we are continuing to follow in bay point in contra costa county.. evacuations have been ordered for some people living in bay point, north of highway four. we're going to have much more on the efforts to bring this fire under control. coming up on all guests 15 and younger must now be accompanied by an adult who is at least 21 years old. the chaperon must also stay with the children throughout the entire visit. guests who are 16 years and older may be asked to show id before entering the park. the amusement park says the policy is aimed at improving safety. the stern grove music festival continues in san francisco's golden gate park this weekend. on sunday, soul singer frank moody and the multicultural ensemble drama will be performing. as always, all stern grove festival concerts are free to the public, but they do require tickets. be reserved ahead of time. nasa is continuing to work with boeing to try to bring two astronauts home. those astronauts launched into space 51 days ago aboard boeing's starliner capsule, but so far, there's no return da

hay una advertencia de calor excesivo en el condado de contra costa y la ciudad de antioch este año.ente dicen para mantener a todos sus residentes seguros. son esas medidas que se están tomando ya en algunos lugares. así que jessica gallegos habló con el alcalde de la ciudad y también con funcionarios del condado para explicarnos cómo se preparan para garantizar la seguridad de los residentes durante estos días. oye, siri, cuál es la temperatura en antioch, california, en antioch, estados unidos están a 105 grados. así es la temperatura alcanzó los 3 dígitos en antioch y en varias ciudades aquí en el condado de contra costa el miércoles. pero qué está haciendo el condado para mantener a todos sus residentes seguros, especialmente durante este calor extremo y durante las celebraciones del 4 de julio. cancelamos el evento porque las temperaturas van a estar muy graves y no queremos arriesgar las vidas de nuestros residentes. este año, residentes de antioch no saldrán a celebrar el desfile del 4 de julio debido al calor excesivo y precisamente ante advertencia de calor en el condado de

a fire in contra costa county has burned more than 460 acres. forward progress is now stopped, but as ktvu is, amber lee reports, there are some scary moments for neighbors in bay point who were forced to leave their homes. >> contra costa fire says a fast moving vegetation fire started near a gun range in concord friday afternoon around 3:00. >> there's just big black billowing brown smoke clouds coming over us. >> it didn't take long before the wind swept. flames jumped ridges and burned east towards homes in bay point. >> within two minutes flat, it was down that entire hill. >> contra costa fire estimates that up to 100 homes in the path of the blaze were evacuated. what's your reaction? >> scary. and now i'm exhausted, homeowner monica mason tells me she's exhausted from trying to protect her home. so i have the hose rigged so that it's just spraying. >> still, the flames burned within five feet of her home. oh my god. mason shared this video of her daughter evacuating. >> it took three minutes for it to just come over that little ridge. >>

i just spoke to contra costa county fire protection district.e three sections of the driftwood neighborhood in bay point that are now under mandatory evacuation. right behind me you can see this is the fire line. fire crews have been out here trying to expand the firebreak just minutes ago. this is evora road. it's closed. except for people who are trying to evacuate driftwood neighborhood. now it is hot out here. it is dry, and you can probably hear. it is very windy. all factors that favor this fire. fire officials tell me the wind is blowing the fire east, which is towards the neighborhood. fire officials say they have deployed teams in the path of the fire, trying to protect homes. they say that's their number one priority right now. cal fire is also out here trying to do air drops up above. there are bulldozers trying to expand the firebreak because just on the other side of the hill is highway four, which they're trying to keep the fire away from. and also this is commute hours, as you mentioned, 150 acres burned. no containment at this po

kelly's dismayed, then contra costa county didn't get cooking on a plan right away. >>>>we're going to move to pacifica. >>>she's glad they didn't make that decision. thanks to the county's decision to move forward with this. kelly believes her operational costs will go down and profits will go up as she have to rent space from a commercial kitchen. >>>>it was my largest expense >>>prior to the decision. christian lucas county of environmental health, says, unless someone had a cottage permit cooking and selling food from a home wasn't allowed. and this essentially essentially provided a pathway. forward for folks. that wanted to prepare food. within their own. own home and sell it. it. micro enterprise. much more. than what a cottage food operation q in terms of the types of foods that they can sell. here's his department. is now been fielding more and more apple. for makeup. permits, says the community. continues. to learn about >>>>it. >>feeling questions. daily. and we're looking forward to those applications. continuing to roll >>>>in. kellie >>>and band. playin

every year, more than 50 grass fires break out in contra costa county.on the week of the 4th of july, all caused by fireworks, is that there's a medical emergency that we can't get to in a timely manner because we're busy on a fire that was started from illegal fireworks crews from contra costa county fire, cal fire, as well as police and the district attorney's office stood together to deliver a firm message. >> please pass this message along. leave the show to the pros this year and have a safe 4th of july. >> all fireworks and sparklers are illegal in the county. even those considered safe and sane. each city has its own consequences, with fines worth hundreds of dollars and the district attorney's office plans to play its role in enforcement to hold accountable those who endanger lives and property with illegal fireworks. with a heat wave set to put the bay area in 90 to triple degree heat for several days leading up to the fourth, these people are not only worried about the dangers to each individual person. >> we've seen injuries to children. we've

we reached out to contra costa county fire this morning. they say they've dealt with so many fires are still actually trying to put together a-list with details of everything they did last night. but take a look. this is the fire that happened over in concord in was actually the city's official fireworks show. it happened there at the nearby high school. the mount diablo high school organizers say the fire started the school's baseball field and actually temporarily paused the show while crews had to put those flames out. you can see just how big those flames were. they were able to get it under control and eventually resumed the show. but not until about 10 o'clock last night. no structural damage was done. and as of now, no injuries were reported. this is video from a fire over antioch last night was a vegetation fire. it caused multiple homes to be evacuated. multiple crews were there on the scene, as you can see, no structural damage was done. thankfully, but it was pretty widespread. they were able to get it under control and no injuri

but to kelly's dismay then contra costa county didn't get cooking on a plan right away. >>>>we were going to move to pacifica. >>>she's glad they didn't make that decision, thanks to the county's decision to move forward with this. kelly believes her operational costs will go down and profits will go up as she no longer will have to rent space from a commercial >>>>kitchen. it was my largest expense >>>prior to the decision christian lucas, the county director of environmental health, says unless someone had a cottage permit cooking and selling food from a home wasn't allowed, and this essentially provided a pathway forward for folks that wanted to prepare foods within their own home and sell it. a microenterprise home kitchen can do much more than what a cottage food operation can do in terms of the types of foods that they can >>>>sell, >>his department is now busy fielding more and more applications for meco permits. as the community continues to learn about it. we're fielding questions daily and we're looking forward to those applications continuing to roll >>>>in >>

we begin now with breaking news breaking news we're following for you out of contra costa county. >> evacuation orders in place at this hour after a fire breaks out between concord and bay point. it's now grown to 200 acres. 0% contained. thanks so much for joining us on kron. 4 news at 6. i'm vicki liviakis and i'm grant lotus. this fire is burning near of or rodin nichols road. we have a look at the evacuation area. this is in the >> port chicago region. officials tell us people have been told to evacuate. they've been going door to door. want you to just get out. take only what you absolutely need. this is in the shore acres area of bay point. that's where there's an evacuation warning. this started around 2 o'clock this afternoon. we do have a crew headed to the scene. we'll bring you more info on this. but this is a dangerous one because that fire up there near the delta is burning near homes. meanwhile, this is another fire that broke out this afternoon. this is also in the east bay, but it's an alameda county near seminole burning near welts creek road in calaveras road. this

but in contra costa county, the process just became a lot easier, and a lot cheaper. max darrow introduces us to a couple whose dream was to open a pizza restaurant, and they are able to do it from their own home. >> let's check the temperature. >> reporter: patients, precision, and passion. all a part of kelly joe's pizza making process. those traits that helped her find success operating numerous pizza ventures in contra costa county, with her wife since 2009. but now, her patients, precision, and passion are about to really pay off. >> i get really emotional. it's like a dream come true . >> reporter: kelly and vanda became the first people in contra costa county to obtain a micro enterprise home kitchen operation permit . what this means is, they can legally run a restaurant out of their home. >> i have been dreaming about this since 2009 , after a trip to thailand, and i found out that a lot of people have restaurants in their homes. >> california agreement the idea back in 2018 and several bay area municipalities jumped on board shortly thereafter. but, to kelly

it's in contra costa county where? >> within the last hour or so, evacuation orders have going into effect after this grass fire broke out between the cities of concord and bay point. this is a time lapse video. of course. but you can see all the smoke that is just wafting through there. this is a off evora road. and at last check of the numbers probably dated. but the last word we have from firefighters is that 120 acres have burned. >> yeah, it is dry very hot out there. here's a look right now at the evacuation area in red. this is in the port chicago area. officials are telling people you've got to get out now. so they're saying to evacuate and take only items that you absolutely need. they're also evacuation warnings in the short acres area of bay point. we will be staying on top of this story have a crew headed to the scene and we'll be bringing you information throughout the evening as they try beat this fire back. >> additionally, we have another fire that we're just learning about. this one is in the seminole

el extremo calor ha sido la causa de los recientes apagones en el condado de contra costa.amón. y según la vocera de pg&e, lo que pasó es que los transformadores explotaron porque no tuvieron tiempo de enfriarse debido a este calor intenso y para evitar apagones le damos las siguientes recomendaciones de cómo usted puede conservar energía. primero tiene que reducir 3 veces el consumo normal de energía. cómo lo puede hacer? pues puede apagar algunos de los aparatos electrodomésticos que usted mantiene encendido siempre en casa. ajuste también el termostato del aire acondicionado a 78 grados fahrenheit. además, evite el uso de electrodomésticos de alto consumo de energía. esto es, en las horas picos. y de esto estamos hablando. por ejemplo, las lavadoras de platos de ropa y la secadora en caso que haya un apagón, es importante que siempre en su casa usted cuente con un radio de baterías y también linternas que funcionen. también se recomienda acudir a centros de enfriamiento en caso que se quedó sin energía eléctrica no hay aire acondicionado. hace mucho calor. váyase a estos

