Shepard smith will introduce you a blustery weekend for many. Welcome to monday, november 16th early today starts right now grad youlad youre with uss monday. The country reaches yet another grim coronavirus milestone as state officials scramble to contain the amendment. The virus is spreading at alarming rates we have now surpassed 11 million infections that took just seven days to add a million. Before that it took ten days for the country to go from nine million cases to ten million and two weeks to go from eight to nine million these are the scenes playing out across the country as hospitals are overloaded with Covid Patients at least 15 states have increased restrictions our Megan Fitzgerald has the very latest. Moelggen, good morning valerie, good morning to you. Acrosby the count across the country we are seeing states scrambling to contain the virus. The u. S. Adding a million new infections in the last week alone, pushing total cases to 11 million and forcing more states to cr
When can we expect to see it . Were going to see the rain moving if by tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime were enjoying nice, sunny weather and well above normal temperatures. Were looking at highs today that will reach into the mid70s but well start to see the rain moving from north to south by tomorrow morning and most of the bay area seeing it by the afternoon. The rest of the week is looking nice. The rain is moving through parts of the northwest. Ill have a look at the time line coming up and how much rain to expect. Mike, any issues as drivers get ready to head out on this monday morning . Yes, kari, an unpleasant surprise out of tracy on to the Altamont Pass. A very jammed drive for west 580. This is a vehicle that was on fire, engulfed in flames. Everyone reportedly out safely. We have two lanes, two left lanes open as youre coming out of the alat thtamonaltamont. The rest of the bay, of course, very light. Well track this slow drive out of tracy but bigger news on the world f
Milestone, california is close to the 1 million mark of covid19 cases over 991,000 cases have been reported in the state as of today. The men number keeps going up. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman the u. S. Has surpassed 10 million infections and now california will be the second state right behind texas to eclipse a million known cases which is now forcing the state to roll back reopening plans and also new today Alameda County becomes the latest bay area county to pause its reopening plans. Currently alameda is in the states orange tier which allows some indoor businesses to operate with modified Health Orders but Health Officials say theyre expected to move backwards into the red tier really soon so if the county does not curb its infection rate. There is a chance in may have to go back even further into the purple tier which would force many non essential indoor businesses to close kron fours terisa stasio is following the stories. Well
President trump speaking publicly for the first time in more than a week touting progress in the production of a vaccine. This is five times faster than the fastest prior Vaccine Development in history. But threatening to withhold it from the state of new york because of governor Andrew Cuomos concerns. The president also refusing to concede the election, shutting out president elect joe bidens Transition Team. How will it affect the next administrations handling of the pandemic . Well talk live to a member of bidens covid advisory board. Was she tricked . New questions swirling this morning about Princess Dianas blockbuster interview 25 years ago where she spoke candidly about her troubled marriage and the challenges of the crown. Those stories, plus tis the season. The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is making its grand arrival, wrapping up the 170mile journey with an nypd escort to its new home in the heart of new york city. Something joyful to celebrate today, november 14, 2020.
And be prepared. The roadways may be a little extra slick remember the first rain of the season brings up some of the oils off the pavement there could be extra slick out there actually right now we are seeing some high clouds moving up above no rain here just yet part of the bay area get pretty close in fact we may be seeing a few showers in northern Sonoma County, the brunt of the storm still up to our north you plowing right up in toward the pacific northwest, seattle portland. Theyre seeing some rain and again thats going to be cold storm thats a head in toward the bay area. Doppler radar scanning your skies we are seeing now warm frontal part of the storm begin to make in the parts of the north bay northern Sonoma County taking for a close look how about that couple raindrops pop up out there certainly a chance some of that hitting the ground headed towards santa rosa right now. But the brunt of the system still on the back side it will be moving in a little bit later so lets see