Im Justine Waltman in 4 grant tonight and im Vicki Liviakis after moving from the orange here to the red tier Contra Costa County put in new covid19 restrictions today but the county. Is edging towards the purple tier and now it is announcing even stricter rollbacks including the end of Indoor Dining room kron fours dan kerman is live for us tonight in walnut creek he has the latest details good evening. Dan. Good evening just things are just moving in the wrong direction here in Contra Costa County we talked to the Health Officer on tuesday and even since tuesday things have gotten worse now at 50 hospitalizations still the case rate is now in the purple tier as you mentioned, and as a result theyve got to do something to try to reverse this trend before it gets completely out of control. If we have become even more concerned about the trend. Contra costa county Health Officer doctor Chris Farnitano is sounding the alarm. The countys covid case rate has surged to put the county in the most restrictive purple tier and hospitalizations which were at 17 back in september have now grown to 50 in hopes of stopping the increase come tuesday Indoor Dining will be shut down completely in the county. So well Indoor Fitness Centers and gyms and Concession Stands at movie theaters. We chose these activities because of the risks involved. For instance, diners and restaurants remove their masks to eat or has to make movie patrons when stacking on food from Concession Stands. On masks are one of the most effective prevention tools, heavy breathing due to exercise even with a mask in transmitted virus particles very long of the health and safety of our guests and our staff for the most important things than death. The Health Authority still we need to close well it is what it is john walls with father the bistro and wine bar in walnut creek. Says hes not surprised by the decision given whats happened in San Francisco chicago in other jurisdictions for his restaurant, the Indoor Dining shutdown will have less impact since the bulk of the seating is outdoors however unlike some restaurants, he has no ability to 10th those outdoor seats which presents a concern now that winter is approaching when its rainy. No one wants to be outside if its raining its its its a you know a drenching downpour, obviously no one will be served at the table and well just have to go back to what we did over the summer with the take out this mess. And when its just takeout and delivery that is a huge chunk of revenue that goes away. Now county officials are hoping these new restrictions which go into effect tuesday will make a difference if they do not then the state will officially put Contra Costa County into the purple tier one week from tuesday thats the tuesday before thanksgiving and that means even more restrictions. Live in walnut creek dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you so much dan and theres a very similar scenario playing out in the south bay tonight more grim numbers reported there today as our kron fours rob fladeboe reports now officials slamming the door on many indoor activities. All in an attempt to bring the latest surge in cases under control. Today i am here unfortunately to more sobering news. Santa clara county public Health Officer doctor sara cody on friday, raising the alarm about the sudden rapid surge in covid19 cases. Another 362 new cases announced today following the 352 reported last sunday. Hospitalizations up 10 with 110 people now receiving care the rolling sevenday average approaching numbers not seen since july. And what i want you to know is how steep that curve is it goes straight up. So after a slow drift up. In the month of october. Around november, 3rd or 4th. It started to head straight up in response to the rising numbers Indoor Dining will cease effective next tuesday. In anticipation of the county being rolled back to the red tier under the states reopening framework other restrictions will be imposed as wells as county counsel James WilliamsFitness Centers will be at a capacity limit of 10 . Wineries can be outdoors only outdoor bars will be closed. Bowling alleys in Indoor Family Entertainment Centers closed many of the new cases are people in the 18 to 34 age range hot spots include east, san jose and gilroy although other communities are now seeing spikes as well. As the holidays approach officials urge people not to eat or gather indoors with anyone outside their own households that every Single Person has to think really carefully about what they do. And whether they are risking getting the virus or spreading the virus so it means every Single Person tested really dig and maintain their patients for a little bit longer. In san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Lets go now to the north bay because marine county is following suit and tightening its reopening restrictions, a new health order will also go into effect there. Coming up on tuesday november 17th all indoor activities, including Indoor Dining movie theaters and food courts must close additionally retail malls must produce capacity to 50 places of worship also reduced capacity to 25 or 100 people whichever is fewer gyms and Fitness Centers, they have to reduce capacity to just 10 Family Entertainment centers can operate outdoors. Only we have on those changes. In Warren County on our