Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 7am 20240711 : compareme

Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 7am 20240711

Seeing its a and running right now eureka even parts of ukiah right now are getting some of that rainfall at the 7 oclock hour. But so we are not far off as to the bay areas going to be seeing some of that by 9 oclock thats were going to see the entire north bay looks like its a big going to be covered with this light to moderate shower activity and then by noontime we could see the entire bay area covered with it so i will give you more details on that about the timing of the storm system how long its going to last and how much rain were going to be seeing over the next couple of days, ill have that in just a bit for now, lets say good morning and pass it over to robin good morning to you as well the rains not even here yet and we already have problems with overturn crashes and downed trees and its still dry right so were down in san jose, this is the newest problem, northbound one i want to tally. Injury accident here one of the vehicles involved flipped over so we have crews on scene at least a couple of lanes blocked in your backup on north one oh one is almost beyond helliar heading up to the scene so keep that in mind of one oh one is your commute is at a crawl because of this overturned crash all keep my eyes on that after the crash are going to be ok the rest of the trip from the south bay to the peninsula looks good. But that just want to up to 41 minutes for your drive time from san jose to menlo park and thats going to go up here on the peninsula southbound 2. 80 at a larkspur in accident working and we have a downed tree as well about 6 cars involved were not sure of the tree came down and it caused the crash or if the accident happened and they knock down a tree, but all lanes are blocked south to 80 and larkspur drive so consider using one o one instead of 2. 80 until they get that out of the way business as usual at the bay bridge toll plaza long lines squeezing back through the bottom of the maze 12 minutes and growing to make it in and had forestall in san leandro northbound 80 at marina. Thats in your way now its backing you up on to to 38 back to you thanks a lot rob and 7 02 and our top story rollbacks and what you can do in the bay area because of the rise in covid. Moran, San Francisco and san mateo counties. Those are now this is a new map you can see theyre all in the red number San Francisco was minimal yellow not anymore know yesterday we showed you this map Sonoma County was the only one in purple now youve got napa solano and the entire east bay from Contra Costa County all the way down to Santa Clara County. Coco county. Though thats a place where theyre really going to see some restrictions. Yeah lets go to kron fours will tran hes covering whats going to happen because of this new level restrictions well. It is the most restrictive level james and darya they only spent a few days in the red tier which was restrictive now its widespread i remember doing the story last week when they were announcing that were going to go from orange to red, but the cases and just exploded where they just went ahead and decided to go to purple which in all actuality begins at 8 oclock this morning but for all intent and purposes youre waking up this morning right now in the purple which means that you will not be able to go Indoor Dining museums places of worship in fact, heres video from walnut creek obviously one of the cities in Contra Costa County this was last night Outdoor Dining moving forward, take out for your food as well it reminds us eerily of the early days of the pandemic in the United States around march and april as far as the covid19 cases which is why governor gavin newsom says they need to get a handle on the situation just to give you numbers because this is all about science in Contra Costa County there see seeing 11 cases every day and to go into the purple realm, its 7 so obviously its above and beyond that particular number and they want to be able to bring it back down just to make sure that the hospitals are not overrun with so many people going in there with covid19. Now what does it mean as far as daily activities so many people as you might recall james and area. They were worried about their hair while you can still going to the barber shops, the salons but it will be very restrictive as far as the stores, they will start counting people once again, so you wont be able to walking freely as we saw over the past couple weeks or even months. Now they will limit capacity to 25 . Back to you. All right, thank you very much well. Same thing in the east bay there in the purple as well in Alameda County, those rules go into Effect Tomorrow and that means there will be no more Indoor Dining no more indoor gyms nomar Church Gatherings crabbers theresa reports. Major changes coming here to Alameda County. All done deal with bad recent uptick in covid19 cases. No more Indoor Dining no more indoor gym workouts or Church Gatherings it is back to the purple tier in Alameda County. Well, its significant because we have a lot more covid circulating here in the bay area than we did even a few short weeks ago so our test positivity and at the states most recent assessment believe its 2. 8 so its increased quite a bit from our low which i think was 1. 