Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says the county was averaging 27 positive coronavirus cases per day about a month ago, but in the last 2 weeks that number jumped to 41 positive cases per day. Number that would put the county back on the states purple tier list. If they get the same results next week. Now hopefully Solano County can get its case numbers, its average case numbers per day under 31 to remain in that red tier. Its also another important reminder head of halloween and the holidays to keep your guard up in to continue practicing social distancing of course wearing a mask for now live in Benicia Taylor the psac ii kron 4 news center. Thank you for that meantime, San Francisco is in the yellow tier and now some nonessential Office Workers can start showing up to work again kron fours Maureen Kelly went into downtown San Francisco at lunchtime and didnt see the new phase of reopening having a lot of impact notes. The valerie chain has been selling bouquets here at the flower cart off Market Street downtown for close to 30 years. She says business is still way down and while the city has now given non essential businesses, the green light to bring in Office Workers at 25 capacity. She has not seen much of a change today at this is time for us and let them know used to be. And that is having a major impact on mom and pop businesses that rely on foot traffic is really high to start to my neighbor across the street, they said because theres nobody in downtown minus will not open because they i was going to bring healthy have to bring him. Better off closing instead of coming in. South of market, the manager of orange thomas had just a few customers eating around lunchtime, a small fraction of their prepandemic lunch time or davis 80s around 1 oclock well have a liner on the corner over him. I might be like a 1520 minute, wait and while i dont see that happening for the rest of this year. I believe we are you know well established well loved us from believe by next year. In january february, well start getting america. Several restaurants nearby are boarded up sitting outside a shuttered lunch spot, i found one man who works in commercial real estate, he says he and most of his coworkers are coming in about once a week. And does not think this new phase of reopening is going change that yeah no i think all the work from home 3 to 4 days out of the week in perpetuity. So obviously this is just the first day and only time will tell if Office Workers gradually start coming back to work downtown. But right now this place appears to be just as much of a ghost town as it has been for many months Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. We have some breaking news to tell you out of los angeles is a live look in la after the team has won the world series against the Tampa Bay Rays in game 6 of that contest the dodgers beat the rays 3 to one. This is the la Dodgers First world series title since 1988. Weve also learned the dodgers infielder Justin Turner tested positive for covid19 its unclear when he tested positive, but that was announced after the game which just ended a short time ago. Turner was escorted out during the game kron 4 sports director jason dumas well have more on this breaking news a little bit later on but we want to show you the live pictures as you can see police in the middle of the street. And also out there celebrating. Were told that this is somewhere near dodger stadium. But if you bend the dodger stadium, you know Chavez Ravine theirs just basically a parking lot there you have to get out of the parking lot kind of drive down the hill to get into some neighborhoods near there so were not exactly sure where this is in particular but people waving flags and enjoying the good times course giants fans dont care much about the spam but for its a big deal. All right and continuing our coronavirus coverage now the bay area reopenings come as the United States is dealing with the highest average number of covid19 cases since the pandemic began over the past week, the country reported an average of about 68,000 new cases every day that is up more than 22 compared with the previous week, the average deaths per day across the country are also up 10 over the past 2 weeks to 794 deaths per day. Health officials fear further spread of the virus as we head into the Holiday Season tonight Governor Newsom says his new Vaccine Safety Group will not delay distribution of a covid19 vaccine that has 3 more states decide to join california safety effort our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has the story. Washington oregon and nevada are joining californias review group to put a second set of eyes on an eventual fda approved vaccine before distributing it within these west coast states. The governor responding to critics who claim this could significantly delay a critical need for californians. No it will not cause any delays in fact we would argue quite the contrary its going to increase transparency and trust state leaders tuesday said as the fda works to approve the covid19 vaccine, the west coast group working to verify its safety does not plan to continue or replicate any trials. Were looking at. Information the data that is a lot of it is publicly reported but through the eyes of