in santa and dan kerman kron 4 news. >>right now to another big story we're following 72. 1000 people. actually that's that's 7200 acres have have burned 10's of thousands of people have been evacuated in orange county because of a fast-moving wildfire. there. yeah, this is the silverado fire broke out shortly after dawn just a. >>outside the city of irvine in southern california that fire has erupted to a 70 to 7200 acres it's it's growing pretty rapidly and it's a 0% containment. at one water dropping helicopters grounded because of the strong winds it just made it unsafe to fly. the fire it is close to freeways is closed schools in the area as well yeah again this thing just started this morning. so it has really taken off and grown fast. orange county fire authority saying that about 20,000 homes have been evacuated and erratic winds in the area have been reaching 60 sometimes 70 miles an hour. it's not clear what caused the fire. so far no damage or destruction, but again a lot of people out of their homes tonight b

we have team coverage tonight kron four's dan kerman is in the napa valley where thousands of people are still without electricity and kron four's rob fladeboe is in the santa cruz mountains where the lights are beginning to come on. but first we want to go to our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow he is tracking the dangerous fire conditions that have ultimately. >>force these power outages in the first place lawrence yes, so ironic we've got just really beautiful weather. but at the same time extremely dangerous of course we're prime now we've seen the fires of the season throughout summer in the end here now in fall and you got that strong offshore wind developing around the bay area really. >>gusting, especially this morning but the winds still whipping we're looking at 2040 mile an hour winds still across many of our mountain peaks, but boy it was really ripping across parts of the mountains early on we had some wind gusts 60 miles an hour mount saint alina also diablo 60 mile an hour winds. there mom in the santa cruz mountains to 53 healdsburg to 52 and even the oakland hills

and that apple valley dan kerman kron 4 news. >>all right well happening now pg needs giving an update on the power shut offs for tonight, let's listen more details on that in just a moment. >>for now though i do want to emphasize that turning off power to our customers is not a decision that we take lightly he scs events or 2 of last resort for us. we use this for weather events that are so severe that people safety their lives their homes and their businesses may be in danger we really want to thank you for your patience and your understanding through this and with that we want to move on to the weather update, let's start with our meteorologist scott strenfel scott what we've seen over the last 24 hours. >>so thanks lindsay yeah as previously communicated briefings here. you know we were talking about the dissuade would come with 2 waves of whether essentially we're expecting the first last night into this morning. with a little bit of a lull in between about in a hour period of law. >>on the winds and then a second peak of th

>>in the napa valley dan kerman kron 4 news. >>make sure to download the kron 4 app for all the latest power shut off development and to download the kron on app to watch the latest news briefings you can find both apps on your phones and at the coming up the covid-19 pandemic taking a real toll on local tourism. the latest on san francisco's hospitality industry and its future in just a few minutes and we'll be tracking those power shut offs will hear from people living in the south bay were bracing for outage hits. >>and it's day 3 of judge amy barrett said confirmation hearings will take you live. capitol hill for the latest on capitol hill for the latest on president trump' taking california for a ride. companies like uber, lyft, doordash. breaking state employment laws for years. now these multi-billion-dollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. to deny drivers the rights they deserve. no sick leave. no workers' comp. no unemployment benefits. vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22.

that is all close so there's no way to get north from calistoga and then we saw dan kerman here right in downtown saint and you can see this part is under an evacuation warning the yellow area of seen lena. you cross a few streets and you're into a mandatory evacuation order and again just to show you how close the fire is this is the fire perimeter right on the west side and right over here on the east side so saint helene and the only way out is heading south on highway 29 toward napa let's jump over to sonoma county. not a lot has changed over here. give us some perspective downtown santa rosa you head east on highway 12 you get into the evacuation warning area here in yellow you get close to an adele state park and then you're in the red zone and look there's a lot of homes in this area, this is a mandatory evacuation order here on the east side of santa rosa, heading down kenwood in that area of sonoma county and of course another warning area way up here in the not a lot of homes up here but this has a lot of ranches a lot of homes out here in the hills between. santa rosa and t

now we go live to calistoga where many of those customers remain in the dark red cross for is dan kerman is there live with us dan we heard from that gentleman. >>it's been windy for many many years said all the sudden the past couple years people lose their power preemptively they're not happy. well, i'll tell you something really interesting and that's the fact that when i talk to people in marine yesterday, they were a little less willing to go with the power shut off but here in calistoga where you've seen lots of fires, they are more willing role with the tide. now pacific gas and electric has been crisscrossing napa county today tried to restoring power, you know about 11,000 people were without power here. right now about 5400 people still without power. pg e crews are out inspecting lines the repairing lines there inspecting polls. they're repairing polls still as i mentioned about a half of napa county is out most expected to be restored tonight. most of the people we spoke with today seem to are taking it all in stride because many of them got a enerator to make it a little bit

