The wind activity. Whenever we get the north northeast winds, this offshore wind is coming off dry land and humidity levels will be dropping. So youll notice dry conditions out there. When its dry, windy and warm, its definitely keeping firefighters on high alert. As far as temperatures right now, 56 degrees in San Francisco, 55 in livermore, 46 in oakland and 47 in concord. Things are starting to move at the limit again along westbound 580 past 205. But approaching 580, we are still tracking major slowdowns. The metering lights are not on but traffic is starting to build toward the toll plaza. 10 minutes for fast trackers into San Francisco this morning. Thats a check of your traffic. Global markets continue to slide on the heels of historic losses to start the week in the u. S. Stocks in asia, europe and australia experienced a downturn overnight. Yesterday the dow fell over 1100 points after concern among investors the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. Economists say they s
The toll plaza as well. Back to you. The global stock market meltdown continues on the heels of the dows biggest point drop in history. Asian markets took a beating overnight, down almost 5 in tuesday trading. Hong kong was about 4. 5 . The dow finished the day down more than 1100 points, a loss of 4. 6 , the largest in seven years. Reporter on a percentage basis, it was not enough to trip automatic Circuit Breakers to slow or stop trading. San josi exhibition professors say computers did most of the damage. You have a lot of computers that are doing the trading. Its not actual humans that are doing the majority of the trading now. Reporter its often highly sophisticated and automated computer algorithms making buying and selling decisions, so it can be quickly magnified. On friday there were a series of selloffs that continued. It was a little surprising that it dropped so much because maybe even the humans are spooked at this point. Reporter among the biggest losers, wells fargo, plu