Now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im anoushah roasta. And im terry mcsweeney. Doctors say cases continue to climb at an alarming rate. Take a look at this. These are the new cases reported today in the bay area. Santa clara county adding 335 cases. Alameda, San Francisco, sonoma countys all adding more than 100 cases. These new cases are pargts of the growing trend across the country. Tonight the United States has more than 11 million covid19 cases. As we mentioned, many bay area counties are tightening restrictions. Right now indoor operations in San Francisco are scaled back. Starting tuesday, marin, contra costa, santa clara counties, theyre all going to do the same. Some restrictions in Contra Costa County are being tightened even further, especially when it comes to indoor gyms. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is in walnut creek where one gym owner plans on fighting the new rule. Reporter for the last several weeks, a night at the gym for walnut week resident maureen kosta h
Of the legal challenges under way to help keep the president in the white house. And pointed out unproven allegations that poll watchers in states like pennsylvania were denied observance of the vote count in some communities we want an honest accurate lawful counts. We want maximum sunlight. We want maximum transparency. We want every legal vote to be counted. And we want every illegal votes to be discarded despite President Trumps refusal to concede president elect joe biden is moving forward ready to take office in january when he and Vice President elect Kamala Harris are officially sworn in today he details his new covid team just assemble to combat the crisis there is a need for bold action. To fight this pandemic that Advisory Panel includes 13 doctors and scientists who are part of this new coronavirus Advisory Panel he says will make Rapid Testing widely available across the country while building a core group of contact tracers to help battle this threat on vaccines are distr
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a knight tense time says firefighters in oakland have been busy late this afternoon and tonight feverish lee working to get control of this brush fire. That burned dangerously close to homes and drivers along 5. 80. Thankfully, nobody was injured tonight and the damage appears to be minor good evening, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis took more than 50 firefighters to answer the call and although the fire is contained tonight, its still a very active scene for us taylor sackey joins us now shes. Live in oakland where crews are still working to make sure hot spots still flare up. Taylor this was really scary. Earlier today, gran, yes again lot of these neighbors, a large scale scare because the fire was getting close. But thankfully, we know now that that fire is contained and you can actually see behind me that many of these firefighters are packing up in this intersectio
In at 6 30. Lets check out the air quality and looking good this morning. The clean and fresh air as we start off our day, because of that ocean breeze, it is really kicking in, bringing that fresh air back to the bay area. We will have that good air quality through the day and daytime highs are little cooler compared to yesterday, 85 in concord, 82 for san jose, 72 in oakland and 67 for San Francisco. What changes are coming and we will have a shift with our winds. We will talk about that offer winds and a big warmup in store for us but now lets check in with gianna. The metering lights are on for the bay bridge . Yes, they are. That means traffic is stacking up. They are returning at 5 49. That is at the east bay and into the city. It is a slow one. Weseeing how it will slow bit down a bit as you come off the skyway, exiting near the fremont exit into San Francisco. Westbound 580 is still pretty slow and go. The delays originate out of tracy, on the 2058 connector. It is very sluggis
Destroyed. Thats the latest count. At least three people have been hurt. Robert handa joins us from felton. Robert . Reporter thats right. Were here at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats been set up here in felton. Im here with a lot of weary firefighters, which, as you heard have been battling fires, steep terrain and tall trees which have limited the usual aerial attack. The smoke has almost washed out the mountain scenery. The aerial view shows how much the fire and smoke have blanketed this stwrech from the Santa Cruz Mountains to San Mateo County and has those underneath it moving frantically. Michael herzog and megan are doing whatever they can to protect their felton home. After getting their evacuation notice grabs what they need. We just got the essentials. Reporter it was difficult for firefighters to move around in this terrain, so they set the backfires to keep the fire from spreading into neighborhoods and businesses. One business was in Boulder Creek where the redwood keg staye