About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading or refugees who are being moved to an island that aids groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army denies. Peter stammered with the sport says the Asian Champions League teams begin reaching the last 16 its childs play for so ill have all the details in the next hour. Where we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve facts scenes but in some parts of the worlds the picture is getting worse with case numbers on the rise so as winter approaches no since the start of the pandemic there have been more than 64. 00 a 1000000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 1500000. 00 deaths well the u. N. General assembly is holding a special session on the pandemic here in his Opening Statements secretarygeneral antonio good terrorists emphasize that governments must be united in their response. For the 1st time since 145 and world is confr
Joining us on kron 4 news at 5 everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis those scary numbers going up as we head into the Holiday Season with millions of americans already. Traveling for thanksgiving this week. Doctor fauci says hes very worried about how much the virus will spread during and what the pandemic will look like in 3 weeks when those new infections. Well have manifested covid cases are also surging here locally in the bay Health Officials urging people. To stay home, avoid large gatherings this weekend that definitely includes the south bay which is seeing a major spike kron 4 Sanaz Tahernia reports. Covid19 cases are hitting record highs in Santa Clara County with more than 500 newly reported cases a day and county Health Officials are expecting things to get worse if we look back in july when we were were really worried about an increase then we saw. 385 cases has a maximum and as we have seen our numbers are now much higher we were at 512 cases today. Tomorrow may
Warnings from those Health Experts people are still packing airports. Kron fours terisa stasio has been monitoring the scene and open airports, tonights joins us now now. Whats going on out there theresa. Why cant am so travel here at Oakland International airport down about 60 but that still meant about 7,008 1000 people came in and out of this airport and Health Officials are now saying that we could see a fallout from that. Im going to virginia were going to land in seattle for thanksgiving, choosing to fly this thanksgiving, travelers heading off for the upcoming holiday. Despite recommendations from the cdc to stay home to slow the spread with covid cases also taking off flying past levels set in the spring when the pandemic first hit Health Experts warn about a turbulent future would expect seeing increased cases and continue to increase and haas lies asians Infectious Disease expert doctor, peter, chinhong with ucsf says if cases soar. We could be looking at more austere measure
It is the only bay area county allowed to have hair and nail salons open, gyms too. But that could change just as it did in santa cruz over the weekend. The governor today also points 0 you a new hot spot hes concerned about, but there is also encouraging news. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the very latest. Reporter tonight, new numbers have San Mateo County Health Officials expecting it will be put on the governors monitoring list soon, specifically because of one of the indicators. The average cases per 100,000 people is now 127 over the last 14 days. It needs to be below 100. Supervisor david canepa worries it will be devastating to many businesses. Do i want to be on the watch list . But remember we started this pandemic, its about saving lives. Reporter 93 of the states population now lives in the county on the list. Thats 37 counties, including santa cruz, which starting tomorrow also has to shut down indoor operations of hair and nail salons, indoor malls, places of worship, and gy
Much as what we did see yesterday at the same time. So what does this mean for us well foggy conditions will remain at the coast really through much of the day not going to be as foggy on the peninsula towards the day and obviously not as great of a start to the morning for areas like oakland and berkeley so youre going to get more sunshine earlier on temperatures will be a touch warmer all across the bay whether youre out the coast or further inland, youll notice daytime highs today just a little bit warmer than yesterday were breezy in fairfield concord and san jose it was a steady wind from the coast yesterday that helped to bring in some of that fog especially in the San Francisco, were neighborhoods remain pretty gray even into the afternoon while the rest of the bay area got a good dose of sunshine. Today will be an overall calmer day, but breezy spots will remain through the delta. Temperatures right now in the 50s and 60s with oakland pittsburgh in the low 60s. Well berkeley co