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KRON KRON 4 News At 6am July 12, 2024

Central valley like high temperatures is what will experience there up to the up to northern Solano County so temperatures today right now were in the 60s mild a pleasant weve got 50s up here the north bay 56 San Francisco in 62 for san jose for comparison sake actually this morning most of the bay areas a little cooler than it was this time from yesterday. Whats going on for today is we have a little bit of interference from some tropical leftover moisture as a result of that that is kind of lane the warmup we have were keeping it basically sunny to mostly sunny, tossing about a few clouds in their Late Afternoon but look at that at 96 already at 1 oclock still building. And well have some clouds overnight into tomorrow morning and after all that said and done how goes back to the warmup face when put this all together for you coming up in a bit robin sounds good. Thank you dave. Now to another story that were following for you this morning. Governor newsom says california may be turning a corner in its fight against the coronavirus but he says that progress could disappear if people do not remain vigilant. Lets check in with kron fours reyna harvey who is live in alameda with an update right now. Robin good morning. So a little bit of good news for us here in california and in the bay area the governors saying they are seen a decline in new cases and hospitalization rate and thats because Health Officials are starting to go through this backlog of unaccounted for cases that was originally linked to a data failure. So now were going through those numbers and theyre seen new trends in that information like hospitalization rates for example theyre down 21 in terms of icu admissions those are down 15 over the past 14 days. The number of newly confirmed cases on wednesday was around 5,400 this number shows a significant decline from that record 12,800 new daily cases we saw during our spiked last month now its important to know currently the state officials are still working to process that nearly 300,000 coronavirus tests results that were lost because of the day or i mention that we hear from governor Gavin Newsome which talks about the importance of continuing to keep that same cautionary behavior. Here we are making all this progress and you could be done away. You know a day to a week to people begin again too let their guard down can let your guard down kind of continue a practice all of these rules of the road as it relates to what we know works nonfarm mikel interventions to mitigate the spread of this disease, including wash your hands of an an again more important wearing a mask and so when encourage you to do just that. And Health Officials also echoing the gover the governor sent a many saying that were seeing a decline because people are consistently washing their hands Wearing Masks and practicing social distancing and you cant let up now those behaviors have to continue for now reporting here in Alameda County reyna harvey kron 4 news. Thank you right now marty. Well in the east bay robin the Oakland School district has reached a tentative agreement with the Teachers Union about Distance Learning the 2 sides released this joint statement that says quote while we do not always agree on the details ia usd are passionate about serving oakland students and families weve been working diligently to reach an agreement to shape Distance Learning for all students aea members unquote. Now Union Officials say the issue is not money. The teachers instead worried about time from packing a full semester of instruction into just a few weeks. Another issues being able to hire retired teachers and substitutes to coach the coach each. The union asked that no teacher schedules begin before 9 in the morning or after 2. 15 in the afternoon because that allows more time for teachers who are also caregivers for parents or children. Union members will be voting on this plan in the next few days. Well to the south bay now the first day of school is in the books for san jose unified School District teachers work from home for the first time, this comes after the district said the majority of teachers need to return to campus to deliver their virtual lessons. But teachers are still worried about that some have their own kids, younger kids or those with learning disabilities who may not have strong support at home will fall behind because its just hard to stay engaged for a whole day online. This is mornings inherently inequitable it is really challenging for families when theyre trying to figure out what exactly theyre going to do. Theres a lot of families rely on schools for and i think theres a lot of families are nervous about during this time our commitment as a School District is to do everything we can to support them as they navigate these challenges. Well the district is urging parents to contact to stay in contact with her Student Services team if they need any extra help. Well to the peninsula now San Mateo County is making sure all of its students are ready for Distance Learning and announce a partnership with local School Districts to provide nearly 3 Million Dollars to help students get online. Now the program is geared toward students from rule communities or low income household students at support will include high Speed Internet packages wireless hot spots and also expanding public life i. A cry for help from Fitness Studio owners