. >> now to the fires across the state, starting here at home and a vegetation fire in east contra costa county forcing mandatory evacuation orders at last check that fire is 150 acres with no containment. right now, there are no evacuation orders in the city of concord, but people living north of highway four in the port chicago area have been ordered to leave their homes immediately. as the flames are directly threatening the area, the air attack helping though battle this fire. as you can see, the flames are moving east toward a couple of subdivisions in bay point. you can see the very dry brush fueling the flames. so far, no officials say no structures have been destroyed. now to the state's largest fire, the park fire. governor newsom tonight declaring a state of emergency in both butte and tehama counties. ktvu jana katsuyama has the latest on this firefight. and the bay area departments joining the effort. >> the park fire raging through butte county is a terrifying sight for residents. the sheriff says evacuation orders are in place for about 4000 residents in the unincorporated

a wildfire in a contra costa county. you're looking at video there of a heart. 50 acre, fire that between bay point in concord. we have a captain christopher toler with us on the line from contra costa county fire protection district captain toler. can you update us? all right. we're still having audio problems. we do have a crew that's heading to the scene and that will be reporting back whether they're able to get a handle on this wildfire in contra costa county. but we'll move on to other news now where a one-time federal prison guard is facing a potential. >> life prison sentence after more alleged victims have come forward. prosecutors say darrel wayne smith sexually abused 5 inmates while he worked at the federal correctional institute in dublin. he was charged with 12 counts, including aggravated abuse that happened last year this week of federal grand jury charged him with 15 more counts. smith is part of a abuse scandal. authorities say involving several guards that led to the whole prison being shut down indefi

but in contra costa county, the process just became a lot easier. and cheaper, max darrow introduces us to a couple whose dream was to open a pizza restaurant, and now they're able to do it from their home. >>>>let's check that temperature. >>>precision. and passion. >>>>15. >>all apart of kelly joe's pizza making process. up. traits have helped her find success operating numerous pizza ventures and contra costa county with her wife, vanda, since 2009 like chicks and love and queen of crusts. but now her patients precision and passion are about to really pay >>>>off. really emotional. right? this is it. it's like a dream dream. come >>>true. became the first people in contra costa county to obtain a micro enterprise home kitchen operation permit or permit. what this means they can legally run a restaurant out of their home. >>>>in dreaming about this since 2009 after a trip to thailand and i found out that a lot of people have restaurants in their >>>homes, california greenlit the idea back in 2018 and several bay area municipalities jumped on board

then contra costa. fire crews had to request additional help to protect structures and it settles a this fire breaking out in the hills just south of santa teresa boulevard right near boulder ridge, golf club. people live in the area. tell us they believe it was started by fireworks. now we reached out to san jose fire to get details. conquer. this fire broke out during that official fireworks show at mount diablo high school conquer. actually saw it live during a 4th of july show. organizers say the fire started the school's baseball field flower show temporarily pause while crews put out the flames. the show eventually resume shortly after 10 firefighters say no structures were involved. might remember a similar incident happened during the fireworks show back in 2021. bringing out of the concord pavilion. the flower show was also forced to pause. crews put out that fire. meantime, there was a safe fireworks show in san francisco. all 4 was at pier 39 all day as people waited for the sky. light up, th

the contra costa fire had to respond to kron four's lezla gooden talked with officials about their very busy night. >> 4th of july celebrations combined with the ongoing heat wave are leading to nonstop calls to firefighters in the east bay. so we normally get about 310 incidents that we're responding today with. >> but yesterday we got 310 visitation fires according to contra costa county fire. >> on thursday, they responded to more than 1000 calls for service nearly doubling their daily average over 90% of the calls that we got yesterday were related to fireworks. the heat also added to that i'm being as hot and dry as it is with the heat wave expected to continue through the weekend. crews are bracing for more potential fires when you pull our resources to a fire, the n-word, kind of what we're not really limited. don't want to say that, but you're pulling resources away from maybe medical emergency. they could be nearby as well. >> so if we can control control of make the day and this weekend a lot better for everyone contra costa county health officials say they are seeing people.

the heat is on again in contra costa county after a one day reprieve. the temperatures are once again hovering in the triple digits, and now excessive heat advisories and heat warnings are in place through friday night, with spots like concord expected to see several more days of 100 degree heat. it's been impacting me and everybody i know, senior john harris is taking refuge and enjoying lunch at the cafe in the air conditioned pittsburgh senior center, hosted by meals on wheels diablo region, the cafe provides food for him company and a break from home where he has no air conditioning. i have strategically placed windows that i open. there's a huge population that don't have air conditioning, some that do just don't have the funds to pay to have the air conditioner running full force. meals on wheels, diablo operates cafes like this across the county. drivers also deliver meals to the homes of seniors who can't travel, and those visits are about more than food. our drivers always check with them and kind of remind them, are you staying hydrated? are y

y el condado contra costa le hace un llamado a los interesados en vender comida desde sus casas.a la vez resguardar la salud del consumidor. es el alambre con su quesito y venimos de los Ángeles. estamos probando suerte aquí. a ver este cómo nos va. melesio lópez dice contar con 25 años como taquero en diferentes ciudades. llevo una semana en este puesto en san pablo, pero la ciudad no nos está dejando. la policía nos está molestando todo eso y no estamos. este cómo se llama?■ pues estable. todavía confiesa haber enfrentado dificultades al momento de tramitar permisos municipales. es por eso que el condado contra costa está ofreciendo otra opción local entrepreneurs small business owners. se trata de un nuevo permiso anual para los que buscan emprender su propio negocio específicamente para vender comida preparada en casa. si el condado, como se dice, nos ayuda, nos apoyan, pues estaría bien, verdad? el permiso inicial costará unos 696 , pero el condado nos dice que la idea es reducir el monto a la mitad para aquellos renovando you are required to stay. explica que para calificar

