Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
City officials are working to make that happen. Plus commitment to change the sierra club saying sorry for its white supremacist history, particularly that of its founder john new york. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 8 im Justine Waldman in for pam moore tonight and im ken wayne thanks for joining us at 8. Our top story tonight, california has surpassed new york for the most confirmed covid19 cases in the country. There are now more than 415,000 cases in our state thats after a singleday record of 12,807 new cases yesterday. According to Johns Hopkins University Data that total is roughly 6,000 more cases than in new york which had the most cases in the country before now, but new yorks death toll is still 4 times that here of california for comparison california has about 40 million residents just shy of 40 million 1 new york has about half that amount. Governor Gavin Newsome announcing the state is extending its mask deal with the chines
The country. And now hospitals in the state say they are preparing to expand the number of available beds for covid19 patients as the surge in patients continues to grow kron fours reyna harvey is live now she is a live report with more on this rain. Marty good morning at a major concern for a lot of these hospitals now is running out of beds along with protective equipment for staffers to use now weve seen a surge in cases like you mentioned we a top new york a stark number for california and so now hospitals are looking at the data and typically when you see a rise in cases you also see an increase in hospitalized station rate so thats what hospitals are racing for right now, and its not just about the ppe its not just about the bad. They also are seen a decline or a shortage of trained qualified nurses that are able to help along with testing material so its a lot of concerns that they have. Now beds are used for other injured or sick patients, the size those who have the virus. Hos
Rain is tapering off rightno taking a look at storm ranger. As we nth bay. Throughout the morning but were going to have rain clearing for this afternoon. It will be a nice day before the next round of rain moves in. Traffic is shifting around oakland, mike . It typically does, kari, folks shift around and they start to use the fastrak lanes. Thats whats happening at the bay bridge. A standard build for a tuesday. You know what, overall, it might be a little lighter. Thats kind of what we expect out of the thanksgiving weekend. Well time out your drive out of trivalley coming up soon. Back to you, laura. Thanks so much, mike. 5 01 right now. South bay landlords may face penalties for breaking certain today in the bay bob rydell joins us to how it protects renters. Reporter whats going to happen is the city council in city hall behind me is going to decide whether to approve new fines for landlords within the city limits. This is to encourage those Property Owners to follow the law when
It is something i think we need to [inaudible] thank you thank you. Is all the cards i have. Anyone else like to make Public Comment . Come on up. Good morning commissioners and good morning phil. Im lukes tobeen and recreation supervisor with reck and park thmpt departments motto is get out and play and i like to say that my roll at reck and park is help make sure arfbd can get out and play. When i saw this Strategic Plan drafted i thought here is my chance to do something that i have thought about doing for a long time and that is suggest that we add everyone to the Mission Statement for rec and park. Because it says in the Diverse Community but i really felt everyone reflected that we really do welcome everyone and in my specific role in the department that really includes people with disabilities and that worried everyone says that to the community. I actually took a avenue of outreach that wasnt mentioned in phils presentation and emailed taylor and also suggested that we add lang