If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. A red flag warning is going into effect right now because of some of these dry conditions. Ill explain how this could affect you. Multiple rounds of offshore winds and critical fire conditions this week. Just because the fda may approve a vaccine doesnt mean the state of california will. What the committee will control when it comes to a vaccine. Severely understaffed. San jose fire is looking to fill positions and a hero behind the headset. Abc 7 news starts right now. Here warning just went into effect for parts of the bay area as gusty winds are whipping back up. That means thousands of pg e customers could see power shut off due to the Critical Power weather. Wou we begin with sandhya patel on what we can expect over the next few hours. Yeah, those winds will be increasing. Right now theyre running low, you will notice gusts to 12 Miles Per Hour in mt. Helena. Wind gusts could reach as high as 40 Miles Per Hour. You combine th
Make for a bit of a grey start right now were in the 50s for most areas with a few 40s on the map in both livermore 49 degrees. Although napa you were there just a minute ago that youre actually right up to 50 degrees so temperatures wobbling around just a little bit for some of our spots, San Francisco oakland and san jose in the 60s to 70s for high temperatures later today really nice afternoon conditions to be looking forward to and i know it will be a beautiful friday and saturday to get out there and hopefully enjoy the 70s but will it be all right on the roads is question robert is here to tell us more about that i guess it kind of depends on where theyre heading this morning job because some fox look great other spots not so much, but ill start off with a look at the bridges around the bay area this morning a live look. At the bay bridge toll plaza this is one of the good commute 80 west in San Francisco doing fine as you can see its wide open here at the toll plaza so no worrie
Later this weekend so we are out of red flag warning territory for most of the bay area remaining spots to include Solano County as youre seeing in red right around fairfield in valais help as well as up into lake and portions of mendocino county. Now the gold on this map something entirely different. These are high wind watches that will take effect sunday lasting into monday as well be seeing some very strong winds to close out the weekend that is going to be concerning for us into sunday night but in tel then mostly just some breezy conditions and some noticeably cooler weather right now napa youre at 49 along with livermore also at 49 this morning maybe stepping outside and noticing that brisk feel to it definitely a cooler start for a few areas hayward Oakland Redwood city and fremont down into the 50s right now along with San Francisco at 56 degrees currently stay with us more in your forecast is still to come right now, lets get a look at traffic with rob and i know its still a
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh Mcenany tweeted this letter from doctor sean conley just minutes ago it reads quote. This afternoon in consultation with specialist from walter reed and Johns Hopkins university i recommended the movement of the president up to Walter Reed National military Medical Center for further monitoring this evening. I am happy to report that the president is doing very well he is not requiring any supplemental oxygen but in consultation with specialists we have elected to initiate rimmed as severe therapy. He has completed his first dose and is resting comfortably. Also the president tweeted about 30 minutes ago the following quote going well i think thank you all thank you to all love. This all happened just days after the first president ial debate on tuesday of course president shared a stage with former Vice President joe biden but biden says hes been tested at least twice today and both he and his wife are negative for the virus. Joining us live from w
Back on march, 1620 20 the bay area was the first region in the country to issue a shelterinplace order in response to the covid19 pandemic. But this is written. A 100 years from now everybody is going to remember that day that the that the 6 perry counties plus the city of berkeley lock things down it stopped. Literally thousands of deaths, although california is trending in the right direction for slowing the spread of the coronavirus doctor George Rutherford professor of epidemiology at the university of california San Francisco says now is not the time to stop being vigilant. I mean you can catch yourself on the back a little bit. I mean we clearly did a great job in march and april and into may. Little away from us in june as you know he is referring to the pandemic surging in the wake of the memorial day weekend. He cautions the return of that behavior could prompt another surge over the next 6 months which has some major holidays. We have a very clear example of how we can mess