is currently holding a special session of the general assembly on coronavirus diplomatic editor james bays is at the u.n. in new york and james that session is still ongoing but we understand the secretary general has addressed the meeting what did he have to say. well secretary general was the 1st to address the meeting one of only a couple of speakers who were actually in the room at the general assembly because of covert 19 most the leaders have submitted their speeches recorded speeches they're being played out from all of them for the secretary general he's normally very very diplomatic very careful with his language but this was a tough speech because he believes that the countries that are the richest that can help the most are not doing enough to help the poor countries on the earth deal with covert 19 extended lifesaving assistance to 6 the city of the most vulnerable companies so our global humanitarian response plan from the start we have called what a stimulus package was at least 10 percent of global g.d.p. and for depth relief for all countries that needed i welcome the steps

in kind of an interesting expedition our diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations and he says aid workers are struggling to reach people integrate region. it's now a week since the u.n. signed a deal for humanitarian access into 2 great province with the government however the u.s. and its agencies and international n.g.o.s is struggling to get supplies in they have aid workers food medicine and other humanitarian supplies that can't get across the border the u.n. secretary general antonio good terraces had a number of phone conversations with the prime minister. mr terraces spokesman says somewhat delicately they're still trying to operationalize the deal if the question is are we getting unfettered clear humanitarian access. at this point no right and that's why we're still in discussions with the government to try to get to where we want to be the u.n. is particularly concerned about an incident on sunday when 4 members of its advance security team were farto poland and then detained for a time by the authorities for now it doesn't look like the situation is going to b

syria policy our diplomatic editor james bays reports. 2015 was arguably the year that changed the course of the war in syria russia got involved militarily bombs from its jets changing the for choose of the assad regime . earlier in the war according to international inspectors the regime of used chemical weapons on number of occasions a red line had been crossed but the u.s. leader president obama did not act in response to a growing crisis the international community came together unanimously around the u.n. security council resolution that's been quoted by world leaders ever since with the united nations resolution 2254 times the security council resolution 2254 resolution 20 to $54.00 did on a resolution of understand on the demeanor rid of. it was supposed to deliver a cease fire and peace talks in reality though december 25th is when russia took the upper hand diplomatically with the rest of the world taking a back seat. with both turkey and iran russia organized the new peace process in a stana and such it didn't lead to peace areas declared safe zones were retaken by a sad helped

after the world health organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic and diplomatic editor james bay says more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. more than 50 heads of state around 40 prime ministers and many ministers will take part in this special session on coded 19 there will however be no decisions coming out of this meeting it's the idea of all come brush here the current president of the general assembly he's a turkish diplomat even his own spokesman told me he believes that this meeting should have taken place many months ago he said from the very beginning it's already too late to have this meeting we should have held it last summer so now the member states have come together they decide to hold this meeting this is special session on covert 19 and the point of this is to recommit to multilateralism the format for the meeting will be similar to the high level session of the general assembly in september all the leaders comments will be prerecorded it's likely to have the feel of a video presentation rather than a global leaders summit. u.s. president donald trump has re

diplomatic, as the james bay is reports around the world. more people are suffering hardship. the never before, every year it seems when the u.n. announces the money needs to deal with humanitarian emergencies across the globe. the figures get bigger and bigger. the u.n. estimates that because of code $19235000000.00, people will need humanitarian assistance. an increase of 40 percent over the figure last year. it's appealing for $35000000000.00 to meet the need and as the darkest embley guests, i've ever seen him on 35 years into his kind of work. and what's happened is we've had a accumulation of many years of conflict and climate change. and now on top of that, we've got that if you like, a triple whammy over it, because it has got a 40 percent increase. the biggest increase in the number of people in minus of i next year without help and assistance to 200000000 people. yemen is still the worst humanitarian emergency in the world. the u.n. has identified 56 countries that most need assistance. what's worrying them is that many of those have a deteriorating situation, and th

as the james bay is reports around the world, more people are suffering hardship. the never before. every year it seems, when the u.n. announces the money needs to deal with humanitarian emergencies across the globe. the figures get bigger and bigger. the u.n. estimates that because of code $19235000000.00, people will need humanitarian assistance, an increase of 40 percent over the figure last year. it's appealing for $35000000000.00 to meet the need and the crisis is far from what humanitarian aid budgets face they are. shortfalls is the impact of the global pandemic continues on with every country suffering economically. as a result of covert 19, the un's undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs mark has the difficult job of persuading leaders to pledge funds to help the most needy on earth. we ask them to remember the people caught up in these crises and just like everyone else and a helping hand and generosity and solidarity is the human thing to need. but we also remind if the kind of problems that weare describing in nice europe or come to fruition may well have taken

well diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations and says aid work is struggling to reach to grade residents who are in need of urgent care. it's now a week since the u.n. signed a deal for humanitarian access into t. great province with the government however the u.s. and its agencies and international n.g.o.s is struggling to get supplies in they have aid workers food medicine and other humanitarian supplies that can't get across the border the u.n. secretary general antonio good terraces had a number of phone conversations with the prime minister. mr terraces spokesman says somewhat delicately they're still trying to operationalize the deal if the question is are we getting unfettered clear humanitarian access. at this point no right and that's why we're still in discussions with the government to try to get to where we want to be the u.n. is particularly concerned about an incident on sunday when 4 members of its advance security team were farto poland and then detained for a time by the theo puno authorities for now it doesn't look like the situation is going to be furth

it's as our diplomatic editor james bays, reports around the world. more people are suffering hardship than ever before. every year it seems when the u.n. announces the money needs to deal with humanitarian emergencies across the globe. the figures get bigger and bigger. the u.n. estimates that because of code $19235000000.00, people will need humanitarian assistance. an increase of 40 percent over the figure last year. it's appealing for $35000000000.00 to meet the need and the crisis is far from what humanitarian aid budgets face. they are shortfalls, is the impact of the global pandemic continues on with every country suffering economically as a result of covert 19, the un's undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs mark has the difficult job of persuading leaders to pledge funds to help the most needy on earth. we ask them to remember the people caught up in these crises and just like everyone else and a helping hand and generosity and solidarity is the human being to. but we also remind them if the kind of problems that where describing in

deliberately storing in hopes of a change of syria policy in washington president biden matic editor james bays. 2015 was arguably the year that changed the course of the war in syria russia got involved militarily from its jets changing the fortunes of the assad regime. earlier in the war according to international inspectors the regime of used chemical weapons on number of occasions a red line had been crossed but the u.s. leader president obama did not act in response to a growing crisis the international community came together unanimously around the un security council resolution that's been quoted by world leaders ever. since with the united nations resolution 2254 times the security council resolution 2254 resolution 2054 did on a resolution of understand on the dummy rid of the fancy him from fitness when. it was supposed to deliver a cease fire and peace talks in reality though december 25th is when russia took the upper hand diplomatically with the rest of the world taking a backseat. with both turkey and iran russia organized the new peace process in a stana and sochi it didn't lead

our diplomatic effort to james bay is now around the world. more people are suffering hardship than ever before. every year it seems when the u.n. announces the money needs to deal with humanitarian emergencies across the globe. the figures get bigger and bigger. the u.n. estimates that because of code $19235000000.00, people will need humanitarian assistance. an increase of 40 percent over the figure last year. it's appealing for $35000000000.00 to me and we as the darkest embley guests, i ever seen him on 35 years. it in this kind of work. and what's happened is we've had the accumulation of many years of conflict and climate change. and now on top of that, we've got there, if you like, a triple whammy over it. because it has got a 40 percent increase. the biggest increase in the number of people in minus of i next year without help and assistance to 200000000 people. yemen is still the worst humanitarian emergency in the world. the u.n. has identified 56 countries that most need assistance. what's worrying them is that many of those have a

this is the commute that's still delay free so still easygoing in trouble free into the north bay. james the east bay, the berkeley unified school district is helping families get food during the holidays, the district is providing meals to all children under the age of 18 starting tomorrow children pick up 5 meals that are meant to get them through december 20th and then on friday children can pick up 7 more meals to last them until december 27th, regular meal pickup will resume on january 4th bags of groceries will also be available on friday. these bags include fruits vegetables and some nonperishable items and you can find a list of food pickup locations on our website kron 4 dot com. >>volunteers at the san francisco warehouse in the city are hard at work. packing up food for those in need the food bank is now serving 55,000 households per week and that food bank the food bank spokesperson says that the demand definitely exceeds the economic downturn from 2008. >>so many that we're serving have never needed food assistance before in october we had or highest amount of pounded to the

