Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 6am 20240712 : vimarsana

Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 6am 20240712

Around the corner which as you guys mentioned could cause a lot of us across the bay area problems, especially if you are in one of those areas. We could lose power as fire danger increases, looking outside this morning at least we do have a beautiful start to the day. Its dark but it is very clear out there to kick off this morning, pretty calm for now, but winds pick up tonight across especially the coast and across the north bay, those winds will gradually spread be really widespread for portions of the in one north bay into the inland, the east bay by the time we work our way into wednesday and thursday now these winds paired with increasingly warm temperatures means fire danger is going to be of concern vacaville atlas peak Calistoga Sonoma seeing winds gusting regularly and into a 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour range that paired with low humidity and hot temperatures of so theres a lot this season way too much is going to result in the high fire danger out right now temperatures 40s 50s 60s depending on where youre at some of our cooler spots are in the north bay little bit warmer in San Francisco alameda and timber on in those low to mid 60s later on today, it will be 80s to even low 90s so beginning to warm up ahead of even warmer days ahead of us. Robin. Thank you john a long line at the bay bridge toll plaza this happened within the last 5 minutes or so now its backed up and we also have a of course thats adding to the slowdown the crashes 80 west after Treasure Island. So its on the suspension youre right lane is blocked, its backed up through the tunnel and now in stretches from the eastern span the pay gates beyond the att overcrossing and now to west grand so that was pretty quick 14 minutes and growing to make it into San Francisco Road Construction wrapping up in fremont northbound 6. 80 in washington, its still very sluggish from mission south. An overturned crash still active in the lay how if you take 80 east and you plan on heading in that direction. The right lane is blocked there with that overturned crash with stacking up a little bit as you approach the scene back to you. All right, thank you robin. Lets get to our big story this morning people bracing for maybe the power to be shut off pg and e is releasing more details about which areas could be impacted. Yeah, this is one of those proactive power shut off conference sara stinson live for us in Sonoma County with what we know so far. This morning, sarah. Yeah thats right p jeannie making these proactive decisions because of the wildfire danger and the weather conditions were seeing this speak specifically tomorrow afternoon. So that is when the power will be shut off if this power shut off goes into place affecting over 22,000 pg e customers take a look at your screen theyve released how many customers in each of the bay area counties affected im live here in Sonoma County you can see all the other counties on your screen alameda contra costa santa clara son, the tail and then on the next slide you can see napa sonoma and solano this again due to those hot and dry conditions paired with the expected high wind gusts which causes major wildfire danger. The highest probability areas are the north bay mountains near mount saint helene a small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont portions of the santa cruz area this is how you can prepare take a look at your screen make sure to have gallons of water available with nonperishable foods. Flashlights extra batteries, those portable phone chargers well if you have a generator, the good tip is practiced using it before the power outage to make sure youre using it correctly. And of course have a go bag ready of course this is all because of wildfire danger so if youre in this area, means youre near an area that is prone to wild fire or has dry fuels or thats why the pg era worried about that area now i talked with a pg spokesperson to kind of dig into the weeds a little bit more about who is specifically affected. So right now we are multiple areas that have the potential for impact, although please no. We would not be impacting entire regions it would just be pockets of areas. So if you live in one of those counties we showed you earlier doesnt mean youre necessarily one of those customers is going to be without power you should have been notified already theyve been telling their customers that this is a potential to be happening wednesday afternoon and they expect to get another notification sometime today probably in the afternoon 24 hours in advance because again the time in which the power would be shut off is wednesday afternoon and you get a call attacks an email some kind of notification but for now all we can do is come prepared. Reporting live in santa rosa Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. All right, thank you very much sara. The glass fire is now close to fully contained a cal fire says its at 96 and has burned about 67,000 acres in napa sonoma counties as well as destroying more than 800 homes and other structures. In the south bay, a man was seriously injured in an explosion that happened in gilroy yesterday afternoon in the 1700 block on telly drive on telly between rancho hills drive and leonard way is now closed may be up for a couple of days as they are investigating what happened. Well after months of preparations in Person Learning will resume today for some students in Alameda County. The Child Unique Montessori School is among 20 private schools that have been given the green light from Alameda County to reopen at montessori classes will be limited to 11 