From San Francisco. Our breezy as to various vacaville atlas peak Fairfield Napa sonoma calistoga in petaluma even danville in the east bay looking at some steady winds right now Oakland Haywards in san jose as well San Francisco, all backing off the strongest winds winds will remain steady across her upper elevations and through the north bay through the morning. But by the time we work our way into the afternoon a bit of a calmer situation, this is 02 00pm here and starting to show signs of calming down red flag warnings that still hold on in her upper elevations of the east bay north bay in all of solano and napa counties will remain until 05 00pm after which point well see them expiring in some improving conditions for the next few days and hopefully the return to power for a lot of us that are in the midst of those Power Outages right now right now novato youre at 46 degrees happening bay of 48 to avert coolest of spots while napa one of our breezier areas is also one of our. Warm
Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.
Change in this forecast though, and ill let you know when still to come rob, an. All right. Thank you john were checking in on the traffic at its a little slow its recovering from some still have a trouble spot in for fremont on 80 south right here at the maori exit. This is a motorcycle crash that still active. The writer down in or to lots of stop and go traffic out of union city for that commute to south as you head up to the screen that puts you at 44 minutes from 2. 38 off to to 37. So if you take the nimitz freeway be prepared for lots of heavy traffic get out there early because they have yet to get this completely out of your way were checking in on some drive times for you coming from the east shore, no problems 21 minutes from crockett to the maze west 24 lee wanted creek up to the caldecott still trouble free and youre ok for both 5. 80 and the nimitz well check out bay area bridges coming up next back to you. Thanks robin one day to go before the election and in San Francis
Right now. Still breezy in areas like atlas peak, sonoma and calistoga as wills danville all these areas have consistently seen wind gusts this morning into a 20 mile per hour range. Most of her strongest of winds have been concentrated in mountainous areas more exposed to those peak wind sitting right above the bay. Well you see just the other thing going on right along the bay itself hayward san jose San Francisco, nice and calm through the morning we will see winds picking up briefly into early afternoon right after lunchtime and then after that its all downhill in by 06 00pm tonight. Actually pretty calm evening set up ahead of us red flag warnings will does expire at 05 00pm today for those upper elevations of the east bay, a purse elevations of marin and sonoma counties too and much of napa and all of Solano County. Again this red flag warning Expiration Date ahead of us so we do have that end in sight. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures, its been a nice morning with oakla
Stark contrast to most of the country now facing a new surge. Roughly 38 states have experienced a 10 increase over the last seven days of total number of cases. This is that dreaded third wave that some had projected for california. But with due diligence, that third wave hasnt couple. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dion lim. The bay area is also doing well. Abc7 news News Reporter stephanie sierra joins us live to break down the latest totals. Stephanie . Dion, 25,000 cases were reported nationwide each day. Now that daily average has doubled to 50,000 cases. Even though california isnt seeing as much of a spike, the governor was quick to point out today we could be there soon. A third wave of covid19 is moving quickly and broadly across the u. S. , but if you look closely at california, the r effective number, or rate of spread, shows it has declined slightly to 0. 96. In other words, it is considered stable. Epidemiologist george weatherford. We decreased the effective reproduc