To the pandemic the families who plan on celebrating may have to adjust their traditions. The new guidelines released by the cdc today. From the bay areas local news station. This is 4 news at 3. Thanks for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia good news for 3 more bay area counties as they moved up the states road to reopening for at least 2 of the counties that will mean immediate changes kron fours dan kerman is live in San Mateo County with details on that idea. Good afternoon were here on san bruno avenue in San Mateo County. This is one of those places that will see definite changes as you mentioned 3 counties moving from purple to read those 3 counties are Alameda County, San Mateo County as well as Solano County and as far as solano in san mateo are concerned that means reopenings and were talking about some degree some percentage of restaurants as well as retail indoors museums and zoos and aquariums in those areas to a level of capacity, 25 in those respects as far as restaurants. Were also talking about 25 capacity, gyms and Fitness Centers allowed to reopen indoors as well at about 10 capacity, so a lot of changes coming up with that move from purple to read one thing that hasnt changed his Alameda CountyAlameda County has moved from purple to read theyve seen some numbers in terms of covid and while things are improving. They want to put the brakes and see how things are going to go over the next 2 weeks and then they will make that decision whether or not to start that slow reopening as weve seen everywhere else now at this point everybody in the 9 count in the 7 county bay area. I should say remains in the red except for Sonoma County and Contra Costa County. They remain in purple one bright spot about purple is they have changed some of the guidelines to now nail salons which you had to have. The open in the red now can open in that herbal tears, so that is the one change that is made. So again for immediate changes, were looking to San Mateo County were looking to Solano County was some degree of indoor Business ReopeningAlameda County waiting another couple of weeks to see if those numbers hold reporting live in san bruno dan kerman kron 4 news dan thank you for that report. Now so far the state has recorded more than 784,000 a covid19 cases with more than 15,000 deaths across the bay area were approaching 97,000 reported cases and have recorded over 1300 dots. The United States reaching a somber milestone today with 200,000 people confirmed dead from the coronavirus thats according to Johns Hopkins university. Kron fours of Charles Clifford has been looking into our local numbers here in the bay area and joins us from san bruno now with the details charles. Either yes all around the bay area things have been Getting Better over the last few weeks with the improving unfortunately there could be trouble on the horizon. Across all 9 counties of the bay area, the overall number of new daily coronavirus cases has been trending downward for weeks after peaking in july and august the bay area has made Good Progress on slowing the spread of the virus. I think were doing really well as a regent doctor George Rutherford is a professor of epidemiology at ucsf. He attributes that success to things like social distancing and maskwearing so i think that those things are been key. The fact that not everybody is doing it sort of speaks to the power of it that you dont need to have you can you know you can have serve fewer than perfect. Up in a here on sunday still see these major major effects but nationwide there is evidence that the u. S. Is entering a 3rd wave of coronavirus infections. This chart from the cdc shows that the number of new daily cases is rising after weeks of trending downward doctor rutherford says this 3rd wave hasnt hit california yet, but he wants people to know. That it we dont see evidence of that yet in. Either the bay area or in california, but its something to be cautious about and something you know sort of us when a sobering saying since lying out there for us to deal with. All right doctor other furs also worried about what could happen this winter when kids start going back to school as schools reopen and people get back to work, hes worried that the coronavirus could start spreading again here locally but for now in san bruno Charles Clifford kron 4 news. All right, thank you for that chalk. Santa clara county leaders will be voting on a program to help give money to people who test positive for coronavirus and need to isolate. Now past the program would provide up to 5,000 per household to assist with the rent and other finances and also assigned Care Services for the elderly and children and provide hotel and motel rooms for isolation and meal delivery. Now this would be an extension of the Pilot Program the county ran in june in partnership with Sacred Heart Community services the program would be in partnership with 15 cities in the county. Most of the funding will come from the county and individual cities will provide 600,000 each. The board of supervisors meeting is happening as we speak well continue to follow the vote to see if the program gets approved. And well provide you with updates as we receive them. And beginning tomorrow south bay schools will have the green light to reopen the most schools, including all of the larger Public School districts, well stick with the Distance Learning for now Santa Clara County has been in the red tier of the states reopening blueprints for about 13 days which means school could resume in person classes, beginning tomorrow