Strategic plans across america to deliver those vaccines safely and these doses cannot come soon enough as covid19 continues to devastate the golden state California Health officials reporting more than 35,000 new cases of the virus and 225 deaths both numbers shattering daily records more than 13,000 people are currently in the hospital thats also an alltime record and the states icu capacity is now at just 7. 9 some good news though california is expecting some 327,000 doses of the pfizer covid19 vaccine as early as monday. As part of the initial vaccine rollout the move comes after the fda authorized emergency use of that vaccine late last night. The chief operating officer of operation warp speed now praising the effort today calling it historic. For 7 months we have realized the greatest Public Private partnership in modern times. Doctors scientists researchers factory workers low just asians and hundreds more have all come together for single or purpose. That purpose save lives and end the pandemic. General gus perna says right now its still too early to take a victory lap as there is still much work that needs to be done. Trucks carrying the first vaccine shipments are expected to rule out tomorrow to nearly 150 Distribution Centers across the country with the first dose is expected to arrive in those states by monday. Here in the bay area we can expect about 75,000 doses of the Pfizer Vaccine. Kron fours gayle ong explains who will be first in line to get the shot and how local hospitals are getting ready to receive it and distribute it. The initial shipments are expected to arrive sometime next week and now will be intended for Health Care Workers and First Responders. We could store hundreds of thousands of vaccines right now ucsf without without an issue doctor desi kotis chief pharmacy officer for ucsf says the hospital is expecting 975 doses of the Pfizer Vaccine for workers with the highest risk exposure to covid19 an additional batch with the second dose for the 975 to be vaccinated is anticipated in coming weeks, doctor kotis says ucsf has been planning for distribution since october. We do have ultra cold look sort of like a household refrigerators that ultracold i 70 degree freezers and you know they can hope quite a bit each vaccine. Biles tiny its 02 00am now. I dont says in that little tiny by all the proper freezers are also said that John Muir Health and walnut creek and concord the Health Care System is expecting about 5,000 doses for workers in the Emergency Department icu and units that have Covid Patients the bay areas set to receive about 75,000 doses of the Pfizer Vaccine. That was just fda approved for emergency use Santa Clara County is expecting the most just over 17,000 well the vaccine requires 2 doses officials are being told not to hold any back for second round shots medical experts say the general population considered low risk will most likely receive the vaccine in the spring of 2021. Tina murphy chief commercial officer at Global HealthCare Exchange says the vaccines to those requirements will have logistical challenges ahead when you give it to a population youve got to come back to that same population 60 days people knew if they dont get that second that and that first and she isnt it was recent data shows pfizers vaccine offers strong protection after the first dose. In recent weeks pfizer and its competitor moderna published data showing their vaccines to be more than 90 effective. The fda will review modernas vaccine next week, the Moderna Vaccine does not require a deep freeze like pfizer. And while these vaccines offer great hope to get back to normal life. Health experts are saying do not let your guard down must wear your mask, social distance wash your hands. We have a long winter ahead of us. Here in fremont gayle ong kron 4 news. Happening right now more than 30 million californians are living under the regional stay at home orders tonight. This comes as the number of available icu beds, reaching critical levels. Heres a look at the latest numbers where we are in the bay area were just under 18 here in Northern California over 27 there but take a look at this the greater Sacramento Region just under 13 . The San Joaquin Valley today, reaching 0 in Southern California at just over 5 these 3 under those mandatory stayathome orders right now because those regions have already hit that 15 and below threshold. But most concerning our neighbors in the San Joaquin Valley once again have no icu beds available. The numbers are alarming and doctors project things are only going to get worse over the next few weeks. Kron fours dan thorn live tonight in the east bay continuing that part of our coverage tonight and and so many folks worried watching those numbers here in the bay area to make sure things dont go below that 15 threshold. Thats right jonathan and if you take a look at it in may seem like the bay area is doing better than areas that that are nearby but doctors are telling us tonight not to be fooled by those numbers because of one area such as the San Joaquin Valley gets overwhelmed resources here end up getting pulled their already stretched really thin. But of course if we have to help them out that includes adding staffing icu beds and equipment. Icu bed capacity is trending toward devastating lows in the bay area at just under 18 the region is expected to drop even further in the next few weeks we never had to think what i see you back by cs that metric