of marin county, indoor mask mandate criteria, then that county basically has a choice. they can default to the states prescribed guidelines. or in the case of marin, san francisco, contra costa and others, default to what they have. it was a qualification, we just did not find out until then. >> this is what's interesting to me, your policy seems less strict and that offers a few places and before we were told the stricter rule applies when looking up the state and county in any discrepancies. >> i can't speak for the state, but recognizing the immense progress,,,,,, rates and hospitalization rates lower in hospitals in california, but we have the highest taxation rates in california and across the united states. they chose to to to to to because they recognize the great work that not only these local jurisdictions but also the residence in the area have important work done there. >> increasing cases right now. cases here in marin county, as we look to the cdc community transmission tracker, which is a metric that many people use these days. that is to be expected this

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county crew and then all together in graves county. we have about 40 folks helping assist with state route city routes. we've been in conjunction with the chief of police here the that works director the mayor the state police coordinating our efforts on every route. there is within the city of mayfield total in totality. we have approximately 170 employees across our district one that are out in some capacity addressing this particular storm. and again, we have every large piece of equipment that we have at our disposal in operation currently. chief or chief do you? offer anything additional you're welcome to i wanted to make sure we had an opportunity to hear directly from them. they've been doing this work through the night then we'll hear from the state police and we'll open up for questions. i do want to thank atf that is here bringing in even more individuals to help out. we appreciate our federal partners. my name is jeremy creason. the fire chief and ems director for the city of mayfield just a quick update. first our priority

county. talking to emergency management in the hardest hit areas. before midnight i declared a state of emergency. now, i've activated the national guard, we're deploying 181 guardsmen, including search and extraction, and debris clearance folks. they'll be arriving in communities this morning. the transportation cabinet has mobilized its heavy equipment to help clear debris. they'll about sibe assisted by d and forestry. the state commission has been working all night to save lives. another emt and fire professionals are on the way. i've also requested an immediate emergency declaration. and we've got two tractor trailers filled with water headed towards western kentucky. i want to thank every local ems employee, police officer, firefighter, and first responder. this has been one of the toughest nights in kentucky history, and some areas have been hit in ways that are hard to put into words. to all our kentucky families we want you to know we're here for you, we love you and are praying for.

sarah cody is a public health officer for santa clara county. she announced all healthcare workers in the county will have to be boosted by january 24, a week before the state's deadline of february 1. >> for workers in these higher risk settings, boosters are critical given what we're facing right now, the need to ensure continuity of operations and the settings, and the vulnerability of the populations that they work with. >> reporter: covid-19 cases in the test positivity rates have increased in the county over the past 2 weeks. hospitalizations have not gone up as quickly, but data shows they are increasing. >> we need to make sure that hospitals and our healthcare workers are ready to take care of us. >> reporter: and contra costa county, cases in the positivity rate have also increased. >> ways also been hospitalizations increase. there were 38 a week ago. today there were 60. >> reporter: starting on january 10, the county will require first responders to get boosted or tested weekly. >> it is important to keep the workforce healthy. we a

santa clara county. we'll keep their mask mandate in place despite the county being 79% vaccinated. county could start loosening restrictions at 80%, but they are being cautious as we're still dealing with the delta and omicron variant alameda county decided just a few days ago as well to keep the mask mandate in place and that means wear your mask at work. >> after struggling to return to normalcy since the pandemic started bart is now seeing an increase in ridership on wednesday. the transit agency recorded its highest numbers to date since we started with covid. they had more than a 125,000 riders. the agency credits, the increase of parking the station says, well, as new air filtration systems installed in the trains to help boost ridership despite record numbers. the agency is still only at 32% of its pre-pandemic numbers for the month of december. the supreme court says texas's restrictive abortion law can stay. but some lawsuits against it can per seat. the highly anticipated ruling came down this morning, but is. >> anna wiernicki reports for us tonight. both sides say the f

you cross up into lake county, northern portions of sonoma and napa counties this highest of elevations starting to see some snowfall pockets of rain. snow mix in the upper elevations of napa and sonoma counties. but mostly it's just some spotty showers this morning in both of these areas, the inland east bay i mentioned is having some of those areas of rainfall highway for now beginning to dry out towards conquered but out towards antioch oakley in brentwood. that's where you're currently seeing some of those areas of heavy to moderate rainfall. also seeing that just east of mount diablo down through livermore 6.80, as well as the 5.80 interchange, both looking at some areas of light to moderate rain and then also right from oakland on towards alamitos step out of the way of that. you can see some of those deeper greens indicating rainfall that's coming down pretty good, right between san francisco's airport oakland's airport right there directly across the bay itself. so we're definitely still active in pockets. you're also seeing some lighter showers sitting right over the dumbarton

