To make tackling the pandemic is very First Priority when he hits office. Tonight we now know that former fda commissioner David Kessler and former u. S. Surgeon general doctor vivek murthy will lead that team kessler who once served as the head of the u. S. C f medical school from 2003 to 2007. Today the biden team also unveiling its official transition website. Build back better dot com and lays out the executive actions that president elect biden is set to take on day one of his term many of them aimed at reversing many of President Trumps policies. Oakland native and Vice President elect Kamala Harris is now set to become the most powerful woman in washington. But question of what a biden presidency presidency will mean for the bay area. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some congressional leaders from the bay area about what theyre hoping to see with this new administration, yeah well one of the good things is having somebody like Kamala Harris is from the bay area. Having the ear
Supporters 2 thumbs up one day after losing the election to joe biden president elect biden attending mass in visiting the grave of his late son beau biden in wilmington, delaware, former president George W Bush congratulated mister biden in a phone call sunday and acknowledge that President Trump has the right to pursue legal challenges while also saying in a statement the American People can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair its integrity will be upheld and its outcome is clear. Well President Trump is refusing to concede the election. Mister biden is making it clear hes ready to get to work before his january inauguration. Team biden announcing plans to name a new Coronavirus Taskforce monday on monday. I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advice. College planning. Converter and no actual blueprint that will start on january the 20th 2021. It will be built on bedrock science. And unveiling his official transition website, which
Were actually dealing with temperatures that are below freezing in a few spots that is prompting a few advisories that will get to hear in just a moment looking outside this morning. We do have clear skies looking across the bay from sausalito at San Francisco you can see those clear skies a very crisp clear morning to kick things kick things off for a brand new workweek today now as far as conditions go on satellite radar weve definitely clear back out no activity out there right now if you zoom out across the state look at the very bottom of your screen. You do see a couple of sprinkles right around the san diego area thats all weve got left as far as rainfall or snowfall goes across the state saw snowfall again last night up in the Sierra Nevada after so much precipitation up there this weekend now speaking of the cold morning that were in the midst of lets focus on the north bay here because for those of you, especially in rural areas, youre seeing temperatures this morning that ar
Mountains where well have more than an inch. You can see during the afternoon hours, the rain is looking pretty impressive and so are those temperatures low to mid 60s. An hourbyhour look at that wet weather coming up. Thanks. Expect changes with your businesses starting today. Governor newsom had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases in the state nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Look at all that purple. Every county in the bay area is in the purple tier except for marin, San Francisco and san mateo, theyre in the red tier. Purple tier means transmission is widespread and that includes limiting Retail Stores and shopping malls to 25 capacity and closing all nonessential businesses such as churches, movie theaters gyms. These restrictions just went into effect at midnight and that only gave businesses a day to adjust to everything. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover live in t
Well if you thought it was bad in the spring, its worse now the United States recorded 188,000 new coronavirus cases on thursday setting a new oneday record and an average of 1300 americans are dying each day from this virus. This is the highest death rate since much of the country was on lockdown in the spring. Happy friday and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman we will start this afternoon in San Francisco where changes are coming the citys Health Director has offered a dire warning today again and doctor grant colfax says the city is heading towards the governors purple tier and could soon be under those newly announced a curfew he said this could happen as early as sunday, the city has been experiencing a steady increase in cases since the beginning of october with more than 700 people being diagnosed. So far this week alone. Kron fours dan kerman is following the story for us he will have a full report coming up on kron 4 news at 5 6 ocloc