Rigorous outdoor workout were still very poor to pour across the bay area. We do have the return of a little narrow moderates lot up in a maroon county this morning though little signs of hope as we work our way through this forecast light winds across the bay this morning, nothing enough to be sweeping out the remaining haze across the bay just yet. But we are seeing improvements gradually in the days ahead of us 50s and 60s for current temperatures, a cool start to yet another hazy morning. Go ahead and step outside with a light jacket on hopefully for no more than just a few minutes as for temperatures later today, youll notice a little bit warmer and a little bit brighter than yesterday was with highs in the 70s and 80s for most of our beside and inland areas. Darya and james. Thanks a lot john lets get to our big story this morning more businesses are going to be allowed to reopen indoors. Sorry not indoors yet outdoors in Contra Costa County and this of course comes as the bay area continues to deal with unhealthy air with kron fours will tran live in walnut creek for us this morning. With more on the story will. They just cant catch a break because they were hoping for this state to come why should say tomorrow theyre starting to peel back some of the covid19 restrictions but unfortunately being outdoors is not advised walnut creek, plenty of businesses that are celebrating for tomorrow. But for their customers and their employees they have to wear a mask and 95 is recommending so take a look at your screen. Let me show you some of the businesses that are reopening tomorrow. These are places that can touch your face they can do personal care. But that does not include piercings tattoos electrolysis they can have cardroom a lot of people we did this story in san jose about a week and a half ago card rooms are available tomorrow as well, but of course they have to do it outside racetracks professional sports, not sure how many professional sports. Teams there are in Contra Costa County. But nonetheless if there are if you want to do some sports. It all has to do outside. And thats going to be that way for quite some time so you cant blame the wildfires for that. But you can blame the wildfires for being outside enjoying the services and maybe having a hard time breathing let me quickly pull up a map for you and show you what you are waking up to johns raible youve been doing a great job at the 4 oclock hour talking about how conditions our little bit better than yesterday you might notice, im not wearing my mask i can personally tell you it feels a lot cleaner today and the man show it. Yes, there are a lot of areas that are read what you dont see are the purples there are some areas that are in orange and thats good as well hopefully well start walking backwards more and more as the week goes on walnut creek just like all the other areas in the bay area yesterday it was pretty tough we woke up yesterday with hazy conditions a little dark right now of course we cannot tell you we cannot see if the haze is sitting on top of us but changed area, let me be the human barometer when it comes to air quality. I have a predisposition for. Tough breathing. I mean i carry an inhaler with me sometimes i can tell you this morning. A lot better, but im not just celebrating just yet because i do have. My trusty mask all ready to go always next to me. And reportedly get this, i dont smoke i take care of my fitness but reportedly james darya doctors are even saying the way things are right now its equivalent to smoking half a pack of cigarettes every day why here. Okay so stay inside you absolutely all right, thank you very much well. 5 04 right now and today, berkeley leaders are set to vote on whether or not to issue fines to people who refuse to wear a mask, kron 4 Sarah Stinson in berkeley for us this morning with more on that vote good morning sara. The there. Yeah good morning. This is not the city or county that weve seen has tried to you know create a mask fine. The city of berkeley now saying we want to find people 100 per day for the first violation if they refuse to wear their masks. Even though is already required they want to make sure that this is solidified in that theres some kind of repercussion if you do not follow were well into the pandemic. And the people are wearing a mask and by now then yeah, i guess theyre going to be issuing fines if they do decide to pass this today, Berkeley City Council vote on this and its all based issuing fines to people who refuse to wear a mask now penalties could be increasing for repeat violations. Many other counties as ive said of already approved measures just like this actually their current requirements are very similar to San Franciscos wearing a face mask is already acquired in berkeley when stepping into a store waiting in line for Public Transportation inside any workplace really while outside dining if youre up from the like a restaurant you can up your table you have to wear masks as well as when youre walking running biking outdoors and someone is it within 30 feet of you as i said very similar to the language of San Franciscos rules. But now the city wants to vote on finding people the City Council Meets at 6 oclock tonight. I think people will feel about that in berkeley since they havent had these kind of finds put upon them in the past. Well have to see this morning will be out here asking people how they feel about this make sure to stay tuned in for now live in berkeley Sarah Stinson kron 4 news, thanks. A lot sarah. Well also in the east bay we have more vehicle based outdoor gatherings that are now allowed in Alameda County the updated health order doubles the limit of cars at Outdoor Church services from 200 to 400 cars. The new health order also allows new permits for outdoor Live Performances and