The bay itself and fire danger has increased due to that especially across the north bay and for inland east bay areas, were winds overnight have been gusting consistently on up to a range of 45 Miles Per Hour at times winds this morning in calistoga snowman vacaville have regularly beget been gusting into that 30 mile per hour range. Fairfield in danville also quite on the breezy side so these are windiest of areas as of right now as we work our way through the day youll continue to see strong winds on through the morning, a bit of a calmer afternoon and then wind speeds picking back up again into evening hours tonight with the vacaville atlas peak calistoga in sonoma. All seeing yet another breezy evening from thursday night into friday morning friday midday winds begin to back off and after that we are in for a much less higher fire risk weekend. And still a toasty one but not as high of that fire danger for sure. Now right now temperatures are mostly in the 60s to 70s, although a couple of exceptions on the board fairfield at 78 right now livermore 80 degrees say alina 81 some of our wind your spots right now there are actually some of our warmer areas to as for the afternoon today, San Francisco gets up close to 90 degrees oakland in the low 90s while san jose in the mid 90s today, temperatures running well above average for this time of year. And another toasty one expected tomorrow too. Im breaking down the high fire danger and the heat all still to come. Back to you robin all right, thank you for that update lets update your morning commute. Yes. Were checking in on the bridges and so far they are hot spot free no problems, no crashes no stalls no trouble spots. Its going to be a quick and easy commute into San Francisco or at least for now. No problems on the oakland side, no problems in downtown San Francisco so come on in its under 10 minutes for your drive time. Lets check some more bridges shelley what about 92, this is your trip across the san mateo bridge. So far if if you have to leave the peninsula and head over to the east bay were fine on east 92. I dont see any big problems westbound thats the commute direction which is on the right. Its this year, but its not bad, its going to get heavier as we continue through the hour but no big problems right now into and out of hayward so thats good and we have one more we have the golden gate there it is a live look at your drive across the span northbound and southbound traffic doing just fine so no problems for one oh one across the golden gate. Well check in on more purchase coming up a little bit later. Well happening now more than 24,000 bay area pg customers are without power. Pg initiated a Public Safety power shutoff last night because of high winds and extremely dry conditions weve been warning you about that. Heres a map of the current outages check it out you see those little purple triangles that represents the area said currently have no power. Now its all mainly in the north bay in sonoma and napa counties as we zoom in for you move the map around the shut offs are expected to last until friday morning. Well keep in mind that now is just the perfect time to prepare in advance, so you want to make sure you have at least one gallon of water per person per day nonperishable food thats easy to prepare make sure you have flashlights and extra batteries. He also want to make sure you have your phone charged a portable phone charged with you just in case you have to go and make sure you gather all of your Important Documents to and if you have a generator. You should start practicing using it right now before those outages actually happened. Theres also a power alert that starting this afternoon at 3 thats going to last until 10 00pm make sure you turn down your air condition and try not to use major appliances that definitely help a lot. Santa cruz mountains are among the regions most at risk of wildfires. This morning homes in those areas are without power people actually along summit road. They started stocking up yesterday on ice and groceries just to prepare. The power shut down is to guard against fire sparked by downed lines in the heavily forested region. But some residents are hesitant about pg nice Fire Prevention strategy. I would like for them actually fix the issues that they have as opposed to just shutting things down quadrant by quadrant. Relatively small inconvenience. Perk up now for a day or something i sure want more fires appear. One store owner actually bought a generator to prepare for the outages and of course is to prevent losing thousands of dollars and spoiled food while the powers off the grid. Well to the the saint Lima Catholic Church is serving as a Community Resource center while the powers out this morning. They have charging stations snacks water and wi fi for those in need. So right now the powers off for thousands of pg e customers all across napa county. And yesterday people were seen filling up gas tanks to prepare that smart the shut offs come after the glass fire of course burn in saint helena employees in downtown saint helene or a feeling the impact at work and at home. Is just costing us action not only business when the business goes down. And then you go home in the refrigerator is down in the electricity and it sounds like youre complaining, but you not complaining, its just that we need some relief and we need some kind of Money Monetary compensation for all this outage going on. Or for those without generators or who already lost power there are other Resource Centers that are open for you like the saint helene the Catholic Church thats an option for