Thousands of families in sonoma are being told covid will keep students out of the classroom until the end of the new year, or until this new year. Summer actually pushing back. We have the frustration being felt by so many. Reporter following Public Health directives, Santa Rosa School board has voted unanimously to stick with distancelearning through december. That brought a boisterous response. No more zoom no more zoom reporter masks couldnt muffle their discontent. Dozens of parents, students and teachers mind santa rosas old Courthouse Square to say no to zoom school. We need to get these kids back in the classroom. What started off as a 2 to 3 week shutdown has turned into six months. These kids are really suffering. Reporter critics note Sonoma County has about a half million residents and 114 covid death. These families say in person instructioshybrid is a great wa start. You have half the kids go in monday, tuesday, sanitize wednesday and the other kids go in thursday, friday
We were kind of at our max. Reporter while the median price of a home in california is 706,000, in the bay area its 1,068,000. This time last year it was 900,000, and 18 increase. There has been a pentup demand for homes in the last several years. We have had a low supply of homes for sale. Reporter while some are leaving the bay area, able to work remotely during the pandemic, realtors say many people still want to live here. This is an area thats surrounded by hightech employers that are willing to pay a lot of money for you to work for them. Even if you want to live here. The weather here is wonderful. Reporter this Real Estate Broker sold the 759 square foot one bed, one bath house in san jose for over asking price, 1,055,000 with six offers. The new owner plans to tier it down and rebuilt. The broker says the biggest factor pushing up home sales is the historic low interest rates. And the two percentile, 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Whenever the cost of money is this low you find people being
So this is a challenging year. Its historic in terms magnitude skull. And it also has required us a deep reservoir of resource. California is experiencing a record wildfire season with more than 2 million acres already burned our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains how state leaders are bracing for the months ahead. With still months left in whats considered californias traditional fire season in the fire fight is far from over so far this year 2. 3 million acres burned for more than 7500 fires compared to 118,000 acres burned by this time last year its rather the challenge that we faced again so far this season, the governor said there are 900 active wildfires, 25 of the major including the second 3rd and 4th largest wildfires in the states modern history, 8 people have died in a more than 42,000 people have been forced from their homes while this record fire season. Rages on in september in the last few years some of the states most destructive fires happened in october an
Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
The east bay contra costa alameda all the way down santa clara and then that continues even into parts of a San Mateo County and then you get the spots in the orange here those are places that are under heat advisories even along the coastline, expecting some of those toasty temperatures now tomorrow. We begin the heat wave, but its not going to be the absolute heat were going to see the hottest temperatures i thing on sunday and monday still 77 degrees in San Francisco that will be well above the average up toward the beaches are going to find 60s 70s and lots of sunshine inside the bay, turning in the 70s and 80s in the burning game moving south you see 90s begin to pop up in the more 90s into the south even triple digits in the morgan hill and then youll find a lot of heat as you start to move inland. A 105 and limb or one of 4 in pleasanton a 104 in walnut creek, one 05 in concord you get the idea very hot weather all around the bay area this just the beginning of the heat wave. Th