Weve had great coordination, great relationship. I know we come from different sides of the plan it. Reporter the Governors Team thanked the president for federal support, and acknowledged the need for better Vegetation Management and made their case for Climate Changes role. The science is in, and the evidence is several everyone dent that Climate Change is real and that is exacerbating this. If we think its awful about Vegetation Management, were not going to seed together protecting company california. Okay. It will start getting cooler. You just watch. I wish science agreed with you. Well, i dont think science knows, actually. Reporter democrats criticized the president s downplaying of Climate Change, and today joe biden spoke on the issue. Donald trumps climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term, these heldish events will continue to become more common. Reporter the president honored 7 members the National
Maybe getting confused with those current numbers. I mean look where were heading this afternoon only the 70s. Ill talk more about that still to come back to you darya thanks john lets get back to the big story which is in the east bay, the city of martinez has decided to pave over. The black lives matter mural that is in front of the citys courthouse, it has attracted a lot of local and National Attention since it first was painted in july all along it was supposed to be temporary kron fours reyna harvey is live with the plan right now. We are you good so the city is going to pan over next month, this is a part of the citywide plan that they have here for their streets now like you mentioned lot of folks have been talking about it that people tell me they were happy it was here and some other people tell me not so much theyre ready to see it gone so the city is going to be removing it next month when this all started it was put up in july you might remember a local group of black live
Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g
Time as Mental Health making sure that people taking care of their Mental Health to and of course people been through so many different fires situations years we need to think make sure people are taking care of there Mental Health is where as well as their physical health. Of course i saw theyll sideburns burn you know theres lots of action. You know white in smoke in the air and things like that. But i think when the do the side that will have lots of trucks that will need help to get back on their feet recovery will be the biggest thing that will be in front of others. The red cross we start recovery from the moment we start responding so were planning for that now. All right jennifer ceo of the red cross operations in northern california. We appreciate your time and good luck to you and the men and women at the red cross. Thank you thank you so much for your support the Community Support can do without you, appreciate it, thank you. Coming up our breaking News Coverage continues ri
Under Evacuation Orders. At least 94 buildings have been destroyed. They are also working to restore power to more than 1 Million People. We are live with Team Coverage this morning. Mary is tracking the dangerous conditions. Lets start with jackie ward. We are at the Equestrian Center. You see behind me this barn is still burning on the inside. Completely gutted by fire. The Fire Department was actually here battling the fire. They just moved out of this area. Just a couple minutes drive away from where we were last half hour. We try to get to the road to see what was happening and that is now impossible. The fire has grown to more than 54,000 acres. It is only five percent contained. A few hours ago i spoke to the mayor about the situation. We had a very scary day today. We were concerned last night that we would lose quite a few homes. All the different agencies coming to support our time. Altogether not infrastructures at least have been destroyed. 17 damaged and almost 80,000 were