lectures and presentations and movie showings as well. Bishop bob jackson that acts full Gospel Church in oakland is welcoming the new rules. Weve been on the parking lot weve been having Holy Communion services on for sunday. And it works out pretty well we have the and by then the music with the cars people in the cars and all they led the praise like we always do what were just outside and opened it from 200 to 400 cars in the parking lot i think it would be great. Well according to the health order occupants of each car have to be from the same household and have to remain in their vehicle. During the outdoor events. Small gym owners in San Francisco are calling the reopening phase another false start. After they waited all weekend. The city said out specific guidelines yesterday and the same day Fitness Centers were allowed to reopen indoors. That gave them little time to repair because it was sudden the list of directions included small boutique gym owners having to worry about capping their capacity at 10 . And that includes the staff members. Plus 12 feet of distance required for exercises that increase breathing rate and intensity. Business owners like Billy Paladino with tribe sfa north beach are concerned that theyre tight space. With the space is limited they are not going to able to accommodate enough members to make it viable and to do only about 3 people would be allowed inside according to the guidelines. He says. That can make up that revenue there. It says the state that will cinderella that she can come to the policy did x y z knowing that she was not going to able to do x y z and you know in a Small Businesses with limited space im going to comply with so the 10 it just really feels like an insincere by the city, im not sure whether thats because they got caught with your gyms you know as early as since july first, but i just really doesnt feel to have these regulations come on top of paladino says the reopening may help bigger gyms that have more space to work out. But for the smaller gyms its just not going to work. Well now to our wildfire coverage, thousands of firefighters continue to fight the dozens of fires that are burning all along the west coast. At least 35 people we understand have died in california alone more than 3 million acres has burned with more than 4200 structures destroyed smoke from these fires of course has created the poor air quality that were seeing all over the state. The major wildfires burning in california right now include the august complex fire thats the one burning in mendocino and humboldt counties the north complex fire. The one were following up in butte county. The creek fire burning of Fresno County and the el dorado fire burning in riverside county. And heres a look at the latest numbers for the wildfires burning here in the immediate bay area and they include the lnu complex fires in the north bay which is now 97 contained so thats an update from yesterday. The scu complex fires burning in the east and south bays is now 98 contained. The czu complex fires down in san mateo and santa cruz counties now 91 contained and lastly the wood fire in marin county out of the Point Reyes National seashore that fire now 95 contained. Time now is 5. 10 and the wildfire season that weve had so far in california has turned the debate into Climate Change. Into a campaign talking point. Many democrats rely on science they say President Trump continues to deny Climate Change the president spent 2 hours in sacramento yesterday getting briefed on the wildfire situation here in california from state officials before the briefing with Emergency Management and management to President Trump reiterated to the reporters his concerns about californias forest management. I think this is more of a management situation. In other countries you go to other countries in europe, governor newsome told the president that the fires are a direct result of Climate Change newsome also acknowledged that work needs to be done managing californias wildlands the majority of which is owned by the federal government. A closer look at the damage from the fires in the north bay as homeowners are returning to clean up the mess that was left behind. And San Jose City leaders have come together to fight Illegal Dumping well tell you whats even leaders are proposing to do to help clean up the mess and weve got a little more brightness through the haze yesterday were going to see a bit more that sunshine to hold on to haze throughout the day today 70s and 80s for most of our daytime highs. Ive got your forecast ahead. 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As a foe is also looking a little better to this view it was tough to look at. But definitely a little more normal looking at sfo getting closer and closer to where we should be but it is a slow go as far as Improvements Co were Still Holding on to port a very poor air quality for most of the bay, so as you get outside youre going to see a bit more brightness a bit more sunshine today and that may make you want to get out there and enjoy it more and more it looks a lot better and it is a little bit better but still limit that outdoor exposure because were not quite where we need to before you really start getting outside and resuming those outdoor workouts skies are dry across the bay area just a touch of some low lying cloud cover, not really dealing with much fog or visibility issues this morning. We are seeing sweeping winds working their way into the bay in Northern California from the south. This is pushing Northern California wildfire smoke out of the region and initially its starting to clear out upper levels of that smoke and haze thats why looking up you see more and more blue all if you look across the horizon, youre still noticing the haze because those lower areas are going