we're starting in contra costa county with developing news. firefighters in antioch still watching for flare ups from a grass fire that forced evacuations. it started last night near hillcrest avenue and larkspur drive just after 10 p.m. several homes were evacuated near lotus court and late last night firefighters kept the flames from spreading. no injuries have been reported and we don't know if fireworks started that grass fire. >> dozens of people gathered in east san jose last night for a first of its kind 4th of july fireworks show with san jose city councilman says he independently raised. more than $50,000 for last night's event at lake cunningham. there were no city funds used for a fireworks show that he now hopes will become a 4th of july tradition in east san jose. >> having been born and raised right here in the east side of san jose. anytime 4th of july came around, my family and i, we had to go outside of the east side. we had to go either to downtown or almaden lake. >> now, the councilman says the goal is to make the 4th of ju

. >>> and we continue to watch the point fire burning in contra costa county. it broke out around 3:30 and has burned at least 150 acres. firefighters sprayed fire retardant on some of them to be more proactive. this is video from our photographer on the scene right now in one of those nearby neighborhoods, there are mandatory evacuations on port chicago . >>> still ahead, this bay area woman said getting into a car accident was actually a blessing. >> at first i was mad at the guy. >> how it helped her catch something before it was too late. >>> and a big independence day gathering this weekend in >> a plan to expand the oakland airport is meeting some pushback. they are worried about the high rates of asthma, stroke and heart disease in one nearby neighborhood. they argue the expansion will increase emissions and could cause even more health problems in that area. they are calling on project leaders to conduct a health impact assessment, and leaders of the project say the team is looking into environmental impacts and will work to reduce emissions, the plan i

you know, we've got crawford's michael thomas following it all from contra costa county. michael. >> welcome costa county. fire officials say they're still trying to really put together a list of all the fires that they tended to last night. but the good news is these ones i'm going to show you. there were no injuries and really no structural damage. take a look. this is the first fire we're going to discuss. it was over in concord and this was actually at the mount diablo high school in concord. it was the official fireworks show. organizers say it started at the school's baseball field and temporarily pause the show crews put out the flames, you can see they're just how big those flames were. officials were able to get it under control. the show eventually did resume, but not until about 10 o'clock. no structural damage was caused. and as of now, there are no injuries to be reported. and take a look at this is another fire in the east bay was over an antioch. it was a vegetation fire that caused evacuations to many nearby. multiple crews were there on the scene to protec

contra costa county. the earlier crash did clear getting up to the carquinez bridge, but it is the arrow here. i should have put in for highway 37. building a little bit. and of course there's an approach to the bay bridge, but on the span no problems. back to you. thanks so much, mike. 522 for you this morning. next here on today in the bay nbc bay area responds. the electric company admitted it made a billing mistake a year ago, but it still hasn't paid the customer back. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc he asked consumer investigator chris creamer's team to provide a little jolt to clear things up. let's meet chris in geyserville and his electric meter. chris shared a surprise letter pg&e sent him back in february of 2023. it said his meter was unintentionally moved to a new rate plan due to a processing error. long story short, chris called pg&e several times and expected them to go ahead and well, adjust his bill. but guess what? that didn't happen. so he contacted us. we contacted pg&e it

in the increased vigilance on behalf of contra costa county fire. but of course, it is important for the public to do our part to make sure that we're out there enjoying ourselves safely. so given that there quite there is still some time in the summer months. and as we head into the expecting continuing to, you know, butte pretty warm out there. can you tell us a bit about general safety tips that you'd like the public to know? >> general safety for the summer obviously we want everybody to if you don't have to be outside for extended periods of time to see, we don't want you to also if you're going to be enjoying some grilling barbecuing make sure that you're doing that safely, make sure that those grills a safe distance any structures as well as a vegetation and then ultimately this is fireworks for us. but again, fireworks are legal in the county. so if you see fireworks, you can always reach out to law enforcement or make a report to us and make sure that those fibers get disposed out. >> all right. as we wrap things up victor would like to ask

and over in contra costa county.y the way, officials there are expecting a historic jump in property values next year. contra costa county will see its highest tax assessment roll ever in 2024. to 2025. and assessment roll is a public record containing information about individual pieces of land. they're used to determine property values and property taxes and cities with the largest increases in assessed value include antioch, oakley and martinez. they'll see increases ranging from 4.9, 9 up to 6 point. oh, 9%. san ramon, concord walnut creek saw the lowest assessed value increases ranging anywhere from 2.9, 7% down to 1.0, 4, 5%. ok, quick warning here from the head of chase bank, jp morgan chase customers could soon be paying for their checking accounts that are currently free. the wall street journal reporting that the coast ceo mary and lake says that if washington and acts new rules to cap overdraft and late fees, well, those now free checking accounts and other wealth management tools might soon cost you. chas

