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Trump and our wonderful first lady melania they are both positive and they are now in quarantine. And weve also heard from the physician to the president this morning he sent out this statement which reads in part that they are both doing well at this time and that they plan to remain at home within the white house during their convalescent so that the latest now from the president s physician now the president and the first ladys positive test results came hours after the white house announced the senior aide hope hicks had come down with the virus and in this video you see the president boarding marine one. The helicopter there on wednesday he was headed to a rally. In minnesota. And then shortly after youll see in a moment, we have hope hicks walking across the grass to join the president on board that helicopter surrounded by other close aides to the president now says that was winds that was wednesday was wednesday, she gets on the chopper inside at the moment that right feeling fine but then by the time they landed. In minnesota and were at that rally. She started experiencing symptoms and then she self isolated on air force one on the way back was tested that evening. The results came back thursday morning that she was positive and despite that the president though continued on thursday to go attend another private fundraiser in new jersey which was in close contact with people inside that enclosed room thats why theyre so many dominoes this morning everybody is getting tested because when youre in close contact with somebody as he was on wednesday. And you know that they have coronavirus which they knew on wednesday and then when you the next day going do things. You know they the cdc recommends that you isolate that you not want to do things so now everybody else needs to be tested. I do want to mention that the secretary of health and human services, alex azar came back negative treasury secretary steve Administration Officials are saying that they are negative. The president was on fox news last night. After confirming that helps hicks had a coronavirus and so he was talking to fox news about this still waiting for his test results to come back at the time right thats what we were told, lets listen. Thats very hard when you with soldiers what year airman the marines and i would tend to police with him so much and when they come over to its very hard to say stay back he stepped back, you know its its a tough kind of a situation is a terrible thing today. They want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job dormant. You get close and. Things happen. And it is it is hard to tell our own kids you know stay back to where im asked not to hug each other thats been. The difficult thing about containing coronavirus with anybody but were all told that thats what were supposed to do so because there was a lot of close contact without maskwearing within the administration were looking at a lot of tests waiting for all of those tests to come in this morning because whoever has a quarantine means they cant be active in the government so whos going around the place so we want to talk to our political analysts about michael yaki joining us this morning and michael so here we are in october and this year was a surprise to hear that the president now has come down with coronavirus the Ripple Effects. Will be foreign why dont you think. I do and you know first of i think as with all americans we wish the president and the first lady and anyone who has contracted the well and speedy recovery. But this as you know an enormous implications for the nation 4 policy for the election. And you can talk about all that right now lets talk about one thing that jumped into my mind was. If we have. You know the president and his senior echelon of advisers. Coming down with this could this also impact the Supreme Court justice nomination because we have we know that the president s chief of staff was fair in close contact with the president and hope hicks and ferrying around the nominee and also in contact with Mitch Mcconnell to over these last few days. Could this have Ripple Effects in that realm as well. I mean we can really begin to know what the Ripple Effects are until we have actually have this is a moment for the white house be transparent as something that they have not been with the pandemic since the very beginning as we know from the body bob woodward work because this is where we have to and we have to know what for example, what kind of test. Picks have and when was your last guest before she actually went to the debate on to say before she boarded air force one. And marine one on on wednesday and actually air force one on wednesday as well because people when it went interesting point here is that at. What kind of tested they give pets. It gives them just a rapid test to begin the pcr test which is which is more accurate. You just you have administration has to come clean. And part of this is through that process of disclosing how theyre doing the Contact Tracing when when was hope hicks exposed. How long has she been essentially when was she asymptomatic when she become symptomatic and therefore that we determine the length of time during which she is exposed and possibly. I could and infected other people other than as we as we know now the president and the first lady depends only got the rapid test they need to make sure that