To rise following those devastating wildfires. Maui. And it could take years to recover from them. But first, an official air quality warning for the bay area as we go live near the port of oakland after a fire tearing through a recycling yard. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman, heavy smoke visible in oakland after a large pile of scrap metal caused a fire near the citys port. That smoke could be smelled all across the east bay. Well go live now to kron fours Charles Clifford. Hes on the scene or near the scene for us. As theres now an official air quality warning for the bay area. Charles. Right now im in alameda. If you look behind me here across the oakland estuary across the water that big black crane over there, this fire was burning just beneath that. It looks we cant see any smoke at the moment. Were just a little it looks like they may have a mostly under control is going to take a look
Not enough he vows to help hawaii rebuild from catastrophic flames. How california is now lending an effort to stop the fires. Plus. I time ago was on front street the it . Stories of survival and tragedy this afternoon as thousands of people are still racing to evacuate the islands where history has also burned to the ground since 2018, shooting 13 notice of violation. Just answer steel. And demanding answers after a fire erupted at an oakland steel plant choking our skies with potentially toxic smoke. What were learning about the sites history of alleged violations. Now from the areas local news station. This is kron. 4 news at 3. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at just involvement and we will start with the thousands of people who are trying to evacuate maui right now as Deadly Wildfires continue to burn across the island. And as that smoke clears in some areas, the damage left behind by this fire can finally be assessed and that damage is significant with the
Is here. Richmond bridge. Did i hear that or is that better . What well, yeah, we can start on the rich. Know you start wherever you want. Sal. Its your show, steve. I take requests, you know that. Especially from you. Lets go to the Richmond Bridge as the man said, and show you that traffic is moving along very well. No major issues there. I do see a bunch of slowing on a highway four westbound and its not unusual. However, the speeds are down and you can see that the speed here is down to 11 miles an hour. Thats pretty slow. Bay bridge is backed up all the way out to the macarthur maze. Metering lights are on san mateo bridge, moderate if youre driving west and if youre in the Silicon Valley right now, westbound traffic still looks pretty good. Getting out to sunnyvale and cupertino. Its 701. Lets get right back to the headlines. Sal, thank you. We are monitoring the developing story of a fire at a steel recycling plant near the port of oakland and ktvu studios at jack london square.
Fires are breaking out, had to leave. Talk more about that. Yeah, thats a big story. Weve been live at sfo and were looking whether there was a way thankfully its calm down. So much history that was so hard to see. And now the devastation coming yeah, yeah. Here in the bay area were much calmer, obviously we are in for a warmup these next few days, though, you can see outside this morning. We do have mount tam looking down into that lincoln of cloud cover thats still sitting right there above the areas like berkeley and San Francisco. Visibility has improved a whole lot, though. Now current temperatures are in the 50s and san mateo as seth areas that are hanging on to some of clouds. Well, elsewhere, it 60s and 70s at this point and are all the sunshine later on today. Similar to yesterday. Were holding on to the seasonable warmth in the 60s, 70s 80s. Ive got all the details of your forecast as we go during james. Thank you and 10. 0, 1, lets get to the breaking news and out of maui. A
A late night shooting in the east bay leaves one person dead and 2 people injured. We have the latest on the investigation. And another bay area city could soon be getting license plate readers to help combat rising crime. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Im stephanie lin. It is saturday, october the 7th. Lets get you started with a look at the weather with dave spahr. Good morning, well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, yes, going to be a hot one here as we go back in the calendar to summer as it will be. Despite all locations, even along the coast are going to be treated to some weather. We dont even see sometimes in the middle of july. A look at how we stand right now from our mount tam camera showing it pretty clear right now. A little bit of a tease off towards the distance with everything. Of course, this High Pressure is really shut off the surfa