Air quality right now in san jose is hovering just under 200. But look at this image. It is supposed to be black and white. Where it is gray, that is all smoke. As we widen the view you will notice it is smoky all the way into southern california. Haze and smoke this morning, 50 toss low 60s out there. Here is a look how far you can see or get around. Really treacherous out there with visibility just under two miles everywhere or less than that. So were going to keep this for you the next few hours. The next two days, today is the worst day out of the weekend. The smoke begins to lift out of the bay area into your sunday and we hope that continues. There is a area off shore that could bring in at only the cooler weather. Better winds. Better air quality but a chance of showers into next week. Today it is hazy. Muggy. Could see 80s inland but not a good idea to try to spend a lot of timeout doors or even for the bets. Sports are highly in question this weekend for both the San Francisco
Fog. Also a smoke layer. From 66 downtown. 62 across the bay. 64 on the peninsula and south bay 64 in san jose. Lots of fog. Not totally clearing. Mid 50s in santa rosa. The air quality poor. Right now look at the worst air quality well up into the north bay. Going further north throughout the day and into your sunday we still have a spare the air alert. The pinks indicating the worst area quality. We will get into a wind shift for your sunday and into the week ahead and that means warmer weather with an off shore floe. A look at the rest of the day where we have 60s around the bay. Upper60s to upper70s by noontime. Another comfortable afternoon. Although the air quality will be poor and well talk about how the heat will impact the fires in the days ahead. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Hundreds of people took to the streets of oakland and san jose overnight to protest Police Brutality. The demonstrations part of a day of activism around the country on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther kin
The 50s and 60s. Warm sunshine this afternoon except for some beaches and then hot inland this afternooafternon hitting upper 70s to 80s and mid 60s in the evening. And we have slight changes in the 7day forecast coming. France is where covid deaths of exceeded 10,000. The states numbers have been inaccurate for a week because of a Testing Backlog in the hundreds of thousands. Our abc reporter has more on that glitz. California. Reporter a july 25th server outage and state certificate renewed ontime. The backlog between 250,000 and 300,000 records will be resolved, giving us a better sense of the total number of tests. Reporter California Health and Human Services secretary, dr. Mark galley admits most of the records are likely covid test samples, however, not all. Without a resolution, the metrics and percent positive remain unclear for counties across the state. Reporter what were getting is correct but were not getting all of it. Reporter Santa Clara County officer says its business
Notice about 5 00 tonight through 11 00, this is when the winds will gust to over 45 miles an hour. Less wind here, but still a brisk day for you. We are 62 in oakland. A look from our east bay hills camera, a little bit of fog and the forecast calls for numbers to climb through the 60s around the bay. By noontime, also inland will be close to 70 degrees, but the northwest winds up to 20, 30, even 35mileanhour gusts today will keep us in the 70s for our warmest locations. The cooling trend continues over the weekend, but will the winds last for your sunday . We have a warmup in store. Ill have that for you with my accuweather sevenday forecast marnd a a bay area i protest of the dthfloyd. One is sure to carry a powerful image of black lives matter marches happening across the golden gate bridge. Thats under way at about noon. Another protest and march planned for today will happen at the former home of the 49ers, the site of candlestick park. Nurses, teachers and other Union Members wi
So did contra costa county. Hardhit Santa Clara County reported two new fatalities. The number of cases bay area wide surged past the 500 mark in 24 hours. A special report set for 9 30. This is a live look at the james brady Briefing Room at the white house where President Trump and Vice President mike pence and members of the Coronavirus Task force will have a testing update for us. We will go first to that special report as soon as it comes on, which we are expecting again at 9 30 this morning. Good morning, everyone. It is saturday, march 21st. Im welcome to the first weekend of spring where we have some spring showers from the Central Coast moving towards san jose, the East Foothills and the east bay. Going in closer here to palo alto, redwood city, highway 84, could see a light shower from union city all the way out towards livermore and the diablo range, shower activity, san ramon and alamo a few sprinkles. Temperatures in the 50s in oakland, 47 in richmond, 41 novato. North bay