they say theyd also did a pcr test as well because the rapid test has a lot of false negatives and thats probably why they didnt catch hope its me i we dont know right to be baswedan then then as you go through this. If if if judge barrett for example were to come down with this and had to quarantine i think this would affect timing on the nomination, Mitch Mcconnell where to get it in effect in and have to quarantine this would affect the nomination as well so there are a lot of different balls in the air here. But it all begins with understanding trip. The transparency of the administration in disclosing the timeline who who else may have been infected. When how and you go from and go from there its the only way to inspire. Confidence which the American People have had very little with in terms of this administration and their leadership or lack thereof with regard to the pandemic will the press the president said it himself last night when he did his interview on fox news that. You know hope hicks could have gotten from any number of places because hes like well, you know were out there and shes out there talking to big groups he brought up the military, but regardless and he said its real hard you wearing a mask, or youre not you want to get close to people they want to hug you and he said you know so what do you get into things happen because because theyre operating with so much you know close contact that Contact Tracing is just got to be overwhelming. Weve seen some people in congress. Get coronavirus and be taken off the floor immediately and out of the loop and isolate that way and so and they tried to continue their jobs remotely the president could do that he can still isolate and do the job right. Well with the prison really needs to do is to is to say. Guess what Everyone Needs to wear a mask and engage in social distancing because. I mean when use theres theres something to this and you dont want to pile on when when someone is is ill or anything like that because thats just good form the fact is that when you saw for example at the his family come in they had entered the building Wearing Masks but as soon as they got into the room itself. They took them off and you you see you see that theres this theres this defiance with regard to what fauci and with redfield has said that the cdc about the need for need the importance risk of infection reduction through the use of masks. This is what the president needs to be talking about now he should be saying look its hope hicks had been wearing mask a shooting cajun social distancing didnt people didnt you engage in did follow proper protocols, especially for the people who are closest to the president , i mean this is a National Security matter in terms of. How of terms of our country if were going to we need to protect the president. And if youre going to protect the president. You should at least for the people around them around him or her. Have the kind of protocols in place that maximize that kind of protection and just giving them test a lot is it going to do it because if theyre out there getting exposed. The time between the and contact with the president can be all it takes and thats as were seeing right now this is a serious National Security issue thats why of course they should have me released this morning that pence attention native but again transparency was a pcr test was it the one at the end are they going to repeat the test to ensure there wasnt any false negatives thats the kind of assurance that the market and this country and our allies really need to know about right now mention market right taking in in pretrial world 20 minutes away from the opening bell, do you think though the president can. Reverse his messaging on masks like that i mean it was just on the night of the debate itself. He was already sort of demeaning joe biden for wearing a mask so frequently when he didnt think it was necessary in fact we have that sound bite will play and then well talk more. President jiang now you have a gun to increasingly question the effectiveness of masks as a disease preventer and in fact recently you have cited the issue of of waiters touching their mouse and touching plight are you questioning know i think i understand if you look i mean i have a masquerade here i put a mask on it you know what i think i need it. Tonight is an example, everybodys had a test and youve had social distancing and all of the things that you have to but when needed when needed i wear mask, okay, let me ask i dont have i dont wear masks like him every time you hes got a mess he could be speaking. 200 feet away from any shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. Its that kind of attitude of sort of like a laughing at people who are. It actually Wearing Masks all the time to try to prevent the spread because testing as we know is not enough. I mean the idea that masks when you need it this is an invisible killer. 