to be the last spots where its really swept out. But we are seeing these improvements and well continue to see them through the rest of the week which is all really good stuff to be talking about winds are pretty light this morning so not a whole lot of that sweeping action going on at the surface. You head up a little bit higher aloft and winds are stronger and thus clearing for higher terrain areas. Temperatures today in the 60s and 70s closer to the coastline. It will be a nice cool one up the coast while temperatures inland will be noticeably a few degrees warmer than they have been areas like woodside saying carlos san jose all back into the 80s today after having been in the 70s the past few days, 70s and 80s as well for east bay cities livermore 85 while the creek 86 oakland youll be at 74 today, north bay temperatures also 70s 80s a little closer to 94 vacaville getting up to 88. Well santa rosa through center fell out of yesterdays 70s and back into the low 80s today. Tomorrow and thursday not much different temperature wise well continue to see progress being made as far as hayes goes with thursday and friday accelerating that progress these will be a little bit on the breezier side for days helping to sweep out more and more of that poor air and this just in time for next weekend with saturday and sunday looking even better in regards to air quality. Robin. Thank you just getting word of a new hot spot. Its been so quiet throughout the morning drive and now an overturned crash, lets check it out on traffic tracker this to the south just as you approach to 38 in san leandro a vehicle just flipped over, but we have some other cars involved as well, maybe a couple of lanes blocked the 2 right lanes so it is quickly backing up there at the scene you may want to stick with 5. 80 instead of the nimitz because we also have slowed traffic, leaving downtown oakland. Thats because of road work so 80 south from 9 abita fruit fill it slow and they are slow again approaching the overturned. So just stick with 5. 80 heading into San Francisco. You are looking good moving well, no problems at the bay bridge toll plaza, 92 the san mateo bridge its the busiest traffic filling in quickly here 12 minutes to the peninsula and some heavy traffic on south 6 ad out of concord just south of to 42 and Towanda Creek looks like it will pick up right before the 24 split james. All right. Thank you very much rob and 5. 18 on the clock the north complex fire burning in butte and plumas counties has destroyed now more than 700 structures, including a number of homes one firefighter from very you county lost everything and continues to work on the fire lines. Jessica mensch has the story. Thats or structure ends and right there in his 28 years as a volunteer firefighter chief free drink and has battled more than his fair share of flames. Weve seen a a paradise burn up and that was always in the back of our mind that if we get wind event up here. And theres a fire around here and be in trouble his Worst Nightmare king knocking tuesday as the north complex fire closed in on berry creek. He went door to door racing to evacuate its neighbors and we told you in your car go now you have no time he didnt even consider the fate of his own house until the next morning. I found out my home or down. Everything you ever had collected all your photo album serving or retired united says writer and the house is gone. And hes not alone. 6 of the 7 volunteer firefighters in the town lost their homes too. His business making water wells also destroyed along with their fire station and equipment. Because asters far but rather than call it quits. I dont want to take any time off right now because i dont want saddam think what i lost. Owns gone so, im just going to stay here and help my community so every day he continues to fight the flames patrolling for hot spots to prevent any further damage for sure after all he plans to come back to his hometown. And make it feel like home once again. Were just come pick up her pieces and were gonna say stronger were going to try to rebuild the best we can and Jessica Mensch fox 40 news. In the bay area homeowners in the north bay are cleaning up from damage left behind from the lnu complex fires and you can see one person looking over whats left of their property there on the outskirts of vacaville. Many people lost everything when asked about Climate Change impacting the fires one homeowner agrees to some extent. Have tradition of 20 thunder vision would ends. When its hot. He had about a 20 may have placed on it. Homeowners are sorting through whats left many hoping someday to rebuild. To the south bay now where Illegal Dumping in san jose is taking a major toll on the citys budget city leaders say its going to cost the city an extra 3 Million Dollars than what its. Currently budgeted for to clean the mess. This will pay for more dumpsters cleanup crews outreach enforcement all of that. A lot of the Illegal Dumping is coming from the homeless camps that have spread out across san jose but people are also throwing out more items as they clean their homes to because of the pandemic. If people are buying these sofas and appliances, theyre looking for ways to get rid of them and thats kind of been the challenge to people dont disposed of appropriately enough on the street or in and or in an encampment unfortunately. Well crews are picking up 45 tons of trash every week. If the extra monies approved. Then theyll be an emphasis on cleaning up illegal dump sites as soon as theyre discovered. Well take a break or 5. 