That are socalled low acuity. It will be one of only eight locations of its kind in the country. Last week one of the first to get set up was at the Santa Clara Convention center. The National Guard put up 250 beds as well. This is about saving lives. Reporter the supervisor did not mince words about San Mateo County preparing for an onslaught of patients. If we do nothing we become italy. Reporter the states hospitals are seeing a sharp rise. Coronavirus hospitalizations really doubled since last thursday. Going from 746 to more than 1400 today. The number of icu patients have tripled. Last thursday 200. Today nearly 600. If you are a Nursing School student or medical School Student we need you. If you just retired in the last few years we need you. Reporter at his press conference the governor announced health core an effort to recruit healthcare workers everyone from dentist to psychiatrist. In order to fasttrack an army of frontline soldiers to battle covid 19. Will help you with y
Areas. Well talk more about these rain chances coming up. Accidentfree, thats the good news. Not so good news is we have roadwork on both directions of the bay bridge. Keep your eye out for that. No delays towards the toll plaza. Couple of cars in the cash lanes. But pretty quiet out of oakland into San Francisco. Rest of our bay area bridges off to a great start including the san mateo bridge. We are suspending our campaign. Ted cruz, i dont know if he likes moore or if he doesnt like me if he likes me or if he doesnt like me, he is one hell of a competitor. He is a tough smart guy. Donald trump is now the Presumptive Republican nominee. His victory in indiana prompted ted cruz to bow out. Now, a lot of people never thought they would see the day that a political outsider and reality tv star and provocateur would top the gop ticket. So you know what . Kpix 5s andria borba finds out. We gave it everything we had. Reporter after talking about the importance of the indiana primary, senat
It would allow anyone 21 and older to possess, transport and use up to an ounce of marijuana for recreation and could grow up to 6 plants. Retail sales would be taxed 15 . We look forward to taking resources out of the underground illicit economy and putting them to work creating jobs and tax revenue and improving public safety. Reporter if california voters approve this measure, we would join colorado, washington, alaska and oregon in legalizing recreational pot. Lieutenant governor gavin newsom will be here. Representatives from law enforcement, doctors and the naacp. Live in San Francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. Anne, a similar measure was rejected by voters in 2010. So what might be different this time around . Reporter well, i think the fact that other states have implemented similar laws and its worked out fine for them, relatively speaking, so thats sort of been an example that california voters seem like they might be willing to follow. In fact, the latest poll by the California
This low giving us an unusual pattern, and probably going into saturday. Like brain and breezy at times, and it cooling will continue, 60s with a few low 70s. And if you are 101 north bound, you could encounter some like traffic issues. As a matter fact, since you mentioned there was rain, im going to manually drag my maps. Petaluma and santa rosa. I do not see a lot of slow traffic, but there does appear to be something going on in petaluma. Northbound 101, the over crossing an accident. At the southbound traffic is beginning to fill in, so steve is absolutely right. And if there is a little bit of rain, im looking at that little bit of slow traffic heading south. It is generally slow anyway, but the rain never helps the commute. We will keep an eye on that. Thank you in the control room for actually listening to what i am saying. Thank you. Traffic will be busy at the toll plaza of the bay bridge, and it is dry at the toll plaza. This is a 25 minute delay, a look at interstate 880, a
grind mark you could say. in the path of the semi. reporter: the semi couldn t stop on time. two passengers died on impact. the driver of the semi wasn t injured and helped paramedics pull the injured teens from the wreckage. he stepped in to help out, how could you not. really a very devastating situation to be in in the first place. reporter: the accident happened around noon during the school s lunch hour. nevado s high school principal says students are allowed to leave campus for lunch. now investigators found several open beer cans inside the smashed bmw. once again the 17-year-old driver of that bmw has been arrested for dui. he s also been cited for driving without a license. the driver had an alcohol level of 3.8. i also spoke off camera with nevado s principal, they will not be giving any statements today, but on monday they plan to be talking more about this accident. reporting live from nevado, allie rasmus. we have a developing story where a airplane made