>>some decent sunshine. look at that tomorrow morning some more fog but they will be the least of our worries as it will be very stormy they break into the morning hours which will be getting into all of that coming up 53 or so by 11 o'clock 2 o'clock clearing up the fog with some scattered clouds left over this is sfo in the background. we're told no delays even though it's quite foggy and again getting

stormy for tonight we'll be showing all of that coming up at that party all right dave thanks a lot. let's get right to our top story this morning covid conditions here in california are not improving and that means the bay area steam stay at home order is surely going to be extended. >>there are now more than 20 million covid-19 cases in the u.s. health officials expect that number to increase to the holiday gatherings. all told more than 50,000 new cases were reported on friday here in california with more than 20,000 californians hospitalized. there are currently 4 to 500 people being treated in the icu in the bay area icu bed capacity continues to drop rapidly right now the bay area's at 5.1% availability. and that's the lowest number since the beginning of the pandemic now taking a look at the sacramento area icu bed capacity. there is down to 6.9%. the situation overall is worst in the san joaquin valley and southern california regions where there are no icu

beds available. it doesn't appear that the bay area will get above 15% available icu capacity by january 7th. that's when the stay at home order was expected to expire. but as a result, san francisco is likely to extend both of its travel advisory and its stay at home orders. health officials believe those orders have saved over 330 lives. now to the south bay where kaiser permanente's investigating a covid outbreak at san jose location over the holidays. officials say 43 emergency staff members have tested positive for the virus kron four's reyna harvey reporting live now from san jose with more on that good morning. >>and marty good morning and you can imagine just how much strain this put on the hospital like you mentioned 43 of the staff here that work in the emergency department tested positive for covid-19 over the course of a week or so and so now the hospital's working to find out how this

happened and how everybody contract covid-19 they've been taking extra precautions in this there doing contract tracing right now so if someone had it or came into contact with someone they're instructing them not to come to work because they do not want this to continue to spread. now this happened between december 27th and january first 43 staff members at the kaiser permanente san jose emergency department all tested positive for covid-19. now employees confirmed to have covid-19 that work here or suspected. adding covid-19 due to symptoms are instructed not to come to work on hearing to the covid-19 isolation protocols here upper kaiser permanente and the cdc guidelines in a statement that we got from kaiser from irene chavez the senior vp at kaiser permanente out here. they said we're using our infection approving protocols we are investigating the outbreak and using contract tracing to

personally notify and test any staff or patients who are exposed during this time period based on cdc and public health guidelines at this time hospital is open. so they're going to continue the protocols that they're undertaking and try to make sure they get the word out there to anybody else may have come into contact but for now reporting on here in san jose reyna harvey kron 4 news rain, i'm just wondering about 43 people now suddenly put into isolation, what does that do. >>with the shortage is that we've been hearing about it so many hospitals around the bay area. >>yeah mardy at this a great point that you mention like i talked about the strain that this puts on the hospital, you know hospitals across california. well already just pushed to the brink with having to cater to all the covid-19 patients, we know of many hospitals, they're running an icu space there. having it see patients in hallways and conference rooms

across california. so with 43, critical people that are working to take care of these patients now sick themselves you can only imagine what the hospitals dealing with right scrambling scrambling for workers thanks a lot. rhonda harvey reporting for us live. >>from san jose. >>well there is mixed reaction to the expected 6 extension of the stay at home order in the bay area's health experts are supporting the decision but business owners continue to wrestle with the idea of yet another shutdown after they barely survived the first one. restaurant owners say they've been jumping through hoops to keep their doors open by trying to keep up with all of the changing health orders. many even closing their doors for good. >>i just hope that everybody just follows the rules the restaurants need to be close and i would just hope that other places of service that is required for social distancing be close because it's unfair for one to be open and another because we're all in it hard time during this process.

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>>senator dewine are suggesting that calling the offices of your state lawmaker to help get the benefits issue resolved. now if you can't pay rent because of the holdup in benefits they say it's important to inform your landlord in writing at the payment has been delayed because of covid-19 dave. >>ok marty we're talking about clouds and fog to start the day off today in dense in some spots there but that's going to break up a little bit in the early afternoon. not a bad sunday today that things are

changing tonight and tomorrow a walk you through it coming up in just a bit kron 00:00am morning news.

>>we're going to break down tomorrow morning too because it's going to vary depending on the time of day you're talking about 2 as well, but first things first we have the fog in the cloud cover which to deal with this morning base gets overcast if we could see more sun going on here and most of the rape radar echoes are far up towards the north. live shot coming in here for you as we take a look at sfo i know and there are no delays last we're told pretty much that fog looks like they're swinging things around little closer to san francisco. alcatraz is in there somewhere they can make it out a bit so fog in san francisco but this is a different type of fog. it's usually generated by the rain we've had and we're going to have some more as we get into tonight and tomorrow morning temperatures for you know you're not an 81 to know that the steaming but no you're in 40's 50's over most of the region here 47 up the santa rosa 51 meanwhile for

san jose and 40's back towards the peninsula, not a lot of mercury movement today what we're looking for is to improve the sky conditions. there's a brief window here so watch this carefully as we go into the afternoon boom little clearing patch sunset dazed and that's our sunday know like you missed it, but there's a little opportunity get some sun at enough to make out something in the afternoon for today we get tonight, let's go to the overnight first opportunity about 10 o'clock rain starts filling into parts of the bay area new kind of light to moderate maybe at times and it's everywhere as you'll notice it until later serious stuff gets here 05:06am, here. there's some heavier rain concentrated in the north bay, not as much off towards the east bay, but a little bit across the peninsula as you'll see marching forward here. there you can see finally a line here this is around noon and it's important see the sun the winds this is when the front passes and typically one front pass the reins done well it's going to linger little bit beyond that so we'll go to the afternoon still with some scattered showers at least and

we won't really get that earnest clearing probably until well after sunset and into tuesday morning as you see so things will take a break until we get some more rain on wednesday. let's get to the winds member about high noon that's when things start to switch on us will have breezy today tonight by dawn tomorrow morning we've got those southeast winds cooking here we'll have the winds pretty impressively into the teens as far as wind advisory talk the only area really impacted on that is the northern solano county this in that wind advisory that's 04:00am to 04:00pm on monday now. now here comes that front about high noon boom there. it is and notice the directions now we're from the south that switch to the west so have an onshore wind. immediately following that front and this takes us all the way to tuesday, so it could be a little breezy on monday here in particular as we approach the noon hour so for commuters, let's say 8 or 9 o'clock the winds are going to be with you and gusty and stormy all that until the early afternoon and by this time the skies are already opening up again for that break for today, we'll call

that morning fog and clouds 5659 oakland, san jose comes in at about 60. we're seeing the better chance of the breaking up of the skies a little bit for the south bay and inland in the east bay east bay shoreline is going to tougher. they're we'll call some afternoon clearing at that mid to upper 50's 64 hayward today also san jose at about 60 very reminiscent of yesterday. the consolation is at least we'll see a little bit more in the way of some sunshine so stormy monday coming our way a break on tuesday, but there's more upstream next week we'll get into that longer-range forecast in just a bit martin ok dave thanks a lot seen a couple minutes. vandals lashed out at the leaders of the u.s. house and senate this weekend. those attacks came after congress failed to approve. >>$2000 stimulus checks for millions of americans who are struggling during the pandemic the messages where's my money and mitch kills the poor among others were spray painted on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's louisville home yesterday. mcconnell released a statement condemning the vandalism police say there are

currently no suspects and then on new year's day you remember that senate republicans refused to allow debate over a bill to increase the amount of covid-19 relief on friday vandals targeted house speaker nancy pelosi's san francisco home leaving fake blood a pig said, and a message saying $2000 isn't even enough. other messages on pelosi's garage included cancel rent and we want everything. speaker pelosi's home had been targeted in the past you might remember last september hair dryers were hung from nearby trees after pelosi visited a san francisco hair salon that should have been closed because of covid restrictions as apd is investigating but has as of now they don't have any suspects. republicans and democrats are pulling out all the stops just 2 days before a special senate runoff election in georgia that will determine the balance of power in the senate. so far more than 3 million georgians have voted early in the race. president

elect joe biden's team is pumped in at least 18 million dollars to help jon ossoff and reverend raphael warnock to trying to feed republican senators david perdue and kelly leffler texas senator ted cruz also was on on the campaign trail both for both purdue and leffler as well. big story that we're following this morning a lover, 11 republican senators have pledged to reject the results of the election. congress will meet on wednesday to officially certify president joe biden's win. the group of senators wants congress to appoint a commission to audit the election results. they do acknowledge they are unlikely to change the results of the election which have been certified by state and federal officials biden is scheduled to be on inaugurated on january 20th. and still ahead on kron 4 morning news, one man is in jail this morning in connection with a deadly new year's eve hit and run we have all the details for you coming up after the break.

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>>callous or was behind the wheel of a stolen car that hit 2 people in the south of market neighborhood. both of them died from their injuries. investigators say mcallister took off from the scene after the crash. but officers caught up with him a short time later, he's facing a number of charges including felony hit and run dui and possessing meth and a firearm in a statement, san francisco police chief bill scott called the incident a senseless tragedy that should not have happened. since the stay at home orders look as if they will continue for the foreseeable future emergency officials say you might want to wisely use your time staying at home. last there were 2 small earthquakes along the san andreas fault. one of them. a new year's eve in san francisco bay and then yesterday morning in monterey

county. though neither were very large the usgs is urging everyone to use the recent quakes as a reminder to get prepared. they suggest you have up to 2 weeks worth of water and food packed away and that you take time to secure any heavy furniture that might fall over in a quake. although this week's quakes were on the same fault usgs says the next one big one could happen on any of the major faults that run through the bay area. >>when when we see these small ones that are kind of hitting on this very active fault is that a sign of a bigger one to come. >>i think the important thing through these all of those earthquakes even though they were closely spaced in time. they were spaced far enough along the fall and they were not big enough none of those earthquakes really influenced. its neighbor if you will and so it's it's a coincidence that time. war what is

triggering another there is actually. divided. by many differs with faults in each of those faults is capable of generating is large dangerous earthquake. and so that's why it's important for not just people who live near the san andres fault to be prepared. but for the whole bay area to be prepared. and the usgs says it's very important to come up with a family emergency plan for both during and after earthquake. >>the relevance story for you this morning television host larry king is in isolation at a los angeles area hospital after testing positive for covid-19. according to multiple sources, the 87 year-old tv fixture has been sick for the past 10 days. family members including his ex-wife and their 2 sons are not allowed to visit him at this point. this is larry king's latest health issue back in 2019 he suffered a near fatal stroke and then in 1987, he survived a heart

attack. for the first time in 75 years the rose parade in southern california was canceled. analysts say that the economic loss could be huge to the region. the enigma research corporation found the loss of the revenue from the canceled parade and rose bowl game could be as high as 200 million dollars. the parade was canceled back in july because of coronavirus concerns. the study says that the events help support 2000 full time jobs, mainly at hotels, restaurants stores and entertainment. the parade also along with the game generate 38 million dollars in tax revenue for the area. and we'll be right back.

