Over the last a couple of days and its going to pushing a cold front through the entire bay area so chilly temperatures rainy conditions were going to see a lot of cloud cover around the bay area. And were also going to see a very high winds ill talk more about that in time the storm system out and just a couple of minutes for now, lets head over to the Traffic Center and say good morning robin good morning to you as well and im reminding folks to not forget to slow it down and the rain why do i say that because people drive way too fast when its raining i want to keep nagging you throughouu the commute. Were checking in on the traffic here on a team to San Francisco looking good so far nice and smooth at the pay gates, no problems on the upper deck so come on and were at 8 minutes to fremont street. Taking you out to brentwood. We do have a major accident working here on highway 4 near balfour its actually closed in both directions. Its an accident involving an suv and a big rig, so theyre diverting traffic away from the area. So if you use this portion of highway 4 as a short cut you may just want to stay away from at least for now until they get this out of the way a highway for through any out pittsburg bay point looks good the conquer trip to 40 to 6. 83 wannacry can san ramon all doing just fine so is the e sure and the minutes but well check more bridges coming up back to you thanks a lot rob and 5 o one and our top story, a big rise in covid cases means bay area counties are rolling back. In their are in San Francisco and sam, a tail. They are back now back in the red tier which is more restrictive for them, yeah, it means a substantial spread of coronavirus. Youll see Napa Sonoma Solano contra alameda and santa clara counties. All in the most restrictive category widespread in fact in Contra Costa County they move back into the purple tier meaning a lot of non essential indoor businesses will have to close down all over again lets go to will tran he is live in san ramon with a look at whats going to be closing up well. You will not be able to dine indoors. According to governor gavin newsom he has seen the cases just rise to levels that he said reminds them of the early days of the pandemic possibly even worse, which is why he says hes pulling the break on this the handbrake and doing a sudden stop in Contra Costa County you might recall i did this story. Last week when they went from the orange to the red but things have gotten so out of hand that they barely state in the red now theyre moving to the purple Effective Immediately so heres some video from while the crete last night people are outdoor dining. They need to create space to slow down covid covid19 which is why its not just the restaurants. The gyms the museums the movie theaters, the places of worship will not allow people inside the Positivity Rate in Contra Costa County is still acceptable at around 3. 7 for every 100,000 cases but they are fearful that if they dont jump on it now it could explode and overwhelmed. The Hospital System just to give you an example in this particular county. Its now at around 11 covid cases for every 100,000 cases that come into hospitals to the Health Administrators and to be in the purple tier it should be at around 7 . So its well above and beyond even that jumping off point which is why the governors going to do this its going to be monitored for 2 to 3 weeks to see whats going on. James and darya it could last a lot longer because decisions are actually made with data from a week ago say things maintain the way that they are this obviously will move indefinitely and according to the governor. Hes leaving it up to individual counties to be even stricter on themselves. Back to you. A tough times are thank you very much, well. And in the east bay theyve got a purple tier now in Alameda County that so that means new regulations theyre going to affect. Tomorrow. No more Indoor Dining no more indoor gyms or Church Gatherings county health data there shows indoor gatherings are contributing to the spread of covid and Health Officers want people to continue wearing masks. The risk really goes up quite a bit weve seen that time and again with covid19. Each of the surge is. Of all of you know famous clusters outbreaks that weve seen. The really the Common Thread is gather together, especially in indoor theyre not always without masks can really spread in an apartment. Schools are already open with in person classes they can continue having class but no Additional Schools in Alameda County are allowed to reopen in Person Learning under these new restrictions in the purple tier. In the south bay Santa Clara County from the orange to the most respected restrictive a purple tier as well. Those changes go into effect this morning santa claras Health Officer doctor sara cody spoke about the increasing cases and the major setback, the counties and now. Our county like many counties is seeing a significant and rapid uptick in cases so its not just the number of cases is about how fast this happened. This this rapid surge has we first noticed it. The first few days of november and it has continued. We have done this before we can do it again. We really need every Single Person living and working in our county to take this extremely seriously. The doctor echoing what all of the doctors, including a Anthony Fauci say which is dont travel outside the bay area for the holidays if you can help it. California is recommending that if you do leave the area when you come back a 14 day quarantine. Well 5 06 Solano County as we mentioned also one of those counties moving from the red tier to the purple tier on the States