Avoided. We are told the tow truck driver spent several years helping others. Welcome to the 10 00 news tonight. I am Heather Holmes. The chp said the accident could have easily been avoided. It happened on the side of interstate 280 between farmville boulevard and edgewood road in the hills above redwood city. We have live coverage tonight. The law is designed to avoid this exact kind of accident. Reporter it really is, frank. Now we see this loss of life tonight. I checked in with the coroner, they released his name, hes identified as mark alarcon, he was 61years old. People with chp said he was well known, helping people on the peninsula. Remake the tow truck driver stopped on southbound 280 near farmville road to help a motorist on the side of the highway. The driver and the atlas towing truck was part of the state fsp, freeway services patrol, helping stranded motorists. Just after 3 30 on tuesday afternoon, he was hit by a lumber truck passing by. It was traveling southbound on 2
99 in 1985. The record high. The onshore breeze turns into a winds later on. The temperatures are on their way down. We will be near average on the highs for july 1. Lets get over to sal. Lets see what is going on out there. All right, it is quiet out there. I knew that this was going to happen. You and i talked about it. It will be quiet out there if you are driving this week. Later in the week, here we are for wednesday. Theres not a big backup at the bay bridge. It could happen later but i do not think so because we are starting to get towards the holiday mode. This is a look at interstate 880. The traffic looks okay. No problems and san jose along northbound 280. Lets go back to the headlines. The topic of our news so far this morning, 232,000 people have tested positive for the virus here in california. According to john hopkins, they set a record yesterday with 8600 cases. Californias death toll near 6100, and hospitalizations are up 6. 3 percent. Here in the bay area, there are
Not blocking out visibilities so your drive to work if you are this morning is nice and smooth 50s 60s for your current temperatures concord in pittsburgh and our low 60s. Berkeley, San Francisco at 54 degrees right now later today, not all that bad either we still have some 80s for inland areas, san jose 84. But comfortable in oakland and San Francisco in the 60s and the 70s back to you. So were seen an increase a steady increase and not only total number of positive cases, but total number of hospitalized patients in total number of patients in our icu news. Yeah, that is our top story this morning governor newsome set to tighten up today, some of the States Coronavirus restrictions in some or possibly all of californias counties. Yeah weve seen an increase in the hospitalizations in the last 24 hours kron 4 Sarah Stinson. Is in santa clara with the details there. Yeah thats right daria james were heading into a Holiday Weekend as our coronavirus cases are spiking not a good situatio
Year. Just a touch of cloud cover right along the coast and through the Golden Gate Bridge also a little bit of cloud cover hanging out right over oakland. Thats already burning off and skies growing clear by the minute at this point 50s and 60s for your current temperatures pittsburgh at 66 conquered are warm spot right now at 67. Youre going to carry that through into the afternoon conquered being one of our warmer spots, one of our only spots in fact back into the 90s san jose youll hold on 80s with oakland barely even 70s, staying cool and staying comfortable. Back to you darya. So were seeing an increase a steady increase and not only total number of positive cases, but total number of hospitalized patients in total number of patients in our icu news. There is tightening up today on restrictions and it could happen in all of california to theyve seen an increase in hospitalizations in the last 24 hours. So there are watch areas. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live in Santa Clara County,
And you go out in front and you have a weird, muffled conversation next to your mailbox for eight minutes. That has to stop. And while were at it, family zoom calls . Lets max those out at 12 minutes. 12 minutes. Theres nothing going on you cant cover in 12 minutes. At that point you say, okay, zip it, grandma, weve heard enough here in Los Angeles County officials have announced that they are hoping to open things up by the 4th of july. The way itll work is everyone will rush to the beach on the 4th of july sweat all over each other and then, we will die. Which will be good for traffic on the 405. As of yesterday, pet groomers and trainers were allowed to open back up. Which seems weird given that they say pets can spread the virus to people and people can spread it to pets. Maybe we should start training our pets to groom us. One thing we might not have in l. A. Is the oscars. Word around town is that the academy awards, which are scheduled for february will not happen in february. W