Limbo with the Current Administration blocking president elect to joe bidens transition into office the u. S. Is once again bracing for another surge in covid cases and hospitalizations with new records being set today. This as another one of the president s closest top advisers has tested positive for the virus Corey Lewandowski who is currently at home selfisolating its believed he may have contracted the virus while attending last Weeks White HouseElection Night party. President elect biden has made the coronavirus pandemic a major focus as he prepares to take office some say its also strategic that he named ron klain as white house chief of staff a top democratic attorneys who has been bidens advisers since the 1980s. He led the white house of all a Crisis Response in 2014 during the obama administration. President trump hasnt addressed latest covid spite but has focused on the election which she claims was rigged while his Campaign Continues to wage legal battles republicans have decided that they will not respect the will of the people inside the house is burning down. And they just refused to throw water on it the president tweeting this week we are making big progress results start to come in next week make America Great again. The Trump Administration continues to hold president elect bidens attempt at a smooth transition by blocking his access to daily Intelligence Briefings which previous incoming president s have received in the past. Critical information one leading republican senator said in this radio interview that the new administration should have access to theres nothing wrong. With Vice President biden getting the briefings to be able to prepare himself and so that he can be ready and if thats not occurring by friday. I will step in as well and to be able to push and say this needs occur. So that regardless of the outcome of the election whichever way it goes people can be ready for the actual task would be nice to have it. Its not critical. I think i kind of stand with joe biden i trust the intel community. Hes not president right now. I dont know if youll be president january 20th. But whoever is well get the information as you see republicans out making this decision the statement you can also look at for example, republicans like karl rove who are writing. Today that the Trump Campaign needs to give up the ghost on this and that is time to transition. Kareen wynter reporting there some influential republicans like senator lindsey graham, who is one of the president s biggest allies said that he believes president elect biden should have access to Intelligence Briefings in that that should start immediately. Covid cases surging and many states now on the brink of shutting down again democrats and republicans still cannot come to an agreement on a new covid stimulus package Democratic Leaders say Congress Needs to pass another covid aid package now pointing to the Health Crisis which is led to hospitals in some areas reaching maximum capacity, but republicans say its democrats who are playing politics because they blocked multiple votes for republican proposals to release previously appropriated money. For ppp there is more than a 137 billion dollars sitting there. The republicans should stop their shenanigans about an election that President Trump has already lost. And focus their attention on the immediate issue at hand. New covid cases in the u. S. Surpassed 100,000 a day for the past 9 days in with the threat of a shutdown out there. Democrats say they are not sure how long the economic upturn will last. It has been more than 2 weeks since plywood started you know going up over doors and windows in commercial buildings in downtown san francisco. All because of you know concerns surrounding the president ial election. Now more than a week after the election, many businesses are still barricaded in kron fours Maureen Kelly went to union square where she found all of the boarded up shops putting a damper on the Holiday Shopping season. Some shops in union square have their holiday merchandise on display, but youd hardly know it because of all the plywood covering their plate glass windows, its a intimidating some barricades are covering businesses that have gone under because of coronavirus but many are merchants who put up the wood or sometimes even medal because of concerns about rioting and looting erupted in the wake of the president ial election now more than a week past election day with President Trump so far refusing to concede to president elect joe biden some businesses are hesitant to take their protective plywood back down there could be some uncertainty you know if the president contest the election so. We just try to protect ourselves do have people know that the stores are open down here karen flood with the Union Square BusinessImprovement District says. About 10 to 15 merchants have already taken down their barricades and more are expected to follow suit soon. But some may say brace for trouble into january. Just in case those i talked to downtown dont like it, but they get it theres no way to predict what will happen. Probably nothing probably is not good enough if your with a plate glass window, i think thats a commentary of all is said. Whether an election goes one way or another way we should be able to accept. With the decision was in people think different than we do we do. Because of the pandemic union square already wont have ice skating this year. But the tree will be lit up starting next week. Theyll also still be lighting the menorah and soon it will start projecting a light show at night to help inject a little bit of holiday magic. In a year that really needs it Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Tropical to has made landfall in florida for a second time fierce winds and rain. It came ashore, north of the tampa area and humble region. Homes were damaged streets you see flooded and power was knocked out to several areas about force chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joining us now with the latest on. Where 8 it is right now boy just kind of rolling up right along the eastern seaboard. It is not done yet. It is still causing some problems bringing some more heavy