You might expect. We are in the bay area region want to regions intensive care unit capacity, dips below 15 will bat will trigger a 3 week stay at home order businesses that will close include bars wineries personal Care Services hair salons and barbershops as well as Outdoor Dining. Each of those activities which weve been talking about for months relatively lower risk when you can do all of the things that weve discussed. But today theyre all a little more risky than they were a month ago and thats just because we are more covid in our communities. Retail can remain open, but at 20 capacity. Restaurants are only allowed to offer takeout newsom says that all regions except the bay area could be under the order by next week with the bay area likely under one by the end of the month. Once the stay at home order is announced the region will have about 48 hours to make any adjustment here is where each of the 5 california region stand tonight in terms of icu capacity, the bay area. Has th
Down his restaurant to Outdoor Dining the owner of says that it is not fair to force restaurants to close when retail, especially large chains are allowed to operate. But for some reason was in danville tonight, she spoke with the owner of crimes and has more to reset. And good evening here in danville the owner of crum says that he is not a rule breaker and that this was not an easy step to take, but he said these are very uneasy times and they require a unique steps taken. On tuesday people sent crumbs restaurant in danville eating even though they were not supposed to and Contra Costa County Outdoor Dining is now not allowed anymore. The county making that decision along with other Bay Area Public Health departments to try and deal with they say the rapid rise in covid cases. But owner jimmy heliopolis says that he didnt feel that closing was the right step to take right now. No this is survival this is not. Or we can just handle this now we can get through no, i dont know when were
Degrees right now santa rosa in petaluma each at 34 degrees. So as you get out into the car may be warming up a couple extra minutes, i know that was rebeccas advice a few minutes ago, youre still some pretty easy going conditions on our roads and definitely no fog out there. Either yeah nothing in your way right now a lot of cars the visibility is great, its just a little bit cold of course youre see a crank up those car heaters for sure. The door right now though look at this its a nice a shot of bay bridge toll plaza approach. And this is our camera looking out across the macarthur maze here nothing in your way for westbound 80 your commute is going to be a straight shot in the San Francisco across the upper deck and its going to be a total drive time about 10 minutes over to the fremont street exit, switching things over now to the cemetery rich men rather the Richmond Center fell bridge now west bound 5. 80 looking great theres more cars on the roadway, the lefthand side of your s
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing