She was here with her seven children. Two were adopted from haiti, one has special needs. It is beyond the personal side of this that attracts her to the republicans and the president. They are very happy with her views on gun rights, abortion, and of course, on immigration. I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and most important duties. Reporter President Donald Trump announcing who he hopes will be the next Supreme Court justice. She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterile in credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the constitution. Reporter his pick, Amy Coney Barrett, a 48yearold appellate judge and notre dame law professor. She is a conservative mother of seven. If confirmed, barrett would be the fifth woman to sit on the Supreme Court. If the senate does me the honor of confirming me, i pledged to discharge the responsibilities of this job to the very best of my ability. Reporter the nomination comes amid strong backlash from democrats
Everything one has been extended and extended air alert is an effective from the bay area for scorching temperatures. Lets go straight to meteorologist john peck. Devon i want to go back to those concerning pictures we are still saying of the flames in napa valley. The exact example of what the red flag warning was sinus with the conditions were set up for. Take a look at the map behind me. Kind of a unique map. Lets get ourselves oriented on here. It is black and white. Firstly you can pick up the bather and severed cisco. You see a black dot appear. You can see the outline for napa county. That is the satellite reading the heat signature coming off of this new fire. No official name of this yet. Thats how new this is. We are only within the first hour of knowing about sarah. That is what is trending on socially at this point. We have got no acreage to share with you. One thing about map like this is, if the satellite table reads the heat signature from space, this is a fire that is g
Today, it might seem odd but yesterdays marine layer that created that orange glow actually provided us with some relief from the smoke but today, the air quality has dropped to his unhealthiest in days, youre all just want to issues out there and joins us now with the very latest orange, yeah, this looks very similar to a couple years ago with the paradise fire. We have the offshore winds. And all the smoke up or back in the bay area boy just very thick out there right now this looking from timber on back toward the Golden Gate Bridge lost in some of that smoke and fog outside right now the air quality. Very bad around the bay area in extremely unhealthy specially in a San Francisco right now i want you to look at this you see the darker shade here the purple here that is the most unhealthy air quality in the entire bay area right now very unhealthy but everywhere you go just about in the san mateo you get Fremont Hayward you names in the areas shaded in red here actually a little bit
This month. It is a record. We can tell you that that breaks a record of 14 days, you have to go all the way back to 2018 during the camp fire for that. And that 24 days in a row were going to be 25 days tomorrow and likely could be extended past that because of this bad air. Often the distance is downtown San Francisco. But its barely visible like the ash that sits atop cars the smoky skies here are a grayish white making for another day of unhealthy air quality. Its actually worse today in terms of breezing that it was yesterday thats much worse today and i have to masks and not now thats how bad the says in fact their quality was worse on thursday because a layer of fog that kept the smoke aloft wednesday. Dissipated the air is mixing were down to ground weve weve weve lost that you know protection yesterday so were seeing that the readings of really jumped up in the bay area as the air mixes down bringing all of the smoke with it and while some people were still out and about. Many
Cars back on its tracks. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus thank you for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight once again a dense layer of smoke from dozens of wildfires. They darken the skies around the bay area again today, this is a live look at the bay bridge. Those lights really illuminating just how smoky and hazy it is once again. Yeah well the orange glow from yesterday is mostly gone the poor air quality sure isnt. We kick off our kron 4 Team Coverage with the latest air quality checked around the bay from chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence yeah thats kind of the irony we dont have that orange glow today, theres less smoke in our atmosphere, but the smoke that youre next all the way down to the surface and the spore quality out there right now and you can see out toward sfo you see the lights out there you see the haze that smoke down below as a small continue just to flow around the bay area and it is bad in some p