Fours tapers actually chris sacchi rather she talked to a doctor at u c s f and she has concerning the weekend celebrations in how people were affected by that taylor. Can begin theres no doubt about it its definitely concerning to see an increase in those daily cases, but the good thing well if you want to even call it that, but the important thing to know is that San Francisco is in seeing an increase in hospitalizations that will be important because we typically see those hospitalizations increased as cases increase. So of course experts are now warning people to stay vigilant and to not get too comfortable, especially as the temperatures drop. Like many other bay area cities, San Francisco is also seeing a rise in coronavirus cases recording more than a 100 new daily cases over the past few days. Experts like doctor, peter chin, hong at ucsf say this is happening for several reasons people are getting comfortable and probably having more small gatherings and more people are also t
To welcome customers back so soon. Good evening and thanks for joining us at everybody im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus not as bad as it was last night, but this Atmospheric River continues to pass through parts of the bay area tonight. Prompting several weather alerts in our region. The rain is falling in Santa Cruz County tonight streets there as you can see. Pretty slick and water is standing in some areas of Boulder Creek. Flood advisory has expired within just the past hour. But a Flash Flood Watch is in effect that curation orders and warnings remain in place near the burn zones in san mateo and santa cruz counties see her on the map the areas shaded in yellow are under evacuation warnings. The areas in red have evacuation orders in place. Is rain and snow knocked out power for more than half a million pg e customers in northern california. Nearly 75 of those customers have their power back on right now, but 16,000 customers in the bay area. Theyre still in the dark tonight a
Fuel to an already historic fire season. We do have Team Coverage. Of the fire danger and also the potential for power shutoffs for so many pg e customers across the bay area, well start now with our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez shes in the Weather Center were tracking. The latest weather conditions for us for sunday. Were really worried about the a presa yeah and we definitely should be just stayed in jonathan, especially when we see sustained winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour our valleys could actually see gusts upwards of 55 Miles Per Hour even throughout the coast as well with the strongest gusty as winds. No surprise our highest peaks, north bay mountains east bay hills and diablo range. Could see near category one Hurricane Force winds at around 70 Miles Per Hour on the eve of the oneyear anniversary of the kincade fire. So prime fire season, a peak of high fire season here in the bay area. Thats when the wind advisory going into effect for everyone in the bay area sunday afternoo
A south African Court away to black men are accused of killing a white farmer. Welcome to the program we begin in thailand where police in antigovernment protest as a fort in the center of the capital city water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 3rd day in a row now thousands of people defied a government ban on public gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and for reforms to the monarchy skyler appoints. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protestors and thai police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd day thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before as promised in an announcement just after the violence began tire thors began using everything at their disposal to stop the protest including water cannon with burning agent laced with water. The protesters are demanding a new constitution reform
Wildfires. Now at 10 oclock the bay area and Northern California just hours away from seeing potential Hurricane Force winds. The threat now causing extreme fire danger. And another round of power shut offs from pg and e thats where we begin this saturday night at 10 oclock here on kron 4 news. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Jonathan Mccall and im justine waldman. It is dry, theres very low humidity and the winds are going to whip that adding even more fuel to an already historic fire season. We have Team Coverage tonight on the fire danger and the power shut offs will start with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez whos standing by with the latest on the fire danger this weekend. Yeah thats right just cnn jonathan all eyes will be not just on our hills but also our valleys and coast. Everyone in the bay area will be impacted by this upcoming wind storm and we do have a wind advisory going into effect sunday afternoon through monday morning most of us will see sustained winds at 20 to 35