And this morning we have new video from Fremont PoliceFremont Police department showing fire crews, saving an American Flag that was flying right there outside of the fair winds Estate Winery near calistoga. Well firefighters say that by the time that they got there the winery was already engulfed in flames. They say they hope that the flag will soon fly again as a symbol of the communitys resolve. Well it has been more than 2 weeks since the glass fire started in napa county people or allowed to get back into their homes and businesses for the first time this weekend. But its still an adjustment period for those who lost their jobs after 1, 5, star restaurant was just completely destroyed kron fours gayle ong has that story. Wine country is slowly getting back to normal but its a long road ahead to recovery tucked away in a secluded canyon devastation from the glass fire calistoga ranch and fortune was completely destroyed by the fires. Which which really puts are 175 team members of that hotel. You know in a in a very difficult situation exactly. 2 weeks later, the resorts parent bears held a food drive sunday at the lodge resort in calistoga. At least 350 boxes full of fresh and shelf stable food were given out to employees, its an adjustment period i had to get back into your space theres a lot of work to do. You start you visually as we as we look around your visit really does julie reminded. Of what took place the luxury 5 star resort was evacuated on sunday september 27th when the glass fire erupted all resort guests owners and employees got out safely before the fire tore through the property the site known for a peaceful serene getaway now reduced to rubble one of hundreds of structures destroyed in napa county guess shared their condolences and memories of what once was on social media so its its its there every single day. Whilst trying to recover and restore some bit of normality into your own life plans to rebuild calistoga ranch are not known at this time resort management want to take it day by day and support their staff impacted by the glass fire. A job there was also held at the food drive to help staff by making jobs bears and surrounding 5 star hotels in napa valley reporting in calistoga gayle ong kron 4 news. Pg e says its monitoring the weather conditions for future Public Safety power shutoff according to the utilitys website. There is an elevated watch this wednesday and thursday right here in the bay area. Pg says it will have more clarity on potential cities and counties that could be impacted sometime in the next 48 hours so well keep you posted. Lets head to the south bay now the city of san jose is giving out 5,000 for restaurants in need. This money is a part of a 2 Million Dollar nationwide initiative from from doordash the Food Delivery Company partner with the city and other organizations to deliver 150,000 in grants to businesses who face hardship from the pandemic this winter businesses can begin applying this friday october 16th. Well the city of San Francisco is also offering to use help Small Businesses for things like barriers and furniture required to support physical distancing. Mayor london breed recently announced one 0. 6 Million Dollars to support Small Business reopenings 340 Small Businesses will get between 2 5,000 we have more on how businesses can apply for this money on our website. So if youre interested just head over to kron 4 dot com. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news amazon prime day is this week but cybersecurity experts warning about potential scams by hackers. And bay area family a bay area family is demanding answers after their loved one was killed during a traffic stop in the north bay. And also coming up after the break a San Francisco cafe is rob just days after being vandalized. Well take a little peek outside were checking in on 92, its already busy here leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula. Plus im tracking a traffic problem on the nimitz plan to have details coming up in just a bit. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, the time is for 13 good morning, everyone and happy monday. I dont know if going to be happy about the forecast because the numbers are going back up this weekend was nice, i feel like the weather was just perfect bad for an increase in temperatures, lets check in with john to get the robin i dont t lk about it i just want to live in the weekend right we could just stay there that would be last forever. Perfect out there sunday and this morning at least were keeping some of the nicer conditions around still at least for a little bit longer a pretty pleasant start to the morning Crystal Clear skies. Weve got light winds, no fog out there morning that is going to be very cooperative as you do get up and head back to work today now we are in the midst of a dry weather pattern returning to the bay area ridge of High Pressure sitting to our west. And the jet stream thrust back up to the north where it will continue to result in some shower activity for neighbors up in the Pacific Northwest youre going to continue to see that here in future cast. Were also going to notice is this highpressure ridge sitting offshore is eventually going to result in a noticeable offshore flow notice