Reporter while San Francisco sounds that message loudly, some counties are suggesting otherwise. Contra costa county held a press conference called testing for turkey advising residents to test for covid19 if they are going to gather with family members. Dr. George rutherford is a professor at u. C. Season fran. Its both. You know, so the doctor is 100 . This is the most Current Public Health advice, which is just dont do it. Stay inside your family, you know, no amount of testing is going to guarantee youll be safe. Reporter that being said. However, if they dont do that and were into harm reduction. Reporter it seems Health Officials across the bay area recognize they can tell you to stay home, but not everyone will. Like Contra Costa County, alameda, santa clara, marin, so solano and sonoma say avoid traveling for the holidays but if you do, get tested before and after and quarantine for 14 days if youre exposed to covid19. Finding a test before thanksgiving can be challenging. San
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Welcome sight for the bay area are top after capturing storm clouds filling our skies from San Francisco to the east bay as a weather system. Makes his way through Northern California rain in walnut creek, leaving seeking cover and streets pretty slick for the drivers out there good evening, everybody thanks for joining us at for kron 4 news at night, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus boy was it nice to get this much needed soaker really put an end to fire season at least for the time being. And this is a real storm gusty winds 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour in some areas as we take a live look outside right now this is the Golden Gate Bridge looking at the headlights coming from them are in direction still slick out there. But it was coming down pretty hard earlier in the day khief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has been tracking this system all weekend. It delivered. The ad pack a little punch to it as it came through those wind
Hospitalizations are surging out of control in california, 45 counties are now in the states most restrictive tier meaning the spread of covid19 is widespread. Thanks for joining us today at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia hospitalizations have increased 81 over the last 2 weeks in cases here in the bay area have now surpassed 138,000. All of these numbers increasing right ahead of the thanksgiving holiday when many people are hoping to gather with their families our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala is live for us in sacramento with more on californias latest covid19 update ashleigh. Yes and as well the states Top Health Official doctor mark galli says that those hospitalizations and covid19 cases are surging in the state thats leading he and other state leaders to request a 7 counties to take a step back in the states tiered reopening system with an even larger majority of counties and the states most restrictive tier. Statewide i dont believe weve ever seen as many hospital admissions. Incr
From our biggest storm so far this season and we could be getting some more of it tomorrow and this is what it looked like in walnut creek earlier today, but it was a similar site throughout almost all of the bay area thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 10 everybody. Im grant lotus a welcome sight there sure are high Vicki Liviakis yeah, the kids are out there. What is this stuff, rain havent seen it in months, our chief meteorologist, large karnow is here with when the rain will guys i seen it come in and kind of packing a punch as it came on shore some gusty winds that rain coming down as we head toward the afternoon and were not done just yet weve got another wave of rain that is just beginning to move into the bay area we take the weather wall on. Yeah certainly outside tonight things very slick out there in fact up for the golden gate bridge, the rain is beginning to move in once again, well see that overnight tonight more showery type whether or not that steady rainfall. But
We got light rain falling across the entire south bay. This is the way it looks on 87 as we take a look at the tower cam right there. As we head into the afternoon hours, temperatures will hit the low to mid 60s. Notice the rain shield much smaller by the evening commute. Kumasi . All right. Thank you. Were starting this morning with a major announcement overnight about pfizers covid19 vaccine. We know youve been tracking these vaccine developments closely. Now pfizer says it is days away from seeking fda approval. Jobina has the details. Pfizer says its vaccine is 95 effective against covid19 in the final analysis in its phrase three trial and the Company Plans to file for fda authorization within days. Once thats given, pfizer will deliver millions of doses possibly before the end of the year. Its not known how long the immunity will last after receiving the vaccine. Pfizer said the vaccine caused only mild side effects, the most common one was fatigue which happened in 4 of voluntee