It looks like into the weekend. This is the biggest fog bank in recent memory. A big surge on the low cloud deck. That tells you we are in a stratis cool pattern. 60s and 70s and 80s inland. Onshore breeze for just about everybody from the Golden Gate Bridge all the way out to the delta. Thats a big fog bank. Temperatures near average. It is 7 01 a. M. Are we okay out there . We had an earlier accident at ashby avenue. There was a crash in berkeley at ashby. We can see traffic will be slow here. A 30 minute delay about 10 minutes more than usual. The accident has been cleared. You can definitely tell it is causing a delay. People did not show up at the same rate. They were stuck behind the backup. As a result it is lighter. This might actually get a little bit busier as the morning wears on. We will see what happens in the next hour. Lets get back to the headlines. Lets get you updated on breaking news out of San Francisco. A power outage is affecting about 4000 customers in the lower
Livermore and particularly up here the north bay for today, well try about 84 by 1 oclock by 4 were going 89 is some locations reaching about 90 marty all right dave thanks a lot new this morning the Berkeley City Council has approved a plan to end Traffic Enforcement by Police Officers now this makes berkeley the first city in the country to make this change. Kron fours reyna harvey has the details. This historic proposal changes the way the city conducts Traffic Enforcement issues from armed police to an armed city workers now again one major question a lot of people have is how do they plan to enforce this when we reached out to city council were still waiting to hear back. Now again this is an attempt to curb racial profiling and reduce Law Enforcement encounters that can turn deadly, especially for africanamerican drivers. Berkeley City Council Approved the proposal overnight. This is going to create a new arm of the department of transportation that would handle traffic incidents
Looking at a life picture of the openest ware with San Francisco in the background and its a foggy day for many people to start. Although steve says its going to burn off later and well have sun and breezy conditions later on. By the way, the top floor of the eiffel tower has reopened for the First Time Since operation since closing in march due to the pandemic. A max of 250 people will be allowed to visit the top floor at one time. They will have to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines t. First two floors of the eiffel tower reopened late last month following the monuments longest closure in history. Some things are reopening and closing down. Lets join the crew here mike filling in for gasia, its claw dean how are you . Hi, how are you . Gosh i dont feel like im going anywhere any time soon but i love the eiffel tower and ive been there once. I would love the day when we can go back and try to plan a trip like that. A loft americans right now, were not allowed in europe
Right here in the bay area, there was 37,000 cases and nearly 670 deaths. New a new, the state superintendent of schools is urging districts to use an abundance of caution when it comes to reopening classrooms this coming fall. Superintendent Tony Thurmond held a virtual News Conference this morning on the efforts to support School Reopening decisions we talked about what the state is doing to help districts hold classes on campus. Thurmond is hoping School Districts do not rush to any Big Decisions on how to reopen. We know conditions have changed significantly. Those conditions warrant School Districts taking steps, i would say require an abundance of caution, to think through how reopening might take place, and to repair some contingency plans, if conditions persist. Just last month, the state department of education released 62 pages of guidance for districts on how to implement physical distancing and properly disinfect campuses. The sand for this Unified School District has annou
Absolutely spread into the community at large. Reporter out of the 8000 prisoners statewide, only a couple hundred are expected to be released here from san quentin. There is support for this, obviously as we just saw but what more can you tell us that the timing of the releases . Reporter we are hearing that 3500 prisoners are expected to be released by the end of this month and it will continue until august and possibly go into september. Thank you. California experienced its deadliest week of the pandemic yet averaging more than 80 deaths per day and that is the average. Nearly 7800 new confirmed cases yesterday and yesterday 140 new debts. The test Positivity Rate is up to 7. 4. Los angeles county remains a hotspot for the most new cases. Right now Oakland Unified School district officials are holding a Virtual Meeting to discuss plans for the start of the school year next month and the meeting is just getting underway and the first day of instruction is set for august 10 and distr