Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are forced to shut down. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some of those businesses and some of the customers he is joining us live now from walnut creek good evening. Dan. Well johnson and justine has you mentioned this is the unfortunate reality that these businesses are going to have to dea
Recommended that the vaccine be available for folks older than the age of 16. And this all comes as the Pfizer Vaccine just now hours away from being shipped out shipments as you just heard are expected to arrive in states as early as monday trucks, carrying those vaccines will roll out starting tomorrow to nearly 150 Distribution Centers across america. The head of the fda says that science and data guided the fdas decision to approve the vaccine. It comes despite concerns that the vaccine was rushed along with pressure from the white house. Now here in the bay area we can expect about 75,000 doses of the vaccine at local hospitals are getting ready. Kron fours gayle ong is live tonight in freeman with that part of the story gayle. Jonathan justine the initial shipments are expected some time next week and that will be intended for Health Care Workers and first responders. It could store hundreds of thousands of vaccines. Right now at ucsf without without an issue doctor desi kotis ch
Strategic plans across america to deliver those vaccines safely and these doses cannot come soon enough as covid19 continues to devastate the golden state California Health officials reporting more than 35,000 new cases of the virus and 225 deaths both numbers shattering daily records more than 13,000 people are currently in the hospital thats also an alltime record and the states icu capacity is now at just 7. 9 some good news though california is expecting some 327,000 doses of the pfizer covid19 vaccine as early as monday. As part of the initial vaccine rollout the move comes after the fda authorized emergency use of that vaccine late last night. The chief operating officer of operation warp speed now praising the effort today calling it historic. For 7 months we have realized the greatest Public Private partnership in modern times. Doctors scientists researchers factory workers low just asians and hundreds more have all come together for single or purpose. That purpose save lives a
In the alum rock road neighborhood. Police have confirmed one victim so far their condition has not been released at the same time San Jose Police are also outside of a home on jackson street thats north of the citys downtown in several streets there. Are currently closed as officers are trying to talk to a man who has barricaded himself inside of a home this information is just now coming in to the kron 4 news room working to get more details on both of these situations happening right now in san jose as soon as we get more details. You know we will bring them to you and thank you so much for joining us right here tonight on kron 4 news at 10, im Justine Waldman of Jonathan Mccall our other big story this sunday night california breaking a grim record with more than 8,000 covid19 patients in hospitals all across the golden state. That number doubling from less than just 3 weeks ago when there are roughly 4,000 patients in hospitals on november 12th. The previous record for hospitaliza
To make tackling the pandemic is very First Priority when he hits office. Tonight we now know that former fda commissioner David Kessler and former u. S. Surgeon general doctor vivek murthy will lead that team kessler who once served as the head of the u. S. C f medical school from 2003 to 2007. Today the biden team also unveiling its official transition website. Build back better dot com and lays out the executive actions that president elect biden is set to take on day one of his term many of them aimed at reversing many of President Trumps policies. Oakland native and Vice President elect Kamala Harris is now set to become the most powerful woman in washington. But question of what a biden presidency presidency will mean for the bay area. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some congressional leaders from the bay area about what theyre hoping to see with this new administration, yeah well one of the good things is having somebody like Kamala Harris is from the bay area. Having the ear