Extra time into San Francisco. As you can see traffic is still recovering were busy at the Richmond Sandra fell but this is completely normal no incidents here slowing go from richmond parkway to the toll plaza and 92 is standing out not bad at all under 15 minutes from hayward to send the tail darya back to you thanks a lot robin lets get back to the breaking news, our Team Coverage of the wildfires that are devastating sonoma and napa counties you can see neighborhoods have been flattened homes and businesses lost. This is what standing on some of them along highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga the glass fire has so far burned this is a new number. 48,440 acres. 2 containment at this hour there are still evacuations because 22,000 structures or threaten. The fire has already destroyed 80 homes and other buildings in napa and sonoma counties and heres a map showing once again. How widespread the fire is across those counties roughly 70,000 residents forced from their homes sant
Jose. But no one compares to the poor air that youre the poor air that youre currently seeing in easter sonoma and northern napa counties right now where conditions are as you would expect near the glass fire at their very worst 50s and 60s for current temperatures with concord at 64 livermore in pittsburgh of 65 little cooler in the north bay thats good news for firefighting efforts, a cool start to the morning in a pretty calm what at that as well San Francisco, upper 70s for you later today, oakland in the 80s. Well a lot of us back into the 90s like in san jose, ive got the rest of your forecast. Still ahead robin. Thank you john were checking back in on the bay bridge. The traffic is still a little sluggish into San Francisco. Its recovering from 2 earlier crashes, they were minor crashes. But traffic just never completely recovered so if youre heading into San Francisco this morning. Get out there a little early its logo from west grand and youre averaging 40 minutes which is not
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
Liviakis saying im grant lotus alameda san mateo and solano counties. Where the latest to join that red tier that means restaurants in the 3 counties can resume Indoor Dining at 25 capacity indoor malls can reopen at 50 capacity, hair and nail salons barbershops can serve clients indoors with modifications museums zoos aquariums, places of worship movie theaters can all operate at 25 capacity. Gyms and Fitness Centers can operate inside at 10 capacity. And School Districts that choose to well have the ability to reopen, but they have to wait another 2 weeks to make sure they dont backtrack. But Contra Costa County in Sonoma County theyre left behind in the purple tier now we want to be kron fours Taylor Force Act he was in Sonoma County tonight to find out. What the issue is there. This is a big disappointment for many people and businesses here in Sonoma County and one supervisor i spoke to says a lot of it has to do with the countys makeup of its population, its elderly facilities an
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