Latter part of the day sunshine returns. So dont worry about that were holding on to plenty of sunshine and good air quality for your thursday which is the stuff that weve enjoyed lately all that sun. These mild temperatures and of course the easy breathing that has come along with it lately 60s for your current temperatures, youll notice its warmer feel stepping outside all that cloud cover overhead shelters us from a lot of heat loss during overnight hours. So as opposed to yesterdays clear but cool conditions. It is a fairly mild but cloudy start to this morning. Later on today, well be looking at highs in the 70s 80s, not much different than today. A pleasant afternoon before the weekend warmup which ill get to in the rest your forecast. Robin all right. Thank you john how about we check in on the traffic. For the early birds that are heading to work this morning we are hot spot free. So thats a great way to start off the morning commute 8024 5. 80 the nimitz all doing fine leading over to the bay bridge connector that takes you into San Francisco, its just smooth all the way across the upper deck. Within the next 3040 minutes, its going to be busier so come on and now you can beat the rush or any potential hot trouble free all the way through downtown and over to the skyway how about we check in on 92 there it is connected between the east bay and the peninsula. A little busy not bad no, but trouble spots here so a great trip and its under 25 minutes between the nimitz and the bayshore the Richmond Sandra fell west 5. 80 into the north bay trouble free. We havent had any problems so far so lets keep it that way easy here in less than 10 minutes from the tolls off the highway one oh one of course, well check more bridges for you coming up a little bit later. Surveillance cameras are catching more crimes in San Francisco. So far the city recorded more than 5100 burglaries since the start of the year. Now thats a job to 42 from last year. People in the northern part of the city like north beach russian hill, the Pacific Heights. See that theyre experiencing break ins daily kron fours taylor reports. Big wave of prime right now and its a home burglaries and this is scary we i cannot sleep at night anymore. Unfortunately, you know gore isnt alone. Surveillance videos like this taken over the last 2 months percent were from other neighbors after she made flyers and posted on social media in the next door app. Focused in San Franciscos northern neighborhoods like north beach Telegraph Hill russian hill and more years as the american april its postponed. Next year and we had a lot of wedding gifts that were in there and they got stolen so there was a lot of miscellaneous things and a lot of sporting equipment as well, alex miller, and many other neighbors flooded grubbs inbox with similar stories thieves breaking into their garages or homes stealing expensive bicycles scooters and whatever they can get their hands on. Thats when board decided to make a map i just started putting together all the said right down into a app that eventually i join in too big a map. So to get in one more feedback now according to San Francisco police. There have been 1079 burglaries in its Northern District so far this year, a 58 increase from the 683 burglaries over the same time period last year as for citywide burglaries theres been 5,118 so far a 42 increase from this time period last year which reached 3,602 burglaries and its not just happening to homes. This is video from the Pacific Heights, food market a week and a half ago 2 suspects only one seen in the video right now is setting up a blowtorch on the stores glass when it doesnt budge he comes back and tries throwing a planter to break in the lawlessness piece of it is really disturbing some people have seen second break in just recently, and its just unacceptable something needs to be done and we need to see some actions not just word scored tells me that sfpd did establish a team to look at the suspects in the different breakins but after the made an arrest the crimes continued. Theyll hold a Community Meeting virtually on thursday to discuss the same issues in San Francisco taylor kron 4 news. The to the north right now authorities are increasing patrols after several Senior Citizens reported that teens fired paintballs at them causing several injuries. This a 60 yearold woman says that she was stuck. Struck in the leg and in the back take a look at her injuries. So alarming that she actually went to a local hospital to check for blood clots Warren County sheriffs Sergeant Mike rowe valley says that extra patrols have been called in and or in city where the crime alleged occurred. So far the Sheriffs Office is you know we took a report with this with the victim we took pictures and we are taking the incident very very seriously. The deputies were able to talk to a few juveniles. But like i said before they werent doing anything wrong at that time because we didnt catch them in the act and for the county code we need to catch them in the act. So sad kimberly someone would do this the victims relatives say they are very upset about what has happened in the now worried about retaliation for speaking up. To the south bay Health Officials say theres been a Dramatic Health improvements and neighborhoods on the east side of san jose which has been disproportionately hit by covid19. They believe it may be the result of an ongoing outreach effort around 2 dozen teams are now engaged in spreading the word about how to stop the spread of the coronavirus