Hospitalizations. Contra costa county has moved from the orange here to the more restrictive red tier and even though San Francisco has remained in the yellow tier local Health Officials are preparing the state to move them back into a more restrictive tier. Our personal bello has more on what is being affected and when those restrictions go into effect. Mayor london breed said tuesday that 2 weeks ago officials knew they were possibly headed in this direction. And unfortunately after seeing a 250 uptick in covid cases here we are the fact is. The virus is spreading. And we have to make the hard decisions citing a consistent uptick in cases since last month mayor london breed is once again asking the residents of San Francisco to be cooperative as they make significant rollbacks beginning friday evening the city will eliminate Indoor Dining. Gyms and theaters will go back to reduce capacity of 25 . And while schools currently open for in Person Learning can remain open additional reope
Same thing people have to wear masks as these did your shots or do a thing you have to maintain socialdistancing distancing any happy really careful about going indoors. And you know for thanksgiving i went on people to have it outdoors. So its you know, its just more of same frankly. Yeah. And barbecue doctor theres still a lot were learning and theres a lot we do not know have there been for you any surprises along the way. Well the vaccine advice that the vaccine news from yesterday i thought was really quite the to have a vaccine. That with no side effects. Is just remarkable and to have it in this period of time. And i would imagine were going to be able to start seeing back seen available for so people who are either highly exposed like an intensive care units or who highly highly likely to develop complications like nursing home patients. By mid or or you know late december. And you know the general public by the spring. So doctor very quickly because were running out of time fo
The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
Were concerned. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im anna dates. Thank you for joining us. Concern over coronavirus has the city of San Francisco taking a surprising turn, backward. Mayor london breed says at the end of the day friday, the city will eliminate Indoor Dining, reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters and pause reopening at high schools, elementary and middle schools can proceed. Heres the reason why. Three weeks ago, there were 3. 7 cases per 100,000 people in San Francisco, and now there are 9 per 100,000. San francisco is averaging 80 new cases a day. Thats up from 32 a day in early october. City Health Officials say that rate is increasing more quickly than the summer surge. It is entirely plausible that we will face a situation where our Health Care System could become overwhelmed and reverse the current progress that weve made. The hard choices that we make now will help make things better for us in the future. It will get our city open. It will get our businesses o
Court to try to overturn election results. Thats where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5 oclock im ken wayne and im pam moore right now the election is still too close to call according to the Associated Press democratic candidate joe biden has 264 electoral votes President Trump has to 14 the number to secure the white house is 2 7000s of thousands of votes still have to be counted in as they come in were keeping an eye on the. Ever changing electoral map we share or kron fours grant lotus has been tracking the numbers since election day on tuesday, he joins us now with latest grant pam ken, the colors are changing much but the numbers are and you know incrementally ever so slowly. Youre seeing trends develop into night, everyones eyes or on georgia traditionally a reliable republican stronghold, but this year with this election style so many absentee ballots georgia is in the cross hairs right now it light red the associated broadcast partners have not called and that is why it is