Longer San Francisco extends its stay at home order and travel quarantine for anyone returning to the city. Thank you for joining us said this new years eve here on kron 4 news at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the city today said it does not appear the bay area will get above 15 available icu capacity by january 7th, which is when the stay at home order was expected to us expire as long as covid numbers improved kron fours Charles Cooper joins us live from San Francisco with details on that hi charles. Either San Franciscos actually made some progress in slowing the spread of coronavirus here in the city but because cases are still climbing statewide and across the bay area because hospitals in our region are approaching full capacity, the city has decided to extend its stay at home order. San franciscos current stay at home order began on december 14th and was scheduled to end on january 4th, but will now continue indefinitely the decision comes as a new variant of the coronavirus has been dete
So our worst air quality are ars. Sendho t winds are pretty calm d the storms, but these winds pick up around the flames as the rising heat creates evente f he flames. So environment conditions windwise. But 12mileperhour wind in fairfield right now. Aalley, goo conditions windwise. But 12mileperhour wind in fairfield right now. Alley, goo ooild m12 windwise. Conditions windwise. But 12mileperhour wind in fairfield right now. Y, good conditions windwise. But 12mileperhour wind in fairfield right now. D outside of the bay shore, San Francisco and the coast, dangerous heat once ag well talk more about thatai coming up. And of course well continue throughout the morning. There are a lot of fir teshi bs emergency is in the vacaville area and that is where Julian Glover is reporting live. And this is theen which is part of a lrnarger complex of fires that are burning. This overnight really exploded and has now gotten very close to areas that are very populated. Again, Julian Glover is live
That is myers starting to move down along the coast. We are not done yet, the it is a busy morning. Thousands of acres burn across woodward fire in marin county several bay area counties, is also sending in plumes of homes have been destroyed. People are forced to evacuate, smoke, ive been looking at the and the weather is not letting up. It is like we dont know where to start. San mateo coast, you can see the smoke looking all the way lets dive right into it, down the peninsula, then, of course, look at all the smoke we are going to start in the north bay where we have seen thats boring right there, and several structures go up in now, you get into santa cruz flames, residents say they had very little time to react, as the fire spread so quickly. This is all part of the l and county and into the santa cruz you lightning complex fire, we mountains, the smoke is blowing toward san jose, you can see it right there. We have unbelievable amounts of smoke getting caught up in the have been
Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is par
Each livermore and oakland at 60 while petaluma and nevado as well as San Francisco. Each at 55 degrees looking ahead at your afternoon day time highs eventually climb into the upper 80s for most inland spots, few 90s remain on the map which ill tell you more about what you can expect there on into the rest of the forecast back to you all right john thank you 5 oh one lets begin this morning with the very latest on the coronavirus numbers show at least 33 states now seeing case new cases rise on a week to week basis in fact the map here showing us the update. The areas in deep red, those are the numbers where weve seen cases jumped by more than 50 . From the week prior 8 states are there in red and that includes as you can see california there are us 25 other states that show a 10 to 50 increase in coronavirus cases and those have been highlighted in orange right now weve got a total of more than 3. 3 million infections in more than a 135,000 deaths across the country because of covid1