21 coming up in a moment, some members of congress are calling for the removal of the postmaster general will tell you what conflicts of interest they say is impacting his ability to do his job. And of course still monitoring air quality around the bay area still in the port category but thats an improvement actually from what weve seen over the past few days so slowly, but surely, the air is starting to get cleaned out the couple more days i think we can breathe more easily but john troubles in the Weather Center. Well get a full update from hi its 5. 24 in national news, a House Committee is considering calls for removing postmaster general louis dejoy joy is accused of several conflicts of interest while running the post Office Washington dc correspondent Morgan Wright explains. We have a crony at the helm of our nations postal service, virginia congressman Gerry Connolly says hes concerned about the leadership of postmaster general louis dejoy we know postal workers can handle the bottom of that election mill. The question is whether those at the helm are taking steps to hinder that capacity, new york congresswoman Carolyn Maloney says allegations dejoy reimburse former employees for political contributions, he urged them to make are serious problem if true these allegations are not only incredibly an ethical. They are illegal maryland congressman jamie raskin question why dejoy was even appointed to the job in the first place how did this happen. This was not a president ial appointment, so it didnt go through the office of government ethics and i think theres anyway the office of government ethics would have signed off on an agency had who has large amounts of stock in a company this contracting with the Agency Republicans on the committee defended dejoy in called the hearing a waste of time were supposed to be having a postal update, not a single one of the witnesses even work for the usps georgia congressman jody hice called the hearing an attempt at political assassination. This is in my opinion is close to a Kangaroo Court is anything ive seen. Lawmakers say they plan to continue their investigation into the joys qualifications to lead the agency reporting in washington, im Morgan Wright. Coming up next a new plan to help out students in San Francisco struggling with Distance Learning. Well have details on that coming up in a moment, john and were getting there with their air quality still definitely nothing close to perfect but look at the progress weve made in fact a little bit of moderate showing up in yellow up to orange county. Still port report for the rest of your forecast ahead. Welcome back 5. 29 on this Tuesday Morning we are making progress as far as the poor air quality is concerned which is so nice to be talking about but i dont want to over optimize our perspective were still definitely not perfect or anywhere close to it. A little bit of a clear view of the walnut creek this morning. Air quality is still very pour for most of us nice little spotty yellow up in marin county though indicating the first return to moderate conditions that weve seen for any part of the bay and multiple days now so that is definitely great to be seeing that at least like i said we still have a ways to go though and these next few days will continue to offer more and more improvements, 50s and 60s are your current temperatures, a cool and hazy start to the day. Your forecast for the rest of the day still to come robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on some trouble spots around the bay area this morning its an overturned and thats in san leandro on the them its 80 south right before you get to to 38. This is where driver just flipped over and crews have the 2 right lanes blocked theyve already called for a tow truck. But that crash is creating a bit of a back up through san leandro which is spilling out to marina. So 80 south crawling from arena up to the scene there right before 2. 38 and then we have roadwork wrapping up in downtown oakland. Its still heavy southbound from 9. 80 of tough roof fell that should be gone in a few minutes here at the bay bridge toll plaza are looking good no delays into San Francisco james back to you all right robin, thank you 5 31 students in San Francisco who need extra support during distancelearning are now getting some help the city opened up dozens of sites that theyre calling Community Hubs. Its all part of the citys latest phase of reopening kron fours Maureen Kelly gives us a look. Im here at them or said heights playground and the rec center you see behind me has turned into one of the citys 45 Community Hubs this is where kids with the highest needs are able to get chromebooks and wi fi Technical Support and supervision as they do their Distance Learning. The kids who are getting the priority here children living in Public Housing that had. Not stable wi fi connections who are Homeless Children who live in singleroom occupancy hotels foster care kids these are all children who without support from the city will continue to. Disproportionately suffer in addition to getting help with their school work so that they dont fall behind during this pandemic there also. Getting to be around each other and playing in the playground, so theyre able to get socialization the social aspect. It leads to the mental aspect get to socialize little see someone in person and not actually did computer screen like it it is making to your kid you tyrion a good school like i did the last time you play in this didnt fit plus together they are. Service scene 800 students right now from k to 6th grade over the coming months bill beginning to add more middle schoolers and then high schoolers. At the end they expect to have 100 sites operating throughout the city and serving 3,000 students. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Elementary school in Santa Clara County is back open for in person classes yesterday was the first day back for a 193 students of action day primary plus private elementary school. The School Started the new school year in august with Distance Learning it recently got a waiver approved to hold in person classes. The schools principal Michelle Hara will join us live on kron on today to talk about resuming in person classes and you can watch that live interview starting at noon today. And kron fours airing a special focus on Virtual Learning tonight, were going to talk with educators from across the bay area about how families and teachers are dealing with the pandemic as schools continue to close their to be closed since last spring back to school coping during the pandemic airs tonight at 9. 30. Lets go to the south in our Small Business owners and faith leaders say that Santa Clara County officials are holding them back from reopening indoors right now the county is more restrictive than what state guidelines are recommending a local Business Owners on the ve ge of closing are urging county leaders to create a better pathway to further reopen the economy. One san Jose Councilmember agrees and says its time for the county to act. I want to start by saying government cant be all about saying no one ever asked the county to clarify when esta titian services can reopen in a statement here i always received we dont now has the answer. We have not been classified and it here. This is unacceptable. Local business is asking the county to consider a new plan towards reopening. Their plan includes more transparency on the reopening discussions at county meetings and also pushing for money and grants to help struggling businesses. The Santa Clara County Public Health department by the way is urging its residents to get flu shots this year. That is in addition of course to taking measures to prevent spread of covid19 so Health Officials say the annual flu affects many people in the same demographics as the coronavirus including those over the age of 65 and people with chronic medical conditions. Health officials also say that symptoms of the flu and the coronavirus are very similar and the 2 illnesses could be mistaken for each other if someone hasnt been properly vaccinated or tested for the virus. All california seeing a downward trend in the number of patients who are in the hospital right now with coronavirus and this is the first time the state has seen this few hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic so weve got a lot of progress made on that front the California Department of Public Health is reporting. As of this weekend there are about 28. 100 Covid Patients being treated at hospitals at the moment. There were twice as many patients in late july and early august. A doctor with ucsf is warning that although we are doing well right now things can change as we move forward, so we cant let our guard down. Just a cautionary tale of what can go wrong and now we havent really have high schools back in session at least around here. But in places that have had there been outbreaks of high schools, large large numbers of kids quarantine so i think we have to be really careful about the about the schools be really careful that adolescents are we have to be really Careful Congress People Living in residential. For for college. You know i think thats where the i think that as much as any work anything is where the new cases are going to come from keep that if we can minimize stat we will avoid a certain way. Well to remain on a downward trend. Doctors are urging people to continue wearing their masks and keep distancing because it is working. But there still is a lot of coronavirus out were going to continue to track the numbers for you to make you aware of whats going on as you can see in california. There are close to 766,000 cases now with almost 14,500 deaths connected to covid in the bay area thats more than a 1200 people who have died of coronavirus. Coming up on the kron 4 morning ne s, the smoke in the air impacting breathing around the bay, what doctors recommend you should do after the break. And ac transit is taking steps to protect riders from covid well tell you about the free things that theyre handing out to make you safe. And today look forward to some hazy skies, but also a little bit brighter as far as the hays shows that more and more of it gets swept out of the region. 70s and 80s for your high temperatures for your forecast ahead. And the morning commute is picking up out there its getting crowded on our bridges specially 92 the 70 oh bridge its already packed to the peninsula. Im still tracking a hot spot on the nimitz in oscar the grouch here to tell you, yeah, you, to wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. Were back at 5. 40 ac transit will start giving out free face coverings and hand sanitizers to riders masks and sanitizer dispensers will be affixed to the rear door of most of the buses between today and october 16th, this will be all part of a c transits renewed plan to maintain and protect the health of Public Transit passengers. Riders must maintain at least 6 feet of distance between each other while theyre on board and bus capacity will also be kept to ensure that riders can maintain their space. Businesses are having the extra creative to get sales in this pandemic one San Francisco spot called oasis is bringing their cabaret to your doorstep meals on the heels. They call it. Its a drag performance they delivery of food drinks and a little song and dance. Twice a week. The Business Owner says its been a benefit to the performer since they havent been able to work. And the audience who have missed the entertainment. Mostly across the board as a Community Building experience for both the performers to dust off the wigs and heels and were former from people again make some money lot of them you know its a big part at home whove been really are isolated make it a little bit of connection they get to see an actual live performance. From a distance of