Moving into the red. The News Conference set to start at noon. Were expecting it to start imminently. Meanwhile, we learned that Contra Costa County and Santa Cruz County were bumped back into the red. The governor warned based on current covid infect rates that are the counties are likelying to follow the move and be bumped again in the colorcoded tier system. Were waiting to learn if others are on the list. The News Conference is to start at noon. Californias in a better situation than other parts of the country where infects and hospitalization rates are surging. The governor yesterday indicating that dr. Gale today will announce more restrictions for some counties. Anticipate that we will see some counties moving backwards not forwards and this is exactly why we designed the tore status the way we did. It was about being more and less restrictive not based upon political whim but based upon the data. The epidemiology and facts. Reporter the governors comments came the same day as c
You are right. We have seen the winds up quite a bit and especially for the urban areas where we all reside. In the hills, very breezy and very dry. The wind advisory has been allowed to expire but the red flag warning will go until tomorrow. Giving a look at the northeast flow that continues, you can see as we get and closer starting in the north bay first, the winds are a little bit lighter in most cases. In fact, los alamos reporting when set eight Miles Per Hour. Closer to santa rosa, 26. 21 near pickett road. Take a look at relative humidity. We are in the single digits. Very dry. And if a fire were to start despite the ease only winds, it would spread very quickly. Big rock reporting relativity relative humidity at 6 . Oakland hills, relativity between 9 and 2 . Berkeley with winds 15 to 18 Miles Per Hour. The red flag warning will continue. It is for the hills, northbay hills, east bay hills. It does not include the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Coastal Range have been allowed to ex
Not happening today. In addition to the red flag warning, a heat advisory, we will start with the red flag warning that goes until 6 00. 6 00 to see me. You can see where it includes. It is for the northbay hills, east bay hills. Down to the diablo range and towards the Santa Cruz Mountains for very dry, dusty conditions. It has been breezy and windy out there. That is expected to die down into the afternoon. Here is a look at with the heat adviser is. You can see widespread from the coast around the bay and inlet and it goes until 9 00 with widespread midto upper 80s along the coastline and we are looking at midto upper 90s for inland communities. Here is a look at what were seeing. Even Half Moon Bay checking in at 90 degrees right now. Over areas of San Francisco and the downtown area. We have the east bay with upper 80s from oakland to livermore and to the northbay we have 91 degrees at this hour in areas over napa. How much warmer armor weight than yesterday . For most, a few degr
American people. Democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris campaigned in arizona today, where polling averages show joe biden with a narrow 2 lead. Senator harris criticized President Trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together in those large rallies. Now President Trump is also in arizona today, he is holding two separate rallies. In bull head city, he accused democrats of overreacting to the coronavirus pandemic. Under bidens cruel and senseless lockdowns, countless americans will die, and you know this, from suicide, drugs, deferred medical care. There are so many different things. The cure cannot be worse than the problem. During a Campaign Event in greensboro, north carolina, today, Vice President mike pence is presented to the podium. He has continued to hold events even after five close aides contracted the coronavirus. Pence, though, has tested negative so far. The lit its polls give joe biden a slight advantage over President Trump
Francisco. We want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a Training Exercise. Lets bring in henry lee with more on what we know. As you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. Reporter a somer gathering at San Francisco General Hospital. Firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. We can confirm this was at training incident. Reporter it happened at 10 00 in the morning in the initialen district. He was treated there and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately shortly before 11 00 this morning, jason succumbed to his injuries. Reporter the Fire Department would not discuss what led to his death. The circumstances under investigation. Immediately after the incident, firefighters converged on the hospital. There they stood at attention and saluted during a somber procession. Cortez was 42 and leaves behind his wife and two young children. She the son of a