4 doctor maass who is the interim Health Officer of Alameda County says. Its in our own hands, what happens next. He says that the data shows indoor gatherings are one of the most problematic areas. The risk really goes up quite a bit weve seen that time and again with covid19. Each of the surge is. A little all of you know famous clusters outbreaks that weve seen. The really the Common Thread is gather together, especially in indoor theyre not always without masks can really spread in an environment so the hardest part i think now theres so much anxiety in this so interruption with coach francisco owns fit potato fitness gym in dublin. He says that he chose not to go indoors based on feedback from members. But they did make changes. To help out members. We did we shut it down to 30 minutes. Well we had more classes, so we doubled the size of classes. So that we can see them often he also says that they check in with their members hold virtual happy hours paintings. All in an effort to stay connected and help out with the Mental Health aspect of covid19 and where is the county is sliding back doctor mahsa ads. All of the news is not dismal. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. And we are going to back to normal life someday were just asking people to stick with it. Do your best and i just want to remind people how grateful we are of of all theyre doing. All of the changes that come into effect and there is a lot. Weve linked to the states website to kron 4 dot com. So you can find out the totality of all of the changes and again they all take place on november 18th right after midnight Alameda County theresa kron 4 news. And in the south bay Santa Clara County is now in the most restrictive purple tier as well and those changes are in effect this morning already Santa Clara Countys Health Officer doctor sara cody talks about the increasing cases and a major setback, the county faces. 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. Area experts are begging you not to travel outside the area for the holidays, california as a state is recommending that if you do leave the state when you come back quarantine for 14 days. A lot of county has also moved from the red tier to the purple tier on the states watch list businesses like restaurants. As a result and hair salons to are going to have to move their customers outside once more. The owner of a specialty all of shop in benicia says that thats going to be well not ideal as we head into the winter months, but again its nothing they havent done before. We have an Online Presence and we have for almost 16 years. We also have our front door anchor pick up. So we are not going to be as concerned were still going to have the safety for our customers. That additional restrictions include places of worship and gyms are going to have to move their operations outdoors as well. And weve gone over several counties so heres a closer look at the ones that have moved into the purple tier again they include Alameda County where restrictions will go into effect at midnight on wednesday Contra Costa County where will tran was their restrictions will begin at 8 this morning. So about 50 minutes from now Santa Clara County solano county. Their restrictions are already in effect and napa county will go into the purple tier at midnight on wednesday and Sonoma County as we know has already been in the purple tier theyve been that way since september well take a closer look at the counties that are now in the red tier coming up in the next half hour. What does all this mean for the holidays. Still ahead retailers already suffering from the pandemic now have this the latest setback, how the next 8 weeks could make or break them. And im tracking rain and windy conditions that were going to be seeing across the bay area as the storm system approaches so do not leave your umbrellas at home youre going to need that and your rain boots and your jacket for the next couple of days on more details coming up. And im tracking your commute around the bay area its pretty busy out there already a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is spilling back through the bottom of the maze plus i have a couple of hot spots overturn accident and a downed tree to talk about so ill tell you exactly where coming up after the break. 7. 13 right now donna its coming its coming at them you get you worried, yeah look to the horizon thats where the clouds are getting darker and darker by the minute as the rain gets closer and closer rebecca has the latest on satellite, yeah, james and radar are james darya. I have radar on the brain this morning thats what it is guys yes were definitely seeing a storm system approaching the bay area getting closer and closer and actually now you can see the Golden Gate Bridge camera looks far different what we saw earlier this morning because we saw very clear no cloud cover in the sky and now things are beginning to change as the storm approaching the bay area look at all the clouds were seeing because first of all anything north of the Golden Gate Bridge thats were going to see the storm system touchdown for so it is definitely on the way were starting to see gray skies. You can see the American Flag there in the righthand side, your screen starting to pick up the winds are going to start to be a factor. Were going to actually raise to maybe 3035 Miles Per Hour as far as the gusts co for today and tomorrow radar right now that were seeing all the green on your screen that moderates to a light shower activity, the yellow on your screen, those are patches of some heavy downpours and were seeing its just north of the bay area and covering much of eureka parts of reading in chico parts of ukiah now are starting to see some of that rainfall future cast for those showing us the timing of the storm system look at this by 9 oclock the