Keep people from mixing with others from outside their household. As these numbers continue to go the wrong direction, he says we are still expecting a surge from the thanksgiving holiday. If we dont act now, our Hospital System will be overwhelmed. If we dont act now, well continue to see a death rate climb. Reporter siding sharp increases in covid19 cases, hospitalizations, and death, governor gavin newsom issued a new regional stayathome order with strict new rules. Back to back days with 113 deaths just in the last 14 days, close to 1000 californians have lost their lives due to covid19. Reporter as of now, all nonessential travel is temporarily restricted statewide. The new stayathome order breaks the state into five regions instead of individual counties. Monterey and Santa Cruz County are included in the bay area region. When and areas icu capacity drops 50 or less, restrictions would go into place for three weeks but none of the regions currently meet the threshold, but newsom expects four of the five will in coming days. By the mid to late december in the bay area. It is about how we reduce our mixing altogether. Reporter the order shipped on many nonessential businesses including bars, wineries, and personal Care Services like hair and hair salons, playgrounds, museums, and zoos must also close. Retail stores will be limited to 20 capacity, and restaurant can only offer take out or delivery. Schools with a waiver can remain open. Lives are in the balance. Lives will be lost unless we do more than we have ever done. Were being asked, were being called to do everything in our power. Reporter earlier this week, the governor announced loan and Grant Programs were struggling Small Business owners , but there is still plenty of frustration from fatigued residents and elected officials the Republican Assembly meant James Gallagher from yuba city sent us this statement. The only thing consistent with the governors handling of covid19 has been his inconsistency, when you can find this inconsistency with hypocrisy, the result is like and trust that the governor try to provide some optimism, saying a vaccine is on its way, calling it, quote, a light at the end of the tunnel. We do not anticipate having to do this once again, but we really all need to step up. We need to meet this moment headon, and we need to do everything we can to stem the tide. Reporter Governor Newsom said enforcement of these new restrictions will be up to local jurisdictions. In addition, once a region falls into that threshold in has 48 hours to come into compliance. Reporting live, greg lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Heather . Speaking of enforcement, greg, we have heard from various municipalities before this idea was even talked about, that they werent going to enforce certain covid19 restrictions. How is the governor responding to those who are critical of this new stayathome order . Reporter that was asked today during that news conference, and previous to today, the governor has said he would withhold emergency funds from some of those counties are municipalities that did not engage her would not and for some of these restrictions. He reiterated that today, that those funds may be withheld if things are not followed. All right. Thank you so much. Our greg lee reporting for us on the potential new restrictions set to go in place here in california. Greg, thank you. And the state is opening up 11 medical facilities to receive covid19 patients. These surge utilities are in various counties across california, including San Francisco, contra costa, and san mateo counties. The governor said the facilities are ready to move into active status. As we move to the stay at home, as we see the significant increase in icus and hospitalizations and deaths in the state of california, we are moving from warm status to more active status. Governor newsom says those search facilities will be open and ready to receive patients starting on december 9. The governors announcement today could potentially cripple some Small Businesses already struggling during the pandemic. Ktvu south bay reporter jesse gary joins us with more on that part of the story, jesse . Reporter good afternoon to you. Governor newsom says there is financial help for Small Business owners. However, the realities of capitalism running headlong into rhetoric from the capitol, and some Business Owners tell me they may not survive the disparity. Mcginnis grill in lupitas has been in business a dozen years, but owner eli ramirez says hes not sure he will make it to my 13 year. This chilling reality, after governor gavin newsom announced another possible shutdown of nonessential businesses. There is things that needs to be paid. My mortgage, my three employees of got left support their families themselves. Reporter since the emergence of the covid pandemic earlier this year, the grill is strictly takeout, and business is down almost 50 . Add to that, a waiting game to see if they regional shutdown is initiated by hospital icu capacity rates dropping below 15 . We have to be more mindful than ever about the Economic Impact and consequences of these further restrictions. Those new restrictions anticipated to hit around mid or late december could cripple the newly opened student Math Learning Center next door to the grill, which has already lost 70 of its business. Many businesses around this area of milpitas have shut down their Small Businesses, and if the Small Business owners that have been impacted the most. We dont know how deep a recession this is going to cause. It is certainly going to make things worse, and harder. Reporter San Jose State University strategic business professor dr. Robert chapman wood says government lifelines are fine for their shortterm, but you Economic Sustainability depends on foot traffic into Small Businesses. If a shutdown happens when things hit the 15 level, we could lose some businesses. Some people are going to go out of business. Reporter the parachute to keep the economy from crashing our efforts underway at the nations capitol to provide Small Businesses with loans and tax breaks, tc. Since election day, coordinated by the parties involved has been a lot better, but to note , nothing has been passed out of congress yet. We are live in san jose this afternoon. Jesse gary, ktvu fox 2 news. Well head back to you. Jesse, obviously you know, the state is making efforts to try to provide some sort of financial need to these Small Business owners that are struggling here. What do they say about the amount of Financial Assistance that is available to them on the state level and whether it is enough . Reporter alex, it is razor thin, the difference between making it this month and being gone the next month, and that is why they are very wary about this idea of shutting things down at the 15 mark. Yes, there is some help, but it is just not enough. It is not designed tosustain a business, and for business, you need people coming in, particularly foot traffic. Online sales can work for some businesses. But for example, restaurant, you need