Later today, daytime highs eventually on the warm side yet again weve gotten used to this lately though upper 70s 80s right alongside the bay and 90s for a few inland spots. Daria. Thanks a lot lets get to our top story right now the fall semester for oakland is here online today, thousands of students. Well Start School Year the district spent the week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There are frustrations though with the Distance Learning plan has some parents reported last week that their students didnt get their laptops yet. Attendance is mandatory for students in all of their classes. The beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is their students. I know this is a really different than what youre used to when you were hoping for and. Were going to get there were going to mak
Sonoma counties right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s pittsburgh conquered livermore all at 63 degrees. 50s and timber on San Francisco berkeley as well as up into napa and santa rosa. Later today, those 50s and 60s become 70s to 80s for most of the bay, a few 90s inland. Ive got more on your forecast still to come james. Very much john time now is 4. 31 our big election headline this morning. Presumptive democratic president ial nominee, joe biden is expected to announce his choice for Vice President this week. Hes promised that his running mate will be a woman and among the top candidates. In contention are california representative karen bass, former National Security adviser susan rice and california senator kamala harris. California representative Maxine Waters believes that biden will pick a black woman to be his Vice President. Its going to be stored or whoever it is do i believe that is going to be an africanamerican woman. I certainly do wait African American women hav
The workweek more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across california and tonight word of another death th of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im ken wayne thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight were monitoring 3 lightning complex fires across the bay area. Heres the latest information on each the largest one burning acl and you complex fires. Those fires spanned napa a Sonoma Solano and lake counties. Tonights theyve grown to more than 347,000 acres and theyre at 21 containment. The s c you lightning complex fires are burning in alameda contra costa and santa clara counties. Theyve expanded to 343,000 acres and or 10 cothe czu august lightning complex fires are burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Theyve gwn to 74,000 acres and are at 8 containment. And the last time that we have this event which was last weekend. There are some significant wind gust
Yeah, thousands of students reported to class virtually but teachers. And their union and the district are all still trying to hash out what the plan is going to be for Distance Learning even though online instruction as daryn mentioned begins this morning. Gayle ong takes a look at whats going on. On monday thousands of students with the Oakland Unified School district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners the beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is sort of the Teachers Union and district have been negotiating logistics teachers are asking for a reduced schedule working 5 hours a day the Oakland Education Association posted their proposal on facebook as
Different form. Former safety an opening and police set up for the heart. Hours after hinting that he was going to dismantle the Coronavirus Task force and focus on reopening the country now this morning, the president says that that group the cove a task force will continue indefinitely. But hes got other plans that he will be shifting to good morning im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lots to talk about this morning, including those 2 new coronavirus testing sites opening this morning in Santa Clara County more than a 100 people a day are going to be tested at those sites kron fours will tran is in san jose with the story. Hi well. Good morning, gary and open up about 2 minutes ago and already we see a line out the door this is at james Lee High School and you can see for people outside and probably about 3 people inside they will try to test about a 100 people from 7 oclock in the morning to 7 oclock at night. This is not the only location further south in gilroy and christopher