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in napa in 48 fremont with 51 coming in for san jose in comparison. they were pretty close except. notice, half moon bay there. it's 13 degrees behind were was this time from yesterday. so look at that that's half moon bay with all the fog that we're talking about not a bad shot, and maybe allowing some temporary clearing to get no drop in temperatures here briefly overnight. this is the golden gate and then not much the way a breezy conditions here but some fog lingering as you'll notice that's a common fog trapped going on, but we're seeing that all over the place even well inland. winds single digits to come for right now they will be quite as we get late tonight into early tomorrow morning. this is what our projections are for today, mostly cloudy by 11:00am by 2 we're talking mostly cloudy as well the fog that in most of the bay outside the south bay in the peninsula will probably take about noon until we start seeing some clearing on that front. coming up a little bit of take a look at your a longer range forecast mark all right dave, thanks a lot.

>>we want to continue our coverage now on coronavirus with a look at how the covid vaccine rollout is going so far. now the cdc says more than 13 million doses have been distributed across the country thus far current data shows over 4 million americans have received their first doses of the vaccine. that includes more than 2 million doses being sent to long-term care facilities and more than 280,000 nursing home residents as more people receive the covid-19 vaccine, many of them are turning to social media to share their experiences. but there's controversy and frustration surrounding who can get it and who can't. felicia bolton has more on that. >>posting on social media after getting the covid-19 vaccine is now becoming a trend online. a hashtag search on twitter brings up thousands of posts from around the world one twitter user says today my mom see the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. after year battling this pandemic she can finally

feel more comfortable going to work every day. another one says hashtag i got the shot for my family patients friends and loved ones so thankful to ring in the new year with this gift doctor regina with bill could casey is a board building lion and cincinnati she to receive the vaccine and plans to post online about it not just yet, but i did take pictures in order to do so she says she doesn't see the post as a sign of bragging i think it's >>people. >>what keeps people from getting the vaccination is there misunderstanding or just not knowing and hearing about other people's response. he says by sharing the experience it could serve as a call to action for others to get the shot being that black and brown communities are of with the infection and the. the consequences of being

infected. i think it's important that our community. is able to see the folks who are actually getting the vaccination and speaking on it. so that not as has it been to get it but not everyone is keen on how the vaccine is being administered due to strict rules only certain essential workers and seniors can receive it. >>one person tweeted out i'm not in indy but i am a trucker it is my job to transport the vaccine to various hospitals under a huge amount of regulations to get it to people. i take this role with great pride. i only hope one day soon i will be eligible to receive a dose danielle durrani says her daughter can't go to school without individuals that have down syndrome have a 5 times greater chance of getting covid 10 times likely to die from it. she says they are waiting to receive their chance to get the vaccine. while others post about their excitement it's very sad that we've all come this far. >>and so many people like myself sit and wait.

>>in hopes that you know we will have a chance. >>felicia bolton news nation. >>there are now more than 20 million covid-19 cases here in the u.s. and that number is expected to increase because of the holiday gatherings statewide more than 50,000 new cases were reported on friday with more than 20,000 californians. being hospitalized. there are currently 4 to 500 people being treated in icu. the state health department says it needs your help with blood donations as the state struggles with the surge of covid-19 cases there is an urgent need for all blood types the department tweeted a call for donors and to donate they say you must have an appointment and you can find a link to schedule an appointment and locations where you can donate blood. our website at kron 4 dot com. los angeles county sheriff's deputies shut down 5 super spreader events on new year's eve that were attended by nearly 1000 people. those

locations range from rented homes to vacant warehouses in closed businesses. 90 people were arrested and cited for violating this the county's safer at home order. they also confiscated 5 handguns at one event. >>and coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news, a new year means new goals and resolutions after the break we have some tips and tricks to help you stay on track. stay with us we'll be right back.

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>>your health many of us use and make new year's resolutions as we try to start the year off on the right foot. doing too much too quickly can actually do more harm than good. miki a cur shows us now the right way to kick off those new year's resolutions. >>it seems like every year rate after people pop the champagne and scream happy new year they're ready to make drastic lifestyle changes like changing what they eat, but rachel iverson a sanford health registered dietician says people's bodies work differently, plain and simple what works for one person. >>i mean i work for them long cars actually interesting

deficiencies that impact that i was on as well as disease processes later in life. >>iverson says one of the most common mistakes she sees is people cutting certain items completely out of their lives unfortunately. again with those benjen restrict cycles when we talk wiping out we tend to overindulge and all the other things around us and not same thing later. >>but she says there are ways you can improve your diet. one make sure you eat 5 servings of fruits and veggies a day to more than half of your grains should be whole grain 3 make sure to drink enough water and for ask yourself why you're currently eating is satisfying so every time fluctuate 20 or more pounds up and down after a diet. >>we're for from calorie restriction. you're really increasing your risk of obesity and earlier death. >>i'm mikaya kerr arrow.

>>okay we have fog going on for this morning except we expect some clearing happening into the afternoon only modest clearing us going to be total clear out. tomorrow getting stormy and looks like that sets the stage for more upstream help with your week well forecast coming up.

>>good morning, welcome back time to check in on the forecast with days far today, we have a fog tomorrow, maybe some rain dave. >>some rain yell. stormy action is what it looks like the only thing it's kind a little different from we've been talking about is it looks like it's edging the intensity. if you're an early morning commute if you doing like 05:00am or something of that you're probably in better shape than those that are late morning folks at 10 or 11 because it looks like the intensity is pushed a little closer to noon than what some of the earlier model trucks were but look at this to start the day all this fog going on and half moon bay where she watching a sunrise occur little bit off towards the distance as you not as kind of foggy and cloudy action half moon bay. i suspect that's one of the reasons why the temperatures have been able to fall so nicely they were much

colder this morning than they were from yesterday morning. there's the beast out there that's what we're going to face tonight already the rain starts than tomorrow morning. actually get into some moderate to heavy rain showers but then later in the morning hours we throw the heavy winds in there and it's really going have a really stormy feels we approach around the noon hour tomorrow, let's walk through it here. first things first will clear patch this afternoon but late tonight here comes the rain favoring the north bay but spreading out a little bit to the east bay too so, but it's out with some scattered showers overnight. some imbedded moderate showers thrown in there too and we get to dawn, there's the heavier stuff in by 12, there's the line you can see and all of this is when the action. now the rain will not be always constant is not quite that shield of rain but there will be a localized areas where it's really going to be coming down real heavy where you see these obviously these lines and then scattered showers will fill out the rest of the day, but because the days are so short by the time the sun sets things start to clear out again and sets the stage for a quiet tuesday,

let's get back those winds now. as the system approaches for tonight, we have kind of breezy conditions and actually. oddly enough are getting a bit of an offshore wind going on all the way about 5.30 so the wind intensity is not going to be felt will early it's layer morning as we get the rain there come the winds in some spots here we're getting the 30's and even 40 some of these gusts. the wind advisoey by the way was was a paid for northern solano county that's 04:00am tomorrow 04:00pm tomorrow as well. this is why we're in one 30 pm and you can see picking up in the north bay, quite windy but also windy in the east bay too to note so it does cover the whole bay. the south they probably the least so and then we get to tonight, we lose the where tomorrow night we lose the winds will be during the day and we quite blustery even in the afternoon tomorrow when the winds have started such or the rain has subsided meanwhile this rain is being turned over to snow up tahoe's you'll notice. winter storm warning going on there for those monday. they take a

break in the snow as we do in the rain tuesday and wednesday some more coming with temperatures projected around 40 so morning fog today and cloudy clearing better to the south and east and sooner in the day and we might get some sun coming up even the to them tomorrow, it's predawn showers breezy going on then that turns windy during the actual day approaching around the noon hour. and then starts to wane slightly by the afternoon but then after sunset that's when it really comes down showers return wednesday, more showers on friday so let's go and watch all is going to motion. there's the hit on monday break. there's wednesday. notice that's not as intense too by the way so tomorrow's rain is going to be the most heavy we'll get from all of this we see up in the near future and that takes us to friday. get in the weekend looks like it's fairly calm to start this breaks up a little bit more so getting into the following week and will arching occurring here that maybe we won't get quite the intensity of the storm systems that keep coming in from the pacific into the following week potentially let's go and

check this out as this will be interesting after this week. what's this going to look like for right now it's the same old same old stream up the solano and napa counties severe elsewhere, but at least with all this rain coming in to the north bay all those. all than yours and so forth they can at least go up there the reservoirs of some water here 56 going on san francisco 59 for open 64 san jose that all important 7 day forecast. monday tuesday friday the days to watch there with temperatures holding into the 40's. we do read the 50's we do revisit the 30's by the way that shows some drying out of times and the coach meanwhile see the 40's smart. ok, thanks a lot. back to the news this morning, a young girl in colorado has been blinded death for most of her life. >>but now thanks to technology. she can hear. reporter abbi berg brings us her incredible story while also reminding us that life is what you make it. >>she was living in an orphanage in china she had no communication method

