Studios. This is kpix5 news. Right now, looking live at the trans america building. This is from our rooftop cam a. Good morning. Its wednesday, october 7th. Lets get a check of our weather right now with mary lee. Things are cooling down. Yeah. Today the start of a cooling trend for us as we head through the week with that stronger sea breeze kicking in. Lets show you a live look with the Golden Gate Bridge cam a. Not as foggy as yesterday or the day before. As we head through our day check out the daytime highs. Looking at 62 in San Francisco, 68 in oakland, 75 in san jose and 81 for concord. Many locations dipping down to below average for this time of year. Very close to where we should be for this time of year for concord as we head through our afternoon. Our air quality forecast looking good for most of the bay area. Unhealthy air for portions of the north bay closer to the class fire. We will talk more about a weather system and if it could bring some much needed rainfall back t
Election story, and whether the market is saying we want to seek some safety and the dollar is the place to do that. The yen was trading lower against the dollar a little bit earlier on, but eurodollar now trading with a 1. 17 handle. What youre seeing in germany, u. K. , canada, and the United States is quite a sharp curve flattening, pivoting around the tens. The 30s are down quite hard in terms of the yield, so a big bid at the back end of the bond market. Alix all part of that is the virus story you were discussing, so lets get to that. U. K. Chief scientific advisor warning of 50,000 new cases a day by midoctober if urgent measures are not taken. Cases are increasing. Hospitalizations are falling. Deaths unfortunately will follow that, and there is the potential for this to move very fast. At the moment, we think that the roughly is doubling every seven days. If we dont do enough, the virus will take off. If we do not change course, we are going to find ourselves in a very difficu
Thought i was on mars. It looked orange outside. Let me give you a quick explanation for why it appears orange in the sky. The smoke particles scatter blue light, which leaves us seeing what appears to be yellow and orange. Any particulate matter in the atmosphere affect the way we see light, the way our eyes and brains translate light. Water droplets can do that and smoke particles can do it. All kinds of pollutants can do it. You look at a satellite image to show you how thick the combination of smoke and coastal fog we have. Let me move along from the satellite image now and give you another view of the conditions outside. This is going to give you a look at conditions above 1,000 feet, where most of the smoke saand aw 1,000 feet and the marine layer that brought us some cooling and brought fog and some lower spots. The layer cape effect at the surface but weve got a smoke deck or smoke layer above where the winds are a bit lighter s. Its just collecting up there, the marine layer i
Breeze by any means a bit of an orange hue above berkeley here its not going to appear that way once the sunshine comes up, but there will be a definite yellow tinge to it like yesterday because of how smoky it is yet again today you notice how the entirety of the shoreline has that worst air quality as do our interior valleys. Thats because the fog thats pushing in has smoke imbedded and not just smoke from our california fires, but smoke all the way from oregon that was pushed out in the pacific. And now is slowly making its way in our direction with that very weak on shore flow. This deep deep red wasnt even on the map yesterday. This is the worst of those conditions and it is not going to be a good day to be stepping outside not this morning, not this afternoon ive been seeing a bunch of you still going on your jobs lately which i mean good for you, but maybe do a workout inside today as much as possible Half Moon Bay of visibility below a mile this morning and we will be looking a
A step in the back. New zealand extends the lockdown on its biggest city as it tries to work out how coronaviruses made a comeback. And we meet the black americans who say theyve left racism in division behind to settle in west africa. An apology from the interior minister and the release of hundreds of protesters from prison isnt coming anger in the los crowds are gathering again in the capital minsk over last weekends disputed president ial election 7000 people were rounded up during demonstrations over the past few days instead. They told of torture and abuse inside cramped Detention Centers due to the lack of space detainees who are often forced to lie on top of each other young women say they were forced to undress they were beaten and threatened with rape. The Violent Police crackdown on mainly Peaceful Protesters has left deep scars on many belorussians it has also angered many of president alex on the local shankars former support us the call for him to step down has resonated