Santa clara counties are in the most restrictive widespread purple tier. Sonoma county was the only county not to move thats because it was already in the purple tier counties in the purple tier must close many non essential indoor businesses and that includes Indoor Dining. And tonight kron fours terisa stasio picks up our coverage in Santa Clara County where some businesses there are trying their hardest to stay afloat. Couple months ago when we got these parklets and campbell i wanted to get some nice park with says you can see behind me now so over the last week. I actually then i had plastic covering here because i spent so much money on these beautiful park with so when it rains everyone was getting wet side just finished this last night the sushi confidential owner randy showing me the rooftops he quickly installed to beat back the rain but he is still facing some other hefty challenges. As he runs his restaurant in these covid times like come dine out. I will bring heaters out here. Thats another challenge is heaters are very difficult to get. I just heard that propane. Might start running out. So those are going to be i have the back of my truck build up with 15 propane tanks right now to get a u haul, the film at so those are the things that owner gets to thats all these things you normally need to do Santa Clara County pulling back on restaurants like randys forcing them to offer only Outdoor Dining with covid19 cases skyrocketing in the state. But randy says hes prepared for one thing he chose not to offer Indoor Dining when the county opened up saying it was easier to expand outward rather than bounce back and forth. And that we werent really getting a lot of customer requests about dining inside. Plus its only 25 . So i hire more staff to manage. 25 people in since i we knew this was going to go back and fortunately so. We dont want to hire and then have to let. Employees guy like that and you never probably 5 in your wildest anything but this would be what youre dealing with on november, 17 point money. Yeah, this is this is in no ones business plan. No one would have ever thought this. Lows theresa reporting for us tonight, San Franciscos newest covid testing site open this morning at the elevated Farmers Market the test site was a relocated from south of market to the southeast part of the city because thats where the most cases are. The city along with private providers. Now averaging about 5800 tests per day but getting a test one of the city is proving actually pretty difficult some. Health experts have encouraged people gathering with others are traveling over the holidays to get tested. First but Infectious Disease experts are telling us that really can give you a false sense of security because there is a 3 day lag time between the time you get exposed. And when your test turns positive. Stress positive 3 days after exposure. You become infectious. 4 days after exposure say could catch somebody in this window period in the first 3 days after theyve been exposed. They get their test results back their negative. Now its day 4. And there. And theyre in their area period of being hyper infectious. They go to grandmas house with all the aunts and uncles around and also you have a super spreader event thats what we worry about. Health experts continue to recommend not traveling or gathering with people outside your household over the holidays. Restaurants in the bay area really getting hit with a double whammy no Indoor Dining with these new restrictions and the rain businesses now forced to keep customers outside due to the new restrictions in downtown lafayette here Outdoor Dining tables were mostly empty during lunch, todays the rain was falling. But it is important to note that most businesses do still offer takeout options if you dont want to brave it and sit outside weve seen tents going up and we need the rain so badly but you feel for these workers these wait wait staff the Business Owners who you know now theyre trying to figure what to do in the rain. Yeah and lawrence has been talking about the rain and you delivered on a promise. Yeah, windy too around the bay area was coming down quite a bit were not done just yet weve got more showers. That continue to pop up around the bay area, the front making its way into the south bay now well see more of that still very wet all around the bay area now is the front very nice looking system little the cold speckle clouds on the backside of that storm about to roll on shore to so that will keep things active throughout the night tonight kind of on and off more showery instead of steady rain. Then another round of showers as we head toward tomorrow too. Outside today though the storm system coming through with some wind we have some gusts of 20 to 30 miles an hour. Even in the urban areas and gus over the mountain tops as high as 50 Miles Per Hour or so fairly strong storm making its way through the bay area today and now here we sit with more showers out there as we get on the backside of it now but beginning to pick up again in parts of the north bay is another way from the system like spokes on a wheel comes rotating in here comes that next wave that weve got another wave that will likely move in tomorrow but that rain continuing to fall out there now scattered showers along the peninsula in the north bay the activity picking up though into santa rosa you can see some of that right now as we take you down in the street level there certainly picking up some raindrops in many