The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at night youre just looking at really bad air quality continue from yesterday and unfortunately we continuing on through the weekend 40 things took a turn for the worse on friday. Were seeing a lot of smoke mixing down from a number of sources. Unhealthy air is just sitting over the bay area this weekend. The extremely poor air quality just doesnt want to leave. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall right now air quality levels across the bay area needless to say are at unhealthy levels get this. Some areas like livermore seeing air quality levels at nearly 500 thats dangerous folks we have Live Team Coverage of that bad air including one event held today in the east bay. Despite the spoke it conditions forced gayle ong is live right now for us in livermore with details good evening, gayle. Good evening just cnn jonathan where you are in the bay area, the smoke is bad. Organiz
Areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. So weve had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. Yet we have high fire dangers 8 00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. And with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. Wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. The wind advisory will be in effect until 11 00 for the north bay hills and mountains. There is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. Ill have a closer look a little later. All right. Thank you. More than 170,000 pg e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. Well show you a maam where the out outages are in the bay area. The upside down magenta triangles, well try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. Another round of frustrating shutoffs. Reporter heres the latest. Highway 12 has been on the unincorporate
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Polls. Today in the bay starts right now. And here we go on this thursday morning for you. Thanks so much for starting your morning right here for us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Well get to mike and that morning commute for this thursday morning in just a bit. Lets check in with kari right now. What are we looking like temperature wise today . A little bit warmer, laura. Welcome back. More of that heat starting to return to the bay area. As we start out this morning anywhere from 46 in Half Moon Bay to 64 in san jose. Were already starting to see that spread in temperatures and as you head out the door in antioch mid 60s by early in the afternoon. So, we start out cool, but its going to be a hotter day. Well talk about this and some extreme heat for this weekend. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, i know you dont want to hear that this early in the morning. Yeah, i dont want to hear extreme and heat together. Were looking over towards the roadways, kari. An extreme
Join. Thursday, friday on a hot and unwanted visitors weekend exactly what we have. 92 right now the san mateo behaving badly in tahoe. Bridge, that is jammed. Look at that westbound crawling over towards the high rise. Still no detail on any of my next the cost the region is sources as far as what is officially going on. Racking up as today in the bay but i do believe from 15 years continues right noa. Of experience, its likely a crew there doing some quick repair work and that may clear. And a very good thursday morning to you. Soon as sometimes the slowest thanks for joining us. Drive happens just before they im laura garcia. Do clear. The map shows you its slow im marcus washington. Across the san mateo bridge over mike is keeping an eye on that commute and, first, start out a half hour as you come out of with that forecast. Hayward down to slowing for 880. Meteorologist kari hall has been the dumbarton bridge is clearer talking and we have been tracking the creep up in the and eas