Coming down towards hilltop drive, and no slowing has showed up just yet. And theres the bay bridge toll plaza, and they had a little slowdown. Theres a trash reported that i will check on, and not as bad as 580, which is fine. Your ride on bart could soon become safer. Bob is live with the details. I am hearing a lot of Police Officers are ready to roll out . Reporter bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers this year alone, to give you perspective, thats the same number of new hires at the previous two years combined. Look at the numbers on your tv screen. Bart has been recruiting more officers after an independent review, and they want to hire 94 more officers over a fiveyear period and the report recommends they create a team to patrol just the bart stations. Under the most recent fouryear labor contract, new recruits receive a 15,000 signing bonus, and bart Police Officers received a onetime 6 Salary Increase and annual raises ranging from 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Many wouldbe hires
Clearing out, and overall thats a nice day, and that will keep the temperatures down as we reach into the low 80s, and there will be upper 80s but this is nothing compared to the way we started this week, so i think we will enjoy it. Mike, why is the bay bridge commute so light . Yeah, holding study, kari. You have a preview and its a lighter flow over here. The metering lights are on. The traffic held up in this Contra Costa County, theres a break there for the crash, and we have all the traffic feeding in off of pittsburg, and its slowing through walnut creek. The other crashes are cleared to the shoulders. 6 01 right now. New details. Bart could soon become safer. We are joined live at the warren station in fremont. The agency Just Announced they hired a lot more Police Officers, i understand. Reporter correct. Bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers so far this year alone, and to give you perspective thats the same number of new officers from the previous two years combined
The areas in yellow. San jose is included in that heat advisories so temperatures will continue on the very warm side to outside. Heat is a big deal. When it gets hot in line it becomes dangerous not only for your health which it definitely does but fire danger, and air quality picked a spare the air date has been issued again tomorrow. We had one today because of the heat lingering. When we come back we will get specific with numbers and what you can expect and when the cooldown gets here. The hot weather prompted a swim center in walnut creek to open up today after it received more than 100 requests from the community. We get live coverage from ktvus out in a gomez in walnut creek tonight where many people want to head to the pool when it gets so hot outside. Reporter yes, julie we were surprised that there were so many Aquatic Centers throughout Contra Costa County in the east bay that had closed this week and started fall hours because of finding out that staffing is an issue with
Yesterday. Today, temperatures are expected to climb a few degrees about that pick giving you a view at a mostly clear sky over sfo. San francisco in the low 60s right now. One of the areas trailing behind this morning, santa rosa at 55. Oakland, livermore and central is a san jose, 50s to 60s. Some of the east bay locations already in the mid 60s. Fairfield up by a few degrees to my Mountain View up by a few degrees as well. In the afternoon, partly cloudy at the coast, mostly clear elsewhere. You can see the fog along the coast at this time. Visibility is good across the entire bay area. On highway one, it is not too thick. A little bit of fog you can pick up inside the bay and along the east bayshore and thats about it. Air quality is good to moderate. The onshore breeze scaling back, a gentle breeze reported over areas over fairfield. Everyone else is calm at the moment. North bay, centrally and into the south bay. Heres a comparison, oakland, 82 sunday, today, 84. Livermore, 93. S
Can you . Not at all. Not even a trace of it this morning as the fog has socked us in. There are the the clouds that came rolling in. They kept us a little warmer, kind of insulated that heat of the day from escaping and cooling down. So we stayed warm. And we can see that in the effect of the temperatures right now. Especially if you look down to san jose, where it is 70 degrees right now, at 7 00 in the morning. 67 here in oakland. 59 in half moon bay. 54 in santa rosa. And right now, sitting at 66 degrees in napa. Good morning to you there. Our wind is relatively light here. You can see variable directions. Concord about 30 Miles Per Hour. Everybody else, kind of 10 miles or less. And this is what were expecting. The cloud cover finally pushing away. But those of you at the coast, clearing out. Thats going to keep it cooler. But youll notice, there are going to be some 90s inland. Its not going to be all coolness out there for everyone. I would say a little cooler today. But relativ