Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, giving you a live look from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera. At the bay bridge there all lit up. And good morning, it is wednesday, the first of july. Im anne makovec in for Michelle Griego this morning. And im len kiese. Good morning to you. Lets get right to your forecast on this wednesday morning. And this first of july. Heres mary lee. Good morning mary. Good morning. I cant believe its already the first of july. And we are looking at temperatures in the 50s and in the 60s this morning. Under clear skies and concord livermore and san jose and santa rosa. The clouds from oakland as well as for San Francisco. So along the coast and right around the bay. As we head through the afternoon mid 60s in San Francisco and looking at low 70s in oakland and 83 in san jose and heating up inland to the upper 80s to close to 90 degrees in concord. So daytime highs about where we should be at this time of year. Onshore flow kicking in for u
Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
And we thank you for making us part of your morning. Good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im Marcus Washington. Mike is keeping an eye on that commute. He will tell us what we need to know before we head out the door, and right now we want to start with meteorologist kari hall who has a look at that forecast for us, what we can expect. Kari, with that sun rise behind you, im seeing sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Yes, its going to be warm as we head to the weekend. Were looking at a little bit of a break for some of us. This is a view from the cupertino hills. Most of our temperatures are in the mid50s but we go from there to the low 80s today. I think pretty much throughout the whole afternoon you can enjoy some time outside with a good amount of comfort as we look at our temperatures with livermore reaching 86 and some mid60s in San Francisco. Well talk about those hotter weekend temperatures. Mike, whats happening out there for the commute .
Bay area are surging. Thanks for joining us. Everyone, im Catherine Heenan mayor breed of made that announcement today she had been talking to essential workers. She says 103 new covid19 cases were reported yesterday the city is saying its largest spike in cases since the early days of the pet of the pandemic kron fours phillipe djegal has the story. San Francisco Mayor london breed and the Public Health department say the rate of covid19 cases has doubled in the past week, 103 new cases were reported thursday and what that sadly means is our plans for monday. To reopen a number of businesses in places that we have committed to. Those plans will be put on pauls those businesses include hair nail and tattoo salons barbershops zoos outdoor bars and swimming. Breed made the announcement while giving a speech honoring in depreciating essential workers at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and trauma center. I know the last thing that you all want to see is somebody walk up to that d