santa clara county d a. jeff rosen says the men have been charged with a variety of crimes as well as hate crime enhancements. they thought asian women don't use banks, and they also made some other ethnic slurs against asians, which i won't. repeat here. there is no doubt that these suspects believed that they could prey on these victims. because of their ethnicity because of their gender. authorities say the men look for victims near atms, casinos and asian markets, often grabbing purses from car seats, but sometimes smashing car windows. some victims were knocked over. one woman had $30,000 stolen from her, anthony robinson and thursday. blanks were arrested in september in the parking lot of top golf in san jose. authorities say robinson rammed an unmarked police car, ran a red light and then hit a car, seriously injuring a two year old girl and her father inside. while arresting cameron moody police say they recovered these two loaded weapons, one of them a ghost gun, the city of san jose stands togethe

rain into mendocino county and northwest sonoma county. this will be dropping south as we head through the evening commute for areas north of the golden gate. pockets of, at times, some pretty intense rain around sonoma county. by 11:00 tonight, you begin to see heavier showers move through the central bay and get into the santa cruz mountains and south bay. another thing will be the wind speeds. you probably noticed outside things turning gusty. winds of 20 to 40 miles an hour. coming up, we'll talk about how much more rain we're expecting from the storm and how much more snow is on the way in our forecast coming up. >> speaking of that snow, that storm bringing so much of it that it's causing power outages at some of the resorts in tahoe. palisades posted these photos. it says several of those lifts on hold as crews work to restore electricity to them. the resort says it got 2 4 inches of snow last night. that's more than expected. more is expected today. they've gotten more than five feet of snow in the past seven days. >>> and we want

now it's not just over county. the entire bay area is bracing for a post holiday surge, although some experts say you shouldn't change your holiday plans. if you are fully vaccinated. the number of breakthrough infections from the omicron variant is raising some concerns kron four's. dan thorn has more now from contra, costa county. >> the new covid-19 variant is spreading in the bay area public health officials are worried a surge of omicron cases might follow the holiday gatherings. federal experts have warned about the new variants ability to transmit rapidly. it's really concerning the doubling time of every 2 days means we could see, you know, hundreds of thousands of cases within a few weeks whether that will turn into a surge of hospitalizations. >> is is yet to be seen breakthrough infections for vaccinated. people have also become more common with omicron leading to a continued push for booster shots. >> the strain might not be as severe as other covid variants. but health officials say that does not mean

we break down the rules county by county. dan: corruption allegations against the sheriff of santa clara county. she could lose her job. also ahead -- >> if they were a person, not only would they be in jail, but they would likely be looking at a death sentence, but there is no corporate death sentence. ama: pg&e is on probation for the deadly san bruno gas explosion. that probation is about to end but changes give hope to the survivors of that and other pg&e small businesses like yours make gift-giving possible. now, comcast business has an exclusive gift for you. introducing the gift of savings sale. for a limited time, ask how to get a great deal for your business. and get up to a $500 prepaid card with select bundles when you switch to the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses. or get started with internet and voice for $64.99 per month with a 2-year price guarantee. give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. dan: you at 6:00, from the 19, lori smith faces

obviously they are the experts within this county and they're saying to the county itself don't remove this despite the county being 79% fully vaccinated and once they reach 80%, then they can start making decisions on whether or not a certain to loosen the mask mandate. but there's a know because last year with covid-19 during the winter months they saw spite and that's your garden variety covid, so to speak. we're talking now delta that still lurking around in on the kron that still scientists are still trying to figure out they are encouraging santa clara county tech. keep the masks up when you're at work or in the shopping complex us just to make sure that you're safe. they're not the only ones alameda county actually decided this a couple of days ago that they're saying to the people in their county continue wearing your masks when you're sitting at work and they're not even at 79% vaccination rate at like santa clara county. so masks seem to be the wave of yesterday and the wave of the future christmas past christmas present in christmas teacher, so to speak. and then i can tell

it's 4.90 a gallon alameda county santa clara county for 78 and in marin county, it is for 84 a gallon instagram ceo adam miss testify before congress today about the apps effect on teens mental health senators blamed instagram for fanning the flames of mental health problems in young people. some blamed miscarry for knowing about the damaging effects that instagram could have on the kids and not doing anything about it. this area explained a new parental control feature that will roll out early next year, including setting time, limits. the senators plan to introduce a bill to hold social media companies accountable through independeni oversight, instagram proposed an industry-wide body to regulate and enforce safety. >> up next, the biggest storm in nearly a month is expected to roll into the bay area which cities here could see the most rain or chiefmeteorologist. well, it's hard standing by with the forecast. plus scott peterson re sentenced today to life in prison. lacey's family was there in the courtroom and addressed scott will have more of that emotional testimony and a mounta

