From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a knight tense time says firefighters in oakland have been busy late this afternoon and tonight feverish lee working to get control of this brush fire. That burned dangerously close to homes and drivers along 5. 80. Thankfully, nobody was injured tonight and the damage appears to be minor good evening, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis took more than 50 firefighters to answer the call and although the fire is contained tonight, its still a very active scene for us taylor sackey joins us now shes. Live in oakland where crews are still working to make sure hot spots still flare up. Taylor this was really scary. Earlier today, gran, yes again lot of these neighbors, a large scale scare because the fire was getting close. But thankfully, we know now that that fire is contained and you can actually see behind me that many of these firefighters are packing up in this intersectio
Make for a bit of a grey start right now were in the 50s for most areas with a few 40s on the map in both livermore 49 degrees. Although napa you were there just a minute ago that youre actually right up to 50 degrees so temperatures wobbling around just a little bit for some of our spots, San Francisco oakland and san jose in the 60s to 70s for high temperatures later today really nice afternoon conditions to be looking forward to and i know it will be a beautiful friday and saturday to get out there and hopefully enjoy the 70s but will it be all right on the roads is question robert is here to tell us more about that i guess it kind of depends on where theyre heading this morning job because some fox look great other spots not so much, but ill start off with a look at the bridges around the bay area this morning a live look. At the bay bridge toll plaza this is one of the good commute 80 west in San Francisco doing fine as you can see its wide open here at the toll plaza so no worrie
The finish of the weekend, so red flag warnings expiring for most of the bay area now hang on and read in Solano County then up into lake mendocino counties out into the central valley. What youre seeing in that goal this you on the map what these are are high wind watches that actually dont take effect until sunday into monday that is expected to be the windiest time of this weekend so keep your eye out for sunday night into monday morning well be talking a lot about that early next week as for right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with livermore in napa each in the low upper 40s right now 51 while Oakland Hayward and San Francisco. Each in the 50s so your forecast definitely not bad to be starting this morning and im thinking that traffic actually is holding up pretty good to at least the bay bridge not looking bad robin yes, it is indeed still friday light, so thats great a lot of folks are taking the day off must be checking in on the commute into San Francisco and there it
Reporter after months of shelter in place order San Francisco is now the first bay area county to achieve the lowest risk under the states blueprint for a safer e kick economy. A new county is benefiting, San Francisco county is moving from orange to yellow today. They are trending in the right direction. Cases are dropping. A few months ago the case rate was hundred 30 new cases per day. Now we are down to about 30 on average so that is very good news. Reporter those low numbers come even as the countys testing as many as 5000 people per day. Hospitalization rates are also low with just 25 people currently hospitalize with covid19. The county is also making major inroads in reducing coronavirus rates in the latino population. The yellow tear means the county can now proceed with its reopening plans. Starting next week nonessential Office Spaces will be allowed to open a 25 capacity. Health gyms will be allowed to open a 25 capacity if things continue to move in the right direction. Re
Two weeks until election day. Two foreign actors, iran and russia, have taken specific actions to influence Public Opinion relating to our elections. Accessorizes of meddling as President Trump and joe biden are on the eve of their final debit. In a rare nighttime News Conference, the fbi says russia and iran are trying to influence the election. This is something weve been warned about for years. The feds say Iranian Intelligence was responsible for recent emails sent to intimidate voters. Here is nbc bay areas ian cull with the details. Reporter tonight, the fbi and National Intelligence director say russia and iran have obtained voter reg registration information. Nbc news is reporting tonight that iran sent intimidating emails like this one to democratic voters posing as members of the far right proud boys who support the president , saying vote for trump or well come after you. When we see indications of foreign interference or federal election crimes, were going to aggressively i