They say the decision is dangerous and they are not going to follow through with it. They are not putting any fans inside levi stadium. The stands at levi stadium will not be filled with 49 ers fans any time soon. Putting an audience in a stadium in large groups. Is just asking for trouble. Its like a petri dish. Santa clara county executive officer, jeff smith says the states new guidelines allowing professional sports teams in orange tier, 3 to fill 20 of their stands with fans from as far as a 120 miles away will not be allowed at levi stadium. He says well covid positivity rates are near one percent in Santa Clara County. Theyre near 8 in other counties making the risk just too great. If you do the math that means somewhere between 250 and a 1000 people out of those 14,000 people well be infected. Theyll be infected. There will be at the stadium screaming yelling theyll be going to try to get food. Theyll be unmasked during the time period that theyre eating theyre going to be going to the restroom. Theyre going to be congregating theyre going to be infecting other individuals for local santa clara businesses like you go on a spree ocilla. Who have seen a drop in game day revenue as a result of the empty stand mandate. Theyre disappointed with the countys decision. The precautions at same time you know, feel like the more that we can be doing as well to open you know business is back to the type is that we should be getting. The fortyniners simply issued a statement thanking the governor for his leadership and welcoming fans but ultimately stating our organization will continue to collaborate with local Public Health officials to protect the health and wellness of all San Francisco 49 ers and levi stadium employees patrons and our community. County officials are asked what it would take to get any amount of fans into those stands they stopped short of answering but made it clear it is not going to happen during the winter months when cases are on the upswing in the risks increase. Live at levi stadium. Dan kerman kron 4 news stan, thanks for that report the new guidelines are good news for some smaller amusement parks, but not so good for the larger one cross for says it might be and has more on what the rules mean for californias Great America theme park in santa clara. A real roller coaster fans will have to wait a little longer to experience their favorite thrill rides thats because the updated guidance from california Public Health officials does not allow large theme parks to reopen until the county in which they operate moves into the yellow tier of the states blueprint for a safe economy smaller theme the other hand are good to go. These will be limited in capacity up to 25 or 500 visitors, whichever is fewer. All the other parts the larger of 2 parts. We are waiting here for that big yellow here part of the decisionmaking bob california Public Health sending a small team to amusement parks and other parts of the nation to observe or best and they came back with lots of valuable lessons. Things that we saw that we were very reaffirmed by on but also some things go to you know raise some concern the level of done without that sued very random things concerning to us the decision to keep the larger theme parks closed is very concerning to the Cedar Fair Company which owns and operates californias Great America in Santa Clara County which is currently in the orange here Great America sent kron 4 a statement that reads in part quote cedar fair is extremely disappointed and frustrated with the lack of reasonable consideration given to the opening of californias most popular theme parks. Our company has safely operated 7 of its 13 parks across the u. S. This year with 0 cases of covid19 being traced back to our properties we feel strongly that californias Great America should be allowed to open do the same guidance afforded smaller parks on quote, california Health Officials say it is not an real estate for larger counties to make the move from orange to yellow and point to another bay area county has a recent example, we believe it possible in San Francisco. He is a great people Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. As we mentioned state Health Officials say disneyland will be closed indefinitely in a statement disney land says this decision is devastating southern californias community Disneyland Resort president can contract says improving the disneyland can reopen safely but the state is ignoring that fact fonterra cass said this decision will force thousands more people out of work leading to the end of that inevitable closure of small family owned businesses in the area in addition to the latest reopening guidelines napa and San Francisco counties have moved into the less restrictive tears today. San francisco is now in the least restrictive state covid tear labeled in yellow in fact it is the first major urban county to move into the least restrictive tear in the state napa county has joined alameda and santa clara counties in the moderate here labeled an orange on your screen, san mateo contra costa. Solano amarin counties remain in the substantial tear labeled in red and sonoma is the only bay area county that remains in the widespread here which designated in purple. Mayor london breed announced today that in San Francisco indoor gyms can increase capacity to 25 starting october 27th. Gyms are currently operating at just 10 capacity, however, cardio