Like of the entire bay area is going to be hit by this rain and were also going to expect about a foot or 2 of snow in the sierra i will have more details on that and i will time out the storm system hour by hour. Coming up in my next complete weather check for now, head over to the Traffic Center and say good morning to robin good morning to you as well were checking in on your commute around the bay area and we have a light at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is stocked up busy in the cash lanes fast track lanes. This is a first little wave of traffic that were seeing squeezing into San Francisco. Its already stocking up just the over crossing so get on out there now before it gets too bad. Were looking at 13 minutes and growing to make it in and yes its going to get heavier so come on in right now a northbound 2. 80 and larkspur traveling along the peninsula just getting word of a downed tree that caused a multi vehicle north to 80 and larkspur in millbrae this is before you get to 3. 80. Crews are on scene its backing up in both directions so ill be keeping an eye on this down tree an accident for you but as you continue north on one oh one 2. 80 from the peninsula to San Francisco. It looks really good that was the only trouble spots Everything Else is wide open including the skyway and the central freeway, ill check more freeways and drive times coming up back to you thank you robin 6 02 and the covid situation is bad in the bay area and that is why counties are now having to rollback their reopening moran, San Francisco and san mateo counties. They have all fallen into the substantial or red tier. Indicating a higher spread and restrictions and youll notice the worst category is widespread thats purple and you can see that now includes not just sonoma anymore, but also napa solano contra costa alameda. And santa clara which means more restrictions on businesses, especially out there in contra costa lets talk about what is going to be closed and whats going to be curtailed with kron fours will tran he is live in san ramon good morning. Well. Good morning readjust to get it out the way a lot of people were worried obviously about hair cuts under the purple tier. They can still get haircuts but it will be very restrictive the salons the barber shops, they know what they need to do to make sure they and you are safe. So that is not going to be shut down. But what we saw in the early days of the pandemic all the other ever we will see a shutdown when it comes to indoor activities in Contra Costa County. No more Indoor Dining museums places of worship. We are not going to see that for the immediate future as they try to get a handle on covid19. Now you might recall the Contra Costa County just stepped into the red a few days ago, but the governor says we cant wait hes pulling the break as he said so to speak on covid19 in the cases which is why immediately i should not say immediately affective at 8 oclock this morning. But for all intent and purposes youre going to wake up in the purple. This is video from last night walnut creek you can see people Outdoor Dining. They want to shut down Indoor Dining bring you back outside even though its cold and it will rain a little bit later because they want to have as much space as they possibly can to create that social distance as far as Contra Costa County joins 40 other counties, 41 total counties in california that will be in the purple in this particular county the Positivity Rate is still acceptable at 3. 7 for every 100,000 cases. James and area so its good. But they are trying to get a handle of this because this whole thing has always been about not over running the Hospital System with the beds, the staff and thats why theyre doing this now governor gavin newsom says dont keep in mind that other counties that might not be in the purple this morning that based on the information you could leapfrog tears so for example you i go from orange to purple before you know it back to you. Well see if that happens thank you very much well. In the east bay, the Health Orders for the purple tier in Alameda County go into effect. Tomorrow that means theyre no more Indoor Dining no more gyms there inside and no more church gatherings. The county Health Data Shows indoor gatherings contributed to the rapid rise of covid Health Officers want people to continue wearing masks. The risk really goes up quite a bit weve seen that time and again with covid19. Each of the surge is. All of you know famous clusters outbreaks that weve seen. The really the Common Thread is people gather together, especially in indoor theyre not always without masks can really spread in an environment. Schools already open to in Person Learning they can continue but no Additional Schools in Alameda County can reopen their classrooms under these new restrictions and in the south bay Santa Clara County has also moved into the most restrictive purple tier, the changes are now go ahead proper lets move up the changes are in effect this morning santa claras Health Officer doctor sara cody explains how the increase is causing the setback. Our county like many counties is seeing a significant and rapid uptick in cases so its not just the number of cases is about how fast this happened. This this rapid surge has we first noticed it. The first few days of november and it has continued. We have done this before we can do it again. We really need every Single Person living and working in our county to take this extremely seriously the doctor encourages people not to travel outside the bay area as the holidays are approaching and. California recommends a 14 day quarantine for anybody who