the idea is to inform and encourage essential workers and residents about the best practices to protect themselves. We know that members of this community have had to make extraordinarily difficult tradeoffs between their health their work and how they will support and nourish their family gets a good program because i will have to pay the people in so they can be safety and indicated about the fire is so one spreads will spots and everybody can go back to her. Normal. The routine. Well during their visits the outreach teams are also handing out information about Financial Aid and other resources. The teams have already visited more than 3,000 businesses and met with 1400 essential workers. Well happening today, its back to school for some students in San Francisco, 6 schools in San Francisco. Im actually been given the green light to reopen by the Public Health department, a convent and stuart hall and Pacific Heights is one of those schools, theyll be welcoming kindergarten first graders and second grader starting today, the schools chief advancement officer says that they were notified by the city late tuesday night that their safety plan was approved parents found out on wednesday that their child can and the return staff at the school say theyre ready to get those students back in the classrooms. Were incredibly excited weve been waiting for a long time to start to iron out the logistics of what is dropoff look like what his pickup look like the classrooms are ready. The faculty and staff is ready or systems and procedures for keeping everybody safe is ready. But now its just you know the final details were so excited. Well the schools expect to bring into additional great levels every 2 weeks which would mean 7th and 8th graders will actually be showing up to their classrooms in about a month or so a month and a half actually. And then high School Students are still in limbo, the citys Health Department has yet to release the applications for those grades just yet. More than 150 oakland families are getting Distance Learning support. The oakland reach nonprofit partnered with several organizations, including the oakland as for a virtual back to School Giveaway event. This was an opportunity for both students and parents and oaklands underserved black and brown communities to get the support they need. Well as coronavirus deaths exceed 200,000 in the u. S. The countrys top coronavirus experts gave an update on the latest federal response as Morgan Wright reports the hearing focused on the timeline to get a safe and effective vaccine to the american people. Vaccines are our best chance to end this pandemic massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and Senate Lawmakers got the latest update from doctor anthony fauci. And the Coronavirus Task force on efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Some time by the end of this year. Lets say november or december we will know whether or not these a safe and effective fda will not authorize or approve a vaccine. That we would not feel comfortable giving to our families doctor stephen hahn commissioner of the fda says science not politics will determine when a vaccine is ready for the public fda will not permit any pressure from anyone to change that and the nation has surpassed 200,000 deaths from covid19 the experts told lawmakers until a vaccine is ready testing is key this month. We will have available on average 3 million tests per day for connecticut senator chris murphy raise concerns that the testing guidance issued by the cdc has been confusing ive read it 20 times. And i dont see anywhere in this guidance that it tells people they should get a test. I dont see anywhere in this guidance where it tells them that they should. Go see a doctor no intent to this guidance to decrease testing. On the contrary. The intent was to the link testing and to drive a Public Health action. Republican senator Lamar Alexander says expanded testing is the key to help americans regain normalcy soonest this explosion of many cheap reliable rapid diagnostic tests. Is our best weapon. Well that was Morgan Wright reporting President Trump said that he will have the final say on the approval of a coronavirus vaccine, not the federal drug administration. A handful of vaccines already are in final testing and the u. S. And other countries and one of the largest studies from johnson and johnson aims to test 60,000 people in the u. S. And several other countries. Well so far the state has recorded more than 797,000 cases with more than 15,000 deaths and then right here in the bay area there are more than 97,000 reported cases and more than 1400 deaths. Im Trevor Shirley in washington where time is running out for thousands of airline employees who face furlough next week if congress doesnt act soon ive got that story coming up. Well also have your full forecast coming up the weekend is right around the corner, but its going to be h o t hot. This morning, its mild and foggy i ran into a lot of fog coming across the bay bridge this morning so well have your forecast and well let you know what to expect coming up in just a bit. Welcome back everyone fire crews in Contra Costa County are anticipating a longer than normal fire season this year Fire District spokesperson. Steve hill says the height of the season is expected next month. And this year he says that the season likely will not end until december when the rain arrives so far this year the Fire Protection district has responded to more than 1100 grass and vegetation fires compared to 756 fires during the same period last year thats a 50 job overall cal fire says that since the beginning of the year more than 8,000 wildfires have burned more than 3. 