yeah, what's causing the spare the air alert john so we got a cap right over the bay area james that's the high pressure that's pushing in the air down so any sort of fumes that we let up from our cars are from or wood-burning stoves just gets trapped right here in the bay area. it's the same reason that the central valley is looking at a dance dose of tooley fog this morning that's going to be streaming through the carquinez on into the bay itself so for us here in the bay that does mean that bad air gets trapped with us for the central valley, any sort of moisture gets trapped right there. and that's also being seen in areas like conquered in antioch this morning. so watch those foggy spots further inland. this is your mount tam cam right here you can see the bay bridge there in the distance, it's just fine there's no fog out here in san francisco. >>norcross the east bay fog is definitely sitting further inland, sore coastal in bayside spots are sitting just fine as far as visibility goes this morning you will notice some haze there in the horizon, a product of that a spare the air

darya folsom and i'm james fletcher it is a thursday morning here in the bay area. >>little cool out there. but other than that kind of a nice mild morning anything of note john that we need to know anything terribly noteworthy guys it is definitely a cool start we're going to be seeing a brisk wind today and conditions will remain dry for yet another day ahead of some weekend showers looking increasingly likely so today, not a bad one for some errands or maybe just that walk around the neighborhood. clear skies over berkeley right now it's definitely a cool and calm start for the east bay, but look at where we're heading later todawi

sandra fell we consider this a minor way 13 minutes for a 5.80 west making it into the north bay darya james, thanks a lot robin, i know one our top story, california facing dark days in the coronavirus crisis the state is emerging as the epicenter now and the pandemic get the new developments have health officials a bit concerned they're cautioning residents about the risks of getting together for the holiday season. they'd rather you not. >>even though we know that many probably will and then we'll see more of this which is hospitals packed with patients kron four's reyna harvey is live with the latest on the situation this morning morning anna. >>the morning daryn james yeah, the hospitals are under a lot of strain across the state you have nurses and doctors that have working long shifts around the clock now here in california. we're nearing 2 million coronavirus cases in the bay area 225,000 now over the past few weeks they've been putting this message out discouraging people from traveling because they've been looking at the numbers and as they continue to go up there seen a lot of tho

37 to the tolls a 20 minute drive coming up we'll have a look at your drive times around the bay area james and darya back to you. thanks a lot. >>9 o'clock the time the big breaking news overnight. the fact that us now has set a new record for the most covid related deaths in a single day. there's a number we're talking about more than 3100 people who died from the virus on wednesday and more than ever people in the hospital to now a 100,000 americans. >>are hospitalized with coronavirus 20,000 of them are in the icu now this comes as california now setting records as well for numbers of new cases kron 4 sarah stinson live for us in san francisco to talk more about that sarah. >>cases are rising rapidly not only in california, but also right here in the bay area so we're waiting to hear from governor newsome we expect he could have some kind of announcement with more restrictions within the next 24 hours. but we don't know if he's going to put a stay at home order in place but he's definitely concerned about the rising cases, i mean yesterday 20,000 cases were reported that's the highest n

this tow cables and 11 men james center for look at our top and our bay area forecast good is it still level if it's man made it that we get used make snow but now i get it, i mean it's not fake it's but still c-level not as high. i must admit it's just it's center if at least is cold enough for some snow out there which is better than we can say on some years that's for sure we are seeing some chilly temperatures in the sierra nevada that obviously helps with the snow making situation. >>no new snow and that's good for roads 80 traversing across donner summit looking pretty nice and clear this morning we're going to be staying clear this forecast to the rest of the week looks to be abundantly sunny and dry as does the weekend and likely into next week too so futurecast not showing a whole lot of changes once our little band of fog right there on the peninsula clears out later today, we're in for ample sunshine this afternoon into the evening tonight, likely into tomorrow too just a few clouds pushing in from the south and west for your wednesday high pressure continues to be built up

but all is well on 5.80 westbound rolling into the north bay james very good all right. it's 6.47. >>with san francisco landmark restaurants like the cliff house permanently closing their doors, many are wondering what the future. >>is going to be for the city's dining scene corn first marine kelly takes a look. >>the current proprietors close the cliff house temporarily back in july but now they're shuttering for good at the end of the month. they say the pandemic is only partially to blame. but news of this venerable local institution folding is casting a chill on the city's dining scene gates have been pulled shut and for lease signs are up all over downtown san francisco. the san francisco chamber of commerce got their hands on some sobering spending trend data from mastercard at the end of november just based on zip codes and other financial district 85% of bars and restaurants were closed and i was an increase from the month before around again this is data based on. >>you actually get a spending some of those could be holiday closures due to thanksgiving. >>and the chamber d

