Continue to see fog to your morning commute before eventually burns off later on today, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures pretty similar to the start of the day yesterday, pittsburgh and conquer 59 right now while dublin in alameda. Each at 58 degrees to kick off this morning. Later today, daytime highs a touch cooler but not really a big difference here will still be in the 90s for antioch very close to the 90s and livermore concord well low 70s and oakland mid 70s and both hayward and fremont robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on the traffic now we want to take a peek at the morning commute starting off with 80, its looking good moving well 7 minutes here from the bottom of the maze over to the fremont street exit so come on in no trouble spots or San Francisco. Heres the Richmond Center fell your connection between the east bay in the north bay and its also looking good you have some tie in those doesnt really stack up much during of the 4 oclock hour even 5 oclock so 7 minutes right on time to make it off to one on one. Were checking in on 92 as usual, its our busiest bridge once again busy does not mean bad. Its just a little crowded on the flat section here leaving hayward but overall a very nice trip into foster city and send the tail and once again we are starting off the 4 oclock hour hot spot free took out these drive times south 6. 80 pacheco to danville 11 minutes livermore to dublin for 5 in the west thats a 10 minute trip and maybe youre traveling between the peninsula in San Francisco. If so one oh one from brisbane up to the 80 split in San Francisco. Its only 6 minutes and thats really good. Well check more coming up a little bit later. Well hair salons and barbershops in the south bay. Welcome customers after being closed for almost 6 months monday was the first day at work for stylus at hair handlers salon thats in san jose. Despite the reopening silence say that theres still a long way to go. Its going to take a lot of time for us to coax our clients back to the salon. And let them know that they are going to be okay what business can sustain be not 6 months. You know almost a happier, i dont know any business that can do that they go down the street you see a lot of businesses close. The scaled back Health Orders also means indoor retail is back in santa clara county. But with some restrictions. Oak ridge and valley fair malls and other indoor Retail Establishment to reopen that 25 of capacity. Well not all businesses in the bay area are getting their chains or their sister their chance to bounce back. According to the latest study by the chamber of commerce more than half of San Francisco store fronts. Our clothes and the downtown financial district area, 84 of its store fronts downtown remain close and many will not be opening back up from 4 states restocking reports. Its hard to believe that this is the scene a montgomery and center streets in the financial district and 05 00pm on a monday. An interception in San Francisco normally bustling with hundreds of people. Now empty and quiet. Without all the weekday foot traffic businesses like later on leaf are struggling to stay open weve cut way back. Were watching our costs were working with our landlords who are our partners. But ultimately we need customers owner steve sarver says. This legal in leaf location at crocker galleria is where the store first opened 21 years ago. Its one of 7 financial district locations right now were doing about 20 of the business that we were doing prior to the pandemic and thats at this one location. The other locations are closed and. You know theres just not a lot of people here right now most of the businesses inside the crocker galleria are closed as the mall continues to operate with reduced hours common theme across the neighborhood according to the citys chamber of commerce 84 of all store fronts downtown are closed. Many will reopen here at the copper gallery and throughout the financial district. It seems like the vast majority of businesses arent even open. Theyre just waiting or maybe they did shut down permanently we dont know. Most people are going to want to hang on much longer the chamber of commerce says restaurant sales across the city were down by as much as 84 in july 2020. Compared to the previous year. And the numbers are even more than 4 businesses like bars nightclubs and entertainment facilities will business ever be the same in the financial district thats really up to our leaders and im counting on our leaders to recognize that for the vibrancy of San Francisco. They need to figure out how to get people back into the financial district right now more than 1300 store fronts across the city are closed according to the chamber of commerce. Were expecting that number to get worse the longer in this pandemic in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. State senators are going through dozens of bills to help californians get through the pandemic on monday afternoon. The state Senate Approved a measure to ban evictions through january under the measure landlords cannot evict tenants who did not pay their rent since march because of the pandemic or pandemicrelated hardships. It would also ban evictions for tenants who pay at least 25 of their rent thats do between today and the end of january. The state Assembly Still needs to approve the bill for governor Gavin Newsome to sign it. The United States has hit another disturbing milestone in the coronavirus pandemic 6 million confirmed cases the Health Experts say that there is some good news. Melissa rainy reports. Covid cases continue to hit grim milestones just over 7 months ago, no one in the u. S. Had a confirmed case. Now the u. S. Has topped 6 million cases. