9. 45 or as we approach about 10 oclock. Temperatures thus far we have mostly the 50s up to the north bay 60s all over the east bay except fremont 59, 60 san jose. We have those 50s lined up along the peninsula for comparison 24 hours ago where little cooler over most of the real estate, a touch warmer to the south lining in a free today again the Morning Clouds and fog by midmorning those starting to mix out nicely for a nice afternoon again looking at 72. By about 11 oclock well take a closer inspection your forecast in just a bit robin sounds good. Thank you dave. Now to a big story that were following for you this morning, according to Court Documents a researcher wanted by the fbi. Its said to be hiding out at the chinese consulate in San Francisco, this investigation stems from a move by the Trump Administration this summer to go after researchers who are here in the United States on student visas but have proven ties to the chinese military. Now the woman named john tang was a researcher at u c davis her visa application stated that she never served in the military. But the fbi claims an investigation revealed pictures of her in a uniform from the Peoples Liberation army. A further search of her home allegedly revealed evidence of her affiliation according to the fbi. They say that on june 20th she went into the chinese consulate in San Francisco, where she has been ever since. Now 2 more students named in the Court Documents chang song was arrested with visa fraud. She researched rolla g at Stanford University her 2018 visa application claims she ended military service in 2011. But the fbi says thats not true janeway was a researcher at ucsf during an interview on june 7. He admitted to being an active duty member in the chinese military. Environmental organization, the sierra club is addressing its racist early history. Over the father of our National Parks john near now the sierra club is a 128 yearold organization known for their outing said preserving the Great Outdoors and now they find themselves are reexamining the legacy of founder john muir and his racist remarks about blocks. In addition as people made more than a century ago executive director of the sierra club of Michael Brune what Michael Brune writing on the groups website saying its time to take down some of our own monument, however, this isnt the first time that john muirs legacy has been question. He also a we need to to the scene. Recognize dad how Environmental Movement and removing some case, you know it would be the best farmers and for many communities across the seas and judy and his associates a few steps to start and what were seeing is a long process to me its i mean our history and from it comes to do with some of the figures that uh we have food in the highest regard. Well the sierra clubs plans on restructuring its leadership so that black indigenous and other leaders of color, make up the majority of the team. Well to the east bay now the city of alameda has voted to rename its first public park previously known as jackson park so the park was named after former president Andrew Jackson and over the years the city has considered changing the parks name due to jacksons history as a slave owner, but in light of the civil unrest spurred by several racial injustices in recent months. The city is now making the change. Aside from just raising awareness about the name of the connotations. It can emphasize the fact that how media is a very anti racist place not just not racist actively going against racist sentiments. Well the city says it will take weeks to remove the signage from the park a group of Community Members will eventually choose the new name. Well thousands of College Students we need to take ethics studies and social justice is classes to graduate in california. The Cal State University board of trustees voted to update the general education requirements yesterday, the changes go into effect for the 2023 2024 school year to give faculty enough time to develop plans. And course work. This is the first significant change to the University Systems requirements in 40 years. Well now to the coronavirus pandemic california now leads the u. S. With the number of covid19 cases after reporting more than 12,000 new cases earlier this week as of yesterday california now has 6,000 more confirmed cases than new york. The state now has more than 415,000 total cases new york has more than 408,000 cases. Well right here in the bay area currently there are over 42,000 cases in over 700 and 20 deaths and were still seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 9600 infections. But the virus has been deadly us in Santa Clara County which has 180 deaths if you like to see a full breakdown of the cases by city and county you can always find that list on our website just head over to kron 4 dot com. Well San Quentin State Prison in marine county is reporting another death related to the virus 67 yearold john beams had been on death row since 1995. He was convicted of firstdegree murder in to larry county. He died tuesday at a popup hospital just outside the prison. While prison officials believe he died because of coronavirus related complications. An official cause of death has not yet been determined more than 800 san quentin inmates have tested positive for covid 1914 have died. Well San Francisco mayor