The congressional hispanic caucus, has said there is a lack of latinos in the incoming cabinet, if confirmed this air will face the daunting task of leading the department during a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 people has disproportionately affected people of color. Our other big story this sunday night more than 30 million californians now facing stay at home orders and less than 2 hours at 10 00pm. Those orders will go into effect for 3 bay area counties that San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. The order is very similar to the lockdown that many of us all the way back in march. Those counties now taking an earlier approach to governor newsoms order that requires counties to go into lockdown when icu bed capacity has dropped below 15 . Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area, no hovering around 24 . Number of Health Leaders across the bay area say right now they dont want to take any chances. Thats why theyre doing this early. Stay at home orders will also
Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are forced to shut down. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some of those businesses and some of the customers he is joining us live now from walnut creek good evening. Dan. Well johnson and justine has you mentioned this is the unfortunate reality that these businesses are going to have to dea
Definitely a bit of good news that were not affected by those power shutoffs this morning, the kick off the new week we are still in the midst of some breezy conditions though despite the fact that we are going to remain in power all across the bay area. So as youre venturing outside youll notice, those trees blowing around weve got her palm trees at the embarcadero camera right there also noticeably swaying that steady breeze thats working its way across the bay at the moment. Souter tower view is nice and clear we certainly do not have any fog thats part of the reason that we are seeing such a low humidity is because of the strong winds that are pushing across the region and you can see that the north bay is definitely seeing some of our strongest of winds this morning, sonoma calistoga looking at winds currently in excess of 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour also quite breezy for areas like napa atlas peak santa rosa and petaluma throughout the course of the morning were going to remain in th
Dont need those winds sticking around any longer than they need to its actually a ping fire danger rarity for this time of year clear skies across the bay areas we do see offshore winds kicking up especially in the north bay or windy spots right now our areas like Sonoma Petaluma napa on up to calistoga which is seen winds well in excess of 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour this morning, red flag warnings remain in effect for the north bay, the inland east coastal San Mateo County through 05 00pm after that we take our foot off the gas pedal and winds begin to come down quite a lot into the evening tonight, right now temperatures are in the 50s and even low 60s a mild start to this breezy day. Rebecca. All right john thank you a couple of problems to take note of if youre going to be taking the bay bridge soon trying to get into downtown San Francisco. This is going a little bit weve got a little bit of a backup. Here behind the pay gates because theres a broken down big rig, a stalled out to gr
Covid19 relief negotiations with democrats saying that he was going to delay talks until after the election. He had claimed on twitter that House Speaker nancy pelosi was not negotiating in good faith but tonight he says in another tweet the house and senate should immediately approved 25 billion dollars for Airline Payroll supported 135 billion dollars for Paycheck Protection Program for small business. Both of these will be fully paid for with unused funds from the cares act have this money i will sign now all of this coming as the president of course continues to recover from covid at the white house and more and more Staff Members are testing positive. Clippers Ella Sogomonian joins us now live in the newsroom with the latest on this outbreak among the president s aides l a the kids werent as of tonight at least 11 people at the white house have tested positive for covid19. The latest case is the president s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller in a Statement Today miller said that h