you too. If you like to find more information just head over to our website. We have a lot listed for you at kron 4 dot com. The case against Scott Peterson will head back to a San Mateo County superior court room. This decision was made by the California Supreme Court petersons legal team has been fighting for a new trial after claims of juror misconduct in his murder trial. Court records show the juror in question failed to disclose her involvement in another legal proceeding during the Selection Process peterson was convicted back in 2004 for the murder of his wife lacey who was pregnant at the time the couple sun. Well new coronavirus cases seem to be on a downward trend in california and right here in the bay area counties continue moving into less restrictive tears, so alameda and santa clara counties moved into the moderate here which is labeled orange right there on your screen on the map. The orange here allows more businesses to open up their you know operate with safety precautions and modifications these 2 counties join San Francisco in the moderate here send the tail contra costa solano napa and run county are still in the substantial tier which is label as red on the map there on your screen keep in mind that Sonoma County has stated the most restrictive purple tier. Indoor dining is back in the south bay restaurant in Santa Clara County are allowed to see people inside. And 25 of normal capacity at a pricey restaurant and bar in san joses willow glen neighborhood customers receded inside yesterday having a good time for the first time in months this restaurant in many others like it have taken the necessary covid19 precautions to keep customers safe. But county officials still consider Indoor Dining are risks. It will be out there. With our Enforcement Teams ensuring that there is compliance with that local requirement and with the local directives. So now that we know that we could have people inside. Were really just kind of going to take this week to shuffle things around and see like how many more people we could fit within that 25 . Also while keeping people distance. Well, a number of restaurants in Santa Clara County are choosing to stay close keep those doors close and just go ahead and stick with take out an outdoor dining. County also moved up to the orange tier but restaurants will have to wait about 2 more weeks in order to resume Indoor Dining. Likely be way too hot today but kids can once again go to playgrounds in San Francisco, its been a while the city has been in the orange tier of the covid19 reopening tear system for about 2 weeks now that made it possible for the city to reopen more than 180 of its public playgrounds. Mayor london breed says its a good sign. It gives us hope that. The time that we spent in isolation the time we you know doing what we needed to do during this pandemic we know that theres a light at the end of the tunnel. Well there are strict rules and guidelines that are in place, including the number of children using the playground equipment at once this its will be limited 30 minutes when others are present and everyone must wash their hands before and after their visit dont forget that eating and drinking is not allowed and adults are asked to avoid using their cell phones. So that they can closely supervise and monitor their kids while theyre out there playing. A backlog of unemployment claims in california wont be resolved until late january. Thats according to officials managing the Employment Development department. Now you may remember new claims for benefits are actually put on hold for about 2 weeks as the state updated its system. Well the group working to improve the states Employment DevelopmentDepartment Says the backlog of about 1 million claims should be cleared by january 27th 2021. But a state task force recently determined that edd operations were inefficient and must deal with fraud issues. One state official says that getting rid of those backlogs its just the beginning of a long list of department needs. For the department has rely on a single group of people. Colossal far highly specialized tasks to harm and process claims. Well we did the leaders say they will roll out a specific timeline on more targeted improvements within the coming weeks. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news Napa County Sheriffs Department have released body cam footage of a traffic stop that turned fatal. Well talk about what caused the sergeant to shoot and kill them and that he pulled and the controversy continues over these on official ballot boxes are all around california. Place by the states republican party. How Party Officials are responding to the states order to remove them. And before we go to break how about a little peek outside were checking in on the san mateo bridge is one of our busiest bridges right now the traffic is not bad just a little crowded leaving hayward and temperatures are miles in the 50s 60s right now were store for another warm day, well have details coming up in just a bit. