The latest humanitarian cease fire. And a surprise discovery on the moon how frozen more so could be just the tonic for manned missions. Donald trumps pick for the u. S. Supreme Court Justice has been sworn in. No you dont have. Any kind of took the oath of office of the white house shortly after the Senate Confirmed her nomination her appointment gives the top court a large conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a president ial election democrats were against her appointments and wants it to happen often next months vote that replaces liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last month ellen fisher has more on that swearing in ceremony donald trump welcomed the decision he didnt make a political statement he was very president ial in his comments at the white house in the last hour or so as for him equally balanced well she tried to leave fears of democrats seeing that meant that it didnt matter what the 2 branches of government that were involved in politi
Neurologist paul heggen, on white is red flag warning is so concerning. We had this red flag warning early in the week i have been saying is a kind of borderline scenarios. The wind is going to be very strong. We check out those forecast numbers are just a second but a live look right now come from the foothills east of san jose, just look at your screen right now, everything is very, very dry. We are talking record levels in terms of how dry the fire fuels are, which is an additional problem in terms of how the weather is going to make things worse. Relative humidity level from future cast in the beginning sunday afternoon, you can see them dropping into the teens and parts of the north bay, the numbers keep getting lower and lower as we had through sunday evening and especially sunday night, into early monday morning. As the dry offshore wind, i mean, monday, to clock in the morning, committee levels should be well over 50 , they will be 5 to 10 for the north bay, and inland in the e
L a new fire in fact those fires you can tell that the brush there was already set ready to go so youre in very active fire region and now weve got another fire burning. And weve got some very strong winds coming on the way. Winds right now weve seen of the 1618 Miles Per Hour in fire certainly enough to move that fire long. But thats not what were most concerned about is the winds that will likely take place this weekend, red flag warnings are going up for the entire bay area over the weekend expecting some 4050 mile an hour gusts, even down in the valley floors were going to see some very gusty winds extremely low humidity maybe even some places less than 10 and over the mountain tops maybe some 6070 mile an hour winds. So here we go put this into motion now as we take in tomorrow morning, not bad just an easy breeze. Now the west generally but then things begin to start to shift gears we start to see things pick up and by the afternoon and evening tomorrow, those winds start to pick
Per hour wind gusts regularly so far this morning in sonoma calif still gained vacaville danville as well as fairfield inn atlas peak right there with you so breezy este in the north bay as well as in the inland east bay consistently windy through the rest of the morning little calmer come the afternoon then winds picking back up into the evening tonight leading into the middle of the day tomorrow after which point we do officially see things calming down. Midday friday into the weekend and temperatures will also be coming down in cooling down after that. So we are in the midst of our highest fire danger there is light at the end of the tunnel just around the corner 60s and 70s for current temperatures and this is before a hot afternoon so go ahead enjoy this morning step outside for the morning walk and then i just try to stay as cool as possible later today, some of our coolest of temperatures around petaluma in napa right now day planner shows you were starting the morning mostly in
Red flag warning is set to go into effect later this weekend to parts of the bay area are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest wind event of the year. Lets go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the dangerous fire conditions certainly dont like to see an active fire were forecasting a potentially some of the strongest winds. Weve seen in quite some time at least this year maybe even longer, but certainly a possibility some firestorm events we continue to see this but. The winds out there right now in and around this active fire. The pope fire we continue to see some of those winds out of the west thats not a bad wind thats a more moist when thats developing right now. We saw as high as 80 Miles Per Hour this afternoon now to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So just some light winds blowing now on likely going to see those winds pick up a more out of a westerly wind as we head toward tomorrow, but. Then things begin to change and so thats what were concerned about