website thats at kron 4 dot com. In just 5 hours from now, San Francisco restaurants can no longer offer Indoor Dining, San Francisco is currently in the yellow are minimal tear of reopening and Health Officials say they made the decision because they want to keep the county from going back into the more moderate here the city and county has now paused other reopening activities such as limiting capacity and gyms and movie theaters. And you can stay connected 24 7 and all the updated Health Orders by downloading the kron 4 mobile app and enabling push notifications as well as are streaming news service kronon both apps are free in the app store right now. California is encouraging a 14 day quarantine for travelers in considering even more restrictions within the state is covid19 numbers rise our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains the latest warning from the states Top Health Official. For the entirety of the pandemic state leaders have waved off a quarantine for travelers up until now the states Top Health Official clarifying this is only a recommendation. It is an up and it is a restriction this is an advisory as of friday california is asking all travelers coming into the state to selfisolate for 14 days, the advisory aims to discourage holiday travel. It does not was concerned for any specific states regions or countries, oregon and washington announced a similar move if theres any indication that the travel advisory needs to be strengthened and we will consider that in the days and weeks to come what could be strengthened the states restrictions on the economy doctor galley made it clear california will not return to a full statewide stayathome order for now but more rules to the states reopening tier system could be coming including for the most restrictive tier purple widespread Health Leaders are also considering having counties fall back in tears faster today really have counties move back just one period of time. That may not be appropriate to get the kind of response that we need to blunt that rate of rise. Now on that travel advisory a mandatory quarantine for travelers would likely have to be done by governors executive order and as weve been reporting a Centre County judge put a limit on the power governor Gavin Newsome can use during this pandemic but state officials would not say whether that had anything to do with this only being a recommendation. Reporting in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news and coming up at 06 30pm tonight, well hear from travelers at sfo today on how they feel. About having to stay close to home this holiday season. Meanwhile, lets take a look at coronavirus cases here in the state. We have had more than 10,000 confirmed cases since yesterday and sadly more than 18,000 people have died from the virus. In california. This is according to Johns Hopkins university. Governor Gavin Newsome is apologizing for attending a Birthday Dinner for a friend in napa county. The governor for months has been asking everyone in the state to stay home. And avoid social gatherings. He reportedly attended the dinner to celebrate the 50th birthday of a longtime friend and political adviser jason kinney the outdoor dinner was at the French Laundry in yountville and reportedly brought together 12 people including the governor and his wife. Newsom now says he should have modeled better behavior and now to our 4 zone forecast showers are beginning to move a little bit closer to the south bay right now, yeah kron fours chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow doing the rain dance gosh, i felt like i was given birth to them was nervous all morning long wait for the raindrops to come in here we go finally get the rain today and the showers showing up especially in the afternoon we continue to see some raindrops. Outside there right now so finally getting that rain making return to California Snow up in the Sierra Nevada were not done with the storm just yet it is moving mainly south now its moved out of the north bay and you can see that you see the showers. Located further in the south bay along the peninsula still picking up some rain drops right now most of us is very rain were talking heavy drizzle light showers said just some very damp conditions along the coastal areas also in the Santa Cruz Mountains continuing to see a few scattered light showers there as well and in the san jose, the rain has picked up certainly for the commute that first rain of the season makes a pretty treacherous out there on the road bringing up some of the oils off the surface there in fremont youre getting some light rain say with hayward as look toward the east bay kind of scattered showers now as you make when the san Ramon Livermore youre drying out just a little bit conquered looking mostly dry and the north bay drying out around the bay area now the winds have been kind of kicking up once this cold front is moving through and you can see that winds right now to 20 miles an hour still at Stinson Beach so seeing some blustery winds 22 at san carlos the airport there. So its going to be a little windy through the evening hours and a bit on the wet side but then looks like things are going to begin to shift gears looks like High Pressure is going to start to take over for the weekend and we should begin to dry out there right now it is very damp