January 6th. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 8 oclock. Im Grant Lotus. Ken wayne will be here tonight at 9. And im catherine heenan. Pam moore has the night off. Here we go again with the Delta Variant on the rise. There is new concern about children going back to school to kind of depressing here. The start of the new School Year just around the corner and some parents and school officials are worried after the new Guidance Today from the cdc will get to that momentarily. First, though, Kron Fours Terisa Stasio reports so far it seems that schools are a go for the fall. From the East Bay. We understand and weve learned through the science to San Francisco. We as a district are completely confident to the south bay. We very much want to get back in the classroom and see our students superintendents and union representatives weighing in on returning. Back to the classroom and the Delta Variant gaining velocity in communities threatening to sicken
start times but they all last through the new year and the hope is that this will keep local hospitals from getting overrun with patients. we have team coverage of this breaking news this afternoon across the bay area we ll find out what it means for each county and we ll start now with kron four s dan kerman he joins. with all the important details good afternoon. dan. good afternoon just in we were expecting some sort of order from several of the counties that we didn t know it would be exactly what the state had proposed and we didn t know 5 counties would go in together let s take a look and we go to some video we can show you exactly again which counties this impacts and again we re talking about. alameda county contra costa county marine county, san francisco as well as santa clara county now what will be closed. the closures include hair salons and barbershops personal care services wineries and bars outdoor dining will be closed museums and zoos will be closed playg
severe lockett with the east bay alliance for a sustainable economy says the city has denied the public a chance to fully understand the report. he released a statement that reads in part what is most alarming is the e i r shows a failure to truly commit to addressing and undoing impacts of environmental racism against oakland communities. he does go on to say the e i r doesn t include critical details about plans to clean toxic waste from the site in order to allow for the safe construction of the expected 3,000 units of housing. he says without a clear plan, oakland families cannot trust they will be able to safely live near or on the site. now, a protest against the project is happening right now at oakland city hall. it s hosted by a local labor party against using public money for the stadium. a survey by a private group recently found the majority of people polled did not want their tax dollars spent on the new stadium. participants in the survey say they would rather h
4, the bay area s local news station. thanks so much for joining us on kron on news at noon. i m stephanie lynn, the bay area s biggest for 20 celebration is back in san francisco today. it was postponed for 2 years because of covid. the festival will have some new policies in place this year. kron on sarah stinson takes us inside the festivities. for 20 celebrations back in san francisco right here at hippie hill. thousands upon thousands of people are expected to show up on this wednesday, excited to celebrate after 2 years of this festival being canceled. celebration of of of the medicine is celebration of candidates running for the first time ever regulated intestine. marijuana products can be bought at the festival, be encouraged to. to purchase here because it s legal. clean test the product. and that s the main mean point of it is that, you know, we want to make sure that that that s offered to our patrons since there will be on site sales. the state will not anyone
thank you for joining us tonight for kron. 4 news at 8. i m catherine heenan and i m grant lotus. thank you for being with us. and we re going to begin with whether it is a friday night. we re hoping for a beautiful weekend and we re looking live at the walnut creek. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is with us now. lot of people getteng out of town, maybe staying in town but hoping to be outside. yeah, it s really going to start to heat up this weekend. of course, kind of keeping the temperatures down a little bit during the week. but now things are going to begin to change as high pressure takes over. still, that fog is moving in tonight. what a beautiful shot we have for you this evening. yes, some of the clouds begin to roll on by and looking outside. yeah, i think that going to making its way inside the bay. but a little thinner lair. and that means not going make its way all the way. the interior valleys overnight, just some patchy fog there. otherwise you can t