Evacuated in the middle of the afternoon. The hazard crews say was making its way through the store getting across the bay area. Maybe a little difficult this weekend. Were live on 6 ad talking about closures on highways, railways, and even waterways. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron for news at 10. Im ken wayne and im noelle bellow. Your weekend plans could be affected by roadwork in the east bay. A stretch of 6. 80, southbound. In the pleasanton area is now closed until monday morning. Kron fours dan thorn live for that work is taking place right now. He joins us with more. Dan. Yeah, i busy night. Busy weekend as just started this work here on 6. 80, southbound about an hour ago. And this is about repairing the roadway of 6. 80, southbound. By about 9 miles between pleasanton to seminole and caltrans says that if youre going to be traveling through the area this weekend, be prepared for tra
Insurance crisis. Our kron fours gayle ong reports from a north bay neighborhood. It was nearly burned to the ground in a wildfire. Fema grants for homeowners in designated areas and a tax credit for property owners. Thats a 30 tax credit and a 10,000 grant. The 2 key components that make up. Congressman Mike Thompson disaster resiliency and coverage act co sponsored by representative jared huffman. When you put it all together, this is an important piece. Of making sure that insurance remains available. And also affordable to the folks that we committed almost 7 years ago. To continuing to stand with him to serve. The proposed bill is aimed to help with the property insurance crisis. It is modeled after a program in alabama after homes are impacted by severe weather. It was the same want same story from every Insurance Company and it was. Make sure that theres disaster resilience in a building that homeowners did everything necessary to protect their home from any type of disaster. Sa
Fallen Oakland Police officer. He passed away last saturday after being critically injured in a crash while on duty nearly 6 years ago are Charles Clifford was at the service today. It was held in Castro Valley. Here in Castro Valley on friday at the 3 crosses church, hundreds of Uniformed Police officers from all across the bay area in california. Along with family and friends remembered former Oakland Police officer jordan Wingate Wingate was severely injured in the line of duty back in august of 2018. He spent most of the time since then on life support this past weekend. He died from his injuries. His casket arrived here at the tree crosses church just before 11 oclock on friday, his arrival was greeted by officers from the california Highway Patrol oakland hayward, san leandro, San Francisco, san jose, along with sheriffs deputies from Alameda County and San Francisco and others. He was remembered as an excellent Police Officer and a good man, a son, a brother. A family member, a
Skies out there like the Golden Gate Bridge and son pierre on through there. So its a mixed bag, a sun and clouds for today might see some late day showers in the far east bay potentially basically bleeding in from the Sacramento Valley. Heres what we have for you right now. The Golden Gate Bridge with that flag flapping. So we do have the continuous onshore winds today. Tomorrow, theyll settle a little bit more. So by sunday, another are some wind advisories down south, but its a big area of low pressure that just doesnt have much moisture, which to work with. But we still can get some thunder shower action from the mountains on points to the eastern even at the utah. Meanwhile, the winds there, you can see them on shore. The teens and 20s even along the coast a little bit. And thats something that will be treated to tomorrow as well. So be a little chilly, even though i will see the sun coming out. Nicely middle to upper 50s right now. Temps were pretty mild overnight. You break down
Youre watching kron. 4 news at all. Now at 5 tragedy in the east bay, a fiery car crash kills a family of 4. Thanks for being with us tonight on kron. 4 news at 5, im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. We still dont know much but in the last half hour we have learned that 4 people were killed, 2 of them adults and 2 children based on the layout of the aftermath believed that speeding was involved. A situation not uncommon in this area. We know just one car was involved in the crash. Police say its some sort of electric vehicle, but they are not saying what make or model yet. The crash happened around 9 oclock last night at the area where foothill road switches from 2 lanes down to just one us just south of stone ridge drive the car veered off the road. It slammed into a light pole and then barreled into an oak tree. The tree and the ground around it are burned out. As you can see there, theyre still foam on the pavement, likely sprayed by the fire department. The cause of this crash is