Well if you thought it was bad in the spring, its worse now the United States recorded 188,000 new coronavirus cases on thursday setting a new oneday record and an average of 1300 americans are dying each day from this virus. This is the highest death rate since much of the country was on lockdown in the spring. Happy friday and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman we will start this afternoon in San Francisco where changes are coming the citys Health Director has offered a dire warning today again and doctor grant colfax says the city is heading towards the governors purple tier and could soon be under those newly announced a curfew he said this could happen as early as sunday, the city has been experiencing a steady increase in cases since the beginning of october with more than 700 people being diagnosed. So far this week alone. Kron fours dan kerman is following the story for us he will have a full report coming up on kron 4 news at 5 6 ocloc
Make for a bit of a grey start right now were in the 50s for most areas with a few 40s on the map in both livermore 49 degrees. Although napa you were there just a minute ago that youre actually right up to 50 degrees so temperatures wobbling around just a little bit for some of our spots, San Francisco oakland and san jose in the 60s to 70s for high temperatures later today really nice afternoon conditions to be looking forward to and i know it will be a beautiful friday and saturday to get out there and hopefully enjoy the 70s but will it be all right on the roads is question robert is here to tell us more about that i guess it kind of depends on where theyre heading this morning job because some fox look great other spots not so much, but ill start off with a look at the bridges around the bay area this morning a live look. At the bay bridge toll plaza this is one of the good commute 80 west in San Francisco doing fine as you can see its wide open here at the toll plaza so no worrie
Friday morning, his 4th looking at a cool weekend to come so thats good and thanks for joining yeah lots to talk about. Weve got as daryn mentioned that nice weather on tap which ive been looking forward to because weve been dealing with the red flag warning fire weather for handful of days now john yeah, its nice that we back off the heats were still in the midst of what well be some windy conditions at times into the weekend. But to start the weekend things are actually looking pretty good so we do get a nice breather here and it certainly actually starts to feel like fall for those of you that are stepping outside. Little bit of a brisk feel this morning got the golden gate or bay bridge behind me there with the sun coming up and a little bit of cloud cover sitting over the San Francisco itself some brightness making its way down but the cloud cover pretty evident sitting right over the bay. Now red flag warnings only remain force a lake and mendocino counties this morning elsewhere
Seeing in gold on this map is actually advisories that will be in effect later this weekend starting sunday at 11 00am and lasting through monday at 11 00am the issue here is stronger winds and weve seen in weeks now and maybe one of the strongest winds events of the year so far up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour. So we are going to be seeing. Some conditions that are not looking necessarily ideal come the latter part of the weekend meaning you should just enjoy today and tomorrow as much as you can ahead of what will be that increase in wind speeds come sunday, 50s and 60s are current temperatures with way how at 53 berkeley in conquered each at 55, hanging on to the 40s right now in fairfield saint helene and cloverdale but dont worry. Youve got some really comfortable weather ahead of you just like the rest of the bay area well im talking your daytime highs what to expect for the entirety of the weekend. All still to come first though obviously need to track of traffic with robin and it
L a new fire in fact those fires you can tell that the brush there was already set ready to go so youre in very active fire region and now weve got another fire burning. And weve got some very strong winds coming on the way. Winds right now weve seen of the 1618 Miles Per Hour in fire certainly enough to move that fire long. But thats not what were most concerned about is the winds that will likely take place this weekend, red flag warnings are going up for the entire bay area over the weekend expecting some 4050 mile an hour gusts, even down in the valley floors were going to see some very gusty winds extremely low humidity maybe even some places less than 10 and over the mountain tops maybe some 6070 mile an hour winds. So here we go put this into motion now as we take in tomorrow morning, not bad just an easy breeze. Now the west generally but then things begin to start to shift gears we start to see things pick up and by the afternoon and evening tomorrow, those winds start to pick