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KRON KRON 4 News At 6am July 13, 2024

Stinson live in San Franciscos give us more details on these new restrictions sarah. Yeah our new shelter in place here in the bay area does give us a little bit more freedom but it also still has a lot of guidelines that we have to follow weve been doing this for 7 weeks in here at Lafayette Park or you can see theres a sign that says keep your distance this has been our reality for about 7 weeks now that part of it will stay the same keeping your distance and making sure that you are wearing a mask, but lets take a look at whats changing. According to the new order construction sites can resume was certain safety protocols in place, real estate transactions can also happen now with some restrictions on open houses and limitations on in person viewings child care programs can resume as well, but there must be more must not be more than 12 children there and groups of children cannot cross over. This is mainly to help essential workers go back to work and make sure that their kids are taken care of certain after businesses can reopen including nurseries landscapers gardeners and other businesses that provide Outdoor Services and supplies, however, restaurants cafes bars, those do not apply even if they have outdoor seating. Speaking of Outdoor Activities that share recreational areas that have been previously close like skate parks and golf courses. Those can reopen but not others that involved shared equipment or physical contact like outdoor gyms local Health Officials say that the state order remains in effect statewide but when compared to the local orders of the stricter rule applies as we know are waiting to hear from the governor about some of those new or a things going on of the newer easements and limitations that theyre going to really statewide. But as for now this is our bay area shelter in place order and it will stay in effect until may 31st. Im live in San Francisco Sarah Stinson kron 4 news all right a little more freedom but yes, hopefully people will still follow the rules. Thank you sarah. Officials are monitoring several key questions to determine the next phase of reopening they are. Whether the total number of cases is flat or decreasing whether the number of hospitalized patients is flat or decreasing whether there is adequate personal protective equipment for healthcare workers whether counties are meeting the need for testing, especially for vulnerable populations and the capacity for contact traces of cases. And with at home restrictions loosening today, its very likely that youll see a lot more people heading outside. So its really important we get to the forecast find out the weather around the bay area for today and well check in with dave spahr pi day. Morning good morning and good morning, everybody we actually have a warmup phase going on for this week and started things off kind of a cooler know we have. Heres a shot of Alcatraz Island with behind it a core San Francisco in some oranges working in here as we get the first rays of light. Sun joining us behind our backs here a little bit here so some of the breezy conditions. I was speaking of and that brings the fact of our temperatures coming home a little bit with a little bit of a breeze going on like that that makes it feel a little chillier to get those 30s up there in the north bay. We have 54 mile degrees for oakland, but 42 chilly degrees for livermore and upper 40s lining up the east bay shoreline. For comparisons sake were behind in most spots across the around oakland and concord were pretty much on target there. But we are trailing over most of the bay at first light. Heres the breakdown for us 60 gone by 10 by 1 oclock 75 today temperatures will be somewhat modest for looking for big time warm up later on this week which will be getting 2 later on back to you. Actually look forward to that warm up, thank you very much days. Well, there are more than 8500 confirmed cases of the coronavirus right here in the bay area that number continues to grow santa clara currently has more than 2200 cases and 115 deaths. Alameda county has more than 1700 chases and 63 deaths if you like to checkout the complete list of the cases we break it down by county and city you can find that on our website kron 4 dot com. According to Johns Hopkins university there are currently more than 3 million cases of coronavirus in the world, one 3rd of those are in the United States. Theyre also more than 67,000 deaths, california has over 54,000 chases and 2200 deaths so far. Statewide changes could be happening as soon as today or tomorrow, the governor says that officials might be announcing some new strategies and partnerships to deal with large crowds. The only thing that will set us back is behavior. Im not not not an indictment of the people that want to go to these passionate about your right and our collective responsibility im not only to give you access but to keep you safe thats an and not an or and my job as governor is to keep you safe. Governor newsome says of Health Officials cant promise the safety of californians then he will be making adjustments. Our numbers are very low and walmart and lowes can be opened Small Businesses and churches should be open. Meantime protesters are calling for state leaders to lift the stay at home orders youre taking a look at a rally in vacaville on sunday. Protesters say they plan to rally every week until the stay at home orders are lifted. President trump is out with a grim new projection for the number of coronavirus deaths here in the u. S. This comes as a top doctor on the White