whatsoever for the first. >>7 years of zaharias life. she couldn't talk to anybody we just can't imagine living in a world where you couldn't. >>give your opinion you couldn't ask for what you want to her story was heard loud and clear though by brian and julie sweet gul. >>all the way across the globe in colorado springs, as soon as we met her we were in love with her. julie a teacher at the colorado school for the deaf and blind said she and her husband have long talked about adopting a child who was blind. but they didn't expect it to happen so soon we just saw her story and then started seeing videos and pictures over. >>it's just. this connection. and it just kind grew from there she just decided i mean we were mom and and she was with us and she wanted nothing to do with anything else. >>that happened in her life be fired for the first time in her life is a har a had a

family to just. >>i've heard and one that wanted to communicate with her i remember distinctly the first time we were stuck talk to her due to start signing with 3. >>so know this yet and we have made she just went up it was just laughed she laughed she just laughed and laughed >>and then she started to cry she was doing like all of the emotions like i have a name you know she never had before that she knew of. >>and wanted to know more. >>she's extremely dependent she's independent given for applying child. i want to definitely terms the har has eyes were removed due to cancer, but that hasn't slowed her down one bit her parents think zahar is perfect just the way she is. >>but they say they noticed sahar at yearning for something more when we not so was already trying to hear sounds humans find anything

she need to get their slab steak would go next 4 years and really lean into so they went to children's hospital, colorado colorado springs to learn more about cochlear implants reading do this for some time because with that she wasn't good enough the way she she was absolutely perfect 3 siemens. >>and we have and to her and we wouldn't change anything about her. the only reason he wanted her to have come clears us that she wanted to hear she demonstrated that for us and so that she could be safer in march is a higher had surgery to implant receiver into her head that would transmit sound from a processor that sits behind her ear. >>to the hearing nerve in her brain. >>there's a device that sits on or here. i'm just looks like hearing that. and that's what it receives the sound that there's a processor that is coming back of her head in her scalp. and there's an outside thing that's held on magnetic resonance any that

system and then she can pull that off and then taking off at night. >>so that's and that's the device in that sense that throughs down if you're in your ear to transmit that somebody where some greasy. >>definitely say she heard clearly for the first it was great because her response was a lot of giggling in the early going and so it was really fun to >>brian and julie say the co clears have changed is a hard world it so hard to describe what has happened for her because you can call constant, you know was walking ahead of you can tell her to stop. >>so that she she would be safe and and you know now we can say the higher greece and shell site. >>that to me. >>just fantastic that was abbe burke reporting for us this morning. the family says they

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prize money will roll over to the next drawing that's on thursday the estimated jackpot will be 410 million dollars. the mega millions lottery, but jackpot is getting bigger the next drawing will be held on tuesday. and the pot of gold van is worth 432 million dollars to a single winner. what a way to start the year. well speaking of which one bay area couple rang in the new year by welcoming a new member to their family. he is name is jackie was born just 6 minutes after midnight on new morning at ucsf benioff children's hospital in san francisco. that makes jet the first 20 21 baby in the bay area proud parents say they're feeling just wonderful. they're expected to be home by tomorrow. well coming up kaiser permanente is investigating a covid outbreak at san jose hospital over the holidays after 43 employees. >>tested positive for the

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on the kron 4 morning news. it is sunday january 3rd on marty gonzales thanks so much for joining us, let's go ahead and start things off by checking out the weather forecast and a foggy when it is this morning. >>here's dave spahr high did a good morning. marty good morning, everybody fog is greeting us with those clouds to but this is the calm before the storm coming for us tomorrow morning. >>we're looking skies to improve a little this afternoon but it will be pretty brief before another batch of rain expected before midnight probably happening tonight stormtracker 4 most of the action remaining up to the north there, but it's really at the surface we're getting a lot of cloud cover and all that moisture obviously with the fog that's the golden gate bridge. it's a sight that we see frequently in the morning hours with this fog that's in place here but we've had a recent rain that provides the fog and well in those inland areas to like walnut creek for example, this is what we're looking at this morning there as again fog reaching well inland this morning we've got 40's 50's over most of the region little chiller up to half moon bay. they did have a

little clearer patch and we don't see as much the way of fog going on there. so maybe the radiational cooling degree those folks speaking of the fog looks like this will clear out a little bit as we approach around the noon hour, although a little sluggish up there in the north bay, not too bad into the afternoon and then tonight and tomorrow well, it will be caught a stormy so obviously we'll get the fog along with the ride. forecast with sfo in the background. we're told no delays but mostly cloudy to variable clouds expected this afternoon as we get a brief break in the action here temperatures in the upper 50's near about 60 coming up in a bit we're going to project for you what to expect as we get to tomorrow morning with the rain will couple with the winds as well and later on we'll take a look at that longer range forecast for you to market all right dave we'll take your word that's sfo. thanks a lot. let's get to our top story this morning covid conditions here in california are not improving. >>and that means the bay area stay at home order is surely going to be extended. there are now more than 20 million covid-19 cases in the u.s. health officials expect that

number to rise because of the holiday gatherings all told more than 50,000 new cases were reported on friday here in california with more than 20,000 californians hospitalized. there are currently 4 to 500 people being treated in the icu in the bay area icu bed capacity continues to rapidly drop right now the bay area's at 5.1% availability and that's the lowest number since the beginning of the pandemic in the sacramento area icu bed capacity is now down to 6.9%. and the situation is worse than the san joaquin valley and santa a southern california regions. there are no icu beds available in either of those regions and it doesn't look like the bay area's going to get above the 15% available icu capacity by january 7th. that's when the stay at home order was supposed to expire. so as a result, san francisco is extending both its travel advisory and stay at home orders. health experts believe that those orders have saved

over 330 lives. now to the south bay this morning kaiser permanente's investigating a covid outbreak at san jose location over the holidays. officials there say 43 emergency staff members have tested positive for the virus kron four's reyna harvey is live in san jose at kaiser with more on that >>well marty just got to read those numbers showing us the stress and strain that has been put on hospitals across the bay area now we have 43 of their emergency staff and work here at this hospital that have exposed have covid-19 so those are people that can't work and as they continue to do that contract tracing that they're doing those numbers could go up at this hospital so they're in a really that position here right now they're trying to figure out where the covid-19 exposure came from that's what the hospitals currently doing right now they've been doing contract tracing since this happened. december 27 to

january 1st that's the period they've been tracking right now they've been know to find people who may have been around others who contracted covid-19 you're in the hospital in addition to that we've also been asking staff, not to come to work who have been exposed or who are feeling symptoms. they're trying to contain this as much as possible now we reached out to the hospital and we got a statement from them this is from irene chavez she's a senior kaiser permanente san jose medical center here. using our infection proven protocols. we are investigating the outbreak and using contract tracing to personally notified test any staff or patients who are exposed during this time period based on cdc and public health guidelines now the hospital is open currently steel so they are still seeing patients that come to this facility, but again they're going to be doing that contract tracing and mari like you mentioned you gave us

those numbers at the start of the it's been really hard to see a lot of these hospitals suffering in the way they have treated patients out in the hallways and conference rooms and you see a hospital like this where the cases here started to spread now hospitals is trying figure out we're happened and trying to get those numbers as low as possible marty is a dire situation, thanks a lot for that live report from the south bay. >>well as rhonda mentioned hospitals are being pushed to the breaking point as the number of patients are increasing and that's why a number of health experts are supporting extending the stay at home order for the bay area kron four's gayle ong has more now from san francisco. >>clearly people are heeding those orders it is empty here on the streets of san francisco. but health experts say there's a good reason why they have been put in place a very different story inside hospitals crowded icy use but outside of local businesses dead, quiet, you know break

your heart that these. >>places are going down, but you know, i mean it's you know we've saved. countless lives, countless. >>that's why doctor george rutherford, an infectious disease expert at ucsf says he still gets his take out from his favorite local businesses and he's not alone. but despite community support many of those shops retail outlets and restaurants struggling to make ends those calls few and far bochy bistro in downtown pleasanton you taking it day by day as some days are better than mudgee beast or restaurant owner gabby a jelly says the constant changes in health orders have made business challenging. one moment spending additional money on outdoor seating the next those expenditures being made redundant with the flip-flopping of stay at home orders i just hope that everybody just follows the rules the restaurants need to be close and i would just hope that. >>other places of service that is required for social distancing be close because

it's unfair for one to be open and another because we're all in it hard time during this process. >>but state officials defending their decision making recent reporting showing the fewest number of icu beds available ever just 5% of them free for new patients in the bay area and with an impending expected surge upon a surge from christmas and new year's that's why san francisco county extended the current stay at home order and travel quarantine indefinitely but people have to keep it up. >>and that's the that's the bottom line we need to keep keep on doing what we're doing which is always wear masks when we go outside to stay within our family groups and to not going to. you crowded spaces where people are wearing masks. >>and back out here on the empty streets of san francisco, we're just outside of ucsf medical center the surrounding businesses are hurting and health experts are aware of the damage these waters are doing to the economy. but they are still supportive of the mandates adding this reminder with the covid-19 vaccine. rollout it

is still a while until the masses are inoculated. >>gayle ong kron 4 news. >>and coming up on the kron 4 morning news we continue to follow the latest on the covid vaccine rollout controversy and frustration about just who can get it and who can't. thus a dvd suddenly stops unemployment checks for some people in the bay area we're going to find out why that's nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard.

