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
Outbreak to hit City Health Officials say it is not a matter of if but when Health Officials announced 2 new cases of coronavirus in Santa Clara County. This brings the total number of crowd of iraq fires cases in that county to 9 in San Mateo County Officials Say one resident has tested. Presumptive positive for coronavirus which means the person has tested positive at a Public Health lab. Officials are awaiting additional confirmation testing from the cdc has new cases with unknown are just begin to pop of understanding the risk of cor navirus has become more and more important. The cdc says at this point we should all be prepared for more cases to emerge across the United States kron fours well bellow spoke with an Infectious Disease expert at u c berkley is she standing by live with more well thats right the head of Infectious Diseases at u c berkeley doctor lee riley says. This is an outbreak it is an epidemic after comparing it to sars and mers he believes there are 3 likely outc
Into San Francisco. Were looking good so far with no big problems and thats roughly 8 minutes thats not bad at all right thats considered quick. Thats your average from the bottom of the maze through the pay gates across the upper deck and after fremont street, heres 92 our busiest bridge and its not bad. Its just crowd already have a lot of folks packing up rolling to the peninsula so well put it at 13 minutes and growing off to one o one west 5. 82 the richmond sandra fell bridge doing just fine and easy commute of 6 minutes to the north bay and the traffic tracker has more freeways and more drive times so take a peek to take 6. 80 of sell its 11 minutes for 2 danville thats going south maybe youre dumb. Martin bridge commuter. Its a 13 minute trip off to bayfront expressway. No problems for 5. 18 no hot spots for want to want an easy trip heading north from brisbane to San Francisco. Americans have lost their lives. The coronavirus and on behalf of the president. And all of the Amer