course as you can see there so if youre interested give them a call. As we head to break we continue to monitor the bad air quality across the bay area, heres a quick look at what its like in the east bay over oakland and out raga under you can see were in the red which isnt great, but its better than the purple sober. We really unhealthy as opposed to being hazardous it is Getting Better thats the thats the bottom line were going to get another update from john in the Weather Center as to where its going motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Who know an open mind is the only kind. Who dont need to travel to find something new. Who know where to escape, even just for a moment. Who dont need a fortune to find a gem. And who know when you spend less, you can discover even more. And never, ever stop discovering. Spend less, discover more. At t. J. Maxx, marshalls, and homegoods. 5. 45 right now bay area air Quality Management district extending the spare the air now through tomorrow and yes that would mark a new record of 30 consecutive days of alerts that weve seen here in the bay area with kron fours michelle kingston now with more from san jose. San jose state universitys campus is closed and has been closed since friday because of poor air quality. Doctors we spoke to say the stay inside if you can and if you have to go out make sure youre wearing a mask is and less than i havent my lifetime actually air quality in the bay area is expected to stay at unhealthy levels throughout the week the bay area air Quality Management district is extending the spare the air alert through wednesday, the smoke from the wildfires all over the west coast are continuing to impact us here locally san jose state universitys campus is closed because of the bad air. But plenty of people are still Walking Around campus. Doctors recommend staying indoors if you can with the windows closed and if you do have to go outside wear a mask meaning the longer youre out there. The worse. In the worst exposure you have so more particulate matter that can get into your watch the plane your lawns. Doctor sherman tam is an allergist in the bay area and says with more people staying indoors and Wearing Masks we could also be helping reduce the spread of coronavirus during this time of many people over a mask now i think any mass n 95 look explosive is is less because they are a mask and people say you because of kobe and damage they also help to reduce debt fingers yelichs oscillation Contra Costa County Health Officers say its too soon to tell if well see a decrease in covid numbers because of the amount of people staying indoors and Wearing Masks because of the smoke but they do say that whenever people limit activities outside of their home they do re uce their risk of getting coronavirus in san jose, michelle kingston kron 4 news. And how time before we headed up by what guess you know, its been 2 weeks it will be 30 days tomorrow with bad air craziness which makes what we had 2 years ago which was the last record for the number of consecutive spare the air row it makes that pale in comparison fact weve got john in the Weather Center and youre telling us john what 13 was the former record yeah, 13 back in 2018 which is when the camp fire was burning that was the former record guys. As you mentioned aria todays day 29 tomorrow will be day 30 with that the bay area air Quality Management district now officially extending that spare the air alert day through wednesday. So cool kind of crazy to put in perspective there that beats the former record by a full 17 days. And well no big surprise to us that have been dealing with it for weeks and weeks now we are seeing improvements which is good but improvements from the worst still means were nowhere close to the Half Moon Bay this morning, definitely hazy noticeable in the distance not really foggy though this morning you can see that we do have ports a very poor air quality of to the vast majority of the bay area just a narrow little bit of moderate up in marine county, our first little sign of that in multiple days now so were getting closer working our way in the right direction at least so its nice to be talking some good news in that regard. We will continue to see air in the upper levels getting cleaned out. Thats because we are seeing some very strong winds aloft from the south that really did a number on air right above the bay yesterday thats why when you looked up at the skies, it looked a little bit more blue. But when you look at the horizon you still noticed hazy conditions hanging out at the surface, its going take a while for that surface air to clean out as we are still seeing calm winds right across the bay itself when she left about a 1000 feet thats when you see that strong jet from the southeast pushing in and helping to at least start the process of sweeping out all the poor air weve been breathing in 60s and 70s for your high temperatures at the coast today. Well 70s and 80s will be your highs elsewhere burlingame at 78 degrees for your high today palo alto in redwood city right around 80 degrees for daytime highs, south bay temperatures back into the 80s for san Jose Campbell Cupertino Saratoga in los gatos well morgan hill up to 85 east bay temperatures not much different. We will be a few degrees warmer than yesterday but a similar range of 70s 80s and not excessively warm these are actually pretty seasonable numbers after what was such a cool past few days with all the haze and fog that you had been saying point raise in Stinson Beach in the 60s while petaluma and santa rosa right at 80 degrees today. Tomorrow and thursday not much different temperature wise. Although thursday into friday we really start to see improving conditions air quality wise as well see sweeping winds pushing into the bay area really getting some of that air mixed out of here and by friday it will be a little cooler and a whole lot clear to kick off the upcoming weekend. Over to you robin all right, thank you have several problems to talk about lets start off with a new trouble spot. On vasco road. Its impacting a lot of folks that are trying to get out of brentwood in Discovery Bay over to livermore southbound vasco at the south end of last week carols getting word of a car fire all lanes blocked right now you only have 2 on certain stretcher. Some time to one lane. For certain parts of vasco road. So its really jamming up traffic fire crews are responding to the scene and its definitely backing up southbound northbound us a little bit of crowding through the scene but that is a major trouble spot. Thats jamming up vasco the nimitz and overturn wrapping up in san leandro southbound right before 2. 