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Other just a gesture drive into work based on that instead of having to put on that super thick jacket like he did yesterday you look outside from the berkeley hills, not much of a look at anything at all just yeah, definitely some low clouds blocking out the view of the east bay as we work our way through the morning youll notice that times that were holding on to those low clouds even a little bit later on into your morning commute. So as you leave for work around 08 00am youll still notice some low clouds hanging out overhead. For the most part visibility under bridges should be ok as this layer of cloud cover sitting right above the bay itself. Later on today, youll still notice an increase in cloud cover compared to the past few days. But definitely some sunshine in brightness making its way through as for current temperatures, not near as cool as we were yesterday most of us are in the 40s and 50s to start in fact, im only seeing one 30 on the map right now thats for you in cloverdale at 39 degrees santa rosa a much warmer start than yesterday, a 49 while oakland, one of our warmest of spots at 57 degrees right now look at this temperature change from yesterday we are well above 10 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago for santa rosa, its 18 degrees up livermore 17 degrees warmer than at the same time yesterday later on today we will see daytime highs not much different than they were so sure were off to a warmer start to the morning. But that doesnt mean our afternoon is going to be warmer still just going to be hanging out the low 60s for most of the day. More details in this forecast are still ahead back to you rob all right. Thank you sir, lets check in on the traffic. Were taking a peek at 80. The drive into San Francisco looks really good for now no problems here to worry about on westbound 80 leaving oakland and working your way into downtown San Francisco. We remain hot spot free. And thats what we like to see so were off to a fantastic start all right, lets check in on another bridge, we have 92 your trip across the san mateo bridge. No problems no crashes no stalls all is well and easy commute here from the east bay heading off to the peninsula and were checking in on the golden gate there it is no problems for one oh one traffic remains nice and light and smooth into and out of San Francisco will check more traffic coming up a little bit later. Well part of the bay area are taking a step back with reopenings after a rise in covid19 cases and hospitalizations well Contra Costa County moved from the orange tear to the more restrictive red tear yesterday and even though San Francisco remains in the yellow tier local Health Experts are preparing for the state to move back. Well mayor london breed announced significant rollbacks yesterday cell starting friday night the city will eliminate Indoor Dining gyms and theaters will go back to reduce capacity of 25 and schools, currently open for in Person Learning can remain open. But additional reopening of high schools across San Francisco have been put on hold. Well currently only private schools have been given the green light to reopen in San Francisco High School Students who are set to return to the class next week have to wait, San Francisco Unified School District is still assessing individual School Facilities and also working on agreements with teachers and staff, the districts calls for bringing back students in waves will do it in ways that help to returning the most vulnerable students by january. One district commissioner says plenty of work still needs to be done. Overall its really goes into think to gain presenting what at longer term. District white system looks like with that time train. With its Safety Measures that need to be in place in order for our students and our educators in our staff to be back on sites. Well another big problem that School Leaders are facing as they still dont know just how many students will return back to the classroom for in Person Learning. Well commissioners will vote on that proposed resolution during a special meeting and thats going to happen next tuesday. Well some livermore are calling on the School District to reopen schools now the district has chosen to continue Distance Learning even though Alameda County gave schools, the green light to reopen nearly a month ago but Livermore Valley joint Unified School District does not plan to reopen its campuses at least until january 19th the school board has discussed to learning options so the first one as a transition to a hybrid model of education with some Students Learning at home and then other schools there on campus. Well the second option is to remain entirely in Distance Learning with the option of in person support hubs until schools fully reopen. Well one mother of 2 girls says the district is just wasting time. They are asking for a 67 majority vote from the community before they would even consider opening for a hybrid which to me is the most ludicrous thing ive ever heard when has childrens education become a democracy. Well the School District has sent out a survey to parents you know just asking them to choose either the hybrid model or Distance Learning by monday. Getting that some people usually plan on hitting the gym to shake off those extra holiday pounds right. But thats about to get a little tricky in San Francisco. So starting