November alone about one quarter of all us cases since the pandemic began. More than 256,000 people have awesome that died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in the bay area. Local Health Departments now reporting 185 new cases of covid19. Nearly 139,000 cases have been reported in 1900 deaths have been recorded here in the bay area since the start of the pandemic california seeing 14,000 new cases today. The states Positivity Rate over the past 2 weeks has now jumped to more than 5 . With cases skyrocketing all across america tonight, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Now strongly warning folks not to travel for the holidays. The cdc says the safest way to celebrate thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people that you live with yet the tsa says friday and saturday. Where the busiest day since the pandemic brought air travel to a near halt in march and wednesday and sunday are expected to be the busiest travel days of t
Making sure that you are prepared. Gayle ong has in orinda where theyre bracing for the strong wind event dan thorn is insane alina where theyre already dealing with a brush fire there, but we start tonight with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to give us a better idea of what we can expect lawrence guys this looks like a significant wind event may be the strongest of the year maybe several years were going see how all works out. But right now it looks very very impressive. The winds, fairly light right now just a general breeze around the bay area but watch what happens as we take you through the weekend now as those winds by tomorrow morning, not bad just a gentle breeze early on so not a bad start your weekend by tomorrow afternoon, the winds do begin to pick up but you notice the direction that is out of a westerly direction that brings that nice moist air off the ocean so fire danger running fairly low that all begins to as we get in towards sunday afternoon. And there you can
Across the bay area. Dry skies out there contributing to to it just as much as the winds in the heat too can see how clear dry it is all the way out to the coastline, so red flag warnings continue this morning for the same spots in the north bay as they have throughout the course of the week were adding on to that later today our inland, the east bay areas and coastal and upper elevations on the peninsula itself that includes areas like Half Moon Bay into the Santa Cruz Mountains. This is due to winds picking up this afternoon into evening and into tomorrow too gusting as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in spots and with temperatures as warm as they will be getting that is also contributing to it right now are fairly calm for most areas winds pick up later today and will continue to see high fire danger for north bay mountains. Inland east bay areas daytime highs upper 80s to low 90s today. That means extreme fire danger back in play. After this tomorrow will be a touch of a cooler day, but
Force here on the louisiana coast. The hurricane just making landfall just a little while ago so were starting to get and a portion of that northwestern corner of the eye wall which is filled with 8090 Miles Per Hour wind gust. So not a good situation for the lake charles area as you mentioned they just dealt with a category 4 hurricane not even 6 weeks ago, so this was a bad set up to begin with when he had that storm and now you have another hurricane coming on shore here and in virtually the same area impacting the same communities there are still tarps on roofs which i know will not withstand these winds there are large debris piles, thousands of them some not talking about a few brief hours here and there are thousands of debris piles still packed along the roads and all of these communities along the louisiana coast. Just not a good setup here luckily, a lot of those residents taken shelter or gotten out of harms wind is blowing this rain across the parking lot luckily, were prot
New guidelines for youth sports. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson has all the details for us and a live report from San Francisco ice or a good morning. Marty good morning. New application to get a waiver to reopen schools. It applies to Public School districts private even Charter Schools and they have to go through this process to make sure and they are allowed to reopen now, im live here at Sherman School to Elementary School in San Francisco in the cal hollow neighborhood. Its a good example is in San Francisco and thats on the governors watch list if the school is in the county on the governors watch list then they have to go through a few more hoops they have to have major discussions were talking public hearings with parents the county Health Officer they need to talk other schools in the area see what theyre doing and have conversations about whether it is a smart idea to have in person classes take a look at more of guidelines that we rode out for you on your screens you can get a better