darya folsom and i'm james fletcher it is a thursday morning here in the bay area. >>little cool out there. but other than that kind of a nice mild morning anything of note john that we need to know anything terribly noteworthy guys it is definitely a cool start we're going to be seeing a brisk wind today and conditions will remain dry for yet another day ahead of some weekend showers looking increasingly likely so today, not a bad one for some errands or maybe just that walk around the neighborhood. clear skies over berkeley right now it's definitely a cool and calm start for the east bay, but look at where we're heading later today, wind speeds do eventually pick up in the afternoon. so we may be relatively calm to start, but that won't be the case all day long. 40's and 50's for current temperatures with dublin at 42 berkeley at 54 san francisco and timber on both at 51 and then there's your 30's up in the north bay santa rosa, our cool spots at 33 degrees right now i'm talking what exactly to expect as we make our way into what will be a rain your weekend. still

away with no warning to the united nations which says its position on the region hasn't changed james bays has more now from the us there was shock here at the united nations that this change in the u.s. position that goes against existing u.n. security council resolutions on western sahara in effect a breach of international law i asked the spokes person for the secretary-general whether he viewed this as a quid pro quo that phrase that was used so many times in the impeachment of president trump earlier this year i must say that we we found out about this these developments at the same time that you did. and on the on the issue of the i don't i can't speak to you know you mentioned a quid pro quo that's a question to ask the parties the parties involved the secretary general call to parties on the ground for karm the rest of the security council are saying absolutely nothing right now they're on happy i know with the situation but they know that this puts president elect joe biden in a bind and i suspect there will be quiet pressure on his administration once it takes office in january.

james all right john thank you 5.20 is the time in the east bay. >>100 people in oakland will now have a place to call home, thanks to a city led effort that was actually paid for by the state. >>from hotels to a permanent home people who got help from project roomkey are now being transitioned into a real residential house. the city of oakland partnered with the bay area community service program and the crank foundation to make it happen. they purchased single-family homes which were then separated into sro style living with each person getting their own room and have some common areas to share. >>we are so excited soon as the week of december 28. families and elders will to have a stable home just one name. >>last week he got tears in their eyes just one left the house to leave felt comfortable and he knew very grew up a local word park is handing keys whether had been called to their home because you can see the look on their face because they know now they have a home. >>the idea is not only to provide a safe place to live but also instill a sense of ownership. >>we'll take a brea

carrefour said live in western let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays who is at the united nations what's been the reaction there at the u.n. james quite a lot of shock here at the united nations this is a change of the u.s. his position with regard to western sahara it goes against the u.n. security council resolutions that means it's a breach of international law that the u.s. is now recognizing morocco's sovereignty over western sahara we just had the daily u.n. briefing with the spokesperson for the secretary general clear that he didn't know any sooner than the rest of us i'm told that even u.s. officials working on this issue had been given no advance warning i asked the spokesman whether he felt this was a quid pro quo remember from the impeachment that phrase that means this for that i must say that we we found out about this these developments at the same time that you did. and on the on the issue of the i can't speak to you know you mention a quid pro quo that's a question to ask the parties the parties involved. well the rest of the security council being very silent rig

problems here through the tolls across the span and into the north bay you are good to go. james. oh one more. forget about you know shade to the golden we're it's always such a nice try trouble free. it's our problem free bridge let's head to the south bay now from the golden gate. >>to san jose where police are looking for thieves who broke into a wine store over the weekend. >>stealing about $35,000 worth of wine. call for jonathan mccall has more on what happened. bird george is on the hunt to put a cork in a pinot pill for drunk with greed. this was. >>absolutely targeted. they knew exactly what to do early saturday morning. he says someone held an unplanned one tasting party. >>inside of the juice of george fun, one store in san jose. take a look at this crooks smashing the windows to get inside. but the guests not leaving empty handed. he says they took off with thousands of dollars and collectible cabernets in rare reese links. you've never seen this. >>if anyone shop in the united states know or in the world that has what i had had in this cabinet, 13 bottles in total take