rainfall thunderstorms see some more isolated tornadoes the continues to roll its way through but it has weakened somewhat you can see has made way across florida now along parts of the carolinas. Look at the kind of just rolling right up through that area so it looks like its going to be an active night theres going to see numerous thunderstorms but a lot of the activity beginning to move off the coastline and that will be the trend is going to start to work its way a little further off the coast, but you see the kind a little ripple in the atmosphere that looks like a cold front that role right and over the top to kind of enhancing some of the Stormy Weather there. But storm enough wilmington you can see very heavy storms there are now more heavy rain the possibility of flash flooding tonight, then by tomorrow morning looks like it will move off the coast and be long gone guys back to you. Thanks lawrence up next he became a viral sensation by breaking into businesses and scrounging around for stax the 500 pound bear captured after being on the run for weeks now. And despite a season filled with injuries and disappointment. The niners defense is still finding a way to hang in there. Sports director jason dumas us talks about the defensive coordinator and his thoughts on how they look going into a tough game in new orleans thats coming up. And one south bay city giving the homeless an opportunity to make some cash parts of san jose have a blight problem youve got trash piling up on the sides of roads but now the city is giving Homeless People a chance to make some cash through a program called cash for trash, san jose mayor sam liccardo announced the citys partnership with mastercard and valley water today under this program, homeless folks can pick up trash encampments in exchange for reloadable cards from mastercard. Mastercard is launching the cash for trash program in various cities across the country with san jose being the first san jose Officials Say theyre already seeing some impressive results. A sixday period. Weve enlisted 27 participants. We have collected more than 2 tons of trash. In our streets and out of our waterways that is a tremendous contribution and im grateful to the members of our inhouse community were willing to participate. Obviously its a great benefit to us as a community and also provides us a pathway to begin the conversations that we need to be able to start to provide services to many of those on the house. Maybe otherwise service resistant. Hopefully its a winwinwin 2 tons of trash thats a lot people will be paid 4 for each bag of trash, they collects the money can be used to pay for essential items with minor restrictions see cant buy things like alcohol or tobacco. Still ahead why many people dont plan to return to the workplace ev 100 beef and hearty chili. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Its pretty delicious. 100 beef and hearty chili. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Its pretty delicious. To tell you the pandemic is really fundamentally change the way we work socialize certainly go to school and although theres this talk of a vaccine looks kind of promising might be on the horizon. Even if the vaccine is successful a lot of people. Not us. Still going to continue working from home once the theres a 6 foot distance legal. Investigator sprus shia is getting answers about why people want to lets pray she right people want to stay out of the office. When the pandemic first began officers like this emptied out people were told they had to work from home, but after 9 months of doing that a lot of folks are now saying hey i never want to come back to the office again. When working from the office ended las martins was apprehensive that that is going to be hard not seeing my coworkers and you know sharing idea but Remote Working platforms allowed us to keep sharing ideas and staying in contact with coworkers a recent survey by cisco says 87 of Remote Workers like working from home and want the option to keep doing so several major corporations are offering employees the ability to work at home permanently including zillow most of the impact that weve seen has been positive a study by robert half recruiting agency indicate 61 of companies now advertising fully remote jobs. I think this is the new normal. The data shows that reason i b m study says well more than half the people would like to continue Remote Working 75 of them thought that going into the office now and again would be helpful that i people need a change of venue after a sure is nice to come home, some new and refreshing you dont really get that if you work from home all day every day. Though some companies will give up their pricey real estate, many firms believe that some sort of Office Environment will continue to be necessary. We believe that even if people are working from home. Its going to be important that they have our offices to come together collaborate thing kept time would be good. Like taking still have the social interaction at work. But i can also have some time that i can do my own work from home with my time management which means down the road companies will need to support and embrace hybrid work environment, even as Remote Working continues to grow. And that was see special reporting in the coming year experts predict the number of remote jobs. Could double. Scientists in Great Britain of develop a new kind of surgical mask that is able to actually kill coronavirus. Yet most masks they have 3 layers, but this one has 5 specialized masks are embedded with a nano copper layer evidently kills covid19 the Developers Say that the masks should be available for purchase in december. People that work in hospitals transportation and food service will get those masks first. Biotech Company Moderna meanwhile says it could have the results from its covid19 vaccine trial. By the end of the month. The companys been conducting a clinical trial. Using 30,000 participants half of whom received a placebo moderna is now preparing all the data to be set to an independent panel of experts for review. It believes the board will have the efficacy results just after thanksgiving. Pfizer announced earlier this week