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Candidates. We have the latest on the search. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news at 8. Our top story tonight sideshows creating a bit of a nightmare for san jose neighborhood video from residents show the cars whipping around the intersection of camden and redmon avenues this is in the sunrise aumentan Area Neighbors tell ua the noisy gatherings have been upsetting their community for months kron fours dan thorn top of some concern neighbors about the site shows he joins us now live from san jose with more dan. Well can residents here tell me that at first it was just maybe one or 2 cars that would sort of spin around here at this intersection but lately its exploded into unruly sideshows and they wanted to stop. Wow the screeching of cars burning rubber at the intersection of camden enrichment avenues. Again another sideshow and this san jose neighborhood is fed up. Its scary. Its very scary basically we dont know whats going on and then we come out here and cars are doing this. Videos shared with kron 4 news show several cars whipping around in doughnuts as dozens of people look on saturday nights gathering taking place dangerously close to homes like of which are moving that fast and furious, its just the skin. This get in his home in may. You know. Fascist gotten to a house or something. Neighbors tell us this started out as just a sporadic car or motorcycle spinning around at the intersection. But its now grown into allout chaos for residents like crazy, you know on shimon metall says he moved into his home next to the intersection a little over a year ago. He says hes thankful the previous owners put up these large rocks because they may help to protect his home meanwhile residents hope the city can help come up with a solution like putting in a roundabout or installing cameras at we asked so many times have reported it so many times that this is happening in nobodys done anything about it thats the main issue. Residents here tell us that San Jose Police did respond to the neighborhood to on. Break up this sideshow here but apparently everyone got away and we have not heard of any arrests we did reach out to San Jose Police about these sideshows and they have not returned any of our calls reporting live in san jose dan thorn kron 4 news. Were all packed up the night were going to need saturday east and western white house which is about to walk away. Atm to get ready to show takeoff. It was trumps hands. A Castro Valley family in the process of moving is in shock thieves stole their rental truck as kron fours gayle ong reports tonight that truck contain almost the entire contents of their home including family heirlooms. Pretty stressful. It was already stressful enough to move across states looper cells moving truck was packed a parked outside his cast a valley home on cameron street that truck was locked and he kept the keys. But early saturday morning, someone broke in and stole it fully loaded on military paperwork and military work all that. My small and passed away a few years ago in all of that stuff that she had given jewelry ceramics to achieve major the truck contained other items that are irreplaceable Baby Blankets some that will mean my my great grandparents. Were going to my kids when theyre worn he rented a 20 foot long uhaul like this one with arizona plates, the Alameda County Sheriffs Office is investigating the crime may have been captured on neighbor security cameras, according to purcell the ewell was last seen on grove street near trader joes in Castro Valley around 02 15am her cell his wife tiffany their 2 children and dogs were about to leave for utah saturday morning plans to move cross country. Now put on hold dont know where to start what were starting her. Think what even now before really. The Purcell Family are insured but they want the items money cant buy back. In castor valley, gayle ong kron 4 news. Tonight all 9 bay area counties are now on the States Coronavirus watch list in total the bay area has recorded more than 52,000 coronavirus cases and 814 related deaths alameda and santa clara counties continue to lead the bay area with more than 11,000 cases and 10,000 cases respectively you can find a complete list of cases by county on our website kron 4 dot com today marked the first day for certain businesses to close again in San Mateo County jims places of worship hair salons and shopping malls all had to close or indoor operations or modify their business to operate outside or have curbside pickup. The county says shops that offer tattoos and piercings may not operate outside. They have to close completely the closings they say are all about safety. Im doing my part to support local people outside to go. Everybody comes out and supports him with motorcycle riders love the open road. 