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
From the car life threatening injuries at this particular point you can see that squad car there with the flashing tail lights. We do know that 2 Police Officers are inside the car at the time those 2 Police Officers were taken to the hospital but we are not hearing of any life threatening injuries to them thank goodness as far as the muni bus it was clipped by either one of those 2 cars front end damage to the muni bus nothing substantial but it is involved in this collision which is why the driver and the muni bus theyre not going anywhere that driver clearly is a witness to that with the accident and theyre going to talk to him or her as the investigation goes on you can see they have shut down this intersection here this street here. This is actually waller they told us to push it back a little bit as far as our location so they can continue making measurements and that means its going to be at least maybe 2, 2, and a half hours before their wrap up this scene. So many buses that u
Under investigation. You can see that muni bus right there as well its not going anywhere so reportedly even though we dont see any significant damage to the muni bus it is somehow some way related to this accident perhaps the driver was a witness to all of this and thats why that muni buses still park eric as far as this scene here. We dont know when it will be cleared, but we do know when this. Happened 2 and a half hours ago, dozens of Police Officers obviously when it involves one of their own they rushed to help out. Reportedly there were a couple of dozen Police Officers on the scene but they have left here for the most part. Theyre waiting im sure for detectives to come here do measurements once the sun comes up then and only then well they clear the scene right now i dont see any ambulances i dont see anything urgent as far as needing help for any pedestrians or anybody inside the house and no tow trucks are on the scene yet so that tells me its going to be quite some time haig