dan kerman kron 4 news dan thank you for that report, well, although speaker pelosi claimed her bill is about future president is the fallout is being felt right now that is even though the bill is not likely to see the light of day and the election is so close. >>our catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics asked one of our political analysts why this is happening now. >>right so if you think about how democrats respond to president trump. whatever president trump says whatever he tweets they go right to like the worst case scenario and overreact and really hear hear. speaker speaker pelosi take in a page from the donald trump playbook by putting forward something that is about politics, pure and simple it's going to garner white house to tell you it's going to garner the president's attention and by doing that and talking about his fitness for you raise a whole bunch of issues on that democrats playing field if they're leading the race of joe biden is ahead by state double digits, how is the trump campaign going to respond and reset the race and what nancy pelosi has been

live at city hall dan kerman kron 4 news. >>thank you dan, the u.s. recorded more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases yesterday pushing towards nearly 9 million cases across the country since the pandemic this is a map showing the growth of new cases over the past 2 weeks. you can see the covid hot spots growing in southern california. and some other states like illinois indiana texas and florida among others right now. the u.s. has recorded more than 228,000 deaths that is the highest number of deaths in any country in the world. and today the state officially rolled out its new ramped up covid-19. >>testing program which starts next week. our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala has details. >>state leaders walk through a brand new covid-19 testing lab in southern california friday, happening exactly the right time. when more pressures being placed because of the increase we're experiencing around this nation. the new 25 million dollar lab in valencia's part of california's recent one 0.4 billion dollar contract with diagnostics company perkin elmer,

kerman kron 4 news. thank you dan out to the east bay where thousands of pg e customers could soon be in the dark there as well, the company says between 00:08pm, tonight. >>the power could be shut off along dab low road in danville affecting nearly 2000 customers. there is a red flag warning for that area and pg and e feels the shut offs are necessary so its equipment doesn't start a fire. officials say anyone in that danville area who does lose power will not get it back until at least 10 o'clock tomorrow night. >>also in the east bay with a red flag warning in effect fire crews are on alert kron four's maureen kelly was in the berkeley hills today as firefighters work out on patrol. >>firefighters from station 7 jump into a fire engine to patrol the streets around tilden park. >>looking for signs of smoke and to safeguard against anything that can cause a wildfire. there are 2 engines on patrol during the day today is part of the protocol when fire danger is high they're red fire weather flag is flyin

>>shut off all over again kron four's dan kerman live for us in the napa valley tonight with more dan. >>well we've been talking a lot about calistoga and as you know because of the way things are set up in calistoga people on the west side of the river get shut off during a power shut off. there's a generator for those on the east side of the river well. what happened this afternoon was they started powering back up that west side and then before you know it the entire town was without power. about 2.20 friday electricity was restored to calistoga homes on the west side of the napa river. >>these folks have been without power for 2 days due to pg and e's power shut off. >>teams like the technology. we have today to be able to solve this problem without traitor electricity off to huge populations. >>but the lights coming on didn't last long after 10 minutes, they were out again and so we're homes and downtown businesses on the east side of the river when everything was re energizing. >>there is a circuitry complication or errors that's not allowing to the energy comes through it is un

dan kerman kron 4 news. all right dan here kron 4 we're committed to helping make sure your vote counts if you experience a problem trying to cast your ballot. let us know. >>we'll look into it you can e-mail us at voting problems at kron 4 dot com. >>coming up on kron 4 news at 5 an update on coronavirus here in california. why doctors say contact tracing is just as important as testing. >>and a warning from police in these bay after a bunch of armed fest the details you need to look out for. >>plus baseball legend, joe morgan i'm looking at your mri. your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. i'm sorry baby... i don't want you to play with that... (singing) twinkle, twinkle little star. how i wonder what you are... how are you doing? schedule a video visit with your doctor. kaiser permanente. thrive. with your doctor. >>sad news tonight, major league baseball hall of famer, joe morgan has died at the age of 77. the charismatic second baseball in oakland, and kron four's is it that you spoke to another hall

dan kerman kron 4 news. thank you dan early voting is underway in california people have been receiving their ballots over the past few weeks and now they're dropping those off this is the. >>county elections office here in santa tale you can drive up to a box and drop off your ballot. the office was closed today, but tomorrow staff will begin the process of counting ballots sent. they're letting the public come see the process and we are just 22 days away now from a november, 3rd a reminder kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season we've got you covered. >>on air and online and on election night primetime coverage of results from the bay area and all around the country. a shift voting by mail is increasing the chances that americans will not know the winner of the presidential race on election night. officials in some key battleground states have warned it may take days to count those votes. mail ballots can take longer to count and in some states. the ballots are even accepted in the

live at city hall dan kerman kron 4 news all right dan 2 steps forward one step back. >>today state leaders officially rolled out. the new ramped up covid-19 testing program this program. kicks off next week in southern california. the new 25 million dollar lab it's in valencia and part of california's recent one 0.4 billion dollar contract with diagnostics company perkin elmer, the lab aims to significantly boost the state's testing capabilities, adding an extra 150,000 process tests today with the goal of a 24 hour turnaround time. happening exactly the right time. >>when more pressures being placed because of the increase we're experiencing around this nation. this lab represents a true opportunity not just to do things scale that really only california can achieve. >>the latest state data that labs across the state are averaging one 0.2. a rather day turnaround time with about a 100,000 test happening per day. >>some breaking news now this takes us to southern california where police have been chasing a stolen jeep. this is in the long beach area started at about.

