President said we were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us the most important of which has been a long considered to be the selection of. A United States Supreme Court justice. Meanwhile early this month President Trump released a list of potential nominees before heading to a rally tonight in North Carolina reporters pressed President Trump on whether a woman could be a front runner in his nomination to replace ginsburgs seat. I could see most likely it would be a woman yeah i think i could say that it would be a woman i if somebody would ask me now. I would say that a woman would be. In first place at the joyce of a woman i would say would certainly be. Appropriate. The president reiterating that statement during that rally tonight in North Carolina. Meanwhile, despite that move despite has announced that the president still has some folks who says he should slow down one of those republican senator Susan Collins of
Only a few short miles away we have some unhealthy stuff, especially for the inland east bay and or upper elevations on the peninsula. So some of our upper elevations up in the and closely because its bound to be changing a lot this morning as we do still look at some winds stirring up both smoke across the region as well as resulting in higher fire danger now it is not as windy as it was yesterday nor into the evening last night but still windy enough that we will have fire danger concerns all through the day because its still hot and we still do have some pretty low humidity. That means any potential spark could result in a fast growing wildfire specially for east bay upper elevations where winds will be the stronges and then across the north bay worse a lot of county still under red flag warning across the entire county. All the way through the evening tonight, so that is something you would be especially mindful of as you spend any time outside use extreme caution, 60s and 50s for
Winds now begin to relax in the north bay, not as windy as yesterday that means wildfire smoke from both the august and north complexes in northern called california. Still going make its way our direction but not near as much of it is yesterday still some pockets of pretty bad air both in the east bay and in upper elevations on the peninsula and still under red flag warning for most of the east bay as well as north bay all the way through 08 00pm tonight as low humidity, warm conditions and still breezy conditions exist as far as temperatures go were in the 50s annice mild cool start to the morning really hopefully get a chance to get out there and enjoy our cooler temperatures, im going to be talking more and more of that cooler weather ahead near forecast back to you. The breaking news tmorning, n in plumas imbue counties because of this. Fire. The mayor fly fire. Its not new. But it just they asked laird of overnight. It has already burned more than 8300 acres being struck off fiel
Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman the bay area has officially been under a stay at home order for 6 months and as the coronavirus continues to spread a new threat is approaching thats flu season. Now one barrett county is trying to get ahead of the illness and try to make it easier for everyone to get a flu shot rob fladeboe has details about the program in Santa Clara County joins us now live from san jose good afternoon rob. Good afternoon. Justine flu shots will be free here at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds this saturday and every saturday through mid december. A flu shot can help keep you out of the hospital and that in turn will help hospitals take care of the more serious covid19 infection. Lets take a closer look. Santa clara county board of supervisors president cindy chavez is now among the first recipients of a flu shot. Its part of a new effort to urge everyone to get vaccinated against flu season which is just around the corne
Difference in death rates between the 2 will shock you tonight, San Francisco has recorded 99 covid related deaths while new york city has recorded close to 24,000 covid related deaths. Earlier this evening. I talked with doctor bob wachter chair of the department of medicine over at ucs us who says the 2 main reasons for our lower numbers is good leadership and good citizenship. Doctor wachter says people have been diligent about Wearing Masks for the most part he also says that shutting down the city as early as we did prevented our Hospital System from becoming has overwhelmed as new yorks was. But it is important to remember that its not this is not the time to become complacent and let your guard down doctor wachter says despite the lower numbers in San Francisco, we could still see a spike. So theres nothing about the virus that has changed from march to now it is every bit as capable of causing infections, your chances of dying if you get the virus is a little bit lower now than