Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
Across our bridges, its a very thin marine layer, but its sitting right at the surface of the watch for some lower visibility, little bit towards the coast in San Francisco at the golden gate and in pockets right along the coastline. Most of us though its nice and clear as youre getting out there now air quality is also continuing to be pretty clear with good conditions for almost all the entirety of the bay area again today temperatures are nice and cool winds, nice and calm so not all that bad right now were in the 50s for Alameda Oakland and hayward at 59 degrees little cooler up in the north bay where weve got some 40s in petaluma and santa rosa, looking hour into the afternoon daytime highs in the 70s and 80s nice finish to this monday. Robin sounds good. Thank you for the update John Elliotts of the morning commute starting off with a bridge check, lets head over to the bay bridge. We have a dense fog advisory in place this morning that was issued by chp you can see some of that
A record breaking heat last week now expect uh they see you can see some fog hanging out across the bay making. Visibility on our bridges a little bit lower we saw last week when were so fog free so bay bridge as well as Golden Gate Bridge to have an impact their air quality is good all across the board across the bay if you head out to the central valley, couple of moderate pockets to know this morning. But all in all a pretty solid start to this morning, were back in the 40s and 50s for current temperatures, doubling your at 53 right now oakland and concord 58 few 40s up in the north bay, especially cool up there. And later on today 70s and 80s for almost all of our daytime highs, ill get to that still to come robin all right, thank you john were checking in on traffic. We want to update your commute into San Francisco. And it is packed right now at the bay bridge toll plaza so if you need to get into San Francisco. You got to have to sit in this line so make sure you get out there e
The outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some Bay Area Police departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open residents tell us if the presidency doesnt change hands. Theyre expecting protests. I think youll see more. Rebellion, you know i think youll see more revolutionary movement i hope bay. Th
There this morning, nothing active in blocking right now, but we had a crash that was lingering at the pay gates for over an hour. Weve had several stalls on the bay bridge and the skyway and traffic has not recovered the drive time looks a little better because it was 30 minutes. Now were down to 60 minutes, but its still crawling from west grand all the way up to the suspension span so get out there early and be prepared for that we had a crash here at the san mateo bridge that cleared we caught a traffic break in my last check. Now we have a stall westbound mid span. So the 14 minute trip may get a little better in the next hour from hayward off to the peninsula and one more all lanes blocked here leaving sunnyvale into Mountain View north what i wanted to 37 multicar crash still active so take to 80 instead of one oh one well check more problems coming up back to you. All right, thank you very much robin at 9 oh one we are now less than 15 days away from the november election today