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Still ahead robin. A pretty busy commute to San Francisco right now thanks to an early trouble spot. Of Treasure Island so lets go. Dont know whats wrong with the mikes all toss it back to you i will work on that thanks a lot robin. Meantime the big story that were following is possible Power Outages people are bracing for shut offs pg and e is releasing more information too about which areas could be impacted. Yeah weve got kron 4 Sarah Stinson standing by in Sonoma County with a look at what we can all expect sarah good morning. Other finally releasing you know which counties how many customers will be affected by this power shut off if it happens. Tomorrow afternoon and it could be as many as 22,000 customers take a look at your screen we rode out each county for you and spelled out just how many people would be affected you can see there on your screen it would be including alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo counties and then as we slide over to the next one napa sonoma and solano counties as well. Each total number of customers impacted for county on your screen as well. This is again due to the hot and dry conditions paired with the expected high wind gusts which causes major wildfire danger, the highest probability areas are the north bay mountains near not say holiness small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area thats what our meteorologist john trimble has been tracking as well. How to prepare make sure you have gallons of water available with nonperishable foods. Flashlights extra batteries, portable phone charger if you have a generator practiced using it before the Power Outages to make sure youre using it correctly and of course have a go bag ready were talking about wildfire danger to want to be prepared for that now i caught up with the pg spokesperson about how these outages work and who will be specifically affected if it goes into effect take a listen to right now we are multiple areas that have the potential for impact, although please no. We would not be impacting entire regions it would just be pockets of areas. And so if you live in one of those areas youll be notified by a call a text message or an email you should have already been notified yesterday and youll probably be notified again today with an update and theyll give you some notice in terms of if this weather continues to look the way it is with those high winds and those high temperatures then they will in fact shut off the power to those thousands of customers so all we can do now is be to try and get an update from pg need this morning and see if they have anything for us for now, im reporting live in Sonoma County Sarah Stinson kron 4 news i thank you sarah dont want to take any chances with the fire danger the glass fire is now almost fully contained its 96 contained this morning. It has burned 67,000 acres in napa and sonoma counties and destroyed more than 800 homes and other structures. Its 7 04 and in the south bay a man suffered serious injuries in an explosion that happened in gilroy yesterday afternoon in the 1700 block on telly drive. So right on kelly drive between rangel hills drive and leonard way is closed while officials investigate may stay closed. They say for several days. Theyve got the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office bomb squad investigating. Well after months of preparations in Person Learning will resume today for students in Alameda County. The Child Unique Montessori School is among 20 private schools that have been given the green light from Alameda County to go ahead and open up at montessori classes will be limited to just 11 students, no more temperatures of students and staff will be checked 4 times a day and dividers will help keep kids from gathering in any one location. In addition to the state and federal protocols staff also reached out to leaders in taiwan for advice. Because taiwan her record that was not elevating the way that it has been elevating in the United States and so i wanted to know what they did so we started back in march. Interviewing them asking people for feedback and then starting to generate a plan so literally no child touches something twice with that being disinfected and south as opposed to disinfecting at the end of the day which we do anyway where disinfecting every minute. Yeah county education leaders say theyre expecting to see more reopening plans from some smaller Public School districts in the coming weeks. A covid19 vaccine trials are on hold at Johnson Johnson after a volunteer in the study became sick. Now Johnson Johnson didnt disclose the exact symptoms. The person is suffering the companys just saying that its following guidelines and the persons illness is being reviewed. The company says illnesses are an expected part of any Clinical Study this isnt the first vaccine trial by the way to have been stopped midway through. Astrazeneca in fact had to stop its trial trial twice in september because of an illness. Were tracking the coronavirus numbers across california and the bay area as you can see more than 16,500 people have died of covid in our state including more than 1600 people here in the bay area. In governor newsome is the latest covid briefing, he touted the states massive Contact Tracing program for saying its slow the spread. He says theyre nearly 11,000 people working to make sure are that one positive case doesnt become 10 or more. But he also stresses we need to do more with thousands of people testing positive every day. He says it is critical to find out who is at risk and theyre stressing that while testing is crucial. So is what happens after testing. We want to make sure that the testing leads to something and in order to box this virus in order mitigate the spread of this virus quarantine and isolation become essential. 