Daria through the weekend so definitely going to be a scorcher of the next few days. Today going to be even hotter than yesterday was just to put it in perspective for you weve already been pretty hot this week. You can see nice sunshine. The skies over berkeley little bit of fog towards the coastline. Temperatures are climbing right now san jose close to the 70s. Well livermore double in concord pittsburgh. Fairfield are spots already in the 70s and were only at 09 00am berkeley and oakland at 61 degrees now later on today, san jose pretty similar to yesterdays high of 88 degrees. Oakland at 77 San Francisco, one of your more comfortable areas. Its our inland valleys that are really heating up and ill tell you more about what to expect there still to come daria. Thanks a lot john lets get to the breaking news overnight 3 deputies were shot and a gunman killed in a shootout in Contra Costa County near brentwood. It happened it well in the evening, it was an 11 hour standoff with a gunm
No tasting rooms. All of them will shut down for at least three weeks. That decision is because of the countys rising covid19 cases and hospitalizations. County supervisors have plans to discuss ways to crack down on anyone now not following the rules. Forget making lunch this afternoon if you live in marin county. Just head to the fairgrounds instead. They are selling some tasty treats but you wont find any rides there. Nbc bay area Sharon Katsuda is there to show us whats going on. Reporter people are already lined up. This is where you pay for your fair food. And you can get all sorts of things including kettle corn, caramel apple, cotton candy. They are paying for it here, and just down thee making the food for you. The marin county fair says it wants people to get a taste of the fun despite the fair being canceled this year due to covid19. Ticket sales alone this fair usually brings in a million dollars. It goes right back into funding next years fair. At least its hoped the food
Release program kron fours dan kerman joins us now live from San Francisco and dan as we understand it as many as 8,000 current inmates could be released by the end of august is that true. Thats right that is 1000 before the end of august now up to now weve seen about 10,000 inmates, according to state officials released this would be another 8,000 added to it and it would happen in less than 2 months. Of the more than 2300 current state Prison Inmates that are positive with covid19 more than half are at san quentin with more than 30 inmate deaths statewide so far the governor has announced plans to speed up the Early Release program and thin out the prison population. Under a new plan 8,000 debates could be eligible for release by the end of august with 4800 of those eligible before the end of this month and prison Officials Say no members of that group are violent or serious offenders are prisons are only supposed to hold 89,000 people. And they hold upwards of a 110,019 1000 people
News at 6. Now at 6 with the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus and mounting pressure to protect california inmates from covid19 governor Gavin Newsome announces thousands of inmates could soon be freed from prison. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman now with covid19 racing through the state prison system. Governor newsom is taking additional action to slow the virus is spread by thinning out the prison population through an Early Release program kron fours dan kerman is live for us now and dan as we understand it has many of these inmates almost a 1000 of them could be released by the end of august. Thats right 8,000 by the end of august so far the prison population has already been reduced by about 10,000 add another to that and thats going to happen in less than 2 months. Of the more than 2300 current state Prison Inmates that are positive with covid19. More than half are at san quentin with more than 30 inmate deaths state
Of firefighters here responding to this fire. It seems as though they have it under control yet you could still smell a lot of the smoke that was moving through the area here right now on washington street between franklin and gough huge presence behind me here as you can see theyre still working on spring out any sort of hot spots that are in the area here. Water continues to out run down the street from one of the hillier parts of the city here in pacific firefighters have been sort of moving out of this area but as you can see from earlier before a lot of viewers have been sending us and video of a what broke out here i just a short while ago a lot of viewers giving us different perspectives of not only seeing the flames shooting up from a down below at the ground level but also a number of people that were also sharing some videos of the smoke. From buildings that were next from what we understand this a fire broke out in a garage area. Right now its not being reported that there w