Youre watching morning news at the. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a tuesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the Weather Center john trouble keeping us updated on what will be the big story for the week ahead john yeah, its that fire danger guys temperatures are already climbing ahead of increased fire danger these next few days looking really clear across San Francisco in the rest of the bay area right now calm winds clear conditions. Beautiful cool morning to be getting outside. Winds will pick up starting tonight into tomorrow morning youre going to notice a big difference as far as wind scale. After that wednesday night into thursday morning is when well see our peak wind gusts of this wind event and also some of our warmest of temperatures thats the highest a fire danger this is thursday morning on our future cast of winds at 07 45am. And look at vacaville calistoga now speak. Winds gusting regularly into a 2030 even 40 mile per hour range and thats where the high fire danger comes into play friday morning still windy not as windy though, and calming down after that point into the weekend. Now as far as today goes not windy yet. But temperatures are on the rise right now were in the 50s and 60s with oakland and concord each of 58 alameda in here at 62 degrees right now in the north bay in the low 50s for the most part. Later on today, a cool morning sets us up for a warm afternoon with highs back in the 90s inland. 80s right alongside the shore of the bay. Robin. All right, thank you john will head over to a very crowded Richmond Sandra fell bridge nothing has come across the wires just yet. So were just going to blame it on the morning commute and say this is normal commute traffic right now unless something new pops up any minute now it is crawling here at the toll plaza and it stays like this out to about mid span. So right now the clocking in at 17 minutes which is a bit high so get out there early here at the bay bridge toll plaza, its calm and quiet but we have lots of slow traffic into San Francisco. Weve had a couple of minor accidents, nothing active right now. But this back up spills through the maze its on to 5. 80 west and in San Francisco, a lot of heavy traffic all of a sudden on the northbound james lick merging onto the northbound central so north 1, 1, oh one slows from the 2. 80 split. Onto the northbound central and pretty much stays like that all the way out to city streets with no crashes or stalls reported well check some more slowdowns coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot rob, an 8 03 and the big story people are bracing for having their power shut off this week pg e is warning of that because of fire danger and telling us which areas could be impacted now the possibility israel kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Sonoma County with more on the story sarah. Yeah the power could be shot off as soon as tomorrow afternoon, so right now over 22,000 pg e customers are bracing for this potential power shut off and now we know how many customers in each county affected take a look at your screen. We wrote it all out for you can see just how many counties and how many customers are affected including alameda contra costa and santa clara and san mateo now slide over the next one you can see napa sonoma and solano counties all affected, i mean just in Sonoma County nearly 2000 customers affected by this power outage if it occurs again this is due to hot and dry conditions paired with the expected high wind gusts. We just heard from john trouble or meteorologist, he said 20 to 40 mile per hour wind gusts that is. That causes major wildfire danger, the highest probability areas are the north bay mountains near mount saint helene a small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills near piedmont portions of the santa cruz area. And this is how you can prepare make sure to have gallons of water available of nonperishable foods flashlights extra batteries, portable phone chargers and if you do have a generator practice using it before the power out just to make sure youre using it correctly, lets hear from apd spokesperson about who is specifically affected. Im so 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 people who live in those pockets, you know you are youve already been notified about the potential for your power to be shut off and i expect well get another notification like a call and text email either later today and then for sure tomorrow if that power shut off does in fact happen in the afternoon when it could happen that is what it would so stay tuned for that i am in contact with pg now hopefully we can get an exact update for you by our 9 oclock show reporting live in santa rosa Sarah Stinson kron 4 news all right very good. Thank you sarah. The glass fire is now close to full containment it is 96 contained at last check and its burned 67,000 acres in napa sonoma counties as well as destroying more than 800 homes and other structures. Its 8 06 and in the south bay a man suffered serious injuries in an explosion in gilroy that happened yesterday afternoon in the 1700 block on telly drive right on telly drive between wrenshall hills drive and leonard way is closed. As the bomb squad is investigating what happened could be closed for several days. And after months of preparation, we have in Person Learning resuming today for some 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 reopen at montessori classes will be limited to just 11 students. Temperatures of both students