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
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
Largest wildfire engulfing an entire Mountain Town, Gutting Dozns of homes and other buildings. Some dating back to californias gold rush era. And a new Fastmoving Wildfire breaking out near a City North of sacramento. The flames burning out of control. Evacuation orders for thousands of residents. Willght. Thousands of passengers stranded at airports. Spirit airlines issuing widespread cancellations for a fifth day. What the carrier is telling customers tonight. Plus, how the faa is targeting Alcohol Use. The deadline for new York Governor andrew cuomo. An impeachment investigation nearing its end. State lawmakers give the governor until next friday to provide additional evidence. New fallout from a report claiming he sexually harassed multiple women. The shocking attack on a driver in rhode island. A woman brutally beaten after being pulled from her vehicle with her child inside. Honors for the heroes of January 6th. Congressional Gold Medals awarded to the brave Police Officers and
Fueling the flames. In california, a fire gutting dozens of homes and other buildings. Some dating back to californias gold rush era. And a new Fastmoving Wildfire breaking out near a City North of sacramento. The flames burning out of control. Evacuation orders for thousands of residents. Will carr is on the ground tonight. Thousands of passengers stranded at airports. Spirit airlines issuing widespread cancellations for a fifth day. What the carrier is telling customers tonight. Plus how the faa is targeting Alcohol Use. The deadline for new York Governor andrew cuomo. An impeachment investigation nearing its end. State lawmakers give the governor until next friday to provide additional evidence. New fallout from a report that says he sexually harassed multiple women. A shocking attack in rhode island. A woman beaten after being pulled from her vehicle with her child inside. Honors for the heroes of January 6th. Congressional Gold Medals given to the brave Police Officers and others
So many of you are worried about, the covids bike, the Delta Variant and the scramble to get tested in the Bay Area, as we are one day into the new indoor Mask Mandate. The states seven Day Positivity Rate now up to 6. 7 . Thats a. Seven jump from a week ago. But how easy is it to find out if you actually have covid or not . Kpix 5s Kenny Choi has been digging into it for us. Kenny, what did you find out . Access to testing is being watched very closely by city officials. There is no commitment yet by the city to expand the hours or even the testing locations at this point. But when you talk to people trying to get tested, the wait times are longer and the struggle is real. Lines forming, cars idling, weaving their way into the Citys Test Site on alleman lord today. Demand is up and climbing higher. Now we have vaccines and we are back to hundreds of people trying to get tested again. This notice coming up on the Countys Health Department website, listing testing locations, stating apa