For your commute that traffic theres pretty stop and go you can see some of the traffic starting to back up there along that bridge and then move into the Golden Gate Bridge, this definitely is the lightest bridge out of all of them 37 to the tolls about 23 minutes for your morning commute there. And in the bay bridge here we go the maze to fremont you can see back to here definitely reaching past me on that overpass about 14 minutes for your drive. Daryn james thanks reyna. To one lets get to some breaking news from overnight and sad to say the u. S. Has set a new record now for the most covid related deaths in a single day you see the number on the screen behind us more than 3100 people have died now from the virus on wednesday alone most deadliest day we have seen in the pandemic and for the first time. More americans than ever in the hospital with covid a 100,000 plus americans are hospitalized in 20,000 of them. Or in the icu and this comes after california set records for numbers
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco
From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scary. We actually have some pictures of the hikers you see that there they are right there sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake edison volunteers are out there and theyre helping the hikers a stay fed and hydrated hydrated excuse me as they wait to be rescued and then we also have a map here showing where those hikers are in relation to the creek fire. Itself and you can see that red outline is the outline of where the fire line currently is and the marker that you see th
Kenny choi is an avid surfer around here. From his time in hawaii. This evening he is sharing what you can dget a rienor it mista and it can independent in a tragic way ocean beach stretches for miles an miles. No rock formations. It just stretches. Thats the Perfect Place for dangerous rip currents. We jumped into the water with First Responder and swimmers to show you what to do if you are caught up in a rip current. I zipped off my wet suit. Strapped on a go pro and jumped in. With a fire boat and water craft on standby, these men and won safrsco e frigid tersmiste people turn right back from where they came from like they are levering a building they came in. Reporter to reach the safe exit, theres a simple maneuver to get out. A rip current is all energy. Waves come in. Water has to go somewhere. What happens is water takes the easiest route out. Reporter heres shlddo when pulled away. Textbook explanation is swim parallel to shore. Onto a shallow sand bar, where the waves are bre