we are seeing snowfall up in lake county. rainfall for the rest of sonoma and napa counties. let some light showers elsewhere. it's really just pretty misty to light showers elsewhere in the bay roadways are saturated, though. so it's already wet from a row. our overnight showers heavy rainfall into the sierra foothills and then up into the sierra nevada itself 8 to 20 inches of new snow fall today. today's not the day to be heading up there if you can wait until tomorrow, it's going to be much better. travel conditions. just make sure you're heading back to the bay by sunday as thursday through sunday is our break from the rain and snow before it pushes back in monday of next week. as you can see on futurecast rainfall stays with us through the day heaviest during the morning lighter showers towards the close of the day evening hours tonight will kick off that break from the rain that we are talking about as far as temperatures go. not quite as cold as it was yesterday. most of us are in the 40's dublin. europe. 4445, i should say. oakland hayward each sitting right now at 4

look no further than lincoln county, georgia. a rural county north of augusta, georgia. that county's elections board was disbanded under the new state law. once they got rid of the existing local elections board, the first order of business for the new board, appointed by republicans, was that they decided they would eliminate six of the seven voting sites in lincoln county, georgia. the proposal from the new republican-appointed board is that this rural county, with zero public transportation, needs only one polling place for the entire county. the new board says having just the one site will somehow make voting easier and more accessible. and it will eliminate the need to transport voting equipment and staff to the remaining sites. yeah you know, it's such a hassle to transport voting equipment and staff to the places where people vote. when you can just put the entire burden on the voters to transport themselves. that's so much easier. one local activist in lincoln county says that single proposed polling place is like 23 miles away from some voters in that county. a

county. today she in hostile healthcare workers in the county will have to be boosted by january 24, a week before the state deadline of february 1st. for workers in these high-risk settings, boosters are absolutely critical given what we are facing right now, and the need to ensure continuity of operations in the settings, and the vulnerability of the populations they work with. >> reporter: covid-19 cases in the test positivity rate have increased in the county over the past 2 weeks. hospitalizations have not gone up as quickly, but county data shows they are incrngea>>he l. weca re wo rkers arnee ready to take ca of us. umaga county health spokesperson says they are sticking with the state guidance and not considering local booster mandates at this time. in san mateo county, max zero, kpix 5. >>> stricter indoor mask mandates begin tomorrow and contra costa county. county health officials now say everyone must wear a mask and all indoor public laces regardless of vaccine status. the county

ruby freedman's daughter had long been an election worker in fulton county, largely democratic county, when the election approached it looked like fulton county would be under staffed for the election so she asked her mom, ruby, if she would sign up as a temporary worker to process ballots on election day. she did so, the two of them, mother and daughter, worked with other election workers through election day and into the night processing ballots in atlanta at the state farm arena. but as president trump and his colleagues, coconspirators -- i don't know. as president trump and his crowd set to work trying to flip the election results, trying georgia to overturn biden's win in georgia and say trump won instead, one of the so-called pieces of evidence they ginned up to justify their case for georgia to throw out the real election results was a video clip from the closed circuit television video, the surveillance vivideo on election night at the state farm arena. and that video clip happened to show ruby freedman, the woman we just heard on that 911 call -- ruby freedman and her daught

santa clara county d a. men have been charged with a variety of crimes as well as hate crime enhancements. they thought asian women don't use banks, and they also made some other ethnic slurs against asians, which i won't. repeat here. there is no doubt that these suspects believed that they could prey on these victims. because of their ethnicity because of their gender. authorities say the men look for victims near atms, casinos and asian markets, often grabbing purses from car seats, but sometimes smashing car windows. some victims were knocked over. one woman had $30,000 stolen from her. anthony robinson and jersey blanks were arrested in september in the parking lot of top golf in san jose. authorities say robinson rammed an unmarked police car, ran a red light and then hit a car, seriously injuring a two year old girl and her father inside. while arresting cameron moody police say they recovered these two loaded weapons, one of them a ghost gun, the city of san jose stands together. to ensure the safety

