Scientific community. I think thats a bit of an overreaction. Now at 9 Governor Newsome announcing stricter measures today across the state after a troubling increase in covid cases and hospitalizations also tonight the governor has floated the possibility of a statewide curfew lot of people are talking about that as we say good evening, thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 everybody, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis today Governor Newsom announced that he is pulling the emergency brake on the states efforts to reopen our economy. As coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during the summer spike and this comes as daily covid cases in the state have doubled over the last 10 days, 40 counties today were ordered to take at least one step back in the states tiered economic reopening system prompting businesses to depending on the county, the rain further limit indoor capacities. Take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow. My top priority, moving in. To the presentation of the january budget working with the legislature to the new year is to support our Small Businesses that are trying their best to weather this storm. Governor newsome is also requiring everyone to wear a mask when outside their homes with limited exceptions says big chunks of the state are now ordered to roll back to the most restrictive tier. Governor newsome today mentioned the possibility as we said of this statewide curfew yeah, the idea has been put into action in other parts of the country. As a way to help stop the surge of new cases but one very leader says that this would be a bad idea in california. But first dan thorn live for us daly city tonight. He has more on why dan. Well grant and vicki San Mateo County supervisor david says that he is concerned about this curfew he considers it an unnecessary overreach thats going to only hurt Small Businesses right now San Mateo County is going to be rolling back from the orange here to the red tier which is the second most restrictive tier. The governor says that this curfew idea is only an idea right now. The idea of a curfew to curb a recent surge in covid19 cases is not sitting well with one bay area leader governor Gavin Newsome brought up the possibility at mondays statewide Coronavirus Briefing i think the curfew. Brings a little bit of fear that fear San Mateo County supervisor david says is for the Small Businesses like restaurants who may suffer even more he thinks the focus for state and local leaders should be holding individual people accountable by reinforcing things like mask wearing avoiding gatherings and maintaining social distancing to me thats just not right. I mean i think we should we are much more sophisticated. We know what we need to do i think having a curfew is just a total overreach, but we can afford any more Mario Santa Cruz is the coowner of lisas Mexican Restaurant in daly city he too opposes the idea of a curfew but is also concerned about rolling back even further as of monday San Mateo County is the only bay area county allowing for any Indoor Dining i dont know how long i was going to be in terms of business. If we dont build, i mean. The states of massachusetts and virginia have both an acted covid curfews which Governor Newsome says are being assessed for implementing in california of the several questions being considered is what a curfew means for businesses. To date there has not ben one infectious scientists that says a curfew works. Well the governor is also looking into curfew studies that were done in france, germany and saudi arabia to see if it works. La county officials are also looking at implementing a curfew there to keep people from gathering at bars and restaurants and also for those people to not stay there late at night, reporting live in daly city dan thorn kron 4 news. And todays announcement put all 9 bay area counties here in either the red or purple tier on the states covid matthew see you want to be in yellow San Francisco was and theres a lot of orange on the map as recently as yesterday, but now the purple wave has moved in you are in here as well as santa clara i should say San Mateo CountySan Francisco. Theyve all moved back into this this red tier for substantial covid spread. Meanwhile, solano napa contra costa alameda and santa clara counties. All move back to the most restrictive purple tier, sonoma county. They never got out of purple, theyre still there and for counties actually move back. 2 tiers they jump to tears in this system here, San Francisco santa clara. Napa and Alameda County saw that happen kron fours terisa stasio now has reactions on these rollbacks from Alameda County. Less than 48 hours major changes coming here to Alameda County. All deal with bad recent uptick in covid19 cases. No more Indoor Dining no more indoor gym workouts or Church Gatherings it is back to the purple tier in Alameda County. Well, its significant because we have a lot more covid circulating here in the bay area than we did even a few short weeks ago so our test positivity and at the states most recent assessment believe its 2. 8 so its increased quite a bit from our low which i think was 1. 