New Restrictions Mean for you . Were going to break down what will stay open and what has to close. Tonight whael explain why some entrepreneurs would like the governor to make a decision quickly. Also a vaccine in reach. Tonight whos on the governors priority list. And what about kids . When will vaccines be approved for them . We answer the questions that many parents are asking. This could be our last hurdle before the finish line but its a big hurdle and might last for weeks. The new stay at home order is likely. It could start by midmonth and all hinges on how many icu beds are available in each county. Once the county dips below 15 capacity, that triggers a threeweek stay at home order. Heres where the bay area stands right now. Most counties you can see are hovering around 30 . But look at Santa Clara County its at 17 capacity. Sonoma county in rough shape, less than 1 capacity. It has only three icu beds remaining in the entire county. Today the governor broke the state into fi
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
Will it really work . The states top doctor is feeling the pressure and the resentment from many people in the community. Today he defended his decision. He said california needs to stay home. Because cases are continuing to hit record highs almost daily. He pointed to the success rate of shut downs in europe. Belgium put in a three week stay at home order. Its positive ratd fell from 21 to 8 in that time. England had a four week order. Cases dropped by 30 . He says he understands the restrictions are inconvenient. But its what the state has to do at this time as hospitals become over crowded. The goal of saving lives become threatened when the system isnt as robust and strong as it can be. To deliver care to as many californiaens as needed. Reminding everyone there is light at the end of tunnel. The first doses of vaccines expected to arrive one week from today. Hundreds of people crowded outside the courthouse today very few of them Wearing Masks to support the pastor who landed in f
Host lets focus now on the Restaurant Industry amid the coronavirus pandemic trade our guest is tom colicchio, people know him from top chef and his several restaurants. He now from the Restaurant Industry talking about the coronavirus pandemic viewers know him from top chef on the bravo reality tv series and also president of the Restaurant Coalition when and why did you found the coalition . It was around march 15 a friend of mine had the foundation interested in helping out T Restaurants and we were looking at a major problem and i. C. E. To be part of an organization working with various lobbyists and a friend of mine was a lobbyist and said independentde restaurants with a lobbying firm so i called my friend back and it started off as a small group and then we found another group down south 100 restaurants strong and based kept popping up in seattle and chicago and San Francisco all over the country and very quickly we pulled together getting on zoomm calls twice a day with a sing
Thats going help our temperatures out. But as of right now we cold livermore at 36 dublin at 34. Definitely more mild right along the bay with alameda at 48 oakland at 43 santa rosa you are spot below freezing this morning at 31 degrees. All that but not too far away from freezing at 34. Im talking the nice afternoon that we still have to expect in your forecast. Robin has had a couple of issues on the roadways this morning. It looks like the bay bridge has gotten pretty packed pretty quickly and no fun sitting in this the backup is growing for sure it started off with a little stall at the toll plaza could have crash there was a van that was sitting there. With the damage bumper. We didnt see the accident happened. It was just that one vehicle that caltrans rolled out they pushed it out of the way and that sort of kicked off our back up at the bay bridge toll plaza so started traffic started stocking up behind that and then now we have the usual early commuters coming in so you put it