Morning, waking up to good air quality for the bay area. So as we head through the next few days with the onshore flow that stronger sea breeze kicking in, its going to help to continue to mix out that smoke. So were looking at better air quality that cleaner air as we head through the workweek. Now daytime highs this afternoon, looking at mid 80s for con cord and livermore and low 80s for san jose and mid 70s in oakland and upper 60s for San Francisco. After starting off our day with foggy conditions even some patchy drizzle along the coast and right around the bay, thanks to that onshore flow, well catch that clearing for most of thus afternoon. Ill let you know what you can expect some changes for the weekend and details on that coming up. Gianna . Good morning, lets head straight to the bay bridge. That is where we have a trouble spot. The good news though in the clearing stages and it was a couple of cars tangled on the upper deck near the tunnel not too far from the Treasure Isla
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Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
West of grant line. We have reports of a crash there over to the right shoulder. Traffic getting busy anyway on the westbound side out of tracy. As you work towards that grant line area. Weve got some slower speeds there. Friday, so not seeing as many cars on the roadways so your travel times only about 26 minutes 205 over to 680. The good news is, eastshore freeway and highway 4 and 101 all in the green with no delays. 101 at clear field over to sfo. Thats a look at the morning drive. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on several fires burning in the bay area starting off in alameda county. Fire crews making progress on this grass fire in a rural area near livermore. It has scorched more than 250 acres since it started last night near tesla and mclohl ad last report, it was about 60 contained. Luckily not many homes nearby. But we did spot some crews there dousing flames near one property. Also keeping an eye on a brush fire that broke out last night nor
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we