>>kron four's dan kerman live for us in berkeley to explain dan. >>well lot of work asked to go into place you have to make an agreement with teachers you've got to get all the safety protocol in place got to figure out how you're going to schedule all of these middle school students as well as all of these high school students it's going to take some time with the holidays coming up and everything else it would not be out of the realm of possibilities that this might not happen before the end of the year. >>high schools across alameda county been empty since covid-19 caused health officials to shut down in person learning. now they've given middle and high schools with safety plans the okay to reopen their doors as early as november 9th, but at least for public schools that likely won't happen for some time. >>there are a number of considerations for larger districts for our public many conditions that need to be met to ensure we have all the safety protocols in place and it takes school districts longer to do that he takes them longer to marshal

live at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>the sooner, the better thank you. dan meanwhile, a patient in solano county has just been diagnosed with both the flu and the coronavirus health officials are calling it. co infection at this point they're not releasing any info on the patient except to say they are under the age of 65. flu and covid symptoms are similar so if you have any of those symptoms health officials are urging you to get tested for covid. normally san francisco is all about halloween right. but of course things are different this year. yeah anything but normal 2020. >>officials are worried about a rise in covid cases and they don't want to see the city back sliding out of the yellow tear kron four's maureen kelly talked to the mayor about her concerns. >>it seemed like it was going to be an epic halloween this year, it's on a saturday. there's a full moon here in a city where people love to dress up and have fun but now we have the specter of coronavirus looming over us and the city's mayor is concerned that people are going to think just beca

reporting live dan kerman back to you guys in the studio all right dan thank you very much lot of work ahead on that let's move on to the wildfires in california. >>they have broken yet another grim record more than 4 million acres have burned so far this year that's more than double the previous record from 2018. at least 31 people have died this year hundreds of homes have been destroyed. most of the damage came this summer when those lightning strike sparked dozens of wildfires across the state including 3 major fires here in the bay area. more than 16,000 firefighters right now are battling 23 major wildfires in california among those major fires, let's get the latest on the destructive glass fire burning in the north bay tonight that fire has grown to more than 65,000 acres and containment at this hour is 30% tonight, some residents are allowed to return back to their homes or what is left of their homes after the fire destroyed more than. >>for 450 houses in napa and sonoma counties emergency crews are still working in some areas where the fire burned through and then moved on in

>>kron four's dan kerman joins us now live from san anselmo with the latest now on those dan we're hearing that people are not getting their power back on as soon as they had hoped the latest. >>well that's true. yeah, the latest is that many people here in santa and as well as fairfax mill valley and hope to get their power back on by 10 o'clock this evening that was the original plan as stated by pg and but they've not gotten the all-clear for these areas yet as a result it could be 6 o'clock tomorrow night before power comes on here. since early sunday evening, nearly 14,000 marin county residents have been in the dark today and it isn't and it was in >>getting dressed in the dark and it is just thinking rally. i'm much more can we take the outage has impacted nearly 3,000 customers in fairfax. >>but many are better prepared this year than last. >>a lot better prepared. i have lights, you know canned food and water enough food for my dog in case we have to be out for week again i got books. to keep me occupied. >>still a steady stream of people stopped by the fairfax town hall where a c

dan kerman kron 4 news dan thank you for that well depending on the county the updated guidelines brought good news for some smaller amusement parks, but not so good news for the larger was in the bay area kron four's haaziq madyun >>a real roller coaster fans will have to wait a little longer to experience their favorite thrill rides that's because the updated guidance from california public health officials does not allow large theme parks to reopen until the county in which they operate moves into the yellow tier of the state's blueprint for a safe economy smaller theme the other hand are good to go. >>these will be limited in capacity up to 25% or 500 visitors, whichever is fewer. all the other parts the larger of 2 parts. we are waiting here for that big yellow here part of the decision-making bob california public health sending a small team to amusement parks in other parts of the nation to observe or best and they came back with lots of valuable lessons. >>things that we saw that we were very reaffirmed but also some things go to you know raise some concern the level of done witho

i'm dan kerman ken pam back to you in the studio dan thank you very much now to the latest on the massive blast fire still burning in the north bay tonight that fire has grown to more than 65,000 acres and containment is that. >>tonight some residents are allowed to return back to their homes or what's left of their homes after the fire destroyed more than 450. >>homes in napa and sonoma counties emergency crews are still working in some areas where the fire burned through and moved on that includes pg and e workers the utility says as a routine inspection, it is making repairs and re conducting a transmission line which runs through several north bay counties. >>coming up tonight at 6 wildfires leaving behind a lot more than just destruction. we'll take a look at the toxic chemical cleanup happening in the santa cruz mountains in the wake of the czu complex fires. >>and we're going to hear from a local infectious disease expert about the president's diagnosis and his discharge from the hospital today. >>and some voters in the east bay tried to submit their ballots at drop boxes but were

