Of autumn. 5 a. M. In new york. Six weeks until the election and a day before the debate. The u. S. Is far outpacing the world no matter how you parse these numbers. America has lost more lives to get ready. Close to 6 million deaths. You cant look at that and say, thats terrific. There are signs of more trouble ahead. The 7day moving average of new cases has crept above 40,000 for the First Time Since labor day. Cases are now increasing in 24 states with the western half of the country a really big concern now. To put a face on these numbers, we want to share with you two of the latest victims. 67yearold johnny lee peoples and his wife kathy. The North Carolina couple was together for more than 50 years and they died just minutes apart holding each others hands. Of course, you cant escape the politics of this. Heres democratic president ial nominee joe biden. What worries me now is weve been living with the pandemic for so long, i worry we risk becoming numb to the toll it has taken o
En this morning on the kron 4 morning news. Another big storm is approaching. When the light rain will turn into a downpour and possibly ruin your weekend plans. An oakland murder victim is being remembered at a funeral this morning. How the boy accused of killing her her own brother is being allowed to attend. And the winter games have begun. Well get an inside look at security in sochi. The kron 4 morning news starts right now. Good morning, im james flecther. It may be dry or wet outside, depending on where you are waking up this morning. Lets take a look at conditions outside right now. San mateo bridge. Bay bridge james lick freeway light rain is falling in pockets. But the real rain comes this afternoon and tonight and itll stick around all weekend. Remember you can stay up to date on the weather by going to kron 4 dot com. You can check the latest weather conditions and forecasts before heading out. You can also get the latest weather conditions on our mobile app. You can downlo
That or to exit and will impact your ride on the east shore freeway. These will continue to move east so they may end up in the San Ramon Valley area. Satellite and radar shows mainly dry conditions for the bay and we do have moisture off shore. As we head into the afternoon was start to see rain drops for the north bay from 6 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. Tonight. This system will last with us throughout the weekend and will taper off by monday. We may see 2 to 4 in. For San Francisco bay and over 6 in. For Mountain View. I will walk you through the timing coming up. The time is 7 01 a. M. We have our first accident of the morning. It is here on the Livermore Valley area on interstate 580, this is in the westbound direction. We have an accident blocking two lanes of traffic. If this is just before livermore ave. The traffic has been light enough that this is the only backup that we see. It has not backed things up to the alta mount pass however, two lanes are reported block at the site of th
To keep the building from flooding. This is how the businesses suffered in 2012. The sewer system cant handle the water and comes out of the hand hold man hold and floods the street. The department of public work put 15 staffers to clean the drain. It is to keep the water flowing below the street. Here we go. Its beautiful. Dozens of sandbags arrived in neighborhoods this morning. With more ready as the demand and water rises. Hopefully everything works out. We have plenty more. We load up another truck with more palettes. Utility crews are looking to the sky for trouble with the tomorrow. What pg e are doing to keep the power lines up as the rain comes down. Weve called in our sal cast nella cast neda tonight. Pretty bad out there. It is, i spoke with chp. On a normal day we have 200 incidents, yesterday we had 309, when it rains the incident count goes up. Show you, this commute started early people trying to get out of the south bay. Silicon valley trying to get out. Started at 2 00