london breed wants testing for coronavirus to be a priority in the city on wednesday mayor breed announced 3 major expansions the city test as south side at the embarcadero well at 400 new appointments per day 2 new mobile testing sites will also be added by the end of next week and will travel to neighborhoods most affected by the pandemic performing up to 250 tests per day a new longterm tests i would also be added in the southeastern part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day. Can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. Well turnaround times for the test results continue to vary its anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco. Their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests for a day and in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day. Well governor Gavin Newsome announced that the state is extending its mass deal with chinese manufacturer b y d the 315 Million Dollar deal is set to bring in an additional 300 million surgical mask and a 120 million in 95 mask into california. Californians contract with a b weide have faced significant scrutiny from lawmakers and the public in recent months governor newsome talked about why using california based on other american manufacturers are just not enough. They made that commitment. In partnership. Those 12 1 4 million mass only 290,000 of those massive been delivered only 290,000 of the 12. 4 million. So its a way of expressing this while there are a lot of california and american manufacturers. Theyre just not. Providing the delivery. At scale thats necessary of the moment. That were in. Well the governor said the state currently has an inventory of 111 million in 95 mask and distributing 6 Million Units of ppe per month. Well to the east bay now after taking 14 Million Dollars from the Oakland Police departments budget last month, the city council has rejected 2 proposals that would have led to even more cuts the controversial issue has now been connected to the recent attack on the home of oakland mayor libby schaaf on to say vandals spray painted graffiti all across the garage calling for the defunding of Oakland Police. The council says that they are committed to additional defunding and Police Reform but it cant happen overnight while maintaining safety. More can we do to better invest these precious and rare public dollars and weve taken seriously to 50 mandate and thats our. I absolutely believe theres consensus on the council to look at serious reforms and to do so in a manner that is proportional and that is parallel to every increasing something. Well the council is now discussing the option of creating a Community Task force which a look at re. Police in the future. Well a Traffic Alert for the south bay, a number of streets in downtown san jose are closed to traffic until further notice this is to help restaurants, stay afloat during the pandemic so block of san pedro square is turning into a venue for outdoor or al fresco dining until now restaurants were limited to just a few tables out there on the sidewalks but now san pedro street can safely see more people, the owners of also manages 3 other restaurants on the square. He says he hopes the extra space will attract more customers. The are very aware of their personal space now so when you come here. Chill cost wolfie knowing that were taking all precautions are a social distance e. Well the new street sign al fresco dining experiment should be up the running friday afternoon following the regular Farmers Market which runs from 10 00am to 02 00pm. Well to the north bay now make sure you watch out for some goats on the road as you drive around Sonoma County caltrans has deployed 400 goats to remove brush thats right along a 2 mile stretch of highway one o one thats between dry creek in gillsburg and canyon road in geyserville so dont be surprised if you see him out there. The goats can eat up between an acre to an acre and a half of dry vegetation per day which helps create a fire break the goat should be hard at work there for the next 2 weeks. Well coming up next on the kron 4 morning news, a cyclist killed in San Francisco while doing what he loved what city leaders doing right now to save lives. Plus herrin barbershop owner say that despite being allowed to resume Services Outdoors theyre concerned about sanitation and safety. Why they say it will benefit them. The president signed an executive order saying that undocumented people shouldnt count on the census when it comes to representation in congress, im joe khaleel here in washington. Why the president s making that argument and why some lawmakers say. It cant be done. And a little peek outside were checking in on the 70 oh bridge traffic looks great so far here on westbound 92, its picking up. But no major issues well have your full forecast coming up. Welcome back everyone and thanks for staying with us the time for 14 good morning, lets say good morning today as far as well who has an update on your forecast a good morning. There robin good morning, everybody and i want to send it out of san jose state just briefly we can make out the bright lights here of the buildings going on so we dont have a lot of ground fog but probably a law which means well see overcast at first light. Well check in a little bit later on sfo meanwhile, good news is no delays happening there and again kind of a bright view the we have that probably those overcast skies will start our day. Temperatures in the 60s lower 60s for a good chunk of the east bay you can see 50s up to the north bay and the peninsula. 