dan kerman kron 4 news. >>has been a decrease in auto burglaries in san francisco, however shattered glass on the street is a telltale sign that a smash-and-grab problem continues, however. >>well one man saw this morning was beyond anything he has seen force has a and has that story. >>and mass between francisco. nothing to see here. >>nothing other than close to a dozen vehicles with the passenger windows smashed glove box is open ransacked and personal belongings emptied onto the passenger seat, waking up to the side of shattered glass on the ground from an overnight smash-and-grab of a burglary is not uncommon in this russian hill neighborhood right by the who was live different 12 years says he's never seen anything like this. >>yeah walk my dog to be on formation any every day and i certainly see one or 2 broken windows across you know through the lock. that's been going on for more than 10 years, i've never seen an entire block. it like that. >>in response to the ongoing auto burglary problem, san fra

dan kerman kron 4 news. >>well happening today, voters in san mateo county can watch their ballots get counted the county's election officials are actually set to start opening and processing return vote by mail ballots. the process will take up take place at the registration and elections divisions office that said 40 tower road in the city of san detail. it will be open through friday from 05:00am to one 30 pm and again from 02:00pm to 10:30pm or until all ballots are process for the day. well also happening today in person learning will resume this morning 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 temperatures of students and staff will be checked 4 times a day dividers will keep kids from gathering in a single location. and in addition to the states and federal protocols staff reached out to leaders in taiwan for advice. because

>>our kron four's dan kerman live for us tonight in santa rosa where firefighters and residents are getting ready for high. heat and gusty winds stand. >>that's right those 2 things a bad combination, especially when you look at this very dry brush you see behind me you know typically october is when we get the big fires. well we still might get a big one this month but we've already had 2 of them people have already evacuated that might have to do it again. tuesday afternoon temperatures in santa rosa were already in the 90's but by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temperatures wind gusts to 55 miles per hour and bone dry grass and brush just ready to go up in flames. >>that is exactly why we're of staffing again under these red flag warnings will have at least 12 if not more engine locally across the county. we are again urging our community be prepared for the potential to evacuate again evacuations have become routine for best film. >>we'll back you waited or sky hawk neighborhood home a little over 2 weeks ago due to the glass fire very close we left with the fla

dan kerman kron 4 news stan. thank you and as we reported a couple of hours ago president trump uploaded a video message to his twitter page produced by the white house detailing his time at walter reed hospital in it he the experimental antiviral drug cocktail called regenerative which doctors gave him fewer than 10 people in the world have been given approval to use it again the safety and effectiveness of regeneron has not yet been proven. >>and it is not available to most americans the president was granted emergency access. >>kron four's justine waltman live for us in the newsroom with more on what the president said in that video released just came out just teen. >>well the president released this five-minute video today from the rose garden and he called it a blessing from god that he caught the coronavirus and said it was his suggestion to take this experimental antibody therapy that he got from regeneron. >>i walked in i didn't feel good. a short 24 hours later, i was feeling great i want to get out of t

at city hall dan kerman kron 4 news. >>still ahead on the kron 4 morning news from winemaker to strike team supporter. how one north bay man turned into a community hero for >>welcome back to the kron 4 morning news said thanks for staying with us happy friday to you the times for 29, let's head over to the weather center and check in with john and see how friday and the weekend is going to shape up hey there john hey robin weekend, nice and cool it was a nice cool day yesterday and today going to be a lot like it we've got low cloud cover sitting across the bay, but sitting well above sales force tower as you can see the whole tower in view so visibility is not much of an issue this morning. despite the fact that you might see a couple of wet spots on roadways from some areas of drizzle that we have experience so the rain chances might be diminishing, but roadways still wet for other reasons as far as air quality is concerned a range of green to yellow and we know what that means by this point green is good yellow the

dan kerman kron 4 news. thank you dan. >>is your local election headquarters and tonight of course is the final presidential debate in fact just about 45 minutes from now president trump will face off with democratic challenger joe biden at belmont university in nashville. there's a few changes this time around both trump and biden's microphones will be muted for parts of the debate, including their opening remarks to try to prevent interruptions we also know that as of this hour both campaigns have agreed there will not be a a plexiglas barrier between the 2 candidates. the plexiglass was installed earlier today, it's a recommendation of the medical advisers on the ground there, but it has since been taken down make sure to stay tuned to kron 4 after the news at 5 o'clock to watch the debate will have it right here on kron 4 and coming up and live a good sign for the economy. the popular bay area restaurants, getting ready to reopen their doors mom goes missing in zion national park in utah for almost 2 weeks and now inve

