Evacuations in australia Scientists Say 2020 is on course to be the hottest year ever. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with the continuing fallout from the corona virus pandemic more than 100000 people were admitted to hospital in the United States on sunday the highest number on record since the outbreak began the virus is now killing more than 2000 americans a day thats 2 people every single minute nearly 33000000 people in the state of california are under a stay at home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the virus in south korea meanwhile the president has deployed the military to help with expanded coronavirus testing and tracing more than 600 cases where reported on monday the 30th day in a row of triple digit increases and globally more than 67000000 people have now been infected and about 1500000 have died in the last week alone an average of more than 10000 people died every single day around the world well have more on the situation in the u. S. Very shortly bu
Warm start it is in the 30s for only a couple of spots most of us are 40s 50s and alametos case even 60 degrees currently it is quite the warm way to start this monday morning, a whole lot warmer than yesterday, especially for north bay cities. Napa solid 21 degrees warmer than we were at the same point yesterday later on today expect daytime highs to be unseasonably warm back into the low 70s for a lot of us im talking are warm conditions more about the wind and what else to expect for the week ahead still to come rebecca all right, thank you john well take peek outside at traffic in the bay bridge really no traffic here just a few cars, a handful. Well be sharing on the roadway 4 westbound 80 your commute into downtown San Francisco across the upper deck. Under 10 minutes out of the macarthur maze and then looking the san mateo bridge this morning were going to be seeing it so still pretty lightly traveled at this early hour west bay 92, nice and smooth over to the foster city. 1 one
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
Dont need those winds sticking around any longer than they need to its actually a ping fire danger rarity for this time of year clear skies across the bay areas we do see offshore winds kicking up especially in the north bay or windy spots right now our areas like Sonoma Petaluma napa on up to calistoga which is seen winds well in excess of 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour this morning, red flag warnings remain in effect for the north bay, the inland east coastal San Mateo County through 05 00pm after that we take our foot off the gas pedal and winds begin to come down quite a lot into the evening tonight, right now temperatures are in the 50s and even low 60s a mild start to this breezy day. Rebecca. All right john thank you a couple of problems to take note of if youre going to be taking the bay bridge soon trying to get into downtown San Francisco. This is going a little bit weve got a little bit of a backup. Here behind the pay gates because theres a broken down big rig, a stalled out to gr
Agenda item, the prop k allocation funds request, there was a [inaudible] curbside pilot instituted in response to the covid19 pandemic. Some of the c. A. C. Members felt that because the Curbside Pickup zones were benefiting other services, the private sector should be paying or contributing to the pilot given the track record of these companies, were limiting their data shares, some members thought this should be segregated and voted on separately, however, other members voted against the sever. In the end, the prop k allocation request recommendation before you was approved on a 74 vote, with a request that a more indepth presentation on the entire citywide curbside Management Strategy be presented to the c. A. C. In the near future. Moving onto the portsmouth Square Community based Transportation Plan final report, members were supportive given the levels of access in the square and a more overall inviting space. With respect to the public buses at the hilton hotel, a member noted