the county's sewer shed abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey has the message now from county leaders. santa clara county health officials always said it wasn't a situation of if but when and the win is now yesterday we received our first report of a resident of santa clara county with the omicron variant santa clara county public health officer dr. sarah cody said the individual was vaccinated wasn't boosted and experienced mild symptoms while in self-isolation the symptoms began november 30th and the county sequencing system learned yesterday. it was in fact an omicron positive case the person with omicron variant had traveled to florida most likely where they were exposed. so a community exposure in florida rather than an international exposure the county is utilizing positive tests. people as well as a surveillance system through county sewer sheds to detect covid and variants the first detection of omicron and the sewer shed was also found yesterday near where the positive individual. is in north county omicron's emergence has made the importance of boosters that much greater what

the santa clara county patient had not gotten the booster yet. neither had the person who tested positive in san francisco. but there's still good reason to get one because earlier this week pfizer announced that their data and that data from an independent lab show that the third dose provided better protection against omicron than just the first two as immunity begins to wane from vaccination. just yesterday the fda made teenagers 16 and 17-year-olds also eligible for the booster. bay area public health leaders are encouraging anyone who is eligible for a booster to get one, particularly if you are planning to gather for the holidays. we will continue to watch that press conference with dr. cody and we'll post the latest at nbcbayarea.com. >> good wrap up there, kris. >>> as more of those omicron variant cases are de10thed, more questions are being asked. our website really a great resource for you. right now we have a question and answer section with a covid expert, dr. peter chen hong. this is from ucsf. just scroll down to the coronavirus pa

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by county. it could be higher than that. all of this at a time when we learn from a number of states in the area here that the body count and those still missing has risen considerably over the past 24 hours. we're going to go to mike tobin in mayfield, kentucky. the president of the united states is planning to visit the area wednesday. mike is there right now. mike? >> neil, what i can tell you, what you have here in mayfield is the sounds of heavy equipment working. behind me you have the big hydraulic shovel. he's getting pile after pile of debris. before we're done, we'll see another dump truck pull up here. he fills up the truck in minutes and they run off to a couple of different dumps that they have set up on the outskirts of up tos. they had to come up with something to handle this debris. you look at the debris. this is an aztec grocery store. notice the flooring is on the ground. you'll see a lot of twisted steel. that shows you the power of the storm. you're not talking about mobile

at least one casualty if not more in caldwell county. we've had some in warren county. will be probably up to 10 counties that we lose kentuckians in. i think here hopkins hopkins an and maybe muilenburg we'll see larger numbers. >> can you tell us more about the rescues -- how many people so far have been rescued and recovered, if any. >> i think the approximate county is 40 individuals that have been rescued from that facility. there were about 110 at the time. now obviously there's some sensitivity until families know and are certain, and we still hope and pray that there's still some opportunity for others. all right. thank you all very much. thank you all. neil: all right. you have been listening to kentucky governor andy beshear who sums it up this way in remarks, that we're going to lose a lot of lives, and so far the governor said at least 70 have died in kentucky. this primary tornado that gripped mostly kentucky, four other southern states deeply affected as well was on the ground continuously over 200 miles. an unusual here. there were 14 deaths recorded in t

the number of coronavirus cases across the county has been rising. according to contra, costa county health services in the past week. infections have gone up by 149%. hospitalizations are up by 31% during a new surge in covid cases fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant mask-wearing will become mandatory for all indoor public places across the county starting december 29th. >> and we're worried about so many people getting this omicron variant of the same time that it would overwhelm our healthcare system. so really this is about protecting the work force protecting the health care system. new infections are being found in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. but health officials say. >> being vaccinated with a booster shot is still the best defense against hospitalization and serious illness we're seeing that the beast and people i really ending up in the hospitals in the same numbers that that i'm vaccinated or partially vaccinated are so. >> i'm getting that being big being up to date is certain like adding more fuel in the tank of y

santa clara county d a. jeff rosen says the men have been charged with a variety of crimes as well as hate crime enhancements. they thought asian women don't use banks, and they also made some other ethnic slurs against asians, which i won't. repeat here. there is no doubt that these suspects believed that they could prey on these victims. because of their ethnicity because of their gender. authorities say the men look for victims near atms, casinos and asian markets, often grabbing purses from car seats, but sometimes smashing car windows. some victims were knocked over. one woman had $30,000 stolen from her. anthony robinson and thursday. blanks were arrested in september in the parking lot of top golf in san jose. authorities say robinson rammed an unmarked police car, ran a red light and then hit a car, seriously injuring a two year old girl and her father inside. while arresting cameron moody police say they recovered these two loaded weapons, one of them a ghost gun, the city of san jose stands togethe

