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
Middle of the year. The toll plaza to the one o one about an eightminute drive for you ok, hot spots not to tell you about antioch to concord 17 minutes such a co 2 danville thats a 30 minute drive for you its starting to slow down just a little bit there in san leandro to milpitas and the one o one san jose to menlo park, 31 minute ride dariann james guys. Thank you are in a 6 oh one is the time our breaking news from overnight. The u. S. Has set another record now for the most covid related deaths. In a single day you can see in the graphic behind us more than 3100 people died from the virus on wednesday can see its a problem from coast to coast and for the first time a 100,000 americans or in the hospital with covid in nearly air in the icu and this comes as california now setting records for the number of new cases that its experiencing kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco with more sara. Another grim update james darya we have just been reportedly reporting just grim grim up
Thanks for that you know traffic is looking great out there, but you can see the bay bridge. A lot of backup there the maze to fremont street 13 minutes and you see traffic starting to build here in the Richmond Bridge traffic steadily moving along near the tulsa the one o one about 11 minutes. For your drive so make sure now is the time you want to give yourself more time to get out on the roads because were no longer in the green everybodys out there trying to get to work, san mateo bridge 92 you can to one o one a 17 minute drive for you can see everyone kind of stepping on those lights there you see the brake people making their way across but its going to definitely be a drive and thankfully, no accidents to tell you about no hot spots to get to but lets get a check at our drive times for you filling a out to conquer 21 minutes of steadily increasing there but take danville 40 minutes, san leandro to milpitas 27, san jose youre at a 35 plus drive the air and one more look out at t
A recount here right but as daryn mentioned that number isnt going to stay static. We do expect it to grow and the reason why is all slide over the map here so we see pennsylvania. The majority of the ballots that are still uncounted that are out there again we woke up this morning to about a 160,000 or so that still need to be tabulated theyre primarily concentrated in the high population areas of Philadelphia County where the city of philadelphia is an Allegheny County where pittsburgh is there are still several and of those that still need to be counted. Theyre broken up into 3 major groups obviously still have the absentee mail in ballots that theyre Getting Started right, you also have the provisional ballots that have also been held to account after the mail in ballots and those are the ballots that they give you lets say if you go to a precinct, cant remember if this was my polling place or not they get a provisional ballot they take on your information they say will counted aft
One who got the most votes for now they still have a few 1000 left to count. But so far joe biden in the lead again by about 50 really an extraordinary development, is something that you thought youd never see in georgia but thats happening. And then in pennsylvania are also seeing that lead great yeah, so lets jump over to pennsylvania where we have again the major areas that are being counted still include philadelphia and pittsburgh. And thats Philadelphia County and allegheny county. Again about 50,000 votes are being processed in the 5th in the philadelphia area about 30,000 to 35,000 in the pittsburgh area and the vast majority of those votes coming in. Well theyve already been and are being counted now. But about 75 to 80 have been going to joe biden about 20 to 15 of going to donald trump and for that reason weve seen joe biden take over the lead position and continuing to add hes ahead now by about 9,004 and things are going actually quite smoothly. Considering that there has