Looking outside this morning. There is some cloud cover that streaming through the bay theres the very top of the sales first hour about the only building that is rising above the foggy layer that is streaming on into the bay area visibility, although just fine for most areas right now will suffer at times this morning from livermore to the north bay visibility falling at times below a mile in this cloud cover and fog is going to stay with us for longer this morning. And it has the past few a deep in marine layer going to take longer to burn off under a tree towards the coast going to have a big impact on our afternoon temperatures, one of the reasons why today is so noticeably cooler in the days before it. Now air quality moderate across the board still in a spare the air alert we will have pockets of green indicating better conditions at times across the bay but not much change in air quality as compared to the past couple of days. Daytime highs today eventually only in the 80s right
News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. A covid19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison in marine county. We have 4 more inmates who died over the weekend, including convicted killer. Johnny avila junior, thank you for joining us said 9 oclock everybody Catherine Heenan will be here momentarily im grant lotus the cases are climbing at San Quentin State Prison with 94 new cases in just the past 2 weeks and right now 537 people on the prison have the virus. More than 1500 of them have recovered 19 of the inmates have died 10 of them or have been on death row. All of this according to the states online tracker of prison populations. The virus moving fast within the walls of the prison. It is not isolated to just inside kron fours michelle kingston explains there are more than 250 confirmed covid cases among Staff Members. Were told theyre all given an n 95 mask as they enter the prison and theyre being tested every 2 weeks she has said that she and the in his route. Just woken up a
Enclosure for our entire community. Reporter he was taken into custody after the articles read today as you heard the fencing shows that they plan to appeal his conviction. Oakland is working to keep federal officers out of it city following we can process it ended with violence. We have the damage estimates in the legal case. Reporter as you can see the courthouse behind me is still tied up this evening, the damage estimate is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but one city councilmember is making a push to make sure that neural agents do not comment oakland the way that they have oregon. As investigators with the Alameda County Sheriffs Office survey the estimated 200,000 in damage from saturdays demonstrations, oakland city Councilmember Dan collett was readying a plan to keep federal agents out. We will do whatever we can with the law to discourage dividend local troops essentially coming into our city. We need to protect the rights of residents to demonstrate peacefully. If
Today people will be gathering to remember those who were killed in the gilroy garlic festival mass shooting. It happened one year ago today. The event called rising together will honor victims and heroes, its being held exactly one year after a 19 yearold man used an Assault Rifle to fire into the festivals crowd. 3 people were killed including a 6 yearold boy 19 other people were injured before Gilroy Police officer shot the gunman. The fbis domestic terrorism investigation still ongoing. And well have a lot more details coming up in a live report coming up at 5. 30 this morning. Well to the south bay now woman caught on camera spewing racial slurs at a postal worker has gone viral. Take a listen. What im doing. Well the video was shared on social media and it shows a woman calling an Asian American worker a derogatory term and upsetting the off the customers inside Tyler Brumfield is a man heard off camera condemning the womans rant. A woman is also heard again cursing and repeating
Season. From january to may 10 of last year, we had 675 wildfires. From january until may 10. This year, we have had 1135 wildfires. What california continues to fight the viral pandemic, it must also be ready to fight wildfires while protecting the firefighters from the virus. This is being done by training and smaller groups with more spacing between firefighters. At real fires, base camp tents will be much farther apart to ensure distancing as well. Trying to do our best to suppress the spread. At the same time, we have to mitigate and suppress these fires. The priority . Use more people, aircraft, fire engines and equipment to knit fires in the bud. Initial attack is the key component to keeping fires small and keeping firefighters healthy. Pg e and other investor owned utilities in california will be wire to spend 5 billion on safety and wildfire mitigation. To a sure that happens, the governors increasing the state budget to launch a 106 person wildfire safety division. That divi