207,000 americans have died. None of them expected expected this to happen to them. None of them knew that the first to next to them at that church at the grocery store. Wherever. Had ed coven was going to give to them and their and something bad was going to happen to them. The mask is because you dont know who has it social distancing is because you dont know who has it and thats the i know that joe biden is in a very good and tight bubble. He wears this mask, the practice social distancing. You see every picture of him talking with anyone whether its. They just recently on his truck on his. It was a Stock Campaign is talking with the labor leader and he is on the train. He is one hole seat in between him and that and that person and theyre both Wearing Masks. I mean, is this going to be sort of that ebenezer scrooge in the morning christmas morning. A weakening that will come out and say masks everyone i dont know, but but but he should because lets not forget hope hicks has symptoms which means she may actually be various she actually may become very sick. And the fact is even though the president may not have symptoms now. He may still get symptoms. And experience sickness later depending on the course of disease we know that it takes a couple days for to build the kind of viral load in your body search really making you making you ill force johnson initially felt okay and then in 3 or 4 days. He was in the hospital and an oxygen for an entire week. This is in this is not this is a very serious issue and the more that the president is transparent on these issues. More the administration is transparent if if miss trish officials at least on their own started Wearing Masks in their normal everyday. Interactions not just when they going to capitol hill well bit were basically. Speaker pelosi has mandated that they can enter the building without a mask. Thats going to be important because there are a lot of people out there who i can tell ive relatives in pennsylvania in rural pennsylvania. And they get. You know its sort of nasty looks because they wear masks all the time wherever they go. Its because the president the president marks masks and. Thats thats the kind of lack of leadership and the norm that hes creating that continues to allow this virus unlike in europe and other places. To be out of control fire virus loads are still rising across this country. And this is before flu season hits. Thats not. A good situation for the safety of our country and for. Our loved ones, your loved ones people were watching your watching kron 4 right now and this is an important this is important moment for the president to act. Lets see if hes up for that moment when talk about why this can be so destabilizing for. The world, you know for for when this happens to a world leader has happened to with like you said the leader of the uk has happened to him i havent bolsonaro in brazil. The stock markets 15 minutes from now they open it. It just how wide is this triggers so much. Uncertainty and chaos. Well first of all lets lets remember some apparently seem to get lost. From the sun minister from at least from the white house. This disease is. 3 to 4 times more lethal. Then the for someone of the president s age and health. Its even its even more lethal. You consider that the when you when you again this is what the importance of Contact Tracing when you consider the succession in the United States you pence you have Speaker Pelosi then it goes to senator grassley and expect to secretary of state etcetera under the succession act you know we have to make sure you know all those people are are well and taking care of and in stable, but i mean i in our government. It has always been the stable and orderly transition of power even in terrible times even in. Its s a nation john kennedy or when or when Ronald Reagan was shot. There are there are mechanisms whether their automatic under the constitution or statutory and succession act that allow our government to continue but its still scary thing because out how contagious this is and how and how lethal it can be depending on your age an age and stage, your health that that in and of itself is very destabilizing. 207,000 people dead is destabilizing. You know this doesnt it its except for you know the fact that young very Young Children have a remarkable resiliency know they can still catch it and spread it. This hasnt just been missed. It doesnt really discriminate. Among who it takes who would infect and who it may take from take take from the world so this is this is something that is still there. We have our country has yet to really deal with it and as long as it as long as that happens. Institutions or at potential you lets. Lets lets take for example, you know you have a lot of older people in the Supreme Court to witness. What if judge barrett had it was confirmed took her seat and in fact everyone there mean these are the kinds of things we all have to worry about that. We should we we need better we need better leadership quite frankly in terms of the federal government. The federal government response so. Quite another question is will this result in the president directing newton just cut a deal now with Speaker Pelosi on covid relief even holding back theyve been saying were going to go up to that number if i were the president i would just say the heck with it. Give the speaker which he needs get it out there because obviously were going to need a lot of money okay well we want to mention of a new chin has tested. Negative that we have that this morning. Thank you very much were going to continue to talk about this is our big story of the day and the markets open in about 10 minutes and the glove, the effects on the Global Economy were going break that down to 6. 