With us through the weekend into next week to your look outside at the bay right now does show you a pretty clear view across the bay from sausalito a downtown San Francisco little narrow band of low cloud cover as we saw for much of the day yesterday too right theres your downtown San Francisco visibility is just fine for most areas across the bay you can see that here youre fog cast making our way into the afternoon a lot of sunshine to look for 2 for yet another one. Lets get a look at futurecast a wind gusts here so were nice and calm today. We work our way into the evening tonight amidst continuing pretty calm conditions look what happens into tomorrow wind speeds will start to increase thats that cool air slipping on into the bay area thats really going to cool us off into your friday here saturday and your sunday all these days just around the corner looking pretty chilly, especiauly as compared to where we have been which has been pretty consistently in the 70s 80s over the pas
Says power should be restored by late tuesday evening extreme winds were recorded in some parts of the bay area and Sonoma County for example wind gusts 3 to 99 miles an hour. And we have Team Coverage on the extended red flag warning on the safety power shutoff our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow in the weather center. Hes tracking the gusty winds but first we turn to kron fours to recess to theo who is in Sonoma County where a lot of people are still without power tonight, teresa. As youre mentioning some of those wind gusts were up to 90 Miles Per Hour plus they had sustained winds of 76 Miles Per Hour. So certainly this area was hit hard. And some of those residents still being hit hard because they still are without power. As the sun went down the winds started picking up it could be another long night for residents here in the north bay who already faced the last 24 hours in the dark we lost power yesterday 5 oclock 05 00pm. And has been out since and he says that this latest
Evening, everybody im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight, so lets get straight to it. Heres where power shutoffs stand right now this is a pg and e map for right now. And we have Team Coverage tonight we will begin with our Lawrence Karnow in the Weather Center with the latest on the wind event which is really the main concern when it comes to the fire danger tonight. Lawrence yeah, i certainly weve seen some tremendous winds. Well, the strongest wind events of the season so far in fact youre seeing latest image here weve got High Pressure out there in the pacific weve got a low pressure just to our east and really the difference between these 2 which is causing all the gusty winds not only here but around the state southern california. Theyve got the santa ana blowing too. Theyve got an active fire there causing some extremely dangerous conditions right now that ridge building in over the upset in northwest, great basin that low kick into these once these begin
Tonight. Also breaking tonight, california has officially surpassed 1 million that is according to Johns Hopkins university. These new numbers coming just within the past hour. California is now the second state after texas to report at least 1 million covid cases and more than 18,000 people. Have died. And the Coronavirus Crisis is where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus really a reality check on a night you have coronavirus cases surging across most of the country in some spots there really exploding and here in the bay area they are rising as well many counties, locally are now faced with the possibility of having to move back another tier into a more restrictive tier in the states reopening system in some Health Officials are choosing to pause their reopening plans with the hope of slowing the spread of covid and avoiding some of the economic consequences of being forced to go back and entire tier. Yeah today Alameda County announced that it
On the idea of a National Lockdown this is after a coronavirus adviser to president elect joe biden said it is one way to control the surge of covid19 cases, thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis doctor Michael Osterholm says that a nationwide lockdown would drive. The number of new cases and hospitalizations down manageable level while the world around for a vaccine kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco on what this could mean for the baiji zdan you hear the word. Lockdown and everyone cringe is it sure seems like we need something more nuanced in surgical for different parts of the country. Well thats what medical experts here say what we didnt hear just a few seconds ago was state medical expert in the bay area talking about. How things are bad in parts of the country but here in the bay area while theyre going in the wrong direction, what he did not hear him just a few seconds ago it was the fact that they are still no