Agencies are there on the scene 2 buildings to the east and the west of this fire have been evacuated. Berkeley fire now saying this building was under construction, no one inside at the time we will keep you updated on this breaking news story right here on kron 4 news tonight, we have crews headed to the scene and well have a live report. As soon as we can get that up for you. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 8 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall our other big story this saturday night less than 2 hours to go until the start of a new state wide curfew as part of the latest attempt to try and slow down the rapid spread of covid19 the stay at home order only applies to counties in the most restrictive purple tier, but that really covers most of the states population so here in the bay area that means every county except for moran, San Francisco and san mateo counties or this curfew applies. But well tell you more about how San Francisco could be affected by thi
Continuing to see those strong winds this morning to gusting regularly into a 40 mile per hour range for parts of the bay area. So thats something that you are definitely going to need to know as youre getting out of bed this morning youre driving to work going to be accompanied by a very noticeable breeze. This morning rc church our view is Crystal Clear and dry these are offshore winds so its keeping any sort of marine layer fog pushed out of the region where we at with winds right now will sonoma Calistoga Napa some of our notably more breezy areas well into a 20 mile per hour range for your wind speeds currently sandra fell Petaluma Santa Rosa also notably windy and will remain fairly windy throughout the morning too we ease off wind speeds gradually through the rest of the day and by the evening tonight were done with the stronger winds but we are definitely in the midst of him right now and paired with dry conditions we do have heightened fire danger does red flag warnings for al
Here in the bay area that means every county except for moran. San francisco and san mateo counties this curfew could go into effect in San Francisco tomorrow night more on that in a minute. So heres exactly what will happen in less than an hour all non essential workers. Movement and gatherings will be banned, however restaurants will be allowed to offer takeout after 10 oclock the central businesses like Grocery Stores and drugstores can stay open after hours. Folks will also be allowed to go for a walk in other routine activities the curfew will be lifted at 5 oclock tomorrow morning. But it will run every night from 10 oclock at night until 5 in the morning up until december 21st in San Francisco could jump to the purple tier as soon as tomorrow meanwhile, the coronavirus is reaching unprecedented levels of spread across our state. And the u. S. California Health Officials reporting a record breaking 15,000 new cases of covid19 on friday as well as 86 new deaths. There have been mo
From suture tower at San Francisco. Didnt show you this he very much yesterday at least not early on because you couldnt see any of it that cloud cover was really blocking it out that is obviously not the case this morning visibility is just fine low clouds all but gone for most areas and thats the way were going to stay now theres some truly fog out towards the Central Valley. If you happen to be heading that way but not something were really looking at much here in the bay area aside from some patches of fog so do watch for those isolated patches closer to the coastline, 30s and 40s for most of our current temperatures oakland you are in the midfifties that much of this time yesterday now were at 46 degrees so noticeable cool down the at 43 while Napa Petaluma nevado same in and santa rosa. All our cities in the 30s this morning you can see how big of a drop in temperatures that is for some of these areas novato down 20 degrees from the same time yesterday thats definitely a differen
For your commute that traffic theres pretty stop and go you can see some of the traffic starting to back up there along that bridge and then move into the Golden Gate Bridge, this definitely is the lightest bridge out of all of them 37 to the tolls about 23 minutes for your morning commute there. And in the bay bridge here we go the maze to fremont you can see back to here definitely reaching past me on that overpass about 14 minutes for your drive. Daryn james thanks reyna. To one lets get to some breaking news from overnight and sad to say the u. S. Has set a new record now for the most covid related deaths in a single day you see the number on the screen behind us more than 3100 people have died now from the virus on wednesday alone most deadliest day we have seen in the pandemic and for the first time. More americans than ever in the hospital with covid a 100,000 plus americans are hospitalized in 20,000 of them. Or in the icu and this comes after california set records for numbers