During this smokey pandemic, grizzly peak has become one of the busiest spots around, now, complaints coming in. Noticeable improvement in the air quality, i will let you know if it will last through the waekd. The stress in the pandemic is halloween, under a pandemic. How parents are planning to tweak trick or treating plans. Abc7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Everybody needs to work together. Stop this very, very dangerous behavior that is threatening all of our safety. Tonight, theres major fire concerns in the east bay, respects who live in berkley and the Oakland Hills are saying that people are setting off illegal fireworks and lighting bonfires it comes as explosive wildfires rage across the state, dachblt. Its a tense time, and understandably, j. R. Stone is explaining what is being done to stop wreckless behavior. Its disappointing. Sappointi. He leaves near grizzly peak. It overlooks the bay. He is upset ab
The fireworks good off at strange hours. He said that the fireworks are not nearly as bad as over the summer. He is concerned as someone who lived through the oakland fire storm of 1991. Its hard to come up here and you see all the place is trashed by other people, and its unfortunate. Berkley police said that wreckless behaviors have been found on grizzly peak, including fireworks and bonfires, in a time we are dealing with extreme fire dangers and some we talked about questioned that, said theres higher than usual crowds due to pandemic closures and the wreckless behaviors are not here. Fourth of july passed away. Its going to be cold soon. Nobody is doing fireworks. Its a he say, she say thing. Reporter the city council spoke of the member, with one Council Member saying that she is planning to drive up to grizzly peak herself to make sure that officers are enforcing fireworks and bonfires. They have increased the patrols in the area. In berkley ha, j. R. Stone. A breath of less tox
The central bay and even into the south bay, it is green. Runiin inwindows, breathe in that clean air. It will be around for about three ts weekend well talk about that later. Lets bask in the glory of some marine layer fog this morning. Not smog, just fog. And today will be a little bit warmer because of the brighter sunshine. You may have noticed it yesterday afternoon. It was definitely warmer. And were starting off a little bit warmer in the 60s this morning, 60s and 70s for us at noon, 60s and even a few 80s or 90s possible inland by 4 00. Developing news we want to tell you about in san jose. Police are investigating a shooting that left two people dead and three others youred. It happened around 10 00 last near margaret. The shooting happened just a few blocks from san jose states campus. And were working to get more details. Well bring you new information as soon as it comes in. Happening today, we expect to hear from officials in the east bay about a agreeigrowing n regarding
Northwest. Sweeping in cooler, cleaner marine air. I should point out, its not going to last very long. That counterclockwise circulation will start bringing some northerly flow. Which means smoke from the fires to our north. Well start sweeping to the bay area over the weekend. Lets enjoy the clean air over the next few days. Ill have more a little later. Thank you. The governor gave an update on wildfires and covid19. Those fires have been the source of all the smoke have been clouding our skies. Stephanie sierra has the latest. On the wildfire front, there are some staggering totals that were released today. Yes. We report on these wildfires every day. It is pretty sobering to comprehend these as the big picture. There are more than two dozen anprarg ito getng across ere ar wiliresave scorched the state so far, forcing more than 38,000 people to be evacuated from their homes. Staggering statistics that the governor says underscores a sense of urgency to address climate change. We ne
Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p