and staff will be checked for times each day theyre also putting up dividers to to help keep the kids from gathering in any one location and in addition to the state and federal protocols Staff Members actually reached out to leaders in taiwan for some extra advice. Because time one had 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. Were disinfecting every minute. County education leaders say theyre expecting to see some reopening plans from some smaller Public School districts in the coming weeks. Time now is 8 08 and a Covid Vaccine trial is on hold the johnson and johnson because a volunteer got sick, they were involved in the study theyre not telling us what the symptoms are just that they are now investigating as they follow their guidelines whenever anybody take sale they do that. In fact you remember that another Clinical Trial had to be stopped astrazeneca ad they had to stop their trials twice in september because of an illness. We are tracking the numbers across california and the bay area for coronavirus more than 857,000 people in california have tested positive. And well over 16,500 have died including more than 1600 people in the bay area. Governor Gavin Newsoms latest covid19 briefing, he touted the states massive Contact Tracing program. Thats been a big part in slowing the spread of the virus. He says theyre nearly 11,000 people working right now to make sure that one positive case doesnt become 10 or more. But he stresses that more needs to be done adding that while testing is crucial to fighting covid19. So is what happens after testing. We want to make sure that the testing leads to something 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 allowing local authorities to act more quickly in fact, 97 of counties are able to reach out and notify patients contacts on the same day they receive a positive test result. Well a pair of bay area cities are among those topping a list for business closure of businesses. Theyre closing during the pandemic fact according to a study from yelp San Francisco came in number 2 with nearly 22 closures for every 1000 businesses, san jose ranked 5th with 20 closures per 1000 businesses. Yelp says that restaurants have been hit particularly hard followed closely by shopping and retail. And happening right now the confirmation hearing for president Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is facing questions now from members of the Senate Judiciary committee re monitoring the hearing as you can see it playing out live right now well keep you updated throughout the morning if anything significant happens. If youd like to watch it in its entirety and uninterrupted you can were actually streaming it right now on our website at kron 4 dot com. To the peninsula now were pacifica hot yoga studio is catching heat because its breaking health guidelines. The owner is holding yoga classes without face coverings required travelers. Taylor sackey has the story. The yoga studio held several hot yoga classes on monday i spoke to the owner over the phone and he confirms that no masks are worn during his indoor classes despite state and county guidelines specifically yoga studio is dole the classes without masks. Civic of the children posted this schedule on social media, including hashtags mask free fear free virusfree coward free and trump 2020 among others kron 4 news spoke to the owner over the phone on monday confirming indoor classes are held without masks breaking covid19 Health Protocols it saddens me. That someone whos done this on social media has of late teens. Disregard. Of the rules masks are worn during the height classes. The owner tells me social distancing is in place, hes allowing up to 10 people per class with reservations, however, according to current guidelines, Fitness Studios in San Mateo County are only allowed to operate a 10 capacity. So allowing 10 people would mean this small building normally holds classes with 100 people, San Mateo County supervisor david cannabis as the class size might also be an issue but the last thing we want to do is want make sure that a corona. Iris hotspots and. Havent people there im doing all you know exercises, you know are they socially distant. You know you have an owner who. Basically says that the coronavirus. Its a hoax neighbors are taking to yell voicing their concerns. The owner known as on yelp leader for applies to a visvtors post writing quote does it make you feel good to post this why so angry because youre jealous do you know that i never closed ever weve been having classes the whole time saving lives that one case of the virus while stupid fools like you coward home with your mask on keep posting my stuff company spread the word loser pacific a City Council Member mary baer says you studios actions are disturbing and says this is an opportunity for people to make informed decisions its an opportunity for people to choose where they where they dont have yoga right. They can choose the gyms they want to they can choose the protocols that the gyms are putting in place and this kind of conversation gives them that chance because theres a lot of gyms in the second book on out their way and busted their butts to get all the protocols in place and theyre doing the right thing county Health Officials say this business could be fined hundreds even up to several 1000 because its breaking Health Protocols. By not requiring face coverings in pacifica to love the psac ii kron 4 news. 8. 