Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Destroyed more than 36,000 acres and is still 0 contained. The fires also forced thousands of people to flee their homes good evening, im ken wayne and im Vicki Liviakis of firefighters are up against it hot and dry weather conditions out there on the front lines making it really tough. The handle on the flames. Heres what we know tonight. Cal fire says a 113 structures have been destroyed more than 8500 are threatened. Back shun orders have been issued for parts of sonoma and napa county including the entire city of calistoga. In napa county the glass fire tore through the world renowned metal wood resorts near saint kron 4 state of sec. He was there she joins us live shes been monitoring the situation throughout the night taylor. This is a devastating blow to the community. How does it look out there right now absolutely devastating can i drove through that property and a long and i saw several different spot fires which made it really hard for firefighters while they were able to sa
Out ok getting away unscathed the fire 10 tearing through this area early this morning but crews remain here on the scene tonight. They are putting out some hot spots and mopping up the area roads in this area also remaining closed police making the rounds out here hillsides surrounding these communities also have been charred throughout the day today an into that into tonight. Theres been thick smoke in the air and theres also been a lot of ash that has been falling from the sky. Other communities all along highway 12 also having to deal with the flames buildings there and property there burned and destroyed. We actually spoke with one man who says that he was lucky that he did lose his home. But unfortunately his neighbor did. We got here they were you know a lot of activity this house was you know and claims are trees are on fire. The backyard with on fire the backfield behind us. Does seem like. If properties are starting to flare up. The house to my left is completely burned down.
Hour but ill give you the good news first and that is our bridges look really good so heading into San Francisco this morning, no delays for you at the bay bridge toll plaza it is picking up more folks are rolling in, but no big problems so were still at an easy 7 minutes off to the fremont street exit were off to 92 and its much busier and our busiest bridge right now we have a crowd, lets itself on the flat section but that is the norm, so youre averaging a very quick 12 minutes to the peninsula. Heres the trouble spot left over from the 4 oclock hour injury crash 80 north at to kowtow so coming out of fremont into union city weve gone from having all lanes blocked to just the right lane. It was a multi vehicle accident and car fire. The right lane is still closed your backup tore thornton but thats really not too bad as i zoom out you can see that as soon as you pass the crash the rest of the trip continuing north will be fine on through union city and hayward well check out some mo
Later on youll notice, daytime highs just a few degrees warmer than yesterdays really not a huge difference will be in the mid to upper 80s, inland 70s by the bay and 60s yet again alongside the coast. Robert all right. Thank you job were checking in on a big trouble spot that we have its actually on the nimitz freeway coming out of union city check this out this a still shot a snapshot. The backup leading up to 8. 80 at to kowtow its an injury accident here and all lanes are blocked chp has issued a special Traffic Alert once again 80 north at to kowtow as you work your way out of union city youre into union city crews are dealing with a multi vehicle accident folks are standing outside of their cars, one of the cars caught fire. Its a big mess and it may not be out of the way soon so you want to avoid that stretch or get on the freeway after the dakota exit so after you pass the crash or after the crash, the rest of your trip will be fine you have that one little slow spot there lead