Live at the courthouse with those details. And oaklands mayor says city is making progress curbing crime. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good friday morning wake with bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news here on may. 17th. Im reyna harvey. All right. Well, today in terms of the temperatures like john has been talking about things supposed to be just a touch cooler job. But how cool for us around the bank morning . Yeah, were looking at another cool one. Yesterday was below average spots like conquered. Only got up to 71 degrees yesterday. It is not super normal for this late in the year, but hey, we will take a little bit of a break from the warmth and today into the weekend, were looking just a school for many areas looking outside this morning. We do have a lot of fog. A marine layer pushed right up against the east bay hills, which is heavier bulls eye of where ads right through the golden gate. When we do see the strong oce
Greatest art. And more sunshine to finish the day even found a peek of sunshine. I happen bay this morning. Take a look at this view that we have down there. And this is about the sunniest. Its been this early in the morning in a while. So nice to see a little bit of that. We actually did see fog sitting a little bit higher this morning. So less visibility issues and its burning off pretty quickly. Winds are a little calmer than yesterday, which is a bit of a cherry on top tier friday. Temperatures in the 50s pretty much across the board. Brentwood in concord at 59 oakland at 56 petaluma and santa rosa at 53 right now later on today, well get into the 70s for almost everyone except for the coastline where well stay in the 50s to 60s right now. All right, john, thank you for at the time has gone on. A traffic has gradually gotten better and better over time. The 10 minute ride into the city. Now we started off a little slow this morning, as you can see, things are making a stark improve
Now at fivethirty, oaklands mayor says her city is continuing to make progress in fighting crime and shes updating us on the struggles of dealing with homelessness force catherine heat. It is in the newsroom tonight with details on what the mayor had to say. Good evening, catherine. Hello to both of you. And you know that the latest crime numbers in oakland are really very encouraging. If not in all categories. As for homelessness, it is still going up. The mayor talk to us today about both issues and what she thinks is working. More people are accepting housing. The mayor talked about the fact that in the latest count, Homelessness Group by 9 in oakland. Those numbers released just this week, but at least the rate is slowing down. 9 does not sound as drastic. When you consider the citys Homeless Population grew. 47 from 2017 to 2019. And 24 between 2019 and and so this 9 increase is actually a significant success shows that we are, you know, closing some of these homelessness issues.
Event, but organizers say this new policy is intended to try to keep people safer through its duration. The fair ceo says the new policy also places a limit on the number of minors each adult can bring in for each chaperon. They can only have four youth 18 or older with them. The Contra Costa County fair isnt the only site that has adopted a similar policy. After brawls on its grounds last year, Great America in santa clara adopted a similar policy requiring minors to have a chaperon who is at least 21 years old, at the fairgrounds in antioch. Sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thank you. Tonight some highs and lows for San Francisco struggleith homelessness, the city says despite its efforts, theres been a jump in unhoud people over the past two years. Take a look here. These are new numbers from this years point in time count. You can see how this has trended since 2019. The city says it identified more than 8300 unhoused people. That is up 7 since 2022. But the city says pr
Team coverage of todays potential record heat and some ideals to stay cool. This is today in the bay. Good thursday morning to you. Thanks for starting your day with us. I am laura garcia. I am marcus washington. We want to get to our top story today. Todays big warmup. What can we expect today, kari . Starting out nice and cool around the bay area, but we will see temperatures that warming up over the next few hours. The heat advisory begins at 11 00 this morning, and some of the areas were under the heat advisory yesterday. This goes until 11 00 p. M. , and our inland areas are headed for the upper 80s and low 90s. Watch out for the potential for setting new records today, with santa rosa expected to hit 95 degrees today, and thats the record high set back just a couple years ago, or just last year. In San Francisco, were expecting to reach 90 degrees today. That would break a record that was set in 1913. In oakland as well as livermore, san jose will reach in the low 90s which would