Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e
Cornelia and also fairfield some very gusty winds this afternoon. We have some 30 mile an hour gusts just in the last 3 hours here and still in the court is some of those to 22 Miles Per Hour right now as you make your way into fremont well we had windy conditions in the afternoon. Although those start to calm down a little bit now as theyre dropping down to 7, 8, Miles Per Hour. But were going to see more of that smoke continue to filter into places Like Union City fremont this fire continues tonight and into hayward so certainly by tomorrow morning. The smell of smoke in and around this area, those winds start to calm down nothing really to mix out some of that smoke for the south theyre also going to be dealing with some smoke, theres fire starting yesterday this the crews fire c gilroy here the winds not that strong this afternoon, although you get up in the Mountain Range is certainly in the Higher Elevations you generally get some stronger winds to whip around the fire and thats
Were looking out for 90s though theyll be a couple of them the next couple of days. But really the wine shares come this weekend back to you. All right, thank you dave will happening now firefighters in the east bay are continuing to monitor hot spots on a wildfire. The group 230 acres and threatened homes before it was finally contained kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky has more from rodeo. I like to let the black. Some local neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the sout
Inland valleys will be mostly into the 80s. We have a couple token 90s here and there but becoming more numerous as the week starts to wear on that coming up a little bit well take a look at that 4 zone forecast for you and the extended rob, all right. Thank you dave full developing news that were following for you this morning out of San Francisco. Police are searching for clues and the weekend murder of a 6 yearold boy the texas say the point is just watching fireworks with his family and friends when he was hit by a stray bullet kron fours Jonathan Mccall has that story. A passionate plea from San Franciscos top cop somebody out there knows what happened. Somebody out there knows who did it chief bill scott now begging for the publics help the truck down the killer of 6 yearold to jay shawn. Detectives say the jayz and his family were watching fireworks saturday night in san Franciscos Bayview neighborhood. When he was hit and killed by a stray bullet. Scott know calling the killing
Will tran live in gilroy this morning. He has the latest for us will. Good news to pass along even though the fire continues to burn we did get an update from cal fire this morning and they did say the numbers remain the same it still 20 containment but more importantly the acreage remains at 5400 so i did not grow in the overnight hours and more importantly did not explode in the overnight hours. However it did more than triple from 24 hours ago i was i was at this location. 24 hours ago and it was at 1500 acres now were sitting at 5400 acres but more importantly. No fatalities and no injuries and 2 structures have been destroyed, but theyre not homes. This is an area you dont see any cars other than the media or the Fire Department because its still closed off to the public. This is the area that was evacuated on sunday as the fire continues to burn it is not windy at this time in the firefighters hope to take advantage of this window of opportunity to really make progress on the fir