New this year and the ongoing challenges in one of our regions Largest School districts. Live from jack, london square. This is morning. Time to the nine, right . Good morning to you. Today is thursday, august 10th. And were starting with this here. Were looking live at the oakland estuary across the oakland estuary where you can see that steel recycling plant. It is still burning this hour near the port of oakland, although the smoke has gone down considerably, even since just a couple of hours ago. Welcome to the nine. Because of the dense smoke given off from the fire since it started the bay area air Quality Management district issued an air quality advisory. However, the Environmental Protection agency says its hazmat teams have tested the air and say air quality levels are within normal limits. Despite all the smoke smoke. So nothing particularly toxic burning there that were all breathing in. Officials are worried that that smoke, though, could drift over and affect cities like
Plus, people in open continue to share their thoughts on what they want to see in their next police chief. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. And thanks for waking up with us aria and im james. 09 00am as the time and before we get all those stories. Lets take a look outside the suns yeah, in some spots and maybe a few layers there. John. Lets take a peek yet. Getting brighter and brighter as the moments go by. And so there are some burnout liars. Most notably San Francisco berkeley right now. But a lot of us are warming up and really cleared out by now, looking at the embarcadero, youve got the low gray overhead. Youre not driving through it. Youre just looking up at it. Still hanging out above you. Visibility has improved for the vast majority of the bay north bay in coastal areas. You are those stubborn holdouts 60s for most of our current temperatures. Even under that sunshine, brentwood, youre at 67 while alameda and oakland at 62 64
Driverless cars to San Francisco. And today, the puc agreed with them. The vote is three one. The item passes on thursday. The California Public Utilities Commission passed two resolutions voting 3 to 1 on each to allow more driverless taxi rides in San Francisco. So crews and waymo will now have the ability to expand driverless rides around the city. This is an incremental approval. It builds on existing approvals and its not the last action. The cpuc or the dmv will be taking in regulating these vehicles. Commissioner genevieve koroma was the only person to vote against expanding driverless car rides, citing opposition from First Responders who have expressed safety concerns. First responders say self driving cars have interfered with their jobs nearly 70 times since 2022. One woman says she ds advanced enough for more use on busy streets. The greater problem is that the cars dont dont recognize unusual situation. And like a lot of people said today, theyre still learning. Still supp
James waking up at 08 00am with a live look here at sfo behind us will get out there in a few minutes with kron fours michael one of the big stories, which is the maui fires and evacuations, right . First, we want to take a look at the weather. Were inching near the weekend. And it seems like weve weve. Were told when to routine these gray mornings and sunny afternoons. Yet been definitely a routine the past few days cooler than what we had seen this past weekend, too, which is at least made your afternoons a bit more enjoyable to step outside that sunshine where were at this morning. Yeah, theres the gray above the embarcadero right now. And were right back to some of those foggy conditions at the coastline. I turned windshield wipers a time or 2 this morning. Expect the chance of that as well as youre heading out there. Current temps are familiar yesterday. We were right here 50s and 60s. But after today and tomorrow, there are some changes that it involves getting a whole lot hotter
Station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning and thanks for joining us on a thursday. Im daria and im james. And this thursday morning as a nice gray start, weve got some cool air around even some mist, possibly even some drizzle, depending on where youre driving. Was a good start considering it was pretty toasty. Yesterday. I was up in nevada and it was pretty warm, john. Yeah, yeah. For a lot of us is definitely warm. And if its 2 or 3 and now its going to be scorching here this weekend and into next week. So time to get ready for that. Warm up today. Tomorrow, the last of peak temperatures being in the 80s this morning. We have had some missed. I turned by windshield wipers on a time or 2 this morning as a result of some of that fog, especially closer to the coastline. North bay and upper elevations of the east bay. Thats where youre running into low visibility and a few spots of drizzle. Current temperatures 50s 60s oaklander at 62. Hey, were at 63. Well as s