13 coming up after the break one of the biggest names in sports in the entire world just found out he has covid well tell you who little impact next. And California Republicans admitting to putting out unauthorized ballot drop boxes in several counties and the state is demanding they take him down but the gop says theyve done nothing wrong. Well tell you why. And later how the Casino Industry is planning get people back to the vegas strip, but its not working out bringing criminals instead of tourists to sin welcome back 8. 16 on this Tuesday Morning conditions outside of been really nice so far this morning, youve got lots of sunshine clear skies Cool Temperatures and air quality of sitting pretty good so i know its not the ideal forecast ahead of us. But at least as of right now things are looking pretty good. Now winds will remain calm today, but were already in the process of a warmup as this High Pressure ridge sets up shop. Eventually going to result in a strong offshore flow. These winds going to really start to kick into gear overnight tonight and as they do were going to be seeing getting prone for wildfire come tomorrow. Overnight wednesday night into thursday morning all the way into friday morning. Our highest wind speeds can be expected on into thursday morning calistoga Glen Allen Sonoma on over to atlas peak down through vacaville seeing winds gusting regularly into a 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour range. Thats fire weather watches taking Effect Tomorrow for all areas shaded in yellow on the map lasting into friday morning. Robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on the traffic which is improving in some spots, especially on 92, we started off of much heavy traffic to the peninsula. And now its spinning out so look at that 13 minutes to make it from hayward off to one oh one here at the bay bridge you will definitely be dealing with the back of heading into San Francisco, nothing active right now on the bay bridge. This is typical commute slowing. Its billed back to the bottom of so were averaging 13 minutes highway for a little busy its not too bad just off and on as you leave pittsburg bay point rolling into conquered, so wes for slow off and on from san marco to the 6. 80 split and then also merging on to 2. 42 in south 6 ad has really Pleasant Hill and conquered as well and just a really quick peak at the east shore freeway trouble free. But were up to 17 minutes now for 80 west from crockett down to the maze back to you. In the buzz, one of the most famous athletes in the world has covid christiane overnight, although tested positive today. He has no symptoms but this triggers fears because he played sunday against france. He cant play tomorrow for portugal. No new positive tests in todays means the titans get to play football. It would take more than that for me to feel comfortable going to tennessee to play a team that had 24 people infected maskup bills. The game was so good last night mightve made you forget about the pandemic it was a wild battle between the chargers and the saints with drew brees waging a 17 point comeback to win the game in overtime entertaining if thats cup of your your cup of tea. The great drew brees i prefer catherine the great im totally hooked on hulus the great. A brutal and raunchy satire billed as and occasionally true story about russias longest reigning female ruler, but dont look kids is are rated whats the next best thing to seeing a team you love in the running for the world series seeing 2 teams. You hate not getting their the cheat astros and the dreaded dodgers, both loss yesterday. The rays are up 2 to 0 now in the alcs and the braves. One the first one in the National League championship. One champion that everybody can celebrate. Joe morgan the bay area boyle became a baseball legend and by all accounts. One heck of a zeke midjune has more. Joe or so one of more influential people how many coming as a young black kid in the bay playing baseball 2 kids from oakland that made it to the big leagues. That is former oakland as pitcher in Major League Baseball hall of famer, dave stewart reflecting on the life and influence of his childhood baseball idol joe Morgan Stewart says he was in his early 20s when their lifelong friendship begin what i respect about him is that you know was a rookie in. If missed my phone call with you know was called back and giving back to the boys and girls club in his hometown of oakland. Theres also a major part of joe morgans legacy. Thank supporters. All of will be in so its a sad day for oakland, its certainly a sad day for baseball fans sideshow arguably is second baseman of all time not but as a humanitarian as someone who always came back to his community and never forgot where he was from. Joe morgan started his baseball career in 1962, he retired 28 years later he was ultimately inducted into the Major League Baseball hall of fame. The second baseman was a 2 time World Champion with his primary team, the Cincinnati Reds would suit up for both the oakland as at the San Francisco giants before his career and job or gun died sunday at the age of 77 Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Andrew morgan is the 4th hall of famer weve lost in less than 2 weeks. 