Forcefully to go spoke with city leaders who say they believe the pandemic has played a role. It alarming since june first 14 shootings have been reported in the city of alameda criminals shouldnt the better armed and our police what troubles interim police chief randy fan is that number accounts for the total number of shootings all year long there were 9 for the first 5 months of the year we had 3 shootings in 2019 just 7 in 2018. Here we are again towards end of october weve got this many arrests have been made in 5 of the 14 shootings investigations. Though these cases have resulted in increased workload for a department that is also trying to adapt to the pandemic watching whats happening with more folks not being in jail when theyre arrested because of covid people being released because of covid criminal Justice Reform theres just so many factors were taking a look at mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft understands residents and Business Owners are concerned about the violent trend Dome
Now 5 days away from the november 3rd election and kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season. With a Record Number of people voting early this election season, there are already concerns tonight about missing ballots in the east bay, dozens of voters reported not receiving confirmation that their ballot was received by the Contra Costa County elections division. Kron fours justine waltman here now with details and whether or not foul play is believed to be involved justine. Well Contra Costa County has 37 drop off ballot boxes. But theres one question tonight, and thats the box thats right outside of Richmond City hall, dozens of voters say they dropped off their ballots there on october 12 and the county has not been able to confirm receipt of those ballots so theyre lost and the county doesnt know where they are tonight. The county is telling us this according to the Contra Costa County Elections Office the ballot box and Richmond City all has been inspected by
Counts continue across the country. Demonstrators were out Holding Signs in major cities including vegas, philadelphia, new york and here in the bay, San Francisco oakland and san jose among others. Thank you for being with us on this night after election day, im grant lotus hand im okay with kuz yeah its been more than 24 hours since the polls closed across the country in. Theres still no winner. Releasing the president ial race. So heres where the electoral vote stands as of right now out of the 270 needed to win President Trump has 214 joe biden has 264. This means that biden needs to win one more state to get 270. All right well here is where things look right now on the big board the big map vicki weve been looking at this rate for too feels to 64 for biden to 14 for trump, the goal obviously who can get to 2 71st the path is much easier for biden when nevada right here and the 6 Electoral College votes that you have in nevada and all the sudden. It is victory time joe biden right
Covid vaccine continues but Health Experts say do not expect to receive a shot anytime soon thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 6 everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis after earlier suggesting that a covid19 vaccine could be ready by election day the president is now telling followers. At his rallies is just around the corner now some doctors and scientists are weighing in our dan kerman is live at Ucsf Medical Center with a vaccine reality check dan, getting back to normal is. So dependent on this vaccine. Absolutely and it looks like that back to normal is going to be sometime late next year doctor fauci saying today the earliest iris populations might get a vaccine could be december or january specialists here ucsf say that High Risk Group probably not mass distribution until spring. Many of our greatest companies and labs that coming out very quickly with the vaccines are doing great very shortly the president s initial suggestion that a covid19 vaccine could be re
Says power should be restored by late tuesday evening extreme winds were recorded in some parts of the bay area and Sonoma County for example wind gusts 3 to 99 miles an hour. And we have Team Coverage on the extended red flag warning on the safety power shutoff our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow in the weather center. Hes tracking the gusty winds but first we turn to kron fours to recess to theo who is in Sonoma County where a lot of people are still without power tonight, teresa. As youre mentioning some of those wind gusts were up to 90 Miles Per Hour plus they had sustained winds of 76 Miles Per Hour. So certainly this area was hit hard. And some of those residents still being hit hard because they still are without power. As the sun went down the winds started picking up it could be another long night for residents here in the north bay who already faced the last 24 hours in the dark we lost power yesterday 5 oclock 05 00pm. And has been out since and he says that this latest