leaves our state. To the north bay now where many Business Owners are preparing to head back outside to serve their customers with kay recede speaking to the owner of evelyns pizzeria in downtown fairfield about the changes. They plan on putting in place. This is a slice of home for piano to pee on a pizzeria head open with his late wife evelyn, a piece of his native italy. He now shares with downtown fairfield i dont think is that i mean i think a boys and theyre like a family because you know were a Small BusinessSolano County is set back into the purple tier rules of which will force diners back outside to be honest says for him its all about pizza and people over profits and i have the outside its all covered now and i want to point man for the night, you know for the customer to be honest says it has been a challenge to work under covid19 guidelines you know slow down little bit he got to think the good with the bad. One is live at top then you got suffer a little bit but he understands the gravity of the situation we can get rid of the that me ive got a problem i so much of the dining remains a lot of his customers in supporting his Small Business by buying food to all we forget lot of people inside. But theyve got some you know we deliver countys public Health Officer says businesses will have to make changes by tuesday. He adds that most of the spread or do to private gatherings. He stresses that the best way to prevent infection. Is for everyone to do their part employees much social distancing as possible when they are getting together family and friends and if we can do that. We can look back toward read and hopefully down towards orange from there. The governor also addressed the potential curfew that may help mitigate the spread of the virus to be honest says hes willing to work with whatever rules get thrown his way. To keep his business open and his Community Healthy size. The duke are few and i hope that on the clock after 10 close if its got to be its going to be you know it is that we can do in Solano County kay recede. Well the put things in perspective, heres a look at the latest coronavirus cases and deaths across california as you can see weve had more than a million recorded cases with more than 18,000 deaths and for the bay area. Weve seen more than a 129,000 cases with more than 1800 deaths so far. Time now 6 09 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news bayarea hospitals are bracing for a surge of covid cases as our numbers go up and then one San Mateo County leader is pushing back against the idea of a statewide curfew to prevent the spread of covid well tell you what they think the state should be doing instead. And storm is on the way to the bay area in fact were going to be seeing rainfall heavy at times. And were also going to see the pick up. Ill have more details coming up in just a bit. And when it rains theres always an increase in crashes right so be careful driving on the wet roads from the rain comes in right now were okay at the bay bridge toll plaza normal backup spilling out to 8. 80 so its getting busy get on out there well check more bridges and drive times coming up. Theres no bad time to start at amazon. I like the flexibility. It also allows for picking up shifts. Safety comes first, speed comes second. Safety. Safety. Safety. Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. Right now and we are tracking a storm that could get away but look so its so nice out yeah, so if you if you want to get to work before it gets wet, nows the time to go. Yeah i think. I may be closer towards the end of the commute things can start getting a little dicey on the road is it worth leaving your house right picking up and they get find out how intense it might be for you though if you do decide the way weve got back on the Weather Center with that yeah james and ari will if you have any errands try to get them done now at 6 oclock in a. Because guys were really going to see things a pickup closer towards the end of the morning commute maybe around 9 oclock thats how were tracking this storm system all time enough for you in just a moment, but right now look at this gorgeous picture of a downtown San Francisco. You wouldnt even know that there is a storm on the way to the bay area. Our sutro tower camera showing just a flawless clear shot of the downtown area, the bay bridge and all the way across it to our east bayside it is absolutely beautiful this morning but said things are going to change the skies are going to get dark and and were going to see a whole lot of wet weather. Coming to us the winds really starting to be a factor as well radar showing all the activity to the far north of us for now, but it is heading our direction were seeing the coast. Definitely impacted parts of your rica right now and are some pockets of heavy rain showers and even close to the oregon border, were seeing a lot of it. It is moving southeast though and heading towards our direction timing out the storm system on futurecast 4 here we go closer to the 9 oclock hour about half of the north bail be covered under the shower activity but look at this by 10 oclock the entire north bay covered by the rain pockets of heavy rain at times really intense, especially you can see that red on your screen and some of that orange color. The yellow more moderate shower activity, San Francisco. Youre going to be covered by 10 oclock parts of the peninsula as well and even parts of our south bays owner east bays on rather like berkeley and the Oakland Hills were going to see a definitely getting what by 10 oclock this morning. By noontime lunch time here you go everyone is going to see