Now 3 San Francisco mayor london breed warning the city is preparing to announce new restrictions this week as coronavirus spreads rampantly thank you for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im tahernia during a press conference this afternoon mayor london breed and doctor colfax saying restrictions could be issued as early as tomorrow. Kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco with the concerning details. Dan. Well thats right things have gone from bad to worse as far as covid is concern here in the city in the last 10 days hospitalizations have more than doubled cases are 4 times what they were a month ago during an online briefing today both the mayor and the Health Director said changes are coming and they could come as soon as tomorrow. We are now in the most dangerous period. So this pandemic we need to do everything we can stay ahead of our hospitals, not being overrun this is about saving lives, everything were asking you to do on the coming weeks and months is abo
Start times but they all last through the new year and the hope is that this will keep local hospitals from getting overrun with patients. We have Team Coverage of this breaking news this afternoon across the bay area well find out what it means for each county and well start now with kron fours dan kerman he joins. With all the important details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in we were expecting some sort of order from several of the counties that we didnt know it would be exactly what the state had proposed and we didnt know 5 counties would go in together lets take a look and we go to some video we can show you exactly again which counties this impacts and again were talking about. Alameda county Contra Costa County marine county, San Francisco as well as Santa Clara County now what will be closed. The closures include hair salons and barbershops personal Care Services wineries and bars Outdoor Dining will be closed museums and zoos will be closed playgrounds will be clos
Its a move thats been long overdue. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im Catherine Heenan in tonight for pam moore. Today, San Francisco county da chase abboud in announced plans to file manslaughter charges against former rookie officer, christopher this is in connection to the 2017 shooting death of oneill that news was a welcome by families of People Killed by San Francisco Police Officers and kron fours Jonathan Mccall is here live with more john you know, id sorry catherine and was fired by San Francisco police after that shooting happened. Since that we 2009 there have been 72 officer involved shootings here in San Francisco. In september san leandro officer Jason Fletcher was also charged for the shooting death of Steven Taylor that happened in april its the second time. Officer in the bay area has been charged in a deadly shooting here in recent months before that that had been that hadnt for loved ones killed by cops say todays news gives them some much needed help. For the first
Stay at home orders are now in effect for for bay area counties at San Francisco santa clara contra costa and alameda counties are in counties stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow at noon. The order will be in place until january 4th as of now Sonoma Napa Solano and san mateo counties are not planning to go into a stay at home order until their icu bed capacity falls below that 15 threshold that state home order does mean personal Services Like hair salons and barbershops can no longer operate restaurants can only offer takeout or delivery means Outdoor Dining is out of the picture. It also affects indoor gyms drivein gatherings outdoor playgrounds Entertainment Centers zoos and museums open airbuss and boat operators all of these businesses must now close we begin our coverage of these shutdowns in the south bay. The new more restrictive health order. In Santa Clara County will no doubt take some getting used to in terms of whats allowed and whats not were going to check in
More than 19,000 californians have lost their lives to coronavirus and in the south bay there are new fears that hospitals in areas hit hardest by the virus are running low on icu beds and could reach capacity by mid december at same time officials reported some progress in planning for the arrival in distribution of the vaccine. Kron fours rob fladeboe has more on this live from san jose rob. And thats right ken and pam a county Health Officials at a briefing here at the Government Center today offered very few specifics, but they did say that they now have submitted their a vaccination protocol, the Distribution Plan to the state of california has required at the same time though they say they are quote extremely worried about the rising tide of hospitalizations and they are encouraging people to more fully cooperate with the new restrictions imposed this last weekend. Heres more. The answer i have for you today is that that that number is evolving Santa Clara County Health Officials