friday Fitness Centers in the city. Well actually be required to reduce capacity to a maximum of 50 people indoors or less than 25 capacity. Kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky reports. San francisco gyms will be required to make capacity changes come friday. The city will require Fitness Centers to reduce capacity to 50 people from 100 they can operate at less than 25 capacity. The rollbacks come as coronavirus cases are increasing we were one of the survivors that. Fortunately could reopen when youre allowed to and you know were finally gaining some momentum in unfortunately, the cases arising director of marketing and fitness sf Trey Mcfarland says their gym locations were rd erring on the side of caution in operating at less than the allowed max capacity. He says the new rollbacks will reduce their capacity to anywhere from 30 to 40 members but is more worried for the restrictions come later, you know, were were trying to do everything we can in our closure would just be devastating and can really put more people out of business and makes 3 fitness owner Dave Carragher shares these concerns, everybody has been really really focus on whats going to happen in new years day because thats when new years resolutions kick in. And thats when all of these fitness businesses they really make so much of their annual revenue in those first 3 months of the year so for still going backwards and people dont have the opportunity to go to a gym to live up those new years resolutions are going to be trouble while the new rollbacks one affects smaller gyms with less capacity like his. Course as moving backwards in state reopening tears would which is why he and others asked people in the city to continue to do their part its up to all of us to make sure that. You know we do our job to make sure people feel safe but also that residents do their job to to stay headed in the right direction. While San Francisco has it moved backwards when it comes to the states reopening tears. The mayor says were on track to do so if we continue to see a rise in cases. She says thats why she impose these restrictions to keep more businesses open. Its also another important reminder to mask up and not get too comfortable as were still well in deep in this pandemic in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Well as the weather continues to get colder around the bay area, many Restaurant Owners in San Francisco. Now need to come up with a special way to navigate outdoor dining, its getting a little complicated. Laurie thomas with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association owns 2 restaurants in kaleb she says that so many restaurants were already struggling in coming of the upcoming ban on Indoor Dining is just another blow that can have longterm effects. Its not that 25 makes or breaks a restaurant, its just 25 allows you to maybe survive in a few people that couldnt open for outside allows them to open and brought all their staff back and so its going to have a devastating effect theres going to be an immediate stop layoffs, youre going to see some restaurants that recently reopened number were 6 weeks into the 25 Indoor Dining capacity in addition to take out in addition to deliver a tiny not take out in addition to outdoor dining. So were going to see a pullbacks and staffing were going to see closures. Well Health Officials say the issue with indoor facilities is all about the aerosol component of the virus right which allows the virus to spread so well see what happens. Well to the east bay lafayette is implementing a temporary 15 cap on fees charged by at base fooddelivery businesses, you know like Doordash Uber eats and grubhub up. Well the Lafayette City Council unanimously approved the measure aimed to help struggling restaurants. The council also agreed on a 10 vendor fee cap on pickup orders. The new ordinance will take effect next monday and remain in place until the covid19 Health Emergency is declared over. Well everything from Retail Stores to Fitness Centers will be impacted by Contra Costa Countys latest round of rollbacks this move of from the orange tier back to the red means you know its going to start this friday. So Retail Stores to 50 capacity indoor shopping malls and food courts reduced to 25 capacity. Office work spaces must operate remotely Higher Education lecturers and gatherings thats down to 25 gyms and Fitness Centers to 10 capacity indoor pools and bowling alleys and other Indoor Entertainment Centers must close amusement parks cannot operate and most live outdoor theater and music and artistic performances are prohibited. Stepping back now just its necessary i guess case numbers are going up and something is you know got to. Keeping restrained were hoping by taking these actions. That were not only reducing the risk of transmission in these businesses but also sending out. A signal to the community that we really need to maintain all the steps that gonna numbers in the late summer early fall. Keep in mind that these restrictions do not prevent schools from reopening for indoor instruction. Its giving a Bay Area Transportation agency is considering layoffs the Golden Gate Bridge district will decide on friday whether or not to start cutting jobs. So the districts board of directors has 3 options so one is to cut 205 positions mostly bus drivers and ferry employees. The second option avoid layoffs by temporarily raising bridge tolls by 2 and then that 3rd option is to temporarily raising the tolls by one 1. 