San francisco is losing its battle against covid19. Her current case place us on a trajectory to be in the purple tier, potentially as early as sunday. During an online briefing friday, San Francisco Health Director doctor grant colfax said cases of covid19 of nearly quadrupled in over a month from 217 new cases the week of october 12th to 768 new cases this week if our numbers continue to go up at this rate some we could conceivably hundreds of in the hospital. By late december early january according to our model range a purple designation will lead San Francisco to the governors 10 00pm to 05 00am curfew bad news for struggling Restaurant Owners and their employees because that means not accepting reservations after 08 30pm. This will further. Because cash losses people will be trying to decide can we stay open do we close more moving to the purple tier will also mean the closure of indoor museums, Fitness Centers houses of worship. Movie theaters and Outdoor Entertainment centers,
Reported more than 13,000 new covid cases in a single day also setting a new record 91 new deaths were also confirmed. The rapid spread of the virus has for state Health Officials to implement a limited but mandatory stay at home order and overnight curfew for all counties in the most restrictive purple tier thats 40 counties in all as you can see theyre representing more than 94 of californias population, starting tomorrow night all non essential Work Movement and gatherings will be banned in those counties between 10 00pm and 05 00am every day for one month. Here in the bay area that includes Sonoma Napa Solano contra costa alameda and santa clara counties all the purple counties. Were in San Francisco and san mateo or in the slightly less restrictive red tier. Up until now it is not really been clear how the governors new state home order will or will not be in force tonight local Law Enforcement now sharing their plans with us. Our kron fours terisa stasio is live in Castro Valley
Well if you thought it was bad in the spring, its worse now the United States recorded 188,000 new coronavirus cases on thursday setting a new oneday record and an average of 1300 americans are dying each day from this virus. This is the highest death rate since much of the country was on lockdown in the spring. Happy friday and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman we will start this afternoon in San Francisco where changes are coming the citys Health Director has offered a dire warning today again and doctor grant colfax says the city is heading towards the governors purple tier and could soon be under those newly announced a curfew he said this could happen as early as sunday, the city has been experiencing a steady increase in cases since the beginning of october with more than 700 people being diagnosed. So far this week alone. Kron fours dan kerman is following the story for us he will have a full report coming up on kron 4 news at 5 6 ocloc
Well keep you updated on the story in the nbc washington app. 4 31 now. President trump is back in washington this morning after a weekend trip to camp david. Now a top lawyer for his Transition Team has accused a Government Agency of unlawfully turning over thousands of emails to special counsel, Robert Mueller. This is all part of the russia election meddling investigation. President trump says he doesnt plan to fire mueller. No, im not. What else . What are you, surprised . President trump cannot technically fire mueller. He could order for his dismissal. The only person who could fire mueller would be depply u. S. Attorney general rob rosenstein. He just told the iteam that hes satisfied with the special counsels work. Republican senator john mccain is home in arizona right now. The 81yearold was recently treated for a viral infection at the National Cancer institute in bethesda. Doctors say he is responding positively to his treatments for brain cancer. Senator mccains daughter me
Developing this morning, a major power outage brought the worlds Busiest Airport to a standstill. You can literally hear the cheers the moments the lights came back on at atlantas Hartsfield Jackson airport. The power outage came at the start of the busy travel season. Passengers were stuck in the dark for 11 hours. One person described it as pandemonium. You can hear it there. People literally had to yell to find each other because they couldnt see. Georgia power says a fire in an underground electrical facility may have caused the outage. Over the next few days, its likely to impact your Holiday Travel plans no matter where youre flying. Justin finch is live with the number of delays were seeing this morning. Hey, justin . Reporter hey there, good morning. [ inaudible ] reporter very slow moving line. I can tell you as well this morning, i have been watching the board as well. We have flights in from atlanta due to arrive. The first at 9 00 a. M. And a couple others at 10 00 a. M. In