Accident near high street and that was in the same area of road work at 29th avenue, so they still have at least one lane closed this sort of move that activity over to the construction area which is still under way so thats why we have the heavy traffic from high street just north of 29 that is your slowest stretch and i just avoided altogether you can easily take 5. 80 west instead of the northbound them thats going to save you lots of time into San Francisco, its nice and smooth and trouble free 7 minutes is a great average off to fremont street and our busiest bridge is 92, no surprise right always start stacking up first. We see the brake lights west of the toll plaza but for only averaging 12 minutes from the east bay to the peninsula. Well check more traffic coming up a little bit later back to you thanks a lot robin is 5 oh one this week, hundreds of thousands of people could lose electricity because of the pg e power shutoffs now the company says that high winds hot temperatures like john was just talking about could increase the likelihood of wildfires so weve got kron 4 sarah stinson. Live for us in napa with more on what folks may be facing sarah. Know its monday morning people are hearing this saying oh no not again another power shut off another potential one. Yes, again were hearing this from pg e and that is because of the conditions we just heard from john trouble our meteorologist and so were going to have to prepare for power shut off all across the bay area really here in napa one of the first parts of the bay area that will experience those high temperatures and combined with the high winds and thats going to be on wednesday wednesday through friday morning thats the biggest concern last time we saw temperatures and these winds wind event we had the glass fire up so its no joke sinmun they say that this is a potential for wildfire danger thats why they do these power shut offs know this is caused major concern soapy genie has werent there could be another power shut off pg e says the highest probability areas for the Public Safety power shutoff is in the north bay mountains and pockets of the Santa Cruz Mountains its also of concern in the east bay as well within the next 24 hours. The Energy Company should know more about what cities and counties specifically could see their power shut off, but its just for the best if your usual resident whos had to deal with this you know who you are. And you got chicago prepare got to prepare get flashlights out those extra chargers everything you may need a lo lot of people have generators now its kind of become Second Nature i even saw that when i was covering the fires up in the north bay here i saw all these generators outside homes. For when everybody had to evacuate so people are prepared. So well keep you updated as soon as pg knee gets a little bit more specific about what areas could be affected and if power shut off becomes a reality for us this week, stay tuned to kron 4 dot com always as well update you as we learn more for now reporting live in napa well send it back to you. Thanks a lot sarah right. Well at 5 03 should tell you also about a fire that firefighters were able to quickly contain it was a grass fire broke out last night happened on the southeast edge of the city there in contra costa county. And this is actually video sent in from across for viewer showing the smoke in the distance firefighters say the fire grew to about 30 acres in size before they were able to get it fully contained and that happened just before 9 oclock last night. Meanwhile fire crews continue to make major progress battling the glass fire is now 92 contained. The fires burned through more than 6700 67,000 acres so far in napa and sonoma counties its destroyed more than 800 homes with more than a 1000 other structures also threatened as well. Its been more than 2 weeks since the glass fire started napa county and people are now finally allowed to get back into their homes and businesses for the first time or see whats left. Its still an adjustment period for those who have lost their jobs after a 5 star resort was destroyed by the fire. Not everybody has something to go back to including the calistoga ranch. It was taken by flames leaving a 175 Hotel Employees in a difficult spot to try to help their parent company. They held a food drive on sunday to help the workers at the so lodge resort at least 350 boxes full of fresh and shelf stable food or given out to employees. Its an adjustment period i had to get back into your space theres a lot of work to do you start you visually as we as we look around your visit really does julie reminded. Of what took place. Plans to rebuild calistoga ranch are not known right now resort management says that theyre taking it day by day. Well big story were following this morning, a driver crashes into a crowd of customers eating lunch in san jose 8 people were sent to the hospital 2 of them winter stand have life threatening injuries. It happened a while people were eating lunch at the grand century mall. That story and mclaughlin road you can see in the video here of the Aftermath Police say 69 yearold man was trying to park his toyota 4 runner. When he accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes. The suv then went crashing into a dining canopy at the dynasty chinese Seafood Restaurant there at the mall. My friend was to try to you know get on the way but people are too many people for their young and screaming to them. So that nobody knows going on to lose today. Police say the driver may have been suffering from a medical problem at the time of the crash. Time now is 5 06 and to a developing story were learning more about how San Francisco firefighter died last week during a Training Exercise. The preliminary investigation finds that 42 yearold jason cortez was not