Lets get right to our top story this friday morning. Bay Area Health Officials encouraging everyone to stay home this 4th of july weekend. Now this comes as the state and the bay area continue to see a rise in coronavirus cases kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Contra Costa County this morning. She has all the details sarah good morning. And theyre good morning marty i live here in Contra Costa County one of counties in the bay area that seeing a major surge in cases terrible time they cant believe were heading into the 4th of july weekend and were seeing a spike in cases when we were doing so well and now were seeing that resurgence. So officials are asking us to stay home and be safe. Why lets take a look at the increases that were seeing across the bay area in all of our take a look at your screen there are quite a lot of numbers but just to name a few Contra Costa County is seeing a 129 increase in cases in a 111 increase in deaths from may 31st until yesterday that the county saw a 207
Details rana. James and darya good morning that fire continues to burn you can see Law Enforcement have this road here closed off on east done this is in the unincorporated area out here now again that fire you can see the smoke in the background ongoing go ahead and give you guys a closer look because you can really see just how strong the fire is on the hillside then go ahead to the iris scans you guys can see there. But look at that the fire continues to burn even hours after it was started. Firefighters have been here on with a number of agencies trying to get the fire put out were going to show you that video from overnight here now the fire right now as we know is about approximately 40 acres in size that was the last update that cal fire gave out that was about 5 hours ago. So theres a strong possibility that th co since then now we do know some evacuations in the area are in progress for finley ridge road and that theres also a hard road closure like i mentioned on east done a
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Mascot, so it must be saturday. I know it is saturday because i toie, that is a cue understand that today is not saturday. Today is saturday of memorial day weekend, day 84 to talk my young, a number of superstars said to me, this is memorial day weekend coming up, and we have been working for 83 state days. Days, maybe we do something different, maybe we take a day off, it is what they are trying to suggest. I said tomorrow i will stay home. So, i am at home today, i never said i was going to work. I said tomorrow i would stay home. But, we are today, working. 84 straight days. When the covid virus takes a day off, we will take off. We are in the new york state executive mansion, it is not really my home, it is the peoples home, the residence for governors in new york. It was built in 1856 in the state acquired it in 1877. They were going to finish the state capital in 1899, which was and is a beautiful mac masterpiece, and the governors residence is a stones throw from the state capi