Here in the bay area that means every county except for moran. San francisco and san mateo counties this curfew could go into effect in San Francisco tomorrow night more on that in a minute. So heres exactly what will happen in less than an hour all non essential workers. Movement and gatherings will be banned, however restaurants will be allowed to offer takeout after 10 oclock the central businesses like Grocery Stores and drugstores can stay open after hours. Folks will also be allowed to go for a walk in other routine activities the curfew will be lifted at 5 oclock tomorrow morning. But it will run every night from 10 oclock at night until 5 in the morning up until december 21st in San Francisco could jump to the purple tier as soon as tomorrow meanwhile, the coronavirus is reaching unprecedented levels of spread across our state. And the u. S. California Health Officials reporting a record breaking 15,000 new cases of covid19 on friday as well as 86 new deaths. There have been mo
Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school
Recommended that the vaccine be available for folks older than the age of 16. And this all comes as the Pfizer Vaccine just now hours away from being shipped out shipments as you just heard are expected to arrive in states as early as monday trucks, carrying those vaccines will roll out starting tomorrow to nearly 150 Distribution Centers across america. The head of the fda says that science and data guided the fdas decision to approve the vaccine. It comes despite concerns that the vaccine was rushed along with pressure from the white house. Now here in the bay area we can expect about 75,000 doses of the vaccine at local hospitals are getting ready. Kron fours gayle ong is live tonight in freeman with that part of the story gayle. Jonathan justine the initial shipments are expected some time next week and that will be intended for Health Care Workers and first responders. It could store hundreds of thousands of vaccines. Right now at ucsf without without an issue doctor desi kotis ch
Now this is about a half hour ago, but it gives an idea some of those city lights going on just as the sun starts to join us upstream we do have some scattered clouds to make note of they will come to pass throughout the Late Afternoon early evening member the sun setting early so to actually be probably close to sunset might have some nice sunsets out there. 30s right now across a good piece of real estate not just up in the north bay, but in the far east bay livermore 33 conquer jumbo checking in at 38 as well as san jose and 32 from a bottle in santa rosa, this is cooler for us across a good portion of the bay up north there were also chilly like this. Yesterday morning if you recall as well look toward a ahead 58 by 11 00am by 2 were talking 6 to 3 against them. Afternoon clouds and well see that again for tonight, but another chilly night a forecast in just a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get back to our top story this morning. People who live 6 bay area counties in
In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late