Departments dead line itself, to determine bed capacity and covid19 testing. Bob, i know you were listening to that press conference. Tell us a little more about it. Reporter well, the county says its expandible and elastic when i comes to thi beds opened and available in kante scholar ra county. Is that number going to be enough if we do see a surge of covid19 cases . The county Operations Emergency Center wrapped up this News Conference about 30 minutes ago. They announced two new dashboards on the Public Health we believe site, you mentioned, which lets the county know in terms of bed capacity and covid19. Heres the latest numbers as of march 31st. You can see they have over 9 aqueued beds available, just over 90 icu beds, close to 1,500 surge beds. These are beds that theyve added because of this crisis. That includes 250 of the Santa Clara County convention center. They have just under 400 ventilators. Again, thats as of march 31st. As of yesterday, the county labs, commercial lab
County are all following suit and basically what they are saying is yes if you have to go out of the house for essential needs and when i say that im talking about going to the pharmacy or going to the Grocery Store Something Like that they think it is a good idea to have facial coverings on your face what type of facial covering news, well they are not saying and 95 masks and they are not saying surgical mask. Theyre talking more about cloth masks and bandanas that is what theyre talking about at this point that is now the recommendation both from the California Department of Health Services and for several counties in the bay area we expect the other counties in the bay area to join suit on this in the next several days but the governor made it clear during his News Conference today that he wants to make sure that people realize that this is not a substitute for social distancing staying home and washing your hands. Some bay area counties are changing the recommendation around coveri
Its a change from when life is kind of normal. This is a look at interstate 880 and you can see traffic here is okay. I have noticed that traffic is a little lighter coming in through livermore through the tracy triangle. Usually we have slow traffic here. This morning. 5 01. Lets go back to the desk. Seven bay area counties issued legal orders for people to stay home through april 7th. You can see the bay area counties and santa cruz counties. The shelter in place order took effect overnight at 12 01 a. M. Ktvus allie rasmus is in San Francisco right now and you have details on what is happening. Good morning, allie. Reporter good morning. Yes, were about five hours into this shelter in place order. We are on 2nd and Market Street in San Francisco. You can see behind us it is erie eriely quiet. Maybe a bus go by here and there. Other than that, its pretty quiet out here. I want to point out across the street there is a skrooens store that is open. But they are letting customers in one
As far as fog, we have some developing around santa rosa, f ve our reporting nal stations. Its definitely out there. Highs today, a few degrees shy bors. Not too many problems on the roads at this point. Ill take you out and show you live shots. This is emeryville. Its looking good as you make your way westbound off the carquinez bridge all the way to the bay bridge toll plaza. Theres a stall but its off to the righthand shoulder. Here is a live shot of 680 in walnut creek. Southbound traffic moving past geary and treat. This is a hot spot yesterday morning. You can see right now its great. No problems all the way down highway 24 to the bay bridge. In fact, traffic is pretty light right now as well as you make your way through 580 in the altamont pass. Westbound 580 from tracy to dublin is only 24 minutes. Its delay free on southbound 680 through the dublin grade and northbound 85 fine through the south bay. No problems at all in san jose. Thanks, frances. Developing news in San Franci
Well keep you posted on this. Nearby union city on the Alvarado Niles road onramp to northbound 880, an overturned car they say is lodged between some trees. Thats on the onramp there. Also an earlier crash, 680 in danville has been cleared. One person is dead and five others are injured after a gas pipeline ruptured causing a massive explosion in kentucky. 75 people had to be evacuated overnight. Officials say flames reached about 300 feet in the air and could even be seen on the weather radar. The pipeline stretches for thousands of miles from texas at the mexico border all the way to new york city. Crews have been able to shut off that gas. Developing news this morning, Community Groups are gearing up to provide even more support to survivond those impacted by the gilroy garlic festival shooting. Whether its over the phone or in person, the community is coming together so no one has to go through this healing process alone. Abc 7 News Reporter jobina fortson live in gilroy. Jobina.