President trump boarding. Marine one the helicopter there on wednesday to take him to air force one where he continued on to a rally and then shortly after hope hicks walks across the grass as you can see here to board marine one as well with the president shes there you can see Jared Kushner is part of that as well hope hicks a very integral part of the president s inner circle. Now she has traveled with the president several times this week including flight on air force one for tuesday nights president ial debate. President trump was on fox news last night after he confirmed that hope hicks. Has tested positive for coronavirus and here is what he had to say. Thats very hard when you with soldiers what year airman marines and i would tend to police with him so much and when they come over to its very hard to say stay back he back, you know its its a tough kind of a situation is a terrible thing today. They want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job dormant. You get close in things happen. And in this case and more things have happened and now that weve got this positive test we want to hear from the east bay representative Eric Swalwell because there it is theres going to be fallout within the government near ken wayne and pam moore had a chance to speak with him last night to see what might happen next. Take a listen. Right now, you know as an american im rooting our laders to be healthy and able to cover me because you know we why make sure that the case with her you know continuity you know plan a succession plan. Even keker air in place and so yes, a possibility, but i think all of us are hoping you know our sitting president is healthy. Unable to govern because i want to start going down that line of succession in this one. You things get on certain. The german million americans have contracted this 205,000 have died and now. No leader of the free world. Happy positive talk here and again we know wish him well, but. They should demonstrate that in your could get this and so the best thing we can do where a monster have others around us wear a mask because when you wear mask, youre not protecting yourself, youre protecting other son. If others around the president for not Wearing Masks that very likely may be the reason that he contracted this and so you know in our workplaces, you know as we gather with family and friends are as we go to church and go about our lives the fast track right now not. And we also talk with our political analyst michael yaki in tondo vaccaro as well heres what they had to say. You know this is a National Security matter for this country as well the ability to have to be transfer of power in case the president is in didnt remember. Boris johnson had to do that in in in england here early this year began in april so this is this is this is very serious but all of this will depend on how. Quite frankly how well or or not the president does in dealing with this and now you know. Whatever you may think of the president or not hes someone who seen the always been in hopefully that will stand him very good stead Going Forward. But if they asked you to trust me ask you to contact reaching and the chess team. Sure that he next to people online and change the policy protected as well in case. Got so big that the doesnt do as well. Wild about one of the virus goes to those who resist. Well, i certainly know that the Vice President has not been with him and so constitutional offices. Protected. I think you know there will be a lot of speculation. But i think we should do our best to resist going far with keep in mind that although hes older he has an amount of energy into sickle Strength Energy than i do im within a couple weeks old younger than him. So i think as a nation should hold their collective breath, a little bit see how hes doing see how this approach is before we take you too far so i think we need President Trump coming so late in the game here has the benefit of of what weve gone through. And look as for some of his parents both of whom face made eat and succumb to them, i know that strength of character means a lot. When someone is chicken and i got to believe that the donald trump that i dont wear on since i lived new york many decades ago. He will view this as a challenge and not something and hes going to shy away from or succumb to. So we do have a few to what we just heard in those interviews one they refer to the Vice President and what would happen if you are exposed when today last meet we just found out the Vice President has tested negative that coming from his office just moments ago and if you remember bridge Prime MinisterBoris Johnson. Had covid19 as well in fact was admitted into intensive care after suffering from complications, so that some say maybe a hint as to what may come, but every person is different when it comes to covid right and thats what michael yaki was bringing him up talking about how Boris Johnson got through this. Remember he tested positive and then this was on march 27th. He seems to be fine. And recovered and then suddenly had you know were which happens just theres crash in something happens in. And before you knew it. He was in the e later on a ventilator it was it really at least it felt if you are in the uk at that time my daughter is it like it was touch and go i mean people didnt know what was going on because this was going on for days and days and days. He yelled son is only 56 years Boris Johnsons only 56 years old now he did pull through it. He did recover and if also you remember when he got covid. England and you know scotland and ireland they were not as strict about covid as we were and it was after that that they really you know locked down and got