4 doctor maass who is the interim Health Officer of Alameda County says. Its in our own hands, what happens next. He says that the data shows indoor gatherings are one of the most problematic areas. The risk really goes up quite a bit weve seen that time and again with covid19. Each of the surge is. All of you know famous clusters outbreaks that weve seen. The really the Common Thread is people gather together, especially in indoor theyre not always without masks can really spread in an environment so the hardest part i think now theres so much anxiety in this so interruption with coach francisco owns fit potato fitness gym in dublin. He says that he chose not to go indoors based on feedback from members. But they did make changes. To help out members. We did we shut it down to 30 minutes. Well we had more classes, so we double the size and classes so that we can see them often he also says that they check in with their members hold virtual happy hours paintings. All in an effort to stay connected and help out with the Mental Health aspect of covid19 and where is the county is sliding back doctor maass ads. All of the news. Is not dismal. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and we are going to back to normal life someday were just asking people to stick with it. Do your best and i just want to remind people how grateful. We are of of all theyre doing. All of the changes that come into effect and there is a lot. Weve linked to the states website to kron 4 dot com. So you can find out the totality of all of the changes and again they all take place on november 18th right after midnight Alameda County theresa kron 4 news. Cisco county also moved back to tear levels today from yellow to red and that forces the closure of non essential offices and reduces indoor capacity at Fitness Centers to just 10 . Since october daily cases have gone from an average of 29 cases a day up to 97 cases a day and thats why the mayor is calling on residents, not to have big gatherings over the thanksgiving holiday. This year were asking people to sacrifice because of thanksgiving when we get together we see large family gatherings, especially indoors. When those happen. We could be dealing with the impacts of those decisions by christmas with a significant increase in hospitalizations. Services go Health Director doctor grant colfax to the one step further and called on residents not to travel at all over thanksgiving. The Health Director also made it clear that should San Francisco continue the downward spiral from the red tier to the purple tier there would be additional rollbacks as coronavirus cases now surged in the city that goes still moving forward with a plan to move nearly 2300 Homeless People out of shelterinplace hotel rooms its part of the shelterinplace rehousing program where the city will close hotels and rehouse people in 4 phases, however, some city leaders and homeless advocates are now speaking out against that plan as cases spike. Kron fours taylor has been following the story for us for months, she joins us live in the studio now with the latest hello. Well as the city closes these hotel rooms many are worried that were going to see more people back on the streets like you see here more encampments where the virus. Well spread it during a pandemic city leaders and homeless advocates say the big concern here is that the city is moving forward to close these hotel rooms before it secured enough housing. This is all happening has cases search. San franciscos experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases causing reopenings enforcing the closures of other businesses at the same time. It has adjusted its plan to close the hotels were Homeless People who are older and most vulnerable are currently sheltering in place at the end of the day if youre pausing Indoor Dining. If youre you should also closing down hotels that lead to more people out on the streets. I mean is it seems to me to be common sense, San Francisco supervisor matt haney says closing these hotels which has been a critical component of the citys covid19 response is dangerous. On the citys sights, the cost as a reason for closures. He says a majority of the expenses will be reimbursed by the state and federal government. Plus much safer place to be and its also much cheaper to take care of folks in there. And it to get when when they end up in the icu. In the first phase of the citys rehousing program 500 people will move out of 7 hotels that are closing by the end of next month. The homeless advocate groups like the coalition on the citys continuing with a plan that is incomplete so far in the information theyre given theyve got placements for about a quarter of the people. In this first 7 hotels that are closing so theres 499 people. So its not lined up yet theres no reason to close right now when asked if they be making changes to their plan. The department of homelessness and Supportive Housing responded saying quote. No one who chooses to participate in the rehousing process will exit to the street and well be assessing our goals for rehousing and refining as we move forward in phases. However they didnt provide specific details when later asked if all 500 people had securing housing placements. Now city leaders like matt haney say they are pushing to put a pause on the closure of these hotels. He also plans to introduce legislation that would require reporting to the board on this issue back to you. Alright taylor along with more new cases of coronavirus