pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 i m justine waldman it was during a press conference today that mayor london breed announced covid-19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50%. instead will remain at 25% capacity. kron four s dan kerman is live for us now in san francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. dan. good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. it s just not expanding in san francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. but they re putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with san francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on f
about it thank you for joining us at 6 o clock everybody i m grant lotus and i m vicki liviakis this means in person instruction will begin the week of november 9th if safety plans are in place. but despite this okay don t look for these schools to be opening their doors any time soon curran four s dan kerman live tonight in berkeley to explain. well again no criticism to any one group, but it sure doesn t seem like anything is easy these days. nothing is easy at all and as you mentioned everybody wants to get back to the classroom teachers want to get back administrators want to get back students want to get back but they want to do it right so everybody is safe and that is what s going to take a lot of extra time. public health officials have given high schools and middle schools across alameda county. the okay to open their doors for in person learning as early as november 9th. but first they will need to submit and get approval of a safety plan what we do is we re look
side on happy even angry he got to figure kron four s maureen kelly found barricades going up in the city as business owners say they re worried some of this anger could turned to destruction morning. that s right i m here on market street right now at new montgomery and behind me you can see a long line of businesses here. their doors and windows covered up with plywood. now this is all in case, there s trouble on election night. no matter which side wins or loses and this is not the only place i saw precautionary plywood being put up. the sounds of hammers and saws could be heard in many spots in downtown san francisco as construction workers and security guards put up sheets of plywood over a plate glass windows and doors this some barricades protecting the glass from potential riots that they think that might elections. disease this plan to gas a pretty expensive lot to put it is to build into destructive behavior. you don t really know who s going to win, but people a
financial issues brought on by the pandemic project leaders now have to make some big adjustment kron four s taylor force act he has more from market street. after a decade of planning and collaboration. the bitter market street project launched its plans to transform the city s busiest transit corridor and now less than a year later. those plans to make marquetry more walkable and bike friendly are changing. it s in an effort to cut costs during the pandemic and address an increase in bicyclists, this plan needs to make market streets safer. for people who walk by can take transit. the new design i think for a lot of is questionable as to whether it does that well enough for the cost some of those changes compared here instead of a sidewalk level dedicated bikeway seeing green on the left 2020 plans on the right could bicyclists back on a slightly larger roadway shared with other vehicles disappointing and several certainly from the perspective of people who buy on market
bit more of that today as we do see return of moderate conditions for air quality for most of the bay area, not enough to stay inside, but just enough that we re not those crystal clear skies we had once been saying 40 s and 50 s for most of the bay, although it s another chilly one for the north bay take a look at fairfield the votto petaluma and santa rosa this morning, each falling into the upper 30 s. santa rosa right now you re the cool spot at 38 degrees. robin all right, thank you for the update john now let s update your morning commute because it s picking up out there, especially on 92 are checking a trip across the san mateo bridge there it is and you see it s crawling right that s a westbound traffic right there leaving hayward and it s been stopping go since the 4 o clock hour and only heavier now so we re at 40 minutes and growing which is still a very quick trip off to the peninsula here the bay bridge toll plaza 80 west, no delays at all so come on and we re