Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.
Considerably and here is where things stand right now as we. Bring you out to the big board obviously the magic number 2. 70 and the 2 people that are vying for that office are stuck really to 64 for biden hes obviously much closer to 2. 70 donald trump there at 2. 14 the big states where watching tonight. Our georgia and pennsylvania, both of which see joe biden surging donald trump still has the lead this map from our broadcast partners with the Associated Press has a light red for pennsylvania meeting trump is still leading a light red for georgia meaning trump is still leading however a click on georgia where there is now a razor thin lead for donald trump we zoom in we scroll over and with 16 electoral votes at stake, you can see donald trump here still has the lead. But it is fewer than 2000 votes. And that is with 99 of the vote counted. So still votes out there still looking through all those mail in ballots because of the pandemic so many of them to sort through, but this is a
Devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be then restored in phases starting on monday night through tuesday night so some people could be without power until tuesday evening all right we have Team Coverage on tonights wind event kron fours gayle ong is live in the east bay where winds are picking up tonight. We will have the latest from her location. In just a moment we want to start now with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez who was monitoring the areas that are under the wind advisories. Winds are whipping across the east bay right now for theresa yeah thats right justine and and in fact the gusty as winds that ive seen all day and all night long happening right now for those of you in the north bay. And its going to continue to peek through 4 oclock for your monday morning and were seeing sustained winds in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range with gusts reported in the valleys at 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour highest peaks already seeing wind gusts at 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour.
That all cities from santa rosa down to santa cruz and gilroy are under a red flag warning tonight, coastal regions, Santa Cruz Mountains and lower valleys are also under a redflag warning but that runs through 11 oclock tomorrow morning. Pg e has already turned off the power to 225,000 customers across the state with 136,000 more expected to lose power at some point tonight and the power is already off in the north bay. The areas marked here in purple that with that triangle thats the places that have already lost power pg e is turning off the power because the wind gusts could knock over a power line and start another devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be restored in phases. Starting monday night through tuesday night. And we have Team Coverage of tonights events kron fours gayle ong is live for us now in the east bay, where the winds have just started to pick up. Well have the latest from her in just a few moments. But first want to check in with meteorologist
From the bay areas local news station we begin now with that breaking news takes us here to oakland where firefighters say unfortunately theyve gotten control of this brush fire thats been burning dangerously close to 5. 80 threatening several structures. But again it appears firefighters aggressive attack has prevented destruction and perhaps worse thanks for joining us said 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the fire broke along west bound 5. 80 east of 35th avenue at the overpass there. At one point it was upgraded to a 3 alarm fire more than 50 firefighters answered the call. Another the fire is contained as grant said its still a very active scene. Kron fours taylor sackey joining us now live from the scene and taylor. What a tense afternoon and early evening for firefighters. Address thankfully things are looking much better and firefighters were able to get on top of that fire very quickly of course its now contained and behind these fire engines you would s