Of other couples that were outside the household you can quibble about the guidelines, etcetera etcetera, but the spirit of what im preaching all the time was contradicted and i got to own that and so i want to apologize to you. Because i need to preach and practice not just preach and not practice and ive done my best to do that. The governors claiming that hes going out to dinner only a couple other time since february outdoors and along with his wife on those occasions at the time of the dinner party napa county was in the orange tear the second least restrictive of the pandemic reopening system allowing indoor and Outdoor Dining at restaurants in National News tonight president elect joe biden making pandemic response. A top priority as he transitions to the white house and he says more lives could be lost if the Current Administration keeps interfering with the process Kareen Wynter has more on the president ial power struggle. Mincing no words on the Trump Administrations attempt
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.
Going to feel it not only going to be the rain were going to see some strong gusty winds as we get a real cold front that is headed our way tonight though even today was kind of quiet day out there. We have lots of sunshine we have some warm temperatures tonight starting to see some clouds moving in the winds begin to pick up along the coastline. Thats the first hand some changes on the way but today you can hardly tell were talking about a storm off the coastline. Weve got 70s mid 70s in oakland 74 in san jose and 71 in santa rosa, but everything is about to change look what off the coastline is this area of low pressure deepen this ridge was able start to strengthen across park, the west coast, but its moving quickly now and were starting to see that little swirl off the coast that is live in our direction. Thats whats going to bring the rain right now tracking your skies were not seen any raindrops just yet most of us just high level clouds out ahead of the main cold front. Its not
Days this is simply the fastest increase. California has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. The move today forces businesses in most california counties to either further limit indoor capacity take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow night so here locally all 9 bay area counties are either in the purple or red tears on the states covid and san Mateo San Francisco counties have increased as well but theyre not in that worst purple tier. Theyre now just a stalled out in the red tier, sonoma napa contra costa alameda and santa clara counties are in the most restrictive widespread. Purple state here. Sonoma county was the only county to not move today because it was already in that purple tier alameda napa and santa clara counties actually moved to tears from orange to purple due to rising cases and hospitalizations and they bypassed orange here and theresa is where we go next. She is live in. Dublin tonight to receive this is just so people to yet again be going s
Bay petaluma youre only at 50 right now definitely one of the cooler spots later on after our 50s and 60s to start or back to the 70s and 80s the good stuff that weve gotten so used to so far this week. And wont be seeing much of after this point its all talk more about and the rest your forecast back to you robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the traffic now were starting off hot spot free. We dont have any big problems here on 80 or through the oakland area. Coming into San Francisco, San Francisco has trouble free the skyway one oh one to james lick. No problems at all for you so come on in now your chance to beat the morning rush its definitely going to be heavier as we continue through the hour into the next hour. All right, lets head over to 92 are checking that connection between the peninsula and the east bay and as usual its busy, its always busy during the 4 oclock hour. Its our first bridge. So start stacking up early in the morning and you see all the brake lig