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
Start times but they all last through the new year and the hope is that this will keep local hospitals from getting overrun with patients. We have Team Coverage of this breaking news this afternoon across the bay area well find out what it means for each county and well start now with kron fours dan kerman he joins. With all the important details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in we were expecting some sort of order from several of the counties that we didnt know it would be exactly what the state had proposed and we didnt know 5 counties would go in together lets take a look and we go to some video we can show you exactly again which counties this impacts and again were talking about. Alameda county Contra Costa County marine county, San Francisco as well as Santa Clara County now what will be closed. The closures include hair salons and barbershops personal Care Services wineries and bars Outdoor Dining will be closed museums and zoos will be closed playgrounds will be clos
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
Julius kahn playground. And i was disappointed and angered and, frankly, ashamed to learn that this playground honoured a man who was so hateful, so discriminatory and exclusionary and if it was left up to him, he wouldnt have wanted me playing in that playground and wouldnt have wanted my family here. I implore you to follow suit with the board of supervisors and San Francisco community and rename the playground. I dont personal have any opinions about what the name is, just not named after somebody who represented such racism and hate. Thank you very much. Thank you. Clerk is there any other Public Comment . Commissioner anderson. Thank you, Vice President. I really want to thank everybody for coming out here. I, of course, will support the removal of the name of julius kahn and the young lady who just spoke used a good wore, horrified. When i found out about the history of julius kahn, i felt that sentiment as well. Ive been a district 2 resident for over 25 years. That playground w