Francisco right now not interfering with anything shower activity is still well to the north across Northern California and eventually up into washington and oregon, which are if you look towards the washington oregon border, theres actually some pretty heavy rainfall their direction. Here in the bay area our shower activity just coming a little bit later on and for the Sierra Nevada we do have Winter Weather advisories and Wind Warnings ahead of what will be a very snowy rest of the day ahead these will take effect at 10 00am last until 10 00pm if youre heading to the sierra make sure to bring the chains with yeah, 40s and 50s for most of our current temperatures to much more mild morning than what we had yesterday when it was so chilly to kick things off the lay how and Oakland Beach at 49 while santa rosa only of 43 concord pittsburgh fairfield in San Francisco, all kicking off this morning, right at 50 degrees. So definitely not a bad start to the day do anticipate that rain later on which will impact your drive home from work with some slick roads. But robin for commuters, it is nice to see that it is right out there right now, yes, it is and when the rain comes they have to slow down thats the key were checking in on the traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza looks looks fantastic. By the way with no big problems on 80 into San Francisco 92 is picking up heres your traffic leaving hayward west of the toll plaza and its a little sluggish, but this is normal. This is good for friday. Were only at 13 minutes off to one on one, so thats a great start here on 80 into San Francisco were not seeing the usual back up or not the same one we had yesterday at this time right, its just wide open delay free 11 minutes and growing off to fremont street some road construction, the usual crowd of to traveling toward downtown oakland 80 right around fruitvale they are picking up the cones right now so if you take the minute you will encounter a little bit of crowding from a high street to just north of fruitvale right there, but the rest of the nimitz like san leandro and into downtown open looks great 21 minutes is a really good drive time, but if you want to stay away from the construction in the minor crowding you can always take 5. 80 thats a great alternate and its wide open ill check for traffic coming up in a bit darya james, thanks a lot 6 02 and our top story parts of the bay area to roll back restrictions because of an increase in covid cases and hospitalizations yeah and the east bay reopening rollbacks in Contra Costa County have moved to county from the orange here to the more restrictive read here. And while San Francisco still remains in the yellow minimal tear. And of an abundance of caution some restrictions are set to take place there as well kron fours will tran standing by live in San Francisco with more on the story well. San francisco is doing so well when it came to handling covid19 cases but they have seen an explosion in the number of covid19 cases over the past several weeks 250 increase starting in midoctober so they rather be safe than sorry, yes, theyre still in the yellow tier, not the red tier which is obviously more restrictive but you can see those tables behind me. They are in massive jeopardy because they probably will have people sitting there because Outdoor Dining is basically the super the day moving forward because the covid19 cases need to be handled for now. So whats going to happen is restaurants and bars, theyre not allowing Indoor Dining that was very important because that brought business back to the restaurants and with the cold weather. Thats not going to happen at this particular Time High School activities that were scheduled to be indoors thats not going to happen as well and gyms in theaters you might recall that day when the sky turned orange were outside a gym. So many people were happy to go back inside the gyms thats not going to happen till the full capacity, 25 now 55 people at maximum either in the theaters or the gyms because they want to create that social distance as far as the restaurants and bars they will have to continue doing takeout or have people outside dine in the cold and unfortunately tonight, the rain is coming. In what with a very small so we can only do the bays first and then the next step is to build groove and even that was to have to say, but. And then i dont know what to do if it rains that mean i wont have any more die in business we do have a roof on our part but. Outside of the rain comes one direction and not coming down it comes to the sides people are going to still going to get away and then we have a parkland but outside dining we dont have covers. The normal on the sidewalks is going to really challenging. Its going to be very hard james and areas you might recall even in the summer months a lot of people chose us to wait it out because they didnt have the budget even by chairs and tables for even the sidewalk in now with the rain that to do the awning and then the heat lamps weve done stories on that those portable he lands there in short supply now because everybody is trying to run out to get their hands on that San Francisco they realize that they are trying to tap into 4 Million Dollars to help the restaurants, the businesses that are suffering from covid19 people are starting to walk around right now and we will get reaction coming up at 7 oclock so he goes from good times at least a little bit of freedom right back to where we were. Back to you thats how fast. Thanks a well in San Francisco, the Unified School District theyre also expanding its efforts to inspect more classrooms before some in person classes. Resume in january the district says that it will partner with the city of San Francisco to get those inspections done now the district has inspected 20 of