with the Positivity Rate of roughly 2 and a 109 people hospitalized with covid19 Santa Clara County is currently posting its lowest number since june. Despite that many schools say they want to see more progress in the months ahead before reopening there are other things that are in the county guidelines that are still prohibited right indoor gatherings for example. And from my perspective if people cant gather indoors than it doesnt make a lot of sense to put 30 kids in a classroom together which seems similar to an indoor gathering. Now at 28,000 students, san jose unified is the south bays largest district. Citing the burden of undertaking the testing of that many students and other challenges. The district will continue Distance Learning through the end of december. Also happening today Contra Costa County leaders are expected to vote on extending eviction protections, the countys current Eviction Moratorium is set to expire at the end of this month, the new ordinance would also bring county law more in line with state laws which parent guarantees eviction protection and rents freezes through the end of january. This was preventable. Not all of it. But much of it. And what could be lost in the future is preventable too. If we embrace science science instead of politics. Working together to invite fight the virus not each other that was speaker pelosis message today is a group of volunteers memorialized the lives lost. Now volunteers place a 20,000 american flags near the Washington Monument facing the white house. Thats one flag for every 10 american that work has lost their lives to coronavirus because the pandemic many families werent able to hold a proper funeral. The flags will remain in place through sunset on wednesday. Now take a look at this cal oh yes tweeted this out today saying air quality is definitely improving across the state as containment grows on wildfires. This is a comparison of air quality due to the creek fire burning in fresno and madera counties were definitely doing much better today than we were last week. Now lets see what things look like here in the bay area as we take a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge, the bridge towers. They were a good indicator of air quality as we battled of the poor air quality over the last couple weeks but were learning today that a fire weather watch has been issued for the bay area this weekend. So we want to turn things over to kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr who has all of those details heidi is ok i sanaas good day everybody an afternoon of this is what were looking ultimately get into the weekend. Well have a little bit of an offshore winds start to develop, but really a lot of its going to be in the Central Valley, usual notice in the northern edge, this is the fire weather watch so a lot of things are uncertain at this point. The next steps will be a red flag warning and so forth when we get more downstream while lot more information for you breakdown for you and 60s 84 rather 4 oclock by 7 were at 70 to 65 come 10 oclock a live shot coming in from u c berkeley, nice view of the base you can see off towards the distance the golden gate, blue skies in place in complements everything thats in place like this were going to have this goldilocks forecast the next few days. Got the 70s covered the east bay shoreline off to the east upper 80s 80s also up to the north bay 81 san jose and 66 for San Francisco do a little bit of a kicking in here all on shore and thats keeping temperatures corrected. But even on inland rather we see teens happening in the far east bay and even up to the north bay as well. So what we have for this mostly sunny mild very close to seasonality here 70s for the bay 80s going on in london for the weekend though turning hot in this is the most people going to notice 100 degrees possible. And some of those far inland reaches and the fire weather watch goes on for the north and the east bay saturday night through monday morning again by that point it might be a red flag warning again a lot of unknowns thats way upstream there. More on your forecast coming up in a bit so nice day thank you for that. Now coming up today on kron 4 news at 3 why dozens of students were admitted to you see schools despite being less qualified than other candidates. Plus almost a month out from halloween, the cdc warning americans to avoid a trick or treating level is that the agencys alternative options to celebrate the spooky holiday and after the break bulldozer heroes, how the Community Came together to help their neighbors fight flames from residents in several towns in the Russian River area are thanking their fellow Community Members who broke out their heavy equipment during the lnu lightning flight fires and helped push the flames away from their homes kron fours Maureen Kelly spoke with the the heroes of the dozer crew. This video was shot from the drivers seat of a bulldozer cutting fire lines during the walbridge fire west parmenter part of a family of loggers who also run an Excavator Company in the tiny Sonoma County town of caza was one of 4 dozer operators who work for more than a week straight. Sometimes 24 hours a day cutting fire lines often right up against the flames sometimes the fire was right on the side dozer could be a fee i just blowing against suit working against the raging fires and winds with very little sleep. He and his crew worked to cut the fire off before it reached his community and other towns along the Russian River parmenter has operate his dozer for cal fire for many years. But