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, the time now is for 14 good morning to you and thank you for staying with us. A beautiful shot as we overlook San Francisco, the bay the bay bridge, the lights twinkling there in the background of course weve been monitoring the weather critical fire weather conditions are expected today and into the weekend we have hot temperatures, gusty winds low humidity. As you know thats a very bad combination were talking about Power Outages as well. So we want to check in with meteorologist john trouble and get the details on exactly what we can expect today in the days ahead, hey there john hey robin what were seeing out there today is another day of high fire danger across the bay area and unfortunately thats something that is impacting a bunch of us. Especially in the north bay as youve noted where those Public Safety power shutoffs have gone into effect clear skies across the bay right now no fog. No marine layer is offshore winds have ensured that any of that is push well away from the coast. And we are in for another hot one today, especially noticeable warmup for bayside areas as these winds push out some of the inland heat right out along the bay. Look at some of these winds up in the north bay right now with areas like Vacaville Sonoma in calistoga checking in with that with winds gusting into a range of 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour danville in fairfield at 29 Miles Per Hour each. But the time we work our way into the afternoon today you do see winds relaxing temporarily for just a bit before climbing back again as we work our way into the evening. Tomorrow we can officially wave goodbye to the winds for at least a few days with much calmer conditions into the weekend. Were still in the midst of red flag warnings all through the day today and into tomorrow at 11 00am after which point those winds do come down. This includes the Santa Cruz Mountains the inland east bay. All of solano and napa counties as well as non coastal portions of sonoma and marin counties up in the north bay as for temperatures today, we will be seeing daytime highs in the 90s for areas that werent in the 90s yesterday, go Clint Hayward fremont and san jose solid 90s right there along the bay shore San Francisco getting close while redwood city at 94 today, Half Moon Bay 84 degrees. 90s across the north bay as we make our way across the bay area into the weekend daytime highs wont be quite as warm you do see these holding on for inland areas on saturday. But 80s returning for those bayside areas sunday will be even cooler yet still warm but not near as warm as we will be today or tomorrow with much calmer winds for the weekend too. And monday and tuesday of next week looking a little cooler. Robin thank goodness, were looking forward to the cooler weather. All right how about the traffic now we do not have any hot spots, its very quiet out there. Heres a live look at 80 westbound 80 heading into San Francisco, you know the bay bridge is one of the more popular bridge. A story in the morning drive it can be our heaviest. So if you have to get to work into or through San Francisco. Now is your time get on out there do it now i know its hard to roll out of bed early. We understand we do it to every morning but no problems here on the 10 minutes off to the fremont street exit off to 92. Its our busiest no surprise that always start stacking up for sun. Thats whats happening right now so we have more more brake lights here rolling out of hayward heading over to the peninsula. I dont see trouble spots, but you know its always just a good idea to get out there early if you can no trouble spots in a foster city or san matteo one oh one or 2. 80 so were off to a fantastic start lets keep it that way well check more traffic coming up a little bit later. Well we are 19 days away from the november, 3rd election. The California Republican party says it will not remove its unofficial drop boxes, republican staffers actually put up the boxes in 3 counties over the weekend. The secretary of state issued a cease and desist order calling on the party to remove them. Local attorney ernie and Party OfficialHarmeet Dhillon says that these ballot boxes are no different from the ballot harvesting done by democrats and she calls the democrats hypocrites some of the democrats are running for congress are right now running ballot collection centers. So the hypocrisy. This move by the democrats. Secretary of state and the democratic attorney general is truly shocking democrats i think electing ballots on a mass for point that republicans are doing it they dont like was going to happen were going to sit back and let the other side they want for next well the unofficial boxes were placed in orange fresno and los angeles counties which have competitive us house races. President trump is reaching out to voters in california he tweeted quote people are fleeing california tax is too high crime to high brownouts too many lockdowns to severe vote for trump. What the held you have to lose unquote. This is the president s second tweet directed the california just this week on monday. He said the state along with new york is quote going to help can i say that on air. Well the National News 2 long days of questioning are done in washington dc to confirm Supreme CourtJustice Nominee amy coney barrett, the Senate Judiciary committee will reconvene this morning to hear from outside witnesses, washington correspondent alexandra le mon has a recap and a look at some of those big questions. Senator Lindsey Graham says judge amy barrett is leading the way for conservative women in this is history being made folks. This is the first time in american history. That weve nominated a woman whos on a shame we pro life but utah senator mike lee says her personal prolife views dont predict judge parents judicial rulings here record on the 7th circuit. Actually shows that youre able to set aside your personal convictions still a Justice Barrett could be the final vote needed to overturn abortion rights and Health Care Laws those who support republican platform are going to keep their promise to in the Affordable Care act. They need that night Justice