The virtual meeting that lasted more than two and a half hours. Opponents said that they dont want this to be turned into a hundred and thirty one rooms for permanent housing for the homeless but supporters say that that isnt needed. Many people spoke out from the community tonight. In San Franciscos japantown tourists are beginning to come back but a battle over the future of a nearby Tourist Hotel is creating controversy the city wants to buy the kimpton hotel buchanan. Converting it from a temporary shelter for the homeless during the pandemic into permanent supportive housing losing forty or fifty thousand. Tourists a year. Is going to. Impact the small businesses and restaurants a large building it is very high quality it has private bathrooms its has great access to transportation and social services at a virtual meeting Wednesday Night the department of homelessness and supportive housing heard hours of public comments. This is something that is incredibly needed this building i
Evacuees. I left with my friend and her mom. Reporter it was a moment of crisis for timothy prichard, who left his South Lake Tahoe home of 13 years just days ago. He is now getting help at the renosparks Convention Center. The newest Evacuation Site for people forced to evacuate. As the Caldor Fire continues to burn in the tahoe basin. It really hit me. It was a rude awakening. Reporter on tuesday, people at the Gardnerville Shelter were told to leave and relocate to the Convention Center with nearly no warning. We asked the red cross why. The reasoning behind it is because we could be what much more efficient, for one thing, and because of staffing. Reporter they say volunteers are stretched thin across the country. Wildfires rage across california, help is also being provided in louisiana, where hurricane ida left people without power, stuck surrounded by devastation. I didnt even think i would get evacuated. Reporter Brandon Canfield is a South Lake Tahoe native, born and raised. T
Of homes and push dense, black smoke into northern california will have the latest from the fire lines. Love the quick trip into the Grocery Store ends with a precious Family Pet still. And now the desperate effort to find it. Good evening and thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8. Im Ken Wayne and im Pam Moore in San Francisco. Coronavirus infections are as high as they have been since the beginning of the year. But. There is a major difference when it comes to hospitalizations. Take a look at the numbers that were about to put up on the screen. San Franciscos Department of public health is reporting the latest Sevenday Infection Average this is on august. 1st was 267 cases a day. The last time the sevenday average was that high was back on january 17th. But take a look at a key difference in hospitalizations. That number stood at 97 earlier this month. But the last time infections were at that rate. The number was much higher at 245 kron. Fours Amanda Hari talked with an infecti
Conditions, the Police And Fire departments in Berkeley And Oakland have teamed up to close the road to all nonresidents. We understand people want to have fun and enjoy themselves, but the smallest of an accident, whether it be a cigarette or the smallest of the safe and sane fireworks, which we dont allow anyway, but it can create a catastrophic fire. Reporter another issue . The traffic. Firefighters say the conditions in Berkeley And Oakland hills are so dry if there was a fire, it would be hard to evacuate residents and visitors down those windy roads. So firefighters say they are putting extra staff on for the holiday weekend, but theyre asking people to just heed the warnings and please celebrate responsibly, liz . Leave it to the professionals. All right, katie, thanks. Well, expect to see beefed up patrols in the San Jose pl laslls as well. Ye in the jose alone. Thats one city. This year the Sheriffs Department will have at least ten extra deputies out looking for illegal fire
Vaccinated and immune. So compare that to rules at restaurants, the baseball game, that i went to earlier here this week. How different to the rules need to be . Is there more of a risk of exposure with coworkers . There is not more of a risk if there is very little circulating virus, so when i read what they are considering, i thought, they think, they seem to think that it could concentrate somehow in a workplace but if there is very little virus and community, cant actually concentrate. It is physically wont be there. So i think it is, the effectiveness is sort of to stunning for people to sometimes i think accept how amazing they are but cdc is not an unconscious organization. They are very cautious and when they recommended that we dont have to mask if you are vaccinated, they were right, and i, i would urge them to do the right thing because it is going to stifle business if everyone is masked and yet to come here and mask we dont have to go to a Neighboring State for Example And