Smoke into the bay, but a lot less of that smoke now out in the pacific. So any sort of coastal winds from here on now will likely becoming with less and less of that smoky foggy impact that we had been seeing so these are all nice things to be talking about sure nice to start the day with some good news, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures as you are venturing outside thats where conditions later today, daytime highs will be in the 70s to 80s little warmer than they were yesterday. And certainly a little bit brighter too. Back to you robin thank you for the good news john be appreciate the update. Lets check in on traffic. Some good news and traffic to your morning commute is off to a great start a quiet start. No problems here at the bay bridge toll plaza of the trip into San Francisco is doing just fine this is what we like to see under 10 minutes from the bottom of the maze off to fremont street. We also have 92 your connection between the peninsula and the east bay every time we check it gets busier and busier no big problems here but look at all the traffic leaving hayward everybodys packing up rolling out to the peninsula. Your drive time for now is under 30 minutes but just get on out there because its going to be even heavier as we head into the 5 oclock hour we have one more the Richmond Sandra fell bridge hot spot free one lonely car rolling up to the pay gates right now an easy trip with no problems into the north bay well check more later. Well to the south bay now Small Business owners and faith leaders say Santa Clara County officials are holding them back for reopening and doors right now the county is more restrictive than what the state guidelines recommend local Business Owners on the verge of closing are urging county leaders to create a better pathway to further reopen the economy. One San Jose CityCouncil Member agrees and says its time for the county to act. I want to start by saying government cant be all about saying no one ever asked the county to clarify when esta titian services can reopen in a start and here i always receive we dont now has the answer. We have not been classified and it here. This is unacceptable. One local business is asking the county to consider a new plan toward reopening their plan includes more transparency on the reopening discussions and county meetings and also pushing for money and grants to help struggling businesses. Elementary school in Santa Clara County is back open for in person classes yesterday was the for first day back for a 193 students. And action day primary plus private elementary school. The School Started the new school year in august with distance learning. And i recently got a waiver approved to hold in person classes the schools principal Michelle Hara will join us live this morning on kron on to talk about resuming in person classes and you can also watch live interview starting at noon so tune in. Well monday was also a good day for many businesses in San Francisco salons barber shops and gyms were all allowed to reopen and welcome back guests indoors hairstyle and say the past few months have been pretty difficult when they he didnt just filled with lots of uncertainty but they are glad to be back at work. Despite the joy returning to stylists are worried about the possibility of reclosing due to a possible second wave of coronavirus you know because we worked hard to keep in the shower clean. And making sure everything is organized and you know who knows. Tomorrow we may not be here. Im nervous a little bit that it gets pulled back again but im hopeful. Well if you visit a salon or barbershop in San Francisco, you are required to wear a mask dont forget it. The silence can only see one client at the time and everyone in the shop must practice social distancing. Well happening today, berkeley leaders are set to vote on whether or not to Issue Citations to people who refuse to wear a mask now if pass anyone violating health order could be fined up to 100 bucks for you know the day or for the first violation and then with penalties increasing for repeat violators. In the Santa Clara CountyPublic Health department is urging its residents to get flu shots this year got my this is in addition to taking measures to prevent the spread of covid so Health Officials say that the annual flu of course affects many people in the same demographics as the coronavirus including those over the age of 65 and people with chronic medical conditions. Health officials also say those symptoms of the flu and the coronavirus theyre very similar and the 2 illnesses could actually be mistaken for each other. If someone has not been vaccinated or tested for the virus. California seeing a downward trend in the number of patients who are actually in the hospital with the coronavirus this is the first time the state has seen this few hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic the California Department of Public Health reports as of this weekend there are about 2800 Covid Patients being treated at our hospitals. There were twice as many patients in late july and early august. A doctor with ucsf warns that although we are doing well right now things can change it as we move forward, so we just cant let our guards down just a cautionary tale of what can go wrong and now we havent. Really have high schools back in session at least around here. But in places that have had there been outbreaks of high schools, large large numbers of kids quarantine so i think we have to be really careful about the about the schools to be really careful about adolescence we have to