Were looking at these four tiers, color code, purple, red, orange and yellow. Reporter if your county is in the purple tier, it means most nonessential businesses can operate outdoors but some like hair salons and malls can open indoors at limited capacity. Red means more indoor businesses like museums and movie theaters can reopen with restrictions. Orange means places like indoor wineries and bowling alleys can open. And at the yellow level, all indoor businesses can reopen with modifications. Ans physal distancing is still required. So are masks and health screenings. Right now, every county in the bay area is purple, except San Francisco and napa, which are red. This new framework is up to the discretion of each county meaning they can be more rigid but not less. Heres where the governor says the stringent part comes in to play at the state level. We have a criteria, not just 21 days moves between tiers but two weeks, some stability and steadiness before you move into those tiers.
A closer look is coming up. And at the live desk, im tracking the flex alert for the Labor Day Holiday weekend. The heat could put a strain on the power grid, so there is a possibility of rolling blackouts. Utility companies will focus on conservation during peak hours. Pg e is putting all hands on deck in these areas where were expecting the triple digit temperatures. Things that could be by the heat, were stocking up for this weekend. And Governor Newsom has signed an emergency proclamation to free up additional capacity. And doctors say that Labor Day Weekend could be make or break against the fight of coronavirus. They urge americans to follow social distancing guidelines. And in southern california, some companies hired private security guards to enforce face masks at beaches. College towns are closing bars to keep students from gathering. At least eight universities have reported homore than 1,000 case on campus. Not sure that being facetoface is helpful or necessary at this int.
Good morning. The airquality is finally improving. Hope lee felt it yesterday or today we will continue with air quality proving moderate especially along the coastline and inside the bay. Temperatures are expected to warm slightly but its only going to be brief. We will cool it down in time for your bay area saturday. Details on these conditions and what to expect, we will check in on airquality because it is a spare the air day. More on that in just a little bit at 7 01 am, lets check out the highways. Good morning. Right now we have traffic moving along very well throughout the bay area. A couple of slow spots. There is a lot of fog out there in some of these areas. Dense fog on the Golden Gate Bridge. On the richmond bridge, driving if you are driving to the bay bridge, a little bit of a backup at the toll plaza. Today, Governor Newsom at noon is expected to announce plates or reopening more businesses in california. The California Restaurant Association hopes the governor will let
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
As well as portions of sonoma and marin counties this morning as we work our way through the morning visibility shouldnt be too much of an issue for most areas as fog will be sitting right above most of the bay itself at the coast though is where youre likely to see some visibility impact so well as areas along highway, one o one up in the north bay by the time we work towards 10 to 11 00am this morning as were going to really start to see a lot of clearing alongside the bay and inland with fog remaining pretty steady out along the coast and streaming back through the golden gate into the early afternoon. So not a whole large window of sunshine for coastal areas like we did see over the weekend with a lot of sunshine all the way out to the coast. Now skies today well eventually clear out as they promise to you and that is eventually going to help temperatures to rise back into the 70s right alongside the bay after these 50s 60s this morning with even warmer temperatures for inland area