now at 6:00 here we go again. the new stay at home order about to come down. five bay area counties are moving ahead of the threshold and the strict new rules to prepare for. it s a really shock. i feel a little bit like we had the rug pulled out from under us a little bit. the new masks warnings from the cdc. why you need to wear them indoors. extreme fire danger with gusty winds on the way for parts of the bay area prompting pg&e to shut off power to thousands of customers as early as monday. good morning, and it is saturday december 5th, i am emily turner. let s start with a check of the weather with darren peck. the winds get here sunday night into monday and it is mainly in the mountains, and we may not even feel that a lot where we live. it s the usual drill when we get into fire weather concerns. more on that later. pretty view from the came are on top of the sales force tower looking towards the east. let s get into the south bay and i will show outview in
was begging everyone to cancel their thanksgiving travel plans. now they would like to see everyone canceling their travel plans for the foreseeable future. i traveled a lot during the pandemic. tons of safety measures. many passengers drifting through the oakland airport were not traveling for pleasure. i m traveling for work. well airport staff was busy hanging stockings the cdc was, again, asking everyone to cancel their winter holiday season travel plans. given the state of things i can understand limiting travel for recreational purposes or leisure purposes. so what exactly does that winter holiday travel mean? listen to how robert redfield describes the near-term. the reality is that december, january and februar will be rough times. i actually believe they will be the most difficult time in the public-health history of this nation. largely because of the stress it will put on the healthcare system. i don t think people will go for it. i think it has gone
here s a look at the latest numbers. as of this morning our state has recorded 1,264,539 confirmed cases of the virus and almost 20,000 people have died. after approval meantime operation warp speed hoping to have that pfizer vaccine out the door by december 15th with doses allocated to states by population. for example, some 300,000 to california, 170,000 to new york, 19,000 to minnesota and 12,000 to maine. yesterday the united states had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began. more than 3,100 americans died from the coronavirus and that shatters the previous single day record set back in april. hospitalizations also at a record high nationwide above 100,000. they are bracing for a surge upon a surge from holiday gatherings. december and january and february are going to be rough times. i actually believe they re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. meantime dr. anthony fauci telling cbs news that he will be meeting
house, both the deputy and the attorney general, both attorney general jeff sessions and his brand-new deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who has a bipartisan background, recommended to the president that the president fire james donald trump, the president, has sent this letter, made this letter public, that he sent to comey. he says, i greatly appreciate you informing me three times that i m not under investigation, but i concur with the judgment of the justice department that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. we don t know yet the reason for this, lester. they haven t said specifically what the reason is, but presumably it s because of all the public all the public criticism of james comey s conduct of the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the democrats haven t liked the fact that he put out information about it late in the campaign. hillary clinton has said she believes it was a factor in her defeat. the republicans didn t like it,
bad decision. coming up at 6:00, we ll talk to a man who witnessed the arrest. i ll see you then. wendy, back to you. pat collins. and police are hoping the release of new surveillance video will help them catch the person who shot and killed a grandmother in a wheelchair in d.c. 68-year-old vivian morrow was killed in what police are calling a senseless crime. if you look to the right of your screen, the surveillance video appears to show one man chasing another and as we zoom in, we can see what appears to be someone in a wheelchair. morrow was shot in the 2400 block of elvins road in southeast on monday morning. pat collins asked d.c. s interim police chief whether there has been any break in this case. it could be the clothing. it could be the hand that he used when he was firing the weapon, which and i think in this case suggests he was left-handed. that type of information, that type of detail, sometimes brings closure to a case like this. sof information on t