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>>good morning, welcome back confusion and frustration continue to build after the state ev-d stopped unemployment benefits for people in the bay area because of suspected fraudulent activity, san francisco resident mark brewer has been on the pandemic unemployment assistance a program since march, the former food delivery driver says he's had a number of issues with edd while he scrapes by to get by on the minimum payment of $167 a week he's been doing that for the past 3 months edd has been dealing with several fraudulent claims during the pandemic state lawmakers including san francisco senator scott wiener say their offices have been fielding many of those complaints about the edd account suspensions. senator wieners as he understands the attempt to and fraudulent activity but also says it shouldn't be done in a way that hurts on his people. >>people have to deal with way too much in terms of accessing the benefits that we have a huge backlog in terms of

getting people approved people who've been waiting months and months and months and then people's side debit cards being frozen and now we have they're just doing it because it's only easy approach. >>and they just want you know get rid of the fraud on. but. my expense and other people's expenses that obviously not fraudsters you know. >>edd says that affected simple recipients will not be able to verify their identity to the department until wednesday january 6 and that's a full week after the notifications were sent out. senator wiener suggest calling the offices of your state lawmaker to help get your benefit issues resolved. now if you can't pay rent because of the holdup in benefits they say it's important for you to inform your landlord in writing that the payment has been delayed because of covid-19 safe. >>all right we'll be getting couple hours sunshine. help work on this fog it's going to take it all morning to get some clearing going in the fall the kind of linger into the afternoon of that although i think we'll see variable

clouds by this afternoon and

>>good morning, everybody welcome back let's go ahead and check in with dave spahr because we're dealing with a lot of fog this still lingering this morning how is it going to take before it burns off it probably is going to be all morning at least in some areas and even a little bit into the afternoon turning into kind of overcast a type fog which may linger in parts of the north bay like an outlining areas there most of

the bay we get past noon, we'll get some variable clouds working in here so we'll get some sunshine at least into the afternoon. this little brief moment before things start to turn yet again tonight with rain showers and getting kind of stormy as we get into your monday morning and will have winds with all that too. the program looks to be forced a little bit later in the day than some of the earlier projection, so therefore if your early morning commute or tomorrow. you'll probably miss the real brunt of it because that's not going to really hit to probably 10 9 11:00am current picture right now is relatively quiet. the monsters way out to sea it's going take a little while to get here. a live shot from checked no delays going on i that's sfo but i mean that's that's it says of the graphic okay while the creek look at this in london. we're seeing still the same type of fog issue only thing is when you get the sun out you're starting to get the air circulating so sometimes you can get freakishly. foggy areas before it finally starts to evaporate in lift on out so give it again a couple of hours. temp checks for you. i

believe was the one it was blank before but no not 89, we've got 40's 50's lighting up the east bay shoreline 47 up to santa rosa uh maybe at about 1013 degrees to this to get about your forecast. hi there let's go for with future cast for here. temporary clearing clouds are already here by 06:00pm sunsets overnight as we get to the evening, rain let's put about 10 9 occurred 12 o'clock tonight as you see about 11 favoring the north day probably should mention the burned areas both in the north bay and on the santa cruz mountains will be something the potentially watch with this sometimes the santa cruz mountains that's a good juicy place to get that uplifting to get some heavier local rain. so 11 o'clock this is what it looks like started to get some moderate showers up north there. and here comes the final line moving through the thing is the intensity will be somewhat brief in areas, but it will be intense for a brief time. this is 07:30am in the morning. so the intensity is still yet to come by this point. this drops on south.

throughout the morning hours as we approached just after high noon, we're left with then scattered showers in spots will heavy into the afternoon. and this all starts to clear up as we get into tonight and into tuesday morning that not that for tuesday. they're also very telling it's a little by this evening and tonight 07:00am the brunt to still yet to be felt there the 20's up in the north bay and then it spreads out everywhere, but as you can see as we 12 1 o'clock in the afternoon because that's going to be post frontal and we're left with a strong onshore winds. that's going to be real role long will be for a few hours and then by the evening hours that will start to wane. that's probably why they haven't issued a wind advisory except for solano county, the northern end 04:00am to 04:00pm for your monday on that not much the way of winds are left over as we go into tuesday which we very calm 56, san francisco, 59 for oakland, 60 around san jose to give you a general idea what to expect for everybody upper 50's lower

60's for highs today partially because we're not seeing much in the way of sun and we won't. although we'll see more than we did from yesterday. so money is going to be quite a busy day. but there's a couple more opportunities for rain we're going to go investigate all that your long range forecast a bit marty ok, thanks. a lot. let's get a national news, this morning vandals lashing out at the leaders of the u.s. house and senate this weekend. >>these attacks coming after congress failed to approve $2000 stimulus checks for millions of americans who continue to struggle during the pandemic those red where's my money and mitch kills the poor were among many that were spray painted on senator majority senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's louisville home yesterday. senator mcconnell released a statement condemning the vandalism police say there are currently no suspects in this act on new year's day senate republicans refused to allow debate over a bill to increase the amount of covid-19 relief and then on friday vandals targeted house speaker nancy

pelosi's san francisco home, leaving fake blood of pigs had an a message saying $2000 isn't even enough. other messages on pelosi's garage door included cancel rent and we want everything. speaker pelosi's home has been targeted in the past last september hair dryers were wrong from nearby trees on her property after pelosi visited a san francisco hair salon that should have been closed because of covid restrictions. yes apd is investigating but as of now they don't have any suspects. more than 370 new laws went into effect when we rang in the new year here in california and they cover a wide array of topics from health and covid-19 to policing and racial equality, we're going to take a quick look at a few that will impact us here in the bay area. the state's minimum wage is increasing to $14 an hour for businesses that employ more than 26 people. it's increasing to $13 an hour for smaller businesses that have

fewer than 25 workers. other laws apply to our prison system in the inmates must now be classified by their gender identities, not the gender assigned at birth. also former prisoners who worked as firefighters through a prison fire camp will now have the right to petition to have their records expunged and their parole waived and women inmates who are or could be pregnant must have access to pregnancy related services. there are also a handful of laws that aim to cut down on systemic racism. one of them targets use of force police officers can no longer use choke holds. also new fines can be charged to anyone who makes a 911 call to threaten her or harass someone based on their race ethnicity or orientation. also new laws and 2021 will force california businesses to offer their employees more help to cope with the covid-19 pandemic megan taylor's has more now from los angeles. >>new year new laws, many of

2021 is 372 bill signed into law by california governor gavin newsome are result of the covid-19 pandemic on the health care industry in april hospitals must maintain at least a 3 month stockpile of personal protective equipment for their workers. if they failed to do so the new law says they will face a fine of up to $25,000 per violation and to help stop the spread of covid-19 if an employee contracts, the virus and exposes their co-workers to it, employers must provide written notice to expose co-workers within 24 hours and that just a written notice, but employers must also offer information on benefits such as workers compensation and sick leave a protection against retaliation and on the company's virus safety measures. employers have more changes they must adhere to they must alert local public health agencies within 48 hours. coronavirus outbreak after work a business in most instances an outbreak is considered 3 lab confirmed cases at a single workplace within a 2 week period.

california's department of public health must then publish that information by posting the number and frequency of cases and outbreaks by industry on its website. another law that was born out of the pandemic california's division of occupational safety and health or cal osha is to provide agricultural workers and employers in both english and spanish the best ways to

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man on parole is now in jail in connection with a deadly new year's eve hit and run crash in san francisco. police say 45 year-old troy mcallister was behind the wheel of a car that hit 2 people in the south of market neighborhood. both of them died from their injuries. investigators say mcallister then took off from the scene after the crash. but officers were able to catch up to him. a short time later, he's now facing a number of charges including felony hit and run dui and possessing meth and a firearm in a statement, san francisco police chief bill scott called the incident a senseless senseless tragedy that should not have happened. now we have a developing story for you this morning tv host larry king is in isolation, this morning at an la hospital after testing positive for covid-19. according to multiple sources, the 87 year-old tv fixture has been sick for the past 10 days. his family members including his ex-wife and their 2 sons are not being allowed to visit him at this point. this is larry king's latest health issue

back in 2019 he suffered a near fatal stroke and then in 1987, he survived a heart attack. for the first time in 75 years the rose parade in southern california was canceled. and analysts say the economic loss in that area could be huge. the enigma research corporation found the loss of revenue from the canceled parade and rose bowl game could be as high as 200 million dollars. the parade was canceled way back in july because of coronavirus concerns. the study says the events help support 2000 full time jobs, mainly in hotels, restaurants, stores and entertainment. the parade in game also generate some 38 million dollars in tax revenue and we'll be right back.

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>>good morning welcome back it's a 30 and we still have some stubborn fog that's hanging in low lying areas around the bay area we're wondering when the heck is it going to burn off. let's ask the man who's the expert dave spahr. >>well good morning marty good morning, everybody part of the problem is a lot we don't have really good clear skies to work on this so it's having to fight through some cloud cover to get to the layer of fog so it doesn't help that motion. the heating process to really mix this on out that should happen in the afternoon, however, and we'll get kind of

the horizontal motion to help work on this as well. here's what it looks like in stormtracker 4 there you can see kind of deck of clouds kind of close at hand a little bit across the bay most of the traffic is far up north and that's going to sag south. as the day progresses but more importantly through tonight as we see a stormy start to your day tomorrow. current look at temperatures lower 50's line up the east bay shoreline 40's inland. also in the north bay and 52 for san jose for comparison sake. we're pretty close to yesterday, although half moon bay is kind freakish number there perhaps because of the clear skies overnight that allowed cooling to happen this walnut creek right now so watch some traffic go by their thick fog in that spot in the golden gate bridge which we tend to see thick fog going on, but this is a little different. the typical fog not much the way of winds just bit of a breeze that's going to pick up a little today so-called kind of breezy in the afternoon. getting windy though by tomorrow morning, a look ahead for today we're talking some clearing out both of the fog in a loft well caught variable clouds for

your afternoon well inland at least temperatures will be in the upper 50's near about 60. so tomorrow a lot of action going on, but after that looks like a couple of the system so look out for we'll have a look at the longer range forecast for you as well marty sounds good dave, thanks. a lot. >>we want to continue our coverage with a look at how the coronavirus vaccine rollout is going so far cdc data shows more than 4 million americans have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. but the agency's vaccination tracker shows the federal government has distribute distributed more than 13 million doses which means that they're far behind in the projected target at this point. they did set a goal of administering the first owes to 20 million americans by the end of 2020 that was last week and they hope to administer 100 million doses by the end of next month and by june the goal is to have at least 80% of the entire country immunized that's more than 250 americans 250 million americans. there are now more than 20 million covid-19 cases in the u.s. and

