The Engineering Firm issued an alarming warning. The firm found that there was cracked concrete and steel in the buildings beams, walls and parking garage, estimated repairs were 9 Million and repairs were set to begin soon but it seems not soon enough. Steve harrigan live in surfside, florida Where Fire has slowed search for survivors. Steve eric, a lot of frustration on behalf of relatives an Family Members a short time ago, some of them were taken by bus to the site of the collapse, some of them offering prayers near the rubble and some, important to do so as soon as possible. There has been frustration with the pace of the rescue effort, no rescues since thursday and also with the lack of an explanation as to why this building collapsed thursday at 1 30 a. M. The trench that you talk about main feature of where the Rescue Work is underway. 40 feet deep there, using sonars and cameras but nothing to show for it in the way of rescue, 9 confirmed dead, a number we expect to rise in th
Double the number of hospitalizations. That is staggering to consider. Starting today, face masks will be required on all Public Transportation and mass transit hubs. Anyone that does not follow the order will be in violation of the order. My colleague is in ft. Lauderdale for us. Welcome back. How concerned are officials here about this new development . Yeah, alex, theyre so concerned about the development that it could lead to more hospitalizations and deaths that theyre looking for that uk variant and the brazilian and south african variants. We know those cases have tripled in the past week. Southern florida getting hit the hardest. Broward county, palm beach county, and Miamidade County make up 60 of the cases total. In addition to the uk variant that officials are looking at here in florida, theyre looking at the brazilian variant as well. There is a large brazilian population. They are looking at ways to increase Vaccination Rates as well. We spoke to some florida residents out
Most bay area counties had already issued that stay at home early orderly but tomorrow at midnight san mateo napa santa cruz and monterey counties will also have to implement that order until january 7th. The change comes after the regions icu bed capacity dropped to below that 15 threshold. The icu capacity tonight here in the bay area is now under 13 12. 9 to be exact. This is a breakdown of each bay area county as of tonight where they where things stand. Alameda county has the most beds available with 72, San Francisco with 48. Santa clara has 39. San mateo county has 34 beds that are free Contra Costa County Sonoma County. Both have just more than 20 beds, lot of county has 11 napa has 6 marin county is down to tonight hospitals across the bay area now ramping up their icu capacity. One of the hospitals thats done so already John Muir Medical Center in walnut creek and thats where kron 4 taylor joins us now live tonight, kelly you spoke to the medical director of john years Emerge
Extra time into San Francisco. As you can see traffic is still recovering were busy at the Richmond Sandra fell but this is completely normal no incidents here slowing go from richmond parkway to the toll plaza and 92 is standing out not bad at all under 15 minutes from hayward to send the tail darya back to you thanks a lot robin lets get back to the breaking news, our Team Coverage of the wildfires that are devastating sonoma and napa counties you can see neighborhoods have been flattened homes and businesses lost. This is what standing on some of them along highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga the glass fire has so far burned this is a new number. 48,440 acres. 2 containment at this hour there are still evacuations because 22,000 structures or threaten. The fire has already destroyed 80 homes and other buildings in napa and sonoma counties and heres a map showing once again. How widespread the fire is across those counties roughly 70,000 residents forced from their homes sant
Even notice this wind last night. If you didnt know advertise it last night, youre going to not notice it tonight. And were also seeing despite this red flag warning, an onshore flow at the surface. We have fog at the coast, and that is good news, generally. Temperatures are running 25 to 30 degrees cooler than last night at this time. This is the winds, right . See the areas . Thats the north wind essentially. Thats this afternoon. See the fog come back in. And then watch this. Thats onshore flow. This is about 5 00 tomorrow morning. Thats the red flag warning, but look at the wind speeds in the north bay. 24 miles an hour. Its not going to be a or shouldnt be a robust overnight like we had last night. So the red flag warning is up. The hills above 1,000 feet. But it does not look as strong as last night. So if you felt good about last night where you lived, youll feel better about tonight. Of course well keep an eye on it. Ill see you back here in just a little bit. The power shutoff