Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school
Far no major hot spots, no traffic to really get into but were going to. See that pick up as the day goes on because its still pretty early you can see here the bay bridge traffics moving along just fine here from the maze of fremont street. 8 minutes were still in the green, but you know that could change as the day goes on and take look at the san mateo bridge can see the westbound here brake lights right here traffic starting to build up especially from the last hour into now about 13 minutes for your drive into that 8. 80 to the one o one and the Richmond Bridge pretty quiet too quiet. All morning. The tolls to one o one about 8 minutes for your drives you. Coming in there and last, but certainly not least the Golden Gate Bridge about a 21 minute drive, so one minute uptick from what we saw last hour still looks great on the road robin all right, thank you for the update rain well check back with you a little later. Well breaking news that were following for you from overnight. The
Threatening to be the undoing of hillsborough traffic commission. The breach of ethics are clear. Critics like ptc victor chris say email showing the executive director and members of the taxi industry Work Together to set up sting operations aimed at ticketing who were in lift drivers. He called an emergency meeting. He should be put on a the discussion quickly turned to a heated debate with cab and limo drivers defending their partnership. It is the same as a neighborhood watch. And the director defending himself. This is a witchhunt. Board number ripped into chris. It was a sham what took place this morning. When he became clear that he asked county attorneys to find an interim director, reddick went off. You are telling me that you position. We havent voted yet how do you know if were going to make a decision if they and havent spoken with someone . That is correct. You have not done your homework or you would not be saying things youve been saying. When it came time to vote. The b
A nightmare scenario for parents and chattanooga, tennessee. Several children are dead and a many more injured after a School Bus Crash monday afternoon. 37 Elementary School students on board when the bus flipped on its side and smashed into a tree. It took almost two hours for First Responders to get all of the children off the mangled bus. Most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a there are no words that can bring comfort to a mother or a father. And so today, city is praying for these families. An Authorities Say bus driver Jonathan Walker was an arrested following the incident. The 24yearold is facing multiple counts of vehicular homicide a well charges reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Speed is suspected to be a contributing factor in the crash. The ntsb is also investigating. We are looking a what caused prevent it. School District Holding classes today with a counselors on hand to help students and staff in the wake of the tragedy. One p
Remember yesterday, we were talking about with the wind shear, we would see slow intensification with this system. Well, that didnt happen and it intensified very quickly through the overnight hours. Thats really one of the things. We say this all the time that we struggle with is that intensity forecast. Here is the latest on it. 115 mileperhour winds. Its currently moving to the westsouthwest at 12 miles an hour. It will continue on the track as we go through the next, say, 24 to 36 hours but by saturday, thats when we start to look for the turn. Its going to be the everything is how quickly that turn happens and exactly where it happens but it does look like its going to be moving very close to jamaica, then over cuba and then up into the bahamas and thats about the only thing that is going to slow the wind speeds when it starts to interact with land as we go through the first part of next week. Now, back closer to home, we have a cold front but this front has pulled up stationary.