Newsome pulling an emergency brake on the states reopening process amid the covid19 pandemic this as daily covid cases in the state double over the last 10 days, thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan ken wayne has the night off. State leaders say an emergency brake was always part of the blueprint for california for reopening if cases that kept climbing nearly every bay area county is now losing ground and the states covid19 tear system right now a total of 40 california counties are reversing reopenings and moving to the most restrictive purple tear here in the bay area 5 local counties are included they are alameda napa contra costa solano and santa clara counties, San Francisco move from yellow to red today joining moran and san mateo counties new San Francisco Health Department has released a travel advisory this is asking people to. Please avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving and today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax s
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.
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
Over the last a couple of days and its going to pushing a cold front through the entire bay area so chilly temperatures rainy conditions were going to see a lot of cloud cover around the bay area. And were also going to see a very high winds ill talk more about that in time the storm system out and just a couple of minutes for now, lets head over to the Traffic Center and say good morning robin good morning to you as well and im reminding folks to not forget to slow it down and the rain why do i say that because people drive way too fast when its raining i want to keep nagging you throughouu the commute. Were checking in on the traffic here on a team to San Francisco looking good so far nice and smooth at the pay gates, no problems on the upper deck so come on and were at 8 minutes to fremont street. Taking you out to brentwood. We do have a major accident working here on highway 4 near balfour its actually closed in both directions. Its an accident involving an suv and a big rig, so t
Looks like more widespread across the north bay by 9. Folks should be getting it even in San Francisco by 9 oclock. Then by 10 oclock it looks like parts of the east bay will be getting in and then the north is going to be covered with some maybe some moderate to heavy showers pockets of those showers with a yellow in the orange coloring on your screen and then by lunchtime its going to be even more widespread before getting through the entire bay area into the afternoon and then tonight were going to see it stick around right around 5 its going to lighten up a little bit in the north bay but were going to see it pretty heavy along the east bay and our south bay let you know how long this rain is going to last and the wind speeds at one tracking. There were over the next few days as well have all that coming up in just a bit for now lets head over to the Traffic Center and see whats cooking on the roads of thank goodness, the traffic is thinning out now that the rain is moving in thats