Overcome space and time. Alike based internet. And the effects of city lights on nature. But lets start at the beginning with how we see light. When light enters our eye it hits the retina. And is received by photo receptor cells the socalled rod cells respond to light and dark the cones are responsible for color vision but we only see the light that actually enters our eyes if you are in zambia wanted to know more. How those light travel. During a thunderstorm or you see the light. Things straight away but we hear the thunder with a delay. Thats because sound waves move slowly or as light travels super fast at 300000 kilometers per 2nd. It maintains that speed in space where theres a vacuum and it moves only slightly slower through the earths atmosphere but other media slow it down for example water in which it travels at a mere 225000 kilometers a 2nd. Life travels like ripples spreading on the surface of a liquid in all directions simultaneously. And in Straight Lines which is why w
View. It sounds like lanes are open but well double check when chp gets on scene. Heres crockett, rodeo, i know youre going to talk about the fire that had it closed for hours yesterday. No closures today. Lets get back to the breaking news, the aftermath of the inferno yesterday. Investigators plan to be on site all day to learn what sparked the fire which burned close to seven hours. Two storage tanks blew up sending huge plumes of tanks skyward for hours. It closed 80 in both directions for hours, all lanes are reopened this morning. But it strictered a shelter in place yesterday. But now the authorities have lifted the shelter in place. And at one point firefighters tweeted out schools would be open today. This morning nbc bay area is confirming all schools in the john sweat juunified School District will be closed. Whats the latest, thom . Reporter i can tell you when we first arrived on the scene this morning, the heavy smell of burning oil was still in the air. It has cleared ou
This morning John Swett Unified School district and four campuses are closed this morning. We want to first get a check of the forecast for you this morning. Definitely a fall start. Fall start, Cool Temperatures. As we look at this, when that refinery fire first broke out, it was visible on satellite imagery, thats a look at the arrow pointing towards that. Now as we wake up this morning, air quality is improving, we are seeing clouds still around the area but we have to watch out for that with light winds picking up from the northwest at about 7 Miles Per Hour in the area of crockett. And we are going to see some improvement today in the air quality as well as our temperatures coming down a few degrees. Well talk about some rain moving in, and mike seeing a lighting change in palo alto . Thats right because up until a few minutes ago, this section was well lit by crews, they have cleared, still a couple lights, thats moving north as far as the clearing goes up. So you may see a littl
Blowing some of the smoke and air quality across parts of the bay area, we are seeing improvements. So as the winds pick up we are seeing mostly a light westerly wind moving across the bay and across the parts of the delta at 5 mile per hour. So a light wind carrying the smoke to the east near antioch, where temperatures reach 70s. Oakland reaches 66 degrees. More cloud coverage and slightly cooler temperatures. You have a Traffic Alert, mike . I do. Its not for i80 that was closed yesterday during the fire. That opened last night, its been fine this morning. The Traffic Alert for highway 4, notice the green sensors, thats great. But not good ifyoure coming out of pittsburgh. Now three lanes are blocked as crews have arrived. Theres bailey. Well see more traffic through Pleasant Hill and walnut creek. But we should see the lanes clear up in the next few minutes. Well track that, the rest of the bay except the san mateo bridge is clear. Investigators plan to be on site today to learn wh
hand will be scanned digitally, not the more familiar fingerprinting with actual ink. and donald trump will be joined in court by his attorneys, former federal prosecutor todd blanche and the solicitor general chris kise. they spent the last day or so interviewing local florida attorneys, but so far have not found any to join the former president s legal team. and as we wait for donald trump to make his way to the courthouse, we re keeping a close eye on the scene outside. we have not yet seen anywhere near the kind of huge crowds that miami police were bracing for. though that could change as we get closer to the arraignment. no sign of it yet. trump was asked on monday if he had a message for his supporters and here s what he said. just stay strong, stay very, very strong and we re going to bring it back and we re going to win in a landslide. i believe it will be one of the greatest wins ever, much bigger than the other way, because they ve done so poorly. we re going t