Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g
We have you covered on all of that. Could be another big week for the white house. As the Administration Pushes for more reopenings, the economy after the worst jobs report since the Great Depression on friday. More staffers put in quarantine at the white house. And war of words with china is escalating as we speak. We expect a briefing by the way, from the white house in just under two hours from now. A live report from d. C. Coming up to tee it you will for you. Plus tesla, ceo elon musk is at it again. Over the weekend he threatened to pull his companys headquarters out of the state of california. Well tell you all that and more right now. Cheryl treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin saying that the economy may be permanently damaged if it is not reopened and reopened soon. Coming as white house trade advisor Peter Navarro hammered china over its handling of the pandemic. Blake burman joins me from washington over the latest. And what is happens at the white house. Reporter cheryl, no se
Baseball is looking at an 80game season starting in july. Football arrives in september. Disney allowed, what, onethird capacity at its shanghai park and it sold out. While lockdowns continue, they are being challenged most notably by elon musk. Wasnt to op he wants to open his tesla plant in california. The Authorities Say no. Hes going to court and says he will move out of state if the factory stays closed. As for the market, that will open lower. Solid gains recently but a pullback so far this morning. The dow is looking at a loss of 270. The s p down about 30. The nasdaq off about 72 points. Lets get to politics. Big week for that. It is trump versus obama. General flynns lawyer says the plot to undermine the Incoming Trump administration was launched in the white house by outgoing president obama. President trump calls it obamagate. Theres a lot more coming on that one, believe me. Its monday morning, may 11th, already, and another big show for you. Varney company is about to begi
In our cover story. Contact tracing means tracking the spread of a disease from each person to everybody theyve been in contact with. What weve been focusing on a lot in the United States is the care and treatment aspect. Almost no attention has been paid to the Contact Tracing piece. C. E. O. S of apple and google released this joint logo. But thanks to a history a hiy ric collaboration between google and apple, our phones may be able to do the Contact Tracing for us. How big tech may save a lot of lives. Pauley Erin Moriarty talks with the stars of a new tv series, depicting the longfought battle over the equal rights amendment. Why should women accept this picture of a half life. Set in the 1970s, a new tv series returns to long hair, short skirts, and two very different womens movements. Women are not monolists. They are religious persuasions, all persuasions. Later on sunday morning, the battle for equal rights, then and now. Pauley weve been seeing a lot of people interviewed fro
The driver tried to stop. He had a green light. Hit the kid and he flaw in the air. The victim is at the hospital suffering from life threat inning injuries, hes a 20yearold. And thursday morning near ocean and harold a woman was hit. Shes suffering life threatening injuries. Jody with walk sf reports in 2019 there were 18 pedestrian fatalities. Its tragic. Every fatality from traffic violences, one thats preventable and one that were trying to eliminate through education and engineers. Starting january 29 a 2. 2 mile stretch will be closed vehicle. Only commercial plates will be allowed. Off limits even to car share drivers. I have to go around and come back. I have to drive more. The krohn kill report an average of 100 collisions annually on the section of market that will be off limits. Private vehicles not being on here will make a difference. Were going to reduce that level of collision between people and drivers. Now according to walk sf in addition to the fatalities, theres hund