The states wildfire devastation. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala has a preview on what we can expect from his visit. President trump is reportedly flying here into Mcclellan Park in sacramento, which is serving as a command station for state Emergency Management officials white house Officials Say state leaders will provide the president with a briefing on californias wildfire situation which so far has been historic with 5 of the states largest fires burning callow yes officials confirmed the visit but say they dont have logistical details yet because of covid members of the state Republican Caucus tell us who the president will meet with is limited. Im told so far he set to be joined by congressman doug lamalfa Kevin Mccarthy and possibly governor Gavin Newsome trumps visit will come just days after Governor Newsom slammed the president s leadership on the environment noting the 100 lawsuits california has against the administration most of them environment related the governor
At cal fire currently has its hands full with a number of wildfires burning up and down california a fastmoving wildfire in butte county has burned more than 250,000 acres, its killed at least 3 people. The creek fire in Fresno Madera counties has burned more than a 175,000 acres. Its 0 contained and in Southern California, the eldorado fire in San Bernardino county has burned more than 12,000 acres. After that fire was sparked by a smoke machine at a gender reveal party over the weekend. As wildfires continue to ravage a state with some of the largest fires burning here in the bay area. It seems like every year these wildfires break new record and what is most concerning is that experts say things are likely going to get worse kron 4 Sanaz Tahernia takes a look at the wildfire trends in california. The state of california is typically associated with sunshine, sandy beaches and surfers. But now it seems like wildfires are making the list what used to be a rare event is now commonplace
Cars back on its tracks. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus thank you for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight once again a dense layer of smoke from dozens of wildfires. They darken the skies around the bay area again today, this is a live look at the bay bridge. Those lights really illuminating just how smoky and hazy it is once again. Yeah well the orange glow from yesterday is mostly gone the poor air quality sure isnt. We kick off our kron 4 Team Coverage with the latest air quality checked around the bay from chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence yeah thats kind of the irony we dont have that orange glow today, theres less smoke in our atmosphere, but the smoke that youre next all the way down to the surface and the spore quality out there right now and you can see out toward sfo you see the lights out there you see the haze that smoke down below as a small continue just to flow around the bay area and it is bad in some p
Outdoors but its of course been challenging especially with the bad air quality now and these new restrictions loosening assign san franciscans are doing their part to slow the spread of covid19. Its unbelievable fritz clay owns hair play salon in the city and has been closed since march constantly like people hearing about yes other counties of all and so can make an and micah, you know. You know listen to the is not San Francisco yet we were there when clay was getting ready to reopen in june only to have held orders reversed after a spike in covid19 cases hair salons are allowed to operate outdoors but not for clay salon he says hes ready to get back to work a lot more on my smock so now i have socks city. A lot of a lot of hand mask mask mass thursday, the city released this statement detailing the additional reopening starting on monday september 14th allowing Indoor Personal Services with limited capacity that includes hair and nail salons gyms and Fitness Centers. It remains to
2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William