Some of the worst air quality here in california in the world, however, it was much better out there today, this was the view of San Francisco, the skyline from the east bay, the improved air quality is giving businesses a glimmer of hope kron fours taylor sackey stopped by several restaurants today that started to see an uptick in business and she joins us now live in the city with more taylor then we moved into that better air quality tonight and you can see here behind me that people are still taking advantage of it now earlier today we were in that moderate level but even then restaurants say that it was a breath of fresh air could because finally they were seeing customers sitting outside at the restaurants yet again. The first time in a while because of that that air quality and they say its something that is much needed right now after hitting that second hurdle in the pandemic. The past 2 days has just been really smoky, ive tried to kind of avoid going outside as much as i pos
Heavy military vehicles arrived at the Sonoma County fairgrounds where they will be based. They have been on orders, some of them continuously since early this year with covid. Reporter a third of the citizen soldiers have been a major fires before but all have been trained in camp roberts before coming here. They come none too soon. This is a much welcomed asset, a valuable asset and resource to us here locally. It will be good to get them to work right away. Reporter the cal fire truly needs this help. Obviously the season is already very busy and so we fill the gaps that cal fire doesnt have with resources for reporter these trips will have a very handson approach to provide a wide variety of critical functions, including write up on the fire line. Our mission here is to help the cal fire inside command gain the fire fermenters and how to allocate resources, callout evacuations and key people on the front safe. Reporter other units already at the fires for the last several months or
Highest dew points right now. Still a touch of mugginess in the air. Temperatures today 70s along the coast to 80 in San Francisco and low 80s to low 90s around the bay and look at all those 100s inland. Some record highs are possible today. Ill talk more about the hennessey fire coming up. Lets get to reggie for more on that right now. Mike, thank you. Happening now, hundreds of firefighters battling this wildfire in wine country. So this is video of the hennessey fire from overnight. It broke out yesterday morning. It exploded in size in the afternoon. Its burning to the east of san helena and rutherford. Grown to 2,400 acres with zero containment. Evacuation orders are in effect in the area. Some people are choosing to stay. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live this morning. Amy . Goodern morning were in st helena and authorities behind me have sage canyon road blocked off. This is the area that is being impacted. They have evacuated about 205 homes in this area. We do have new
Records about 50 to 60,000 cases a day. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman the nations leading Health Expert doctor Anthony Fauci says the country needs to get that number down though to about 10,000 cases a day by the fall in order to gain some type of control over this virus in california. There are also some signs of optimism from californias governor Gavin Newsome during his update today, he said the numbers are starting to move in the right direction when it comes to cases the number of people in the hospital and icu admissions. But he says though its still too early to know whether or not this trend will hold on fourthand kerman live for us tonight with details good evening. Dan. Good evening. Justine these new numbers that were seeing have to do with the last 14 days and while its positive and moving in the right direction. The governor says he needs to look at this over the next few weeks and see if californians are really getti
Safely lets bring it back into our salons governor newsome hashtag open salons now. Some hair salon owners in the bay area say they plan to reopen later this month despite orders from the governor and local Health Officials to remain closed. Over the weekend several salon owners in the tri valley area met up and decided theyll reopen on august 17th with or without approval on 4 michelle kingston talked with the attorney ernie of the professional Beauty Federation of california about the plan. Salons are unable to reopen here in Alameda County, not even outside on the sidewalk. But some salon owners here say that theyre going to reopen anyway on august 17th 5 months after initially having to shut down i 17 its been 5 months said salons across the state had to shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic some beauty salon owners and the tri valley and across the bay area decided over the weekend that they will reopen on august 17th even for just a day despite the state in their county H