20 right now want to get a look at the weather. Thats another big story still dealing with bad air and heat good morning john good morning guys yeah exactly right bad air this morning yet again and the heats not done with it just yet you look outside at San Francisco. It is clear but it is hazy so no fog anything youre noticing out there today is that poor air quality weve seen some adjustments over the past hour a little bit of improvement towards the coast. But still just as very pour for areas like napa young bill down through conquered hayward freeman san jose, closer to the coast to do expect poor conditions so even though better out that direction not by much calm in the vicinity of the glass fire this morning which is good but thats no guarantee the rest of the day winds will pick back up into the evening tonight those red flag warnings do remain as well as heat advisories as daytime highs today will again be quite warm come through the day winds pick up tonight so keep an eye on that. Daytime highs today, not as hot as yesterdays still triple digits though for concord napa and santa rosa, oakland youll be back down in the 80s while hayward freeman San Jose Holding on to the 90s. Tomorrows temperatures a little cooler but sunday will be the most comfortable one of the weekend. We briefly bump back up into the low 90s on monday before we get even cooler for the rest of the week after that robin thank you john were checking in on the bridges starting off with the Richmond Sandra fell where traffic is picking up, but its still not a bad commute to the north bay. Were still delay free so its looking good out there. From the east bay heading into the north bay youre clocking in at 7 minutes for your drive, heres the bay bridge, a minor weights and some of the car pool lanes thats it a quick 11 minute trip into San Francisco. Back to you darya james. Thank you very much robin. 6. 22 is the time right now were just beginning to get more reaction in from leaders about President Trump coming down with covid and this is the new tweet just out from kamala harris. Doug and i join joe biden and doctor biden and wishing President Trump and the first lady a full and speedy recovery were keeping them and the entire trump family in our try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. And we are back time now 6 25 1 of the big stories. Were following here locally of course is the continued fire. Fight in the north bay and the effects on air quality around the entire bay area youre looking at a map now of the air quality index and the entire bay area either in healthier hazardous condition. Criteria you can see orange and the red on the map stretches from the north bay all the way down to the south bay unhealthy air everywhere. If you dont have to be outside please dont be. Were going to be in these poor air quality conditions at least for the foreseeable future yeah so lets get to that red flag warning in the bay area and talk about the conditions right now kron 4 Sarah Stinson. Is live in lafayette with the details sarah. Yeah, the red flag warning got extended as i predicted in were going friday and weekend with more hot temperatures low high 90s maybe even some triple digit sprinkle then who knows whats going to hot and take a look at this map so you can see the air quality its definitely going to be poor and you can see there we are in the orange red that means we have unhealthy air across the bay area. Its rough because we dont have if you dont have a see you want to open those windows but you also dont want to be exposed to poor air quality so close your blinds and drapes closed the windows and that should keep the house cooler. We also have that red flag warning we told you about yesterday its been extended until tomorrow at 6. So its important we limit our exposure we stay inside. But also we have wildfire danger so a lot going on across the bay area were tracking it for you live here in the east bay and once the sun comes up well tell you what the conditions are looking like out here so far definitely poor air quality all send it back to you. All right, thank you very much sara. The other big story is the President Trump. Has covid and so does the first lady and now the fallout, the tests are starting to come in this morning, we found out my president pet mice president pence has tested negative. But who else has been exposed in the top echelons of government and how say yes. To the best bargains ever at ross yes oh, yeah yep. Yesss savings on savings on savings . Thats yes for less. At ross. Oh, yeah theres always somethiat ross. N store yep. Oh yeah say yes to those looks, the best brands. And check you out bargains savings from top to bottom thats yes for less. At ross. 6. 29 breaking news weve just found out were scouring the internet getting the very latest from many many sources. This is a tweet from and whitey. Breaking news as New York Times Ronna Mcdaniel thats the rnc chairwoman of the Republican National committee has coronavirus the word is that she tested positive on wednesday and has mild symptoms and as you can see here. This source says that she was last with the president on friday. She was in michigan after that. So this is of developing story because this morning we expect to begin getting more of these tests in of anyone who was exposed within the government because the president s close aide tested positive and the president first lady have tested positive. We know a negative test has has come in with the Vice President pence but now were finding out the rnc chairwoman has tested positive for covid this is just the start of what is going to be a