Liviakis saying im grant lotus alameda san mateo and solano counties. Where the latest to join that red tier that means restaurants in the 3 counties can resume Indoor Dining at 25 capacity indoor malls can reopen at 50 capacity, hair and nail salons barbershops can serve clients indoors with modifications museums zoos aquariums, places of worship movie theaters can all operate at 25 capacity. Gyms and Fitness Centers can operate inside at 10 capacity. And School Districts that choose to well have the ability to reopen, but they have to wait another 2 weeks to make sure they dont backtrack. But Contra Costa County in Sonoma County theyre left behind in the purple tier now we want to be kron fours Taylor Force Act he was in Sonoma County tonight to find out. What the issue is there. This is a big disappointment for many people and businesses here in Sonoma County and one supervisor i spoke to says a lot of it has to do with the countys makeup of its population, its elderly facilities an
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Hour but ill give you the good news first and that is our bridges look really good so heading into San Francisco this morning, no delays for you at the bay bridge toll plaza it is picking up more folks are rolling in, but no big problems so were still at an easy 7 minutes off to the fremont street exit were off to 92 and its much busier and our busiest bridge right now we have a crowd, lets itself on the flat section but that is the norm, so youre averaging a very quick 12 minutes to the peninsula. Heres the trouble spot left over from the 4 oclock hour injury crash 80 north at to kowtow so coming out of fremont into union city weve gone from having all lanes blocked to just the right lane. It was a multi vehicle accident and car fire. The right lane is still closed your backup tore thornton but thats really not too bad as i zoom out you can see that as soon as you pass the crash the rest of the trip continuing north will be fine on through union city and hayward well check out some mo
Later on youll notice, daytime highs just a few degrees warmer than yesterdays really not a huge difference will be in the mid to upper 80s, inland 70s by the bay and 60s yet again alongside the coast. Robert all right. Thank you job were checking in on a big trouble spot that we have its actually on the nimitz freeway coming out of union city check this out this a still shot a snapshot. The backup leading up to 8. 80 at to kowtow its an injury accident here and all lanes are blocked chp has issued a special Traffic Alert once again 80 north at to kowtow as you work your way out of union city youre into union city crews are dealing with a multi vehicle accident folks are standing outside of their cars, one of the cars caught fire. Its a big mess and it may not be out of the way soon so you want to avoid that stretch or get on the freeway after the dakota exit so after you pass the crash or after the crash, the rest of your trip will be fine you have that one little slow spot there lead
Temperatures with deny 67 currently pittsburgh our first spot back up to 70 degrees while still hanging on to the 50s for areas like petaluma and berkeley. Later today at 70s and 80s for daytime highs for most of the bay area even out towards the coast. A few 70s. Ive got more on your forecast ahead robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge toll plaza and it looks good. Its finally delay free into San Francisco. We have some slow traffic earlier. Its all gone, so its going to be easy trip of 12 minutes off to fremont state. Im still tracking this overturned big rig in livermore it happened over an hour ago the vasco road on ramp to 5 in the west will be closed until further notice the rate flipped over spilled oil in the road so theyre still working to get this cleaned up you may want to head over to first street or North Livermore avenue and use those ramps instead of because vasco is closed until further notice and just a quick update for capital cord or 20 m