From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. The storm door is open. Heres some video of rain we saw moving in this morning and more rain is on the way overnight. A soaker coming for our sunday, thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 9 im Justine Waldman im Jonathan Mccall the weather watches where we start is been a dry start to the wet season. But another round of wet weather is expected to flood the area overnight. Kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now tracking huge storm or tracking the storm hour by hour on when we can finally expect to see it. Hi there jonathan and just stay and were certainly getting spoiled this weekend in the bay area we had a relatively slow start to the wet season of Mother Nature getting us a double dose of 2 storms this storm though is going to have a cold or core to it coming from the gulf of alaska, so its going to bring us some much needed steadier rain to start your sunday morning right dry outlook, but we
In person. Nothing was going to stop us. These players deserve support and that is why we are here. Right now, Health Officials in San Francisco tonight are launching a new strategy to keep cases under control, and like many other things these days, it involves your phone. Good evening. Andria borba is live in San Francisco, with the hope behind this new plan. It takes advantage of the fact that people are used to doing things via text message. Perhaps the readiness to answer a phone call but they can still get the Contact Tracing done to help spread the help control the spread of this disease. The fight to trace the spread of covid19 is moving to text message. The more people that answer the call or text the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and beating up the reopening of our city. Reporter it is called a Virtual Assistant and after a positive test you could get a text message to your cell phone, where you fill in the blanks for contact t
Now at 11 00 countless urgent warnings didnt stop people from gathering this thanksgiving. So now what . Tonight the new strategy from Bay Area Health officials to slow the next covid surge. Plus shots fired at a packed Northern California mall sends black friday shoppers running for their lives. At least one person dead tonight, the manhunt underway to find the gunman. This is stupid. This was dumb. This was cowardly. For whatever reason it had to end up being violent and it had to be tragic. Holiday shopping during a pandemic, well show you what popular spots in the south bay look like this black friday. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area tonight, Bay Area Health officials preparing for a major coronavirus surge. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Im andrea nakano. Theyre crafting a new strategy after people ignored warnings not to gather over the thanksgiving holiday. Tonight Alameda County became the first in the bay area to top 500 covidrelated deaths. Those numbers are expe
Reporter in San Francisco theyre hoping cell phones hold the key to contact tracing. The more people that answer the call or text, the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and speeding up the reopening of our city. Reporter after a positive test youll get a text asking you to fill in the blank for contact tracers. The city is now averaging 130 new cases of covid19 a day and more than 900 a week. Now we are in a large surge with infections that are more widespread across the city and reaching different populations and our numbers have been increasing sharply. Reporter its a surge that started before the Holiday Season thats expected to continue through december. We saw this spike in the summer and it was hard to get back down. So the quicker we get it under control, the better off well be in the long run. Reporter if you get a positive covid19 test in San Francisco, you should expect a test and Public Health officials hope youll answer it becau
Warning that the county is very close to hitting this mark. Some businesses are especially concerned about that curfew bars like the sycamore in the mission say they depend on those late night customers for their bottom line. The workers there say if theyre forced to close at 10 oclock and set of their regular time at midnight. It will hurt even more. As jeremy. Our business is already down closing early or would it bring us even further down its terrible, however i get it its its a good thing i just wish people stan cider. Can be saved. It would have to go through this again. So under the curfew folks will still be able to do a central activities like walk your dog. Pick up takeout or do some Grocery Shopping as well. Now we have seen more than 3 million new cases in just the month of november alone about one quarter of all the u. S. Cases since the pandemic began more than 256,000 people have also died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in