25 and avoid layoffs but require employees to take one unpaid furlough day per week. Now if the district does decide to try to raise tolls there would have to be a Public Comment period and then the board would have to vote again. Now if the tolls increase the toll increase were to fail the district would actually move forward with those layoffs. So well keep you posted. All right coming up next on the kron 4 news americans showed up and came out bringing pride to the polls in 2020. There are more incoming lgbtq elected officials across america then any time in history. And from activists to the newest member of the Oakland City Council will have the story of carrolls of peace when and what this means for the future of oakland city government. And cheers to charity. How a group of california breweries are coming together to help families affected by the creek fire. Welcome back everyone the times for 15 good morning to you and thanks for staying with us that hump day were getting over the hump and looking forward to the weekend, lets check in with john trouble see how the forecast is shaping up little chilly in a little drizzly out there have wipers going john yeah, definitely looking at some changes from yesterday the drizzles one of those things youll definitely notice as you are venturing outside turning on those wipers noticing some low clouds sitting right above San Francisco, too. Big change from yesterday when we had Crystal Clear skies. But the coldest of temperatures this morning partially thanks to that cloud cover that we have across the bay area. Temperatures are not near as cold as where they were yesterday so we are seeing a nice break from the core of that chill now as we work our way through the rest of the forecast we do have another dip in the jet stream working its where direction is going to open the storm door yet again later this week resulting in the potential of some showers returning to the region this morning. Were in the midst of an increasing cloud cover and some fog youll notice a little bit more clouds into the afternoon today. Tomorrow, youll notice a few more clouds even yet and some showers pushing back in to the pacific northwest. This is 04 15pm tomorrow notice of the bay areas dry. But there are showers on her doorstep by the time work into friday morning showers along the north coast of the state, including snowfall in the upper elevations and rain at the coast. The showers push their way our direction in by your commute time home from work on friday, it looks like well start to see some rain in the north bay pushing across the rest of the bay area come the rest of friday night into Early Saturday Morning after this we dry out to sunday monday and tuesday before after that into the middle of next week another storm system vying the bay area so this forecast is staying active with times of dry weather and then times where we see more pushes of rain fall something that we certainly do need to be seeing 50s and 60s are back in play for todays daytime highs really not a big change from yesterday yet again we might be off to a warmer start this morning in the 40s and 50s but our daytime highs just as cool as they have been low 60s across the south bay with san jose at 62 upper 50s to low 60s across the east bay today, oakland youll be at 62 as well conquered walnut creek down through san ramon and on up towards the north bay also sharing that same range of low 60s for the day today midfifties once you head out right along the coastline will one oh one from mill valley to santa rosa, pretty similar to yesterday, not just a couple of degrees cooler. Heres a look ahead at the next 7 days today tomorrow friday, not changing much nor will saturday as far as temperatures go we will see that best chance of showers looking likely late friday into early saturday sunday drive back out as does monday before a chance of showers return into tuesday of next week. Now evening lows, not looking quite as chilly as they had been these are even inland lows, mostly only dropping into the 30s and 40s well bayside in coastal areas, seeing temperatures only falling into the 40s. Robin thank you for the update lets update your morning drive around the bay area. I noticed that the roads were a little slick. So watch your speed out there were checking in on the bay bridge checking the trip into San Francisco. Its looking good. No delays no problems no issues a little windy theres a wind advisory for the bay bridge. But all is well right on through downtown San Francisco. All right, lets head over to 92 were tracking the trip across the san mateo bridge taking a look at traffic from the east bay over to the peninsula do we have the 7 to bridge. There it is a little late, but we got it, no big problems here rolling out of hayward over to the peninsula. Its packing up just a little bit approaching the high rise section but all is well into foster city and san mateo. Well the creek fire burning in parts of Fresno County is the largest single fire in state history. Well the fire began back in Early September and scorched nearly 400,000 acres local breweries are stepping up to help with the creek fire in the recovery efforts, wealthy jenner has that story. I local Business Community the people fresno focus amanda berry is one of several very stepping up raising an estimated 35,000 along with 