2020, its the worst am i right. But lets focus on the best David Edelstein reports from cooperstown. Aoc a line tom seaver lou brock bob gibson. Whitey ford, joe morgan 6 Baseball Hall of famers who have passed away in 2020. The most ever in a single year at some point you go through. Sadness and you go through grief. Then you you know even our own personal lives for those we lose close to us than you. You kind of get back to the celebration a little bit of the storied career hall of fame president in need says its the halls job to be that place where fans can come together to both mourn and celebrate the lives of the players. Special reads placed on their plaques to mark their memory when you see it when it happens. You know its out of the ordinary you know its Something Different and you know that means its its. Its a formality we are the heartbeat of baseball. We are the spiritual home of our National Pastime in in that we are here to celebrate their legacies vp of education john just the cost the says the hall keeps players stories alive through artifacts spread throughout the museum. Items that were there with the hall of famers now on display. Thats where we have the great opportunity to expand on the legacies of these individuals explain where they fit into the history of the game remembering them as great Baseball Players and great people. Legends of the past and inspiration woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. Palo alto a massage therapist is charged with assault 27 yearold albert l eldar worked at the spine and therapy Chiropractic Center on ash street. And thats where a woman says that he sexually assaulted her he is being held at the Santa Clara County main jail. Well Armed Robbery in the east bay has surveillance their shows in Surveillance Video 2 men, stealing a catalytic converter in alameda now this happened friday was near the intersection of and son all avenue and court street. The cars owner actually stumbled upon them in the middle of this theft and when he said what are you doing. One of the men pulled out a gun and held the owner at bay until they made off with the catalytic converter that gun was never fired. In San Mateo CountyElection Officials are starting to process mail in ballots. Coming up we will show you how quickly they taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. 29 1 catch the forecast today hear about when its going to get extra hot and dangerous even extra hot john yapp morning. Yeah guys not as hot that those winds if indeed making it dangerous fire danger going to be increasing in the days to come. Today, were not looking at the breezy us one so even though we are starting to warm up were not in the peak fire danger just yet looking outside of San Francisco. Its a beautiful morning weve been nice and clear all morning long and thats going to stay around today, nice calm winds right now but winds will start to pick up tonight. Daytime hours tomorrow going to come increasingly breezy conditions. But tomorrow night into thursday morning will be the highest of winds. Heres thursday morning on your future cast. You can see out his peak vacaville in calistoga 2030 even 40 mile per hour wind gusts that paired with dry humidity and hot temperatures means fire danger going to be especially high tomorrow thursday, even into early friday. Temperatures right now were in the 50s and 60s, nice and mild start you saw the clear skies and your center tower cam a second ago so as that s f o here get out there and enjoy your morning before daytime highs later today, do get quite warm back into the upper 80s and low 90s robin all right. Thank you john lets check in on some of our bridges which are very busy this morning without any major issues being active lets head over to the Richmond Sandra fell bridge. It started stocking up about 30 minutes ago and just traffic just came to a crawl. Without any activity on the span its starting to loosen up a little bit but we have a lot of stop and go traffic 5. 80 west from richmond parkway right through the tolls to mid span and then after that its going to pick up here the bay bridge a very sluggish trip into San Francisco. We have 2 earlier crashes. Both minor but the backup is lingering, its still stretching to the bottom of the maze so get out there early 12 to 15 minutes for your average drive time into San Francisco back to you. Well we are now just 21 days away from the november election that millions of votes have already been cast all across the country happening right now San Mateo CountyElection Officials are opening in processing mail in ballots and for an inside look at how its all working and news on how you could watch as well weve got kron fours will well. You can come down here they would love for you to see it for yourself with your own 2 eyes, but if you dont have the time we got your back in fact let me get you. The video right now lets get right to it this is Pretty Amazing everything is done by computer. The San Mateo CountyElections Officials they can start processing. The ballots are right now so they sorted into they get it from a cousin to a luggage right and then it goes into a computer thousands every minute goes through this so quickly but not too quickly where the computer can not pick up your signature and that is important because your signature needs to match the Voter Registration to confirm you are who you are then he goes through the machine takes a maybe a second from beginning to end then theres a worker on the other side. He grabs the balance he puts it into a box it then takes that box to another location where they will manually open up the ballot. They will keep. The on the lot just in case they need to come back at a later time to confirm annually if that is who you are but more than likely thats good to go especially with the technology. Theyre not going to release the results are start counting until the day of the election november, 3rd, then and only