before. And thats kind very concerning ucsf Infectious Disease specialist and professor doctor, peter chin, hong says extremely low icu capacity in other parts of the state can affect the bay area as well the resources here can get pulled to help those in worse positions as the rates continue to trend it negatively statewide it will lead to top or decisions with in intensive care units in when you start school with more patients then hospitals can take care of. Death rates rise not because they dont have state of the minutes, them mainly because you cant just take care of everyone even if youre the best possible around. Stabbing at some hospitals is also becoming an alarming issue one reason his frontline Health Care Workers getting infected with the virus creating an even shorter supply of trained professionals doctor chan, hong warns if infection rates do not slow the state and region is looking at a grim forecast the fact that the thing about ice you back a posse. I suggest were in pretty tough times. The next thing you have to act will be think human deaths which i hope we dont get to. Doctor chan hong says that at our current infection rate bayarea hospitals are projected to exceed icu bed capacity. Within 2 weeks and hes hoping that people can avoid any risky behavior to help slow down the spread of covid19 across our region. Reporting live in danville dan thorn kron 4 news. Thank you so much dan now nationwide. The u. S. Now has a total of more than 16 million confirmed cases of covid19 thats according to Johns Hopkins university. There have been 1 million new cases in just the past 4 days to put that in perspective it took the u. S. More than 8 months to reach 8 million cases but less than 2 months to double that covid19 hospitalizations also hit a record high for the 7th day in a row with more than 108,000 patients in the hospital around the country and as for the growing death toll more than 297,000 people have died from this virus. On friday. The u. S. Reported more than 3300 covid19 deaths thats the most ever in one day. Thats more deaths than we saw on pearl harbor or 9. 11 the director of the cdc is predicting that the daily death toll from covid19 will continue to eclipse those numbers through the rest of the winter. Our coronavirus coverage continues right now at kron 4 dot com. Now is the perfect time for you to download the kron 4 and kron on apps to get alerts sent to your devices. The apps are free in the apple and google play stores. Now to another big story were watching this weekend is the rain as we take a live look outside right downtown san a breeze has been tracking. The storm for us and it looks like the city is going to get wet, yes right to the milli vanilli tonight blame it on the rain really good tomorrow. Yeah id are definitely going to notice some more wet weather jonathan in just and hopefully you can sing a few verses jonathan later in the show let we didnt get about a quarter of an inch to half an inch of rain last night through this morning, right now the calm before the storm very dry conditions. And we are tracking this storm to our north right now impacting those of you in eureka ukiah yeah, its just right outside your door and were going to notice the storm door opening once again for us here in the bay area very early sunday morning. First arriving for those of you in the north bay light bands of rain but then heavy downpours by around 6 oclock sunday morning for the north bay still dry for most of the bay area specifically downtown San Francisco but were going to notice light to moderate even heavy downpours at times by sunday mid morning at around 8 oclock thats when its really going to impact the San Francisco peninsula and along the coast we actually have the threat of popup thunderstorms as well starting sunday morning through sunday afternoon, very unstable atmosphere with this cold core storm. Coming from the gulf of alaska and we are going to see the rain shifting to the south and east and the east bay and for the south bay with the peak of the rain arriving shortly before your new lunchtime hour in san jose. In the south bay and even for most of our inland valleys in the east bay until early afternoon by sunday at around 1 oclock. Thats when were going to dry out for the most part still tracking light scattered showers but were expecting to get an additional quarter of an inch to half an inch of rain for most of the bay area. Those of you in the north bay could get 3 quarters of an inch of rain or less so jonathan just seen officially off the naughty list for me i dont get a lump of coal does christmas right back to you. A lot of folks looking forward to that risa thank you. Still to come tonight here on kron 4 news at 10 oclock thousands of dollars in a rare one taken from the san jose store. Why the owner says that these crooks were no amateurs. Plus after Health Care Workers and First Responders who is next in line to get the covid vaccine. 1030 why one california congressman says it should be farm workers. A dozen injuries on board a grounded plane get the show of a lifetime as a man climbs aboard the wing. Plate look at this. 