6 million acres of land in the state. Thats a lot. Well according to a new study smoke alone from recent california fires may have killed more than 1000 people the stanford study found that between august 1st in september 10th. The wildfire smoke was responsible for at least 1200 deaths. And and people of people, 65 and older who are living with preexisting medical conditions. Now we spoke with the lead researcher on the findings take a listen. These are in deaths that we estimate would not have occurred otherwise so the air pollution. Hey send the deaths of many many people who would not have that even for someone who studies air as my its a big and thats reflects how bad and how sustains the poor air quality was over a huge part of california. Really the west coast for the last month again this was unprecedented exposure to pour air quality and many. Parts of the west coast and we had it for many weeks and we just know from the scientific literature thats very bad for peoples help. Well the study use decades worth of data to come up with the new death toll and found that so it is among the most dangerous types of air pollution. Checking in on our air quality the rise in temperatures the triple digits that were expected this weekend john trouble standing by with an john hey at least we havent had the poorest of aired the past week around in that it looks like things could be into the weekend. So here is your heads up on that. Nice a piece of advice go out there and enjoy today as much as tomorrow even. Tomorrow will be fine but after that things are going to be getting a little dicey as far as stepping outside enjoying just the very top of the Golden Gate Bridge seen here in your center tower cam some fog dense fog at times rolling in across the bay air quality does remain good across the region we are seeing issues up into the Sierra Nevada as well as the northern end of the sacramento valley. If you do how to put plan on heading outside of the bay today. Now as far as we go we are still looking at a nice onshore breeze. This cold front thats actually actively sweeping through right now helping to keep air clean and also to keep temperatures pretty mild theres your offshore showers along with this cold front none of that rainfall going make its way into the bay itself. Possibly very northern Sonoma County you may see a couple of sprinkles this morning. What we are seeing though is the cool rush of winds from the ocean as well as some cloud cover that youre definitely noticing as youre stepping outside. Tomorrow morning will start the morning off clear lot like we did yesterday and tomorrow your winds also starting to relax setting us up for what will be a big reversal come the weekend as this offshore some pushes back in across the day. Replacing the sea breeze that has kept cool the past few days. Offshore winds beings, hot dry air from inland valleys getting pushed our direction and increase fire danger inland east bay alameda and contra costa counties will be under fire weather watches starting on saturday and lasting through monday. Same for you in Solano County and for upper or and sonoma and napa counties where winds will gust as high as 50 Miles Per Hour paired with those low high temperatures and very low humidity. Thats a recipe for high fire danger this weekend. Today, 60s and 70s at the coast and 70s and 80s elsewhere, keeping the nice weather that weve enjoyed all week long so far around for a couple more days. Good day to get outside get some stuff done in the yard before this weekends heat and with such high fire danger this weekend. Id say just stay inside and take it easy and be extremely cautious before you step outside today on the other hand just one that you can get out there and enjoy without too many worries. Vacaville are hot spots today 87. Well santa rosa through center felt deep in the low 80s around tomorrow as i mentioned, weve got nice weather continuing. Before that big jump in temperature saturday. Our hottest of days are expected sunday monday into tuesday thats when our inland areas will be in the upper 90s to triple digits under bayside areas solidly in the 90s themselves. Rob. All right. Thank you john now, lets check in on traffic. We are hot spot free thats a great way to start off the drive into San Francisco havent seen any problems here between the maze and downtown San Francisco. So you are good to go come on and while its nice and quiet. Its under 10 minutes for the drive time over to the fremont street exit were off to the golden gate checking in on one on one and there is a dense fog advisory issued by chp that was issued early this morning for folks driving across the golden gate. So going to be extra careful you may need the wipers definitely have the headlights on into space or so file dont follow too closely when conditions are like this sen and visibility is poor. All right, lets head over to the Richmond Sandra fell west bound 5. 80 smooth and at the limit no problems for into the north bay, a nice connection on over to one oh one. It remains trouble free and a great time to use it. Well thousands of airline employees worry that they could be furloughed next week if congress does not throw their industry another lifeline washington dc correspondent Trevor Shirley reports on what both democrats and republicans say is needed to keep the Airlines Flying. Illinois republican representative rodney davis flew into washington on tuesday. And there were 12 people on 7. 