The San Francisco Marin Food Bank fine tune their efforts to help feed the hungry during the after 6 months now we can re evaluate how well did we do hitting the trying to me and a little bit better Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Next at 5. 30 the latest attempt to try to pass a covid19 stimulus relief bill has failed that makes it unlikely there will be any more relief before the november election. And the lnu lightning complex fire is nearly contained tonight but not before destroying hundreds of my wife and i lived here in our fun. Also was here with us im been with us temporarily and so all 3 of us were displaced from august 19th and i move says bin an up and down journey since then. The lnu lightning complex fires have been burning for more than 3 weeks now here in the bay area the fire is still affecting communities in napa sonoma and solano counties is 94 contained so a lot of the danger is gone now as kron 4 sweet phillipe djegal tells us people who lost their homes are working tow
This month. It is a record. We can tell you that that breaks a record of 14 days, you have to go all the way back to 2018 during the camp fire for that. And that 24 days in a row were going to be 25 days tomorrow and likely could be extended past that because of this bad air. Often the distance is downtown San Francisco. But its barely visible like the ash that sits atop cars the smoky skies here are a grayish white making for another day of unhealthy air quality. Its actually worse today in terms of breezing that it was yesterday thats much worse today and i have to masks and not now thats how bad the says in fact their quality was worse on thursday because a layer of fog that kept the smoke aloft wednesday. Dissipated the air is mixing were down to ground weve weve weve lost that you know protection yesterday so were seeing that the readings of really jumped up in the bay area as the air mixes down bringing all of the smoke with it and while some people were still out and about. Many
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
Breeze by any means a bit of an orange hue above berkeley here its not going to appear that way once the sunshine comes up, but there will be a definite yellow tinge to it like yesterday because of how smoky it is yet again today you notice how the entirety of the shoreline has that worst air quality as do our interior valleys. Thats because the fog thats pushing in has smoke imbedded and not just smoke from our california fires, but smoke all the way from oregon that was pushed out in the pacific. And now is slowly making its way in our direction with that very weak on shore flow. This deep deep red wasnt even on the map yesterday. This is the worst of those conditions and it is not going to be a good day to be stepping outside not this morning, not this afternoon ive been seeing a bunch of you still going on your jobs lately which i mean good for you, but maybe do a workout inside today as much as possible Half Moon Bay of visibility below a mile this morning and we will be looking a
Aloft on or orange wednesday yesterday you started to detect it more and more as you step outside. This morning even worse yet as definitely hazy and also a little foggy there at the coastline. You notice that some of our worst air quality is right up and down the coast, not just for inland valleys and theres a reason for this. Lets look a look take a look at this satellite imagery from noaa right here you can see just a few days ago that smoke that was blanketing the entirety of the west coast here. Now what youre also noticing is those oregon wildfires, wheres that smoke heading right out in the pacific. Its now being pushed right into the coast. Thats why some of our coastal areas in the bay itself. Actually has some of the worst air quality this morning and thats only making for more smoke pushing into the bay as compared to what we already had on top of us which is blocked out sunlight for a couple of days now so very poor air quality and for 2 reasons California Wildfires and tho