. >>> a new law in contra costa county allowing people to >> from cbs news bay area, this is the morningow on cbs news bay area, at 6:30 in the morning, hopefully a cooldown overnight or maybe just take a deep breath, like i did, this time we are watching from the top of mount diablo. it is going to be hot once again on this first alert weather day. more importantly, when is this going to end? >> right after today, we are going to see a big change in the forecast, this is the time this morning while the sun is rising to go out and do any outdoor activities before it gets too hot in the east bay. in san francisco, we are topping off in the 70s, a little more bearable. in the santa clara valley, we are already going to be seeing 90s and the forecast this afternoon, and that is well above average for this time of year. san jose, about 13 degrees above average, sitting around 94 degrees, 96 in concord which is better than just two days ago, very similar trend yesterday. i want to show you what is going on for us heading into the next couple of days because for many of us in the bay, we are p

working for west contra costa unified school district. >> reporter: on sunday the advocates presented their complaints in a public meeting before district superintendent dr. kenneth hurst. were you aware it was in this kind of condition? >> so i was aware of this facility and other facilities as well that's in disrepair. >> reporter: were you disturbed by what you heard about the school on sunday? >> i was definitely disturbed by everything that was shared with me on sunday. >> reporter: can i ask you how the district justifies the rating it gave the school? >> and let me say this. everything happened quickly, where i will share some information yesterday and that information will be investigated. and i'm committed to investigating the report and the concern around fraud that was mentioned as well. >> and they say they will have a public meet next week to share their action plan with the parents. right now the idea is to send the kids to the middle school in richmond with no idea how long that will last. the parents suspect the action plan wasn't created until after the meeting on sun

representative john garamendi, who represents parts of contra costa and solano counties. speaking of his support for harris as the presidential nominee. he also endorses her on international policy. representative garamendi, who recently revealed he's fighting a rare form of blood cancer, has also worked with harris in many forms since 1991. a bay area representative of the republican national committee says her party has some questions she calls biden's decision today an abrupt turnaround and says republicans want to know exactly what happened. >> as recently as a couple of days ago, the democrats were insisting that joe biden was going to stay in the race and was going nowhere. his family, his immediate staff and supporters were telling us that. so what happened in the last 48 hours to convince him to get out or what? frankly, what threats were made by democrat party leaders because this is a very abrupt turnaround. >> harmeet dhillon also called today's announcement a shocking betrayal to the democrats, who voted for biden in the primary. as you know, kamala harris has

contra costa, alameda counties, 98 here in concord, 99 in livermore. but some fog at the coastline already helping to drop us 81 here in napa. and not too bad in san jose right now at 90. so through tomorrow we have our heat warnings and advisories in place. i think the hottest will be inland contra costa, alameda counties, temperatures in the 90s to low one hundredths. we'll get into some low humidity 15 to 25. there's going to be a breeze out of the west, 10 to 20. that breeze, though, will be responsible for keeping the coastline and san francisco out of the 90s and 100. so not expecting super hot weather at the coast. but overall, that will elevate the fire danger. now, on top of this, check this out. we are looking at some monsoonal moisture moving in from the south. we'll take a look at some thunderstorm chances for california back with that full forecast. even a look at paris and the opening ceremony weather coming up in about ten minutes. can't wait for that forecast. thank you so much, jeff. follow the latest spike in temperatures in your neig

firefighters, contra costa county. >> thank you. thank you. thank really, really, really saved us this. i will be thinking about this for a while. it wasn't for, you know, the fire department all that. don't we would have got through it. >> and cal, fire crews are set to continue working on this fire throughout the evening on friday, going into the weekend because of those high winds and those dry grassy conditions that forward progression of the fire has stopped and that containment is still saow going up. reporting here in bay point jacmel kron 4 news while some of those people really lucky to have their homes tonight, hats off to those fire crews that are out there working. let's check in now with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. he's in the weather center tracking the conditions all around these fires. lawrence, really scary to see how close those fires got to those homes. in fact, the winds this afternoon. >> really ramping up specially right through the delta kind of acts like a funnel. you get that sea breeze kicking in all of a sud

in contra costa county. we work with over 800 agencies and 1800 services that we can provide, and help people. >> the executive director says the center generally answers suicide calls within 20s. it is located on lenin street. it opened in 1963. dialysis workers are hitting the picket line here in california. hundreds of caregivers began picketing across the state today. they say chronic understaffing in clinics has allowed dialysis corporations to make large profits at the expense of patient care, as they're increasing more patients and not increasing the staff. >> it's a dangerous situation where we have people you coming to the clinic, bringing your loved ones, and it's a scenario where it's a possibility, where you might not see them again because we're just dealing with lives where dialysis workers went on strike in the us just last year. >> these employees say they will be back on the picket line again tomorrow. well, it is that time of year again. back to school preparations are underway. the supply

luz pena abc seven news. >> today in contra costa county, a 30 year old man was arraigned for murder along with several other charges. alexis pineda is accused of driving under the influence when he crashed into the car of 16 year-old ricky barajas, as the team was backing out of his mother's driveway last monday. both cars were so badly mangled, both drivers were trapped in their cars. when barajas was pronounced dead at the scene. pineda is being held on $1.1 million bond. >> coming up here, a controversial plan to create a new city in solano county is now on hold. we follow this very closely. why? the company behind the project is t and research on pain relief, my recommendation is simple: every home should have salonpas. powerful yet non-addictive. targeted and long-lasting. i recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. ♪ hisamitsu ♪ county issued an independent study on the potential impact of this proposed plan. city and county officials say the study painted a bleak picture. the group behind the project, california forever, says they will do more research and work with the county