over a thirdfloor railing by a water blast from all valve that he had inadvertently opened during that Training Exercise the report says that the Training Exercise was short staffed as well because of covid and that only one Engine Company was present when there are normally 2. In San FranciscoPolice Fatally shot a person while they were responding to an attempted carjacking saturday night. The carjacking was called in at market and golf streets. Officers got there and they chase the person to otis street where they tried to detain that person its not clear exactly why the officers opened fire. The case is being investigated. Well happening today on the National Front we have confirmation hearings beginning for judge Amy Coney Barrett president trumps pick for the Supreme Court in her opening remarks spirit will tell members of the Senate Judiciary committee that the courts should not try to make policy but instead, those decisions should be made by the governments political branches. Barrett is expected to be questioned about her stance on key issues like abortion the Affordable Care act and assault and harassment she is also expected to be asked whether she would recuse herself from any cases involving the president s tax returns. We will have more on the confirmation hearings coming up in a live report at 5. 30. Well take a break it is 5 08 still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news amazon prime day is this week but cybersecurity experts are warning about potential scams by hackers. Well explain what you need to be on the lookout for and a bay area family is demanding answers after their loved one was killed during a traffic stop in the north bay. More on that to come and after the break a San Francisco cafe is rob just days after being vandalized. They will be warmer one than we were over the weekend daytime highs back into the 80s for oakland today and a few 90s on the map too. Talking be even hotter weather and the rest your forecasts. Im tracking your morning commute around the bay area looks pretty good for now at the bay bridge toll plaza, heres a live look and its nice and smooth into San Francisco so get on out there early but i do have some slow traffic to talk about i ha 5. 11 right now in the north bay Petaluma Police are looking for the men involved in this armed robbery, 3 men robbed a local Convenience Store at gunpoint Early Saturday Morning the clerk told the police. They demanded money from the register. He gave it to them and they took off. Police have not said though what store was rob. So we have these inside for violence pictures but were not sure from where the king. Well a popular cafe and ice cream shop is vandalized for the second time this time a thief posed as a window repair worker and stole a vintage toy collection kron 4 Taylor Bisacky has the details. And in a Richmond Community is now coming together to replace a vintage 20 collection stolen from a beloved neighborhood cafe. Its a real bummer you know you know like somebody would steal toys from an ice cream store. You know designed for kids and the family is meant michael is the new owner of that we built dessert cafe inclement street she reopen the store as we built by jean 3 weeks ago. Good to many of the stores, unique touches that came from the original owner, including a large 20 collection, however, it took about collection is now gone after someone posing as a repair person came into the store actually we a situation where windows were vandalized so there are a few businesses on clement street acid at just into the windows at night. And we then had somebody a few days to be a repair person here to measure the wind. Get up on a ladder and stream all the toys off the front that you know the monetary value is probably you know between one and its more the sentimental value. And you know the fact that its hard to replace these things michael says San Francisco police are investigating the incident review nearby surveillance footage. Thiefs actions are disappointing. Michael says shes encouraged by the outpour of supaort from her neighborhood, the Community Response has been so great that you know that sort of the stuff were taking away from it weve had customers. Drop off toys people offer to donate toys people offer to help us rebuild the collection in San FranciscoTaylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Love that all right, im glad theyre able to keep it open after all that it went through with closing and Everything Else get the highly all right, you might be in the mood for something cold to eat come this weekend earth come this week weve got some warm temperatures back and john is still on the wall unit is and i screamed for vote worth the trip. Yeah that well, you know black is still got it and daria and im also glad you still have the furniture the lot furniture still out. Because yeah were going to get plenty of sunshine to enjoy it and hopefully in the shape though temperatures are climbing during the week ahead of us that mild weather we have this weekend unfortunately going to be something we waved goodbye. Starting from today for the rest of the week. Beautiful Crystal Clear skies this morning so we are starting the week on at least a really pleasant note as of right now this High Pressure ridge is starting to build back in this is going to ensure that any sort of cool air reyna sent up into the Pacific Northwest and as High Pressure gradually builds to our north and west its going to kick up some offshore winds dragging as you know the hot dry winds from our inland valleys out our direction and accelerating as it pushes through mountainous terrain and that whats results in the high fire danger now that core of our fire danger days will be tuesday night into wednesday and then into thursday friday and saturday are still going to be hot still