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Fell off the wing and hit hit the pavement pretty hard. Thats when police took him into custody. The plane was then inspected again before if finally took off. Well talk about a close call check out these images from the San FranciscoFire Department look whats in the windshield right there. They say that that red object was on the roadway when a car hit it, throwing in the air and then it landed right in the driver seat of the car directly behind it which is what we see here could have been so that look at those right through the windshield. Well that was a really close call. The Fire Department when they tweeted out these pictures that exactly say exactly where this happened. Thankfully, though the driver was ok just a little shaken up walked away with just a scratch. And officials are hoping that these images serve as a reminder to make sure that when youre driving if you have some objects like that in your car make sure theyre safe and secure in your vehicle. At all times to men who definitely have quite a story tell tonight meanwhile, a 3rd tonight, San Jose Police looking for her a person, theyre calling a cabernet crook this is someone broke into a wine store early this morning, the owner says hes now out of 35,000. He describes these winds like classic paintings in a bottle and he says whoever broke inside that store knew exactly what they were doing. Bird george is on the hunt to put a cork in a pinot pill for drunk with greed. This was. Absolutely targeted. They knew exactly what to do early saturday morning. He says someone held an unplanned one tasting party. Inside of the juice of george fun, one store in san jose. Take a look at this crooks smashing the windows to get inside. But the guests not leaving empty handed. He says they took off with thousands of dollars and collectible cabernets in rare reese links. Youve never seen this. If anyone shop in the United States know or in the world that has what i had had in this cabinet, 13 bottles in total take it the most expensive 7 bottles of harlem magnum from 2002 to 2007. Those bottles made at the harlan estate in napa those consecutive years in a row is why he says the bottles are so expensive. Check online found some of those bottles going for more than 2000 each. George says money from the missing mall backs and more now topping more than 35,000 at an auction that would go for a lot more than that. To me theyre priceless because you know we buy them from bill harling himself. George says that these covered crooks were no amateurs he says they went directly for the good stuff ignoring all the other why this isnt something that you go in and steal and then you drink. You have to number one be very educated on wine number 2 have someplace to sell it. You cant he thinks that someone will try to sell these bottles on the black market were a willing one call us or well be waiting to drink it up. But he offers this advice if you see harlan magnums for sale that never come up for sale in a perfect vertical. It doesnt happen. San jose police say they are looking into this anyone with information no urge to give them a call. An effort to make streets safer in San Francisco, the group united playaz hosted a gun buyback today, people could drop off their firearms. No questions asked gun buyback events in the past have collected hundreds of guns and assault rifles and organizers say events like these help save lives. Whether youre black whether youre white whether upend the midst right if you will cop a citizen or just anybody we want to keep you alive and thats why we do a did people 100 why assault rifles were worth 200. The united playaz group says one in 3 homes with children have guns and many are kept unlocked or loaded. It will take a look at this if you missed out on the king tides last month youll get another chance to check them out this weekend. They take place when the earth moon and sun or near alignment and when the moon is in its closest position to earth. Scientists use them to identify rising sea level risks. Using this project to to capture these tide to today helps our local communities to get outweigh what do they need to do to plan for the future you know locations are vulnerable. How do we best move forward protecting the people and the places that we love here in california. So if you do decide to check them out bush adjusting. And post them a post pictures on social media make sure you use the hashtag king tides that will actually help the california king tides project document. How theyre affecting the bay area as sea levels keep rising. For more on the king tides, lets check in again with our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez shes tracking them for us tonight, not only am i tracking a High Surf Advisory, but a Coastal Flood Advisory boat set to go into effect by sunday and for the High Surf Advisory we are going to notice it continuing through monday night but for Coastal Flood Advisory a little bit longer that will expire on tuesday afternoon. So we could see breaking waves as high as 25 feet and also because of the king tides we could actually get some possible coastal flooding as well right throughout the bay area coastline. So just keep that in mind very dangerous choppy waters along our coast in the coming days. Lets take a look at our satellite and radar right now a very dry outlook as we transition from our first storm that made its way into the day area finally last night there this morning now getting a little bit of a break from the wet weather until storm number 2 arrives during the overnight hours through your sunday afternoon live look outside and we are tracking city hall right now in green and thats because of the put Paris Climate Accord change that anniversary 5 years in the m