From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
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
Access to a vaccine until spring time of next year at least i talked to doctor matt Willis Warren countys chief medical officer to get the latest on whats known. This is based on current information of course that could change this as bay area counties are among those scrambling to get ready for distribution. Think the first of the first phase is going to be essential workers. So if hospital workers are emergency room doctors, others youre really on the front lines and most at risk of being exposed and are so necessary for our response has got to be the First Response thats phase. One a. And then youre going to have. The Water Community by people who are at higher risk themselves of becoming infected old or older residents people chronic diseases, et cetera and then in that 3rd face were really talking about more the general population as a whole so were from essential workers to atrisk Community Members and then the community as a whole this probably going to be about a 4 month time f
pam now at 6. San jose police say, they have arrested a man. Under investigation in connection with a bomb scare at a high school. Thank you for joining us tonight im pam moore. ken and im ken wayne. A Police Spokesperson says the suspect identified as andrew white. May be the person accused of planting a homemade bomb at Oak Grove High School on tuesday. Officers swarmed whites neighborhood last night and remain on scene tonight. live in bam thats where we find kron4s dan thorn. He joins us now with the latest from the scene. Dan . Officers including ken big story. The investigation into the orinda halloween murders has led to more raids and more arrests. pam two new arrests coming one day. After the atf announced a 20 thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible. That shooting took place at an air bnb rental in orinda. Kron 4s dan kerman joins us live from the newsroom with the latest. Dan 2 more arrests one in vallejo the other in martinez, both
Was also burning right now and he was telling us how careful we needed to be. So this is far from over and with all the smoke that is still here, people are seeking help at the hospitals. Weve seen approximately this day 160 patients in our Emergency Department and on average we would see around 120 at this point in time so were projecting seeing around 200 patients. Weve been receiving transfers, six of which came from sutter and then six of which came from keyser which included laboring moms of whom we cared for as well. Reporter power lines are down, the power is out, so it is very dark here this morning. Obviously it is very smoky, so its still a very dangerous situation, a big challenge again here on day two for the firefighters. Reporting live here in santa rosa, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Amy, thank you. Sergeant spencer crumb with the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office tells us that the number of people missing may not be 100 but they have received about 100 calls from people who r