>>james that's exactly right these icu beds are becoming more and more scarce we're seeing right here in the bay area, 16.7% left of icu beds and that is continuing to go down it's on a downward trajectory and if it does continue to go down say to the 15% or less san mateo county where i am right here will be forced to go under that stay at home order because as we know health officer has decided not to do it preemptively as many of the other counties have and we are standing by on those numbers take a look at your screen all out for you so you can get a good look at the overall numbers across the bay as i said 16.7% available in our area of icu left if that number goes down as i said we'll see what the counties do you can see the rest of the numbers on your screen, the northern california region is at 43.6% down in southern california. they're seeing less than 5% of icu beds available very concerning that is very low state health officials are reporting 30,000 new cases yesterday with 122 new deaths deaths and only 7.4% of icu beds left across the state of california now back out here in san ma

we'll check more traffic coming up a little bit later james darya thanks rob. >>so bay area woman says its after school police officer assaulted her boyfriend during a night out at pier 39, here's a video officer terrence strangle was charged this week with assaulting to carissa spears this happened october of 2019 police were responding to a call of domestic violence. but brianna richard says the entire thing could have been avoided kron four's jonathan mccall explains how. >>it was a date night at pier 39 that quickly became a nightmare and that's when i my while the but it wouldn't be how the night would in for briana richard and her boyfriend to cause >>reliving his compensation i was but it's >>this for more than a year since october 2019 she says she can not shake the image you're watching san francisco police. >>and talk >>in an ask me anything know. >>he immediately started beat the curry is me to the i think got to for some time i meant there's a sitting up on curl minutes later officers arrived to the scene briana says officers on the scene never asked her or

one about 7 minutes for your drive we're going look at more on the drive times across the bay area but robin jamese'll send it over to you all right reena thank you very much 5.18 is the time so the big story that we're following today is the fact that the federal government could shut down as soon as tomorrow. >>if the senate can't reach a deal on a short-term spending plan by midnight tonight, the government. we'll run out of money and this comes as congress hits a new roadblock in talks for a new covid-19 relief bill. one of the key sticking points is a slim down liability shield for businesses so they can't be sued. and that's in exchange for the state and local relief funds that democrats i have been wanting now senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the gop won't support that trade off. >>some states begin imposing new restrictions on businesses lawmakers in washington are trying to find more ways to help small businesses washington dc correspondent hudson has details. >>in a bipartisan effort lawmakers are calling for additional funding for ppp loans if i had to sum up the ppp loan in

so come on and the skyway is wide open so it's a james like here in the south bay i was monitoring this crash in san jose north 87 at 2.80 we have one lane blocked you're backed up several miles it's out of the way and traffic has completely recovered to 87 looks great and check out the rest of the south to 17 to 3785 all smooth an app to limit that's how we like it back to you. >>thank you very much robin time to talk winners and losers on wall street financial expert rob, like as always joins us to help us understand what's going on good morning, rob. morning james well as usual. let's start with the where we're going today and why. well we had a strong month of november. so december started with a record yesterday a little bit of a pause this morning on a global level, so it's nothing to worry about. >>atp showed some private sector payrolls, little underwhelming 307,000 worse expectations about 440,000. thank goodness we're not creating jobs the uk approve vaccine for covid slightly incrementally good news. sales forces, according people to slack which really did do well during the

removing the accident here at 13 minutes now heading into the north bay we'll check more bridges coming up in just a bit darya james. >>time now is 9.31 the bay area regions icu capacity has dropped under 13%. that's what's triggered. a regional stay at home order starting tomorrow, the entire bay area is going to be shut down under that stay at home order most counties. issued stay-at-home orders early but we had some holdouts as you may remember san mateo santa cruz monterey and then solano county napa county to the north but everybody now will have to shut things down until january 7th, which means that 4 out of these 5 regions that california has been broken up into are now under that state mandated stay at home order. >>state is in real crisis right now things are getting worse day by day i see use or near capacity in la county. they have less than 2% space left you know, so they have like less than a 100 beds and the population is more than 10 million people. nancy loo has more on that. >>it's the situation health officials had warned about but the reality is hitting hard now california reported another massi

james. >>all right well thank you very much. >>well to the east bay, the coast guard base in alameda will be one of 16 military bases to receive shipments of the pfizer vaccine. the pentagon will receive slightly fewer than 44,000 doses health care workers emergency service personnel and residents. military retirement homes will get top priority for the vaccine. now some pentagon leaders will be getting their shots in public and that's just to help demonstrate confidence in the vaccine safety. >>well the vaccine is arriving as more than 13,000 people are hospitalized now with covid-19 across the state here in the bay area. the number of available icu beds is also hovering right near that 17% mark. it's just below it and here's the graph showing you what we're talking about the bay area region is right there at 16.7% really close to that 15% threshold that would trigger the state's mandatory stay at home order. although as we know most of the bay area counties are already observing it. the greater sacramento, san joaquin valley and southern california

