Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the elected officials that have had the response ability to make very tough decisions with limited and highly imperfe
Contained. The scu lightning complex fires in the east bay and parts of Santa Clara County or 10 contained. And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula and into Santa Cruz County or 8 contained. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and i pale more fire crews and residents are anxious about the high winds, the thunderstorms and the lightning expected tonight and into the start of the workweek in fact all of us across the bay area are concerned more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across the state. Tonight, another death to report the body of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County. We have Team Coverage on all 3 major complex fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle ong and dan thorn our live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the weather conditions tonight, lets go to the biggest fire noelle bellow has the latest on the
Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe
News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 10 but nothing violent that would make me fear for my safety. Now 10 caught on camera a man wanted for a violent brutal attack police hope this video can led them to him thank you for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 10 im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a today Police Released that video. A man who they say attacked a woman in her 60s wednesday night. A conference Jonathan Mccall live for us from the newsroom with the latest on the investigation jonathan grant vicki police definitely want to get that man off the streets tonight folks in this area now praying that folks will see whats happening in that video and that someone can identify the man. Take a good look at your screen. This is the man now wanted by San Mateo Police for a violent assault on a woman in her 60s wednesday night investigators say it all happened around 11 oclock at night. And here in your life in south el camino real. Detectives say the victim reported being beate
Cspan two. Isas Governor Greg Abbott urging local residents to get their flu shots early this year. He made this suggestion alongside Public Health officials at a Medical Center in dallas where he talked about precautions for slowing the spread of the virus. Want to thank everyone for being here in the medical school for hosting this event, for everything they are doing to help the people in this region as well as the entire state of texas, responding to all different kinds of medical challenges we are dealing with. In particular, what were focused on today. That is covid19 as the flu season that is coming up. As the flu season that is coming up. Just one of the topics we talked about before i do want to make a Compass Point regards to cover 19. People in the dallasfort worth area, one thing you have observed following the numbers is that covid19 numbers are improving in the sense that so many the point is the numbers of covid19 are going down from an elevated level. We are not at all