out toward sfo. Rain totals it has been wet not a huge storm, but never thought it was going to be still we had 1900s in mill Valley Timber on at 1607 inch of rain for hundreds and santa rosa oakland. A couple hundreds there just a drop in the bucket in San Francisco in 700s in Danville Mount am in the north bay, how about this so i just checked that out almost an inch of rain from the storm guys back to you thank you lawrence from cleaning to checking for working sinks what will it take to get kids back in school in San Francisco, the district has a huge task in front of them. Going to be done by the target opening date in january and a new study is shining some light on why some patients develop severe cases of covid19 and President Trump spoke today for the first time in more than a week what he said about the timing of Coronavirus Vaccine and if hes ready. Can see the election. garage door opening it is my fathers love. It is his passion it is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. With liftmaster® powered by myq®, know whats happening in your garage from anywhere. You can take a day off fromy worrying about your packages. Ohhh yeahhh just connect your myq® app to key. Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. The pharmaceutical giant pfizer announced that its Covid Vaccine is reaching 90 effectiveness and Health Experts have a pretty good feeling about it. The Pfizer Vaccine may soon be ready for approval by the fda after approval pfizer will shift toward manufacturing and distributing the vaccine but one major distribution challenge. The vaccine needs to be stored at 94 degrees below 0. And not every hospital has required equipment. You have to understand verified you got the good side to take care of the vaccine to make sure that is going to still be efficacious when youre administering it to be out to the general public and to your patients. Yeah, the doctor also says that the handling and distribution of this vaccine under these requirements will need cooperation from state and federal agencies pfizer estimates its going to produce 50 million doses this year. A vaccine was the focus of President Trumps remarks from the white house rose garden today, this was the first time in 8 days that he addressed the nation are Catherine Heenan host of inside bay area politics is here with more catherine yeah hes been line pretty low. I mean aside from social media. This was the first time President Trump has made any Public Comments since joe biden was declared the winner of the president ial race. The president did not take questions his focus and update on the vaccine and touting the economy. With the vaccine. It will still see numbers going down. Within a matter of months said no go down very rapidly as we continue to combat the virus or economy is rebounding far beyond any expectations. I see the stock markets up almost 400 points today again. Its ready to break the alltime record jobs records are incredible the job numbers are incredible in the last 6 months weve created over 13 million jobs and slash the unemployment rate. More than half. Last quarter we witness the fastest Economic Growth ever recorded in the history of our country 33. 1 . Its a number that is more than double our highest that was in 1952. The president meantime getting a lot more pressure from former Public Officials to allow joe biden to get access to daily Intelligence Briefings also known as the pdb the president ial daily brief. Our political analyst David Mckeown explains why trumps refusal to do this so far. Its a big deal. And these threats change its not just nation to nation. Its not the russians or the North Koreans are the iranians its Cyber Threats from nonstate actors its the activity of nonstate actors like terror groups and the pdb has also had a tradition by sitting president s to let the incoming president have access to that and intelligence professionals military professionals and Serious National Security experts understand the validity. The importance and really the seriousness with which the incoming president regardless of party or how you feel about them personally needs access to the pdb that pressure is going to continue to grow the next couple of days and shortly here in there has to be point where Vice President. The by former Vice President the president elect joe biden needs access to the pdb that really is going to face a growing amount of pressure on the president and his team. Im a q and says that the president did see more subdued today he noted that. The president seemed to come a little bit closer to acknowledging that the next administration might not be his. Vicki in just fine. Thank you. Catherine mann, lets talk about the weather right now our 4 zone forecast this friday evening is gaffes friday, the 13th i forgot about that. Yeah friday, the 13th them weve got the rain out there right now now. Looks like the weekend really get lucky its looking nice says were going to see clouds kind of par putt out there now we are still seeing some showers around the bay area in fact that is going to continue to taper off moving into the south bay and for the for the south this front just kind of falling apart as it moves in the monterey bay there can see a couple raindrops to out there slick out there on the road certainly not a huge storm but enough to get things a little