The congressional hispanic caucus, has said there is a lack of latinos in the incoming cabinet, if confirmed this air will face the daunting task of leading the department during a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 people has disproportionately affected people of color. Our other big story this sunday night more than 30 million californians now facing stay at home orders and less than 2 hours at 10 00pm. Those orders will go into effect for 3 bay area counties that San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. The order is very similar to the lockdown that many of us all the way back in march. Those counties now taking an earlier approach to governor newsoms order that requires counties to go into lockdown when icu bed capacity has dropped below 15 . Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area, no hovering around 24 . Number of Health Leaders across the bay area say right now they dont want to take any chances. Thats why theyre doing this early. Stay at home orders will also
Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are forced to shut down. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some of those businesses and some of the customers he is joining us live now from walnut creek good evening. Dan. Well johnson and justine has you mentioned this is the unfortunate reality that these businesses are going to have to dea
Tequila herradura, the worlds most gold medal awarded tequila. The tables are gone and the stayathome order is now in place. Some hard reaction coming from businesses in my story. And im tracking a rare december red flag warning that goes into effect overnight tonight. The latest on our fire danger in accuweather. Tonight politica insiders tells California Attorney general Xavier Becerra was selected by president elect joe biden to be the next health secretary. What this means for california. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Three bay area counties are now in another shutdown. Businesses in San Francisco, contra costa, and santa clara saw a final show of support from customers today. But many say it wont be enough to avoid layoffs. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. Officials announced the new order yesterday. Alameda is also imposing the restrictions starting just af
Roadway will reopen. Oakland police put out this tweet around for 11 this afternoon again, they say 4 people have been hurt. We do not know the extent of their injuries or the circumstances surrounding the shooting. We do have a reporter headed to the scene right now and well be following the story throughout the hour. And you can always stay connected on breaking news with the kron 4 mobile app so download it right now. You were successful in bending that curve we will be successful. Again inventing this new curve we have specifically targeted our efforts to close in door operations and i want to reinforce this in door operations. Now to our big story of the day as the number of covid19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise governor Gavin Newsome announcing several new restrictions across the state to try and slow the spread of covid19. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight, im Justine Waldman and as of today following the governors newest order. The state will be pausin
Diverted at 98 street folks drivers being told to get off at 98 street so investigators can piecing this all together heres what we do know so far at some this afternoon investigators were called to the where they said that they found as many as 4 people this afternoon investigators say this all happened on the eastbound lanes of 5. 80 Oakland Police also part of this investigation right now theres no estimated time on when this scene will reopen, but just what we got here initially here on the scene we did see a number of those little which would signal evidence here on the ground i counted at least 24 30 of those on the ground before they were picked up by investigators here on the scene as you can see they are still doing their process their Due Diligence and going through collecting evidence photographing mapping a large a number the rest of this scene that is side as you can see chp investigators along with Oakland Police also here on the scene trying to collect evidence and get m