18 other local businesses to help the creek fire disasters in creek fire fires are devastating you know and theres fires all over the state of california and beyond just one hit close to home because it is just in our backyard. We want to see things turn around. And we want to see 2020 on the air 2021 hopefully a better year for everybody. It seems like every brewery right now. In the local community has stepped up in some way to give back and to support this disaster. Thats happened in our backyard in it. Its a truly is empowering Toyota Sequoia Brewing Company recently pledged one percent of their annual sales to the Central Sierra Resiliency Fund through nonprofit one percent for the planet meaning for the next 5 years an anticipated 20,000 plus annually will be donated to creek Fire Recovery efforts in their communities always been a very friendly and social community, i mean and to see this fire just devastate this our local mountain community. It was it was a really. It was really a call to action 400,000 acres have been devastated by the creek fire. Well that was wealthy general reporting for us and as of this morning, the creek fire is 70 contained that fire has damaged or destroyed close to 1000 structures. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news, we all try to social distance and wear a mask in public. What happens if theres a covid19 positive person in your home. Well have tips on how you can keep your house is infected and safe after the break. Welcome back everyone for your health this morning with covid19 cases at an alltime high across the nation. Many people are now face to face with the virus right inside of their homes brent skarky takes a look at what to do when you have a covid positive person living in your house. We know that there are people stay in the same dont you know getting tested Infectious Disease doctors say the best way to do that a separate it is just possible that means the covid positive person should use a separate bedroom and separate bathroom of possible dispeesants should be trying to stay on the c out of this common here is that if they cant clean and disinfect electronics door knobs and handles and heart services, especially in the kitchen, 3 times a day. And for soft surfaces like sofas and furniture try to cover those obviously making as far as or are worried about the virus not being able to be. Killed on that same standard cleaners so high. Get aerosol type cleaners and experts say both healthy and sick people should wear a mask if in the same room you can open windows thats possible you something that can help getting not know that air kind of circulating make sure the trash cans have liners for contaminated items that when its time to do the laundry keep the sick persons item separate and he water hotter water go ahead and do that right. Can have it for the army has for air ducts possibly spreading the virus between rooms i think its less likely to to be able to make it all the way through the jackson going into the rooms you can you know move stability especially people maybe some of these higher ris conditions but if you did leave when is it safe to move back in as a person is no longer considered contagious after they have 3 days without fever and 10 days after symptoms started experts say in that case the sick person should be feeling better enough to clean the house thoroughly before Healthy People come back inside. Well that was brent skarky reporting experts say the professional house disinfecting is an option if you can afford id. But usually you know those standards store bought cleaners will do the job just fine. Still ahead on the kron 4 Morning News Health insurance for millions at stake outs the Supreme Court takes on the Affordable Care act again. What this means and what youll see coming up. Welcome back everyone coming up on 4. 29 good morning to you once again and thanks for waking up with us dark and early we appreciate your company. We need to get an update on the forecast, lets see how hump day the rest of the week is shaping up hey john hey robin yes, some big changes in the forecast for the rest of the week. We made our way from are Crystal Clear skies and our very frigid temperatures. To what is a much more mild but definitely foggier to cloudier morning. Were in the midst of right now looking outside from your berkeley cam can see much out there is being blocked by some of those low clouds that have pushed into the bay area overnight. We are going to be seeing a moderating effect on temperatures due to this clouds blanket thats sitting over head keeping us a lot more comfortable than where we were yesterday morning you can see that there is a visible cloud a blanket all the way towards our inland areas here in your fog cast most areas of lower in elevation like our bridges or bay, shore freeways. Theyre actually pretty free of a lot of those visibility impacts because this foggy blanket sitting right above the bay as for temperatures were in the 40s and 50s certainly beats those 20s and 30s or were at the same time yesterday berkeley europe, 52 oakland at 57 right now cloverdale are only spot on this path at least showing the upper 30s at 38 degrees is a big difference from where we were yesterday nap up 15 degrees from 24 hours ago, oakland conquered livermore pretty similar changes for you starting off this morning on a much more mild though. Later on today we may be mild this morning we