Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g
Fog. Also a smoke layer. From 66 downtown. 62 across the bay. 64 on the peninsula and south bay 64 in san jose. Lots of fog. Not totally clearing. Mid 50s in santa rosa. The air quality poor. Right now look at the worst air quality well up into the north bay. Going further north throughout the day and into your sunday we still have a spare the air alert. The pinks indicating the worst area quality. We will get into a wind shift for your sunday and into the week ahead and that means warmer weather with an off shore floe. A look at the rest of the day where we have 60s around the bay. Upper60s to upper70s by noontime. Another comfortable afternoon. Although the air quality will be poor and well talk about how the heat will impact the fires in the days ahead. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Hundreds of people took to the streets of oakland and san jose overnight to protest Police Brutality. The demonstrations part of a day of activism around the country on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther kin
Only 18 . Republican senators have released an outline of their federal relief package but it could be months before people suffering financially during this pandemic actually get help. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with the negotiations under way right now. Good morning, kumasi. After outlining the relief plan the Republicanled Senate must negotiate with the democraticled house on all of this and it could take weeks before they come up with a compromise on everything. The gops plan cuts the unemployment benefi down to 200. Democrats want to take the 600 payments and keep that going until next year. This is the starting place and well get, youll have plenty of storage to cover along the way as we have these discussions back and forth across party lines and with the administration. Senate republicans have presented us with a half hearted, half baked legislative proposal. The senates plan includes another round of 1,200 stimulus checks with more support for th entireelief package wo
Budget so we dont matter. Nightline starts right now with byron pitts. Families are selling their possessions, heading to food banks in droves. Last week more than 1. 2 million americans filing for unemployment, something needs to give, but for a divided congress, covid19 stimulus packages are a sore spot. Janai norman has the story. Reporter desiree didnt just lose one job, she lost three. A substitute teacher, she also worked as an actor and ran a Small Business doing Face Painting on the side. Ive had several people insultingly say well, youre supposed to have an emergency fund. Okay. I did. Orr he madthrgh into my on unemployment, in part helpe w federal aid. We have to pay electric, water, a mortgage, we have to pay that. Reporter i have to ask about the save the 600 sign in the back. This is both an emotional and mental and everything. Its anguish in writing, a cry for help. Reporter now, a week after that Emergency Assistance expired, lawmakers are still locked in a stalemate, d
We go to Arlington Virginia where women aided communities of newly freed slaves. A museum is dedicated to ensuring that the distinctive contributions of american women to our history and culture are written into our National Narrative. The National Womens museum has sought to achieve this goal for 20 years. We currently exist as a online museum, but our goal is to build a fiscal musing on our National Mall. In 2014, Congress Passed a bipartisan act to create a Congressional Commission to evaluate the feasibility of a National Womens History Museum here in washington d. C. A commission to study the potential creation of a National Womens History Museum and other purposes. We are half of the population. Wherever you stand on womens issues, i am sure there is a consensus in this house that half of the population should not go unmentioned in the textbooks of our country. But there is no museum in the country that shows the full scope of the history of the amazing, brilliant, courageous, in