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KRON KRON 4 News At 8am July 12, 2024

Upper 30s right now not quite as chilly as we had been the past couple of days, but definitely cool enough for that extra layer if youre outside for more than just a few minutes, sun shining down in walnut creek and as we make our way into the afternoon areas like walnut creek holding on to the low 80s just barely most of our inland areas backing off the 80s, falling into the 70s to kick off the weekend on a cooler note. Robin thank you john major residual slowing on highway 4 after an accident in concord was tying up traffic blocking several lanes so the crash is gone, but the drive time is still very high, especially for friday, a whopping 42 minutes for west for from antioch over to concord because of that crash which is right before they 6. 80 looks good the nimitz trouble free and one oh one easy 31 minutes from san jose heading to menlo park. The bay bridge commute into San Francisco fantastic for friday delay free we havent had any major issues so far 9 minutes for you average to fremont street thats right on time well check more purchase and more drive times coming up back to you, thanks a lot one just 4 days to go to the election bay area city stepping up to help people cast their vote and that includes the city of oakland weve got joining us on zoom call this morning, oakland. Mayor libby shaft madam air always great to have you joining us. The election week absolutely and and first off tell us about the coliseum because starting what tomorrow it turns into a giant voting center. Thats right. I mean this is a great year for sports fans and voting because the Oakland Coliseum is going to be in makeup boating center you cant drive by and drop off your mail ballot. You can even vote from your car if you know someone who is worried about standing in line are being exposed to other people there will be curbside voting drive through democracy, its going to be course socially distance polling places inside the arena, it all opens tomorrow, you can vote all day saturday all day sunday monday and then of course on election day tuesday. What about preparing for the results, i know that a lot of cities are very nervous. Whichever way it goes that there could be some destruction and at least demonstrations. What is oakland doing. Well we have everyone all staff is on call weve been running different scenario some been planning for this for months so we are prepared and we are committed to safeguard the vote and also create safe places for people because you know it may be a few days before we know the final results of this election so were prepared were here to facilitate oaklanders celebrating their democracy their hopes and dreams this country and also for local community theres a lot on the local ballot. I know im going to be a stumping for Derrick Johnson this weekend one of my Favorite Local candidates for city council i hope you get it all with an election this year. Well a lot of people appreciate the steps the efforts that oakland and Alameda County have done to you know make it easier to vote which is you know stands stark contrast to other places like texas forest is where the governor limited the dropoff low drop box locations just one per county alameda guys weve got like more than 60 so you know kudos on that front. Thats right and if you didnt get around to registering to vote but you still want to vote you can actually show up at any of these polling places register and cast a ballot on the same day so we are making it as easy as possible for you to lift your voice that is your mote thats our democracy we have got to exercise it this year very important. Let me ask you a quick while we have you i know it was maybe about a month ago little last that the governor made available but was a 20 Million Dollars for this home key fund where you guys are going to be taking Homeless People and putting them into properties that were maybe former hotels are dorms and converting that into more permanent housing, hows that going. Oh its going great weve actually already started moving some of our now formless formerly homeless neighbors into permanent weve purchased 20 Single Family homes or converting an old College Dormitory in rockbridge and then we just got an additional award 17 million more dollars so a total of almost 40 Million Dollars and this time were going to be converting the in at 10 the and a Downtown Hotel with a special focus on our that is the way to end homelessness with permanent Affordable Housing as mayor also going into halloween weekend. What do you have to say about partying i know San Francisco has a big area of concern which is the castor theyre telling people to stay away. What about in oakland took to limit peoples exposure to covid. Well you know, im sure im like a lot of families holloway has been our familys favorite holiday. But we are not celebrating it in the same way this year were not going to have trick or treaters and thats just what we have to do to get through this pandemic together and oakland your sacrifices are paying off youve seen weve moved into orange that here were allowed to now reopen some of our churches and weddings and indoor recreation in a limited capacity and thats because we have been making those sacrifices so wear a mask every day not just on halloween i like looking past halloween the Holiday Season coming up. In december it your annual 12 toy drives already getting underway or soon will be how are you guys doing things differently now with the pandemic and people just concerned about that. If you have any spare money we need some more donations to make the holiday special for so many families that are struggling this year last year the mayors toy drive, certain 9,000 families in need this year the need is even greater but instead of actually buying toys wrapping them and giving them to people were going to be handing out gift cards last transfer of germs a safer more sanitary and were going to allow those families to do their own shopping but we are behind in our contributions so please go to oakland ca dot gov slash toy drive make a donation, whatever you can afford and on monday we will start registering families who need that little help during this Holiday Season to keep that spirit alive for their children thats a great idea of my all of these you know measures that are taken because of covid and thats a way to save the holidays. All right, thanks a lot there. All right. Thank you have the election happy halloween, well be right back. All 10 is the time right now john here take a look at the weather and weve been seeing will to shots beautiful that one, but she said there is some fog right even though its a foggy morning get sort of we do have the return of some fog so not quite as Crystal Clear, but i actually think it looks kind of pretty year with a little bit of cloud cover and a little bit of sunshine to that weve been holding onto you can see from timber on right here if you look really close theres that line of fog that streaming into the golden gate. So you are driving through it this morning at the bridges and on a couple spots along the coastline, but more so the knot yeah were getting a good dose of sunshine on this friday morning as we work our way through friday youre going to notice calm winds much like we had wednesday much like we had yesterday to were going hold on to these calm winds as we work our way through today into halloween tomorrow in the sunday early into next week too. Youre going to find that the next forecast ahead of us is more or less just a