experts can be strengthened invalidated the approach that shares and intend to and are going to work very hard to make sure that the trust of the public is what we have and sharing this information in a clear concise way without delay state officials announced an Additional Group focused on the vaccine. A new 16 person panel will come up with guidelines on vaccine ethics and distribution that theyre safely transported that theyre safely stored. That were having a mindset of safety related to public data or other private and personal debt and whats that line whats that distinction. Theres no timetable for any of this until a vaccine is approved newsoms administration has said it likely wont happen in 2020. Planning for the vaccine comes as california is starting to see increases in both icu admissions and hospitalizations related to covid19. Both are up about 5 over the last 2 weeks. The governor says later this week, hell make an announcement on testing capacity. Reporting in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Safeway will pay 140,000 in order to settle a price gouging law suit with alameda and contra costa counties, prosecutors say the grocery chain marked up 2 brands of Hand Sanitizer by 50 over the wholesale cost after the pandemic started an emergency order issued in april band price gouging during the pandemic as part of the settlement safeway will pay about 81,000 in Civil Penalties and about 62,000 in restitution. Another big story. Were following tonight power restoration efforts are still underway tonight days after more than 92,000 bay area customers had their electricity cut during those shut offs as you can see more than half of the bay area counties affected by the shut offs have had their power completely restored. Crews are working on restoring powers and power rather in alameda and sonoma counties and about 42 of the customers affected by the outages in napa county have got their power restored pg e says it expects to have everyones electricity turned back on by tomorrow. Fire crews are still adding up the damage show by the czu lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains it will cost millions of dollars and months to deal with the damage to the trees alone as kron fours rob fladeboe reports now work is underway in the hardhit community of bonny doon north of santa cruz. Bonnie dune is a heartbreaking mess logging trucks whole load after load of dead trees felled by crews working to keep residents in traffic out of harms way. 1100 trees have been worked for removal hero swanton road alone since the county steve wizenard so. What the county is doing right now as were going through and doing a full assessment of trees within the public roadway. And just outside the public roadway were trees could fall and impact the public roadway. Saws echo through the mountains there are piles of logs everywhere virtually every moderate pine on kelly fosters property are being cut down some are falling on their own and thats scary. He says the first week after the fire. We heard a big pine come down about once an hour. 4. Several weeks and sometimes you hear the crack and then the boom and sometimes is here the kraken thats the scarier situation tall pine for redwoods lean over the winding road in many places they must go first. 45 miles of road where impacted and there are thousands more damage trees on private property across 85,000 acres scorched by the lightning sparked fire that erupted back on august 19th a lot of these trees are shells of themselves as what they you know were prior to the fire incident. And so we are were practice proactively going in seen what kind shape. These trees are and if theyre deemed dangerous. Were taking him down. Its just the loss of those trees werent enough there are worries about what could happen when the rains return this winter with little or nothing to guard against erosion and the prospect of war and disaster on top of another what im most worried about. Is the mud debris flow. Thats projected this winter. I joke with friends can we please get a quarter inch of rain every other night all winter long. But we know thats not going to happen, we know where you get some some goalie washers and pretty scary to think whats going to flow with all the organics completely burned off and very little vegetation on the ground too to modify the. The runoff in bonny doon rob fladeboe kron 4 news. All right well lets get the latest on the weather situation and for us were so glad those winds have finally calmed down but last 48 hours very scary weather around the bay area weve been talking about it. Those winds gusting over 80 miles yesterday last night still some very strong those gusts over 70 Miles Per Hour here in the bay area so gusty winds developing outside overnight. The good news is those winds begin to calm down just a bit so i think weve got some improving conditions but boy weve seen some impressive win 71 mile an hour winds saint helene a mount diablo 74 Miles Per Hour wind gusting to 61 hawkeye and the north bay healdsburg 53 mile an hour gusts in the Oakland Hills of folks look at those winds gusting over 50 last night, black hawk 46 Miles Per Hour. So those winds mainly confined to the mountain tops last night a little breezy and other spots down below, but now looks