Thats like churches across the bay area united in San Francisco on sunday as much as the closure of churches and places of hundreds join the procession making stops at several churches in city hall were here because we need to we need to worship this is a part the summer tina says a member at Saint Anthonys in San Franciscos Mission District plan here to show my support to the church that many of these churches are holding mass a resume like the internet demonstrators say its important for them to be packed inside the church its morning hard for me than we can do the rules and theres so we will need when he over the single with having mass outside we need the 3 the mass walk into that saint marys cathedral where multiple masses took place outdoors in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Now to our coronavirus coverage as the United States is inching closer to nearly 200,000 covid19 deaths, heres a look now at the latest numbers worldwide there are nearly 31 million cases, the Unit
The air quality has been so bad that San Francisco closed a number of services today. The Citys Department of Emergency Management closed down some coronavirus testing sites. The National Park service is shutdown alcatraz, fort point today. We are activating whether these centers for people who need access to weather relief. We will give you the Current Conditions on what to expect this weekend. First we take it to ktvus ann rubin with how people are handling the Health Effects with all of the smoke in the air. People are doing their best to stay indoors. Doctors say they are already seeing the impacts of all of this bad air. Day after day of awful air quality is starting to take its toll. I have had like three migraines this week. Carbon health, which runs care clinics around the bay area has seen an influx in complaints and not just for people with asthma or emphysema. What you miss is that there is a higher risk of things that are sinus related as well. The irritation of the air par
Parked across the bay area. We are entering week five of this unhealthy air. Lets get right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. What are you seeing, jeff . We are seeing some improvements here as we head through the next 24 and 48hour timeline, but its going to be a little bit slow going. We are still in the unhealthy range here for much of the bay area with that smoke and that haze staying pretty constant. But we have started to notice a key change as of the past several hours, and thats a look at these smoke plumes. You can see how the smoke plumes today were moving more off to the north and the east from the fire near fresno and also those two large fires to the away, an this storm system developing off the coastline. This is a real slow mover. Its going to take its time getting here, but as that surface cold front and the upper level low pressure system moves across, it will begin to change our air quality. Tomorrow morning we are still forecasting some unhealthy air, but in the c
Maybe getting confused with those current numbers. I mean look where were heading this afternoon only the 70s. Ill talk more about that still to come back to you darya thanks john lets get back to the big story which is in the east bay, the city of martinez has decided to pave over. The black lives matter mural that is in front of the citys courthouse, it has attracted a lot of local and National Attention since it first was painted in july all along it was supposed to be temporary kron fours reyna harvey is live with the plan right now. We are you good so the city is going to pan over next month, this is a part of the citywide plan that they have here for their streets now like you mentioned lot of folks have been talking about it that people tell me they were happy it was here and some other people tell me not so much theyre ready to see it gone so the city is going to be removing it next month when this all started it was put up in july you might remember a local group of black live
Air especially with the air quality. Yes, its nice to at least see something in the forecast that shows we will be improving. Lets talk about air quality still unhealthy so still limit your time outside as these numbers have been well over 100 and weve also seen just a very light wind this morning not really helping mix out the smoke. Well talk about whats ahead in the forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, well show you with some live looks, the bay bridge toll plaza, for example, was just fine right now, an easy drive. A light volume heading over from berkeley down the east shore freeway. You get here with no problems. It is tuesday. We will see more traffic than yesterday. Getting from here down to the san mateo bridge well take a look. Things are moving smoothly on 92 as well. In between we have that construction crew on the nimitz so the southbound side still slow down to one lane, i believe, overnight for the next hour. Back to you. Thanks so much, mi