its cool so far but School Officials say that an additional 65 still need to be assessed before the youngest students and other vulnerable groups can come back. Inspections include making sure that windows are working they want to check the hand washing stations as well as inspecting the classroom lights as well. In the north a county is at risk of joining Sonoma County in being in the states most restrictive purple tier, this because of halloween parties and family gatherings kron fours gayle ong reports from benicia. Here in downtown benicia businesses are preparing for square one of the pandemic offering Curbside Pickup and delivery. I spoke to one county supervisor who says reopening rollback some Solano County will happen next week. Weve heard it before wearing mask, you know sanitizing their Clean Environment keeping social distancing. But still a disconnect when it comes to preventing the spread of covid19 according to Solano CountyPublic Health theres been a large outbreaks from halloween parties and family gatherings preventing the county to move forward in the reopening process that really punishing Small Businesses here for county supervisor jim sparing says since the pandemic businesses are hanging by a string for years and life savings just being. You know last and you know families disrupted, Michelle Young owns daughter of luna floral design in downtown benicia and is preparing for the unknown if its going to be more strict than last time. Definitely during the Holiday Season if we have to shut down again its really going to impact our business for months young has been trying to keep up with state county and city guidelines we do require masks, we do require you to sanitize our staff has been a pare down a little bit so theres not so many of us working at the same time. Which means that sometimes your deliveries are a little bit late. But were doing the best that we can just last month Solano County moved it here to the red tier of the states covid19 framework. Which indicates a substantial level of infection in the community. Health Officials Say the recent halloween outbreaks are almost as high as it was in the peak of the virus during early summer months thats as high as 100 cases a day the county needs to report fewer than about 31 cases per day to stay out of the most restrictive purple tier i just that the state would target where the problem is you know we all need to do a much better job communicating with the public and our bodies get more now. But before they get through this economically we weve got to be smart and Work Together another supervisor suggested producing Television Advertisements and using billboards to encourage the use of masks practicing social distancing. Its a county can remain out of the purple tier businesses like restaurants and gyms and movie theaters can operate indoors. I reduced capacities, reporting in Benicia Gayle ong kron 4 news. Well another big story this morning california now has eclipsed more than a million covid cases. Its the second state to do so texas was the first california has recorded more than 19,000 deaths and here in the bay area. There are more than a 124,000 recorded cases with more than 1800 deaths. Well to drive down the coronavirus numbers, the top Health Adviser to president elect joe biden is suggesting the idea of a National Lockdown of anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks the idea of this National Lockdown would follow whats been done in countries like new zealand and australia. But doctor Robert Wachter who chairs you see San Franciscos department of medicine says that a lockdown is it necessary for the bay area specifically he says the country should take a more regional approach. There are clearly areas it mostly in the midwest that need to have something thats pretty close to a full on lockdown but when you look at the bay area for example, were definitely going in the wrong direction. But were nowhere near the kinds of numbers of hospitalizations or test Positivity Rate that would merit Closing Everything the back down to where we were in march. So its got to or regionally determined. And again this is just one suggestion from. President elect bidens Advisory Panel a lot of different ideas are being floated if there were to be a lockdown Business Leaders say the federal government must provide wages for out of work employees and provide greater support for Small Business owners than just a government loan. Time now 6. 10 and still ahead on this friday morning. Its been more than a week since the election but businesses are still boarded up around the bay area when will we see the plywood come down. And theres enough snow in the mountains allowing one ski resort at least to open its lips. Today well tell you where you can shred it make your holidays happen. At ross surprise ahhh yes i love it you dont have to spend a lot to give a lot to the ones who mean the most. 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You know whats cool about today is you can ski at mammoth theyre actually opening today, they got a significant amount of snowfall. A foot of snow get ready to ski, i earlier never now individual if tickets were told are already sold out for this weekend but for next time its obviously advise the plan ahead make reservations because of the covid19 protocols are asking everybody reserve a slot before you hit the slopes thats amazing im still a because i never go to miami site, yeah, the tahoe could be open by thanksgiving so they say its weird that one storm was enough to open up, but i guess theres going to be more added to that right john yeah, some fresh. How how so cool youre never said that my powder on the slopes up in the Sierra Nevada adding on top of what theyve already seen up there which was some of that white stuff last weekend to guess what