Well that we see do do see temperatures being chipped away by the time we get into around sunday numbers on the board now good mixture of 50s here for the east bay 6 to wonder fremont 50s up to the north bay 61, 56 going on for san jose for comparisons sake a little cooler around midday. Actually a little warmer inland happening is you can see. We do have a little bit of a breeze though to happening overnight as you can see in Single Digits in most part but up to the delta picks up a little bit generally speaking an on shore drift well call it. Breaking it down today were about 58 at 08 00am by 11 at 71 again a little micro warming phase to take us right in time for july 4th, but then cooled off in the 2nd half of the weekend. Well have more details on that robin. Today well the corona virus has mutated and the new version is more infectious. According to a new study by an International Team of researchers the new form of the virus has spread from europe to the u. S. Now the new mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make them any sicker than early the earlier strains. Researchers say that this new version has almost replace the first version of the coronavirus but they also at that antibodies are still effective in neutralizing the new form. Span of just one month california has gone from optimistic to sour in the fight against covid19 especially after cases surge following memorial day Health Experts are sounding the alarm as we head into another Holiday Weekend kron fours dan thorn reports. California has gone from coronavirus championed the Coronavirus Crisis zone infection rates and hospitalizations are rising fast as the 4th of july approaches this is huge problem to deal with. And we dont we have known it doctor art rheingold with you see berkeleys school of Public Health says getting a handle on the virus will take a concerted effort and with no vaccine expected until at least next year rheingold says a spike in infections was likely with the relaxing of restrictions and reopening of some businesses well, im sorry to say that this is pretty much what youd expect within reason injections virus on the right like the one that causes covid19 before memorial day about 3,000 people infected with the virus were in the hospital, the latest numbers from the state now show it has jumped to more than 5,000 people. The infection rate has also gone up from just over 4 to now 6 doctor rheingold expects without a vaccine in without people following Health Guidelines such as wearing a mask in public and continuing to physically distance. Numbers will climb even higher during. Women nations like one. Nobody has an incredibly country reporting in San Francisco, dan thorn kron 4 news. Well we want to compare the total cases in the bay area reported after the memorial day weekend to todays reported cases so take a look take a look at these 4 senate is on your screen napa counties saw the biggest job with more than a 200 increase, but it has the lowest number of cases. Alameda county saw an 88 jump in cases compared to may 31st and it currently has the most cases with more than 6300. You can find that complete breakdown of the numbers the cases of deaths is all listed on our website kron 4 dot com. Please. For all of us make smart decisions avoid crowds dont gather with people outside your household, keep your distance from one another wear a mask. London breed, shes joining other bay area leaders in urging families to celebrate the 4th of july at home. Now to prevent gatherings the city and the county of San Francisco is closing all beach parking lot through the Holiday Weekend so beach parking lot closures include but are not limited to the following take a look. Baker beach china beach chrissy phil fort funston fort point Golden Gate Bridge lands and marina green and ocean beach. Now Half Moon Bay is also closing its beaches store sunday, the closures came after Governor Newsom ordered parking lots at all state beaches to be closed for the Holiday Weekend. The citys mayor is also actively discouraging people from visiting Half Moon Bay. Ill do it. He announced a stretch of the popular coastal trail between seymour bridge and kelly avenue will be closed shut down for the next 3 days. Well to the north bay now Sonoma County is carefully monitoring the spread of covid19 after it reported 2 more deaths yesterday county officials believe that it could go get on the governors watch list by next week kron fours gayle ong reports. Sonoma county was one of the first bay area counties to loosen restrictions and now theres concerns about reopening too fast definitely scared. I mean if these shutdowns are counties where theyre going to go. Theyre going to come to us this reaction coming from a Restaurant Owner in sonoma plaza where visitors have been flocking to ever since businesses were allowed to reopen all of our. Hotels getting 200 capacity. Its a little difficult to not have this hesitation. Ordering a lot of food to get ready for something which used to be our biggest weekend of the year the july 4th holiday is near but county Public Health officials are seeing a jump in covid19 cases each day as of thursday to more coronavirus deaths were reported i think our covid increases at dont necessarily surprise me but nevertheless it saddens me greatly this may land the county on the governors watch list, which means the possibility of