Serious and dangerous conditions. The Air Quality is getting worse and will continue into the afternoon. Really starting to see those sensors show moderate to the east bay. Even here we are tomorrow afternoon, its still going to be smokey, although we may see some minor improvements right along the immediate coast line. But we have all of these very large fires putting large billows of smoke into the air, and now with the northerly wind its pushing that right into the Bay Area. So with the high wind gusts we also have the high fire concerns, especially for our elevations above 1,000 feet. And as we go into the rest of today, the winds will gradually calm down as weve seen more of a northerly wind that will turn westerly heading into tomorrow. But it does still look like that smoke will linger. Well talk about that as well as that Fire Danger coming up in a few minutes. Just in, firefighters in the North Bay Rush into action to prevent a Vegetation Fire from growing. Our Sky Ranger shot
Exploded to the second largest wildfire in California State History at nearly 490,000 acres already charred. Meanwhile, a new united nations report giving a dire warning about climate change and this is a 3,000 p ge report, but it says bottom line climate change amounts to a Code Red for humanity. It says sea levels are rising faster problems like heat waves and droughts and floods and storms all getting worse. Kron fours. Lauren lister has more on the dixie along with this troubling report. Today. A landmark united nations report sounding the alarm on climate change. This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread. Rapid and intensifying unprecedented in of years. Scientists say each of the past 4 decades have been the warmest on record since pre industrial times. Whats more, it is. Indisputable, the human activities are causing climate change, human influences making extreme climate events including heat w3ves, heavy rainfall and droughts. More frequent and sev
Plus the majority of local students will be back inside classrooms in a few days. But hundreds are choosing a different direction. Selecting a virtual academy. Instead. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock. Im Ken Wayne and i pale more across the state. More than 5500 people are currently in the hospital with covid. That is the highest number of hospitalizations since february and again, many doctors and nurses are feeling overwhelmed. Kron fours. Michelle kingston takes a look at how hospital staff, how they were feeling before the state reopen done. How theyre feeling right now. You know, now were back at full capacity again and nurses and doctors and respiratory therapist are exhausted. Weve had to do double shifts extra chefs. Tammy, the check is an Icu Nurse at kaiser in Walnut Creek where the number of covid patients is rising. Theyre seeing upwards of 35 patients a day. Thats hard because theres just not enough resources and where start having what we
Headed for really the rest of the forecast after today. A look outside right now shows you San Francisco a blanket of Cloud Cover out there. We do definitely have some winds pushing in from the coastline. What were going to be seeing in Fog Cast is some good visibility that blanket of Cloud Cover at the coast is solid. But we have a relax enough Sea Breeze that youre not seeing such a deep in the marine layer above the bay itself. So its a mostly cloudy start. But is actually all right. As far as visibility goes for most radar shows dry skies. Its more than we can say for yesterday when were looking at thunderstorms trying to reach their way into the area. Guess what, that convective potential is all but shifted out of the region. Can see its actually pretty quiet in the sierra right now. Still a chance of thunderstorms in the sierra this afternoon. None of that here in the Bay Area, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures conquered in pittsburgh at 6162 degrees. Oakland Dublin And L
Area yesterday we saw ourselves moving out of that. And today really going to be a nice cool down for us. So a nice change of pace for those of us that just worked to fund to those triple digits, which i dont imagine were very many of us looking outside this morning. At a Court Toy at coit tower. Cam. You can see its all lit up. Nice and or the low gray. That is really shrouding the Bay Area this morning. Good news is that visibility for most areas is ok, its just a cool and brisk starts. You absolutely need the jacket as youre getting out there for coastal areas. You want the jacket all day long today while elsewhere, youll be able to get away without it is the sunshine does eventually come back out. Radar does show dry skies aside from those low great conditions and some drizzle that is being seen near the coastline and up into the hills of the east north bay, too. The high Pressure Ridge that brought us that Heat Wave that rain was talking about has gradually slid that just a bit fu