First covid19 death case involving a San Francisco Transportation Agency employee. Tomlin says 90 operators within the sf mta have contracted the virus so far he is urging everyone to continue avoiding large gatherings wear a mask and to wash their hands and all too familiar sight in San Francisco striking again this Holiday Season. A witness capturing suspects. In a black audi breaking into several cars near the citys world famous lumber street. The smash and grab happened near lombard and hyde streets around 1 oclock this afternoon right in broad daylight and it wasnt the only one on 4 state of joins us now live with what is turning out to be a nerve wracking day for visitors there taylor. Ken pam, the break ins here are practically a daily occurrence just within the first hour that i was here i saw another victim returned to her car when she realized that her backpack was gone. Meanwhile, i also saw a separate vehicle, a black chevy canvassing a car and right as theyre about to brea
More than 19,000 californians have lost their lives to coronavirus and in the south bay there are new fears that hospitals in areas hit hardest by the virus are running low on icu beds and could reach capacity by mid december at same time officials reported some progress in planning for the arrival in distribution of the vaccine. Kron fours rob fladeboe has more on this live from san jose rob. And thats right ken and pam a county Health Officials at a briefing here at the Government Center today offered very few specifics, but they did say that they now have submitted their a vaccination protocol, the Distribution Plan to the state of california has required at the same time though they say they are quote extremely worried about the rising tide of hospitalizations and they are encouraging people to more fully cooperate with the new restrictions imposed this last weekend. Heres more. The answer i have for you today is that that that number is evolving Santa Clara County Health Officials
Welcome back on 4 is your local election headquarters as we continue to track the final results of the president ial election and we now go to washington dc thats where we find correspondent jessi eaton or jesse. Thank you for being with us whats the mood at the Trump Campaign headquarters tonight. Yeah good evening panic and theres really a kind of scramble right now and uncertainty moving ahead and thats why youre these kind of last minute lines of defense from the legal challenges focused on key battleground states of michigan pennsylvania and georgia and then of course demanding a recount in wisconsin. And so now theres just kind of this. You focus on the results to see what should happen next so save the rays does come down to one state then these challenges become very if they can hold up in the courts but if biden does surge ahead and pick up multiple states and goes past that magical number of 270 electoral votes then these challenges really become kind of a moot point and then
Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open
This country for generations to con she would take ease in your all own hence. Your vote, your voice we are now just 5 days away from the november, 3rd election. Thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im pam moore and im ken wayne is the race for the white house enters its final stretch were committed to answer your questions about the safety of your ballot and in the east bay officials are investigating tonight after some ballots went missing. Officials with the Contra Costa County elections. Office say dozens of ballots placed in a drop box at Richmond City hall have not been found. The missing ballots of raised some concerns about mail in voting. Kron fours dan thorn in richmond tonight with the story. Election Officials Say theyre trying their best to find these ballots but have so far come up empty handed. Theyre also trying to figure out how this happened and what they can do to keep it from happening again from this election dropbox in richmond, dozens of ballots have gone missi