of those neighborhoods fairly light. We take you back a little bit further south and yeah were seeing more showers continuing into hayward into fremont that taking in for a closer look there you see some heavier bands some deeper bands of green there so certainly seeing some stronger rain beginning to fall Near Union City will be pushing in your neighborhood here very shortly and then we continue to see more scattered showers around the bay area that will be the case throughout the night tonight. Periods of brief moderate amounts of rain that tapering off some stars and then some more showers on the way guys back to you all right lawrence tonight. Were following a developing situation in San Francisco police are investigating an officer involved shooting it happened at 5th and market street. Around 06 30pm tonight witnesses say a man was holding a knife before police shot him. Is Walking Around holding a huge cave are huge game. I was like was a huge family like pretty big night pretty damning night walking route that waving around his really drugged up the cop side. He was cop just write us a clue and get away from the Public People other people around him they got a clue did and they got on like its not moving and he was still being sporadic. Theyre trying to get enough water actions he wasnt fine directions which they they they fired on him tonight. Police say that the investigation is ongoing tonight. We will bring you more information as soon as it comes into our newsroom. And you see in President Trump has fired Christopher Kreps might not know the name. But he is or was the director of the federal agency who vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election last weekend. President trump just fired crabs in a tweet tonight saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was quote highly inaccurate. End quote this comes as the president is refusing to recognize the results of the election. Crabs was appointed by the president President Trump as the director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. Hes been outspoken in recent days defending election security. Meanwhile President Trump is facing increasing pressure to share critical covid information with president elect biden steam as the transition process tries to move forward Kareen Wynter has more now on bidens meeting with National Security advisers today. Many democrats even some Top Republican leaders have called it a risk to National Security. The trump administrations refusal to provide president elect joe biden with daily classified reports. Today, the president elect did receive a briefing not from Administration Officials but instead experts outside of government helping him prepare transition to power all 3 credit defense telling home more republican senators are speaking out indicating the president elect should get daily National Security briefings. But both the president and the Trump Campaign have made legal challenges of focus its team of attorneys are in federal court today in pennsylvania pushing for a ruling to stop that state from certifying Election Results there. Although the Trump Campaign has filed lawsuits in several states want newly retained a lawyer. Said these challenges may not change the outcome of the election in my opinion there really are no bombshells that are about to drop that will be rail. A biden presidency at the end of the day in my view the litigation will not work. It will not this election in georgia where a recount is underway following the president and the gop is request for statewide audit. The secretary of state Brad Raffensperger claims members of his own party have been pressuring him to ensure the president comes out on top with votes. Raffensperger said hes even gotten Death Threats and that republican senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina also asked him whether he could discard all mail in ballots in counties that had higher rates of non matching signatures basically to toss ballots that were cast illegally. Graham called the allegations ridiculous saying he was just trying to verify ways to validate signatures on mail in ballots in states that were hotly contested following the be matched back to the voters. And then a good chance, it implies that up. Then you can throw those out President Trump who hasnt held any Public Events so far this week but has been active on twitter tweeted georgia wont let us look at all the important signature match without that the recount is meaningless theres been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in this election and illegally modifying a federal election vote tally is considered a federal offense. That was Kareen Wynter reporting a new study warns that an abbreviated transition of power could hinder president elect joe bidens ability to fill the more than 1200 Administration Jobs requiring senate confirmation. Those jobs include key cabinet and sub cabinet posts on the front lines of addressing the outbreak. The study from the center for president ial transition at the nonpartisan partnership for Public Service examine the different pace of confirmations for president George W Bush and president barack obama the study stated that more delays by the General Services administration in recognizing the outcome of the election could also impede biden in his ability to make critical appointments to National Security related positions could also weaken the governments ability to protect an 8 the nation and to distribute life saving