Holding Pattern of the same stuff as this ridge of High Pressure sets up shop across the region. Were not going to see a whole lot of changes here its keeping any chance of rain out of the region thats the downside, the good side is we dont have any major heat waves ahead of us nor any major wind events ahead of us to which obviously sparked up the red flag warnings that we had earlier this week. Daytime highs today a little cooler than they have been mostly back into the 60s for San Francisco, another coastal spots overnight at 62 today while daly city at a cool comfortable 65. Good doses of sunshine between fog that will ebb and flow right along the coastline 70s and 60s from san bruno through burlingame up to brisbane well 70s from foster city through Mountain View san mateo and i 74 today while temperatures in the south bay just a couple of degrees down from where we were yesterday sonny bill and 73, san jose at 76 east a daytime highs a little cooler than yesterday as well no 80s in the tri valley, although you do still have an 80 or 2 in danville walnut creek up to concord berkeley youre at 68 Richmond Oakland in the low 70s today while on the north bay back into the low to upper 70s temperatures cooler than yesterdays low 80s were in these spots, santa rosa in petaluma as well as nevado all at 76 today, lets get a breakdown of your next 7 days of course we have halloween tomorrow going to be a different halloween this year. I dont know how youre celebrating it. But im sure it will be social distanced, maybe enjoying some of the sunshine in the backyard, those 80s inland and 70s by the bay 60s near the coastline as for sunday youll get that extra hours sleep as we fall back an hour. 02 00am on sunday morning. So dont forget to adjust your clock saturday night. Robin ill try to remember thank you john. Were checking in on the traffic around the bay area looking good for our friday. We dont have any because spots but we do have some foggy spots a dense fog advisory remains in place here for the Golden Gate Bridge so keep that in mind if you take a one on one, its a little fog, especially on the north bay side but no big problems into or out of San Francisco. So far were checking in on the bay bridge 80 wesson to San Francisco. Its been quiet and smooth throughout the morning drive so come you dont have to worry about any problems or issues or an 8 minute. So thats pretty quick right thats your average from the bottom of the maze across the span and over to the fremont street exit, ill give you one more were checking in on the drive times and take a look the highway for so remember earlier we had an accident and concord west for right before the 2. 42 sweat thats what backed up the traffic its out of your way, but it has not recovered its better, but it hasnt completely recovered so were down to 33 minutes west for any out to conquer livermore to dublin looks good for 5 1 is trouble free heading for morgan hill off to san jose and then no big issues for the east shore freeway little busy but just under 20 minutes now from crockett down to the maze back to you. In the buzz, the biggest star in College Football has covid clemson quarterback trevor lawrence, hes supposed to be the number one overall draft pick if he enters the nfl but the bigger is now is will he be out of isolation in time for clemsons big game with notre dame november 7th as a mom. Im more worried about his health because they say that river is experiencing. Mild symptoms and james, as you know probably you dont know my son got covid well away in college and. Let me tell you it can go from bad to worse yes, second mile does a pretty wide spectrum right right first of all yeah like you know that hits you like a ton of bricks that then. Before i knew it thor was in the yard with complications. Now hes all better but i can not convey how afraid. I was so football is the last thing that i would be worried about. All we all have a long and productive life like Tony La Russa he just turned 76. And he was rehired as the white sox manager so now he is the oldest mlb manager. He was the youngest with the sox 1975. Before we had color film just kidding i like black and white liberals was 34 years old when he started there and now 34 years after he left the white sox hes back for more needless to say the game has changed a lot even from when he was leading the oakland as. Back in 1986 and through a triumphant but turbulent 89 earthquake world series with the giants and right up until he left oakland in 1995 opens kind of famous for comeback kids jon gruden was 35 when he first coached the raiders in 1998. They fired him one and then they brought him back in 2018 17 years later, who says grandpas dont got game. As an old foe myself i like to keep up with the trends but this one might be too much even for me crocs crocs taking ugly comfort to the next level. You can buy platform balas iago crocs. Too high and too expensive for me, and theyre about to release a new collaboration with Country Singer luke combs his last version this is the new ones that are going to is sold out in seconds very very popular Justin Bieber had a pair of customs, you know these are Collaboration Partnership is is drew because that his middle name. A fever can wear the cool right. Hope not know know what about the Kentucky Fried Chicken was member those yeah might also ridiculous their tidy theres all kinds of you know it and heres the thing is the more i see him. And they can i dont know james they grow on me and before you know it, but i say i swear i will never buy them theyre the other what we do. You thats what ended up happening with the sneakers. Remember so ally and you are with me when i was shopping ally with that youre with shopping i started look at me now look at look at me now little taste what its called in go to begin for the okay so i i started air look at look at these are little plow. I started by seekers and then help you know than the debt, the big ones became got in and then i got those that i got chinese and and before i knew it like i lost all concept. And the ugly sense of shoe i swear ive sworn off i. Kyle looking better and they have free in size. Now no. Those hot form ones almost interrupted you to say is that what is what is it what is that i i dont county attorney who could use a little i dont know people actually buying to wear them or the despite to collect and hes put them up. These shows okay how about halloween you can wear for halloween for that you might want to dress up even i got no place to go this i have a wonderful suggestion what. You can i this is for everybody but its happening in new york city they have the village has the big in new york city, but it still has biggest a halloween parade every year. Its so elaborate cooled costumes are amazing the kit right, you dont have this really but you weve never been able to go because you live in new york city and they cant go now because of covid this is a video of what its like its fey and alec a halloween mardi gras looks really s so heres heres the thing. They are creating and theyre creating a with all of these you know the out of work set design and Costume Designer so so many in the in the Entertainment Industry guy and so what theyre doing is theyre creating a miniature virtual pull a parade that will be streaming online and tomorrow night okay your 7 oclock now i got to admit, im not sure if thats eastern time weve got to just go to the internet you go to the home page search for the village halloween parade. What i found that out. All all to an end. 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