anaerobic exercises will still be prohibited indoors. Even though the state has moved San Francisco into the yellow minimal tear which would allow gyms to reopen at 50 . The city is choosing to only increase to 25 capacity for those tips and heres a look at what we can expect to reopen down the road starting november 3rd indoor pools and bowling alleys can reopen Indoor Dining can reopen at 50 capacity San Francisco Health Officials say they have a goal to allow bars which are not serving food to reopen outdoors by mid november, another big story were tracking tonight a high fire weather watch has prompted pg need to notify about 54,000 customers across 19 Northern California counties of the 19 county 6 or here in the bay area, those counties are alameda contra costa napa santa clara so not a sonoma. And solano counties close to 7,000 customers in the bay area alone could be affected napa county looks to be the hardest hit with the most number of customers affected pg says hot and dry conditions combined with expected high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to the electrical system that has the potential to ignite a wildfire. Well, the strong winds of the big concern causing potential Power Outages that red flag warning in effect until tomorrow morning for more on the red flag warning want to check in now with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow warrants. Yeah guys weve sears a red flag warnings one. That goes until tomorrow morning and then another one picks up at 10 00am continuing all the way until friday and you can see extended all in the Santa Cruz Mountains the east bay hills but the valleys beginning to see some of that as well as were expecting. A series of strong wind events to roll into the bay area, not just tomorrow, but i think through the weekend maybe into early next week maybe beyond well have to wait and see right now the red flag warnings going up you see even along the coastal along parts of the sem tale and santa coast line is were going to see those gusty winds, 2535 miles an hour maybe stronger gusts over the mountain tops in the east bay, not just the mountains, but also the valleys were looking at red flag warnings going up fire danger going to be running high gusty winds probably some 4050 mile an hour gusts across some of the mountain tops as we head through the weekend and slama county kind of split here youve got to the south youve got in the missionary shannon brown, this is a fire weather watch then weve got a warning in the north there were expecting some strong gusty winds much of the Sacramento Valley in the slalom county in the north bay to as you can see those wind blowing 25 to 40 miles an hour gusting even higher than that and look at the winds this what were talking about weve got a series of these weak front drop over the top of the High Pressure ridge thats bringing in the sunshine once High Pressure tries to build back in again everything begins to change the winds start to pick up you see that theyre in the north bay overnight tonight and tomorrow then as we get into thursday as we head toward the morning. You see all the colors lighting up there into the purple and in the red those winds gusting over 40 miles an hour. Pretty good sea breeze as we get in for friday, then look what happens on sunday a more frontal system comes through and look at all those winds high fire danger very low humidity. And lot of part of the weekend. Lawrence thank make sure to download the kron 4 and the kron on apps for the latest developments with this latest red flag warning and the potential power shut off you can download those apps in your phones app stores right now. And theres some good news for those affected by the glass fire cal fire says as of this morning, it is fully contained that fire burned more than 67,000 acres in napa and sonoma counties and it destroyed more than 800 homes today, friends and family held a celebration of life for the San Francisco firefighter and paramedic who died during a recent training accident. The price. Members of the San Francisco Fire Department are also on hand. Jason cortez was just 42 years old when he died. He leaves behind a wife and 2 children he died after his knocked over a thirdfloor railing by a water blast from a valid he inadvertently opened during training cortez will be buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in colma. The San Francisco board of supervisors unanimously passed the socalled karen act how this new bill changes the San Francisco police code thats coming up the deadline for covid relief before election day is closing in coming up what each side is asking for. Also the Justice Department taking aim at google accusing it of blocking competition ill talk to an industry an Justice Department has filed a landmark antitrust case against a Bay Area Company google the lawsuit alleges that google abuses its dominance in Online Search and advertising in order to stifle competition and to harm consumers. The Justice Department has not laid out any specific remedies at this time but has asked the court to order structural changes to remedy any anti competitive harm. Meantime google responded on twitter today calling the lawsuit deeply flawed adding people use google because they choose to not because they are forced to 11 states, including arkansas and texas have joined in this lawsuit a lot of industry observers say its clear this lawsuit has a