going to be dry. But the winds begin to relax on those days so really is the middle of the week into the end of the week that we are looking at the greatest risk of a fastspreading wildfire yet again and we know what that means please as you venture outside use extreme caution as youre getting out there and adjust your schedules accordingly now as for today. Were already warming up its definitely not going to be our hottest one of the week. But it is going to be noticeably warmer than we were this weekend. Daytime highs will be back into the 80s for many of our bayside cities with areas like san jose back up to 85 today. Campbell at 86. Well some of our inland the east bay spots getting close to if not up to 90 degrees. While the creek in danville each both up to 90 while oakland at 82, north bay temperatures also anywhere from the 80s to low 90s in napa and sonoma right up to 90 degrees and some 80s and Mill Valley Center fell in nevado too. Tomorrows temperatures pretty similar to todays but as winds kick into gear tuesday night temperatures begin to spike into wednesday thursday and friday are hottest days also are breezy east of days the weekend will still be warm but temperatures begin to cool down and winds will be coming down. Robin all right. Thank you john, lets head over to 92 checking in on the traffic lots of it right now levy hayward heading over to the peninsula, its the westbound side thats all stacked up, its not a bad commute, but its a crowded one. And it started early this morning in the 4 oclock hour there it is getting heavier by the minute. But its still under a 15 minute trip over to the peninsula which is great news for those of you who are about to use it were looking good on 80 into San Francisco are still delay free at the bay bridge toll plaza so were off to a fantastic start. Not so fun on the nimitz weve had construction the normal roadwork northbound and 29th followed by a fatal accident at high street. Theyre still one lane thats blocked off. And thats the right lane as you approach downtown oakland, so its backed up just be on high street. Take 5. 80 west instead of the northbound them its its going to get you around the slow traffic and save you lots of time right now its roughly a 15 minute trip from san leandro to downtown oakland and just getting word of a new crash west 4 at 6 80 right at the split new accident blocking the right lane will check more trouble spots coming up a little bit later back to you, thanks a lot amazon prime day is this weekend experts want to warn you about scams hold in kerr wiki has the story. Prime days are some of the biggest in online retail. And according to Check Point Software technologies engineer nick hampson scammers are primed to take advantage play where on preparing for prime dates fire. I was on fire tv the hawkeyes the parents of prime dan to kind of into set those payments according to checkpoints research. New register domains for amazon and prime doubled within the last month with more than a 3rd considered malicious just check this morning about 67 new ones have come online i was on email amazon prime day. These are not legitimate websites some scams such as misspelled emails or faulty links or easy to spot what hockey relying on right now is laziness thats why hansen says you should always look for the lock in your browser bar dont go clicking on coupons that you get through lanes from a friend of a friend of a friend may also want to create your count ahead of time and update your existing password and as always beware of deals that are too good to be true false a new into in desperation i got to get this deal and thats not a deal if you get in a sense. He tv for 8. Those dont exist, however if youve done your homework and are ready to make that big Ticket Purchase hampson says the best way to protect yourself has to put down the debit card states, a credit card you got less liability when youre working with a credit card since many of these websites only live for 30 to 40 minutes. Its important that you monitor your bank account for any fraudulent activity. In raleigh hold incur wiki. Well take a quick break coming up next on the kron 4 morning news voting already underway across california and well tell you how you can keep your ballot safe and make sure your vote is counted. If you plan on voting this week meanwhile, heres a quick live look outside with gutter bay bridge approach camera here westbound 80 at the toll plaza so far look pretty good well get another update from rob we are back time now 5. 22 and we are just 22 days from the election early voting off to a busy start in california tack. Now some officials across the state are noticing some issues with how voters are filling out their mail in ballots with Jessica Mensch now taking closer look at what to do with your ballot to make sure its counted. A ballot after ballot weve seen higher turnout earlier this year than we ever have pouring into Sacramento County during the first week of early voting the first 3 or 4 days 4 we had 3,000 that have been returned. Which was 3 or 4 times what we normally see that early but along with this influx of votes. Theyre noticing an influx of errors one of the things that has never come up but its 2020 right. We have had some people come in because they had attempted to sanitize the paper several voters slightly afraid of the coronavirus have tried to clean their ballots by pouring liquid sanitizer on that ruin the ballot not only the wording but the bar codes that are on it that helps us canada through the tabulator which makes it unreadable she stresses that these ballots are putting to sleeves by machines in covid19 does not live long on paper by the time youre valley gets you it has you know in quarantine essentially for probably more than a week. So theres no risk of covid being transmit