Bay area counties are beginning to shut down before the official order from the state, local orders in santa clara, contra costa and 7 so counties it 10 00 tonight, in berkeley and alameda county, the shutdown order goes into effect at midnight. Marin county, restrictions in place on tuesday at noon. The orders are expected to remain in effect until january 4. It bands all indoor and Outdoor Dining but restaurant takeout orders are still allowed bars and wineries have to close along with hair and nail salons, people are being told to avoid all gatherings with anyone outside of their immediate households. More than 30,000 new confirmed cases yesterday in california, the highest one day total yet, and 5000 more than the previous day, statewide the number of deaths is close to 19,000 and the Positivity Rate has it 10 . The latest shutdowns, is a huge blow to many businesses that are already struggling, they are just plain frustrated and scared, many Business Owners told rob that today, he
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
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
Definitely a bit of good news that were not affected by those power shutoffs this morning, the kick off the new week we are still in the midst of some breezy conditions though despite the fact that we are going to remain in power all across the bay area. So as youre venturing outside youll notice, those trees blowing around weve got her palm trees at the embarcadero camera right there also noticeably swaying that steady breeze thats working its way across the bay at the moment. Souter tower view is nice and clear we certainly do not have any fog thats part of the reason that we are seeing such a low humidity is because of the strong winds that are pushing across the region and you can see that the north bay is definitely seeing some of our strongest of winds this morning, sonoma calistoga looking at winds currently in excess of 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour also quite breezy for areas like napa atlas peak santa rosa and petaluma throughout the course of the morning were going to remain in th
Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an