dan kerman kron 4 news. >>a short is now is san mateo county assistant chief of elections jim irizarry jen is here to tell us more about today's voter registration deadline and what the turnout has been like in san mateo jim, i know the numbers have been super high all over the bay area how do things look in your specific county. >>absolutely fantastic. very high risk we're saying it's store records. today we have a 160,000 ballots. senate been returned and press it we have 3,300 where is that it actually come to a vote center. we are 9 times, greater the number of books lawyers we did during the march 3rd election as of today. pretty aggressive. if right straight today's the last day or registration for the november election. and those voters can actually feel out for registration cards and we will then allow iran to receive a ballot in the mail. so they can vote in november election. we're threatened and if you do not receive your ballot. you can actually do look center in book at the moda center and also

live from main street saying only dan kerman kron 4 news. >>all right dan all the best to them and we're also tracking another smaller fire that started this morning near yacht ville fortunately, the so-called campbell fire that burned just to the north and west of yacht bill near the from the tory winery is now contained this started just before 9.30 this morning on the 1900 block of oakville grade crews were immediately dispatched when it started cal fire will be remaining on scene just to monitor the area. >>governor newsome toured wildfire damaged area today in napa county newsome met with state and local fire officials school damaged by the glass fire during his visit state energy regulators warned of the potential for power shut-offs the governor noted the state distributed money to local governments to respond to those shut offs with 13 million dollars each going to cities and counties as well as funding to other entities. >>ties those dollars in a way to help support. more broadly the and safety of communities impacted by bad air qua

kron four's dan kerman spent the day in santa rosa were firefighters and residents are getting ready for high heat and gusty winds. >>i temps and high winds a bad combination when you couple it with this very dry brush 90 degree temperatures were already bearing down on santa rosa tuesday afternoon. but by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temps wind gusts to 55 miles per hour. and exceedingly dry grass and brush just ready to ignite. >>santa rosa fire department will be staffing to additional wildland fire engines of those 2 fire engines will join a number of other fire departments from across noma county that will form a ploy for to a strike teams and task forces right now we're looking at a least upwards of 12 additional fire engines that will be staffed across the county and likely many more to come. >>residents are being told they might have to evacuate that's something beth phil has done several times before most recently a little over 2 weeks ago due to the glass fire. >>we're practically across the her to the nearest burned house for maybe about 30 to 50

dan kerman kron 4 news. thank you dan well confirmation hearings for president trump's supreme court nominee amy coney barrett are set to kick off monday. some members are expected to participate remotely. >>after 2 republican members of the judiciary committee utah senator mike lee and north carolina senator thom tillis tested positive for the coronavirus last week. some republicans believe that the senate will confirm barrett before election day. democrats oppose barrett because of her legal views and the way she was nominated for the high court. >>all trump's priority is to jam through a lifetime appointment for a judge who's going to roll back protections for so many of those people are hurting. it has a very distorted set of priorities. >>barrett met with more than a dozen senators ahead of her confirmation hearing, including 6 democrats on the judiciary committee if the senate judiciary committee approved her nomination which is expected senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he hopes for a full s

in calistoga dan kerman kron 4 news. >>i happening now pgd is giving us an update on the power shut offs. yeah, they have more details on when power should be restored to all customers let's listen in says going as a reminder on sunday. we made the decision to shut off power to about 350,000 of our roughly 5 million electric customers. >>now we did this is a last resort for safety given the severe weather conditions and the potential for wild fire due to the dry fuel on the ground in the very low humidity. >>as of this briefing about 305,000 customers have been re energized. the remaining 45,000 customers will be restored between now and tomorrow midday as the weather has cleared. now also know our initial reports indicate that we saw 130 incidents of damage or hazard to our equipment during this wind event. these are types of damages that have the potential to ignite wildfire if the lines were energized and we're patrolling expecting those lines and we could find more instances of damage marcus ensure more on that just

dan kerman kron 4 news and thank you for that on the campaign trail president trump continues to criticize the nation's top infectious disease expert, that's right the president blasted a doctor anthony fauci on twitter. >>asking him to make better decisions and during a campaign stop in arizona today, the president also said doctor fauci has quote made a lot of bad decisions take a listen. >>and doctor fauci is a very nice man. but we let him do what he wants to do gets a lot of television he loves being on television will let him do it. sometimes he says things are a little bit off and they get built up, but fortunately, but he's a nice guy i like of what is called a lot of bad calls he said don't wear a mask. and he said don't then china they were bad calls he had been set and i don't hold that against him if i did i would have them i think he's a nice don't want to hurt him he's been there for. about 350 years i don't want to hurt him. >>and this was the scene in prescott arizona this for a trump campaign rally as can see there is a very large crowd with little social distancing. and h