38 your right lane may still be blocked that is the counter commute side. So its not a huge backup that you have to deal with that slow about a half a mile or so approaching the scene and then much heavier traffic leaving downtown oakland because of the usual role word, 80 south between 90 and fruitvale still tied up here at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is just slowly, trickling into San Francisco. We have a little bit of a line forming, but no major issues under 15 minutes off to fremont street daria thanks a lot rob and 20 states including california are suing the epa over its rollback. Of methane emission standards for oil and Gas Production. Last month, the epa formally rescinded obama era standards that regulate methane emissions from oil and Gas Production processing transmission and storage. The epa also rollback requirements for detecting and repairing leaks. The lawsuit claims these rollbacks will accelerate the impact of Climate Change and harm Public Health. This lawsuit comes as as with course we know our fires are ravaging the west coast and the midwest is grappling with floods and the east is dealing with hurricanes. Pulled out a very baseball. The as were up in seattle for a double header against the mariners how they blew a fiverun lead to lose the game. Lose game one yesterday but they made up for that loss in game 2 getting another huge lead and not giving it up the a split the doubleheader shutting out the mariners in game 2 with a final score of 9 to nothing. The as will travel to colorado to take on the rockies this afternoon. Meantime, the giants will make the trip up to seattle theyll be playing the mariner starting tonight. Or as we head to break, heres a quick live look outside we have our camera here at San Francisco International Airport and look at that it can actually see it. A relatively clearly compared to what its been like the past few days with a really easy smoky skies. A blanket in the airport. So theres some evidence anyway that the skies are getting a little better the air getting a little cleaner, though its still in 4 category well talk more about that Retirement Plana gives us confidence. We can spend a bit now, knowing were prepared for the future. Surprise we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. Im good at my condo. Well planned, well invested, well protected. Voya. Be confident to and through retirement. Welcome back 5. 55 on this Tuesday Morning we had some hints of blue skies yesterday which was a welcome sight after this past week. Theyre going to get more of that today skies are still hazy though an air quality is still pour so even as youre stepping outside getting ablett of a view of that brightness you want to limit that outdoor exposure dont do any rigorous workouts out there just yet id hold off for a couple more days, moderate air quality returns to portions of marine county most of the rest of us in the very pour range still. Todays daytime highs will rise a little bit warmer than yesterdays dead, mostly back into the 70s 80s. Robin. Thank you john several big trouble spots out there starting off with a problem on vasco road crews are dealing with a car fire that has all lanes blocked. Its southbound the commute direction of the south end of last week Harris Reservoir area and it is backing up traffic a couple of miles leading up to the scene so prepare for some delays heading into livermore overturned crash still active in san leandro 80 south before to 38 youre backed up just beyond marina so avoided take 5. 80 instead james. Thank you very much robin at 5. 56 well take a quick break but coming up for air quality across the bay area could impact businesses that were hoping to reopen Outdoor Service in the east bay well have more for you coming up in a live report. Plus leaders in the city of berkeley will be voting today on whether to Issue Citations to people who refuse to wear a mask. More youre watching kron 4 morning news at 6. Morning and thanks for waking up with us im darya folsom and im James Fletcher today is tuesday september 15th were halfway through the month of september already. What so 15 days in september tomorrow will be 30 days of consecutive spare the air alert. So months or the bad air. Yes, hard to lets if still think in thursday for things to break up and get a little better yeah definitely thats going to be one of our accelerating days as far as where were making progress thursday and friday youre going to see at least winds picking up helping to increase the speed of sweeping out that poor air weve already started to make progress but its been a slow go for sure, i mean were still in the port category for most of the bay. You can see sfo this morning little hazy although that view has improved from yesterday. We are seeing very port support conditions in orange and red on this map and just one little narrow spot of moderate rni
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