City officials are working to make that happen. Plus commitment to change the sierra club saying sorry for its white supremacist history, particularly that of its founder john new york. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 8 im Justine Waldman in for pam moore tonight and im ken wayne thanks for joining us at 8. Our top story tonight, california has surpassed new york for the most confirmed covid19 cases in the country. There are now more than 415,000 cases in our state thats after a singleday record of 12,807 new cases yesterday. According to Johns Hopkins University Data that total is roughly 6,000 more cases than in new york which had the most cases in the country before now, but new yorks death toll is still 4 times that here of california for comparison california has about 40 million residents just shy of 40 million 1 new york has about half that amount. Governor Gavin Newsome announcing the state is extending its mask deal with the chines
Justice for jayce. Jace young hadnt even started the first grade yet. Hello again everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener working from home tonight. Family, friends and elected leaders gathered in san Franciscos Bayview district tonight calling for answers and solutions. Ktvus amber lee is at San Francisco police headquarters. Reporter San Francisco police said they are investigating leads and interviewing witnesses. At tonights vigil there was a large turnout to support the family. We ask that you look down on his mother. Reporter the vigil for 6 year old narcan opened with a prayer from his family. His father pleaded for help. Justice for jace and this family. Reporter he was less than a mile from his home, watching fireworks at a Friends Birthday Party when he was shot in the chest. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died. Pain and anger and frustration, knowing that my family is grieving in the loss of jace. Reporter jace turned six just four months ago. Is family s
Coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. New this morning, a fast spreading fire in the foothills just east of concord has now been contained. It broke off near highway 4 and fire crews from cal fire and contra costa brought the fire under control despite the windy conditions. It was a real challenge. The cause of this fire is still under investigation. Now to the governors new coronavirus crackdown. Dine in restaurants and bars are now closed for three weeks in 19 counties including contra costa, santa clara and solano counties. But those arent the only bay area counties seeing some restrictions. Next up, beaches. Kpix 5s kiet do joins us live from pacifica this morning where today is your last chance to catch some sun and some surf before the Holiday Weekend. Reporter yeah, better get on it. So yesterday the governor announced the closure of the parking lots of the state beaches. Not the beaches themselves, but the parking lots. Well, then the mayor of pacifica then took it a step fu
Year, cooler compared to yesterday. 83 san jose and 72 oakland and 66 for San Francisco. Ville the all important july 4th Holiday Weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. Right now a suspect is on the run in hayward and an officer injured after an Early Morning incident. The chp says one of their officers approached a driver sleeping in a parked stolen car around 2 30 this morning. Near tarman avenue and jackson street. When the driver woke up, the chp says they sped off nearly ramming an officer. That officer did fire a shot at the stolen car. No one was hit. Officers had put down spike strips to stop the driver and in all the chaos one of the spike strips flew up hitting and injuring an officer. Now officers didnt pursue the suspect were told. This morning the june Unemployment Rate falling to 11. 1 . The u. S. Added 4. 8 million jobs in the month of june. Thats much more than the expected 3 million that many economists thought we were going to be getting. The nation
This is kpix 5 news. We are looking live from our exclusive sales tower camera as the first big storm of the year moving in this morning. It is thursday, january 16. I am michelle. Heavy rain and strong winds are expected across the bay area. Down trees and power lines along with flooding and mudslides are also possible. Marylee and jonathan are giving us the latest conditions all morning long as you prepare for the morning commute but lets begin with mary in the weather center. We are looking at that rain and the wind that will kick up lets get to the doppler and in the north bay, zooming in for you, you can see heavy rain is stretching from windsor, santa rosa, down 101, and along the coast from data bay and dillon beach. It is a breezy to windy start. We will see the winds kick up throughout the morning. We are looking at 16 here. It is 15 in fremont and 18 in hayward. And right now, were going to continue to see the winds increase and the heaviest rain, the timing as it pushes thro