bay area. that's coming up daryn james.ou 8.30 and the big story is how coronavirus is spreading out of control in the united states we set a record. >>with 3,100 plus people dying of the virus in 24 hours yesterday in the bay area more than a 153,000 people have tested positive since the pandemic began and now the napa police department says several of their officers have tested positive as well they haven't said exactly how many but they say that those officers are now in quarantine and anybody who's been exposed to them is being contacted. >>in the east bay 8 people from one school in danville one classroom have now contracted covid-19 san ramon valley unified school district confirming the cases happened at el amigo high school last month. it happened as the school is welcoming students back and staff as well for phase 2 of its reopening process kron four's noelle bellow gives us a closer look at what happened. >>but not positive about it for the last 31 years, jan jimenez has worked as an autism specialist paraprofessi

definitely bundle up and give yourselves a few extra minutes if you're driving up in the north bay this morning. james, all right john thank you very much quick check of the roads. >>and as you can see it's been really smooth sailing all morning long not a lot of traffic out there probably because a lot of folks have the week off again as we head towards christmas on friday, you're bay bridge drive to westbound 80 across the span looking great for you this morning also seeing some pretty nice conditions to on the san mateo bridge. you're highway 90 to commute from hayward out to foster city's moving without incident, no problems at the toll plaza. no problems on the span. the richmond sandra fell bridge has also been moving quite well as the sun comes up you can see just a couple of cars making their way toward the toll plaza so far so good and the golden gate bridge, our final stop for you this morning. gorgeous looking shot like a but that's where we are this morning with some really nice conditions as you make your way southbound across the span really the chp has been patrolling the or they got fr

how dangerous it can be driving through the fog here between the east bay and the peninsula so stay on top of this and ari and james will have another traffic check coming up a little bit later but the bay bridge and the san mateo bridge. this is what people are it's dangerous and it makes me very nervous. i don't like driving in the fog. i don't at all since i got old the dark is out. rain is just a homeless shelter in yeah safer that all right thank you very much time now 7 '02 our big story this morning with governor gavin newsome warning californians now that. >>we possibly could be looking at another stay at home order if covid-19 cases continue to rise things have gotten so bad that he's talking about this type of stay at home order that we had in the beginning of the pandemic and that's because of the cases and the deaths we've seen in the last month. >>in the last week alone california's average more than 14,000 positive tests. >>i'd a state leaders also projected covid patients could overrun hospital beds by early january and that's something that the governor and local health officials are desperate to tr

yourself some time but still really great for drive time about 40 minutes for you and the bay bridge here just like a jameson or john mentioned there a moment ago the maze to fremont about 9 minutes for your drive. we do have an accident though to tell you guys about we'll get to that a traffic accident this is at the east now 5.80 at north flynn road. here's just a little congestion there she want to give yourself some more time as you're making your way for now city both james and darya looking good on the not bad, thanks very much rain. it for a run at 5.31, let's head to the south in our restaurant manager in san jose is defending his business. >>after being fined for violating health guidelines. nearly 200 businesses across santa clara county were fined over the thanksgiving weekend. straits restaurant in santana row receive to fines one for not socially distancing and the other 4. a customer not wearing a mask. well the restaurant manager plans to contest the fines from the county. he claims his business was following the health orders. >>we've got because we have a that's outside of our restaurant o

areas are in the midst of that well the coast and much of the bay is actually starting off pretty clear and pretty nice this morning. james, all right john thank you very much time now is 6.31, here's a quick check of the bay area bridges this morning. we're looking at it's pretty good conditions here on the bay bridge westbound 80 the ride looking nice and smooth. no delays really. >>it's been kind of nice to see it normally gets a little heavier by about now, but so far you're moving well, so now's the time to get out there. we're also tracking the ride on the san mateo bridge again volume picking up steadily, but still moving at the limit no problems on the span you're not slow down whatsoever as you make your way from hayward out towards foster city so it's an easy ride from the east bay out toward the peninsula. we're also checking the richmond sandra fell bridge too few more headlights than our last check but you're still traveling without any problems, no backup at the toll plaza and no delay on the stand your ride a number counties looking fine and if you're in marine county heading into san francisco, 1, one sout

