Right now, on kpix5 taking a live look outside at the city of San Francisco from our camera on Treasure Island. A beautiful view this wednesday morning. It is october 14th. Yes, a beautiful view but its heating up so lets quiet right over to mary with the high fire danger on the way. Mary. Good morning. Tracking the heat as well as our very high fire danger with those off shore winds returning. A red flag warning that kicks in to effect at 5 00 a. M. Today until 11 00 a. M. Friday for the areas highlighted in red. That is the north bay mountains, the east bay mountains as well as the inland valleys and the Santa Cruz Mountains will all be under this red flag warning due to gusty off shore winds. Gusts as high as 35 to 55 miles an hour, especially up in the Higher Elevations above a thousand feet. The big focus will be the north bay mountains as well as the east bay hills, the diablo range and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Low humidity and extreme fire danger. I will take you hour by hour o
Lets get to reporter natalie brand. She joins us live from the white house. Natalie. Reporter michelle, we are still waiting to see or hear if we will hear from the president himself. We have not seen any new tweets from the president other than the overnight announcement saying he was positive for covid19 and now in quarantine. Since then, we have learned that both the president and first lady are experiencing mild symptoms but the white house chief of staff is describing the president as still in good spirits, even energetic, and saying he is on the job and will remain on the job. Reporter President Trump and first lady have developed minor symptoms following their positive tests for covid19. We have a president that is not only on the job, will remain on the job, and i am optimistic that he will have a very quick and speedy recovery. Reporter the president s announcement came after one of his closest aides hope hicks tested positive wednesday. She traveled with the president to ohio
California has performed more than 13 million coronavirus tests. The sevenday and 14day average test Positivity Rate are both 3. 6 . Thats the lowest in a very long time. Optimism is warranted in the bay area. This graph shows the number of cases every day. The yellow line is on the declin good evening. Thank you for joining us. Coronavirus impacts every bay area county but in different ways. In the south bay, private Health Care Providers are being threatened with fines if they dont make coronavirus testing more accessible. Chris has that story now from san jose. With Santa Clara County in the red tier as part of the color code framework for reopening the economy, experts say any improvement theres largely depend on the expansion of covid19 testing throughout the region. It is really foundational to Community Wide safety and foundational to being able to reopen more and get people back to work and back to school. This afternoon, county leaders called on local Health Care Systems to do
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Extended all the way through friday. With not a lot of change with that smoke in our atmosphere. Temperatures running right around where we should be for this time of year. Upper 60s in San Francisco and low 70s in oakland and mid 80s in san jose and looking at upper 80s for concord. Well talk about the rest of we and what you n up in just a minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on the commute in san mateo county. Good morning. Good morning. Yeah, taking a look at the roadways right now. 280 is open and looking good in both directions but we still have the ongoing closures along the coast on highway 1. Both directions due to the wildfires still shut down between pescadero and the Santa Cruz County area. La honda road still in effect. And closures along highway 9 are also still in place. Parts of highway 1 through there at schafer road and highway 9 at Paradise Park and 35. Bear creek road at 35. Also parts of 17 accessing that from the off ramp. Fo