marin county, we've talked about this for weeks if not months of the one of the most-vaccinated counties in the country. why is it you're seeing such a rise in covid cases? >> we're seeing a significant spike of cases following thanksgiving. it really started five, six days after thanksgiving day. that's a signal that it probably was in fact the gatherings that occurred on thanksgiving that drove that spike in cases. as people were infected on that day saw symptoms a few days later. the good news is that we're not seeing a corresponding increase in hospitalizations. in fact, this weekend we had no covid-19 cases in any of our hospitals in marin county. it's happened a few times but it's rare. right now there's two in the hospital. that's an important sign of what the vaccine is doing for us as a community. 85% of our residents are fully vaccinated. when we see cases rise, many of them are mildly infected and not leading to severe illness and hospitalization the way they did before. >> is it indicative what's happening in marin we'll see in alameda, san francisco and flout throughout the

here is dana de beauvoir, travis county travis county chief. thank you so much for your service to travis county and thank you for making time for being here tonight, we appreciate your time. >> good evening, my pleasure. >> so, let me ask you, you've said that ken paxton's attempt to get you in tight it was meant to be intimidating and some of that was successful. i wonder if you could just take us back to the moment where you realize that this was happening, when you realized what he was trying to do. >> it all began with a complaint in the county station where a few poll watchers were claiming that they couldn't see or hear clearly enough what was going on and their complaint was odd because they were standing right next to me in the middle of the station. what these people really wanted to do was hover on top of innocent election workers who were trying to do the work of processing ballots and the poll watchers refused to wear masks. this was in the middle of a pandemic, austin was in stage five and there was no vaccine, so i fought back an

however, in solano county at the bottom. they did not have a county wide mask mandate. past several months. so there's this little carry out with in solano county because there was no mask mandate. you have the cities of leyland benicia. they voted to issue their own masking rules. he had to wear a mask inside in those cities with in solano county. solano county's health officer says he never and it was necessary and he's not happy that only some counties in the bay area are being given an exemption. you told me that, you know, you have to have everybody wear masks except in these conditions, at least we have the opportunity to implement that here, too. but it's not even being offered to us which is what makes the implementation seem so inequitable. >> solano county currently has the lowest vaccination rate of any county in the bay area. >> the new mask mandate is set to expire set to expire a month from today. january 15th and health officials are hoping that this month. long mandate will help slow the spread of both delta and omicron the variance ken and pam. and they

skyranger was overhead, over the santa clara county fairgs. hundreds of people looking to get a covid test. it's not just long lines for testing but boosters as well. today santa clara county rolled out a new booster environment for anyone working in a high-risk environment, including hospitals, nursing homes, jails. we will have details on how the mandate is a bit different from a similar one issued last week. >> the county's order applies to more people. >> our cases here in santa clara county are spiking. >> reporter: with the omicron surge arriving, today a new health order requiring all health workers in higher-risk settings get a covid booster shot by january 24th or be barred from working in those jobs. mandates will impact about 150,000 workers, and the county says the goal is to keep those frontline workers, including paramedics, healthy and available to help others >> what we want to do is ensure our health care workers and our health care system can absorb whatever hospital surge may be coming their way. >> reporter: the new order a

no masks changes in contra, costa county as well as san francisco and alameda counties. state allowing them to keep their current mask mandates and exemptions limited exceptions for fully vaccinated gyms with private offices where people can take their mask off. if everyone is verified to be fully vaccinated public information officer for marin county lady hendricks says the state is allowing moraine county to re implement their mask mandate that was removed last month mask required indoors. but with some exemptions for fully vaccinated. people closed settings where there's a sequel can work people. so that office settings where we have the same. >> coworkers or maybe private gyms gym owners like danielle rabkin are breathing a sigh of relief after finding out that current mask mandates will be able to stay in place. it really feels like they're shooting from the hip. a lot of the time she's old cross that golden gate in san francisco for 9 years and says the pandemic has come with a roller coaster of rules and mandates. she says there's been no transmission of covid at

so we're not even where santa clara county is. plus, we do know that winter obviously is pertains to them as well. so they're not lifting the mask mandate any time soon. san francisco county pretty much doing the same thing. so instead of ditching your mask, you might want to not only wear your mask wear a ski mask this morning because it is cold this morning james duryea, i hope you choke on your >> it will then tell me that it 42 degrees. what? what's it take for you to wear a the neon. >> you know what, i i work hard in the words of saturday night fever i'm dating myself to human work off of far from anything but a fever at 42 degrees so he doesn't want you get covid will haha this is will. thanks. well, all right. county health officials are shifting how they move forward now at their covid policies and mandates. >> store italy. the daily case. rates have been the main way to determine progress and guide their decisions. now warren county wants to use hospitalization rates instead, they say that fewer cases are leading hospita

