You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.
With us on election day weve got the white house behind us and in front of us. The decision on this election day when millions of americans have already made up their minds. Yeah, weve got lots to talk about this morning lot of questions too about whats going to happen as the ballots. Our county tonight and into the days that follows and joining us to discuss more about that is Washington Post political reporter philip above phillip. Thank you so much for joining us today. So i read your article counting votes isnt cheating. It was a really nice breakdown of the entire process, what motivated you to write this in the first place. One of these were hearing particular from President Trump and his allies is this that by allowing both county and go on past today and wednesday, potentially isnt for week or so that theyre somehow something nefarious or or or or wrong about that when in fact it simply is the case that votes always take allow Council Members were able predict whos going to win
For winds, this is one of the signs of change just around the corner that robin and i were just talking about that big cool down just around the corner. So we are seeing calm conditions. This morning come conditions into the afternoon too but look at what happens into the start of the evening tonight, see how much those winds pick up not necessarily resulting in heightened risk of fire danger but a sign of that cooler air thats really sweeping in swiftly across the bay area going to be cooling us off into tomorrow and resulting in those muchneeded chances of rainfall that weve been talking about the past couple of days as for temperatures today will be in the 50s and 40s for the start of your day so get out there this morning with the jacket in hand youll definitely be wanting it, especially if youre outside for more than just a minute or 2 Petaluma Santa Rosa dublin among are areas in the 40s right now. Well, oakland conquered berkeley and San Francisco sharing a range of 50s later to
Fog this morning that is streamed into the bay. So if you are going to be voting this morning do plan on wearing a jacket then just a cool start as is typical this time of year. You can see your view the north bay looking down at San Francisco, some low cloud cover hovering right above the bay itself, your bridges of actually been fined visibility wise. But if you are heading up into some hillsides and right along the coastline. Thats where youre running into those lower visibility areas you do see spots in San Francisco oakland and happen bay area visibilities a bit lower. Were in the 40s and 50s right now, but this afternoon were in for a treat sunshine returning and nice warm temperatures. Rob all right. Thank you morning commute is picking up out there we dont have any major trouble spots right now. But we do have some slowing heading into San Francisco. Were checking out this line here at the bay bridge toll plaza already stacking up beyond the 80 over crossing so quite busy were
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