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KRON KRON 4 News At 5am July 13, 2024

Tickets to people they still flock to the beaches. The state parks in marion county, the unincorporated areas which is why at 1159 last night they decided to go ahead and tell people youre no longer welcome at state parks in marine county and other unincorporated areas if you drive to the location and walk into the parks and if they spot your car. They will issue a ticket a 100 they will have full enforcement by the Sheriffs Department and other Police Agencies throughout marine county, the whole goal is to keep you at home to let you celebrate easter in your neighborhood or in your front yard but not come out to the state parks and beaches and we talked about his robin marty for weeks now, but even the governor when he first issued the shelter in place and then he saw the huge number of people turning out to the museums the parks and the other areas that he told people to grow up. Well hes no longer telling people to grow up. Now hes giving people 100 reasons to stay home for easter. Back to you guessed all right, thank you will. As the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus near 17,000 experts say that were 2 days away from the projected peak of deaths per day. But there is hope with that grim forecasts as the peak is not expected to be as deadly as originally thought. Heres where the numbers in the u. S. Stand according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker there are more than 466,000 cases in the u. S. And more than 16,600 people have died. In california now past 20,000 confirmed cases and more than 550 people in here in california have died. We want to point out though the 361,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus around the world. And here in the bay area now more than 4,000 confirmed cases and 115 people whove died. 47 of those deaths are in Santa Clara County which also has the most cases at over 1400. Sam mccann San Mateo County has 21 deaths, San Francisco and marin county have 10 deaths and in Contra Costa County 8 people have died 17 have died in Alameda County. Both solano and napa county have 2 deaths each and theres one death reported in Sonoma County. As though theres been about progress and the bay areas fight against covid19 theres been the possibility of seeing deaths and chase a surging. However early actions taken by local Health Officials seem to be working. They are good doctor doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care. He agrees that the situation is improving our hospitals are not being overwhelmed and testing is also improving. But he does say that the progress on flattening the curve needs to be viewed over the long term. And a better place that weve not been says social distancing shelter a everything thats been done in our communities to prevent the spread of coronavirus just because its worked so far doesnt mean we can stop this as we stop and. It can start to quickly. It can change direction. Alas for the peak projection, they vary from either late april to mid to late may or june and currently another big factor in helping to slow the overall spread should also be an increased emphasis on Nursing Homes and the Homeless Population to avoid keeping the virus around. Well this morning, theres a new option for people who need to use Public Transportation to get there is to their central jobs or maybe a doctors appointment. Golden gate transit says its going to help on muni riders have been affected by the changes to munis bus routes with more on that we want to go live to kron 4 Sarah Stinson in San Francisco. She has all the details. Hi sir, good morning. Good morning. Marty as you know muni has significantly reduced service cutting their lines to just about 17 over 60, so huge differences for us it was just so people who still are going to work those essential workers and for people who depend on writing unique for essential errands like Grocery Store pharmacy, seeing it and so this is really going to help those people out golden gate transit will not be picking up passengers who usually write as you recall that will as i just said meaning only 17 so its definitely going to help out a lot of operators from you youre staying home due to coronavirus concerns well golden gate transit has also cut some of their services they decided to help out here in San Francisco. We also have a map of some new stops there will be service the financial district weekdays between the Golden Gate Bridge down one barge through Fishermans Wharf and levis plaza. Theres also service to the Civic Center Area between Golden Gate Bridge all the way to the sales force Transit Centers to lumbar tearful of our finesse and mission streets clipper cards are probably the easiest way for you to pay and also that will give you discount adults will will have to pay for 5060 per you can pay 3. 60 used or disabled there is 2 and 0. 