60 meanwhile, san jose and for that fog. Yeah get worse, the next couple of hours before. It starts to make south as the morning wears on by 10 00am or so still lingering along the coast here but looks like a pretty good clean up job by that point. Whats driving everything is little pesky little low kind of in our backyard, a bit. Thats actually gonna provide some showers up in the sierra little bit but for us. The Morning Cloud those Morning Clouds but then warm throughout the day and were going to see those temperatures stick to seasonality not just today and tomorrow but really through the weekend and even off into next week as well so we have the 2 types of moisture playing out again we get the low level fog going on here the local fog clouds some drizzle to if youre near the bridges and so forth but of this wind chill waiting and things. Then later on today after day time heating boom, it flares up those scattered isolated showers and Thunder Showers morning fog but as much tomorrow and then boom, it flares up again up in the sierras, so well see that continuously play out there working ashes, some red flag warning earlier this week because of somewhat dry thundershower activity which is sometimes a problem this time of year particularly dont get a lot of rain out of them, but you get a lot of action going on upstairs today were talking the Morning Clouds a coastal clouds as well, mostly sunny and pleasant for that afternoon. Then for this weekend temperatures. Nudge up just a little bit it will be topping off in the lower 90s well in london thats about it. I mean just moving just a couple degrees here with all of that then for next week, its sunny and pretty much the same at least to start kind of what we say a persistence forecast 66 San Francisco, 72 checking in for oakland, 82 for san jose. Now deeper inland of course were going to see some upper 80s going on certainly in Contra Costa County thats a given but little shy of 90 were celebrating, i guess up to the north bay 78 for napa got some 80s up there as well with 60s hugging the coast with that morning fog to contend with. Coming up a little bit later on only we have the 4 zone forecast for you but the tropics are alive and well well be checking in with them to problems going on traffic and bridges. Any major injuries or trouble spots here on the bay bridge. So were looking good and moving well its been nice and quiet so far throughout the morning and of course we wanted to stay that way but now we cant guarantee it. Lets take it some other bridges around the bay area we have 92 it served as the u. S. As usual. We have the traffic stacking up quickly. Its already crowding on the flat section there heading toward the peninsula, but no trouble spots, this is the norm. Lets head over to double check somewhere bridges coming up a little bit later. Well, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump Administration for putting a Citizenship Question on the census to identify undocumented immigrants. Now this week, the white house sought out another way to change how the census justin joe khaleel reports from washington. President trump signed an executive order changing the way the u. S. Census counts undocumented people he wants to make sure that american have all of the political influence and representation that they were afforded by the Constitution White House spokesman john forsman says the executive order would ignore undocumented populations when deciding how many representatives each state gets in congress sportsman says immigration agencies will share peoples personal data with the Census Bureau that information has been collected since 2019 and will be used to inform any future decisions but the Census Bureau itself and House Democrats say thats a legal he knows this is wrong. He knows its against the law. Not to count every individual in america, congressman lou correa says he thinks the order is an Election Year political move, but this is the way he wants to treat the folks that grow our food and feed us. It just doesnt make sense. I say mister president come on and there are questions about whether or not the executive order is even and forcible the administration already tried to put a Citizenship Question on the census and the Supreme Court ruled against them this is another attempt by the president to cheat the senses after the order was issued democrat Nanette Barragan put out a public message in spanish urging undocumented americans to continue filling out the census, the motivation of the president is to try to instill fear in people. And to discourage them from filling out the census bearing on expects the administrations order will get a legal challenge in washington, im joe khaleel. Well the bay area continues to trend a head of state and National Self response and numbers for the 2020 us census doorknockers are expected to fan out and search for people who have not yet filled out the forms and just 3 weeks now as of sunday the bay area has a 69. 2 self Response Rate compared to the state 63. 4 rate and the National Rate of 62. 