political subtext republicans have long argued that google polices its content with a political bias 13 and the host of inside bay area politics talk to a scene that expert about all of this gaffe or yeah i talked and editor at large of siena pearman cam says this lawsuit could lead to a much bigger conversation. Yes, it is partly about politics, but he says no. It is not just the republicans and he says a lot of the questions being asked are probably overdue. Now that we live in this world where tech is at the center of our lives weve started to kind of come to grips with the fact that Companies Like google and facebook and amazon and apple are all very very large and have a ton of power and were starting to ask ourselves. The question is do they have too much power and have they actually started abusing that and thats what the thats what thats the heart of what this case is about despite the fact that the Trump Administration is leading the charge here. Is a lot of people on capitol hill believe something needs to be done. And i think the challenge they have is that they dont really know what ive interviewed senators and congressmen i have talked to lobby us and gone all over this city and the reality is that not too many people have any ideas about what to do so this is kind of the starting line right, lets see what a what a what a debate about monopolization looks like and then after that maybe congress will figure Something Else out and at one point will feel like the company the Tech Industry has been treated the way that they need to be whatever that its. And he is saying that this lawsuit clearly this is a test and we could eventually see similar lawsuits filed against other big tech including facebook and amazon and apple. Ken and pam now. Thank you catherine and i want take you live to downtown San Francisco are approaching pam photographers like to call magic hour and look at the sun this kind of glistening off the sides of the buildings lawrence is standing by to tell us about the cooler windy weather in the you guys are right, yeah, this time, the reflection of the sun shine off the city and looking beautiful out there how about this for look for this at either. As we look toward the coastline. The sun just about to slip into the sea and youve got a couple patches of fog out there in the distance and weve seen some of that fog in toward the Golden Gate Bridge and the earth is you see that what a difference right along the coastline. Youve got some sunshine and then right in the golden youve got that fog being sucked in by warmer temperatures rising air and the inland valleys and all that cool air in the make its way back on shore. This weekend and throughout this weekend into next week. I think were looking a high fire danger through that period were going to see unusually gusty winds. And of course we havent had any rain so periods, a gusty winds offshore winds very low humidity. In fact as we get this weekend. I think almost some dry desertlike conditions around the bay area even though will be cooler humidity is going to drop less than 10 in some cases may be down to about 5 right outside right now not much in the way of wind youve got that afternoon sea breeze 9 miles an hour in the San Francisco, you got 9 in shade into fairfield so nothing too strong but that will likely change as we head for the next 24 hours temperatures today still hot inland. You had 91 in livermore 90 degrees in concord 91 in santa rosa 74 in San Francisco 81 degrees in oakland and 86 degrees. In san jose temperatures still warm out there away from the coastline, 54 in half moon bay, but you had over the hill 75 in palo alto 78 in san mateo still 80s into the tri valley the conch are looking at 87 degrees still 90 degrees in hot. Insanely that tonight. Couple batches dense fog right along the wise it should remain mostly clear. Tomorrow sunny and its going to be warm again little breezy especially over the mountain tops in the north bay and then a cooling trend is going to start to work its way into the bay area as we look toward the weekend. But high fire danger is going to continue throughout that period as were going to see a series of gusty wind events developing outside. Temperatures tomorrow 70s names inside the bail see some upper 80s, the warm spots, inland but about 70 degrees in San Francisco. And 50 the 60s at the coast were telling about covid restrictions be eased in parts of the bay area but. Sonoma county remains the only bay area county with the most restrictive purple tier, yeah, and in order to try and get a handle on the spread of the virus. The county increase the number of testing sites in areas with the highest rates of infection. Kron fours Maureen Kelly has details. Im at andys unity park in orleans neighborhood of southwest santa rosa. Its one of the areas with a large latino population. And a big number of positive coronavirus cases thats why the county of sonoma has chosen to this area as a place to begin its doubling of pop up testing sites. The testing is available to residents regardless if they are symptomatic or not its free. People do not have to make an appointment, although they are encouraged and they also do not need Health Insurance co 9, 5, 4, 0, 7, which. Encompasses most southwest center is a that is the the community most by covid so. A lot of a lot of our inability to control covid and or to mitigate the spread thing has been a lack of testing for