that number is expected to increase because of the holiday gatherings statewide more than 50,000 new cases were reported friday with more than 20,000 california is being hospitalized. there are currently 4 to 500 people being treated in the icu. health department says it needs your help with blood donations as the state continues to struggle with a surge of covid-19 cases now there's an urgent need for all blood types the department tweeted a call for blood donations and to donate you must have an appointment they say that you and make that appointment very easily on and we have a schedule that we have a link to schedule an appointment and locations on our website at kron 4 dot com. in southern california, los angeles county sheriff's deputies shut down 5 super spreader events on new year's eve that were attended by nearly 1000 people. the locations range from rented homes to vacant warehouses and closed businesses. some 90 people were arrested and cited

for violating the county's safer at home order. also 5 handguns were recovered at one event. la county is the epicenter of the pandemic here in california, not only are they at over 100% capacity at their hospitals. but there are so few health care workers to keep up with them and that the army has been called in to help. chris wolfe has more on that. help is here. the u.s. army corps of engineers is an arm of the military that supports communities and disaster relief. >>the current crisis is the coronavirus pandemic specifically the dire situation in los angeles county with hospitals pushed to the brink of catastrophe. according to state health officials. older facilities are reporting problems with oxygen equipment for covid patients pikes can always maintain sufficient pressure and might even freeze. we're trying to assess how we can

reduce the strain on their facilities. >>and the mechanical spaces, an end. to distribution as well. >>members of the corps of engineers are visiting 7 los angeles area medical centers, including adventist health white memorial hospital in boyle heights. the team of design and construction experts will look for problems with and recommend solutions for any outdated oxygen delivery systems. they are discovering what seems to be a common problem. >>to oxygen levels just because the increased demand there freezing. so and so how do you increase capacity so that the system doesn't freeze and they can maintain. oxygen distribution where they need it. >>the army corps of engineers will make recommendations to fema. the federal emergency management agency which will then work with state leaders s i orrect the shortcomi just know that the doctors and

nurses. >>and the facility managers. they're doing all that they can. and they we are working 24 7 they're really the real heroes in all of this. >>chris wolfe news nation. >>and coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news is getting your finances in order one of your new year's resolutions we're going to find out what account and say you need to do this year to keep your financial resolution.

>>for your money twenty-twenty was a year of financial uncertainty for a lot of people as millions of americans were laid off while others probably spent more money than they wanted to one take out and delivery during lockdowns harrison ford caught up with some accountants and their tips for 2021 financial resolutions. >>some people lost their job in 2020 while some couldn't travel or eat out and put that extra money in savings either way twenty-twenty was a year that people took a closer look at their finances. if you want to make some financial resolutions in 2021 tony martin attacks account has some tips for you recommendation to everyone is working getting out of that. >>creating a emergency fund and then paying yourself investing in yourself. and

that's putting money in the investing in the stock market and things of that nature was a growing amount of debt. martin says start small first focus on things most important like food and housing and then pay off things like credit card debt. >>he says it's easy to start by paying off your smallest amount of debt and work your way up. >>and you eventually begin really snowballing that down away if you're financially fit with very minimal debt. >>martin says it's important to invest in yourself and your savings. he says to consider things like a brokerage account, your retirement fund and stock figuring out ways you can put money back save money for retirement, no matter your financial goal for 2021 martin says it should be realistic and something you can work on gradually you need to just begin looking at things. >>from a small achievable aspect and then working your way up to the larger goal from there so you can have a happy and prosperous new year reporting in raleigh county harrison ford.

>>all right we still got some fog lingering around here but give it a couple of hours. we'll see the skies open up a little bit to variable clouds basically temperatures in the upper 50's. well watch out big storm coming for us by late tonight into tomorrow morning and more coming into next week on long-range forecast. ok limu! you set it and as i spike it i'll tell them how

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>>good morning, welcome back still some low clouds and fog hovering over many parts of the bay area this morning days far is here to tell us how long that's going to last night a good morning marty good morning, everybody looks like a little slight improvement this is walnut creek and remember we couldn't see the bushes in the trees and all that the foreground now we can you can make up the road in the there's a little improvement already happening so give it a couple of hours. we'll get some improving skies all over the bay, although the fog will be lingering a little bit in the north they i think into the early afternoon even 2, but this is all the calm before the action happening tomorrow. satellite picture rather the again live shot of a walnut creek again we can make out a lot more than we could just 15 minutes ago, so improving is on the way. here's the storm tracker for what it looks like this is the big player tomorrow. it's going take a while to get here so we'll start off with some showers tonight. and then we get to the stormy action looks

like into tomorrow, it's going to project this for your first first first things first taking care of the clouds and the fog. briefly this afternoon we open up the skies, they cloud back up again by 1130 it's already starting to rain moderate times up there in the north bay a little bit gotta watch the burned areas that's a given. but also looks like we'll get some of those reservoirs up around wine country filled up a little bit that will be nice and then the heavier stuff drop south as we get to daylight hours and into the early afternoon. what's happened is this has been pushed a little bit later in the day in other words earlier morning, commuters say 05:06:07am, looks like the rougher stuff is after that and that will come with winds to which will show you just a bit behind it. it turns into more spotty showers although they may be heavy at brief moments. we clear up the skies by monday night by tuesday, we're back to the sunshine starting us there may be little fog and that's about it back to the winds here a little bit breezy this afternoon a touch getting windy tonight and by monday at 6.30 this is really all we're looking for in terms of winds

to have rain in these kind of winds going on for the early to mid morning, commuting kind of thing and then as it gets late in the morning, the winds really start kicking in here can see 20's up here the north bay even 30's in the east bay notice with the least amount out of the south bay short lived one of the reasons why don't have a widespread wind advisory posted it just is not going to last long enough and fairly calm by the time we get to monday night into tuesday or rain translates to tahoe snow check it out. we've got a storm warning going on up there for tomorrow now that will be for potentially a foot to maybe 2 feet of snow added to this a break on tuesday more coming on wednesday, but we should note in both cases both bay area rain and the snow on wednesday won't be the intensity of monday. so for today it's morning fog clouds clearing with better clearing south and east live shot here as you can see the bay bridge toll plaza, then for tomorrow predawn showers breezy rain heavy at times and windy all packaged in there and then for this week showers return wednesday, not the same

intensity and then more on friday, it looks like let's watch this all in motion. there's that hit tomorrow morning a break wednesday, not the intensity and then into friday looks like we may be able to salvage part of the weekend but there might be an eruption from yet a new system here comes as our king happening here which may cut off successive systems from impacting us, how's the drought going to fare will take a picture of this let's see what happens another week or so the use check on thursdays. the progress where we stand what that will allow to rain events and not counting we early this weekend to add to maybe we'll get that extreme taken out of there hopefully a look at our forecast today, 56 san francisco, 59 oakland, san jose at 60 better clearing to the south and east it looks like for today across the wider bay upper 50's near about 60 we'll do it checking out your 70 forecast rain monday wednesday friday, some unsettled weather into the weekend. we do see dropped into the 30's which tell us the skies clear in the air tries to dry out meanwhile 40's happening at the coast. marty okay day thanks a lot.

happy right now it's going take you outside for a live look at the approach to the bay bridge day was peering at it as well we're seeing the fog starting to lift well want to remind you today is the last day of chp is maximum enforcement period. >>so far the chp has made more than 200 arrests of suspected dui drivers here in california. last year chp arrested 491 impaired drivers during the entire 30 hour new year period. the chp is expecting that number to rise as as the as we go through the holiday weekend. >>and the same exact time for maximum enforcement period for last year's new year's eve. chp at least 3 people were killed in crashes through the state of california which is tragic because that's someone's family family member friend, whatever it is and then we also may impairment dui arrest so that's a big number and we all know we can do better right stand with the family celebrate with your fan

be safe out there. >>good advise the chp is maximum enforcement period will expire tonight just before midnight. well it's a brand new year and of course that means new resolutions for most people but sometimes they can be difficult to stay on track. rudabeh shahbazi spoke to a holistic psychiatry so with some tips on how you can reach your goals. >>it's that time of year maybe too often the only time when goals and resolutions are front and center especially after what can only be described as a hellish year imagine you're so outside of yourself looking in and making sure your words thoughts and actions or your own highest level cheerleader doctor denise mcdermott is a holistic psychiatrist who focuses on living your best life when you have thoughts words and actions and you're setting a mindset of happiness well-being there you're more likely to stick to the resolution. a lot of times a

resolution seems like the state goal, but there's so many steps in between and in order to make it happen you have to take small steps and you actually have to be kind to yourself you have to be adaptive and you want to make sure you have fun doctor denise suggest breaking a big goal into smaller steps instead of saying like lose 20 pounds you can reframe that goal to. >>be mindful of my nutrition that the healthiest way possible. his sometimes it might only be 10 pounds and to be kind to yourself even when you occasionally get off track if you find in the middle of chomping down on those oreos instead of going straight to guilt wanted to stay in the moment and actually enjoy the orioles and build it into your wellness plan build the slip ups in deer plan but then make sure instead of shaming yourself you enjoy the oreos she says focusing on what you want instead of what you don't want will allow you to step out of your own way when you

say you can't or you won't care more likely to be in a fierce pace in almost like just have a standstill. but when you say i can and i will you get the momentum of change a recent survey conducted by swns shows the top goal for many americans is to have a more positive outlook in life in 2021. and more than half the respondents said they hope to take better care of their mental health this year i use my kids my motivation fight and i mean things will get better. >>give up doctor denise says the secret sauce is gratitude when you stay in a place of gratitude of everything that's going right in your life. >>you're in an elevated frame of mind to have happiness and to stick with your goals. >>well that was rudabeh shahbazi reporting for us this morning, they also have some other tips from the pros, one is to make only one resolution and to give yourself a time limit to achieve it. also waiting for progress not perfection that's a good one