and we're also following developing news in contra costa county. firefighters in antioch still watching for flare ups from a grass fire that forced evacuations. it started last night near hillcrest avenue and larkspur drive just after 10 p.m. several homes were evacuated near lotus court and late last night firefighters kept those flames from spreading. no injuries have been reported, but we don't know if fireworks started. the grass fire. we're going to bring you another live report on this coming up in our next half hour. in butte county, some evacuation orders and warnings were lifted as firefighters continue to make progress battling the thompson fire. more than 3700 acres have burned since tuesday near lake oroville. four buildings have burned. thousands more are in danger. it is still burning north of the city of oroville on both sides of the feather river, near the oroville dam. firefighters from here in the bay area and across the state are helping to battle those flames. >> dozens of people gathered in east san jose last night for a specia

now for us today, we certainly have had that hot weather, dangerous in contra costa, alameda countiesthat's coming from this hot area of high pressure. tomorrow moves a little bit more off to the south. so we should begin to see those temperatures drop. but we're also following this low pressure to the south. it's going to bring in some california thunderstorms. let me get you more details on how that will play out here for us tomorrow in your microclimate forecast. and we're going to see everything from 50 to 70. as we started off for the morning, 50 at the coast with some patchy areas of fog, 70 to start for some of those hottest inland valleys in contra costa alameda counties. but here's the thing right now we are still pushing for those numbers to go down by tomorrow afternoon. it's looking like 98 in concord. 100 in livermore. so that would be better than that 106 we got up to today, 93, in san jose, still a hot one in morgan hill at 99, closer to the bay, 80 in oakland. and a mix of 60s and 70s here. a san francisco down to half moon bay. now, when it comes to thunderstorm chanc

tonight, though, cruz telling us about this one contra costa county. fire had to respond to a grass fire burning in martinez. they believe this was caused by fireworks. crews, though, were able to contain it to 3 acres. but as you can see there, it got pretty close to some 18 wheelers and also a building out there as well. but before that, firefighters had to respond to 2 different fires that were burning in antioch, including one that burned about a half acre on heat court. crews say again, these fires were started by fireworks. contra costa fire super busy tonight had to respond to a fire last night in brentwood and another one in pittsburgh that happened this morning. both of them caused by fireworks. these are legal ladies and gentleman. they were put out quickly, though, without causing any damage or any sort of injuries, though. >> of course, in oakland, people not listening. this is video shared on the citizen app showing a tree on fire on plymouth street near the oakland zoo. we haven't heard yet. what caused this fire, but as you heard at the

padres y educadores entablan una demanda contra el distrito escolar unificado de west contra costa por mal estado de los salones en algunas escuelas y una nueva caravana migrante avanza hacia estados unidos. migrantes cuentan su odisea y las razones por las que siguen abandonando sus países de origen. así comenzamos. este es tu noticiero telemundo 48. hola, qué tal? muy buenas tardes. les saluda césar bayona. muchas gracias por su sintonía. antes que nada, mire este lunes le queremos dar la bienvenida a miriam villarreal, quien a partir de hoy se está uniendo a nuestra familia de telemundo 48. miriam bienvenida a esta tu nueva familia. muchas gracias césar. gracias a todo el equipo. estoy sumamente feliz de unirme ahora a la familia de telemundo 48 por supuesto, con el fiel compromiso ahora de informarles a ustedes la comunidad del área de la bahía y tenemos bastante información el día de hoy comenzamos con esto. hay líderes demócratas de san francisco se reunieron en la alcaldía de la ciudad para mostrarle su apoyo a la vicepresidenta kamala harris. por eso vamos con andrés brender, q

mañana en las bodegas de la compañía recolectora de basura en el área de contra costa mount diablo resourcesu programa de cosas reusables que durante 3 meses se dedica a recoger donaciones en áreas como la fayette y orinda. mandamos por correo un flyer diciendo vamos a estar en tu área tal día. si tú gustas donar, puedes donar, poner tus cosas afuera en la banqueta. tenemos camiones al mes, recogen cerca de 200 toneladas de artículos para ser rehusados y algunos de ellos serán entregados mañana. esto es una de las mochilas nuevas que nos donaron nuestros residentes que estas mochilas vienen equipadas ya traen su bolsita de lápices. también tenemos mochilas de las que son reusables. un ejemplo esta mochila nos la donaron, nueva no es, pero está en muy buena condición, hasta trae sus 2 bolsitas de su lunchbox en muy buena condición. podrán llevarse también mapamundis, marcadores, lápices, calculadoras y útiles escolares. en general, la idea es que esto no termine en la basura si no se ha reusado. ellos están donando, pero alguna persona puede decir yo ya no necesito esto, pero mi vecina lo ne

and those that were just a few of the calls, a contra costa fire had to respond to our conferees. lezla gooden talked with officials about their very busy night. >> 4th of july celebrations combined with the ongoing heat wave are leading to nonstop calls to firefighters in the east bay. so we normally get about 3 to 10 incidents that we're responding today with. >> but yesterday we got visitation fires according to contra costa county fire. >> on thursday, they responded to more than 1000 calls for service nearly doubling their daily average over 90% of the calls that we got yesterday were related to fireworks. heat also added to that i'm being as hot and dry as it is with the heat wave expected to continue through the weekend. crews are bracing for more potential fires when you pull our resources to a fire, then word kind of what we're not really limited only to say that, but you're pulling resources away from maybe medical emergency. they could be nearby as well. >> so if we can control control of make the day and this weekend a lot better for everyone contra costa county health