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university, the somber reality that comes with those numbers more than 183,000 people in the u. S. Have died. In los angeles monday memorial honor the more than 5700 people have died in that county alone. But despite those high numbers there is some good news. So as a nation we are clearly doing better now in the last day of august and we were on the first day of august the cases have come down. Deaths are starting to decline hospitalizations are down. This is good news colleges across the country are working to stay ahead of outbreaks as some students return to campus a New York University canceled in person classes for at least 2 weeks after an outbreak there. That outbreak is linked to a large party. School leaders say dozens of students have been suspended for violating the code of conduct we have already suspended. Dozens of our students for violating codes of conduct. We have to instill in people that its not just your actions, your actions have consequences on everyone else it could impact our faculty defense it can impact the student body population, so were going to keep reinforcing that message saying we want to keep these colleges opened 3 vaccines are now in phase 3 trials in the United States even so Health Officials say a vaccine probably wont be publicly available. Until at least early 2021. Im melissa rainy, reporting. Well now to our wildfire coverage there these are the latest containment numbers on the major fires that are burning in the bay area right now check him out on your screen. We have the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bexar 65 contained. The lnu lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 66 contained and then the czu august lightning complex fires in parts of san mateo and Santa Cruz County or 41 contained. Well to the north bay, the Vallejo Police union says the Police Department is understaffed and that dangers the community this comes as the department deals with accusations of Police Brutality and incompetence kron fours dan kerman has that story. The Vallejo Police union says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The peel way says the city has funded a 122 officers for 10 years but has never employed that many as a result they say the city is short handed consistently and in fact there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over a 120,000. They say that puts vallejo well below cities like oakland and richmond. They say that forces officers to work overtime shifts which causes fatigue and adversely impact citizen safety if you are working and tired. Then allow says must be made by your supervisors. But. It doesnt allow for. Abuse of citizens, civil rights Attorney John Burris has sued Vallejo Police for wrongful death in the Police Shooting of Sean Monterrosa he says while more Police Officers may be needed to patrol the city. It does not for one minute excuse the actions of police which of frequently crossed the line. That is no justification for unlawful unconstitutional shootings. Crossed the illegal arrests detentions theres no excuse for Holding Officers Accountable at the fort for discipline. And or maintain good policing. The fact that you may be understaffed has nothing to do where you should be a professional baker the constitutional laws and rights of the citizens of a mile. The Vallejo Police Department Says recruiting and hiring as a top priority and while only a 105 funded positions of a 122 our field theyre currently reviewing 13 candidates, they also said theyve just received funding from the federal government to fund another 8 officers and theyve reached out to the chp to help complement the officers currently on the street. That the Vallejo Police department dan kerman kron 4 news. Were learning new details about the recent protests in Oakland Oakland Police Arrested 24 people over a threeday period. Most of them did not live in the city of Oakland Police say that events promoted by the group called yea area revolution turned destructive from last wednesday through saturday now on wednesday night windows were broken at 21 businesses and there has reportedly about 100,000 in damage to the federal courthouse. Now on 2 of those nights officers say that rocks and bottles were thrown at him. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news was less than 2 weeks until the niners home opener the fortyniners place one of the star defensive players on the covid19 watchlist well have that story coming up. Welcome back everyone and thanks for staying with us the time is 4. 