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>>good morning welcome back and take a look at this daring rescue was caught on camera in hawaii on new year's eve. this is in honolulu and look at the

size of those waves. but there's that fearless surfer he's running into the ocean to rescue a woman who was swept under those powerful waves. now they had to struggle against the tide. but the pro surfer a man eventually managed to guy that woman safely back to shore says he doesn't think of himself as a hero, just as someone who is trying to help and boy did he ever get a look at that was waves well. well pet stores across the country have been booming with business since the start of the pandemic but a lot of pet owners are looking for low maintenance that they can quarantine with madeline bears to reports on the latest pet trend that has a lot of people looking to buy smaller animals. >>rise in popularity of small pets is due to the pandemic not only do small animals help entertain families while spending much of their time at home. they're also less of responsibility than larger pets. >>people are just spending a lot more time at home so they're getting new additions to the family like rabbits guinea pigs hamsters stuff

like that keep them entertained and take some new responsibilities stuff like that they're a little bit easier to take care of her says like a dog and marshall says they saw pet sales picking up in the spring. >>it was pretty much like in they just started coming in wanting like the whole setup for the families to fight a lot of. >>unease and guinea pigs, mostly smaller pets are also good for children, your animal can be set up in home. >>you can get like some out time, the cage and let them run around the house, but you can do a full k shut up and different things like we'll give them shoes and stuff like that to keep the family entertained aquatic animals like fish have also become popular in recent months, mainly been vegas to set up because there are a lot easier to care for than like say look the other aquatic because they take a longer set up so they have been selling to this like a nice little extra thing for the desktop of people are working from home to battle and beer stir news nation. >>and bring it back to the bay area one couple rang in the new year by welcoming a brand

new member to their family there he is his name is jackie was born just 6 minutes after midnight on new day at ucsf benioff children's hospital in san francisco. jack was the first 2021 baby born in the bay area the proud parents say they're feeling just great and they're expecting to be home by tomorrow. welcome to the world, jack. well still ahead on the kron 00:00am morning news kind of put kaiser permanente is investigating a covid outbreak at san jose hospital. >>over the holidays after 43 employees tested positive for the virus will have a more on that in a live report, the standing by also bay area icu bed capacity continues to fall we have a if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, ...little things... ...can become your big moment.

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>>the news station you're watching everybody thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, it's sunday january marty gonzalez and i'm noelle it is still foggy out there definitely not raining like we saw yesterday morning the fog is kind of thick in some areas. i think it was really treacherous coming in this from the east bay because you had blankets of fog clear the new in the fog again well and i don't really have too long of a commute but it but it was you know i was glad to have the red lights when i did because i needed to take my time dave spahr as a standing by in the weather center with the details a day of a good

morning guys good morning everybody and the fog has lifted a little bit from the ground but it's given us is overcast view. >>across the bail slow going because we're not getting the appropriate heating happening at the ground, however we expect some better clearing as we approach around noon and even open up the skies a little bit as well speaking of those skies from above this is what it looks like other real storm it we're talking about for tomorrow as well out to sea. >>we'll actually see the skies open up a little bit this afternoon. this is a live shot from the golden gate to still ground fog to be found in many places this is an easy a typical trap of the fog but this type of fog is covering the whole bay going on looks a little better walnut creek like we're lifting it from the ground a bit but still the overcast aloft appearance temperature checked wear in the lower 50's on the east bay shoreline. but inland. it's just about 40's everywhere else. speaking of that fog by the way as you see it clears out everywhere it looks like by high noon, maybe some problems spots along the coast and with the rain in the stormy stuff happening tomorrow expected to redevelop except around the east bay, it

looks like the breakdown for you today still troubles at sfo though cloudy and fog even as latest 10 o'clock opening up the skies a bit for the upper 50's expected as a high. coming up a little bit we'll take a look at forecast models that you know about the timing of the storm rolling on in back to you. >>all right, thanks our top story this morning covid conditions in california continue to worsen as icu capacity dwindles it's clear the bay area stay at home order will likely be extended yeah, there are now more than 20 million covid-19 cases here in the u.s. health officials expect that number to increase due to the holiday gatherings. all told more than 50,000 new cases were reported friday here in the state with more than 20,000 californians hospitalized, and there are currently 4 to 500 people being treated in icy use in the bay area. right now the bay area is at 5.1% availability that's the lowest number since the beginning of the pandemic. >>and the sacramento area icu

bed capacity now down to 6.9%. the san joaquin valley and southern california regions continue to operate with no icu beds available. >>and it doesn't appear because of all that it doesn't appear the bay area's going to get above the 15% available icu capacity by january 7th, which is thursday that's when the stay at home order was expected to expire and as a result of that san francisco is extending both its travel advisory and stay at home orders. health experts believe that those orders saved over 330 lives. in the south bay kaiser permanente is investigating a covid outbreak at san jose hospital over the holidays, that's right officials say 43 emergency staff members have tested positive for the virus there. >>kron four's reyna harvey is live in san jose this morning with more details rana good morning. >>noella marty good morning. i mean we've been talking about just how much strain and stress have been placed on these hospitals across the bay

area now you can only imagine how they feel year. this hospital 43 of their emergency department staff members all testing positive for covid-19 within a week, but one another so they're definitely under a lot of stress here at this hospital what they're trying to figure out now is how this all happened where they were all exposed to covid-19 and now they're doing contract. tracing we know that number of potentially could go up right now it's at 43, but if they see more cases here that number would increase for that now again the day still looking at that time frame is between december 27 january 1st, they've been notifying people any employees that are confirmed to have covid-19 or suspected of having covid-19 symptoms will not come to work and making sure they're telling everybody to stay home if they feel like they came into contact with somebody that may have had the virus. we have a statement from kaiser permanente says using

our infection proven protocols. we are investigating the outbreak and using contract tracing to personally notify and test any staff or patients who were exposed during this time period based on cdc and public health guidelines so in the meantime they've implemented a few changes are making sure that people are not gathering in break rooms, the also massive always be mandatory but definitely mandatory right now, they're still open and seeing patients at this time so right now well, hospital is definitely trying to get a handle on this and as you can imagine with hospitals already under the stress. this is not helping for now reporting here in san jose reyna harvey kron 4 news all right reena thank you for that report. >>well, there's mixed reaction to the expected extension of the stay at home order health experts are supporting the decision but business owners continue to wrestle with the idea of yet another lockdown after they barely survived the

first one restaurant owners say they've been jumping through hoops to try and keep their doors open by trying to keep up with the changing health orders. many of them even closing their doors for good. >>i just hope that everybody just follows the rules the restaurants need to be close and i would just hope that other places of service that is required for social distancing be close because it's unfair for one to be open and another because we're all in it hard time during this process. >>health experts do say they are aware that the damage that lockdown order is doing to the economy but they continue to stand by their decision as hospitals continue to be pushed to the breaking point. >>coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news we are following the latest on the covid vaccine rollout the controversy and frustration about who can get it and who can't and just one day after house speaker nancy pelosi's san francisco home was vandalized senate majority leader's kentucky home also targeted by vandals hear how

mitch mcconnell is responding. and the state ev-d suddenly stops unemployment checks for some across the bay area we're going to find out why after the break.

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frustration are building after the state ev-d stopped unemployment benefits for people in the bay area because of suspected fraudulent activity, san francisco resident mark brewer has been on pandemic unemployment assistance since march, the former food delivery driver says he's had a number of issues with edd while scraping to get by on the minimum payment of $167 a week for the last 3 months edd has been dealing with several fraudulent claims during the pandemic though state lawmakers including san francisco senator scott wiener say their offices have been fielding many complaints about the edd account suspensions. senator wiener understands the attempts to and fraudulent activity. but it shouldn't be done in a way that hurts honest people. >>people have to deal with way too much in terms of accessing the benefits that we have a huge backlog in terms of getting people approved people who've been waiting months and months and months and then we

have people's side debit cards being frozen and now we have they're just doing it because it's only easy approach. >>and they just want you know get rid of the fraud on. but. my expense and other people's expenses that are obviously not fraudsters you know. >>the edd says affected recipients will not be able to verify their identity until wednesday, january 6. that's a week after the notifications were sent out. senator wiener suggest calling the offices of your state lawmaker to help get your benefits issue resolved if you can't pay rent because of the holdup in benefits, it's important you inform your landlord in writing the payment has been delayed due to covid-19. >>they've all right we're talking about still fog and morning clouds that will give way to some afternoon sunshine here temperatures on one much will stay pretty much in the 50's over most of the region things get interesting late tonight early tomorrow morning we'll show you what you can expect a profit warning is