and the east bay contra costa county. this is a fire kind of between concord in bay point that has really taken off quickly and is threatening homes. 200 acres at last check have burned. it started about 2 o'clock this afternoon. so quickly eating through that dry grass evacuation orders and warnings are in place after this thing started there. and it is a really scary, obviously for people who have homes and businesses in that area. and there are quite a the conditions are dry. it's hot. the winds are kicking up, but we've got to. >> a map we've been showing, folks. this is the evacuation area. it's in the port chicago area, as you can you know, this very serious officials are telling people they must evacuate. now if they haven't already done so and don't hesitate just take only the items you absolutely need point library. take note here. that is also that is in that evacuation area. also, evacuation warnings right now in the short acres area of a point. >> we're also keeping a close eye on a different fire. this is in

a bagpiper joined the contra costa county honor guard at today's memorial. desmond's mother was at the event and says that she appreciates this annual tribute. >> they recognizing my son, he was a hero. i'm very proud of him, but i miss him terribly and i appreciate them doing this. every year. >> an annual remembrance for all of contra costa counties fallen firefighters will be held on september 11th at fire station 11, in clayton. >> all right. here's a look at the stories trending tonight on ktvu.com. one of our top stories. police are searching for two suspects involved in a car chase saturday that led officers from daly city to oakland. a woman who was shopping was hit by one of those vehicles during the pursuit. a group of black sailors were exonerated last week by the secretary of the navy. 80 years ago, those sailors were convicted of mutiny after refusing to return to duty following an explosion at port chicago in contra costa county, and 6000 students in the oakland unified school district will soon receive free backpacks after this weekend's 25th

contra costa county will see its largest tax assessment. roll ever in 2024. 2025 and assessment roll is a public record that contains information about individual pieces of land. they use to determine property values and property taxes, cities with the largest increases in assessed value include antioch, oakley and martinez, with increases ranging from 4 almost 5% up to 6%. a several month. concord and walnut creek saw the lowest assessed value increases ranging from just under 3% down to 1.0, 4, 5%. unemployment rate inched above 4% for the first time since november of 2021. new data released today shows it's at 4 point one percent. washington correspondent vinay simlot explains what it means for you. on the minds of voters this summer, the economy and how much things cost. and on the heels of july 4th signs the economy is slowing. >> while the u.s. added 2p6,000 jobs, the news jobs report shows the unemployment rate is now over 4% on this is another in a long series of strong solid job reports with the bureau of labor statistics says it w

i just spoke to contra costa county fire protection district.hey say there are three sections of the driftwood neighborhood in bay point that are now under mandatory evacuation. right behind me you can see this is the fire line. fire crews have been out here for almost an hour. this is evora road. it is now closed, except for those people who are trying to evacuate. now it is hot, it is dry, and you can probably hear it is very windy. all factors that favor this fire. fire officials tell me the wind is blowing east, which is towards the neighborhoods. fire officials say they've deployed teams in the line of the path of the fire, trying to protect homes, trying to protect structures is the top priority, right now. cal fire is also out here doing air drops, their bulldozers trying to expand the firebreak because on the other side of this hill is highway four. they're trying to keep the fire from jumping over to highway four, which is right now open and very busy as it is commute hours. and as we said at the top of the show, 150 acres is how much t

know, the sense is that they were just relieved that firefighters, they said both cal fire and contra costare. they said a battalion chief actually went door to door knocking on their doors, letting people know neighbors were notifying each other. so it was just like a community wide effort. yeah. >> good reminder about the dangers of fire season amberleigh live for us tonight, amber. thank you. and in alameda county, fire authorities say evacuations are underway due to a fire burning in sunol. the welch creek fire started at about 4:00 this afternoon at welch creek and calaveras road. it's burned about 350 acres so far. there's no containment. crews say it is burning at a moderate rate of speed. alameda county fire says cal fire is calling in additional resources. >> all right, now we turn to the state's largest wildfire, the park fire. tonight. governor newsom has declared a state of emergency in both butte and tehama counties. cal fire says more than 239,000 acres have burned so far, and today the containment on this fire dropped down to 0%. it had been at 3%. there are two minor injurie

several fires sparked in contra costa county fire crews. they were busy putting them out is many they are. residents celebrated the 4th of july kron four's michael thomas on the story for us live there in cocoa county. good morning, michael. >> hey, good morning, everyone. it was a busy night for a lot of country as county fire officials. thankfully they were able to put those fires out and no injuries have been reported as yet. but take a look. this is video that we have of the fire that happened over in concord. this was actually the city's official fireworks show. it happened at mount diablo high school in concord. there. and organizers say it started at the school's baseball field and temporally actually paused the show while crews put out the flames, you can see they're just how big it was. officials were able to get it under control in the show eventually was able to resume, but not until about 10 o'clock. no structures were involved in. as of right now, no injuries have been reported. this is video from the antioch fire that happened