in San Francisco as the pandemic continues to push them deeper into debt. Now under the Current Health order indoor gyms must remain closed, but a select few have been able to reopen partially outdoors with special permits kron fours tale the sacking has the details. If the city doesnt do something to allow us to reopen safely. You can expect that every neighborhood Fitness Studio is going to die the character is the coowner of a mixed 3 fitness in San Franciscos castro neighborhood. Hes also a member of the San Francisco independent Fitness Studio coalition, a group of 60 small neighborhood Fitness Studios representing was 700 employees just in the last 2 weeks. Kicker says 6 of the groups Fitness Centers closed because of the pandemic. We anticipate many more on the horizon i was talking to a gym. Just the other day one of the bigger gyms and they have right now a quarter of a Million Dollars worth of debt. We have 20,000 worth of debt. Well makes 3 fitness recently opened supervised sidewalk workouts or 2 people can work out in a time for 55 minutes kicker says. His Business Model will keep them open for long a little bit of a bandaid but were still down 80 in terms of our revenue sadly, a number that makes character lucky considering many similar Fitness Centers remain completely shut down. Earlier this week, the independent Fitness Studio coalition, took these concerns to the citys Health Officer, asking why physical therapists can reopen, but Services Like personal training cant i cant give you a rational reason why. A physical therapist could do this and something just personal Services Committee get risk and Health Officer doctor tomas aragon leader suggested that the city may alter we reopen some are promoting the idea of moving towards a risk based approach so that were focusing on Risk Behavior sitting in a tent that increases rest so that were not taking one industry versus another character says that these smaller Fitness Studios shouldnt be lumped together with big box gyms if things continue that way. Well he says that theyre going to need some Financial Relief or else were going to see more empty store fronts in the city. In San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Ucsf police say theyve arrested a suspect in the murder of a man inside one of their medical buildings that fatal encounter started inside the lobby of the ambulatory care center. Thats on irving street it happened at 6. 15 tuesday morning. Police an image captured by a surveillance camera shows the suspect they could before seen fighting with the victim that victim identified as 66 yearold and tom daschle was able to exit the building but then collapsed on the sidewalk outside a nurse on their way to work trying to revive the victim but he was later pronounced dead in the campus e r a bystander found the news of the victims death unsettling. And i could both resulting in death a tragedy regards. Well the suspect was arrested early wednesday on charges of firstdegree murder and Robbery Police have not yet released the suspects identity, neither have they released the cause of death police say it does not appear that the victim knew his alleged attacker. Uber and lyft is threatening to shut down its service in california over a court order just this week a judge set that Rideshare Companies like uber left most classified or california drivers as employees instead of independent contractors. Now this would guarantee the drivers receive benefits like any other fulltime employee. But over says it will likely be forced to shut down operations in the state for several months if its required to do so. I would rather see them shut down that continue to exploit people you cant. Some like to provide a social safety net. As these laws are designed to do for the people who are working for you whether their employees or contractors, not in the system is broken and needs to change you know uber and lyft have its problems to have its positives and negatives that have been well documented, but i think a lot of drivers are scared about losing that flexibility to log on whenever and wherever you on. Well lawyers for uber and lyft say drivers are not fundamental to the business and are expected to fight the ruling. Well the Food Delivery Service doordash also faces legal action over its classifying of workers. San francisco dha somebody who wants to stop doordash from classifying its workers as independent contractors instead of employees. And were going to go live to Los Angeles County where the lake fire continues to burn it started yesterday afternoon and has since exploded to 10,000 acres. As we take this live look at the entire fight there is still 0 contained this morning as authorities are working to evacuate residents who live north of lake hughes about 60 miles from downtown los angeles. The red cross has opened a temporary evacuation point in palmdale but because of the pandemic all the evacuees are being asked to stay in their cars. The cause of the fire still unknown this morning. And still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news state prisons are hot spots for coronavirus cases, especially at san quentin, well find out what inmate advocates one prison officials to do to fix the problem. Also weve heard of work on a covid vaccine. But how about a nasal spray well find out how bay area researchers are unveiling a possible treatment for the coronavirus. And after the break should you go in for your routine teeth, cleaning well find out what the World Health Organization is saying about dental visits welcome back everyone the time is 6. 