hospitalizations are also on the rise in the south bay Santa Clara County is reporting a 10 increase to the current level of 110. Covid patients. Well, no immediate threat Hospital Capacity this wave of the coronavirus could increase pressure on the so says the Valley Medical Centers doctor sanjay khurana. We got also ok were always dealing system the way a seasonal youre dealing a potential situation where we can get Officials Say moving back to more restrictive Health Orders and widespread mask use. May well keep many people out of the hospital in the north bay Health Officials in napa county are also urging people to prevent the spread of the virus and take advantage of testing him calistoga mobile testing units were available by appointment today and will be available tomorrow as well at the calistoga fairgrounds. Testing is also available at the napa county expo for details you can head to our website kron 4 dot com was Solano County moving from the red to the purple tier on the States Coronavirus watch list of businesses like restaurants and hair salons are going to have to move customers outside yet again. The owner of a specialty all of oil shop in says that going back to the purple tier is not ideal. But that theyve been through it before. We have an Online Presence and we have for almost 16 years. We also have our front door anchor pick up. So we are not going to be as concerned were still going to have the safety for our customers. Additional restrictions include places of worship and gyms they also have to move out doors for a complete list of county by county restrictions just head to our web site at kron 4 dot com. President elect joe biden talked about the pandemic and the struggling economy today. He says more people will die if President Trump refuses to coordinate efforts to control the virus. He made the remarks after a Virtual Meeting with business and labor leaders. Were going in a very dark winter things are going to get much tougher before they get easier. That requires sparing no effort to fight covid so we can open our businesses safely resume our lives and put this pandemic behind us its going to be difficult but it can be done. They all agree. That means rally the country behind a National Strategy with Robust Public Health measures like mandatory masking widely available testing with rapid results scale the production of lifesaving treatments and therapeutics everyone on our call today and our show today agree that the sooner we have access to the ministrations distribution plant. The sooner this transition would be smoothly move forward. Biden says he hopes President Trump will become quote mild leave more enlightened when it comes to the transition of power. Hes also asking Congress Biden is to pass another Economic Relief bill. Potentially lifesaving news today as we get closer to federal approval of to coronavirus vaccine, something that could come by the end of this month. Proffers Ella Sogomonian report. Both drugmakers moderna and pfizer have reported their vaccine trials receiving more than 90 effectiveness rate in combat in coronavirus california governor gavin, newsome applauded their work. While announcing another dramatic spike in covid19 cases monday is now more than 1 Million People are infected across the golden state now with the vaccine. Bottom line is were moving from a marathon to a sprint. And i think this is important. This is a point of some optimism in the midst of all of this overwhelming data not only coming from this presentation in the state of california newsom went on to say once approved and made available. Those most in need will be prioritized to receive it like medical professionals and First Responders both will still need to be granted. Emergency use authorization by the fda before they can be distributed that authorization could come by the end of this month, according to doctor Anthony Fauci these results are promising in vaccinations could begin in the United States by the end of this year. But a vaccine is not effective unless people use it Infectious Disease specialist doctor, peter chin, hong with ucsf believes that skeptics have nothing to fear we have at least in these 2 companies so far. They havent had to pause the trials. They havent had concerning safety signals. And you know as an Infectious Disease doctor i really think that i see is all really you know one of the most powerful things we have a Community Benefits i hope that over time you know everyone comes on board you know embraces these prevention methods in the meantime Governor Newsom put together a Safety Committee who is working with the cdc. And department of defense to help establish protocols for socialized program that he calls a safe equitable and transparent distribution plan. Once a vaccine is out for kron 4 news, im Ella Sogomonian. For your money, wall street likes modernas covid19 vaccine announcement the dow and s and p both notching new record highs today, the nasdaq gained about 0. 8 and these gains come just a week or so after Pfizers Covid vaccine announcement had a similar market reaction. And tesla will be added to the s and p 500 starting next month, yeah, the electric car makers stock rallying more than 10 hours after todays announcement. The move happens december 21st which coincides with the s and p 500 quarterly rebalance. For retai