Scientific community. I think thats a bit of an overreaction. Now at 9 Governor Newsome announcing stricter measures today across the state after a troubling increase in covid cases and hospitalizations also tonight the governor has floated the possibility of a statewide curfew lot of people are talking about that as we say good evening, thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 everybody, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis today Governor Newsom announced that he is pulling the emergency brake on the states efforts to reopen our economy. As coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during the summer spike and this comes as daily covid cases in the state have doubled over the last 10 days, 40 counties today were ordered to take at least one step back in the states tiered economic reopening system prompting businesses to depending on the county, the rain further limit indoor capacities. Take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow. My top priority, moving in.
Going to feel it not only going to be the rain were going to see some strong gusty winds as we get a real cold front that is headed our way tonight though even today was kind of quiet day out there. We have lots of sunshine we have some warm temperatures tonight starting to see some clouds moving in the winds begin to pick up along the coastline. Thats the first hand some changes on the way but today you can hardly tell were talking about a storm off the coastline. Weve got 70s mid 70s in oakland 74 in san jose and 71 in santa rosa, but everything is about to change look what off the coastline is this area of low pressure deepen this ridge was able start to strengthen across park, the west coast, but its moving quickly now and were starting to see that little swirl off the coast that is live in our direction. Thats whats going to bring the rain right now tracking your skies were not seen any raindrops just yet most of us just high level clouds out ahead of the main cold front. Its not
Days this is simply the fastest increase. California has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. The move today forces businesses in most california counties to either further limit indoor capacity take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow night so here locally all 9 bay area counties are either in the purple or red tears on the states covid and san Mateo San Francisco counties have increased as well but theyre not in that worst purple tier. Theyre now just a stalled out in the red tier, sonoma napa contra costa alameda and santa clara counties are in the most restrictive widespread. Purple state here. Sonoma county was the only county to not move today because it was already in that purple tier alameda napa and santa clara counties actually moved to tears from orange to purple due to rising cases and hospitalizations and they bypassed orange here and theresa is where we go next. She is live in. Dublin tonight to receive this is just so people to yet again be going s
Cast for showing us that things are mostly dry right now we do have a little bit of cloud cover off the coast and the north bay but then by 6 oclock were going to start to see those showers move on to the coast and were going to see a the north bay covered at least half of it. Right around the 9 oclock hour and then lunchtime, widespread here rainfall with pockets of some very heavy showers thats what the yellow coloring and that orange coloring is on your screen there. So you can see a pretty much everywhere across the bay area in the north bay, the south bay, the east bay and the peninsula going to get hit so by lunchtime with this heavy shower activity and its going to continue into the evening hours most of it by the 5 oclock hour well be in the east bay and the south bay with a couple of scattered showers in the north bay for you and then things will start to thin out as we get so late into the evening into the overnight hours but wednesday is expected to be wet as well we are goi
Now in the days and weeks that will decide how germany will fare in this pandemic in winter. We see that we obviously have very special infection dynamics in germanys largest cities. Patients on ventilators for. My top priority is possible not to have to bring economic and public life back down to the level that was necessary in the spring. We have to appeal to our population we dont want to have a situation like the resume prousts for a situation like there is in spain. We dont want to 2nd lockdown. Germany marks a year since an anti semitic attack that left 2 people dead. Ladies and gentlemen it is not enough to condemn an attack like the one in hundreds of targets and then to return to business as usual. Welcome to the day chancellor Angela Merkel the mass of 11 major cities in germany have agreed a package of new measures to stop the spread of coronavirus germany fear is a growing 2nd wave of the virus after infection rates in cities like berlin and frankfurt reached a key threshol