>>good morning welcome back we've been talking all morning long about the fog that is still hovering over parts of the bay area wondering what the heck is going to let you know we had rain yesterday fog today. i think rain is coming back tomorrow date they are

not the i think i guess for lot of things we're bringing a people's biggest fears anyway good morning, we're looking for some more rain coming our way tonight and a little stronger tomorrow morning will give you those projections right now we're working on this fog but a lafayette some cloud cover that should clear up both into the afternoon we'll get some sun this afternoon enjoy this for a few hours for sunset. it will be pretty quiet for a few hours for the pitter patter of rain starts again by the midnight is what they were actually before midnight will happen again, here's what we're looking at right now as you can see just all of the way some cloud cover a lot but certainly at the surface. sfo, no delays out there quite a bit of fog still hanging around half moon bay they've been kind of freakish different type all this morning, you know we've been seeing the sun rise going on here it's a little bit better sky conditions a little bit of cloud cover here. but that probably aided their temperatures falling this morning. why they kind of stand out from the rest of the bay. temperature we're at 46 speaking of which for half moon bay 49 going on for san

francisco inland. we're also looking at 40's but lower 50's line the east bay shoreline, 54 napa 48 for santa rosa off future cast for watching everything happen. a little brief patch cleared out there by 7 o'clock. here it comes rain showers focusing in on the north bay this will be times will moderate to some light rain showers working their watch the burned areas in more to come more intensity as we get to tomorrow morning now everything's been pushed a little later in these latest forecast model run so if your early morning commute or meaning you know 05:06am, even 07:00am the brunt of which has yet to happen and it will be the winds too so that will be good news for you and then the system moves through by about noon or so there about say 11:00am with the biggest intensity left over behind it's still notable scattered showers as late as 1 2 o'clock in the afternoon will continue so it's not going to clear up right away after the brunt of the storm and we'll be left with some winds in its wake which a walk through in just a bit tonight, the not night and

into tuesday morning we go back to the clear patch and we'll be into a condi on tuesday. before yet another system look out for on wednesday that won't be a monster but it the more rain our area so as we watch for things to happen today. we got the winds coming a little bit of a breeze before the heavy wind intensity get your note, the arrow direction we're out of southeast. the winds are building up here in the north bay into the 20's. it spreads out over the wider bay strong onshore winds. this is post the intensity of the rain storm which at this point will be sagging south out of the south bay left with spotty showers but the stormy feel of those winds on shore as they are in the 30's not long-lasting so we don't have a wind advisory except for northern solano county that will be from 04:00am to 04:00pm as a technicality as you everybody loses the winds into late on monday and into tuesday now for your sunday, let's go with 56 san francisco, 59 for oakland, 64 san jose probably better and

quicker clearing happening in the south bay is this all clears both fog and clouds clouds clear south to north through the peninsula and up to the north bay and across the wider region for highs today will go with the upper 50's near about 60, not too different than yesterday, even though today i think everybody will see more sun today than we saw from yesterday. coming up in a bit we'll take a look at those long range forecast to give you an idea what to expect into wednesday and also into next weekend back to you. all right dave, thanks a lot. national news this morning vandals lashed out at the leaders of the u.s. house and senate this weekend. the attacks come after congress failed to approve $2000 stimulus checks. >>for millions of americans who are struggling during the pandemic. >>that's right the messages where's my money and mitch kills the pore among others were spray painted on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's louisville home yesterday. mcconnell released a statement condemning that vandalism. >>police say there are currently no suspects in that case and then on new year's day you remember senate republicans refused to allow a

debate over a bill to increase covid-19 relief checks from 600 to $2000. >>you may remember on friday vandals targeted house speaker nancy pelosi's home in san francisco, leaving fake blood a pig's head and a message saying $2000 isn't even enough. other messages on pelosi's garage included cancel rent and we want everything. >>speaker pelosi's home has been targeted in the past last september's hairdryer last september hair dryers were hung from nearby trees after pelosi visited a san francisco hair salon that should have been closed because of covid restrictions as apd is investigating but as of now they don't have any suspects. >>on to more national news this morning, we're just a few days away from the georgia senate runoff election that will decide the balance of power in the senate president elect biden is doing everything he can to make sure that he has a senate majority as biden in the democratic party of already donated 18 million dollars to the campaigns of john ossoff and

raphael warnock to try and unseat the republican incumbent david perdue and kelly leffler a record 3 million voters have already cast their ballots. kim vickers reports both president trump and president elect biden are due in georgia tomorrow for last minute campaigning. >>yeah, yes please encourage folks to go you know our side typically turns out on election day congressman rick allen was in augusta saturday morning speaking to gop door knockers he says these kinds of grass roots events are essential well is one important element of every political race in fact. and before all of the money was being spent on television. in the referees was the way people. address the public. it's still very important me is critical. and i will tell

you a graph crews cherry barnes, the chair of the richmond county republican party says they are hard at work in these last days before the election. >>always been going is telephone calling a telling people that we know trying to get in touch with as many people as we can we also have a group of people that are going on called door knocking and 8 points in areas and and actually going to people's choice and they're not calling it may give them that we provide them about the differences between 2 candidates against a commissioner jordan johnson says democrats are hitting the pavement so we're going door to door talking to folks making calls texting people. >>is a lesson is that important a lot is on the line we have to make sure we hold the line for far people stacey abrams also made a visit to the garden city on saturday she agrees the grassroots campaigns can make or break an election what we've been able to do 2 things one. we have the kind of investment

necessary to encourage voters to come back out we have the wind at our backs because of our victory in november and that i think has really galvanized people but most of all they understand what's at stake. abrams says that one reason this election is crucial is that the u.s. needs a balanced senate because the livelihoods of small businesses are at stake. >>and so we need to us senators who are willing to invest not only in the businesses that are already thriving those that were struggling to become part of the community that are hiring people and want to make certain they stay around. >>well that was kim vickers reporting for us this morning polls are showing that the democratic challengers are currently holding slight lead in the senate races. >>still ahead on the kron 4 morning news a man behind bars this morning in connection with a deadly new year's eve. hit and run full details after the break.

>>well a man on parole is now in jail in connection with a deadly new year's eve hit and run crash in san francisco. police say 45 year-old troy mcallister was behind the wheel of a car that hit 2 people in the south of market neighborhood. both of them died from their injuries. investigators say mcallister took off from the scene after the crash. but officers were able to catch him a short time later. he faces now a number of charges including felony hit and run dui and possessing

meth and a firearm in a statement, san francisco police chief bill scott called the incident a senseless tragedy that should not have happened. >>developing story television host larry king is in isolation at an l a hospital after testing positive for covid-19 according to multiple sources. the 87 year-old tv fixture has been sick for 10 days now, family members including his ex-wife and their 2 sons are not allowed to visit him at this point. this is larry king's latest health issue back in 2019 he suffered a near fatal stroke. and back in 1987 he did sof he did survive a heart attack. >>the first time in 75 years the rose parade in southern california was canceled on new year's day and analysts say the economic loss to the area could be huge. the enigma research corporation found the loss of revenue from the canceled parade and rose bowl game could be as high as 200 million dollars. the parade was canceled back in july because of coronavirus

concerns. the study says those 2 events help support some 2000 people in full time jobs, mainly at hotels, restaurants stores and entertainment. the parade in game also generate some 38 million dollars in tax revenue we're going to be right back with the forecast stay with us.

>>good morning, welcome back to kron 4 morning news 9.29 this sunday morning and we're certain to clear out a little bit the fog is still definitely sitting there i feel like yesterday was even foggier yeah and we're starting to see that our earlier this morning. we couldn't even see any of the testing now dave spahr standing by give us a little bit more detail on when we might see the fog lifting today, hey dave okay, good morning guys, good morning, we had a little bit the way of a lot a lot of cloud cover which to deal with that looks like it's open up a little bit to kind of help mix this out a little bit let's go and take a look at what we got here in terms of the elements of the storm tracker for shows a deck. a cloud cover kind of overhead with all of this that's going to slow down some of the mixing process, although it is making some some lower 50's line up the east bay shoreline, some 40's going on well inland into the north bay 52 to check in for san jose and we're pretty close temperature wise what we were this time from yesterday trailing a little bit around

the immediate bay little more mild inland. this was talking about earlier half moon bay has been like this all day you can actually see shadows going on so a little sun has made its way through there and not as much of a fog issue this morning but at the golden gate is where it's kind of hovering a little bit and we're looking at other shots such such as a walnut creek that's also saying quite a bit in the way of fog winds calm the single digits park right what they're going to be about 18 hours or so is the start to pick up a little bit with the arrival of the next storm. and i guess you could argue maybe a little bit of improvement here at sfo this can see the towers in the background there. no delays this morning as we see the skies open up at shortly after noon to somewhat variable clouds although favoring more cloudy note and again clouding back up again around sunset for the arrival of the next system that next system going bring us rain tomorrow night in a rather into tonight into tomorrow morning and then there's more upstream will take a look at the forecast near and far in just a bit back to you. all right, thanks dave. we continue our coverage

with a look at how the covid vaccine rollout is going so far the cdc. >>says more than 13 million doses have been distributed across the country and current data shows that over 4 million americans have received their first dose of the vaccine that includes more than 2 million doses that are being sent to long-term care facilities. >>and more than 280,000 nursing home residents as more people receive the covid-19 vaccine, many are turning to social media to share their experiences. >>but there is some controversy in frustration surrounding who can get it and who can't felicia bolton has the details posting on social media after getting the covid-19 vaccine is now becoming a trend online. a hashtag search on twitter brings up thousands of posts from around the world one twitter user says today my mom see the pfizer covid-19 vaccine. >>after year battling this pandemic she can finally feel more comfortable going to work every day. another one says hashtag i got the shot for my

family patients friends and loved ones so thankful to ring in the new year with this gift doctor regina with bill could casey is a board building lion and cincinnati she to receive the vaccine and plans to post online about it not just yet, but i did take pictures in order to do so she says she doesn't see the post as a sign of bragging i think it's >>people. >>what keeps people from getting the vaccination is there misunderstanding or just not knowing or hearing about other people's response. he says by sharing the experience it could serve as a call to action for others to get the shot being that black and brown communities are with the infection and the. the consequences of being infected. i think it's important that our community. is able to see the folks who

are actually getting the vaccination and speaking on it. so that not as has it been to get it but not everyone is keen on how the vaccine is being administered due to strict rules only certain essential workers and seniors can receive it. >>one person tweeted out i'm not in indy but i am a trucker it is my job to transport the vaccine to various hospitals under a huge amount of regulations to get it to people. i take this role with great pride. i only hope one day soon i will be eligible to receive a dose danielle durrani says her daughter can't go to school without individuals that have down syndrome have a 5 times greater chance of getting covid 10 times likely to die from it. she says they are waiting to receive their chance to get the vaccine. while others post about their excitement it's very sad that we've all come this far. >>and so many people like myself sit and wait. >>in hopes that you know we will have a chance. >>felicia bolton news nation.