25 and you can also receive a fair credit when youre transferring from those transit to the muni and that will help also save a little bit of money so hopefully this helps all those essential workers nurses Doctors Health care workers people who are running at restaurants still feeding us be pretty helpful this morning already for now well send it back to you all right sir, thanks a lot sounds like a winwin not only do you. Another option to offer transit but save a little money too. It may now theres an increased concern about senior care facilities in Alameda County after 7 residents died from an outbreak and one particular center and hayward gave way care and rehab center there in hayward also reports 25 Staff Members and 40 residents have tested positive. The county is now working to contain the spread and the number sizing you know everything from importance our personal protective equipment and really trying to cut co waiting and then any patients with symptoms and alum. Making sure that theyre isolated as many people know a lot of recommendations around making sure that no nonessential visitors come in and singer of activities we have a long checklist recommendation. Well gateway is also being criticized from some family members who say that they have not been giving updates about the health of their loved ones weve reached out to gateway for comment. So far we have not heard back from them. The county is partnering with the state Health Department to establish a task force. A home has been an adjustment for you know many people but for victims of Domestic Violence and can be increasingly dangerous. San francisco Officials Say that during the first week of the shelter in place. They saw a sharp increase in requests for Domestic Violence services only to see that drop off the next week. Now the das and Mayors Office theyve reached an agreement with real and Real Estate Company called fairness to provide 21st apartments for survivors of Domestic Violence people are stocked with their abusers chance go out into the community see in the places they normally would. Someone who might have been coming in and participating in support groups are seeing a pure town sir or you any number of local resources. And now those things may not be available to them in the same way. Well more help is coming city officials are already working to make 20 Additional Units available Domestic Abuse survivors and their families can stay there rent free for up to 90 days. Well in these bay, the Group Shelter in cars working with Contra Costa County officials to operate a homeless shelter at a Concord Motel from irans is being transitioned into a 65 room shelter. It will operate for at least 4 months to help slow the spread of the coronavirus its the latest effort get the homeless off the street during this pandemic last week in San Francisco. They announced that it would be sending a homeless to hotels after 2 Homeless People tested positive for covid19. Also last week Governor Newsom announced that the money from the federal government would help pay for at least 15,000 hotel rooms for the homeless in california, but its not yet clear if the motel in concord is part of that program. A virus infection rate among californias Health Care Workers has spiked over the past couple of days. Yesterday the states Health Department said that more than 1800 Health Care Workers have tested positive for coronavirus thats nearly 7 times more than the number of cases just on monday. Officials blame the surge on how they are now counting cases before theyd only included health care infections for workers who were exposed on the job, but now theyre counting all Health Care Workers who are positive regardless of where they were exposed. News a look at how Staff Members at u c s f for using both high and low tech to make seychelles for Health Care Workers. Plus a new covid19 walk up testing site is now open in the east bay, what you need to know if youre thinking about getting tested it. And wall mild start across the bay with temperatures in the 50s in most locations and go to war about a little bit of a step is looking at that will see clouds improving a little bit of a holding get 5 years for welcome back to kron 4 morning news, lets go ahead and get the check of the weather with kron fours meteorologist dave spahr hey there dave good morning, good morning. Marty and good morning, were off to a pretty decent start but we have a little bit more that marine layer kind of like a lame around little bit from recent rains. And some scattered clouds which are going to have all day today we did have a little bout of rain off to the south and east of us overnight. But to the viewpoint that we get from the Golden Gate Bridge, a little bit that plays and there is some fog to be had and some of the inland valleys again mixing out nicely for us this morning. And were looking for variable clouds on balance for today, heres that fog. I mentioned earlier and you can see its pretty much bay area wide but quickly dissipates once the sun joins us for this morning. We are off to a mild start though temperatures around the bay in the 50s both inland and at the bay. So thats usually indicative of some cloud cover mild conditions generally speaking also to marine layer released moisture in the atmosphere a little bit keeps temperatures supported the touchdown. Speaking of that. Again you can see that clouds kind of rumble around all day today we get some clearing in the inland regions but not a whole lot. So today will be battling that both in the inland areas and up the coast. Tomorrow a little bit better effort on that front socalled variable clouds today still cool with mid to upper 60s at work here because the sun is fighting to those clouds then for this weekend better inland clearing lower to middle 70s going on in london but this is a work in progress because next week mostly sunny continuing that warming trend and some spots pop and about 80 or so to be by wednesday. So it looks like well get a nice flavor of the warm sunny part of spring