takeouts, but you need people coming in on a regular basis, and that is what is missing, and the government really cannot replace that , and its assistance can only go so far. Not much room for error for a lot of the Small Business owners. Ktvu jesse gary live in the south bay. Appreciate it. Thank you. Governor newsom says that help is on the way in the form of vaccines. Today, he announced how vaccines will be distributed. Ktvu Cristina Rendon joins us live with details of the states Distribution Plan, cristina . Reporter the state starts to expect placing orders tomorrow for pfizers vaccine, and were told those first vaccines will begin at to arrive in 2 weeks. These are the regions and the total number of vaccines going out. Reporter californias vaccine plan is broken up into six regions. Governor gavin newsom says those are based on the states vaccination protocol testing from the five stayathome order regions. California is expecting to receive 327,000 doses of a Coronavirus Vaccine i mid december. Vaccines are about to arrive here in the state of california in the next few weeks, and you will be hearing good news on top of other good news. More and more vaccines will be arriving, january, february, march. Reporter because 327,000 vaccines is a scarce number, the state has broken up its Vaccine Distribution plan into three tiers. Vaccines will first go to people in tier 1. Those who work in acute care, psychiatric and correctional facility hospitals, Skilled Nursing and assisted living facilities, paramedics, emts, and dialysis centers. Tier 2 prioritizes Immediate Care facilities, home health and supportive services, Community Health workers, Public Health field staff, and primary care clinics. Tier 3 includes other Health Care Settings like specialty clinics, lab workers, dental, and pharmacy. Newsom says the six regions will place orders with pfizer starting friday. Those that think they can get ahead of the line and those that think because they have resources or they have relationships that will allow them to do it, we also will be monitoring that very, very closely. Reporter newsom said the Distribution Plan is based on equity and fairness. Help is on the way. There is light at the end of this tunnel. Reporter the next phases of the distribution will be different because theyre going to be coming from moderna, which is distributed by mckesson. Because those are different vaccines, the particles are different. In the next few weeks, the state will expect to learn more on when those vaccines will be available. Heather . All right, Cristina Rendon reporting live for us this afternoon. Cristina, thank you. Cases of coronavirus are spiking right now in congregate settings around santa clara county. Health officials there say the recent outbreaks at nursing homes, homeless shelters, jails, and other facilities where people have to come together, they said the problem is that crowding is making it difficult to socially distance. People who reside and work at congregate settings are members of our community, and todays ways of working may work differently tomorrow. But you can work out anything with comcast business. 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Ballard worked as a back when newsom was mayor San Francisco. He is said to be arranged december 29. Police in sunnyvale said they have cracked the verbal. Ktvu Crime Reporter henry lee joining us live with more on this case, henry . Reporter alex, please tell me this crew used the names of at least 100 victims and thousands of others to rack up fraudulent claims, another sign that the scam is rampant. Sunnyvale police say these five suspects are responsible for fraudulent unemployment claims with a secure vented potential loss to the state. 1 million worth of funds. Reporter the group broke into mailboxes, cars, and homes in sunnyvale and across the south bay. They would commit burglaries, still personal identifying information, credit card, utility bills, things with a name on it, then they would open fictitious accounts and steel funds. Reporter police say they are still try to identify victims whose identities were used for edd claims. We identified hundred victims at this point. There could be potentially thousands or more victims. Ktvu plus it all began when Police Identified george ramirez, a parolee, a suspect in a residential burglary. They found him at a local hotel Police Identified four other suspects in the ring, including robert tristan, christopher ellingson, and his brother samuel pick another suspect is on parole for fraud related crimes. As part of the investigation, Police Seized guns, a shotgun, a machine used to make a card, edd debit cards, and other items. So we are thumbing through just a vast mountain of evidence we recovered. Printer police say this ring may be one of many others out to skim the edd and innocent victims. Its disheartening in this day and age with covid and the businesses and everybody struggling that were losing funds to criminals. Reporter Sunnyvale Police tell me their investigation is continuing and they are working with state investigators and postal inspectors took reporting live, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. The area weather, weve been dealing with so much sunset over the past few days. It nice to see some clouds with maybe the hope we can have a few raindrops falling from those clouds, but it still looks like this dry weather pattern is here to stay just a few visiting clouds for this afternoon and into tonight. Unfortunately, we will be talking about fire data as we head into early next week. In Southern California, they are talking about fire danger right now. You can see all the areas in red. That is a red flag fire warning, and this is a Long Duration event until friday, 6 00. More neighborhoods in Southern California until 10 00 pm on saturday. That means the storm reports, earlier this morning near san fernando, that the wind gust of up to 79 miles an hour, so were tracking an offshore wind event as we head back toward late sunday and into monday. For today, you probably noticed the high clouds streaming overhead over the past few hours, and as you can see here, we have a storm system out here in the pacific, but all the energy is running them into the swamp out here in the pacific, so its blocking all the storms, were picking up some of those clouds over the past few hours. This is the satellite loop over the past six hours. Check in right now in some of the current numbers the temperatures right now still in the 50s across a good portion of the bay area with partly cloudy skies, even mostly cloudy skies in a few neighborhoods. Heres our live camera looking out toward sfo where you can see some of the brakes in the cloud cover, so still some hazy sky up above if youre a complete recovered with the fog. Overnight lows will start tomorrow morning. On the cool side, probably not as cool as this morning. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s, and you can see the forecast model bringing in more sunshine. 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