>>well it's good to a big story that we're following this morning congress will formally count the votes cast by turrell college on wednesday in washington d c it is the final step from joe biden's victory in the presidential election. >>that's right but 12 republican senators are actually trying to block that certification. they're demanding an emergency audit of the results in states where voter fraud has been alleged, but never proven and join us to talk about that more jonathan madison he is the bay area, vice chair of the republican party. jonathan good morning. thanks so much for joining us this morning. good morning, thanks for having let's start with the fact that there's been no evidence of widespread fought fraud in the why are these republicans wanted to do this. >>first of all it's just an independent body its a commission that the requesting that be appointed by congress, a bipartisan commission at that that you just do some follow-up investigation to ensure that nothing go wrong.

there's always the possibility that of oversight or that you miss something right so it's better to err on the side of caution particularly in democracy such as this nation's and if you recall the democrats. contest of election is also 2016 for the past 4 so even with win as far as launching impeachment proceedings, suggesting that the unduly influence the election with foreign powers. you know and so to whether or not those claims are substantiated or not it really depends and you have to take into consideration. the claims being made. and so i don't think there's anything wrong with further investigation. i think the question should be on the on the left on the side of the democrats to say why not some investigation just to make sure that their conclusions regarding the results of the election are not fools so i think that more transparency is a good thing it makes our democracy what it is. >>does something like

potentially stop the transition of i know that. biden's team has been talking a little bit about the issues that they have been having in terms of getting the correct information that they need to have a peaceful transfer of power does make it. slower process. >>not at all and in it's actually a 10 day audit. yes, specifically so in theory this will be a commission that takes about a period of 10 days. you recall that the united ration is more than 10 days from now in order to do this audit is just that an investigation of fact-finding investigation time period immediately after those 10 days passed the results of that investigation will be passed to the individual states remember it's only those handful of disputed stage right and sylvania. >>arizona some of those other states. it's going to be passed along to those states and the choice is going to be given to those states to hold a special legislative session.

right that's going to enable them to certify whether or not they voted correctly, the first time. so within that 10 day period there's very little risk run beyond the inauguration time frame and back and the risk is so low said there is almost no risk at but that's not an issue here. you may hear news media outlets that suggested it is an issue, but it's just a 10 acre. >>is it also an issue that the 12 senators who are who are calling for this or just trying to gain favor with president trump and his supporters looking ahead for years for a possible presidential run on their own. >>can't speak for all of them in terms of their motives are intense, but you know i think the biggest motive intent here is not to gain favor with the president particularly as he's on his way out right i mean. president elect biden it it's it's almost concluded by a number of people that he's going to be the next president right so i don't think their

motive is just to gain favor with the outgoing president i think that the ultimate motive here is to ensure accountability to ensure that the american people are taking advantage of to ensure that every vote is cast and to ensure that to the extent that there is voter fraud. there is some kind of ballot integrity issueout there there's always the potential for oversight that we fully investigate the facts and the claims of which that are that are being made so. i think that's the biggest issue that's the biggest motive. >>as the american people continue i know that you know relief checks have started to come out obviously we're still in the middle of of this pandemic has a lot of the american people as we've nancy pelosi's home has you know ben vandalized as well as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's home. people are getting frustrated thinking that our lawmakers are not doing everything they can to help us get through this pandemic that we're in is this something that our senators should be focusing on right

now. >>i think it is something that they should be focusing on at the heart of every issue right there that you just mentioned by the way my heart does go out to. you speaker nancy pelosi and mitch for the euro tax their transpired but i think the heart of this issue is that the american people i feel that they're not accurately are fully represented just be represented by their lawmakers. and i think that to the extent we have more transparency. one last investigation of the facts so to speak here. i don't think that's going to do any harm. i think they can only do good for the american people and i think to think that to suggest that. i think that to suggest that. having another 10 day review into whether these allegations are false or true. someone is against that you can't have to raise your eyebrows and say why. so i think that these issues that

perhaps the commission's finding if approved. could do more good for the american people. bad particularly if it turns out that there are actually fraudulent issues that took place. so i think it could do more good than harm. >>jonathan the potential of of this call on on wednesday by the senators is actually going against the wishes of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, what does this say about mitch mcconnell's. on his base. >>i think it says 2 things one there's an obvious split me here mitt romney also calling this active ploy and you hear some of the other republicans. somewhere season republicans also say i will you know what good can really come of this so you're saying a split down the middle of some republicans to force it suggesting that look it's not a bad idea to take another 10 days to make

this review and another said republicans like mitch mcconnell who's thinking about the big picture you say what is this going to do for the republican party years from now i don't think you saying it's just a ploy i think he's saying will this come all wrong to the american people particularly in an age where the media can skew and sort of manipulate story and i always say 99% of everything that happens particularly now to capitol hill when i worked there is perception or hate the american people are going to hear what comes from news media outlets and from different sources yes, social media i think mitch mcconnell is save himself, is it worth the risk even to hold elections in our processes accountable. so think mitch mcconnell is saying this is just a ploy this is wrong. i think mitch mitch mcconnell as the senate majority leaders say what's this going to do for our party long term which i think is a valid concern and it's just unfortunate you can't really just take the position to do what's right is

right time is always right to do what's right. i was put that back to my game and i think what's right is to make sure to the extent that you can. that you certify you verify validate any substantiate until there's no more questions about whether there's fraud or some wrongdoing here. but i think that's the remote for mitch mcconnell that's wasted at risk there. well jonathan thank you so much for your insights wednesday is going to be yet another fascinating day in washington d c. >>we appreciate your so will we

>>good morning. welcome at 9.45 and as we've been talking about all morning long low clouds and fog and the story of the day at least the morning tampa bay area starting 2021, nice and overcast a little wet, we've got some rain coming later this week dave spahr stand by with a little bit more morning guys good morning everybody and added half moon bay, we're looking at some fog us it's redeveloping a little bit there was opening up the skies, a touch as everybody should be seeing a lot and then as we go into the afternoon. >>improved sky conditions for everybody it looks like but things will change tonight to get the pitter patter of rain well before midnight, it looks like in half moon bay to get things kicked off. here's the big monster out to see though it will be a player tomorrow morning and approaching the noon hour when the front will drop through and that will drive the intensity of the winds going for with futurecast for briefly opens up the skies here comes the first patch of rain. they'll be well before midnight at

stars actually about 9 o'clock or so in parts of the bay area and then it's mostly in the north bay and then more intensity expected as we approach. daybreak. now as late as 2 o'clock in the afternoon you can see still continuing on with scattered showers the front passed by that point but still more activity upstream before we clear out going into your tuesday that will be one day break before more comes on wednesday looking at the winds little breezy late this afternoon overnight, sure 7.30 gets interesting. now this is when already have some intense rain going on in parts of the bay front drop south post at where the winds are really good kick in for a time so sarah 11:00am until 3 or so we've got some good winds going on on shore across just about the whole bay area and then they quickly dissipate so they won't be around very long, but they'll be times will be pretty intense there in the middle of the day. a look at tahoe, they're getting the snow while we get the rain storm warning winter storm warning going on tomorrow and also into wednesday looks like we have more snow. that will

be good there to help with the snow deficit morning, fog and clouds we've been talking about today clearing better south and east which is already happening sooner too. tomorrow predawn showers breezy then getting kind of storm is your approach around the noon hour heavy at times windy. then for this week to look out for wednesday, and you want to look out for friday, the next 2 days that we add to that let's watch this into motion. there's the hit on monday. wednesday, there's a secondary hit not as intense. we should note and as we get into friday. again maybe not as intense as what we're seeing on monday. no upstream as we get into the weekend early the following week may be some hits but not quite the same type of pattern we're looking at for this week in other words, storm track may be shifted a little bit to the north and therefore we won't get as much rain out of the success of systems, but this is before all of that and the drought monitor says up there in solano county in napa extreme and we're in severe drought everywhere else hopefully. we can chip away at that with all of this traffic for this week looking at your seven-day forecast rain monday

wednesday friday little bit more perhaps in the following weekend temps in the 50's we do drop into the 30's a little bit with some drier air working in here in between the rain of course and 40's remain at the coast back to you. all right dave, thanks a lot. la county sheriff's deputies closed down 5 super spreader events on new year's eve that were attended by nearly 1000 people. >>they range from a rented homes to vacant warehouse is also some closed businesses involved as well, 90 people were arrested and cited for violating the county's safer at home order. and police also confiscated 5 guns at one event. >>los angeles county is the epicenter of the pandemic here in california, not only are they over 100% capacity at their hospitals. there are so few health care workers to keep up with demand that the army has been called in to help. chris wolfe has more. help is here.

>>the u.s. army corps of engineers is an arm of the military that supports communities and disaster relief. the current crisis is the coronavirus pandemic specifically the dire situation in los angeles county with hospitals pushed to the brink of catastrophe. according to state health officials. older facilities are reporting problems with oxygen equipment for covid patients pikes can always maintain sufficient pressure and might even freeze. we're trying to assess how we can reduce the strain on their facilities. >>and the mechanical spaces, an end. to distribution as well. >>members of the corps of engineers are visiting 7 los angeles area medical centers, including advpntist health white memorial hospital in boyle heights. the team of design and construction experts will look for problems with and recommend solutions for any outdated oxygen delivery systems. they are

discovering what seems to be a common problem. >>to oxygen levels just because the increased demand there freezing. so and so how do you increase capacity so that the system doesn't freeze and they can maintain. oxygen distribution where they need it. >>the army corps of engineers will make recommendations to fema. the federal emergency management agency which will then work with state leaders to correct the shortcomings i just know that the doctors and nurses. >>and the facility managers. they're doing all that they can. and they we are working 24 7 they're really the real heroes in all of this. >>chris wolfe news nation. >>we're taking a live look at the bay bridge right now as you can see still a little bit of fog but at least the ground is drying up there today is the last day of chp is maximum

enforcement period over the holiday season. so far chp has made more than 200 arrests of suspected dui drivers in california. last year officers arrested 491 impaired drivers during the entire 30 hour new year period. the agency does expect the number this year to rise. throughout the holiday weekend. >>and the same exact time for maximum enforcement period for last year's new year's eve. chp at least 3 people were killed in crashes through the state of california which is tragic because that's someone's family family member friend, whatever it is and then we also may impairment dui arrest so that's a big number and we all know we can do better right stand with the family celebrate with your fan be safe out there. >>chp is maximum enforcement period will expire tonight just before midnight, so

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