vaccine. Its. Still to come several cities in Sonoma County filed a lawsuit against pg and e blaming the utility for causing the 2019 kincade fire. It details ahead on that and the Oakland Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of their own how a firefighter lost his life. Well at one of the departments offices. In just a few months, weve learned a lot more about the covid19 virus. Its real. Its dangerous. And we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay six feet apart. We can do this. If we do it together. Our 4 zone forecast as we get a live look outside right now at sfo looks like carmax wet. Yeah slick runways out their chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is with us now with how long the Rainy Weather is going to be around a large yeah, hey guys, yeah, turning more toward showers now i think thats why were going to play not that steady rain but youll see periods of a few raindrops little break up again and well see some clearing but tonight it looks like those showers kind on and off throughout the night tonight is the main cold front now further to the south all the way down in Santa Clara County and further south toward the monterey bay but outside yeah, it is still slick out there under mostly clohdy skies rain totals. Not a bad storm how about canfield over an inch of rain santa rosa over half an inch almost a half an inch in napa almost a 3rd their enrichment San Francisco to tense they handle almost a half an inch of rain and over local mountain top smout am some of the other mountains, were talking inch and a half plus so certainly a nice little soaker outside you see continue to see those showers but more broken around the bay area now another band though you see that more to find band moving in the north bay again as yet another wave of the storm system starting to move on shore so thats were looking at now and some of the bringing up some totals now into the santa rosa area and much of the north those scattered showers continuing at street level there Anderson Drive there near green youre talking about some rain coming down your neighborhoods there in larkspur as well and more that on the way to toward the east bay, the kind of broken now. Still weve got some darker shades of green that redefined the heavier amounts of rainfall in to see some of the showers moving on through right now into fremont also all robert niles road and then east bay near look at a dublin and pleasanton also see some raindrops there too its going to continue on and off tonight. I think a couple more of these bands of rain likely begin to push into the bay area keep things unsettled tomorrow to youll see sunny skies and occasional a few showers may be through the middle of the day and then by the afternoon i think things begin to settle down. But a nice little storm coming an inch and a half across some of the mountains respectable that lord thank you. Well weve got a shocking races confrontation here in the bay area it was all caught on camera a white woman was seen confronting her black neighbor about his dog. Take a listen to the encounter. Youre acting like you can go your house and you can have an that you can do not what he well this all happened in Discovery Bay in the east bay you can hear the woman telling the man to act like a white person. Confrontation started after the woman said that the familys pit bull came after her pool as you can see in her arms there, but the family says that did not happen. The woman continued and repeatedly told the family that they were quote acting black. Our first taylor is interviewing the family tonight in shell have more on kron 4 at 9. 10 oclock. Disgusting story to a real tragedy here the Oakland Fire Department is mourning the loss of interim assistant fire chief, sean laflin who you see here loflin was a 20 year veteran of the Oakland Fire Department. Last night he just collapsed while at the departments administrative offices, he was rushed to a nearby hospital. But later died of a prolonged heart attack fire chief Melinda Drayton says quote we are shaken by this immense loss and focused on restoring the Emotional Health of this department and the laugh and family who are devastated by this tragedy. Laffin is survived by his parents his wife sabrina his 3 sons Cooper Connor and caden caden is a probationary firefighter with the city of oakland. Loflin was just 42 years old. Sonoma county cities are suing pg and e over the 2019 kincade fire which destroyed 374 buildings and forced Widespread Evacuations santa rosa windsor. Cloverdale in healdsburg filed that lawsuit today alleging the Utility Companies equipment sparked the kincade fire. Lawsuit also alleges that pg and e should be legally responsible for the fire and the injuries and damage to Public Resources such as land roads and environmental resources. The fire started back in october of 2019 and burned nearly 78,000 acres over 13 days. Damaging 60 more in causing for injuries. President trump and first lady will be spending thanksgiving at the white house instead of attending the annual dinner at his Maralago Club in florida stephanie grisham, the first ladys spokesperson confirmed the plans in holiday scheduling update on twitter tonight, trump and his family typically spend the holiday in palm beach and have thanksgiving dinner in the ballroom alongside dues paying members who purchased tickets to a tent. The pandemic has led the San Franciscomarin food bank to serve more people than ever before and the ne