90 of tests in the state come back within 24 hours. Letting authorities know quickly, lets then act quickly thats led us 97 of counties being able to Contact People who have come into contact on the same day with somebody else who has a positive. Well a pair of bay area cities are among those topping a list for business closures during the pandemic in fact according to the study from yelp San Francisco came in as number 2. For businesses that had to shut down nearly 22 closures for every onethousand business, san jose ranked 5th with 20 closures per 1000 businesses. Yelp says that restaurants have been hit the hardest followed closely by shopping and retail. Happening right now the confirmation hearing for president Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is happening as we speak she is facing questions from members of the Senate Judiciary committee were monitoring the hearing will bring you updates throughout the morning. However, if youd like to watch it in its entirety and uninterrupted go to kron 4 dot com were streaming it there for you right now. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, California Republicans are admitting to putting out on authorized ballot drop boxes in several counties and now the state is demanding. They take them down. But the gop says theyve done nothing wrong well tell you why. And President Trump back on the campaign trail spreading his message and hopefully not covid because hes taking off his mask and says he wants to kiss everybody. And today were going to be seeing daytime highs a bit warmer than they have been climbing further through the upper 80s to even low 90s for inland areas, even hotter and windier weather ahead of us this week your forecast is to come. And traffic is still crawling into San Francisco this morning backed up heavily at the bay bridge toll plaza this line goes all the way back to the bottom of the main cell check more slow spots oscar the grouch here to tell you, yeah, you, to wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. 7. 11 is the 7 o a or b im the one who should be reacting that way you have never touched and its going to be hot to yeah youre going to want one later on in yeah. Im going to probably be neck drinking a cup myself. Yeah looking forward to anything cold these next couple of days because temperatures are already starting to climb and along with this climb in temperatures. We do see increased wind speeds to us so it is going to be a higher fire danger next couple of days ahead of us today by no means going to be the hottest day of the week so were still in at least fairly comfortable territory, upper 80s for many inland areas like in the east bay where you can see skies are Crystal Clear really one of the nicest things about this morning in addition to our Cool Temperatures and clear skies is the fact that we dont have really that bad of air quality so go outside enjoy the mild morning. Before the heat of the afternoon High Pressure ridge Building Back in has made the cool and cloudy or whether of the weekend a thing of the past now what we have to look forward to ahead of us is unfortunately hotter temperatures and higher fire danger as offshore winds kick back into gear, pushing hot dry air through our inland valleys out even towards the base of daytime highs are going to be climbing in not just for inland valleys. Winds right now not all that much of a factor now into the evening tonight, well start to see winds picking up. Tomorrow morning will be especially windy to start your wednesday. After that he quinns of this forecast are actually going to be wednesday night into early thursday morning. Thats when winds will gust as high as you see here on the map. Sonoma glen ellen in calistoga does 2030 Miles Per Hour range regularly. Peak wind gusts in her upper elevations as high as 50 Miles Per Hour. So you pair that obviously with the conditions that are so dry out there and increasingly warm and thats where we do have these fire weather watch is likely to become red flag warning starting tomorrow for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains upper elevations across the east bay where we could see some isolated power losses and then up into the north bay to where you may lose power as we do see these winds kicking into gear, upper elevations, more susceptible fire spread and then also this those peak wind gusts in general. As for todays daytime highs i mentioned its not or warmest one of the week, but it is warmer than we have been 80s in areas like San Francisco and even happen bay right along the coastline. 80s to 90s right along the bay shore today with burlingame a 83 palo alto at 87 and Mountain View as well as much of the south bay back into the 90s today, san jose at 92 for the high today. Low 90s in pleasanton well upper 80s and dublin livermore all the creek and concord Oakland Berkeley and richmond back into the upper 80s today, a little warmer than yesterday was youre going to notice that warmth, especially this afternoon. Wishing you see if you didnt petaluma and avato each 89 for your highs getting a look ahead at your next 7 days so tomorrow temperatures begin to climb our hottest of days will be thursday and friday though thats when inland areas will be in the upper 90s to midnineties and even bayside air is rising into the 90s as i mentioned wednesday night into thursday morning will be our he wins with wednesday thursday and friday under of fire weather watches into early friday weekend ahead starts to bring relief temperatures cooling down and also wind speeds coming down robin. Thank you john lets check in on the bridges some are nice and light and quiet and then others are packed all start off of 92. Its not so bad right now heading to the peninsula a little busy, but only 14 minutes thats the highest its been. For your drive time all morning so far here at the bay bridge toll plaza youll definitely have a weight it started with the crash west of Treasure Island which is gone, but now its backing up on to the east shore freeway connector so be prepared for that still slow into San Francisco. No problems across the golden gate at also your trip from the north bay on south one oh one will be just fine highway for speaking up for those of you traveling through pittsburg bay point this morning were at 22 minutes total from one 60 out to 2. 