37 davis says no industry can survive with that few customers and he wants congress to extend the program to keep the Airlines Flying weve got to make sure that we keep our businesses in place, the 32 billion dollars Payroll Support Program was created for the airlines as part of the cares act. Its been a lifeline for the industry but expires on october first the most successful element of the cares package. It was the pay roll support Program Tuesday organ democratic representative Peter Defazio joined davis along with airline ceos and Union Leaders to urge congress to quickly re up the psp there are several ways that can be done ideally be to recover relief bill. Airline officials like american Ceo Doug Parker say theres no question thousands will be furloughed on october first if congress doesnt act. A father who are both flight attendants on the furlough list with a special needs son. Jeopardy of losing their medical insurance some in Congress Fear the impact mass furloughs would have on the greater economy i do believe that theres going to be some bipartisan consensus, but its unlikely the psp could be extended on its own. And Congress Shows no signs of agreeing on another major covid relief bill before election day reporting in washington, im Trevor Shirley. Grocery stores in berkeley will have to display more nutritious food and beverage options and theyre checkout areas. The city Council Passed the countrys first healthy checkout policy. I think i need to the hornets applies to stores over 2500 feet in size and the mayor says that impulse buying at checkout contributes to high levels of super consumption and our diets i know that im guilty like i have everything that i need as soon as i get to the register on grabbing kitkats and snickers and gonna like i dont need have berkley also pass the countrys first soda tax on sugary yeah may help us out thats a good thing. All right lets take a little peek outside were checking in on conditions outside your door and i stay on top, its just a little cloudy to start are used to that though karl the fog hanging around in several spots this morning. But the big weather story is the warmup were looking forward to will not looking for 2 were going to have triple digits this weekend were not looking forward to it because thats going to be pretty hot john stable or break it all down without your full forecast coming up in just a bit stay with welcome back 4. 54 on this thursday morning skies, definitely cloudy yet again across the bay traded in yesterdays clear skies to start for this cloud cover this morning watch out for low visibility in spots as you are heading out across the bay this morning. Right now temperatures are in the 60s a cloudy but slightly more mild start than what we had yesterday when were mostly in the 50s across the region. Concord and oakland both at 65 currently now later on today you can expect skies to really clear out it will be a warm finish to the day with highs back in the 80s for inland valleys while the coast also getting a bit of sunshine in there with highs in the 60s. Robin. All right, thank you john coming up in the next hour a call for justice is echoing across the country, including right here in the bay area after ruling in the death of Brianna Taylor what we saw overnight and the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is lying in repose at the Supreme Court this morning for the public to pay respects how the nation is honoring the notorious rbg in the coming days. And burglaries are on the rise and San Francisco well hear from neighbors on the alarming uptick in crime. Were for those who love to discover. Who know an open mind is the only kind. Who dont need to travel to find something new. Who know where to escape, even just for a moment. Who dont need a fortune to find a gem. And who know when you spend less, you can discover even more. And never, ever stop discovering. Spend less, discover more. At t. J. Maxx, marshalls, and homegoods. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. Good morning. Thank you for joining us here on the kron 4 morning news, a call for justice is echoing across the country as demonstrators protest, a grand jurys decision not to charge the Louisville Police officers involved in the killing of Brianna Taylor. Here in the bay area protesters took to the streets in San Francisco in oakland and san jose were live with whats expected to be happening today. Good morning, im darya folsom and thanks for joining us for this thursday september 24th edition of the kron 4 morning news, lots to get to and again well have more on that top story in a minute but first i suppose we should talk about the weather because things are changing on that front as well. Yeah, big changes guys as far as the forecast goes these next couple of days today, obviously still pretty nice though. Thursday and friday looking good then come saturday sunday and monday of next week and you may want to stay inside a bit foggier start to this morning than what we had yesterday visibility will be impacted at times this morning for your commute into work. So trading into those cluster Crystal Clear skies of wednesday for these cloudier conditions right now sunshine does reappear later on so not to fear we do still have a beautiful afternoon on tap. And hey good air quality on top of that remains as well a much more mild start to this morning when u
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