40s, currently thats a little update on your forecast weve got plenty more to come as for traffic Robin Winston is on standby, yes still tracking a hot spot left over from the 8 oclock hour john a big problem in Castro Valley east bound 5. 80 before redwood after 2. 38 an overturned crash with some folks trapped inside of a vehicle, so. Emergency crews are on scene still working with this theyve issued a Traffic Alert your 2 left lanes are closed and its awful here on to 38 to 38 is backed up on to the nimitz the northbound them it is backing up into hayward and then the southbound even set connector is going to be jammed out of san leandro from washington so if you can just use 5. 80 the entire trip. Youll save a little bit of time youll be stuck in the traffic leading up to red would but at least you dont have to deal with the backup on to 38 or trying to connect from the nimitz so just stick with 5. 80 for the trip to oakland and san leandro and eventually to Castro Valley this is going to impact people heading toward the dublin grade Pleasant Center maybe livermore this crash in your way eastbound counter commute side by the way westbound is the commute direction and its doing just fine the bridges are doing fine to unusually light into San Francisco this morning 9 minutes off to fremont street well check in on more bridges coming up back to you all right robert, thank you 9 02 is the time in our top story this morning, the u. S. Has seen a steady increase in Coronavirus Infections and hospitalizations for the entire month of october and we want to bring up this map because it illustrates just how dire the situation is right now. This shows by color. Last week compared to the week before and youll notice that the states that are in dark red here those are states where weve seen a 50 increase or more one week to the next 35 states are in that orange color california included in them. Thats where weve seen cases jumped 10 to 50 one week to the next night states in yellow thats where numbers have stayed flat not going up or down but then weve got missouri, the lone state in green that is the only state in the whole us where the numbers are actually going down. Nearly 80,000 new cases reported yesterday alone across the country total infections now reaching 8. 8 million and as we continue to follow the death count for covid19. The last check 227,000 people have died from it since february. Heres where the local numbers are for us in the bay area and across the state more than 920,000 cases statewide with more than 17,000 confirmed deaths. And for the bay area, the death count is now 1700 and growing. It is a growing problem at a hospital in San Francisco, an outbreak at ucsf med center has the ha speck out Contact Tracing trying to figure out where it all started kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live outside the hospital with the latest on the outbreak. What do we know about this so far. Daria we know that this outbreak happened here at the per net for nasas heights location of Ucsf Medical Center 5 people tested positive to patients and 3 employees and it all happened here now their Contact Tracing doing. Gino mc 10 testing trying to figure out who patient 0 is trying to figure out the sequencing of the coronavirus in these cases again these 2 patients they were sharing a room in the 3 employees who tested positive they were caring for them both patients tested negative for coronavirus before being admitted to the hospital. Later one unexpectedly tested positive on the routine discharge tests this is set off an investigation and Contact Tracing helped identify the other cases. Take a look at this statement from Ucsf Medical Center saying we have not yet determined. The original source or exact sequence of these infections. However we have isolated these patients and employees and are working to identify test in quarantine other individuals who may have been exposed to them or have symptoms now at last check the hospital says neither patient has symptoms of coronavirus but the employees have mild symptoms. She says she credits the Public Affairs director she credits wearing a mask so those mild symptoms she says that if you wear a mask it limits your exposure if you do contract, the coronavirus and that will limit the amount of symptoms you get something i learned today. She said they have a lot of protocols that have been in place during the entire pandemic including a universal requirement across the entire hospital patients and staff as well as check every single employee was they walk in the hospital, they do those routine checks with the temperature checks and then each patient has to be tested before coming to the hospital and after and thats how they found out about spread so now theyre trying to figure out the exact source how did this start and for now i mean unfortunately this is definitely confirming peoples fears of going to a hospital as weve been talking about all morning daria i mean if you can contract in the hospital and theyre taking this many precautions can you get it at the Grocery Store just as easy guess that the thing is all we can do is wear a mask and i think thats what the Public Affairs stricter really want to hit home is wearing a mask can really help you out. Well you people are wear masks when theyre indoors even at a restaurant everybody has a mask off and. Theres not testing out there like that matchup those people there was no exit test and they went into the community and thats how it spreads so we dont have that in the general population like they do at the hospital. Thats