42 and thats a normal crowd and finally all lanes open in seminole 84 west before 6 ad or crash finally cleared but its quite slow leaving livermore and backed up just east of dallas eagles road back to you. All right, thank you very much robin a barbershop in vacaville is facing fines now and maybe even closure by the state since the owner refused to close his business during the pandemic really sciatic shows us how the community is rallying around him. During the covid crisis against the governors order. Start off as a 15 day closure has turned into a 7 month hostage and were just were just not going to im just not going believe its the reason why wont ameris never closed his business creemos barber shop in downtown vacaville, even when the governor ordered businesses to close in the early days of covid with rising numbers back in the spring. He says he needed to stay open in order for him to survive and his workers to keep feeding their families but one may be paying for that now on monday the state attorney general notified him that a hearing is scheduled for the 23rd when a state judge will oversee an administrative hearing that can result in his license being suspended. He says the state received about 33 letters of complaint, none from why is this guy could still be we dont get to stay open. Hey this guys cutting it during order why arent you doing anything about it. It is time to open california and primo you know he led the charge saying that you know businesses are the ones that generate the revenue theyre the ones that hire the people theyre the ones that are the backbone of our state and you know he just took a stand and of course hes a hero. And support for pre most is gaining momentum. Jenny zimmerman yarwood created the Facebook Group patriots for pre most they support him in his reasons for staying open with more than 600 members. They plan to hold a rally on saturday in front of city hall to show their support give the Small Business owner, a break. This doesnt have to be like this and means we dont have to punish a Small Business owner. Well people like their knees and gets to keep his winery opened you would hope that during these unprecedented times they would. Realize that theres no real loss or god never been hiding, im not going to hide. We get shut down say open. 7. 18 and for your money this morning there are High Expectations for apples new iphone its supposed to be unveiled today and Southwest Airlines pilots are pushing back on proposed pay cuts jane king is live in new york with those stories and more hi jane. Hi daria just Southwest Airlines pilots taking issue with the companys proposal to cut their pay by 10 . Southwest says it can avoid layoffs entirely if the employees will take this pay cut the Flight Attendants Union also headed balking at that idea southwest by the way has never furloughed employee its nearly 50 year supply waffle set to unveil a 5 g enabled iphone later today so this new technology will to promise of internet speeds significantly faster than what many smartphones are able to do right now not all americans can take advantage of the 5 g its not everywhere yet, but it is coming, so you may want to call your wireless carrier just make sure your by g capable before you spend the money on it and amazons prime day is here it runs through tomorrow, theres discounts on more than a million items of some of the deals on the front page or the amazon branded things like the kindle echo device also video games other electronics as sales event expected to be bigger than black friday and to bring in 10 billion dollars, but the resort to a report put together by california utilities Organization Says there were 3 main causes. For the blackouts this summer says planning targets have not kept pace with Climate Change also old Power Company equipment and transition to Renewable Energy all contributing factors to those problems live from new york, im jane king back to thats important for us right now jane were going into a heat wave and dangerous fire season. All right thanks to last. Because are in a dancer not in the next few days later in the week for the number of drugrelated deaths since the pandemic took hold is also continuing to rise in fact one former addict is helping others in their own struggles during this difficult time lonnie wong has the story. This month means a lot to me job and has been sober for 14 years recovering from Substance Abuse that started with alcohol and graduated to prescription drugs oxi caught and. Perkins said darpa set and i was one of these what they call highfunctioning alcoholics and addicts i never even knew i had a problem. Health experts are alarmed at the nearly 27 increase in offside alcohol sales since the spring, the number of suicides are also up of the same time last year add to that that 40 states are now reporting that there have been an increase in opioid related the same time last year. Adam is echoing with other Health Experts are saying. Between worry. Anxiety boredom, confusion be stuck in there who doesnt want a little relief the fear is that the problem will continue even after the pandemic subsides when the pandemics over its not like everyone gets their job back the signs of addiction are visible even on zoom calls weight loss. Puffiness in the face redness of the skin. Changes irritability exhaustion or. Euphoria. Too much. Experts say Substance Abuse sometimes turn their zoom cameras off to hide facts couldnt kick his habit by himself take Substance Abuse counselors along with intervention from friends and loved ones without being confrontational person that youre worried about should be told how much you miss that. How much you care for them. How would anyone drinking and drugging or doing this behavior how much you enjoy their company. Far easier said than done, but adam is proof that it can be done i learned how to. How to. Live a beautiful beautiful life. One day at a time. Was lonnie wong reporting jablon is now a life coach a speaker and an awardwinning author whos written about his struggles with Substance Abuse. And 7. 