Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we
City officials are working to make that happen. Plus commitment to change the sierra club saying sorry for its white supremacist history, particularly that of its founder john new york. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 8 im Justine Waldman in for pam moore tonight and im ken wayne thanks for joining us at 8. Our top story tonight, california has surpassed new york for the most confirmed covid19 cases in the country. There are now more than 415,000 cases in our state thats after a singleday record of 12,807 new cases yesterday. According to Johns Hopkins University Data that total is roughly 6,000 more cases than in new york which had the most cases in the country before now, but new yorks death toll is still 4 times that here of california for comparison california has about 40 million residents just shy of 40 million 1 new york has about half that amount. Governor Gavin Newsome announcing the state is extending its mask deal with the chines
Now temperatures look set to plummet toa now temperatures look set to plummet to a record level. And Ridley Scotts latest film all the money in the world hits the screens it saw Christopher Plummer replace kevin spacey. Well get the verdict in the film review at 8 45. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The chair of the parole board has apologised unreservedly to victims of the serial sex attacker john worboys after some of them were not told of his imminent release from prison. The black cab driver was jailed in 2009, for offences against 12 women but detectives later said they believed hed attacked more than 100 women. Mps are now calling for an inquiry into why some victims were not informed and whether their views were sufficiently ta ken into account. Our home editor mark easton reports. Rapistjohn worboys has become symbolic of the charge that police and prosecutors in england and wales still dont take violent sexual crimes against women seriously enough. The london cabbie, who
Saturday 6th january. Also this morning. Online casino operators are accused by the industrys watchdog of failing to prevent Money Laundering and protect problem gamblers. In sport, another morale sapping day for englands bowlers. This time, its the marsh brothers who are chief tormenters smashing england around sydney, as australia build a lead of 133 in the final ashes test. And what does it take to cut it as a ninja . Ive been having a go at the sport that started injapan 10 years ago, and is now taking a firm hold here in the uk. Temperatures in parts of the us are predicted to fall to minus 29 as a record breaking freeze follows heavy snow caused by the so called bomb cyclone. Not quite so cold here stav has the details. It turning much colder for all of us this weekend. But on the plus side, we should see some sunshine, particularly tomorrow. I will have the details for you very shortly. First, our main story. A lawyer who represented victims of the serial sex offender john worbo