You know that can be difficult we dont spend a long time. Its a critical moment. Right now at 3 stay home covid cases have hit a record and to stop the momentum of this deadly virus Health Officials are pleading with the public to avoid gatherings and non essential travel. This thanksgiving holiday. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman Santa Clara County recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases on tuesday thats 512 new cases of covid19. Its a number of covid hospitalizations thats also concerning because that is also at a new high and officials are warning that theyre now running low on hospital beds. Kron 4 tahernia joins us live now in the newsroom with more on the warnings officials are sending. Good afternoon sun os. Hi just saying hello everyone so as covid19 cases surge here in the bay area Santa Clara County Health Officials are urging residents to stay home and avoid gathering and traveling ahead of the thanksgiving holiday that c
In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late
San Francisco Police said they responded to a physical fight between several men on market between fourth and fifth streets at 5 09 tuesday evening. It happened in front of the timberland store and walgreens. One of them and had a nice. We know that the male suspect was brandishing a knife. As to the steps and the time frames of what occurred here, they are all under investigation. Reporter police said the man was struck by gunfire, but did not say how many officers fired their guns. They also say an officer fired a beanbag shotgun and a sheriffs deputy used a taser. Police are not saying in what order the weapons were deployed. The man was taken to San Francisco general hospital. We are reviewing cameras, eyewitness statements, as well as any Video Surveillance that caught the incident. Reporter a hospital spokesman tells me the man is in critical condition. San Francisco Police, the District Attorneys Office and the department of political ability are investigating this fully shootin
Friday deals kron 4 Sarah Stinson caught up with shoppers this morning. And has this report from dublin. Im reporting at best buy at haas crossings in dublin with their husband. No line shoppers on this black friday have been able to get the good deals without the chaos of all these years it seems like its actually. A normal day and i like because not many people what im looking to get. Electronics and we were out here very very early up very early so that we into subpoenaed lines, no lines lots of great service, lots of help a lot of people bought big flat screen tvs ipad security cameras and more dont want to tell you a lot about what it what it is kuz will be spilling the beans a Christmas Gifts best buy prepared for big crowds putting up these crowd control barriers that ended up not being used but that wasnt the case down the road in livermore at the San Francisco premium outlets weve been uses like to in the people got there early in lines formed at retailers like gucci at 5 in t
The only spots on the map that arent lit up in pink or immediate coastline and San Francisco today. As for a chance of thunderstorms that really drops yesterday we had some in the north bay obviously sunday, it woke us up and carried us through the morning. Today we take a step back from that. Just keeping the hot temperatures around todays daytime highs in the 70s 80s at the coast. 90s in triple digits, further inland. Ive got more details on what to expect this afternoon where youre at still to come back to you. All right, lets get back to the big story which are the fires for large wildfires and you can see pictures of all of them here on your screen the burning in the east bay and in the north bay and they were likely sparked by lightning, lets zoom in on the fires and look at them on a map james yes, those begin to the one for this to the south a marsh fire burning near sunil in the regional wilderness area there in Alameda County. Right along santa clara border broke out sunday.