Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
I am Vivian Schiller with the outfit institute. Glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can be a mirror of the National Psyche and this reflects a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books on matters of race and racism fill fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest amy, the pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack others. There are a few people of color who serve as publishing several literary agents and even fewer who operate at a decisionmaking level and for those who are published, the market exposure can be so awesome. At this year of National Reckoning on racism, we look at the book Publishing Industry and whether it can bring more racial diversity to the field. This is part of our changing the narrative series, issues of race through the media and one program on the news media and another program about the entertainment in
More than 70,000 people under evacuation orders. Fire officials are giving an update on the glass fire in santa rosa. Once that press Conference Begins we will bring that to you live during our newscast. I want to talk about the entire town of calistoga. It is still under that mandatory evacuation order. More than 5,000 people are out of their homes. Reporter good morning. Its a situation that folks here in calistoga are all too familiar with. Just driving through town, you can see the roads are more empty than they typically would be and many of those businesses have shut their doors. Its because of that mandatory evacuation because of whats happening just over my shoulder, weve been here since about 4 00 this morning. And this particular hill has been calmed and reignited and calmed and reignited. And now its a huge plume of smoke that weve seen the last 45 minutes. This is just one example of the impeding danger folks here in calistoga are under. Weve had crews here since last night
To the pandemic the families who plan on celebrating may have to adjust their traditions. The new guidelines released by the cdc today. From the bay areas local news station. This is 4 news at 3. Thanks for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia good news for 3 more bay area counties as they moved up the states road to reopening for at least 2 of the counties that will mean immediate changes kron fours dan kerman is live in San Mateo County with details on that idea. Good afternoon were here on san bruno avenue in San Mateo County. This is one of those places that will see definite changes as you mentioned 3 counties moving from purple to read those 3 counties are Alameda County, San Mateo County as well as Solano County and as far as solano in san mateo are concerned that means reopenings and were talking about some degree some percentage of restaurants as well as retail indoors museums and zoos and aquariums in those areas to a level of capacity, 25 in those respects a
Thanks for joining us tonight at 5 oclock im ken wayne and im pam moore, a grim milestone for the United States tonight as the death toll from the coronavirus tops 200,000 that number is by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, according to Johns Hopkins this to just take even more stark when you consider the United States has less than 5 of the worlds population but more than 20 of the reported deaths. Solemn comparison the number of dead in the u. S. Is equivalent to a 9. 11 attack every day for 6 to 7 days. And its roughly equal to the entire population of Salt Lake City here in the bay area the news is more positive as it pertains to covid19 the covid numbers and 3 bay area counties have improved so much that the state has moved those counties and the purple tear to the red to year that allows many indoor businesses to reopen at limited capacity, but only 2 of the 3 counties is moving forward from course and kerman live for us in San Mateo County to expl