be really Careful CongressPeople Living in residential. For for college. You know i think thats where the i think that as much as any work anything is where the new cases are going to come from keep that if we can minimize stat we will avoid a 3rd place. Well he went on to say to avoid past mistakes and remain on a downward trend. We must continue wearing mask and also keep distancing also its too soon to tell whether or not labor day gettogethers may have impacted or downward trend. Well now to our wildfire coverage thousands of firefighters continue to fight dozens of fires that are just burning up and down the west coast. At least 35 people have died in california alone more than 3 million acres have burned and more than 4200 structures have been destroyed smoke from these fires have created just poor air quality all over the state and the major wildfires are burning in california right now they include august complex fire thats burning in mendocino and humboldt counties the north complex fires burning in butte county. The creek fire thats burning in Fresno County and el dorado fire burning in riverside county. And heres a look at the latest numbers for the wildfires that are burning right here in the bay area, the lnu complex fire thats in the north bay, its 97 contained theyre very close. 2 full containment that fire has burned 363,000 acres, the scu complex fires in the east and south bay is now 98 contained with close to 397,000 acres burned full containment of the complex fires expected by wednesday. And crews now have the czu complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties and 91 containment with 86,000 acres burned and we have the what were fire at Point Reyes National seashore in marin county its 95 contained that fire has burned more than 4900 acres. Well family still living through the destruction of wildfires are weighing in on the topic of Climate Change from force theresa stasi, listen flannel county at a hearing and talking to the victims of the lnu lightning complex fires. Yeah, i definitely think so i mean every year its less and less rain and hotter and hotter and drier summers, and its definitely has to play or on it. Emily chaves says friends of hers are now living in a hotel after losing everything in the recent fires that tore through Solano County just one of many dealing with the fallout of this recent firestorm. Though staying on the ground thats been for the wine and mouth out of them. Theyre also at 7 years of wine and theyre probably 40 50,000. Dilso balthazar had 15,000 bottles of wine here at his home. He also had barrels he planned to harvest, but all of that is gone, so is his barn, his fruit trees, his kitchen, his bridge. In fact the scope of damage. He suffered when the hennessy fire ripped through the ridge and range down on the valley here in vacaville is profound and he is not alone. His neighbors on both sides lost their homes. Thousands ares now sorting through what is left working with an insurance adjuster when asked about whether he felt Climate Change fuel the fire. He said of course its all tied up together. Have tradition of 20 thunder vision would ends. When its hot. He had about a 20 may have twice heidi about us or says that he was prepared to battle the blazes he feels with his home nestled along Pleasant Valley road. It is a potentially dangerous location. He showed me powerful hoses that he installed the pg e had turned off the power. The fateful night. The fire came through and his solar power failed as well. About is our said that his neighbor was actually able to take buckets and then splash it on his home. You can see that there were parts of his home that did burn but the rest of the structure did remain there still a lot of damage but he said hes very grateful for that and he hopes the really helps Going Forward that there is more done to deal with the issue of Climate Change. Here in Solano County theresa kron 4 news. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news San Jose State University remains closed for the 5th day in a row due to bad air quality, what doctors are recommending you do after the break. And before we head to break were going outside. They like to check in on conditions for you outside your door got still hazy this morning, heres a look at San Francisco. This is from the embarcadero you can see the clouds and haze there in the background 60 degrees right now in San Francisco, 51 and napa 56 in livermore hey, my twitter is blowing up dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. Welcome back everyone bay area air Quality Management district is extending the spare the air alert through wednesday making are marking 30 consecutive days of alerts right here in the bay area. The regions previous record for consecutive spare the air alert days was 13 and that was during the 2018 camp fire, San Jose State University has been closed since friday because of poor air quality. Doctors recommend staying indoors if you can with the windows closed, its very important if you have to go outside please wear your mask doctors also say that wearing mask of course you protect yourself from the poor air quality. They also protect yourself and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Meaning the longer youre out there. The worse. In the worst exposure you have so more particulate matter that can get into your watch the plane your lawns. Well air quality in the bay area is expected to stay at unhealthy levels throughout the week. But we are starting to see you know a slow improvement things are just not going to drastically. Change overnight, but