a lot of bay area athletes are heading to paris, including a rower from contra costa county. here's nbc's anthony flores. okay, 30s. whether she's on a rowing machine or working out much of cara cola's day, every day is spent training for the moment she gets on the water. it's rewarding when you get through all that work and you get to the starting line and you're like, wow, i'm fit. i'm ready. like, i did the work and her hard work is paying off. the contra costa county native is headed to the paris olympics with the u.s. rowing team after winning the single sculls at the u.s. olympic rowing trials. it will be her third olympic games. when i was little, i dreamed of like how many olympics can i go to? you know, i never thought i'd be an elite athlete into my 30s. i'm very, very excited. the 33 year old former cal all american won bronze in the 2012 games in london in the women's quadruple sculls. she switched to the individual event in 2018, she qualified for the tokyo games, but was disappointed with her ninth place finish. i would say at tokyo i underperformed and so that'

so a lot of that strongest heat really was building across contra costa alameda counties today. so let's take you out here. this hourly forecast in livermore 103. right now we'll stay in the one hundredths. the next hour. and man this is going to be a tough one to get through here. if you're having problems with your air conditioning or you just don't have one by chance back here in the tri-valley, we're going to be in the mid to upper 90s through 7:00 tonight, 88 and 9 p.m. and eventually we get to some 70s here through ten and 11:00. again not as bad in san jose. just 91 degrees. so it's a warm summer day for us 80s here six and 7:00 and then some 70 starting at 9:00 tonight. and in san francisco you can see some of this fog right now. that's what helped to save us from getting too hot in sf 71 currently. and some 60s later on tonight. all right. where do we go from here as we head through this evening, the warm 80s inland tomorrow, hottest day of the week. and ahead we are looking at some changes coming for the weekend. so we're going to start it off tomorrow with anywhere fr

contactamos al distrito escolar de west contra costa.ológica global. y delta es la aerolínea más afectada león-astorga con más detalles. la verdad es que está cañón lucien echevarría asegura estar cansada y frustrada luego que le cancelaran su viaje en la aerolínea delta varias veces tras la interrupción tecnológica global que dejó a miles de viajeros varados en todo el mundo. tengo desde ayer para salir a la guardia. vengo desde delta. estaba en aquella terminal. por eso vamos caminando, corriendo porque logré poner una silla en united y voy a mil porque si no saldría de aquí de la florida. el miércoles los retrasos y cancelaciones en algunos aeropuertos como el aeropuerto internacional de fort lauderdale, continúan este lunes tras la actualización del software defectuoso de los sistemas operativos de microsoft. según los últimos datos de hardware en estados unidos, las cancelaciones de vuelos nacionales e internacionales ascienden a 758, siendo delta la aerolínea más afectada. es un impacto grandísimo, no solamente en los vuelos, sino

firefighters contra costa county. >>thank you. thank you. thank you. really, really, really saved us. i will be thinking about this for a while. and it wasn't for, you know, the fire department all that. don't think, you we would have got through it. >>and cal, fire crews are set to continue working on this fire throughout the evening on friday, going into the weekend because of those high winds and those dry grassy conditions that forward progression of the fire has stopped and that containment is still slow going up. reporting here in bay point jacmel. kron 4 news. >>all the creek fire has scorched 550 acres. it's burning near welsh creek road and calaveras road. the fire sparked just before 4 this afternoon and spread quickly. right now, it's 0%. containment evacuation orders are in effect for the central wilderness region. officer. >>as well as homes along welsh creek road. >>and another fire that we're keeping an eye on is the flynn fire burning near 5.80, and north flynn road in alameda county. it's now 80% contained. this fire started around 9.4

es por eso que el condado contra costa está ofreciendo otra opción local entrepreneurs small businessnos 696 , pero el condado nos dice que la idea es reducir el monto a la mitad para que ellos renovando. you are required to stay explica que para calificar además de una inspección anual, se requiere vender 30 o menos platillos al día o 90 por semana. también piden que no sobrepase los 100.000 $ al año en ventas, algo que no tiene a melesio 100% convencido. pues si se escucha bien, pero este cómo se llama? vender en casa? no creo. no creo que sea negocio. is being done, you know safely and is not something that's going to get the public hill. sin embargo, funcionarios de contra costa enfatizan la importancia de registrar su negocio para asegurarle al consumidor que su producto cumple con las leyes de salubridad. el permiso para alimentos preparados en casa autoriza la venta desde su residencia con entrega a domicilio o en puestos ambulantes. para solicitarlo, visite el sitio web que ve en pantalla czech health punto org otras jurisdicciones en la bahía ya cuentan con esta licencia, inc

nosotros contactamos a través de un correo electrónico al distrito escolar de west contra costa, peros conexiones y así reducir aglomeraciones. las esperas entre trenes se mantienen entre 08:12 más o menos y se hicieron cambios en las líneas naranja y la verde. los trenes de la línea berryessa ahora pasan cada 10 minutos. usted puede consultar el planificador de viajes de board para obtener estos horarios actualizados. y con esto vamos a la pausa. el sospechoso de dar muerte a toda su familia se presentó en corte, mientras que parientes de las víctimas también llegaron al tribunal. lo vieron por primera vez desde el crimen y hacen un llamado al juez. además, renombran una calle en san francisco en honor a un joven que perdió la vida durante un incidente con la policía. ya le contamos y quédese con nosotros luego en alameda y fue la primera vez que familiares de las víctimas lo vieron después de la masacre. fátima navarrete tuvo la oportunidad de conversar con ellos sobre la sentencia que están pidiendo para esta person. no tiene ningún tipo de simpatía, no se le ve nada de que él está