Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco
From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scary. We actually have some pictures of the hikers you see that there they are right there sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake edison volunteers are out there and theyre helping the hikers a stay fed and hydrated hydrated excuse me as they wait to be rescued and then we also have a map here showing where those hikers are in relation to the creek fire. Itself and you can see that red outline is the outline of where the fire line currently is and the marker that you see th
To stay with us. So you have more sunshine working its way and its going to look brighter but its definitely going to appear smoky all day long today, very light winds just enough to push fog in overnight, but not enough to push the smoke out of the region were going to be holding on to that today tomorrow through the weekend with only gradual improvements as each day goes by today being the worst one of your forecast even worse than the past few have been 50s for our current temperatures with pittsburgh, the only exception of the warmer side at 62. Well santa rosa and lena down into the upper 40s this morning later today, daytime highs sticking with the 70s for warmest of temperatures with 76 degrees, your average inland temperature 60s near the bay and the coastline. Ive got more details about what to expect in the long range forecast ahead of us still to come robin all right, thank you folks can expect a foggy commute heading into San Francisco. Its a little dance out there check th
Who are standing in a driveway at an apartment complex. The shooter then ran from the scene, none of the victims injuries are considered life threatening. Well have updates for you throughout the morning as we get them. Another big story that were following for you this morning. The country is marking a grim milestone. Less than 4 months since the coronavirus pandemic began. According to Johns Hopkins university, the u. S. Surpassed 100,000 deaths currently there are more than 1 million cases in the u. S. Globally there are over 5 million cases, 355,000 deaths as a number of coronavirus cases continues to rise one Infectious Disease expert says the numbers are not getting the full picture doctor George Rutherford is an epidemiology professor at ucsf he says the number may not be complete. The bay area has more than 13,000 coronavirus cases and more than 400 deaths, some victims who died at home might never have been tested and then theres the cases that have not been counted. We know t