serious. And obviously its not exactly clear yet what impact the president s positive test is going to have on the next 2 president ial debates because dont forget. Weve got the Vice President ial debate next week and then 2 more president ial debates in the weeks to follow and if the president is going to be in some form of quarantine for perhaps the next 14 days that could throw that schedule off early thursday, the president made it clear he does not want any rules change though when it comes to those next 2 debates with joe biden the commission on president ial debates had insisted on new rules to try and reduce the number of interruptions and excessive talking that we saw in the last debate. President trump however in response to that tweeted quote why would i allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and 3rd debates when i easily. One the last time and you see how close they are together still quite a distance but they did see each other on that joe biden and his campaign. Havent said yet. If his testing has come back. Negative or not we have heard the bidens and the Campaign Staff are all going to be tested obviously this morning because they were all there. Biden has been pushing. For Wearing Masks and social distancing. Something that the president has been downplaying even during the debate became an issue where he was making fun of biden for wearing a mask. President jiang now you have a gun. 2 increasingly questioned the effectiveness of masks as a disease preventer and in fact recently you have cited the issue of of waiters touching their mouse and touching plight are you questioning know i think i understand if you look i mean i have a masquerade here i put a mask on it you know what i think i need it. Tonight is an example, everybodys had a test and youve had social distancing and all of the things that you have to but when needed when needed i wear mask, okay, let me ask i dont have i dont wear masks like him every time you see him hes got a mask. He could be speaking. 200 feet away from any shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. Heres the thing is that it was caught. This early with the president were it wouldnt be necessarily in places that dont test everybody all the time because dont forget the president and his circle are tested. At least his circle is testing a becomes nearmiss tested when the rapid test rapid test which by the way are not a 100 this 2, but doing testing constantly so when something happens they know it immediately. Versus you know you or me going to work Grocery Store you dont know and then youve already spread it. So and thats from perhaps why. So many who have come in contact with him maybe like biden we just found out as we told you is negative so were going to wait for more of these calls it had started pence yes negative for more of these tests to come in or waiting for biden yes we but Vice President mike pence did tweet out upon hearing the news about the president. He released a statement as well through twitter saying quote karen and i send our love and prayers. Tell you what to our dear friends, President Donald Trump and melania we join millions across america praying for their full and swift recovery shot last President Trump in wonderful first lady melania and again to reiterate we have heard from Vice President mike pences office this morning confirming. That the Vice President has tested negative for the coronavirus but in all likelihood he will have to quarantine though for the next 14 months while the president is also quarantining because theres that line of that the succession that you have to protect so this is going to be the biggest thing were going to try to sort out with you throughout the morning is what is going to happen whos going to run the government. You know whos going to take over while the various people surrounding the president entire top echelon of government or his administration is in quarantine what how are things going to get done whos going to do them. This is all something that were going to share with you as we find out live on our air and of course well keep you updated on kron 4 dot com and work on our mobile app or and the ripple effects to once you start thinking about it. We have the the global markets. Begin to in the overnight hours as a result of so who knows where the markets are going to go once the opening bell rings at sixers are going to talk with rob black about that coming up and then also too dont forget. Were in the middle of a Supreme Court justice. Confirmation process also had contact with the president tax thats right and his senior staff and so has the speak of the leader of the Senate Mitch Mcconnell right and so will those folks now have to quarantine as a part of the cdc protocol. What does that do to the timeline of the Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing as we approach the election. Lot of ripple effects 4 weeks 5 weeks 4 and a half weeks away from the election and quarantine time for is 10 days from symptoms now in this case. We dont know if their symptoms the president and seem to say that theyre fine so maybe they dont have symptoms show weve also heard and this is just kind reportedly sort of thing that the administration is talking about getting the president out front somehow to be able to address the American People so that could happen live on our air this morning does we will bring that to you immediately. If you were to do some kind of a televised address. You know from the west wing where hes quarantining well bring that to you as soon as it happens. It happens. All right so lots of stuff to follow today so keep it to kron 4 if you do have to get out the door right now you know