Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Back to big story. Were following tonight, todays visit to california by President Trump is not only highlighting our Deadly Wildfires but also the strategies used to prevent them. Catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics is here with more on that catherine yeah grant and soon as we did hear it again today of course governor newsome. Focusing on Climate Change almost exclusively and President Trump focusing on Forest Management. Newsome pointing out correctly most forest land in the state is federally owned still should our leaders be addressing both concepts more thoroughly Climate Change and Forest Management. I asked our political analysts. Over 45 of californias 33 million acres are controlled by the u. S. Forest service and therefore its measured budget has all gone to fighting fires. So trump can blame this all in california. And you can remove Climate Change from the equation. The droughts are killing all vegetation that are tinder for fires. We didnt have fire tornadoe
That says about the wider relationship between beijing and western businesses im sure i guess just go with the sport south africa qualifies for the quarterfinals ill tell you who the springboks are likely to face next at the Rugby World Cup. Welcome to the news are turkey says its forces are ready for military action in Northern Syria its Defense Ministry says preparations are complete but there is continuing criticism of the operation irans foreign Ministry Says the mission will not end turkeys security concerns the u. S. President is facing widespread kriss criticism domestically for pulling troops out of Northern Syria kurdish fighters in the region say Donald Trumps stab them in the back well kimberly healthy it is following developments for us from washington d. C. But 1st lets cross over to Charles Stratford on turkeys border with syria and charles lets just begin with the situation of military build up turkey really prepared for some sort of incursion into that region. Thats rig
Ber3eley Crystal Clear just as it is everywhere else across the day. Berkeley you been warm all morning long you are in the upper 60s for much of the morning. So hardly even needed a jacket in some areas as youre stepping outside. Now today. We remain calm as far as winds go tomorrow that all changes though winds are going to pick up as we work our way into your wednesday night leading into thursday and that combined with what weve already been seeing the hot dry weather means fire danger is increasing in for the north bay. This means potential Power Outages areas lit up in yellow these are where fire weather watches are taking Effect Tomorrow afternoon. And we are going to be seeing winds in these areas gusting as high as 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. Why youve got to take this so serioushy because with winds that strong any potential spark could result in a rapidly spreading fire as for right now temperatures are comfortable upwinds are calm today. One of our better days to get outside sp
The us says tough new sanctions will choke off financing for venezuelas president washington has frozen venezuelan government assets blocking all the u. S. Companies and individuals from doing business with president Nicolas Maduro his administration and its supporters u. S. National security adviser john bolton has warned the sanctions will be imposed on anyone who supports qatar. President trump has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full block of full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u. S. And also imposing sanctions are setting the. Situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that goes significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything weve done before and it really is a very strong move by the pros that i suppose has more now from. Another executive order by donald trump imposing more sanctions in venezuela and this generates lots of uncertainty in a count