Now 3 San Francisco mayor london breed warning the city is preparing to announce new restrictions this week as coronavirus spreads rampantly thank you for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im tahernia during a press conference this afternoon mayor london breed and doctor colfax saying restrictions could be issued as early as tomorrow. Kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco with the concerning details. Dan. Well thats right things have gone from bad to worse as far as covid is concern here in the city in the last 10 days hospitalizations have more than doubled cases are 4 times what they were a month ago during an online briefing today both the mayor and the Health Director said changes are coming and they could come as soon as tomorrow. We are now in the most dangerous period. So this pandemic we need to do everything we can stay ahead of our hospitals, not being overrun this is about saving lives, everything were asking you to do on the coming weeks and months is abo
Advisory. For the bay bridge that chp issued a really early this morning, it still stands. But the good news is not a lot of traffic in your way though if you are going to be heading into downtown San Francisco. In fact a look at the drive time much improved as we kick off this 9 oclock hour 10 minutes for your westbound 80 drive out of the macarthur maze across the upper deck and into downtown to the fremont street accident. The san mateo bridge improving here as less folks on the roads and that we saw the last hour a 13 minute drive time. No issues on the flat section the high rise looks good and its going to be a a really nice drive off or youre westbound 92 right over to that 1, 1, connector in foster city. Ill check the richmond sandra fell bridge and the golden gate in just a couple minutes back to the news. Thanks a lot 9 oh one the big story most of the bay area is going into big lockdown tonight you can see San Francisco contra costa alameda and santa clara counties. Those all
Hello and welcome. We start with an apology from americas top Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci after he criticised uk regulators over their rapid approval of a new coronavirus vaccine. Britain on wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for mass use. Speaking earlier to cbs, dr fauci said the uk was not as rigorous as the us in its vaccine approval process. But when he spoke to my colleagues earlier on this channel, dr fauci backtracked. The point i was really trying to make, i did not make it well, which is why i welcome to the opportunity to get on your show and say it came out wrong. In the United States, there is such a considerable amount of tension of pushing back on the credibility of the safety and efficacy that if we in the United States had done it as quickly as the uk did it, and thats no judgement on the way uk did it, and even though my statement did come across looking that way, if we had a, for example, approved it
Dont need those winds sticking around any longer than they need to its actually a ping fire danger rarity for this time of year clear skies across the bay areas we do see offshore winds kicking up especially in the north bay or windy spots right now our areas like Sonoma Petaluma napa on up to calistoga which is seen winds well in excess of 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour this morning, red flag warnings remain in effect for the north bay, the inland east coastal San Mateo County through 05 00pm after that we take our foot off the gas pedal and winds begin to come down quite a lot into the evening tonight, right now temperatures are in the 50s and even low 60s a mild start to this breezy day. Rebecca. All right john thank you a couple of problems to take note of if youre going to be taking the bay bridge soon trying to get into downtown San Francisco. This is going a little bit weve got a little bit of a backup. Here behind the pay gates because theres a broken down big rig, a stalled out to gr
Its a move thats been long overdue. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im Catherine Heenan in tonight for pam moore. Today, San Francisco county da chase abboud in announced plans to file manslaughter charges against former rookie officer, christopher this is in connection to the 2017 shooting death of oneill that news was a welcome by families of People Killed by San Francisco Police Officers and kron fours Jonathan Mccall is here live with more john you know, id sorry catherine and was fired by San Francisco police after that shooting happened. Since that we 2009 there have been 72 officer involved shootings here in San Francisco. In september san leandro officer Jason Fletcher was also charged for the shooting death of Steven Taylor that happened in april its the second time. Officer in the bay area has been charged in a deadly shooting here in recent months before that that had been that hadnt for loved ones killed by cops say todays news gives them some much needed help. For the first