Look at fire danger. And len and michelle, tracking offshore winds, especially in the Higher Elevations, a big concern for us as we head through today, tomorrow and through actually the rest of the week. So checking wind gusts so far. Mount diablo, one of the strongest gusts of 55 miles per hour. Knoxville of 39, looking at 36, cold spring mountain. Mount st. Helena. 32 for the oakland hills. So a red flag warning in effect for all of our bay area hills and mountains. For our Higher Elevations. And really watching up to 2,000 to 3,000 feet. So were looking at the north bay mountains, east bay hills and valleys. Diablo range. And the San Mateo County coast. Under the red flag warning now until 8 00 a. M. Due to gusts up to 40 and 50 miles per hour. Again, mount diablo, talking 55 mileperhour wind gusts. Cooler for today, our temperatures are anywhere from 2 to 10 dueling degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. Youre looking at daytime highs, about several degrees. So well talk more
Well keeplowing ts throughout this newscast. Im ann macko vick live at the news desk. And we are waiting for a News Conference that is about to begin with dr. Mark galley, the states top health official. And he is going to be talking about movement we saw from california. Moving from more restrictive. To a little bit of loosening of the rules. This is where were going to find that live feed. But i want to show you the updated map of some of the changes that just went into effect within the past hour. You can see there in the bay area, we are in the purple or red tear. Depending where youre in. Some purple counties moved into the red in this last restrictive tear of reopening. They are solano. They join santa clara, marin, and napa counties, which has been in this second tier. Where risk is substantial. Some northeast parts of the state as you can see there on your map, are now moving into the orange and yellow tier systems. The states system on all of this was announced about a month a
Thats basically what happens on a much larger scale. The earthquake happened and we have been looking throughout the Morning Hours for when it could reach our area. There were initial estimates of around 6 00 a. M. , 6 15, it could hit the area of San Francisco, the tsunami. But as kenny mentioned, the wash has been canceled. That is good news. But thats pretty much how it worked. The earthquake happened just south of kodiak, alaska. The way the waves of the tsunami ripple. Could have breached the canada, u. S. Border right there. And six hours later, head towards baja california. So this entire area has been under watch. So again, that is canceled. So that concern is now low long no longer for the west coast. Hawaii had a warning and that was canceled as well. So that is great news. Looks to be the waves are not impacting the coastline this morning. But it does seem to occur like a ripple, so that is in effect now. 44 degrees in concord. 45 in oakland. It is cool out there. 48 in sant
Duck with a Little Lobster and oysters on the side. And, of course theres champagne. And i havent had any of it even though i said 2013. Some champagne would be nice in one of the cups sniet would be nice. That is our top story, the looming fiscal cliff and what appears to be a new sense of optimism about finding a path around it. There isnt much time. Just three days for the president and Congressional Republicans to find Common Ground on taxes and spending. For the latest lets go to chief correspondent at the white house Major Garrett. Good morning. Good morning, rebecca. President obama met with the four top leaders yesterday. He met for just over an hour. Now, earlier in the fiscal cliff talks, meetings like this had tended to be tense and nonproductive but this meeting gave rise to hopes of a lastminute deal. For the first time in weeks president obama reported genuine progress to averting some part of the socalled fiscal cliff. Im modestly in agreement well achieve. Theyre now ch
The earth by some 17,000 miles. Now in space terms Scientists Say that was a close call. And there you see it. This streak of life is the asteroid, half the length of a football field and hurtling past earth at 17,400 miles per hour. Its a remarkable moment that passes by and then it will be headed out. Reporter scientists expect thad close call but they didnt expect what happened less than 24 hours earlier in a small russian town about 900 miles east of moscow. A meteorite shot through the skies in rough shah was about the size of a bus, weighed ten tons, and when it hit the earth, it exploded like an atomic bomb shattering glass and sending people into a panic. More than 1,000 people were hurt, most by flying glachls canadian mark canadian hockey player lives in russia. It was terrifying. I fell back to sleep and all of a sudden i hear this loud bang. I live in a 24level building and i was on floor 23. It was just incredible. Reporter scientists never saw the meteor right coming. The