To avoid circulating the virus in the first place. That is San Francisco mayor london breed now at 5 bay area officials sounding the alarm co to surge across the nation this as every bay area county is now back in the red or purple tier of the states reopening plan, thank you for joining us at 5 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight. The San Francisco Health Department released a travel advisory this is asking people to avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving. Today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax said San Francisco is also experiencing a big search and doctor colfax said while San Francisco is behind the National Average daily cases, the increase in the number of cases is still more widespread and faster that happened during the summer surge kron fours dan kerman joins us live now from San Francisco with more on all of this dance. Well the Health Director in the mayor trying to right the ship and do it quickly because they say if this get
Newsome pulling an emergency brake on the states reopening process amid the covid19 pandemic this as daily covid cases in the state double over the last 10 days, thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan ken wayne has the night off. State leaders say an emergency brake was always part of the blueprint for california for reopening if cases that kept climbing nearly every bay area county is now losing ground and the states covid19 tear system right now a total of 40 california counties are reversing reopenings and moving to the most restrictive purple tear here in the bay area 5 local counties are included they are alameda napa contra costa solano and santa clara counties, San Francisco move from yellow to red today joining moran and san mateo counties new San Francisco Health Department has released a travel advisory this is asking people to. Please avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving and today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax s
Scientific community. I think thats a bit of an overreaction. Now at 9 Governor Newsome announcing stricter measures today across the state after a troubling increase in covid cases and hospitalizations also tonight the governor has floated the possibility of a statewide curfew lot of people are talking about that as we say good evening, thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 everybody, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis today Governor Newsom announced that he is pulling the emergency brake on the states efforts to reopen our economy. As coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during the summer spike and this comes as daily covid cases in the state have doubled over the last 10 days, 40 counties today were ordered to take at least one step back in the states tiered economic reopening system prompting businesses to depending on the county, the rain further limit indoor capacities. Take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow. My top priority, moving in.
Going to feel it not only going to be the rain were going to see some strong gusty winds as we get a real cold front that is headed our way tonight though even today was kind of quiet day out there. We have lots of sunshine we have some warm temperatures tonight starting to see some clouds moving in the winds begin to pick up along the coastline. Thats the first hand some changes on the way but today you can hardly tell were talking about a storm off the coastline. Weve got 70s mid 70s in oakland 74 in san jose and 71 in santa rosa, but everything is about to change look what off the coastline is this area of low pressure deepen this ridge was able start to strengthen across park, the west coast, but its moving quickly now and were starting to see that little swirl off the coast that is live in our direction. Thats whats going to bring the rain right now tracking your skies were not seen any raindrops just yet most of us just high level clouds out ahead of the main cold front. Its not
Days this is simply the fastest increase. California has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. The move today forces businesses in most california counties to either further limit indoor capacity take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow night so here locally all 9 bay area counties are either in the purple or red tears on the states covid and san Mateo San Francisco counties have increased as well but theyre not in that worst purple tier. Theyre now just a stalled out in the red tier, sonoma napa contra costa alameda and santa clara counties are in the most restrictive widespread. Purple state here. Sonoma county was the only county to not move today because it was already in that purple tier alameda napa and santa clara counties actually moved to tears from orange to purple due to rising cases and hospitalizations and they bypassed orange here and theresa is where we go next. She is live in. Dublin tonight to receive this is just so people to yet again be going s