Soon as daylight breaks tomorrow. Truly heartbreaking. Meteorologist rob mayeda has more on the rain. The High Surf Advisory has been extended in to tuesday night. You see that we have rough conditions, wave heights up to 14 feet. So, that is something that we will be watching as we head through tuesday. And we are beginning to see the clouds on the increase, which is leading to changes on our storm ranger, mobile doppler radar, just off the coast, you can begin to see that area of green off shore, that is the first band of rain from a pacific storm system that is tapping in to tropical moisture with a 12 punch. Some of the top rain totals can be a half inch to a inch of rain. Higher totals on the rain tops, something that you will see, the speeds, 2040 miles an hour, around mid morning. A challenging commute, as the rain picks up across the north bay and the wind speeds are on the increase, coming up, we will look at the hour by hour timeline on this storm and two more to follow this
Kaiser. And they tell me they are absolutely devastated. They say the woman that died today was an absolutely wonderful woman, and they confirmed that the woman who passed away today was a registration clerk in the Emergency Department. Kaiser confirmed she was one of 44 Staff Members who had worked in the emergency room on Christmas Day and later tested positive for covid. She died today from complications from covid. Kaiser and Santa Clara County are now investigating whether an employee who wore an airpowered suit in the Emergency Department, Christmas Day, is linked to the outbreak. That led to 44 Staff Members getting covid. We talked with one employee today who asked us not to identify them, and that person is very concerned about patients. If we got sick with that minimum protection and the patients had less protection, im concerned that there might be a big outbreak amongst the patient population, and also that they may have a worsening case of this than some of us have. Report
North bay so far today. That will play out as this system moves through. Lets take a live look at the radar right now. This storm has been rolling through the bay and has been engaging more of the peninsula, the east bay and even the south bay as we make our way through this 12 00 our. Heavier showers roll into hayward, also it is very gusty out. Half moon bay at 25 Miles Per Hour. 29 Miles Per Hour gusts right now at sfo. As we move up to the north bay it is not quite as bad. This system has rolled through already. Check out santa rosa right now. Take a look at these totals we have had so far. Look at that, we have seen the highest totals about elevation. 1. 16 inches, santa rosa at 0. 75 of an inch. Little more than that in richmond. We are now going to go live to our press conference that governor gavin newsom is giving to listen in. Caution as we work through the holiday of the weekend. Case numbers appear to be low. Likely collection and testing. You can see the total number of da
Pam moore has the night off we have Team Coverage on those 2 big announcements from the governor today. Well begin with Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala she reports on the governors new plan to get students back into the classroom again as soon as february. Governor Gavin Newsome wednesday introduced a 2 billion dollar School Reopening plan allowing some y learning remains non negotiable. But obvious neither is safety the plan is a phased approach at first it primarily targets in person teaching for Elementary School students and younger more details of the plan are slated to be released next week. But the Administration Promises increased efforts to provide personal protective equipment, frequent testing and Contact Tracing the governor confirmed teachers are set to be prioritized in the next phase of vaccinations in california running through the spring of 2021 news and promises his administration will also provide a website where parents students and staff can see their schools
The holidays are over. Covid19 infections continue to skyrocket. There were more than 53,000 confirmed cases reported to date, the second highest single day number and 5000 more cases than yesterday. There are now more than 2. 3 million cases another 386 people died, bringing the statewide death toll to more than 26,000. As we have been reporting a Record Number of coronavirus patients are in intensive care units. More than 4600. Icu capacity in the bay area has dropped to its lowest level yet. 5. 1. The san joaquin and Southern California regions remain at 0 and greater sacramento at 6. 9 and Northern California is at 32. 6 . We are joined live on how doctors are preparing for yet another surge. Greg . Reporter christina these already exhausted frontline workers have to prepare both mentally and physically for what is expected. Right now the bay area is hanging on by a thread in Southern California, that threat is already unraveling. One local doctor is concerned that the bay area cou