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Our meteorologist our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has more on this fire and the conditions that are certainly not helping the firefighters arent yet very hot dry in those places this little remote this is getting out there somewhat but you can kind of see the mountainous terrain out there making it very difficult for firefighters to fight any kind of those fires. In those areas, the winds havent been all that strong right now see them to about 10 miles per just to the east there and devils elbow. Theyre seeing some of those winds blowing on through continue concern is that fires burning some dangerous terrain. And could threaten some homes overnight tonight. We are looking at temperatures around the bay area are rather mild along the coastline of fact the fog kind of hugging the coast the blown away. And now were going to see some changes coming our way how about this gorgeous look toward the Golden Gate Bridge and that nice out there tonight with a marine headlands the sun about to set outside and here we go were working on a nice night ahead, we are going to see a return of some patchy fog maybe not as much temperatures right now weve got 61 degrees in San Francisco, 66 in oakland, 70 degrees in san jose 73 in livermore 78 in concord and 77 degrees in santa rosa tomorrow morning. Were waking up some patchy fog early on temperatures in the 50s in the 60s warming up by noon still some hot 90s in the interior valleys inland. Thank you or speculation orders are in effect for thousands of people tonight because of a wildfire east of los angeles. That has exploded in size and now bay area fire teams are moving in to help we have late details coming up. One of the u. S. Leaders in the covid19 fight issuing a dire warning why doctor deborah birx as the company has entered a new phase of this pandemic a San Francisco neighborhood has raised thousands of dollars to help local restaurant survive. Still ahead, burns of San Franciscos north beach neighborhood are stepping up to help restaurants in their Community Stay open we first told you about the volunteer program called north beach delivers back in april thats when neighbors started providing free deliveries in order to help those restaurants save money that money would otherwise have gone toward the Delivery Service fees as kron 4 sarah sak edicts tells us. The program is now generated more than 50,000 for north beach restaurants and its expanded to other parts of the city. Theyre free deliveries volunteers in north beach have now helped generate 50,000 from north beach restaurants over the past 3 months, its through a program called north beach delivers which started in april when the pandemic forced restaurants to move to a takeout delivery menu. The volunteer based program is free for customers in the business since restaurants save money that would otherwise go towards Delivery Service fees people are trying to support restaurants are ordering from them but oftentimes that does come at their expense because theres really high to the refuse in the middle of that equation is are trying to take that trying to make it a little bit more Community Job and any sonner created north beach delivers after watching his favorite Neighborhood Restaurants struggle, stay open. The program does deliveries every thursday night within this delivery zone and features a different restaurant, each week each week is really when its rewarding when were actually at that restaurant and were seeing were seeing their excitement because the restaurant or the frankly is probably the busiest has been a couple months at least for one night we can make it feel a little bit normal again now served more than 20 north beach restaurants in what started as a few people pitching in quickly turn into something much more. They now have 10 to 12 volunteers and repeat customers each week plus other communities in the city are now catching on most exciting for us is were growing outside of north beach to help other neighborhood associations and other Community Groups start the same model and their part of San Francisco where you start in russia know we in middle all started in the east were going to the to the rich friends village soon sunder says theyll continue the service as long as they need to theyre also looking at ways to use this free service for groceries and other Household Items in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. The Uss Hornet Museum in alameda reopened partially this weekend currently the hangar bay and the flight deck are open for tours. But the museum says it cannot hold regular events to the governors coronavirus mandate. Guess say theyre happy to museum is open and they dont mind wearing a mask to get in. I think its our turn to be open after hours what were doing this or 2 degrees weve been here before the knots and its different carrier. The use of face masks are. Take the precautions necessary to get in. A lot of history on that ship if youd like to visit the Aircraft Carrier you do have to wear a mask. You have your temperature checked before you winner, and there are hand sanitizers stations placed throughout the museum. In Southern California, thousands of people are forced to evacuate in Riverside County and out of control wildfire east of los angeles has scorched more than 20,000 acres are 23 square miles between riverside and San Bernardino counties is called the apple fire a number of bay area Fire Departments contra costa fire Moraga Orinda San Ramon Valley as well as prisoners from the California