the solano county d. a will review the case before determining whether to formally filed a murder charge in vallejo. henry lee ktvu, fox two news. we are following breaking news. the nfl has confirmed legendary coach and commentator john madden has died . his a pro football hall of famer and a coach. he led the oakland raiders to a super bowl victory. he was also an innovative sports broadcaster and the man behind the popular madden nfl video games for now. for more now on madden's life and legacy. let's go to ktvu sports anchor joe fonzi, joe, this really is a heartbreaker. yes no question about it. maybe the hardest thing to do when it comes to john madden is to come up with the words that accurately portray his job description. one of the most visible people of his era. madden had been living a relatively quiet life these last few years. in his later years in life, the public rarely caught a glimpse of the guy who at one time was one of the most visible faces in america. what you could always count on

in contra costa county there are exemptions for gyms and other places. business owners are trying to sort it all out. >> so yeah, it's confusing, but, you know, i think most everybody here have been wearing their mask all the time. even when it wasn't mandated. people were still wearing masks. >> after a couple of weeks, a customer has been very healthful, they're showing vaccination card along with their i.d. >> the mandate does mean until at least january 15th, counties cannot ease any current masking requirements. the goal of the new order is to slow the spread of new cases after a spike following thanksgiving. >>> big news from google. google is giving all of its employees a vaccine ultimatum. all of its u.s. employees will need to show proof of being fully vaccinated or exemption by january 18th >>> cnbc is reporting that hundreds of googlers have signed onto a manifesto opposing the move. the question is whether other tech firms will follow google's lead. >> they're going to be watching how the protests go as well. and what kind of blow back they g

the most of any local county and more expected soon. stone has more on the new actions being taken to slow down the spread when i look around the corner ahead what i see is a deluge of omicron that from santa clara county health director, dr. sarah cody who confirms 10 omicron variant covid cases in the county and w show ts of omicron. we may have a lot of omicron very soon out of the ten confirmed cases in the county. of unvaxed individuals fiber vaccinated but have not received a booster and one person is vaccinated, but only recently got a booster and covid concerns are only getting greater at this testing site in san carlos. people were lined up thursday night to see if they have covid. santa clara county health officials continually referencing covid surges currently being seen overseas when talking about what could soon be seen here dr. cody says the key is getting the third shot boost boost to be fully up to date with covid vaccine protection it you need to have a booster santa clara county health director, dr. marty fenster sche

that's why they're telling the county the health department is telling the county do not remove your mask mandate. keep it in place for now, for the immediate future. this follows what alameda county did just a couple of days ago they were set to lift the mask mandate in a couple of days from now, but they saw the numbers. they saw the history and they're saying no way. let's keep the mask mandate in place. if you're working indoors, if you have to go to indoor places. keep your mask on because they're not even at 79% vaccination rate among their population. so they're actually behind santa clara county. that's why they want to keep it up as well. san francisco county also was set to lift their mask mandate over the past over the next couple of days. but that looks like that's going to be set for the next few weeks or so because it has to align. james and area where pros at this now. right. everything needs to be a line and then maintain for about 3 weeks. if the numbers don't jump, then they will re evaluate, but the numbers are starting to climb, not to mention, you know, history w

there is an evacuation warning for areas near the czu burn scar in santa cruz county at santa cruz county sheriff issued this warning because of all the heavy rain that we've seen that worried about potential mudslides. >> and that applies to people living in paradise park and felt grove. in fact, the sheriff says that people should be ready to evacuate if the san lorenzo river. >> continues to rise. and here in the bay area. more cleanup happening overnight after the storm yesterday with the heavy downpours busy intersection of franklin. >> and pacific and san francisco and crews are clearing the drain here. they were trying to prevent the street from flooding. so they were doing that work. maybe while you were sleeping in alameda, a playground is closed because look at what happened here. a big old tree fell down. this is the city of alameda twitter page. we got this photo is significant damage to the playground equipment at lincoln and also some fencing. so they got to deal with and then along highway 92 in san mateo county. reopened that section of freeway in both directions after the

