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
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
50s for current temperatures alameda you are only spot on the map along with San Francisco holding on to those low 50s elsewhere, it is down into the 40s and thats a whole lot cooler than yesterday at this time. Talk of the rest of your day in your forecast still to come over to you robin all right, lets check in on the traffic i keep saying its so much better than yesterday. We had the rain the wet roads and all the overturned crashes out there this morning dealing with the fog as you said a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza the trip into San Francisco looks good right now i dont see any problems here so come on in for its 7 minutes off to the fremont street exit a live look at 92 thats your trip across the san mateo bridge and its already busier now compared to the 4 oclock hour. So its really picking up as folks are heading off to the peninsula 12 minutes and growing to make it over to one o one at a live look at the Richmond Sandra fell no problems here leading up to the pay g
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
November alone about one quarter of all us cases since the pandemic began. More than 256,000 people have awesome that died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in the bay area. Local Health Departments now reporting 185 new cases of covid19. Nearly 139,000 cases have been reported in 1900 deaths have been recorded here in the bay area since the start of the pandemic california seeing 14,000 new cases today. The states Positivity Rate over the past 2 weeks has now jumped to more than 5 . With cases skyrocketing all across america tonight, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Now strongly warning folks not to travel for the holidays. The cdc says the safest way to celebrate thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people that you live with yet the tsa says friday and saturday. Where the busiest day since the pandemic brought air travel to a near halt in march and wednesday and sunday are expected to be the busiest travel days of t