another point its just this is why covid spread spanx sara. Now the very latest on covid and our schools in the east Bay Public Health officials in Alameda County have basically given a middle and high schools, the okay to reopen, but dont look for any Public Schools to do that any time soon proper stand kerman explains why. Public Health Officials have given high schools and middle schools across Alameda County. The okay to open their doors for in Person Learning as early as november 9th. But first they will need to submit and get approval of a safety plan what we do is were looking at it for completeness do you have things in place that Public Health has said that you need to have in place you have enough opportunities for people to wash their hands do have protocol testing do you personal protective all of those things are what were looking for when the school says were ready to open but the safety plan is only part of it. They must also reach an agreement with individual teachers unions. We all want to be back there. We describe our job right now is teaching on like Hollywood Squares teaching to square. We want to teach students into 3 dimensions and i think thats what our goal is we want to do it correctly and dublin, Teachers Association president robby crites says Teachers Want to work with districts on those plans to make sure when they do return it will be safe for both students and teachers are these rules going to be enforced these guidelines going to be held to do we have ppe and surplus in a warehouse somewhere so that we can. Keep replenishing glass and masks and all of that. I do we i think that that its the reality versus whats on paper and i think thats where we have to get down to work. There are also issues with logistics and scheduling all Elementary School students stay with the same teacher all day, middle and high School Students typically change classes throughout the day that will have to be addressed were really looking how do we do this in a smart way in an incremental way really for the kids who most in need of that kind of instruction or special ed students are in the singers kids who we know are not connecting virtually we really have to see those students again. Now its conceivable many of these middle schools and high schools will not open before the end of the year because they wont have their plan in place consider this Elementary Schools that got the go ahead to open up as early as october 13th. Well now here on the 28th, only 58 schools have either opened or submitted a plan to open and only one of those is a public school. In berkeley Dan Kerman Kron 4 news covid is affecting everything you know youre not supposed to trick or treat and now a big party spot for halloween. The castro is closed this weekend. Yeah in San Francisco kron fours will tran standing by there and although will they have the city hasnt sanctioned Halloween Party there in years. People still come out and this years just to be tougher. People still come out and they know it which is why theyre going to tell people right now through a u. S. Through other forms dont show up least just have a party at your house the Castro District years past would have thousands of people. Shoulder to shoulder for halloween. Its the Biggest Party of the year was but they dont want it this year because of covid19 the city actually shut down the party back in 2006. Because so many people showed up it turned violent. It became destructive. So it hasnt been like you said sanctions by the city for about 14 years. And this year. Definitely they are not endorsing it but they have the endorsement. People who live in the Castro District. The castor is a really fun place. I love living here, but im all about safety first so personally im going to be staying home this year and im glad theyre encouraging people to stay home. I hope other people listen to what theyre saying during the pandemic there should not be large groups of people im completely in support of it. This year other years we miss the activity i raise my daughters in this neighborhood and. Every year everybody came through one point one of them said to me well dont all men dressed as women on halloween and that sort of what it was like he was a great feeling that thats missing. We dont know waiting to return it was the party for sure of every year but does supervisor who overlooks this district. He says San Francisco is doing so well and theyve seen a second wave of covid19 sweep across major cities like l a in philadelphia on the last thing they want to do it San Francisco to go backwards with covid19 cases and that could mean a possible shutdown so if you want to party play thriller her house james, do it at your house dont drive here back to you and dont invite the neighbors either. Just a family thanks well. Time now 9. 11 we have some breaking news from terrorist with a knife killed 3 people in the french city of nice. The attacker. We understand is in custody. He was wounded as police took him into custody out near notre dom Church Police at this point dont think anybody else was involved think this person was working alone. This was the 3rd attack in france in the last 2 months theyve now increase their Terror Threat level nationwide. Well take a break coming up on 9. 12 coming up on the kron 4 morning news, we have a frightening situation at a california pumpkin patch, a man grabbed the young boy tried to pull him away. Well explain what happened. Also very businesses are preparing for violence to break out potentially on Election Night well talk more about the preparations. Theyre making well be right back. 9. 