Snow wreaked havoc on roads in minnesota. State Police Reported nearly 500 crashes and more than 600 vehicle spinouts. At least eight inches fell in some areas. It could end up being the largest ever october snowfall in state history. It could end up being the largest ever october snowfall in state history. Five people on a camping trip in new mexico were saved from a wildfire when one of them had to use the restroom. Ryan says he saw the flames after leaving his tent saturday night and alerted his companions. They scrambled to leave the area but a giant tree in the road blocked their escape. At that point, hollett, sensing the worse, he called his wife. I think anybody who feels like theyre about to go through something life or death would give anything for that chance to be able to say, hey, i love you, that one last time. They did manage to move that tree and a number of others to make it out safely. Turning to the battle against the coronavirus and some startling new numbers amid a
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Stating aess owners for help. Today they sidestepped congress and signed an executive order mandating the check. Not having any calls for anything like that. Family in this bay area and across the country are desperate for unemployment help. President called for new benefits but it may not be a done deal. It could face legal challenges. With that, good evening. The economy is one of the key things were focus on as part of our efforts to build a better bay area for all of us during this pandemic. And it has been a tough month for the unemployed the 600 weekly unemployment benefit expired on july 31st. Ppp, which has helped Small Businesses meet their pay roll expires today. Trump signed his plan after talks fell apart this past week. Reporter President Trump blaming democrats after negotiations collapsed friday. Democrats are obstructing all of it. Therefore, im taking executive action. Weve had it. And restarting Unemployment Benefits and cutting the checks to 400. And extending evicti
Locations are in Mountain View sunnyvale san jose in gilroy. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman so far 33 workers have tested positive for the virus. Again thats at several different stores, the cases though have all been reported in the last 2 weeks. Kron fours rob fladeboe has the very latest. Here in san jose the county Health Department confirming this afternoon that it is now investigating for new clusters of covid19 across the county all 4 at Costco Stores in Mountain View sunnyvale san jose and gilroy lets take a look at the video. The Health Department on wednesday confirming that it had 9 confirmed cases of covid19 at the costco in sunnyvale. Kron 4 news viewer said that there are also a handful of cases in gilroy that turned out to be true. The Health Department late this afternoon confirming that there are a total of 33 cases at these for Costco Stores. The first one showing up in Mountain View back in july 15th, running thro
That involved multiple people thats when the officer then tried to detain those suspects and there was a confrontation and the officer opened fire. Not clear yet this morning what caused the officer to use the gun. The officer sustained an injury to their foot and was taken to the hospital and has also been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation. And we have breaking news from overnight. One person had to be rescued from the fire in San Francisco. Youre taking a look at video from the citizen app it was posted by the San Francisco police Fire Department. The fire broke out about 2 oclock this morning on powell street in the citys north beach neighborhood. Firefighters also has to rescue a dog and the person who was rescued had to be taken to the hospital, no word yet on that persons condition this morning. Well to the south bay now an outbreak has been reported at the elmwood detention facility in milpitas kron fours will tran standing by. With an updat