Now only a couple of spots of low cloud cover and fog that you can actually see. Versus the city of San Francisco right now securing the Sales Force Tower in the distance thats really about the only found that weve got drifting right over berkeley aside from that it is clear and temperatures are cold livermore dublin conquered up through the all in the 30s right now fairfield youre below freezing right out 30 degrees while petaluma sitting at freezing at 32. Santa rosa and santa only to each of 33, this is a big drop in temperatures from yesterday look at napa down almost 20 degrees from the same time yesterday Oakland Hayward santa rosa nevado all also showing some pretty big drops in temperatures from where we were at the same time yesterday. Now we are going to be looking at a pretty mild afternoon. So i know its a chilly morning. But there is something to look forward to later on today as far as whether joes and of course for early risers you get the better traffic of the morning and thats exactly what it looks like at the bay bridge that not too many people out there at all not yet but theyre on the way so youre now is the time to offer folks to get on out there if they want to beat the rush is on the way were checking the drive into San Francisco, heres a live look at were doing fine at the bay bridge toll plaza so no problems coming in right now nice and smooth on the upper deck 7 minutes to make it through downtown San Francisco. So right on time were off to 92 and its busy right its always our first bridge start stocking up so a little bit of a crowd leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula. No problems can lets keep it that way 12 minutes off to one oh one and were just checking in on the nimitz freeway because we do have a crash 80 south at 2. 38, so thats going to be right here at the split but no huge delays to traffic youre actually moving well through Hayward Union city fremont and milpitas as you continue that southbound a great time to get on out there daryn james will check more traffic coming up a little bit later because we have some or purchase a check but so far the majority of them look really good will it stay that way thats a question 5 and the big story coronavirus it is hard to believe, but it is so much worse. That it has ever been in the u. S. We reach an all time high now recording close to a 140,000 new cases on tuesday new hospitalizations from covid19 reached more than 61,000. The u. S. Currently averaging more than 1600 new hospitalizations per day and thats according to the covid tracking project with the covid on the rise in the south bay one School District there in East San Jose theyre going to continue Distance Learning. Through to june of next year theyve already decided and that impacts students in 23 schools in the Franklin MckinleySchool District from puerto in harvey on the story for us live in san jose with more good morning radio. Good morning. Youre like you mentioned students will be back here until at least next year and the board voted on this unanimously citing they want to keep students and parents say that live here theyre saying that coronavirus cases that are at an all time high especially across the zip codes that their schools are located in so for example, researching google be ramblewood elementary School District here alone there are almost 600 coronavirus cases and it is the same trend throughout various other schools, here in the zip codes now the School District has 13 elementarr schools, theyve got 3 middle school, 7 Charter Schools that span across about 6 zip codes in East San Jose now 3 of those zip codes are among the top 5 highest covid19 case rate in san jose thats all according to the Santa Clara County data. So one school does resume next year. The boards going to allow students with disabilities and english as a second language students and new immigrants students to be the first to return to campus once covid19 conditions improve the board says that parents can also reach out to the district for athome learning resources and other things that they need because this is going to be a couple more months and this is so significant daryn james because other School Districts could potentially follow suit so we have to see how the Distance Learning program goes for the students in this district and still monitor the numbers because again all of this could change if they see an improvement in coronavirus cases for now reporting here in san Jose Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news all right, thanks a lot reyna. By School District now increasing its Testing Capacity to make sure that even asymptomatic Staff Members are identified and cared for the district is party right now with the Biotech CompanyCurative Incorporated which will provide these tests. Now this will make the district the largest testing entity in the entire city. The district is still preparing to start reopening schools in january its working right now on the details regarding how these testing sites will work how theyll be administered along with tracking the results to and conducting contact tracing. For places that people frequent our responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases, researchers from stanford and northwestern universities. Found restaurants gyms hotels and places of worship they account for 80 of infections in the united states. Scientists say that limiting the capacity