the danger which is why they have a voluntary shelter in place right now the bay area about 17% icu beds. barely above james that 15% mandatory shelter in place triggered by the state. back to you hopefully we can keep it above that threshold, thank you very much will we also some good news to report on the gurney as coronavirus vaccine. >>new york times reporting this morning. the fda is expected to approve it. >>for distribution on friday. like pfizer's vaccine moderna's also right around 95% effective. it's a little different though in a very important way moderna's vaccine doesn't have to be stored at extremely cold temperatures which means more hospitals and pharmacies can actually handle it. in the end many more millions more americans could get the vaccine before the end of the month, so fingers crossed that that happens. meanwhile, alameda and contra costa counties in the east bay also plan to begin vaccinating health care workers this afternoon after receiving the first dose of the vaccine, the front line workers will then get their second dose 21 days later in the south bay officials at stanford h

james and good morning, everybody in the south bay it will be a very good morning for approximately 60,000s over the next week or so they will be coming down to locations just like this one right behind me call hunger at home. they will be distributing the food in about 30 now and let me give you the details take a look at your screen and they are doing it more than ever because of covid-19 so many people unemployed that they expect to pass out about 60,000 meals over the next week. these are the dates and times that you need to know this is at 1534 berger drive is called hunger at home begins at 7 o'clock this morning goes all the way 4 o'clock in the afternoon. these are expanded hours because they know the need is greater than ever before. it happens today and tomorrow and thursday for this week thursday, obviously being christmas eve. so a lot of families, especially with covid-19 they can travel to other families and sharing meals so it's even more important this year. then next week they will be right back at it all so tuesday wednesday thursday seem hours 7 o'clock until 4 o'clock i

bay area today. wow! a new buick? for me? to james, from james. that's just what i wanted. is this a new buick? i secret santa-ed myself. oh i shouldn't have. but i have been very good this year. wow! wow! wow! don't forget you this holiday season, get an s-you-v, from buick. celebrate the holidays with buick, now everyone can get gm employee pricing on most buick suv models. use it to get over 45 hundred total value on this encore gx. >>> a pair of bills introduced in the state legislature today would extend california's moratorium on evictions during this covid-19 cries. it would allow struggling tenants to avoid eviction all of 2021. >> if the evision moratorium is lited on january 31. and would have debt stating conquences for all of us. >> past tenants will have to pay by the 2021 dead line:a family is sharing their thanks tonight. they were in derrick danger loosing their home when a job loss happened. >> reporter: single mother marny swanson and her daughter have weatherrered the road. after 20 years teaching she sed she lost her job. >> i'm 1 one of those people that have a hard time as

this is a huge shut down james is yeah affecting just about the entire bay area. those darya highlighted for you in the east bay for instance, restaurants and hair salons took advantage of. >>last customers that were rushing in over the weekend. before the lockdown went into effect in walnut creek restaurants have to transition away from outdoor dining indoor dining all you can do is pick up or or take out. we're delivery. barber shops hair salons they're going to have to obviously stay shut down to in fact for the rest of the month and it's a big blow to the workers and owners, especially during the holiday season. >>it's dire situation to be able to keep some businesses open. in. i believe that the beauty industry in the restaurant industry are getting hit the hardest safety wise. it's a good thing that we're doing but it also that we can see your friends and family again. >>during the holidays, but we have to do the right thing at the end of the day i believe that the lockdown home it's definitely going to help. >>and these new restrictions will stay in place u

bay area. we dry out really quickly tomorrow after those evening showers tonight and stay dry through the weekend. chances of rainfall return into early next week. james>>thank you john ny 48 is the time restaurant owners in the east bay are suing contra costa county for shutting down outdoor dining. they say there's no data or evidence providing that outdoor dining contributes to the spread of covid-19 crawford taylor force act he spoke to several restaurant owners that are part of that lawsuit also spoke with the lawyer. >>mark of the wine whiskey and eatery here in martinez is one of several restaurants suing the city like others they're operating on a takeout delivery only basis and the owner says it's not enough to pay the bills or keep his business running through this lawsuit. he says that the restaurants are simply fighting for their right to survive like other restaurants in contra costa county mark of the wine whiskey and eatery in martinez invested thousands of dollars to pivot into outdoor dining. >>but now it's patio is closed and they're operating on takeout delivery orders only that's after the county along with 5 other bay area countie