more of a into next week too so were just stacking up the snowfall great to be seeing it too because we had such a drive past few months looking outside across the bay from our sausalito cam skies are pretty clear looking down its downtown San Francisco and will remain clear for a few more hours ahead of what will be the return of rainfall later on today now we are starting to see some shower activity in the very northern reaches of solano and napa counties just some very light showers up in that region most of us across the bay are still dry at this point you see all this energy stacked up to our north across the Pacific Northwest, the shower activity is currently pushing further and further southward into the course of the day ahead of us were going to be seeing everincreasing and more widespread light to moderate showers nothing that should be slowing you down too terribly much but do know that shower activity out there well make free slick drive home from work after such a dry commute into work so far this morning and not amounting to anything more than a quarter of an inch to 10th a 10th of an inch for rainfall totals across the bay, so just a nice light shower to get you going. 50s and 60s for your highs in San Francisco today as well as right along the coastline, daly city right at 60 degrees for the high while brisbane at 60 as well burlingame a mild 64 amid those increasing showers later today. Redwood city at 63 while woodside and saying carlos as well as foster city chat, 65, south bay temperatures not changing much from yesterday were keeping the low to mid 60s around for the east bay to union city youve been in the upper 50s quite a lot lately along with berkeley and you both are keeping those numbers around again today yacht villain sonoma in the mid to upper 50s while venetian pittsburgh at 59. Some of these north bay areas are more prone to sing that quarter of an inch of rainfall which are some of our higher estimates for rain potential in the bay. And like i said already looking at a couple light sprinkles right around areas, north of fairfield the northern Solano County mid 50s for santa rosa. Upper 50s in Petaluma Nevado and mill valley today. Lets get a look ahead at the next 7 days so today tomorrow temperatures not changing too much. Look at where were heading sunday monday and tuesday, though some sunshine and some 70s weve been cool lately so its kind of nice to see those 70s in this forecast. After this afternoons rainfall our next best chance of rain will be tuesday late in the day into wednesday lows will consistently drop into the 40s, not near as chilly as we had been so no 20s and not a whole lot of 30s for evening lows. So much more mild evenings and a few more chances of rain and yes that sierra snow through the forecast. Robin remember be extra careful extra cautious when youre driving in the rain in your driving in the snow you really have to slow down and take it easy and i say that because people forget and they drive a little too fast all right over to the richmond sandra fell bridge. We can see the traffic picking up here so yeah, the commute its well under way into the north bay but no problems so far its an easy drive of 7 minutes off 2, 1, o one were checking in on the bay bridge traffic still moving well into San Francisco all the way up to the toll plaza across the upper deck through downtown. It is friday light for now, but sometimes on fridays commuters get a later start so its not that were not going to have traffic at all. The commute just picks up a little bit later in the morning so for now youre good 12 minutes off to fremont street were checking in on some drive times for you we have highway 4 but a smooth 6 80 south at the limit with no problems for to 42 the nimitz wide open san leandro to milpitas and one oh one looks really good as well northbound from the south bay to the peninsula. So well continue to check the bridges the freeways and the drive times ill have another check coming up in a bit back to you thanks a lot rob he is the time the department of Homeland Security says the 2020 election was the most secure election in u. S. History saying they found no evidence of widespread voter fraud this as president like biden is being block still from getting classified information as he forges ahead. With his transition Kareen Wynter has the latest. While the transfer of president ial power hangs in 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 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. But 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 that the Trump Campaign needs to give up the ghost on this and that is time to transition. Well as Kareen Wynter reporting President Trump has and held a News Conference in several days in fact he spent the day yesterday. Meeting with his Campaign Team and advisers inside the white house. Its been more than a week now since the election and many businesses in San Francisco are still boarded up the Business Owners say theyre still has a tent to take down the plywood kron fours Maureen Kelly tells us why. 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 metal 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 differently than 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. 6. 23 is the time coming up after the break local food banks are gearing up for the high demand that theyre anticipating well tell you why they say they may be struggling though to fill everyones needs. 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Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. 6. 