its been getting a little bit better lets check in with john traber who has a look at what we can expect john exactly right robin we are seeing improvements, but we dont want improvements to make you think our great now because. The conditions compared to normal are still very rough out there, its just better than our worst was. Friday and saturday. You see outside from San Francisco. Theres definitely some noticeable hayes still settle down in the city. But yesterday above that hayes we did get some nice blue skies at times which was a night shift from the darker skies that weve had really leading up to yesterday. Air quality this morning is very pour for our inland areas you can see that deep deep red over towards the Sierra Nevada as we make our way out towards the coast a little bit better in fact our first little sign of moderate up in marine county right around nevado in sandra fell so for those of you stepping outside some noticeable changes still not the best one to be venturing outside for too long or doing a rigorous outdoor workout but we are getting there and definitely seeing improvements over the next couple of days too. Dry skies across the bay area this morning and increased southerly wind from yesterday pushing on up through Northern California is pushing a lot of smoke from the upper levels out of the region, were first cleaning out the air aloft. Thats why we saw sunshine above us and hayes below us yesterday hovering right across the bay itself as we make our way through this forecast youll see more and more of that smoke that settle down at the surface eventually getting cleaned out. But were starting the sweeping process up above eventually filtering out further in lower elevations. Winds this morning pretty light not enough to be sweeping out the bay area much this morning. Pretty stagnant across the region. So you will be waking up to likely a dose of fog right at the coast. And then some noticeable hayes elsewhere across the bay. Temperatures today will be in the 60s and 70s for coastal spots with 70s and 80s elsewhere in the bay area starting to get a little bit warmer than we were yesterday today back to 80 degrees in san Carlos Woodside 83 today, san jose also back to the low 80s right at 80 degrees for todays daytime 70s 80s for the east bay, not much different than yesterday. But a little bit warmer and also a little bit brighter this afternoon as i mentioned more and more sunshine peering through the persistent haze that weve had santa rosa through center fell also working our way back into the 80s today. Tomorrows temperatures really not changing much from todays we really level out in land for much of the rest of the forecast. Thursday and friday are days that will bring the most clearing with a stronger winds pushing into the bay area thats really going to continue help to clean things out speeding up that process a bit more. Just ahead of the upcoming weekend. Robin thank you for the update john lets get an update on your morning commute now. Were checking in on the bay bridge which is pretty popular during the morning commute right now is your chance to just come on and beat the rush will definitely have some heavier traffic and the 5 6 oclock hour and its hard to roll out of bed get out there early but if you do that you can be the jam up which is going to spill back toward the maze eventually so come on and were under 10 minutes off to the fremont street exit over to the golden gates not to foggy this morning, sometimes we cant even see the towers but it doesnt look so bad, traffic looks good here on both sides northbound and southbound so smooth enough to limit into and out of San Francisco. We have one more and that is the Richmond Sandra fell your connection between the north bay and in the east bay, almost at the north and San Francisco people going to be like what are you talking about wake up robin haha whats bound 5. 80 doing fine here into the north bay with no problems under 15 minutes for the drive off to one on one. Well 20 states, including california are suing the Environmental Protection agency over its rollback of methane emission standards for oil and Gas Production. So last month the epa formally rescinded obamaera standards which regulate methane emissions from oil and Gas Production processing transmission and storage. The epa also rolled back requirements for detecting and repairing leaks. The lawsuit claims that these rollbacks would us accelerate the impact of Climate Change and also harm Public Health. Now this lawsuit comes as fires continue to burn along the west and midwest and just you know were grappling with that and the east prepares for Hurricane Center still heading that way as well. Mercedes benz Parent Company has agreed to pay one and a half a billion dollars to the u. S. Government and california state regulators to resolve allegations of emission cheating. So Officials Say automaker. Dimeler agee violated environmental laws by using socalled defeat. Device software to circumvent emissions testing and sold about 250,000 cars and vans in the u. S. With digital diesel engines that just did comply with state and federal laws. The settlement which include Civil Penalties will also require. Dimeler to fix those vehicles owners of affected vehicles will be notified by mail later on this year. Well lets talk about baseball shall we the as were up in seattle for a double header against the mariners the as blew a fiverun lead to lose game. One yesterday but they made up for that loss in game 2. Getting another huge lead and just not giving up split the doubleheader shutting out the mariners a game to what the final score. 