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
Were going to take sharp turn and were going to have a lot colder and its going to be wet as we get into tomorrow, im tracking a storm system that is coming out of the Pacific Northwest going to be bringing us. Lots of wind lots of rain and colder temperatures all have all those details. Coming up in my next full head and ill have that about 10 to 15 minutes for now though lets hit the roads, the dry roads for today and say good morning to robin good morning. Rebecca, its always good to have you here in the studio with us lets head over to the bay bridge were checking the drive into San Francisco. Its packed its not Getting Better at least not right now nothing in the way to cause us and traffic is this. The typical crowd here rolling into San Francisco. So expect a backup that spills through the bottom of the maze. Were averaging 19 minutes which is crowded slow not so bad in the out for you west of Treasure Island as well were checking in on the e sure thats one of your approach is 2
Spots this morning, im glad you noted that to james because i also saw a couple of spots on the roadways. I was making my way in visibility was fine for all of us though some of these low clouds this morning definitely resulting in some of those misty views that you are seeing. But we are actually looking at some pretty calm conditions overall at least compared to where we were last week and remember those showers that we were having theres your low clouds sitting right over San Francisco now some of those are pushing right into the east bay hills and in those areas, especially as we are really running into those mysterious also an upper elevations on the peninsula. Weve had some spots out there roadways looks like it rain last night thats a lot of that mist and drizzle that youre seeing closer to the now visibility as you can see on fog cast it saying out just fine and skies low clouds that were seeing this morning well eventually clear by 10 00am to 11 00am weve got sunshine returnin
Stuff on roadways at least the bay bridge not look at the worst ive seen it there right, yeah, theres a little bit of a line a little bit of a wait here at the pay gates job but this is good its actually. This year than yesterday okay yesterday was veterans day thursday heavy so friday light go with that i like that thursday heavy here at the bay bridge toll plaza, the line here is filling just the over crossing so filling in as i said yesterday was veterans day folks took the day off we didnt have any delays or backups at the toll plaza and now its back to business as usual right so 12 minutes and growing to make it into San Francisco but very quiet and trouble free here across the upper deck were checking in on the drive times and they look good, i dont have any hot spots are problems to report no problems for 5. 80 livermore to dublin 6. 80 looks good dublin to fremont the recovering from a crash in san leandro south 8. 80 to 38 and then rolling along to 37 westbound from 8. 80 over
With us on election day weve got the white house behind us and in front of us. The decision on this election day when millions of americans have already made up their minds. Yeah, weve got lots to talk about this morning lot of questions too about whats going to happen as the ballots. Our county tonight and into the days that follows and joining us to discuss more about that is Washington Post political reporter philip above phillip. Thank you so much for joining us today. So i read your article counting votes isnt cheating. It was a really nice breakdown of the entire process, what motivated you to write this in the first place. One of these were hearing particular from President Trump and his allies is this that by allowing both county and go on past today and wednesday, potentially isnt for week or so that theyre somehow something nefarious or or or or wrong about that when in fact it simply is the case that votes always take allow Council Members were able predict whos going to win