like those winds started calm down but even in the Early Morning hours you still have some strong offshore winds of 2030 plus Miles Per Hour moving across the north bay, those subsiding even a little bit of an on shore breeze beginning to kick in in the San Francisco at 8 Miles Per Hour right now it is calm and sam ramon and live more thats the trend. Theyll take us through the next few days but boy what a difference. We have High Pressure along the coastline here you have this low Pressure Center to the south the diff relieves pressure system really cranking up the winds outside now the good news is that low is going to kick to the east High Pressure just going to kind of settle in the winds are going to subside little those ice a bar start to spread well apart, that means weve got some nice calm weather ahead and release nice temperatures to theres look good got clear skies around the bay area clear all the way to the coastline now its going to stay that way as were going to see a kind of chilly night ahead temperatures drop it off to the 50s and the 60s at this hour. Think we look toward todays temperatures me to get an idea of is going to be like tomorrow 70s in the San Francisco 81 in oakland, its 79 degrees in san jose live more checking in 74 degrees 77 ca can look at santa rosa 87 degrees for today. So yes, some nice weather out there looks like tomorrow is going to be a beautiful day. No fire danger we dont have to worry about the gusty winds enjoying those temperatures the 70s navies in the valleys 70s maybe couple 80s around the bay and plan on sunshine and 60s out of the coast. Now exactly one week away from the 2020 president ial election tonight and the 2 candidates are making their last Minute Campaign stops in the key battleground states. President trump started a busy day of campaigning with a cold rain soaked rally in lansing michigan. I said you know theyve been waiting out here for hours action but on they even said sir we have the car is going to take you from the beautiful air force one and that of unity. It will take you from air force one is that i got to walk it. I mean these people tough. From theyre meanwhile, greensboro North CarolinaVice President pence made a pitch for a Strong Military and economic recovery and law and order joe biden is telling americans to clear the decks for action on everything from the coronavirus pandemic to the economy if hes elected president in warm springs, georgia today biden went after President Trump and his administration for saying they cant contain the virus now his chief of staff. Just last week made a stunning admission. And mission. I believe, but there are thought hed say. Saying quote were not going to control the pandemic and of crone. Were not going to control the pandemic. Its a capitulation. So waving a white flag, its a window into the shocking truth. About this white house. Bidens running mate Kamala Harris made a Campaign Stop in las vegas today, the california senator answer bidens policies, including is tackling the pandemic systemic racism Climate Change and the economy. And in florida today, former president Barack Obama Campaign for joe biden in Orlando Obama talk to an audience gathered at a drivein where he criticized President Trumps response to the pandemic. If he had been focused on covid from the beginning. Cases would be reaching new record highs across the country this week. And we are focused on covid the white house wont be having its second of breaking them up the white house. Let me say this i lived in the white house for a while. You know its a controlled environment. You can. Take some preventive measures in the white house to avoid getting sick. And said this guy cant seem to do it hes turned the white house into a hot zone. And the east bay prom forcefully tuggle tracking early voting in Contra Costa County he has this report. Comparing the turnout for the president ial election to the march primaries, the Contra Costa CountyElections Office says the number of vote by mail ballots cast has already been surpassed and overall more than 310,000 ballots have been returned so far thats just 20,000 less than the total number of ballots turned in back in march and theres still a week to go to the general election in fact we already have received more now while we had the entire election in 2016 scott caught a pass iq is the assistant registrar of voters, he says for the first time in the countys history more than 700,000 people have registered to vote to that represents about 65,000 more voters and what we have for the march primary election. He also expects. There are some 600,000 of those ballots will eventually be turned in thats more than 85 . He says that is also a historic number only surprise we weve had is how many people are voting early. We dont have anywhere near this percentage of voters participating. Week before the election tuesday is the last day vote by mail ballots are being sent out if you have not received one or have not registered to vote. You can register and vote in person by visiting the Elections Office in downtown martinez or one of the 17 Regional Vote Centers set up. Throughout the county people are voting now and voters just anticipate voting prior to the to election day past 6 has about 45 of the ballots received were tur