That all cities from santa rosa down to santa cruz and gilroy are under a red flag warning tonight, coastal regions, Santa Cruz Mountains and lower valleys are also under a redflag warning but that runs through 11 oclock tomorrow morning. Pg e has already turned off the power to 225,000 customers across the state with 136,000 more expected to lose power at some point tonight and the power is already off in the north bay. The areas marked here in purple that with that triangle thats the places that have already lost power pg e is turning off the power because the wind gusts could knock over a power line and start another devastating fire. Once this wind event is over power will be restored in phases. Starting monday night through tuesday night. And we have Team Coverage of tonights events kron fours gayle ong is live for us now in the east bay, where the winds have just started to pick up. Well have the latest from her in just a few moments. But first want to check in with meteorologist
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
From our Traffic Cameras we just saw the Golden Gate Bridge were actually it will make it out for the first time in just a few days. But you can see the smoke still lingering around the bay area today. So we want to bring in now meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez to tell us when we will be able to see the smoke clear and the blue skies return good evening of risa it wont happen until tuesday. Justine and jonathan so lets take a live look outside right now still tracking unhealthy air particles. Mixed in with that fog fortunately not denser as low as it was last night where we were already under a dense fog advisory National Weather service from the Bay Area Holding back on issuing any fog advisories tonight, but as we take a look outside right now. Tracking unhealthy air particle so slight improvement from yesterday when we were under that very unhealthy range for the eastern portions of the north bay and our inland valleys of the east bay but expect similar conditions to start your work
Difference in death rates between the 2 will shock you tonight, San Francisco has recorded 99 covid related deaths while new york city has recorded close to 24,000 covid related deaths. Earlier this evening. I talked with doctor bob wachter chair of the department of medicine over at ucs us who says the 2 main reasons for our lower numbers is good leadership and good citizenship. Doctor wachter says people have been diligent about Wearing Masks for the most part he also says that shutting down the city as early as we did prevented our Hospital System from becoming has overwhelmed as new yorks was. But it is important to remember that its not this is not the time to become complacent and let your guard down doctor wachter says despite the lower numbers in San Francisco, we could still see a spike. So theres nothing about the virus that has changed from march to now it is every bit as capable of causing infections, your chances of dying if you get the virus is a little bit lower now than