students. No more. Temperatures of students and staff will be check not just once but 4 times a day dividers will help keep kids from gathering in a single location and in addition to the state and federal protocols. Staff reached out to leaders in taiwan for advice. Because time one hair record that was not elevating the way that it has been elevating in the United States and so i wanted to know what they did so we started back in march. Interviewing them asking people for feedback and then starting to generate a planned so literally no child touches something twice without being disinfected and south as opposed to disinfecting at the end of the day which we do anyway where disinfecting every minute. Their county education leaders say that theyre expecting to see some reopening plans for smaller Public School districts in the coming weeks. A Covid Vaccine trials are on hold at johnson and johnson because a volunteer in their study got sick and they need to investigate why they havent disclosed with the symptoms were but they are following guidelines stopping study right now and reviewing what happened with this illness. The company says this is a part of clinical studies, this happens. We saw it happen before astra zenica had to stop its trial twice in september because of an illness. Were tracking the covid numbers across california and the bay area so far the state recording almost 860,000 cases and more than 16,500 deaths, including more than 1600 people in the bay area have died of covid. Well in governor Gavin Newsoms latest covid19 briefing, he touted the states massive Contact Tracing program with slowing the spread. He says there are nearly 11,000 people working very hard right now to make sure that one positive case doesnt become 10 or more. But he stresses that more still needs to be done with thousands of people testing positive every day its critical to find out who else is at risk and they stress that while testing is crucial to fighting covid19. So is what happens after testing. We want to make sure that the testing leads to something and in order to box this virus in order mitigate the spread of this virus quarantine and isolation become essential. 90 of tests in the state come back within 24 hours letting local authorities act more quickly which has led to 97 of counties to Contact People they have come into contact with on the same day as a positive result. Pair of various cities are among those topping list for business closures during the pandemic according to a study from yelp San Francisco claimed the second. Highest spot with nearly 22 closures for every 1000 businesses with san jose ranking 5th. Coming in with 20 closures per 1000 businesses, youll says restaurants have been hit particularly hard followed closely by shopping and retail. Happening now the confirmation hearings for president Trumps Supreme Court nominee are underway. Amy Coney Barrett is facing questions from the Senate Judiciary committee as we speak were watching it were monitoring it and not only are we bringing you live updates, but you can watch it live if youd like on kron 4 dot com weve got its streaming uninterrupted there. Well take a quick break here at 6. 10. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news an Armed Robbery caught on camera as someone confronts man trying to steal a catalytic converter off of his own car were going to show you the video and after the break up their yoga studio under fire for violating Health Guidelines during the pandemic well have more on that john and its already warming up but with wind speeds increasing these next couple of days fire danger is about to be creasing as well areas in yellow on the map. Indicating fire weather watches taking Effect Tomorrow. Your forecast is ahead. Im tracking some heavy traffic around the bay area that includes the bay bridge. We have a new crash west of Treasure Island and you can see what its doing to your commute quite slow into San Francisco. garage door opening it is my fathers love. It is his passion it is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. With liftmaster® powered by myq®, know whats happening in your garage from anywhere. You can take a day off fromy worrying about your packages. Ohhh yeahhh just connect your myq® app to key. Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. 6. 13 right now and were checking out the weather which is quickly becoming a it is yeah specially with the possibility of power shut off this week fire danger on the high side john is just going to be a all week long thing or whats the how does it play out so yeah its definitely something thats going to take up a lot of the rest of the week guys, especially tomorrow and thursday these will be our 2 windiest days with winds peaking wednesday night. Into thursday morning here but already tonight, youre going to start to see wind speeds picking up and temperatures are already warming up to so were setting ourselves up for that highest a fire danger just around the corner. Outside right now skies are Crystal Clear and its not just because we dont have fog but also because air quality is pretty good. So thats a nice way to start this forecast a forecast that is full of things that arent necessarily ideal so get out there and enjoy your morning before the temperatures this afternoon become a little bit on the toasty your side than even yesterday was offshore winds really kick into gear starting Early Morning tomorrow and thats what well be looking at winds gusting well into a range of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour through the day on wednesday on into thursday starting to calm down after friday morning. Winds really peaking wednesday night into thursday morning though thats when really going to be seeing some