james we are seeing some good conditions here in the bay area for santa as he arrives later on today. >>skies will certainly remain dry today which is more than we can say for tomorrow as rainfall pushes into the bay for your christmas day itself. and snowfall in the sierra nevada also for christmas day. now as far as we go from berkeley right here skies looking pretty clear not seeing any fog near berkeley cam but there is some tour north writer right along northern contra costa county and portions of solano county to visibility in concord and nevado taking a hit from this fog this morning in a dense fog advisory remains tell nude for all of solano county and then out into the central valley too so we are seeing some low visibility for the interior of the state not so much near the coastline as for temperatures. we're currently in the 40's for most areas, oakland you're at 46. morgan hill livermore and dublin though in the 30's. well santa rosa hanging out right at freezing at 32 degrees. not quite as cold as yesterday was but pretty similar see definitely want to put those layers on

east bay drivers south bay, coastal bay looking at some actually pretty clear conditions to the contrary i'll keep you updated on the latest through the morning. james, all right john thank you very much. let's give you a quick check of the bridges as we take a look at the bay bridge. >>nice our camera here at the toll plaza on the oakland sideshows you've got no issues as you make your way through the toll gates and across the span things look great here also looking fine in san mateo your san mateo bridge drive looking great on 92 the westbound direction on the right side with the taillights that's heading out towards the peninsula and as you can see traffic is moving without any problems whatsoever from here let's jump over to the richmond sandra fell bridge. now we are starting to see traffic slow a bit at the toll plaza side enrichment and that's because we do have one vehicle stalled in the far left lane mid span so traffic's trying to get around that and that's what's going to be slowing you up just a touch as you make a wake richmond out in towards marin county. but the southbound right on 1, 1, from murray county and san francisco is lookin

bay area wow! a new buick? for me? to james, from james. that's just what i wanted. is this a new buick? i secret santa-ed myself. oh i shouldn't have. but i have been very good this year. wow! wow! wow! don't forget you this holiday season, get an s-you-v, from buick. celebrate the holidays with buick, now everyone can get gm employee pricing on most buick suv models. use it to get over 45 hundred total value on this encore gx. >>a heartwarming update on a difficult story we've been following since last week, san francisco firefighters will be handing out rice sickles to children in need this christmas after all you might remember 200 try sickles were stolen from the departments toy program last week on wednesday they area firefighters shared on instagram the san francisco station 13 bought and put together a number of try sickles to replace the ones that were stolen the stolen try sickles were meant to be delivered to children who otherwise might not get any presents this holiday season. earlier this week, 3 local alarm associations also donated $4500 to help replace those tricycles. >

james its 2020 athlete of the year. on the cover is a painting done by a young bay area artist 14-year-old tyler gordon. james being recognized for his achievements both on and off the court. he led the lakers to a 17th championship this year and he's also one of the sports' leading voices speaking out against racial injustice and an organization to combat systemic racist voter suppression. what an honor. 14 years old and has work on the cover of "time magazine" very cool. speaking of time, spencer christian, it's time for some rain around here. >> it certainty is and you brought the topic up just in time. rain is just around the corner. here is a look what is happening now. look at the sky from emeryville. it's 5 ma3 and mid 60s san josed morgan hill and 54 half moon bay looking down toward ocean beach or mt.tam and napa 60, 66 fairfield and concord and livermore also in the mid 60s, mid 60s are going to be disappearing tomorrow. here is the live view from the rooftop camera looking across the embarcadero. clouds will increase overnight and much cooler tomorrow with rain developing tomorrow night first

>>good morning robin good morning james in a very good morning for the bay area. >>entirely because help is on the way the vaccines are actually in california. >>as we speak is should arrive to john muir medical center some time over the next several days maybe a week or so and the front line workers here they will be the first recipients other vaccines. it was a long journey for the the vaccines i should say because obviously months in the making and then they were ready to go. they were packed at a pfizer facility in michigan over the weekend carefully packed. i should say loaded on to airplanes to be distributed across the country. it finally arrived in los angeles over the weekend governor gavin newsom even tweeted out hope is on the way or hope has arrived to our state from l a x it will be distributed across the state as well. john muir medical center they are ready to roll, but it wasn't easy for them because they had to establish that they had the equipment to handle. the vaccines. they cannot be stored at room temperature so they had to have special freez