From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
A standoff with the government over crop prices shows no sign of being resolved. Plus a backlash and boycotts the nikkei it for its provoke debate about diversity in japan. And im he said with the sport and then pick organizers say the tokyo games will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 because of the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than one of the half 1000000 people have died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths in new cases among them italy which registered its highest daily death toll on thursday since the start of the pandemic its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions in the worlds worst affected countries the United States hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached new highs the president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear masks during his 1st 3 months in office. Its on the 1st day im an arguer had
Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our mark hopkins camera at the city of San Francisco. You can see some fog. You can. Good morning. It is november 19. I am michelle griego. I am glad you can see that too. I thought it was my eyes. Out of focus . I have that problem too. Lets get a check of our forecast on this friday eve. Good morning. Happy thursday. Its almost friday. We are looking at a foggy start to our day. Another live look with our mark hop Hopkins Hotel camera. We are in the 40s and 50s. Foggy for oak land, livermore, santa rosa and even in the city as well. Through the day, we will see dry conditions. 24 hour temperature change, we are anywhere from 9 to 13 degrees colder compared to yesterday morning. Checking out that dense fog, especially for the north bay, down to a quarter mile in petaluma, napa, half mile for santa rosa. High temperatures are in the low to mid 60s. I will tell you what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets head to giann
Many people in san jose have questioned their effectiveness. I will comply. I have been doing this all year. It tonight make sense necessarily. Covid is around 24 hours a day. Lets give it a try. There is nothing wrong to make us all healthy. San jose police and other local Police Departments that responded back to us say they will focus on education. No arrests and no tickets. I wouldnt want to be too extreme with the enforcement but at the same time being too lackadaisical things are getting out of hand. Big house parties and parties in vacant buildings there should be citations and warnings surprisingly many Business Owners believe the curfew will result in more covid cases and not fewer. They say it will push people to go from outdoor regulated environments to indoor gathering. Between the hours of ten and 12 typically on a friday night we do 25 of the business for the night. Eric nelson runs two restaurants and he says the curfew will further harm businesses. I am worried about my