Minute you see an official walk up to that shot and well come bk to it live in the meantime let me show you where all these Power Outages now are impacting various communities around the bay and trying to al tour here before that press conference gets started beginning in the north bay weve got santa rosa as we zoom in weve been talking about how again it depends on where you are with that some sections of santa rosa in the dark and other sections that are seeing businesses normal literally business as normal, lets lighten just a little bit more to the right side is i want to bring the other direction i want to bring a downtown santa rosa into view here which is there we are so here it is the eastern half of santa rosa again in the dark this morning all these pink polygon is represent the areas where portions of the great have been intentionally turned off by pg however on the eastern side of the western side of santa rosa youre looking at operations that are going on just as normal. S
And caltrans took action that will affect the morning commute. Giant generators were brought into the caldecott tunnel, a major traffic route to the east bay. Caltrans is using it to keep the tunnel lights and fans on or risk a traffic nightmare. The tunnels themselves have very large fans that circulate to make sure the exhaust from the cars are actually taken out of the tunnels. Caltrans first thought some of the four boers in the tunnel would have to be shut down but bringing in those generators may correct that problem. The tunnel on highway 1 near pacifico is also open this morning. There were concerns about that closing. Caltrans brought in more generators there. A double slide thousands of commuters use that slide on the kim attevo toast every day. Were talking about this because weather will be a big issue this morning but first lets check in with sal for look at the commute. You heard it. The caldecott title in the lantos tunnel will be open and that is good news. Right now we
Miles per hour at my house. Why are you shutting down the power . Beep because the humidity may be in the low digits. That means 50 Miles Per Hour may not be far away from me. You know how fast he can travel so thats why. And that very low humidity means the fire can spread quickly. We are bone dry. The soil was bone dry. We have a wind advisory that just started at 6 00 from the north and east bay above 1000 feet and you could get gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Closer to the surface anywhere from 40 45 is likely. That tells you up in Higher Elevations, a few thousand or above, it could be rocking and rolling leader. More likely this afternoon into tonight into early thursday morning. The red flag warning goes for mendocino county, lake county out of the delta and also down to the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Only San Francisco is not much of a breeze yet. Not too bad. Its variable in some areas. Summer west, summer itself. Its an Higher Elevations is starting to turn. Alice pete just
A very good wednesday morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. It is a big day, back to school day for a lot of students across the bay area. Today were wishing a great first day and year for all of those returning students in palo alto. Welcome back to school today. Summer is over. Yay. Im not ready for back to school just yet. The weather is cooperating. It feels nice. Were not dealing with extreme heat, even in the inland valleys. Lets head to martinez where we are going to see temperatures in the low 60s as you head out the door. Then we see the trend going from 60 to low 70s. Not a big warmup, at least for the next few hours. We take a look at our high temperatures for today. Well reach 78 degrees there and in concord, as well as livermore and morgan hill, 83 degrees, matching temperatures for some of our warmer spots in the inland valleys. Most of us in the 60s and 70s from the coast to the inner bay. Overall, really nice for the afternoon. To
Morning. Teachers in general spend a lot of money in their own classrooms. Tight on funding as students head back to School Across the bay area. Theyre also dealing with shrinking budgets. Ahead, how you can help them and help yourself at tax time. Frontrunners on a mission, President Biden and former President Donald Trump try to win over voters as gop rivals seek to gain ground in critical states. We zero in on the push to the primaries. This is today in the bay. And this is also wednesday morning, august 9th. It is wednesday. The band is back together. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Today is the first day of school for the Castro Valley unified School District. Wishing all of those students and teachers, as well as the parents, a great day. Were going to check the drive times with mike, but first lets talk about the forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has a look at what kids should be wearing this morning. Its starting out cool and were going to see a fe