House Coronavirus Task Force Says that a vaccine could be possible by january karin caifa has more now from washington d c. President trump in a fox news town hall sunday, shifting his projection for us deaths from the coronavirus upward i was just a 65,000 and now im saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly but its still going to be no matter how you look at it at the very lower end of the plane trump apparently referring to a march white house projection that said the country could see 100,000 to 240,000 deaths and also expressing confidence any vaccine by the end of this year. Doctor deborah birx of the White House Coronavirus task or said sunday a vaccine is possible by the start of next year on paper but would require proper execution operation warp speed is the Trump Administrations project to speed the development of a potential Coronavirus Vaccine with a goal of making millions of doses by the end of the year. Thats despite experts warning of a 12 to 18 months vaccine. Timeline. I think theres a lot of unknowns but it looks very promising a bit to see how many to make sure that we are holding 2 to some of our building standards as well with researchers worldwide engaged in the vaccine race a group of northeast states wants to be prepared in case of another wave, if you look back as far back as 1918 when they had the flu pandemic that people talk about. It took 10 months it came in 3 different ways, new york in 6 states from rhode island down to delaware will partner to buy billion in medical supplies and equipment rather than compete with one another in washington, im karin caifa for scientifically proven treatment for covid19 will become available at us hospitals this week. The seal foster city Drugmaker Gilead Sciences says that his company is ready to ship out rooms as severe. Its an end tiny bone lot medication and preliminary trial show that it might sure in the hospital stay of severely sick coronavirus patients. Last week the fda granted emergency authorization for the drug to treat covid19. We are now firmly focused on getting this medicine too. The urgent patients around the country here in the United States are beginning to work with the government which will determine which cities are most vulnerable and where the patients are the need this medicine. All day says that his company dont donated one and a half million vials to the federal government and thats enough to treat up to 200,000 patients and important to note from does appear would be a treatment its not a vaccine. That means that it could not wipe out the coronavirus. Well happening today, stanford hospital say that they will resume the surgeries and other procedures that were delayed because of the coronavirus 11,000 Stanford Health care workers have been tested for the virus and the hospital says that employees will be screened daily for symptoms of the virus. Patients will also have their symptoms checked as they arrived to the hospital are any health clinics. And happening today Face Coverings will be required at the manana San Jose International airport. Passengers and workers will be required to wear a Face Covering inside airport buildings. Face coverings must cover the nose and mouth children under the age of a sixunder of and people who have trouble breathing or or incapacitated will not be required to wear one and there will be signs at the airport reminding people to wear the Face Coverings around the terminal. Now this comes as several airlines, including delta united and jetblue start requiring passengers to wear masks beginning today, other airlines will require passengers to wear masks starting later on this month. Face coverings are also now mandatory for all vta riders in the south bay bus and light rail operators will also be required to wear them Face Covering orders have already been issued in some towns like cupertino its all a part of santa clara countys extension of the shelterinplace order. Happening today Costco Stores across the country will be requiring all shoppers to wear a Face Covering most stores will also be returning to normal operating hours. The mask requirement does not apply to children under the age of 2 or customers who cant wear a mask because of a medical condition. The store also says it will have special times for shoppers over the age of 60. Those times will be between 00 10am in the morning monday through friday. The stores also limiting the amount of meat that customers can buy. It will be limiting beef, pork and poultry part of products to 3 items per member in order to help all customers get the items they need during the shelter in place. And our coverage of the coronavirus continues on our website at kron 4 dot com where youll find the latest on outbreaks in the bay area. Also an interactive map and information on ways to stay safe. You can find it all and more on our website at kron 4 dot com. Still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news ghost ship fire defendant derick elmen that could be walking out of jail today to keep them away from the coronavirus how the pandemic could affect elmen has pending trial. Plus as more states start to reopen their concerns about a surge in covid19 cases how this is leading to fears of a second wave of the pandemic also after the break theres been a significant spike and speeding tickets since the shelterinplace order well have full details coming up. Were cold to start off but warming up this week ahead looks like heres a first look at some of that work sky behind his sons first join us not much weight were here for you and were open. Wow. Im an original. One of a kind. 