Reporter that meeting between the president and county and state emergency officials in california wrapped up just minutes ago. Emergency officials spoke and informed the president of the 20 night significant active wildfires that are currently bring across our state. As we know, those fires have claimed lives, destroyed thousands of homes and have left much of Northern California and really a lot of the metro areas across the west coast in a constant cloud of smoke and unhealthy air. It was against this backdrop that the present touchdown in in Northern California on air force one. He was at mcclellan park, a former air brace airbase where they landed. He wrapped up that briefing with state and county emergency official. Gov. Gavin newsom set to the right of the present and the tone between the two leaders was professional and crowded, the reasons be hind the fires are a political flashpoint between the president and some democratic governors and west pick drought like conditions and
September 11 terror attacks nearly two decades later. The memorial set to get under way and the impact the pandemic is having. Today in the bay starts right now. We will certainly never forget. Good morning to you. Its 4 30 on your friday morning. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on that commute for us. First, meteorologist kari hall with a look at the friday forecast. And we are starting out with some much cooler temperatures as we take a live look outside. We are looking at our temperatures, right now only at 49 degrees in santa rosa, and some low 50s elsewhere with our high temperatures today once again staying in the 60s for many of our microclimates. Were also dealing with a lot more smoke and some fog this morning. So well talk more about that in the forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking early this morning . Well, kari, you talk about smoke and fog and look on the map we have the yellow highlighting here. Take a live look at the bay bridge t
And a sign of things to come. Shattering the ceiling. Meet the woman making major change in the banking world. And the incredible record set by one fisherman that will leave you reeling. Good friday morning, everyone. We begin with President Trump on damage control denying that he lied to the American People about the coronavirus. At a rally in michigan last night he called renowned investigative Journalist Bob Woodward a whack job one day after woodward released audiotapes in which the president admitted downplaying the virus. But woodward is also defending himself. Hes coming under fire for not releasing the tapes earlier. Abcs faith abubey begins our coverage from washington. Faith, good morning. Reporter good morning, kenneth. Good morning, mona. The president this morning eager to shift the attention back to the 2020 campaign and his political rival joe biden but the fallout from those woodward tapes just continues. In michigan they wanted me to come out and scream, people are dyi
Agents with a gun before being shot and killed. And the same kind of tensions are boiling over in new york city as a car drove into a crowd of protesters. Black lives matter demonstrators were gathered to protest the death of daniel prude. He died days after officers draped a spit hood over his face. During the rally a car careened through the crowd. Police say the driver was a part of counterprotesters that were wearing keep America Great hats. No one was hurt miraculously. In rochester, meanwhile, police fired pepper spray and paint balls at a crowd of protesters outside police headquarters. Seven Police Officers have been suspended in connection with prudes death by suffocation in march. New video shows him with that spit hood over his head as he was held down for roughly two minutes. Decision 2020 and President Trump is doubling down on telling voters to vote twice, once by mail and then to go to the polls to vote in person. In the meantime democratic nominee joe biden is planning
Low visibility. All of us one to three miles as you see from our exploratorium camera there appier 1 peeat pie. And the air is calm, so it wont move. We wont see the sun for the third consecutive day. And remember when you are driving this morning, advivisiby is low so use your low beams. The only escape is around the monterey bay. Well will have better air quality this weekend and ill talk about that coming up. So there is some light at the end of this tunnel. In case you forget what it is supposed to look like outside, here are two videos. You see the dramatic difference in air quality from late august to just yesterday as the cameras pan on a clear day, you can see all the way to twin peaks. Now it is totally smoke. I think we have those flipped. Julian glover is live for us in san jose this morning. Reporter pretty hard to keep track of it all at this point. You might as well spare the air month at this point. The 26th consecutive day of the spare the air alerts pretty much as long