Reporter Paul Lowenthal is the assistant fire marshal at the fire house. They have been positioned so if a fire does break out, they can quickly respond in order to keep the fires from spreading. But he says the big concern is the wind going to the property below and also reaching in the areas. We have three years of regrowth, so there is a lot of seasonal grasses and brush that is regrown, and that area does remain a concern for us. Reporter according to lowenthal, because pg e have reduced the amount of customers who will have their power cut, it means more energized lines which can pose a risk. Part of our planning is knowing that our city will remain energized, so that has us on high alert. There is the potential that we could have fires as a result of high power lines. They spent the week clearing their house, garage and attic. They say its going to be a tough season. Were exhausted. Today i spent more time cutting down more grasses, raking up more leaves. Its just its overwhelmin
We will have some cool down again next week ill pick after today we will have a little warmup but a lot of fog and storms in the mountains erupting the last couple of days. A little overcast and breezy to just a roaring delta wind at some Higher Elevations of 30 . 50s and 60s on the temperatures and there is some sun breaks but thats a pretty decent fog wake when you get 3045 mile per hour wins out there setting the stage for cooler day today. That fog bank is large and temperatures mostly below average today. In the city, do you want to start their . We do want to start in the city. Thats for sure. We have a big problem. A couple of different crashes with one car on fire on 80 westbound right here in symphysis go. You can see that it looks like the bar may be out but the lanes are blocked here from that picture we are showing you from a caltrans camera. I can put it on the map for you here and show you what it is doing to traffic. And slowing all the way across the bay bridge. Here is
Pg e is preparing for power shut off this fire season, but they vow that this year will be different. California Public Utilities commission and pg e will hold a meeting this morning on the companys preparedness for the upcoming shut off. The press democrat report says pg e will cut the number of customers to lose power down by onethird because it made smaller sectors in the electrical grid. Many states grappling with covid cases and businesses struggling to stay afloat, the medical community is forging ahead on their search for a vaccine. Today in the bay Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain where researchers are in that search. Cierra, how can they be a part of it . Yeah, definitely. Were going to have more information and as those researchers are working to find that vaccine that uses that type of technaology, that new Type O Technology theyre looking for a group of people to go forward with the study. Africanamericans and latinos this call for participants being made
Now, that fog. Right. Were seeing that as we look now from the cupertino hills in the south bay. Right now not a good view of it, but hopefully tomorrow youll have a better chance. Lets go through our temperature trend. Were going to see our morning start in the 60s, and then as we go throughout today, its going to reach up to about 80 degrees, and this will actually be one of the coolest days of the week as we reach into the mid80s in the south bay and some mid80 force parts of the inland east bay with concord reaching 86. Well talk about hotter weather ahead in the forecast. Mike, how is it looking right now for the morning commute . Kari, the bay area toll plaza just turned on about 10 minutes ago. You see all lanes have filled in, so that was pretty quick. Theyre not stopped up, but theyre close to getting there. Looking at the map, there is no problem on the approach, just the backup on the toll plaza. The rest looks good, so does the rest of the bay. Back to you. Thank you, mike.
Upper 80s inland. No 90s in your forecast today. A lot of 70s alongside the bay, ill get to more of those numbers still to come. Weve interviewed is qualified and ive narrowed down youll find out shortly. Our top story, the historic announcement were waiting to be made any moment by joe biden and well tell you who he chooses for his Vice President they all sides right now pointing that is to the fact that his running mate may very well be a woman of color weve got jeff zeleny with the latest. 2 of the final contenders to be joe bidens running mate just happened to be alongside him at the last rally of the primary. California senator Kamala Harris and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer before he clinched the nomination and coronavirus change the campaign. His decision is coming any day now ahead of next weeks Democratic Convention every one of the women time. Weve interviewed is qualified and i narrowed it down youll find out shortly aides tell cnn hes narrowing it down from a list of a