26 and now is the time when food bank started get ready to make holiday meals for those in need but some are struggling to meet the demand the Alameda County food bank says the number of people who need food is double what it was last year right now their volunteers are helping to serve about 70,000 people every day and thats expected to grow. We have never seen numbers like we have seen. You know this year and we expect as we head deeper into november and december close to the holidays. Were probably going to see the longest lines weve ever experienced. The Alameda County food bank is says they are in dire need of financial help they are operating without any federal assistance they have been doing that since july and theyre also looking for volunteers. In Contra Costa County is back in the red here going to tell you what changes are coming to local Retail Stores and other restaurants welcome back it is 6. 30 right now and were taking a live look here at walnut creek it looks pretty clear out there right now it does yes skies beginning to brighten up there. There is rain in the forecast this weve got to keep that in mind in fact, lets get right to the Weather Center johns been tracking the system that we. Actually see a bit of on radar to our yeah were starting to see the evidence of that system right to our north on radar. So although most of us are dry for your morning commute which is definitely good news as you head to work this friday. Later on today, especially for your evening commute home is when youre going to be in the midst a lot of that widespread rain across the bay. An ominous look here at timber some low clouds really begin to move in overhead you can make out the Golden Gate Bridge out there in the distance under some brighter skies over San Francisco, lets get a look at satellite radar because it is showing a few of these isolated showers now making their way on into the base, im just going to break it down for you here weve got a couple of in areas like the western edge of San Francisco up into marine county and even southern Sonoma County. Our most widespread of rainfall right now is for those of you over towards fairfield and vacaville just to the north of you and then if youre heading up 80 or 5 o 5 a little bit further north up towards winters or davis just outside of the bay area. So there are some light showers working their way our direction obviously most of the rainfall still held up to our north across the Northern Edge of the Central Valley, the north coast of the state and then the really heavy rainfall up into the Pacific Northwest and a lot of that is heading our direction. Although what we have today is just light to moderate showers in the bay, enough snow in the Sierra Nevada that Winter Weather advisories and Wind Warnings both going into effect starting at 10 00am last until 10 00pm tonight, bring the chains with you if youre heading to the sierra and do plan on blowing snow low visibility on roadways potential of drifting snow too. And some of those driveways if youre heading into our highest of elevations. 40s and 50s for current temperatures it sure is a lot more mild than yesterday was at this time. We traded in the icy cold temperatures of yesterday with some shower potential later on today and ill be of course keeping you updated on that as we do see the showers drifting further and further our direction through the course of the morning it is nice though that were dry right now. Good news for your morning commute and robin is talking about some dry roads for the moment asked, but as you can see there are some clouds right there behind the now dont say people forget how to drive in the range i even if its just a little bit theyre already spending out so im glad youre giving us that headsup be careful folks take it easy in the rain all right were checking in on the dry roads right now were looking good right were off to the golden gate. Were taking a look at one o one which is smooth and at the limit so far so this is what we like to see to start off the morning drive are at 19 minutes. Thats where the southbound trip nevado to the toll plaza here the bay bridge toll plaza all is well no delays at all so far. It will probably come a little bit later that tends to happen on a friday, not that theres not going to be any traffic we just got a later start so right now its a great time to come on in and beat the rush 13 minutes off to fremont street and were checking in on some drive times here they look really good coming from the east shore, no big problems 24 is wide open out of walnut creek 5. 80 and the name its nice and smooth. So far from to downtown oakland, ill keep my eyes on the traffic well have more updates coming up in a bit james darya thanks a robiro the bay area rolling back on reopening because of a rise in covid cases and hospitalizations yeah you can see in the east bay weve got solano and Contra Costa County moving from the orange chair to the more restrictive red tier. That rollback probably impacting well lots of things businesses restaurants gyms all of that involves rinehart is on in walnut creek taking a look at what theyre having to do there right now. One major changes big retail giants like target only able to operate at 50 capacity, but that did not stop theres a lot of people you see behind me everybody came out to get that new p s today so theyve been out here been out here since about 4 oclock this morning the targets going to have to reduce the number of folks that can actually come inside there are a number of other businesses like indoor malls take a look at your screen right here include court areas. Those are now operating at 25 capacity, if youre Office Worker theyre having people go right back to remote working. Now again Higher Education lectures in gathering. Thats about 25 capacity. Gyms and Fitness Centers at 10 capacities. For people who are working on you know that was opening indoor pools bowling alleys and Indoor Entertainment Centers also must close and ive been talking to people out here this morning like Mister Justin bieber has was a local