Our storm ranger scanning the skies. Meteorologist kari hall timing out the wet weather as today in the bay on Tuesday Morning starts right now. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. First well start with the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall tracking that rain. Has it already started to fall here . Not yet but we will see it the rest of the day moving north to south. We can still see the rain approaching the far northwestern california coast and were going to see that moving in as we go into today. As we power up storm ranger it is starting to pick up on some very light sprinkles but the heavier stuff comes this morning. Ill time it out in a few minutes. Mike, any issues for the Early Morning commute . No major issues but one in martinez. Lets look at the big view. You see green. That will put you at ease. A major connector coming off the carquinez bridge area. Theres glass on the roadway. There is glass from what, i dont know. T
Commute . Overall, kari, the commute looks great. We take a look at the big map and you see green sensors except for one spot. Well zoom in on it. Tough to see from this view. Its over in brentwood. Highway 4 is closed because of im not sure. Its either a headon crash between a car and a big rig or a car that hit a guardrail. A big difference there. No big injuries reported but you can travel along the eastern side of the golf course to avoid the closure. The bay bridge is just fine, completely clear. Back to you. Thank you, mike. A live look at capitol hill for you this morning. President elect joe biden pushing for lawmakers to reach a deal on new covid relief package. He is turning to National Security experts as the Trump Administration continues to block the transition of power. The president elect still not receiving classified Intelligence Briefings but today is expected to meet with defense experts to get him better prepared for day one. Today in the bays tracie potts to explai
Im larry beil. Im christian see. Were in a difficult situation and we got to keep pushing. The push to get people to wear masks and stay safe into the holiday season. This as california hits an unfortunate milestone in the fight against the pandemic. The state marked 1 million cases today according to data compiled by several news organizations. That includes people who have recovered, texas became the first state to hit a million cases yesterday. More than 18,000 californians are died. In the bay area, there are more than 130,700 cases. Alameda county is causing further reopenings as it anticipating moving to the red tier. Daily new cases for 100,000 people are up to 4. 9 from the countys low of 3. 4. There is also a steady increase in hospitalization. Officials say if Current Trends continue, the county may be put back into the most restrictive tier and that is purple. Spiking numbers have counties in the bay area hitting pause in their reopenings. The question is this going to be en
In 40 californians or about the population of san jose. State Officials Say we are at 991,000 cases. The virus has now killed more than 18,000 people in california. That is roughly the population of moraga. Good evening. Thank you for being with us tonight. Alameda county meanwhile is pausing further reopening as it anticipates having to move to the more restrictive red tier. Daily new cases per 100,000 people are up to 4. 9 from the countys low of 3. 4. There has also been a steady increase in hospitalizations. Officials say if Current Trends continue the county may be put back in the most restrictive tier. Thats purple. And in Sonoma County people are frustrated that theyre still in the most restrictive purple tier even though test numbers are improving. But as abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman explains the county thinks it knows whats going on. Reporter another date another covid testing site in Sonoma County. Theyre still in the purple tier here highly restricted and residents are
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