44 oclock just change. Were checking in on the forecast, we know we have another spare the air day in place but also labor day is right around the corner, i know its going to heat up lets check in with john to get the details hey john yeah i get the hot for labor day and staying hazy all through this forecast too. The question everyones been asking is it is the smoke and a clear out and unfortunately the forecast isnt really offering up much of a chance to get that smoke out of the areas were going to be sitting in the haze for a while. And at least this morning. Some haze and some fog youre well that creek am right here, not looking to clear at this moment nevado again has the worst air quality this morning that poor air just sitting there and portions of marin county as well as along the coastline in southern san mateo and then into santa cruz counties, better air quality south of san jose right around the golden gate and then once you head north of santa rosa, some of our clear spots as far as air goes as far as stormtracker 4 is concerned we will remain dry in this forecast snow chances of rainfall ahead of us and with High Pressure building in we are going to see some very stagnant in sinking air over the region, what this means for us as those hazy conditions and the smoke from wildfires just going to sink in sit right in the bay area not really having much of a chance to be pushed out swept out by any sort of strong winds. You are seeing fog this morning that will pull out a similar time frame is what we saw yesterday. Tomorrow morning dont expect that dense marine layer like we saw today, youre definitely going to see some fog but not intruding into lindas much nor not going to be as thick as what we saw yesterday and are again seeing this morning. 50s and 60s for San Francisco and other coastal spots as we are seeing fog into the afternoon right along the pacific shoreline. Bayside areas, some nicest with highs in the 70s foster city at 74 palo alto beautiful today at 75. I know the air quality is not going to be ideal so i know its going to feel good. But just take it easy dont go on too long of a job today with that poor air 70s from hayward and fremont while 80s and double in livermore and pleasanton on up through walnut creek and concord oakland and san leandro in the low 70s today, north bay temperatures still 90s for antioch in vacaville are too hot spots welfare field in pittsburgh. Each 89 center is in petaluma in the upper 70s. Tomorrows temperatures will be very similar to todays as will be the case thursday too friday, our coolest one of the forecast and definitely the cools one of your Labor Day Weekend because look at where were heading into saturday sunday and monday for labor day itself as the High Pressure ridge sets up shop we are going to see temperatures really climbing near triple digits if not to the triple digits for a few spots. I saturday sunday and monday so enjoy are comfortable temperatures while we have them. We do have some hotter weather just around the corner. Robin good this crisis, im not ready for triple digits again john thank you all right, lets check in on your commute now back to our busiest bridge. And thats the san mateo bridge west 92 still crowded every time we checked in we have more and more traffic leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula. But overall your drive time not bad right 12 minutes from the nimitz across the span and off to one on one, heres the bay bridge more folks rolling into San Francisco, youre looking good though all the way across the upper deck. It remains trouble free into downtown San Francisco, the richmond sandra fell hot spot free and easy trip here into the north bay at 7 minutes and i just got word of a new crash in livermore so if you have to 5. 80 westbound this one coming in near isabel near the offramp looks like a spin out there in your left lane so partially impacting the traffic there just before and after is available look at livermore heading west look at the dublin side heading west looks good right. Its only 10 minutes to make it from vasco to the dublin interchange will check more traffic coming up a little bit later. Well the 40 niners defense has taken a hit less than 2 weeks before the niners home opener star linebacker fred warner has been placed on the teams covid19 list, so that means warner has either tested positive for has been in close contact with someone else who has the virus. The niners would not say you know which is the case but one or is forced to quarantine now if warner did test positive. He could return to practice wants 10 days have passed since his initial symptoms appeared and 72 hours after his symptoms have gone away completely and coach Kyle Shanahan knows that this is a huge loss a reminder that. No ones out of the woods when you go go few weeks with nothing happening if you start to feel pretty safe and. Reminder that starts to move out there so. Well see how it goes you know not going to get into because i cant but you guys know the rules with this was a couple options with the test to come back in. Well see how that goes he said. Well if all goes as planned the niners will kick off on sunday, september 13 at home thats against the Arizona Cardinals of course, no fans will be allowed at levi stadium with thats ok were cheering and