resident, justin you came out here stand in this little line due to be asked what are your thoughts about the reducing the number of people that can actually be indoors. I just feel like thats one way of control in this pandemic going to be a lot of what is the stepping stone so i mean thats one way to look at and youre telling me you know you actually lost a loved one during this entire ordeal. Im so sorry about that advice would you have for people maybe are watching this the only advice i can give us just stay safe where masks and social distancing even if youre waiting in line for the new playstation 5 just try your best to socially and keep them ask on very important. Thank you so much dust now again these rollbacks happening today there is no word yet on how long theyre going to be a red here because of these numbers. Gradually changing so well be monitoring the situation and bring you updates, but again not reporting out here walnut creek they dont harm kron 4 news. Thank you rain also in the east bay Alameda County is having to pause reopening because of the rise in cases kron fours terisa stasio has whats next for them. With the daily Positivity Rate jumping from 3. 4 to 4. 9 . Along with the steady increases in covid19 hospitalizations Alameda County hit the pause button thursday, restricting further opening according to the states blueprint for a safer economy. And now this the countys top Health Officer looking for to what is next and all eyes are on sliding back. Yeah. Were definitely looking at god and we think its important for residents to know that theres a strong possibility were going to have to go back in fact i think its only a matter of of when and not doctor Nicholas Maass ads with the upcoming thanksgiving holiday and cold weather. There is a growing concern cases, well just keep rising pushing the need to take additional actions to slow the spread. The big concern right now is that we over day increases in our reported cases for. The last few weeks just this week, San Francisco announcing it was scaling back slashing the percentage of Indoor Dining. Contra costa county taking similar steps as enormously grateful for what the people of all county have done too. Really limit the spread here but going the Colder Weather in the holidays, particularly with whats happening around the region around the country. Now is not the time for us to let our guard down managing all of this in business difficult. Incredibly yet incredibly difficult for local businesses such as the Alameda Island Brewing Company news of what could be around the corner is daunting but i took on this position a year ago. Up until i was the Office Manager for 4 years. One thing that ive learned is. Although you want to be prepared for everything you will never be prepared for everything. Really a case in being number. Yeah, you have to be able to turn on a dime. These safes. Well happening today, a judge is expected to finalize the decision that would limit governor Gavin Newsoms executive power during this pandemic the Sutter County judge tentatively ruled last week that the governor overstepped his bounds of in one of his directives during the pandemic related state of emergency yesterday the Governors Office asked that judge to hold off on finalizing the decision for at least another couple of weeks. Rockland Assemblyman Kevin Kiley is one of the 2 republican lawmakers who sued the governor over his executive power now kylie says hes confident the judge will keep her decision. But expects a governor yes to appeal. Were very confident in our case will stand up on appeal either were prepared to take this goes all the way to the California Supreme Court we think that the facts and the law are on our side the decisions on solid legal ground. The governor issued about 58 executive orders in the pandemic related state of emergency including pushing back deadlines for some taxes and fees changing how some licenses are issued and renewed and then of course spending some rules and deadlines for schools as we now. Everyone and re costco has to wear a Face Covering costco previously exempted members with medical conditions from the policy under the updated policy though those with medical conditions must at least wear a face shield if theyre not going to wear a mask. The only current exemption is for children under the age of 2. In the south bay, a new plan is out about what to do with the reading hillview airport in san jose. Supporters say this plan is going to help the area with its ongoing housing crisis kron fours rob fladeboe has more. Fended off efforts to close it for decades over safety concerns. It closed 180 acre county own land in east, san jose would go a long way to solving the Regions Affordable Housing crisis as spurs Teresa Alvarado it is time to re imagine revealed airport as inaccessible Community Asset. That stimulates production of Affordable Housing and economic opportunities. The airport was here long before the neighborhoods in shopping malls that surrounded today. There are more than 500 takeoffs and landings every day. 200,000 every year. Supporters say its Safety Record is excellent, but there have been several crashes through the years. Neighbors have long complained about noise and pollution as well, but supporters argue Reid Hillview is a Community Asset and should not be closed the airport. Provides us a piece of the National Transportation infrastructure for one thing and as a reliever airport for san jose which puts small aircraft that come into the valley into this airport to stay out of the path of the big jets going into san jose. Also provides we saw fire fighting. Aircraft working out of here during the of the fires up on the hills right over there. Im sure youve got some the role that to illustrate the potential for housing here advocate showed how the airport land is 3 times the size of levis stadium. And half again as large a San Jose State University and the proposed google village in downtown san jose Reid Hillview has served a select few in this community for decades. But the best use of that land is no longer to accommodate private planes or even teach students the basics of aviation. If the airport is alternately closed many of the pilots flight schools and other traffic would likely move to a similar sized airport in san martine in southern santa clara county. In a first step toward closing Reid Hillview the county stopped accepting federal funding last year funding that could help keep Reid Hillview open for another 30 years in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Its 6. 