Service to the country, justice today. Ruth Bader Ginsburg became and north bay temperatures iconic not just because she was tomorrow you can see how things on the Supreme Court, but because of her work as a civil are cooling off. So the long range forecast is rights attorney championing womens rights and those of very interesting in terms of other marginalized communities. Extremes. Here is the bad news. People who gathered at this vigil say its a moment to put it will bring a lot of much aside politics. Needed rain across washington i dont want it to be about and oregon. Other sides. May bring some showers. This is about humanity. This is about justice. On the northwest coast, i dont this is about all of us having think it will get quite to the county. But you will see at least a rights, and that is what the chance of some light rain. Notorious rbg stood for. What builds in behind the system reporter this event in oakland is not just an effort to as things look right now is a bring p
Strong winds could spread the flames from the glass fire and spark even more destruction. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock im Justine Waldman the bay area is getting smacked with smoke intense heat, a red flag warning and a flex alert. This all happening on the first day of october what a of a day and october is usually are most intense months for fire. So lets get to it now as we start now with a look at our forecast Rebecca Strom us here now with a closer look at the wind speeds and the triple digit temperatures good afternoon. Rebecca. Afternoon justine yeah were actually under a heat advisory across the bay area as well because the temperatures are so hot were seeing anywhere from a 15 to 25 degree difference force what we normally see at this time for the year. And you can see outside right now this or live shot overlooking and the east bay in berkeley right now and very hazy very smoky that were seeing around the entire bay area and yes talking abo
To start off this workweek 50s and 60s for current temperatures, a nice cool start to what will be a pretty pleasant finish to the day. Ill tell you more about that. Still ahead michelle. Robin time to pack up roll out to head to work and hit the roads and freeways were checking in on the bridges which are getting a little kids busy depending on where youre heading this morning. Like if you take 92 and you need to make that trip from the east bay over to the peninsula we already have some crowding here on the san mateo bridge. No problems its just off to a sluggish start as usual that actually started an hour ago, and its still busy to the peninsula. Were checking in on the bay bridge were hot spot free into San Francisco, no delays or issues across the upper deck right through downtown San Francisco. So under 10 minutes for your drive and they were just speaking at some drive times around the bay area they all look good rain the green for highway for west through contra costa county,
California has performed more than 13 million coronavirus tests. The sevenday and 14day average test Positivity Rate are both 3. 6 . Thats the lowest in a very long time. Optimism is warranted in the bay area. This graph shows the number of cases every day. The yellow line is on the declin good evening. Thank you for joining us. Coronavirus impacts every bay area county but in different ways. In the south bay, private Health Care Providers are being threatened with fines if they dont make coronavirus testing more accessible. Chris has that story now from san jose. With Santa Clara County in the red tier as part of the color code framework for reopening the economy, experts say any improvement theres largely depend on the expansion of covid19 testing throughout the region. It is really foundational to Community Wide safety and foundational to being able to reopen more and get people back to work and back to school. This afternoon, county leaders called on local Health Care Systems to do
Usually what happens james they get here they talked to the detectives get briefed and then come over to our location and then talk to us as soon as that person does will try to carry that live for you as it happens. But it was locked down for quite some time. But traffic is being allowed now this is on 7th and i can see cars moving in my direction and we can actually move the camera over here. This was not allowed james earlier in the morning. But now you can see traffic at least moving on 7th street back to you. All right so things are changing will. Thank you very much for the update. At 9 oh one lets get an update on the weather weve got john trouble in the Weather Center with a closer look at that jump. Air quality today pretty much the same as it was over the weekend with moderate conditions for portions of the north bay east bay in San Francisco. Good for the south bay, though if you head inland, do expect poor air quality out towards the Sierra Nevada as for temperatures today