about the weather. Lets get the word from john now good morning john good morning guys, yeah we are still seeing hazy conditions across the bay area the first thing youll notice is youre stepping outside today, no fog, its just the noticeable very poor air quality. Look at how much of us in the bay are lit up in red that includes vacaville conquered hayward livermore san jose napa and even nevado just to name a few cities, San Francisco, a bit closer to port a moderate but really poor conditions across the bay. Now impeach were still under heat advisories and in the deep red still under red flag warnings continuing through 08 00pm tonight is hot and dry and in some cases, breezy conditions continue for yet another day little bit of good news today is not going to be as hot as we were yesterday, 50s 60s and 70s for current temperatures berkeley at 72 when your warm spots well Petaluma Santa Rosa and napa all in the 50s this morning. Later today it will be a tease for San Francisco and oakland while san jose in the mid 90s. Robin. All right. Thank you john lets check in on the its picking up out there its friday. Its not bad for friday light in some areas but not everywhere so lets take a peek at our bridges right starting off of 92, we see the crowd leaving hayward so a little sluggish often on along the flat section but only 12 minutes to the peninsula here the bay bridge tunnel delays no backups just yet were 8 minutes into the north bay and we have Road Construction in oakland if youre taking the nimitz northbound 80 before broadway the usual construction, wrapping up and has traffic backed up beyond high street so avoid the northbound limits and stick with 5. 80 west and said thats going to save you some time james acts back to you. 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And were back at 5. 17 the big story that were following back here locally is the fact that weve got awful air quality the fires are still burning and the skies are still smoking, heres a look at the air quality map and it is worse than yesterday weve got a large sections of the bay area now in the red zone and orange zone which tells you that its going to be unhealthy to hazardous air quality out there from the north bay all the way down through the east and south bay too smoke from this wildfire season is responsible for multiple weeks now unhealthy air quality here in the bay area and it looks like that trend is continuing as we head into october, heres the thing is for some reason i my house without boiling. Thank god yesterday because it could open the windows because of that smoke. Was your house real it was a little warm outside, but i think a lot more sunshine than you did you might have had maybe some protection from the smoky skies just a almost the i said are we going to have an orange, whatever todays friday, an orange friday because it was a weirdly huge last night. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson is in lafayette taking a look at the conditions there how about you sarah how did you weather yesterdays bad air. Yeah what i did was i closed blinds drapes just like i recommend everybody else to do in actually paid off because my place stayed cool and i kept all the windows closed all the doors closed so that i didnt free than that air fried enough that theyre at work so make sure stay inside did not leave my house le set to walk the dog and you could smell the wildfire smoke in San Francisco. Thats kind crazy here in lafayette, you can really small wildfire smoke, but you can definitely tell the air quality is not Crystal Clear take a look at this map you can see the air quality is unhealthy not good to be breathing in across the bay area that is what were seeing. Lou. High 100s low to hundreds, i mean in some areas even worse really as were saying though its really rough for not only dealing with high temperatures again today but were also going to be continuing to see this bad air quality which is worse than yesterday and here in the east bay its going to be high 90s almost triple digits in some cases very very high 90s specially here in walnut creek concord lafayette in we have a red flag warning that got extended i predicted correctly until tomorrow at 6. We saw blankets of smoky hazy air above this entire east bay area yesterday and it was crazy to see it looks like fog but note that is haziness that a smoking is even though looked really bad yesterday it is still worse today. So once the sun comes up to see just how bad it is and we spoke with the ucsf doctor about the effects of breathing this in long term because this is something weve been dealing with for weeks besides that small pocket of a break we got last week. There are a couple of small studies that are showing us if you live around the wildfire smoke in our really for long periods of time. Exposed to this a particular matter at high levels for a long time that actually does impair lung function and noted that seems to be the case over. At least a couple of years. But we also have no some other looking at air pollution so looking at say areas air pollution in general is say from and traffic or exposure to factories. That we know that air pollution in which wildfires are and some can we see little risk of developing. Seal Heart Disease cancers. And thats comforting i feel for the firefighters who have to smell that all the time i always wonder how they deal with it because a lot of times theyre not wearing a mask out there while fighting the wildfires and of course media police all of us out there next to the fires but even so being here just in the east bay or in the south bay or even in the Santa Cruz Mountains or seeing a lot of that poor air quality so go on make sure y