Good morning, motorcycle and ik. Im laura garcia. Lets talk about the cooldown, kari. Its been so nice to have the cooler weather around the bay area but also the air quality the other issue at times. It is looking very hazy and its not all that healthy to breathe it in. Especially in the north bay were still seeing a lot of the unhealthy air quality in the air. For the rest of the bay area its been decreasing as well. The spare the air alert has been extended as our temperatures remain comfortable. Still not safe for a lot of people to open up the windows and let cooler temperatures in. Ill be monitoring this. Well talk about whats ahead in the weekend forecast coming up. How is it looking for the Early Morning commute . Kari, the commute volume is light. Weve had a couple areas that are unusually slow. It should be changing. Look at the map, the first spot is hayward over on the right side of the screen. You see the icon as youre approaching 92, thats industrial boulevard. A crash an
Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at night taking a live look over downtown San Francisco tonight, beautiful, yes, but we are bracing for a weekend heat wave that is expected to be felt across the bay area. Good evening. Everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Justine Waldman in for Vicki Liviakis tonight, the hot and dry weather could put us at risk for some fire sparking again over the weekend, a red flag warning is going into Effect Tomorrow here we go this is a look at how hot is expected to get tomorrow. Not really all that bad but saturday isnt the worst of it not by any stretch. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is with us now for more on what the brace for large yeah, this really just the beginning tomorrow, yeah, not to bet is to get toasty inland 90s there. Then we get into sunday, we really start to crank up the heat near triple digits in spots inland by sunday, 80s a few 90s even and around the bay 70s even out toward th
Local news station. That breaking news tonight at 10 takes us to oakland where more than a 100 people are protesting as we speak you say this is new video just in from the citizen app some of the protesters here taking those orange traffic barriers moving them out of the way you can also see some Police Officers walking the streets in riot gear, it is tense. This is happening near 14th street, the protesters of course for the 3rd night in a row demanding justice for Breonna Taylor after the decision was made wednesday. Not to file charges in her death. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here 10 oclock im grant lotus as we said the 3rd straight night of demonstrations, not only here in some parts of the bay area but in louisville as well in just minutes ago opd sent out this tweet the Department Says the crowd has started to become a little bit violent throwing bottles and cans among other objects you see this video froze but it will play right here. And as we saw earlier folks ar
The Senate Judiciary committee has begun four days appearing spirit the goal for code republican senators is to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to that Supreme Court before election day. Allie rasmus reports live on what has happened so far today. Reporter the timeline according to gop senators, is for the Senate Judiciary committee to vote on Amy Coney Barretts confirmation next week. The in the full senate is scheduled for both the week after that on october 27th. The process got started this morning. Amy Coney Barrett began her Opening Statements before the Senate Judiciary committee by thinking President Donald Trump her nominating her. She spoke about her family, upbringing and career before explaining her judicial philosophy. Courts have about responsibility to the rule of law , which is critical to a free society. Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political