Stating aess owners for help. Today they sidestepped congress and signed an executive order mandating the check. Not having any calls for anything like that. Family in this bay area and across the country are desperate for unemployment help. President called for new benefits but it may not be a done deal. It could face legal challenges. With that, good evening. The economy is one of the key things were focus on as part of our efforts to build a better bay area for all of us during this pandemic. And it has been a tough month for the unemployed the 600 weekly unemployment benefit expired on july 31st. Ppp, which has helped Small Businesses meet their pay roll expires today. Trump signed his plan after talks fell apart this past week. Reporter President Trump blaming democrats after negotiations collapsed friday. Democrats are obstructing all of it. Therefore, im taking executive action. Weve had it. And restarting Unemployment Benefits and cutting the checks to 400. And extending evicti
At temperatures a little bit cooler for today. If it was too hot yesterday, especially inland, we will cool down by several degrees. Here is a look with our san jose camera. In san jose we have clear skies at 63 degrees and mid 50s in San Francisco with those clouds and 58 for oakland. It 62 for concord. That sunshine inland is 92 in concord, and yesterday was 99, and then 80 in san jose. There is some clearing around the bay. We are looking at 65 for pacifica. We will talk about temperatures that will be cooling down tomorrow. Details on that or coming up. Happening today, it is the first day of school for the Oakland Unified School district but five minutes after the pandemic, the district and the union are still negotiating the details about Distance Learning. We are live in oakland this morning with what this means for students. Reporter good morning, we are now in week four of negotiations, one of the main Sticking Point is the number of hours requirand thachersunwamit wants seven
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Its been really hard, not having a job and not being able to provide for my son. Unemployment uncertainty for area, and across tdeerate for he congress, but now President Trump announcing his own plan for new benefits, but it may not be a done deal. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, august 9th. Im liz kreutz. Thanks for joining us. Were breaking down where the Unemployment Benefits stand and President Trumps new executive order on evictions but first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the bay area folks with meteorologist Frances Dinglasan in for lisa argen. Good morning, frances. Good morning, liz, good morning, everyone. We have another gorgeous day in store for with us plent y of sunshine right now. Were dealing with fog thick in some spots. Heres live doppler 7 and the satellite radar image, low clouds along the coast spilling into the bay, Half Moon Bay the visibility is down to one mile becaus
The woodward fires burning at the Point Reyes National seashore in marion county. Right now at this hour crews are in a race to try and save homes and property from those fastmoving flames. Good evening. Everyone, im Jonathan Mccall in tonight for ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight. We are going to tackle each of these complex fires, one by one from the damage done to the evacuations which are in effect we begin in the north bay and as we mentioned the largest of those fires, the l a new complex fire. In the last 30 minutes weve learned that this blaze has now grown to more than 124,000 acres now scorched. With more than a 100 structures destroyed and 25,000 more now being threatened you can see on your map exactly the areas that are made up from this particular inferno. Flames as we mentioned now burning in napa sonoma and solano counties. So far this blaze once again scorching more than 124,000 acres to give you an idea of just ho
Flames move in and destroy homes good evening, everybody, im pam moore, im Jonathan Mccall in tonight for ken wayne we have Live Team Coverage of the fires that are burning across the bay area. Right now fire crews are battling hundreds of wildfires across california all of it happening right in the middle of a blistering heat wave now in its 6th day were going to begin in the north bay and the latest on the l a new complex fire. You can see on your map it shows the areas being affected the flames burning in napa sonoma and solano counties so far the fire has scorched more than 124,000 acres. The blaze has tripled in size since this morning, according to cal fire. 4 people have been hurt 105 structures destroyed. And Officials Say that 25,000 more structures now being threatened kron fours noelle bellow kicks off our Live Team Coverage tonight in fairfield with the very latest on the firefight there noelle thats right jonathan, you know tonight today has really been hectic for a lot of