coming up in the week ahead, 62 San Francisco, oakland checks and 65 68 san jose morning clouds with some better clearing happening down. And the south bay and heres the wide perspective of the day we have 70 going on for santa rosa, but as you can see most locations are mid to upper 60s at that again well see a bit of warming trend for this weekend and next week coming up a little bit later on well have of course the 4 zone forecast, we dont see a whole lot of decoupling happening with temperatures both coast and inland. But its just Getting Started an improvement one at that rob anything going on a traffic right now not much and that is a good thing for people heading to work this morning were checking in on our bridges which remained very quiet. Heres a peek at 18 to San Francisco. If you have to roll through the maze 24 5. 80 the nimitz the e sure all as well connecting over to 80 west and after that its a great trip across upper deck on through downtown San Francisco. And we remain hot spot free similar to no major crashes out there. Lets take a peek at another bridge how about 92 and its a little crowded right crowded does not mean that its just a little busy and we have more traffic here westbound you see the brake lights there heading west to the peninsula. So far you can make that trip in under 25 minutes from hey where to send the tale with no the trouble spots in your way well check out some more bridges coming up a little bit later marty sounds good rob. Weve heard a lot about doctors and nurses who need protective gear like masks and face shields. Well, some Staff Members at ucsf are actually taking matters into their own hands kron fours Maureen Kelly shows us how theyre using both high and low tech to make their own gear. More than a dozen 3 d printers at ucsf are buzzing churning out critical parts for face shields this effort started 3 weeks ago to address a growing concern about their supply of what has quickly become a very necessary piece of protective equipment, this particular virus. The primary mode of transmission is droplets. So you want to be able to protect the frontline clinicians especially going to doing any kind of procedures but long as any kind of of bodily fluids. They want to have that front line defense of about shield. The director of clinical engineering e c s f reached out to the hospitals makers lab it so happened because of the covid crisis, some of the orthopedic surgeons who normally use the technology to create models of broken bones suddenly had time on their hands to help search for solutions to this problem so because elective surgeries canceled our day became a open research slashed. Innovation day he found his eyes with 3 d printed face shields online. With those required components that are now hard to come by the design calls for a laser cut a shield which is. I see a little bit better, its a little bit clear but the bill billion that is actually quite difficult to right now there are 3 d printed frames are married with pre cut plastic from the same report covers students use in school rubber bands are used to hold them together since elastic is also becoming harder to source their now producing 300 face shields today designed for ease of use the frames can be cleaned and reuse and the front face plastic. Could be swapped out as needed ucsf is making their design and printing procedures available for anyone to use. Theyre also hoping to ramp up production by teaming up with the manufacturer so this life saving equipment can be more readily available. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Well people across the country and right here in the bay area theyre working tirelessly to make mask and facials for doctors and nurses. Now in marin county sheriffs lieutenant nina snyder, shes using her sewing skills to add a little comfort and also some color to the front lines of this fight. So shes been sewing since the 4th grade but now she shifting gears and shes adding kill little been civil side of the head bands and that allows them to hook their mass there instead of having to place the behind the errors. Just where one yourself hour see how well you do with what our think. That will do that. So tight because they know theyre being exposed to that. I am sure that feels a lot better, you know putting a behind the years is its not so comfy lieutenant snyder has now sent some 360 headbands to Health Care Workers at marine general Saint Francis in San Francisco and kaiser hospitals in sandra fell santa rosa and delay home great job. Well now to the east bay where the city of fremont is ramping up efforts to test people for coronavirus and now theyve launched a free walk in testing site. Now in order to be tested you have to make sure you make an appointment for sun and also they just want to test people who have symptoms for covid19 it will take one to 3 days to receive your results and the goal is to make people aware of whether they have coronavirus so that they can isolate themselves from others. So if i tell someone that ok you have. Covid19 theyre going to take more precautions you know, and they cannot stay in the home stay in one room in isolating themselves what is somebody who dont know that and theyre still feel like they have allergy symptoms still going out to out for a walk or something. So for right now the side can only do a test per day but theyre planning to get those numbers up to at least 50 thats the goal. 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