Professor thanks for being with us tonight just your basic reaction we all knew she was battling cancer, but it kind of caught everybody off guard tonight didnt it. Yes, i mean i think like so Many Americans i was shocked even though of course she was 87 and had had a lot of mental, i mean excuse me physical Health Issues when i when i heard the news like many people i got very teary eyed because it was shocking and we thought of her as kind of a rock and someone who even though shes been through a lot of physical adversity an emotional unversity her husband passed away had been someone who we thought and we would be here forever. The second woman on the United States Supreme Court made quite an impact more than many of the men over these many many years why do you think that is. I think she had this really extraordinary combination incredible forward thinking this with respect to the kind of race that she wanted to promote and that was especially the rights of people who are marginali
So hard for us model. A role model for all of us. She was our our beacon for womens rights. And while the political world wrestles with what this means for the november election americans are remembering the real life implant impact of Justice Ginsburg had on all of our lives. And at a time when businesses across the bay area are struggling program there in oakland steps up to a lot of businesses with a little release. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news on this saturday, September Martin gonzalez. Well have a lot more on all of those stories in just a moment, but we want to start with a check of the forecast from days foreign dave. After the Welcome Break of a couple of days, were back to a spare the air alert for the bay area. Yeah, good morning morning, good morning, everybody and its not total though, but it does cover good chunk of the bay area. We have some fog actually interesting enough, b
The Santa Cruz Mountains in the oakland area right the Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet or so the diablo range also looking at some very gusty winds there and that will be the case some of these gusts of 25 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour maybe the gusting higher than that in spots are going to see that especially over the top of the mountains very very gusty winds right latest on the computer models you can see youve got a little bit of a breeze out there in fact a little bit of a sea breeze returned today but not for long all of a sudden we get that offshore wind look at the colors rolling in the bay area and these are down the urban areas got 2030 mile an hour winds down a place like Petaluma Santa Rosa also calistoga sonoma up on the mountain tops. It will be a lot more gusting than that of course we are primed with fire with treasure record breaking heat, so certainly some dangerous weather ahead as fire danger is going to be running extremely high. Thank you or some other big element t
Include one dog there are only three. So we are supporting those survivors with Mental Health care and spiritual care. Reporter there are also going door to door offering tips on devicing escape plans. Pointing out possible traps and checking for smoke detectors. Neighbor mychal edwards who called 911 this morning says what happened to tabatha in a split second could happen to anyone. Its really makes you think about things, and, you know, how fragile life is and how quickly it could be taken away and how decisions can really affect whether you live or die in case like this. Reporter yes, indeed it can. Now the dog that did survive is being helped by read paws. They are the animal advocates who work witness red cross. Now fire investigators as you see theres nothing but tarp left behind there. Thats covering holes where the fire just simi burned through. And theres not much left to the house either. The cars on either side fire investigators are working to figure out the cause of this
Collision, so it started out with a solo vehicle spinout crash, that person got out of the vehicle and was hit and it turned into a multicar pileup. Thats what it sounds like from chp reports right now. We have a crew on the way to the scene so hopefully well have a better estimate. In the meantime, you can take 13 to 24 to get around that. Crash reported westbound 80. Havent spotted it on this camera yet but well have an update. Lets check in with mike nicco. Already a rough morning on the roads. Weve got a heavy cell just to the east as you get on to the san mateo bridge there. You can see it right in the hayward, around the industrial boulevard, also right around depot road and thats going to continue heading right into hayward and right up towards Castro Valley and that is one of the last downpours were going to have through the morning hours. Take a look at this. This is the way it looks on the eastern side of the san mateo bridge. You can see the rain coming down and the spray co