Motivated. The first floor and the second floor is completely burned you can see the debris outside the San Francisco Armenian Community woke up to a suspected arson at their Church Thursday morning. Members of saint gregory the illuminator are pasta lecture coming through to be trying to save whatever made it through the fire on to on chairman of the churchs board of trustees believes they were targeted it has to be some kind of a hate crime involved in we had a similar situation of keys evie school. And we think this is somehow a continuation. No one was really a veteran the the lighting the vandalism was telling us exactly who they are on to be on is referring to this incident in late july where suspects vandalize the San Francisco Armenian School with graffiti conveying Union Messages we have no doubt in our minds that this is the continuation of that act. Even though theres nothing hourly pointing at that and the timing of it being right in the rapids in succession leads us to bel
Still to come. Robin. All right, thank you lets check in on the traffic. Were taking a peek at the bridges around the bay area which is still pretty calm acquired for the most part. I will start off with 82, San Francisco there you go a live look at the toll plaza, the traffic leading up to the pay gates is doing just fine so no big problems so we definitely have more traffic now compared to the 4 oclock hour heading out of San Francisco, im just getting word of a stall 80 east before Treasure Island. Its a ups truck gets stuck in the right lane. So thats causing a little bit of a backup on the lower deck heading out of San Francisco, were off to 92 its busy indeed, but its not bad youre averaging 12 minutes over to the peninsula and the richmond sandra fell in pretty good shape here 5. 80 west leading up to the tolls nice and smooth a quick 7 minute trip to make it into sandra fell daria back to you thanks a lot rob. And our top story this morning, the Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Area. Both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge are visible today as we move it to moderate air quality. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the smoke from the wildfires have choked our skies and theyve now reached the other side of the country in this picture. You can see how the smoke has been distributed across the United States. The National Weather service says the smoke was caught in a jet stream and was carried across the u. S. And into the east coast want to check in on condition this hour with our meteorologist dave spahr dave is this a better air that were seeing or is it going to be changing again as weve seen in the last few days, whats got a little better you pointed out and it will continue that trend it looks like as we get later on during the week with the promise front. How about this live shot to this but looking good all of this afternoon out of Half Moon Bay doesnt look very inviting shadows been a little darker more stark going on for today. Now we do have
Good air quality returning much like yesterday all across the region were off to a mild start right now with some 60s oakland at 66 san jose in pittsburgh at 67, San Francisco right now one of our cooler spots. Right at 60 degrees talking more about what to expect today still to come robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on the commute now the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza is growing it spilling beyond the atb overcrossing its all the way out to west grand. So it has reached that point words pretty packed coming in, but you wont run into any problems right now so no crashes no stalls just the fog thats the issue Poor Visibility here from the maze right through the pay gates and as we said before you got any the headlights in the wiper so just be careful dont follow anyone to closely space yourself out when youre dealing with dense fog like this here on 92 are looking good busy but not bad 13 minutes to the peninsula. And just a really quick peak at one oh one theres a st
Clear out future cast for is going to show us that you can see right now visibility down to a few miles for some of the shore freeway areas. The fox really going to be sticking for coastal spots for the rest of the afternoon and then pretty much sunny and clear everywhere else temperatures smile to even ones, well have those coming up in just a bit daria thanks a lot. Lets start with the latest coronavirus numbers the u. S. Set to pass a grim milestone, a 141,000 americans have died of covid across the country nearly 60,000 people are in the hospital. The cdc is forecasting more than a 157,000 americans will be killed by the virus by august 8th. And now Health Officials and government leaders are pushing for more americans to wear masks. Our decisions not our conditions are decisions that will determine our fate and future as it relates to the spread of this virus. And months after the cdc first recommended it the president is now telling americans to mascot and showing himself, wearin