Tonight. Also breaking tonight, california has officially surpassed 1 million that is according to Johns Hopkins university. These new numbers coming just within the past hour. California is now the second state after texas to report at least 1 million covid cases and more than 18,000 people. Have died. And the Coronavirus Crisis is where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus really a reality check on a night you have coronavirus cases surging across most of the country in some spots there really exploding and here in the bay area they are rising as well many counties, locally are now faced with the possibility of having to move back another tier into a more restrictive tier in the states reopening system in some Health Officials are choosing to pause their reopening plans with the hope of slowing the spread of covid and avoiding some of the economic consequences of being forced to go back and entire tier. Yeah today Alameda County announced that it
On the idea of a National Lockdown this is after a coronavirus adviser to president elect joe biden said it is one way to control the surge of covid19 cases, thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis doctor Michael Osterholm says that a nationwide lockdown would drive. The number of new cases and hospitalizations down manageable level while the world around for a vaccine kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco on what this could mean for the baiji zdan you hear the word. Lockdown and everyone cringe is it sure seems like we need something more nuanced in surgical for different parts of the country. Well thats what medical experts here say what we didnt hear just a few seconds ago was state medical expert in the bay area talking about. How things are bad in parts of the country but here in the bay area while theyre going in the wrong direction, what he did not hear him just a few seconds ago it was the fact that they are still no
Popping up at least in the north bay tonight so. Thats a good start going to get things going here but theres more on the horizon so yes certainly weve been waiting for the storm door open sometimes that opens a late october in fact most of the time it does this year running a little bit behind you see most that rain confined up in the Pacific Northwest are getting a lot of rain even some snow up in the parts of the shasta csu Mountain Range and well to the north and the cascades and theyre going to see more of that on the way we in the bay area how about this weve got some scattered showers begin to pop up. It places a little the north bay to get him or and you get parts of Sonoma County all the way across here through petaluma maybe couple raindrops in your neighborhood doesnt look like much just couple of drops in the ground but otherwise well see more impressive stuff moving through the system kind of slide through tonight, this is the warm front ubahn kind of moving through but th
Citizen app a little over an hour ago. There appears to be some activity on the lefthand side of your screen behind the gate and the street outside is blocked off. No word yet on if that man may have fired at police nor that persons condition, but we will keep an eye on this developing news and bring you the latest throughout the evening. The bay area desperately needs more housing, but is this busy parking lot the solution and the right place . Sites like these are at the center of a new battle on the peninsula. To address the housing crisis, the state has ordered cities and counties to create a plan to add a certain number of homes or risk losing funding for the entire area. The goal is more than 441,000 new homes. The city of san mateos share of that number is more than 7,000 homes. Some city leaders just submitted their plan for approval, but a new lawsuit claims the numbers just dont add up. Our kevin ko explains perform reporter im at the bridgepoint Shopping Center in san mateo
Something the constituents should be aware of so they can make an important decision as well. Reporter . She said she said shes gotten no response. Voters were left in the dark. About a month after sending the letter she meant with fuentes. He told her bocanegra just needs to learn to keep his hands to himself. Fuentes went further for his friend. So he had asked me to rescind the letter and that basically they would draft a statement that i would have to sign onto basically stating the allegations were not true. She didnt rescind the her, but she did reluctantly sign a statement drafted by fuentes office. The statement was not made public, but pinto had regrets signing it, especially now since she knows she was misled. Honestly i was really disgusted, especially because as females we try to bring forward in his First Campaign and, you know, maybe if at that time he could have addressed the allegations, maybe things would have been department of. And she said bocanegra should resign. I