Officers to open fire. Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 00 and streaming in the bay area, change today for the california stayathome order, but there is still no timeline on when people can get back to work. Good evening. What the governor says needs to happen to reopen the economy. Reporter the governor said he wants to be able to trace every single case of covid19 back to the source and isolate cases before they affect the rest of the general population. A key part of the governors plan to determine when it is safe to loosen the stayathome restrictions is identifying and isolating any new cases of covid19. We believe we have the ers beginning with the goal of 10,000. Reporter he emphasized that this would not be an entirely fresh project in such programs are deployed on a local level already for hiv and tuberculosis. You have trained professional workers and local Health Departments that do this every single day. The question that is asked of us is to do it at a scale that we have n
World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
Im kira klapper. Vianey arana has a look at the microclimate forecast. It is below freezing in some parts of the bay. In the north bay, 20s right now, in napa, look at that, napa, 29 degrees, santa rosa, officially below freezing, 31 degrees, and oakland, 38, and san jose, 38 degrees, and concord, 36, and we do have another storm system, making its approach, this is also going to be a cold system, which means yes, we could see the chance of some hail, and unfortunately, that is going to mean more snow, which could once again close the grapevine which i myself got trapped in heading into christmas day. The microclimate forecast, 50 degrees in san jose and 56 in oakland so it is going to be a cool afternoon and dry today, but this is what were monitoring next. Satellite radar, you can see it, just off the coast, the biggest impact right now, going to be pretty much in through the Higher Elevation area, but because it is a cold storm system, were talking about snow levels near 4,000 feet.
You all of that wet weather and even the snow, possibly some thunderstorms, around l. A. To san diego. Lets show you the roads around the bay area. Take a live look outside. Were getting a chance to dry out here and we will, for the most part, see a good start to the morning commute. Ill be watching to see if there are any issues. Drive safely. Theres more cars on the road this morning. Ill have a look at that coming up in a few minutes. Thanks, kari. We have breaking news right now from the trivalley and it is something we really wish we didnt have to bring you. Three teenagers are dead, killed in a christmas night crash. Bob redell live for us. Investigators saying what led up to the crash . Reporter that part chp hasnt been abling to figure out. They do not believe alcohol was involved. This happened last niu before 10 00. This was christmas night. Five teenaged kids, all from the trivalley, were in a sedan heading southbound here on foothill road not far from the castle Wood Countr
Thats the good news here. And yesterday that weather was cooking up some storms and rain. Lingering showers and snow. Rain to the south of us as we get a closer look at whats happening across the south bay, we can still see that rain very close to morgan hill right over the diablo range. And then we look at the wider view, we are still seeing the storm spinning across Southern California. It was so busy with the storms and rain and its not good for travel. Highway 101 in palo alto were starting out good here as we get a chance to dry out. Its really chilly and a mix of sun and clouds all throughout the day. A live look outside in dublin. A lot more people heading back to work so 580 already rolling and we havent seen any major problems. All of the sensors are green as we take a look at the south bay. Ill keep you up to date in case there are issues on the roads this morning. A horrible story to report. Three teens are dead after a christmas night crash. Today in the bays bob redell jus