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The mayor of a Central Coast city has tested positive for Covid 19. Salinas Mayor Kimberley Craig announced that she tested positive for the virus Monday morning. The mayor has informed everyone she had recent contact with and is currently self quarantining. Salinas City Hall is currently closed to the public.
Governor Newsome is considering options to speed up vaccinating Californians. The governor wants to speed up the inoculation process by enlisting pharmacy technicians, dentists, and National Guard health workers to administer vaccines to the public. At this time almost 2 million doses of vaccine are available but only 455 thousand Californians have been inoculated.
A man drown at a Sonoma County beach on Sunday. The victim had gone into the surf trying to save his children. The incident took place at Blind Beach near Jenner. First responders continue to search for the missing children.
With a High Surf Advisory in effect now until tomorrow evening, waves could be as high as 18 to 24 feet, peaking upwards of 30 feet along the Monterey Bay.
Rocky Snyder, KSCOs surf and ski reporter mentions what time is best to stay away from the beaches..
“We’ve got ourselves some major swell coming in. Afternoon times are not the time to go around and look around the beaches for shells or anything like that”, Snyder said.
A High Surf Advisory is in effect for our area until 11 PM Tuesday.
Employees working from home that use the productivity suite known as Slack are unable to do so.
That’s because an outage was reported this morning after 7 AM.
According to service outage detection website DownDetector.Com, over 14,000 Slack customers have reported that they are unable to access the platform, with 71% of those having issues connecting and 27% of those affected are unable to send messages to their coworkers.
The outage is reportedly worldwide. Several workers who utilize the productivity suite have tweeted that they welcomed the chance to “slack off” on the first Monday of the new year.