Temperatures just as hot as yesterday with no relief in sight. A few spots warmer than we were 24 hours ago. A live look at the oakland estuary. We have a haze in the sky that continues. Expect hazy conditions and poor air quality over portions of the bay area. When it comes to the advisories, the start of the weekend, they continue until 9 00 tonight. The heat advisory is for the coastline with the excessive heat warning for the bayside as well as the ballot in the hills. This will expire tonight and in its place heightened fire danger to talk about. Take a look at the numbers. 97 degrees right now in novato. 101 in concord. 101 in livermore. 98 in the san jose. Especially inland cities, 510 degrees of warming expected by the end of the day. Around the bay, we will continue to warm as well. As far as the 24 hour temperature change. Half moon bay down by 9 degrees. There is hope that we are seeing a transition. East bayshore are up by 5 degrees over oakland. In his bay as well is a nor
Giant alliance geo were going to discuss that all right its time to boost your views you. Tensions are once again rising in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation at sea between the u. S. And iran now that Close Encounter resulting in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats quote harassing u. S. Warships arties Rachel Blevins is following the story shes joining us now from the news room with the details on this rachel well manella President Trump is now arming the u. S. Navy with a shoot down and destroy order after a Close Encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing quote i have instructed the United States navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships see his warning fall. It was an incident last week in which the us claims a lot of investors from irans revolutionary guard came within just 10 yards of u. S. Navy and coast guard ships in the gulf n
International destinations. And officials are urging all americans abroad to return home immediately. This afternoon President Trump and Vice President pence went to fema headquarters to Video Conference with the nations governors. The Vice President told them more protective masks are being produced. In the bill the president signed last night. We have literally unlocked tens of millions of n95 masks. What the president asked the congress to do, and they did, was we extended Liability Protection to all industrial n95 masks. So those can now be readily sold to hospitals and healt providers. The administration has not responded to an offer from carnival to use some of its cruise ships as floating hospitals during the pandemic. The company says the ships could be used to free up landbased hospitals. Applications for Unemployment Insurance jumped dramatically this week. Advanced claims on Unemployment Insurance acrossed 34 compared to last week. Governor newsom said 80,000 people applied
That the people of the state of california will abide by it. The governor said it is in effect until further in the. Good evening. I am julie haener. And i am frank somerville. California is the first state in the country to take this step. If nothing is done, more than 50 people of the state of california could become infected. A state as large as ours, at the end of the day, we are one body. There is a recognition of our interdependence that require of this moment that we direct a statewide order for people to stay at home. The governor warned hospitals could become overwhelmed with patients with a potential shortage of nearly 20,000 beds. If we change our behaviors, that will come down. If we meet this moment, we can bend the curb to reduce the need to have to go out and cobble all the assets together. The governor said when it comes to enforcement he is hoping people will police themselves and Law Enforcement wont be necessary. Governor gavin newsom asked for President Trump to sta
Today. Yeah, a little bit. On a friday. Average temps. Could be mainly 35 in livermore. That went up from 40 to 42. A little low sitting out over the sierra that wants to backtrack. And as it does, that might provide a little bit of dynamics to the atmosphere. We start off sunny today and then well end up with partly cloudy skies. 30s and 40s on the temps. A couple of systems will plan our weekend weather. Near average on these temps. Hes working from home and for good reason. I doubt he has much to talk about. Mr. Sal castaneda. All right. Yeah, steve, there isnt much to talk about during the shut down of the state which is going to be more of what the bay area is doing. Im not expecting anything in the bay area to change traffic wise. Weve had light traffic as were looking at the bay bridge toll plaza. Of course, a lot of people still have to do to go and thats why were doing these reports. You can see traffic is light and were off to a good start on a friday. Now, lets go back to th