And get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. Sonoma county bracing for big crowds this weekend. Amid a spike of coronavirus cases. How families are celebrating small here in the east bay. Getting a group together for july 4th, while you may be tempted Health Experts suggest you resist. Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. We are facing a very different fourth of july this year. Coronavirus cases are surging and hospitalizations are on the rise. Bay area residents who hoped for return to normal will instead find beaches closed, wos, the officials are outdoor hoping all of us will just stay safe and stay at home. Tonight, marin county was added to californias watch list after an increase in transmission rates and hospitalizations. Many of them are from the outbreak at san quinton prison. And also added to the states list, montrae and san diego counties. Firefighters in San Francisco have already been busy. A house was damaged in a fir
Fireworks explosion, this evening. The San Francisco fire drain pipe, it blew ice larger three windows out of the house, no injuries. 15 especially were displaced by fire in San Franciscos Mission District that may have been started by fireworks. Two buildings burned and no one hurt. Bu warning. San francisco, fireworks are illegal for a reason. We could lose entire communities by fireworks. In the east bay, contra costa fire crews are busy as well. Fireworks are blamed for a grass fire off of highway 4 and also they are fighting a barn fire. The cause of the fires is under sth up a hill side in san jose. It started at about 7 00. That is near the happy hollow zoo. You can see the flames burning the grass there. It took san jose firefighters a little more than an hour and a half to get it under control. The lack of legal fireworks venues and an increase in illegal fireworks has firefighters, police and residents on alert. From the peninsula, to the Oakland Hills there will be volunteer
Breakin causes thousands of dollars in damages. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morn ng news. Im Stephanie Lin. It is saturday. But we had a lot of news to cover for u. S. Start by getting a look at the weather with dave spahr payday morning. Stephanie, good morning, everybody. And were tale with a lot of fog to get things started to check it out. This is downtown, as you can see, just kind of covering over the tops of some of the buildings were seeing the same process going on along the east bay shoreline as well. With all that fog pretty much in place for right now. That will mix on will basically go mostly sunny. That includes San Francisco along the east bay shoreline as well, which is this is what it looks like right now. This is cooling fog. We certainly enjoy it when the summer months keeping those temperatures somewhat corrected with all of this. So a quick check
We will fight. Reporter teachers and parents are rallying together to protest millions of dollars in mid year budget cuts in a financially strapped Oakland Unified School district. Among the items set to be eliminated, money for school supplies. Our children absolutely do not deserve, our families do not deserve any dollars to come from their school sites where they are already struggling to make ends meet. Schools simply dont get enough money to support our students, to support our staff. Reporter Oakland School Officials Say they need to make 5. 6 million in cuts immediately. 15. 1 million in all this year, and another 11 million next year. To head off potential state intervention and makeup for the miss steps of a previous administration. It depends on who you ask. Depends on what youre talking about. But there have been areas certainly thaw that you could argue there was overspending in the past and thats what were trying to rectify. Reporter while the district claims twothirds cut
On where to start, faced with a sudden budget crisis. The Oakland School board is forced to make millions of dollars in cuts in the middle of the school year. Thanks for joining us. Im kristen sze in for alma dates. Im dan ashley. A special Board Meeting is starting right now. The Education Center in oakland, the story. A lot of people there, lauren. They certainly are. You can probably hear them behind me. These folks just all filed in here. They are chanting, we will not stop, chop from the top. Now they changed that chant. Well let you listen to them just a second. No cuts to schools. No cuts to schools. Reporter now, this is going to be a special meeting of the Oakland Unified School district board. They are going to discuss potential cuts, 15 million this Current School year. You can see these are parents and teachers. They are quite upset about these proposed cuts. They could impact students in the classrooms as well as many as 300 nonteacher positions could be cut. You can see t