Is in effect this weekend for parts of the bay area strong winds and triple digit heat putting fire crews on high alert at the peak of fire season. Here in the bay area. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman were less than 24 hours away from a heat wave that expected to bring strong offshore winds and triple digit heat to parts of the bay area. Not only high temperatures but also the heightened fire danger thats coming for parts of the east and north base. We have Team Coverage on this weekends coverage on this weekends events and kron fours charles concerns there. But we begin now with kron fours meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez whos standing by with when the red flag warning goes into effect and just how hot it is going to be good afternoon. Risa i yes a little bit of good and bad news, the bad news is that our fire weather watch has been upgraded to a red flag warning. But the good news is that instead of it starting saturday morning it wont sta
School districts is helping student offenders instead of arresting them. How this approach is transforming kids lives. First, heres todays eye open opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The situation that we have right now is a lifethreatening situation. This came through like a jet plane really. This thing continues to grow exponentially. Dozens of wildfires threatening the west. Record heat. One day, snow the next. Denver, youll probably set a record at 29 degrees. Im worried if we have a really good vaccine, people are going to be reluctant to take it. President trump is accusing joe biden and Kamala Harris of being antiscience after they say hes politicizing the search for a vaccine. Biden and his running mate should apologize for the antivaccine rhetoric. We want people to protest peacefully. A weekend marked by more clashes between police and protesters. People calling for an end to racial injustice. Black lives matter this is a righteous protest. A lucrative netflix deal, meghan
Oakland 56 in San Francisco and 59 in san jose. Im looking at mild to warm temperatures around the bay area. Well have those coming up in just a bit back to the news. Thanks a lot. Lets start with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much greater than we know there was show you map which illustrates now the rise in cases. In the past week compared to the week before and you can see actually california has improved. It has been in the orange and even in the red indicating anywhere from 10 to 50 . Increase from week to week now were just in the yellow which indicates a steady rise but not an alarming one. But if you look at the total numbers across the country weve got now more than a 142,000 recorded deaths with more than 3. 9 million infections reported so far to our area. In the wake of the rising number of cases and the dropping poll numbers for the president he appears to be changing his tune. During his first covid19 briefing
The president the said he had just received a briefing on coronavirus this afternoon, he said the u. S. Is fully prepared if a larger outbreak does happen here, and as we mentioned, he just named Vice President mike pence to head up a Coronavirus Task force that has been meeting to respond to the potential threat. Weve stopped nonu. S. Citizens from coming into america from china. That was done very early on. Were screening people, and we have been at a very high level. Screening people coming into the country from infected areas. We have quarantined those infected, and those at risk. We have a lot of great quarantine facilities. Were rapidly developing a vaccine. President trump said that he would spend what is appropriate on the virus. Senate democrats are asking for 8. 5 billion to prepare. Thats more than triple the amount that has been requested so far by the white house. There are at least 60 coronavirus cases confirmed here in the u. S. But there are concerns that the virus will
News about the coronavirus. We talked with the cdc today, and they confirm that there is a new case here in Northern California. At this point, theyre not releasing how the person contracted the virus, or where the person is, here in Northern California. They said that he expects that the cdc will release more information tonight or tomorrow. Just over an hour ago, President Trump spoke to the country about the virus, and he named Vice President mike pence to head up the White House Coronavirus task force. The president said that steps taken by the United States are keeping the risk of infection low for americans. Weve stopped nonu. S. Citizens from coming into america from china. That was done very early on. Were screening people, and we have been at a very high level. Screening people coming into the country from infected areas. We have quarantined those infected, and those at risk. There are a now 15 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, involving travel, or close contac