Tower thats impacting visibility in areas like San Francisco or bridges. Even as north the san pablo bay. So watch your travel as you drive into work, especially closer to the bay itself. Air quality up north in the moderate category well a little bit cleaner and better the further south in the bay, you get so definitely not completely in the clear but a lot like yesterday things have improved a lot 50s for your current temperatures for most of us with concord at 56, hayward right there with oakland at 58 degrees to start the morning. And later today, well be back into the low 90s inland 70s and 80s for most bayside areas. Robin. All right, thank you john were checking in on the morning commute which continues to pick up all around the bay area but were still trouble free. So were checking the drive into San Francisco. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza which looks good right theres more traffic rolling in. But we dont have any big problems that you have to stress out about
Reaches the alaska peninsula. It actually the shaking went week to very weak. So thats the good news. Were looking for minor damage if any. According to the usgs since 1900 theyve actually been 6 other earthquakes of a magnitude 7 point oh or higher within about a 155 miles of last nights earthquake. The largest was an 8. 2 back in 1938. But luckily, we havent heard any reports yet of any damage or injury were not expecting to hear too much. But again well keep you updated as more information comes in we will let you know. Take a look at the latest with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much more than we know about lets take a look at the rise in cases over the past week versus the previous week and you can see california has improved slightly were seeing only a steady rise in cases versus a spike across the country there are now more than a 142,000 people have died of the raw virus and 3. 9 million. Positive tess meantime Pres
Bay area take a look at your screen there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 steps you can see those numbers broken down for your county by county check out Santa Clara County staffs at 73 and more than 1800 cases you can also see that these numbers are on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to look at your specific county just check it out on our website. Now lets get to our top stories this saturday morning as people are now required to wear a mask of some form or a facial covering in most bay area counties. 6 counties are now requiring everyone wear a covering of some sort when theyre outside they are San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma counties. Santa clara county also urging residents to wear a mask, but at this point thats not an order. Now heres why its so important to wear a face mask in public take a look at this laser light experiment shows how droplets from coughing sneezing and talking can spread the virus on the left you see the droplets
The 40s to kick off this thursday morning temperatures into the afternoon back to the comfortable weather we go upper 60s for many of us comfortable and well above average few showers for the southern part of the state and a dry weekend ahead for the bay, those updates are still ahead. Robin off to the bay bridge toll plaza where its not so comfy we call this a tight leading up. Plaza traffic years filling back through the bottom of the maze. So yeah it has reached that point you need to get out there early if you have to work your way through this 13 minutes and growing into San Francisco. Heres a trouble spot, its left over from the last hour northbound at 8066 injury accident involving a motorcyclist moving from that middle lane, but now youre solid from 2. 38. So if you have to leave san leandro heading toward oakland, youre up to 19 minutes and growing toward downtown just go ahead and use 5. 80 west instead, it looks a whole lot better james darya. Thanks robin. So back to our bi
It did not happen. Here in the parking lot now the reason why. This is why we see them here in the parking lot is because technically the driver did leave the scene and then came back now preliminary investigations is telling us that the boss of bicycle this was on bryce. Road right over here and got hit from behind somewhere and this area here just south of this driveway. Now the as i mentioned the driver technically did leave the scene continue driving. But then came back and called the police about the collision when they showed up thats when they found the bicycle is a a 28 years old a fremont resident. He was dead and on the streets so the body is still here were still waiting for the Coroners Office to arrive. In the meantime investigators are out here trying to figure out the speed wi. This collided did did the driver go into the bike lane or did the bison bicycle is go outside the the bike lane and also whether drugs or alcohol played a role on this now. As if that was protocol