Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open
Counter some low visibility as for winds right now we are nice and calm, i know we started the week with some very breezy conditions that was not the case wednesday thursday nor will it be again today. Temperatures right now are mostly in the 40s to 50s, although santa rosa. You are in the upper 30s, currently at 39 degrees oakland, a cool 41 while hayward and nice 51 degrees. Temperatures later on well be in the 70s and only a couple of a teasing on a little cooler than we were for your daytime highs yesterday we are going to be seeing temperatures tomorrow and sunday for halloween and the day after that just a couple of degrees up again that will take us back into the 80s of course more about your Holiday Weekend forecast is still to come got to get a check of your Early Morning traffic with robin usually not too bad out there just yet whats it like right now its friday, its light its quiet. Its looking good. Johnson dropped a fantastic start with no major issues so far we dont have
Conditions outside right now we have seen the return of some fog across the bay area. Its very patchy though so theres definitely brightness working its way through so far suture towers, one of those areas that you are getting a good dose of both the fog in the distance and the sunshine reaching its way down into the city you can see the patchy nature that fog not really blocking out visibility so youre driving to work has been smooth. The exception of some fog at times around the Golden Gate Bridge and an upper elevations on the peninsula, sonoma and marin counties temperatures right now are mostly in the 40s and 50s with San Francisco and san mateo in the low 50s santa rosa at 40 degrees right now while petaluma and nevado each at 46 degrees currently later today, these daytime highs that weve got are going to be a little cooler than yesterdays mostly in the 70s after some 80s for inland spots recently so we do take a step back from our peak temperatures lately and enjoy a nice cool
Upper 30s right now not quite as chilly as we had been the past couple of days, but definitely cool enough for that extra layer if youre outside for more than just a few minutes, sun shining down in walnut creek and as we make our way into the afternoon areas like walnut creek holding on to the low 80s just barely most of our inland areas backing off the 80s, falling into the 70s to kick off the weekend on a cooler note. Robin thank you john major residual slowing on highway 4 after an accident in concord was tying up traffic blocking several lanes so the crash is gone, but the drive time is still very high, especially for friday, a whopping 42 minutes for west for from antioch over to concord because of that crash which is right before they 6. 80 looks good the nimitz trouble free and one oh one easy 31 minutes from san jose heading to menlo park. The bay bridge commute into San Francisco fantastic for friday delay free we havent had any major issues so far 9 minutes for you average t
Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.