Approaching Dangerous Levels in places like texas, florida and arizona with covid19 cases accelerating at a rapid pace. Health experts warn the country is running out of time to control the virus whitney wild now has the latest from washington. The numbers are shocking the United States recorded more than 50,000 coronavirus cases wednesday. The highest number of new infections tracked in a single day since the pandemic began. Federal Officials Say the spike is due to an increase in cases and not solely an increase in testing there is no question that the more testing you get the more you will uncover, but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because the percent positive a teaser going up 23 states are now pausing or changing plans to reopen economies. Arizona california, north carolina, tennessee and texas all reported new single day record highs wednesday. This is whats frustrating right now is that people arent taking it as a search everybody thinks with false hope that is
Is closing all beach parking lots through the Holiday Weekend. Parking lot closures include but are not limited to the following baker beach china beach crissy field, fort funston 4 point the Golden Gate Bridge lands end the marina green and ocean beach, Half Moon Bay is also closing its beaches through sunday, the closures come after Governor Newsom ordered parking lots at all state beaches to be closed for the Holiday Weekend. The citys mayor is also actively discouraging people from visiting Half Moon Bay. In fact, the mayor announced the stretch of the popular coastal trail between the seymour bridge and kelly avenue will be closed for the next 3 days. In the span of one month california has gone from optimistic to sour in the fight against covid19 especially because cases surged after memorial day. Now Health Experts are sounding the alarm as we head into another Holiday Weekend. Kron fours dan thorn talked with Health Experts on what went wrong and how we can get back to beating
Number of workplace and business licensing agencies like cal osha, alcohol Beverage Control and the california highway patrol. But there are still questions on how rules will actually be in force. This comes after approved permits for a 300 person protests. 2 weddings and a 50 person demonstration all on the 4th of july. How you address what some might perceive a mixed message in here. I dont have the benefit of the details of the permits chp is evaluating those permits now to see about how that can be done. Taken into account, the the governors orders and directives that we want for appropriate social distancing and limiting. To come together while still protecting rights assemble for for peaceful protest. Well for now the state is primarily targeting businesses out of compliance with guidelines, including the face mask men day. All right here in the bay area there are over 29,000 cases and over 590 deaths, were still seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 5700 infections.
Mix out by the mid Morning Hours and off to a sunny day today warming up a little bit more so looks like tomorrow temperatures on the board right now we got 64 open 57 for concords 56 for can 62 for redwood city. We have to have a little section here was a little cooler looks like even off towards the delta bit but then warming up by comparison sake along the peninsula and portions of the east bay today 61 at 09 00am 75 by 12, again looking for warmer temperatures tomorrow, but dropping again by the time we get into sunday off little, but look closer look at all this coming up in a bit marty all right dave thanks a lot of us get right to our top story this friday morning. Bay Area Health Officials are encouraging everyone to stay home this 4th of july weekend now this comes as the state and the bay area continue to see an increase in coronavirus cases. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Contra Costa County in the east bay this morning. She has all the details sarah. Marty this 4th of july wa
Lets get right to our top story this friday morning. Bay Area Health Officials encouraging everyone to stay home this 4th of july weekend. Now this comes as the state and the bay area continue to see a rise in coronavirus cases kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Contra Costa County this morning. She has all the details sarah good morning. And theyre good morning marty i live here in Contra Costa County one of counties in the bay area that seeing a major surge in cases terrible time they cant believe were heading into the 4th of july weekend and were seeing a spike in cases when we were doing so well and now were seeing that resurgence. So officials are asking us to stay home and be safe. Why lets take a look at the increases that were seeing across the bay area in all of our take a look at your screen there are quite a lot of numbers but just to name a few Contra Costa County is seeing a 129 increase in cases in a 111 increase in deaths from may 31st until yesterday that the county saw a 207