the weather expected to worsen this evening get even more troublesome tomorrow kron four's dan kerman is live in the napa valley with the latest and this is exactly what these folks do not need. >>exactly exactly what they don't want and need exactly what they don't need we're right here on one 28 the road leading into calistoga again we talked to the mayor today he wants to remind people mandatory evacuations still in place for the city of that now more than ever. you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in downtown calistoga since monday the entire town has been evacuated due to the fire threat. other than police patrols residential streets are empty too. there are plenty of thank you's posted to firefighters. >>we've been through this a few times as a city were stronger we'll get through this one as well we did find one man taking advantage of the calm winds. >>to do some brush clearing around his home. >>makes us feel a little better, i'm not sure it's going to do anything we hope it course hopes the fire doesn't reach this side you don't have to go far to see what the fire has done a

dan kerman kron 4 news. >>there has been a decrease in auto burglaries in san francisco but shattered glass on the street is still the telltale sign that the smash and grab problem does continues what one man saw this morning was beyond anything he seen before kron four's haaziq madyun has that story. >>and mass between day and francisco. nothing to see here. >>nothing other than close to a dozen vehicles with the passenger windows smashed glove box is open ransacked and personal belongings emptied onto the passenger seat, waking up to the side of shattered glass on the ground from an overnight smash and grab bottle burglary is not uncommon in this russian hill neighborhood right by the who is live different 12 years says he's never seen anything like this. >>yeah walk my dog to formation any every day and think we see one or 2 broken windows across you know through the lock. that's been going on for more than 10 years, i've never seen an entire block. it like that. >>in response to the ongoing auto burglary

but one theory county is pushing back kron four's dan kerman explains. >>the stands at levi stadium will not be filled with 49 ers fans any time soon. >>putting an audience in a stadium in large groups. is just asking for trouble. it's like a petri dish. >>santa clara county executive officer, jeff smith says the state's new guidelines allowing professional sports teams in orange tier, 3 to fill 20% of their stands with fans from as far as a 120 miles away will not be allowed at levi stadium. he says well covid positivity rates are near one percent in santa clara county. they're near 8% in other counties making the risk just too great. >>if you do the math that means somewhere between 250 and a 1000 people out of those 14,000 people we'll be infected. they'll be infected. there will be at the stadium screaming yelling they'll be going to try to get food. they'll be unmasked during the time period that they're eating they're going to be going to the restroom. they're going to be congregating they're going to be infecting other individuals for local santa

>>what they are committing and pledging that they follow through with live at city hall dan kerman kron 4 news. thank you dan. in the east bay, a desperate plea for help a mother whose son was gunned down is asking for renewed help to solve her son's homicide. >>back on february 11th climate bill was parked on the 600 block of clara street in oakland when he was fatally shot. authorities say they identified a 2000 model infinity suv but they've not made any arrests today his mother talked about her anguish since his passing as well has made a passionate plea for assistance in the case. >>just to know that my kid suffredini died here so he left this earth without. his mother holding him comforting him and i'm just so torn. i don't know what will my whole life is like. i turn upside down. >>detectives with oakland police also spoke today saying they continue to work on the case and try to follow up on lee's bell was an oakland native his mother said he loved music and wanted a career in the music industry. there is a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. >>he h

dan kerman kron 4 news stan. thank you we have continuing coverage on the president's house on our website kron 4 dot com. you can find the latest from the president's doctors as well as the growing list of positive cases at the white house and what top health experts have to say about the president's diagnosis and recovery. >>now to the south bay tonight, santa clara county is poised to move from red to the less restrictive orange here under the state's color-coded coronavirus risk assessment guideline as that means the possible resumption of limited indoor dining club or drop that restaurant reaction now he joins us live from san jose rob. >>will pound the sooners that this could happen will be october 13th. coronavirus numbers have been trending down here in santa clara county for the past couple of weeks paving the way for this possible easing of restrictions if that trend continues then yes, restaurants could open here next weekend. 25% of capacity there's more. >>excitement is building here on saint peter's

>>our first dan kerman reports from the napa valley tonight with more. >>electricity was restored to calistoga homes on the west side of the napa river about 2.20 friday afternoon. these folks have been without power for 2 days due to the pg e power shut off 2020 has been a tough year a tough year for all of california for my family in particular we've had some some tragedies and. >>the covid virus of course has had a huge impact he coupled that with electric outlets with fires. >>a tough here. a tough here we look forward to a better 2021. after the elections, but the lights coming on didn't last long after 10 minutes, they were out again. >>not just on the west side, but also power was out to homes and downtown businesses on the east side of the river it's some sort of other trigger a circuit that fired its didn't and that's what they're trying to isolate and caress the downtown businesses that are already struggling due to covid-19 fire evacuations. >>having their power go out with no warning was the last thing they needed. >>we do understand we don't

doctors said scientists are also weighing in kron four's dan kerman is live outside ucsf medical center with a vaccine reality check boyd and the pandemic in politics sure do converge here. absolutely except for the doctors and the scientists said they say this talk about. >>election day for a vaccine was really an unreasonable expectation. >>now doctor fauci has talked about possibly december january but experts here ucsf say the most high-risk populations likely won't see mass distribution until the spring. >>we've got the vaccine is coming very soon after initially suggesting a covid-19 vaccine could be ready by election day. the president is now telling his followers. it's right around the corner during an online chat today, doctor anthony fauci the nation's top infectious disease expert said in fact we won't know until december at the earliest if there's a safe and effective vaccine. >>when will be we be able to deploy that vaccine and get it to those individuals who need it the most namely the prioritization that came from the a c ip and the national academy medicine. i would thin

