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Greatest especially if youre going to be a traveling along highway, one or maybe one oh one coming out of the north bay visibility down to about a mile through nevada couple miles and San Francisco, and visibility quite pour in Half Moon Bay and even the east bay hills there through oakland. Drive along 80 just be real careful out there. The good news is things are going to improve as we get through the Early Morning hours into this afternoon. This is again what weve been seeing pretty for the last few weeks here and so right around midday. Thats when well see a lot of that clearing around the noontime hour and well have a lot of sunshine pretty much everywhere except for summer coastal spots thats where that fog is going to be sitting for the entire day today temperature wise outside were higher in some spots and about the same in others versus where we were at this time yesterday 4 Degrees Higher in nevada right now, waking up with us versus yesterday to in San Francisco 2 Degrees Higher. In Half Moon Bay. So 50s and 60s is the story right now 60 degrees in downtown oakland, 55, currently in San Francisco 61 in fremont 61 also in san jose things will change of course into the afternoon we will have some mild conditions, especially if youre going to be a along the coast really 65 degree mark in Half Moon Bay that were expecting 67 again in San Francisco and then 70s around the bay 71 downtown oakland, 75 for the high hayward and then its going to get of course a warmer to even hot inland 89 expected for livermore today, 88 and conquer 90 degrees inland and antioch and then upper 80s in morgan hill later on this afternoon. Your sevenday around the bay forecast. Yes, we are a pretty normal about normal for this time of year temperature wise and then once we get into the weekend things are going to get a little bit hotter inland. But says stay pretty steady around the bay and at the coast with 70s and 60s and then a little bit of a dip there were going to take temperature wise into next week james back to you all right rebecca, thank you for 2. Lets get to our top story this morning, the coronavirus pandemic which has killed now more than a 150,000 people across the u. S. And now some of the nations top medical experts say America Needs to hit the reset button on the response to this pandemic whitney wild explains. It is time to reset medical experts at Johns Hopkins releasing a new report wednesday titled resetting our response urging the United States to reset its response with policy actions at the federal state and local level to get control of the covid19 pandemic unlike many countries in the world, the United States is not currently on course to get control of this epidemic. The report says this as republican congressman Louie Gohmert was not allowed on president trumps visit to texas after testing positive for coronavirus wednesday. You know a lot of people in made a big deal out of mind out wearing a mask ow ly now members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times. And the hall of the house except that members may be moved their masses temporarily when recognized and after House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell declined an offer from the trump administration. To have a Rapid Testing system on capitol hill back in may lawmakers are questioning why there isnt one in place one thing that i think that they should wear their mask that i also think wish that testing here though this as california is facing its deadliest day so far. Governor Gavin Newsome tweeting tragically california surpassed another somber milestone today, 197 deaths across the country florida. The new at the center of americas pandemic again shattering its daily death toll numbers wednesday breaking the record the state just step on tuesday. At the white house, im whitney wild reporting. And heres a closer look at the local coronavirus numbers across the state were now seeing more than 484,000 infections with more than 8900 deaths and here in the bay area we are seeing more than 49,000 cases with the death toll growing now to 772. And on that note we do have all bay area counties now under the States Coronavirus watch list San Mateo County was the latest to join after seeing a spike in cases there and now more Business Owners are bracing to close again kron fours gayle ong has the story. Today. I didnt have a single person. And my store thats how its been before reopening for heidi howard she owns earthy treasures a boutique on san carlos av what shes been doing to stay afloat only by use my retirement money even offering sales to get customers through the doors but its not enough i knew right from the beginning that in order to. Get through this all have to some of my retirement money in but i have a 2 years to go before i retire, and i definitely am committed to stay San Mateo County is the last bay area county to join the states covid19 watch list. It was announced wednesday after seeing a rise in cases in a statement, the county manager says officials have been anticipating being added to the list. The county has 3 days to get the case rate under control or businesses offering Indoor Services like gyms places of worship. Malls hair and nail salons will be forced to shut down over on laurel street this quite was notified by her hair stylist at laurel street salon also a nail salon this is not an unusual day. She usually only works on thursday and friday. So he can can you come in and i said yeah, the owner tells me she spent thousands of dollars to reopen and operate