Of the legal challenges under way to help keep the president in the white house. And pointed out unproven allegations that poll watchers in states like pennsylvania were denied observance of the vote count in some communities we want an honest accurate lawful counts. We want maximum sunlight. We want maximum transparency. We want every legal vote to be counted. And we want every illegal votes to be discarded despite President Trumps refusal to concede president elect joe biden is moving forward ready to take office in january when he and Vice President elect Kamala Harris are officially sworn in today he details his new covid team just assemble to combat the crisis there is a need for bold action. To fight this pandemic that Advisory Panel includes 13 doctors and scientists who are part of this new coronavirus Advisory Panel he says will make Rapid Testing widely available across the country while building a core group of contact tracers to help battle this threat on vaccines are distr
Almost a 109,000 every day covid related deaths are up 18 over the same time span averaging 939 per day over the last 2 weeks. The virus has killed more than 237,000 americans. To the south bay now officials are warning of a possible return to tighter Health Orders in the wake of the surge in new covid19 cases. Santa clara countys Public Health officer and other officials calling on the community to stay on guard against the virus. 358 new covid19 cases reported yesterday. It is the most since the middle of july. Theres also been a sharp increase in hospitalizations to more than a 100. The newest infections are mostly in people between the ages of 1834 years old the county is stepping up enforcement of the health order and so far 79 businesses have received notices for noncompliance amid more than 1000 complaints state leaders are already gearing up to work with the president and Vice President elect joe biden and kamala harris. Although President Trump has yet to concede in the presid
All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Ucsf believe this is for 3 reasons the first is were only as good as whats around us so if we saw in the country the rest of the country is on fire is like excluding with covid. And so is this because of the hot even with reduce travel, there are people going back and forth second. He says people are getting more comfortable lax in their precautions and probably having more small gatherings number 3 is its getting cold. So we know that these respiratory viruses love call not only because temperature aspect they survived betting cool but michael does is it brings people together you are if you go more likely going to meet somebody and then endure, setting versus outdoors. Something that doctor chan hong is more worried about after seeing celebrations on saturday once a president elect was announced while hundreds of people flooded castro street. Vast majority were Wearing Masks you may remember when we had black lives matter protests. People were also wearing their masks and the city di
Here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall those fires are the boysen fire as well as. As well as the last fire and also the shady far those 3 fires now burning areas near napa in the Sonoma County line. The biggest fire though that we have been following for you all day long as the glass fire which started this morning. This blaze. So far has scorched more than 2500 acres and is that 0 containment. This fire is burning east of saint helena and calistoga in napa county. So there are believed to be these 2 new spot fires that have popped up since the glass fire started at around 4 oclock this morning that are now burning near the napa Sonoma County line this time lapse video shows us just in the past hour how fast. They have spread how quickly they have erupted. Now according to state senator mike mcguire cal fire and local firefighters diverting resources from the glass fire so they can now contain all of the new blazes that have popped up again thats the shady fire