Milestone despite having less than 5 of the worldwide population. The u. S. Says recorded more than 20 of the covid related deaths, the death toll in the u. S. From coronavirus has topped 200,000 numbers said by some. To be an imaginable 8 months ago when the first covid death was reported covid19 is now one of the leading causes of death. According to Data Collected by Johns Hopkins university here are the latest numbers worldwide there are more than 31 million cases. With nearly 7 million of those cases here in the u. S. , california continues to lead the country with the number of cases, 792,000 we also have more than 15,000 deaths in the state and the bay area has recorded more than 97,000 cases and more than 1400 deaths and despite this grim milestone nationwide San Francisco has had the lowest covid19 death rate. Of any other major us city throughout most of the pandemic our conference send a is live for us in the newsroom with details on this tonight. Thank you thats right, San
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Indicating that go ai y as weour day. Cast shows that asea next couple of days, cowith breeze kicking in for us. Just kind of helping to scour out the smoke and mix out and take out that smoke from our region. So looking great as we head through our afternoon with likely good to moderate air quality. All thanks to that sea breeze helping to mix out that smoke. Temperatures in the upper 60s in San Francisco this afternoon. Mid 70s in oakland and low 80s in san jose and mid 80s for concord after starting off the day with patchy fog and drizzle as well. Talk about the rest of the workweek and some changes for the weekend. Details on that coming up. Thanks mary. Taking a look at the roadways this morning, weve got brake lights and its du as you head out of downtown oakland. Right around 23rd and 29th. Angoing road work and alternating lanes so traffic just squeezing by as you head through there. You can use 580 through oakland its a much better ride both directions there this morning. To a
Morning, waking up to good air quality for the bay area. So as we head through the next few days with the onshore flow that stronger sea breeze kicking in, its going to help to continue to mix out that smoke. So were looking at better air quality that cleaner air as we head through the workweek. Now daytime highs this afternoon, looking at mid 80s for con cord and livermore and low 80s for san jose and mid 70s in oakland and upper 60s for San Francisco. After starting off our day with foggy conditions even some patchy drizzle along the coast and right around the bay, thanks to that onshore flow, well catch that clearing for most of thus afternoon. Ill let you know what you can expect some changes for the weekend and details on that coming up. Gianna . Good morning, lets head straight to the bay bridge. That is where we have a trouble spot. The good news though in the clearing stages and it was a couple of cars tangled on the upper deck near the tunnel not too far from the Treasure Isla
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