41 and still ahead on the kron 00 00am morning news, the sharks telling city leaders that their fans could be forced to leave the sapd center what could force them out of town and why the mayor isnt worried about it. Lets take a live look here at the approach to the bay bridge as you can see traffic is very likely well be right back. 45 right now and traffic is slowly picking up air even though were in the pandemic and thats probably because were pushing the holidays, yeah area airports preparing for the next 2 weeks to be probably the busiest weve seen all year since weve been under lockdown as khan forcefully to call reports the numbers will still fall though far short of last year. Airlines have added more flights for thanksgiving in recent games, frequent flyers in the bay area have noticed planes are slowly filling up but i first started it was like. The plane was temple and now the place pretty people now despite adding flights air traffic still pales in comparison to prepandemic levels at San FranciscoInternational Airport spokesperson doug yakel says only half of the airlines that previously operated at have returned right now were still at only about 40 of the flights. That airlines were planning on flying at this time of year, although the numbers have been improving over the past few months here at sfo air traffic is still down significantly to about 25 of what it was at this same period last year. Last year on an average day 80,000 people would be flying. Right now thats down to about 20,000 doesnt surprise me that its down quite a bit for air travel mineta san jose and oakland International Airports expect thanksgiving to be the busiest travel period during the pandemic in passenger levels 40 of last years that is expected to grow to more than 50 for the holiday trip advisor report says more than 75 of the people planning to travel. Well choose to dry. I dont know anyone thats flying just for thanksgiving holiday. I know families that live within driving distance are doing that aaa Northern California says thanksgiving travel. He dropped 13 said they believe all kron 4 news. If you are doing any travel this weekend to going to be running into both some rain and if youre heading up into the Sierra Nevada actually some snowfall up there in the higher elevations, we saw snow to start last weekend and were back to at this time around to looking outside that are sausalito cam focused on across the bay right here you can see some pretty clear skies right now over San Francisco and we are going to be looking at on through the afternoon ahead of our on into the next couple of hours before cloud cover gradually increases later this morning on into the afternoon today. Ok lets get a look at satellite radar here. We do have widespread showers across the northern end of the Central Valley as you head north of sacramento, specially up to chico pockets of heavier rainfall there just south of chico also along the north coast of the state once you head up into Mendocino County weve seen some pretty widespread rainfall this morning obviously the bay areas been a bit calmer couple sprinkles right around moraine county as well Sonoma County. And up into northern Sonoma County also a few areas of light rain pretty calm on the picture so far this morning, so your commute into work is actually looking just fine as of right now. Later today is when this rain and snow really begins to increase in intensity across the broader region, were going to see continued snowfall for the southern cascades thats northern sierra on this morning only moving further and further southward as this frontal system dives deep into the state. This bringing us that latest round of moisture must much needed moisture really too. 03 45pm right here starting to see more widespread rainfall pushing on into the bay after that well continue to see showers on into the early evening 07 00pm still moderate to light showers across the bay after that by 10 00pm tonight conditions starting to die down rainfall fizzling out saturday looks to be dry sunday couple of sprinkles could be seen up in northern Sonoma County but not really pushing else and elsewhere into the bay area. We really dont see widespread rainfall again after tonight on intel tuesday night into wednesday of next week. When it looks like another round of rainfall is going to be eyeing the bay area. Rainfall totals today going amount to no more than a quarter of an inch areas like santa rosa sandra fell napa and even Half Moon Bay could see some of those more significant amounts towards a quarter of an inch elsewhere, a 10th of an inch so this very light rainfall right here shouldnt interrupt too much of your travel plans in the bay, but if you are heading into the sierra youre going to have to have to be watching out for some snowfall combined with winds. This means that we will have some blowing snow and low visibility likely on the roadways. So id say get up there early dont do your travel during the evening tonight, especially temperatures today back to those 60s where they have been 61 degrees in Oakland