3, bay area are in san mateo and contra costa counties all moving up in the states reopening tier system. Thank you for joining us this tuesday afternoon here on kron 4 news at im Sanaz Tahernia new are in contra costa and san mateo counties have moved it to the moderates here, more businesses will be allowed to reopen indoor operations with safety precautions and modifications take a look at this map of where our bay area counties stand the newest move leave solano and sonoma counties in the more severe risk tears with sonoma still in the most restricive a widespread purple tier and solano in the red or substantial risks here, San Francisco is the only bay area county and the lowest risk here which is the yellow where it can move to the orange chair once the test Positivity Rate falls between 2, 4. 9 . The San Francisco is in the yellow tear which is the least restrictive tier in terms of reopening non essential some nonessential Office Workers can start showing up back to work kron f
Ballots directly to the registrars office. In Santa Clara County, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. About half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. And marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. Reporter they are very concerned about that, janelle. If you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of Voters Office. Many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, thats how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop box at the registrar Voters Office in san jose. I feel like it is safer to drop it on a place where you will be counted. Reporter but Evelyn Mendez with the Santa Clara County registrar of Voters Office says theres no need to make a
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Modifications well forced to joins us tonight from lafayette in Contra Costa County where many are breathing a sigh of relief thanks to the reopening measures, theresa well pam as you mentioned it is certainly positive news were here in lafayette to Contra Costa County i was speaking to the owner of social bird behind me and she says you know of course of business is called social bird was supposed to be social but then the pandemic it and she said that its been certainly very tough but now. That weve got that move into this new terror. She says shes extremely grateful. From here there nothing. It was heart wrenching that chef and owner snd carrion who owns social bird in lafayette and 2 other restaurants in Contra Costa County she and her husband had just bought renovated. And held a grand opening of social bird. Then the pandemic hit. In a cap and he had to learn how to the takeout business that we doing to farm. It was learning process and learning process. She showed me the transfo
Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says