One of many views this morning that are showing you just how nice its looking out there. And a look at wind speeds across the bay area is also showing you that we are off to a calm start and actually will be off to a pretty calm finish to this is 04 00pm youre seeing right beside me and that some calm winds across the bay temperatures have been a little chillier than weve got used to them lately we are looking at mostly 40s and 50s but focus on some of those north bay areas and we do have 30s right now in petaluma nevado santa rosa, as well as fairfield checking in at a cool 37 degrees right now so maybe that extra layer will do you a little bit good as you step outside this wednesday. Rob all right. Thank you john checking in on the traffic pretty busy on some of our bridges if you need to get into San Francisco. We have a full house at the bay bridge toll plaza. Theres your line yes, its long at the back the on west grand 12 minutes and growing into San Francisco. But we dont have an
Liviakis saying im grant lotus alameda san mateo and solano counties. Where the latest to join that red tier that means restaurants in the 3 counties can resume Indoor Dining at 25 capacity indoor malls can reopen at 50 capacity, hair and nail salons barbershops can serve clients indoors with modifications museums zoos aquariums, places of worship movie theaters can all operate at 25 capacity. Gyms and Fitness Centers can operate inside at 10 capacity. And School Districts that choose to well have the ability to reopen, but they have to wait another 2 weeks to make sure they dont backtrack. But Contra Costa County in Sonoma County theyre left behind in the purple tier now we want to be kron fours Taylor Force Act he was in Sonoma County tonight to find out. What the issue is there. This is a big disappointment for many people and businesses here in Sonoma County and one supervisor i spoke to says a lot of it has to do with the countys makeup of its population, its elderly facilities an
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
A devastating impact on Indigenous People well beyond the immediate threat to their health. By wayne hay reporting from new zealand where there is excitement about the return of professional rugby but well tell you why the reserve real concern about the future of the sport here. Thank you very much for joining us china is accusing the United States of avoiding responsibility and shifting the blame for mishandling the Coronavirus Crisis after President Trump threatened to permanently hold funding to the World Health Organization that means the w. H. O. Would lose its largest single contributor the us gave 400000000 dollars last year. The threat in a letter to the head of the w. H. O. Which he then posted on twitter in its he accused the w. H. O. Of mistakes and not action he wrote it is clear the repeated missteps by you enjoy organisation in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world he also accuse officials of backing china right saying the only way forward fo
Takes another town held by the world before after. Strained a relationship the Syrian Government seizes the assets of president Bashar Al Assads cousin and billionaire businessman. And sport professional rugby players in new zealand are back on the training failed we report on the countrys efforts to secure its National Sports financial future. So that me United States is facing a growing backlash everetts threat to permanently halt funding to the w. H. O. And that is after president told trump said the organizations missteps have come out and extract costs. And i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time. And again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicely but theyre a puppet of china well russia has become the latest global power to condemn threats its Deputy Foreign minister has been quoted as saying that it is against breaking the w. H. O. For another members p