long day of results coming in and along many days of quarantining the president first lady have just started their quarantine period now dealing with a virus now that we know has killed more than 207,000 people nationwide so. A lot of attention being brought now on washington we do have reaction coming in this morning. In fact our your reporter Trevor Shirley joining us now live from the Nations Capital with more on that trevor. Hey good morning, yeah rapid series of happening early this morning was just yesterday. That hope hicks arguably one of the president s closest aides tested positive for that virus and then just a few hours later is the president and first lady tested positive for it and that news broke early this morning, the president confirming that in a tweet also saying that he and the first lady are going to begin their quarantine and Recovery Process immediately as he put it so. Safe to say this potentially but the first of the october surprise as we could be in for were not even 48 hours into october and keep in mind. This is all happening 32 days from the election. So certainly a lot of questions this morning about the implications that this has. Not only for the presidency itself, but for the campaign moving ahead in this final stretch. Showers will interesting to see the the various reactions in the fall of coming in because theres. There are number of Ripple Effect that were trying to track this morning everything from potentially the succession of power issue, but also the Supreme Court issue as well as people that are in the president s inner circle in the top ranks of the republicans in the senate. If the virus should happen to spread to any member on either of bodies this could impact things in a number of different ways trevor. Yes certainly writing weve been watching the pictures in the footage coming out of the senators and white house staff meeting with. Amy Coney Barrett over the past few days, several of those people are folks who have been in direct contact with the president or other members of his staff over the past week or so so thats definitely one set of questions does this the confirmation process for amy Coney Barrett so far this morning i think weve heard from several Lindsey Graham who is chair of the judiciary committee. So at this things are still on schedule but yeah, thats just one aspect of of the fallout from this. Breaking news this morning that were following trying to determine what those Ripple Effects are going to be now trevor, we know that at 9. 15 hour time here in california, the president had a call scheduled with a bunch of seniors. Talking about covid so what were wondering is would that be made public and or is is there a plan for the president to address the public. The weather to ally fears or to give more details. You know from the white house where theyre quarantining easy to do without you know contacting any but he personally and let americans know how hes doing personally there any word that the white house is working on a plan to be able to hear from the president himself today. Well officially we havent heard any word that the president is planning to address the nation or on this on this positive diagnosis that hes got. As far as that call with the seniors as far as i know continue to be on his schedule because it was a remote youve got to assume, though that there is conversation happening in the white house about how to handle the messaging of this whether or not the president is going to take an opportunity to talk to the nation allies and fears with this obviously we saw the markets take a hit from this news early this morning so from an economic standpoint, there is benefit to the president trying to get out ahead of ashoura reassure as to his condition. I know you also brought up that question continuance of governance there is obviously talk about that as but in terms of of military readiness, the joint chiefs of staff came out this morning with a statement saying despite this positive theres currently no change in the terms in terms of our military posture readiness at this point, but again this is a fluid situation and i think the messaging out of the white house is certainly going to change throughout the day so i would bet by noon we have a better hopefully of of what the president plans to do with anything to continue to this diagnosis. And also on the political front to we are what a little more than 4 weeks away from the election, we know the president had a very. Busy Campaign Schedule ahead of him. Obviously for the near term anyway thats got to be canceled. Any word on that front as well because were talking about maybe half the time now between now and the election that hes not going to be able to be on the campaign trail the rallies that you get so much energy from. Yeah youre right already campaign has canceled a planned rally that was supposed to happen in florida either today or i dont recall specifically i think it was tomorrow but that event has been canceled. If the president follows the cdc in terms of how long anybody is supposed to quarantine he technically is shouldnt be leaving the white house or or his skis quarantine area for the next 10 to 14 days that would really bring into his ability to make it to the debate which is scheduled to happen on i believe october 15 so certainly thats a conversation thats going to be happening. But youre right in terms of of the short term campaigning. Its