Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g
4,000 in debt i am right now. Reporter carrie rojas fears the worst right now. Her family went debt when her husband went her husband lost his job. It would provide rent protection for people like carrie. Im scared theyre going to evict me, and i have a 16yearold daughter and my husband and my husbands mom, we all live here. Ab 30le 8 would restrict evictions as long as renters play 25 of their rent through january 2021. It would also ban evictions for unpaid rent between march and august. Some say thats not good enough. Struggling renters shouldnt have to pay anything. I keep going back to the idea the government itself told people to stop working. Youve got give and foreclosing for not being able to pay the bills. Reporter on facebook, many sounded off. One landlord said im ready to sell my problem. Other saying my house will be a foreclosure and the tenants will be evicted anyway. Laura mckinny believes people need to pay more than 25 . Ive been through hell this past six months, an
After black panthers Chadwick Boseman passed, a closer look at the number of younger people that colon cancer is having. Also the impact the epidemic is having on testing for the disease. Lawmakers are putting together a bill that would prevent most eviction until next year. Pipelines melted in the lightning complex fire. Flow is fear of complications of getting water back to residents. Stuck in the smoke and haze for days. Find out when you may see some change coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. All member vote who desire to vote. Relief for renters tonight. Hour ago, state lawmakers just beat a midnight deadline and passed a bill protecting tenants from eviction. Abc7 News Reporter jr stone has a look at exactly what protections it would provide and why some say its just not enough. Well, dion, this bill now goes to the governor, and not everyone is happy about it. On one side, people are saying i
On here at the staging area. Quite a few deputies are here from Alameda County part of the mutual aid force that is out here for two main reasons. They are going to be going door to door as they to notify people if they need to evacuate. Also, theyre going to be here to provide security for all of those people that are evacuated so that when they do return, they will have homes that have not been broken into. In Boulder Creek tonight a few homes are destroyed. The fire moved through this evening. Cal fire has confirmed 50 structures have been lost in the sprawling complex of fires and, unfortunately, the destruction may be much worse. We believe that it will go to the triple digits. It is just too early to know what that exact number i few mi alan strong is taking a stand against the coming fire, spraying down the roof of his friends bakery all day. He knows danger is on its way. You can feel the breeze. Its coming this way from the alba ridge. When it starts doing that, you know somet
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this