14 off to the Weather Center a go get another update on todays forecast updates forte. A good morning robin good morning, everybody heres a live shot coming in from u c berkeley kind of some color is a shun we have here in the theres the east bay shoreline in perfect view. Meanwhile, sfo no delays occurring this morning and whatever fog clouds and all that seems to be mixing up very nicely this morning. Those temperatures 50s 60s over most the board effect most the readings are in the 60s 46, though for half moon bay, certain it will take that as everybody is warming up even today which will see in the 4 zone forecast but in a big way as we get into that weekend 62 by the way, san jose. So first things first with leftover that tropical system is throwing moisture into Southern California with the fire we just told you about theres possibility, some of those rain making it in there too which would be a nice little and the addition, however, a problematic sometimes monsoon of the subtropical stuff can sometimes bring with that instability over land that means lightning thats not so good. But that accounts for what goes on along that note that moisture makes it up to central and even Northern California so for our Vantage Point we threw in some clouds in here. Later on this afternoon and through the overnight and youll probably see this in the south bay a little bit as we approach from the dinner hour to might make for some interesting sunsets too. But this is the first wave that comes through by you can see thursday night and then overnight into friday, well have some of that to start our day. Now after all of that we go into the heat mode and this is probably the thing its kind of delaying it a bit because well have some entered it kind of interference of some cloud cover maybe a little bit this Late Afternoon evening. And then into tomorrow morning but then by the afternoon were kind of all clear to warm big time temperatures coming our way to with that excessive heat baby by that point warning which is expected to be upgraded this afternoon. So for today, the fog pretty much cleared out warm for the bay, but kind of approaching hot already those inland temperatures 90s to 100 already the excessive heat watches as a watch at this point were talking about the east bay east of the east bay hills Solano County santa clara county. In the south bay from friday all the way until sunday at 8 oclock and then early next week. Temperatures retreat a little bit but were still talking mid 90s for the inland valley, so its going to be summer like weve had such a nice break from summer much of summertime. So it hasnt been too bad so this heat spike its a little bit long overdue were in mid august now. Temperatures for today, 73 San Francisco, 81 for open so going make it to about 91 san jose noting those afternoon clouds there from the subtropical moisture or whats left over the cane tropical system. Today now high temperatures 100 antioch one oh one for concord look at the colors aisha we have kind those purple pinks going on there indicating the hotter temperatures already in the Central Valley up to the north bay 80s 90s south bay pretty much into the 90s. Well give you a bit more details with all of this coming up in the 4 zone forecast robin thats pretty hot day about the call just hang out in San Francisco all day. Yeah, thatll salta. Over to the favorite so far the route checking the drive in look at all this heavy traffic we are recovering from an accident that was on the incline before the tunnel now youre looking at a little bit of commute traffic, mixed and with residual delays and now the backup here on 80 it spills all the way through the oakland maze, its on to the east shore freeway out of berkeley way back from university. Its on to 5. 80 from the 24 split and now the west 24 connector is all stacked up and a td overcrossing out of west oakland, so all of your approach is are quite slow because of that earlier crash all right, lets head over to the san mateo bridge which i dont know if its a great alternate because youre going to have to sit in traffic here too its not as bad as the bay bridge, but we see it crawling here west of the toll plaza so be prepared a lot of crowding hear from the pay gates to the high rise, what youre looking good through foster city marty all right robin. Well should you delay your routine dental Health Visiting according to new guidelines from the World Health Organization, the answer is yes because of the way covid19 spreads new guidance from the w h o urges that routine oral Health Visits like checkups cleans and Preventative Care should be delayed. Infectious disease expert doctor Yvonne Maldonado says while the w h o has released its updated guidelines. Theyre still looking at the issue from a global perspective, were certain areas may not have proper ppe. Really going to be a risk benefit calculation calculation here for both the provider and the patient. But yeah, the cleaning teeth is its not a trivial issue tennis really important for Overall Health that is oral health. Doctor maldonado also said that as long as your dentist follow cdc protocols and orders from local health departments, you should be safe to get your routine dental checkup. An anti viral nasal spray is a nasal spray may fight off the coronavirus a team

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