Oaklands police union called on city officials to speed up the search for a new chief as they continue to deal with mounting crime. And some Council Members in santa rosa are concerned changes made to a no camping ordinance. Well do more harm to the un house instead of actually helping people. Well have that and more coming up. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good morning and thank you for what you get with this bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news today is wednesday. August night, the middle of the week. All right. Well, we started the week per any warm and then we are gradually inching closer and closer to a cool down. John tables been tracking that since the start of the week. John, where we sit today. Good morning. Yesterday was the first day of that cooler seasonable feel. And today were going to keep that around. So. Were definitely out of the heat that we had over the weekend and providing a nice break for those of you, e
Areas of this town, it looks like its night. Yeah, you know, it wouldnt surprise me. Just the mass hysteria thats been going on there with people actively trying to escape illustrated. The people added to jump into the water there matches just to escape everything thats going on. And its exacerbated. But 911, emergency lines. Yeah. Yeah. A large portion of the island there. They got no 911, service, no cell Service Really to speak of. Hardline services down all this, according to the Lieutenant Governor there, sylvia. Luke, she was talking to media this morning, kind trying to illustrate that. The dire nurse of the situation out there, state of emergency has obviously been declared. Theyve mobilized the coast guard. Theyve got the National Guard working as best they can to clear some of these roads that have downed trees, downed power lines. Thats really been impeding fire crews that are trying to get ahead of the fire to fight it. The can even get to it because of all the debris thats
Pictures tell the story. You can see just how widespread and expansive this fire is. These fires plural are. Yeah. We know that the Hawaii National guard has been activated in all of this. Of the fires by some of the people, james, this morning described as apocalyptic scene. And youre seeing that firsthand from the images that have been coming down from that now. So far we have not confirmed any lives lost in this. However, all of this is just unfolding. We know that several people have evacuated as they try to get a handle on things. We know that on balis west side, theyre saying that the 911 services are currently down here. Fact, the lieutenant governor, sylvia luke came out this morning saying 911 is down. Cell service is down phone services down. Even going on to say, quote, our Hospital System on maui, theyre overburdened with burn patients. People suffering from smoke inhalation and they really wont be able to get a handle even assessing the size of this fire and how much its g
Out. Really, really nice so far. Im loving yeah. Nice and mild yesterday afternoon, john. Just as promised and what looking for today. You have a repeat of yesterday, reyna. So we saw the heat this weekend into monday. And yesterday the cooldown got here and were going to stay that way through friday. So little extended break from the 90s. At least your view outside right now. Love to check this one out on a gray morning. Kind of like were in the midst of weve got some patchy. Low cloud cover sweeping right back into the bay. Thats a cool ocean air that is contributing to the cooler feel we have you not really running into it until you head up into hillside. So at bridge level, youre fine. Not really a foggy morning. Just a great morning. 50s 60s for current temperatures right now. Alameda Mountain View and dublin each sitting at 59 degrees. Well, oakland and concord as well as napa at 60 degrees to kick off your morning. You can see the gray out there, half moon bay, just like were se
Later today as clouds increase. Now looking at these temperatures, it is really starting to warm up out there in san carlos, napa at 66 degrees. 68 degrees in san jose. Already at 71 degrees in livermore. Checking out some records today, the record in livermore is 78 degrees, set back in 1977. And looks like we could go above that as we go into this afternoon expecting it to at least tie that or get a degree or two above. Oakland, high of 80 today. When the record is 73 degrees. Santa rosa, also up to 80, looking at record set in 2007 of 79 degrees. After today we will have a big cold front moving through and some rain. Well talk about that time line coming up in the next microclimate forecast. Weather coverage continues across all of our digital platforms. Download our froe nbc bay area app to track the weather. Talk about val tyne the horse, the guy was put into a trailer, sent on his way to uc davis to get life saving surgery. Bob redell is in pleasanton and the Community Stepped up