62,000 patients admitted with serious cases of covid19 that breaks the record of 60,000 patients that was set back in april. The u. S. Recorded an 8th straight day of more than 100,000 new cases and texas became the first state to top 1 million coronavirus cases surpassing all of italy. Governors across the country are urging people to stay home and limits, socializing. California could surpass 1 million confirmed cases by tomorrow. There were 7400 new cases today and 69 people died. While here in the bay area there were 300 new cases and one new death. Contra costa and santa cruz counties were forced to roll back their reopening plans due to a rise in covid cases and San Francisco has also halted reopening plants other bay area counties are on track to do the same. If they are unable to slow the spread. How about this if everybody wore a mask, the lockdowns might go away sooner and the pandemics impact on the economy might not be as bad yeah well thats the upshot of revised recommenda
Ahead laura i guys or catch a little bit of a break tonight, we have had some cloud cover move in and that will likely hold the temperatures up a few degrees remember last night we had a freeze warning in effect for a good part of the north and think well see that tonight. Certainly a or frost early tomorrow morning and have little more moisture in the air. So you may see a little more frost out there, but he at the mill valley get a nevada road or park santa rose up to Healdsburg Sonoma play london ap also saying lena also looking at the possibility, some frost early on tomorrow morning so watch out for that early on in the morning and then that should give way to some partly cloudy skies some clearing in the afternoon. But certainly going to be a cold night again as temperatures lot of these running into the 30s in the north bay even in the east bay. You could see some patchy frost in Livermore Valley, youre looking about 36 for overnight low about 37 in concord then inside the bay,
Pretty much the same as yesterday temperature wise as we finish out the day a few passing clouds and daytime highs in the 50s and 60s. Robin all right so chilly all right, thank you john. All right were checking in on the traffic, heres a live look at your bay bridge toll plaza heading into San Francisco. And we do have a high wind advisory for the bay bridge that was issued shortly after midnight. I dont really feel much driving across this morning. But i did notice that the roads are a little slick in some spots in the bay area and theres lots of drizzle. I have my wipers going john has been telling us about that in the tropical to get the holding up well very easy into San Francisco. All right lets check in on some more bridges we have 92 the trip across the 70 oh bridge looking good moving well, no problems no crashes no stalls just a little bit of crowding on the flat section thats completely normal a quick trip here to the peninsula and well take a peek at the Richmond Sandra fel
Kron 4 news at 3 im sanaz tahernia. The cdc is now saying a mask not only protects those around you, but also protects you from contracting covid19. Kron fours rob fladeboe is live in san jose with more on that rob. Its rights and as you said some people may still need some convincing but their the governments top Infectious Disease experts have changed their tune. As you said theyre now saying that wearing a mask like this one not only protects you, but it protect those around you. We spoke to an Infectious Disease here in the bay area, lets take a look. The center for Disease Control and prevention now says masks benefit the wearer the announcement is in line with the data that has been available all along so Stanford University Infectious Disease expert doctor Robert Siegel and basically you know maskwearing makes sense from a logical standpoint it makes sense from you know in terms studies on you know physical transmission particles and it also makes in terms of some of the epidemi