issues, especially up in the north bay gus regularly in calistoga glen ellen in sonoma at around that into a 20 to 30 mile per hour range peak, wind gusts as high as 50 Miles Per Hour under upper elevation areas as far as fire weather watches are concerned we are going to be looking at those as you can see in yellow for upper elevation areas. Temperatures today will be in the upper 80s to low 90s, San Jose Mountain view and napa each in the low 90s. Well livermore antioch in concord as well as fremont and even hayward right along the bay in the mid to upper 80s, so temperatures are in the process of warming up now. Tomorrow just a touch warmer but winds will be noticeably more of a factor wednesday thursday, especially thursday morning, our windiest of times. Temperatures right along the bay begin to rise into the low 90s thats not for inland areas or based side cities right there so were all going to be tapping into some hotter weather to close out the week. Heres the good news is temperatures this weekend begin to fall as winds really come down as well. So there is relief just around the corner. Robin. All right. Thank you john a little bit of good are better news. I should say heading into San Francisco. We have a crash on the bay bridge 80 west after Treasure Island. Its gone, but check out what it has done to your commute. Doesnt look a little dark thats not normal right. I dont know if its the camera setting or maybe some lights are out at the bay bridge toll plaza, but its very dark here at the pay gates all give them a call and see if theyll tell me whats going on, but thats definitely not the traffic is once again recovering from the crash. So you have a little bit of commute traffic. You have a little bit. A residual delays and now its stacked up from the bottom of the maze and very dark as we can see all right over to a 92 were tracking the drive from the east bay to the peninsula. Its all crowded leaving hayward but no big problems right now so 14 minutes to the peninsula. We have an accident on 84. This is 84 west approaching 6 ad. Maybe a little bit closer to Little Valley road at some wrapping up but still blocking those westbound lanes so its going to be very heavy this morning, leaving livermore youre almost backed up to dallas eagles wrote there on 84 the rest of the east bay looks great 5. 80 the nimitz in no problems for the south bay to 18 1 o one right on time james back to you all right, thank you very much robin. Well on the peninsula, the pacific a hot yoga studio is catching some heat because its breaking Health Guidelines. The owner is holding hot yoga classes without requiring facemasks kron fours taylor the psac ii has the story. The yoga studio held several hot yoga classes on monday i spoke to the owner over the phone and he confirms that no masks are worn during his indoor classes despite state and county guidelines if the civic a yoga studio is dole the classes without masks. Civic of the children posted this schedule on social media, including hashtags mask free fear free virusfree coward free and trump 2020 among others kron 4 news spoke to the owner over the phone on monday confirming indoor classes are held without masks breaking covid19 Health Protocols it saddens me. That someone whos done this on social media has of late teens. Disregard. Of the rules masks are worn during the height classes. The owner tells me social distancing is in place, hes allowing up to 10 people per class with reservations, however, according to current guidelines Fitness Studios in San Mateo County are only allowed to operate a 10 capacity. So allowing 10 people would mean this small building normally holds classes with 100 people, San Mateo County supervisor david cannabis as the class size might also be an issue that the last thing we want to do is why it a corona. Iris hotspots and. Havent people doing all you know these exercises, you know are they socially distant. You know you have an owner who. Basically says that the coronavirus. Its a hoax neighbors are taking to yell voicing their concerns the owner known as on yelp leader for applies to a visitors post writing quote does it make you feel good to post this why so angry because youre jealous do you know that i never closed ever weve been having classes the whole time saving lives that one case of the virus while stupid fools like you coward home with your mask on keep posting my stuff. Police spread the word loser pacific a City Council Member mary baer says you the studios actions are disturbing and says this is an opportunity for people to make informed decisions its an opportunity for people to choose where they where they dont have yoga right. They can choose they choose they want to they can choose the protocols that the gyms are putting in place and this kind of conversation gives them that chance because theres a lot of gyms in the second book on out their way and busted their butts to get all the protocols in place and theyre doing the right thing county Health Officials say this business could be fined hundreds even up to several 1000 because its breaking Health Protocols. By not requiring face coverings in pacifica to live the psac ii kron 4 news. Also a massage therapist is charged with assault 27 yearold alberto, mel gar works at the spine and therapy Chiropractic Center on ash street and a woman there says that he sexually assaulted her at the center. Hes being held now at the Santa Clara County main jail. And Armed Robbery in the east bay we have Surveillance Video of 2 men stealing a catalytic converter in alameda and it was happening friday night near the intersection and so avenue and court street when the owner of the car approach the thieves. One of them pulled out a

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