this rain going to feel this rain were going to see a very widespread by the noontime hour and then even towards of the 5 oclock hour were going to see it continue to push southeast with the bulk of its has sticking to our peninsula. The south bay. And our east bay zone moving out towards the valley were going to see some scattered stick with us across the north is on by 5 and then things will start to lighten up as we get closer to the evening hours late tonight and then overnight were going to see things kind of died down a little bit until a tomorrow morning, well see those scattered showers left over showers pop up once again, so you will need the umbrellas through tomorrow and then futurecast for showing us tomorrow night things should be completely dry and out of the bay area leaving thursday to be a pretty dry and a little bit of sunshine for us coming back. The wind gusts though were going to be a picking up over the next couple of hours were going to be seeing things really amp up by 10 look at all the 20s and even 30s that were seeing on the board anywhere from 20 to 25 even 35 Miles Per Hour wind gust depending on where youre going to be by 10 and its going the winds are going to stick with us throughout the entire day today as this storm system this cold front pushes through the bay area tomorrow winds are going to be a factor as well as so we still have left over showers that were going to be seeing then by tomorrow night though thats when things are going to start to quiet down around the bay area so the winds are going to start subsiding as well as the wet weather. How much rain are we talking anywhere from a 3rd of an inch in some spots to a half an inch and then a full inch a little bit over an in our north is on santa rosa looks like youre going get the most and just over an inch nap youre going to get 3 quarters of an inch or so about half an inch for oakland and hayward along the east bay shoreline and then close to a 3rd for much of our south bay zone, your around the bay. Forecaster you go yes, what today and tomorrow, theres a slight chance of rain in the north bay, but the just a really slight chance and then it looks like the rest of the week into your weekend should be nice and dry and mostly sunny conditions into the beginning of next week temperatures are going to be really evenly spread into the 60s. But its as overnight lows. You want to Pay Attention to inland, especially were going to get near freezing if not freezing temperatures for thursday friday and saturday inland, so it is going to be cold out there around the ban the coast it looks like were going to be mostly in the 40s. So rainy chilly and its going to be windy. So definitely just be careful on the roads today and speaking of those roads handed over to robin and get an update. Well, some spots are fantastic other spots we have traffic thats crawling so it all depends on where youre heading this morning, rebecca for folks getting over to the Richmond Sandra fell bridge. The traffic is picking up, but its not bad. No major delays right now and easy 7 minutes off the highway, one oh one here at the bay bridge toll plaza we have this long line of traffic and its filled all the way back the over crossing so yes, its finally packed into San Francisco. You need to get out there early if you have to sit in this 11 minutes and growing for your drive to fremont street and our biggest problem is a downed tree and this is on the peninsula in millbrae its south to 80 near the larkspur exit. Im not sure if the crash caused the tree to come down or if there was a downed tree that led to a crash a very few details here but at last check cruz said all lanes are blocked so this is going to impact you leaving San Francisco south San Francisco, san bruno heading into millbrae and possibly continuing on to the peninsula. So once again south to ad at the larkspur exit down tree led to a multi vehicle accident as many as 6 cars involved there so ill be watching at the south bay looks great 8780 17 one oh one. All nice and light so far back to you thanks a lot robin 6. 18 and the big story is the vaccine were getting closer to a coronavirus vaccine. Moderna says theirs is 94 and a half percent effective. One participant in the trial Neil Browning lives in Washington State he got his first shot back in march and then a second dose in april and he says the entire process has been flawless. So i had a very slightly sore arm after each injection much like i would get from a standard flu shot. I heard about that i had no ill effects and its been really doing anything at all about. Browning was part of a group of 45 Healthy People who volunteered for the first stage of modernas vaccine study. Well until we get a vaccine right now our best weapon against the virus is well theyre drug cocktails like the ones President Trump received after he tested positive. Weve got alyssa gored explaining how they work to fight the virus. By now youre probably familiar with what a coronavirus looks like all those things sticking out from the surface. Those are spike proteins and bio science you t have been studying them since 2013 now companies trying to create covid19 vaccines and antibody therapies are using Duty Research to target those spikes yeah we we know the spike is the weak point that we want to target but professor Jason Mcclellan says if a spike has a mutation that can stop covid19 treatments from working and with the virus spreading globally there are lots of chances for a to mutate which is why this week many you t researchers kept returning to the same point we think the winners in this field on the antibody side are those who are making cockta