C. Code 19 has killed more than 18000 people and infected at least 400000 worldwide and counting. It all started in december last year when cases of an unusual pneumonia were reported in the chinese city of one honda. Most of those affected by the unknown virus seem to have something in common they were working at a local seafood market. At the Chinese Health authorities were trying to investigate the causes of the illness the numbers kept growing on january 7th the World Health Organization announced it had identified the new virus 4 days later 41 people had been diagnosed in china and the 1st death was reported. By january 13th cases in other countries began to appear. And the death toll jumped from tens to hundreds to thousands in the coming weeks and months governments worldwide to different measures to stop the corona virus but it was too late on march 11th the w. H. O. Declared the outbreak a pandemic for many cope with 1000 has changed the world as we know it. From social gather
What this might mean for all of us will. Heres what you need to know it is not a lockdown so youre not forced to stay inside your home, you can clearly see a lot of people are not staying inside you can see the traffic behind me as theyre trying to head into San Francisco, thousands of cars but obviously not the volume that were used to seeing at this time of the morning. But you can come and go. But you have to give a good reason why essential services thats the key so take a look at your screen is hes been on the show you some video first before i tell you the alameda counties and all the other counties affected. They may show you video of whats happening all over the bay area in san jose when they found out that today at midnight just a few hours ago that it would be a shelterinplace a lot of businesses went ahead and close for the night closed early telling their workers and less you have an emergency we dont need you to come in. And this is going to be incalculable as far as the l
Essential employee meaning you work with food or you are a First Responder and well give you bigger list in just a few moments, but james terry a i want to show you this is such an eerie sight, ive been in San Francisco for 20 years and ive been here since i was 3 yearsold visiting off and on before arriving. I have never seen this site before look at this what dont you see james and area. Were on california street. Yeah, thats pretty crazy assist to chatting with robin across the studio said 8 oclock in San Francisco. And you see a parking space available. Thats incredible. And you do not see cable cars. Yeah, i mean that is as much as San Franciscos the Golden Gate Bridge and fog but no cable cars because they are trying to limit the amount of people moving about to create social dismiss this is what its all about a slowdown. The spread of coronavirus and it is spreading across at least the shelter in place for 6 bay area counties so take a look at your screen. I mean lets just face
People theyre still out there on the beaches. Thinking this is a party at the time to grow up. You know time to wake up. Here in the bay area parks and beaches were overcrowded with visitors on saturday in fact the marine county Sheriffs Office had to shut down one road that led to the beach because of the crowd in the many people who are not practicing social distancing. Kron fours dan thorn has the story now from fairfax. After days of staying at home and having to do work or doing school work with the kids its understandable that you want to get outside and stretch your legs. But police say an overflow of people at local parks and trails is only adding more stress to an already stressful time. Sky oaks road leading to a popular watershed in marine county shut down saturday afternoon. Deputy say there were too many people taking up too many spots and not practicing social distancing. However we did see some people giving each other space as they were taking in the outdoors in harris
Morning was talking about the time change is evident here the shot of u c berkeley, all lit up at this hour there. Some leftover cloud cover with us but we did have a nice clear patch going on to overnight that allow temperatures to tumble. Heres the shot from the golden gate look at that. Not much the way of winds either thats another factor, mild temperatures to fall. But like a clear patch were getting right now to get too used to it though well see the clouds reassemble couple sprinkles down to the Santa Cruz Mountains maybe a little bit and in Mount Hamilton as we speak elsewhere not much going on upstream again the cloud cover will gather here very shortly were going go back to mostly cloudy mode. Also we have some ground fog a little bit in some of the outlining areas that will also mix out most focused and the south bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains as i mentioned look at this. Temperatures really felt there in the north bay again drier air kind of snuck in clear skies not much