Humidity. Its exactly what we need at events since 1954. This point. 50 of those events bring and its virtual this year due to the pandemic, not open slightly average, above average rainfall. So a lot that well be watching what it will look like for the for the public. Next couple of months. For as we go into the next family members will visit today in small groups. A pretty high chance of la nina how can i, when you wont take it from me several months. We tknow that dry weather is no developing, cooler than normal good morning you. Thank you for joining us on this what we need at this point. Water at the equatorial pacific. Lets head over to mike for an friday morning on today in the bay. Im marcus washington. Update on the commute. You can go your own way youve been tracking a traffic and im laura garcia. Alert. We are seeing that happen now yeah, and also that humidity so our other big story this near that blob that we have. Go your own way in the air. Morning talking about the fire
Anthropologists erin fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential ban is are frequently framed and specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially, country is bad music precisely because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked neutral condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a mark for a grounded claim of cultural identity, bad whiteness, and redeemed by ethnicity. Folklore ache authenticity, a league musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of very marked white particularly. All right, so that is the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian roxanne dumb bar ortiz in her book red dirt. It is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the descendants of the
Us to prepare for outages tonight. In addition to the heat. The state says a transmission line carrying power from oregon to california went offline unexpectedly and that is also adding to the problem definitely not good news. Meanwhile, the rise in temperatures also increasing the fire danger. A red flag warning has been issued for tomorrow running through wednesday morning. The warning has been issued for the north bay mountains east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains we want to bring in rebecca strong to talk about the record breaking heat and also that red flag warning and once again the big news, San Francisco hitting a 100 degrees something we have not seen in a 100 years rebecca yeah, thats right guys in fact it out beat the previous temperature. It was at 92 degrees back in 19 04 but today in 2020 up and hit that triple digit mark at a 100 degrees in downtown sfo also made record breaking heat set one 02 today and the triple digits continue downtown oakland. Youre at a high of
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Today across the bay area we reached record breaking temperatures. So if you thought to yourself today, hey its hotter than ive ever felt before. Well youre probably right if you lived in any of these spots. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall it definitely was hot today, the bay area roasting this Labor Day Weekend has a record breaking heat wave. Now shatters records all across the area take a look at this alone, san jose hitting 103 this afternoon. The previous high for san jose. A 100 degrees. This was said all the way back in 1923 gilroy also recording a high today of 107 its previous high one 04 back in 1977 downtown oakland just 3 degrees shy of triple digits, reaching 97 degrees beating its previous record of 95 set back in 1979 and Half Moon Bay breaking their daily record with 81 degrees this afternoon their previous record 80 degrees set back in 2004. San franci
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news and open the park and i said you know i dont its fair. Now at 10 oclock San Francisco reaches triple digits on the thermometer shattering the 100 yearold record. Other cities also seeing record highs as a heat wave grips, the bay area. Folks trying to keep cool as leaders try to limit the spread of covid19 good evening. Everyone, im Jonathan Mccall and im Justine Waldman thanks for joining us tonight, a majority of the bay area beaches. Well theyre close this Holiday Weekend to try and discourage large crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic San Franciscos ocean beach did remain open, however thats a decision that many say may have backfired take a look at what happened over a 1000 people crowded ocean beach last night in a burning man celebration, San Francisco mayor london breed called the celebration reckless and selfish adding that behavior like this only risks reversing the progress the city has made in curbing the spread of coronavirus an