This weekend marks 50 years of pride in San Francisco, but coronavirus will change the way we celebrate them. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a saturday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher we do want to start the hour with a check of weather before we get to the headlines and so lets say good morning to john trouble find out how foggy it is out there it was pretty dense when was late yeah i definitely does the wipers myself to that might have made all 3 of us very much so a foggy start to the morning, one of your worst visibility mornings at the so do watch your travel on bridges right now your view from alcatraz not showing you much, but that gray that is hanging out all across the bay area currently so as we make our way through the morning youre going to notice that fog will begin to lift right on top of that they did to bridge visibility is about to be improving. But as for the east bay hills and the coastline, its going
On the embarcadero about 2 miles away from where this fire is burning right now, San Francisco fire saying the flames are coming from a garage and i want to show you what crews are dealing with right now this is video just in to the kron 4 news room that a viewer posted on twitter you can see huge amounts of black smoke filling the sky and kron fours taylor sackey also nearby in the area and she shared this video on twitter as well we can see flames coming from behind those 2 victorian buildings and firefighters there on the stairs trying to lift that hose going into the back of the building actually gets stuck to sort of on the tire of the car thats parked there. The firefighter than us to go lifted up. Theyre trying to get the hose there into the back so they can get this fire out those orange flames, theyre very visible. In this video. Now there are no reports of any injuries at this time and we dont have any word right now on how this fire started i did hear from some kron 4 news v
Damaged because of this fire. Investigators are still determining where it broke out and how it broke out, several people are believed to be displaced tonight we still dont have those numbers and in terms of the amount of people but they will not be able to return to their homes. As firefighters are made on scene here if you take a look behind me. The firefighters had a number of ladders that were put up onto the roof areas of these apartment buildings that are really tightly knit together here on washington street. The flames were seen on top of the roof area also a lot of smoke that was seen by neighbors, but thankfully, no one was injured inside of these out in this again were still trying to learn how many people were there but a lot of people that saw the smoke say they were surprised and they were even more surprised once they saw the flames. Flames bursting up. It was quite spectacular and a tremendous outburst of black smoke. We have a smoke so from a distance or support a fire
Were monitoring very closely for you, what is an acceptable surge . They usually like to say three to 5 increase over existing cases and a three to 5 increase of positive cases from what were positive cases before. It is not a hard and fast rule. But were watching that very, very closely because were told right now senate cdc is going to start giving specifics to that. I have not seen that before coming to air to join you right now. That is really going to be the big one to follow today, because if that shows to be beyond that range, some of the states that had planned roll outs will delay those rollouts. Whether that applies to florida is anyones guess. Right now the cases there have been noteworthy in terms of the spike but so far on the part of the governor there no plans to change the continuing rollout of these sheltering and various phases that will essentially get the entire ocean state open by the end of next month. All right. Lets get the latest. Excuse me, from edward lawrenc
Higher. It probably wont sit well with a lot of people but it is certainly being welcomed by Public Health officials. The governor puts its in a tweet, he says californians are now required to wear face coverings in public spaces, together we can slow the spread, do your part, wear a mask. Here how this coverup is to work. It is any indoor public place or highrisk setting including shopping, transit, rideshare or medical offices. The governor is taking it statewide. On the other hand, some people find masks on overage, and overreaction. Some people walk around and its like the end of the world. Reporter now the governor with infections rising has made his recommendation on facial coverings mandatory statewide. Experts say too many people are ignoring local Health Orders and harassing local officials over masks so a uniform order make sense. I hope it will make a big difference. Notable studies show masks blog infectious spray from getting into the air and while this science is a myster