We are hearing from the operator of a bay area nursing home where nine patients have died from coronavirus. Parks are closed this weekend across much of the bay area following the shelter in place order. And dozens of people test positive for coronavirus at San Franciscos largest shelter. It is just about 6 00 a. M. On this saturday, april 11th. Lets start with a check of the weather in the Weather Center with darren. No rain this weekend. Nice change. The first one after three in a row before this. What we have is a cloudy start to the day. I want you to take a look from our view on Treasure Island looking back at the city. This is a good gauge of how cloudy it is and how low the clouds are. You can see the top of the Sales Force Tower sticking up through there them. As far as the temperatures go, relatively nice out there. Low to mid50s out there for most locations. Looking at futurecast, expect the clouds to stick around for most bay area locations until we get into the afternoon to
Warnings no more on the eve of this holiday weekend, officials stepping up at the trailheads. Many people are wanting to get out this easter weekend but officials will issue parking tickets in hopes of keeping people closer to home. Thanks for joining us today. The enforcement comes as the number of coronavirus cases reaches a grim milestone. The worldwide death toll reached 100,000 and cases here in the United States surpassed 500,000 today. In the u. S. Nearly 19,000 people have died. The chief of the Health Organization said lifting the stayathome orders to early could bring a deadly resurgence of covid19. This morning as the Trump Administration creates a task force to look into how to reopen the countrys economy. Bay Area Health Officials are urging people to stay home this weekend and resist the urge to go out for a hike or even just leave their homes. This comes in some areas where enforcement is already stepping up. Debora villalon joins us live tonight from marin where tickets
Sharon, any action so far . Reporter well, marcus, mayor london breed made the announcement yesterday that the shelter in place will be extended through may 1st. Now, several county boards of supervisors are taking on the issue this morning. Theyre doing virtual meetings. Ive been watching this meeting with the Contra Costa County board of supervisors and Public Comments sent in earlier are now going into the second hour of the meeting. So many pleas for help, residents describing how theyve lost their jobs and are worried about how theyre going to pay for rent and food, worried about evictions. And some suggesting criminals with minor offences should be released to relieve overcrowding in the jails. Those were just some of the comments. Thats why, though, acknowledging how difficult it is for all, mayor breed says the shelter in place must be extended until may 1st to help flatten the curve. Health experts say this will allow time to see if social distancing is working throughout the
Lighter rain up to the north from marinwood and san rafael and further to the north, penngrove through santa rosa a few scattered showers, in and around sonoma as well. There is more offshore, as we widen out the per peck stiff. Its a one on our storm impact scale. Light to moderate rain, gustier winds, chance of a thunderstorm with hail. 52 cupertino and saratoga. Are 54 in san car close. Check out 10 00. Its raining in the north bay and by noontime we have heavy downpours in the east bay, the south bay, this continues theres still showers in the forecast for your monday. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Close to 90 people have died of coronavirus in the bay area as of this morning and santa cruz county, with more than 3,000000 confirmed cases. Santa clara county is approaching 1,200 cases with San Francisco, alameda and san mateo topping 500 cases. Mond see know county remains with at least four cases, lake county continues to report none with 14 peop24 people tested. Weve been plotting the ca
During business hours. Now, your health, your safety, this is this morning big promises straight from Governor Newsom, more he testing for californians and help for medical workers. As of this morning close to 90 people died of coronavirus in the bay area and Santa Cruz County with more than 3,500 confirmed cases. San francisco topping 500 cases. Mend siino coun Mendocino County reported four cases. And weve been plotting the cases on this useful draft to see the trend. This includes the bear aay and surrounding areas with a jump in days starting march 1. Its sunday, april 5th. Im liz kreutz. 24u thank you very much for joining us. We will have much more on the coronavirus in a moment but we want to start a quick look at the Stormy Weather were tracking this weekend. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Hello it, its certainly been a soaker out there. You see the counterclockwise rotation offshore bringing instability and rain to much of california. We go in closer to American Canyon, up to