So hard for us model. A role model for all of us. She was our our beacon for womens rights. And while the political world wrestles with what this means for the november election americans are remembering the real life implant impact of Justice Ginsburg had on all of our lives. And at a time when businesses across the bay area are struggling program there in oakland steps up to a lot of businesses with a little release. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news on this saturday, September Martin gonzalez. Well have a lot more on all of those stories in just a moment, but we want to start with a check of the forecast from days foreign dave. After the Welcome Break of a couple of days, were back to a spare the air alert for the bay area. Yeah, good morning morning, good morning, everybody and its not total though, but it does cover good chunk of the bay area. We have some fog actually interesting enough, b
Force here on the louisiana coast. The hurricane just making landfall just a little while ago so were starting to get and a portion of that northwestern corner of the eye wall which is filled with 8090 Miles Per Hour wind gust. So not a good situation for the lake charles area as you mentioned they just dealt with a category 4 hurricane not even 6 weeks ago, so this was a bad set up to begin with when he had that storm and now you have another hurricane coming on shore here and in virtually the same area impacting the same communities there are still tarps on roofs which i know will not withstand these winds there are large debris piles, thousands of them some not talking about a few brief hours here and there are thousands of debris piles still packed along the roads and all of these communities along the louisiana coast. Just not a good setup here luckily, a lot of those residents taken shelter or gotten out of harms wind is blowing this rain across the parking lot luckily, were prot
Reassurance from others in government they have not tested positive. Obviously, our first question was about mike pence, speaker pelosi. They are both negative as is the secretary of treasury. Secretary of state, the former Vice President joe biden, Kamala Harris all reporting negative results. But utah senator mike lee and the president of notre dame both who met with the new candidate, the new nominee for court, have tested positive. The other important update for you, chris, is the white house is now saying the president is experiencing minor symptoms. Thats very different than earlier reports that said he was asymptomatic. We will be watching for any change in the language the white house is using to describe the president. Youre seeing video of him in minnesota wednesday where he was accompanied by hope hicks, who was first reporting her own symptoms. Here is the president on fox news last night hours before he was diagnosed. You know, i spent a lot of time with so does the first
We have the dangerous heat, moderate risk of heat illness, everywhere but the coast. Youll be in the 70s and 80s. Red flag warning. High fire danger over the dolan and glass fires. New fires could spark. The winds are the issue through 6 00 tomorrow evening. Were waking up to unhealthy air. Its unhealthy for everybody in napa. Unhealthy for sensitive groups in oakland, livermore, fremont, redwood city and unhealthy for everybody in san jose and this morning. Its only going to get worse today. Heres a quick look at your planner. Its 65 degrees in San Francisco. Gives you an idea of how much hotter its going to be today. Record highs likely. Well talk more about that. Lets get back to kumasi for the latest. Thank you, mike. Governor newsom will be in the north bay seeing the glass fire firsthand. Its continuing to grow in napa and sonoma fires. Its burned close to 52,000 acres. Its only 2 contained. There are more evacuation orders with flames threatening more than 26,000 structures and
Wildfire assets grown overnight. Look at this. Right now fire crews are working around the clock holding containment lines in napa and sonoma counties but they are concerned about another round of red flag warnings. Cierra is with us and the latest on the firefighter. Reporter firefighters are a step closer to determining what caused the fire that has so far burned thousands of acres throughout sonoma county. Our crews have been cedar throughout the areas since the fire began and captured just how the fire impacted the town of cal stowing, a. Weve been in contact with those determining how it all started. Yesterday sources close to the Fire Investigation told nbc investigates they are focusing on electrical fencing at dancing bear ranch owned howell mountain. In terms of the firefighter cal fire said the blaze swelled to nearly 57,000 acres. Several homes and wineries destroyed and the evacuation is ongoing. Road closures are also making it tough for make working to keep those wineries