Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are forced to shut down. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some of those businesses and some of the customers he is joining us live now from walnut creek good evening. Dan. Well johnson and justine has you mentioned this is the unfortunate reality that these businesses are going to have to dea
Local news station. Now with breaking news. It is absolutely imperative that we take action now. Each and every one of us in order to get through this. Local Health Officials sounding the alarm and shutting services as coronavirus cases surge across the bay area. America has more than 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 240,000 people have died from this virus. Here in california. We now have gone over 1 million confirmed cases of covid19. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 on this friday, the 13th im Justine Waldman we have a lot to get to this hour and well start right now with the Team Coverage we have on the new covid restrictions that are coming across the bay area. Well start in the south bay with kron fours rob fladeboe he is live for us in san jose. And rob the city Just Announced a backtrack. In its reopening plan part of the new details. And thats just tina Santa Clara County Health Officials are holding a News Conference here at the co
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Delta, some of the Higher Elevations and i would expect a cooler pattern these next couple days look like theyre in store for you. A little bit below average. 60s, 70s and mainly low 80s all right, well, alley was busy yesterday and shes busy again today. We are pretty busy i have to say, youre saying that the forecast is for me because its been cooler and its good news. We can show you in a second some of that fog and the windy conditions in the Traffic Cameras we start with the maps of that problem were following since before 4 00 this morning. All lanes of southbound 680 are now open after the crash that happened earlier this morning caused them to come in and bring some sweeper trucks to clear the debris. You can see it extends up to the 580 interchange all lanes open. It has taken a while to catch up. A report of a crash eastbound 80, this is at central. That is not slowing things down too badly we continue to keep an eye on it. The drive on the east shore freeway, once you get do