Coronavirus watch list. Businesses like restaurants and hair salons will have to move their customers outside once again will with will become increasingly more difficult now that the Winter Weather is arriving. The owner of a Specialty Olive Oil shop in benicia says that going back to the purple tier obviously not ideal. But theyve been through it before. We have an Online Presence and we have for almost 16 years. We also have our front door anchor pick up. So we are not going to be as concerned were still going to have the safety for our customers. Well additional restrictions include places of worship and gyms having to also move outdoors for a complete list of county by county restrictions. Just head to our website at kron 4 dot com. And weve gone over several so heres a closer look at the ones that have moved into the purple tier weve got Alameda County again with restrictions going into effect at midnight on wednesday Contra Costa County will begin its restrictions at 8 this morning, Santa Clara CountySolano County. Theyre also now in effect to and napa will go into the purple tier at midnight on wednesday with Sonoma County which is already been in the purple tier since september. Well take a closer look at the counties that are now moving into the red tier in our next half hour. To put things into perspective here are the latest numbers of cases weve had of coronavirus across the state. More than 1 million the by far in california as you can see more than 18,000 people in california have died of covid and that includes 1857 people who lost their lives to coronavirus here in the bay area with the surge in cases, doctors say working the front lines is now similar to what they faced at the start of the pandemic Dennis Shanahan spoke to an icu doctor about what theyre facing. I will send the inside were still worried about things that were worried about march doctor Christian Sand rock is a professor of pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at u c davis help and is a front line workers treating covid19 patients in the hospital so many of us on the inside or just were tired. Its been a lot of long hours. He says his fellow doctors and their families give each other a lot of support as the stress of the job takes a toll a lot of exhaustion. Both you know physically and mentally and really cant underestimate the mental side of it. He says its gratifying seeing patients recover from covid19 and get to go home but the road to recovery is often very long you know some of our patients are learning to breeze walk again regain strength. They have to re in a lot of their facilities while elderly patients and those with preexisting conditions are usually the hardest hit doctors and rock has witnessed young otherwise Healthy People suffer terribly from covid19 that part is also really you know traumatic on all of us doctors and rock says most of the cases he was seeing back in march could be connected to large gatherings but these days hes noticing a new trend now theyve actually spread where we see cases associated with just couples getting together maybe 2 couples that are kind of part of a pod or a small family gettogether of 6 or 8 people and in some cases Public Health contact tracers are unable to locate an obvious source of infection and when we start seeing that thats a sign of 2 things one the rates are rising enough where its spreading more for the general population is not the big number 2 that sort of belies a lot of the pandemic 50 bc you think well i havent seen my friend and 7 months, i havent seen my mother and this amount of time, ill just say hi to her and thats that little those little slips. Now matter when the rates are higher it matters much maybe in march. He says symptoms usually dont present until 5 days after infection, but he reminds us you can be very contagious for a few days before you notice anything is wrong. Frontline workers like doctors and rock are uneasy about the approaching holidays, its unknown and i think were all kind of worried about that he urges all of us to be extra careful wear masks in limit exposure to others outside your household thats just hard to do, but thats sort of what we need to do right its just its the difficult portion of where we live and how we live now and its just difficult for everyone worldwide Dennis Shanahan fox 40 news. Still ahead on the kron 00 00am morning news despite good news about a possible covid19 vaccine, some local doctors say the vaccine may not be the savior we need to end the pandemic will take a closer look at why. And rain is on the way to the bay area and fast we can see during the morning commute and then becoming really widespread around lunch time. So dont forget the umbrellas at let you know what the timing of the storm system coming up. And also dont forget to reduce your speed when youre driving in the rain, yes, ill keep reminding you were checking out the bay bridge toll plaza wide open a great time to come on into San Francisco will have a complete traffic check coming up after the break. Tired of clean clothes that just dont smell clean . What if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks . Now they can this towel has already been used and it still smells fresh. Pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load and enjoy fresher smelling laundry for up to 12weeks. [phone rings] sore throat pain . Try new Vicks Vapocool drops in honey lemon chill for a fastacting rush of relief like youve never tasted in. Honey lemon ahh woo Vicks Vapocool drops now in honey lemon chill 5. 