Tonight. Also breaking tonight, california has officially surpassed 1 million that is according to Johns Hopkins university. These new numbers coming just within the past hour. California is now the second state after texas to report at least 1 million covid cases and more than 18,000 people. Have died. And the Coronavirus Crisis is where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus really a reality check on a night you have coronavirus cases surging across most of the country in some spots there really exploding and here in the bay area they are rising as well many counties, locally are now faced with the possibility of having to move back another tier into a more restrictive tier in the states reopening system in some Health Officials are choosing to pause their reopening plans with the hope of slowing the spread of covid and avoiding some of the economic consequences of being forced to go back and entire tier. Yeah today Alameda County announced that it will not be moving ahead with any further reopenings at this time due to a rise in cases there and in the north bay marine county is now strongly recommending that restaurants reduce their indoor capacity from 50 down to 25 . The county Health Officer doctor matt willis says Indoor Dining is one of the easiest ways for the virus to spread in fact we had a margin or sending multiple people schools. Were not covering their faces are often getting together for an hour an hour and half of the time and thats one of the reasons why risk so much higher for Indoor Dining and thats why were taking this step. At this point officials are only recommending that restaurants reduced their capacity, but it could soon become mandatory of cases. Continue to rise and heres a closer look at all the bay area counties where things stand right now in the states. Tiered reopening system. This week Contra Costa County was forced to move from the orange here here to the more restrictive red here thats not what you want to see and then you have San Francisco are in and alameda counties all they havent moved back it here and theyre Holding Steady hoping not to regress those 3 separate alameda are all voluntarily though pausing the reopening plans. In fact, San Francisco here is the most relaxed the yellow tear that is where you want to be and theyre now rolling back the reopening of Indoor Dining in will reduce the capacity of Fitness Centers and movie theaters and marine county just are in right there. Well thats cutting Indoor Dining capacity. Back to 25 meanwhile, santa clara. Napa and solano counties here are all experiencing a surge in cases and theyre also at serious risk of having to move back it here for it would mean heading back into the most restrictive purple tier, and if so a lot of went purple it would join Sonoma County which is the only bay area county to have never left the purple most restrictive tier. And the top Health Adviser to president elect joe biden is suggesting the idea of a national for. To 6 week lockdown to drive down the number of covid19 cases and hospitalizations well a vaccine is in the works kron fours dan kerman joins us now live from San Francisco with details on how this would work dan. Well basically in a nutshell theyre talking about a 4 to sixweek National Lockdown at least one of joe bidens advisers talking about that. But today we topped with medical experts and Business Leaders here medical experts say really a more regional approach is whats needed not a National Lockdown and Business Experts tell us that if they are to do Something Like this. The federal governments going to have to step in a lot more than they did previous life. Could the nation be returning to the kind of lockdown that resulted in the empty streets we saw in march. A number of president elect joe bidens Coronavirus Taskforce thinks it might be a good idea. During an interview this week doctor Michael Osterholm said we could lock down for 4 to 6 weeks and if we did that we could drive the numbers down like theyve done in asia like they did in new zealand and australia. I think one size fits all will not work at at this time. Doctor Robert Wachter chairs you see San Franciscos department of medicine. There are clearly areas it mostly in the midwest that need to have something thats pretty close to a full on lockdown but when you look at the bay area for example, were definitely going in the wrong direction. But were nowhere near the kinds of numbers of hospitalizations or test Positivity Rate that would merit Closing Everything the back down to where we were in march. So its got to be regionally determined. If there was to be a lockdown Business Leaders say the federal government must provide wages for out of work employees and provide greater support for Small Business owners than just a ppp loan. Rent thats still going to be do want to start still going to be do inventory. Overhead thats still going. Accumulate a cost and so we need to be bill provides that kind of support to those small to survive this kind of shut down were talking about replacing an entire economy. Get medical experts here in San Francisco do not believe a full blanket approach is whats needed. They say more regional approach is whats needed they do believe that what is needed nationally is universal maskwearing live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you dan and with hospitals reaching Maximum Capacity in cities and states all around the country. Issuing new rounds of shutdowns of lawmakers are scrambling to try and pass a covid relief bill to help millions of americans who are still struggling Democratic Leaders say that Congress Needs to pass another bill right now, but neither can come to an agreement on just how much money to spend at republicans are now accusing democrats of playing politics after they voted to block efforts to pass targeted relief for hospitals businesses and the unemployed. For ppp there is more than a 137 billion dollars sitting there. The idea of a multitrillion dollar a bill is is not going to happen. The republicans should stop their shenanigans about an election that President Trump has already lost. And focus their attention on the immediate issue at despite the public back and forth between both parties negotiations have not officially resumed since the election. Joe biden is forging ahead with setting up his administration despite President Trumps refusal to concede. Biden has delegated delegated the Coronavirus Task force and now more and more republican senators say mister trump and biden should Work Together they say biden should start receiving Intelligence Briefings, our washington correspondent and he has the latest. We are already beginning the transition president elect joe biden says his transition to the white house is well underway fact that theyre not willing to acknowledge we wanted to this point not of much consequence in or plan biden has started filling high level positions in his administration and selected a Coronavirus Task force but isnt getting Intelligence Briefings access to classified information is useful. Well, but im not fussed make any decisions on those issues anyway. Theres one person i said one president a time. And he will be president until january 20th but Oklahoma Republican senator James Lankford doesnt want to wait in a radio interview langford said he would intervene if president elect joe biden is in crete access to the president ial daily Intelligence Briefings by the end of the week transitions dont just start on election day they start money many months before that chris lu director of the 2008 Obama Transition Team says making sure the new administration is properly briefed with security clearance takes time you want to make sure that the incoming leadership. Is fully ready in 2 of the stress that are going on around the world, but House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy says there are still safeguards in place trust the intel community. Hes not president right now. I dont know if youll be president january 20th. But whoever is get the information in washington, im anna warren, a key. Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski is the latest member of the trump team to test positive for covid he recently appeared alongside the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani at an event last saturday outside the 4 Seasons Total Landscaping Company to contest Election Results said he was also at the Election Night party at the white house last week which has been linked to several positive cases. Lewandowski says hes feeling fine and will continue to isolate at his home. To the south bay now where the longrunning effort to close santa clara countys embattled Reid Hillview airport is once again on the front burner at this time airport foes are coming to the table with a plan that reaches beyond safety concerns skyforce rob fladeboe explains. That plan he is live in san jose iraq. Vicki this the board of supervisors is poised to weigh in on a new plan that airport critics say could solve 2 problems at the same time they say closing read you airport here in san jose could not only improve safety for neighbors, but it devon the land underneath the airport here a big chunk of land one of the biggest in the county could then be turned into Affordable Housing, lets take a closer look. Has fended off efforts to close it for decades over safety concerns. It closed 180 acre county own land in east, san jose would go a long way to solving the Regions Affordable Housing crisis as spurs Teresa Alvarado it is time to re imagine revealed airport as an Accessible Community asset. That stimulates production of Affordable Housing and economic opportunities. The airport was here long before the neighborhoods in shopping malls that surrounded today. There are more than 500 takeoffs and landings every day. 200,000 every year. Supporters say its Safety Record is excellent, but there have been several crashes through the years. Neighbors have long complained about noise and pollution as well, but supporters argue Reid Hillview is a Community Asset and should not be closed the airport. Provides us a piece of the National Transportation infrastructure for one thing and as a reliever airport for san jose which puts small aircraft that come into the valley into this airport to stay out of the path of the big jets going into san jose. Also provides we saw fire fighting. Aircraft working out of here during the of the fires up on the hills right over there. Im sure youve got some the role that to illustrate the potential for housing here advocate showed how the airport land is 3 times the size of levis stadium. And half again as large a San Jose State University and the proposed google village in downtown san jose Reid Hillview has served a select few in this community for decades. But the best use of that land is no longer to accommodate private planes or even teach students the basics of aviation. If the airport is alternately closed many of the pilots flight schools and other traffic would likely move to a similar sized airport in san martine in southern santa clara county. And in a significant first step toward closing the airport the last started decline federal funding for the airport that would have kept it open for probably another 30 years or so. The next week will hear arguments for and against this latest plan live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thank you rob coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 5 with many countries now requiring negative covid test before tours can enter. How some are turning to the black market to make sure they can travel. Plus tropical to continuing to wreak havoc in parts of the southeast. The dramatic moments when a road there collapses during a live newscast. And thanksgiving just 2 weeks away from today, how local airports are preparing for what will likely be the busiest travel days of the pandemic and get ready. Weve got a chance of rain air travel is slowly picking up from the lowest levels we saw during the pandemic and leading into the thanksgiving holiday bay area airports say theyre preparing for the next 2 weeks or so to be among the busiest travel days of the year but as kron fours phillipe chagall reports for us tonight, the numbers will still fall far short of last year. Airlines have added more flights for thanksgiving in recent games, frequent flyers in the bay area have noticed planes are slowly filling up but i first started it was like. The plane was temple and now the place pretty people now despite adding flights air traffic still pales in comparison to prepandemic levels at San FranciscoInternational Airport spokesperson doug yakel says only half of the airlines that previously operated at have returned right now were still at only about 40 of the flights. That airlines were planning on flying at this time of year, although the numbers have been improving over the past few months here at sfo air traffic is still down significantly to about 25 of what it was at this same period last year. Last year on an average day 80,000 people would be flying. Right now thats down to about 20,000 doesnt surprise me that its down quite a bit for air travel mineta san jose and oakland International Airports expect thanksgiving to be the busiest travel period during the pandemic in passenger levels 40 of last years that is expected to grow to more than 50 for the holiday trip advisor report says more than 75 of the people planning to travel. Well choose to dry. I dont know anyone thats flying just for thanksgiving holiday. I know families that live within driving distance are doing that aaa Northern California says thanksgiving travel. He dropped 13 said they believe all kron 4 news. As we take a live look outside right now on this thursday night really beautiful here at sfo is bay area Health Officials are hoping the pandemic keeps travelers grounded this Holiday Season. And if you are around people outside your household while traveling. They strongly recommend that you self quarantine for 2 weeks after returning home and they say if you do you plan any family gatherings there hoping that you keep things safe and Small Holding events outside and trying to limit them to just one household. Well theres a coronavirus scare on board the First Caribbean cruise to set sail since the pandemic began preliminary test results show that someone on the sea dream yacht clubs see dream one tested positive for the virus. The captain making that announcement over the intercom yesterday. The passengers have been instructed to return to their cabins and remain isolated. The ship was anchored in the grenadines of the time it is now headed back to barbados where the trip began passengers were tested before the ship departed and then 4 days into the trip. And get this there are new reports of people so desperate to travel. Theyre buying fake covid test results to get them through to their destinations. Many countries as well as the state of hawaii are now requiring the negative test result as an entry requirement, pushing some people to seek out forged test results on the black Market Reports of these false test certificates have already surfaced on place in places like france, brazil and the uk. Now the latest to the Tropical Storm which has now turned deadly the storm sweeping across northern florida today from the gulf coast now to the atlantic pummeling parts of that region with fierce winds and rain homes damaged streets flooded. Power has been knocked out to several areas at least one p