Milestone, california is close to the 1 million mark of covid19 cases over 991,000 cases have been reported in the state as of today. The men number keeps going up. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman the u. S. Has surpassed 10 million infections and now california will be the second state right behind texas to eclipse a million known cases which is now forcing the state to roll back reopening plans and also new today Alameda County becomes the latest bay area county to pause its reopening plans. Currently alameda is in the states orange tier which allows some indoor businesses to operate with modified Health Orders but Health Officials say theyre expected to move backwards into the red tier really soon so if the county does not curb its infection rate. There is a chance in may have to go back even further into the purple tier which would force many non essential indoor businesses to close kron fours terisa stasio is following the stories. Well
Positive in recent years. Horizon before sunrise 4 00 it morning, the covid testing began at the parking lot of the hospital. All employees are being tested for the virus for today because over the past month a total of 14 Staff Members have come down with it. We have periodically had employees come up positive. But never this many in the span of four weeks. The ceo says the hospital has one long term covid patient theyre treating there. They dont know if the Staff Members have been sick from this patient. They dont know if patients have gotten sick from Staff Members. Our experience were having right now, is showing just how dangerous this virus is and how very, very easy it is for anyone in our community to pick it up and become infected. Once the hospital workers are at thed for covid today theyll be fitted for n95 masksment only the staff working with the patients had to wear n95. Now, everyone must wear one. They hope to get the results back from todays test to share them with cou
Cooler out towards the coast. More details in your forecast are still to come back to you darya thanks a lot with the heat it was just what weve been seeing with wildfires. This is dangerous for big fires are burning across. The bay area in the east bay and the north bay right now. And they were likely sparked by the lightning. So we added that to what weve been through and as john said its going to let up a little bit its still going to be hot really worried about when to when it comes to fire james yeah, absolutely so lets lay the groundwork the scene for you. We have the marsh fire thats the farthest one to the south were tracking right now in Alameda County right there in the sun all regional wilderness was aboard a Santa Clara County that fires continue to burn out of control burn out of control the deer zone fires burning on the east side of mount diablo just east of clayton sparked all yesterday and continues to rage in the north bay we have a pair of fires there as well the hen
Reopened in new york on chris james reporting. Joe biden is calling for a nationwide mask mandate saying that it could save thousands of lives in the next 3 months. Every single american. Should be wearing a mask when theyre outside. For the next 3 months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate. Every governor should mandate. Mandatory maskwearing. The estimates by the experts are will save over 40 1000 lives. The next few months. 40,000 lives. Biden goes on to say wearing a mask is less about the individual contracting the virus and more about preventing others from getting sick and tonight more than half the states in the country require people to wear masks when out in public. Here in the bay area there are more than 64,000 coronavirus cases and 924 related deaths we are seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 14,000 infections. The virus has also been deadliest in alameda. County with 216 deaths you can find a complete list of cases by county and city on our website k
Angry knowing that his killer is still out here walking the streets freely its very difficult for me to come on the street that i have to have resilience and strength because he would. And the kind of person terrence words. Friday marks 4 years since 4 in 4 kerry lost her son terrence at the location. She now stands at with her husband terence senior and her daughter erica, 4 years of waiting for justice. That never keen i feel that its gotten harder because the desire for a mother to want to see justice served for injustice. Its extremely difficult. Terence was just 22 years old at the time. This was the scene that night on august 14th 2016 when hundreds of people took cover after gunfire erupted a Birthday Party in the 300 block of 15th street in oakland. It marks extreme emotion, he laid in the street here. All night long after being hit by one bullet, a stray bullet. A party where they were celebrating a friends life and yet he lost to the second victim Craig Fletcher cooks also di