bit wet certainly excited to get the rate back. Finally to start out the rain season see the showers moving up the pacific northwest. We kind of cuts the southern edge of that cold front and that was just enough to bring us the light rainfall out there we continue to see those raindrops moving through starting in the north bay today and then spreading to the south kind of a ragtag front and a broken apart as it moves on by still the raindrops some light showers in the San Francisco also up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, san jose you continue to see some light rain so that moving to milpitas and also fremont as well and also some scattered showers in parts of the east bay now and that will be tapering off here but the high country theyre theyre hanging on to a lot of snow in fact if youre headed up there be prepared their chain up if youre going to the high country and a lot of snow tonight maybe as much as 6 maybe 9 inches across the larger peaks. All right were going to see gusty Winds Continuing up there as well the advisories for that snow continuing right through about 10 oclock tonight. And then were going to settle down for the weekend it looks like a nice weekend ahead, the sunshine going to return temperatures warming up almost 70 degrees by monday. But then as we get into next tuesday. It all changes again weve got another cold front coming maybe a little more substantial storm that could bring rain on and off i think maybe the better part of next week we have able to say that since forever. Makes you have to yeah, then rest of us thanks like ok. Sheriffs deputies in Santa Clara County arrested a woman who admitted that she was lying about an attack. 74 yearold janice carlstrom. Confessed to fabricating the assault last year according to detectives carlstrom was found bound and gagged in a burning Office Building in saratoga. However detectives say that she staged the crime in order to come up. Cover up 580,000 worth of fraud. Detectives say the entire investigation took them a full year in order to complete. To the east bay now Concord Police have arrested a suspect accused of stealing catalytic converters from a car happened about 1 oclock this morning. A resident on san miguel road notice somebody under his neighbors car cutting off of part of it from the vehicle. The Resident Called Police and gave them a description of the car that the suspect was driving. Officers were able to locate the suspect in the area and found the catalytic converter and some burglary tools. The driver and the passenger were arrested for the theft and some outstanding warrant. With coronavirus cases rising across our state the rules like officials. What you dont know if youre headed up there. And after the break cleanup time how San Francisco schools are getting ready to welcome back a specific group of students next year. Ernest hemingway wrote the old man and the sea at 52 Satchel Paige was still dominating batters at 59. Celia cruz was still winning grammys at 77 john wheeler illuminated our ideas of the universe at 70 and roger crouch was 56 when he first went into space your best is yet to come the San FranciscoUnified School District says students will not be able to return to class until late january at the earliest and even that timeline could change kron fours Charles Clifford has the latest details. The San FranciscoUnified School District has proposed letting younger kids first grade and under and also kids with special needs return to the classroom, starting on january 25th now at this point its unclear when older students may be able to return the x factor in all of this is what is happening with coronavirus is from if the number of cases here in San Francisco continues to increase those plans could change but the district is moving forward right now with its proposed timeline. Across San Francisco, the San FranciscoUnified School District is doing a deep cleaning inside and out of its 120 schools, theyre making upgrades to the buildings including. Adding social distancing markers and improving the ventilation theyre also working with school staff to come up with a plan for when the kids come back that includes making sure that kids can social distance and that theyre in pods are groups that dont mingle with other groups its a big job and theres a lot of work left to do. The School District acknowledges that everyone parents students and teachers, one return to the classroom, but they want to make sure that its safe. We understand none of is ideal and so we were with you as family members who are really desperate to find a way to help your child be in person with learning and connecting with other peers and were definitely focused on that while were also making sure that we can continue to keep everybody safe now you might be wondering why they were cleaning the playgrounds when there are no kids at the schools and there are 2 reasons one they would have a clean slate for when the kids come back. And many of the neighbors have been using those playgrounds as recreation space during the pandemic and the School District wants to make sure that that space is clean. But for now in San FranciscoCharles Clifford kron 4 news. Up next the latest decision for the Golden Gate Bridge district plans to deal with financial crisis. 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