Milestone despite having less than 5 of the worldwide population. The u. S. Says recorded more than 20 of the covid related deaths, the death toll in the u. S. From coronavirus has topped 200,000 numbers said by some. To be an imaginable 8 months ago when the first covid death was reported covid19 is now one of the leading causes of death. According to Data Collected by Johns Hopkins university here are the latest numbers worldwide there are more than 31 million cases. With nearly 7 million of those cases here in the u. S. , california continues to lead the country with the number of cases, 792,000 we also have more than 15,000 deaths in the state and the bay area has recorded more than 97,000 cases and more than 1400 deaths and despite this grim milestone nationwide San Francisco has had the lowest covid19 death rate. Of any other major us city throughout most of the pandemic our conference send a is live for us in the newsroom with details on this tonight. Thank you thats right, San
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Later on youll notice, daytime highs just a few degrees warmer than yesterdays really not a huge difference will be in the mid to upper 80s, inland 70s by the bay and 60s yet again alongside the coast. Robert all right. Thank you job were checking in on a big trouble spot that we have its actually on the nimitz freeway coming out of union city check this out this a still shot a snapshot. The backup leading up to 8. 80 at to kowtow its an injury accident here and all lanes are blocked chp has issued a special Traffic Alert once again 80 north at to kowtow as you work your way out of union city youre into union city crews are dealing with a multi vehicle accident folks are standing outside of their cars, one of the cars caught fire. Its a big mess and it may not be out of the way soon so you want to avoid that stretch or get on the freeway after the dakota exit so after you pass the crash or after the crash, the rest of your trip will be fine you have that one little slow spot there lead
Storm systems that will be you know, they could have nearby and how it will affect picked a lot of words associated our weather. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . With samuel l. Jackson. Kari, it is looking pretty laura, you can get waze to give good as far as the Speed Sensors go and the overall bigger you directions in batman voice. Perspective. The Golden Gate Bridge were i heard you say that the used to the fog there. Chp traditional advisory for the other day. What were you saying, mike . Golden gate and also for the bay a few other words associated bridge for fog. As we look at the map, no major with samuel l. Jackson but not problems. The highlighting yellow has cleared from the east bay and for all audiences. That includes the construction tell the kids to cover their ears. Not yet, not right now. Zone. Still slow 880 through oakland. And the rest of the bay will see were clean on this show, right, low clouds but right now visibility is okay, laura, out kari .
With an update on the coronavirus pandemic the u. S. Once again set to pass another grim marker with a 141,000 americans dead from the virus across america nearly 60,000 people were hospitalized with infections. The cdc now forecasting more than a 157,000 americans will likely be killed by the virus by august 8th, has just in a few weeks time and now as Health Officials and government leaders push for americans to mask up. Our decisions not our conditions are decisions that will determine our fate and future as it relates to the spread of this virus. Months after the cdc first recommended it President Trump is now finally telling americans to wear. Masks he tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask and encouraging others to do the same. The president also announced that he is bringing back the daily Coronavirus Press briefings at the white house. They are set to begin again today, however last night to hear the fundraiser at the trump hotel in dc and did not wear a mask as i know. It s