Rollbacks and then be under the governors curfew kron fours dan kerman is following the story for us tonight is now live in the city with details good evening dance. Well this certainly shocking news, San Francisco of course moving from yellow jumping 2 spots to read now were finding out the cases have nearly quadrupled in a month and that means San Francisco could go to purple which will mean not only the curfew but will also be bad news for businesses because of additional rollbacks. Were in a search that has the potential to overwhelm our local Health System thats a dire warning from San Francisco Health Director doctor grant colfax cases of covid19 of nearly quadrupled in over a month. From 217 new cases the week of october 12th to 768 new cases this week and if the surge continues, San Francisco could be moved to the purple reopening tear as early as sunday. The choices we. You. I make in the next 2 weeks will determine the trajectory of this Holiday Season, a purple designation w
The forecast. A nice one out there for us strike. Air force two had to turn back around and pence had to take a today . Yes, were enjoying this weather with beautiful skies and military cargo plane to get back comfortable temperatures. To washington. Lets head concord. More new images of a fire low 60s here. We will see a few clouds around onboard a u. S. Coast guard ship sunrise and quickly clearing as it was conducting a mission out. We will see our trend heading upward with a warmup that will abroad. It happened on sunday. Lead us into upper 70s around the fire was actually in the engine area. Lunch time. It took two hours for crews to looking at our microclimates put the fire out. Well reach into the upper 80s. Some were injured. The coast stays in the 60s. The fire is now under investigation. Well talk more about a weekend the ship is currently docked in heatup. Japan but its permanent home is mike, whats the update on the Traffic Alert . In alameda. The mission involves tracking
Lets turn now to our meteorologist Rebecca Strom whos in form of risa guest tonight. To get more on the conditions ahead about this heat wave that were currently experiencing hair rebecca. Hey good evening guys, yes, were definitely seeing this heat wave were going to ride it out through the entire Holiday Weekend. And then were going to see that dry wind event thats what were tracking here and a fire weather watch as a matter of fact because of the heat and the winds that were going to be seeing from monday evening into wednesday morning and then tuesday night is when were expecting it to peak the most and were going to when speeds of anywhere from 35 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour upwards of 50 at some bar higher libations this is all issued for the north bay mountains and our east bay hills and again this is going to go through the middle of the week and the low humidity as well that were going to be seeing over the next couple of days and High Pressure continuing to build thats oversee
Along the immediate coast. Inland highs today, reaching up to one 15. Thats right in the bay area up to about one 15 for the bay itself mid to upper 90s beyond 100 and the coast 75 to around 85 with all of that live shot coming in from the golden gate we actually have a little bit of a breeze check in at this hour. Current temperatures, 73 antioch 72 going on for concord we already have some lower 70s along the east bay shoreline this is part of the problem. We didnt cool off too much last overnight so were starting off with numbers like this 60s meanwhile to the north bay and 69 san jose 72, San Francisco. Thats right 72 right now. So for comparison sake were almost a dozen agrees ahead of yesterday so we start off with that advancement its much easier to pop higher for high temperatures today than we saw from yesterday the lowdown for later on today for those inland areas, particularly 95 by 11 by 2 oclock, one 08. I will have a look at your mercury forecast coming up in a bit marty
Daytime highs looking at 86 in concord and 82 for san jose and 74 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. As we head into our weekend, offshore winds will kick in and that does mean a high fire danger with a fire weather watch from 11 00 a. M. Saturday until 8 00 a. M. Monday for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and interior valleys. Well talk more about those critical fire weather conditions as we head into the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and its the slow drive right now through the Altamont Pass. Yeah, it sure is mary, i mean, tough look at this. All this red on our maps this morning. The problem is, a broken down big rig stuck in that right lane. Theyve got tow crews on scene as well. A large flatbed to kind of try to get this one out of lanes but its causing a big problem for whats already one of the bidsiest rides for the morning commute. So supercommuters, gear up. Its going to be a tough one this morning. And unf