Dr. Fauci and Governor Newsom. Covid19 is not done with california. The golden state tonight is dealing with a surge in both cases and hospitalizations. Now some are wondering how difficult its going to be to flatten that curve again. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney has more. Reporter Governor Newsom sounding the alarm today. In the past two weeks, covid19 hospitalizations are up 43 . Icu admissions up 37 . If that doesnt change soon, the governor is promising stricter actions statewide. Tomorrow well be making some additional announcements on efforts to use that dimmer switch that weve referred to and begin to toggle back on our stayathome order. Dr. George rutherford, professor of epidemiology at uc San Francisco says several factors are at play here in the bay area. The 1,000 infected prisoners at san quentin, an increase in infections at retirement homes, people letting down their guard during the recent reopenings, and theres this ongoing outbreak in the latinx communities. Reporter
Soon a week or two. Reporter police reiterated the need for voluntary compliance. To the shelter in place order. And so far they have been no confirmed cases of covid 19 within the department. Enforcement is still an option. The health order is legally binding. It is a misdemeanor. We dont want to make a problem into a bigger problem by not being thoughtful about the way we go about enforcement efforts. Reporter for the first time the San Francisco board of supervisors announced it will meet virtually starting tomorrow. And for the first foreseeable future. Governor newsom speaking less than an hour ago about the crowded beaches and hiking trails over the weekend. Hes at the state has to help residents help themselves during this order. To make it easier for you we will shut down allstate parking lots. And that will go effective immediately. Meanwhile on the southbay nonessential business is not complying with the order could face possible felony charges. The Santa Clara County Distric
Not showing any signs of slowing down as daryn mentioned new york is the hot bed right now we have John Lawrence with the very latest. The covid 19 pandemic is growing exponentially we see cases doubling every 3 to 4 days for 4 consecutive days this week the us had its deadliest day of reported deaths due to the virus mrs. They 5 of corn teen in day 5 of widow, good for me. And then were clicking off one day at a time and now the United States is the epicenter of the disease with the most cases in the world youve got to hunker down nail down mitigate mitigate mitigate. Get the people taken care of thats what you got to concentrate on you have to go with the data vaccine trials are underway and the shutdowns and restrictions across the country remain in place to slow the spread of the disease. But no state has seen a decrease in cases which means the us probably has yet to hit the peak. I want to be clear the worst days are still ahead despite the uncertainty of what lies ahead the medi
And starting saturday march 28 Weekend Service will be cut as well instead of opening at 6 will open at 8 instead of closing it not at midnight the close at 9 this will be the same as well for sunday, all riders must be in the system by a 45 to have a guaranteed ride to their destination part officials are unable to say how long this new schedule is going to be in effect because its really just a day by day thing were were working through here with the coronavirus outbreak learning about more cases and then we still have the sand home order in effect so as long as they see ridership im a ridership decline, im sure theyll continue on with this new because it really is looking like a ghost town at this park station in daly city. For now ill send it back to you darya. All right, thanks a lot of sarah and californias disaster declaration for the coronavirus and that means the federal government, well pay the California National guard to help with our relief efforts here weve already seen t
Had scattered showers through the rest of the day. Sunday is going to do pretty much that same thing. We have rain to look doppler. We will take a look at where it is raining right now. I want to show you what is happening for the next two hours. First of all, there is a cluster of showers in the north bay right now. If you happen to be getting out on the road because you have to be somewhere dark and early, there is one lane going up through the marin cinema county line. If you look at the last hour, you can watch them marching their way from west to east up through marin up into sonoma county. But if we look ahead, we have to look a bit further off of the coast, you can see there is more rain up there in the future cast brings that forward. Watch the timestamp as m. Onthis ther amuch hethat eep ac the we will all get in on the act with this. It is about two hours after sunset. Right now, we look at the rain fall totals and we have picked up about a 10th of an inch from the so far. In