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
Right now this frid morning over e city. We look ahead to the weekend. Good morning. Its friday, january 29th. Another rainy morning. You saw all of that green on the radar. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee to talk about the weather. Hi, michelle. We are looking at light rain. We are dealing with wet weather as we start off the day. Zooming in on hidef doppler, you can see the green and orange colors. Orange and yellow colors. Light rain over san jose and down through 101 into morgan hill. You can see its pouring over you and light rain over fremont, hayward and livermore and san ramon at this hour. A live look at the San Francisco camera. You can see that light rain from concord, oakland and for livermore. Temperatures in the mid40s as well as San Francisco and san jose. 37 in santa rosa. As we head through the day, we are looking at a little bit of sunshine. So, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. Highs in the low 50s on the coast and nd the bay inland. Can see ashead through the
It restricts all nonessential activity between the hours of 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. , but will a mandatory quarantine for travellers be next . And if so, how soon . Reporter as covid cases continue surging across the bay area, San Francisco is embracing its purple status and the rstrictions that come with it, but just how bad are the numbers . I think were very close to santa clara. Reporter abc 7s Analysis Shows covid cases per capita between San Francisco and santa clara are both reaching the high 1,700s. To put it in perspective, San Francisco was averaging 139 new covid cases per day. Whereas santa clara is averaging 517. We may well have to act like santa clara has. I dont want to get in front of the City Health Department here, but theyre obviously weighing all these things and looking at the same numbers were all looking at. Reporter Santa Clara County Public Health officials have implemented even stricter rules, like limiting hotels to only essential travel and requiring peo
Our commitment to help build a better bay area. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes explains that california is expecting its first shipment next month. We are anticipating 327,000 doses of the vaccine, pfizer, to come in the next few weeks. Reporter Governor Newsom says he even knows roughly when the vaccines arrive but didnt want to reveal the date until he had the exact day. Were going to be seeing hundreds of thousands of people in california and millions of people in the United States get vaccinated in december. Its actually breathtaking. Reporter so here is what we can expect in the next few days. The vaccines exact date of arrival and the plan outlining who will get the shot first. The vaccines implementation will happen at the speed of trust, and that is part of the reason why we have built a set of committees. We have to start with Health Care Workers and probably people in nursing homes. And then ultimately, we will get to people over 65, people with preexisting conditions. Reporte
To 15 , yet they are still opting to shut down. On the other hand, Santa Clara County is down to 15 , which equals 31 empty icu beds remaining in the south bay. Marianne favro is in san jose to see how hospitals are handling the covid surge. Reporter Regional Medical center of san jose is now at capacity, but it continues to accept new patients here in the emergency department. There are at least 66 Covid Patients at Regional Medical center, and the surge is straining hospital resources. We are at capacity. Theres essentially no more beds in the hospital to rapidly put the patients into their inpatient unit. Reporter the hospital continues to perform surgery and accept emergency patients. But elective surgeries have been put on hold. The Medical Center is also using beds in the postacute care unit to accommodate additional patients. But it wont be using the pandemic tents set up in the parking lot back in april. We think its going to be better to circle the wagon, have our Team Togethe