reopenings tonight though the county currently remains in that most restrictive purple tier good evening, everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 i m grant lotus and i m vicki liviakis tier assignments come from the state and they are based on metrics including covid-19 case rates. our first dan thorn live for us in lafayette tonight, he joins us now with how the county. is getting closer to more reopenings. hey they can grant that s right contra costa county is inching closer to that red tier but by the states metrics at this point not there just yet, but the state has said that they will be allowing for more reopenings in 4 counties to move forward once vaccination deployment gets up a little bit in a little bit better shape as for the counties that are already in the red teal tier a number of them here in the bay area. but some contra costa county business leaders say they are feeling left 5 bay area counties are already ahead of the others when it comes to r