Least. For many people in businesses, this feels like deja vu. The experience back in march will prepare them to handle the latest round of shelter in place. A lot of stress, a lot of worry. Im really stressed out, worried for my staff. Reporter the Restaurant Owner says it is tough to lay off many workers. Most he considers family members. Theyre saying this will be a 30day shutdown. I dont believe that. Thats what they said last time. Reporter he runs two downtown san jose restaurants. Takeout orders make you have roughly 5 of his business. It was during the holidays. Reporter many Business Owners and customers believe some of the restrictions are too extreme. Can we be transparent . Can you tell me and show me the numbers . Show me Contact Tracing data. You have to prove these restaurants are a cause. Christmas is 90 of our business. Yet were limited to the number of hours, the number of people. Hopefully there is some sort of Financial Aid this time around. Hair stylist saw a surge
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
Reporter while San Francisco sounds that message loudly, some counties are suggesting otherwise. Contra costa county held a press conference called testing for turkey advising residents to test for covid19 if they are going to gather with family members. Dr. George rutherford is a professor at u. C. Season fran. Its both. You know, so the doctor is 100 . This is the most Current Public Health advice, which is just dont do it. Stay inside your family, you know, no amount of testing is going to guarantee youll be safe. Reporter that being said. However, if they dont do that and were into harm reduction. Reporter it seems Health Officials across the bay area recognize they can tell you to stay home, but not everyone will. Like Contra Costa County, alameda, santa clara, marin, so solano and sonoma say avoid traveling for the holidays but if you do, get tested before and after and quarantine for 14 days if youre exposed to covid19. Finding a test before thanksgiving can be challenging. San
Time in looking at the Golden Gate Bridge 37 to the tolls a 20 minute drive coming up well have a look at your drive times around the bay area james and darya back to you. Thanks a lot. 9 oclock the time the big breaking news overnight. The fact that us now has set a new record for the most covid related deaths in a single day. Theres a number were talking about more than 3100 people who died from the virus on wednesday and more than ever people in the hospital to now a 100,000 americans. Are hospitalized with coronavirus 20,000 of them are in the icu now this comes as california now setting records as well for numbers of new cases kron 4 Sarah Stinson live for us in San Francisco to talk more about that sarah. Cases are rising rapidly not only in california, but also right here in the bay area so were waiting to hear from governor newsome we expect he could have some kind of announcement with more restrictions within the next 24 hours. But we dont know if hes going to put a stay at ho
Hold tight to those umbrellas if youre going to be outside stormtracker 4 live radar right now were seeing exactly where it is falling mainly in our north zone, so folks in santa rosa Nevado Petaluma getting showered on along one oh one and then also along the peninsula were pacifica get a little bit of this rain so far san Mateo Burlingame and its going to continue to move southeast and get the entire bay area and you can see that line of showers just behind it and that is on the way as well bringing us pockets of heavy rainfall times. Have the timing of system ill track it hour by hour. Let you know about that coming up in just a bit and how windy it is going to get in your neighborhood all and about 10 to 15 minutes from now for now head over to the Traffic Center and an update on the roadways. Yes, looking pretty good on the roads i do have some capital quarter delays. They had some mechanical issues earlier this morning so several trains are still behind schedule, especially 5. 23