Sentences, and individual health risks. It is becoming clear that covid19 is not just a threat to the elderly. The cdc says adults under 44 years old make up 20 of the hospitalized cases in the u. S. , and 12 of patients who required intensive care. The state department is now advising all u. S. Citizens to avoid all International Travel until further notice. The level 4 alert advises americans abroad to take the next available flight home or risk being stuck where they are. It is the new normal here in the bay area. Hunkering down, washing your hands, keeping at least 6 feet away from everyone you do not know. Our medical producer joins us in San Francisco. When will we know if our efforts will make a big difference . Reporter liz, we keep seeing the cases going up every single day and in every single county in the bay area. We will know that our efforts are working once that number peaks and starts to go down. You have to realize that covid 19 and infection takes anywhere from 2 to 1
Come home and today we spoke to a bay area resident stuck with his wife in lima peru. We are coming back from lima. We were at that airport when we found out. We found what was going on. We tried everything we could to get on this flight. Everything was booked or canceled. Weve been at an air bmb where weve been for 12 days. We dont know whats going on. We dont know when we will get that phone call or when we would get the email that we could go home. Im an essential worker in San Francisco at a Grocery Store in San Francisco. My team is just having a hard time there. I want to be able to help them but i cant. Do you feel safer down there or would you feel safer here . You know, theres a lot of things they are saying you dont want to go back right now. Theres fewer cases here. I want to see my animals, my motherinlaws taking care of our house and our animals, shes 75 years old. She doesnt need to be exposed to this. From the day i received the email from them that they were trapped in
For years, the landscaping in berkeleys residential traffic circles has been maintained by the people who live nearby. In may of last year, city staff recommended all of the trees in the circles be cut down because they obstructed the view of drivers. Predictability, a lot of people thought that was not a good idea. Absolutely not. In fact, i think they support rather than the track. Reporter the decision was the result of a 2 million lawsuit settlement when someone was injured in a crosswalk at this intersection. This tree was alleged to have contributed to the accident. When more than 1000 residents signed petitions, the mayor created a Citizens Task force to work with staff engineers, who then recommended that only trees up to six inches in diameter would be allowed. They seemed perplexed by the idea that you cannot guarantee a tree would only be six inches in diameter, the trees grow. Reporter the task force discovered other cities like seattle require trees in their traffic circle
east: but it s the number on the top line that will grab most pool s attention. it s the peak gust so far not mountains. we hit the north bay. but as far as where you live, look at the rest of the numbers. santa rosa hill 33-mile-an-hour gust within the last hour. and concord at 35. and san francisco hit 28. we are seeing similar numbers to that in the east bay for places like oakland though not as strong there and san jose seeing this at 14 miles per hour. as we look at the map as a whole, these are the current wind speeds. that s what the sustained number is. so it s 15 sustained in hayward. 13 in oakland. 6 in san jose. now the gusts as the winds pick up in intensity. ever so often, hayward hit 23. and concord at 37. and there s livermore at 3 # 2. all right. as you probably expect the wind advisory in effect doesn t expire until 11 a.m. on monday. but the worst of the winds will come through the afternoon for most of us. i am going to spotlight that in more detail in the
5. This is the second murder in two weeks in that west hayward neighborhood. A light rain started falling this afternoon on the rocky fire. Cal fire says its going to bring little relief simply because that fire is too big. Its charred 65,000 acres and remains out of control. In fact, its only 12 contained. Almost 7,000 homes are threatened by those flames. Let me show you a map that will give you an idea how big the rocky fire is. The area in red has gone up in flames. The fire has jumped highway 20, headed north. Reporter Chris Martinez has the latest from lake county. Reporter the rocky wildfire is quickly tearing its way through heavy brush in multiple directions, blackening more than 101 square miles. This area has never burned before. The fire is extremely dense, extremely dry. Thats whats really fueling, pun intended, the fire. Reporter the wildfire has destroyed at least 50 homes and other buildings. Flames jumped this highway that was acting as a vital containment line. Despit