businesses closing again board of supervisors chair susan gorin had this message for businesses who may be impacted. Try to limit interaction with people as much as possible to avoid any potential transmission of covid may be challenging thursday evening the parking lot full at sonoma plaza, a stark contrast from 3 months ago, i watched the occupancy just today i think the jump from 20 to 80 . Within that when the course of a few hours. I mean you shut everything down around us. People seem to not want to stay home and. The sooner we all stay home the sooner we all get back to normal the county will be monitoring hot spots and encourage people to follow Public Health guidelines that they have to go out. Wear your mask keep your distance is just best to stay home and that will prevent the county from ending up on the watch list. Here in sonoma gayle ong kron 4 news. To the south bay. Now despite case is going up in Santa Clara County county leaders are moving forward with reopening plans. Under a new health order the county will allow hair and Nail Services gyms and small gatherings to resume as soon as july 13th or once the state approves it. But the businesses must follow specific orders like the consistent use of face coverings and significant capacity limits. Want kids back in school we want our lives back were going to have to Work Together to make that happen. Well this is as also must report positive cases to the Public Health department Indoor Dining public swimming nightclub stadiums theaters and arenas remain closed. Well for inmates at the San Mateo County jail are being treated for covid19 the Sheriffs Office says that there are among 8 inmates who tested positive for the coronavirus so far the other 4 have been placed into quarantine and treated 3 Staff Members also tested positive. They were treated in quarantine at their homes. Well to the east bay now Contra Costa County chp theyre looking for the driver of a white van that reportedly hit a sevenyear olds and seriously injuring him take a look investigators say that the hit and run happened thursday afternoon on vine avenue between leslie and myrtle avenue and martinez they say the child was just riding his scooter when he was hit he was flown to oakland Childrens Hospital and is listed in stable condition. If you have any information about this incident you are asked to call police. Well staying in the east bay now a deadly crash had traffic just crawling for hours on highway 4. This happened around 1230 on the eastbound side of highway for this is just west of Discovery Bay boulevard in the city of Discovery Bay witnesses told investigators that a 2006 pontiac sedan was going at about a 100 Miles Per Hour when the driver lost control veered across all westbound lanes ended up on the eastbound side and crashing headon into a jeep. The driver of the pontiac died right there on scene the driver of the jeep suffered minor injuries. Investigators are still looking into whether the driver of the pontiac was impaired by alcohol, the drugs. Well to the north and now the Solano County District Attorney is recusing herself of her office from 2 deadly officer involved shootings involving the Vallejo Police department so in this video statement top prosecutor Krishna Abrams said that shes stepping back from investigating the shooting deaths of willie mccoy and Sean Monterrosa shes turning the case is over to the attorney generals office. Now the District Attorneys accuse all comes after calls last month for the prosecutor to pursue charges against the Police Officers involved or step back from the case. Mccoy you may remember the story was shot last year by the way home Police Officers while asleep in a taco bell drivethru monterroso was shot on june second outside of a walgreens. Coming up next on the top earning news Governor Newsom has established a strike team to enforce the states covid19 rules, but its coming with some confusion. Well have an update after the break. Plus officials in hayward are blaming the pandemic for the amount of trash piling up on city streets, whats behind the growing problem. A month and the pandemic frontline workers say they still dont have enough supplies to protect themselves and Congress Wants to know why im just eaten or in washington and all that story coming up. And were taking a live look outside at the san mateo bridge 57 degrees right now in hayward and traffic is moving well so far we have a complete weather and traffic check coming up after the break stay wi welcome back everyone, the time for 14 good morning, happy friday and thanks for staying with us lets check in with dave spahr we need to get an update on the 4th of july Holiday Weekend well good morning there robin good morning, everybody in a pretty decent weekend. We have in store for us going to feel very summer like as we get into the 4th now sunday will be a little bit of a different story actually. Live shot coming in from u c berkeley so check one weve got the fog checking in here again today, well see a nice warm up though happening even along the east bay shoreline later on the for this weekend. Live shot also Golden Gate Bridge. Some of the blaze going on here too but no traffic as of yet more going on here pretty quiet. If these in some lower 60s fremont redwood city for example in valais ho those are the 3 that i spotted right there in the 50s elsewhere pretty much