Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school
For your commute that traffic theres pretty stop and go you can see some of the traffic starting to back up there along that bridge and then move into the Golden Gate Bridge, this definitely is the lightest bridge out of all of them 37 to the tolls about 23 minutes for your morning commute there. And in the bay bridge here we go the maze to fremont you can see back to here definitely reaching past me on that overpass about 14 minutes for your drive. Daryn james thanks reyna. To one lets get to some breaking news from overnight and sad to say the u. S. Has set a new record now for the most covid related deaths in a single day you see the number on the screen behind us more than 3100 people have died now from the virus on wednesday alone most deadliest day we have seen in the pandemic and for the first time. More americans than ever in the hospital with covid a 100,000 plus americans are hospitalized in 20,000 of them. Or in the icu and this comes after california set records for numbers
Middle of the year. The toll plaza to the one o one about an eightminute drive for you ok, hot spots not to tell you about antioch to concord 17 minutes such a co 2 danville thats a 30 minute drive for you its starting to slow down just a little bit there in san leandro to milpitas and the one o one san jose to menlo park, 31 minute ride dariann james guys. Thank you are in a 6 oh one is the time our breaking news from overnight. The u. S. Has set another record now for the most covid related deaths. In a single day you can see in the graphic behind us more than 3100 people died from the virus on wednesday can see its a problem from coast to coast and for the first time a 100,000 americans or in the hospital with covid in nearly air in the icu and this comes as california now setting records for the number of new cases that its experiencing kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco with more sara. Another grim update james darya we have just been reportedly reporting just grim grim up
Far no major hot spots, no traffic to really get into but were going to. See that pick up as the day goes on because its still pretty early you can see here the bay bridge traffics moving along just fine here from the maze of fremont street. 8 minutes were still in the green, but you know that could change as the day goes on and take look at the san mateo bridge can see the westbound here brake lights right here traffic starting to build up especially from the last hour into now about 13 minutes for your drive into that 8. 80 to the one o one and the Richmond Bridge pretty quiet too quiet. All morning. The tolls to one o one about 8 minutes for your drives you. Coming in there and last, but certainly not least the Golden Gate Bridge about a 21 minute drive, so one minute uptick from what we saw last hour still looks great on the road robin all right, thank you for the update rain well check back with you a little later. Well breaking news that were following for you from overnight. The
Bring students back as soon as possible. Thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 10 everybody im grant lotus im Justine Waldman in for Vicki Liviakis tonight now this delegation sent letters to San Franciscos Unified School District san mateo counties offices at of education and more. Urging for more plans to be made to kron 4 cylinder sackey joins us now live from outside of San Franciscos district headquarters for the School District she has more now on this push to get kids and teachers back in the classroom. Well despite the surge in cases and hospitalizations lawmakers and doctors say that school should still reopen as soon as they can and based on data from some of the other schools that reopened in the bay area with. In Person Learning they say that actually schools are one of the safer places to reopen during the pandemic. Do believe that schools need to be prioritize. We think that schools need to be open when many of the things may need to be should an Assembly Member phil