Im Justine Waltman in 4 grant tonight and im Vicki Liviakis after moving from the orange here to the red tier Contra Costa County put in new covid19 restrictions today but the county. Is edging towards the purple tier and now it is announcing even stricter rollbacks including the end of Indoor Dining room kron fours dan kerman is live for us tonight in walnut creek he has the latest details good evening. Dan. Good evening just things are just moving in the wrong direction here in Contra Costa County we talked to the Health Officer on tuesday and even since tuesday things have gotten worse now at 50 hospitalizations still the case rate is now in the purple tier as you mentioned, and as a result theyve got to do something to try to reverse this trend before it gets completely out of control. If we have become even more concerned about the trend. Contra costa county Health Officer doctor Chris Farnitano is sounding the alarm. The countys covid case rate has surged to put the county in the
Activities says we take a look at the current status of each county on the states tiered reopening map today country Casa Santa Clara and marin counties all announced these new restrictions at all 3 are expected to move back to a more restrictive tier. Next week for contra costa that would mean entering the purple are most restrictive tier you see only Sonoma County is in that tier right now you dont want to be in purple. While santa clara and marin counties would fall into the red tier which is just behind purple despite San Francisco being the most relaxed yellow covid tier Indoor Dining will be banned in San Francisco starting at midnight city leaders announced new restrictions this week because of the spike in covid cases call forced to has reaction from the already struggling Restaurant Industry. These are very brutal times for so many it was friday at midnight where the San Francisco Health Officials said that Indoor Dining must and we spoke with some people in the Restaurant Ind
And covid continues to peak across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . All of those stories in a moment, but first, u. S. Stocks dropping as fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news about Vaccine Development. Our Abigail Doolittle has more. Abigail, generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail yeah, truly a sleeper for much of the day. Very small, fluctuating moves. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. Then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 , sevenday rolling Positivity Rate here in new york
This year because of the covid pandemic do we have any real baseline to understand what is going on with the electorate going into this election . I think this election will be unlike anything we have seen in the past. Its hard to know if there is a good corollary. At this point we are seeing far more early and absentee voting then we saw in 2016. Its really off the charts. That looks atart early and in person voting and how it has trended over the past couple of years. People can see from watching it that the trend has been for more voting by absentee or mailin ballots then by in person on election day. What is happening in the thinking about conduct of elections that has led to this and celebrating this trend this year . Its been a trend about 20 years in the making. Ever since colorado and Washington State made it easy for their voters to vote by mail we have seen that once voters have that option they like that option. In a pandemic voting by mail is a good and safe option. In addi
But opening up to essentially mostly sunny skies to cover the balance of your saturday live shot coming in from the golden gate, this is usually the fog trapped in the morning not seeing that not too bad at Half Moon Bay either smart was talking about looks like mostly sunny from Vantage Point however theres that dense fog covering chunks of the east bay up to the north bay picking the valleys even into the Santa Clara Valley as well. Give you an idea how this all mixes out Going Forward to the Morning Hours. Again the advisory still 9 but we should clear out to the mostly sunny mode as we get to the late Morning Hours just a quick check on Storm Tracker little bit of traffic up to the north of some scattered clouds that will be with us. Temperatures a chilly even with this rain look at bottle coming in at 3236 for santa rosa with what ground wow thats interesting 43 going on for napa and we have a couple of 50s here and there, but usually moisture helps keep temperatures supported not