throughout the bay 62 redwood city is well down the peninsula. So lets watch what happens those clouds and fog that we have here in kind of spins around a little bit here for the next couple of hours. But as we approach new into the afternoon or into the mostly sunny mode. We dont see much interfering with us on july 4th itself, lets check and at some of these winds now well look for the color is a shun that happens the typical on shore winds being driven by inland heating. That will be the story going on here as you can see for this afternoon tomorrow, pretty nice as we talk about going to be warm. But look what happens late in the day a little up tick in terms of those winds all on shore and this is a little bit driven son optically meaning that its going to be a change of weather as we get into our sunday still quite windy into sunday mornings will notice. Good strong northwest winds and temperatures will correct on sunday or changed much more. What were looking at on saturday only side note about all this will be some for some wherever there are fireworks going on and stuff like that will be having some winds late saturday night as a side note. Ok so weve got some morning fog to deal with and some clouds breezy and mild all that going on for today for saturday, the 4th its sunny and warm to hot depending on your location 90s happening inland 80s around the bay and then for sunday, not as warm fewer 90s around 80s pretty much the rule in london, some 70s replace those 80s at the bay for today were about 60 for San Francisco open 69. 84 san jose these numbers will be moving a little bit more so as we get into your july 4th. But again today its an 80 story for the far east bay, 83 up to santa rosa 18 64 meanwhile, San Francisco on 80 san jose. Coming up a little bit of course well be checking your 4 zone forecast see whats going on where you are for today. But again remember war warming going on tomorrow which well check it all out your extended to rob whats going on bay area bridges bridges are looking good the traffic is moving well, you know keep in mind that it stay a 4th of july Holiday Weekend and so some folks are off some were already sheltering in place and some are out of town so. Its light, its looking good here on 80 wesson to San Francisco. No delays at all a clear trip across the upper deck, lets head over to 92. There it is the peak of the 70 oh bridge and yes, its a little busy as usual. We see a lot of folks going east and west this morning between the east and peninsula. But so far no problems your drive time under 25 minutes between the nimitz and the bayshore well take a peek at more bridges coming up a little bit later. Well even though we are into this pandemic frontline workers in Industries Like health care transportation and sanitation say they still do not have enough personal protective equipment. Washington correspondent Jessi Turnure reports. We intend to get to the bottom of this South Carolina democrat jim clyburn said medical equipment Distribution Companies have notified lawmakers they have troubling concerns about the continuing lack of supplies for Health Care Workers in covid19 hotspots crime is it. The greatest nation on earth. Cannot get is 63 said mask. To everyone who needs one. During a press briefing thursday President Trump insisted u. S. Companies have all the equipment they need. And ahead of the administrations supply Chain Stabilization Task force told lawmakers states stockpiles have come a long way since the beginning of the pandemic 70 of the states. Have at least 30 to 6090 days of supplies on hand the companys worry the administration has a lot of politics to get in the way of a functional National Supply chain creating a free for all where each state must take charge of buying in distributing protective equipment, nobody is letting their foot off the gas Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise defended the administrations response to the pandemic as china was lying to austin the rest of the world, they were hoarding ppe supplies scali said one solution is to bring ppe manufacturing back to the u. S. When she said help solve the shortage of ventilators in the early stages of the pandemic in washington, im Jessi Turnure. The California Senate has voted to expand job protections to more people who take time off to care for their family. Now previously the law allowed workers to work up to 12 weeks or take up to 12 weeks of leave but only protected the jobs of people who work at companies with at least 50 people. Well now the law expands protections to companies with at least 5 employees republicans and some moderates opposed the bill because they say the laws just too hard for Small Businesses to find shortterm replacements. Ousted u. S. Attorney general Geoffrey Berman has schedule is scheduled to appear at a closed door hearing of the House Judiciary Committee this week next week excuse me byrne served as a u. S. Attorney ernie in new yorks Southern District and prosecuted cases involving a number of President Trumps associates, including his former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen former was fired last month after he initially resisted attorney general William Barrs requests for him to resign. Well after months of searching fbi agents arrested Delaine Maxwell the former girlfriend and longtime associate accused trafficker Jeffrey Epstein federal