essential workers. And so i think that this is a great step really getting some of the county where we need to be at. Sonoma county remains the only bay area county still in the most restrictive purple widespread here in the states ranking system the popup testing sites are being held at different locations, theyll be in healdsburg on wednesday. Theyll be back in santa rosa at the Roseland Library on thursday and in rohnert park on friday, but they will be repeating. The times and locations from week to week so for instance will be back at andys unity park next tuesday and every tuesday after that for the immediate future. Weve posted the schedule on our website kron 4 dot com. Maureen kelly kron 4 news and late today, the Sonoma County board of supervisors unanimously passed the 16 Million Dollar package of Public Health strategies to try to help curb the spread of covid19. That package includes offering gift cards to encourage testing giving one time stipends of 1200 and Hotel Vouchers to infected residents in order to help people afford to be able to stay home from work and to isolate safely. Virus antibodies sear is much we still dont know about them coming up at 6. 45 the warning doctors after those who think theyre invincible from the virus after theyve been infected. Investigators say one of the deadliest maritime disasters could have been prevented what they say could have been done woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. Breaking news right now the case against Scott Peterson will return to a courtroom on friday, a judge in stanislaw county will determine whether peterson needs a public defender or has hired his own attorney to the states theory Court Ordered his murder case be reexamined due to possible juror misconduct. Peterson as you recall was convicted back in 2004 of murdering his wife lacy and their unborn son connor its unclear whether peterson will appear at Fridays Court date in person or by video from san quentin prison. Even in or whether he appears at all. The San Francisco board of supervisors voted unanimously to pass the act which is called caution against racial and exploitation of nonemergencies act is also known as the caren act the name is a nod to a widespread meme which describes white women calling the police on people of color for non crimes and offenses. The legislation gives the targets of those calls the ability to sue the color. It also makes it unlawful for a person to fabricate false racially biased emergency reports one of the most recent example these types of calls was back in june you may remember when a ceo of a San Francisco bay Skincare Company called the police on a man since the lane of black lives matter sign in chalk in front his home in the pa ific heights neighborhood today. Investigators say one of the deadliest accidents in recent us maritime history was the fault of the boat owners due to a lack of oversight. Investigators say if the owners of the dive boat conception had posted an over night watchman those 34 deaths could have been prevented, you may recall the dive boat conception caught fire and killed 33 passengers and one crew member during Labor Day Weekend last year that skaters say they believe those passengers were awaken trying to escape before they were overcome with smoke. Some of those who died had ties to the bay skaters say they could not determine the cause of the fire but say it began near the back of the boat where electronic particularly cell phones were plugged in. Coming up republicans worry democrats will try to pack the Supreme Court. Still ahead the new legislation proposed today to try to stop democrats before election day and this election may be stressful for some voters, but well hear from Seminole County officials on how theyre keeping ballot box is safe what happening tonight lawmakers in washington have until midnight to decide if they will pass a massive Coronavirus Relief package for americans before election day House Speaker nancy pelosi says if lawmakers do not come together by tonight relief may have to wait until after the election democrats are hoping that republicans sign on to the democratic plan for more than 2 trillion dollars in relief. President trump is urging his party to quote go big on a plan but many republicans are still concerned about spending too much. They are proposing to targeted bills want to extend the Paycheck Protection Program and another 500 billion dollar plan to fund schools, the unemployed and vaccines. Senator ted cruz and 5 other Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment to try to prevent democrats from packing the Supreme Court. If joe biden wins the white house and democrats take the majority in the senate as anna warren again reports republicans are trying to push through this push this through Congress Just days before the election. Texas republican senator ted cruz wants to prevent democrats from expanding the Supreme Court. Crews in 5 Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment that simply says the Supreme Court of the United States shall be 9 justices theres nothing in the constitution. That says how many justices are on the Supreme Court that numbers up to Congress Crews also introduced a bill requiring a twothirds supermajority in the senate to change the courts eyes in the future. Or amendment to become law it would need twothirds approval in both the
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