To avoid circulating the virus in the first place. That is San Francisco mayor london breed now at 5 bay area officials sounding the alarm co to surge across the nation this as every bay area county is now back in the red or purple tier of the states reopening plan, thank you for joining us at 5 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight. The San Francisco Health Department released a travel advisory this is asking people to avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving. Today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax said San Francisco is also experiencing a big search and doctor colfax said while San Francisco is behind the National Average daily cases, the increase in the number of cases is still more widespread and faster that happened during the summer surge kron fours dan kerman joins us live now from San Francisco with more on all of this dance. Well the Health Director in the mayor trying to right the ship and do it quickly because they say if this get
Newsome pulling an emergency brake on the states reopening process amid the covid19 pandemic this as daily covid cases in the state double over the last 10 days, thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan ken wayne has the night off. State leaders say an emergency brake was always part of the blueprint for california for reopening if cases that kept climbing nearly every bay area county is now losing ground and the states covid19 tear system right now a total of 40 california counties are reversing reopenings and moving to the most restrictive purple tear here in the bay area 5 local counties are included they are alameda napa contra costa solano and santa clara counties, San Francisco move from yellow to red today joining moran and san mateo counties new San Francisco Health Department has released a travel advisory this is asking people to. Please avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving and today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax s
Scientific community. I think thats a bit of an overreaction. Now at 9 Governor Newsome announcing stricter measures today across the state after a troubling increase in covid cases and hospitalizations also tonight the governor has floated the possibility of a statewide curfew lot of people are talking about that as we say good evening, thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 everybody, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis today Governor Newsom announced that he is pulling the emergency brake on the states efforts to reopen our economy. As coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during the summer spike and this comes as daily covid cases in the state have doubled over the last 10 days, 40 counties today were ordered to take at least one step back in the states tiered economic reopening system prompting businesses to depending on the county, the rain further limit indoor capacities. Take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow. My top priority, moving in.
Over the last a couple of days and its going to pushing a cold front through the entire bay area so chilly temperatures rainy conditions were going to see a lot of cloud cover around the bay area. And were also going to see a very high winds ill talk more about that in time the storm system out and just a couple of minutes for now, lets head over to the Traffic Center and say good morning robin good morning to you as well and im reminding folks to not forget to slow it down and the rain why do i say that because people drive way too fast when its raining i want to keep nagging you throughouu the commute. Were checking in on the traffic here on a team to San Francisco looking good so far nice and smooth at the pay gates, no problems on the upper deck so come on and were at 8 minutes to fremont street. Taking you out to brentwood. We do have a major accident working here on highway 4 near balfour its actually closed in both directions. Its an accident involving an suv and a big rig, so t
Hold tight to those umbrellas if youre going to be outside stormtracker 4 live radar right now were seeing exactly where it is falling mainly in our north zone, so folks in santa rosa Nevado Petaluma getting showered on along one oh one and then also along the peninsula were pacifica get a little bit of this rain so far san Mateo Burlingame and its going to continue to move southeast and get the entire bay area and you can see that line of showers just behind it and that is on the way as well bringing us pockets of heavy rainfall times. Have the timing of system ill track it hour by hour. Let you know about that coming up in just a bit and how windy it is going to get in your neighborhood all and about 10 to 15 minutes from now for now head over to the Traffic Center and an update on the roadways. Yes, looking pretty good on the roads i do have some capital quarter delays. They had some mechanical issues earlier this morning so several trains are still behind schedule, especially 5. 23