in these locations these types of places. Even by 20 . If we limit that they say it would have a huge benefit and cut viral transmission by 80 . Now in the north a coronavirus cases are on the rise marin county is recommending Indoor Dining be reduced to just a 25 cut cap. Theyre also doing voluntarily as they try to get a better handle on the recent rise in local covid19 cases kron fours will tran joining us now live from or in county with more on the latest their will. James you can see the restaurants right behind larkspur right now requests than they want to do it before the state makes them do it so its almost let me ask you if you dont i will make you move the reason being because they have seen a rise in coronavirus cases, right now in marine county is still the orange tier which is the second least restrictive tier, but there are frayed with the way the trend is moving that the areas seeing an explosion in coronavirus cases just to give you an example from midoctober to the first week of november, it was like 9 cases every day while the days that followed november 4th they have seen it exploded 2223 24 daily cases of coronavirus and that is why they are asking the restaurants right now can you scale back tell people that you are full at 25 capacity instead of 50 capacity because if they dont they are fearful that the state will step in and be more severe. In fact we got a chance to listen to a Health Official in moraine county. Heres a reason why he believes theres been an increase in covid19. Food Service Workers correspondingly have the highest rates of covid19. In marin county and thats a pattern across the nation as well. There have been several super spreader events described from restaurants where an individual who may have infectious at that time not covering their faces theyre eating and drinking. The demolitions or and theres many gathered indoors. One case can lead to in some some descriptions of 20 other cases just from one. One sitting at a restaurant. Ok so heres the reason why they want the restaurants the go ahead and do it before california steps in because if they do it now and they get the case is back down to an acceptable level than perhaps they can stay in the orange tier, but if they dont do it now and the state steps in whenever they do according to the states guidelines. Then they will have to be in the red here for 3 weeks could be possibly longer if this covid19 cases dont go down and of course if the state makes you 3 weeks is a lot longer than say if you get a handle of it and maybe you only one week say for example under probation, if you want to use that particular word. We are here and i will try to get reaction from a lot of people with the weather getting warmer of course they would like to be inside. But unfortunately with covid19 that probably will not be the case moving forward in marine county back to you. All right, thank you very much well. Well hospitals across the bay area are also preparing bracing for another surge of coronavirus patients. Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in walnut creek say that in the last couple of weeks. Theyve seen an uptick in covid cases and its an indicator of what may come at ucsf the Hospital System is stockpiling remdesivir ear as they anticipate a shortage of that treatment. Theyre also stocking up on masks and ppe but doctors at both locations say that this time theyre ready and they are better prepared. Initially started all this was such a massive plan and we ended up not using it. We really have maintained that infrastructure to be able to quickly ramp up our ability to care for these patients is kind of like stocking up before the storm and thats what weve been doing things definitely heating up and we know that it will inevitably be increasing that well see. Health officials at Kaiser Permanente say theyre also maintaining a continuous state of readiness with supplies for additional covid cases and the system is in alignment right now with required hospital Surge Capacity as outlined in the states road map for reopening another big concern now is the threat of another surge to turning a deterring non Covid Patients from seeking help. The cdc says that wearing a mask doesnt just protect others from you giving them covid it protects the person who wears it too. The cdc just updated their guidelines. And this was after months of us thinking that well the mass were to prevent infection spreading to others. But now theyve done the research and researchers at stanford. Say the cdc. Is correct though they say they are late coming out with this new guidance. They say the data on maskwearing has been clear and available all along. And basically you know maskwearing makes sense from a logical standpoint it makes sense from you know in terms studies on you know physical transmission particles and it also makes in terms of some of the epidemiological data. The cdc currently recommends masks that have multiple layers of cotton with a higher thread count and also encourages the continued use of Everything Else youre doing you know social distancing and handwashing but this mask protection goes both ways. Well take a break here at 5. 