Cars back on its tracks. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus thank you for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight once again a dense layer of smoke from dozens of wildfires. They darken the skies around the bay area again today, this is a live look at the bay bridge. Those lights really illuminating just how smoky and hazy it is once again. Yeah well the orange glow from yesterday is mostly gone the poor air quality sure isnt. We kick off our kron 4 Team Coverage with the latest air quality checked around the bay from chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence yeah thats kind of the irony we dont have that orange glow today, theres less smoke in our atmosphere, but the smoke that youre next all the way down to the surface and the spore quality out there right now and you can see out toward sfo you see the lights out there you see the haze that smoke down below as a small continue just to flow around the bay area and it is bad in some p
Outdoors but its of course been challenging especially with the bad air quality now and these new restrictions loosening assign san franciscans are doing their part to slow the spread of covid19. Its unbelievable fritz clay owns hair play salon in the city and has been closed since march constantly like people hearing about yes other counties of all and so can make an and micah, you know. You know listen to the is not San Francisco yet we were there when clay was getting ready to reopen in june only to have held orders reversed after a spike in covid19 cases hair salons are allowed to operate outdoors but not for clay salon he says hes ready to get back to work a lot more on my smock so now i have socks city. A lot of a lot of hand mask mask mass thursday, the city released this statement detailing the additional reopening starting on monday september 14th allowing Indoor Personal Services with limited capacity that includes hair and nail salons gyms and Fitness Centers. It remains to
2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William
Mayeda. Snow showers, view close to where our storm ranger mobile Doppler Radar is located. Off to the northeast is rain, around the bay bridge toll plaza and treasure island, towards oakland, light to moderate rain. East bay, passing downtown san jose there. Mt. Hamilton, changing to purple and white. If you wake up tomorrow morning, look east to san jose, could see snow near mt. Hamilton, possibly near mt. Diablo. And lightning bolt is another component, slight chance of thunder which may involve hail. Would be another kind of White Christmas. More coming up in forecast in 15 minutes. Thank you rob, rob is great resource for keeping you in the know, everything you need to know about the weather, holiday week, robmayeda. East bay, lot of south bay, lot of families checking out holiday displays. It was cold and raining but mostly made most of it. Brings everybody together. San jose is a melting pot, awesome. It is. Christmas in the park is open every day and night rain or shine through
Noticed this trend a few years ago. They think its because schools now take the whole week off. More than 45 Million People are expected to drive to their destinations. But thats more likely to happen next week. Heres a live look at some of the traffic in the bay area. It really varies. On the left, interstate 680 in walnut creek looking okay. In the middle the skyway, thats already looking busy. Highway 101 on the right in san jose near the airport just a little slow heading in the airport direction, but not too bad. Traffic could get a bit dpi dicey if youre on your way to the mountains this weekend. Heavenly mountain resort, 2. 5 feet of snow have fallen since wednesday. Kirkwood is aiming to open on monday. We want to check in with spencer christian. Its not snow right now, but theres lots of snow on the ground. We have clear and calm conditions in the bay area right now. No flight delays at the bay areas three major airports. Philadelphia has 30minute delays and newark has 60minut