County a very monumental day. Here we go. Here we go. The professionals have been waiting for this moment. We were talking about how grueling its been to go through these circumstances and the pandemic after nine months he is going to get vaccinated. Here we go. Im always ready. All right. Woo [ applause ] reporter there it is. We want to show you what is happening right around us. The excitement of everybody in this room. The first person in contra costa just got vaccinated and the director of this hospital. Monumental day. Many doctors saying that its been a grueling nine months and this is giving them hope as we continue live here in martinez, luz pena, a brbc 7 news. Thank you. There it is. The first one. The vaccine comes as icu availability continues to drop across the state. This is real concern. Now the bay area slightly is over 15 but both Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley are under 2 . Today, people have been hospitalized with covid19. 14,283 patients, more than
Avoid. Reporter director of Public Health dr. Grant colfax says the bay area has less than 15 of icu beds available with just 13. 1 available prompting all bay area counties to adopt the states stay at hope order. Several counties including San Francisco had already adopted the stayathome order in a joint proactive move. Since thanksgiving, dr. Coal lf says covid19 cases increased by 50 and added the rate of increase has slowed a bit. This indicates that we still have time to turn this dire situation around. And as a result, save hundreds of lives. Reporter the number of San Francisco covid19 patients is up by 27 in just the last week according to dr. Colfax. The travel order takes effect friday at 12 0 1 a. M. Visitors, people moving to San Francisco and those returning from being away are subject to the travel order. There are exceptions for medical workers, first responders, and essential workers. This year, lets give the gift of health and do not travel and do not gather. Reporter
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Golden gate bridge, the carquinez bridge, this will be the last push of organized wet weather. A few scattered lighter showers moving through the north bay. These will rotate from northwest to southeast. We have a 1 on the storm impact scale this morning for scattered showers and isolated moderate rainfall. It will become breezy this afternoon. Drier air will bring us a partly cloudy day and cooler with temperatures in the mid 50s to around 60 degrees. More on that rain coming up in the weekend forecast, too. Thank you. By this time tomorrow the entire bay area will be under this new stayathome order as icu capacity is dropping dangerously low. Lets look at the latest data here. The bay area is now at 12. 9 . San joaquin valley is back to zero percent. Southern california just 0. 5 . And now the Northern California region is the only one in the state that is not under a stayathome order. This map shows the situation here in the bay area. The solid blue that youre seeing there, those co
South bay with moderate showers. These continue to slide to the southeast at about 30 to 35 miles per hour. They will be around throughout the morning commute. It is raining well in san jose. By noon, partly cloudy. Well have mid 50s through the afternoon. All right. Thank you. By this time tomorrow the entire bay area will be under this new stayathome order as icu capacity is dropping dangerously low. Lets look at the latest data here. The bay area is now at 12. 9 . San joaquin valley is back to zero percent. Southern california just 0. 5 . And now the Northern California region is the only one in the state that is not under a stayathome order. They have 28 capacity. Lets zoe you whats going on in the bay area. The solid blue there, those counties have already issued a stayathome order. The rules may change in those counties. The counties with the blue and the black lines that you see there, those are the ones that will join the stayathome order tonight. The new order is against peopl