entire north bay completely covered by the rainfall and even San Francisco and parts of our peninsula as well and oakland and even berkeley for parts of our zone and then by 10 oclock it continues to move. Northeast and southeast rather and were going to start seeing that heavier touch down across much of the bay area covering santa rosa and then continuing to get widespread by the noontime hour. So this is what its going to look like for your lunch time of because of the weather is ide going to be cold and its going to be wet for sure were going to see its a really start to get see even more towards of the south bay region and across our east bay zone as we get towards the latter part of the evening as well and so stick with the umbrellas all day today because it is just going to be a wet and windy day its going to start to getting a little bit thinner as we get into tonight around the 11 oclock hour, some scattered showers that were expecting and then tomorrow hang on to the rain gear because we are going to see some popup showers even heavy at times across the bay area through the afternoon hours. So how much rain are we talking over the next couple of days look at these numbers anywhere from a 3rd of an inch to a half an inch and even getting that inch mark like in our north bay santa rosa youre going to get about an inch there a little over half an inch for sandra fell expecting and a half an inch right here in San Francisco, the east bay shoreline oakland and hayward both around that half an inch mark and then about a 3rd of an inch on average for our south bay zone. So much needed rain and of course with the rain in the stormy conditions and makes the when pop up and were going to see gusts really amp up by the 10 oclock hour this morning you can see a lot of the orange and even the red on your screen. Those gusts are going to get up to about 3035 Miles Per Hour at summer higher peaks around the bay area and its going to stick with us through the entire day today a very windy blustery day into tonight and even into wednesday were going to see those winds really. Stay about 15 to 20 miles an hour as far as those gusts and then really start to amp up tomorrow afternoon. Before finally starting to simmer down tomorrow night into thursday, looking ahead youre 70 around the bay forecast. Yes today is going to be a wet and windy into tomorrow, theres a slight chance of popup shower or 2 in the north bay and then it looks like its going to be dry into friday and into your weekend, nice and sunny and temperatures are going to be pretty evenly spread in the 60s. But it is going to get quite chilly during the overnight lows near freezing temperatures that were going to be tracking inland. For thursday friday and saturday. Thats a look at the weather and head over to the Traffic Center and an update on the roads robin thank you rebecca, its already quite busy out there. But at least some of the problems are clearing were back to san jose northbound want to want to tally. Thats where crews have just cleared or overturn accident but not without backing up traffic a few miles of slowing there on northbound one o one its recovering, but still heavy and backed up beyond helier when you put it all together were just under 40 minutes from san jose to menlo park once again the overturned crash a tele has cleared the traffic is still slow down tree here on southbound 2. 80 larkspur this is the lingering for about an hour now 6 cars involved in this crash. The downed tree blocking as well so it was blocking all lanes now youre getting through, but its still quite slow on southbound 2. 80 so take south one oh one instead of south here at the bay bridge everything looks normal its quiet. Its crawling from the bottom of the maze so 15 minutes into San Francisco. Thats not too bad right here at the richmond sandra fell its just now stacking up so getting a little busy for you were at 12 minutes and growing to make it into the north bay. And heads up for a stall and family and roads on the nimitz 80 north at marina that has he backed up on to to 38 to 38 us now backed up to 5. 80 out of castro valley, its all merging together youre just under 15 minutes because of that from san leandro to downtown oakland take 5. 80 instead of the nimitz youll save some time back to you. 7. 19 the latest state reopening rollbacks come just before the start of the busy Holiday Shopping season. Its another blow to retailers have been trying to stay afloat during this pandemic the California Retails Association Says that with indoor shopping limited or even banned in some of the tears. Its going to be tough for some of the Smaller Stores to keep going. The next 8 weeks typically make or break a business for the entire year. Its going to affect decision on whether or not these businesses around come january 1st if youre 15. 100 square foot retailer. 25 capacity when the asking to be but its doable here 900 square retailer, 25 capacity could be life or death in terms of whether your business can survive. Yeah the rollbacks may also impact Seasonal Workers California Retail association believes that many businesses are not going to be able to hire workers for the holidays. Heres a quick check of the big board has we gage the markets this morning, the dow off by more than 300 points right now big change from the gains we saw yesterday. Lets stick with us for your money this morning Weight Watchers has launched a program to help users stay in shape and reduce stress and the pandemic and Royal Caribbean says there is no shortage of people who are r

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