probably not going to be happening now we do know at this point according the Biden Campaign both former Vice President joe biden and his wife have both tested negative at this point. As well says so obviously some news out of there but in terms of how this impacts at least the next 2 to 3 it would not be a surprise if we saw major slowdown if not a complete stop at least from the president as he continues to deal with this illness and wouldnt trigger did you say that the biden test came back because the last we heard were waiting for. Joe bidens test we know that Vice President pence is negative. Have you heard that bidens test is negative. I believe i read this morning, id seen this morning that his tests came back negative but its something that theyre probably going to be doing multiple tests on him given the proximity had to the president. Just 2 days ago thats another thing last time we trumps family together. Was at now and and i dont know if barron the youngest was there. But we do have a new tweet coming out this morning that baron who is 14 years old has tested negative. So so far and we all feel for anybody any family, the president and the like sue gets coronavirus and of course number one and a parents concern is are my kids ok so we do know at this point that a tweet has come out saying that barron trump 14 has tested negative. We dont know about the rest of the trumps but like you said, theres so many tests out there thats the Big Development this morning as well as we test come in what will report that reverol tell you that just in the last few moments is dari was relayed that information to you weve also received the a tweet as well. That ivanka and Jared Kushner have also now tested it tested a couple times both or negative is dust coming from. Sources there in washington were probably going to spec this be happening throughout the day as Contact Tracing happened as more and more test results are coming back and we get a better handle of exactly who in the president s circle been compromised by covid19. Thanks a lot trevor well in looking it and looking at big picture you have to keep in mind that did your ability to test positive for this virus, varies person to person sometimes it may you know for 5 days after youve been exposed for a positive test to come back. So its not outside the realm of possibility that we could continue to see these positive cases pop up among members of his inner circle over the next few days that is true to it could be too soon well have to say thanks a lot trevor appreciate that update from washington are they all right. Time now 6. 39. Weve also heard reaction on the president s positive test from is be representative Eric Swalwell as well kron fours ken wayne and pam moore talked with him last night. And what i hope that become more of an for precaution, fact correct all of know now that he had heart looks like hes going to quarantine the responsible thing. After u n i youre the parent of a 3 yearold a year to year old. I understand the frustration that parents right now that our kids cannot be in school and we had widespread have the he would be able to understand the true spread in high point people were positive. But allow people who are negative. They go back to in Person Learning and teaching or so i really hope that your steps up our game hard. No understanding in that race and that review that we have do to get back clear lee not but it is now reached the highest office in the land. The rate that like to have to. Strict as precautions anyone would be around the president people. And literally have to be tested to be in his presence. And now he has a positive test i think that should just demonstrate all about that you know this virus does not know republicans or democrats you know at victims it just in 10 you know to spread if it is not an ocular did against him right now best way to inoculate against that it to wear a mask and joy actually. And we will be following the very latest throughout the day on the president and the first ladys condition. After again testing positive for coronavirus thats the breaking news story this morning make sure to download the kron 4 mobile app so we can keep you updated. Throughout the day soon as information comes into our newsroom. Well we are in for another hot hazy and potentially evening ahead just around the corner as for right now temperatures are mild for most areas, san mateo in the 50s berkeley low 70s. Knapp and petaluma each in the midfifties i more details in your forecast still to come. And im tracking your commute around the bay area this morning, its still very quiet and smooth at the bay bridge toll plaza so were not even seen the normal back up here at the pay gates we consider this garage door opening it is my fathers love. It is his passion it is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. With liftmaster® powered by myq®, know whats happening in your garage from anywhere. You can take a day off fromy worrying about your packages. Ohhh yeahhh just connect your myq® app to key. Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. Welcome back 6. 