Tonight. Also breaking tonight, california has officially surpassed 1 million that is according to Johns Hopkins university. These new numbers coming just within the past hour. California is now the second state after texas to report at least 1 million covid cases and more than 18,000 people. Have died. And the Coronavirus Crisis is where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus really a reality check on a night you have coronavirus cases surging across most of the country in some spots there really exploding and here in the bay area they are rising as well many counties, locally are now faced with the possibility of having to move back another tier into a more restrictive tier in the states reopening system in some Health Officials are choosing to pause their reopening plans with the hope of slowing the spread of covid and avoiding some of the economic consequences of being forced to go back and entire tier. Yeah today Alameda County announced that it
On the idea of a National Lockdown this is after a coronavirus adviser to president elect joe biden said it is one way to control the surge of covid19 cases, thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis doctor Michael Osterholm says that a nationwide lockdown would drive. The number of new cases and hospitalizations down manageable level while the world around for a vaccine kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco on what this could mean for the baiji zdan you hear the word. Lockdown and everyone cringe is it sure seems like we need something more nuanced in surgical for different parts of the country. Well thats what medical experts here say what we didnt hear just a few seconds ago was state medical expert in the bay area talking about. How things are bad in parts of the country but here in the bay area while theyre going in the wrong direction, what he did not hear him just a few seconds ago it was the fact that they are still no
And be prepared. The roadways may be a little extra slick remember the first rain of the season brings up some of the oils off the pavement there could be extra slick out there actually right now we are seeing some high clouds moving up above no rain here just yet part of the bay area get pretty close in fact we may be seeing a few showers in northern Sonoma County, the brunt of the storm still up to our north you plowing right up in toward the pacific northwest, seattle portland. Theyre seeing some rain and again thats going to be cold storm thats a head in toward the bay area. Doppler radar scanning your skies we are seeing now warm frontal part of the storm begin to make in the parts of the north bay northern Sonoma County taking for a close look how about that couple raindrops pop up out there certainly a chance some of that hitting the ground headed towards santa rosa right now. But the brunt of the system still on the back side it will be moving in a little bit later so lets see
Popping up at least in the north bay tonight so. Thats a good start going to get things going here but theres more on the horizon so yes certainly weve been waiting for the storm door open sometimes that opens a late october in fact most of the time it does this year running a little bit behind you see most that rain confined up in the Pacific Northwest are getting a lot of rain even some snow up in the parts of the shasta csu Mountain Range and well to the north and the cascades and theyre going to see more of that on the way we in the bay area how about this weve got some scattered showers begin to pop up. It places a little the north bay to get him or and you get parts of Sonoma County all the way across here through petaluma maybe couple raindrops in your neighborhood doesnt look like much just couple of drops in the ground but otherwise well see more impressive stuff moving through the system kind of slide through tonight, this is the warm front ubahn kind of moving through but th
Dry right now this is a live look outside looking out over downtown San Francisco in the bay but thats going to be changing pretty soon trump for chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here with the details be prepared he out on the road tomorrow roadways probably going to be slick as the storm system comes by and well slick as they usually are on the first rain of the season bringing up some of the oils from the ground and certainly. It looks like the first significant rain the first fall rain of the season rolling on in now were seeing some partly cloudy skies outside some high clouds coming up above that is from that cold front that will soon bring a few raindrops the bay area see the very latest here with the begin to make its way in the pacific northwest. Some showers showing up there and you see some of those clouds already entering into california and how about that weve got a couple raindrops beginning to show up to just to the north most that is very light, but you almost blue mi