As a long Time Employee of valley water, i know the operations, i know how to basically navigate within the community. But i think i bring a unique view, especially at this time right now, being able to make sure we have equity in everything we do. Both internally and externally with this organization. Calendar worked at valley water for 24 years and was chief of external affairs. He might be best known in the community for his role as the president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the naacp from 2000 to 2008. The current president called his appointment as ceo of the water district, historic. Most water districts in the boards across the state and the nation have been dominated by the white majority. And hes concerned about the latino and African American communities who have been left out of water policies and water considerations in the past. Calendar will have his hands full leading the water agency through the pandemic and the ever looming possibility of drought. While still overs
To put this fire out while this fire is an outer contain yet its looking much better than what we saw earlier today check out this video video that viewer sent in earlier now thankfully, no lives but there was one injury to firefighters. But were told that he is already out of the hospital recovering and the flames engulf 6 commercial buildings and one of those buildings housed 3 people through an Art Coalition housing project. Those residents are now displaced in addition to the number of workers who had jobs at these buildings. Some of the businesses inside include heartfelt sales, venice, auto body, a catering business in several others. I also talked to other Business Owners in all of them heartbroken after watching their businesses crumble in the fire. Firefighters say that this fire was extremely hard to fight because of how fast it was moving and they also talked about many of the hot spots inside this building now. Again they said that its very difficult because they couldnt ev
Plus sounds so support the Gilroy Community continues its healing process and remembers the victims who tragically lost their lives one year ago today during the garlic festival shooting. Good evening, everybody thanks for being with us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 well get to the situation in gilroy momentarily. But our top story tonight that massive fire. The damaged at least half a dozen San Francisco buildings and displaced at least 100 workers early this morning. We have Live Team Coverage from the scene of the fire which is still active to reaction from d out by flames. How smoke from the fire affected folks in the surrounding areas. We begin with Taylor Bisacky is live in the south of market district, where one point roughly half the citys entire firefighting resources. Were helping out with this fire taylor. Well right now firefighters are still battling the hot spots inside one of those buildings and if you
News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Expect to see a a huge like a 50 feet fire. Like and meters of it. Quite a scene and tonight that massive fire in San Francisco, south of market neighborhood is still active it damaged half a dozen buildings and displaced 3 people good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis fire investigators say was extremely fast moving when morning near south bend and 14th street or kron fours taylor sackey joins us live now from the scene were at one point earlier today half the citys firefighters were out there battling this fire. Taylor. Well theyve scaled back on resources since and there is still a lot of people out here just take a look behind me you can see that fire engine still hitting that building with water nearly 13 hours later the focus being on bart filled sales, were seeing a lot of flare ups and hot spots now crews say that they will be out here for the next few days to monitor this a
Half moon bay, some of the east bay hills like i was mentioning their Mountain View youre down to about a 4 mile visibility. And the San Francisco youre down to 2 right now, but were looking better as we move further inland for east is unlike in concord we definitely have some good visibility. There. Now on the fog is going to be sticking with us through much of the Morning Hours and still finally starting to clear up by the middle of the day right around that lunch time hour well see most of the east bay under clear skies with lots of sunshine and yourself does own a part of the north bay that coastal fog will be sticking with us through much of the remainder of the day. Temperature wise so were pretty even versus this time yesterday and napa and fairfield were about a degree cooler in concord in oakland word a couple degrees cooler in Half Moon Bay as well, but overall in livermore and san jose youre a couple Degrees Higher than where we were this time yesterday so this has been a pr