>>live in berkeley dan kerman kron 4 news. >>all right dan many businesses in san mateo county can now expand their operations indoors after the county moved into the state's orange here for reopening talking about dine-in restaurants churches museums. >>movie theaters, even malls can all open inside at up to 50% capacity jim's family entertainment centers like bowling alleys can also reopen but at 25% capacity. so folks who admit they're hesitant to make any move inside say they're still proud of the communities progress. >>the awareness of ipc people in san mateo county they're taking it seriously and we all want to get better i think we're cognizant that it's it can take time and it's going to be a measured step we just you know party like it was a pretty february. >>noah get the covid case rate in san mateo county is just 3 people per 100,000 people but if that number goes up the county could be moving back into a worse covid tear said the state health officials and local health officials are urging everyone to stay vigila

kerman kron 4 news. >>well to the south bay now woman has died after an suv plowed right into a group of outdoor diners in san jose over the weekend. she was one of 8 people who were injured in that crash and now they're growing safety concerns about outdoor dining kron four's jonathan mccall reports. >>san jose police are investigating 2 fatal crashes that happened just hours apart on sunday. both crashes have one thing in common. the victims all hit by drivers behind the wheel. now business owners are concerned and worried about the safety of their customers. >>a troubling trend now has some restaurant owners concerned about the dangers of outdoor dining in san jose. sunday 8 people were injured when the driver of this suv plowed into customers eating outside at this restaurant. tuesday we learned that one of the victims died from her injuries. and just hours after that crash on sunday afternoon. police say a woman hit a man with her truck in a separate crash this time at a food trailer. the result, th

in san anselmo dan kerman kron 4 news. >>well a brush fire in the north bay shut down highway 12 and sassoon city in both directions it broke out monday afternoon right along highway, 12, just south of travis air force base. it burned 300 acres in less than 3 hours of move quickly at one point the fire even jumped highway 12 air force members from the base help respond to the fire and share these photos with their said you see right there. and fire crews eventually put out the fire. no one was injured. thank goodness and highway 12 is back open to traffic this morning. santa clara county residents affected by recent wildfires can pre-register for disaster relief from calfresh that was a program that provides food benefits in the form of an ebt card which can be used grocery stores pre registration is available by calling or texting disaster calfresh you can find details on our website just head over to kron 4 dot com. well the oakland zoo could be closed today because of these power shut zoo was closed yesterday as well an

>>in the napa valley dan kerman kron 4 news. >>well to the east bay now 3 berkeley fire engines were out patrolling the fire-prone east bay hills has a red flag warning is in place. crews are out there looking for signs of smoke and of course a safeguard against anything that can cause a wildfire. berkeley fire is reminding people to sign up for those ac alerts. alameda county's mobile alert system. they're also asking people to review their household evacuation route for getting out both by car and by foot it's important to go over that information in advance. well, now's a good time to prepare in advance is make sure you have one gallon of water per person per day. you always keep nonperishable food in your home that's easy to prepare. don't forget you need flashlights and extra batteries have a portable phone charged have an extra charge are all all charged up make sure you have all of your important documents one place you can take that with you if you have a generating want to make sure that you practice using it before you

>>a ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>and the department of medicine chair at ucsf who was on that zoom call we just saw doctor bob doctors, weighing in tonight on president trump's state of mind. he told msnbc's rachel maddow that it is possible trump's decision-making is impaired because of the steroids he's taking and the covid infection in general doctor wachter also tweeted that he doesn't know for sure if the president is impaired but says it's definitely possible. he added that the president's doctors need to be assessing him for impairment every day and be able to accurately report their results without fearing the consequences. >>and as dan kerman reported mister trump tweeted this morning that he is planning to attend next week's debate with joe biden in miami. he ended the with it will be great. meanwhile, joe biden says that there shouldn't be a debate of trump remains positive for the coronavirus. >>you have to follow. a strict guidelines. too many people have been infected. offering a guide to 5 a guidelin

