From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
Get on roadways the east bay actually pretty clear as is the north bay and no coincidence that these are also your cooler spots livermore and dublin at 3735 in the meantime san jose you have increased marine layer and thats more mild temperatures that 45 napa at 34 right now while santa rosa, the cool spot at 32 degrees. So quite the range of temperatures depending on where youre at i will be talking about yet another sunny day, no big surprise there and your afternoon i am talking to robin right now about some traffic though, and it does look like even though its only 05 00am weve got an issue already thats right. We do out in the brentwood area along vasco road which is not heavily traveled during this time of morning john. But it is a major hot spot because we a fatality now just confirmed by chp. So vasco road is closed between highway 4 and walnut to investigate this fatal accident was a headon collision. So we dont know how long its going to take to clear but if you normally use
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Under investigation. You can see that muni bus right there as well its not going anywhere so reportedly even though we dont see any significant damage to the muni bus it is somehow some way related to this accident perhaps the driver was a witness to all of this and thats why that muni buses still park eric as far as this scene here. We dont know when it will be cleared, but we do know when this. Happened 2 and a half hours ago, dozens of Police Officers obviously when it involves one of their own they rushed to help out. Reportedly there were a couple of dozen Police Officers on the scene but they have left here for the most part. Theyre waiting im sure for detectives to come here do measurements once the sun comes up then and only then well they clear the scene right now i dont see any ambulances i dont see anything urgent as far as needing help for any pedestrians or anybody inside the house and no tow trucks are on the scene yet so that tells me its going to be quite some time haig
Driver. According to police officers, more importantly was a witness to the scene so they did talk to that driver and that muni bus about 2 minutes ago just left here as far as this intersection it looks like now that the tow trucis here. Its kind of take a little bit longer because they have obviously remove the suv and then that blue honda but could wrap up at around 10 oclock or so back to you all right, thanks a lot. Well. 9 oh one is the time, lets also find out about the weather too because weve seen fog blanketing the entire bay area this morning. How long is it going to be sticking around john it looks like weve got at least another hour of it for most areas guys between 10 11am i think is thats when most of the clearing is about to occur so still late impact for those of our those of you who may be or later commuters getting out there into this gray mess that weve got going on you can see from berkeley here. There is definite blanket of fog in the distance, but there is some c