Hayward and fremont for your highs today, mill valley in nevada we chat 59, Half Moon Bay at 58 degrees for the high. Your next 7 days temperatures do eventually rise back into the 70s look at this sunday monday tuesday. Some nice 70s back and play for us after a good stretch in the 60s now or evening lows not going to be mirs cold as they once were inland areas only in the 40s pain, coastal lows also only in the 40s as i mentioned just a second ago your next best chance of rainfall after today comes tuesday night into wednesday. Robin thank you john lets update the morning drive we are starting off at the bart delay. Marte is recovering from some earlier equipment problems there reporting and so theyre running a little late this morning about 20 minutes behind schedule departing the coliseum which is an oakland heading in the richmond direction. So if you travel anywhere between those 2 points between the coliseum and richmond you may experience a 20 minute delay because of those earlier equipment issues, im just passing it on be prepared and make sure you plan ahead the bridges look pretty good right. We have a little bit of traffic just now leading up to the pay gates here at the richmond sandra fell but this is not bad at all for a friday so come on in 10 minutes to make it off to one oh one here at the bay bridge toll plaza, its just wide open and delay free i have not seen a backup all morning, this in may come a little later, but its just not happening now 13 minutes off to the fremont street exit and heres a look at some more numbers they look really good the east shore going west 24 west walnut creek renda all doing fine, no problems for the nimitz san Leandro Castro valley on into downtown oakland, both 5. 80 in the nimitz doing just fine well check more traffic coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot robin 6 50 and in National News democrats and republicans still cannot come to an agreement. On a new covid stimulus package or washington dc correspondent Alexandra Limon reports. The biggest Sticking Point is how much money to spend. 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 with the pandemic surging across the country Democratic Leaders say Congress Needs to pass another covid19 aid package now yesterday our nation suffered a horrifying. 144,000 new infections recorded hospitals in some areas are reaching Maximum Capacity and cities and states around the country are issuing new rounds of restrictions or shutdowns but Republican House leader Kevin Mccarthy says its democrats were playing politics by blocking multiple votes for republican proposals to release previously appropriated money for ppp. There is more than a 137 billion dollars sitting there. Republicans say they want to pass another coronavirus aid package too. But some like utah senator mitt romney say the growth we saw in the 3rd quarter shows it doesnt need to be another giant package, the idea of a multitrillion dollar. A bill is is not going to happen. That were were more likely to have something more targeted to places where there is specific need with the number of new covid cases in the u. S. Surpassing 100,000 every day for the past 9 days, democrats say theyre not sure how long the economic upturn will last in washington, alexandra le mon. Lets head to the south bay, the bay areas only nhl team says Massive Development in their home city though sharks, yes, Massive Development in their own city might actually force them out says the sharks of warned that they planned projects like the ones nearby of google Transit Village may push them to leave the sa peace center. The sharks Team President says that access to the sdp centers are big concern right now because of street closures associated with all this construction. But the mayor says that the inconveniences can all be worked out. The departure franchise for the city we are praying development. We are pro public transportation. But were worried that might happen the way that literally fans from all over the bay area will no longer be able to reach our building which will make it no longer viable. Now the sharks have not played a game at the shark tank. Since march because of the pandemic going to say i mean whos going to any game, stable future city council right now said to have their next meeting on the issue come monday, so well see what they say. 6. 53 right now and lets take a peek at san mateo bridge and you can traffic because of our camera but not heavy at this hour well be right back. 6. 57 is the time coming up in the next hour we have Indoor Dining banned in San Francisco as the city rolls back on reopening after a spike in covid cases, well have more details on what you can expect in a live report and also Contra Costa County has moved back into the red tier putting a pause on its reopening plans, well take a look at the news station. Youre watching the kron 00 00am morning news, 7. What could possibly go im darya folsom hopefully nothing much as you head off to work or wherever youre going this morning. Look at that great the sun is up. For how john as were going get some rain and looks like hes going yeah, rainfall on the way guys so we have a solid start to this morning. After this we work our way into what will be a pretty rainy, especially commute home from work later today, so friday, the 4 to 13 it is cooperating for your travels into work. Its your drive home that could get a little bit slick, lets get a look outside of skies, little ominous looking actually over marin county if you look in the distance there, the Golden Gate Bridge under some golden sunlight. This morning. But we are starting to see that cloud cover moving in everincreasing and weve seen nothing more than a couple of sprinkles across the bay, so you may notice a couple of those even in San Francisco areas around richmond