The San Francisco Marin Food Bank fine tune their efforts to help feed the hungry during the after 6 months now we can re evaluate how well did we do hitting the trying to me and a little bit better Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Next at 5. 30 the latest attempt to try to pass a covid19 stimulus relief bill has failed that makes it unlikely there will be any more relief before the november election. And the lnu lightning complex fire is nearly contained tonight but not before destroying hundreds of my wife and i lived here in our fun. Also was here with us im been with us temporarily and so all 3 of us were displaced from august 19th and i move says bin an up and down journey since then. The lnu lightning complex fires have been burning for more than 3 weeks now here in the bay area the fire is still affecting communities in napa sonoma and solano counties is 94 contained so a lot of the danger is gone now as kron 4 sweet phillipe djegal tells us people who lost their homes are working tow
This month. It is a record. We can tell you that that breaks a record of 14 days, you have to go all the way back to 2018 during the camp fire for that. And that 24 days in a row were going to be 25 days tomorrow and likely could be extended past that because of this bad air. Often the distance is downtown San Francisco. But its barely visible like the ash that sits atop cars the smoky skies here are a grayish white making for another day of unhealthy air quality. Its actually worse today in terms of breezing that it was yesterday thats much worse today and i have to masks and not now thats how bad the says in fact their quality was worse on thursday because a layer of fog that kept the smoke aloft wednesday. Dissipated the air is mixing were down to ground weve weve weve lost that you know protection yesterday so were seeing that the readings of really jumped up in the bay area as the air mixes down bringing all of the smoke with it and while some people were still out and about. Many
The oranges we have seen the past couple of days once the sun eventually does come up, you will notice that the air the smoke has a bit of a tinge to it but its going to look more just and healthy than anything else air quality continues to deteriorate and now almost all of the bay area is in our very worst category as far as air quality goes this is the worst weve ever put on this smoke map. Not all season long so far weve seen some bad air so far but as that smoky level continues to sink further and further down. Now this is where were sitting and likely will be sitting throughout the course of the rest of the day so its not just fog. Its a lot of smoke imbedded within that fog thats making its way on shore visibility in Half Moon Bay below a mile right now San Francisco also has some visibility problem spots as do the hills above the east bay and fog is going to be sitting with us for some time so do expect kind of a gloomy start to this friday morning and not a friday that you want
Neighbor, there were long lines going out of the neighbor because of the mandatory evacuations. I want to go off into the distance. First you can see the homes right here. Then we look at the hillsides. We are at the western portion of i80. You go see the hill sides that are charred black from the flames that have torn through this area. They are under a mandatory evacuation. Some of them are still here. I want to pan back out. There are other things i want to show you. It is pretty quiet here. When we go on to above that roof and on to that hill top, you can see where some of those air tankers dropped that fire retardant. I want to throw it right now to some of the sound we have from some of the folks living in this area on what it has been like in the last 24 hours. At some point, if we feel its not safe, we will definitely depart. But like i am, we havell. Weve been saying all day, if the winds are on our side, we have a chance. With all the emotional tension, it was definitely chal
Winds today with clear skies and above normal temperatures. Dry weather will likely continue through the weekend. A passing system may bring rain chances to the bay area late next week. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya our top story this morning. Reaction continues to pour in this morning following the death of San Francisco mayor ed lee. james kron 4s will tran joins us live from city hall. Will. will people around the bay area are still in shock. After the sudden death of San Francisco mayor ed lee. The mayor passed away suddenly yesterday morning. A small crowd gathered to watch San Francisco Police Escort the late mayors body who was taken in a coroners van. Many saw mayor lee as an advocate who was truly dedicated to the city of San Francisco. Homelessness all the big aspects of the city that we focus on on a daily basis will a Memorial Service hasnt been announced. And Funeral Services are still being planned by the family. james