Francisco is using the california app. San francisco has a team of 200 contact tracers tracking the coronavirus progress. Weve been proud to say at host times we reach 80 of those who test positive. Were working hard to keep that going, were seeing it slip. Were in a surge. Now the city is using the california connected system. Using phones to help in the tracking efforts. Today San Francisco is rolling out a tool that other counties are using. Rather than replacing the team of contact tracers they will stretch their reach. How to quarantine properly and who that patient may have come in contact with recently. This is porsche. Were asking important. Were asking people to share the nams and mobile number of the close contacts. This allows us to reach out to those people and support them. Just as with the center tracers this will be confident. The aim is making sure they get the information about who may have been exposed. This is someone that people need to opt in to . When you get your
Helena. You can see the winds are already strong. And look at this, the red flag warning through at least 8 00 wednesday. So, even when the winds subside, the humidity very low as we head through tomorrow morning. Lets break down today. Going to be almost as hot as it was over the weekend but not as quiet. The east bay hills still 85 degrees up there with those winds. So, expect 70s at the coast 80s in San Francisco and 9 os and 100s for the rest of us. This could be the last day we say 100s. Ill show you the sevenday forecast coming up. Heres kumasi. Today is the first day of classroom instruction for hundreds of students in the north bay. Marin county approved waivers for more than a dozen schools to reopen during the pandemic. Education, as you know, one of the five issues that we focus on to build a better bay area. Lauren martinez is set at a school that is set to welcome back its students. Were in front of marin not all 15 will reopen, but they are allowed to do so. Now, the coun
Switch to xfinity internet advantageous places as and get a flex 4k streaming device possible. Also, joe biden caps the with peacock premium included for no additional cost. First Virtual Democratic Convention with a pledge to be a president for all americans. As president i will make you a promise, i will protect america, defend us from every attack, seen and unseen, always, without exception, every time. More from the Democratic Convention in a few minutes, but first we begin with the bay area wildfires. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And hello everyone im Heather Holmes. Sadly we have late word tonight of several fatalities in these fires. Solano county, a man was found dead in the aftermath of the hennessy fire. The Solano County sheriff says the man lived on Pleasant Valley road in vacaville varied his name has not been released while his notified and cal fire says three people have died in napa county. So far no other information has been released. The massive lnu co
Remain similar as it comes to the afternoon highs. We will go with 60s, 70s, 80s inland. It is another spare the air alert day. We have haze and smoke. It is continuing due to all the wildfires in our area. We will check in on those conditions and afternoon highs. We will talk about the weekend and just a little bit. At 4 31, we want to check in with sal. We do have roads open. Interstate is open, in case you were wondering. Cordelia, fairfield, getting up to vacaville, we have been watching those roads, so is highway 12. We are watching those for you. The traffic seems to be moving by okay. We dont have major freeway closures, as you can see. The Richmond Bridge traffic is very light. Most of the commutes are light. It is 4 31. Lets get back to the headlines. The fires are still raging out of control in the bay area and central coast. There are four new deathsaned o one mans body was found in debris. That was Pleasant Valley road in vacaville. Three deaths were reported along highway
Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out