then will they release it at 08 00pm on tuesday night just so they dont contaminate any races because historically some people have thought wait a minute that raises a landslide. I dont need to go vote. It turns out he could be a very close election. So thats why theyre not going to do that that would mail in ballots. James and area being becoming so popular now there is no way that they can process it on the day of the election which is why theyre doing it now it is a very tedious process. My camerawoman yulia sevens will move. The camera to the right look at this just in case the workers need to be reminded. There are 7 steps that they need to do even before they start scanning the ballots. Look at that story its make they make sure that they do the best that they can the bottom line is you need to do the best that you can and that means vote back to you all right, thanks a lot dont forget to sign it. Yeah think you will all important. Well unauthorized and illegal ballot drop boxes have been spotted in southern california, the California Republican party admits the boxes are theirs and theyre pushing back against those who want those boxes removed kron fours dan kerman has more now on the controversy. Its not uncommon for a county to place official ballot dropoff boxes throughout its jurisdiction. Several counties in the bay area doing like these in San Mateo County but over the weekend state officials discovered an official drop boxes like these popping up in Orange County la county in Fresno County. Now californias Republican Party has said they own the boxes. An official of not to right ballot boxes are not permitted by state law and now the state has issued a cease and desist order giving the cal gop until thursday to remove them one of the questions or concerns that comes with an app to rise unofficial top boxes is ensuring that all about actually make it from that box to the county had a Late AfternoonNews Conference california secretary of state was joined by the attorney general urging the state gop to comply with the order. If they refuse to comply then of course you and to take over Legal Options to do whatever it takes to protect voters and the integrity of the selection. Well the head of the Fresno County gop says he plans to remove those 12 unofficial drop boxes. The head of the California Republican party says no dice. He says any unofficial boxes that the gop owns will stay put. He says hes not going to let the secretary of state suppress the vote and that ballot Harvest Program will continue. So it looks like we might have a legal fight on our hands. Dan kerman kron 4 news. If you have any problems with voting we would love to hear about it because we will investigate take if you experience a problem email us at voting problems at kron 4 dot com. Well President Trump is back on the campaign trail. He was in florida for his First Campaign rally on the road since being diagnosed with covid19 the president as you can see there stood before a crowd without wearing a mask claiming that hes now immune to covid19. I went through it now they say im im you i can see i feel so powerful rockets. Just i just think guys in the beautiful women every bout just give you big factor is. Now president also has on his schedule. Campaign events in pennsylvania this week along with iowa, North Carolina and wisconsin. Meantime democratic president ial nominee joe biden was in ohio at a far different. Event it was more somber and more distanced there are only about 50 people there as you can see biden was up behind a podium. He highlighted his role as Vice President during the Obama Administration talked about rescuing the u. S. Auto industry. After the 2008 financial collapse and he also stressed his economic message and criticized the trump administration. Check it out. First president can ever remember the number the National Economic crisis did not try to call the parties together. It turns back on you. I promise you i will never do that. Also in ohio Vice President mike pence he had a speech yesterday. He was supporting Law Enforcement talking about the administrations coronavirus response. And tax cuts. After a comfortable weekend temperatures continuing to climb today for inland areas that means upper 80s to even low 90s for daytime highs, not the wind is one just yet but with winds increasing later on this forecast fire danger will be increasing as well. And theres a lot of stop and go traffic on 80s. So if you have to travel into or through San Francisco using the bay bridge prepare for heavy traffic is crawling from the maze will check well in our local first story oakland mayor libby schaff unveiled new art and planter boxes is part of the latest oakland slow streets project. This is the latest installation by Community ArtistJonathan Brumfield and rich right there along plymouth street in oakland which has been shut down to traffic since the pandemic began and it was done as a way to create a space for people to walk and play safely while maintaining physical distance. 