22 and coming up on the kron 00 04am morning news, California Republicans admit to putting out unauthorized drop boxes for balance and several counties and now the state is demanding they take them down the gop says theyve done nothing wrong. And after the break well take a look at the growing calls for increased safety after a car accident lee plowed into diners in jackie, im looking at your mri. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Well, dr. Farrell, it feels really good. Thats good. And. Im sorry. Baby, dont touch that. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. still singing up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. Im so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. But, how are you doing . Im hanging in there. Schedule a video visit with your doctor. And get quality care with no copay. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. And get quality care with no copay. Floors for toddlers. Letfloors for toys. Ors. Floors for stories. Floors for screams. Book now and have yours installed by the holidays. A large political display burned down dinuba for the second time in less than 2 weeks weve got a jakarta showing us how the community is responding. This is where the original display was but deputies say sometime saturday night someone came and burned it down take a look at is back here now and theres no hey this time instead these signs are attached to steel shipping containers. I like haystack displaying Campaign Signs for President Trump and devin nunez went up in flames saturday for the second time and investigators believe both were our son and the man behind the signs John Dolieslager is now rebuilding and says hes not sure who would do this i have no idea. But its pretty obvious that theyre not happy around labor day dolieslager put the signs up on his property at the corner of avenue 3. 84 and road 80 within a few weeks where spray painted we were we were tara tore down then it went further when the stock was torched rebuilt and torched again destroying about 10,000 worth of hay but dolieslager says Community Members like jimmy val of helping quick to help i just wanted to make a difference. And i know how he feels he had to be heartbroken and he was at a hate to so theres one way to fix its will will you steal dollops applied giant shipping containers so the display would be bigger and stronger dolieslager says everyone should be able to share their views and hes hoping the destruction stops. Its a free country thats what were trying to say we dont care which side youre on youre able without my lungs. This incident is still under investigation, anyone who has any information is asked to give that larry county Sheriffs Office a call and i know a j caught in San Mateo County Elections Officials are starting to process mail in ballots began about 2 hours ago coming up 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. When you take a it all begins to unravel. 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Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. 7. 29 right now want to take a peek at the weather which is quickly going to become the lead story for us its going to be a problem later on john yeah, exactly guys were already starting to warm up, although today isnt the heart of our fire weather that we save for later this week. Youre definitely feeling the difference from this weekend already skies are beautiful unclear from sensor tower here, no fog whatsoever across the bay and conditions still relatively calm now by the evening tonight, this is 11 30pm you are noticing wind starting to pick up tomorrow morning even more so of a windy start and by the time we work our way into tomorrow afternoon and thursday morning, the peak of our wind potential across the bay area winds regularly gusting into a range of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour from vacaville over to calistoga and thats where that heightened fire really starts come into play with those strong winds and some of our hottest of temperatures by friday morning, still breezy but after that things begin to calm down into the weekend offering us some relief from that point on in the forecast. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures this morning, its still calm, its still cool and its plenty clear a beautiful start to your tuesday. So go ahead go outside and enjoy it as much as you can. Later on today daytime highs noticeably warmer than theyve been climbing back into the 90s for many inland areas. Robin. Thank you john im noticing some crowding at the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now starting to get a little sluggish year on 5 us leading up to the toll plaza, its pretty much commute traffic, no crashes or stalls in your way. Its the norm are looking at 15 minutes to make it off to one o one which is good. Heres 92, its still a little crowded, but not bad at 13 minutes to the peninsula. And were just checking in on traffic and some freeways around the bay area and nothing but green here on traffic tracker so the issue or freeway looks pretty good in quiet 24 wide open wannacry to the caldecott tunnel and no problems for 5. 