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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
50s for current temperatures alameda you are only spot on the map along with San Francisco holding on to those low 50s elsewhere, it is down into the 40s and thats a whole lot cooler than yesterday at this time. Talk of the rest of your day in your forecast still to come over to you robin all right, lets check in on the traffic i keep saying its so much better than yesterday. We had the rain the wet roads and all the overturned crashes out there this morning dealing with the fog as you said a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza the trip into San Francisco looks good right now i dont see any problems here so come on in for its 7 minutes off to the fremont street exit a live look at 92 thats your trip across the san mateo bridge and its already busier now compared to the 4 oclock hour. So its really picking up as folks are heading off to the peninsula 12 minutes and growing to make it over to one o one at a live look at the Richmond Sandra fell no problems here leading up to the pay g
Pursuit, but we do know that it will when through the streets came to this particular location where a squad car you can clearly see that suv right there that San Francisco suv but the flashing lights that was involved in the accident as well that sent the blue car careening into the home. The driver of that blue honda had to be extricated from the car that actually to rip open. The roof just to get the driver out we do know that the driver was rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries. 2 Police Officers were in that suv they suffered injuries, but fortunately, were not hearing, ive any life threatening injuries to them that muni bus believe it or not that was involved in the accident as well, although you dont see any noticeable damage but the front end was clipped and there obviously was a driver at the time they came up to the intersection so that driver was a witness there talking to the driver that that many buses part of the investigation and if youre wondering why ev