43 right now and weve got another big story still going as the wildfires the bad air the red flag warning just a few other things to deal with the eu has john travel in the Weather Center to break it all down josh just a few things big things the haziness its pretty visible over San Francisco right now much as we saw yesterday. And weve got a continuation of multiple advisories too because of the heat and some winds that could result in high fire danger yet again today now this is where air quality is the worst you see the very worst of conditions right around napa thats where you see that little purple bubble, reddish area thats very poor and you can see just how much of the bay area has lit up in that color for a little closer to the coast in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay as well as nevado so not the day to be stepping outside too terribly much especially not ex rting yourself out there. Ben of good news this morning as winds are relatively calm in the vicinity of the glass fire. But were the words we still have red flag warnings in effect through tomorrow and heat advisories in effect through 08 00pm tonight impeach those red flag warnings partly because of the heat but also because winds will pick back up into the evening tonight you see how novato Fairfield Napa San Francisco in concord all look at wind speeds picking up post sunset this evening, so fire danger remains high temperatures remain high. But not as hot as yesterday 70s and 80s for San Francisco, 60s and 70s for most of our coastal areas and then it will be 80s and 90s for most of our bayside cities seeing carlos that 95 Mountain View at 94 today while in the south bay temperatures back down into the 90s after a few triple digits yesterday 80s and 90s along the bayshore well 90s in triple digits remain in line for the east bay danville walnut creek in concord at one oh one or warn or 2 while oakland at one at 87 degrees. 90s to triple digits in the north bay yacht bill napa sonoma as well as santa rosa, all Still Holding on to the triple digits for yet another day now tomorrow i do expect temperatures to be just a touch cooler, still be a hot saturday sunday and noticeably cooler one we bounce back up a few degrees before temperatures really fall into the latter part of next week eventually taking us to what will actually feel like fall finally by wednesday and thursday. The. Thank you john checking in on the bridges which are filling up a little bit rough to 92 taking a peek at the san mateo bridge lots of brake lights out of hayward right now but no big problems its getting heavier and heavier but youre overall drive time is still good because its under 15 minutes from the name its across the span over to one oh one here in the bay bridge toll plaza, no delays at all by now we normally have at least a little bit of a backup, but its considered friday light at the moment, its a great time to come on and 12 minutes off to fremont street. No problems at the Richmond Sandra fell bridge, a great trip into the north bay were taking a little peek at highway 4 because we have a crash working on the Congress Side west for at willow pass road its blocking so its backing you up over the hill into bay point but your drive times still looks good 17 minutes for west for antioch to concord daria back to you thanks a lot robin lets get to the wildfires burning in sonoma napa county because theyre still only 5 contained and growing. Close to 60,000 acres has burned now and 288 homes plus destroyed. But again they cant get in and do an accurate count while theyre busy with the active fire fight. Also hard to investigate right now, but they are and its very early but cal fire says one possible cause electric fencing around a remote vineyard near the point of origin that is something that they are looking at all right, lets go to Sonoma County now as we continue our Team Coverage of the glass fire. Weve got rain, harvey standing by. With an update where are you located now reyna. The yearlong Monterey Drive in a montgomery drive. Right here behind me one of the many local checkpoints that they have and they actually just did a shift change about 30 seconds ago before you toss out to me. The officers that were here been here all night. A new shift begins right now theyve been taking turns and for around the clock down here now 15 miles down this road here behind me thats where we have a lot of the fire lot of the fire damage heavy smoke, the for the drive into that the smoke starts to pick up were going to show you damage been seen here over the past few days. You can see right here in santa rosa. We were in this area you can see the homes devastated here, you know, its been very difficult for a lot of the families even dorian james seen these images that weve been bringing to them right here from the burn zone of their houses that they not been able to get back to see a lot of people finding out that their homes had been damaged from watching the news so thats got to be devastating for a lot of people another concern right now for all the downed power lines in the hot spots, the firefighters are currently dealing with right now so thats where theyre focused on today. Theyre also focused on the fire continues to burn so theyve got a lot on their hands but again the sun is starting to come up here so were going to able to get in the air and show you more of the devastation in al if you havent already seen enough of it its a lot of it in there so well be bringing you more of those images as the morning goes on for now daryn james well send it back to you about. All right, thanks a lot ryan a well of course its having an impact too on air quality thats one of the big side effects of all these fires in here weve got our air quality index map showing