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Hey good morning marty good morning, everybody and not up to a bad start we are but a bit of the chilly side it looks like in spots we see even some upper 30s going on up in the north bay live shot coming thats actually youre wrong shot skews me that was what it was last night you shot from u c berkeley now heres some of the oranges i was referring to looking at a different direction. Theres the golden gate, not much the way of fog but a beautiful picture este imagery. Not a whole lot of a breeze going on here either we can see the flag kind of hang in there just a little bit so not much of that. Now in future cast for watching the next 48 hours the general trend is mostly sunny. Well get some coastal clouds late tomorrow into wednesday morning thats kind of like a little wrinkle even though the general High Pressure is here and were were looking at a warming trend for the whole week. But we have this little like pickup or bump along the road here tuesday night into wednesday morning. So if you dont mind some morning clouds on your wednesday morning potentially there is fog. But that will clear out wharton continue the warming up trend. So weve got going on here is mostly sunny mild to warm today with 70s and a token 80 or so in love the couple little spots and so forth. Now this week. Its got the i excused by typing mostly sunny and mild for the coast. Except for want to talk about their about tomorrow night into wednesday morning that little bit of that marine layer there 60s warming to the 70s by thursday, then this week inland now warming quickly 90 or so by thursday, but it will backtrack into the 80s for the weekend just a slight pullback not a whole lot with all of that whats really interesting in the long range forecast models by the way is maybe a shot of rain early in the next week and a fingers and toes crossed 66, San Francisco, 71 for oakland 77 san jose across the wider babies temperatures mostly in the 70s and when we have some lower 80s try make yourself known there can 81 concord 80. We did talk about in the longerrange forecasts by the end of the week that will be popping in the 9 year, so well have that extended forecast coming up a bit along with your 4 zone forecast but in places like the Central Valley in the Sacramento Valley you could be looking at numbers in the mid 90s, it looks like by weeks end as well robin yes, the traffic check out whats going on we do its picking up a little bit out there a lot of folks heading to work this morning so an increase of traffic on. A couple of our bridges like the bay bridge and the san mateo bridge. This is the san mateo bridge west 92. And it is the most crowded bridge this morning and seeing most of the traffic heading from the east bay over to the peninsula. So if you need to use and just know that its gonna be a little crowded. But its not bad your drive time from hey where to send the tail still under 30 minutes over to the bay bridge for checking the drive into San Francisco delay free great trip across the upper deck, no problems on the skyway or one on one marty. Thank you robin in San Francisco today, the presidio golf course will be at back open golfers. But there will be some new rules to ensure physical distancing golfers will not be able to enter the gulf shop, they must wear Face Coverings as they check in only one person per golf cart and no rental clubs will be available. All the cups have been raised above the ground and they dont want any golfers removing or touching the a flag sticks and finally all rakes and ball washers have been removed from the course as well now we have all these rules on our website you can check it out at kron 4 dot com. A slow Streets Program has been approved on the peninsula. Redwood city officials are closing about 6 miles of the city streets. An effort to curb speeding cars while also allowing a safe space for physical activity. The city approved the closures last week and some residents say that they are pretty happy about this extra space. Everyones looking forward to going out enjoying the weather and getting some fresh air and exercise so i think will be great because the bicyclist can avoid though the pedestrians and the dog walkers and then the model for people now little more wiggle room the city says theyll consider closing more streets if the program goes well. For a full list of closures just visit our website kron 4 dot com. Another sign of the times theres been a significant spike in speeding tickets since the pandemic started thats according to new data from the chp kron fours theresa talks with an officer about what theyre seeing on the highway. The reality is. Were putting a lot of people lives are in danger of california Highway Patrol officer john franzen talking about the alarming rise of speeders on our local highways and the San Francisco bay area. March 19th when the shelterinplace went into effect. I weve had with our officers of issues on 389 citations just some sports 18 for exceeding 200 miles an hour. Back in 2019 during that same time period we only saw about a 170 citations issued so were seeing an overall of people on the roads emergency the speeding violations go down except were a people decide to exceed a 100 miles an hour. Statistics are. Creeping up pretty high why the rise are you hear everything from on this in sapulpa lee and i need to get or im going to quickly are everything from a member the groceries of these excuses are excuses officer fransen says of the consequences are. Quite severe for those who decide to recklessly disobey the posted speed signs. 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