safely and now shes preparing to close again. We have time we thought we were going to be shut down for 2 weeks in look at how long its been. Businesses are allowed to operate outdoors or Curbside Pickup the state has not offered a when restrictions might be lifted. In san carlos gayle ong kron 4 news. Lets go to the south bay now were a costco in sunnyvale is dealing with a covid19 outbreak among its employees. It happened at the costco on Lawrence Station road thats just off lawrence expressway. Santa clara department of health is now investigating the Public Health officer wouldnt confirm exactly how many employees tested positive there, but this is certainly a part of the story were going to continue following for you. Meanwhile in the east bay you can get a coronavirus test from a temporary kiosk thats been set up in berkeley, its located at sep apple park and actually its a self administer tests up patients swap their own mouths. And an attendant at the test then takes that swab for testing the results could be expected they saying about one to 2 days. And todays the last day that that temporary test a kiosk is open to the public to get tested you have to make an appointment. You can find information on our website kron 4 dot com on how to do that. Theres also a new walkup testing site at the 24th and Mission Transit hub in San Franciscos Mission District. The goal is to monitor the disease in vulnerable populations, particularly the heavily impacted latin x community. The site will be open on wednesdays and fridays for the next 3 weeks. Small Business Owners across the bay area are not able to pay rent due to the pandemic and kron fours michelle kingston talk with one hair salon owner in pleasanton about the financial struggles that that business and others are dealing with. I get it its like they need to be paid in. We we need to work we need you we need to be paid andy miller shut down both her danville in pleasanton hair salons back in march because of the coronavirus pandemic her landlords were understanding of or inability to pay rent at first, but now would spend 5 months in those landlords say they have to get paid and then in the months went by and now were at the point where they you know this doesnt work for anybody to not be making money like they have mortgages they have property taxes they have. They still have expenses miller was able to open her danville location for a few weeks last month. That had to shut that down due to a rise in cases she says there are no rent forgiveness programs for her to apply for and at this point is reaching out to her community to help her raise money to keep her salons open were in big trouble, everyones in big trouble if this goes on much longer. Miller says shes not in a fight with her landlord she understands that they need to get paid. Shes hoping she can reopen the salon soon so that she can pay her landlords and also get back on her own feet like. At some point were going to have to do something because this isnt. I was happy with the way its going right now is not working according to Alameda County officials the commercial Eviction Moratorium is in place for unincorporated Alameda County only it does not apply the Pleasanton Pleasanton its website says that during the ongoing state of emergency and for 90 days after it is lifted new eviction cases cannot proceed Contra Costa County does have an Eviction Moratorium for Small Businesses through the end of september in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. All right, lets turn our attention to bay area baseball, the giants back on track earning their first home win of the season with an exciting finish against the San Diego Padres take a look. This is driven to write feel mike just risky. About that all my district ski with the walkoff homer there in the coming cold and that wasnt the only home run of the night fact earlier in the bottom of the 3rd you see the splash the ball in the water as well the entire game was a slugfest on both sides but in the end it was the giants that sealed the win over the padres final score 7 to 6. The 2 teams will face off again tonight manager gabe kepler is impressed so far with what hes seen. He was full of fighters. I think that Hunter Pences has talked about that internally as well. So these are these are their and i believe them when they talk and i think they they demonstrated that they you know they come back those words up tonight. And over in the east bay, the oakland as got beat by the Colorado Rockies again the as only scored one run to the rockies 5. With make a series sweep for colorado the as will help to bounce back against Seattle Mariners tomorrow night this county near the walls and happening today basketball is back the nba is restarting the season in the bubble. At Walt Disney World in orlando le commissioner, adam silver discussed how the nba plans to deal with any coronavirus outbreaks among the players and coaches. If we had any significant spread whatsoever we would certainly stop immediately wet and then we would investigate and determine whether we could move watching obviously whats happening in baseball right now they group of infections on one particular team they cost that team is as far as i understand it they intend to continue on their season. Im sure theyre undergoing the same now says we would try to figure out where the spread has come from and whether their protocols are working. In the nba says that there have been no new cases of covid19 after its latest round of testing the bubble seems to be working for now the season is again set