Skies out about it and healthier air return to the bay area. After weeks of smoke and ash and one horrible week that started last tuesday into wednesday. You obviously remember last wednesday a viewer around what a difference a comparison here from just one week ago when we had that dark orange, apocalyptic sky that just chill the bay area that of course on the left today just the opposite on the right Crystal Clear a dramatic visual of just how much the air quality has improved in a week and really in a day or so thank you for joining us tonight, im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis say yeah, everybodys has improved greatly theres a spring in your step, but although this healthier air is with us now. It could change again. So we have Team Coverage on bay area quality a conference dan kerman spoke to people who are obviously thrilled to be back outside. But first we want to get our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lars were saying enjoy it now because we could get more smoke in a few d
Expect still ahead. Robin. All right, thank you. John yes, well get to the fog in just a bit but we do have a trouble spot to talk about in oakland, its a car fire that slowing down traffic a little bit we actually have some video coming up from the citizens at the shows us exactly whats happening there check this out you can see fire crews have made it out to the scene and it looks like an xfinity van that was involved in an accident there and caught fire so emergency crews are still blocking this is right along hagan burger next to the nimitz freeway so this is not on the nimitz but its the offramp so theyre requesting Traffic Control theyre shutting down the hagan burger offramp to the south only as they deal with that accident and vehicle fire so its going to be a little slow you may want to dump off before or after hagan burger, if thats your normal exit. Now the northbound side the ramp is open. But its a visual distraction and we have some commute traffic there as well to north
Records about 50 to 60,000 cases a day. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman the nations leading Health Expert doctor Anthony Fauci says the country needs to get that number down though to about 10,000 cases a day by the fall in order to gain some type of control over this virus in california. There are also some signs of optimism from californias governor Gavin Newsome during his update today, he said the numbers are starting to move in the right direction when it comes to cases the number of people in the hospital and icu admissions. But he says though its still too early to know whether or not this trend will hold on fourthand kerman live for us tonight with details good evening. Dan. Good evening. Justine these new numbers that were seeing have to do with the last 14 days and while its positive and moving in the right direction. The governor says he needs to look at this over the next few weeks and see if californians are really getti
Cherry glen road. Now yesterday 24 hours ago there was no problem on the freeway but in the afternoon chp officers had to shut down both directions because of the fire and now that the sun is up. We can see why. I was here at around 6 oclock in the morning that landscape right in front of you that was fine the fire was along the ridge line but it kept moving. It charged the hillside, usually roads or i natural firebreak but because the fire was so intense, it actually jumped the freeway went on to the other side you can see its still smoldering and that ridge line that hill over there caught on fire. So for a while thousands of drivers were going down or through an fire and thats why they had to shut it down for everyone safety i did see in the overnight hours some fire trucks parked along the base of the hills just to keep a close eye on the situation right now as you can clearly see. Yes there are some trees that remain, but the dry vegetation has all. Been incinerated so theres noth
They said its unsafe because fire still threatens this community. And im live here at the Fire Department got some information for everybody theyre bracing for higher temperatures. Take a look at the terrain that theyre facing this is some video that i shot yesterday before leaving the area. I was reporting on sweet water springs road and you can see its very steep. The road is narrow. Its a single lane road and that cal fire truck basically takes up the entire lane and they are have been use monitoring the flames and putting them out and yesterday was pretty calm until about 00 03pm in the afternoon when they expected that wind to come in thats exactly what happened the fire began raging yet again cal fire crews say the flames were going hard for at least 3 hours until 6 at night when he started to calm down a little bit. The fire in this area near guerneville and west of healdsburg has burned more than 20,000 acres says a fire fighter here at the Fire Department, its still 0 containe