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To make tackling the pandemic is very First Priority when he hits office. Tonight we now know that former fda commissioner David Kessler and former u. S. Surgeon general doctor vivek murthy will lead that team kessler who once served as the head of the u. S. C f medical school from 2003 to 2007. Today the biden team also unveiling its official transition website. Build back better dot com and lays out the executive actions that president elect biden is set to take on day one of his term many of them aimed at reversing many of President Trumps policies. Oakland native and Vice President elect Kamala Harris is now set to become the most powerful woman in washington. But question of what a biden presidency presidency will mean for the bay area. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some congressional leaders from the bay area about what theyre hoping to see with this new administration, yeah well one of the good things is having somebody like Kamala Harris is from the bay area. Having the ear
Is around 4,000 feet. Its a great landmark. When all of that swept across the bay area. Very few places got measurable rain down in the communities where we all live. But the lightning was impressive, and so was the small hail, which came along with it and now its done. This is what it looked like at the peak, 3 00 in the afternoon with the light snowfall out in Mount Hamilton. A couple lightning strikes up in the hills of the east bay, thats all gone. But thats the view right now from the top of hill, the mark hopkins hotel, looking off to the west. And we now turn our direction to whats coming next. And that is not bad. But over the next 12 hours, theyre going to plummet so much so that we now have a frost advisory. For the north bay, lets come in for a close up look there. The whole corridor below 101, petaluma, and that also extends down into marin. So you are included in this, in it from 3 00 in the morning until 9 00 a. M. Some of the temperatures here could get down to the upper
Set to move in later today. Good friday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Well check in with mike in just a moment. The wind advisory also in effect ahead of that storm. Yeah, we are seeing some high winds picking up this morning out ahead of this cold front thats moving through, and we are tracking the storm as it approaches on storm ranger now moving into far Northern California as we go into this morning. Yes, the first storm of the season moving in and its really great to see although were not seeing a lot of rain with it, its going to be spotty. Were starting out dry as you get ready to head out the door. Were going to see some gusty winds throughout this morning into the day. And those high winds and chilly temperatures continuing. By this afternoon well start to see some spotty rain around the bay area and then another chance of showers on sunday, so ill be talking all about this with the time line coming up in a few minute
The sheltered valley locations down to the 20s and 30s. This frost advisory in effect until 9 00 a. M. Today. As we head through the afternoon, we will see the daytime high school the low average. We will have the sunshine but we are only talking about highs in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s as we go through our afternoon. 59 in the San Francisco. 60 in oakland, san jose, and concord. We will talk about how long this will last and our next chance to see some rain showers coming up. We are getting a Traffic Alert through martinez. Apparently there was some sort of debris in the roadway causing vehicles to spin out. They have now closed all lanes to get caltrans crews out there to clean up the mess. I will check in with chp shortly. We are starting to see a few brake lights moving. To plan for that this morning if youre headed toward the east bay freeway. We have a wind advisory in effect for all the mod pass this morning. Youve got some slow and go speeds dipping down to 15 Miles Per H