2 percent now some bay area cities with the low self Response Rate include oakland. Hayward daly city south San Francisco and San Franciscos tenderloin neighborhood. The selfresponse deadline is october 31st. Well if youre in the Nations Capital you must wear a mask, the mayor of washington dc has issued an executive order making face masks mandatory outside of the home, the order includes possible fines for violations however the order does not apply to any employees of the federal government while they are on duty. Well meanwhile, a cafeteria employee on the white house grounds has tested positive for coronavirus an email to Administration Officials say that ickes eatery and the new executive Office Buildings cafeteria have been temporarily close the email says the risk of transmission is low because of precautions such as gloves and mask. Officials say that they conducted Contact Tracing. They say that no executive office staff need to be quarantine ikes eatery isnt in the west wing but dozens of the president s staffers walk there for meals. A Quest Diagnostics executive warns us labs wont be able to cope with a surge in demand for coronavirus tests in the fall during flu season. James davis, an executive Vice President at a quest, the largest slab company in the u. S. So some processing times will likely worsen. Davis warned that testing may have to be rationed with the priority given to people with symptoms so that they can get their results faster next in line with the people without symptoms who have had contact with someone infected by the virus. Well coming up next on the kron 00 04am Morning News Health experts say testing negative for covid19 could provide a false sense of security for travelers, well tell you why coming up after the break. Another trip outside before you head to break were checking in on the Golden Gate Bridge or traffic of maines nice unlike this morning in both directions will have a complete traffic check coming up in just a bit stay with us. Welcome back everyone after months of lockdowns and fears over the coronavirus getting out of town for a while may be tempting right. But Health Experts warn that just because you test negative for covid19 does not mean that you should get on a plane right away Mandy Gaither explains. If youre thinking of traveling and want to get peace of mind by getting tested for covid19 before stepping foot on a plane sank again the pre travel this team. Could be the force could create the false sense of security that warning from doctor sylvain out to carry the Incident Manager of the Pan American Health organization, a traveler from the location we have Widespread Community transmission. Could be infected. Between the time. The sample was taken and when. Her son bold flight. Al the kerry says the test can also come back negative in the early stages of infection while some countries in the caribbean have reopened for non essential travel out of here. He says that decision city come quickly should be gradual. And with the dynamic in terms of adjusting the restrictions he calls on countries to plan for the risk of having travelers possibly import the virus by having Contact Tracing procedures in place expanding the network labs to improve testing and by improving local health care systems. For todays health minute. Im Mandy Gaither. Still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news a south bay District Attorney is changing his stance on the Death Penalty here why coming up after the break. How about a little trip outside over to the bay bridge toll plaza what traffic looks great this morning into San Francisco, nows your chance to come on and get into the city early before traffic starts to pick up. A quick temperatures 55 in San Francisco 61 in oakland 58 in napa well be right back. Well many people have such a misunderstanding as to how a reverse mortgage works. People think that the bank takes your home, but that is not true. Thats absolutely 100 wrong. The home is ours. 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Access your equity. Stay in your home. Have peace of mind. Welcome back everyone the time is 4. 29 we are waking up to some Morning Clouds but hopefully well get some sunshine soon lets check in with dave spahr who has an update on the forecast, a hey good morning robin good morning everybody live shot coming in from the golden gate and we have that kellys going on to also go in the construction southbound by the wave coming in from are in. Down into the this is what it looks like from u c berkeley we can see the bright lights of the east bay shoreline but not much else least it looks like its trying to make its way out there so well see how this progresses through the morning actually get more thick. Over the next couple of hours before they start to improve. Later on today as you can see about 8 oclock at night really start to move until 10, were only hugging the coast at that point got lower 60s in the east bay for now 50s meanwhile to the north bay and the peninsula, lots of green on the board hardly any movement yet. As far as a comparison sake from yesterday were a couple degrees behind where we were this time on yesterday check in the future cast wind gusts will have the typical pickup of the winds happening well inland as you can see and pulling are some of the valleys to late tonight. Line up today is a very typical 60 going on