that curvature that counter clockwise circulation there the clockwise circulation thats going to force some hot and dry air from our inland valleys back out our direction, especially comes tuesday night wednesday into thursday, hot dry conditions beans really no fog at the coast and some heat being pulled all the way out to the coastline. In the process of this daytime highs are going to begin to rise. Already going to be a noticeably warmer one in San Francisco today with highs near 80 degrees in both mission and financial districts even in the 70s in daly city in Half Moon Bay in the upper 70s today. Thats right there right along the coastline 70s and 80s for bayside cities daytime highs today with redwood city 85 woodside warming up to 90 and in the south bay, looking at mid to upper 80s today thats warmer than we were over the past 3 days. Temperatures in the east bay also inching closer to the 90s pleasant today, the 9 danville in walnut creek actually getting up to 90 degrees. Well oakland at 82 today, warmer than youve been in a few days now napa and sonoma after cool past few days back up to 90 degrees well vacaville up to 87. Santa rosa in petaluma also back into the upper 80s. Now today, definitely warmer tomorrow going to be warmer yet and then from tuesday night into wednesday or offshore winds pick up. Thats going to result in our heightened fire danger, especially on wednesday into thursday these days 90s will be found not just for our inland areas, but all the way out to the coast are other that bayside areas come thursday and friday, especially. The weekend ahead does look to offer at least some relief starting up. But that is not before the scorching heat of the middle and the end of the week and the heightened fire danger along with it. All right, thank you john, lets check in on the traffic now and take a peek at your commute the nimitz is a trouble spot are off to a slow start and we have a couple of Different Things going on here so theres the usual roadwork northbound 80 right around 29th avenue. But in that same area maybe a little bit closer to the high street exit. There is also a major accidents overnight that resulted into fatalities soared one point they have the 3 left lanes shut down but it looks like because of the closure and then wrapping up the crash are still investigating the fatal accident. They still have at least the right lane blocked so you see the slow traffic there in the middle of your screen thats northbound 80 approaching downtown oakland. I just go ahead and avoided until they completely clear the road work and the Traffic Alert because of this fatal accident so stick with 5. 80 instead of the northbound nimitz thats going to save you a lot of time and help you get to the maser to San Francisco now here on highway 4 coming out of pittsburg bay point theres a trouble spot at san marco west for at the san marco exit injury accident here involving couple of vehicles near the right lane of the on ramp, theres a lot of debris scattered across lanes so its going to be little slow there west for leading up to the scene but the antioch side looks good. The pittsburgh side is looking good and youre fine once you make it over to concord as well, heres a look at your drive time not bad at all was still clocking in at 14 minutes for west for and the off to conquer in just little hiccup in your commute there at san marco. Checking in on our bridges. Theyre quiet night since moved here at the bay bridge toll plaza the trip into San Francisco delay free. I dont see any trouble spots across the upper decks going to be clear right through downtown San Francisco merging onto the westbound skyway and the james leg and 2. 80 as well so its looking pretty good so far. There is word of a new accident southbound which is them. Connector that takes you over to 80 looks like the left lane is actually blocked so thats just popping up. South one on one 80 heads up for that crash. But i dont see any delays there getting through the scene. Ill give you one more 92 little crowded but not bad 13 minutes heading over to the peninsula will check more traffic a little bit later. Well a popular cafe an ice cream shop is vandalized for the second time. This time a thief actually pose as a window repair worker came in and stole a vintage toy collection kron 4 Taylor Bisacky has details and in a Richmond Community is now coming together to replace a vintage 20 collection. Stolen from a beloved neighborhood cafe. Its a real bummer you know you know like somebody would steal toys from an ice cream store. You know designed for kids in the family is meant to michael is the new owner of that we will desert kathy inclement street she reopen the store as we built by jean 3 weeks ago. Give to many of the stores, unique touches that came from the original owner, including a large 20 collection, however, it shook of that collection is now gone after someone posing as a repair person came into the store actually we a situation where windows were vandalized so there are a few businesses on clement street acid at just into the windows at night. And we then had somebody a few days to be a repair person here to measure the wind has. Get up on a ladder and stream all the toys off the front that you know the monetary value