to restart with a game between the la clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers at 6 oclock tonight. Well take a break time now for 12 coming up the city of oakland moving one step closer to defunding. Its Police Department will tell you how the City Councils planning to reallocate. Half of Police Resources in the next 2 years. Plus a closer look at the damage caused by the fire in San Francisco, south of market neighborhood. More on that coming up as fire crews are still monitoring for hot spots this morning. For 15 is the time we want to get a check of the weather here in case you have to head outside were back to strom is here to let us know what you can expect more in the back of all right morning james were going to head out the door right now. And sea across the San Francisco International Airport right now whereas definitely fog and a lot of khloe cloud cover covering the airport this morning, a similar story that we woke up to yesterday morning we are going to see a Clear Conditions and sunshine here. We just have to get through the Early Morning hours to finally get some clearing into the afternoon the things are going to be beautiful around the bay area. We just have to get through all this fog though you can see it here on our future cast for map our visibility map where we are socked in in some spots, especially at the coast. But throughout the morning things will start shifting and moving especially as we get closer to midday. And thats were going to see a lot of that clearing especially from the north bay east bay zone and south bay you can see though along the coast were really just going to be socked in pretty much all day long so if youre going to be heading to Half Moon Bay later on today just expect that normal for this time of year. And were looking at temperatures some very similar to yesterday morning 50s 60s you might just need to throw on some long sleeves to make your way out of the house this morning but then the later on youll be able to enjoy the sunshine and take those off were looking at 50s and 60s 60 degrees in oakland right now 56 currently in berkeley to run your at 5356 in fairfield were looking at 57 currently in novato afternoon highs today, it depends on where youre going to be just how mild warmer even santos your temperatures will be a dropping down today you can see all the red the orange coloring on your screen that is definitely the hotter temperatures were going to be the upper 80s once again in livermore and 89 today conquered a high of 89 antioch 82. Your south zone mid to upper 80s once again today morgan hill teetering to that ninetydegree mark at 89 84 degrees in downtown san jose today really nice around the bay though 76 and a lot of sunshine expected in hayward today, 78 a little bit warmer in fremont and then mostly 60s at the coast 68 expected for San Francisco and 66 for the high and Half Moon Bay. A quick peek at your sevenday around the bay we are looking at a little bit of a dip in temperatures into tomorrow just by a few degrees here and there and then we are going to see the inland valley locations. Spike up on saturday and sunday its going to be really nice around the ban the coast though, but again if youre in line just to make take note of that make sure the use the sunscreen of course, stay hydrated and then as we get into next week were going to see things taper off just a bit temperature wise. James all right, thank you very much. Rebecca, heres a quick check of the traffic this morning and there shouldnt be a whole lot going on and sure enough thats the case here at the bay bridge approach. At this early hour at 4. 18 weve got no backup here to get in your way as you make your way from oakland into San Francisco. Over the golden gate bridge, the right on one southbound is well its nonexistent in terms of no traffic youre making. Excellent time are in county down to San Francisco, no headlights taillights the bridge is all yours for the moment. All right well be back with them or whether traffic a bit now lets get back to the news and in the east bay with Oakland Police now reporting nearly a dozen homicides for this month alone. The violence comes as a new City Task Force looks for ways to cut. The Police Department budget in half quite forces, a dune has the story. The city of oakland just got one step closer to significantly defunding its Police Department Oakland City Council unanimously approved the re imagining Public Safety task force the re imagining Public Safety Task Force Resolution was coauthored by Oakland City Council member Nikki Fortunato bass she says the aim is dramatically reducing the Police Budget. And what were going to do is very rapidly put together a community that task force that is. She worked towards feeding a set of recommendations for the city as we plan our next twoyear budget to create more safety and equity in how we structure our Public Safety systems she says the 17 Member Task Force will work on a detailed plan on how to use that money to provide residents with mental and physical Health Services youth programs, safe Affordable Housing and high quality Job Opportunities what were going to do is really look hard at how are we using those resources, lets focus our storm officers on Violent Crime a cofounder of the Anti Police Terror project cat brooks released a statement reading in part quote while there is still much work to be done this is a win for oakland unquote. You know i really appreciate that groups http the antipolice terror project and others who have been raising this issue. Of re imagining Public