Medical Facility in vacaville arrived there earlier this afternoon so they could help out. Cal fire use modified aircraft to dump flame retardant the fire has destroyed at least one home and 2 other structures. No injuries have been reported there is 0 containment at this hour for more on the fire conditions, including the triple digit temperatures lawrence is back with us laws. We just talked about the fire burning in Colusa County now we have this one burning and Southern California this started yesterday at the yeah kind of a sign of things to come on. Were getting really into the heart. The fire season now so weve had some the hot summer temperatures already today against a very hot temperatures in and around this area, the winds, not super strong but youre talking some 50 mile an hour winds that will push to fire along there mainly out of the westsouthwest in and around that area headed toward border county park right now and certainly with those winds. The low humidity and the winds expected pick up over the next 24 hours maybe starting to see some of those winds of 15 maybe 25 mile an hour winds as we get in toward later tonight and tomorrow, so certainly thats a major concern is that fire expected continue to work its way in through that area and with those winds and the dry conditions in the hot not really good conditions. The fight those fires. Back out here weve got some mostly clear skies right now looking toward sfo. Yeah, no clouds so over a San Bruno Mountain theres were keeping things nice and clear so far highs today, running a little bit below the average in the San Francisco 65 73 nice in oakland 81 in san jose 91 in livermore 93 and hot in concord and 92 degrees for a high. In santa rosa winds going to be story around the bay area. I think the next few days were going to see a major cool down as we get them in this week in fact these temperatures going probably about 15 maybe 20 degrees below the average in some spots right now weve got some those winds over 2025 miles an hour Stinson Beach 26 in mill valley, 22 into fairfield and 15 at sfo right now. Overnight tonight were going to see some of those winds begin to subside just a bit and then by tomorrow afternoon guess what they start to pick up again as well see those winds starting to howl by the afternoon somewhat, especially along the coastline see the areas in yellow also in the red cross the Altamont Pass maybe some gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour. Right now were looking at 70 degrees in san jose 73. In livermore 64 degrees in berkeley 70 degrees in san anselmo and 77 degrees in santa rosa. Next few days we are expecting the changes on the way tomorrow, still warm inland, well still see some high 90s the warm spots, inland 70s 80s inside the bay and 60s along the coastline. The watch temperatures. They really take a dip, partly cloudy skies little damp to maybe some drizzle on tuesday and wednesday. Thank you lauren still ahead tonight from covid19 role model to hot spot cases in california have been searching since businesses reopen tonight a ucl a epidemiology is is pleading for a National Strategy plus a Bleak Outlook for much of the rest of the country. Why the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator is offering a dire new vie were living in uncertain times, but as californians well get through this together. If your income has been reduced or youve lost your job or your Health Insurance, covered california is here. We can help you find the Health Insurance you need to protect you and your loved ones. And, you may even get financial help to pay for your Health Insurance. So, if you or someone you know is without coverage, visit coveredca. Com to learn more or enroll today. So, if you or someone you know is without coverage, california is reporting more than 9,000 new covid19 cases that brings the state total. As you can see more than half a 1 million 509 thousand the state has confirmed a 132 more people died from the virus. That brings the death toll in california up to more than 9300 meantime, there are more than 4. 6 million covid19 cases across the u. S. That as the countrys death toll has passed a 154,000. The u. S. Continues to report more covid19 cases and deaths and any other country and the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator doctor deborah birx is warning. The u. S. Is in a new phase of the pandemic Meredith Wood explains. A new phase in the fight against coronavirus doctor deborah birx offering a dire new view on americas battle against the pandemic what were seeing today is different for march and april it is extraordinarily right spread its way into the rural as equal urban areas, doctor berks is Bleak Outlook comes as the u. S. Continues to report more cases and more deaths from coronavirus than any other country according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins university there are more than 4. 6 million covid19 cases in the u. S. And more than 154,000 americans have died from the virus. Meanwhile, a forecast published by the cdc projects, the death toll could climb to 173,000. By august 22nd, its very frustrating as an epidemiologist to see these cases numbers continuing to rise. Without a la