Barrett told senators that while she has spoken against rulings upholding the a in the past academic writings are different the judicial rulings did you ever. White her speak out in defense of the ac a no ive never had occasion to say the policy question democrats also question there about Voter Suppression when asked whether or not the president has any authority to unilaterally deny that right to vote for a person based on race or even gender. Are you saying you cant answer that question. Senator i just referenced the 14th and 15th amendments that do prohibit discrimination on the basis of race in voting in washington, alexandra le mon. While in National News 2 long days of questioning are done in washington dc. We just read that part so actually well move on. During the exchange harris also acts barrett whether she would defer to science. If a case requires her to consider Scientific Evidence and barrett said that she would if the law requires will the final day of the hearing will begin at 9 this morning and washington dc and we will definitely keep you posted. Well coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news, the first lady confirm barron trump had coronavirus why one doctor says this is a reminder of how. Valuable it is to get affordable Testing Available to the public will have that story coming up in just a bit. Before we head to break we are checking in on conditions outside your door live look at the golden gate travel looks good here in both directions, no problems into or out of San Francisco well have details on your forecast in just a bit. Welcome back everyone thanks for staying with Us First Lady Melania Trump has confirmed that her son barron trump tested positive for the coronavirus the first letter on the white houses wep 5 where she said that while barron had initially tested negative. Subsequent tests revealed a positive diagnosis. First lady said the bear and did not exhibit any symptoms hes doing ok. She also said that both she and bear and have since tested negative. Pediatric Infectious Disease expert doctor Yvonne Maldonado says this is a great reminder of how valuable it is to get a lot of affordable Testing Available to the public. A contest people every day and more often even with the test its not great youre still going to get more people out of circulation who might be infecting others and if you have a great test, its really expensive and hard to get. Well doctor maldonado says that data shows of the more than 700,000 children that have tested positive for the virus. So far only about 5 to 15 have been hospitalized. On the kron 4 morning news covid19 has taken a toll on local tourism. But there were problems even before the pandemic how San Franciscos chamber of commerce believes the hospitality industry. Can make a turn around well have that story coming up in a bit little peek outside want to go outside sure why not lets take a trip over to the bay bridge toll plaza traffic remains next moving quite into San Francisco. And its clear across the upper deck, another hot day on top. Air quality is going to be an issue fire danger will be an issue well have details coming up in just a bit. Welcome back everyone the time now is for 28. It is thursday morning were getting very close to the weekend and just in case youre early you like to start planning early. Thats what we have meteorologist john trouble for hes standing by to let us know what we can expect today and the days there robin at least the weekend well be bringing us out of the highest fire danger which were obviously in the midst of right now it is going to be hot and windy yet again today for those of you that are venturing outside. Looking out there it is a beautiful view from our sutro tower cam not a cloud in the sky and certainly no fog either as offshore winds are keeping any marine layer well out of the region red indicating red flag warnings in high fire danger for a lot of the bay area yet again today and many of our north bay neighbors out of power as this is sparked fire weather concerns for many regions with the strongest of winds, Vacaville Sonoma calistoga winds regularly gusting into a 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour range right now also quite breezy down into the inland the east bay too winds remain through the morning calm down briefly into the afternoon and then pick back up tonight before midday tomorrow we do see conditions coming down and that does set us up for a much more favorable weekend for anything that you may be to do outside 60s and 70s for most of your current temperatures a few spots being outliers like say only fairfield and livermore in the upper 70s to low 80s right now certainly a mild start in a windy start to what will be a warm afternoon, san jose in the mid 90s today, oakland in the low 90s. Well, San Francisco in the upper 80s. More on your forecast is still ahead back to you robin all right, thank you sir, lets check in on the traffic were off to a fantastic start i have not. Spotted any major issues, no major hot spots working right now the trip it from oakland to San Francisco is wide open and trouble free at the bay bridge toll plaza, its picking up im noticing more folks coming in right now, but no big problems so easy going all the way through downtown San Francisco. Lets head over to 92 were tracking a drive 17 bridge and yachts busier only takes like 5. 10 minutes to see a huge difference in traffic more folks packing up rolling over to foster city and san mateo but no big problems even if youre going beyond one oh one, 2. 80 is looking good no problems along the peninsula so were off to