14 right now and stormtracker fours all fired up with nowhere to yeah lets find out from her back i thought i saw to our north rebecca this radar show any start to impact the north bay now. Im not quite yet to receive even further north of that so places your rico right now are definitely getting the rainfall so its closer to the oregon border, but its definitely heading our direction and in the north bay could start seeing some showers as early as 6 oclock within a 45 minutes or so from now out the door right now youd never think that the storm was on the way because conditions at sfo look great and even better news said delay free so far for inbound flights at the airport but of today that could change with the storm system heading our direction right now, but no clouds in your way as of yet and radar showing maybe just a light drizzle the green on your screen is here possibly through parts of the north bay just really like though the major shower, the major rain that were tracking is 2 of the north so like i was mentioning, it said along the oregon border, and its even serna touchdown along the coast and yes places you recant medford are starting to see some of that rain activity were going to start to see it on future cast for it looks were around the 6 oclock hour so within 45 minutes or so ukiah could be seeing some of the showers and then parts of santa rosa could start to see it and then by 9 oclock it looks the entire north bay is really going to be covered under the rainfall and really pockets of heavy rain at times see all the orange on your screen there just showing you the intensity of this rainfall. The yellow as well little bit more moderate showers so the entire north bay will be covered and then by 10 oclock it looks like much of the peninsula and San Francisco will be covered as well as parts of oakland and berkeley. And then very widespread by the noontime hour so lunch time you want to spend it. If you can not many restaurants of course the in your homes if you can because it is going to be wet. Its going to be slick out there. And its going to be very windy and then by 5 oclock tonight. Its going to be scattered showers throughout the north bay looks like the bulk of it will remain along the peninsula, our east bay zone and our south bay as it moves out to our valley locations so its going to be sticking with us through the entire day today and then things are going to start to lighten up around 11 oclock tonight so scattered showers that were expecting as we get into early tomorrow morning. So dont put the rain gear way after today, were still going to need it for wednesday because look at that were going to see anywhere from light to moderate showers throughout the day popping up tomorrow and then things are going to dry out as we get into wednesday night and then it looks like your thursday should be pretty dry as well. Its going to be really windy might have during the overnight hours, youre waking up to bit as well along the coast are already looking at gusts of about 30 Miles Per Hour for places like Half Moon Bay. Things are really going to start to pick up as we get closer to that 10 oclock hour. Were basically in the 20s everywhere, you look even 30s in some spots as far as those wind gusts go at Higher Elevations we are going to see a peak at 35, maybe even 40 Miles Per Hour. Its going to stick with us through most of the day today and were going to see the winds continue through much of your wednesday as well until a finally its going to taper off as we get closer to wednesday night so its going to be rainy and windy for today and tomorrow, future rain pretty good pretty impressive actually because we could see an inch of rain for spots in our north like santa rosa about a half inch expected in nevado and San Francisco and the same with our east bay shoreline through oakland and hayward nearing half an inch about a 3rd of an inch from Mountain View a little over half an inch along the coast for Half Moon Bay. Looking ahead the next couple of days. Yes, it is going to be wet today and tomorrow and then things should taper off and it should be mostly dry on thursday. Theres a slight chance of showers in the north bay, but it looks like its going to be a very slight chance temperatures though really evenly spread mostly in the 60s everywhere, you look at the overnight lows dropping down to the 30s and 40s. Ill talk about that coming up in just a bit for now, lets head out to the roadways and see how traffic is moving with yes off to the bridges we go starting off at 92 your driver cause the 70 oh bridge, its busy indeed are busy. Yes, a lot of folks are rolling over to the peninsula so we already have lots of brake lights right now leaving hayward west of the toll plaza but were still trouble free. We dont have any hot spots here so well say 12 minutes and growing from hayward over to send the tail here the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is looking good and moving well as its been throughout the morning drive so come on and while were still at 8 minutes off to fremont street. Were checking in on highway 4 because wes for and mckeown getting word of a car fire. So if you have to travel between martinez and hercules here theres a little bit of a back up about a half mile as fire crews are working with car fire here you can get by but its slow not a major delay, but slow enough to get out there early if you can and the better news for highway 4 we have this injury crash wrapping up in Brentwood West for at balfour its a headon crash involving a big rig at one point it was completely closed. The activity is still there they moved it off to the side that keep in mind that they may be blocking lanes once again to clear the crash but there are no longer diverting away