this fire was different. I think its because you caused all. When you lived here for 40 years. And this to know everybody in the community. And to build it. Save that for them. And not let them lose everything they had you know. That was most important to us you know his death. Save the community for what they have and what theyve worked for and. And thats what we did. Parmenter estimates that he and his crew cut 30 miles of fire line, some of them 10 dozer blades wide. His crew was not alone. He estimates another 10 to 12 bulldozer operators help cut a contingency line as a backup. And over in general mark man a rancher who also runs an Excavator Company was part of another small crew who helped cut fire lines right up against the blaze for more than a week in order to keep the myers fire burning on the coast from moving into town and east towards greenville. Theres a lot of people in our community to maybe that range from loggers to construction to. You know ranchers that have equipment and so everybody. We all care a lot about our community and and the ground that and the forest in the fields everything that we live in so we want to protect that as much as we can. And so everybody when the time we need comes we just all step up and Work Together its not hard to find places now where the fires have blackened this beautiful landscape its also not hard to find signs like this one dotting the areas that were spared giving thanks to the people who stepped up. To help save them. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. And the bobcat fire is now one of the largest wildfires in Los Angeles County history. The blaze has burned more than a 109,000 acres and is at 17 containment. More than 1100 homes have been evacuated so far on monday, the fire threatened the famous mount wilson observatory. And in other news, a california state audit found that the university of california wrongly admitted dozens of wealthy students over the past 6 years. The state auditor found that over the past 6 years applicants were accepted into universities as favors to donors family and friends. U c berkeley is responsible for admitting 42 applications based on connections to staff leadership and donors. The auditor notes the applicants were not as qualified as others who were denied admission. The audit was conducted in response to the National College admissions scandal last year. And over in Antioch Police have arrested a man in possession of a forged checks, Social Security cards and mailbox ak mailbox access keys. When officers searched his car during a traffic stop they found numerous stolen checks ranging from 2000 to 10,000. The driver was booked into county jail and police are advising the public. So avoid mailing checks from your own mailbox instead drop them off at the post office or use online bill pay. And over in the east bay, the city of richmond is making shorts residents are fed and protected from coronavirus as the pandemic rages on kron fours phillipe djegal reports from a few food trusted distribution events. Free meals for food insecure families here in richmond the program is being run by the nonprofit richmond main street initiative, the food is being handed out here at the Richmond PoliceActivities League parking lot at 23rd and exchange place, no questions asked if you need restaurant. Quality meals then theyre available to you for free here in this parking lot every tuesday and thursday late morning early afternoon. Were told that 4 1000 meals are being handed out every that this program is going on and theyre also handing out free personal protective equipment to protect yourself. 19 the program launched earlier this month that will run through next month and theyre also collecting money to buy more personal protective equipment for families that just dont have access to it. Here in richmond i spoke with one lady who says that she lives with a lot of older people sensitive groups they cant go out to Grocery Stores. They cant go shopping right now. So this is the best thing for them drive up. Grab your stuff and go. In richmond fleet and all kron 4 news. Switching gears now to talk about the weather and heres a live look at San Franciscos embarcadero the skies are blue not a single cloud in the sky. That kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr hes got the details on our first day of fall tonight good afternoon good afternoon everybody live shot coming in for you from half moon bay, thats upbeat shot for you how about that people enjoying. The cobalt blue thats out there for this afternoon seen the same thing at the golden carls getting jealous here is going to get back here get some fos of fozzie hayes and theyre going on well get some of that tonight, no upstream theres another front to look out for now typically in the winter months we tend to get some rain from these things but this is not going to supply much of that at all its going to keep temperatures down like weve been experiencing so that kind of goldilocks forecast is with us on the backside of it however getting into the weekend. Different story as High Pressure starts to build. 83 4 oclock at 7 were looking about 7164 by 10 oclock under skies might get some fog coming in here here comes that front i just mentioned there will be rain up towards the north. Then High Pressure builds behind it and we play keep away with the clouds that means another heat spike coming our way next weekend and were concerned about a little bit of an offshore wind event. The dry conditions may pose a bit of a fire threat for the forecast tonight, word 58