All across the bay area. Just today. Last night, the sandbar note the afternoon hours. City canceled honor the lives many people waking up with of the eight people who got in vehicles covered in ash. The dark sky and oranges tent the chris moore neighborhood. And we are talking at 8 00 ort the pipeline explosion sent flames 1000 feet high and 9 00. Distorted 38 homes. A few minutes ago, governor and the smoke we butte gavin newsom signed a bill to help Small Businesses impacted county. While the ashes followed, many by the covid19 pandemic. People reporting not smelling the governor was joined by selena state senator who co the smoke. Authored the bill. It will give a new tax break for companys that rehired employees laid off by the getting a lot of calls into the newsroom from concerned viewers about this. I want to bring in our meteorologist. Companies could receive 1000 tax credits for each employee i will have you explain this, but it is my understanding it they rehire. A maximum o
Cars back on its tracks. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus thank you for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight once again a dense layer of smoke from dozens of wildfires. They darken the skies around the bay area again today, this is a live look at the bay bridge. Those lights really illuminating just how smoky and hazy it is once again. Yeah well the orange glow from yesterday is mostly gone the poor air quality sure isnt. We kick off our kron 4 Team Coverage with the latest air quality checked around the bay from chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow lawrence yeah thats kind of the irony we dont have that orange glow today, theres less smoke in our atmosphere, but the smoke that youre next all the way down to the surface and the spore quality out there right now and you can see out toward sfo you see the lights out there you see the haze that smoke down below as a small continue just to flow around the bay area and it is bad in some p
2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William
To stay with us. So you have more sunshine working its way and its going to look brighter but its definitely going to appear smoky all day long today, very light winds just enough to push fog in overnight, but not enough to push the smoke out of the region were going to be holding on to that today tomorrow through the weekend with only gradual improvements as each day goes by today being the worst one of your forecast even worse than the past few have been 50s for our current temperatures with pittsburgh, the only exception of the warmer side at 62. Well santa rosa and lena down into the upper 40s this morning later today, daytime highs sticking with the 70s for warmest of temperatures with 76 degrees, your average inland temperature 60s near the bay and the coastline. Ive got more details about what to expect in the long range forecast ahead of us still to come robin all right, thank you folks can expect a foggy commute heading into San Francisco. Its a little dance out there check th
Skies today in san jose. The skies werent as orange there, but you can still see the thick of smoke around the city. Even at 12 30 this afternoon. Tom vacar is live in beauty county with the latest on the north complex fear that has for thuses of people to evacuate. We begin, though, with Cristina Rendon for a closer look at todays weird weather. Cristina in. Reporter well, julie, weird is right. Its still raining ash here in my backyard. The Patio Furniture is still covered in ash. It was the difference, he, this morning of that or an sky. It felt like night in the middle of the day. My wife said its yellow. Would say its more orange. Reporter wednesday felt like we woke up on a different planet, mars perhaps, or a world filled with falling ash . It looks like nighttime. Its insane. Reporter angela was a bit disoriented when her alarm went off. I woke up this morning and it was a really eerie feeling. I felt like did i mess up . Is it nighttime . Whats going on. Its disorienting. Feel