Couple of hours. Well go ahead and get a look at the air quality. You can see as weve headed through today, as you look off toward the distance, you can see that smoke. It is cloudy. The sky has that orange haze in it, but its not necessarily in the very unhealthy air range right here in the bay area. So as you look at these live air quality monitoring sites, the only spot now thats tipped into the unhealthy category is napa. Otherwise its good in San Francisco, moderate for most of the bay area, and a few spots that are unhealthy for sensitive groups right now. So i want to talk more about the smoke and why were seeing it off towards the distance but were not necessarily smelling it as bad as it looks. And it all has to do with three different fires surrounding the bay area. We have one off to the north, the august complex, the one near fresno, the creek fire, and then the dolan fire off to the south. So with all of these fires, they are so large theyre creating whats called pyorcumul
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Today across the bay area we reached record breaking temperatures. So if you thought to yourself today, hey its hotter than ive ever felt before. Well youre probably right if you lived in any of these spots. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall it definitely was hot today, the bay area roasting this Labor Day Weekend has a record breaking heat wave. Now shatters records all across the area take a look at this alone, san jose hitting 103 this afternoon. The previous high for san jose. A 100 degrees. This was said all the way back in 1923 gilroy also recording a high today of 107 its previous high one 04 back in 1977 downtown oakland just 3 degrees shy of triple digits, reaching 97 degrees beating its previous record of 95 set back in 1979 and Half Moon Bay breaking their daily record with 81 degrees this afternoon their previous record 80 degrees set back in 2004. San franci
Alvarez said job one is simple, Police Presence in the station and the trains. I finally have the opportunity to use the Additional Police officers to put them out to our system and increase our presence. We know with presence we will be deterring and increase safety in our system. Reporter the agency is able to increase the presence with the 19 new officers hired in the past year. Alvarez says starting monday 12 will be assigned to right trains at various stations, especially at night and on weekends, to stem what has become an increasing problem. Unfortunately, 2019 we had 45 up tick in thefts of electronic devices. Reporter more than half of the Violent Crime on b. A. R. T is related to the theft of electronics. The biggest up tick was at balboa station. He is called a good filth. He is called a good fit. Someone from our b. A. R. T family. Reporter he says pairing officers with the ten unarmed volunteers who walk the trains, gives him 22 sets of eyes and ears to spot trouble, and t
And if the power is shut off we heard from pg e it would happen early wednesday morning. All of this is a fluid situation as they watch the weather. Pg and e is preparing for what could be the 10th Public Safety power shut off. The Company Warning it may cut power to parts of marin, sonoma, napa and Solano County as well as parts of the east bay including berkeley and lafayette. I am ready. I do have a generator. And i am all for it. Reporter pgae says the Emergency Operation center is keeping an eye on strong winds expected to start early wednesday morning and last through thursday morning. The company may turn off power to thousands of customers to reduce the risk of a wild fire. I mean i would like a definite answer, maybe. That would be nice to know for sure. I just drank the last of the spare water thinking we are in the clear and now i have to buy all that again. Reporter pg e says double check your emergency kit and splice and have a plan ready. We are still monitoring the weath
Dialed 911, that was critical to our investigation so if these incidents continue we are asking the public please stop immediately and call us. grant breakin g 360 the chp says one person in the mercedes and one student on the bus were hurt by broken glass. Again. No offical word on if these vehicles were hit with bullets. The Carmel Unified School district released a statement saying a replacement bus picked up the students and took them to san jose for tonights game. ken also breaking out of stockton. The chp says a van carrying ten teenagers crashed into a canal this afternoon killing two of them. Investigators are still trying to find out why the van ended in a canal. They say the van was carrying High School Students ages 13 to 17. Chp Officials Say the 17 year old driver did not have a license and many of the teens were not wearing seatbelts. The teens were taken to three different area hospitals some suffering from hypothermia from being in the water. ken in Salt Lake City the a