9, 0, the as will travel to colorado and thats a take on the rockies. Game happening this afternoon. Meantime, the giants will make the trip up to seattle to play the mariners tonight as go giants, yes, im rooting for both. Well new this morning, a transit will start giving out free face coverings and hand sanitizers to riders mask and sanitizer dispensers will be a fix to the rear door of most buses between today an october 16th. This is part of ac transits re new plan just to maintain and protect the health of Public Transit passengers. Riders must maintain at least 6 feet of distance between each other dont forget that and bus capacity will also be kept to ensure that the riders can maintain their space. Well this is her having to get extra creative to pull in sales during the pandemic some of the industrys hit hard are of course Live Performance venues and bars. So what San Francisco spot call oasis is bringing their cabaret to local doorsteps. Meals on heels, yeah, not wills meals on heels. It features drag performances that are theyre actually delivering food and drinks the company by a thong and dance twice a day. I love this idea, the Small Business owner behind the big ideas says it has been a huge benefit for the performers who have not been able to work of course in iraq and also the audience who has just missed out on that in person entertainment. Honestly across the board as a Community Building experience for both performers getting to dust off the wigs and heels and were former some people again make some money lot of fun and you know its a big part of their income people are at home who have been really isolated may get a little bit of connection they get to see an actual Live Performance. I love it. This is a great idea, the performance of course deliver from a distance off the grid as one of the most beloved catering and food truck experiences experiences, right here in the bay area. And now they partnered with the Fort Mason Center for arts and culture to provide food and concessions at San Franciscos first and only waterfront drivein Movie Theaters, a nice combination right, its called off the grid at the movies. Theyll offer classic Movie Theater favorites such as popcorn not shows. Candy haha and its all from a mobile popup space theyre going to have some goodies additionally off the grid will feature a rotating network of locally own food providers at each event. This event is launching this saturday air quality permit it will keep you updated moviegoers are actually encouraged to use off the groups experience app which enables them to pre order and you can order from your car. And of course, itll just minimize the time that are actually away from the movie and also ensure your safety through contactless payment and pick up. Now im just going to think about not chosen popcorn all morning. All right, lets go out, but were always hungry here john and i talking about food. And second on the airport sfo clouds there in the background but the air quality continues to improve well have your full forecast coming up in just a bit stay with us. Welcome back for 55 on this Tuesday Morning we saw some more sunshine yesterday which was definitely a nice change to see and guess what were going to get a bit more of it today shining through the persistent haze but less and less of that hes gradually Golden Gate Bridge doing just fine you can see all the way across the span there and not a whole lot of traffic either so when when at the coast as for work or air quality moderate conditions for the first time in days returning for to just a narrow a portion are in county. The rest of the bay area, either poor or very poor which is improvements believe it or not even though were still not anywhere close to perfect yet. As for temperatures later today, 60s and 70s by the coast 70s for most bayside areas while 80s continuing for inland valleys. Robin. All right, thank you john coming up the next hour Contra Costa County is announcing new guidelines allowing some businesses to reopen outdoors well see you in with a list coming up plus leaders in the city of berkeley will be voting today and whether or not to use citations for people who refuse to wear a and the city of San Francisco is helping students who need extra support during distance learning. How these Community Hubs are guiding students and their education. The United StatesPostal Service is here to deliver your packages. And the peace of mind of knowing that important things like your prescriptions, and ballots, are on their way. Every day, all across america, well keep delivering for you. Every day, all across america, we know these are challenging times. Rest assured, you are not alone. Weve all had to adapt. And with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us im darya folsom and im James Fletcher is a tuesday on this september 15th. Again the poor air quality is one of our big stories so lets start the hour first in the weather center. And john lets get the latest on that you know its funny guys because of still talking about for air quality for sure, but the poor air quality is an as poor as that has been so i guess we got to put it in perspective just a little bit to give us that positive outlook on where were heading. You can see outside from walnut creek. Yeah, it is definitely still hazy out there little less crazy than we have been in this afternoon youll see a bit more brightness working its way through the haze. Now even though we are talking better news i still want to stress to yeah, its not an invitation