Liviakis our kron fours michelle kingston is live for us outside San Francisco Police Headquarters with more on where this money. Is coming from and where its going michelle. Well the money is mostly coming out of the Police Departments budget and being reinvested into the black communities over the next 2 years. My goal with these investments. And this change in how we prioritize the black community is simple. I want my story my experience to be the norm and not the exception San Francisco mayor london breed unveiling her proposed city budget on friday where shes looking to reinvest a 120 Million Dollars in funds over the next 2 years to the Africanamerican Community that she says has been unheard in underserved for too long and theres always been a lot of talk and no money behind it you know. In my own personal opinion i am moved by the process and the fact that theres been some allocation the citys Human Rights Commission released a report earlier this week summarizing the findings
South bay firefighters continue to battle the crews fire burning in gilroy near crews road and oak spring circle. Evacuation orders remain in effect right now as that fire is still threatening several homes. Kron fours rob fladeboe joins us right now live from gilroy with the very latest on the effort to fight this fire rop. Thats right justin them about a 6 or 7 miles or so east of downtown gilroy here along highway one 52 you can see the blackened hills are behind me thats a long kenyada road where the fire has been burning for about the past 24 hours or so over my Left Shoulder here this is the ridge where firefighters have been working this afternoon just on the other side there the last thing they want to do is have that fire jumped the ridge if it did that then it would threaten busy highway one 52 right here behind me so far though it looks like thats not going to happen, lets take a closer look. Battle against the crews fire which broke out near crews road on sunday afternoon i
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
Because there are multiple fires erupting across the bay area tonight, one of those fires is burning dangerously close to the benicia bridge. While in the south bay another fire is forcing people to evacuate their homes. Good evening, thanks much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman and we have a team of reporters following all these breaking news stories of all these fires are erupting across the bay area right now strong winds are fueling the flames will talk to lawrence about that well go to the south bay first 4 firefighters continue to battle the crews fire thats burning in gilroy evacuation orders are still in effect there. But first we go to the east bay where there are 2 fires burning right now one is in benicia the other rodeo and thats where we find kron fours tell the sacking she joins us live now with more on the progress that crews have made just in the past hour at the she seen that shes at right now they and just seeing as you mentioned as you could
Here shore but no 90s until tomorrow well take a look at that forecast coming up in a bit part all right dave thanks a lot. Lets get right to our top story this friday morning. Bay Area Health Officials are encouraging everyone to stay home this 4th of july weekend. Now this comes as the state and the bay area continue to see a rise in coronavirus cases kron 4 Sarah Stinson has the latest now from Contra Costa County. In Contra Costa County where coronavirus cases are surging along with the rest of the bay area bad timing as we head into a Holiday Weekend now Health Officials are urging people to celebrate the 4th of july at home. Traditionally we enjoy this holiday by watching fireworks. Nope not happening or go to a parade. Not happening go to the beach. All closed. Instead the governor of california and local Health Officials are advising people to stay home why because of the alarming rise in coronavirus cases and deaths in each county take a look for yourself Contra Costa County i