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
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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
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Chilly out there this morning were seeing clear skies than yesterday but not Crystal Clear in fact if you look out at our sutro tower v you can see that thin veil of low clouds and fog that is sitting right through Sales Force Tower right across the bay itself so that is going to result in a couple of patchy areas remain counter some low visibility on roadways. Both of the coast along the bay and even towards our inland areas, the Central Valley has our heaviest dose of fog this morning, skies will gradually clear and then it sunshine the rest of the day in fact thats going to make one of our coolest morning. So far one of our warmest afternoons of this forecast right now though were still in the 30s for dublin and livermore each at 38 degrees santa rosa youre at 36 when the at 34 degrees right now napa a cool 36 degrees. So yes get the jacket ready to go as you venture out there over to you robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the traffic and its quite busy in some spot