Safety of divesting from policing investing in community for over 5 years the Council Member says it is important to point out that reducing the Police Budget by have does not mean cutting the number of sworn officers and have you know there are some things we have to contend with and that includes. Measures e which is our violence ballot measure. That has a minimum number of all staffing. There are also some rules in need or Police Associations contract that we have to abide by. Has it made you kron 4 news. You know the name of the boy who died in lafayette after getting hit by delivery vehicle. He was 10 yearold leonardo. So laura the boy was riding his bike tuesday afternoon along merriewood drive near Burton Valley Elementary School when he was hit by an amazon delivery vehicle. He died at a local hospital that amazon driver is cooperating with investigators. Happening now crews are getting ready to clean up and investigate the scene of that massive fire in San Francisco and this is new video from our quad copter 4 showing the damage done to that section of the south of market neighborhood 6 buildings were destroyed by the fire tuesday morning, firefighters will remain on scene for a few more days to monitor for hot spots. People can also expect some road closures as well in the area. Happening today federal agents will start leaving Portland Oregon Governor Kate Brown negotiated a plan with Homeland Security to withdraw those agents in phases. The nightly Portland Protests began after George Floyds death at the hands of Minneapolis Police 2 months ago, and they spiraled at times into violence after agents were brought in to use tear gas and take people away. President trump insisted the federal troops would not leave portland until local authorities quote secured their city. House democrats and Senate Republicans need to make a decision around unemployment payments and the drummer putting were back at 4. 24 making National News this morning, the coronavirus Unemployment Benefits are set to expire tomorrow and House Democrats are urging Senate Republicans to extend those benefits. Our washington correspondent basil john brings us the latest. Were on the precipice of sliding from a deep recession into an american depression, pennsylvania, representative Matt Cartwright and other House Democrats are calling out republicans for failing to extend the 600 weekly unemployment payments to be so cavalier has to let these deadlines expire. It is irresponsible. Cartwright says Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell will be responsible for the economic damage. She says is on the way when we let this Unemployment Insurance expire with no replacement with no negotiation with no discussion thats a level of this connectedness from the American People that approaches malevolence the republican plan in the senate would lower payment to 200 weekly until september. Pennsylvania representative fred keller says that a healthier amount for the economy and workers the democrats are talking about programs that keep people in dependency were talking about a programs that keep people test their jobs so they have a job to go back to so that their their employer their team to be successful. Keller says hes decision could lead to more problems. And says democrats need to be patient. Their new normal is more government control more Government Spending and more debt for kids and grandkids lawmakers on both sides of the aisle hope an agreement on Unemployment Insurance happen soon. Reporting in washington, im beall job. On a related note. Governor newsome is forming a new strike team to speed up the delivery of Unemployment Benefits. The governor says that that strike team will create a blueprint for improvements in the unemployment or the Employment Development department their goal is to overhaul the system and begin addressing the backlog of unpaid claims since march, the department has processed more than 8 million Unemployment Insurance claims. And theres theyve sent out more than 49 billion dollars in Unemployment Benefits so far. Well take a quick break, heres a live look outside the bay bridge toll plaza camera this morning well be back more headlines in just a minute. 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. We can sell it if we want to at any time. I like the flexibility of not having a payment, but i can make the payment if i want to. 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Lets start the half hour with a check of the weather outside as we take a look at the live camera here in San Francisco shows us we do still have some clouds overhead you can see the glow of the bay bridge light sort of reflecting off of them, weve got really strong in the Weather Center with more on what well expect for the rest of the day rebecca good morning james, yes, were definitely seeing the fog the low lying cloud cover this morning once again. It is a very similar starts what weve been seeing the last couple of mornings around the bay area. And its going to be with us through much of the morning before finally clearing out by this afternoon. But you can see this hour south of market camera in San Francisco and all the gray skies behind me here and it is just a rolling through quite thick this morning. And again its going to stick with us at the right around noontime, well start to see a lot more clearing a lot more sunshine. Afternoon highs today will mostly be in the 60s and San Francisco 68 in downtown that than 70 degrees if youre going to be the Mission District 66 at golden gate park, those 50s to mid 60s, popping up on