is probably you know between one and its more the sentimental value. And you know the fact that its hard to replace these things michael says San Francisco police are investigating the incident review nearby surveillance footage. Thiefs actions are disappointing. Michael says shes encouraged by the outpour of support from her neighborhood, the Community Response has been so great that you know that sort of the stuff were taking away from it weve had customers. Drop off toys people offered to donate toys people offer to help us rebuild the collection in San FranciscoTaylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Are you ready for amazon prime day its this weekend experts want to warn you about possible scams that you need to be aware of. Holden curry key has that story. Fridays are some of the biggest in online retail. And according to Check Point Software technologies engineer nick hampson scammers are primed to take advantage play where on preparing for prime dates fire. I was on fire tv the hawkeyes the parents of prime day to kind of into set those payments according to checkpoints research. New register domains for amazon and prime doubled within the last month with more than a 3rd considered malicious just check this morning about 67 new ones have come online i was on email amazon prime day. These are not legitimate websites some scams such as misspelled emails or faulty links or easy to spot what hockey relying on right now is laziness thats why hansen says you should always look for the lock in your browser bar dont go clicking on coupons that you get through lanes from a friend of a friend of a friend may also want to create your count ahead of time and update your existing password and as always beware of deals that are too good to be true false a new into in desperation i got to get this deal and thats not a deal if you get in a sense. He tv for 8. Those dont exist, however if youve done your homework and are ready to make that big Ticket Purchase hansen says the best way to protect yourself has to put down the debit card states, a credit card you got less liability when youre working with a credit card since many of these websites only live for 30 to 40 minutes. Its important that you monitor your bank account for any fraudulent activity. In raleigh hold incur wiki. Good information there coming up next on the kron morning news, voting is already underway across california. How you can keep your ballot faith and make sure your vote is counted. Welcome back everyone were now just 22 days away from the election and early voting is off to a pretty busy start in california. Now some officials across the state are actually noticing some issues with how voters are filling out their mail in ballots. Jessica mensch takes a look a closer look and what to do with your ballot just to make sure its counted. A ballot after ballot weve seen higher turnout earlier this year than we ever have pouring into Sacramento County during the first week of early voting the first 3 or 4 days 4 we had 3,000 that have been returned. Which was 3 or 4 times what we normally see that early but along with this influx of votes. Theyre noticing an influx of errors one of the things that has never come up but its 2020 right. We have had some people come in because they had attempted to sanitize the paper several voters slightly afraid of the coronavirus have tried to clean their ballots by pouring liquid sanitizer on that ruin the ballot not only the wording but the bar codes that are on it that helps us canada through the tabulator which makes it unreadable she stresses that these ballots are putting to sleeves by machines in covid19 does not live long on paper by the time youre valley gets you it has you know in quarantine essentially for probably more than a week. So theres no risk of covid being transmitted. Another common issue voters forgetting to sign the on fellow before mailing in their ballot signing that on football is so important because its happy make sure that no one else is pretending to be you to vote to your place. Machines and people work to compare that signature with the signature you used when registering to vote or getting her and give you the opportunity to send us a new signature all to make sure that every voters voice is heard from the center. Well that was Jessica Mensch reporting for us this keep in mind if you do damage or ballot in any way. Please reach out to your countys Election Office and you can request instructions for getting a replacement do not or Hand Sanitizer over your ballot and dont forget to sign it. All right coming up next on the kron 4 morning news, a confirmation hearing for president Trumps Supreme Court nominee starts this morning, were live in washington dc with a look at what you can expect. You can expect an increase in temperatures over the next few days, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza john is tracking your forecast and he says we are in store for another warm up and that means fire dang welcome back everyone happening today president Trumps Supreme Court nominee is in the hot seat judge Amy Coney Barrett will appear in front of the suit as Senate Judiciary committee for the first time, lets check in with jesse turner is live in washington. This dc this