Leaf the house. I wont go out. Today i was watching. It was about 102, so i put on my tennis shoes and came out. Reporter it was a breath of less toxic fresh air. Good enough for this older couple. Still not clear. I mean, im breathing. Its okay. Its sad that it has gone to this point. It is almost normal. Reporter normalcy for dog walkers. For the last week, you couldnt make out mt. Diablo or the foot hills. They were totally obliterated by smoke. So the fact that you can least see the outline today, thats encouraging to people. 260 golfers seized the opportunity to tee off when the decision was made to reopen today after four days of a complete shutdown. I cannot remember ever that weve ever done four days straight. In fact, before this year, ive never closed due to air quality. So whats the new normal . People and pets gradually coming out of hiding. More grateful than ever to be back outside. In the east bay. Abc7 news. Abc7 news anchor Spencer Christian with more on the changing a
Bruce westerman discusses the western wildfires, Climate Change, and other news of the day. Good morning. It is thursday, september 17, 2020, Constitution Day in the United States. This morning on the washington journal we will begin by asking you how you would amend the constitution if it were up to you today. Give us your ideas on how you think we the people may benefit on a change from the founding documents dating back to september 17. If youre in the mountain are pacific time zone, the number to call is 202 7488001. You can send us a text, 202 7488003. If you do come include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on twitter or on facebook. To you. Rsday morning officially known as Constitution Day and citizenship day in the United States. We are talking this morning about the u. S. Constitution. Some history is your calling in 1787, delegates opened their Constitutional Convention on may 25, 1787 in philadelphia to begin discussions on how to create a consti
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Fire danger. 82 in the east bay hills and you notice you dont see the marine layer there. Right along the coast and keep you in the 70s while it has minimal effect for the rest of us. 80s and 90s around the bay already at noon and then 80s and 90s around the bay and 100s inland by 4 00 and still in the 80s to near 90 at 7 00. Couple more days and then were out of this. I think youll be happy to see the sevenday forecast. Heres kumasi with more news. Thanks, mike. Happening right now pg e says dangerous fire conditions are prompting and the utility issued that power lines could fall and start fires. Outages started around 3 00. Cal fire said they rescued 13 people so far who were trapped on china peak just after 3 00 this morning. Officials say the smoke cleared up overnight for a helicopter to safely land. The fire has burned over 135,000 acres with no containment. Its been tough work for our pilots, but those aviation crews and our inner Agency Partners on the ground in Fresno County
Lightning and fire danger. That is why there is a fire warning. You can see that they collapsed. It is still hanging around. We have a big fog bank. The wind is cranked up for many. Temperatures are taking a plunge. We have a little warmup. We have 50s and 60s on the temps. Oakland and livermore is pretty close. 36 Miles Per Hour means extra hold on the hairspray. There is a rock n roll delta wind. With that in mind, we are looking at a day where temperatures are going to be below average to near average. That is not something we have said. Over to cell now, hopefully things are quiet at 4 30 on a tuesday. Is that the case . Things are still quiet. That is the way we like it. Lets talk about the bay bridge approach. You can see traffic is looking very good. We have not had a lot going on. We are also looking at interstate 880 in oakland. That traffic is moving along very nicely. Northbound 280 in san jose, in fact, in general, it is looking good in san jose. Lets go back to the headlin