rudy on from home go niners. Well, the niners arent the only Bay Area Team dealing with covid19 the as wont be playing again until thursday at the earliest this comes after a member of their traveling party tested positive for covid over the weekend in houston texas, the scene was slated to travel to seattle this week for a 3 game series with the mariners but now theyll remain in houston and follow him will be testing protocol. So well see what happens there. Well think of your favorite band and their biggest hit. Now just imagine that you never heard that song because the band never had a states to start out on. So thats the harsh reality for many artists that are trying to make their break during this pandemic Vanessa Yurkevich has more on the crisis facing americas music industry. Would you be where you are today without independent music venue possible theres no way theres absolutely no way. James murphy the lead singer of the grammywinning band lcd soundsystem says he owes his career to the decades, he spent perfecting his craft in small independently run music banks. This is a kind of like natural ecosystem that can lead to take a coral reef of activities. Its like a gnat National Asset that if it goes away it doesnt come back he was scheduled to play here at Knockdown Center in queens, new york in april a gig thats been postponed indefinitely its really its like you know there is no timeline on when we could reopen. We were the first to close or industry will be the last to reopen which is why knocked down and nearly 3,000 other independent music venues. Banded together to form the National Independent Venue Association or niva the group along with 600 other artists from lady gaga to billy joel are calling on congress to take action. Were about to lose all of the carnegie halls for Independence Mall is sick. Once niva has endorsed the save our stages act a bipartisan bill which would provide a 6 month grant to independent venues. In atlanta, this is where Young Artists grow up this is where the local talent hone their skills josh into new she runs center stage. He says he received a ppp loan which has helped him stay afloat until now. The live events indefinitely on hold he has no other source of revenue there is no sustainable pivot. For businesses like ours we you cant do live music to go niva estimates that independent music venues generate hundreds of thousands of related jobs. And 90 of venue say without federal assistance they wont last 6 months if we dont have Capital Investors if we dont have a stock market supported business. How will we possibly continue to pay the bills. Toby parks just opened her music venue x bk in des moines, iowa. Before the pandemic shut er down its not just hurting us and our thing is its hurting all the Small Businesses starting the pizza place thats next door to me the coffee shop thats next door to me and its hurting the community as a whole it was a dream years in the making. But shes now looking at closing for good in just months. And does a minority led business owner, the prospect is heartbreaking thats why im fighting so hard particularly for people like me. You are a black woman and so its incredibly important to be able to. Maintain and to continue on for the next generation of people to take my place. Well that was Vanessa Yurkevich reporting music venue is all across the country plan to be lit up in red tonight to highlight that the live Events Industry is just on red alert you know for its survival the event is expected to include more than 1500 locations all across the country, including the news right here in San Francisco things will be lit up in red from 09 00pm to midnight. Were heading outside were checking in on the airport we havent received any alerts about any major delays right now but it sure is foggy for you so that right so youre waking up to a lot of cloud cover this morning but well check in with john and see how your shaping up well have more details in just a bit stay with us. Welcome back getting close to 5 oclock now and as youre waking up youre waking up to another dose of fog across the day and some persistent haze which isnt going anywhere anytime soon San Francisco just as foggy as it was yesterday, very breezy through fairfield but the rest of the bay area fairly calm right now just watch that travel right there on 80 as that is our windy a spot for sure 50s and 60s for current temperatures leading as to what will be a touch of a cooler afternoon just around the corner with daytime highs in the 60s 70s, 80s and just a few 90s. Robin. Sounds good. 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Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. Good morning and thanks for joining us for the first day of september im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get things started by finding out what kind of weather we can expect for this first day and hopefully for the week ahead john good morning, good morning guys we are holding on to haze for the forecast ahead of us but the fog that we have is only temporary foggy conditions in San Francisco as well as out to the east bay as of right now and visibility is actually
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