>>a ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news and the department of medicine chair ucsf doctor bob wachter is weighing in tonight on president trump's state of mind. >>he told msnbc's rachel maddow that it's possible trump's decision-making is impaired due to steroids and covid doctor wachter also tweeted that he doesn't know for sure if the president is impaired but it's definitely possible. >>another big story we're following after sending the stock market tumbling by tweeting today that he is pressing pause on all covid stimulus package talks until after the election. president trump now tonight is suggesting more financial relief could be on the way. it comes after the fed chair and many investors been clamoring for more stimulus money to keep struggling americans on their feet. >>our kron 4 sanaz tahernia is live in the newsroom with some details us that's right grant vicki earlier this afternoon the president tweeted saying that he ended negotiations for the new covid-19 stimulus package. >>until after the election promising a major relief bill. once he wins that election he also said that he di

we'll have more on that story coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 5 for now live in santa and dan kerman kron 4 news. >>dan thank you for that. >>kron 4 is your local election headquarters this season just a friendly reminder that we're just 8 days away from the november, 3rd election. more people have already cast their ballots in this year's presidenial election then voted early or absentee in the 2016 race. this as the start of in person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days. a nationwide early voting totals for this election have already exceeded those in 2016 and our local registrar's office are feeling the influx kron four's noelle bellow joins us now with what santa clara county is doing to keep your ballot safe and well hey sanaa's yeah, those voting totals so impressive not only across the country. >>but across the state in california and here in the bay area as well as of yesterday the state. >>has recorded 6.9 million ballots already such day will likely pass that 7 million mark here in california. santa clara county has so far received 388,000 ba

dan kerman kron 4 news. >>our big story tonight, president trump is crediting an experimental drug with helping his recovery from covid-19 is suggesting also his diagnosis could be a blessing in disguise for the nation's battle against the pandemic but. at this point there really is no way for the president or his doctors to know whether the drug is responsible for all of we want to welcome in the chairman of the department of medicine for ucsf doctor bob wachter. >>doctor watching thanks for being with us again we'll get to the regeneron issue momentarily but last night you made waves on national tv for suggesting to rachel maddow that president trump could be mentally adversely affected because drug see is on particularly the sterile obviously you've noted that you're not sure but that's a i'll ask you after seeing the president in his video message today and knowing what we know how do you think the president is doing. >>well i it's hard to diagnose through the video so. it would be better if i was seeing

in dan kerman kron 4 news. >>because of today's strong winds and the increased fire risk with more of the same expected to say several popular parks in the east bay will be closed tomorrow. here's a list of the parks being shut down by the east bay municipal utility district. additional rangers will be patrolling these areas to make sure no one goes where they are not supposed to go several parks operated by the east bay regional park district were close on sunday because of the fire danger and they too are expected to remain closed through tomorrow. this is the list of those parks, if you would like to get a closer look you can find all of this on our website kron 4 dot com. >>and now to our 4 zone forecast our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow standing by with more on the extended red flag warning lawrence. >>more than a couple sleepless trying to you know hold exactly where we're going to see the fire conditions, the right now looks like things starting to ramp up again outside it is clear all around the b

kron four's dan kerman joins us live from san francisco with more on this story. hi dan. >>but you know there are many places that have these drop boxes but their official drop boxes, san mateo county contra costa county a couple of places that have official drop boxes where you can drop off your mail in ballot. you put it in securely and that's that. well the republican party has come up with their own drop boxes and they have been around several places as you mentioned fresno los angeles county. just to name a couple of them. well, the secretary of state has indicated that that's not legal. no other organization other than the registrar of voters is allowed to gather a large collection of ballots like this. now we spoke with the republican party of fresno county they say that they have agreed to remove all of these so-called unofficial ballot boxes. there were 12 of them in fresno county so far no word of any of them here in the bay area but this situation continues to brew the secretary of state holding a news conference at 3.30 but will be there for that and we will b

kerman kron 4 news. >>was. he's too to. >>it may needed is here. >>it is hard to process the pain that people are going through right now home heartbreak for a pair of wildfire evacuees in santa rosa, 52 year-old nicky and kevin conant were forced to flee in a hurry when the glass fire erupted on sunday, they returned home for the first time today to find both the house they have rented for the past decade and virtually all of their belongings destroyed tragically their chicken coop with the chickens inside also burned. >>there may be a visa 2 guns. and they us they took a different mood in there to you tonight when it was warm give them frozen water bottle to keep water does cool. didn't have the means happen so couldn't him out of here. >>the couple repurposes old wine barrels and the custom made furniture but all of that was destroyed and they had no insurance for now they are staying in a hotel in nearby sonoma. >>about 70,000 people in napa and sonoma counties are under evacuation orders tonight, to

dan kerman kron 4 news. >>if you have any problems with voting we would love to hear about it because we will investigate take if you experience a problem email us at voting problems at kron 4 dot com. >>well president trump is back on the campaign trail. he was in florida for his first campaign rally on the road since being diagnosed with covid-19 the president as you can see there stood before a crowd without wearing a mask claiming that he's now immune to covid-19. >>i went through it now they say i'm i'm you i can see i feel so powerful rockets. just i just think guys in the beautiful women every bout just give you big factor is. >>now president also has on his schedule. campaign events in pennsylvania this week along with iowa, north carolina and wisconsin. >>meantime democratic presidential nominee joe biden was in ohio at a far different. event it was more somber and more distanced there are only about 50 people there as you can see biden was up behind a podium. he highlighted his role as vice preside