i 80 in placer county is finally back open for drivers, but only for essential travel. chains are required on all vehicles. check out this new video of lake tahoe showing just how much snow the area has gotten in the last month. the area is setting a 50 or snowfall record. we will jump ahead a little bit here and it puts it into perspective what that area is seeing right now. as of yesterday, the total snowfall for the month of december hit 202.1 inches and meanwhile the search continues for a skier. they use the black hawk the search for rory angelotta. he was missing after he didn't show up to christmas dinner. they say he is an avid skier and works at a ski shop near the resort. >>> turning now to the coronavirus. the states positivity rate keeps climbing now up to 11.2% in the total number of confirmed cases is now up to nearly 5.1 million, but the number of hospitalizations remains fairly flat. to date, more than 75,000 californians have died. >>> some local businesses won't be popping champagne on new year's eve. several events have been canceled because of the ra

the rain prompted a rescue in san mateo county. san mateo county consolidated fire department posting this video from a home in hillsboro. firefighters say that they had to rescue one person from inside that home after water just rushed the nearby roads. the latest on where the heaviest rain is right now and how much we've already received. let's bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin. and those totals. pretty impressive bill. yes, it's a moving target. the totals we've had anywhere from six inches five inches four inches in last 24 hours to up over 18 inches in some places over the last three days, so it's just been one of those atmospheric rivers that continues to produce and again. those numbers keep talking, going up. especially in the south bay communities. now you see the rain up here in northern california up point arena, and it's not as heavy up around healdsburg. not as bad in santa rosa. it is mostly shifted south , and that's where we're seeing the strongest range. that's where we're seeing. we're amberleigh was in

ama: we asked the state if they plan to allow other counties, or other counties with high vaccination rates to do what marin did, try to get an exemption to these new rules. but the state did not give any indication that will happen. ama: indication that more restrictions could follow? reporter: certainly, that is a question on all our minds. he did make it clear that the rules surrounding indoor masking and additional testing requirements to attend events are precautionary ahead of the holidays. he says they will reassess a month from now. dan: the warriors and chase hunter are updating entry requirements for children, starting immediately, children in age group will need to provide either proof of full vaccination or a negative covid test, administered within 24 hours, for an antigen test or 48 hours for pcr. the updated policy will be enforced starting with friday at's metallica concert, taking place at the arena. some health experts have started to question how effective mask mandates are. we look at solano county, or some cities have had mask mandate and others not. reporter: as

what is the county doing to change that? dr. willis: we have been actively promoting the use of home tests. we know that one of our strategies to get out of a pandemic is to make sure people are able to get diagnosed with the illness as soon as it comes on. we know that people who are vaccinated have milder symptoms and we know just don't want people to mistake symptoms for covid-19. we are promoting home-based testing but at the same time, our surveillance systems rely on laboratory testing. the pcr tests people have been familiar with over the past year or the way the public health departments get the results through our understanding of the virus. we see a blind spot where people do home-based testing and may not share the results with public health. the way we address that is to request our residents use of form we have put on get vaccinatedmarin.org. if you do test at home, you can report your results to us. that allows us to see a case that may have occurred so we can track more accurately, but more importantly, so we can

winter weather advisory in upper elevations of lake county on up into humble county. into garber ville. that's where you're seeing some snowfall right along one, oh, one. as for sierra snow pack, we have seen well above 100% of average so far this year. 166% of average for the central sierra and as we move our way into the new year. looks like there's more of it just around the corner. so some good news there, of course that does hold that travel a lot. so please be mindful of that. we're back to that snowfall this morning, especially heavy in the sierra foothills as we move down in elevation, there is still some snowfall up in the lake county mountains. but a little bit more so on the rainy side for sonoma and napa county hillsides. as for the core of the bay area. light showers do continue enough to keep roadways wet and we've had multiple incidents likely a factor is the slick conditions on roadways. so please slow it down. we don't have a lot of traffic. so got yourselves down on weeks like this when it's between christmas and new year's lot of us still working fr

contra costa county shut down. lumpy is diner yesterday because staff were spotted working indoors without wearing masks, and they were not checking proof of vaccination or for a negative covid test. the diner is on loan tree way, and it was fine several times. it's one of several restaurants and contra costa county that refused to comply with covid-19 mandates . lumpy is reopened this afternoon after agreeing to follow the rules. arson threats against to marin county businesses targeted because of their covid vaccination rules. one of them is a bar, the other a gym, and it appears they've been singled out by the same person. we get more tonight from ktvu deborah villalon, who joins us live from san rafael deb. allies most recent was a note left on this fitness club threatening to torch the place. but the threat the night before , i was even more startling in person. the note said. if your vaccine passport is not lifted by this time next week, this place will burn in west miranda paper mill creek saloon is as local

