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
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
Cast for showing us that things are mostly dry right now we do have a little bit of cloud cover off the coast and the north bay but then by 6 oclock were going to start to see those showers move on to the coast and were going to see a the north bay covered at least half of it. Right around the 9 oclock hour and then lunchtime, widespread here rainfall with pockets of some very heavy showers thats what the yellow coloring and that orange coloring is on your screen there. So you can see a pretty much everywhere across the bay area in the north bay, the south bay, the east bay and the peninsula going to get hit so by lunchtime with this heavy shower activity and its going to continue into the evening hours most of it by the 5 oclock hour well be in the east bay and the south bay with a couple of scattered showers in the north bay for you and then things will start to thin out as we get so late into the evening into the overnight hours but wednesday is expected to be wet as well we are goi
Like of the entire bay area is going to be hit by this rain and were also going to expect about a foot or 2 of snow in the sierra i will have more details on that and i will time out the storm system hour by hour. Coming up in my next complete weather check for now, head over to the Traffic Center and say good morning to robin good morning to you as well were checking in on your commute around the bay area and we have a light at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is stocked up busy in the cash lanes fast track lanes. This is a first little wave of traffic that were seeing squeezing into San Francisco. Its already stocking up just the over crossing so get on out there now before it gets too bad. Were looking at 13 minutes and growing to make it in and yes its going to get heavier so come on in right now a northbound 2. 80 and larkspur traveling along the peninsula just getting word of a downed tree that caused a multi vehicle north to 80 and larkspur in millbrae this is before you get t