prosecutors are charging that swell with 6 counts of connection with the ongoing federal investigation into epstein and his accomplices investigators say that for at least 3 years max will help them recruit groom and ultimately of these victims sometimes as young as 14 years old. These charges we announced today are the latest result. Or destination into epstein and the people around him who facilitated his abuse of minor victims, combating the exploitation of children. Its a priority of our office. We are committed to pursuing and prosecuting those who exploit and abuse minors. In case and in this case and every case. Maxwell has previously denied doing anything wrong and in a deposition called at least one of her accusers, a liar epstein was in a manhattan jail facing several charges when he reportedly committed suicide last august. The legendary broadcaster, hugh downs passed away wednesday at his home in scottsdale arizona downs got his start in radio, the first serving in world war 2 he once held the world record for appearing on television more hours than anyone else. His career included angry, abc news, 2020 and nbcs today show. He also hosted the tonight show for a brief time he retired back in 1999 in the his career his awardwinning broadcasting career. He was 99 years old i coming up next on the kron 4 morning news, millions of americans are getting ready to celebrate Independence Day. The pandemic is hampering plans. And a little peek outside were checking in on the golden gate traffic looks good no problems here on one on one a smooth commute into and out of San Francisco. Well have a complete weather and traffic check coming up in just a bit stay with us. Welcome back everyone millions of americans are getting ready to celebrate Independence Day this weekend, but no one of the country has freedom from the coronavirus John Lawrence reports. Fireworks will light up the sky and some cities, this 4th of july weekend. But covid19 is still in the air and contagious i hope we dont have a reprise of what happened on memorial day. With lots of people out there carefree rather than careful. Johns Hopkins University reports more than 2. 7 million confirmed cases in the u. S. And counting if you turn your back on the virus if you turn your back on science. Its going to bite you and thats whats happening in most of the u. S. Where were seeing increases President Trump is expected to celebrate an early Independence Day at Mount Rushmore friday says the u. S. Has control of covid19 were putting out the fires. But other places were long before us. And theyre now its a good life, its got a life. And were putting out that life because thats a bad life that were talking about kabul data company arrival list predicts more than 36 million americans are hitting the road this Holiday Weekend. Health officials once again stressed the importance of being cautious not that were against bars are drinking is just the science if you have lots of people in an indoor place for a long period of time not Wearing Masks youre going to have spread of covid i want everybody to have a good time. Carefully crew quickly im John Lawrence reporting. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, it could take years before the coronavirus makes a full recovery before the u. S. Makes a full recovery from the coronavirus is impact on the economy what this means for the bay area. A look outside were checking in on the bay bridge traffic still looks with i dont think well have a whole lot of traffic today so many folks are you know taking the day off of the weekend off think you have a nice commute if you do have to kids who are heading into San Francisco, well be right back stay with us. When its made with love, its made to be shared. Welcome back the time for 29 thanks for staying with us, lets head over to the Weather Center and get an update on your forecast nowadays for a day a good morning robin good morning, everybody and theyre still battling the fog this morning of the shoals live shot coming from u c berkeley east bay shoreline, the lights. We can even make it through the fog, yes that will clear out here in the next couple of hours. But heres the thing it wont be as aggressive tomorrow morning. Well see some better warming going on tomorrow and then cooling back down it looks like for sunday comparatively sake so in the next 48 hours things will be jumping around quite a bit here a little bit got the 50s covering a good portion of the bay 61. Valais whoa, 57 antioch unconquered 55 for livermore and 61 meanwhile for fremont the mid bay area is a bit cooler this morning just a touch and then inland the kind of a donut around it is a little warmer technically going on here the breakdown for you today 58 at 08 00am by 11 were talking 71. Temperatures today, not as warm as were expecting tomorrow but then again a drop down again were going to go and check in your 4 zone forecast coming up a little bit later on rob back to you all right sounds good. Thanks today. But california is reporting record breaking case numbers statewide now according to the States Health deaartment. There are more than 240,000 cases and nearly 6200 deaths. Theres more restrictions are put into place throughout most of the state Governor Newsome says said hes established a strike team to enforce the states covid19 rules. Now it
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