11 still ahead on the kron 00 00am morning news and east bay School District will now be voting on whether to allow Police Officers on campus, so well talk more about that plus the polls close days ago. But the results are finally coming in for a much talked about proposition of details in just a minute and with the recent drop in temperatures Hardware Stores in the bay area are reporting a shortage of outdoor heaters. John speaking of that drop in temperatures james, we are feeling one of those today after mild morning yesterday, were back in the 30s for some of our inland areas right now as for afternoon it will be back to the 60s we go your forecast is ahead. Im tracking your morning drive around the bay area, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic moving well into San Francisco right now so no problems no issues 8 minutes to make it in well check more bridges and drive times coming up. Theres no bad time to start at amazon. 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They say jim wieder owned a Hardware Store in hayward and he suspects that businesses started stocking up on the heaters all the way since this summer because they knew. Normally we would have at least 4 or 5 of these in stock and the warehouse will have at least a 100. But its not just that patio heater its all the patio heaters theyre all out theyre all either. 0 or negative quantity. Leader says that heaters are still in warmer parts of the country in the world. Well i hold on going and got to go amazon yesterday and they were for their guy could get 1 45200 bucks that yesterday was for me and im not like a restaurant grade. But you amazon right now, i know in the Weather Center has been keeping an eye on the numbers and from what hes been telling us were looking for another little dose. A winter like weather come this weekend. So you 725 how much husband. Because theres a nice one for 500 a lead inside are all just where couple money what would you guys really have a shortage of the toilet paper the lets get down to basics okay, to do is out definitely a cold morning say, yeah, its nice said that space heater around i know, especially as youre getting outside this morning. Youre probably grab that cup of coffee a little extra tight because it is so chilly a lot colder than yesterday morning was. You look outside at walnut creek am it is clear out there one of the reasons we are actually so chilly as skies have cleared out during our overnight hours that setting us up for temperatures that are in the 40s right along the bay right now and 30s for some of our inland areas livermore double in concord each in the upper 30s right now elmo at 36. Well look at petaluma sitting at 32 degrees. Santa rosa youre at 33 right now saint helene also at freezing fairfield youre at 30 moments ago. Now youre sitting right at 31 degrees. So it is a cold start to this morning, a whole lot colder than yesterday was tomorrow morning. Im not anticipating it to be quite as cold well have some cloud cover drifting into the bay during your more Early Morning hours helping to moderate temperatures a touch. This is friday at 07 00am right here not just will be cloudier but look at what we have to our north tomorrow morning. Some showers pushing into the very Northern Tier of the state, theyll drift further our direction by noontime tomorrow and by early afternoon parts of the north bay, especially getting in the mix as far as some rainfall goes to kick off your weekend friday then comes friday afternoon later on towards your evening commute, widespread showers spreading further southward snow up in the Sierra Nevada in blue on the other side of your screen over there and by the time we work our way into the Early Morning on saturday, most of the showers having to part of the bay few of them hanging on over in the sierra foothills on into sunday, a couple sprinkles possible but really drying out until tuesday night into wednesday which will be our next chance of rain fall after tomorrow showers how much rain we see tomorrow will for santa rosa and napa sandra fell Half Moon Bay could amount to around a quarter of an inch lighter amounts expected in areas like San Francisco pacific and oakland closer to a 10th of an inch 1507 inch now this is already helping out with the drought situation that had been expanding across the state if you look at our latest Drought Monitor which was actually just updated this morning you can see the reds across Northern California. These are some of the same areas that are going to get the best dose of rainfall from this system pushing through tomorrow that does include portions of northern Sonoma Solano and napa counties so we are seeing that deep in drought across the bay area. The good news, we got rain in the forecast and that should gradually be helping with that situation. Daytime highs today back to the 50s and 60s not a whole lot different than we have been pretty comfortable weather overall and if youd like the past few days all you like this afternoon too abundant sunshine expected into the afternoon just a few passing clouds but mostly blue skies, san jose at 65 today, 60s widespread across the east bay with low 60s in areas like Oakland Berkeley and richmond, mid 60s from concord through san ramon up into parts of the north bay with Benicia Fairfield in pittsburgh at either 63 on up to 65 degrees. Temperatures over the next 7 days will be showing some change not over the next couple though we actually stay pretty level through saturday then come sunday monday and tuesday, your 3 warmest days of this forecast notably monday and tuesday back into the 70s. Our chances of rain at least our best shots of the