Overwhelms hospitals. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Good evening. Thanks so much for joining usch im anousha rosta. Im terry mcsweeney. Some hope tonight as the first batch of vaccines is about to get shipped to states across the country. It comes just as hospitals continue to be overwhelmed. In the San Joaquin Valley hospitals have run out of icu beds. Here in the bay area were just teetering above that 15 threshold. The county joins marin, San Francisco, contra costa, alameda and santa clara counties. The new restrictions impacts wineries, tasting rooms and much, much more. Heres nbc bay areas christie smith. Reporter its the first full day of the changes here in Sonoma County. Weve been speaking with businesses. Some say they do notice fewer people out and about. Others say it was already pretty quiet before this. So were surrounded by wineries and restaurants. Its a huge part of what draws people to sonoma. The shop is open and ready for business, but they do notice a differen
County search and rescue we alshad. Numerous volunteers that had avalanche avalanche receiver be kens and that avalanche dogs t here and those first moments was so much snow so many questions. Arriving search teams didnt know how many people they might be looking for when minutes mattered most helpful many people would see this horrible that. You know had a mural down how many people youre looking fothat was huge because were still be out there looking if we didnt have those witnesses and we didnt have all those resources and the volunteers are huge help. Were still waiting on an updatecondition for that surviving skier. Ken pam. All right so straight also live for us tonight at Alpine Meadows there in squall valley said story there well. We bring it closer to the bay in kron 4 is of course always tracking local stories here. Now look at whats going on in your ighborhood right now to the south bay in the span of 24 hours. They have been 2 deadly wrongway crashes. Both drivers did at th
Officers, swat team members. They just brought in a swat team canine to the scene. It is an active scene right now. We are being kept at a safe distance. Police say this all started with the car crashing into a pole. The car landed in the front yard of a house. One person inside the car was a check and take into metro. The other person ran into a house and believe to be armed at this point. At first it appeared to be a hostage situatio out of the house okay. A crisis negotiator can be heard over a bullhorn saying, this is the parma police department, the side doors open. Please come out with her hands up. Day cares and schools within mann mile onemile have been put on lockdown. That is the active scene down here. When we get more information we will update you. On this. Many thanks for your report. We will stay with you for any further developments. It is a busy time for area police officers. There searching for a person who robbed a Fast Food Restaurant and assaulted one of there work
Francisco hospital in the mission district, climbed atop a building and started firing. We brought you the story as it was developing. It was breaking news yesterday during our 5 00 newscast. From the San Bruno Police department with a lot of new information. Pete . Reporter yes, you know, San Bruno Police say this man entered the san bruno big 5 holding a paper advertising a shotgun. Little did the managers know he had no intentions of buying it. Police say the Surveillance Video shows 25yearold Javier Lopez Garcia holding a handgun by his waist directing the manager of this big 5 Sporting Good store in san bruno to hand over the shotgun. Thats the same shotgun he pointed from a rooftop at st. Lukes hospital then at San Francisco police before he was shot and killed by officers. It was strange because he had an ad for a shotgun that he showed the manager, he said id like to look at this particular weapon. Reporter lieutenant tim ma hone with San Bruno Police describing the exchange at
During his short 40 hour visit, although a brief visit, it is going to robust security that this city has ever seen and today some 50 agencies from the coast guard to con ed came together to drills. With the mayor and Police Commissioner present, nypd, secret service, office of emergency management, atf and numerous other agencies practiced possible emergency scenarios that could disrupt the popes visit. Another ied explosion, 1592 broadway. Reporter todays tabletop scenarios covered everything from backpack explosions to active shooters to a collapsed building and train derailment. Get everyone involved in this,esu, boston explosive, perimeter. Reporter in a city that has faced unparalleled security challenges, the short visit by the pope next week is unmatched in the citys history. We will have available capacity on land, on sea and in the air, we will have thousands and thousands of officers and the advantage of tremendously effective Surveillance Technology including cameras, explo