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 and yes so the oakland slow Streets Program started back in april and some Community Members say its been so successful they actually wanted to continue even after shelterinplace orders are lifted. Its a 41 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, how las vegas plans to bring back tourists it seems to have backfired instead its bringing in crime. Proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. The 44 the time right now want to check out the weather weve got big changes on the way ad john good morning, good morning guys, yeah, big changes from the weekend, especially we were so cool we even have some sprinkles now its back to fire danger in the coming days. And today we are already seeing that sign of warmth ahead of us, beautiful clear skies overhead not a cloud in the sky certainly no fog out there to as High Pressure builds back in. Weve got more of that in the forecast ahead of us and unfortunately along with our increasingly warm temperatures. An offshore wind is going to start kicking into gear starting tonight lasting over the next few days, were calm right now but look at future cast here by the time we work our way into wednesday morning youre noticing some pockets of stronger winds through the day wednesday. They become more widespread and by wednesday night into thursday, the strongest winds of this forecast thursday morning expecting winds gusting well into a range of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour for much of the north bay. This prompting along with some heat and some low humidity. Those stronger winds mean highest a fire danger on those days, yellow areas on the map here peach areas indicating those areas that will be affected by fire weather watches starting tomorrow likely to become warnings this includes upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains on over into the east bay Higher Elevations of portions of contra costa and alameda counties then across the north bay in our upper elevations where we could see some loss of power a fire officials well be keeping a very close eye on the strong winds in these areas all us a county in addition to that lit up with fire weather watches all starting tomorrow lasting through friday. As these will not just be our hottest of days. Also windiest of days to now as for today temperatures are warming up not going to be as hot as where we will be though a tease for many neighborhoods in San Francisco as well as Half Moon Bay very close to the coastline. Temperatures along the bay side mostly back into the 80s with saying 88 powell to 87 Mountain View southward back into the low 90s, san jose youll be a 92 today, east bay daytime highs, mostly staying in the 80s but we do have a few 90s mixed in like in pleasanton in san ramon, 91 in 90 degrees. Oakland, a warm oneefor you at 84, but not as warm as the 90s that you have for you just around the corner that will be thursday into friday, our hottest days of this forecast with mid to upper 90s inland. And 90s right along the bay shore on the same days. Now as i mentioned our windiest of days will be wednesday night into thursday morning and then again into friday morning too after that temperatures cool down winds calm down so the weekend ahead does look better, but the next few days fire danger will be very high. Robin all right, thank you for the update john lets update the morning we have a good looking drive so far across the Golden Gate Bridge so coming into. San francisco from the north bay, its not going to be a problem wide 20 minutes here at the bay bridge. Its the complete opposite lots of slow traffic into San Francisco. Its been like this for the last 2 hours it started with some minor crashes just never recovered. Were just under 14 minutes off to fremont street the nimitz a new accident just popped up for hayward this to the north at 10 a son. It was already very sluggish in both directions there especially southbound southbound slows from 2. 38 san leandro in pockets through hayward and continuing out to union city in fremont and for those of you hopping on bart this morning just getting word of a major bart delay out of oakland. Theyre having some equipment problems between macarthur and fruitvale in oakland, this is causing delays up to 30 minutes right now on berryessa line heading to dublin pleasanton and berryessa so service has stopped on barred between macarthur and fruitvale in oakland well stay on top of it and have more details coming up in just a bit back to you. All right, thank you very much robin will a lot of Las Vegas Hotels are offering rooms in some cases for as little as 20 a night trying to entice people to come back but as Vanessa Murphy shows us its not necessarily attracting the kind of people they were hoping for. We are seeing an increase in crime or the presence of crime or perception of crime or las vegas boulevard to europe to strip. But i think part of that might be lowering the raise. Tied because were going to showing up were more interested creating chaos versus entertaining themselves are enjoying themselves. That was Sheriff Joe Lombardo talking to 8 news now on august 26 metro police say that month they started seeing a spike in Violent Crime on the Las Vegas Strip and downtown. Fast forward to october shootings and fights continue. So the i team checked the room rates for both the middle of the week and the weekend. On october 9th. We checked expedia dot com. Heres what we found combining the room rate plus taxes and fees to say this wednesday downtown at the golden gate, a total of 50 bucks even cheaper than a hostel which costs 56 tonight and on the strip the excalibur 73 a night, the strat 74 circus circus, 75. Checking the weekend to stay friday night. The super 8 downtown 64 on the strip travelodge by wyndham 77. Several others on or near the Las Vegas Strip also less than a 100. Governor steve says lack briefly addressed the spike in crime on september 29th. Las vegas is a safe place to come in i want to stress that all visitors are coming. 8. 