80 or the amendments from to downtown oakland back to you all right, thank you robin. Well were just 21 days away from the november election millions of votes have already been cast all across the country. Right now San Mateo Countys Election Officials are opening in processing mail in ballots. Yeah and if youre interested you can actually kron fours will tran live in San Mateo County to explain youre actually in in the machine will. Yes i am inside elections headquarters and they are processing they started actually about 2 hours ago. If vincent is kind enough can you please do it again then said this is what theyre doing theyre taking the mail in ballots. Theyre not counting. This is the sort or so to speak and he will started in just a few moments i can tell you goes through so quickly and what they do is they collect the signatures on to a database and then after that they will be able to compare this signature on the ballot here on the on the low to the signature for the Voter Registration for people over 80 registered in San Mateo County just to make sure you are who you are to put you on the spot vinson but if you dont mind can you fire it up really quickly, heres is assistant, you will not believe this is their body people to come down. But if you cant kron 4 we have you covered look at this the vinci cant go on television but he told me how it works were this close. I mean were hall and oates when it comes to election coverage. Look at this so its starting to fire up a little bit is getting the program. Ive covered election for a while, but the advancements a pretty incredible how quickly. They are doing things. Its all locked and loaded. And again theyre not counting. They will not count until of Election Night and they will not release the results into them because they want to make sure that you dont know how the coverage is as far as which race is tight which raises a landslide. Hes having a little bit of problems right there that cbd get this going you will not believe your eyes. Okay here we go. That start hearing up there. It is the looks like its going to us. Okay well hes getting that going there it is right looks like its firing up look at this sorry goes through here. James really quickly iris through here it collects the signatures on a database locks through the machine here. Look how quickly goes from there to here. Gets sorted this gentleman here grabs the balance puts it into a box and then. On they will manually obviously open it up and then they will start to process it again they dont count until Election Night. They cant do this obviously on the day are just too many ballots to open up the process, especially since so many people now i choose and mailing ballots to do the way of voting. So there it is right there you could comedown for yourself take my word you come down here they love to have you watch it or some from 4. Look at this this is thousands of ballots every hour and theyre doing this pretty much around the clock from now, and still probably a day or so before the election as they are getting ready 21 days away as he talked about chase back to you. That is fastening i always wondered how they did that signature verification thing on this Somebody Just sit there and look left or right compared i didnt realize the machines there take a lot of this the work out of it by computer rising at all. Thats what i thought so too i thought they held it up in a light chad we saw that in called the computer does this and let me send it back to you because i am voting amazing actress and making the passage look at that ring called thank you well, you know what thats what a computer still like my big that whole things sized after like computer then punching holes and look it up meanwhile both President Trump and joe biden are hitting the campaign trail. In these final days before the election yet trying to squeeze as many votes as they can theyre doing so with very different approaches however, during this pandemic weve got dean martin with a closer look at that. Its great to be back in my home state florida did to make by i mean tested negative for the virus on 2 consecutive days and considered no longer infectious. The president embarked on an ambitious stretch run to election day. The first stop florida and its 29 electoral votes we are doing better by far than we ever did in 2016 the enthusiasm is greater. The spirit is greater. Were going to have if its possible and even greater and more important victory than we had just 4 years ago. The president offered his own view of what would happen if the democrats win they want to turn america into communist cubas socialist venezuela. And really the lives of hispanic americans and all americans biden would terminate our recovery delay the vaccine prolong the pandemic and annihilate floridas economy with that the county an unscientific lockdown thats what he wanted lock it down florida is a state donald trump carried by just one percentage 0. 4 years ago. But our poll of likely registered voters. Finds him trailing joe biden by 3 Percentage Points right now 50 to 47. But because the margin of error is 3. 7 Percentage Points. The race appears to be a statistical tie and still within his reach. 43 in our poll said the president was very conservative and 40 said the former Vice President was very liberal. The state is split fiftyfifty on who voters expect to win and yet while 48 of those polled approve of the job the president is doing 50 disapprove in florida as elsewhere. The economy remains the number one issue followed by health care and covid19 specifically in fact, 47 of florida voters view the virus as a major threat to Public Health in the country. In ohio today where polls show a close race the democratic president ial nominee attacked the president s response to the virus. That is killed more than 214,000 americans, according to Johns Hopkins university. And infected 7. 