Plus, people in open continue to share their thoughts on what they want to see in their next police chief. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. And thanks for waking up with us aria and im james. 09 00am as the time and before we get all those stories. Lets take a look outside the suns yeah, in some spots and maybe a few layers there. John. Lets take a peek yet. Getting brighter and brighter as the moments go by. And so there are some burnout liars. Most notably San Francisco berkeley right now. But a lot of us are warming up and really cleared out by now, looking at the embarcadero, youve got the low gray overhead. Youre not driving through it. Youre just looking up at it. Still hanging out above you. Visibility has improved for the vast majority of the bay north bay in coastal areas. You are those stubborn holdouts 60s for most of our current temperatures. Even under that sunshine, brentwood, youre at 67 while alameda and oakland at 62 64
Theyve been attacking it from all angles, getting help from across the bay getting help from alameda. And yeah, just a difficult situation have to go through. But thankfully, crews have been able to have it contained and theyre expecting to work here throughout the night. Theyre hoping to be able to have it all under control by the end of the night. But they will be hanging out probably through the morning just to make sure that this fire is completely out. The fire chief right now says that they dont have a cause at this time, but they do not believe that it is suspicious. A fire investigators on tia is on scene here. The Hazardous Materials person is on scene here. Essentially what caused this fire . This is the explanation were getting right now is that it was a larger pile of scrap metal. That was laying there because of one of smiths larger shredder machines has not really been operational. So this large pile of combustible material has just been hanging out there for a while and
Scene seeing the amount of smoke just. Looming through the air here. Of course, we were able to get pretty close to the scene here, but it is private property. So weve been getting booted quite a few by security, but we try to get the best visual that what were looking at nets, what was that were looking at is a large pile of scrap metal that was on fire. Im sort of the smell that you could get from just being in. This immediate area, though, was mostly sort of like a plastic e sort of smell. That was what was able to be we know that air district inspectors are going to be looking into just how bad the air quality is here in this area. Of cours , people are being advised to close their windows and try to avoid being consuming any of this zeroed in on some specific communities, including alameda southern parts of oakland, san leandro, hayward and also possibly fremont has the evening here progresses. We caught up with a couple of people that were out here because it definitely drew peop
Sunday august 6th, 7 00 as we take this look outside. Sunny but easy in san jose ahead of what should be a hot sunday. The first sunday of the month. We thank you so much for setting it with us. Im kira klapper. We have a look at the microclimate forecast. You were up late last night. Waking up this morning. The views are beautiful this morning. Got clear skies around much of the bay area. There is a view of San Francisco, no fog at the moment. Into the south bay around fremont, 57 right now. Fremont festival of the arts, 10 00 to 6 00 today. 70s as things open up around 10 00 a. M. To look at the temperature trend in fremont, upper 80s as afternoon. Thats about 7 degrees warmer than the highs yesterday. The warming trend will play out across the bay area with 70s and 80s bayside b look at the inland temperatures. East bay area, south of san jose, as hot as 104 degrees in clearfield. We will talk about when changes are coming to the forecast at about 10 minutes. We begin with breaking
At a spa. We have the latest on the investigation and the action the Health Department is taking right now. Plus, a peninsula diner facing eviction after the owner was one day late paying rent. Hear from the owner whos fighting to keep his business open. And a Community Comes together after the city agrees to save the geese. Latest milestone in the battle to protect those birds. The news at 5 00 starts right now. Thanks for joining us. We begin with that breaking news, a richmond spa is under investigation for a potential outbreak of legionnaires disease linked to two deaths. Contra costa health says its closed zen day spa on san pablo avenue. The closure came after the deaths were reported separately to the agency. Investigators say both people had reportedly been at the spa just days before they started showing symptoms. A third person was also infected after using the spas jacuzzi in june but has since recovered. Health Officials Say they dont have any records showing the spa was ev