Weekend. Sunday will be the hottest day. We have a mostly clear sky as we see the sun starting to rise in walnut creek and our temperatures go from the upper 50s quickly to the mid80s by noon, and its going to continue to heat up. Were talking about Current Conditions on the Altamont Pass. For more on the traffic impact over to you, mike. Kari, youre talking about the Altamont Pass. As we look at the entire bay, the Speed Sensors are great except for the altamont where its worse than normal especially on a friday. You have two lanes of the westbound commute direction. Only two lanes open. Westbound your right lanes are open. The lanes off to the left, the three lanes are still blocked by the fire activity. A smaller fire on the eastbound side. Were still concerned. Lets take you to the breaking news, a brush fire fueled by wind. Today in the bays Sharon Katsuda is getting a Vantage Point. What can you see from the area where you are . Reporter we can definitely feel everything that mik
Temperatures in spots like Pleasant Hill that will be comfortable. Were in the low 60s. You can see this trend as it goes straight up. Reach up to the upper 80s by 8 00 and reach to the mid 90s here. At least we still do have our coastal temperatures. Well talk about the rain well feel going into the weekend, as well. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now for the East Bay Drive . Its looking pretty good. A little build for the east bay. Lets start with the south bay slowing that we talked about clearing the bottom of your screen and the maps youll see a smooth drive circled there for north 101 and getting lighter as far as the sensors are concerned. That first burst kicking right on top. The east bay move smoothly with no backup at the toll plaza and a crash maybe blocking one lane and that arrow from livermore in towards sunol and passing the ge plant. One lane blocked and well check on that in a few minutes. The chp gets us info and the drive towards the
Time anchoring here at nbc bay area. How is it going . Going well. Its going well. Good team. Good team. All right, kari, do you want to tell us about that forecast . It looks pretty good as we start out this morning. A live view in San Francisco. Were starting out with a clear sky this morning. Well get a lot of sunshine today as we head down to cupertino. Expect it to stay at least comfortable for the next couple of hours, but it will warm up today. Were looking at slightly hotter temperatures for this afternoon as we reach into the low 80s here during the middle of the afternoon. Well talk more about whats ahead in our forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Take a live look out there, kari. We were looking at berkeley with a good volume of traffic. No major problems but i wanted to show folks how much traffic is heading down to the bay bridge. A live look shows you that. No surprises. The slowing just starting getting towards the incline but no problem