santa clara county for 78. a gallon in texas joel osteen's houston. megachurch has confirmed that thousands of dollars have been found inside a bathroom wall of the church building. that story came to light. one a man claiming to be a plumber called into houston radio show. he says last month he was working and a church restroom. he had to open up one of the walls. and when he did, he discovered hundreds of on the lopes filled with money. police think the envelopes are connected to the 2014 theft of unknown amounts of money from that church. >> still much more to come tonight here on kron. 4 news at 6 o'clock longtime california congressman devin nunez has announced that he is leaving congress at the end of the year. a look at his new career plus the area. congresswoman jackie spear has endorsed a candidate to fill her seat in the house of representatives will let you know who she is now throwing her support behind and someone setting fire to the christmas tree and oakland's jack london square. will it usaa is

accounting entity, counties in charlotte county, a portion of our drinking water on the surface water component is from the peace river in advance. representative says the company's environment can, we can ship it, hawks mediation will help them reach middle ground, whereas very strictly nation. and we're very proud of meeting those regulations. and we came very good care of the water for melina, back home, sweet home. and we've been collecting so many samples that we didn't do all the field test because takes a little bit of time and, and precision. and we were jumping into places we necessarily were necessarily allowed to be. now that we had water from the mine itself. we were able to take a look at the different levels that it has. and what we wanted to do was test various bodies of water to see if they had matching levels, which would show that it was all treated water and came from the same spot. so this is some of the test water that fell on my arm when i was transferred it over you created guys, everything south has this much phosphate. so there's a consistency, there's to be n

ecr bus line. >> further south in monterey county. flood watch is in effect through 01:00am tomorrow morning in the area of the dolan fire burn scar the national weather service says heavy rainfall could lead to rock slides debris flows and flash flooding in recent burn areas and in spots downstream of the burn area. there's also a high wind warning for monterey county and gusts may reach 45 to 60 miles per hour. the risk of flooding rock slides. his force caltrans to close off a stretch of the iconic highway one in the big sur area. you may remember little earlier this year, storm washed away a portion of the road. the road was shut down last night between deet big sur in and ragged pointed san luis obispo county that the closure will remain in effect through tomorrow. taking a look further south cal fire czu tweeting out. >> these images today. you see a little mud slide on felton empire road just west of the town of felton rocks there. impeding traffic. thankfully no one was injured in cruiser working on clearing the road there hil

and the county operated clinics. they are not experiencing any vaccine shortage is so there are other options. if you need a booster vaccination live in newsroom. gayle ong kron 4 news. >> thank you, gayle. we have an update now on a recent covid outbreak in alameda county nearly everybody who tested positive is a kaiser employee at the oakland medical center, 12 people recently testing positive for covid 11 of them are kaiser employees of the 12 cases. 5 were identified as the omicron variant. all of the cases are linked to a wedding that happened late last month in wisconsin. all of the kaiser employees are vaccinated. most have received their booster shots. kaiser has also identified 16 additional people were potentially exposed. so far, 13 of them have tested negative results for the other 3 people have not yet come back. >> some hopeful news tonight about how one of the covid vaccines does in a battle against the omicron variant pfizer claims as long as you have 2 doses and a booster lab studies show that you sh

in contra, costa county. laura anthony abc 7 news. alright now to the latest on the omicron variant the number of mutations in this particular variant could also be its downfall actually and that's a good thing for us abc 7 news reporter luz pena has more on the new study out of south africa and what it means for the future of this virus loose. well, very preliminary data that we're getting from south africa, but it's looking promising. yes omicron is more infectious. any other variant but there's a possibility that he may cause less severe disease. preliminary data out of south africa is giving the world insight into how strong omicron really is the south african medical research council just reported this variant may cause less severe cases of covid-19. i'm vaccinated people they're going to the hospital in south africa, but they're not suffering as severe disease. they're not requiring oxygen omicron has 50 mutations 32 of those are in the spike protein making it more. visible than any other variant dr. wa

solano county is the only county in the bay area that will have to fall in line with the state. >> solanolth officer doctor bela matyas says carve out a loud and other counties should be offered everywhere. he told me that, you know, you have to have everybody wear masks except in these conditions, at least we have the opportunity to implement that here, too. but it's not even being offered to us, which is what makes the implementation seem so inequitable in san francisco, rob nesbitt kron 4 news. >> still ahead of the kron 4 morning news new documents are out. >> on one of the most speculated events history, how story ends think you could lead to more information on the j f k assassination will be right back after the break. >> welcome back to the kron 4 morning news it's time for you now for 16, a new date for you now for 6 to 8 late. >> been back in time. i look at that. there. day for you. 1216 here on this december. thursday. a wet and rainy one. so i left the house a lot early of sitting in your studio by myself or allow earlier this morning. >> and now, john, you're here to give us