. Through the day, we are looking at partly sunny skies. So, a little sunshine. Highs in the low to mid50s this afternoon. As we time it out for you, taking you hour by hour, stopping the clock at lunchtime hour at noon, you can see sunshine through the day. Catching a bit of clearing as we head through the afternoon. We will talk about the weekend as we are tracking another weather system. I will show you the locations that have a better chance of wet weather coming up. Lets check in with gianna. Until it dries out you may be dealing with slick surfaces. There is flooding in some areas. The bay bridg
Civility toward cities and the challenge that cities face. I future looks promising and i look forward to 2021. Regarding phase 2, i was joined by the chair, c. F. O. To provide an update to the california project of transportation, tony tavares and numerous staff from the cal tran team and the statewide division of rail and mass transit. We provided an overview on project history, outlined work completed since the projects reactivation in june, provided forecast of upcoming information and the funding plan. Further, to our advancing phase 2, on october 15, we provided a project update to the bay area delegation which included senator and board chair jerry hill, san mateo counties. Along with the senate and Assembly Transportation Committee Staff and offices. 20 legislative offices participated. We provided information about the project history, current status and activities as well as future plans to advance the project. The presentation was well received and we plan to continue our c
Strategic plans across america to deliver those vaccines safely and these doses cannot come soon enough as covid19 continues to devastate the golden state California Health officials reporting more than 35,000 new cases of the virus and 225 deaths both numbers shattering daily records more than 13,000 people are currently in the hospital thats also an alltime record and the states icu capacity is now at just 7. 9 some good news though california is expecting some 327,000 doses of the pfizer covid19 vaccine as early as monday. As part of the initial vaccine rollout the move comes after the fda authorized emergency use of that vaccine late last night. The chief operating officer of operation warp speed now praising the effort today calling it historic. For 7 months we have realized the greatest Public Private partnership in modern times. Doctors scientists researchers factory workers low just asians and hundreds more have all come together for single or purpose. That purpose save lives a