City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Morning shows you just how Crystal Clear those conditions are we do have an marine layer, but hasnt resulted in the fog blocking out the view so were thankful for that winds definitely come again and i would say were probably most thankful for that actually because after windy start to the week in the high fire danger that brought us. Todays calmer conditions much like yesterday will bring favorable weather for stepping outside now air quality isnt quite as Crystal Clear as its been we do have good areas towards the coast. But also some moderate spots returning for the north bay and portions of napa moran and even sonoma counties to so do watch that air quality is definitely not as bad as we had seen in previous days. But it is an ideal today either 40s and 50s for your current temperatures not quite as chilly as yesterday for most areas, were in the low 40s right now for petaluma and napa each at 41 degrees while saint helene and nevado each sitting at 45 degrees to kick off the morni
Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see a
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William