Bernard shows us many may be suffering from covid messaging fatigue. Inside or outside . In. Reporter there is a busy lunch crowd at the tavern in downtown napa. This longtime eatery has went with the punches and restrictions brought on by covid. Gm john crane says finally, his customers are coming back. We just had our best week. Our best covid week so far ended on sunday. Reporter but that could change. Instead of going in the right direction, new covid cases county wide are spiking. Going backwards at an alarming rate. We saw our case rate more than double over the weekend with 118 new cases in 72 hours. We also saw our hospitalizations double. We now stand at 12. Reporter thats the highest weekend total ever. The spike could send napa county back two steps to purple as soon as next week. The states most restrictive tier. Purple tier would be a temporary closure until things got better. Reporter thats not good. Not good. Reporter it would mean no outdoor dining. They only have four
Moment ago. Rosemary orosco is here to talk to us about the dramatic shift in weather. Yeah, from yesterday into today. And today is likely to be the wettest storm on the season so far, which is good news for the bay area and more sierra snow. Giving you a live look here. We showed you the Golden Gate Bridge and now lets look at the pacific satellite view. Were, again, beginning to see more widespread rain early on. It took awhile to get here. The north bay was covered in the green by 10 00, 11 00. Now the central bay and along the peninsula into the santa cruz mountains, you can see if we move in closer and look at what is going on. Widespread over the north bay. Creeping into the east bay from San Francisco down through about, it looks like redwood city and Mountain View area. For the coastline, its covering pacifica and Half Moon Bay. For the north bay, it started earlier. We can see as it is pretty much over the entire bay area from the coast for inland valley locations and over ou
Bridge toll plaza. It is. Metering lights are on and we are starting to see a back up. You see traffic stacking up a bit as you work out of the east bay into the city via bay bridge. Once you pass this, it looks better across upper deck into San Francisco. A couple hot spots to look for, if you are taking bart, we are dealing with bart delays on the richmond lines. This is due to an equipment problem on the tracks. Do plan ahead if you are taking bart. South 880 is pretty busy. We are seeing brake lights away from 92. There is a crash not far from the connector and theyre just clearing it out of lanes. Reporter we are getting new information in now on this Apartment Fire in San Francisco. This is video from the citizen app from earlier this morning. You see the flames shooting out of the window. Thats on the 11th floor of this high rise on davis court. A total of 22 apartments were significantly damaged by this fire and five people were injured, escaping the building. When firefighters
Cool start to this morning by the afternoon ahead of us were going to be looking at daytime highs back into the 70s but not near as many 80s in the forecast today. Temperatures actually a little bit down as compared to where they have been the past couple of days, making for a cool fall feel as youre getting out there both this morning and into the evening tonight. Robin all right, thank you for the update lets check in on the traffic because folks have to get to work, but you know sometimes on fridays its really not that bad thats why we call it friday light a lot of folks take friday off and i think they started taking time off yesterday because yesterday traffic was unusually light on a thursday in San Francisco, and well probably see the same thing today so its a great time to come on and if you do have to get a word you dont have to worry about any delays or problems or hot spots so come on in its under 10 minutes off to fremont street. All right lets go over to 92 what about the
Upper 30s right now not quite as chilly as we had been the past couple of days, but definitely cool enough for that extra layer if youre outside for more than just a few minutes, sun shining down in walnut creek and as we make our way into the afternoon areas like walnut creek holding on to the low 80s just barely most of our inland areas backing off the 80s, falling into the 70s to kick off the weekend on a cooler note. Robin thank you john major residual slowing on highway 4 after an accident in concord was tying up traffic blocking several lanes so the crash is gone, but the drive time is still very high, especially for friday, a whopping 42 minutes for west for from antioch over to concord because of that crash which is right before they 6. 80 looks good the nimitz trouble free and one oh one easy 31 minutes from san jose heading to menlo park. The bay bridge commute into San Francisco fantastic for friday delay free we havent had any major issues so far 9 minutes for you average t