7 million more including the president himself as a consequence. Of months of overwhelmingly like this lady, the responsible action. And the part of donald trump. How mayy empty chairs. It will be around the dinner table tonight. Because of their negligence how many. How many brothers sisters, mothers fathers on the lance moms dads. Or across ohio and this country folks are worried about making their next rent payment. For mortgage payment. Whether not to on street. The coast today, temperatures warming up compared to where we have been starting off the morning in the 60s ending the day in the upper 60s to 70s depending on where at the coast here at. Im getting a little warmer elsewhere in the bay too talking or higher fire danger in the forecast to come. And were checking in on your morning commute a little busy out there in some spots weve got a couple of accidents on the bay bridge a hit and run just cleared here at the toll plaza and never recovered from an earlier problem, so yes, its still crawling around 80 west from and our local first story oakland mayor libby schaff unveiled new art and planter boxes as part of the latest oakland slow streets project. This is the latest installation by Community Artist Jonathan Brumfield its along plymouth street in oakland, plymouth street has been closed to traffic to create space for people to walk and play safely while maintaining physical distance and by all accounts people are enjoying it. This one of Silver Linings of covid red covid has made a slow down covid has made us try some things that we wont try under normal time and this is an example of how we tried an experiment for covid and the oakland slow Streets Program started back in april some Community Members in fact wanted to continue even after the shelterinplace orders are lifted. And coming up next high fire danger means that firefighters are ready to tackle anything that breaks out and you need to be welcome back 7. 46 on this tuesday morning. Its been a beautiful morning so far and with temperatures pretty comfortable along with it i think it out there and enjoy a nice clear skies over berkeley all the way out to the coast and the cherry on top of this nice morning is the good air quality that most of us are in san jose, some moderate conditions in the vicinity for you now this is ahead of what will be another warm afternoon temperatures beginning to climb again as High Pressure builds in and only getting warmer as we make our way through the rest of the week too as offshore winds will return to the bay area. Now right now relatively calm youll notice winds starting to pick up tonight and then especially on into your wednesday morning. This is at 04 00am right here. Some pretty widespread breezy conditions up in the north bay. Winds continue to pick up into your wednesday night and by thursday morning or windiest conditions of this forecast and our highest a fire danger as well. Calistoga glen ellen in sonoma will be seeing winds gusting as high as 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour regularly. And that paired with the heat and the dry conditions means that our fire danger will be so high. Fire weather watches will affect areas like upper elevations in the Santa Cruz Mountains starting tomorrow into early friday, as well as or Higher Elevations out in the east bay right above the tri valley danville in san ramon towards mount diablo as well and for the north bay where we could experience some widespread power losses upper elevations also to be affected by these fire weather watches gusts as high as 50 Miles Per Hour at the peak. And all of Solano County going to be under these fire weather watches again thats from wednesday through friday. To talk about his first fire danger goes later in the forecast today, even though we are warmer in the 80s in a few spots at the coast. Were nowhere near as warm as were about to be sides to get out there get some stuff done today enjoy what will be at least a tolerable we warm afternoon. Some 90s in the south bay with santa clara at 93 san jose at 92. He spent a time highs in the 80s to 90s for you areas like Oakland Berkeley and richmond. No a lot of us dont have a sea, its mid to upper 80s today, its only getting warmer with some 90s for bayside areas in the forecast in the days to come. Now tomorrow wont be our hottest day. But we do begin to see winds becoming a factor. Thursday morning especially be will be or when the u. S. Time of this forecast and thursday and friday, the hottest times of your forecast with upper 90s that are warmest inland. Even some low 90s right along the bay, shore. The weekend does begin to bring relief with temperatures cooling down and winds beginning to calm down. Robert all right, thank you for the update john now lets update your commute on the richmond sandra fell bridge all of a sudden its just crawling on 5. 80 at the toll plaza waiting for something new to pop up but nothing reported just yet so on the have a live look at the kid, the traffic and then on the bottom you can see the sensors and how far the backup stretches and for now. Its from right around richmond parkway on 5. 80 west all the way through the tolls to mid span just creeping along once again. Nothing reported yes just yet, but it could come across the wires soon if so ill let you know meanwhile look at that drive time 18 minutes into the north bay so get out there early here in the bay bridge are recovering from a couple of accidents both a pretty minor its still slow from the bottom of the maze, your average us good its under 15 minutes, so no other problems working right now we are hot spot free. We just have some crowding on our freeways highway 4 up to 22 minutes antioch to concord one on one a little busy out of san jose weve got some minor crashes out there northbound so just under 35 minutes for northbound one oh one from san jose to menlo park back to you. Thanks a lot rob, and its 7. 