its vaccine is 90 effective against covid. For sports. Have had their struggles this season coupled with a rash of injuries but with all Things Considered the defense has still been very good and remains amongst the best units in the league and if the niners want to make a playoff push it will have to write that defense to do so just in the next 3 weeks alone, the niners will face some of the most powerful offense is in the nfl. They have the saints this week then next week to have the rams and then following that they host the bills. The niners are only giving up 23 points per game and youd figure. Theyd have to even tightened that up even more so over the next month. Defensively i thought we had 2 fantastic just feeling or speed or energy or Communications Just they were alive and thats. You a direct correlation to the to the break that they got so its very very beneficial and. Not to look ahead and pass this this particular game obviously but having the bye we could only be better for them to a surge towards a 2nd half of the year. Yesterday we talked about all the good things that have come with the raiders 5, 3, start mainly that offense. Now its time to talk about some of the bad mainly that defense the vegas defenses amongst the worst in the nfl theyre giving up over 28 points per game defensive coordinator Paul Guenther talked about how his defense can improve ahead of the sunday matchup. We just got to keep you know making sure theyre in the right position practice. These bad, you know those types near him. We greatest things every day in practice every week and again we give a factor grades 4 second and whatever may be so weve got to continue to keep our foot on the fundamentals of things were doing and hopefully well keep our crew. All right we saw vintage tiger today at augusta just check out the shot check out the approach i mean its great to see him back out there. He shot a 68 in the opening round of the masters and is just 3 strokes behind paul casey who sits atop that leaderboard i told you is a great shot right there. It was the first time in 23 masters appearances that would open the tournament without a bogey he will be back in tee off tomorrow afternoon. I did everything well today him arnswald putted the only real batch i had today was at 8 you know i had a perfect number with a secure sandwich i had on the wrong but did everything well. So great were just talking about it. So asters are going on right now this you know months the most delayed, and its even weirder because it feels like 2 years ago. But tigers the defending champion remember watching that you know live, i was in los angeles. Its wild that that was the last time a masters will play. Yeah that was one of these sporting events because of the way he was his dad when you first one now kids and always been through yeah that was special and here we are almost thanksgiving. Why not play the masters right you know, this is a year where everything is were thats it might well embrace yeah a lot of people watching that one yeah appreciate it is a son. Still to come. A hungry intruder get big old thing bear caught on camera breaking into a gas station. Looking for grub how wildlife officials are now making sure this frequent visitor. Keeps going back stays come experience floor and decors grand opening in san leandro safely shop our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. Discover the perfect floor at the perfect price in whatever way is perfect for you. Floor and decors newest location is now open. Also open in milpitas and burlingame. A very big and hungry bear. In north lake that was caught on video breaking into gas hes actually been caught. Doesnt learn his i yeah, i mean bark. Arts, yeah. This video taken in september, but its just been released it. It shows one of several incidents between store owners and the bear in question. Likes the food there california fish and wildlife Officials Say this is a 16 yearold 500 pound. Male bear look at the guy whos trying tell him to get out i know, i dont think thats how you deal with the you know going to talk to it along that no for real though of a wildlife Officials Say they they got the bear and they moved it to a more suitable. Habitat in the wild, but all right, golly. Diamonds are a girls best friend and this is her soul mate that take a look at this extremely rare purple pink. Diamond its a dub spirit of the rose which just snapched a cool. 26. 6 Million Dollars at an auction in nearly 28 carats it is the largest ross tone, a color ever found it in russia. So calls it a true wonder of nature. That our 4 zone forecast girls best quote for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow. Knows all about oh boy thats a little bit out of my days though that a little expensive folks weve storm clouds roll toward the bay area Doppler Radar showing you couple, those raindrops begin to try and make their way in our direction not just yet though i think it will take some time before starts a role in that will be in the morning before we probably start to see couple popup showers in the north bay in fact, some of those showers coming through big to begin with really kind of light rain as the storm system kind of rolls on by and then you can see by the afternoon across most of the bay area so it looks like weve got some rain on the way were not done there yet got a chance some more showers i think as we head into next week too but between them some of those temperatures going back to the 60s 70s by sunday and monday. Pretty good yeah bring it bring it, yeah here we go a long overdue thank you lawrence and that wraps up kron 4 news at 6 sure does thanks for joining us good night. Right. Announcer not again. Deborah the cruciate hit with covid19. Announcer the door knock that came when we were interviewing this passenger appear to speed on whats happening . Announcer then the Reba Mcentire cough heard across the usa. Excuse me, not a good time to do that, is it . Announcer and they went for a covid19 test. Deborah why was the bill 6800 . Announcer then the hero who open to the water to save the thinking motorist. Speak a look at these great heroes. Announcer he only has one leg. I would take it off. Announcer and