you current quality levels and theyre not good. In fact we have a pocket of a really bad air beginning to develop their just east of santa rose you can see that blob of purple amidst all the red which is amidst all the orange nowhere around the bay area is it safe to be out today breathing in all that air. So if you can avoid it please do stay inside if possible, i purcell. Twice for 5 minutes to run into the store and i felt my eyes. Yeah, and i hardly did a thing so you know that our reporters in the field have definitely been feeling it right now lets go to kron 4 Sarah Stinson and lafayette she has the mask on an hour ago you did. Yeah i decided its best i sometimes im a little reckless with that and i want to put my health think everybody should do that whether its putting on mask like this or staying indoors. Its best to not underestimate. What this air quality can duty as daria said. Air your eyes get a little watery a stroke. Its a little itchy im now above lafayette on this hillside you can really start to see now that the sun is up how bad the air quality is theres a layer down there above the city and it is bad its really bad out there take a look at this map you can see just how bad their quality is because theres numbers when you put a number to it really starts become real you can see on that map. There are numbers like 100 something 200 something and its red orange purple, its unhealthy its hazardous and its not good to be breathing in its rough because if you dont have ac which many of us dont you want to open the windows because were seeing these hot temperatures. But you also dont want to be exposed to poor air quality. I suggest closing your blind your drapes, your windows and that will keep your house a little bit cooler but yesterday as we saw in that video theres blanket of smoke haze in the air. All in the east bay and across the bay area in todays going to be even worse. We spoke with a ucsf doctor about the effects of breathing this in long term. There are a couple of small studies that are showing us if you live around the wildfire smoke in our really for long periods of time. Exposed to this particular matter at high levels for a long time that actually does impair lung function and noted that seems to be the case at least a couple of years. But we also have no some other looking at air pollution so looking at say areas air pollution in general is say from and traffic or exposure to factories. That we know that air pollution in which some can lead risk of developing. Seal Heart Disease cancers. So thats why its important we limit our exposure to this bad air quality, the red flag warning we told you about yesterday has been extended until tomorrow morning at 6. That heat coupled the northwest winds tore 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour winds and gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hours that is definitely of concern causing wildfire danger so again have a go bag ready darya james we were concerned that were going to have that orange sky today really just wont know until the sun comes up, but i can tell already. That its more of just a dark morning and its might be just a very dark gloomy day as we said yesterday that kind of helped with the heat because it covered the sun for us but its really unfortunate when youre have when youre outside for sure so stay indoors as much as possible send it back to you too thanks. A lot sarah. And thats the theme of the news today were talking medical experts about the effects of the smoke. 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Gov and we are back at 6. 56 still ahead on the kron 4 morning news obviously lots to update you on in terms of the big news this morning that President Donald Trump and his wife melania trump, the first lady have tested positive for coronavirus we are getting word about his inner circle, how many other people have been tested and how many of those tests have come back this morning were going to give you the full rundown of tests coming in this morning does the president s family have it. Do the higherups in administration. Some people positive some negative weve got that and it seems to be all negative at the moment on the stock market where the futures tumbled and now weve been training just for about a half hours. Well have a live report and see how the world is reacting in the areas local news station. We begin now with breaking news. Is reacting to the fact that the president of the United States and the first lady have tested positive for coronavirus the president 74 years old. We know that puts him in a higher risk of complications from the virus that has now killed more than 207,000 people nationwide and we had. Confirmation this morning, the president apparently is feeling symptoms mild at the moment, but he is not a symptomatic apparently is feeling symptoms. This morning hasnt tweeted. Since this tweet last night where he said we begin our quarantine and Recovery Process and also melania tweeted that they were together they were quarantining she was canceling the rest of her engagements and in this tweet as you can say last night she said we are feeling good. But those who were with the president yesterday were getting reports that they say seem to be very tired and was horse and was experiencing mild symptoms thats all we know so far we do know where they apparently got thats theres through Contact Tracing is one of his senior advisers