49 and a family is outraged unhurt after the Catholic School that their son attends expelled him for coming out as and the boys mother tried to argue that kicking her son out went against the schools christian doctrine, but the administration is standing by its decision. Weve got Markie Martin with the story. Well thank you thank the out of the closet. For devon bryant an 18 yearold senior in colleyville texas talking about his newly proclaimed identity is still a delicate topic that came out on my birthday my reasoning behind it. Was to give myself birthday present i could think of a lengthy letter on instagram last year outlining all the parts of himself. He had held hidden for so long. His first memories of being coming through it just 7 or 8 years old. But it wasnt until of different descriptors us as unhappy as said like some other additives and a second representing homosexuality his mother kanye says she eventually received a call from the headmaster informing her that do to her sons quote evil path. He was being expelled i a steamy fees a christian that he can do that he told me that. That is hes doing what jesus would do. In a letter addressing devons expulsion from the headmaster to parents doctor tony jeffery calling it one of the hardest decisions. Hes made in his 35 year career but that all family sign and Academy Contract explaining quote that includes a hearing to the biblical principle that the expression of human sexuality is appropriate only within the boundaries of Marital Relationship between one man and one woman prohibited moral misconduct includes maintaining a lifestyle not consistent with a plea couple biblical standards the enrollment contract specifically states that homosexuality is contrary to the fundamental religious tenets of cca nobody, what happens in the child come out. This fee this fear of the unknown because people going to jags people going to criticize them and people going to cut them when a place that he calls home like a school that hes going to from qaeda gotten you know become stiff pass to detect him even have mafia whats the wildest going to do to them. On his final day at Covenant Christian Academy devin held a 4. 4 6 gpa and had received numerous awards from his time on the Cross Country basketball in speech teams, a hand painted sign in his bedroom declaring if god is for us who can be against us keeping those words alive, tough for a teen in the face of projection kind of sucks never somebody is like thrown out of the church. Devon says he is sharing his story in hopes of reaching other kids who are living in the shadows that in truth their lives both fear and freedom mother and son returning to devin self love letter to the world that they say no explosion can erase all memory now starting to learn that transparency may be more cool than it is scary. But throughout my life this being a part of myself that i wanted to keep hidden from them. I guess this is me deciding the islands exists even if it might mean that someone doesnt like me. The if i might become. Some sort of a disappointment. I was glad that i have and had support. Was Markie Martin reporting bride says that hes now going to a Public School and plans to study sociology in college. Its 7. 53. Heres a live look outside our cameras along the embarcadero in San Francisco, well be right back. Some 56 the bay area is seeing high fire danger weather this week the conditions are dry and right for trouble. Firefighters are on standby just in case Dennis Shanahan has an update. The days are getting shorter and the nights a little cooler which may give many of us a false sense of security when it comes to fire danger were going to be in high fire danger until we get a good soaking rain to persist for several days at the very least metro fire captain chris vestal just spent 3 weeks providing mutual aid on the creek fire south of yosemite were still at critically low fuel moistures 80 degrees or even 90 degrees like were going to see over the next several days is still very very hot weather for fire conditions. The top 3 most destructive fires in state history broke out in october or november all in northern california. Combined these 3 fires destroyed more than 27,000 structures and killed 132 when the camp fire broke out in butte county on a november morning, the temperature outside was in the 50s but gusty winds low humidity and dry timber were enough to fuel a devastating fire storm at the site we had winds are registering 70 to 80 plus Miles Per Hour this weeks approaching winter may not be that strong, but there is enough concern that the National Weather service in sacramento issued a fire weather watch early wednesday morning through friday morning. For much of interior california and this is for gusty winds and low humidity Weather Service meteorologist dollars doublea says the watch will likely be upgraded to a red flag warning after quite a nation neighboring office says if there is high confidence by those gusty winds and low wont bring critical fire weather conditions. But we need from the public is to make sure that they are creating sparks or having open flame near any vegetation think about the Power Equipment you use and you can open flames like fire pits or campfires just dont have and thats the best advice. And that was Dennis Shanahan reporting well keep you updated all week long on the weather conditions and the fire danger. All right coming up on the kron 4 morning news some private schools in the east bay are reopening classes. This morning, well