49 right now the south bay theres a growing call for safety after an elderly man accidentally drove into a group of diners outdoors on sunday afternoon. They were eating out in the parking lot the Grand Central mall in san jose outside of a restaurant that had set up a tent and tables. 8 people were injured and 2 women are still in the hospital now one of them died just this morning. And it turns out that restaurant that had those table set up didnt have a permit to serve outdoors youre supposed to register with the city in which case they tell you to put protective barriers up and if those were there. It might have saved the diners. We ask even private entities to register and we do once they register work with them to provide same metal barricades think the specifically goes in parkland where were taking part of the parking area and blocking down on the 69 yearold Driver Police say had a medical emergency and accidentally stepped on the gas instead of the brake pedal. Again one of the women went to the hospital died this morning. In the east bay investigators are looking for a man who tried to sexually assault a 70 yearold woman she fought back. Kron 4 dan thorn has the story from oakland. While kicking and screaming this 7 yearold woman was able to stop this would be attacker from doing more harm the quiet neighborhood of Cleveland Heights get shaken up after a 70 yearold woman is attacked and is almost sexually assaulted police say an unidentified man first tried lording the woman with a 100 bill while she was gardening the woman refused and turned away, but the man then grabbed her from behind and pinned her to the ground never in my wildest dreams where i think that would happen here pretty shocking because this is a just really quiet peaceful neighborhood. Police say this happened in front of a home on prospect avenue just before 8 oclock friday morning. Despite her age the victim was able to fight the suspect off forcing him to run toward can win road. She did the right thing she started screaming, she started fighting, fighting him off she is able to get away good for her kind of tight enough like i dont know if i could do that and id like to have that age the victims neighbors were impressed by her self defense but with the man still on the loose awareness is high. I think people need to Pay Attention a little more perhaps rattled by what happened the woman did not want to be interviewed about the attack and were asking anyone in the neighborhood or the community who may have information about this individual we certainly want to hear from you. Crime stoppers is right now offering up to 7500 for information leading up to an arrest in this case. Police are also encouraging other possible victims to come forward, reporting in oakland, dan thorn kron 4 news. Coming up on the kron 4 morning news. Were going to have more headlines for you and of course more updates on weather and traffic beautiful looking shot here from our embarcadero camera in San Francisco will be right back. Welcome back 8. 55 lets get a look outside and you can see all the sunshine that weve got even towards the coast iran right here all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. Nice and clear as you are venturing outside hopefully do enjoy in mourning. Before daytime highs actually get quite warm Mountain View, san jose and napa all back up into the low 90s, lots of upper 80s for inland valleys, even low to mid 80s right along the bay shore as for coastal areas, some of our nicest of conditions in the upper 60s to low 70s for most of the coast today, increasingly windy evening tonight, setting us up for hotter and windier conditions for the rest of the week. James. All right john thank you time now is 8. 56 coming up on the kron 4 morning news high fire danger across the bay area could force pg need to shut down the power for safety reasons proper Sarah Stinson well have a live report for us on what you need to know and some private schools in the east bay are reopening classes. This morning were going to have a look at the Safety Measures they put in place to protect students. Lets talk about floors. Floors for toddlers. Floors for toys. Floors for stories. Floors for screams. Book now and have yours installed by the holidays. Youre watching morning news at 09 00am. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a tuesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher we want to begin the hour as we like to do with checks. The weather and traffic. So lets head off to what i think john first morning john good morning guys and it has actually been a nice morning as far as weather goes so far ahead of what may be isnt the most ideal rest of the weeks forecast, lots of sunshine above San Francisco, currendly and calm winds currently too. Its the winds that are picking up in addition to the increasingly hot weather. That have so many of us concerned now winds will pick up tonight leading into tomorrow morning. You know some breezy conditions returning to the north bay. Tomorrow night into thursday morning will be the peak of our winds and thats when fire danger will be at its highest you see vacaville atlas peak calistoga among areas seeing winds regularly gusting into a 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour hour range from wednesday night into thursday morning, so back to the heightened fire danger and its going to last all the way through friday morning now as of right now were definitely dry but not super windy just yet. So a day to get outside and enjoy before the even hotter weather ahead of us