Deputy Campaign Manager announced two key members of the Pandemic Task force. For example launch the Coronavirus Task force. Tomorrow. Going to be led by a professor at ucsf. And the former Surgeon General of the united states. Both have been key medical advisers to bd throughout the pandemic. Theyll be joined by a team of top doctors from across lt country to form the task force. The coronavirus rampaging across the country. Were not in a good place. With 126,000 cases. Yesterday. Approaching were on a path for 2,000 deaths a day. Epidemiology expert says the task force will have three goals. Coordinate the cunning edge medical science. Having a government experience to get things done as quickly az possible and get the public to buy into the plan. A difficult challenge especially at the Trump White House doesnt cooperate. Everybody has to get on the same page. If we are hearing Different Things from different groups it will confuse everyone. Create more and were not going to on janua
Well if you thought it was bad in the spring, its worse now the United States recorded 188,000 new coronavirus cases on thursday setting a new oneday record and an average of 1300 americans are dying each day from this virus. This is the highest death rate since much of the country was on lockdown in the spring. Happy friday and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman we will start this afternoon in San Francisco where changes are coming the citys Health Director has offered a dire warning today again and doctor grant colfax says the city is heading towards the governors purple tier and could soon be under those newly announced a curfew he said this could happen as early as sunday, the city has been experiencing a steady increase in cases since the beginning of october with more than 700 people being diagnosed. So far this week alone. Kron fours dan kerman is following the story for us he will have a full report coming up on kron 4 news at 5 6 ocloc
Very latest information good afternoon, theresa. Were out here at the intersection of high street and foot hill im joined with the opd spokesperson with the Oakland Police department tell us and bring us up to date right now as far as what you guys are doing to try and get this hostage or that to get the man out. What we can share with you is the starting 1115 this morning. So weve been out here since 1115, 1600 block of high street. What we do know is that we had an armed barricaded, individual who had taken hostage from this particular business where the incident is occurring. In a lot about the last half an hour the hostage was safely released unharmed. Our Tactical Negotiations Team continues communication as communication is on and off. But this has the release of the hostage and thats really the goal is the safe release of the hostage in a safe surrender. Of the armed gunman that is our primary focus im going to share with you where we are right now our tactical Team Continues th
Any that might be there. Well bring updates when we learn more. Back to the other fire, you can see how close it came to homes as firefighters worked hard to get the fire under control and take a look at this video just how intense the flames were at times. That fire was reported just before noon at the South San Francisco hillside sign. Cornell bernard joins us live with the very latest. Cornell . Reporter dion, so many neighbors breathing a huge sigh of relief that fire got way too close to homes, burning up to a few backdoors. Thats where it happened burning across the famous sign hill. Luckily, firefighters stopped it just in time. It took off in seconds flat. Reporter neighbors living near sign hill in San Francisco had moments to react. A fastmoving fivealarm grass fire took off through trees. I ran down to the end because this hill is full of trees and brush and being city owned and i was concerned there would be fire here and sure enough, there was. Reporter neighbors on ridge
Thank you for joining us. This map highlights where people are likely to be affected by the Public Safety power shut off. In total 22,000 local pg e customers could lose power. The shut offs are starting now in the north bay and three counties, napa, sonoma. It a fresh round for residents who lived through fires, smoke and other Power Outages. Lets go to abc 7 news Cornell Bernard live in st. Helena. Reporter dan and ama, if folks havent been through enough, thousands could lose power again. Its in the name of safety but the timing is really tough. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, i have more flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what napa needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible pg e shut off hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could do a refrigerator, couple lights. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and not happy about it. There is a general sense of disi