14 right now and before head out the door got to check the weather looks pretty nice over here. We do yeah, lets find out where it is elsewhere around the bajan trouble standing by with another view Golden Gate Bridge, yeah, Golden Gate Bridge, not looking too bad right over this timber on right here actually thats the golden and your temper on view though, so we got 2 perspectives on it, nice and bright and timber on right now there is some cloud cover thats hanging out in just a couple of spots right along the coastline as we make our way through the day youre going to see less and less of that cloud cover along the coast as for winds right now were looking at calm conditions all across the bay area and were going to continue to look at those calm winds on into the afternoon. So we traded in the windy conditions, the highest a fire danger earlier this week for now just some comfortable and calmer skies. High pressure is built up in place this is going to keep us dry for the foreseeable future. No rain in the future but also no major heat waves nor wind event so thats the good news as we work our way through the finish of this month and eventually the start of november just around the corner now we are seeing a return of some extreme Drought Conditions for portions of the north bay, including northern portions of Sonoma Solano and napa counties in gold that severe drought for much of the rest of the bay area and then we are seeing moderate Drought Conditions having returned for the Central Coast as far north as san jose. Daytime highs today in the 70s and 80s a whole lot like yesterday really not a big change as far today from yesterday is concerned mill valley and Oakland Beach at 76 today. Well livermore concord nevado morgan hill each in the low 80s. Heres a breakdown of your next 7 days daytime highs, nice and comfortable along the bay little warm out along the inland areas of the state but we can handle some 80s. No 90s or triple digits in sight as for saturday and sunday of the weekend, its back to the low 80s inland and 70s right along the bay for halloween and as you fall back an hour on sunday and get that extra hours sleep. Robin. All right, lets head back out to the east bay where im still tracking a hot spot. This is the biggest problem and only major issue that i have right now and its an overturned crash in Castro Valley, and its just as you enter a Castro Valley, so eastbound 5. 80 after 2. 38 before redwood, its an overturned crash. Some folks were trapped inside of the vehicle that flipped over its unclear if they are still trapped at last check we had emergency crews rolling out to the scene they have the 2 left lanes close here and chp has issued a Traffic Alert just letting you know that lanes are closed its a major problem and there is a major delay, this is really impacting people who connect from 2. 38 the whole stretch of 2. 38 as we head toward 5. 80 is just gridlock right now, and its so bad on to 38 that it has started to spill over to your name, its freeway so northbound it stand out of hayward southbound it stand out of san leandro solid on to 38 all the way up to the east 5, 8, emerge and a Traffic Alert remains in place how do you get around this well if you could just get onto 5. 80 bypass the nimitz bypass to 38 and just stick with 5. 80 through oakland and san leandro you hit a little bit of slow traffic at the scene. But you dont have to worry about this awful delay coming from 2. 38. So do not connect. 2, 5, 80 from 2. 38 do not connect back from the nimitz freeway because both are quite tight. Now the rest of the trip looks fantastic as soon as you pass the crash year. The great dublin Pleasanton Livermore its going to be wide open everybody just stuck in this back up were checking in on the debris spill right in front of the airport sfo northbound one oh one pallets and other items scattered across the road. So youre backed up heavily into burlingame to 80 is a great alternate back to you. Time now for winners and losers on wall street joining us as always to break down what were seeing here in the financial markets, we have financial expert. Rob lag good morning. Rob. Morning james all right, lets started off with what we like to start things off with the markets first and foremost that the appropriate things of that kind on the slide since the beginning of the week connell bottoming out right now are traders just taking a breather whats going on. Think its pretty well said they havent body to mount stay were down 900 points on the dow that speak shocking number even for someone like me who remains calm at all times. Today though were saying ok is that enough steam off the disappointment in the covid research. A for the lockdowns are happening france and in germany and in chicago. Did we do it enough that we have record cases that should shut down our economy. The way it did back march or april or did we learn business lessons and get through it. Today its all about amazon apple facebook and google they report earnings tonight. My overall read on earnings season. James its been fantastic were over halfway through it or beating expectations there lowered had to make expectations. Thats the good news is the bad news is were not rally in new highs which brings into question what do we need we probably need the vaccine in the election to get over. And then stimulus and windows hall place we should be getting new i sometimes next year. Unemployment figures came out this morning there good under 800,000 there about 4 nonpandemic times in life. So thats what were dealing